We are watching true Disaster Capitalists in play

[kairos12]

right in front of us. The Reich Wing and the Drumpt/Kushner vampire grifters see the virus not as a public health crisis, but as a once in a 100 year opportunity to cash in on the misery and death of people they consider expendable anyway.

[SamKnause]

1. Exactly !!!

[secondwind]

2. + 1000

[Wounded Bear]

3. K & R...for visibility...nt

[malaise]

4. THIS

Rec

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. They are hedged against all disasters and will still profit. Let us never forget it.

They got there with money from our wallets from sales of everyday products and services.

I'm still waiting on a billionaire to come by the house and thank us......

[usaf-vet]

11. Naomi Klein's. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Read it!

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Watch this:

[kairos12]

17. Yep!

[certainot]

22. in the US an essential part of their ability to do it is control of messaging from

1500 coordinated radio stations.

like with global warming, limbaugh has been key/kingpin, and was still denying the seriousness of the virus problem even at the end of last week. he was calling the two hyped up, as efforts by the left/dems and 'liberal' media to force us into big govt socialist solutions

it is clear that since his break with and attacks on actual conservatives and moderates in the GOP in about 2008 he has been used by putin

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. Imagine if health care were universal in the U.S.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. K&R. Thank you! Love Naomi.

Good video, she speaks much truth. She's right that our economic system simply is not designed to handle any sort of serious crisis at this level. Unregulated free-market capitalism is far too fragmented and selfish to even begin to deal with it.

KY..........

[mountain grammy]

30. Great book... Yes, read it!

She exposes the truth like no other...

[Champp]

6. Republican profiteering is evil

Hugely evil.

[Newest Reality]

7. Yup!

Shock & Awe!

Then come the vulture capitalists to pick the bones clean and grind them down to powder for some market.

[mitch96]

8. Their motto: Never let a good crisis go to waste................ fuckers............ nt

[PatrickforO]

9. Sure. Preaching to the choir here.

But, a Ipsos poll briefly published on The Hill this morning showed an unbelievable 55% of Americans supposedly APPROVE of the job Trump is doing.

See, this is the problem with being a Social Democrat, a New Deal Democrat, a Liberal Democrat and/or a Progressive - whatever today's euphemism is - we all KNOW all this stuff.

Most Americans don't have a clue.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. yeah-- it's astounding. I don't they have any idea what's coming down the pike

[crickets]

16. I don't believe those polls any more. They cannot be real. nt

[PatrickforO]

24. That's the first big step in destroying our republic. To make us doubt everything.

Notice in Trump's daily pressers, he is consistently attacking the media. That is planned.

[rickyhall]

10. Why Repugs are called "opportunists".

[sarcasmo]

12. The service economy has been exposed.

[LymphocyteLover]

15. very true... I just hope we don't totally collapse so we can make the necessary reforms

once the rethugs are gone

[LymphocyteLover]

13. NAILED IT

[Auggie]

18. +1,000,000. You know, they could have been playing us from the start too.

That explains the delayed response.

It's TrumpCo's last attempt at larceny before they flee the USA.

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. My son has operated a sourcing company in China for

more than a decade and has built an enormous number of business relationships here and abroad with importers, distribution facilities, etc. He is being told there are a large quantities of masks in the US already, but being held for higher prices. No documented proof yet, but not sure one has to construct a tinfoil derby to give that some credence.

He currently has direct access to Chinese factories already producing 400k units a day of a combination of the 2 different masks.

[crickets]

25. If this is true (and I don't doubt you) then someone, or many someones, should be

charged with mass murder.

[NoMoreRepugs]

27. I wish I knew if what he is being told is true or not.

But having seen Disaster Capitalism happen elsewhere it’s just not impossible that this could be true.

[KSNY]

20. Yes...and to push the public sector to the brink so they can privatize further and profit

Many Federal employees have already left service. No doubt the post office workers (Trump has already suggested privatizing the Post Office) are at breaking point as well. That's the way this goes, break something. Say it isn't working and sell it off.

Now public hospitals and schools (many of whose employees are unionized) are being pushed to breaking point. Unless they are stopped by people pushing, they will get away with it.
Naomi Klein's video in the Intercept is worth watching, but I am less optimistic than she is.
We need Elizabeth Warren's policies (if she is not to be President).

[appalachiablue]

28. All good points, the privatization horrors and Warren.

I wonder what percentage of US schools and hospitals are already privatized.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Like the virus will exempt them, or so they think.

[LaurenOlimina]

26. I agree.

[bluedigger]

31. A good culling will solve a lot of their problems.

Once the orange is fully squeezed you can throw the pulp away.