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Wendy Huntington Parker Fages's avatar

JP Morgan was also the financial nerve centre enabling the Epstein empire to act freely by turning a blind eye to how he did business.

Robert Gross's avatar

The Real Big Lie™️ is a"double

Robert Gross's avatar

(stupid phone keypad 🤬) scam: the Real Big Lie™️ is a double joke/no joke of "vertical integration" & the erasure of the meaning of Spirit as "essence" that is a reflection of "human spirt" as a dim, distorted image of AllThatIs creative energy that is NOT FOR SALE! Ancient mystics & Quantum Physics now agree everything is connected. We are blinded to this by human perception & sociopathy of distorted ego corrupted by more power than humans can comprehend, never mind a properly managed for social justice & sustainability.

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Wendy Huntington Parker Fages's avatar

I should have known I got it from you ! That was the first article I sent my wealth management brother inCT that he read and was impressed by.

Michael Bisutti's avatar

Brilliant! You’ve managed to make it so clear what our mission should be. Anyone who reads this will see it, as clearly as I do, who and what we’re up against. But there’s a caveat, we the outraged, the motivated, the relatively few who stand actively in opposition and dissent aren’t enough in numbers for any action to be effective. You’ve laid out what must be done and we need an organized and well led plan for the opposition organizations like Indivisible, NoKings and others. They have been engaged effectively organizing and communicating but there’s not much much cross pollination. I am hoping Substack will help with that. In any case, I will bring this treatise to the groups I belong to. Thanks for this well thought out description of what our way forward should be.

KaZ Writes Quiet Horror's avatar

This is an incredibly well researched, intelligent and comprehensive article. I'm very impressed but also dismayed. The one question that surfaced for me at the end of yesterday, No Kings Day, is of the millions and millions of people who marched in protest - the solidarity was so heartwarming and encouraging - will it move the needle at all?

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Leigh Parker's avatar

If only the no kings protesters knew that the crown they serve is Britian

Christine Kemp's avatar

Mostly Siri’s paid participants! Trump is our elected President of the United States of America! Too many swamp creatures want our country turned into a S—-t hole!

Chris's avatar

LOL 😂

NOPE 👎🏻

It should be renamed:

Semi Retired Geriatric Hippy SORE LOSER DAY

Because that is exactly what it was

You had four years after TRUMP 45

And you FAILED EPICALLY

Because your “party” HAS NO IDEAS 💡

ZEEEERO 👌🏻0️⃣

ONLY GRIEVANCES 🤬😖😤😡

So you FEEL entitled to march around throwing tantrums everywhere you gather

I’ll say it slowly for the congenitally stupid:

We Had An Election And You LOST

Now sit down and STFU

So the rest of us WINNERS can get on with our lives

TRUMP 45 & 47 🇺🇸❤️👏🏻🇺🇸❤️ MAGA 🇺🇸❤️

john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

You have a strange concept of winning. Even if you drank the Kool Aid and voted for the dotard Trump, you mean nothing to him or his corrupt machine. The words lemming and pawn come to mind. I hope you see the light through the orange fog.

Belinda Shaw's avatar

This was so spot on! If this doesn’t resonate with the people who voted for trump; if they don’t feel betrayed, then we will just have to wait for another kool-aid drinking party. I guess that would be their ultimate show of allegiance to the a$$ of America!

hannah m's avatar

Shatter the mirror... seeing them also means seeing them in us. We are them, thats the other illusion here. We have full responsibility, typing on this phone, for upholding the same system that we are against. Then what?

Earthgirl's avatar

It’s TRUE… HOW TO STOP

- AFTER WE’VE SEEN OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR?? We are way way too dependent on them - for our convenience? Habit? Addiction? We each have personal restructuring to do but this is complex - ETHAN- PLEASE GIVE US A FRAMEWORK TO WORK OURSELVES OUT OF THIS DEPENDENCY - WHAT ARE OTHER OPTIONS SO WE CAN ABANDON THEM AND ALL THE OTHERS???

Andorean Esnomeo's avatar

Aye. Too many pissing in the well of public information. Blue platform must include resurrecting and updating the Fairness Doctrine for the age of social media. Institutions and societies evolve and adapt, or die.

RESIST | FIGHT™'s avatar

Real talk 🦜

Milret2's avatar

Loads of worthwhile information here. Take time to look at all of it.

Suma4720's avatar

💯🔥🎯

Jim's avatar

To what end? Does this make more money for the corporations? No dispute that such companies make bad decisions at times but to allege widespread directed abuses smacks of the radical left that got us in the peril we face today. I just don’t accept what you allege exists. While I have two “trans” associates, the issue of their existence and and treatment is so far from the radical left’s “major issue” it is absurd. And I don’t think that any parent should be allowed to pursue irreversible bodily changes or chemical injections of a minor child. If the individual adult of at least 18, decides their genetic course in life needs to be altered. Fine and their existence must be respected.

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Jim's avatar

Your piece talks about the lbgqt community as part of the corporate deconstruction of our society. They are the most prominent part of the community today. The left’s dealings on that issue turned away many voters there by electing the orange goblin. I’m a liberal independent and I’d wager that my 31 years of HR experience both in government and in major industry (100,000+ employees) represents more than you’ll ever experience.

Earthgirl's avatar

So glad you could lay this out with specific companies names, of which no doubt there are many more, but these make the point well enough! Their intent to distract and placate us while they advantage and monetize how they play and prey upon us…. This is the grift / it’s devious and with intent to grip and wring us out as they operate / commander their psyop. Ethan, what can we do in retaliation ? Anything legal?

Stop buying, strike?- risk getting fired?? What’s next best moves - moving many thing forward at once This is big and daunting to consider how fast we will

Need too have leaders ready, ideas developed, seize the time / opportunity as it surfaces , like the ICE thugs- getting those goons back into any type of ‘camp’ won’t be pleasant or easy.

Elizabeth's avatar

This is not a Left-Right, Dem-Repub.battle. its called "Corporatism" or Crony Capitalism, where the winners and losers are ore-selected. Those of us in Small Business get it. The large sharks love ti feed on the small fish. Trump is not the cause of this.

RE Nichols's avatar

Trump is not the cause of this. But he won't save us from it either.

Sue O''s avatar

There’s more to consider than the money. Like improving quality of life, the perks of social acceptance, less violence directed at your group, etc.

With your pervasive money focus seems like we should challenge the system with promoting the barter societies where resources were freely shared; shared abundance

Estevan's avatar

There is no left and right. There is only tyranny and freedom. Be brave, live free, and revolution. Overthrow them all. Liberty works if you use it.

Guy Bronson / BRONSON DEFENSE's avatar

Yeah, if everyone could just focus on the source of the world's problems rather than the symptoms that have captured everyone's attention, that would be greeeaaat.

Carol Collins's avatar

A corporation or big agency has many acronyms and a perspective aka “headset” that seems to be unwittingly absorbed by those who work there for time enough to be impacted. And an idealistic law student who championed workers and unions can absorb a very different perspective while working for a company to stop unwanted union organization attempts.

Bruce Wales's avatar

PREVENTION IS

BruceWales©️12/23/25 6:07pm-6:21pm

CHORUS

An ounce of prevention

Is worth tons of cure

So it’s s been preached in many times past

All situations

Demand that broad cure

Before every pertinent question’s been asked

1

Pre-emptive strikes claim such strategies

To keep the enemy from winning first

So many innocents, despite their pleas

Become the casualties, casually cursed

CHORUS

2

Prevention plans are such strategies

To keep the public from losing their health

Majority’s undiagnosed, do succumb

Become the casualties, casually burned

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

3

Prevention plans are such strategies

To keep the citizens safe and so free

So politicians regardless of pleas

Are terminated to save liberty, see…

CHORUS

Paige's avatar

I enjoy your articles. I do apologize that I already know how corrupt all of our corporations, banks, politicians, and government agencies are. Just like the old used car salesman’s bait and switch! I’m very happy that you are pointing this out for everyone to see!