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Jane Stillwater's avatar

Trump's main job (and Biden and Obama's too) is to break the back of the US dollar so that the Federal Reserve will be in charge of our money (not us).

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The Word Herder's avatar

The Fed has ALWAYS been in charge of our money, since it took over, along with all the Filthy Rich who are part of the Game. It's NEVER been a good thing, and it's so far past time to shut it down, it's ludicrous. So sez I.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Good job. I like Larry Johnson. He tells it straight out, but I'm not sure if he's aware of the so-called "Black Nobility," or maybe he's playing it close to the vest...

THE IDEA for many decades now, has been to break and undo America. The past few decades, and especially the past few years, have been clearly a roadmap for doing just that, and set up by TRAITORS of our own (speaking as an American) ranks, so to speak. The military hegemony has been on the skids since Viet Nam, as far as I can see. And I agree, we are going to crash like all giants crash... Falling from great heights to the ground, and making a biggo HOLE in it.

Heaven help us, because most of Americans are utterly clueless, and uneducated in the ways of Evil, and therefore, in my view Not To Blame, but to be learning very, very hard lessons on behalf of those who brought this upon us... Which generally ends up with that Awakening Factor, and then a big purge of all the Bad Guys that can be found, and a general picking up of the pieces.

But this time around, I'm hoping for, and feeling that it's a pretty good bet, that things will really, really change, in Very Significant Ways. I hope so, anyway. It's TIME.

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James Bernard Shepard's avatar

Funny – and not funny at all – thing about the Military Industrial Complex. It seems to be the only growth industry in the USA, or so you'd think when you hear that the F-35 can't be cancelled because it's got parts manufacturing employers creating almost the only remaining jobs in every congressional district.

Yet the F-35 is a joke among international military experts. It's ungainly and slow and easily detected and poorly armed. It's designed so incredibly badly that the pilot dare not keep the afterburner on for more than a few minutes (to get up to Mach One!) because the tail planes start to melt! You read that right!

And that's typical of the US Military Industrial Complex. Off-shoring and financialization which has hollowed out American industry for 40 years has, of course, meanwhile ruined MILITARY INDUSTRY. Lack of general industrial health means atrophy of employment, engineering, supply streams, transportation industry, science education – the whole ball of wax that makes for the vigorous productive economy that the Russians NOW HAVE. They can make hundreds of tanks, millions of shells and rockets and constantly innovating drone technology. Because their industrial economy is ALIVE. Same goes for China. Same goes for Iran.

It's real simple if you look at it like that. Why can't you get a pothole fixed in Cleveland? Because there's no traffic going over the road that makes enough money to light a fire under the mayor's butt hole.

America can no longer make the shells and missiles and other military tech to keep up with the modern battlefield like the Russians can. The Russians can innovate in materials and metals engineering to make hypersonic missiles. SO CAN THE HOUTHIS!

America's Lockheed "Skunk Works" [aptly named not for secrecy but for the stink of boondoggles] produces a fighter plane whose tail melts if you try to "max perform it" by going fast enough to outrun or dodge a Russian BVR missile.

The US Military Industrial Complex needs to be renamed. It's no good at industry. But it's great at lying. Call it the Military Bullshit Complex.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Yes, indeed, my friend. You are hammering them nails bigly…

But you know, stuff being stuff, I think there will be MANY MANY people in Murka who will be forced to take up another profession to survive, which will likely end up being the thing that saves this country.

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