Capatilism is Alive and Well: Riots Be Damned

Maybe it is not politically correct to make this observation but when I see video of protest turning to looting, my faith in capitalism is higher then ever.  I mean, who really has any conviction about some big drunk black man trying to pass a fake $20 bill for some cigarettes getting suffocated to death by an abusive white cop when there is nothing but a piece of glass between you and the Swarovski jewelry or Nike shoes, or just about everything you can get your hands on in that Target?

I have been telling everyone I can get some attention from since like March that this COVID-19 BS is nothing but the liberal elite and billionaires squeamish fear of an untimely death from what was nothing more then a nasty virus.  However Gates et al promoted the virus as "the pandemic virus" they should fear enough to shut down the global economy less their cushy privileged lives (or in the case of the billionaires their exuberant lives) be lost.  I saw this for what it was, weak pathetically uninformed politicians caving to this fear mongering by the global elites and I knew, just like the global PR machine that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, there was nothing I or any other person of reasonable mindset could do about it.

So now, after sending a shock-wave through the global economy for some 10-14 weeks the real ramifications are starting to play out.  The global reset is beginning.  The stock market is soaring, the rich have just received the largest direct transfer of wealth ever experienced in the history of humanity and central control over the creation of "currency" and it is high time "I" get some to.

I mean really, what's $600 / month in extra "unemployment" benefits unless you actually have access to unemployment benefits?  What's $1200 of helicopter money if you don't file taxes in the first place.  And even if you are getting both, all you have to do is turn on your TV to know that the 1% are making so much damn money in this totally flawed and corrupt financialized BS "capitalist" system we are living under, when the chance arises, you are gonna take what you can!

If I owned a Target store in that kind of environment, why not just open the doors, put a sign "free" out and provide shopping carts to make the process less destructive.  What are you loosing?  90% of what you sell is produced and purchased for pennies on the dollar in sweatshops in parts of the world most people (and I mean most people) could not even point out on a map.  And that goes for just about everything sold by the our oligopoly economy where some 80% of just about every category of goods is provided by 5 companies or less (those same companies that made out like champs in the Pandemic BTW).

All the posturing and posing and acting out anger at "police brutality" is getting old.  The US is such a drug infested, gun infested, delinquent infested, unhealthy nation consisting of all three tiers of development / life, no level of "police training" in the end will alleviate the reality that every so often someone is going to film excessive force and the loss of life.  To run around with some banner of righteousness in this country is as hypercritical as saying on one hand Americans care about the environment while on the other hand knowing 70% of the personal use vehicles sold in America are trucks (or whatever marketing name you put on it)... The ills of this nations history towards the black man run deep.  The ills of our failed capitalistic system is running deeper by the day.

However, the sales pitch of blatant materialism that props up our highly leveraged (well almost entirely leveraged) failed capitalist system is alive and strong as ever.  Just listen to the celebration of materialism / capitalism in the popular music of the same people who would go about looting.  God Bless Them!  They get it!  They are those who are the capitalist best friends!  They are the ones who have bought hook line and sinker just about every capitalist message that has been sold directly to them for decades!  They are the hope that the system can continue to perpetuate until every last resource of the planet has been consumed and returned to the earth as toxic waste.

Let them loot! Open the doors!  For every item they walk off with, it's cost is only a tiny fraction of what the oligarchy was going to sell it for anyway.  Just let the Fed print the money to refill the inventory just like they print the money to replenish Wall Street (banks, private equity, hedge funds, shadow banks etc.).  It will cost a fraction as much as handing out real money and result in way less damage, fires, violence, police expenses including all that anti crowd ammo, fuel and burning police cars, and to top it off, there will be less anger and animosity growing at authority and police because of it.  Just make it "Christmas" say thank you for supporting our capitalist system and call it a day.  That's all they want anyway...