Saturday, January 14, 2017
Low-quality extortion
Daily Mail has a nice background piece on Fusion GPS, the blackmailer who created the fake "dossier" on Trump. From a skills viewpoint, I find it interesting that the three main players had long and successful careers in mainstream media before they set up this company.
Observations:
1. Evil blackmail is the main product of MSM. These dudes learned their trade well.
2. Sometimes a corporation finds it convenient to split off a highly talented employee as a "consultant". Not a new practice but has a new purpose.
Previously the "consultant" routine was a workaround for corporate power struggles. When a supervisor disliked a good designer but the upper levels wanted to continue using the designer's output, he would be switched to "consultant".
More recently the "consultant" routine is a workaround for corporate "transparency" and "accountability" laws, which have intentionally resulted in less transparency and accountability. Clearly that's the pattern here. Fusion is a "consultant" so MSM can use the blackmail output without visible control or connection.
3. Aside from politics, this episode illustrates the rapidly failing QUALITY of everything we do in Sorosia. Fusion's blackmail output is remarkably easy to disprove. Serious consumers of extortion products, like KGB or the Sicilian Mafia, would NEVER accept or pay for such raggedy shit.
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