Pedro's Corner

Of course, such things as pride are of import to make such a citizen. Jay-Z, with his billions, is still not such a one because he has no pride, so he remains a commie. Why has he no pride? Or his wife, Beyonce? Both of these beautiful people and talented artists, because they are whores. Both got their billions by selling out and betraying themselves, something Escobar and Trump NEVER did. A citizen is a MAN. What pride can a whore have?

I mean, to who was it not clear the day Jay-Z made that album with Linkin Park? Shameful.

Dre could have done it, but Dre actually feels the devastation of the crime that helped him get there, and feels guilt about it. He told us as much when he sold out with Beats. Though he never was a whore, because he never gave his soul along with it.

Maybe Dre could not have done it. The role of an Escobar-President Trump type citizen is two-fold: to give things the people need. Actually, I think Escobar never gave a hospital, people tend to be more honest than that when asking for things from someone actually personally capable of giving them. But those are all contingent on their primary role: to get people working and getting wealth from work. People tend to prefer having money for a hospital than a free hospital. The free hospital is asked for by one who no longer has faith in being able to make that money.

As part of the long on-going negotiation between people and lawyers, a terrifyingly evil and sick institution has emerged: the middle class. I don’t mean by middle class the worker who makes more money than many workers and had the fence and the lawn and the motorized toy car for the kids. I mean the college people. Those with no hopes of ever becoming rich, and no risk of ever becoming poor. Or maybe even rich, but not in command of capital.

With them, the negotiation is not about capital, but about the feeling of power.

That’s a big reason the insist on the free hospital: the feeling of having the power to give it.

Why not, then, a free stadium?

Because then it would become about money, the existence of which they cannot recognize without recognizing the sickliness of their own station.

And conversely, Kanye and his wife are citizens. Entirely unideological, just ethical, understanding value. Kardashian princess visits Trump to get people unjustly incarcerated out of prison, and it works, it happens. I might be in favour of holding experience with accumulating and wielding personal power as a criterion for deserving the privilege of serving ones people. This means that mere promises and ideals don’t count for anything at all. Yet what of non-financial power?

Tangentially: Athenian pentekosiomedemnoi counted I guess around 75.000 to a number of 250.000 slaves who weren’t allowed to fight any wars nor of course paid any taxes. Slavery aside this concept appeals to me - people who don’t have the joy of power should also not carry burdens for the state. I have this rudimentary tax plan, where only businesses above a certain capitalization, say 20 million, pay taxes. No taxes for private citizens The logic of this unfolds very nicely into a lean economic dynamic.

I on purpose did not mention Kanye, because he has a hard time. Kim far less so.

That’s the point, though, with Hezbollah. Their inheritance from Pablo is purely concrete power structures. No theory involved. In theoretical terms, it is awkwardly true that they are kind of Roman spawn. All that matters about islam is that the first temple is the Cathedral of Constantinople. Post-Octavian lawyers. Octavian was became inevitable christianity, because of the magnitude of a thing that was to spawn a head. Fascists also wanted to cohere it. It’s… murkier territory.

Hey, slaves, you know. People hate, but it wasn’t that simple.

The point, though, is that democracy is not a bout any given legal framework. Taxes this or this that. It by definition works from a given. The citizen must already exist, and the people of whom he is a part, before he can rule.

To put it more bluntly, your personal opinion of taxes is moot. Now, had you a billion’s worth of assets and a birth certificate that said Made in USA, then you would have a different opinion, and THAT opinion would matter, in an Athenian democracy, such as President Trump is spearheading. Actually, they don’t even need to have an opinion. They may change it, or hire a guy. Do you see what I mean?

If you had the Made in USA minus the billion, then you could vote for a citizen etc.

Maybe you can be a guy one of them possibly hires. But that’s always contigent anyway.

It’s a rulership scheme by which the people rule themselves.

Taxes are evil, man. Btw, the only reason people form Corporations in the first place is to get taxed less, not more.

It’s just. A fucking doozie.

Like a Brazilian expat told me recently, “…me too. Leave the money in my pocket.”

Also, defining power as servitude is a large part of what got us here. Think you that Trump thinks of himself as a servant? Nay.

Making America Great is his beat. Or, for Pablo, Making The Barrio Great.

That’s… different, than serving. And the motivations, too, are different from the, if you don’t mind me saying, somewhat Roman motivations I make out in your propositions, such as the state. The state, aka the Res Publica. The lawyer trap.

What Spain proves is that it gets too big and then no actual humans are allowed to lead it and then eventually it bloats itself over the edges and fizzles out in glorious scenes of country estates and piss-stinking streets.

It’s retty awesome, but its less fun, and in knowledge of its inevitable demise far less responsible, than the new Athenian democracy the President allows us to envision. And all the possibilities that thenceforth spring.

Yah have to understand, it was the Senators that set the trap. To keep their estates, which were of an advancement thereto and thenceforth unknown. Like, massive. Makes Bahamas retreats look like childish legolands.

They lassoed themselves some lawyers.

Cesar.

Cesar is a pretty devastating counterpoint.

Here’s how I see the thing with taxes:

A democrat leader’s task is to fight them tooth and nail, from the starting point of that they are there. They have to figure it out, from how they tie into the people’s interests, work with it and wrangle it. Before democracy, there was a state of affairs. There is no method or recipe. These dudes do not look for them.

Basically, that’s why it’s so fun to watch the President harang and harrass Powell.

Sitting there with his formulas, moving bits on a watchamacallit bead counting contraption. Figuring out how to frame it for people. And Trump’s like “you fool! Goddamnit!”, and he sincerely does not understand why. Cannot. He’s a mathematician.

Also why it was exciting when the President said “I’m gonna look into this whole doctors regulations thing, I have a feeling high costs are not due to the market.” And but, you know, the lawyers are now in full attack. The war is on.

You ain’t been back five minutes and you’re already talking about Kim Kardashian and Jay z. Jesus Christ dude. Is this something that happens when you and Jakob the fixed barbarian get together, or do you behave like this on your own?

Was this even conceivable 5 years ago?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnfAunzg1Wk[/youtube]

I uh… It’s mostly with Jakob.

Hahahaha