TY. ☺️. Mostly I just have a bad memory and if I don’t get chores done first thing, they tend to slide under the table. This one was vital, so it was top of list.
It is a well funded tech industry that have the means to buy access into the most openly corrupt administration in history. The winners, tech, Trump and cronies, while the rest of us pay more, make less, and fight to save and hopefully reform this mess we have now. I also have reverified voting registration and when ballots are being mailed. Passed it on to several friends to do the same!
On reverifying voting registration and when ballots are being mailed...WELL DONE! Taking action...just like that...is one of the most important things we can do...to FIGHT this.
"Well funded..." is exactly right. They're a powerful force...because of it. The work ahead of us is daunting...BUT...not insurmountable.
Finding the names and the methods/agenda of the actors has become easier this term. We know many of them from Trump’s last term. However that is what has bothered me the most. Secret cabal? No, they hardly care enough to keep their actions secret. They don’t have to when they own Congress, the courts, the media, the military, the top of every government department, etc. oh I’m sure they still have secrets but everyone should be nervous about what they feel comfortable showing us….
What I try to do is follow the money. Who is supporting Trump and with how much. The same goes for Trump's henchmen, called cabinet members (See Dean Blundell's latest posting).
A lot of this is available information on a website called "Open Secret, Money in Politics". The part that bothers me is not the disclosed contributions but the Billions in dark money flowing into the system. We have no idea where these contributions come from and my question is, why are they afraid to disclose? The answer is the stuff of conspiracy theories though I have my own opinions which I will keep to myself, unless asked.
Jack is right about many of the cabal members are hiding in plain sight.
Agree with everything you said Jack. I also went to the super of elections today and on Sept 21 I can go get my mailing ballot with my voter ID and drivers license. In Florida if you have a star on your DL it is the legal ID and you do not need to show birth certificate or passport.
Jack is correct: the distinction between conspiracy and structure is the whole argument, and most readers will miss it because structure is boring and conspiracy is fun.
File the date: 1913. Congress closed hearings into what it called the “Money Trust” — not a secret society, not a hidden room, but a small number of bankers sitting on enough of the same corporate boards, simultaneously, fully disclosed in filed corporate records, that concentration never required concealment. It only required nobody adding up the seats. The finding wasn’t a cabal. The finding was a structure — legible, legal, and dangerous anyway.
Note what that structure did next: it survived being named. The hearings led to the Federal Reserve Act that same year and antitrust provisions the year after, aimed narrowly at the interlocks Congress had just proven existed. Disclosure identified the problem. It took separate, deliberate legislation — not the disclosure itself — to touch it.
Note the word Jack spends his whole piece correcting. Most people assume “cabal” comes from Charles II’s ministry in the 1670s — five advisers whose names spell the word. It doesn’t. The word predates them by a century. The acronym is a coincidence people mistook for a design, which is the same mistake he’s arguing against today.
None of this requires unity, either. Cabals don’t have public breakups. Musk ran DOGE on camera, then blew up his own alliance with Trump in full view of the country a few months later — that’s not how hidden conspiracies behave, that’s how factions behave. And the special government employee category Jack points readers toward wasn’t built as a loophole. It dates back decades, written for advisers who’d show up a handful of days a year and didn’t need the disclosure rules of a full-time appointee. The exemption never changed. What changed is who’s using it, and for how much access.
Jack is correct that unfalsifiable claims are inert. Note also what he doesn’t yet ask his readers to do: a structure that operates through filed paperwork is not a lesser threat than one that hides, because it has already priced in your scrutiny and survived it. Naming it is the first move. What Congress did with the naming is the second — and it’s the move history says actually matters.
Watch what he watches. Then ask what happens after the reading.
Yup, agree. Plus, talked to my county election folks and my voting plan is all in order. 👍🏼
Rae...outstanding work! You are a shining example of not letting grass grow under your feet... and of getting things done.
-Jack
TY. ☺️. Mostly I just have a bad memory and if I don’t get chores done first thing, they tend to slide under the table. This one was vital, so it was top of list.
It is a well funded tech industry that have the means to buy access into the most openly corrupt administration in history. The winners, tech, Trump and cronies, while the rest of us pay more, make less, and fight to save and hopefully reform this mess we have now. I also have reverified voting registration and when ballots are being mailed. Passed it on to several friends to do the same!
Kristine...thank you.
On reverifying voting registration and when ballots are being mailed...WELL DONE! Taking action...just like that...is one of the most important things we can do...to FIGHT this.
"Well funded..." is exactly right. They're a powerful force...because of it. The work ahead of us is daunting...BUT...not insurmountable.
-Jack
It's brazen...and trust me...It foes bother me.
For sure, Sher'...and...I have no doubts about how you're channeling the "bother."
#HoldFast
-Jack
👍✌️🩵
D..does.
Finding the names and the methods/agenda of the actors has become easier this term. We know many of them from Trump’s last term. However that is what has bothered me the most. Secret cabal? No, they hardly care enough to keep their actions secret. They don’t have to when they own Congress, the courts, the media, the military, the top of every government department, etc. oh I’m sure they still have secrets but everyone should be nervous about what they feel comfortable showing us….
Mary Ann McGee...YES.
I think most people understand that money is powerful. I suspect a large percentage of the population underestimates just HOW powerful.
-Jack
Again information with concrete information on how much the Tech industry has contributed to the the destruction of our planet and economy
They have no problem making us pay for their greed
Much like Healthcare companies have make millions of money as we get less in service and less in good health outcomes because of their greed
What I try to do is follow the money. Who is supporting Trump and with how much. The same goes for Trump's henchmen, called cabinet members (See Dean Blundell's latest posting).
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-epstein-cuck-howard-lutnick?r=bmogg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
A lot of this is available information on a website called "Open Secret, Money in Politics". The part that bothers me is not the disclosed contributions but the Billions in dark money flowing into the system. We have no idea where these contributions come from and my question is, why are they afraid to disclose? The answer is the stuff of conspiracy theories though I have my own opinions which I will keep to myself, unless asked.
Jack is right about many of the cabal members are hiding in plain sight.
Agree with everything you said Jack. I also went to the super of elections today and on Sept 21 I can go get my mailing ballot with my voter ID and drivers license. In Florida if you have a star on your DL it is the legal ID and you do not need to show birth certificate or passport.
#HOLDFAST
Teri
Jack is correct: the distinction between conspiracy and structure is the whole argument, and most readers will miss it because structure is boring and conspiracy is fun.
File the date: 1913. Congress closed hearings into what it called the “Money Trust” — not a secret society, not a hidden room, but a small number of bankers sitting on enough of the same corporate boards, simultaneously, fully disclosed in filed corporate records, that concentration never required concealment. It only required nobody adding up the seats. The finding wasn’t a cabal. The finding was a structure — legible, legal, and dangerous anyway.
Note what that structure did next: it survived being named. The hearings led to the Federal Reserve Act that same year and antitrust provisions the year after, aimed narrowly at the interlocks Congress had just proven existed. Disclosure identified the problem. It took separate, deliberate legislation — not the disclosure itself — to touch it.
Note the word Jack spends his whole piece correcting. Most people assume “cabal” comes from Charles II’s ministry in the 1670s — five advisers whose names spell the word. It doesn’t. The word predates them by a century. The acronym is a coincidence people mistook for a design, which is the same mistake he’s arguing against today.
None of this requires unity, either. Cabals don’t have public breakups. Musk ran DOGE on camera, then blew up his own alliance with Trump in full view of the country a few months later — that’s not how hidden conspiracies behave, that’s how factions behave. And the special government employee category Jack points readers toward wasn’t built as a loophole. It dates back decades, written for advisers who’d show up a handful of days a year and didn’t need the disclosure rules of a full-time appointee. The exemption never changed. What changed is who’s using it, and for how much access.
Jack is correct that unfalsifiable claims are inert. Note also what he doesn’t yet ask his readers to do: a structure that operates through filed paperwork is not a lesser threat than one that hides, because it has already priced in your scrutiny and survived it. Naming it is the first move. What Congress did with the naming is the second — and it’s the move history says actually matters.
Watch what he watches. Then ask what happens after the reading.
#HOLDFAST