Costs who money?

Oops, I’m ranting again. Must be time for my nap

That’s what they’ve been doing. For a long time.

Sure some center of power wants one candidate to win over the other due to expected policy changes, contract opportunities, and the money already spent on bribes. They’re in competition with the other centers of power. But at the end of the day, the important stuff, the military-industrial complex, geopolitical positioning, corporate backed trade deal, insider stock trading and market manipulation, etc., all stay the same regardless of who wins.

That part of the system is ironclad. At least until it implodes on itself because the entire structure is like public tax backed ponzi scheme.

That’s why the new crop of Trump backers and elected cronies are so brazen with their complete lack of discretion about what really goes on in the seats of power. They were all political outsiders and when they first arrived were doing the political version of raiding the rival frat houses, throwing toilet paper everywhere and wrecking shit. It’s a game to them. Who can out shock their friends and rivals.

But it kept going on because no one there, besides a few newer idealists, is actually working for the people.

Anyone who tries is quickly shut out. Like cop gangs, you have to agree to the corruption to stay in the game.

No one who goes to the House or the Senate is doing what they were elected to do. Except in the instance of easy PR legislative victories and policy that’s bolstered by backroom deals.

The only difference was the older generation was smart enough to keep their fucking mouths shut about it. To pad their blatant self-serving maneuvering with an veneer of class. Everyone was hush hush and they only time one party ratted out the other was around election time and even then it’s restrained to those who really fuck up and get caught. Nobody is going to rock the boat too much, otherwise the political class will inadvertently tip their hand to the public.

But everyone feels like the gig is about up so nobody is pretending anymore.

Nothing has changed except the boil has come to the surface and is about to pop.

…I feel like that is a challenge somehow.

They learned that lesson well before that which is a big part of why the 2008 crash happened.

Except for the sacrificial Richard Fuld (Lehman Brothers).

There probably hasn’t ever been a time in US history that the government hasn’t been in bed with financial ne’er-do-wells.

Pssh, amateurs.

You seem to be under the impression that everyone is getting the same news. They are not. This gripping drama isn’t even on the radar of the so-called normies. And they wouldn’t care either way except to align with how the story is spun to fit their preferred narrative.

For others, they already know. This is just another of a long series of “news” tidbits thrown out for the more disgruntled masses for them to sit, smugly, in the comfort of their armchairs, and with vindication, feeling temporarily superior while verbally masturbating with each other and becoming aquatic decorative experts.

It’s fine, and par for the course, really. The people most affected by the current status quo are generally incapable of making any meaningful contribution to their own collective well-being. I keep forgetting that and shouldn’t have even bothered to mention it.

I wish people could come together and say collectively to ‘news outlets’: “no, stop reporting on this, it is not news” and they would cease pushing the asinine minutiae of idiocy which distracts us and dilutes our conversations about what should be done and return their spotlight onto the important events happening.