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Why It Absolutely, Positively Does Not Matter

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Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

I’ll admit that when I was a kid, I used to spend hours watching wrestling on television.

Hulk Hogan, the Macho Man Randy Savage… I loved all the old-school guys from the WWF, as they used to call it back in the 1980s.

It was mesmerizing, a bit like I’d imagined gladiator combat would be.

But I’ll never forget when the dream completely collapsed.

My father took me to a live match when they came to our town and we had great seats near the front row.

For the first time it was obvious to me, even from a young age, that it was all fake.

I was devastated. I had actually believed that there were good guys versus bad guys beating each other up in the ring.

It turned out to be a complete hoax, something that’s known today as “sports entertainment”.

In fact, it’s essentially the same with elections today, which I see as “political entertainment”.

Watching Hilary Clinton debate Bernie Sanders—or like yesterday evening, Jeb Bush against Donald Trump—doesn’t strike me as too different from when Hulk Hogan faced off against Andre the Giant in Wrestlemania.

It’s all fake. It’s sound bites, jabs and jibes, and pointless banter completely devoid of any real substance.

Having lunch yesterday with a good friend from the UK, he asked if I thought that any political candidate was worth it.

I told him that I’m sure they’re all very nice people. Many of them might even mean very well and have very good intentions.

I’ll also admit that occasionally they have decent ideas and that there are small steps in a positive direction.

But the truth is, none of it really matters.

As I explained to my friend, the United States objectively speaking is far past the point of no return.

The government’s own financial statements prove beyond all doubt that they are flat broke to the tune of more than $60 trillion, and that they lose hundreds of billions of dollars more every year.

In 2013, for example, the government lost $805 billion according to the Government Accountability Office.

Every major pension program is either already insolvent or desperately unfunded.

This isn’t Simon Black’s analysis; the Treasury Secretary of the United States of America himself tells us that the Social Security’s Trust Funds are nearly out of money.

The Federal Reserve is nearly insolvent, and on a mark to market basis is likely already insolvent.

The FDIC, which is supposed to support the entire US banking system, admits that it fails to meet the minimum capital requirements as required by law.

US banks are precariously illiquid and exposed to trillions of dollars worth of very high-risk assets. Something that even the Fed and the FDIC do not consider to be “sound”.

So to presume that a single individual is going to ride in on a white horse, wave a magic wand and fix all this is just a childish fantasy.

The hope is that “the right person” can at least start to steer the ship in the right direction.

This is the delusion every election cycle; people end up believing the entertainment is real, and that the right person can start to fix everything.

Then a few years later, they realize that the ‘right person’ is almost exactly like the last person.

Not to mention, ‘righting the ship’, mathematically speaking, is an impossibility.

The government now spends almost all of its tax revenue just to pay interest on the debt, and the mandatory programs, like Social Security and Medicare.

Both of which, by the way, are expenses that grow every year.

There is no way out. It’s like trying to change directions for a ship that’s already half-sunk.

At that point, it really doesn’t matter who’s the captain of the ship. All that matters is if you have a seat on a lifeboat.

This is not intended to be a downer.

It’s a little dose of reality, but in it there’s actually good news. Because all the tools and resources exist for you to build your own lifeboat.

You don’t need to rely on a government to fix the problems that they themselves created.

Rational people have a plan B.

And with a little bit of planning, backed up by small, common sense action, you can ensure that you’re an amused spectator to this bizarre entertainment, rather than a victim of it.

 

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Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:02 | 6779082 Zero-Hegemon
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What're you gonna do, when Hitlerymania runs all over you, brother?

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:24 | 6779162 Crocodile
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If she wins; it should remove all doubts that presidents are selected; given her criminal carnage & the terror and costs the Clinton's have accumulated over the years.  Anyone who votes for her should have their privileges taken away and those who voted twice for Obummer should be given a mandaory lobotomy.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:47 | 6779234 0b1knob
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"And with a little bit of planning, backed up by small, common sense action, you can ensure that you’re an amused spectator to this bizarre entertainment, rather than a victim of it."

What complete and utter bullshit.   Did you avoid having your tax money used for the bank bailout?   Did you avoid the consequences of Obamacare?   Can you avoid the endless parade of SJWs demanding that you accept their faggotry?   Can you avoid the costs of the global warming scam?

Wake up.   Are you so stupid that you think there is no difference between Trump or Hillary winning?   If Hillary wins you might as well put head between your legs and kill your testicles goodbye.   Because Hillary is coming to cut them off with a dull rusty serrated knife.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:00 | 6779281 greenskeeper carl
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"you can ensure that you’re an amused spectator to this bizarre entertainment, rather than a victim of it."

 

I will likely be both of those things....

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:56 | 6779698 JohnG
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Andre The Giant is a hero of mine:

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html

 

Cheers!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 23:12 | 6780365 scrappy
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Andre was great.

I liked "Superfly" Snuka

In the spirit of education, here is "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in "They Live" - the documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzN40AkKCOo&html5=1

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 13:39 | 6782761 Recidivism
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Rational people have a plan B.

Simon's Link shows him looking into the light, he is our appointed leader, he will save us all, he is the new Messiah.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:22 | 6779360 Money Counterfeiter
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OBknob   I agree with you on a certain level but I think the elections are fixed.  Even if Trump got the majority of the vote these things can be fixed.  Real voting is not allowed in the USA.  Real voting would be fingerprint ID technology.  Too many ways to rig an election and if the bankers want Hillary when will be president and there is not much you can do except have an escape plan ready.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:40 | 6779431 azusgm
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Real voting is done on paper ballots so that there can be a verifiable recount. Real voting requires photo IDs.

I'm an old nurse. My fingerprints would match well enough to open the drug cabinet only about 75% of the time. I had to use a password. I am not the only one. Electronic fingerprint recognition is not perfect.

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 01:05 | 6780739 DisasterCapitalist
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You don't have to rig the election machines if you rig the CHOICES!

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 13:07 | 6782555 Winston Smith 2009
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Exactly! And the Gerrymandered districts and electoral college members.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:24 | 6779587 Weisshaupt
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Trump is part of the game. He will play it differently than Hillary, but neither will end it or change the rules while they think they are "winning"

Hillary winning just means the civil war and economic collapse might hit a little sooner than otherwise. But you could elect George Washington, or Hamilton, or Madison, or Jefferson or some other idealistic candidate and none of them can STOP it. That is what no difference means. You will be prepared for it when it arrives, or you won't.

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 01:05 | 6780740 DisasterCapitalist
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I much preferr Sam Adams to G. Washington.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 21:33 | 6779883 August
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I'm neutral on the whole Simon Black thing... but he's often correct.  You can indeed legally avoid most of the USA tax burden, if you model your life after Simon's:  incorporate offshore, sell intangibles online (information, porn, whatever) and run your life so that most out-of-pocket expenses are business-related. Your corp can still pay you 100K annually in walking around money, and you'll still be free of US income tax and FICA.  Presto!  

Whether you have the ability, or inclination, to "be like Simon", is another matter. 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:23 | 6779365 Paint By Number
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I think those who voted twice for "O" may have already had the voluntary lobotomy.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:55 | 6779486 VegasBob
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Anyone who voted twice for "O" cannot possibly have had a lobotomy.

How can you lobotomize someone who was born without a brain?

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:46 | 6779450 VegasBob
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I thought no one could be worse than Jimmy Carter until we got George W Bush.

After 8 years of Bush, I thought no one could be worse than Bush.

After 7 years of Obama, I'm absolutely certain that Obama has been far worse than Bush.

But I don't think I can be fooled anymore.  I know in advance that Hitlery will be far worse than Obama.

In fact, after 4 years of Hitlery, there probably won't even be a country anymore.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:48 | 6779671 lakecity55
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Heck, youu can excuse a lot who voted for the Bath House- nobody knew anything about him! All there was were the fake tomes ghost-written by Ayers.

Hitlery? We KNOW all about her! Evil!

100% Evil. Her picture is next to "Evil" in the dictionary.

Therefore, it can be expected she will be the next selected!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:29 | 6779179 Zirpedge
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Bread and circuses people. You better pay attention and be able to recall what clown did what to Bozo at the water cooler. You'll risk being shunned professionally and off to the bread lines where there is less circus and more standing around in old worn out shoes. Our overlords just don't have the vision that man did way back when, I want to hear Trump promise American pyramids built by Americans with American rock. http://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/tag/donald-drumpf/

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:04 | 6779092 Gregory Poonsores
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At least with WWE the guy behind the curtain became part of the storylines.

Then Trump shaved his head!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:13 | 6779126 Boris Alatovkrap
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Squirrel is more delicious when is shave first before cook.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:22 | 6779156 IndyPat
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As is moose, from what I hear...

You're more qualified to speak to that, brother

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:15 | 6779336 Boris Alatovkrap
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Boris is funny story about Moose, but maybe is better to expand narrative later in time.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:50 | 6779674 lakecity55
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It is up to Moose and Squirrel to save Amerika!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 23:49 | 6780498 scrappy
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How To Act American | ROCKY & BULLWINKLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7xJnKXYBs4&html5=1

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:31 | 6779187 nickels
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Killer Kowalski- Haystack Calhoun--- Good times.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:45 | 6779446 azusgm
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My grandmother liked Gorgeous George but seriously disliked The Assassins.

Both of my maternal grandparents thought that wrestling was real. My father had to leave their house one Sunday afternoon after saying those matches were staged.

Heretic!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:05 | 6779097 WTFUD
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This can't be right as i heard it on good authority that the USSofA is sooooo rich it bailed out the EU!s/c

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:40 | 6779424 Carpenter1
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"Trump will save us!"

 

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!

 

Even ZH'ers will sucker for the next guy with a good speech.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:05 | 6779100 Two-bits
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and just like in the 90's

 

NWO white- Pax Americana

NWO red- China Russia

 

Same as it ever was.

 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:07 | 6779107 agent default
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There is a collapse and possibly  a world war between the two NWOs.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:25 | 6779147 ZerOhead
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They have been very busy laying down the global nuclear war framework for well over a year now.

Glad to see you understand the nature of the 2 NWOs dialectic that they have set up for us.

It will be short and crippling and it will be Russia that pulls the trigger.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:39 | 6779213 IndyPat
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Mr. President, I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed. I do say, no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Depending on the breaks.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:02 | 6779273 Two-bits
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It is like Han and Greedo.

 

the only one it really mattered to "who shot first" was poor Greedo.

 

In our scenerio, everyone is holding thermal detonators, and we are all out of wookies.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:09 | 6779111 VWAndy
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An old saying come to mind. That dog wont hunt.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:10 | 6779113 Callz d Ballz
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Jeb looks like a South Park character!  I about fell out of my chair when he started making the tilted head and arms out motions, what a tool!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:18 | 6779142 Crocodile
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Jeb doesn't even want the job; he was pushed into it and it shows.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:10 | 6779116 Buckaroo Banzai
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If it's political entertainment, then why wouldn't you just vote for the most entertaining candidate?

TRUMP 2016!!!!!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:10 | 6779117 Sergeiab
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Whatever, we're all dead within 5 years anyway

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:17 | 6779138 Crocodile
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Except those who are alive in Christ.  It may be much longer than 5 years; at least 1007 years if that ancient book is correct as it always has been.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:51 | 6779240 Mark Mywords
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So all of those people over the centuries who have been running around, proclaiming that the END IS NEAR! - they were just early. Not wrong.

But isn't being wrong and being early the same thing?

Religion is for psychopaths.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:13 | 6779130 Antifaschistische
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It's all a hoax, because none of these clowns will actually run the government...which is why obozo gets to play golf all the time.  The people really in charge, with names we don't ever hear, don't care if he plays golf.....they aren't.

and medicare/medicaid/social security......we will one day realize, are not "mandatory" payments.  They will be sacrificed to maintain the interest payments...which will continue to prop up Manhattan and the Premier Parasites of the planet.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:21 | 6779154 Ward cleaver
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These parasites you mention, do they have a tribal name?

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:41 | 6779433 Carpenter1
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Exactly. People actually believe that clowns like Bush and Obama run the US. Amazing.

 

 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:53 | 6779689 lakecity55
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The Party Leadership will dump Trump.

Jeb Shrub will be nominated. He will lose by a huge margin to Hitlery. They may not even need to flip every 3-4 votes on the Diebold machines this time.

Then, as soon as her fat ass is in the Oval Orifice with Huma's head between her legs, it's off to WW3!

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:17 | 6779134 Squid Viscous
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WW3 within 6-12 months, the Cali trident missile launches were the "tell"

L-L-LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!

 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:39 | 6779212 Kirk2NCC1701
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If you believe that, then your Plan B had better be to go to a place far, Far away.

It's something I'm mulling over and trying to figure out:  someplace in the southern hemisphere.

HH posted a really good one earlier today, tp help with your Plan B, especially if you're staying put: questions to assist in creating a working inventory of mind, body, and equipment for living in dangerous or uncertain times

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:42 | 6779218 IndyPat
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Once they start flying, both sides are going for broke.
No plan B for the likes of you and me.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:40 | 6779644 Squid Viscous
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yes, actually I call it Plan A, my family will be out of this jew controlled shit show called the United States ... within a year

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:19 | 6779146 davidalan1
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70% of our GDP consumer spending

most manufacturing jobs in China and Mexico

Government now as big as private sector

Record debt levels

Just how are they going to magically create JOBS??? what a joke

 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:19 | 6779148 Mick Shrimpton
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This guy is so naive.  The government papered over the last catastrophe and they'll paper over the next one.  They've also got the troops, planes, ships, and nukes.  They extort billions in tax payments every year with an iron fist.  They have access to all of your information.  The Executive Branch alone has been getting away with murder lately.  Don't like what they're doing?  They'll just buy enough votes to stay in office.  That my friends, is power.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:51 | 6779471 azusgm
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If the govt can lose track of $3 trillion at the Pentagon, they can find enough at SS & Medicare to keep those programs afloat.

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 07:54 | 6781185 cheka
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100 plus trillion balance sheet

sell some of that land/minerals/etc

the ss funds have been used to buy/maintain the properties

pay it back mfckers

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:15 | 6779537 DaveA
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Yes, the dead bodies littering the street will be papered over with drifting piles of $100 bills that even hobos don't bother picking up.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:20 | 6779151 CHoward
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If it doesn't fucking matter then tell me and the rest of America how is it that Obama has managed to turn the entire fucking country upside down in under 7 years?!? 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:24 | 6779161 Ward cleaver
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Cause that's what our newly minted indoctrinated college grads along with the free shite army want. This ship is too big to turn around.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:44 | 6779223 IndyPat
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Not too big to sink.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:49 | 6779238 IridiumRebel
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Too big to bail....

Oh yeah. Depositors got this.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:40 | 6779430 Vlad the Inhaler
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The best free shit ever is zero interest rates.  Lets the 1% sit around and make money without actually working.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:59 | 6779469 VegasBob
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...how is it that Obama has managed to turn the entire fucking country upside down in under 7 years?!?

Because 8 years of George W Bush gave the Obummer a head start.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:25 | 6779164 Consuelo
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For me it was the Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal), circa 1984 - 1988 or therebouts, NWA Jim Crockett promotions.

Absolutely the best, most convincing kayfabe on the market.    Magnum TA, Flair, Rhodes (RIP), the Best...

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:25 | 6779166 buzzsaw99
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1. the president is a puppet

2. "they" don't want to "fix" anything

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:29 | 6779171 Bill of Rights
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It's not so much that the election doesn't matter,it's the useless idiots who are running that doesn't matter. Oh that goes for both sides ... Sheep, there's not a leader among them, only followers .

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:34 | 6779177 SillySalesmanQu...
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Most of us here, are amused spectators...that is, until the ICBM's are away and hurtling toward us.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:31 | 6779185 illmatic
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Why Bush or Clinton or Sanders don't matter: https://medium.com/@bshandilya/revolutionary-blues-306aa67cf956

Join the revolution.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:41 | 6779216 lasvegaspersona
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you are saying politics is fake?...at least the WWF was something we could believe in....

....just don't try to tell us the Olympics or the DOW is rigged...those would be real crushers...

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:42 | 6779219 lindaamick
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No mention in this article of Defense spending which is around $1T per year if you count all the National Security outfits. 

No mention of all the unfunded wars. 

It is an historical fact that empires die due to bankrupcies caused by military expansion.

 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:57 | 6779262 unplugged
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are you counting the narco-money coming in to the DOD/CIA coffers ?

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 18:54 | 6779252 Seasmoke
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Only difference is wrestlers die young. Politicians seem to never die. That's too bad.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:01 | 6779282 USSLiberty
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdfzLY_rcSU

Voting won't help this. This is who really runs America.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:08 | 6779287 cougar_w
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Government the world over belongs to the multinational corporations. Their TPP and similar power grabs are just how they entertain themselves now, like the Red Queen ordering someone's head cut off every few minutes.

We are down the rabbit hole. Nothing you perceive now is real. Everything is a fiction, a story, a fairytale,  something for you to hook your so-called "life" onto to keep you occupied while everything that is real is devoured by our masters who cannot and will not die. The corporations are individually and collectively destroying everything as quickly as they can to extract the smallest value to be had from everything they can touch. As long as people don't notice this will continue. Even when they do notice, it will continue. When they rise up in arms, it will continue. When they are running in the streets taking war to the enemy and setting fire to corporate America, it will continue. On and on and on it will continue.  I believe it will continue until they have strip mined so much of the human experience that the entire thing caves in on us like a badly managed demolition, taking all of us and 600 years of progress with it.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:10 | 6779315 silent one
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Spot on, it is all fake, Does anybody really think voting makes one iota of a difference. If they do then that is a brain dead moron

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 21:14 | 6779780 lakecity55
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My fantasy is Trumpster enters the Republicon Convention with like 65% popular support, then Shrub gets the nod. Folks wake up, raise hell, and start hunting down and beating banksters and politicians.......

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 19:18 | 6779351 Youri Carma
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The completely brain dead Muppets who still are watching these fake political debates and think they have a horse in the race keep this dog and phony show alive together with the lamestream media. Vote fraud isn't even relevant anymore since there is really nothing to vote for. The two party system is in complete control and bought and paid for by Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:18 | 6779491 NuYawkFrankie
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THe Debates.

It's like watching a punch-drunk boxer being pushed by the 'promoters" into the ring to rouse the fans one last time before his final collapse to the canvas.

He doesn't realise it's over - but the "promoters" do - and so you do... and you cringe at the sight.

And the "promoters" have another "spectacle" waiting in the wings: It called "Survival" - and its reality-based, and YOU get to participate.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:01 | 6779510 Doppelganger71
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Oh the right Nephilim, I mean person, will come along and fix it - for a price.......................

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:07 | 6779527 Talleyrand
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Who is Simon Black?

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:18 | 6779565 scatha
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For a sane person the only choice is boycott.

What we need is not alternative candidates by alternative system, impossibility within this calcified 240 years old regime. Hence, It must go.

Here is an example of something we all can do:

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/notes-on-buddy-politics/

 

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 21:17 | 6779794 lakecity55
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Great Ideas! ^^^^^

Sun, 11/15/2015 - 01:01 | 6794818 HopefulCynical
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He/she would advocate setting up a minimum wage tied to a local standard of living...

Stopped right there. YAWN. Next...

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:39 | 6779638 hannah
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" What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
 And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
 What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer..."

 

it aint over til its over.............

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 20:54 | 6779695 NuYawkFrankie
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re ...the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor

Oh dear...

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 21:57 | 6780005 libertysghost
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Animal House

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 23:14 | 6780373 Doppelganger71
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Die Luftwaffe uber alles lol........

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 22:13 | 6780059 Son of Captain Nemo
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Having lunch yesterday with a good friend from the UK, he asked if I thought that any political candidate was worth it...

I told him that I’m sure they’re all very nice people. Many of them might even mean very well and have very good intentions. ...

I’ll also admit that occasionally they have decent ideas and that there are small steps in a positive direction. ...

No... no... no... Simon they really aren't nice or genuine.  Unless of course your interpretation of "genuine" is someone who is a schizophrenic deranged lunatic on heavy doses of psycho tropic meds having a good day which I'm sure they are on everytime they get in front of a camera or have to appear for social occassions...

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 23:05 | 6780327 NoWayJose
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Too far gone? Probably. Able to turn around or slow down the decline - not likely unless Trump wins. What we heard at the debate was amnesty, new entitlements, rehashed tax plans that never pass, and few voices warning of the deficit spending.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 23:18 | 6780382 Demdere
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https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/dynamics-of-national-colla...

It is a broken system.  Every president for the last 50 years has been the worst president ever, remember?

Part of the system being broken is people having reached adult years without growing up in any sense of knowing people and reality. So that is a bit of a handicap as we recover, but people have done it before, stupid rulers are a constant in history, why don't we know that?

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 23:56 | 6780525 hannah
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the real problem is we dont wear enough hats anymore.....

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 01:31 | 6780778 Radical Marijuana
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Metaphors comparing

the financial world to

the professional wrestling world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

In professional wrestling, kayfabe (pronounced /?ke?fe?b/) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true," specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or pre-determined nature. Kayfabe has also evolved to become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the realm of the general public. Kayfabe was long held as a closely guarded secret within the professional wrestling industry; however, with the advent of the Internet, it has evolved into an open secret in the industry that is generally only adhered to during shows. ...

With the advent of the Internet wrestling community, as well as the sports entertainment movement, the pro wrestling industry has become less concerned with protecting so-called backstage secrets and typically maintains kayfabe only during performances.

It is interesting how the Internet forced a transformation of the degree of kayfabe that could still be maintained. It is an open question whether our civilization will survive long enough for the "Internet Reformation" to enable its potential, like the invention of the printing press (only more so), to more fully develop? Way more people, because of their use of the Internet, are becoming aware of the degree of kayfabe in the financial world!

http://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783

Kayfabe

By Eric R. Weinstein

The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.

Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information.

If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe".

Because professional wrestling is a simulated sport, all competitors who face each other in the ring are actually close collaborators who must form a closed system (called "a promotion") sealed against outsiders. With external competitors generally excluded, antagonists are chosen from within the promotion and their ritualized battles are largely negotiated, choreographed, and rehearsed at a significantly decreased risk of injury or death. With outcomes predetermined under Kayfabe, betrayal in wrestling comes not from engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct, but by the surprise appearance of actual sporting behavior. Such unwelcome sportsmanship which "breaks Kayfabe" is called "shooting" to distinguish it from the expected scripted deception called "working".

Were Kayfabe to become part of our toolkit for the twenty-first century, we would undoubtedly have an easier time understanding a world in which investigative journalism seems to have vanished and bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts. Perhaps confusing battles between "freshwater" Chicago macro economists and Ivy league "Saltwater" theorists could be best understood as happening within a single "orthodox promotion" given that both groups suffered no injury from failing (equally) to predict the recent financial crisis. The decades old battle in theoretical physics over bragging rights between the "string" and "loop" camps would seem to be an even more significant example within the hard sciences of a collaborative intra-promotion rivalry given the apparent failure of both groups to produce a quantum theory of gravity.

What makes Kayfabe remarkable is that it gives us potentially the most complete example of the general process by which a wide class of important endeavors transition from failed reality to successful fakery. While most modern sports enthusiasts are aware of wrestling's status as a pseudo sport, what few alive today remember is that it evolved out of a failed real sport (known as "catch" wrestling) which held its last honest title match early in the 20th century. Typical matches could last hours with no satisfying action, or end suddenly with crippling injuries to a promising athlete in whom much had been invested. This highlighted the close relationship between two paradoxical risks which define the category of activity which wrestling shares with other human spheres:

• A) Occasional but Extreme Peril for the participants.

• B) General: Monotony for both audience and participants.

Kayfabrication (the process of transition from reality towards Kayfabe) arises out of attempts to deliver a dependably engaging product for a mass audience while removing the unpredictable upheavals that imperil participants. As such Kayfabrication is a dependable feature of many of our most important systems which share the above two characteristics such as war, finance, love, politics and science.

Importantly, Kayfabe also seems to have discovered the limits of how much disbelief the human mind is capable of successfully suspending before fantasy and reality become fully conflated. Wrestling's system of lies has recently become so intricate that wrestlers have occasionally found themselves engaging in real life adultery following exactly behind the introduction of a fictitious adulterous plot twist in a Kayfabe back-story. Eventually, even Kayfabe itself became a victim of its own success as it grew to a level of deceit that could not be maintained when the wrestling world collided with outside regulators exercising oversight over major sporting events.

At the point Kayfabe was forced to own up to the fact that professional wrestling contained no sport whatsoever, it did more than avoid being regulated and taxed into oblivion. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. Professional wrestling had come full circle to its honest origins by at last moving the responsibility for deception off of the shoulders of the performers and into the willing minds of the audience.

Indeed, with respect to political economy, NOTICE:

" ... it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures."

Thu, 11/12/2015 - 06:51 | 6781125 cpgone
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