Elite’s Obsession With Achieving Total Financial Control

The government would love nothing more than to control everything we say and do. That also includes how we spend our own money and where we do.

We've seen how under government pressure Obama's "Operation Choke Point" pressured banks into  closing accounts and/or reducing services to lawful businesses including firearms dealers, payday lenders, coin dealers and businesses in other targeted industries.

From American Banker:

Operation Choke Point was real, and it exceeded legal limits. Overwhelming evidence, in the form of more than 900 pages of newly unsealed emails and depositions, proves government officials illegally targeted lawful businesses in an ideological crusade based on personal disdain.

Operation Choke Point was ended by President Trump, but His Fraudulency is trying to bring it back.

The elites, as Money Metals Exchange points out, have an obsession of achieving total financial control of everyone's money. This is a direct attack on liberty, pure and simple.

They begin with:

Federal bureaucrats use proxies to stifle all kinds of activities they don’t like. The “Twitter Files” are revealing this tactic to a new wave of Americans, but it has been around a long time.

The bureaucratic assault on the First Amendment is part of a larger movement to end personal liberty. The ultimate goal may be to assume financial control over the populace through implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

If officials can replace the existing currencies with digital, programmable money, they will claim the power to dictate if, when, and where individuals can spend money as well as what they can spend it on.

Those who question whether forces inside the federal government are actually pursuing such power may wish to review recent history around the Federal Reserve note "dollar."

To read more, go here. 

"Grishy the Clown" At UN Climate Change Conference

If there's one thing New Mexico's citizens can count on is Gov. "Malevolent Michelle" Lujan Grisham's fondness for living "high on the hog" at the taxpayers' expense.

The latest is her little junket to Scotland to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference. To get there, Her Majesty left a nice carbon footprint from her flight there.

It's really pointless for her to be there. All they are is a bunch of elitists sitting around echoing each other with their climate change bullplop.

According to Piñon Post:

On Monday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham tweeted from Scotland of her participation in the globalist “climate change” summit being held in Glasgow, which is features elites from other countries who no doubt flew there in CO2-consuming jets, just like the embattled Governor.

Lujan Grisham wrote on Twitter, “I’m honored to be at @COP26 this week, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, representing New Mexico and the work we’ve done to achieve climate solutions on the world stage.”

“I am so proud of the work we have done in under three years, including nationally leading emissions reductions rules for the oil and gas industry, requiring 100% clean electricity by 2045, implementing new energy-efficient building codes, and so much more.” This is referring to Lujan Grisham’s Green New Deal, also known as the“Energy Transition Act,” which aims to completely wipe out the oil and gas industry by 2045.

Lujan Grisham’s attendance at the elite event comes as multiple crises are exploding in New Mexico, including a crime epidemic in Albuquerque, one of the highest positive virus testing rates in the nation, one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, and a pivotal November 2 municipal election right around the corner. The Governor’s extreme pandemic orders still remain in place, including forcibly masking children at school and requiring masks at all times indoors, except when eating or drinking.

No, there's no truth to the rumor that "Grishy the Clown" is in Scotland to provide the entertainment.

To read more, go here. 

Democrats Hold Big, Fancy Dinners While Telling America to Cancel Thanksgiving

The order is for thee, but not for me.

That seems to be the mantra of the Democrats. While they are locking down us peasants, they are holding big dinners and other events.

Now they want to cancel Thanksgiving (and Christmas will likely be next).

Anti-Empire wrote:

While leftist lawmakers and unelected bureaucrats are hard at work canceling Thanksgiving for Americans, congressional Democrats are holding big, fancy dinners on Capitol Hill to welcome new members ahead of the fall holiday.

“It’s very spaced,” though, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told NBC correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell to justify the dinner. The dinner comes several months after the Democratic leader was caught getting an illegal haircut in San Francisco without a mask.

The congressional dinners fly in the face of Democrats urging Americans to stay home instead of visiting relatives for the holidays as coronavirus cases increase across the United States.

To read more, go here. 

Hayley Geftman-Gold: Poster Child For Liberal Hatred

Above, Hayley Geftman-Gold.

Former Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew once famously referred to liberal elites as "an effete corps of impudent snobs." 

Things really haven't changed in the 47 years since Agnew made that statement, as the inhumane Facebook post by Hayley Geftman-Gold shows. They still have their "holier than thou" attitude and that anyone who doesn't agree with them are to be considered subhuman.

The American Thinker has an excellent article by Thomas Lifson on how Gelfman-Gold flushed her career down the toilet and how liberal elites think of the common people.

It begins with:

Hayley Geftman-Gold, the now-fired CBS lawyer who was until yesterday a vice president in their strategic transactions department, has become the poster girl for ruling class progressive hatred and condescension toward working class whites.  With two Ivy League degrees (Penn undergrad, Columbia Law) to her name, standing as “an officer of the court” in the New York State Bar, and powerful position in shaping the future of a major media purveyor of news and politics, an entrepreneur husband, and a fashionable Brooklyn Heights address, she is clearly a member of the ruling class, junior division.

But her now infamous Facebook comment bit her on the behind:

Yet she threw it all away – the six figure income, the corporate and social position -- with a now-notorious Facebook post that went viral almost immediately (and subsequently was taken down).

Geftman-Gold is now sorry about destroying herself. She wrote last night:

Earlier today I posted an indefensible post in a Facebook discussion thread concerning the tragic Las Vegas shooting, a statement I sincerely regret. I am deeply sorry for diminishing the significance of every life affected by Stephen Paddock's terrorism last night and for the pain my words have inflicted on the loved ones of the victims. My shameful comments do not reflect the beliefs of my former employer, colleagues, family, and friends. Nor do they reflect my actual beliefs – this senseless violence warrants the deepest empathy. I understand and accept all consequences that my words have incurred.

As Lifson points out, "she might even be sincere." Frankly, she has no other choice. She is a very attractive young woman, but that attractiveness only masked a hateful heart. A friend had a favorite saying: "Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly goes right to the bone."

 But, she can redeem herself if she (as Lifson suggests):

Study the career of Chuck Colson, a man who actually found redemption following actions he later sincerely regretted.

But there's still the underlying problem of the attitudes liberal elites have that poisoned public discourse. Conservatives generally feel that liberals are just wrong, while liberals feel that conservatives are evil.

Lifson quotes Manhattan attorney Lauri Regan:

With the rise of antifa and violence becoming the norm in shutting down free speech on campuses and elsewhere, it was only time before violence would be condoned by these self-righteous elitists who lack humility and decency for their fellow Americans. It used to be Muslims across the globe cheering successful terror attacks. Now we have hateful liberals doing the same thing.

To read more, go here.