Controligarchs

November 15, 2023
A howl of protest against the globalist elite. In a book similar to Carol Roth's You Will Own Nothing, Bruner, associate director of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, charges that Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Georges Soros, and other billionaires are "creating technology and making investments that will micromanage every aspect of your life." Consider the Covid-19 pandemic, which the uber-wealthy manipulated so that freedom-loving Americans would have to wear masks and stay home. Proof? In 2019, Johns Hopkins ran a series of projections to model a global pandemic, exercises that "covered lockdowns and quarantines, the shuttering of small businesses and mass job losses, widespread protests and riots, and the implementation of surveillance measures and biometric IDs." Worse were the social media giants, which conspired to suppress misinformation. The list goes on. Gates loves fertilizer and "fake foods" like those produced by Impossible Foods, which has "the audacious goal of using genetically modified yeast to create a vegan burger that tastes (and even 'bleeds') like meat." It gets worse, according to Bruner. Oprah Winfrey has joined forces with other billionaires to "champion birth control and abortion," likely in some nefarious exercise in replacement theory, and Soros wants to convert democracy to "a Soros-controlled 'open society' "--and so on. It's telling that the targets of Bruner's conspiracy theories are almost all on the left, and though he holds Elon Musk in some suspicion and divines that Ivanka Trump has not been a "very vocal opponent of the...globalist worldview," there's not a peep about the Koch brothers, who really love genetic modification. Also, writes Bruner, Donald Trump didn't have a bit of help from the Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. A scattershot attempt to hit the broad side of a liberal barn.

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