Agents there. A few months before in dallas he tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. But Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because the news outlets didnt tell them. Almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never precise but the idea was the same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union naturally a suspect in this crime happy to agree with the assessment. As a Soev Yacht Spokesman Soviet Spokeman put it the moral responsibility lay with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, coordinated lying paid off. A year later goldwater lost to the incumbent d
no mention of europe in mr. trump s list. he uses the term poisoning the blood of our country. if you were to open up a copy of hitler s mein kampf, you would find the leader mixing non-germans with germans as poisoning. the jew, hitler wrote, poisons the blood of others. this, according to hitler, posed an existential threat to germany because according to him, the race died out from blood poisoning. unquote. there s no other way to say it. donald trump s language mirrors this directly. this wasn t a one-off. trump then went to nevada on sunday and used the same scare tactic with zero evidence that migrants are largely coming to the united states from prisons and from mental institutions. he made the campaign promise to begin the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in american history. we must use any and all resources needed to stop the invasion of our country including moving thousands of troops currently stationed overseas in countries that don t like us
justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime
democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
rates still attest. but in silicon valley it made for an epic pay day. it was soon reflected on the balance sheets of its biggest local lenders which was called silicon valley bank. in 2018, svb had about $49 billion on deposit. three years later that same bank had amassed more than $189 billion. that is a gargantuan amount of deposits over a short period of time. dramatic enough to have raised a serious question and an obvious one. what was silicon valley bank gonna do with all that money? even the san francisco bay area, it would be hard to find qualified borrowers for $189 billion. you could not responsibly loan all of that money even if you wanted to. so what would you do with it? that s the question you would have asked if you were paying attention, both from inside svb or the regulatories action. turns out nobody was paying attention. nobody thought to ask for questions. we thought stress test silicon valley bank in the middle of a room. with a narcissism complex who ta