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Image by Sergei Belozerov<\/a> from\u00a0Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\nA person I know and love, who is far smarter than I, and more politically astute\u200a\u2014\u200asaid:<\/p>\n
Americans love diets that tell them they can eat whatever they want and still lose weight\u2026.that should explain everything\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n These words came during a text conversation that started with a brief discussion of the latest doings of the Cyber Ninjas:<\/p>\n Cyber Ninjas firing all employees and shutting down after Arizona judge imposes $50,000-a-day fine<\/strong>Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company hired to conduct a Republican-backed “audit” of the election results in\u2026<\/em>www.salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n My snarky point was that this person and I are basically in the wrong professions.<\/p>\n We need to go all out maga-cult-right-wing-evangelical-political-grifting where you get money for just loudly doing outlandish stunts and saying whatever you feel like and then when you get called out for it\u200a\u2014\u200ayou go to your base and say hey these people are trying to cancel me\u200a\u2014\u200asend me money\u200a\u2014\u200asend me money\u200a\u2014\u200asend me money\u00a0\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And guess what? People send money. Lots of money!<\/p>\n Here\u200a\u2014\u200atake my money, take all my money\u200a\u2014\u200awe can’t let people cancel you!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This kind of behavior is from people who wear hats and masks that say they’re censored or canceled when they speak where TV cameras capture them and they are also required to wear masks. Or they are on social media complaining about being canceled\u200a\u2014\u200aposting this ad nauseam to their millions of followers.<\/p>\n Apparently the base does not get the irony.<\/p>\n As one with a degree in psychology I am often asked what can we do about these people\u200a\u2014\u200aand I laugh [sadly] because I have spent most of my lifetime thinking about how do we deal with these kinds of people\u200a\u2014\u200aand my answer is basically: you can’t\u200a\u2014\u200athey and their grift are part of our culture\u200a\u2014\u200aand always has been.<\/em><\/p>\n Ladies and gentlemen: Step this way! Come inside my tent! See something astonishing you have never seen before! It only costs a few cents!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n And people doled out money to see whatever it was that was inside the tent.<\/p>\n P.T. Barnum allegedly said: There is a fool born every minute\u2026 <\/em><\/strong>and unfortunately in this century it seems that there are more and more fools born every minute. And I said allegedly because the quote has been attributed to different people.<\/p>\n I always heard it as Barnum’s words but research has indicated it could be other people\u200a\u2014\u200aand older than Barnum’s days.<\/p>\n But the point is there’s a lot of people that can get taken\u200a\u2014\u200aand that point is valid. It was valid before I was born\u200a\u2014\u200aand it will be valid well after I die.<\/p>\n The problem is\u200a\u2014\u200athe grift has become part and parcel of our daily politics and daily life. It isn’t just a circus sideshow anymore or a tent at one of the amusement parks that I grew up going to. It is now deeply rooted into our culture.<\/p>\n You almost cannot avoid it\u200a\u2014\u200afor example:<\/p>\n On second thought\u200a\u2014\u200aI don’t wish to give these people any more ink than they already get so go check your daily political news in any paper or online source\u200a\u2014\u200ayou will find grifters asking for money.<\/p>\n Unless you have some kind of illness there is almost no way that you can eat anything and everything you want and still lose weight. So why do people buy into that? Why do people buy diet plans that tell them they can eat anything they want?<\/p>\n And why after they do not lose weight do they still keep paying for the diet plan?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n That readers is the conundrum.<\/strong><\/p>\n We live in a world where we want so much to believe these discrepancies that we just accept them and keep paying for them. I think back on the idea that trickle-down economics will help people get more money. \u201cGive the rich a lot of money.\u201d \u201cGive the rich tax breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n Give the rich everything they want and all of that money that you give to them will surely trickle down to you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n That was\/is a popular opinion among rich people. It’s a lie\u200a\u2014\u200abut people bought it\u200a\u2014\u200astill buy it. Congress kept giving\u200a\u2014\u200aand still keeps giving\u200a\u2014\u200atax breaks to the richest.<\/p>\n Has it helped people make more money?<\/p>\n Yes\u200a\u2014\u200athe rich people have made billions more.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n A huge study of 20 years of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’ and shows the rich\u2026<\/strong>It’s no secret there’s inequality across the economy, but a huge new report shows just how much. The 2022 World\u2026<\/em>www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s a theory that persists today, even though most research has shown that 50 years of tax cuts benefits the wealthy and worsens inequality.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Trickle down is a lie. But if you ask people who have no money why they keep voting for people who give all the money to already rich people, they will tell you that someday that money is going to come back to them triple\/quadruple\/etcfold. Maybe not in their lifetime\u200a\u2014\u200amaybe not in their kids lifetimes\u200a\u2014\u200amaybe not in in their grandkids lifetimes\u2026<\/p>\n Hope springs eternal\u200a\u2014\u200aeven when it shouldn’t. Then when the reality of one’s current life shows you that things are not as you believe\u200a\u2014\u200ayou don’t believe\u200a\u2014\u200abecause you were told not to believe what you see right in front of you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n You must believe only what you are told by the grifters\u200a\u2014\u200ayour cult leaders. The ones who tell you they are being canceled as they take to the next microphone and TV talk show, the ones who tell you to give them all of your money so that at some point in time you will be rich, etc.<\/p>\n The ones who tell you eat everything you want and lose weight by buying what they are selling.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This particular diet will lead you to lose weight and you can eat anything and everything you want [and it only cost you $100 a week]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u200b<\/p>\n a message from the grifter\u00a0cult Image by Sergei Belozerov from\u00a0Pixabay A person I know and love, who is far smarter than I, and more politically astute\u200a\u2014\u200asaid: Americans love diets that tell them they can eat whatever they want and still lose weight\u2026.that should explain everything\u2026 These words came during a text conversation that started with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Photo by Sharon McCutcheon<\/a> on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n
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Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images<\/a> from\u00a0Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\nLet\u2019s get back to the diet and eat anything you want\u00a0idea.<\/h4>\n
The research about trickle down economics cited above\u00a0states:<\/h4>\n
but it will come!!<\/span><\/h4>\n
just like eating everything you want and losing weight<\/span><\/h4>\n
Photo by Jon Tyson<\/a> on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n
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Image by OpenClipart-Vectors<\/a> from\u00a0Pixaba<\/a>y<\/p>\nLadies and gentlemen: Step this way! Come inside my\u00a0tent!<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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