Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/both-liberals-and-conservatives-lie
https://theduran.com/both-liberals-and-conservatives-lie-hide-the-truth/
Both liberals and conservatives lie, HIDE the truth.
13 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
They both blame ‘the other side’, when, actually, EACH of the ‘two sides’ (which together constitute the entire public) is being controlled by the mere thousand-or-so super-wealthy few individuals who — because of their control over the ‘news’-media, politicians, think tanks, etc. — effectively control public opinion, and so control the Government in this ‘democracy’ and benefit from it even when the public (both the liberals and the conservatives) are being harmed by it. Those ‘two sides’ blame each other — INSTEAD OF blaming only the billionaires (who, collectively, on both the conservative and the liberal side, benefit enormously FROM these policies — which harm the public).
Here’s an example of this deception, on the conservative side, on July 11th, from Zero Hedge, “JPM CEO Jamie Dimon Unloads On Democrats: ‘Idiots' Obsessed With Failed Wokeism”:
The inconvenient truth for Democrats is that there is still no bottom in sight, as the party of leftist radicals doubles, triples, and quadruples down on diversity, equity, inclusion, all things woke, and most alarmingly, a rapid descent into embracing Marxist ideas. That's why rational people have been jumping ship from the imploding party. Just look at the tech bros who voted for President Trump and how the right side of the political spectrum reformatted itself with a relatable message: 'America First'...
On Thursday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon spoke at a foreign ministry event in Dublin, blasting the Democratic Party for going off the deep end with DEI, gender politics, and a series of failed policies that he said have harmed the country. "I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they're idiots," Dimon said at the event.
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Holy. Shit.
Jamie Dimon on Democrats today:
“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats today, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy they rolled out has failed.”
"I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed." Dimon continued, "They overdid DEI .... We all were devoted to reaching out to the Black community, Hispanic, the LGBT community, the disabled — we do all of that. But to the extent, they gotta stop it. And they gotta go back to being more practical. They're very ideological."
He described himself as "barely a Democrat" since the party of woke has fallen into the abyss. His criticism of the Democratic Party also extended to politics in New York City — particularly Manhattan, where the bank is headquartered — which now faces the possibility of a Marxist becoming mayor later this year.
"Barely a Democrat"? Please. Dimon was a full-blown kneeler not long ago…
Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator.
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Jamie Dimon kneeling on a taxpayer.
"This guy [Zohran Mamdani] just got elected — he's more of a Marxist than a socialist, and now you see these Democrats falling all over themselves saying, 'Well, he's pointing out some real problems, affordable housing and grocery prices.' OK, maybe," Dimon said. "There's the same ideological mush that means nothing in the real world."
Dimon's criticism of the Democratic Party is nothing new. In late May, the CEO blasted Democrats for the border invasion they facilitated over the Biden-Harris regime's first term.
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JAMIE DIMON: “I call it blue tape. Republicans generally don't like red tape … But most Democrats, they love it. They want more of it and they want to make it so confusing you can't even meet the rules, so you get punished and fined afterwards.”
"If you do not control the borders, you are going to destroy our country ... Now that they are sending migrants into New York ... all my super liberal friends realize what the problem is," Dimon told CNBC last year.
The Post Millennial
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: “If you do not control the borders, you are going to destroy our country ... Now that they are sending migrants into New York ... all my super liberal friends realize what the problem is.”
Dimon's criticism signals that the party of leftist radicals is nowhere near a reset. In fact, it has gone further off course — doubling, even tripling down on failed policies that are driving more of its own supporters to jump ship and align with the America First movement.
Jason Curtis Anderson from One City Rising highlights just how far off course Zohran and the Democratic Party have gone (and spoiler alert: it's bad):
Zohran’s worldview is shaped by his father, who has dedicated his life to promoting anti-Western values and decolonization—a field in which he is regarded as a thought leader.
Marxism has become the philosophy of the “death to America” class, …
The conservatives allege that there is nothing on the left that is not Marxist. They do this because Karl Marx was so stupid that he blamed society’s problems on “the bourgeoisie” or middle class INSTEAD of on the aristocracy (the billionaires), and he even advocated for the extremely stupid labor theory of value, whose empirical falsehood guarantees the failure of any Marxist economy. But conservatives are so stupid as to fall for that ridiculous lie-based attack against ALL of the left (that attack’s presumption that there is no leftist other than Marxist ones).
And here’s an example of this deception on the liberal side, on July 12th, from The Daily Beast, “Plea Deal for 9/11 Mastermind Tossed in Trash”:
A plea deal that would have meant life in prison for accused 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tossed out by a federal appeals court Friday.
In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” acted within his authority when he nixed the deal last August.
“Having properly assumed the convening authority, the Secretary determined that the ‘families and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commission trials carried out.’ The Secretary acted within the bounds of his legal authority, and we decline to second-guess his judgment,” wrote Judges Patricia Millett and Neomi Rao, appointees of former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump, respectively. …
The deal had been struck, a senior law enforcement official close to the situation told the Daily Beast, due to concerns from the defense and victims’ families that it might not be legally feasible for the Osama bin Laden confidant to get the death penalty amid claims he was tortured while in custody. …
That article lies by pretending that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was guilty of having planned the 9/11 attacks, though the only ‘evidence’ the U.S. Government has that he did is that after he had been waterboarded 183 times, he signed a confession that he had planned those attacks. It was not willingly said by him but had been ONLY under that (ever since 1929) internationally recognized form of “torture” extracted from him by the U.S. Government — the Government BY America’s billionaires (not by America’s conservatives, and not by America’s liberals, but by America’s billionaires — both the conservative ones and the liberal ones). The U.S. Government has no legal case against him but is keeping him in prison incommunicado until he dies, so that he will never be allowed to say to the public what his case is. His case has not been, and will not be, made public; only the U.S. Government’s ‘case’ (which is an entirely illegal ‘case’ instead of an actual “case”) has been made public.
Consequently: America is a dictatorship by America’s billionaires — NOT by “conservatives” nor by “liberals” — but this is instead a Government that is effectively on the basis of one-dollar-one-vote (rule by wealth) instead of one-person-one-vote (rule by the people). And BOTH the liberal billionaires’ media AND the conservative billionaires’ media HIDE this fact FROM the public, instead of to publish it to the people.
The reality is that humans — just like other animal-species — are easy for anyone in the billionaire-class and richer to exploit en-masse on the basis of emotions, simply by hiring tried-and-proven experts at doing this (such as also are hired by corporations that advertise — it’s all about marketing). It’s the professional way to control the public. Billionaires do it all the time. It’s very expensive to do, and requires an enormous amount of empirical studies, tests (such as this), in order to do it so that all parts of an entire marketing campaign will together produce success — produce control in the desired way, the way that the investors intend and fund. When what is being marketed is the Government itself (which creates and enforces the laws), billionaire-class investors will invest whatever they must in order to win what they want. They will and do control the Government, by controlling the voters in this way. They can and do terrorize their sucker-voters by appealing to them on the basis of their irrational fears (such as this Rupert Murdoch smear of Zohran Mamdani as being an ‘anti-Semite’ based on the false assumption that anyone who supports the Palestinians against the Israelis MUST and can only BE an ‘anti-Semite’ — and Murdoch threw in there as a bonus the false idea that Chinese and pro-Chinese people, who are hated also by the owners of the New York Times and whom the U.S. Government is aiming to harm, are plain evil). To be frank about this: since they believe in one-dollar-one-vote rule instead of in one-person-one-vote rule, they (not ONLY the conservative ones but also the liberal ones) actually believe, deep down, that they have a RIGHT to control the Government. (That is a bipartisan belief amongst them, though some of the liberal ones CLAIM to support the one-person-one-vote rule.)
The billionaires are united against the public but have fierce disagreements amongst themselves, and many truly believe that liberal billionaires must be defeated, or that conservative billionaires must be defeated, and their media reflect those discordant views, but this isn’t democratic (or “republican” as Republicans prefer to call it) media; it still is aristocratic media because it represents ONLY billionaires against the public in order to control the public — and that (control of the public by billionaires) is inconsistent with ANY democracy. It is aristocracy instead.
Now under America’s first-ever billionaire President we even have headlines such as, on Politico on July 12th, “Trump threatens to revoke US citizenship of longtime critic Rosie O’Donnell: The president — who has already sought to limit birthright citizenship for the children of some immigrants — has no clear authority to do so.” He doesn’t lose his political base even after illegally using the U.S. Government to get back against individuals toward whom he has personal peeves. Thus far, the U.S. Supreme Court has been allowing him to do such things — as-if we had a continuation of the monarchy that our Foounders overthrew and replaced, but now being an Amrican monarch. They constantly, and increasingly boldly, rape — and get away with raping —our Founders’ Constitution. There is no accountability in the U.S. regime.
If this sounds like a desperate situation for the public, that’s because it is. To fix such a problem requires extreme changes, no merely moderate ones — it requires replacing the present system. I have elsewhere described my view of what that would be. (In any case, it would need to be an even more profound change than that of America’s first Revolution, in 1776, because this one would need to redefine what “democracy” MEANS — and not merely what the nation’s Constitution and laws ‘should be’ in order to supposedly ‘embody’ that Constitution). Getting there would not be easy or quick (nor was it so for the Founders of America). If America can’t make this change — this fundamental change of its system — then this dictatorship by the billionaires will only keep getting even worse than it already is. And who would want that, except the billionaires, and their millions of agents — and fools?
This is why hiding the truth is necessary for both liberal and conservative billionaires, and it’s why they won’t hire or retain agents who won’t comply with that requirement.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
