It’s hard not to notice a pattern: the U.S. puppet masters running the government thrives on keeping us hooked to an IV of anger. The outrage is carefully managed, manipulated, and delivered straight into our daily lives through media, politics, and staged distractions. And while we rage, the real power players move quietly in the shadows.

History shows us the playbook. The stock market rises and crashes, the housing market collapses, banks get bailed out, and political figures, law enforcement, and billionaire moguls somehow walk away unscathed. They repeat the same games – mismanaging money, lying, stealing, abusing power – which the math never adds up. Trillions disappear, “misplaced,” or funneled to friends during the Covid era. Airlines, banks, and corporations in deficit still cashed in, while ordinary people struggled just to breathe.

The numbers alone should make us furious. During the 2008 financial crisis, the government committed $700 billion through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and ultimately funneled over $12 trillion in loans and guarantees to banks, investment firms, and corporations. Not a single top executive went to prison, despite mountains of evidence of fraud, predatory lending, and market manipulation that destroyed millions of families. Greed and negligence by bankers and real estate giants created the housing crash, yet those responsible walked away with golden parachutes – while citizens lost homes, savings, and futures.

Fast forward to the Covid pandemic: again, trillions were handed out. By 2021, over $5 trillion in pandemic relief had been spent, with a massive portion benefiting corporations and banks. Many of the same industries – major airlines, national banks, and corporate giants – ran deficits, mismanaged funds, and still received government lifelines, while workers faced layoffs and families scrambled for crumbs.

Go further back, and the cycle is the same. After the Civil War, wealthy traitors were rebranded as heroes. After 9/11, questions about how those towers fell were buried under the command to “never forget.” 20 years later, trillions of dollars spent and too many lives lost; and we’re still waiting on weapons of mass destruction evidence. More recently, insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, leaving death and destruction behind, and today many live freely – pardoned and even celebrated. And now America is in the business of donating billions to support genocide.

Meanwhile, the present-day spectacle continues: congressional members and corporate elites filling their pockets as if trick-or-treating at the world’s larges candy factory. A leader manipulates the market in broad daylight while the rest of us are told to tighten our belts. Irony: all this money being moved around with ease, and countless sunscreen Americans still have the audacity to argue against repairing the Black community with owed reparations. Seems to be solely based on hate in my book. The masses won’t question millionaires or billionaires receiving trillions combined but will argue to the end of making amends towards an abused people. Make it make sense!

Is it not funny – no, infuriating – that the very people collecting millions, if not billions, in corporate welfare, also stealing from a controlled market, are the same ones who call ordinary Americans “lazy” or “thugs”? These are the ones with no problem inciting riots, fueling violence that costs innocent lives. The ones who refuse, time and again, to amend gun laws to protect children. The ones who still will not admit the glaring truth: America has a white terrorist problem. The FBI for years have made it clear “the majority of domestic terrorism is perpetrated by white extremist groups who are the greatest threat to national security,” and the country has done nothing but allow these groups to grow while being better protected than any law abiding minority or poor citizens.

And in the face of tragedy? Another routine school shooting takes children’s lives, yet our “representatives” chose instead to honor a man who spent his life spewing out hatred. The grief of families was drowned out by the government’s favorite trick: stoking division, flirting with race wars, and spinning distraction after distraction to cover theft and failure. Note: During this same timeline, politicians voted not to release the Epstein files. Though most don’t know this happened because the spin machine is in full effect protecting the many wealthy and titled pedophiles, including the Commander of misery.

Check for yourself:

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) -$700 Billion (2008)

• The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 established TARP to purchase “troubled assets” from failing financial institutions.

• Congressional records / legislative history of Public Law 110-343.
• Over 6 million America households lost their homes to foreclosure during the Great Recession, according to research by Michael Ohlrogge. [NYU Law] Starting Over: Michael Ohlrogge tracks post-foreclosures… 6 Jan 2021
• Another report says about 10 million Americans lost their homes during that period. [Los Angeles Times: The financial crisis hit 10 years ago. For some, it feels like… 15 Sept 2018

Key Facts on the Airline Bailouts

• The U.S. government spent about $62 billion total rescuing airlines during the pandemic [semafor.com]
• In addition, airlines had access to $25 billion in low-cost government loans [Mercatus Center]
• Under the Payroll Support Programs (PSP1, PSP2, PSP3), the Treasury awarded $59 billion to the domestic aviation industry…

COVID-19 Pandemic Relief / Spending – Over $5 Trillion

• The U.S. federal government passed six laws over 2021-2022 in response to the COVID-19 crisis that together accounted for “more than $5 trillion” in spending aimed at relief, recovery, stimulus, and economic stabilization [The Washington Post: Where did the covid aid money go? Sep 8, 2022
• Also, multiple oversight offices are tracking how those funds are used, raising concerns about fraud, waste, and how much actually reached vulnerable people versus larger corporate interests.
• [Pandemic Oversight] Transparency into $5 Trillion: How the PRAC Protects… Nov 6, 2023

This government doesn’t just owe us answers – it owes us accountability. Since the beginning, we’ve paid up front with labor, sweat, and blood. We don’t need more rockstar politicians or shady billionaires feeding off us. What we need is humanity.

When we connect the dots, the picture is clear: the anger they serve us is the mask. The theft, the lies, the manipulation – that’s the reality. They are and have been for themselves, not for us who vote them in while watching them destroy the country brick-by-brick.

Are you tired of paying shady corporate and political thieves; then saying thank you for gaslighting me the way I like it?

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