Sunday, March 24, 2019
Sloshing swindles
Lately I've been comparing Sorosian dysgovernments to various forms of old-fashioned swindles.
Four variants on the old change-raising scam. The old-fashioned version involves lots of money sloshing around, and lots of apparent action. You're dazzled by the rapid motion so you lose track of the money. At the end of the grift, NOTHING has really happened except that your money is all gone.
Example 1: The "death penalty". Triggered by this meaningless news about Robert Duncan:
Fourteen years ago, Duncan murdered a Coeur d'Alene family before kidnaping and molesting two of the family's children. Duncan, a convicted sex offender, murdered Brenda Groene, her boyfriend and son at their home near Coeur d'Alene. Shasta Groene and her brother Dylan were kidnapped by Duncan and molested. Dylan was eventually murdered. On Friday, U.S. District court officials said a judge denied Duncan’s post-conviction claims and upheld his convictions and sentences on all counts except for one death sentence. The court has taken one of the death sentences under advisement pending the resolution of a legal question being considered by appellate courts.FOURTEEN YEARS of sloshing around. Millions of dollars sloshed, several lawyers spending their entire career on sloshing. Now that one court has tentatively not quite failed to partially remove two of the three alleged "death sentences", we can be possibly potentially sure that Duncan could be executed only 500 years after he dies peacefully in his sleep at age 95, instead of 50000 years after he dies peacefully in his sleep at age 95. Things are moving FAST now! Tell your greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandchildren to watch for the result!!!!! Example 2: Trump. Mueller. The wall. Executive orders. An unending soap opera with every episode the same. Trillions of dollars sloshing around, precisely zero change or action. Example 3: Imperial wars. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, ad infinitum. Example 4: Brexit. = = = = = In the old-fashioned version, the sucker is mainly dazzled by the money. At some points he thinks the money has come into his hands, so he keeps anticipating that he will win in the end. In the political version, the sucker is mainly dazzled by the appearance of team competition. At some points he thinks that his side has "won" a trial or an election or a battle or a vote in Parliament, so he keeps anticipating that he will win in the end. ¶ 9:45 AM
