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Ironic. I had the same conversation yesterday with a friend who has long been a proponent of David Stockton. During another frustrated rant regarding what ISNT covered by the corporate media or body politic left , right or UniParty- the manipulated, bogus “ jobs report”.

With the chest beating staged “ outrage” congressional hearings… the compendium of absurdity meant to go nowhere… both parties awarded themselves an additional 42k pay raise. Sub -rosa. The big mouth “ outsider anti- establishmentarians AOC and Matt Gaetz have already partaken in their perks.

The largest “ employer” in the U.S. is our “ vaunted” government. The unelected leviathan fascistic technobureaucracy. The Republicans are solely focused on the IRS. Not the metastatic CIA/FBI/NSA/NIA/NIH/DoD/Pentagon/EPA/FCC/CDC/TSA//EPA/HHS/FEC/Fed/State Dept/HUD/Dept. of Education/DOJ/FDA/ATF/INS/Medicare/Medicaid/OMB/Dept of Transportation/ BARDA/CFIUS/FISA/SCIS/FTC/USAID/Patriot Act/HAARP/DLM/Capitol Police/VOA/… Nothing addressing the unholy alliance with the UN/NGOs/WEF/Pharma/Military Industrial Complex/ AMA/ABA/PP/EcoHealth Alliance/ANAAR/Chamber of Commerce/AARP/Lawfare/UAW/Teacher’s Union/SPLC/ACLU/CAIR/NAACP/ADL/Catholic Charities/NATO/USAID/Bilderberg/Corporate Media/Trilateral Commission/funding Private Universites/“Think Tanks”.ie Atlantic Council/Carnegie Institute/Rockefeller Foundation/Ford Foundation/Tides/Brookings Institute/Aspen Forum/Clinton Global Foundation/Sedona Foundation/La Raza/ Quincy Institute/Penn-Biden/Confucius Institute/PBS/Bloomberg Philanthropies/ Bill and Melinda Gates Philanthropies/Johns-Hopkins,Texas A&M,BlackRock/Vanguard/StateStreet/JP Morgan,CitiBank, WEF “ Young Global Leaders”, BLM/Antifa/lobbying foreign and domestic…

The U.S. is a CommunoFascist technocratic Surveillance State globalist front of the Great Reset NWO.Huxley’s epic , inexplicably prescient 1931 work of fiction,” Brave New World “ was a warning. A dark metaphor has become instead the playbook.

This isn’t “ organic”. It is deliberate and the deafening silence regarding how and why we’re on the verge of collapse didn’t happen overnight.RFK Jr. Is the ONLY candidate addressing the breadth and depth of criminal corruption. vs the manipulated distractions. And he is thwarted from gaining a public platform. One that is imperative existentially.

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This is interesting, and rehabilitates David Stockman in my mine to some extent. But I still remember Reaganomics and the so-called Supply Side Economics that led to Reagan leaving a greater national debt from giving rich people huge breaks. 'Splain that, please.

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I think for real statistics not manipulated for political convenience(IE: The word "recession"is always contested) go to https://www.shadowstats.com/

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Mr. Stockman apparently does not understand that the Establishment Survey does a monthly sample of approximately 666,000 individual worksites from 122,000 business and gov't agencies, while the Household Survey does its monthly sampling from 60,000 eligible households. The numbers have always been vastly different in size throughout time. He should know this.

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What is “crony capitalism rent extraction” -- meaning of the term? Thanks in advance.

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The former is the corporate capture of regulatory agencies intended to prevent them from the kind of illegal collusion on prices that are what is and always was driving the inflation all the proponents of the neoliberal economics Mr. Stockton used to believe in keep clutching their pearls over. The rent extraction comes from their using that lack of regulation to form monopolies that then, for example, stop selling software and instead offering it only via subscription, such that you never actually own it. There are other examples, but that's good for the basics.

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