ATL Bear said:
Doc Holliday said:
Porteroso said:
The more I read the more ridiculous it is. A cop tried to confront the guy but backed down when he pointed the rifle at him. They absolutely knew he was there with a rifle. I just dont understand this level of incompetence.
Think of it this way, and I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's plausible: the ruling elite have major risks both financially and criminally if Trump is elected. They need him gone.
There are a lot of financial elites including Trump himself that fully support him and are pushing him to win. And if you believe this, what financial risks are out there for them?
Only one faction has the true financial elites...the other has a motely collection of left over financial elites, who for whatever reason, are alienated from the other Oligarchs.
[The idea of an American center that is manfully holding the extremists of 'both sides' in check is a palliative illusion drawn from a bygone time and place that ain't coming back.
Instead of two radical extreme wings flanking a sober center, as the important commentators want us to believe, there are in fact only two sides in American politics now.
One is
the Democratic Party, a power vertical that mediates between the interests of the country's billionaire oligarchs; its corporate elite; the ranks of elite professionals; the press, which functions as the propaganda arm of the party;
the billionaire-funded NGO complex, through which billionaires fund party "organizers" who turn out votes and pressure the bureaucracy and its corporate analogues; public employees unions; academics; and the various state-sanctioned identity buckets from which votes are harvested and to which public benefits are distributed.
Then
there is the Republican Party of Donald Trump, a bucket of social losers and other undesirables, like family farmers and white working-class voters, who of course are all racists; religious people, who are crazy and whose children will eventually hate them if they don't already; car dealers from Wisconsin with three or fewer dealerships; small businessmen who sell things like miracle pillows;
and a few billionaires whom the majority of the other billionaires don't like.Now, America being a free country, it's perfectly acceptable for any citizen, myself included, to disapprove of both sides in this equation, to instinctively dislike the powerful while at the same time being repelled by the aesthetic and other shortcomings of the powerless.]
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/portal-donald-trump-elon-musk-david-samuels?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
