"3000 American Businesses Colluded with Russia For Profit"
"3000 American Businesses Colluded with Russia For Profit"
How many American businesses operate in Russia? This is an important question, especially when you consider how often you see headlines like; “Such and such, and so and so did business in Russia!” Or, “The person we wish to smear does business with Russian oligarchs!” Usually, this is done to create the impression of wrongdoing. If that’s not enough, they say; “So and so has business ties to a Kremlin-owned bank, associated with Vladimir Putin!” This will elicit gasps, as not-so-subtle-hints of collusion fill the air like pollen in springtime.
This is what any good salesperson does, every day of their life. They draw connections between the product they’re selling, and why you, personally, should want to buy it. For the past two years, “Russian Collusion” is that product.
Like all good salesmanship, sleight of hand is involved. The salesperson/conman, wants you to see, only what they want you to see. It is absolutely no different than what a hustler does when they place an object under one of three shells and then move them around in an effort to confuse the target. The target being; the person they’re betting against—and the hustler almost always wins. Because you’re playing their game. A game they’ve mastered played against “You,” the novice. This is called a “Shell-game.”
Here’s a simple way to expose the game, as it applies to cryptic-sounding statements made about someone with alleged shadowy ties to shadowy Russians, which is done to incriminate thru innuendo, using selective words as triggers. Just ask this one question; “How many American businesses do business in Russia?”
The answer: about 3000. Since Russia is a country run by oligarchs, with ties to oligarch-owned banks, with Kremlin ties, tied, at least in some way to Vladimir Putin, all 3000 American businesses are incriminated, using this method, including; Pepsi, DuPont, Chevron, Citibank, GE, General Motors, Google, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Hilton, Exxon, hell!--even Crate and Barrel. Spies all, I guess? This is a very, very partial list of big American companies who’ve been doing business with the evil Russians for years. And you can be damned sure that they have ties to Russian oligarchs and the Kremlin, in the same way, that foreign-owned businesses have ties to American oligarchs and Congress. Some tenuously, others deeper and more “Complex.”
“Did you catch my sleight of hand?” By putting quotation marks around the word “Complex,” I can imply as broadly as you can imagine. I can take it a step further and substitute the word “Troubling” for the word “Complex,” thereby leading you even deeper into my mental maze, with nothing more than a moderately clever use of language.
In reality, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand who wants to be led to which conclusion, by simply listening to or reading their political statements. In our current political climate, it’s as easy to manipulate people, as their deep convictions. Because it is precisely your deep convictions, that make people an easy target for political con-men and women. And it is far easier to do if you have a willing press, eager to play along.
Mark Magula
How many American businesses operate in Russia? This is an important question, especially when you consider how often you see headlines like; “Such and such, and so and so did business in Russia!” Or, “The person we wish to smear does business with Russian oligarchs!” Usually, this is done to create the impression of wrongdoing. If that’s not enough, they say; “So and so has business ties to a Kremlin-owned bank, associated with Vladimir Putin!” This will elicit gasps, as not-so-subtle-hints of collusion fill the air like pollen in springtime.
This is what any good salesperson does, every day of their life. They draw connections between the product they’re selling, and why you, personally, should want to buy it. For the past two years, “Russian Collusion” is that product.
Like all good salesmanship, sleight of hand is involved. The salesperson/conman, wants you to see, only what they want you to see. It is absolutely no different than what a hustler does when they place an object under one of three shells and then move them around in an effort to confuse the target. The target being; the person they’re betting against—and the hustler almost always wins. Because you’re playing their game. A game they’ve mastered played against “You,” the novice. This is called a “Shell-game.”
Here’s a simple way to expose the game, as it applies to cryptic-sounding statements made about someone with alleged shadowy ties to shadowy Russians, which is done to incriminate thru innuendo, using selective words as triggers. Just ask this one question; “How many American businesses do business in Russia?”
The answer: about 3000. Since Russia is a country run by oligarchs, with ties to oligarch-owned banks, with Kremlin ties, tied, at least in some way to Vladimir Putin, all 3000 American businesses are incriminated, using this method, including; Pepsi, DuPont, Chevron, Citibank, GE, General Motors, Google, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Hilton, Exxon, hell!--even Crate and Barrel. Spies all, I guess? This is a very, very partial list of big American companies who’ve been doing business with the evil Russians for years. And you can be damned sure that they have ties to Russian oligarchs and the Kremlin, in the same way, that foreign-owned businesses have ties to American oligarchs and Congress. Some tenuously, others deeper and more “Complex.”
“Did you catch my sleight of hand?” By putting quotation marks around the word “Complex,” I can imply as broadly as you can imagine. I can take it a step further and substitute the word “Troubling” for the word “Complex,” thereby leading you even deeper into my mental maze, with nothing more than a moderately clever use of language.
In reality, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand who wants to be led to which conclusion, by simply listening to or reading their political statements. In our current political climate, it’s as easy to manipulate people, as their deep convictions. Because it is precisely your deep convictions, that make people an easy target for political con-men and women. And it is far easier to do if you have a willing press, eager to play along.
Mark Magula