It’s A Small Club And You Ain’t In It
Imagine an author writing a novel, a thriller set in contemporary times, and in the book his main protagonist is an enormous global financial juggernaut, one few people have heard about but that has entire governments in it’s pocket. They buy politicians, encourage wars to pad their bottom line and stay in the shadows while doing it all. A publisher would probably tell the aspiring author that his premise is tired and overused.
That is exactly what is going on in America today. It seems like everyone is talking about this video, everyone except the normies who are the ones that need to figure this out.
This guy is trying to get into a girl’s pants so he is bragging about the company he works for, BlackRock, and how they love things like buying politicians, encouraging war, profiting from food shortages, etc. We will see how long until they fire this guy and/or Epstein him.
A good libertarian would cheer Blackrock doing this stuff, free market über alles and all that. Sure they buy up property at inflated prices and then rent those properties to the people they priced out of them but profit is the highest human ideal after all. Not being a libertarian I find it revolting and Fedpoast worthy. John Wilder has a good post about this topic today: Tucker, Hunter, BlackRock and Virtue. Guess Which One Has Virtue?
Companies like Blackrock don’t operate in a “free market”, they thrive in a controlled market where they buy politicians to treat them favorably. There really hasn’t been a truly free market in this country for centuries, certainly not since 1913 when the 16th Amendment was ratified, creating the modern Federal income tax system that pulls money out of local and state governments, giving it to the Federal government where it can be doled back out not based on real needs but on who owns the politicians. For example, I have brought this up before but it bears repeating. The Senate Majority Leader is Democrat Charles Schumer and according to Open Secrets…
The number one industry contributing to his campaign is the securities and investment industry to the tune of over $4.6 million. The guy from BlackRock in the video above said you can buy a Senator for just $10,000 so if you buy the Majority Leader for over $4 million? You are getting whatever the hell you want. You are hard pressed to find a significant political figure that doesn’t get huge contributions from the securities & investment industry like Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance committee that oversees things like international trade, social security and pensions, taxation and IRS oversight.
You can find all sorts of interesting things about who owns Congressmen at Open Secrets, like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D)….
All three of the top leaders in the House of Representatives have pro-Jewish organizations, either AIPAC or “Pro-Israel America”, as their top contributor. Curious! It is also curious that both of the primary founders of BlackRock, Larry Fink and Robert Kapito, are Jewish. Just another happy cohencidence.
Then I saw that both the House Majority Whip and the Minority Whip have as their top contributor the vaguely named “Votesane PAC”, which pretends to be bi-partisan but apparently is just a clearing house for the real estate industry:
Of the more than $5 million Votesane raised in the 2018 election cycle, nearly $450,000 came from individuals affiliated with real estate company Re/Max; more than $300,000 came from individuals affiliated with Keller Williams; and $165,000 came from individuals affiliated with multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, which owns a residential real estate services company. Sludge reviewed the more than 9,400 donors to Votesane in the 2018 cycle and found just a handful who did not disclose being employed by companies in the real estate industry.
https://archive.vn/FYvmP
I think the point is clear.
In a “free market” economic system companies win by having the best and most innovative and in demand products and services.
In a controlled market economic system, companies win by owning the most Congress members.
We live in the latter but pretend we live in the former.
BlackRock is not a simple financial services firm that happened to find the right formula for success. It is a vampire, a leech, that sucks the lifeblood of America by gathering assets and using the favorable rules they created for themselves to make money from money via usury, money-lending, financial chicanery, all the tools of that most ignoble of professions.
The worst part of that video was that this guy bragged that the average person can’t even understand these issues and most simply don’t care, and he is absolutely correct. The average Joe is content to watch his sportsball and drink his crappy beer just as long as he has the illusion of self-determination because he gets to participate in the charade of voting.
Your vote doesn’t matter and it doesn’t even matter who counts the votes because no matter which half of the uni-party “wins”, the real winners already own them.