rant · moment 21 of 24

America Built on Addiction, and the Wheelchair GoFundMe

from 165 - Please Come Kill Us · #165

7 min

Tim argues the whole country is designed to hook people on poison food and consumerism, then tells the story of a viral GoFundMe wheelchair for a sick child being celebrated instead of recognized as a failure of the healthcare system.

In this bit10 moments
  • Most jobs in America are service jobs where people are treated like cattle to buy shit, but money feels fake anyway.
  • Tim argues there's no conniving elite with a grand design—just chaos at the top and no actual endgame like depopulation.
  • The economy is inflated from 400 years of monetary policy and credit expansion, creating plates in the air that can't be unraveled.
  • Whitney Webb's Epstein articles show how criminals, government, intelligence agencies, and billionaires form overlapping crime syndicates nobody can see.
  • Skull and Bones and similar groups maintain control by having compromising information on members so they can close the lid on them.
  • An invisible mechanism controls what stories appear in newspapers; there are many criminal groups with sophisticated operations, not five people in a room.
  • Tim notes democracy is unwieldy at this scale, and asks whether anything could get done in America without using criminal networks and backdoor methods.
  • Real horrors and tragedies in America are written off as business as usual—evictions, medical debt, sick people—while Europeans have health insurance.
  • Tim jokes that people compete on American Ninja Warrior for insulin and call it a privilege, suggesting that's where the country is headed.
  • A three-year-old with a disease whose insurance wouldn't cover a wheelchair had one built by Home Depot workers—tweeted as inspirational instead of as an indictment.
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Jeffrey EpsteinDonald TrumpMeyer LanskyWhitney WebbJacob Hoover

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