A former friend went MAGA and nativist after 20+ years of right wing media. He truly believed immigrants would turn our country into the kind of economy seen in developing nations with gated fortresses abutting vast shantytowns. He wouldn’t be persuaded that Republican policies will do that to us.

"We are watching the Venezuela-fication of the United States." Wonder where that message came from? 🤔

This from Howard Lutnick who never worked a day like this in his life. Also on the horizon during this hellscape nightmare, job related injuries and little or no heath care

So it seems. Slavery is not dead in America. Where employees are not given living wages. And CEO have 4 jets and yachts...as an example.

Sounds like a gulag.

I can’t even see those tiny screws

I sometimes forget what a good writer you are... Please, keep appearing on Blank Dough Podcasts, though

Golden age of prosperity for the people at the top

So he wants us all to basically be indentured servants to a corporation for generations? Nice….

Reminds me on cyberpunk 2077 if you know

Look kids!! We're bringing back serfdom!

Like all statements from the cowardly, putin-sucking, republican traitors, that "vision of the future" is merely a lie to fool the terminally gullible. The billionaires who fund them have invested heavily in automation, in "lights-out" factories and warehouses; they hate workers and don't want them.

Yes the transition would be deadly and it is a recessive move In totally wrong direction. But when you have idiots running the government hand picked by right wing think- tanks and greedy oligarchs you get poverty for all but the top pigs

I remember.

“A garrison state” absolutely

You said it! Amen! 👏👏The world is rapidly leaning how to get along with each other without America! America will wake up one day and discover they have no friends anymore! The world will have ringfenced them!

And on that day, America will attack its neighbours. People too craven to fight for their own freedom will soon find themselves on the front lines of a war to take freedom away from others.

Amen!

I disagree that the US will "dictate" anything on the world stage. IQ45 is closing the American Century. Influence is dead. The dollar will decline to an inflationary ghost of itself. Unacceptable as currency. Perhaps some hemispherical influence remains through renting prison camps.

Why in the chicken-fried FUCK would these autocratic morons think a golden future entails working in a factory your entire life and then passing that shitty, body-destroying, inadequately-paid job on to your kids and grandkids? Because they've never worked a real job for a single day of their lives.

📌

The plan is that the rich an exploit the poor even better while they life in their gated communities far away from them

It's still mind-boggling to me that Lutnick said that out loud, voluntarily.

And exuberantly! Like it was the (his) gold at the end of the rainbow.

This guy ran a multi billion dollar investment firm. How could he possibly be this dumb?

I think we’re all coming to the realization that being that “successful” puts you in an ignorant bubble completely out of touch with humanity and void of real community/connection. Blech.

He’s more likely just lucky.

And you were correct.

Japan's pursuit of autarky was a major component in its aggressive imperialism back in the 1930s. That didn't end so well for them.

JFC.

the only thing I've seen them doing is build giant AI data centers. AI being built to take our jobs & steal our data. The plants to degrade the communities in which they are built, stealing resources & creating environmental pollution & promising jobs that won't happen. I've seen no meaningful

factories for manufacturing being built anywhere in the US. I have seen prisons being built. Here's this from MIT on the data centers. energy.mit.edu/news/the-mul...

Shorter Lutnick: industrialized serfdom

boosted this over on LI cuz im tired of it all www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

woefully prescient

Exactly and Epstein too

But why? Why??

Rendering it all down to the very essence: tiny penis syndrome

“America’s new slave class..” Lutnick. “It replaces the old one—illegal immigrants.”

I realize MAGA is not the brightest crowd, but why would USA throw away the immense riches coming from its high tech industries?

Mostly due to those pursuing and desiring this agenda looking for the maximum accumulation of power. Essentially better to reign in hell (an impoverished system) than serve in heaven (having to obey the rule of law).

Excellent reference.

They're selling it to the rural white godbotherers as a way to force their kids to stay home and be just like them, instead of getting good educations and moving to the city or any other place where gay or brown people aren't beaten to death and hung on a barbed wire fence

Creating a new serf class like the Middle Ages

It's also insane that they think this can happen over the span of months to a year when it would take more like decades. And that's if they weren't putting tariffs on equipment. Every aspect of this is so cartoonishly incompetent.

"You work in these plants for the rest of your life..." How inviting. 🤢 Maybe Mr. Lutnick doesn't know anyone who changed career paths, or who worked night jobs while going to school. I think the world economy is far more dynamic than he imagines.

The founder of Parliament was a very wealthy and powerful man who built free ports to enrich the country’s ordinary citizens.

Because it worked so well for North Korea and the Soviet Union.