Building Back Better
Most Americans had grown to trust Big. After all, Big Business gave us cheap imported consumer goods. Big Union gave us higher wages, and Big Pharma made all our illnesses bearable. Big companies were everywhere after the Big Recession of 2008, most of the nation’s biggest successes came when Big Absorbed Small.
The beginning of the 21st Century was the beginning of a worldwide consolidation of businesses. Loan rates in the first part of the 21st Century were low. In fact, some major corporations were getting interest free loans to build weapons system, to establish outposts in China, to build huge container ships and to expand ports of call and banking services. From the perspective of Wall Street, if Big was good, Bigger was better.
But the effect of government injecting it's partisan impulses on the booming merger wave quickly imploded. Too much free money causes lackadaisical regulations and excess soon follows. Banks were handing money out like kids at their own lemonade stand. What started out as well intended expansion of homeownership, minority business expansion and helping banks spread their risks by expanding into new areas of retail, turned into a near total collapse of the whole banking system.
What on the surface began as the nation’s worst economic mess, the Great Recession of 2008, turned out to be a Big Boom for the New World Order. It served to grease the wheels of transnational enterprise and to cover for years of flagrant theft and mismanagement of taxpayer money. Years of hemorrhaging federal and private enterprise deficit spending was wiped off the balance sheets as America recovered from 9/11/2001 and then the Wall Street meltdown of 2008.
But the crimes of money laundering were not new to Washington. Back in the era of the Vietnam War, politicians and Big Defense realized they were sitting on a Golden Goose. If they were able to enlist the Fraternal Brothers in the Washington Fraternity to play along, there was Great Wealth to be shared.
The concept of recycling defense spending, merged with huge amounts of international trade subsidies, and then washed through Non-Governmental Organizations like USAID, staffed with compliant former federal employees (congressmen, lawyers, and associates) was just too easy!
The Proof of Performance came along with the Gulf War, the Invasion of Iraq, then Afghanistan, and The War On Terror. All required vast increases in budget allowances, leading to vast increase in skimming and embezzling opportunities.
The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 rendered any and all vestiges of proper vetting of federal spending mute. Huge new federal programs to bail out failed energy and real estate ventures, to fight the existential threat of worldwide terrorism, to develop new agencies for protection of everything from foreign embassies to intellectual properties, presented easy access to vast amounts of unaccountable cash streams.
It was a magical time when money flowed like whiskey in a Gold Rush Oklahoma cowtown.
In one fell swoop, $4.7 trillion of slush fund money went missing when Building No. 7 collapsed into a Big Pile Of Ash four days after September 11, 2001. The records that potentially accounted for all that mysterious money went up in smoke in the CIA accounting offices on the sixth floor of that building that was never hit by any passenger jets.
Donald Trump probably knew none of that when he first ran for President in 2015. He may not have known it when he took office. In fact, he probably didn't know it when he left office in 2021. But I think he knew a lot more by 2024. He had discovered that much of the intelligence community was compromised. That much of the two party system in America was an illusion. That the power and integrity of the US Dollar was under assault. That much of what we believed to be true about the honesty and integrity of our healthcare system was a myth, and that many Americans were being manipulated by forces beyond their control. He was in for a rude awakening.
I have made the case before, that Donald returned to his builder instincts: He went back to the drawing board, reassessed the project specifications, interviewed the potential crew, and began a fresh approach to Building Back Better.
And he also decided that the Reckoning That Never Was, his first term, was just the foundation. It was only the beginning. That this next term was going to be bigger, better, and more ostentatious than any project he ever built. Making America Great Again was just an introduction. This time, Donald J. Trump was going to have his Brand all over this movement, this restoration, this rebirth.
Like a virus that escapes a lab, that quietly spreads amongst unknowing citizens, the Make America Great Again virus would this time, become a Pandemic. It would not only infect the spirit and body of Americans, but it would spread like wildfire, inciting a wave of enthusiasm to return the Power To The People across borders, and across continents.
The Donald was Coming Back and this time, he was going to Make The World Better! Because this time people were going to see what they had not seen in 2020.
For the first time since the French Revolution, people around the world will Build Back Better after socialists and communists have systematically robbed their resources and destroyed their opportunities for decades. They are going to use The Builder to escape the oppression they had been subjected to for generations.
The tool Trump would use this time? Trust. Because over this past decade the record will show, Donald has been right about everything: Fake News, Obama's birth certificate, Hillary's lies and sedition, rigged elections, CHYNA's lab 'leak', Sleepy Joes incapacitation, and Kamala's complete incompetence. The obvious weaponization of the Department of Justice, the FBI and even the IRS. The public is beginning to see through the veil of lies and the Democrats determination to gaslight America.