Blue Team Forms Alliance with Red's Neocons

America's Democratic Party joined with war mongering Republican neocons to form the Alliance for Securing Democracy, according to The Intercept.  The Blue Team's Laura Rosenberger and Red Jamie Fly are chief staffers for the group.  The following are board members, some with private equity affiliations:

Red Team
Mike Chertoff - Chertoff Group Growth Equity
Bill Crystal
Mike Rogers - Trident Capital

Blue Team
Michael Morrell
Jake Sullivan
Nicole Wong - Refactor Capital

"Democrats often justify this union as a mere marriage of convenience: a pragmatic, temporary alliance necessitated by the narrow goal of stopping Trump."  Pragmatic, temporary alliances are essentially "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

That practice in Afghanistan got the U.S. Obama bin Laden, al Qaeda and 9-11.  The United States partnered with dangerous allies in Libya and Syria. It remains to be seen how that blows back on innocent civilians at home and abroad.

America's two political parties make war mostly for public consumption.  The Alliance for Securing Democracy is about political insiders pursuit of power and money.  Corporate donors with deep pockets get out-sized influence.  The combination is both intoxicating and dangerous.

Potential FBI Chief Wrote Abysmal Katrina Investigation Report

News reports indicated Frances Townsend to be a potential FBI Director in the wake of James Comey's firing.  Townsend is a private equity underwriter, as are most of President Donald Trump's appointments.  Prior to PEU employment Frances served as White House Homeland Security Advisor under President George W. Bush.  In that role she conducted the investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Her investigation was abysmal.  It omitted the hospital with thirty five patient deaths after Katrina made landfall.  Twenty five of those deaths were on the LifeCare Hospital's unit on the seveth floor of Memorial Medical Center.  The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare just weeks before Katrina made landfall.

Fran Townsend was part of the White House team that failed Americans in need.  She crafted the White House Lessons Learned report on Hurricane Katrina.  Her poor quality report should disqualify her from serving as FBI Director.  We don't need corporate risk management at the expense of truth and public service.  Brand Trump needs help but that should not happen to the detriment of our country. 

United Beats Passenger, Traumatizes Louisville Flight

The world witnessed United Airlines prioritize its operating needs over the customers it supposedly serves.  It went so far as to beat and bloody a physician trying to get home to see patients to accommodate a United flight crew.  In the process passengers objected to this man's horrific treatment.  One suggested the flight crew rent a car to get to their work destination.

David Dao will have his day in court.  The irony is United could have offered the four passengers $1 million each and come out better.  Instead it used a computer to randomly select seated passengers for ejection.  That impersonal procedure became very personal for Dr. Dao.  It also incited the wrath of nearly anyone viewing the video online.

Corporate power, hubris and greed contribute to the dehumanization of anyone who doesn't willingly follow company edicts, no matter how nonsensical.  A sixty nine year old physician got the tar beat out him for asking United to honor the seat the company gave him.  It took United's CEO three tries to get close to what happened, a horrific crime his company perpetrated against a passenger and a psychologically traumatic event for anyone on that plane.

Power, hubris and greed are alive and well in America's corporate enforcement state.  United's dehumanization is one window into this abusive malformation.  Lesser abuses happen to customers and employees inside companies every day.  They have the same root.

Dr. Dao wants to ensure something like this happens to no one else.  I trust him to have more impact than any CEO looking to optimize their executive incentive compensation.  United hired CEO Oscar Munoz in September 2015.  He took a medical leave of absence from October 19, 2015 until March 14, 2016.  For his six weeks of work in 2015 Munoz earned $5.8 million.  The United CEO's 2016 pay should be made public the end of April in a SEC filing.

Change is in the air for United.  Dr. Dao won't fly anytime soon.  Injustice lasts until justice is served.  It can come from the top but that requires reflection, insight and balance, rare characteristics in our hallowed halls of power. 

Pelosi's Mandatory Public Option & Summers' Fake Bank Toughness

The history rewrite by members of the Blue Team is astounding now that they no longer hold the reigns of power.  Nancy Pelosi said on Face the Nation in mid-March:

"I would have had a public option. I would have done a different bill."

This isn't some pie in the sky wish.  She was Speaker of the House in a Blue majority Congress with a Blue President in the White House.

Next Blue team economic advisor and consummate insider Larry Summers turned into Pinocchio with nose growing statements.

As head of Barack Obama’s National Economic Council during 2009 and 2010 at the height of the foreclosure crisis, Larry Summers broke many promises to help homeowners while simultaneously dismissing Wall Street’s criminality. Now, after the Obama administration has left power and Summers has no ability to influence anything, he finds himself “disturbed” that settlements for mortgage misconduct are full of lies. 

When it was discovered that mortgage companies were using false documents to execute foreclosures, in violation of numerous legal statutes, Summers dismissed it.

The Obama team began with a free pass for Wall Street.  I wonder what insider Larry Summers hopes to gain with his memory challenged statement?  Who are the insiders he's catering to by speaking out now? 

The Blue team is shameless in their self-serving manipulations.  Pelosi and Summers expect us not to remember.  Well, we do. 

Trump's Over Cute Election Exhortation

Some words are said to manipulate voters.  Apparently "Drain the Swamp" is so yesterday.  Trump's cabinet of publicly subsidized billionaires will be interesting to watch.  It's the Red Team's turn to steer Uncle Sam's nearly $2 trillion budget to reward friends and supporters.

Election 2016: Trump Wins Battle of Narcissists

The American public had a choice of two candidates with outsized personalities and egos.  Red team candidate Donald Trump mobilized enough politically and economically disaffected voters to win the Electoral College, which actually votes on December 19th.  The Blue Team's Hillary Clinton received more overall votes but not in the right locations to win the election.  Her focus on "Donald the Monster" wasn't inspiring and she represented the massively enriched political insider class carrying ethical question marks.

It's hard to get a balanced person on the ticket due to the rigorous dehumanization required of candidates on the campaign fundraising trail.  Nevertheless, 2016 provided two candidates with signs of narcissism.      

No empathy
No remorse 
Entitled
Deceptive
Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
Emotionally dependent
Uses battering for control

Trump has it in spades.  Hillary's disappearance after the election and her team's inability to self-examine indicate a circle the wagon approach to protect their candidate.  Bad outcomes are never the narcissist's fault.

Voters actually believed Trump's calls for economic change and his "drain the swamp" promise.

They will tell you whatever they believe you need to know in order to get what they are attempting to extract from you. 

The Red and Blue teams ran for the right to ignore their campaign promises, reward their donors/sponsors and steer the federal budget to the benefit of their friends/insiders.  Trump extracted his votes and will now appoint Red Team alligators and water moccasins to his new and improved swamp.

As a victim tries to pick up the pieces, What must be remembered is that you were deliberately targeted, lied to and manipulated by a skilled con-artist, for their own gain.

Anyone whose worked for a narcissist knows the hell they can unleash on those they view as enemies.  I expect Donald to be himself as President.  I'm not sure the system can control him.  The only thing working in the common man's favor is Donald wants to leave a legacy, even if his road is paved with unexamined, self absorbed intentions.

Update 1-22-17:  A bizarre White House press briefing, the first for President Donald Trump, began the battering for control, which continued the next day.  Image is everything, a point made by White House advisor Anthony Scarramuci at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Update 1-26-17:  HuffPo ran a piece on this topic on 12-20-16, several weeks after ArisFreedomSwitch.  Image management is everything for Trump.

Update 2-8-17:  Vanity Fair ran portions of an investment letter that referenced concerning Trump behaviors.

Update 3-20-17:  Trump's White House employs loyalty monitors and enforcers.  Image management is critical and unconditional worship mandatory.  

Update 3-30-17:  President Trump has the opportunity to act on behalf of his voters by protecting internet privacy, what little remains.

Freedom to Protect Hillary

The Clintons helped usher in the marriage of business, money and politics in the early 1990's.  The end of President Bill Clinton's terms is roughly the beginning of two decades of income stagnation for the average American.  The super wealthy, like the Clintons, saw their fortunes rise dramatically during the same period.

The practice of selling political influence and government facilitating corporate interests/profits is several decades old and employed by both the Red and Blue political teams.

The public knows that justice for insider class is spelled "Just Us."  The Hillary e-mail debacle is a window into this reality.

Had a citizen or low level government employee acted like Mrs. Clinton they would be severely prosecuted and rot in jail for years.   Instead the Justice Department and FBI circled the wagons around Hillary by changing standard practices to clear her name.

The all points response conformed to a pattern described by the WSJ.

"Clinton Scandal Ritual: lie, deny, revise, claim not to remember specifics, stall for time. When it passes, call the story “old news” full of questions that have already been answered. 'As I’ve repeatedly said . . .'

The Clinton milieu can be reduced to "what can I do in the present moment to maintain or improve my image, power, status, wealth and influence?"  Lying is but a tool in the arsenal for skilled manipulators.

"the successful __________ may engage in unethical and illegal business practices and have a toxic impact on others.  Typically, ____________ create a lot of chaos and generally tend to play people off against each other.”

The term describes high flyers with psychopathic traits such as insincerity, a lack of empathy or remorse – people who are egocentric, charming and superficial.

Our "Just Us" system worked diligently to maintain Hillary's good name.  It's part of the Blue Team's Freedom Switch.

Justice is "Just Us" and elections are the opportunity citizens have every four years to select the team that gets to enrich their friends and donors.  That is until the next election.