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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like the planet's elite will sit back and let this raving fascist lunatic blow it to bits
because his days are numbered.
OLDMDDEM
(3,030 posts)dutch777
(4,850 posts)CrispyQ
(40,652 posts)Some Native American tribes looked seven generations ahead. Capitalists look one quarter ahead. Who knew pursuing profit over everything else would have consequences?

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yellow dahlia
(4,407 posts)calimary
(88,975 posts)And after The Hague, a nice little prison cell of his very own!
Goonch
(4,216 posts)
GiqueCee
(3,369 posts)... each of his days are numbered with single digits.
MuseRider
(35,115 posts)I try not to think about that but really, it seems we lack numbers with courage who CAN do something. It scares me to death. I look at my still small granddaughters and it is hard not to cry.
maxsolomon
(38,135 posts)Putin?
Kim?
Xi?
Modi?
Khamenei?
Netanyahu?
Trump?
Kid Berwyn
(22,797 posts)And while many in the 1-percent and even a few of the 0.01-percent certainly try to make life better for others, they seem to think theyll survive the fascism and associated societal collapse.
A Planet Full of Hitlers
The world's billionaires, led by the Bush "madministration," are acting like a planet of full of Hitlers. They are willing to invade whatever region in the world has what the world needs most -- oil.
Black gold. Texas tea. Petrodollars.
They figure they have all the money. And basically, apart from a Soros here and a Gates there, they do.
And thus, the worlds billionaires and their hounds of the BFEE want to spend it all before they die. And they have the plan and cash on hand to do so.
Consider the Bush agenda: All War. All the Time. Government spending for the MI-Complex, transferring trillions to the wealthy corporate owners, war and all.
These are the likes of the industrialists Mussolini, Franco and Hitler so loved.
And like the fascist trifecta, the American fascists of the BFEE have bought all the political power. Don't just think Tom Roach Motel DeLay and Mr. Friskie Frist. Remember Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman and Allen Dulles and Rheinhard Gehlen and Igor Orlov.
What can we do about it? Theyve bought all the legal power, built law schools for Federalist Society AND Opus Dei judges. Think Bill Eagle Eye Rehnquist and Antonin Fat Tony Scalia.
These turds of the BFEE have worked all the tax breaks and bankrupty laws for the rich. Uncle Sam reverse-Robin Hoods wealth to the top 1-percent of country.
And what do these rich turds who prop up Bush use their tax savings on? They certainly haven't invested it in making America a better place to work or live; they've invested in "off-shoring."
Lots of the tax money goes to buy more vacation homes, yachts and jet planes. Most goes offshore to the Caymans and Switzerland.
And of course they want more without having to pay for the damage to the environment. Farmland depletion in the USA. Rain forest depletion around the globe. Oceans getting acidic. Fish stock depletion. Global air pollution and water shortages.
Well. OK. Maybe a case can be made its the rich folks money. They can do what they want. But they should pay their fair share of taxes! After all, the rest of society helps keep them in their position. And its our brothers and sisters in the armed forces who are giving their lives to keep their oil and power and privilege.
Budget red ink means no money for middle class. No money for schools. No money for cities and suburbs and farms. No money for roads. No money for science and R and D. No money for the future.
And the media? What media? What Fairness Doctrine?
They cover up their materialism and venality with all the talk about Faith-based this and Conservative-values that. But the reality is these are sinister wolves and satanic bed-wetting bastards in sheep's clothing we are dealing with.
Wasnt that what Bush really meant when he told Bob Woodward History? Who cares about history? In a hundred years well all be dead.
Just like Hitler. And just like Hitler, Bush (today Trump, Musk and those with escape collapse redoubts) wants to take us all with him.
-- Octafish
2005 DU OP: https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3648867
And still we try.
wiggs
(8,658 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,797 posts)Silicon Valleys elite are hatching plans to escape disaster and when it comes, theyll leave the rest of us behind
Douglas Rushkoff for Medium
The Guardian, 24 July 2018
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk about half my annual professors salary all to deliver some insight on the subject of the future of technology.
Snip...
They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.
Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers if that technology could be developed in time.
Continues...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity
PS: While Rushkoff didn't call them NAZIs, the author of "Survival of the Richest" pegged the bastards for what they are: greedy cowards.
DemocracyForever
(13 posts)for stopping the legal Florida vote count 25 years ago and starting this entire nightmare.
Kid Berwyn
(22,797 posts)
A hearty welcome to DU, DemocracyForever! Love your handle and, as long as there are at least two of us, we will win.
C Moon
(13,439 posts)markodochartaigh
(4,973 posts)The post itself is extremely prescient.
spudspud
(636 posts)surfered
(11,373 posts)The real crime here is Republicans wont stop him. I think of all the patriots who sacrificed life and limb to protect this country and these Republican politicians are too afraid of losing their jobs.
It was patriotic Republicans who took down Nixon. Trump is much worse. Theyll never remove the stain of dishonor and we should rub their noses in it for the rest of their careers.
wiggs
(8,658 posts)he's a disordered, limited, malignant, narcissistic sociopath. Isn't that important context??
popsdenver
(1,497 posts)The Uber Wealthy, the top 1%, and Republican Politcians couldn't give a rats ass about the children and grandchildren who are truly the ones who will suffer immensely.............
As far as the Politicians, Lincoln once said:
STATESMEN ARE INTERESTED IN THE NEXT GENERATION.......POLITICIANS, ONLY IN THE NEXT ELECTION......
Ol Janx Spirit
(664 posts)They know the chaos keeps us rubes looking down and not up....
LT Barclay
(3,170 posts)spanone
(140,952 posts)Fuck him and the wars he dreams of starting.
sop
(17,360 posts)
multigraincracker
(36,907 posts)markodochartaigh
(4,973 posts)Need can be satisfied, greed cannot be satisfied.
Need is based on fact, greed is based on belief.
markodochartaigh
(4,973 posts)put party before country and allowed an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy to head their party in 2015 I thought that the powers that be would not allow him to win. I thought surely they are not ready to roast the goose which is laying the golden eggs which make them so rich. I seriously underestimated their avarice.
Personally, I believe that it is due to the anthropogenic climate change which "changes everything" according to Naomi Klein's excellent book. I think that our oiligarchs understand that Al Gore's hockey stick is a reality and, like everything to the super rich, see that as an opportunity.
The super rich are extremely religious, more devoted than any pope, and their god, Mammon, places value not on souls, but on money. While our oiligarchs would be willing to let billions of the unwashed masses die for a penny profit, their rewards from their god are infinitely more, and even sweeter because the unwashed masses have traded the hours of our lives to work and earn that money.
Alsteen
(96 posts)One drink is enough, two is too much, and 3 is not enough.