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(16,441 posts)
Tue May 6, 2025, 10:49 PM May 2025

This rings true. Your thoughts ...?

So let me tell you what's going on, what Trump is doing.

Let's start with this quote from the early 1930's from US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. He was a billionaire businessman who had the ear of the president and he told the president “liquidate labor get rid of it; liquidate stocks let them crash; liquidate farmers let them go out of business; liquidate real estate. Let the whole thing go to dust. This, said Andrew Mellon, will purge the rottenness out to the system and the high cost of living will come down.”

But why did he say liquidate the entire system? What would be the point of that? He said “people will work harder … enterprising people will pick up the wrecks

Trump and those around him plan to gut the US like a pig. This means everything federally owned. This means letting stocks collapse. And ultimately why he admires Putin so much is because this entire systemic collapse is what happened to the Soviet Union 30-40 years ago. And out of the ashes of the former Soviet Union, rose the oligarchs -- the .111% who owned everything. To be fair this is also what Naomi Klein described in her book: The Shock Doctrine where this exact same thing, this implosion of an economy was done in Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Poland, South Africa, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere.

In fact there's a joke in her book that I've always remembered. It was; ‘why has there never been a coup in the United States?” And the answer is because there's no U.S. embassy in the United States. But instead there's now Trump and his team looking to get rich, destroy everything and then buy up everything and keep everybody working harder as Andrew Mellon would say. You're welcome.

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Bread and Circuses

(2,121 posts)
2. Yep, I and others expected the theft of ....
Tue May 6, 2025, 11:32 PM
May 2025

All US assets and cash. The oligarchs will buy farmland, entire city blocks, industries, public buildings, national parks, public utilities and water systems and our military bases.

They will rent it back to us at 300% profit. By the way that’s what Putin and the KGB did when the USSR collapsed.
Thats why Russia is poor, they are not an economic powerhouse. Russia is an oil exporting country. That’s wheee it begins and ends.

RazorbackExpat

(948 posts)
3. Mellon approved the design of the new Washington quarter in 1932
Wed May 7, 2025, 12:14 AM
May 2025

The reverse (tails) side of the quarter shows an eagle perched on a fasces-like bundle of sticks, which was apparently modeled after the 5 lire coin issued by Benito Mussolini a few years earlier

LT Barclay

(3,189 posts)
5. That's why Naomi Klein says the plan is more sinister this time. I agree with her and think the goal this time is
Wed May 7, 2025, 12:41 AM
May 2025

drastic population reduction. That is why they are also attacking healthcare, eduction, and stoking hatred.

Irish_Dem

(81,939 posts)
10. There is no other explanation for the destruction of healthcare, medical research, vaccines, etc.
Wed May 7, 2025, 04:23 AM
May 2025

They want a significant reduction in the population. Old, sick, infirm must go.

Ford_Prefect

(8,638 posts)
11. Along with You and Me. They want anyone they don't agree with GONE too, by whatever means if convenient and necessary.
Wed May 7, 2025, 09:00 AM
May 2025

Irish_Dem

(81,939 posts)
12. Musk's hacker kids are consolidating all know information on everyone.
Wed May 7, 2025, 11:59 AM
May 2025

They will know who we voted for and when.
And who posts on social media.

BurnDoubt

(1,829 posts)
7. The legacy of Citizens United.
Wed May 7, 2025, 01:08 AM
May 2025

I believe The high tax brackets after WWII prevented the Big Money from warping our Economy. This is why they think little girls have thirty dolls. All the little girls they hang with DO. TAX THEY ASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is more evident than ever that extreme wealth corrupts. God wants us to strip them of this Evil, and save their souls. If your Pastor doesn't believe this is true, slap him/her until they do. It's in the Gospel.

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