I read something about the birth of these private Equity firms sometime in the late 70s or early '80s when a firm bought out this other productive firm and loaded them up with debt, paid themselves every which way they could, sold off any profitable parts of the company, then declared bankruptcy and stiffed everybody else walking away with a boatload of cash, unemployed workforces, and razed Pension funds.

We have been celebrating this type of behavior for decades now, Behavior I think exemplified in Monty Python's skits of the pirate building seizing the other buildings like it was a pirate ship.

How this blackmail of politicians and the ivy league business class both in America and in the UK was allowed to ensnare our own politicians with no pushback from our domestic intelligence services is a scandal. Whomever ran the CIA from when they started this until now should be in fucking prison at best for presumably helping to compromise our leaders for ill foreign policy outcomes.

It's because he has been the victim of clearly unfair attacks. So many people will defend that person to the hilt on everything because they were unfairly attacked on other things.

We see this over and over with government agencies that the Republicans may attack to try to make them worse and everybody else pretends like they were doing an acceptable job all around.

Bill Gates is a piece of shit though, in at least three different ways. Pushing over use of toxic pesticides like glyphosate, advocating for spraying sulfur dioxide en masse in the upper atmosphere to slow global warming in so-called Geo engineering, and as you mentioned, fucking underage girls.

He's not one of the good guys no matter how good his PR people did in the last 30 years painting him as a likable old coot. He is not that, he is a deluded man that has nobody to tell him when he is wrong in his orbit.

I read about the episode in the guardian and it did not sound all that risque to justify the title here.

It sounded kind of funny though, did not sound like it touched on the fact that Netanyahu is a fucking Nazi, that the Israelis are Nazis, and openly supporting Nazis in other Western countries. I would consider those issues going there but that's just because I live in fucking reality.

He is innocent, obviously a patsy when they could not find the real culprit.

The pictures from the crime scene do not match, if the eyebrows do not fit you cannot convict.

I think all of the Fortune 500 companies have divisions that exploit prison labor.

They also get tax breaks for hiring felons they can pay less and even get reoffended on a whim.

The states get next to nothing either for this prison labor oftentimes, but if we looked at the deciders we would find kickbacks. Sweetheart property deals through proxies, sneaky kickbacks but nothing that could not be recognized as such.

Prison contracts are a big graft source too. A truly captive market.

The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.

Who cares what kamala thinks or says?

She lost, quite predictably, after being annointed by establishment tools that brought us hillary and joe, and will fail us with newsom if they can.

Do not follow their lead. They are doomed to fail in unseating r's let alone restoring society.

That remains to be seen. A cop just full out blasted a chick in the eyeball requiring surgery.

Why did the cop feel justified in doing that? Something is rotten in the culture, and I bet any consequences get downgraded to paid vacation.

If they can read this post they are gay.

There are not. Only accounts pretending to be left to mislead leftists. I was wondering whether it was worth the trouble explaining this to the preceding commenter or not.

Believe it or not, George Soros does not employ bot farms. The United States and Israel do, Russia does, a myriad of financial interests do, political groups. I don't think there is a single left-wing anything that does.

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