The Communist Origin of the Modern Conservative Movement VI

Little Hitler really believes he was born king of the world and thinks he should control everyone in it. Little Hitler is now threatening Canada with a 100% tariff if they sign a trade deal with China. Little Hitler believes that no country in the world can sign a trade deal unless Littler Hitler approves it. We get many of our “American made cars” from Canada. The average car in America now costs $50,000 after Little Hitler’s 100% tariff they will cost a $100,000. Only the rich will be able to afford a car after Little Hittler gets through.

I watched Little Hitler talking about prescription drugs and he is taking credit for things he has not done. The most favored nation program would require drug companies to sell drugs at the lowest price sold to other countries. Sounds good until Trump says that he will put a 35% tariff on drugs imported by the drug companies to force them to accept the most favored nation program. That means Trump is going to put another 35% tax on the drugs sold America. The most favored nation program is a pipedream in Little Hitler head but Little Hitler putting another 35% tax drugs is a real possibility. Drug companies have already raised the price on over a hundred drugs so far this year Trump’s tariff will raise prices even more.

The Trump tariffs are before the supreme court. Trump did not have the authority to use war powers to levy tariffs because drugs were being smuggled into the country. That is not a war by any definition. Trump has stacked the supreme court when the republicans blocked Obama nomination while he had six months in left in his term but let Trump replace a supreme court justice with only a month remaining in his first term. Trump has only one answer for every problem put more tariffs (taxes) on the American people. If the Trump administration wants to take Greenland put tariffs on any foreign country who oppose it. If drug companies effuse to lower prices put a 35% tariff on them. Tariffs are nothing more than a tax on the Americans if Trump had raised income tax 35% people will be outraged but if the same 35% is paid at the cash register people don’t realize it is the same as 35% tax increase.

And any revenue the country might have gotten from these taxes is squandered when Trump's forced to use them as compensation for special interest groups that are damaged by his trade policies!

Tariffs are an outmoded form of taxation used to provide revenue to run the country before income tax replaced them. Trump might as well have declared all cars illegal and that all transportation be done with horses both ideas come from the same time period. Tariffs are a bad idea for almost everybody only one group gets a major benefit, the mega rich. The right’s idea is to replace income tax with the tariffs. The rich would only pay a fraction in tariffs. We all know that once a tax goes it is not removed, so it is a pipe dream of the right that income tax will be removed. The tariffs will isolate us in the world marketplace and in the long run will do to American products what it has already done to our farmers. We live in an interdependent world and when one country tries to seize a greater share for itself it will self-correct.

Tariffs, battleships, coal power – there's a pattern there!

There is a pattern there and Trump is about to show South America what real corruption is. One man that contributed $6 million to Trump’s campaign just happened to get the deal to handle the Venezuela’s oil deals. The company, Vitola, was recently convicted on bribery charges. The other trading company involved, Trafigura, has also paid massive fines for bribery, do you think it a coincidence that Trump picked those two companies to sell the oil?

Corruption is never outmoded.

Can you tell me what the difference between a bribe and a campaign contribution is both involve using money to influence the actions of another. I remember one of the crooked coal operators giving money to every member of the WV legislature to influence the legislature. One member of the legislature said the money would not influence her. We know that is not human nature, a gift obligates you. Gifts giving to kings were given with the explicit purpose of buying influence. Free gifts are sent mail order with the idea of making the person feel obligated and many send money. It is a basic human principal, do me a favor and I owe you a favor. Is it a coincidence that a company gives Trump a $6 million campaign contribution and he gives that company first shot of selling the Venezuelan oil?

Imagine a small value-added tax applied every sale above a certain amount, or a small amount withheld from incomes above a certain level – the generated revenue used to finance political campaigns. Advertising would be restricted and instead, air time and web streams would feature the candidates speaking for themselves and in monitored debates. Stump speeches would be promoted so that voters got to see candidates in person and slick, expensively-produced commercials would be jettisoned in favor of televised town hall events. Who would object? The rich corporate and financial interests that buy currently elections – and they'd have no trouble convincing USAmericans that the reforms were some sort of nefarious Chinese plot!

I agree those are reforms that need to be made and until they are we will be ruled by only the top 2% of Americans, the political donor class. The concept that America government was a government of the people and by the people was killed by a supreme court decision that said that money was in fact free speech. You could not stop the mega rich from corrupting our political system with billions of dollars because money was held to be free speech. As long as that court decision stands any meaningful reform of our political system is impossible as long as the system can be flooded with excessive amounts money.

Joni Mitchel said, “It is life’s illusions I recall; I really don’t know life at all.” So many of the things we mistake for reality are in fact illusions. We cling to illusions because our illusions keep us from having to face a harsh reality. Illusions are malleable and not bound by reality. In America now the top 2% are enslaving the rest of us. Don’t think so? Now each American is paying $2,400 a year in tariffs to pay for a $10 trillion tax cut for the top 2%. The ruling class maintains the illusions because it benefits them. If we continue to live in our illusion, we cannot change reality. Once territory is taken it is much harder to take it back. The illusion that our government is a government is government, “of the people, by the people, for the people,” is now further from reality than any point since it was formed.

A complaint has been released by the FBI about Trump’s involvement with the Epstein’s girls. On TV the complaint is impossible to read as it scrolls by quickly. No details were given just that the FBI thought the complaint was bogus. What FBI agent is going to find the complaint valid? That would be career suicide and possibly real suicide as three suicides are already tied to this case. They say if you believe you can or believe you can’t you are right. Can you imagine the Trump complaint being passed around the FBI. I am sick and going home give it to Joe, no I am going on a long vacation give it to Larry, sorry I just had a nervous breakdown. It is common knowledge what happens Little Hitler. All complaints in this case should be investigated. If anyone had told people that a middle age had molested over 500 underage girls and then “lend them out to his rich friends” it would seem to be periosteous.

The complaint against Trump was listed on a spread sheet. Where is the complete complaint and why was it not released so the people could judge for themselves?

One by one the names come trickling out. Bill Gates got a divorce and it was publicly stated that a reason was Bill was spending too much time with Epstein. Now we are getting the rest of the story. Letters have been found that indicate that Bill got a venereal disease and passed to his wife of 27 years. That is probably the fast way to divorce. You talk about a pissed off woman with blood in her eyes. Bill denies that it happened and his ex-wife has not confirmed it yet but Gates divorce record would no doubt put it to rest one way or the other but we do Gates was spending a lot of time with Epstein and when in company of wolves you behave as they do.

I worked that faced a similar situation. Her husband passed a venereal disease to her. He blamed her but test showed the disease had progressed further in him. That marriage did not last long.

Epstein told one of his girls that it was always good to have something on someone when she asked why she had to service so many men? That shows it was his intent to manipulate powerful people with his stable of underage girls. Epstein was a blackmailer, but he wanted influence instead of money.

The most dangerous part, from the kidnapper point view, is the exchange. The kidnapper has to physically get the money. This gives the police a chance to get catch him. What if kidnapper could get the money electronically and the information would be kept secret and the transaction is nonreversible? A kidnapper’s dream a currency designed for criminal transactions. Cryptocurrency is already being used by a wide spectrum of criminals for their criminal enterprises, but cryptocurrency is custom made for kidnappers. America has not had a widespread problem with kidnapping in the recent past but other countries have a big problem with kidnapping. The Guthrie case may make kidnapping common in American again because crypto makes the exchange almost bullet proof.

That's a very sobering observation, Zardoz.

I watched a news story that showed an elderly man in the process of sending his life savings to a conman in cryptocurrency. When they found the man, he had already sent the conman $30,000 and in the process of sending the rest. The point was made that the transaction is one way and cannot be reversed. This allows the criminals to steal with no restitution, that benefits who. The people that own cryptocurrency companies and the criminals. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in crimes each year and that allows the cryptocurrency companies to tap that source of revenue without the risk of being charged for the crimes they profit from.

We are witnessing an increase in criminal activity in America today, criminal have more tools at their disposal and more sophisticated tools than any time in history. They can strike from foreign countries. An older man from this area who owned a lot of property was scammed out of a million dollars from an African based scam. I was on the state site to purchase license for a couple of my antique sports cars. Somehow the payment page was overlaid by another site and when I clicked the button to pay it charged me a recurring $10.95 a month but gave no details of what I purchased. When the credit card statement came sure enough there was the $10.95 charge was there. I called the credit company and complained they were going to remove it until they found out it was a recurring charge they said if you joined it you will have to go to their website to correct it. I did not join anything and have no idea who they are, they are scammers. By that rule once the scammers got the charge in place you could not find them and they could continue to charge you forever. The credit company finally agreed to remove the fraudulent charge and later the company in question also removed the charge.