KC SHOEN
Note To Reader: it is highly recommend that to you read my previously released article on fascism (link is here), as this article acts as a real-time update
We are at the precipice of expiring as a species collectively, and as a direct democracy locally. In New Zealand within the last two years , and has been in the US for decades, corporate interests and oligarchical monies are becoming more able to purchase policy wholesale effectively rigging the political ecosystem for continued profit through ideological grift and confluence. It is the usual tribalism ensconced and embedded as always, however, what is different currently, is the nebulous foretelling of the result no longer is ambiguous. The end game is here.
The world is now a business for the monied elite....
...and we are getting fucked, yes, but it is important to locate where the recent fuckery accelerated into such a gastronomical explosion of an all-consuming wall-of-filth tidal wave cresting toward the biological beachhead to oppress, crush and destroy most homosapien and other mammalian life on earth.
The 'Turning Out' Point
In New Zealand, fissures of political divisions and the furthering of partisan silos proliferated toward the end of the pandemic. Jacinda Ardern, while still Prime Minister had used the historic mandate given to her and the Labour Party after a landslide election in 2020 to enforce a mandatory vaccine order be administered to the public in response to Covid 19 countrywide. On 26th of October 2021 the enforcement when into effect , with a four week window for the public get into compliance or risk not being able attain work , or be found ineligible to maintain gainful employment should they refuse. The public push-back begun almost immediately from a small but belligerent and bellicose minority unwilling to compromise body autonomy for the sake of government-issued lockdowns and the demand to have administered upon them an experimental and unproven vaccine. As the arduous and extended 2nd lockdown of Auckland continued without successfully mitigating the Omicron variant of the virus, the once exalted "0 Covid " champion was force to capitulate . By October 2021 Ardern was under fire for the implementation of both these imposed mandates , and when pressed in a 25th of October 2021 interview if mandates could create a 'two-tier society', Arden gave a rather snarky but sharp response, seemingly both resentful of the question dared being asked by the reporter while simultaneously in passive-aggressive defiance, snapped "yup".
Ardern's fall from grace was dramatic, from being the world's glorified Warrior Princess of Compassion and Safety for masterfully guiding New Zealand through the Covid 19 Delta wave in 2020, to crashing down in the beginning of 2022 being reduced to a pariah on the heels of the disastrous and ineffective lockdown of Auckland yielding the 3 month sit-in protest at the Parliament grounds starting the following January. Within a year she would walk away from government, and would waste that same historic mandate given to both herself and Labour, At a press conference on 19 Jan 2023, she stated she was leaving the position having "nothing left in the tank", reciting her achievements and challenges , of which were legitimate in scale and intensity (the aforementioned pandemic, the Christchurch shootings , as well as the horrific volcano eruption of Waiheke Island)
Despite these incredible balances of fortitude, charisma and intelligence Ardern exuded in each major conflagration, her resignation from her Prime Ministerial role showed she however possessed a very thin skin, was sorely self-absorbed in co-dependent fragility, with no possession of a true spine, especially in real policy matters that deeply concerned the public post- Covid, as the highs she rode after the successful Delta lockdown and 1st recovery period made her legendary worldwide was now eviscerated. Her ego so shattered and spurned, she neglected to take on new information emerging about the Pfizer mRNA SARS vaccines' lack of legitimate research and testing , with questionable issues of efficacy that had been exaggerated by the pharmaceutical giants and American governmental health agencies that further suppressed and censored by various Western governments and media during the pandemic. Ardern's lack of reckoning about the complete absence of scientific data associated with the actual impact of masks and social distancing in slowing down viruses, atop the complete erasure by these same Orwellian oligarchical compositors preventing instilling the Great Barrington Declaration , a proven approach to focusing on containment of viral spread through focusing on vulnerable groups within a population, rather than wholesale lockdown measures and forced vaccinations, was to her detriment. By remaining incurious and compliant in managing the pandemic mandates, and then later cutting and running when shit got really hot, Ardern's inability to 'adjust in-game' during her tenure was laid bare, and by not considering suspension of the mandates until further scientific inquiry of the virus and vaccines became more substantially conclusive, critically kneecapped Chris Hipkins in the 2023 election, condemning himself and Labour to the sidelines allowing an onerous, racist, ignorant anti-working class pro-Corporate Coalition government to foment.
The cold irony for National in particular, is Chris Luxon's repetitive simping on contiguously blaming the previous Labour government for all of Nationals/ ACT/ New Zealand First party's current economic failings is so entrenched that it is the Coalition itself who should each pay their gratitude via a thank you letter to Jacinda Ardern for quitting and running. Ardern's early exodus allowed this regressive and fact-averse coalition electoral entry by way the angry electorate feeling so betrayed by her unwillingness to complete her 2nd term, allowing these partisan, right-wing, race bating demagogues to smash, steal, and marginalize te iwi Māori ā motu and other working-class groups in Aotearoa in favour of public vandalism for their multi-national corporate think tanks and extremist backers who line their pockets.
Ardern's choosing to abandon her political capital by not wishing to take on the challenge the final year of office that may have extended her governments time by re-election and prevented much of the damage already caused by C-Lux and The Smash Brothers, chose to the committing forfeiture of her legacy instead, accepting a post as American-based pseudointellectual self-aggrandizing professorate within the cocooned reality of the American academia elite, replete with a high caloricity of excessive personal profit by accepting a sick-figure income from the US oligarchic 1% .
Jacinda Ardern's transformation to becoming a self-prostituting post-political living corpse is complete as she attained a gig which includes regurgitating self-promoting vanity projects , with her new book being the first of many. Ardern has already proved her fealty to this superficial morass of self- congratulatory victory lapping speeches and events within elite academia, being no different from her political compatriots who are also prolifically charismatic, educated , narcissistic centrists that came into power for powers sake, and then grabbed the high-octane elitist-offering SWAG in the form of meaningless positions with some multi-billion dollar criminal corporate think tank, or be some professorial adjunct at one of their 'prestigious' ivy league universities , having left the world in far horrid straights due to the chicanery of the performative politics of appeasement and unnecessary coalescence to the donor class. The Clintons, The Obamas, and even The Bushes 1 & 2 are among her peers in practice, and Ardern, like the rest of the aforementioned has taken a seat at the table, in comfortable distance from the squalid class inequality they all accrued power from , to further exfoliate and grow by direction of the WEF and other Corporate masters, knowing that the consequences they've wrought upon the world will never reach their purview through the adjacent window while seated in their coveted, gilded chairs.
In the current government, this cyclical corruption lives on but is approached differently by the likes of Chris Luxon, David Seymour, Winston Peters, and Shane Jones. The latter three share both a self-loathing and collective hatred of Māori culture within themselves and and the rest of the indigenous society in Aotearoa. As example, The TPB , and the even -more regressive Regulatory Standards Bill , in which it pretends to be issued as an augmented oversite to established regulation , is in reality David Seymour's attempt to centralize power as he is the ACT party portfolio-holder of Regulations in Parliament, The RSB would allow him sole control to essentially be 'judge and jury' to any imparted regulation he deems not fair across all manner of New Zealand governance across all bureaucracies that posses such Regulations and Laws. This would allow Seymour solus cura to quash both legal and public dissent by his charge only, overriding Parliamentary democratic processes disavowing the public participation to contest. If passed, it would be an instrument proffering unobstructed favour to international business to be given full access, rape New Zealand of its resources, side line The Treaty of Waitangi tribunal and treaty, and allow these same companies to sue the New Zealand government for obstruction when they are charged or investigated for violating human rights through their activities and sanctioned abuses for profit against the populace. Any contest or opposition can be chilled, and elements of protest can be made unlawful through the imposition of draconian hate speech/ defamation laws through fines, and even incarceration. All under Seymour's control , granting him unfettered power which would exceed any government he is elected to, and in coalition with.
During his poor showing on '30' with Guyan Espiner, he deliberately conflates 'human rights' with 'property rights' repetitively without pause nor in consideration of the context in which he answers the question given by Espiner. This purposeful conflation is a dangerous misdirection, because the emphasis on 'property rights' suggest a pro corporate / fascistic approach where property ownership supersedes indigenous land rights, the democratic process and Te Tiriti. Seymour wishes to suspend all 'bad' or 'illogical' regulations that obstruct the will of venture capitalists to exploit resources and products exclusively for their own profit margins, scuttling legal, human rights, governmental guardrails and rules to protect such profits. Multi-national corporations would not be required to pay workers a living wage or protect these workers from hazards and harm, both on the work site itself , or in the environment they are stripping, polluting and poisoning
Seymour's brutish and boorish skullduggery in the commission of bypassing democratic protections is nothing new, neither is Simeon "Pee Wee Herman" Brown's attempted public health care push to privatization of NZ Health by pulling a backhanded pass bringing behind Tend Health as an unqualified 'PHO" , also known as "Primary Health Organization" shortly after the ban was lifted which prevented such for-profit 'privatized health care' grifting and carpetbagging quackeries from obtaining government funds ahead of Te Whatu Ora/ HealthNZ. This handout to corporate filth at the expense of the public trust is a common tactic used in the corruptive practice of US governance , wherein by the Federal Government will make all exceptions and exemptions for multi-national corporate profiteering so long as these corporates continue to lobby and bring more funding to them every election cycle, and give members of congress and the senate cute six-figure income-based lobbying and finance positions of fuckery to 'transition' into once they completed their collective careers involving further fleecing, taxing, evicting, incarcerating and censoring its working class constituents and privatizing all remaining public utilities and public services. Further this coalition is currently backed by the Tobacco and Gun lobbies as well as tacitly supported by the Atlas Network and several of its Canadian acolytes, one of whom, a right-wing billionaire ideologue whom has recently become majority owner of NZME, the company who umbrellas The New Zealand Herald, Radio ZB, and Three NZ (three news). This will mean a partisan media group whom are willing to commit propaganda to the masses, and the proffering of partisan narratives will become the part of the future of Aotearoa media eco-system, both legacy television and online. This is known as 'media capture ' the same game played in the US media wherein by ALL major media outlets are beholden to the current establishment narrative of the day, despite partisan bias, (the imbedded link is one example of many)
Also included in the American model , are excessive tax breaks for the top 1%, destroying social safety nets such as food, housing , and medical assistance programs for the working poor, stripping Social Security (think Kiwi saver/ superannuation being completely eliminated), crushing political dissent through subterranean actions and overt fascistic censorship and further stripping of civil and human rights (such as using the umbrella of immigration policy as a "practice run") and increasing the defense budget to a record 3 Trillion Dollars at the expense of infrastructure , to keep the Deep State - Mossad / Zionist AIPAC lobby/ Miriam Adelson and the Military Industrial Complex content with an ongoing and a 24/7 only- ever genocide being conducted in Gaza being recorded in real time and begin a full-on, unnecessary and Israeli-provoked war with Iran.
Despite this retrograde adoption of post-capitalist, nation-destroying attributes this is essentially what C-Lux and the Smash Bros. are modelling itself after, Chris Luxon and Winston Peters are intending to ( and are actively doing) what the corporate establishment is doing to the government in Washington: destroy the social contract , concentrate power, wealth and resources to the upper 5% of wealthy New Zealanders by deliberately frustrating government bureaucracies to seem ineffectual and incompetent so that the public will accept their elimination in tandem absorbing private fiscal and financial risk by such as medical privatization. With Chris Bishop now stopping council housing developments and selling off vacant land associated with it, attempting to override local council decision making if it interferes with 'economic growth' (i.e. corporate real estate development) is demonstrative of this regressive destruction.
Another primary goal under the 'American System' is the deliberate regression of workers rights. New Zealand has one of the most robust employment protection apparatus legally for workers in the world. The Employee Rights Act of 2000 established the creation of ERA non-court based tribunal system which investigates complaints of violations and breaches of employment agreement by employers is exceptionally accessible by the working public, and (unlike the US) does not require the retention of a high-priced lawyer to receive justice. The laws and case law are expressed in 'layman's terns' and is easily navigable, unlike the US, where much case law is drenched in Latin phrasing and articulated in overtly complex language that obscures interpretation by those not schooled in language or law. The legalization of the use of 'in-house' arbitrators by US companies has created a deliberate (and legal) boundary that deleverages and discourages employees from seeking legal remedy from the civil court system, using the Individual Employment Agreement to embed the requirement in -house arbitration paid for and in service by the company as the primary process of remedy in employer disputes. This deliberate triangulated conflict of interest imposed on the employee at the moment of hire is designed to pre-emptively chill free speech and due process to the advantage of the Company. One could simply not agree to that condition, and that is the very moment the offer of employment is withdrawn without further consideration by the company in most cases.
This is exactly the type of American -stye poisonous pro-corporate anathema that the vacuous and intellectually starved ACT minister of the interior Brooke Van Velden is attempting to establish, by first ameliorating the working class of New Zealand , eliminating any rights for legal remedy or recourse for any employee earning $180, 000 or more from their employer. Atop this chilling of legal rights of the employee in such disputes by using income as the deal-breaker for such remedy, Van Velden also wishes for the same employee pulling 180K to allow these slime bag Corporate CEOs the compunction to terminate them under 'at will' conditions: without reason and without legal recourse. As an added bonus to attract multi-national companies to invade Aotearoa with shittier low-paying jobs and far more dangerous working conditions, Van Velden also is attempting to turn WorkSafe New Zealand, another robust agency protecting the Health & Safety of working kiwis , from a regulatory enforcer whose main function is to keep business honest by compliance to worker safety rules and laws, into clipboard carrying mouthpieces who make non-binding suggestions and recommendations so as to limit losses from liability when workers get mangled or bullied on the job by their employers. She recently had the incredible intestinal fortitude (or , more succinctly, the lack of mental acuity and sound judgement) to bring her fact-free circus -and - bread policy sideshow to Q&A with Jack Tame. It didn't go well...
Dismantling worker protections , hi-jacking all manner of regulatory oversight, lowering wages and hand-jobbing the managerial/oligarchical affluent class is the exact intent of this group. For New Zealand , this is recent phenomenon of corruptive forces , for the United States its been a decades long, slow-moving plane crash of personal freedoms, civil and labor rights, onerous censorship , and deadliest of all rampant class inequality
For Van Velden's part, I must state for the record that characterizing her brain dead alignment to her Party does not necessary make her a "cunt" per se. I would have much preferred to apply the pejorative of "pussy" instead, to cauterize her fealty to her 'party' and, being a 'team player' and representing their 'governments' needs ahead of constituents as pure cowardice under this adjective. Van Velden represents the outcome of mindless sycophantism for its sake - she never has to defend her position intellectually and is never held to account as she is too much a huge pussy; a wimp to have the spine necessary to stand in such legitimate charges of incompetence and infantile policy-making she has enacted and its negative impact. Another adjective more suitable than blasting her as a cunt, is that of her being a whore. A whore for corporate interests and lobbyists . Some might argue that 'prostitute' would be more concise, but this presumes that a prostitute is dishonorable. Compared to a whore , you know what you are getting with a prostitute : a transactional fee for services offered, which you can accept or decline under your own power. There is no intended deceit with prostitutes, as they do not pretend to be anything more that what they are, and this leaves the potential client to be adult enough to render their own decision if they wish to partake with no allusions or false pretension.
A whore by contrast has no honour , and will fuck you and your best friend behind your back if they believe that doing so they will gain something substantial (usually money, stature or power). Van Velden's pretentious cockery about women's rights being enhanced by the crushing of 33 Equal Pay applications to the tribunal was pure whorishness- a grand act of political fallacio complete with professional-grade kneepads and a promise to the business interests/ lobbyists who support her that she will do their bidding and swallow 'em whole. Whores lie, and will give up that ass for bankroll and call it 'love' , just to keep the old rich geezers interested and ensure the keep payin' up for that 'love'.
The Politics of Emotion: Anti-Intellectualism Disguised As Populism
Western polity world-wide over the last decade has given way to a more deceitful, ignorant and blatant exercise of the collective din of well-monied charlatans to deliver partisan rebuke and social outrage on boilerplate topics ( such as immigration in the US, and domestic economic issues here in Aotearoa) so as to cause the masses to vote in support with their anger, and without pushing these branded and braindead political candidates to foment concrete, detailed, legitimate and socially-precative policy. This has allowed them the cynicism to skirt logical diplomacy, debate and creation of true statecraft in favour of meaningless and damaging performative political ideology by conducting slash and burns to the social safety net, more attenuation to aide the affluent donor class more profits and less taxes , with a simultaneous cause to obliquely runover the rest of the working class whom are not monied property owners, billionaire troglodytes, former CEOs or tech feudal lords.
The New Cynicism of this authoritarianism is an open expression of the the unbridled contempt of the proletariat by the oligarchical Corporate class who act as the overall clearing house of policy via the purchasing of political candidates, parties and other sectional government bureaucracy unilaterally so as to wash away any remaining burning embers of free-society democracy throughout the earth. Once they obtain power, it is immediately abused, perverted and fired back upon the very proletariat who allowed them inside the ruling chambers of the peoples' castle.
In the US, The cultural shift toward anti-intellectualism started the very moment the twin trade towers in New York came down on 11 September 2001 from an alleged terrorist attack coordinated by Al Qaida , utilizing 15 Saudi nationals across 4 commercial aircraft engaged as weapons to strike physical targets in Arlington Virginia ,and Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania alongside lower east Manhattan. The US public went into panic mode, and allowed the government to quickly impart the Patriot Act, a retrograde, rights-violating , surveillance state apparat inducing set of laws more meant to control the domestic masses and allow further parlance into wars future
Over the successive years, the American public would be unwittingly spied upon domestically, would wait 9 years for the assassination of the terrorist rings' mastermind Osama bin Laden. The overarching creation and consecration of narratives for multiple theatres of wars would begin in early 2003 starting in Iraq, migrating to Libya, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Yemen, Syria and Palestine (4 different times). These were also punctuated by the US State department toppling democratically elected leaders in nearly all the aforementioned countries to forward American corporate interests and revenue stream by breaking a nations sovereignty via massacre of the local populous, economic, land and minerals theft and illegal regime changes. 9/11 gave the US and its proxies in Europe carte blanche to foment wars of attrition in the middle east and Ukraine to expand capitalist interests beneficial to both.
The conduction of these ongoing wars are often now controlled and supported by several main American-based military conglomerate hedge funders, tech giants and asset mangers, deliberately contributing the violence and genocide worldwide such as Blackrock ,Vanguard and Google. So as to protect and expand profit margins in this era of multi-national corporates , they often control the propagandistic main stream corporate media narratives through impartation of alternating episodic histories that clip context of the more factual variety so as to remain closest to and retain a chair at the seat of power, accessing national governments whose narrative for their own establishment sponsored debauchery and criminal activity can continue uncontested by public scrutiny, discourse or rebellion, all since the CIA successfully crafted and applied this media insurgency since 1973. The term 'alternative facts' as coined by Kellyanne Conway in 2017 while counselor for the first Trump administration, describes the very deployment of artificial neo-histrionics and narrative building which has been imparted upon an American society completely conditioned to such propaganda from childhood to grave.
This cynicism further extolls anti-intellectualism allowing execution of virulent and reactionary ostracism, bellicosity , and vilification of critical thinking imparted on the proletariat that violates the nations perceived indispensability and elevated entitled status in the world through groupthink. Simultaneously the combined powers of the establishment between multi-national corporations and the government captured by their donor class artificially raises the public profile and visibility of 'approved' conspiracy theorists, partisan / establishment grifters, and 'independent journalists' to work cohesively with the mainstream media to control all manner of narrative both analogue legacy media and on-line podcasting and content generation. The best examples of this would be the Covid pandemic narrative, where the federal government, corporate media and the American CDC in Atlanta colluded to manipulate the American public on mandatory vaccines, mask wearing, social distancing and lockdowns, none of which was scientifically studied nor proven to be effective.
Respected institutions of learning , established and unbiased media publications and free speech itself was (and still is) the instant casualty in such a climate of brash nativism via censorship. Any independent verifying outlet, agency , or professionals within the overall science community proffering fact-based opinion based on verified research were shunned, and relegated to having cast upon them negative aspersions of contributing to ' conspiracy theory' . Qualified medical professionals were immediately marginalized when they ran against the un-scientific, mainstream narrative of the vaccines and lockdown mandates that were imposed. The rest of the western world would follow suite , including Ardern's government. The collusive nature of the pandemic world-wide is consistent with the current coalition government with their collective hatred of the working class, even though they make up nearly 80% of the voter population. One only needs to understand that the economic downturn, the attempt to privatize New Zealand public health to a US style pro- multi-million corporate HMO 'death panel' insurance consortium are also part of the plan social contract and public safety sabotage. Coupled with the understanding of the actions of Luigi Mangione is to understand how this for-profit corporate health care is not palpable, ethical, functional, or sustainable under the late - stage capitalism, and has zero to do with providing coverage for lifesaving treatments and care for 'policy holders'.
This is exactly the circumstantial system the current coalition government is spoiling for as well. Chris Luxon, Simeon Brown and David Seymour are all emotionally underdeveloped and intellectually stunted, as is all of National party pursuing a type of tonal misdirection where in by such deep inquiry is met with dismissive derision and re-direction of blame of their own policy misadventures and abject failures back to those who discover, respond and report them. Luxon himself , a man who has been PM for over 18 months, has yet to answer one question directly to any media he has spoken to, and has yet to take any responsibility for the complete nihilism of economic destruction wrought upon the people of New Zealand by his coalition and his pro-corporate agenda . By eliminating social safety nets, privatizing every service and sector that is normally tax-payer driven, assures that he will soon join the mighty American 1% .
Incorporation of emotional rhetoric creates incitement of voter support, allowing facts to be denied with fluidity for the sake of appearing to be a 'fighter' or 'hero' to the base constituents . By conducting performative gesticulated pandering as appearing pro-populous, it creates the "blame" platform and a sense of righteous indignation and victimhood in which the voter can incorporate their own ignorance. xenophobia, hatred, and fear coupled with absolute partisan allegiance over policy to build a fervent voting bloc. Bill & Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Joe Biden , Barrack Obama , Chris Luxon, Winston Peters, and David Seymour have all used this to much success. The right, in particular likes to harass, hamstring and even eliminate access to education and places value on constraining collegiate academia's ability to induce curricula that enhances critical thinking, policy acuity and free speech. Emotion -based politics require automatic disengagement from facts that counter rhetoric or talking points embellished as a 'mandate' , where the left wing tacit use of identity politics, virtue signaling and sloganeering are used in great abundance in place of cogent, coherent and progressive public campaign policy points.
Politicians whom are elevated by their corporate masters , lobbyists, and donor supporters to approach campaigns in this manner are themselves , many times over, creepy, dense, stupid, perverted ghouls often damaged by a deep psychopathy and hatred of the working class . Only the most successful in the kabuki theater of elections are ones that are completely compromised, either through known, tracible and previous recorded devious behaviour or through willingness spread known falsehoods as caricatures of "truth by emotion" are allowed to continue forth to expand and extend their careers, well after their time in political office has concluded. Its what the corporate / oligarchy billionaires pay for: emotionally charged platforms of obfuscation as distraction because , as George Carlin once explained in 1992...
"That's the way the ruling class operates in any society: they try to divide the rest of the people; they keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money."
This type of echo-chamber hyper-partisanship is participated by all political parties left and right. It is not confined to more christo-fascist right wing religious zealotry, it is found on the pseudo-intellectual/ pseudo social justice warrior / femi-nazi/ climate change cronies as well. It is all compunctious smoke screening doggerel driven by corporate manipulation and funding. One side fecal-minded protests about how New Zealand should be a 'Christian nation' where descendance of white/European colorism are the only smart ones to be allowed to govern, to the other side demanding the right that you can be a different gender everyday, and further 'identity' as a houseplant, demanding others to recognize the same. Meanwhile neither side realizing that many of these 'talking points' were established by BlackRock through its fascist , anti-worker initiative called 'DEI' disguised as an equal rights program designed to promote 'equity' in the workplace by pre-determining blue-eyed white males are the racist descendants of colonist causing all harm and must be 're-trained' to be 'tolerant' toward everyone else who are not them.
This further demonstrates how these pre-designed divisions are nothing more than distraction that supports and operates in the entrenchment of social silos : political , partisan and racial,,so that the rich can run off with all the fucking money
This directly has the cumulative affect of watering down civil liberties, expanding class inequality and supports the expansion of a centrally controlled state devoid of free speech, true free enterprise, and free movement across national and international boarders . Positing such disdain for those unlike ourselves contributes to the accelerated confinement of these natural freedoms as it calls upon the based attribute of calling neighbors our enemies. Free and informed discourse becomes truncated: reduced to infantilized name-calling, shaming sanctioned mediocre and immature latitudes of moral/ spiritual / educational/ intellectual superiority, infantile understanding of the core facts and issues , and blindness to the enemy we all share, which is the global oligarchy.
A Billionaires Fantasy come true: A willfully ignorant, stupid and apathetic populous to easily control
It must be understood as fact that the billionaire class throughout the world, and in all sectors: financial, tech, military and industrial contract, fossil fuel , real estate , and asset management all hate your fucking guts. If they cannot control you, they will imprison you. If they cannot imprison you they will absolutely kill you and your family without concern nor quarter, such as they are supporting and profiting from in Gaza. What many fail to realize worldwide about these inhumane resource-exploiting, earth destroying parasites is they design, deploy, manufacture and control all manner of policy and information , and the more dumb-down , physically exhausted, emotionally reactionary, anxiety-riddled and apathetic you are the more opportunity they to take out of the way by using their great confluence of wealth and consolidated power.
Any impediment to capital gains from any of society's lower classes not in league with their own, be it through wage theft, prohibition of living wages, capitalistic enforcement through the purchased influence of policy and the seizure by capture of corrupted governments are to be removed in totality. The uber affluent class believes itself 'special' because of its excessive opulence, access and wealth, and it is this class that depends upon your ignorance to continue to murder, pollute, extort, and exploit people and resources for their leisure and revenue margins. In the US in particular, the ' registered voter' only need to look into the mirror to find the primary moron the billionaire class relies upon to continue to 'vote' against their own interest every 2 & 4 years. The American 'voter' is a precious bloc of idiots that can be counted upon for their perennially blind faith and continued participation in these performative, pre-purchased 'elections' put by the establishment puppets in service to them . What makes these lot morons, is their unwillingness to acknowledge 55 years + of onerous corporate corruption perpetrated against the electoral process and themselves by proxy from this consortium of these depraved oligarchy and 'captains of industry' through unlimited donations and dark monies
The American presumption that casting partisan votes for their their preferred candidate will better their personal prospects, improve societal guardrails and infrastructure, prevent military expeditionary invasions against sovereign nations not a threat to US national security, codify and protect civil liberties and body autonomy, aid the most poorest and vulnerable among us through just social programs. strengthen workers rights and allow the spoils of its economy to be accessible for all is complete folly. Americans actually believe this every cycle , even as the evidence runs completely counter with this fantastical notion. From autoworkers, bartenders, construction foreman, repairmen, doctors, scientists , to all manner and secularity of collegiate activists and academic scholars alike suddenly have no functioning gray matter within their collective cerebral cortex , with no active neurons firing meaningfully when elections come round. No amount nor fecundity of fact or verified history shakes these zombies as they happily participate and vote for either Corporate Product A of Corporate Product B coupled with ignoring the continuous crushing of third party participation that occurs every cycle by the entrenched duopoly of 'Democrats' and 'Republicans'.
Nope. It is all American, red-white-and blue civil exceptionalism replete with a cute sticker that says 'I voted' they can place on the back of their drivers license or on the windscreen of their car. American democracy at its purest! This is what I personally identify as 'American slipstreaming' defined as nascent , subconscious soft denial that presents itself when confronted with critical facts expressing the clear severity of the nations corrupted governance , acting as a passive auto generated cerebral defensive screen against the potentially inherent harsh impact that will come to the voter themselves. Late last year I watched a lot of independent media journos particularly on You Tube around election time (none of which I will directly name), acknowledge the corruption of America's electoral system by oligarchical forces and corporate elites over the last 6 decades, simultaneously acknowledging the crushing of third party participation by the duopoly since 1992 after the Ross Perot independent run for president partly costed George Bush I the presidency to Bill Clinton . These were the same outlets who then simultaneously told their audiences to go out and vote into the same corrupted system they just reported, so to exact change on that same corruption.
This pretzel logic is comparable to knowing the identity of an active mass murderer in your neighborhood, but rather do the intelligent thing by getting law enforcement involved swiftly, you decide that maybe by writing the killer a letter demanding that he 'stop' and telling him of his naked immorality for such murderous activity, that the serial murderer will just cease being a danger and turn himself in, and won't come for you as well. Extrapolative as this example may be, it directly visualizes voting in America being this nascently devoid of scrutinous examination and continued acceptance in its present criminal form, and the voters consecrate this farcical , fraudulent civic event as beatified as some sacred talisman ritual of mythical, even cartoonish reverence to the 'freedom' and 'democracy' of America the 'exceptional nation' of which never existed. Financed by the oligarchy , it has become more than ever , reduced to being a meaningless acidic and cynical pejorative prank of ridicule toward the working class voter, laughing at the cudgel of the facade of 'free choice' the proletariat partake in uncritically, knowing that they themselves have given them no such choice.
So rather than being the heroic adverb of a democratic 'free republic' over the last 55 years as has been incessantly vaunted and advertised to the public, the oligarchy instead captured and ceased all transparency in the process of manufacturing and providing pre-disposed and and pre-purchased candidates via lobbying and SuperPACS, giving dark opacity to pre-selecting those they themselves have already decided are to be allowed 'run for office' under the duopoly they in tandem control. Each voting cycle the voters are expecting a 'hero' candidate to come and 'save America' from its foibles of unchecked corruption, wars, homelessness, low-wage employment and relief from manipulative late capitalistic greed which has imprisoned 90% of the working class economically while continuing the financial updraft to further enrich the 1%. A comedic tragedy of cinematics of the plutocracy's blatant manipulation of the American public, with every 'election' being more critical , crucial and important than previous. 'Protest with your vote!' 'this is the election that will decide the future of democracy in America!'
What is spectacularly curious in this presumptive practice , is that the American public is well aware of this end-to-end corruption of their legislative, judicial and executive branches of government, from the first electoral campaigns of both 'parties' to the final elections, yet do nothing but mindlessly render participation in redundancy cycle after cycle, expecting different results. The reason is quite simple: the American voting collective are severely divided socially and politically, and exist in their own partisan ionosphere of party moralism thus allowing illogical plausible deniability of their own party's noted corruption based on 'belief' , marking them , at wholesale, stupid, hateful, violent and impudent to such a degree it neuters any opportunity for genuine collectivist revolutionary action to occur and exact the much-needed socio-political change, simultaneously stripping further away civil liberties, human rights, and class equality .
The oligarchy, the true enemy of the people, are absolutely terrified of such mass collaboration and coordination by an overall US populous containing 331 million people hence why the likes of Peter Thiel and Palantir have been awarded a record-breaking contract from the US government to surveille every living homosapien in the US through their PCs and smartphones to further curtail their freedoms simultaneously imparting AI as general oversite of facial recognition software and applications, including RealID , a form of digital ID required for use in verifying individuals travelling between states, the overarching propose is to curtail freedom of movement, and criminalize those who abstain from registering their faces. It is vaguely unconstitutional as it violates the 4th Amendment right to the protection of being secure in ones papers, effects or documents and withheld from wrongful government seizure or intrusion: a provision of citizens right to privacy. And that is the point. Members of the corporate elite cannot have a citizenry organise and mobilise en masse across state lines to address grievances against their government's overreach with ease should they decide to do across class lines to take back their liberty, rights to living wages, fair and affordable housing and the restoration of the public safety nets such as welfare aide (aka W&I ), food assistance programs, and free medical for all. The oligarchical warlords , nativists and Christo- Zionists fascists cant have any of that, and must continue to profit off the misery of the destruction of the social contract and the populace that exist within it.
And this group will get it all, as Americans wont get off their keyboard-trolling nuts, escape their fact-averse partisan silos online and in-person, drop their nativist bullshit to reach out to one another as neighbours and fellow suffragettes . The leftist uber-activists for Civil rights and Reparations cant see past their own field to acknowledge that it will take a Nation of Millions of Americans black, brown, beige, half-cast legal citizen, illegal migrant and xenophobic white folks to turn out for this failed republic if it is to be retaken. Divisions fomented from the punk-ass never-Trumper derangement syndrome-having SJW snowflakes who do not understand that working people, under the constant intense duress from being broke and broken by post-mortem corporate capitalism wage deprivation give less than a shit about LGBQ rights and 'gender identity' at this juncture, to the right wing Christian fascist bible-thumping racist assholes who believe that Trump is the second coming of Christ, and that MAGA is ordained by God somehow, are equally garbage whilst the government openly circumvents the courts to centralize its power as they cheer witless incantations of 'USA!, USA!' while the remanence of the US Constitution get set ablaze nightly on MSBC, CNN and FOX TV. The current violent seizures and perennial imprisonment of illegal immigrants by ICE through the Director of Homeland Security will eventually metastasize and start snatching American citizens off the street if deemed not in political alliance with the ruling regime, no matter if your meaningless nomenclature is that of 'Democrat' of 'Republican', 'liberal' or 'conversative'. All bodies rot the same under indefinite incarceration with out rights to a fair and speedy trail
And through sheer panoply of their astro-turfed performative protests nationwide , these two groups tacitly accepted a genocide to be conducted in their name when their respective parties are in power, permitting their government to continue spending 3.8 billion dollars a year , every year since 1967 in support of a psychotic apartheid state in the middle east so they can continue to rape, kill ,destroy and defile their Arab neighbors without contest from other cowardly Western nations, with full US material support. These same stupid American motherfuckers that allowed their current president to get off the hook for his potential participation in child sex trafficking and rape, and their previous president to take office while riddled with cancer and incapacitated by advance dementia.
The Billionaires Club loves American ignorance, but their is a special type of hyper asshat-stupid fuckery they mostly revel in , enjoy seeing and deploy frequently upon this thick-headed nation.
Extreme partisan ideology.
Ideology: The Shark Tank of the Gods
The US had a deep relationship with ideological conspiracies dating back to the JFK assassination and that dark, sorted history that ensued , but not in the mainstream conventional manner in which is dismissively pardoned as paranoid codswallup spit by some caravan-dwelling 'Pākehā cockwobble. Much was made about such conspiracies in all their glory in exuberant exaggeration during Covid. Since then, the vaccine narrative has shifted: discovery about its inefficacy , the true origin of SARS , and the elevated rates of death post pandemic emergency orders by countries who maintained a high vaccination rate-the very things that were dismissed by the establishment as flotsam and jetsam, deserving of no further research and investigatory consideration was there in by censored and demonized as conspiratorial tripe and 'misinformation' by legacy corporate and on-line social media companies. It was historical in that a near-global censorious application was applied during the pandemic. Religious and political ideology utilize the same frame of narration capture through force of media propaganda and emotional partisan vitriol that has the sound and appearance of being near-legitimate and 'fact-base'. Within the internet ecosystem in the post-legacy analogue media era have arisen podcasters and 'Youtubers' of various partisan grifts and hackery posing as 'independent media'. Brian Tyler Cohen, Kyle Kalinski, Sam Seder, & Robert Reich prominently represent the 'left' in this electronic quagmire of American biased commentary, whilst equally brackish and willfully ignorant partisans on the 'right' have Mark Dice , Steve Bannon, Dave Rubin, & Ben Shapiro. Tucker Carlson, the idealogues idealogue, has mixed his game by incorporation of verified facts with changing viewpoints that moves with the tone and timbre of his current audience in his podcast post-Fox News. This 'new' space of his allows him to essentially advocate for his history revisionism , be skeptical of both foreign and domestic US Policy, be anti-Israel, harass the bad deep state actors of both the FBI & CIA but not criticize Trump directly when he ought to, and when it matters.
None of these are independent journalism . Not even Tucker..
In New Zealand the partisan 'left' are essentially BHN, Aotearoa Liberation League, & The Bradbury Group on YouTube, whilst the 'right' are represented by The Platform NZ, Duncan Garner Podcast, and Newstalk ZB. These particular partisan podcasters engage in a kind of 'reporting' that portends to be independent journalism by way of analysis via segments and interviews, rendering some verified facts and events, but all one needs to do is listen long enough to hear how each 'side' slants and slights the other, and adjusts narratives more favorably toward their own particular party which they are beholden to. Both 'sides' conduct what appears to be exculpatory evaluation of events, and then bring to a close what the facts that state the current conditions of affairs politically, and do not openly criticize, condemn , nor ask hard questions of their like minded idealogues and MPs who they interview or guest host on podcasts when they absolutely should . All the above-mentioned shows give the appearance of journalistic legitimacy in presentation and form, proffering stats and facts cherry-picked to force forward and keep their like-minded audience harnessed until he next election cycle.
These are also not independent journalist podcasts, and for the same reasons: they are silos of partisanship, no matter how many verified facts are imparted in their respective broadcasts
In this collective social platform ecosystem, the ideological narrative is deliberately dominant , be it generally, contextually , and politically. The narratives are imparted are deliberately being abridged and augmented to shore-up its messaging to their audiences. It is the first time in modern history that mass analogue media (television, radio and newspaper) no longer hold sway, and no longer enjoying the stranglehold majority hold on viewership, where social media and independent outlets have drafted them away. Symptomatically, the remaining legacy outlets in Aotearoa are now being poached and captured by billionaire ideologues both foreign and domestic, and mostly right-wing.
Journalism in its pure state, does not utilise verified facts to wrap it around partisan conflations, then run it wholesale using propagandistic spin. Real journalism takes no sides and is not beholden to ideologies left, right, or centre
New Zealand's direct democratic MMP electoral system is still one of the most secure in integrity, transparency , accuracy and accessibility participated in by the voting public. even with National impishly and sloppily trying to push last minute undermining of it by trying to silence the majority left voting bloc at the back during this by-election. Impartation of ideology (in which voter suppression of the opposing voter bloc is part thereof) , specifically applied by this corrupt Coalition government, is dangerous. It allows room for the 'angry minority ' to have a outsized influence by falsifying policy as 'mandate', and through reactionary ad hominem, shaming, and threats when challenged. David Seymour's immature on-line slagging of members of academia, ( and private citizens) posting on social media with his "Regulatory Standards Derangement Syndrome victim of the week" posts is a direct example, as the posts were roundly encouraged in great numbers by his supporters, further slagging, name calling and threatening the recipients of Seymour's mockery. The coalition's spinning the narrative that Ardern, Hipkins and Roberts are "cowards" for skipping the public round of the The Royal Commissions inquest of the Covid response by the previous government is another example of fact-subversion to control the narrative . It disregards the reality all 3 had answered every last question rendered by the Commission in the 1st meeting, in which no further questions were further required of them by the inquest. The public version was to have the same identical questions which were be re-asked by the Commission where they were to give the same exact answers . An incessantly unnecessary performative act which would have yielded no additional substantive discourse , as well as being a complete farce and waste of taxpayer funds.
Ideological governments and magistrates do not abide by rules of engagement that respect verified data, information and conditions , especially when these established facts run directly counter to their belief ecosystems. Think tanks like The Atlas Network , Heritage Foundation, and The Centre for Policy Studies all use an indoctrination approach to building and teaching young idealogues "the way" , creating an ecosystem that 'teaches' and extolls their "faith' "values" or "belief" which harbor ultra-conservative/ religious viewpoints that are anti-working class, anti-indigenous peoples and pro capitalism . More left leaning think tanks such as Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress, and the Institute for Policy Studies, impart more the pseudo-intellectual academic approach that imparts identity politics, social justice tropes, the impartation of class warfare and is also pro capitalist and anti-union.
And they, like the psychopathic oligarchy, are a threat to human existence, but they threaten through a type of brain-washing alacrity that on its surface gives the appearance of 'policy-building' through 'education' and 'service'. They primarily behave as NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) that accept 'donations' through private entitles, channels and people whom are from the affluent class. Unlike other 'institutes' 'schools' and 'universities', many do not administer an 'open enrolment' format, and only those whom are 'invited' are allowed access to 'learn'. They are the birthplaces of specific ideology that is re-packaged as concrete public policy. And like any cult, require pre-determined fealty of its converts to its philosophical devices, language and beliefs. The goal of these think tanks is full-spectrum domination of governance among nations globally, so that such ideologies, despite the absence of factual, scientific, or evidence-based research can be forcefully imparted upon the world governments and are financially backed by the oligarchy who help sponsor these institutions.
More glaringly, the working class en masse are not the priority. It is the expansion of wealth, power and central control of messaging (censorship) that act as the base driver, routinely implemented to salvage and reinforce the structural authoritarian plutocracy through ideological frameworks that contravene evidenced data to the contrary of their alleged veracity. In the US , we are witnessing in real time the results of this full capture of government by way of censorship, control of messaging and obfuscation writ large. Oligarchic forces (particularly from AIPAC) now control all American foreign policy with corporate media in relative compliance. The perpetual denial of the genocide being committed by Israel, although well documented , recorded and posted throughout the internet, is still treated by the US government as being caused by the Hamas' alleged disaffection for a cease fire with Israel, and as a result from Hamas' refusal to release hostages, neither of which are factual . Both the Biden and Trump administration , at the behest of AIPAC , the Knesset, and Benyamin Netanyahu attempted hardline criminalization of pro-Palestinian protests on American college campuses through censorious legislation meant to have students arrested, expelled, and in many cases deported to their country of origin , irrespective of their legal statis as visa-holding migrant students. Think tanks often encourage emotional incitement through media in an attempt to control narration and public discourse via talk shows, podcasts and and interview segments on news programs allied with their ideology. In the clip below this is demonstrated in full effect on how this is parlayed. Shabbos Kestenbaum, a newly minted member of the conservative think tank Prager U appeared on Piers Morgan nearly sounding as he was performing a pre-rehearsed speech set with talking points that are meant to cull the narrative in regards to Israel's bloody ethnic cleansing of Gaza. (Courtesy: Katie Halper Show)
August 18, 2025 clip from original show with guest Max Blumenthal from the Greyzone
Whilst passionate in delivery and correct in factual parlance , Swarbrick neglects to push one very pertinent fact, a fact I am almost certain she is aware of given her penchant for conducting research when proposing policy: The US is sponsoring the genocide and establishment of illegal settlements in Palestine , and has sponsored it since the Biden Administration. The genocide in tandem with the "Greater Israel Project" have been directly enabled and supported by the US Government since US President Harry S. Truman first spoke directly the the American people in 1953 in regards to it. As such, Minister Swarbrick doesn't get a pass for simply calling out genocide and getting kicked out for it. Utilizing the meaningless trope of a two-state solution by recognition of Palestine as such was exceptionally underwhelming given the actual history that disproves the notion of this was ever considered in any serious context. Only politicians completely captured by Zionism and its rewards-based system in executing pro-Israel propaganda make this hollow argument. This isn't to suggest that Minister Swarbrick is captured, as I haven't any evidence in support and would not make such an assumption when there is no veracity in the claim. However, I found her 'performance' rather disingenuous, as she is not forgiven for ignorance of this significant fact she left out. True courageousness would have been calling this out in public and testing the Central Governments meek servitude to US hegemony making it a complicit '5 eyes' partner-nation in its ethnic cleansing of Gaza....
