Someone on Bluesky just made a point that stabbed me in the eye:

The ENTIRE STORY about the current US presidential election campaign is: it's Joe Biden vs. the fat cats—Business Plot 2.0, as Shiv Ramdas put it.

And look what newspaper of record carried water for the coup conspirators in 1933/34?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Business Plot - Wikipedia

@cstross Yes, but at this point you’d be hard-pressed to find a media outlet with a circulation of more than about a thousand that ISN’T carrying water for the Billionaires for Autocracy movement. Even the ones nominally against them still seem to be doing their work. “The Times” is merely ‘first among equals’ in that pack.
@zrail Truly an amazing paragraph. No notes.
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Attached: 1 image The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking TRUE Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow F.D.R., by Jules Archer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25313101-the-plot-to-seize-the-white-house

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@cstross

You shitbags have quite the history of embracing evil don’t you @nytimes

“Don’t you know where we are?”

“It’s been done. They have it.”

“You’ve done more damage than you know.” “I hope so.”

“Turner! How do you know they’ll print it?”

He’s right, you scumbags wouldn’t have printed it or anything else that would shatter the bullshit you put out every day with Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks etc. Not to mention your own insipid reporting.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedissenter.org/whistleblowers-in-film-three-days-of-the-condor-1975/amp/

Whistleblowers In Film: 'Three Days Of The Condor' (1975)

The classic CIA conspiracy thriller "Three Days of the Condor" from 1975 contains a sensational whistleblower narrative.

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@Illuminatus @cstross I have two videos that could talk about the business plot, wich. One of them is from @knowingbetteryt and the other one by djpeachcobbler. Both great videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSglXDquWJE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-nUy2DalM

When America (almost) had a Caesar

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@gabboman @cstross @knowingbetteryt First time I read about the Business Plot was in a short essay by Robert Anton Wilson in one of the books that collected a lot of his production for magazines and so. He also opened my eyes to the Chandleresque Haiku.
@Illuminatus @gabboman @cstross @knowingbetteryt. Amsterdam is a good parody of the situation, 2022, mentioned in your link.
@cstross you know, Joe Biden is not Noam Chomsky. He also serves the fat cats. His whole life. The problem is Joe Biden's fat cats have lost confidence in his ability to deliver access to power for them. And they are correct. The people who put Joe in the game are calling him back to the dugout, because he's lost his fastball. That's all that's happening. Joe is not FDR. Or even LBJ. Joe is finished. He just doesn't seem to know it yet.
@cstross It is and it isn’t. Of course, corporate funded think tanks are speaking the loudest to get Biden out but there are also valid concerns raised internally with UAW. It’s more opportunism than business plot 2.0.
@cstross until we make billionaires cease to be, this will keep happening
@cstross @futurebird Sheesh. The things I didn’t learn in social studies class.
@cstross I came to the exact same realization yesterday. It's the politics and lunacy of the John Birch Society married to the excess wealth of the tech industry. But these creeps all know each other, and they're all committed to the same fascist outcome.
@cstross NYTimes - always on the wrong side of history.
Buried by the Times - Wikipedia

@Npars01 @KanaMauna @cstross

FYI it was not only the Times who did these things.

Boat loads of Jewish people landed in the US and was refused entry. They then went to Canada and were again refused.

The boat end up returning to Europe where most of the people ended up in the camps & yes many died in the Holocaust.

No ones hands were clean during the Holocaust.

@Mor696 @Npars01 @cstross
Yes, I know about this. The thing is, the individuals (not everyone) who turned the boats away had their moment and are now all dead. NYTimes, like some immortal undead cheerleader, keeps leading society down a darker path.

@KanaMauna @Mor696 @cstross

The moneyed are selfish.

They believe a smidgen more for anybody else means the poor house for themselves.

Selfishness cubed.

Antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry, are the vehicle the rich use to distract while they rob the rest of us.

The audience of the New York Times is the moneyed and the selfish.

They don't care how many had to die to serve that wealth preservation strategy.

@KanaMauna @Npars01 @cstross

I once was a subscriber to the NYT but it just continually worked as had as it could to become a Right Wing Propaganda tool.

It's actually sad, there was a time that the NYT was considered "The Paper Of Record".

The editor Joseph Kahn has given up on being a NEWS Paper.

This RIGHT here (copied from @cstross

The ENTIRE STORY about the current US presidential election campaign is: it's Joe Biden vs. the fat cats—Business Plot 2.0, as Shiv Ramdas put it.

And look what newspaper of record carried water for the coup conspirators in 1933/34?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Business Plot - Wikipedia

@cstross it’s been my thought for a while now that Trump does not actually hold any opinions and is just a puppet for the actually-rich
@cstross is it... like the business plot in a way that is different from basically every other US election?

@cstross @paninid

This time they got their guy on the ticket as the potential VP.

No need to alarm anyone with a public march when the old man can just keel over at any time.

@bflipp @cstross
Or be easily assassinated, apparently 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@paninid @cstross

Well that’s what I mean. If Trump’s heart explodes it’ll be the least suspicious death of a public figure ever.

@paninid @cstross

And then we are ruled by proxy by fascist South Africans for some stupid ass reason.

@cstross the Senator from MBNA is on the side of the fat cats. That's why he is POTUS right now.
@cstross Butler hey? If someone were a conspiracist then that name would be of interest in light of last w/e.
@cstross
NYT normalized nazis, hid Stalin's Ukranian famine, and supported every war and republican president we've had.

@cstross That link sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole which lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

Which was a local government coup/massacre in the US post-slavery where white supremacist ideology was explicitly and intentionally employed by shrewd politicians to manipulate poor white people into supporting them against their own best interests.

The catalyst? A black-owned newspaper claimed that not all interracial sex is rape.

Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia