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Days Of Rage Are Coming
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
The resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground.
It's time to trade in your Jag, Mercedes, BMW (and maybe your Prius, Volvo, Lexus, etc.) before the Days of Rage start. As I've explained before ( As the "Prosperity" Tide Recedes, the Ugly Reality of Wealth Inequality Is Exposed), the rage of the masses who have been losing ground while the Financier Oligarchs, the New Nobility and the technocrat class reap immense gains for decades has been suppressed by the dream that they too could join the Upper Caste.
But once the realistic odds of that happening (low) sink in, the Days of Rage will begin. For those still who don't know the facts of rising inequality, here's what you need to know.
The top 1% skim 23% of all income:

While the top 5% has enjoyed substantial income gains over the past 45 years, adjusted for inflation, the bottom 90% have lost ground:

The last time there was mass unrest in America was the civil rights/Vietnam War era. The power of the civil rights movement arose from the core injustice of segregation (separate and unequal) and institutionalized racism/bias. This institutionalized injustice drew people from all classes and ethnicities into the streets, where they were promptly beaten by police.
The anti-war's Days of Rage drew from a different well of unrest. In effect, the college-age offspring of the great American middle class had decided that sacrificing their lives for the Domino Theory/defense of previous incalculably stupid Imperial decisions made no sense.
But when they made their doubts known, the Powers That Be's response shocked them: we don't care what you think, you're going to fight our war, no questions asked. The middle class is more than an income bracket; it's a mindset of entitlements, one of which is that the middle class's opinions matter.
Surprise, middle class America--the Power Elites could care less what you think. If the Empire needs your sons for an insane war, deliver them to Caesar, and we'll ship them home in body bags, or alive but hooked on smack, whatever--the individual consequences don't count.
Seeing middle class kids destined for successful careers in the Establishment being beaten, shot down and arrested as if they were rabble laid the Imperial Project bare and disabused people of their naive faith that the Power Elites cared what they thought.
We are approaching another moment in history that disabuses what's left of the middle class of their fantasy that they matter. The poor don't harbor such entitlements; they know all the high-minded promises are shuck and jive. They have fewer illusions to crush.
The heavily-militarized police and the central bureaucracies of repression would love to confront an unarmed mob of middle class kids. It would be child's play to teargas them, beat them, and trundle them off in mass arrests.
But this time around, people have gotten wise to the militarized brutality. The Occupy Wall Street movement taught us all a powerful lesson: if you assemble 500 people in a symbolically important place like Wall Street, the Power Elites will assemble 1,000 cops/F.B.I. agents et al. to crush you.
So the resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth (when nobody's looking) that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground. For example:

If you want to retain your signifier of wealth/success, you'd be better off turning it into an art car:

Alternatively, you can cover it with adverts (Eat at Joe's). People will assume it's a company car and you're just the schmoe hired to drive it.
But by far the safest strategy is to dump the Jag, Benz, etc. and acquire a well-worn econobox vehicle with some rust spots and dents, a car that won't attract any notice in a sea of other old vehicles driven by people clinging to the dignity of personal transport.
If you really want a new car, then buy a working-class hero car, i.e. a new American Muscle car: a Mustang, a Camero, a Challenger. But for goodness sakes, don't dress like a tech-bro or a financier.
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The world is full of haters. Wait until they start shooting back, with thier armies. /sarc
They don't have armies. The armies are comprised completely by us proles. Until we refuse to fight the bankers' wars, there will be no peace.
Actually, I would revise and say that until the masses recognize that most wars are started for financial reasons, and financiers set the table, we'll repeat the pattern.
Long portable guillotines...
Got it..
Camo tape around the gold Rolex.
So I'll be safe in my 10 year old tahoe? That's a relief....
My 4Runner will be sweet with a Dillon minigun mounted on the roof!
The downside is, I'll prolly be dead, and some (other) asshole will be driving it.
This is exactly why I stay in a working class neighborhood and never wash my car... at least, I tell myself this is the reason.
I knew my 18 year old jeep would come in handy.
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/09/20/qatar-sheikh-flees-ferrari-porsche-be...
This is one guy I wish the gentle giants would have caught before he escaped back to our Ally and good friend, the Nation of Qatar.
Remember, if you have $20,000 you are "rich" to teh Obamanoid voter and those are teh rich people they are going to be shooting at.
Let the FSA fire the first shot...
(Ain't happening)
I am finishing up a business plan for the next big thing in franchise fast food.
It's to be called “Gruel To Go” and will feature soon-to- be-popular affordable varieties of spiced hardtack and gruel.
It's geared toward the 99% as it is all they will be able to afford soon.
I am especially excited about the asparagus flavored hardtack I am calling “Soylent Green” .. Catchy, huh?
As a certain Windy City Ballerina Fuehrer once remarked "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste".
I also toyed around with the name “Goodbye, Gruel World”, but I figured it might have a bit of a negative connotation, although it might work for a mortuary franchise in a couple years or so.
We really need to think beyond CARS....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjmWeypvoQg
You're on the right track but, and I hesitate to say this, you may have missed an opportunity to cash in on the very real human need to feel special, unique, set apart from the crowd even when shown to be exactly like the rest of the herd.
May I offer: GRUEL AND UNUSUAL- The first fast food restaurant specifically prohibited by the Constitution and therefore where the cops and judges all eat.
I like it.. I’ll add pig’s feet, pork rinds and honey ham glazed donuts.
Hey! Knock that off!!!
Long Tabasco.
Gotta be portable for eating on the run from killer cops...
Meet my "Haggis-on-a-Stick" franchise plan. Ground offal and oatmeal keep the price point low.
Combined with a surefire logo and slogan, it's going to be a winner.
"Eat yer fookin' Haggis"
http://cdn2.listsoplenty.com/listsoplenty-cdn/pix/uploads/2010/10/scotsm...
My '06 Civic with the peeling paint job is exactly what I wanted. And at 32 mpg, it is even better.
A guy told me he could fix the paint job on this and on my tractor. I told him I wanted them to look like crap. The only thing of any value to me is my family. And I won't make them a target because I gots to have the bling.
I was driving through a larger city a few weeks ago with the top down, I've got an older Miata worth about $7k. Never again, I was a homeless beggar target.
If I didn't like driving so much I'd dump it, as is I think I'll get something else older and reliable separate reliable and garage it somewhere, and hope I don't run out of ammo getting to it...
I need to piss off another girlfriend so that the dents and keyed paint on the right side of my 350Z get matched up on the left.
I've said for a long time that the looters will go after their ghetto rich neighbors (the ones with the new Air Jordans) first, and 90+% of them will die killing and looting each other. The other 10% will pose a problem and are why you've been prepping
Ah, the Thani family. I've been sending the Ferrari/Porsche race to everyone I know with the disclaimer; "This is who helped us create ISIS".
Why the fuck is this detail not in ONE article? Kardashian World.
and acquire a well-worn econobox vehicle with some rust spots and dents, a car that won't attract any notice in a sea of other old vehicles
P.S. And without a GPS system
89 Izusu Trooper, 4x4 with auto lugs. Don't want to be restricted to roads/sidewalks when the attacks start....
Aren't those solid front axle?
They don't make many rides with solid front axles anymore. Other the some heavy duty trucks I bet you could count the models on one hand. I can only think of one without googling it and that would be the Jeep Wrangler.
I don't think it's going to matter about that working class neighborhood. White people with stuff to steal will be a target. Remember, if you are making 50k or more a year and have any savings you are 'rich' in Obamas America. We will all have targets on our backs.
That's why I've spent $10K on defensive cutlery.
Fucking Nixon.
Yes Nixon abandoned the Gold Standard which allowed for this.
And today Bix Weir sent out an email REPORTING that Jack Lew, US Secretary of the Treasury, is ABANDONING THE PRODUCTION OF THE US SILVER EAGLES...ILLEGALLY OF COURSE.
We are in a World of Hurt and it just promses to degenerate into chaos and FURTHER ANARCHY.
We are living in ANARCHIC RULE presently if you have not figured that out...all of you "anarchocapitalists"...THERE IS NO RULE OF LAW.
How is anarchy working out for you? It is not working out for me at all....because of the corrupt like Jack Lew.
While you guys have a beautiful and wonderful ideal...AND YOU DO...I like freedom and liberty and advocate that...and 80% of the people are basically HONEST and not any threat but are cooperative and will deal on the level...
The FLAW in anarchocapitalism is that the 1% of the population which are FUCKING PSYCHOPATHS will use the lack of the Rule of Law to abuse and fuck over the rest of the 99%.
Damn I wish the was a solution to the Human Condition. But there is not. Damn it.
Take good care of yourselves good people. You know who you are.
You demonstrate that there is currently a Rule of Law, downvoters.
Show me that Corzine, Dimon, and others, including our Glorious Leaders, have gone to prison and were punished for perpetrating the frauds.
Good luck. There is not.
Where there is no Rule of Law there is anarchy.
It does NOT WORK.
(Well IF ONLY we could get rid of the psychopaths...it would.)
But we cannot rid ourselves of the psychopaths and that is just a denial of the REALITY.
You can immerse yourselves in the idealism if you choose.
You can dream about it if you choose to dream your life away.
As for me I will have to be a REALIST and DEAL WITH THIS SHIT. I cannot afford the luxury of IDEALISM.
And all of the downarrows in the World will not change that reality.
So sorry for disturbing your dream away and waking you up.
Enjoy some "Cars"..."Just A Dream Away."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJkfgQj4Guw
"Show me that Corzine, Dimon, and others, including our Glorious Leaders, have gone to prison and were punished for perpetrating the frauds. Good luck. There is not. Where there is no Rule of Law there is anarchy."
Umm no. Show me that YOU wont go to jail for committing fraud and I'll agree. We have crony fascism because ONLY the rich, connected and powerful get away with it. This has nothing to do with anarchy and the more you buffoons who think this is put those people in bed with each other with your fantasy garbage of "we need more regulation on these unregulated industries", the worse this will get.
Tall Tom
There is an extremely harsh rule of law that applies and is applied to, with extreme prejudice, the man on the street or the guy driving a 30 year old car/ The wolf bares his fangs to the population............the goal being intimidation; the local police are now the street enforcers (read shaved head thugs) of the international bankster cartel. I worry not though...it all can be swept aside in one day.
Any reputable source on the Jack Lew/Silver Eagles comment?
If I understand your rant....
An = without, Archy = Government, rulers.
This is nether Anarchy, nor AnCap. Anarchy would be a step up from the current Fascist Kakistocracy Shitshow
IOW, they will do exactly what they are doing now, in the presence of government. What other line of work would appeal more to pschopaths than a business with a monopoly on the initiation of force, and the right to order everybody around, based on the outcome of that religious activity, known as VOTING? You can keep your Church of the Holy Ballot Box, and Divine Right of the Majority, and continue to hope that with the right people in power, things will get better.
Finally, if the worst possible outcome that you can imagine, from an experiment with AnCap, is that we end right back were we are now, I have but one question.
When do we get started?
Absolutely the funniest reply today! Who the crap would downvote this? C'mon people - without humor you are dead meat - trust me - you're going to need a real strong sense of humor to get through the next five years!
+1000 on the guillotines
Let me know when that producer goes public, I will get back in the market just for that one.
Short and long portable guillotines son.
listen, please. most, nearly all, ways of striking back at the power elite seem impossible. really, run them through your head. one way is not impossible. it is even likely to succeed because it uses the most flamboyant, ridiculous, wildly evil act the powers that be have ever engaged in. if you saw it in a movie or read it in a book you would laugh and say no one would ever try that because no one would believe it.
but they did and they (increasingly fewer) did: 9-11.
think about it. first there is provable truth of inexpressible evil done to innocent u.s. citizens by their rulers. second, even greater evil (if not in the eyes of u.s. citizens, then for the world at large) was its motive (initially two wars of choice and now more than we know). it still kills innocents each day that passes, fourteen years later, with no chance of stopping, except for hanging 9-11 around the necks of those who actually did it: cheney, rumsfeld, bush, silverstein, the cia, the mossad, the project for a new american century (look it up), etc. not some saudis who couldn't fly jumbo jets and of whom half a dozen were still alive months and years later. the cover story is profoundly unbelievable.
even the powers that be could not live this down, once the crowd truly shouts that the emperor has no clothes. it is the litmus test that so many will fail. it ain't no vietnam. no one can come up with a reason that it was for a good cause, a necessary sacrifice. it was for fascism, greater israel and the military industrial complex.
we are actually incredibly lucky (like nixon taping himself, again not movie believable). the psychopaths in charge (now) have given us a great gift: a way to truly defeat them. many (obama) will claim innocence (out of the loop). they will not be believed.
learn and change minds. it takes no money, it takes no weapons, it isn't even against the law, yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoY3AIRUGA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNww9cmZPo
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticl...
Solution offered is to change enough minds. Then what?
Pitch forks and guillotines
That 9-11 stuff has been out there for quite a while now. Just believing it doesn't change a thing. When the thugs are setting your car on fire, try and tell them that you want them to watch a u-tube about 9-11. That will not help. You are right Syrin, violence will bring much more violence. I hope to stay away from it as much as possible.
Unfortunately, no matter where you go, it will eventually find your corner of the world.
The last time I questioned the offical narrative in public I was compared to a child molester and hitler in terms of how evil I was for questioning it. Gov wont need to fight us truthers, our neighbors will for them.
Drones never refuse.
but drone mechanics, fliers, programers, builders, and armorers can-----just saying.
better yet...the families of these people can. when they come home to chopped up loved ones they wont go in the next day. that is why it is important to have foreigners make up the army.
Exactly
Someone forgot Land Rovers & Audies!
Unfortunately this is how it always ends in these types of scenarios, the elites think that they are safe, but they'll be going down with the ship, just like everyone else.
http://marcfabersblog.blogspot.com/
The Elites have already set up their new residences in New Zealand. Pissed off people will be killing each other more than elites.
Elites don't control earthquakes, well, at least the ones NOT created by oil drilling. New Zealand will disappear into the ocean - just like the old Atlantis - leaving behind tales of an ancient city where wealth and food and entertainment abounded - wait. History repeats itself?
Someone stuck a potato in my Jetta's exhaust pipe. At least it wasn't David Cameron!!
somehow that feels like a very sexy double entendre... dirty mind is a joy forever....
Thank goodness I totalled my volvo last week! Today, I will order a crate of footballs to toss at the FSA as a distraction.
Thx for the heads up!
I've heard basketballs work better...
Hate is good! Hate means strength. Yes, thank you! I am a HATER. A hater of all that is not natural.
Get your EDC Prayer-Book!!! You need it for sure. http://www.amazon.com/Fortes-Fide-Church-Militant-Prayer/dp/0615746195/r...
Let them eat cake!
The head of snap - food stamps- expects a govt shutdown due to. Cruz (and trump) and has instructed staff to NOT. Disburse funds for October. As of today. That is the status of snap
LINK or BS
Redefining god.com. Scroll down to bottom of post
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/09/22/government-shutd...
There is Hitlery's first campaign promise and 40% of the vote.
Somebody is trying to start a fire.
I blame the Kenyan.
SNAP never fed my ass, I had to work for living! You don't work no food!
As long as there is still plenty of food and entertainment, no one will do anything significant.
Yep, but 'plenty' is going away quickly......
Don't disagree, but it's been seven years.
I'm getting doom weary.
I go to a Wal-Mart or grocery store and everything is still ticking along. I guess it ticks along until it doesn't.
On a long enough timeline...
This time is different.
Even if it were different (from the previous times in the US), look at what happened in other countries when TSHTF.
This article is a revenge porn fantasy.
The reality is people need to eat, and people with something to protect will hire big people who need to eat, and those big people will literally eat the uppity little people if need be.
For every one member of the elite who loses a car or gets a bloody nose, how many kids of the 90% are going to be pulled into dark rooms and returned to their parents such that an open casket funeral is not an option?
Other than the fact 'Murican niggers have been dumbed down to the point that they actually think "black lives matter"... Nothing is different this time, including the actual danger to odd person who might be mistaken for a member of elite.
I dont think it's dumbed down to the point that black lives matter, I think it's dumbed down enough to think the Democrat party actually aren't a bunch of racist eugenicists that want to keep blacks in perpetual poverty and their numbers low enough only to affect election outcomes for the left (of course).
Since black people just havent caught on to this democrat scam, they've fallen back on black lives matter.
Even Walmart is starting to feel some real pain and it takes time to destroy an entire economy.....
We have a loooooong way to fall. The landing is gonna hurt.
the last 30% drop will be a full power dive, not a gentle feathery ride down...system is not set up that way...crack up and BOOM!
Careful.... They may lock you in.....
Correct. As long as people have heat light and food nothing will happen.
I drive a 2003 Civic 4-door. 77,000 Km. Almost every other dude in my neighbourhood drives a bmw or audi.
I think the intermediate models will see strong demand, like the Accord, as the wealthy "go to ground".
2001 Jeep Cherokee. Great car.
Yes. 4 litre Wisconsin iron motor.
Those engines are bullet proof. I had a grand Cherokee in high school and college. Lifted, bigger tires, and I did very thing possible that would destroy a vehicle and that thing kept going, the engine and tranny anyway. Drove it through water over the good one too many times and fried the PCM, but that thing sure took a beating. Had over 260k on that thing, original power train, when I got rid of it
Here Here...I have driven 4 jeeps with the bulletproof straight 6, only motor I have ever had. Best motor in the history of the auto industy in my humble opinion.
I am on Jeep Wrangler #2, 2006 Rubicon with 69k miles. My favorite so far....
Straight sixes kick ass in general. Broad torque curve, and they are naturally balanced. The problem is, they don't fit into small engine compartments as well if you're trying to make the vehicle aerodynamic.
Mine's an 05 Unlimited Rubicon. My only wish is that it had C-J 5 ignition system.
Red mtn bike no taxes...
The purpose isn't to look and smell down and out. The purpose is not to draw attention to self and family by looking average-ish.
Yup, but they do have their maintainance quirks. Once you learn those, those things can last for 500k miles. If you actually four wheel it, watch out for that passenger side engine mount, as it can sheer off the bolts in the engine bosses if it goes out, and 2001 had some casting flaws in the head. At least the engine mount is easy and cheap ro replace if you know it is going out.
Just did the engine and transmission mounts. 106,000 miles. We live in the world of baches and topas.
Four down votes - must be new car salesmen.
2007 Ford F150, but It looks in pretty good condition. I think I'll squeak by as part of the masses, just need a few more scratches and some dirt.
Ford E150, looks like crap on the outside but man is it a nice place to live on the inside.
Just returned from Santa Fe, NM, maiden 'voyage', in my recently purchased 1991, Plymouth Voyager Se, 3 door, 3 litre, minny van, mint condition, 71,220 original miles, garaged with all papers, $1500 cash. Perfect for this scenario, may end up living in it...
...Down by the river.
You may run into Ann down there.
Santa Fe has turned into a tourist trap. There is some neat stuff there, but a lot of artsy-fartsy people who would fit right in in San Fransisco have moved in. That and its streets were built to handle 10,000 people and 70,000. Did you eat at Tomacitas? I don't think their chile is as hot as they claim.
Lived there 20 years ago, right before the touristas and the Hollywood 'retired' celebs started to proliferate. Have treasured memories of when the bar band would strike up 'Mustang Sally' at El Farol, Conyon St, at midnight every Friday/Sat night, with the beautiful Texas girls in from out a town...
'95 GMC with 256,000 miles and major dents named Lisa, Brooke and Deer.
My 2002 BMW X5 will probably get me killed even though the best trade in offer I can get on is 2K. Some yahoo in 40K full sized pickup will think I'm "rich folk"
New large pickup can go above 60K easily. My 2005 Lexus would trade for about 15k, but the badge states that you and I are 1%ers and we will both be executed at dawn...what dawn is not yet known, but be ready either way.
Wait...your 2002 X5 is only 2K but my 2005 RX is about 15K... guess that shows what to buy new or slightly used!!! IF of course, you are willing to risk being shot at dawn some day in the future...maybe. After getting the RX used...it still tighter than any car i have ever owned, i will never buy new again, and it seems will always buy Lexus as well.
I got a hoopty. I'm all set for the reset.
Since there was no reset yesterday, I've given up hope on predictions. It will be somewhere inbetween the no reset and a complete reset.
+1 for hoopty.
As emerging market currencies collapse and inflation shoots up, there will be riots all over.
A world of rage is not far away.
Brazil may lead the way.
The knock on effects will be massive and people who have been taught to expect certain things forever will be looking for people to crucify when bread and circuses disappear.......
No, plenty of "room to move" in Brazil. Places where the "fall" in the standard of living is greater AND where there is no room to run will see much greater destruction, think Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, New York, L.A. etc. Remember there is no SNAP program in Brazil, most people have been living hand-to-mouth there already.
What the fuck do you think happens when the SNAP card won't buy you shit in America because the producers say "fuck it, we can't produce, let alone profit from accepting SNAP!!!" Already there IMO.
You could replace Brazil with India, except that we do have subsidies on food and fuel...
<removed it> TMI.
Well it probably takes two (2) minds to come up with such an aggressive lead line and demonstrable position.
It's entertaining for the author to think that the majority of readers are wealthy elites, when in fact we are awakened middle classers that are interested in knowing how our country and standard of life is breaking down...
Which leads you squarely in the pass of influence... no..../?
Over the top crazy talk. Has Durden been captured...
Phew! Glad I still have my 2000 Honda Accord with 215k miles including bent quarter panel and peeling paint job!
This is my ride. Haters be jelly!
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/35/93/78/359378a0c8d9b74cbe0ef...
What? No cowbell?
@ temporalist...beautiful vehicle. Do you have a root link? Like it being ridden/played etc. Thanks....
Cue gated cities...
Gated cities..
Hmm gated cities are fine when we are talking a white city vs a low iq sub class; this is different this is a tiny oligarchical class that has to deal with avg to high iq people numbering 100 mil, you can't protect yourself with gated cities.
Correct, although such "gated cities" would provide other "opportunities" IMO...
The rules are changing and no matter what the people at the top think, if enough people at the bottom get pissed off, they are going to lose. And since the government has been creating the SJW's and special snowflakes of the free shit army and has been radicalizing them as much as possible, I expect entire cities to burn and gated communities will be no protection......
I got dibs on that m45 tank out at the fairgrounds, just Gota find me a nice turbo diesel for it, maybe catippliler will have a nice close out sale
We'll all be walking anyway.
Speak for yourself, pedestrian.
OH I HAVEN'T SEEN SUCH BEAUTY IN... well the last time i looked in the cabinet 3 feet away. Nice wheels too! If i had the land I would have a few of those "Land Rover's"
Sig SG-57/ SG510-4? wow, thats a cool /eclectic choice of rifle.
That is sweet hedge. I'm usually pretty good at recognizing hardware but I'm drawing a blank on that firearm, what is it? Thought it was a FN-FAL but the curved mag and the bolt looks wrong.
I just looked it up. The ONLY one on gunbroker.com is now $9k
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=509804475
Sig PE-57 .
Now that I know what it is I am curious whether its chambered in Swiss 7.5 mm or 7.62 NATO.
Amazing to find this item at all, let along in a horse scabbard.
also known as SIG SG-510
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_SG_510
Tech-bro.
Heh. We call them "Soy Boys" at Fort Silencer
A nail in a stick.
Just think how many tyres you could deflate simply walking down the road in the centre of london.Thousands per day I reckon.
Use a VERY SHARP nail point in between the toe tip and sole of a boot. A stick will attract too much attention.
It's also good for puncturing shins and balls.
Go for the valve stems. Easier to cut quickly than the tire (or tyre) itself.
I can think of little else lower than the life form that enjoys slashing someone's tires. Graffiti is at least art.
As long as it isn't on your property.
The one percent is both a mis-nomer, and the opposite of a threat. The one percent are some of us. Those who rule are so much further up the ladder, they cannot even be seen from this low altitude.
The Mercedes' aren't the problem, it's the limos and the private jets. If you drive your own car, you're no threat to anyone.
https://atokenmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/the-one-percent/
You raise a very sound counterpoint. But, this assumes a rational, proportional proletarian back-lash.
If this goes, I'm assuming an irrational, disproportionate and opportunistic uprising.
Mercedes, BMW, etc. are available high-value targets.
Yessir, with mob-violence, they're not going to be asking if the guy is rich through legitimate hard work, or if he is rich through purchasing the government. The former don't deserve harm in general.
Outside of the strict, irrational mob mentality, it would seem that the hard working wealthy have a chance for others to speak up and state: citizen X isn't so bad, he pays his employees well, has venom for ill gotten gain, etc.
Probably be some cheap VWs around soon.
I think it would be very cathartic to set a 60 million dollar apartment on fire.
But I think I'd get a greater level of satisfaction from punching Jamie Dimon in the balls.
Screw lashings, hangings and guillotines. I'd like to see international bankers tied up with their legs spread. Then, everyone gets to line up and use their packages as a speed bag. We'd all feel better, and they'd be infertile. it's a win-win.
Yeah, the whole concept of Cops sticking around is minimal at best in a crash-scenario.
When they lose thier pensions and a few dozen of em get sucking-chest-wounds from fighting Ma and Pa Kettle followed by their famalies being threatened....yeah...I forsee about 2-weeks of police "protection" before they vanish....
There aren't enough mercs etc to "Protect" the wealthy...and what they will get will be a culling of 95% of the 1%....
Personally Im waiting for what will happen to the Kardashians....now that will be some must-see-tv when the Mob shows up at pimp-mama-Kris's house...and Caitlyn can't defend em no more...
The badges including Feds will have to worry about their house, family and their stuff.
I bet with those gold plated pensions, overtime, shakedowns, graft, payoffs that many have a Harley, boat or some other crap in the front yard that they will want to protect.
Reality has to be getting pretty close to Chicago and Illinois pensions. No way that Congress will be able to bail em out or O because we must spend hundreds of billions for more illegal invaders.
If you check your local appraisal district and find a house with no owner listed, it is owned by a cop.
or a judge----
Or a US Assistant DA, DEA, etc etc etc.
Remember the video of the guy that drove his car through the fire-wrecked neighborhood? No cops, no firefighters were present.
Fuck that Ill drive what I want first fucker that closes in gets a third eye.