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  • The NFL story makes a lot more sense than the alternative.

    Trump et al would love to have a big Luigi movement to point to right now.

    It would be a distraction from Epstein and a reason for much more domestic spying.

    Are you trying to tell me that the people who make money off of paranoid rich people wouldn’t be pushing the idea of hordes of domestic terrorists coming for them?

    Look what 9/11 did for Bush Jr, and then quadruple it.


  • You’ve been watching too many movies.

    The NFL reports came out right after the shooting.

    He shot himself in the chest because he wanted his brain studied.

    No way could anyone put together a conspiracy like this that quickly.

    Moreover, being targeted by a conspiracy would be a Godsend for private military contractors. Trump and the GOP would fall all over themselves allowing them special rights and privileges, and they’d be investigating everyone who’d ever complained about income inequality
















  • Historical context.

    Inflation started becoming a problem in the late 1960s. LBJ wanted to have a massive Vietnam War without raising taxes, so he printed money. Nixon ran as a ‘peace candidate’ and then tripled down on Johnson’s policies. For a while, running the steel mills 24/7 to make bombs was popular with the Unions and Wall Street, but when the Arab Oil boycott hit everything went off the rails.

    Jimmy Carter hire Paul Volker to run the Fed; Volker’s plan worked but Carter lost in 1980 and Reagan got the credit. Worse, Reagan let the banks print money to fund the ‘go-go’ 1980s.

    In 1968, middle class was one income supporting a family of four. In 1992, when Bush Sr. was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes. During the same time, $1 million went from being a vast fortune to what a rich guy paid for a party.