Maggie's Farm

Drugs, Blacks, War, Genocide
I get that the article is about drug incarceration of blacks, but I'd like to point out that the drug epidemic has been wide spread. It is entrenched in the parts of America that have been subject to the worst economic damage, like the Rust Belt. FWIW Joe Rogan has featured Ed Calderon, who claims Mexico is a narco state and that the cartels are partnered with China to distribute Fentanyl. I expect drug problems to escalate with the coming loosening of border controls. At my most suspicious, I find it hard to believe that there are not a lot of public officials at every level, who are complicit in this tragedy, either by looking the other way and/or being on the take.

I'm just coming to terms with how naïve I have been over my voting life. The following is a response to a Canadian on ChicagoBoyz.net.
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Canadian: “Still America has killed a great many people for very bad reasons, with apparently no remorse at all. Collateral damage is probably the biggest number. What you did to just Mosul was a monstrous war crime. There are so many of these its hard to keep count. The million or so innocents you most probably killed just over the Iraq war is evil.”
me:
Thank goodness, Trump exposed the corruption of the Entrenched Bureaucracy and their servile hacks in media. These are the lying liars that brought us the war in the Middle East in tandem with the DNC and the RNC, and they are the lying liars who sabotaged Trump and intentionally fed him false information. Now, they are baaacck in the cat bird seat. Trump was the antidote.
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I realize now that Colin Powell was not off his rocker when he insisted that he was lied to and set up in his presentation to the UN. He just blamed the wrong person. Is there any reason to believe that the Entrenched Bureaucracy didn't lie to or mislead Bush just like they admit to doing with Trump.

And now for an even more awkward question. Were Barack and Hilary lied to or fed bad information as well re: Syria, Libya? Cui bono?

I don't know what to believe guys. Is Dan Bongino a crazy conspiracy theorist? He ties a lot of the China-Biden dealings back to the shady Uranium 1 deal. Did you know that the Chinese tried to buy the Russian Company with the American uranium asset? The timing with Hunter Biden' activities is enough to create questions. It could explain why there was such a bizarre frenzy over Trump's election and why DJT was such a threat. There are other familiar names involved.
I don't know if we should be worried over the Solar Winds story, that seems to have eluded our betters too, or maybe not.

Capitalism:
I can’t speak for after 2008, but at least until then, there were powerful Democrats who understood, at a fundamental level, that Capitalism is the engine of innovation and progress. It may not be the only engine, but it is exponentially more adaptive, efficient, and faster. My definition of capitalism is based on freedom to choose and investment in continuous improvement, such as innovations in organization, materials, distribution, marketing, processes, financing......, specialization. It is not static but adaptive and in flux. Its hallmark used to be a robust middle class. Of course, the Corporatists are trying to capture the power of capitalism for themselves, while decrying it through their "Woke" "tools". They use the power of "Der Staat Uber Alles", to suppress or buy out competition, to suppress entrepreneurship, and to erect entry barriers, consolidating economic power in their own self serving and greedy hands. My guess is that whoever manages to hang onto Capitalism, wins. Look at China, they didn’t get to where they are on their own, they were handed billions of dollars worth of IP, as well as, hard won manufacturing and organization "know how" by our skimming class. And still, they have to spy and get around security measures to acquire cutting edge stuff.
And then, of course, there is counterfeiting and sloppy quality control. Not sure if it was this website, but Mike K has mentioned the way that the Chinese pharma makers trick and deceive FDA inspectors.
Lest we forget, it was our own skimming class that tilted the competitive playing field in favor of third world supply chains, riddled with coerced labor and child labor. In the 80s and 90s, I think the first corporations, who took manufacturing off shore, were just cutting corners, dodging fair labor practices, getting around environmental regs, looking for cheaper energy, and getting away from having to grease the wheels for any project they wanted to build, plus obviously that was the price of entry into the Chinese market. Now, I don't know how anyone startup can hope to compete with the economies of scale that are inherent in this economy.
Just a thought, for the individual just trying to live their life, what's the difference between socialism and Hitech crony capitalism.