True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 484: Ford's Foundation Aired: 2025-08-25 Duration: 04:35 === Power Play: Scumbags Top to Bottom (03:27) === [00:00:00] I mean, it's so, I don't know. [00:00:03] I mean, I talk about a lot on the show, like how it feels like there's nobody, like it doesn't feel like there's nobody in charge. [00:00:08] It does feel sometimes like there's somebody in charge, but it doesn't feel like there's any check on anybody in charge. [00:00:14] And it feels like the people in charge, like there's no, and this is a very simplistic framing, but you'll forgive me, like good guys out there. [00:00:21] You know, it's all just like scumbags from the top to the bottom. [00:00:26] Yeah, and I mean, it's a little, we were talking a little bit about this before recording too. [00:00:31] The right wing has kind of taken on the mantle of both revolution in as much as they want to accelerate things down a certain path in a way that's inconsistent with the institutional checks and structures in existence, but they also are in power. [00:00:52] So they're kind of now we're seeing them actually exercise power in a way that's totally unchecked. [00:01:00] Yeah, yeah, exactly. [00:01:02] I mean, it is like not to be whatever about this, but like some of the shit the Trump administration is doing is fucking kind of insane. [00:01:09] Oh, it's totally insane. [00:01:11] And all the left responds to it is we should just, you know, put the toothpaste back in the tube and try to go back to how things were after the church committee. [00:01:22] Yeah. [00:01:23] We need another church committee or whatever the fuck. [00:01:25] Like it's not really a solution because it doesn't recognize the real problem. [00:01:32] Yeah. [00:01:33] And it doesn't have any sense of the power dynamics that are at play on purpose, largely, because like I said, I mean, they're just. [00:01:46] Yep. [00:01:47] And it's, it's, to me, it's just like they talk about sort of the erosion of the democratic institutions. [00:01:51] I mean, this is a big liberal talking point. [00:01:53] But guess what? [00:01:53] They've eroded. [00:01:54] You know what I mean? [00:01:55] They eroded. [00:01:56] They suck now. [00:01:58] I mean, they weren't very good to begin with, but now they're really, really, really bad and they don't work anymore. [00:02:03] And there is no like solution that you see from anyone besides just like, oh, we'll rebuild them. [00:02:08] Well, it's like, I don't think that's going to happen at this point because A, there's power there that you could use if you're like a lib who gets into power, which certainly did not really happen that much during the Biden. [00:02:20] I mean, they tried to. [00:02:21] You know, they tried to get Trump on like the Stormy Daniel shit in New York Court. [00:02:26] And it's like, that's your, you're like attempt at this. [00:02:31] It's dog shit. [00:02:32] You know? [00:02:33] Right. [00:02:34] And you don't need new laws. [00:02:35] Yeah. [00:02:36] He's breaking the ones that already exist. [00:02:38] I know. [00:02:39] It's, I mean, we talked, I know you had Silverman on your show too, but like, man, his shit, like with all the fucking crazy crypto donors that, I mean, this guy makes Spiro Agnew look like a fucking amateur. [00:02:53] You know? [00:02:54] I mean, Spiro Agnew, he was taking whatever could fit into an envelope. [00:03:00] Yeah. [00:03:03] You can't fit that much cash into an envelope. [00:03:06] No. [00:03:07] And meanwhile, into like a fake company, you can pump untold sums. [00:03:14] Yeah. [00:03:15] Literally uncountable, not unaccountable, but you can't count how much bribe money is flowing in to that mafia ass family enterprise. === Mafia's Corporate Mimicry (01:08) === [00:03:27] And if I may read another Deboer quote, that he, so you know, you can think about this process as the corporatization of everything, but then corporations resemble mafia. [00:03:42] And so what Debo writes about this phenomenon is it is always a mistake to try to explain something by opposing mafia and state. [00:03:51] They are never rivals. [00:03:53] Theory easily verifies what all the rumors in practical life have all too easily shown. [00:03:59] The mafia is not an outsider in this world. [00:04:02] It is perfectly at home. [00:04:04] Indeed, in the integrated spectacle, it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises. [00:04:12] And I would add on that, and governmental institutions as well. [00:04:18] To the extent that they're effective at all and not just there to take up space and to perform the role of giving ease to the population by fostering the belief that something is being done with all the money that we pay in taxes,