So, what you"re saying is it wasn"t enough to fire me for no good reason. Now you question my integrity? On top of the humiliation of being fired, you threaten me? You threaten my family? It never crossed my mind not to honor my agreement. And I will tell you, Mr. Sandefur... and Brown & Williamson too - fuck me? Well, fuck you!
In both the book and the film, Fight Club, the narrator tells another airline passenger about his job in the automobile manufacturing industry, assessing fatal accidents, and calculating the costs of settlements vs. recalls.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don"t do one.
Along these lines, the theme for next year"s Second ZeroHedge Symposium and Live Fight Club in Marfa, Texas, is...The Insider.
noun in·sid·er (?)in-?s?-d?r , ?in-?s?- :a person recognized or accepted as a member of a group, category, or organization: such as
a :a person who is in a position of power or has access to confidential information
b :a person (such as an officer or director) who is in a position to have special knowledge of the affairs of or to influence the decisions of a company.
This article is a call for speakers, insiders who are ready, willing, and able to come to Marfa this spring and tell the truth. The following are some possible areas of interest. If you know someone that might be interested in speaking for 60-90 minutes, even under a pseudonym, then please contact them about this opportunity to get up on the Paper Street soap box and tell us their story.
Big oil - speaker committed
Chinese manufacturing - speaker committed
The stock market
Professional sports
The war on drugs
The US military
Corporate farming
Islam
Television news
Web search
Climate change
US elections
Civil litigation
Chiropractors
K-Street Lobbying
Online porn
Municipal bonds
College admissions
US prisons
Social Security disability
Please, offer your ideas for other topics in the comments section below. Interested parties should send an email to me at this address:
The best way I know to overcome fear is with knowledge. Knowledge allows us to see false evidence as false. Knowledge also allows us to be bold, and to take action, rather than be timid, staying right where we are. Knowledge enables us to be revolutionary.
The exact dates of next year"s symposium will be forthcoming. Please check back here regularly. Once again, there will be no charge for admission, no registration, and no badges. Anonymity still has its place in Marfa.
Jon Robberson is a sixteen year veteran of Hollywood feature film, television, and commercial production. He worked behind the scenes at all of the major studios and networks; having worked on projects for such notables as Spielberg, Bruckheimer, Silver, and Abrams to name a few. He also left that scene because he says it is rife with pedophilia.
Dave Daubenmire, the host of the webcast Pass the Salt Live, interviewed Robberson this week. During the interview, the former insider spoke about an alleged global Satanic pedophile ring that controls Hollywood.
Trust us, we know how this sounds. But hear it out.
Robberson is not the first person to make these claims. As the Free Thought Project reported last year, childhood star turned adult actor Elijah Wood, also claimed Hollywood is in the midst of a massive sexual abuse scandal, which can be compared to that of Jimmy Savile in Britain.
Wood came forward in an interview to blow the lid off of the dark underground world of child acting in Hollywood.
In the interview with the Sunday Times, Wood dropped a bombshell, noting how child actors were regularly “preyed upon” by industry figures.
“Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood,” said Wood. “It was all organized.”
What Wood is talking about is the rampant sexual abuse of childhood actors which has been previously exposed by Corey Feldman as well as Corey Haim.
In an episode of their reality TV show, The Two Coreys, a candid fight broke out during which Haim claimed Feldman stood by and watched as a person Feldman “still hangs out with” and is “best friends with” proceeded to “rape” the 14-year-old Haim.
“There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind,” continued Elijah Wood in his interview. “There is a darkness in the underbelly – if you can imagine it, it’s probably happened.”
When explaining how he was able to escape the molestation during his childhood in Hollywood, Elijah noted that he had good parents who protected him and who did not let him attend these parties.
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“She was far more concerned with raising me to be a good human than facilitating my career,” he said.
Wood says the abuse runs unchecked because the victims “can’t speak as loudly as people in power.”
“That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people,” he said. “They can be squashed but their lives have been irreparably damaged.”
What Wood is referring to is the immense power of Hollywood elites to control the narrative and quash any allegations of abuse before they even happen.
This narrative is so controlled that after Wood made these comments, the very next day the mainstream media attacked him and forced him to downplay them.
Fast forward one year and another Hollywood insider has a similar story — with a Satanic twist.
“Much of what is used in Hollywood today that would be considered Luciferian in nature really comes from a lot of the Druidic incantations, the Druidic witchcraft, the worship of Gaia, of earth, in ninth and tenth century England,” Robberson said on the webcast. “And prior to that, you can trace that through Kabbalistic witchcraft and Jewish mysticism all the way back, really, to what was going on in Babylon.”
“There is a distinct through-line from the time of when the Babylonians were sacrificing kids to Moloch in the temple at the top of the Tower of Babel,” Robberson noted, explaining the dark history of this sadistic ritual. “From the time that they attempted to slap God in the face with that stuff to Hollywood today, you could do an exhaustive study and find a distinct through-line in the practice of witchcraft.”
“There is pedophilia running rampant in Hollywood,” Robberson said. He then noted, just like Wood, that this ring preys on young children and it is made up of the “highest upper echelons of Hollywood, executive VPs of development, producers, mega-power agents and the international bankers that fund all this stuff.”
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Robberson made damning claims, including pointing out that members of this depraved pedophile ring throw parties at which they drug children and film them engaged in “multi-partner homosexual [orgies], bloodletting, and animal dismemberment.”
Haim and Feldman alluded to very similar practices.
“Once they’ve got the goods on you on video, they own you,” Robberson said.
Sadly, positions of power, whether state-backed or not often attract society’s worst. Knowing they are above the law, these sickos are allowed to target innocence for their own disgusting desires.
In his interview, Elijah Wood summed up this notion perfectly when he said, “People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.” And, unfortunately, they continue to get away with it.
In December, we reported on the massive child sex ring that was blown apart in Norway. That investigation quickly led to arrests of “51 people, all men, (who) are so far involved in the case. 24 of them come from Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. 26 come from other areas of Norway, from Southeast to Finnmark in the north. Among the accused offenders, there is also one Swedish national. Two politicians, one Labor politician from Oslo and a former national Progress Party (FrP) politician from Eastern Norway are involved in the case.” One is also a kindergarten teacher, and four of the 51 arrested were perpetrators in the video evidence collected.
READ MORE:After 500 DC Kids Go Missing in 2017, Police Advise Kids to "Stay Home" to Avoid Sex Trafficking
Domestically, these higher level arrests are few and far between as anytime ‘the elite’ are mentioned alongside the term ‘pedophile,’ the Praetorian guard, aka the corporate media, shout down all those who dare pose any questions.
However, even though the media won’t report on it, these disgusting child predators are so vile they are hard to ignore.
When the victim, known only as ‘Individial A,’ broke his silence, Hastert’s child rapes were exposed — resulting in the subsequent prosecution.
“To the extent any contract existed between plaintiff [Individual A] and defendant [Hastert], plaintiff breached that contract,” Hastert’s lawyers wrote.
“Plaintiff’s breach of conduct resulted in damages to defendant and plaintiff is accordingly required to return $1.7 million to defendant.”
Individual A did not go public with this information — he merely spoke to the FBI after the transactions were uncovered by investigators. However, this sicko couldn’t care less about airing this repugnant grievance in the public forum as it was almost entirely ignored by the media.
There was also another massive pedophilia scandal in the United States in what became known as the Franklin child sex ring coverup. Once the FBI took over the investigation from state authorities, however, it turned into a witch hunt to persecute the child victims – going so far as to charge them with perjury in a successful attempt to scare the other 70+ victims to recant their testimony regarding the child sex ring.
However, if you read the Washington Post or watch CNN, pedophilia is not a problem and those who talk about it are tin foil hat wearing kooks, perpetuating ‘fake news.’
This article was written and originally published by The Daily Sheeple.
Editor’s Comment: Things are so far gone, that we have no idea. People have virtually no sense of how deeply we are being steered off the path. Our very opinions, the information we receive, and the way in which our brains determine the strength of our opinions is all being skewed by algorithms, and by deliberate manipulations.
Science fiction is behind the curve of what they are actually attempting right now. A few more years of censorship and editing of content through social media, and a few more years of total integration with technology, and humanity may no longer be recognizable. It certainly won’t be free unless some very raw facts are quickly faced and dealt with.
DARPA Insider Reveals the Coming Hive Mind Control Grid: “If Even 20% Of What This Guy Says Is True…”
by The Daily Sheeple
The video below features a keynote by Dr. Robert Duncan regarding what can only be described as our coming hive mind control grid. He isn’t just talking about advances in transhumanism, the singularity, or artificial intelligence. He’s talking about how to control the minds of everyone on the planet and evolving humanity in a technological sense… whether they like it or not.
Duncan professes with shame that he worked on “Voice of God” weapons for the US Department of Defense, weapons which can make people think they are hearing voices in their heads in an attempt to control them. He says such weapons were tested back during Desert Storm and were quite effective at getting Iraqi soldiers to lay down arms without a shot fired.
And that’s just what they had 20+ years ago. Can you imagine what they’re working on today?
Duncan also touches on Project Blue Beam, remote neural monitoring, smart dust, and electronic telepathy technology which uses extremely low frequency waves.
Despite attempting multiple times to put a “positive spin” on this information as he nervously delivers it, what this man is saying really can’t be spun in a positive way, not with these kinds of technology in the hands of the military-industrial complex President Eisenhower once gravely warned us about. Duncan notes scientists“are brainwashed into believing that everything we are doing is of benefit to mankind, but look who pays our bills? The military. It’s all for war, it’s all for control, for government control…”
If even 20% of what this guy has to say is true…
Just… you’ve got to see this for yourself.
This article was written and originally published by The Daily Sheeple.
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(The Real Agenda News) Donald J. Trump is not a career politician, but he has been around politicians and the world of politics for a long time. He said it himself during the campaign.
He used to lobby politicians to get favours. He is an outsider in the sense he never occupied a public position, yet he is an insider in that he knows exactly how the system works.
In that sense, Trump is a foreign agent.
In addition to knowing how the system works and how to get around laws and regulations to maximize profit for this enterprise, over the years, Trump also learned how to use the media for his own advantage. We saw his level of skill for attracting media attention during the 2016 election.
As president of the United States, Mr. Trump still manages to ‘manipulate’ the media so that he gets more news coverage than any other president in the history of the country.
Journalists, pundits and commentators analyse, criticise, condemn and a few of them praise Trump on a daily basis on cable and network news. College campuses have become enemy territories for Trump supporters.
Dissenters of Liberal or so-called progressive movements, who are also Trump followers, are labeled racists, xenophobic, anti-women, etc.
What no one seems to have figured out yet is how Mr. Trump uses the media to advance his agenda. The fact that all that Trump wants is to advance his agenda should not be news to anyone. There is something more important behind what he says and how he says it.
When Trump says something outrageous or inaccurate on Twitter, during a rally or at the Oval Office he is not only saying it out loud to get condemnation or praise from people who read and listen to what he says. He has an ulterior motive. This motive is what no one seems to understand yet.
Trump knows that an outrageous statement will render huge amounts of media attention. Furthermore, he knows that thousands or millions of people who despise him will be tuned in to mainstream media and that each time that he gains all of that attention he also gets an opportunity to expose the Establishment.
One clear example was Trump’s claim that millions of illegals voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, which according to Trump, was the reason why she won the popular vote. Whether his claim is true or not, he managed to expose the fact that voting fraud took place in 2016.
We saw it in confessions obtained by Project Veritas during the election. It certainly took place in 2012, as it has been reported by mainstream media. There are also plenty of back doors to carry out voting fraud, as shown by Bev Harris.
As it has been observed, Trump is well-known for using hyperbole as a tool to attract media attention in order to expose something that is of his concern and that of his over 60 million followers.
It does not matter what you think about voting; whether it is important or not, voting fraud should not be taken lightly. It is one of the ways in which a semi-democratic system can be subverted and it should be given all of the attention it needs.
Another example of how Trump uses the media to expose issues that he considers relevant is his latest Tweet about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower in New York City. Although Trump offered no proof of such a claim, he raised the very important issue of illegal mass spying by US government agencies on Americans and the rest of the world.
Trump’s claim need to be scrutinised and identified as real or fake, but what is important for Trump is not necessarily whether he is proven right or wrong, but to expose illegal mass spying by the CIA, FBI, NSA and other Deep State agencies.
Coincidentally, Wikileaks has now pointed out, once again, how those very same agencies use devices such as mobile phones and smart television sets to spy on everyone, all the time.
In sum, Donald J. Trump is a foreign agent, foreign to the Establishment and its propaganda arm, the mainstream media. He was a kamikaze presidential candidate and he seems to be a kamikaze President; perhaps the first one of his kind. He uses hyperbole to cause outrage among his opponents and the media which in turn provides him a powerful platform to expose the plans of the Establishment/Deep State/Elite.
From the very beginning of his campaign Trump has ‘sacrificed’ his reputation to expose what no other presidential candidate, or president, for that matter, has been able or willing to expose. He has done the same with other important topics such as climate change, vaccines and abortion and he will continue to do so unless someone puts a bullet in his head.
The other explanation to all of it, of course, could be that he is an arrogant, self-absorbed SOB who just wants free publicity.
What do you think? Which of the two explanations sounds more plausible?
Is it possible that no one in the mainstream media or the Establishment understands what Trump is doing? But if they do understand, why aren’t they doing anything to stop it? Why doesn’t the media simply give him less attention?
Is Trump’s Modus Operandi the best way to expose the Establishment? Is it moral? Is it right?
There is a great deal of concern in some circles about the stealth maneuvers of state that may be in the works.
Unlike other former presidents, who’ve sailed into the sunset, become mostly a fixture for autographs and nostalgia, and who’ve by and large stayed out of politics, former President Obama has set up shop in Washington, D.C. and he plans to stay in the game.
He is not only inside the beltway, but just a few blocks from the White House. His top advisor and perhaps his closest confidante, Valeria Jarrett, has moved in with him.
At this time, it’s not exactly clear what they have in store for America, but Obama 2.0 is taking shape, and many are already calling it a “shadow government.”
A Pennsylvania congressman has accused former President Barack Obama of staying in Washington solely to run a “shadow government” to undermine the GOP agenda.
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly made the claim to fellow Republicans at an event Saturday north of Pittsburgh.
A video clip posted to YouTube shows Kelly saying that Obama remained in Washington for “one purpose only … to run the shadow government that is going to totally upset the new agenda.”
Many figures on the right have been discussing their fears about an Obama-led shadow government.
If they are right, this is most certainly not politics as usual, and it is not necessarily an empty threat.
Already, there have been sustained protests against President Trump, and anyone associated with him. During the campaign, there were violent clashes in both political camps, and there has been the underlying sense that things are reaching some sort of maximum…
Is there subterfuge of our elected government? And who is really running things?
In the giving and taking of marching orders, former President Obama is a taker. He and his staff might be capable of advanced fundraising and organizing activities, but the agenda itself trickles down from bigger pockets.
If there is a shadow government in the works, and there are apparently several competing shadow networks, then Obama’s is certainly tied to the purse strings and upstart flavor of George Soros, surely the foremost patron of instigation during the Obama Administration.
After all, who got an unknown state senator the keynote speaking slot for the 2004 DNC convention? Who got this self-described ‘son of a goat herder from Kenya with a funny name’ into the White House only four years later? And who stirred the pot on gun control, with sensational hysteria over mass shootings, with Occupy Wall Street, with Black Lives Matter, with the Day Without a Woman marches and dozens of other astroturf “movements” that are designed to drive a wedge through society?
The danger of a Shadow Government is not one that will rule, but one that will sponsor an “American Spring” – a controlled opposition uprising that can be used to delegitimize the government and foster chaos.
Who knows?
If riots pop up in dozens of cities, and real violence spreads, the country itself could descend into madness. Similar efforts by George Soros – and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, another Obama shadow advisor – to create the Arab Spring, and before that, the color revolutions that unglued the Soviet Union by fostering opposition throughout Eastern Europe.
We’re entering into a phase where a cold civil war could spring up in this country, met with pockets of violence, plausible installation of martial law, and hare-triggered ideologues may clash in the streets.
As this coincides with dramatic pitfalls in the long-term economic collapse which is still ongoing, this stealthy action could undermine the larger fabric of the country – very Cloward-Piven Strategy. The left-right divide has never been more deeply felt, and ex-pres Obama is in the perfect position to give Soros & co. an assist in toppling things over.
You need Insiders who are loyal to an Outsider and an Outsider agenda to accomplish any real reforms.
Readers ask a reasonable question: if Trump is a political Outsider, then why has he stuffed his staff with Insiders--Goldman Sachs alumni, generals, etc.? The question follows an understandable logic: wouldn"t an Outsider appoint other outsiders? The doubt expressed also follows a reasonable logic: if Insiders are running the Trump administration, won"t it be just another case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"?
I think there is another dynamic in play here which I have laid out in this chart: Outsiders can be effective in meeting their policy goals (i.e. "success"), but they need Insiders who know how to get things done within a self-serving Establishment that is highly resistant to Outsiders and institutional reforms.
The Insider-Outsider spectrum has several important variations. In economics, Insiders rig the system to benefit themselves at the expense of Outsiders. In religion, Insiders are trusted members of the community of the faithful, and Outsiders are not members and thus untrustworthy.
In other words, there is a push-pull dynamic to being an Insider: it"s easy to feather one"s own bed as an Insider, because you are a trusted member of the Insider Community. Insiders have security, Outsiders do not. Insiders cover up the sins and greed of other Insiders, lest their own self-serving greed be exposed.
This means Insiders have enormous opportunities to join the Establishment that resists any reforms that reduce Insiders" private gains or the power of entrenched interests.
On the other hand, Insiders who are True Believers in reform have the trust and connections needed to bypass or overcome the inertial resistance to any change within the Establishment.
OUtsiders can only effect significant reforms if they have the overwhelming political power of numbers behind them: if enough Outsiders are enraged at being exploited by Insiders, they can threaten to topple the entire Establishment.
Only when they fear the complete loss of their own power and Insider perquisites do Insiders grudgingly accept reforms that diminish their power, perquisites and security.
The measures of success also matter. If the reformer, Insider or Outsider, seeks to remake society, government and the nation, such lofty goals will fail simply because they are too grandiose to be accomplished in a short time, even with the consent of the governed.
Grandiose goals end up disappointing those who believed them possible.
In contrast, incremental goals are far more modest in scope and therefore within reach of either a mass Outsider movement or True Believer Insiders.
Let"s consider two Outsider presidencies: Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter. Lincoln"s presidency has been reported in great depth, Carter"s has received relatively little critical assessment. Nonetheless, we discern certain similarities to the Trump presidency: all three "came out of nowhere" to win the presidency by slim margins, all three entered office with a deeply divided electorate and all three were Outsiders in the power circles of Washington, D.C.
Carter"s closest advisors tended to be Outsiders, while his foreign policy appointees were Insiders. Although there is ample room to debate this, as a political junkie who lived through the Carter campaign and presidency, it seems to me his presidency was doomed by an abundance of lofty goals and a paucity of Insiders who had the trust and networks to get stuff done.
I would argue the surest way to fail as a president is to stock your administration with Outsiders -- especially True Believer Outsiders who view entrenched, self-serving Insiders with utter disdain.
To get anything done in a culture of entrenched interests, one must either have an overwhelming political mandate to dismantle the entire machine--Trump does not--or you need Insiders who know the pressure points of the system and its key players--in effect, Insiders who know how to slip a political stiletto into the kidneys of key players and twist the blade to get done what would otherwise be impossible.
Insiders know (or can find out) who the politicized brown-nosers and incompetents are that must be cashiered if anything is going to change for the better. Outsiders are tempted to "clean house," a strategy that can backfire as entrenched interests hunker down and await the inevitable failure of the reforms.
It boils down to this: you need Insiders who are loyal to an Outsider and an Outsider agenda to accomplish any real reforms. Outsiders are easy prey for polished, self-serving Insiders. You need Insiders who can beat the entrenched interests at their own game, and weed out the toxic institutionalized leadership that resists reforms out of self-aggrandizement rather than principle.
We"ll just have to wait and see if Trump"s Insiders are loyal to an Outsider and an Outsider agenda or not. Time will tell.
The Eastern Establishment fears and loathes Outsiders, and seeks to destroy them, usually via the mainstream media.
Political agnostics who are skeptical about Big Government "solutions," left or right, view the current hullabaloo about the Trump presidency with some detachment. What"s remarkable to us is the extremism, not just of those bitter about Clinton"s loss, but by insiders who are threatened by the possibility Trump may upset their insider skims and scams.
As an opening observation, I don"t recall bitter Nixon supporters issuing death threats to performers at John Kennedy"s inauguration in 1961--and the 1960 election was extremely close.
I also don"t recall bitter Gore supporters issuing death threats to performers at G.W. Bush"s inauguration in 2001--even though the 2000 election came down to a few hundred votes in Florida.
Trump is a lightning rod for a spectrum of people and organizations. Let"s see if we can separate the spectrum into socio-political groups.
In times of turmoil, identifying a bogeyman/woman as the cause of the turmoil is a classic mechanism for shirking responsibility and agency. This is the psychological source of witch-hunts (it"s all the witches" fault!), scapegoating, show trials, and so on: it isn"t our fault things are falling apart, or the fault of our institutions--it"s ther bogeyman/woman"s fault.
This transference/projection concentrates the blame and responsibility on The Other--a scapegoated group, or even better, one individual or a small group. Those making the accusation reckon pointing the finger at some target lets them off the hook: I am blameless, it"s all his/her fault.
Trump is tailor-made for the part of Bogeyman--ditto the Russians. Decades of films depicting the heroic Americans besting the low-down dirty Commies seem to have seeped into the American Id: when in doubt, blame the Russians. If they are temporarily unavailable for scapegoating, then blame an Asian bogeyman.
For Progressives, symbolism is more important than substance. Never mind that the incomes, wealth and opportunities of the bottom 95% have steadily eroded in the eight years of the Obama presidency, or that an American neocon-neoliberal foreign policy was running amok globally. To Progressives steeped in the mythology of political correctness, the symbolism of the speech acts being uttered mattered far more than the substance or the consequences.
President Obama did not just promise hope and change--he was a legal-eagle master of delivering the symbolic speech acts that Progressives longed to hear, because they confirmed the world-view of legalisms, "rights," and all the other high points of the mythology of political correctness.
In other words, we don"t actually have to threaten the status quo by changing anything, all we have to do is utter the correct phrases, and the erosion of civil liberties, opportunity and wealth will all magically vanish in the warm and fuzzy phraseology of political correctness.
No wonder Trump is like a fingernail on a chalkboard to progressives lulled into somnambulance by eight years of symbolic speech acts. Politically correct speech acts are out the window, and this refusal to wear the robes of correct mythology is deeply upsetting to those seeking the reassurances of symbolic speech acts.
Even more interesting is the reaction of the Eastern Establishment--you know, Washington, D.C., Yale, Harvard, the entire Deep State of Eastern Establishment cronies.
In the long narrative of American history, presidents are either Insiders or Outsiders. Insiders go the Right Schools, meet the Right People, work in the Right Companies and serve in the Right Government Agencies. Outsiders grew up in The Outside World, and did not meet the Right People or work in the Right Companies or serve in the Right Government Agencies.
Franklin Roosevelt was a classic insider, Harry Truman, a classic outsider. John F. Kennedy was a classic insider, Richard Nixon, a classic outsider. G.W. Bush and Al Gore were both insiders. Jimmy Carter was a classic outsider.
The Clintons masterfully worked their way into the Insider Circle, despite starting on the Outside.
President Obama also worked his way into the Insider Circle via Harvard Law, etc.
Once you understand this narrative, you realize the party affiliation of the candidate is simply a matter of convenience; what really matters is their standing within the traditional Eastern Establishment. Will they faithfully carry water for the Establishment, i.e. be a loyal Insider, or do they pose a threat to the power and wealth of the Insiders, i.e. an Outsider?
The Eastern Establishment fears and loathes Outsiders, and seeks to destroy them, usually via the mainstream media. That the corporate media targeted Nixon is well-known. Though few discuss it now, it was equally true that the corporate media ceaselessly bashed and ridiculed Jimmy Carter, "peanut farmer," goofy grin, etc. After he was safely out of office and couldn"t threaten the Eastern Establishment"s power, skims and scams, Carter was quickly rehabilitated.
Though his wealth and New York base suggests Insider to many, Trump is a classic outsider--someone the Establishment fears and loathes because he might diminish their power, their skims and their scams. The Establishment"s skims and scams are rentier skims and scams--wealth and income that is skimmed from the productive elements of the economy by virtue of the Establishment"s power to impose the gatekeeper"s toll on virtually every aspect of American life.
The Establishment"s fear and loathing is laughably obvious. Why else drum up the hysterical, absurd narrative that Russia is responsible for Trump"s election? The entire media blitz was a transparent attempt to discredit the results of American democracy because the Insider unexpectedly lost. Now the Establishment--from academia to the C.I.A.--is in full-blown panic, because all their precious skims and scams are for the first time in decades, at risk of being throttled or reduced.
Trump isn"t just a lightning rod for delusional Progressives who were happy to see their real-world fortunes erode away as long as the Insiders in charge kept muttering the desired symbolic speech acts; he is also a lightning rod for Insiders fearful that their Insider apple cart is about to be upended, and they might actually have to work for a living, or actually compete in the real world--something they know they are ill-prepared to survive.
