Here Comes the Rug Pull
Make America Grift Again
Enter the Kakistocracy. The Clown Car that is the second season of The T***p Show has come to town complete with Hannibal Lecter, Elmo The Magnificent and Shit Meme Coins. On Saturday, T***p launched a meme coin, and the value jumped to over $50 billion overnight. Nothing to see here. Just a vehicle for foreign money to influence U.S. politics and policy in typical grifter fashion.
Sunday brought a reprisal of Hannibal Lecter complete with a gay anthem. Then we learned that Elmo is going to build a Playboy Mansion in downtown D.C. where the rich and powerful can hang together and laugh at the little people.
“We Will End Inflation and Make America Affordable Again”
The Billionaires Boys Club is in hysterical laughter as the rubes buy up meme coins. The same rubes that spent thousands of dollars travelling to D.C. only to be left out in the cold. (No metaphor there!) There they are, out in the cold in $1000 worth of cultish garb and swag, punching in their credit card numbers to purchase a “rug pull” pump and dump on a meme coin.
We cannot raise the minimum wage, we cannot age gate social media, but we can fleece the rubes who wanted lower “egg prices.”
Pay slave wages, allow children access to graphic violence and sexuality…all while laughing it up at your exclusive Boys Club in D.C. Outside of keeping the plebs in poverty, the lack of regulation on social media is perhaps the most dangerous part of the culture.
“During those long scrolling hours, many will be exposed to pornographic images, videos urging them to undertake dangerous challenges, and videos of violence committed by real people against real people. Something on the order of 10% will develop “problematic use” which sure looks like other behavioral addictions, such as gambling. Their risk of anxiety, depression, and self-harm will increase substantially, especially if they are girls. Their risk of falling prey to sextortion (and therefore suicide) will increase, especially if they are boys.” -- Scott Galloway Explains Why Age Gating Social Media Is Both Necessary and Doable
The most head-scratching thing about all this is how it goes against all true conservative values. MAGA is a cult, there is NOTHING conservative about it.
Even the entire TikTok scam is shambolic and anti-conservative. Cracking down on all social media, age-gating and strict regulations on content would be conservative. Adult humans paid an hourly wage that matches the cost of a large latte while children are subjected to violence and porn and ridiculously stupid and vile content. If you have never used TikTok, don’t! Avoid it at all costs.
Wholeness & Love
“Our enemies always carry our own shadow side, the things we don’t like about ourselves. We will never face our own shadow until we embrace those who threaten us (as Francis of Assisi embraced the leper in his conversion experience). The people who turn us off usually do so because they carry our own faults in some form.” Richard Rohr
You may ask yourself, what do plutocrats and oligarchs “bring up” for me? What shadow do I need to look at within myself? Is all “work” about the three fingers pointing back while we point the one?
In the “Four Quarter” method of resolving conflict, it uses:
Data
Judgement
Feeling
Need
The most difficult of the four is number 3. With EQ on decline emotional literacy is dissolving, and people are prone to conspiracy, cults and violence.
It is survival mode for most Americans. It is no longer Right versus Left, it is working class versus the monied class and the monied class knows how to play the masses against each other.
What will it take for the masses to see though the scam and stop pointing fingers at each other? Both “sides” want the same thing, but time and time again we are shown videos of people screaming and fighting over a three-yard square of ground. Neither side has agency and yet they cannot seem to come together to deliver the solutions required for the “people.”
This atomized world, where the population is against itself in micro tidbits of toxic information is not conducive to a revolution.
At the same time, the oligarchs have full control over social media and feed divisive and untruthful (mis)information into the eyeballs and brains of the consumers. Consumers who are now $1.17 trillion in debt with 23% interest rates and a 14-year high in defaults on payments.
We need a new paradigm that links the working class together in a single movement that can flex its power against the monied class. Who will emerge as a unifying force that brings the two sides together? Will it be a new charismatic individual or a third-party group?
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The Revolution Will Be Live.”
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ― Rumi