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Thursday, February 27, 2020

The CEOs vanish

It's fascinating to see how many top corporate executives are suddenly deciding to retire for absolutely no reason at all:
Multiple CEOs stepped town today and this week: Disney, MasterCard, L Brands, Salesforce, Uber Eats, HULU, MGM, IBM, LinkedIn, Match.com.
And Jeff Bezos's private jet landed in New Zealand one week ago.
A $102m private jet owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has landed in Wellington tonight. The Gulfstream G650ER jet touched down in the capital tonight, but it remains unclear if the richest man in the world was aboard. 
Curiouser and curiouser....


76 comments:

  1. Can't help but notice the similarities to the plot of the board game Pandemic Legacy Season 2. In the board game, a virus engineered in central China wipes out every country. The players travel sea routes to restore the world, and a key plot point is finding the uninfected sanctuary of the elites in Wellington, NZ.

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  2. New Zealand? Isn't that where the rich and famous built their bug out shelters?

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    1. Yes. Didn't a mass exodus of CEOs happen right after Trump was elected? Along with a number of high ranking military leaders?
      I don't think I'm imagining that, but I could be.

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  3. Those golden parachutes don’t deploy if their stocks drop...

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  4. Guillotines, now! All of them and then some.

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  5. I have always wondered how, in a real SHTF societal collapse scenario, what would keep the guards and workers from ejecting the bunker's "owner" from the bunker because they are useless dead weight. The only answer I have come up with is some kind of deadman switch. Perhaps a code phrase that would have to be entered periodically into a terminal in a room that requires bio-metric verification of identity to enter.

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    1. @Ron Winkleheimer

      These people can't be bothered with those sorts of things.

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    2. That said workers and guards are part of a cult to reverences them and thereby is unquestionably loyal.

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  6. As though one could flee God's wrath.

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    1. the bible says so directly. in revelation 6:15-17 "15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

      16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

      17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

      they try to flee and will be crushed by the wrath of god. mwahahahahaha

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  7. I keep hearing this reference to resigning/retiring CEO's with these unspoken implications teasing the storm. Is that what you're implying here VD?

    Isn't it just as likely this is an economic indicator, that these are rats at the top of the pyramid scheme absconding with the till before their respective boards take away their golden parachute? Cashing in your chips before the cards go sour?

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  8. Bezos may have run to NZ because of coronavirus. But yes, it seems as if the CIA backed CEOs are all calling it quits. Wonder what the deal they got.

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    1. An Iranian with paper Kiwi citizenship is bought corona Chan to NZ.

      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/410625/new-zealand-confirms-case-of-covid-19-coronavirus

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  9. Vox is it time to sell stock or a time to buy.

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  10. It was a very good month for swamp draining. It is amusing to see people on forums theorizing about what is going on when Q told us to track CEO resignations in 2017. But remember: "Nothing is happening." and "Nothing to see here."

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  11. "A $102m private jet owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has landed in Wellington tonight. The Gulfstream G650ER jet touched down in the capital tonight"

    The Ringwraiths invade the Shire.

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  12. New Zealand - Bezos' jet has landed but Corona-Chan's hasn't (officially) yet. Zero reported cases.

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  13. Wow. That’s a hell of a list. Is it the storm they’re running from, or is it that they fear Corona-Chan is going to break their illusory profits?

    Because when that happens the people start looking for scapegoats and talking about the combinatorial possibilities inherent in rope and lampposts.

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  14. Perhaps one corona infected CEO will get the rest of them in New Zealand for us

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  15. Sorry, that ain't gonna fool the virus, Jeff.

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  16. Zeroh Tollrants wrote:Yes. Didn't a mass exodus of CEOs happen right after Trump was elected? Along with a number of high ranking military leaders?

    I don't think I'm imagining that, but I could be.

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    More like right after TRUMP signed that Exec. Order authorizing seizure of property from those engaged in human and sex trafficking. Those resignations snowballed!

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  17. Ron Winkleheimer wrote:I have always wondered how, in a real SHTF societal collapse scenario, what would keep the guards and workers from ejecting the bunker's "owner" from the bunker because they are useless dead weight. The only answer I have come up with is some kind of deadman switch.
    The workers who maintain the self destruct system can remove the self destruct system. They won't necessarily tell you they have removed it.

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  18. If NZ is smart, they'll wise up and refuse entry to all of these psychopaths when they start running away from their crimes, the people they've fleeced, and justice.

    But with NZ being a FVEYES member, I'm not counting on it. Which means we'll have to put vigilantes at all the airport hangers. Or sabotage all these brats' private aircraft so they won't take off.

    And if you don't believe Bozos is a psychopath, do some research on working conditions inside Amazon warehouses ("fulfilment centers"). Example: major gas leak inside the building. People getting sick and throwing up due to the combined effects of hydrocarbon gas and the sulphur-based odorant added to make gas leaks noticeable before people pass out and die. Fire department shows up, orders the building evacuated. Management put written admonishments in the file of everyone who left their floor position due to feeling ill, throwing up, or following the fire department's evacuation order (by that time, the whole place could have blown up - most hydrocarbon-air mixtures between 1~2% up to 9~12% (depending on which hydrocarbon, natural gas is 5~17%) are explosive, and in such an environment, anything less than 19.5% oxygen causes physical problems, up to and including death.

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    1. You mean "sabotage their aircraft *before* they take off"?

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  19. “Death comes for us all; even at our birth-- even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.”

    ― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

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  20. If the former CEOs of Disney, MasterCard, L Brands, Salesforce, Uber Eats, HULU, MGM, IBM, LinkedIn, and Match.com were aboard Bezo's plane, then that would be The Tell.

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  21. Almost like these CEOs are part of a private network and they all collude together.

    Or they see the writing on the wall and realize that they're screwed if they stay.

    Hopefully someone will talk.

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  22. @Weka and kiwi

    What next? Will Merkle and Macron be moving there when the heat gets too much in Europe, and is May already there in hiding? Who else is hanging out in NZ?

    NZ is obviously the major escape destination for many Evil people (Comey said he was going there if Trump wins 2020). NZ section of FVEYs is reputed to be the most extreme, targeting any English speaker who goes against the Narrative to destroy their lives. Also, that PM with the bouncing package, similar to Mike/Michelle. China aiming to take you over. Lucy, you got some 'splaning to do. How did this all happen? Twas such a 'nice' country. Responsible -- Mossad? CIA? China? Windsors??? All of them?

    What gives? Time to check out the tunnels? Bring tunnel busters.

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    1. Or the Kiwis add up the money the visitors have. A suprise outbreak of Corona, and a loss of all these great people. Great because they left everything to the New Zealand Sovereign Wealth Fund!

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  23. what an interesting blog...please count me in...wwg1wga

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  24. This is dumb, in the case of MC, Sakesforce and LinkedIn, they are staying with the company in another role. Uber Eats and MGM seem like normal retirements.

    For Hulu and IBM they were essentially told to leave, and with Match.com, there are legitimate personL reasons behind the departure (tornado and surgeries)


    Les Wexner is the only one stepping down because he's a sleeve and has been caught.

    And not for nothing, the redditer got the dates wrong on two of the departures.

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  25. We need to bring back the age-old tradition of catapulting diseased carcases over the walls of fortified locations.

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  26. >>"New Zealand? Isn't that where the rich and famous built their bug out shelters?"

    I knew there was a reason for the Space Force.

    DROP THE FAT BOY, GOD-EMPEROR

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  27. Wellington is not the place one would go to in order to escape a virus. It is the capital of NZ and thus has a highly transient population, being a political city. Lots of foreign dignitaries arrive each day, so the chances of being exposed to the virus would be high.
    The wealthy foreigners who've been buying up New Zealand to create retreats have been doing so in the upper part of the North Island, especially around the Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Islands. Some family friends are caretakers on a property owned by a German billionaire and the money spent there is staggering.

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    1. And central Otago. Note that the universities here are lobbying to lift the travel ban because xenophobia. And they are losing money.

      I'm planning that we will be visited by COVID19.

      And you forgot Wellington is overdue the big one normally that is an eight on the Richter scale.

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    2. I didn't forget it, it just wasn't relevant to the topic of fleeing from a pandemic.
      I know foreigners have been buying up Mainland sheep stations but I was under the impression that it was mainly the Saudis and the Chinese, mostly for investment purposes.

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  28. given the way that COVID19 spreads through fecal matter... I mean... if I was Bezos I wouldn't want to be anywhere near California either.

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  29. A rebel without a General wrote:Vox is it time to sell stock or a time to buy.
    It's time to stop worrying about the stock market. In 2 months, the concern could go from "return on investment" to "return of investment" to "survival."

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  30. Nate wrote:if I was Bezos I wouldn't want to be anywhere near California either.
    Bezos lives in Seattle. Which is only marginally better.

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  31. Nate wrote:through fecal matter...

    Hey! We call that the People's Fertilizer here. Locally sourced, renewable nightly, and available for free for any SF residents. I had a delivery in front of my house just this morning and I didn't have to order it.

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  32. Perhaps the rich know more about the market cycle than the rest of us. Not very fun to be CEO in a downturn.

    Here is my take on where we are in the market cycle.

    richardswavetheory.blogspot.com

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  33. CEO departures by the month over the last 12 years.

    https://gab.com/QAnonNotables/posts/103731466008381821

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  34. ResignationAnon has the count approaching 12K!

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  35. @37

    Thanks for the redpilling graphic. I can hear the "Nothing to see here" response now...

    "What we really need to see is CEO departures on a geological timescale, such as a few million years. Then we'll know if there really has been a significant increase."

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  36. CEO Departures Hit a 17-Year High in 2019

    https://www.cfo.com/leadership/2019/06/ceo-departures-hit-a-17-year-high-in-2019/

    CEO Departures Begin 2020 at Record Pace

    https://247wallst.com/jobs/2020/02/13/ceo-departures-begin-2020-at-record-pace/

    Pace of CEO Departures Spikes in 2018

    https://www.cfo.com/people/2018/12/pace-of-ceo-departures-spikes-in-2018/

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  37. @37, @41: Yeah. A 200% uptick seems pretty significant.

    Ahhh, says the anklebiters, that's just the boomers dying off.

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  38. Crew wrote:@37, @41: Yeah. A 200% uptick seems pretty significant.

    Ahhh, says the anklebiters, that's just the boomers dying off.

    It's all good, any way you look at it!

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  39. Now crowd fund a black water account, and send the Mercs to NZ--- the same spot where all the fools decided to gather...

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  40. A rebel without a General wrote:Vox is it time to sell stock or a time to buy.

    I agree with Snidely Whiplash that the question is in error. However I will parrot Warren Buffett's advice that you should sell when you need the money (and not until then), and buy when the business is making lots of money compared to its stock price.

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  41. My tell has hit.

    Stay safe VFM and Dark Lord. The rats are fleeing.

    Just in time for an outbreak in NZ.

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  42. @33

    My sister and parents live in the Seattle area.
    The first US case was in the doctor's office my parents had an appointment with. First US highschool closed was a few miles away.

    Bezos fleeing makes sense.

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  43. @41

    QAnon predicting CEO departures to avoid mass arrests in 2017 isn't the same as CEO's departing in 2020 to get ahead of an economic downturn. Q was wrong.

    Not to mention Q's predictions like: Mueller being on Trump's side and investigating the Dems, Jeff Sessions indicting The Swamp (Trump fired him), and the December 5 mass arrest that never happened. But all of those will be memoryholed or brshed off with "disinformation is necessary".

    QAnon plays off of your desire for good news. You will use mental gymnastics to convince yourself QAnon is right because people instinctively desire good news over bad news even if it's false good news.

    QAnon either exists to demoralize Trump supporters by making them look like cultish QAnon Boomers if they still support Trump. Or it exists to make Trump supporters complacent as Kushner hijacks the presidency. QAnonism is cancer to Trumpism.

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  44. Their out of the fake economy before the real economy busts.

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  45. @49. Johnny

    The average person still doesn't know anything about Q, so stop getting your bowtie twisted.

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  46. QAnon predicting CEO departures to avoid mass arrests in 2017 isn't the same as CEO's departing in 2020 to get ahead of an economic downturn.
    Perhaps it's time to embrace the power of 'and'.

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  47. Q promotes high morale. And the more that such morale depends on expectations of draining the Swamp, the more pressure there will be on elected officials to make it so.

    Do you even mass psychology, bro?

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  48. Read this little Guardian interview last year:

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

    Key point: The futurist was paid for a speech, then claims to be ushered in to an interview with 5 wealthy men:

    "They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

    Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

    The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

    This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time.

    That’s when it hit me: at least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the ageing process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape."

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    1. Planning for the so-called Event out loud as a very rich man is maybe one step lower than sandwich board "end-is-nigh" loitering. But those fellows may be in the know about some really evil goings on in addition to the piles of debt they've helped create. The final collapse of the debt based fiat aggregated "global economy" about which we constantly hear claims to the tenth or hundredth of a percent at which time there are no deposits to steal or tax claims to make to prop up creaking lenders will be the calamitous event that dislodges these fellows. Many of the rest of us and our offspring will muddle through, again.

      In the meantime they for the most part without apparent concern fund the party of control and Marxist teachings in uni.

      They should use locks that only work with their finger imprint or retinal scan for all this stored food they plan on having and controlling vis their staff. That should work fine.

      They'll get what they deserve.

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  49. @33 Bezos lives in Seattle. Which is only marginally better.

    It really is not. Using pressure washers to clean the streets of feces is Racist.

    And Queer Kids Stuff YouTube's is being hired to teach the Children's librarians how to to LGBTQ storytimes.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecsVoeJcsXbAra7Sl4mOPw

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  50. I imagine those CEOs are fleeing from blacks who now think it is OK to kill whites because of Muh Racism!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/mass-shooter-at-milwaukees-miller-coors-brewery-identified-as-51-year-old-anthony-ferrill-shooter-felt-he-was-victim-of-racism/

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  51. "Vox is it time to sell stock or a time to buy."

    It's time to sell (but I would not advise selling short).

    It's time to move into cash. If it's an IRA or other type of portfolio, keep it INSIDE the account, or you'll get hammered on taxes.

    When this all gets sorted out, you'll have the liquidity available to buy up the bargains.

    It's not often that a huge market upset has several weeks advance notice before actually coming to fruition.

    We're all gonna see who's been "swimming naked" with their supply chains having no or too few domestic second-sources.

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  52. "You mean "sabotage their aircraft *before* they take off"?"

    [Eye roll]

    Why yes, of course, Zander Sander.

    Unless you have some way of sabotaging an aircraft in such as way as to prevent it from taking off and leaving the country AFTER it's already taken off, then, yes, you sabotage it BEFORE it's taken off.

    Do you even logic?

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    1. Read yourself again. You said sabotage aircraft so that they can't take off. My humor missed you by about two SD's by stating the aircraft should be sabotaged and still take of with the consequences implcit in that statement. You broke my rule of ignoring Aspies. Happy?

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  53. @52
    A Qualtrics poll showed that 58% of Floridians had enough familiarity with QAnon to hold an opinion. Anecdotally its been all over the internet.

    @53
    And?

    @54
    Boomers who're into Q could just as easily be swept up with your standard Sean Hannity pro-Trump talking points. The Dissident Right has been blackpilled by QAnon. "Trust The Plan" has become a meme used against anyone on the Dissident Right who still holds any trust in Trump.

    Q gives people false hope that some 4D Chess maneuver is coming up so they should stay complacent rather than be more demanding of their leaders. "Trust The Plan".

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  54. "QAnon predicting CEO departures to avoid mass arrests in 2017 isn't the same as CEO's departing in 2020 to get ahead of an economic downturn. Q was wrong."

    YOU mis-stated that.

    "QAnon predicting in 2017 future CEO departures to avoid mass arrests isn't the same as CEO's departing in 2020 to get ahead of an economic downturn."

    There, I fixed it for you.

    Now that the premise has been corrected, the rest of your comment doesn't even make sense.

    "Not to mention Q's predictions like: Mueller being on Trump's side and investigating the Dems, Jeff Sessions indicting The Swamp (Trump fired him), and the December 5 mass arrest that never happened. But all of those will be memoryholed or brshed off with "disinformation is necessary"."

    Trump firing Sessions was just theater. Just like Trump firing Bannon was theater.

    Sessions racked up 100,000 federal indictments in 2 years. Now if Trump was dissatisfied with what Sessions was doing, he would have fired him a hell of a lot sooner.

    Mueller's investigation of the Dem's provided enough dirt for Durham to go full bore in the current investigation of the coup. As with most special prosecutors, Mueller's authority didn't go much farther than indicting his target (Trump) and his team. Mueller revealed what needed to be revealed, without it looking like something else.
    Remember, Mueller is also dirty (approved the Uranium One sale to Russia sponsored by Hillary and kickbacks to Clinton Family Foundation for Pedophilia and Tyrannical Women in Government), and did other things. Mueller was probably told that he had better give enough evidence of what actually happened, or else the next person in the DOJ's crosshairs would be himself. And it might still happen anyways, but Trump will probably tell DOJ to give him some credit for verifying that, as Trump stated, his campaign was spied on.

    As for December 5th arrests. Remember, you have to understand Q-time. Posting on Nov 30, 2019 about upcoming arrests on Dec 5 could very well mean on Dec 5, 2020. We have seen this time and again with Q. Q predicts some government action, and the action happens months later (to the day, sometimes even the hour and minute), or on an annual anniversary date of the date that is implied if it were written in other contexts (i.e. not by Q).

    NOW that Trump has the judges at all of the levels (Circuit courts, Appeals courts and SCOTUS), expect to see the previously predicted arrests start happening, as it IS 2020 now.

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  55. "New Zealand? Isn't that where the rich and famous built their bug out shelters?"

    Yes. They're running for their holes in case Corona-Chan successfully woos Mars, kicking off helter skelter.

    For those not in the know, war, famine, and plague have a way of arriving to reinforce each other. Each of them encourages the other horsemen to ride out along with them.

    "Isn't it just as likely this is an economic indicator, that these are rats"

    ...clustering at the exit holes of a ship they think is sinking.

    "Perhaps one corona infected CEO will get the rest of them in New Zealand for us"

    This is how we know they're not even well educated. They missed classics like The Masque of the Red Death.

    "More like right after TRUMP signed that Exec. Order authorizing seizure of property from those engaged in human and sex trafficking."

    That order was a particularly telling flag. Just think, why on Earth would Trump be particularly interested in confiscating property from that set of people, unless he knows that they often coincide with wealth?

    "If NZ is smart, they'll wise up and refuse entry to all of these psychopaths"

    If NZ is particularly smart they'll encourage entry, and even provide complimentary zyklon showers upon arrival. Wouldn't do to leave all that wealth infested with parasites. Err....

    "Ahhh, says the anklebiters, that's just the boomers dying off."

    Your anklebiters taste suspiciously like frosting on my cake.

    "so stop getting your bowtie twisted."

    Oh come now, 'taint the man's bowtie that's twisted, can't you see it's his schwartz? He's got the testicular (((torsion))).

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  56. Operation Bear Raid underway? A prediction with both a trend / conclusion / confirmation and a scheduled date is a bold play.

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  57. Re stocks, there's a Bubba Gump Shrimp outcome or two possible. "Stocks" and "the market" are not the same as select stocks on selected bourses that are issued by companies able to respond well to needs created by this situation. See eg Zoom Video Comm. for the time being. That is, if the media's / Dems' Operation Fear does not die aborning or the conditions resolve for the better in the spring.

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  58. "A Qualtrics poll showed that 58% of Floridians had enough familiarity with QAnon to hold an opinion."

    98% of Americans have an opinion about nuclear power. That doesn't mean they have adequate familiarity. It just means they've heard the word within pro- and mostly anti- propaganda so that they THINK they know enough to have an opinion. Most of what the American public thinks it knows about nuclear power is nothing but flat out lies, usually delivered in the form of ridiculous movies.

    For example: Three Mile Island never had a meltdown, and was NEVER a danger to the public, as it shut itself down EXACTLY LIKE IT WAS DESIGNED TO DO in response to a condition caused by operator error.
    Yet this was twisted into the ridiculous scenarion of "The China Syndrome"

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  59. Akulkis wrote:If NZ is smart, they'll wise up and refuse entry to all of these psychopaths when they start running away from their crimes, the people they've fleeced, and justice.
    Air Defense Artillery is a thing…

    Snidely Whiplash wrote:A rebel without a General wrote:Vox is it time to sell stock or a time to buy.
    It's time to stop worrying about the stock market. In 2 months, the concern could go from "return on investment" to "return of investment" to "survival."

    This may very well be true. If it is, I think a lot of people will be pissed at Trump: given the "Best Economy Ever!" spiel, combined with the non-action regarding cutting off China import/export due to Corona-chan, it'll be pretty easy to paint him as more concerned about "the economy" than the people of these United States.

    It's really frustrating when you realize that Trump could have gotten in front of everything by cutting off said trade, instituting quarantine procedures, and basically saying to all the now-boned China-sourcing companies: "I've been telling you for three years that you ought to invest in America and move your manufacturing here… if you'd listened, this wouldn't be a problem for you." and then let those 'TOO BIG TO FAIL' companies die.

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  60. It's really frustrating when you realize that Trump could have gotten in front of everything by cutting off said trade, instituting quarantine procedures, and basically saying to all the now-boned China-sourcing companies: "I've been telling you for three years that you ought to invest in America and move your manufacturing here… if you'd listened, this wouldn't be a problem for you."

    Before manufacturing will have a major resurgence in the US, we will need to dismantle most of the regulatory and legal apparatus. The sad truth is, as corrupt as China is to do business with, the Han are more predictable and less predatory (to an individual company) than the EPA, EEOC, OSHA, state L&I boards, courts, and state and local taxes.

    Building a factory in the US is making yourself a target.

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  61. Jack Amok wrote:It's really frustrating when you realize that Trump could have gotten in front of everything by cutting off said trade, instituting quarantine procedures, and basically saying to all the now-boned China-sourcing companies: "I've been telling you for three years that you ought to invest in America and move your manufacturing here… if you'd listened, this wouldn't be a problem for you."

    Before manufacturing will have a major resurgence in the US, we will need to dismantle most of the regulatory and legal apparatus. The sad truth is, as corrupt as China is to do business with, the Han are more predictable and less predatory (to an individual company) than the EPA, EEOC, OSHA, state L&I boards, courts, and state and local taxes.

    Building a factory in the US is making yourself a target.

    You're right, and yet I would love to be able to build a factory in my home-town: I want to make things better for the people in my home-town. I also want to make things better for my State and the US as a whole… but honestly, without God's help I can do nothing.

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  62. You didn't get that graph from Michael E Mann, did you?

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  63. The Han require manufacturers to create joint ventures with "local partners," many of which have set up plants down the street turning out the same products using slightly different brand names.

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  64. "That order was a particularly telling flag. Just think, why on Earth would Trump be particularly interested in confiscating property from that set of people, unless he knows that they often coincide with wealth?"

    Becausee it's part of the RICO statute.

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  65. ". My humor missed you by about two SD's by..."

    You aren't nearly as smart as you think you are.

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