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Problem-Reaction-Solution: the ultimate fascist model.

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Classic. Should be part of every MBA course?

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Pretty good grifting but the big payoff was Gates funded media that took what was a regular flu season & fear porn plus denial of treatment parlayed to the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history while erasing human rights progress over 800 years!!

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Sort of like the banking system: They win when times are good and they're getting free money from investors, then they win when times are bad and they're getting free money from government, then they win when they're buying the house you can no longer afford with free money from the printer.

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It always surprised me, the advice to *not* pay off your mortgage as fast and as hard as you could. That cyanide-laced sugar cube of the tax deduction.

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So the moral of the story is: Become a banker, and live happily ever after.

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It's working out pretty well so far.

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For the bankers!

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That's all that matters to them!

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That's why you buy a bank.

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"...round and round and round in the circle game."

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We all fall down?

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No, no. Not the Plague song.

[Sobs quietly to herself. Did no one in this present company grow to adulthood with Joni Mitchell?]

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Yes I did....guess we're seeing both sides now.

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You never know what you got till it's gone.

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And summer goes...Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper....I love the song Marcie.

But guess we better stop this now..... or we'll clog up the internet.

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Quid pro quo thingies make me very uncomfortable.

I appreciate you subscribing.

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Sure did

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My boy! At last I found you!

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fret not! I understood, immediately.

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You guys are relieving me greatly. Who wants to be the only antique at the party?

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Anyone can buy stuff from Ikea or Raymour and Flanagan......true antiques, hand-made as a requisite--those are special.

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I might actually just be some battered piece of nailed-together hardwood pine from the '50s, but I'm holding together pretty well.

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Yes, I did get the message --coming from that era. Era?

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"The monkey chased the weasel"

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Now we're in great-great-grandpa territory.

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I did not realize that I was that old : )

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Strange how it creeps up on us.

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I see "Live in studio in 1968" and so I have to say that I did not grow to anything back then :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4ESsDq6wc

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Please tell me [sobs quietly some more] that some kindly older person eventually introduced you to Tom Lehrer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM

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Aug 21, 2023·edited Aug 21, 2023

Thank-you for posting that link! It's now in my saved list. I loved that song! Never knew who sang it.

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In some ways I was fortunate in my HS friends. I was always late to the latest subversive things, myself.

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Well now one has!!!

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["This is what hell looks like," she muttered grimly. "Nobody gets your references."]

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Computer anti-virus companies have sometimes been accused of releasing malware so that they can then fix it and justify their continued existence... but this takes the idea to a whole new level.

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There's been the occasional firefighter too.

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We might have a few of those in Canada these days.

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I'm re-reading Michael Crichton's last published book, "Next". A lot of interesting details about these fool-proof business models. He died "unexpectedly" according to his wife, shortly after publication.

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Thanks--have read and enjoyed a few of his--didn't know about the 'sudden death' aspect. That's all under the microscope these days, isn't it?

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I think from Vanity Fair article?

"Best-selling author Michael Crichton died unexpectedly in Los Angeles Tuesday, November 4, 2008 after a courageous and private battle against cancer.""

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His "State of Fear" (2004) is a masterpiece.

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I was struck by “Terminal Man”.

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At the very beginning of the pandemic I told my family that there was a big moral hazard issue in that the same people and organizations who know how to (or do) design the vaccines are the ones who know how to (or do) design the viruses.

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The Bill Gates virus/anti-virus business model.

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these people make me sick

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They have a vaccine for that😉

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Yes, that’s it in a nutshell.

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I won’t comply with ANY mandate. I’ll only be shopping where there are no masks required and I’ll video chat with a doc if I need one. Absurd they try their fear porn again. Resist! Fudge the media and the CDC, NIH, FDA…

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Easier said then done.Government leans on grocery stores, pharmacies, banks, you name it. Until that meteor or whatever BIG event happens sorry to say there will be rules contrary to common sense and decency. I will not mask again, nor will I get vaccinated, living on the edge.

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Luckily where I live the sheriff ignores the mask mandates and leaves it up to individual businesses. Many don’t comply including a couple of privately owned grocery stores (small but still very good, supply-wise).

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And Mark Cuban would be the first to invest!

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Well, just in time for more moola....masks, lockdowns are coming out of retirement and making a comeback this fall..... Here we go again with the Plandemic Playbook (17), repeating the valueless profiteering that everyone knows did not work to benefit the public while it made them even more rich

They enjoy it, they make money from it, and no-one has stopped them. So of course they are going to do it again

https://healthythinking.substack.com/p/here-we-go-again-with-the-plandemic?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=335230&post_id=136279040&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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Just trust "The $$$cience" baby, yeah!!!

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Win-win!

—don’t forget the massive chronic inflammatory disease aftermath pharmacopeia $$$

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Aug 21, 2023·edited Aug 21, 2023

We never see Punxsutawney Phil and Tony Fauci together. Let’s run the AIDS Playbook, Yes again.

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Words fail me.

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