The fraudulent activity that you’re not allowed to talk about is called round tripping. And you can pick lots of valid articles to read about it with an unbiased Google search. For example:
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/red-flags-in-round-tripping/
You’re not allowed to talk about it now because it’s awfully close to hitting home about what Trump was actually charged with. “Look at how awesome my businesses are! Sure I deserve a better insurance rating! Look at how poor I am! Sure I deserve to not pay taxes!”
Since being declared a terrorist for even insinuating that there’s something wrong about it, I won’t even mention Trump’s self contained bubble of fake economic double talk. Let’s make up a small scale example.
Your brother wants to get a loan to buy a house. And if his landscaping business looks healthy he can get a great rate, something necessary to make it work in this several generations of economic insanity that means ordinary kids today will never get a loan. He cuts your grass for free, but you both agree that you’re going to pay him a million dollars a week to cut your grass. On paper. In return, you pay him a million dollars a week to keep his records. You do bookkeeping work for the church, so that superficially looks good.
If the books are only superficially glanced at then the revenue on the income statement looks awesome. It’s just the questionable lack of cash on the balance sheet to support the revenue that’s a problem.
And this entire cult pyramid structure is an intellectual round trip. And Qanon and Qanon adjacent activity like sports gematria scams plays a bigger part than you may be willing to admit. Anything for a piece of that sweet online grifting bubble pie.
Regardless of which side the online grifter chooses to target the assets of emotionally supercharged unthinking drones are available. The broadest and not nuanced brush stroke I’m willing to paint is that pro right tends towards anything money related, particularly not paying taxes. Pro left is the resistance that points out the evils of the pro right, who cowardly crumble with a, “Well, there’s nothing I can do about it without you giving me more money.” And you have the moderates who play both sides of the fence.
Eventually, the conspiracies for the extremes build up. And extremism is a word that gets used more and more now. Going to school for a career that is labeled as independent is a tough wake up call when thrown into the real world. Your lawyers, accountants, economists, investment bankers, and landlords are told there is a code of ethics. On the surface the code is unbiased. That CPA isn’t just a certified accountant. That CPA is an INDEPENDENT auditor. Judging the books on the merit of the numbers alone. That landlord is following the edicts of the FAIR HOUSING ACT, not making decisions based on skin color. That lawyer will be disbarred if he doesn’t follow the rules. And if you want to be an ordinary and mostly moderate just trying to feed the kids, well, what are you supposed to do for advice when in practice the advisors are constantly covering up bad numbers because the government is constantly covering up bad numbers? You’re not simply allowed to be peacefully left alone. The online push for extremism to pick a side requires a lot of response to outside stimulus to finally pick a side.
The potential whistleblower has to deal with the Qanon intellectual round trip. There’s always that background noise of hOlY sHiT tHeSe MoThErFuCkErS aRe ViOlEnT aNd CrAzY. Maybe in public I should just go with the flow. Not call them out. Not even give the slightest hint that I’m anti Trump in even the most basic of circumstance like tariffs not actually working. I don’t want to be the guy that has the crazy man with the hammer trying to beat him to death. Let somebody else arbitrarily labeled as the terrorist liberal be that guy. An emotional currency traded on social media activity with no numbers or facts to support anything. Go up the food chain to Fox News. Hey, I don’t need to support the really weird shit like Pizzagate. But the coworkers are all talking about what they heard on Fox News. I’m not dumb enough to give the Pizzagate story any serious credibility. But maybe I can skate by with calling liberals libtards or woke DEI hires and I can fly under the radar.
And the more the cycle of unchallenged intellectual round tripping goes unchecked, the higher the chance that the belief in the extreme views becomes more ok. It started with, “But what about my investments?” and gets pushed towards, “Yeah, let ICE go ahead and throw my neighbor in jail. His skin is just the wrong color.” A self perpetuating intellectual bubble. Qanon for intellectual intimidation. FOX for Trump is good for the economy and your investments. And Trump as the guy willing to contradict himself on a daily basis and commute the sentences of criminals, lie about crowd sizes, and drop hints that he genuinely admires Hitler. The toxic narcissist is a great source for unfiltered and self contained intellectual round tripping.
Today, I SHOULD be going to the local No Kings rally. I’ve convinced myself and genuinely believe if somebody asked me to I would follow my moral compass and say yes. But even I am not immune to cognitive biases while being functionally aware of their impact far more than the average person. Instead of asking around to see if someone else is interested, I’ll probably just do what I do every weekend. By myself like every weekend. Because my personality IRL just screams out that I want nothing to do with Trump and the cycle of intellectual round tripping he and the other morbidly wealthy grifters have created. And I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want to risk the unfair arbitrary label placed on them to think the cRaZy QaNoN and MAGA crowd to instantly get the trolling attention.
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