The Billionaires Club

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Busy making us poor and spreading misery!

Forget the poor! We’re playing rockets! Whitey’s on the Moon!

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Forget the illusion of being with the ‘common people’ as Donald Trump, from the depths of his opulent mansion with gold toilets and crystal chandeliers, plots his next term. How to give billionaires (and himself) more money. The arrangement of seating for his inauguration says it all! You won’t find any common Joe, Mary-Lou or Harry – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg take the prominent seats. He’s with the profiteering elite.

So much for draining the swamp.

He’s expanding the swamp to cover the whole of America!

So much for the price of eggs. He’s doling out billion-dollar contracts and tax cuts for his real chums.

These super-rich people need more of your welfare! They want to play with their rockets!

Rats, filth, heroin, healthcare, squalor, starvation, gangs, violence, crime, homelessness, death, – who cares? They got security guards, gated communities, private health care, mansions and limos. They have jet-planes, chefs, lackeys and minders.

Gil Scott-Heron – Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio) – YouTube

What the Democrats need to do!

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It’s simple!

The Democrats need to address the fears and concerns of the white males who have been beguiled by MAGA.

They need to address the issues.

  1. They need to come up with a viable plan to prevent mass uncontrolled illegal immigration.
  2. They need to find a way of providing unskilled work that pays well enough.
  3. They need to raise the poor out of poverty.
  4. They need to counter the scapegoating of immigrants and explain how it is the billionaires exploiting the poor that are the real problem.
  5. They need to address the fertility situation in the white population so that fear of replacement subsides. (two-pronged – educate blacks and browns to a higher level so they reduce fertility rates and provide good cheap child-care facilities so that women can pursue careers).
  6. They need to counter the conspiracy and disinformation and promote good science. Show that climate change is real and there is a bright future with green technology – jobs, wealth and prosperity + a better environment – win win.

They need to create a vision based on a positive message. A better future. They need to produce viably policies with real answers.

Until working white men realise that they will be better off with Democrat policies they support the simplistic nonsense of MAGA. At least Trump, snake-oil salesman that he is, is offering ‘solutions’ to their fears and concerns.

The Democrats offered nothing.

Hypocrisy in Action!!

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All godly and prim on the outside – callous on the inside!

They knew and they still allowed people to commit suicide, go to prison and slide into poverty! So much for religion!!

Inconvenient Truth

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The truth is inconvenient

                The universe began by accident.

                                Life began by chance.

                                                There is no meaning,

                                                                No afterlife.

The truth is inconvenient.

The truth is inconvenient.

                The planet is warming

                                Nature is under threat.

                                                We are causing great damage.

                                                                Our greed is killing everything.

The truth is inconvenient.

The truth is inconvenient.

                Mankind is a flawed species.

                                Greed and violence

                                                Lust for power

                                                                Taints our entire history

                                                                                We are vicious animals.

The truth is inconvenient.

Opher – 29.4.2024

We are supposed to be intelligent. At our best we produce great art, dance, music and crafts; we show compassion and empathy, care for our sick. At our best we are wonderful.

But a brief glance at our history reveals a litany of hate and violence.

I look around at the world today and see war, religious hatred, division, poverty, destruction, pollution and misery. We are destroying the planet and ourselves.

We are self-destructively flawed.

The truth is inconvenient.

Inconvenient Truth

The truth is inconvenient

                The universe began by accident.

                                Life began by chance.

                                                There is no meaning,

                                                                No afterlife.

The truth is inconvenient.

The truth is inconvenient.

                The planet is warming

                                Nature is under threat.

                                                We are causing great damage.

                                                                Our greed is killing everything.

The truth is inconvenient.

The truth is inconvenient.

                Mankind is a flawed species.

                                Greed and violence

                                                Lust for power

                                                                Taints our entire history

                                                                                We are vicious animals.

The truth is inconvenient.

Opher – 29.4.2024

We are supposed to be intelligent. At our best we produce great art, dance, music and crafts; we show compassion and empathy, care for our sick. At our best we are wonderful.

But a brief glance at our history reveals a litany of hate and violence.

I look around at the world today and see war, religious hatred, division, poverty, destruction, pollution and misery. We are destroying the planet and ourselves.

We are self-destructively flawed.

The truth is inconvenient.

Poetry – Hide – A poem for the desperate

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Travel

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Hide

I wrote this poem after arriving in Brazil. We were told that poverty was rife and crime and violence endemic. We should take care at all times and be sure to hide all valuables such as cameras. We should leave money and jewellery in our safes.

I walked around Recife and Olinda. There were little children with young girls begging in the streets. There was garbage and there were shanty towns of corrugated iron. There were also immense apartment blocks for the wealthy.

This system does not happen by chance. It is the result of the systems we operate. We human beings have designed systems that create poverty. The inequality is the result of how we run things.

It does not have to be this way. We can design better systems. What prevents us from designing fair systems is greed and the desire for power.

I consider both of those desires to be criminally insane.

I would prefer to live in a fairer world where there were not huge numbers of people living on the edge. That would benefit them and me.

This chasing after money and power leaves misery in its wake.

There are better ways.

It would seem to me that firstly we could stop voting in power-mad politicians and secondly we could start thinking more globally.

Hide

Hide your camera,

Hide your cash,

Conceal your wealth.

Wear no jewellery,

Disguise yourself.

You are entering the land of hopelessness.

Hide your conscience too;

Because their poverty is down to you.

In a world of such inequality

What we have creates their misery.

Cream rises to the top

But so does shit.

Our smart clothes

And easy lives

Rubs their noses in it.

There is nothing to lose

When there is no way to gain.

They are victims on the streets

In a world

Run by

The criminally insane.

Opher 18.1.2016

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The Ghosts of Christmas

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Corruption, poverty, incompetence, strikes, civil unrest and ongoing austerity!

The soon we’re rid of this bunch of self-serving twats the better!

Today’s Music to Keep me IiiinnnNssSSAaaNNNnnEe – Ry Cooder – How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

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Ry sums it up. Under Tory Britain, we’re living in poverty while the rich get richer!

Presiding over food banks and a return to 1950s poverty.

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Loading their chests of cash into the Cayman Islands.

Project Fear – all now Project Reality

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All the issues so vehemently denied by Brexiteers and scurrilously labelled ‘Project Fear’ have come to pass. The shortages of HGV, the delays, the tariffs, the extra costs, the staff shortages, the Northern Ireland problems, the rising prices, the shortages of goods, the loss of expertise, the huge drop in trade, the difficulty of getting trade agreements. We’ve lost the ease of travel, the ability to live, work and study abroad. Our employment standards have dropped, salaries have dropped, and environmental standards and food standards have dropped.

Was this what you voted for?

They disguised the effects with Covid. It was all a pack of slogans and lies.

Taking back control has merely passed power to a bunch of incompetent nationalist extremists who have taken over the Tory Party.