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In reply to the discussion: Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever (WOW!) [View all]Larry Ogg
(1,474 posts)36. Being a venal sock puppet for the game riggers is rule number one...
Most wannabe politicians, including Presidents, excepts this rule while competing for the very large campaign contributions that come from the game riggers.
Now most wannabe politicians who don't like rule number one, and refuse to play the game riggers game, will find it extremely difficult, if not imposable to win in an election process that is, you got it, also rigged by the game riggers.
People who think that a new President doesn't know this prior to being inaugurated live in a naive bubble of extreme denial.
It's a sad fact, like it or not, our government, along with the fourth estate, has been reduced to one big fraudulent puppet show.
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antigop
Apr 2013
OP
Seems like if you had 500 trillion dollars, you could buy you way out of any trouble.
bloomington-lib
Apr 2013
#2
Well, that was an ignorant and dickish reply. Thanks for not actually reading my post.
arcane1
Apr 2013
#9
really...? And saying this is a beneficial thing even though it sucks for a majority
fascisthunter
Apr 2013
#17
Another reading comprehension failure. I was talking about understanding financial nomenclature.
arcane1
Apr 2013
#41
Who was it that said "We'll hire 1/2 of the population to enslave the other 1/2"??
99th_Monkey
Apr 2013
#47
I really thought that Taibbi's recent article alluded to something of this magnitude
antigop
Apr 2013
#7
This is the tool that is being put in place and the reason why congress will not create jobs.... We
midnight
Apr 2013
#60
A system of total corruption,. a rigged game, this is capitalism of today.
Civilization2
Apr 2013
#35
You're welcome. Did you see the movie "The Matrix"? That's what it feels like. nt
antigop
Apr 2013
#57