I think I recently saw or read that Feinstein was the close friends of the Resniks of the “Wonderful Company” which Feinstein was key to getting hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money diverted to the projects for the couple which took ownership of the water rights of the State of California! Feinstein is a self enriching low life. Glad she is gone!
Thanks for the great sleuthing. This is beyond troubling, but “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! Everyone out at once!” Captain Louis Renault. Your winnings, Sir.” “Oh thank you.” Not much difference between the Casablanca in a Hollywood movie and the reality of the uni party, the legal system and financial community. The State of California is coming to a state near you, just ask the Governor of California. He can’t wait to bring his style of grifting to you. “I thought the French Laundry did dry cleaning, my wife told me to drop off my suits, how was I to know there was a birthday party going on, foie gras, grass fed beef from Argentina and $500.00 a plate before the $1000.00 bottles of wine from my vineyard? Geesh...Just when you think the reprehensible can’t get worse, they prove us wrong.
Oh, I grew up there, and I left the state 20 years ago, aged 32, after a few years post college in San Francisco. The Willie Brown years. Daily throw-downs with sketchy mugger/panhandler/addicts. Car window busted out every 6 mos. I heard “Give me some money or I’m gonna hurt you,” so many times that my comeback was “I’m just gonna beat the fuck out off you and you don’t even have to pay me.” But if you drop one of these losers for the threat they make, then you’ll get arrested. Like the police are there to protect the homeless not the taxpayers. Tenderloin has smelled like piss for 50 years. Mission is the same. Cops circle those two hoods to keep the criminals in there but it’s really sad and cynical. They never go in unless called on 911. Shit rolls downhill and everyone in Pacific Heights has total safety but in the flatland, the cops watch while the poor kill each other and I’ve in squalor just as long as the all stay inside Mogadishu. And everybody is telling you how great it is at their cocktail party and I’m like “no it’s not, I just busted a guy in the mouth for threatening me and shaking me for money and then I hid in your trash area to ditch the cops for doing it. You captured my emotions and thoughts on this perfectly with the Captain Louis Renault quote... Agree 100% that "The State of California is coming to a state near you, just ask the Governor of California.” And, dude, my sentiments exactly “Just when you think the reprehensible can’t get worse, they prove us wrong.” it was worth writing this just to hear someone say what was on my mind because I couldn’t quite express it
I first visited San Francisco at the age of 6 in 1963, my mother had organized a trip that covered the west coast of the USA. We stayed at the old St. Francis Hotel, quite something then, what I remember are cable cars, Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz and feeding the pigeon's in the Union Square Park. I thought (coming from a small town in northern NY 55 miles from Montreal, Quebec) that I had never seen a more beautiful city. Fast forward and through life returning, over time watching the Embarcadero come down and the city seemingly flourish, and with a sudden thud land hard on its ass. Your Part 1 of The Feinstein Illusion explains a lot. No surprises in the effort, but the granularity leaves one with a sinking feeling. These people, Pelosi, Newsom the loons in the state legislature, the feckless federal reps, the greedy beyond all reason Silcon Valley financiers, are sociopaths, pathological liars, when a truth doesn't fit, they bin it. Bullet train from SF to LA in 3 hours? Nah, we were just joking, 15 years and 35 billion and counting and not a tie or rail laid down. In the same period we have been treated to the uncertain facts that the earth is variously cooling, over heated, saturated with water, or in life ending drought, where to start and where to end? The sad fact is that a certain percentage of the people currently residing in the USA, believe everything these clowns tell them, they will forever as well. But, and since the middle class and lower middle class are merging with the working poor, and they are figuring out that sending their kids off to fight the Great White Father's wars of opportunity, as a small example, is not in their best interest, the ruling class may have some choices to make; like send their kids (not likely) or skip out on some of the wars they want to start. Ukraine is fresh out of souls to send into the meat grinder of the eastern Oblast currently held by Russian Forces. Having been an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps in the late 1970's and early 80's I can tell you that the gig for Ukraine is up. The party is over for Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan in this current proxy war.
One can only hope you just keep exposing these grifting lying dead beats, call them out and in the fullness of time maybe even the MSM will find they can't keep covering for this lot. They (The MSM) may never come to the conclusion that they need to get back to basics and do the kind of reporting you have done here. But, in a way who cares, the public is slowly finding journalists like you here on substack and other venues. So please keep going, shine a searing bright light on these rats, and hope for change as a result. Never give up, never give in. improvise, adapt, and overcome.
Wow! Hell of a life, the only thing you missed was a four year enlistment in the Marine Corps. When I was on active duty there were so many young Marines who had “similar” backgrounds to yours. One thing the guys who came from scorched back grounds had in common was a tremendous sense of self deprecating humor. Basically as a young infantry platoon commander you learn to really appreciate the gallows humor. “We got back from a week in the field, we were in the company street, dirty gear and weapons, hot, smelly, tired, no water and no chow. A Marine groused man things couldn’t be worse. The company Gunny over heard him and said cheer up you Marines, things could be a lot worse. So we all cheered (including me) and sure as shit things got a lot worse.” No doubt you get the drift. Leading those guys was the greatest honor I have ever had, I had a great short career, I left because I felt to progress I would give up too much of myself, as an Aide de Camp to a Major General (great man, great general Officer) I got to see the Corps in a very different way than most junior officers. It’s a place where the Corps starts separating you from the other officers. Play the game right, don’t fuck up and pretty likely you pick up a star or two. My heart said stay, my brain said go. Respect is earned, not demanded, and one ah shit wipes out 1000 atta boys. The Marines know fraud when they see it! Most are very smart guys as well. They joined to be part of something, we are failing the current crop, badly! It is another story for another day, but no doubt you see it manifest in all walks of life.
I would be very glad to help you with your work, and my email is ccwinbos@gmail.com
You have a tiger by the tail. Don’t let go, it’s scary stuff, As an experienced bar fighter you know that the parking lot is no place to hang out. There are goons out there waiting. Having had my share the one certain out come is no one comes out the better for it and of course you’re always the one that won the fight. Busted knuckles, black eyes, some stitches, but oh boy sure showed that sum a bitch! Too funny. But watch your 6, it may not come in the form of physical violence, but if you start hitting nerves who knows what they might try. I am down with it. Come and get me. I was tortured by professionals and some narcissistic jerk with too much gel in his hair isn’t very scary to me, so as mentioned happy to help.
There are several very good writers here, really accomplished and formerly unrepentant lefties, Taibbi, Schellenburg, Bari Weiss, if they are scared and pissed like us then A. You know it’s bad, B. They are not going to back down now. That shit show several months ago in front of Rep. Jordan’s committee hearing, these hopeless democrat morons tried to steal the day by accusing Taibbi and Schellenburg of being Russian bots was enough to convince those two guys that they had to do something. You exposing the grift in a focused way will contribute to getting the word out. They can try to stop us from talking, but it never works. Aristotle tells us that we need dialog to deliberate and ergo to govern ourselves. Your writing is the dialog, that will help lead to deliberation. Besides, if you got your mother to read and grasp the gravity of the issues at hand, then you know you can write!
I was born 1971, my dad (an alcoholic) shot himself when I was 9, so I grew up a latchkey kid to a single working mom, a nurse, and a proper California hippie type, so she basically forbade me watching TV, but she had to be to work at 05:00 every morning and we lived in a shoebox 2br so she woke me up every morning with her hair dryer going off and I used to pop out of bed every morning the moment she drove off for work and turn on the TV . They used to play the national anthem to start the broadcasting day back then in 1980s and only two channels that came on that early (05:30) were KTLA (5) and Channel 9. The latter played old 1950's Heckle & Jeckel cartoons and I found them boring. KTLA played the news, so I watched that. I never did my homework but I managed OK grades because I was so up on current events and politics and always had lots of opinions. I also loved heavy metal too and my mom, a Catholic, tripped on Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" (chorus: "6-6-6, the number of the Beast, Hell and fire, were sworn to be released...") so she forbade heavy metal and I turned to punk rock because it was sonically heavy and she couldn't say it was satanic. That also helped me develop a rebellious instinct ... so by high school I was Alex P. Keaton plus Richard Dawkins plus Sid Vicious... a hard right-winger, an atheist, and a punk rocker from age 13 until 18 ... I had found something to piss off everybody: 1. liberals (because you're supposed to be liberal as a kid not a conservative) and 2) religious people (because "God's dead and Jesus is a lie that you cannot prove") and 3) as a punker you're not supposed to be a Republican... but that was the spiritual impulse ... bands like Charged GBH, Suicidal Tendencies, Stalag 13, Zero Boys, Social Unrest, Social Distortion, TSOL, Minor Threat, Bad Brains. I read a lot too and studied up to back-up my views ("to be a better practicing atheist") and by high school I was sent the guy appointed to be sent toDC as the school's representative for Presidential Classroom and was voted Most Conservative and Most Likely to Become President. Then I was Chairman of College Republicans at UC Davis. As luck would have it, my roommate was Michael Anton (google him), and he came from Berkeley and started a conservative paper there modeled after the Dartmouth Review and he wanted to be in politics and me too. He wanted to start another conservative paper at UC Davis and demanded I join because "Christian, you can write and you can fight." I grew up in the same town as Chuck Liddell. Still friends with him now. Mike was really worried about an ass kicking for his views and I thought he was too ambitions (nobody would care) and silly (paranoid). But he was right. When we started the paper, and he petitioned the school student government for equal funding to the leftist paper (The Third World Forum) and a politically radical fraternity had 8 pledges waiting for him in the parking lot after that appeal to student government... 8 straight up goons... we walked out of ASUCD and in the dark parking lot they walked up, but they didn't know me by name, they just knew me from around campus as a loudmouth, and as a bar fighter, but as one who was really friendly to them because they all played football and I worked out with all them all at the gym and they were in the bar fight scene too. I said to them "Guys, really, you're gonna do this to this little geek friend of mine for what he wrote? Well, I wrote the first headline article, top of the first paper. What about me? You wanna do it? Let's go. And you're gonna get me, and you're gonna get me good, but the first 1 or 2 of you are gonna get missing teeth on your way in, so let's go!" and they totally got it that I would fight and that it was just wrong and that we were already friendly anyway and if they stepped teeth would fly and they were like "dude, you're right, the big dogs in the house sent us on a mission as pledges but this ain't right at all and we know you and you're an alright guy and he's a big geek who couldn't beat up a mosquito." after that, I was so convinced I could change the world with just ideas and I was certain my calling was politics, the market place of ideas. I got an internship in Sacramento at the Senate Republican Caucus, right away and I had all these big dreams and hopes... until one day I went for a walk in the Senator and Assemblyman's parking lot and in pulled Speaker Willie Brown rolled up in a >$150,000 sports car in 1991 and wearing $3500 suit and $500 shoes and $800 fedora and $200 tie and I was just heartbroken. "Oh my God," I thought, "this isn't about ideas and dreams and philosophy and debate. It's about corruption and money." So I quit and I went to Wall Street. Poor kids always want money. I spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs chasing it and earning it. I thought "If I'm to be a whore, then let's call it that, pay me right for it, and do it above board too." When I graduated, I moved to SF to work on the stock exchange floor and Willie Brown was Mayor then. I got a birdseye view of the corruption.
For the third part of this series, I did hours of research on the origins and backstory and motives of the whole thing Willie Brown show and it's straight up machine extortion politics. Willie was a founding member of "The Burton Machine"(Phillip Burton, John Burton, Willie Brown and George Moscone). All four of them were boys from college, like me and Mike They launched the Burton Machine. None of them had dads, like me and my best friend from the day my dad died (his dad dropped dead of a heart attack 6 months before me dad did himself). That was the glue for those Burton Machine guys. They were brothers. Until Phillip Burton died, aged 46, and then it was Willie's machine. Nancy Pelosi was one of their machine manufactured candidates. When Philip died, his wife Sala Burton took his old seat, but she didn't dig it so she stepped out and the popped in Nancy Pelosi in to replace her as a machine manufactured product. Fast forward to now and Nancy has her own machine in the Senate and she's not paying tribute but rather competing with Newsom and Harris and Willie, which puts her at odds with the Willie Machine (inherited by Newsom who was Willie's handpicked Mayoral replacement). They ran a retribution campaign on her, using DiFi, who they equally hate for backing Dan White who shot Moscone (their brother) and then she was crying about it like it was her loss and she used the event for a career to gain sympathy and to retain the mayoral job and so on, yet she more corrupt than them and only in it for herself and not paying them tribute either and acting like she's the one who's hurting when they were genuinely, legitimately hurt Moscone got shot -- that was their friend; their brother. In 2020, culminating this yea, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom set a trap and fucked over DiFi and Pelosi so hard (gloriously) that I admire them for it. The piece detailing it is written and coming soon. I would love to have you copy edit it.
I'm making a career change back into writing right now. When I finished DiFI part 1, I gave it to my mom, a hardened Democrat and she said "Oh, Christian, this makes me so mad!" and I thought "Bingo, paydirt, then it's then well evidenced and angering but she's not saying she disagrees or that I am off base, so it's ready to go!" I do all my own research and I verify everything in triplicate at primary source level to ensure I get 100% complete and accurate facts (all of them) and it's shocking how far off the media is always -- and like miles and miles off. The shit they pump is pure propaganda. Pravda. And I'm religious now... about the First Amendment. And it's unbelievable to me the censorship and manipulation. It's like I live on a different universe from society because I don't trust anything I read that I didn't research myself to the fullest and so on this topic or that I have 100% of the information and once you do have that and you see what's being pumped out it's gobsmacking. What's your email please or mine is christian@macrolinkllc.com and I'll send you the Willie Brown vs Nancy/DiFi one for a copy edit and some outside input.
Finally, I used to cover Toronto at GS and I loved those dudes so much that I refused to do all the Wall Street stuff. I never show them bad trade or took advantage or legend them over because they were so descent to me. They were kind and real and good to me like it was back in San Louis Obispo where I grew up ... so I have a soft spot for Canadians ... plus Rush 2112 (the A side) is what turned me on to music. It sounded like heavy metal and that's how I found Maiden and Priest and Sabbath etc.
Music and bicycles saved my life. All my dad's side are all dead or in jail. I'm the last surviving Alexander male. That's because of my love for music and bikes (and my mom and my grandma and dogs and writing too) but Rush didn't make me like Canadians any less and Toronto was the San Francisco I always wanted San Francisco to be. Youre train of thought matches mine so damned close it's scary.
Imagine how far the proceeds from selling her properties could go towards feeding the millions of food insecure children in the US? Then her legacy could be for real...DiFi gives billions to feed American children.
Brookings Institution (not Institute)
Was she ever called 'The Honorable?'
Key word supposedly. Feinstein was a thief from day one. Proven.
I think I recently saw or read that Feinstein was the close friends of the Resniks of the “Wonderful Company” which Feinstein was key to getting hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money diverted to the projects for the couple which took ownership of the water rights of the State of California! Feinstein is a self enriching low life. Glad she is gone!
Thanks for the great sleuthing. This is beyond troubling, but “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! Everyone out at once!” Captain Louis Renault. Your winnings, Sir.” “Oh thank you.” Not much difference between the Casablanca in a Hollywood movie and the reality of the uni party, the legal system and financial community. The State of California is coming to a state near you, just ask the Governor of California. He can’t wait to bring his style of grifting to you. “I thought the French Laundry did dry cleaning, my wife told me to drop off my suits, how was I to know there was a birthday party going on, foie gras, grass fed beef from Argentina and $500.00 a plate before the $1000.00 bottles of wine from my vineyard? Geesh...Just when you think the reprehensible can’t get worse, they prove us wrong.
Oh, I grew up there, and I left the state 20 years ago, aged 32, after a few years post college in San Francisco. The Willie Brown years. Daily throw-downs with sketchy mugger/panhandler/addicts. Car window busted out every 6 mos. I heard “Give me some money or I’m gonna hurt you,” so many times that my comeback was “I’m just gonna beat the fuck out off you and you don’t even have to pay me.” But if you drop one of these losers for the threat they make, then you’ll get arrested. Like the police are there to protect the homeless not the taxpayers. Tenderloin has smelled like piss for 50 years. Mission is the same. Cops circle those two hoods to keep the criminals in there but it’s really sad and cynical. They never go in unless called on 911. Shit rolls downhill and everyone in Pacific Heights has total safety but in the flatland, the cops watch while the poor kill each other and I’ve in squalor just as long as the all stay inside Mogadishu. And everybody is telling you how great it is at their cocktail party and I’m like “no it’s not, I just busted a guy in the mouth for threatening me and shaking me for money and then I hid in your trash area to ditch the cops for doing it. You captured my emotions and thoughts on this perfectly with the Captain Louis Renault quote... Agree 100% that "The State of California is coming to a state near you, just ask the Governor of California.” And, dude, my sentiments exactly “Just when you think the reprehensible can’t get worse, they prove us wrong.” it was worth writing this just to hear someone say what was on my mind because I couldn’t quite express it
I first visited San Francisco at the age of 6 in 1963, my mother had organized a trip that covered the west coast of the USA. We stayed at the old St. Francis Hotel, quite something then, what I remember are cable cars, Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz and feeding the pigeon's in the Union Square Park. I thought (coming from a small town in northern NY 55 miles from Montreal, Quebec) that I had never seen a more beautiful city. Fast forward and through life returning, over time watching the Embarcadero come down and the city seemingly flourish, and with a sudden thud land hard on its ass. Your Part 1 of The Feinstein Illusion explains a lot. No surprises in the effort, but the granularity leaves one with a sinking feeling. These people, Pelosi, Newsom the loons in the state legislature, the feckless federal reps, the greedy beyond all reason Silcon Valley financiers, are sociopaths, pathological liars, when a truth doesn't fit, they bin it. Bullet train from SF to LA in 3 hours? Nah, we were just joking, 15 years and 35 billion and counting and not a tie or rail laid down. In the same period we have been treated to the uncertain facts that the earth is variously cooling, over heated, saturated with water, or in life ending drought, where to start and where to end? The sad fact is that a certain percentage of the people currently residing in the USA, believe everything these clowns tell them, they will forever as well. But, and since the middle class and lower middle class are merging with the working poor, and they are figuring out that sending their kids off to fight the Great White Father's wars of opportunity, as a small example, is not in their best interest, the ruling class may have some choices to make; like send their kids (not likely) or skip out on some of the wars they want to start. Ukraine is fresh out of souls to send into the meat grinder of the eastern Oblast currently held by Russian Forces. Having been an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps in the late 1970's and early 80's I can tell you that the gig for Ukraine is up. The party is over for Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan in this current proxy war.
One can only hope you just keep exposing these grifting lying dead beats, call them out and in the fullness of time maybe even the MSM will find they can't keep covering for this lot. They (The MSM) may never come to the conclusion that they need to get back to basics and do the kind of reporting you have done here. But, in a way who cares, the public is slowly finding journalists like you here on substack and other venues. So please keep going, shine a searing bright light on these rats, and hope for change as a result. Never give up, never give in. improvise, adapt, and overcome.
Wow! Hell of a life, the only thing you missed was a four year enlistment in the Marine Corps. When I was on active duty there were so many young Marines who had “similar” backgrounds to yours. One thing the guys who came from scorched back grounds had in common was a tremendous sense of self deprecating humor. Basically as a young infantry platoon commander you learn to really appreciate the gallows humor. “We got back from a week in the field, we were in the company street, dirty gear and weapons, hot, smelly, tired, no water and no chow. A Marine groused man things couldn’t be worse. The company Gunny over heard him and said cheer up you Marines, things could be a lot worse. So we all cheered (including me) and sure as shit things got a lot worse.” No doubt you get the drift. Leading those guys was the greatest honor I have ever had, I had a great short career, I left because I felt to progress I would give up too much of myself, as an Aide de Camp to a Major General (great man, great general Officer) I got to see the Corps in a very different way than most junior officers. It’s a place where the Corps starts separating you from the other officers. Play the game right, don’t fuck up and pretty likely you pick up a star or two. My heart said stay, my brain said go. Respect is earned, not demanded, and one ah shit wipes out 1000 atta boys. The Marines know fraud when they see it! Most are very smart guys as well. They joined to be part of something, we are failing the current crop, badly! It is another story for another day, but no doubt you see it manifest in all walks of life.
I would be very glad to help you with your work, and my email is ccwinbos@gmail.com
You have a tiger by the tail. Don’t let go, it’s scary stuff, As an experienced bar fighter you know that the parking lot is no place to hang out. There are goons out there waiting. Having had my share the one certain out come is no one comes out the better for it and of course you’re always the one that won the fight. Busted knuckles, black eyes, some stitches, but oh boy sure showed that sum a bitch! Too funny. But watch your 6, it may not come in the form of physical violence, but if you start hitting nerves who knows what they might try. I am down with it. Come and get me. I was tortured by professionals and some narcissistic jerk with too much gel in his hair isn’t very scary to me, so as mentioned happy to help.
There are several very good writers here, really accomplished and formerly unrepentant lefties, Taibbi, Schellenburg, Bari Weiss, if they are scared and pissed like us then A. You know it’s bad, B. They are not going to back down now. That shit show several months ago in front of Rep. Jordan’s committee hearing, these hopeless democrat morons tried to steal the day by accusing Taibbi and Schellenburg of being Russian bots was enough to convince those two guys that they had to do something. You exposing the grift in a focused way will contribute to getting the word out. They can try to stop us from talking, but it never works. Aristotle tells us that we need dialog to deliberate and ergo to govern ourselves. Your writing is the dialog, that will help lead to deliberation. Besides, if you got your mother to read and grasp the gravity of the issues at hand, then you know you can write!
Looking forward to seeing the draft.
I was born 1971, my dad (an alcoholic) shot himself when I was 9, so I grew up a latchkey kid to a single working mom, a nurse, and a proper California hippie type, so she basically forbade me watching TV, but she had to be to work at 05:00 every morning and we lived in a shoebox 2br so she woke me up every morning with her hair dryer going off and I used to pop out of bed every morning the moment she drove off for work and turn on the TV . They used to play the national anthem to start the broadcasting day back then in 1980s and only two channels that came on that early (05:30) were KTLA (5) and Channel 9. The latter played old 1950's Heckle & Jeckel cartoons and I found them boring. KTLA played the news, so I watched that. I never did my homework but I managed OK grades because I was so up on current events and politics and always had lots of opinions. I also loved heavy metal too and my mom, a Catholic, tripped on Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" (chorus: "6-6-6, the number of the Beast, Hell and fire, were sworn to be released...") so she forbade heavy metal and I turned to punk rock because it was sonically heavy and she couldn't say it was satanic. That also helped me develop a rebellious instinct ... so by high school I was Alex P. Keaton plus Richard Dawkins plus Sid Vicious... a hard right-winger, an atheist, and a punk rocker from age 13 until 18 ... I had found something to piss off everybody: 1. liberals (because you're supposed to be liberal as a kid not a conservative) and 2) religious people (because "God's dead and Jesus is a lie that you cannot prove") and 3) as a punker you're not supposed to be a Republican... but that was the spiritual impulse ... bands like Charged GBH, Suicidal Tendencies, Stalag 13, Zero Boys, Social Unrest, Social Distortion, TSOL, Minor Threat, Bad Brains. I read a lot too and studied up to back-up my views ("to be a better practicing atheist") and by high school I was sent the guy appointed to be sent toDC as the school's representative for Presidential Classroom and was voted Most Conservative and Most Likely to Become President. Then I was Chairman of College Republicans at UC Davis. As luck would have it, my roommate was Michael Anton (google him), and he came from Berkeley and started a conservative paper there modeled after the Dartmouth Review and he wanted to be in politics and me too. He wanted to start another conservative paper at UC Davis and demanded I join because "Christian, you can write and you can fight." I grew up in the same town as Chuck Liddell. Still friends with him now. Mike was really worried about an ass kicking for his views and I thought he was too ambitions (nobody would care) and silly (paranoid). But he was right. When we started the paper, and he petitioned the school student government for equal funding to the leftist paper (The Third World Forum) and a politically radical fraternity had 8 pledges waiting for him in the parking lot after that appeal to student government... 8 straight up goons... we walked out of ASUCD and in the dark parking lot they walked up, but they didn't know me by name, they just knew me from around campus as a loudmouth, and as a bar fighter, but as one who was really friendly to them because they all played football and I worked out with all them all at the gym and they were in the bar fight scene too. I said to them "Guys, really, you're gonna do this to this little geek friend of mine for what he wrote? Well, I wrote the first headline article, top of the first paper. What about me? You wanna do it? Let's go. And you're gonna get me, and you're gonna get me good, but the first 1 or 2 of you are gonna get missing teeth on your way in, so let's go!" and they totally got it that I would fight and that it was just wrong and that we were already friendly anyway and if they stepped teeth would fly and they were like "dude, you're right, the big dogs in the house sent us on a mission as pledges but this ain't right at all and we know you and you're an alright guy and he's a big geek who couldn't beat up a mosquito." after that, I was so convinced I could change the world with just ideas and I was certain my calling was politics, the market place of ideas. I got an internship in Sacramento at the Senate Republican Caucus, right away and I had all these big dreams and hopes... until one day I went for a walk in the Senator and Assemblyman's parking lot and in pulled Speaker Willie Brown rolled up in a >$150,000 sports car in 1991 and wearing $3500 suit and $500 shoes and $800 fedora and $200 tie and I was just heartbroken. "Oh my God," I thought, "this isn't about ideas and dreams and philosophy and debate. It's about corruption and money." So I quit and I went to Wall Street. Poor kids always want money. I spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs chasing it and earning it. I thought "If I'm to be a whore, then let's call it that, pay me right for it, and do it above board too." When I graduated, I moved to SF to work on the stock exchange floor and Willie Brown was Mayor then. I got a birdseye view of the corruption.
For the third part of this series, I did hours of research on the origins and backstory and motives of the whole thing Willie Brown show and it's straight up machine extortion politics. Willie was a founding member of "The Burton Machine"(Phillip Burton, John Burton, Willie Brown and George Moscone). All four of them were boys from college, like me and Mike They launched the Burton Machine. None of them had dads, like me and my best friend from the day my dad died (his dad dropped dead of a heart attack 6 months before me dad did himself). That was the glue for those Burton Machine guys. They were brothers. Until Phillip Burton died, aged 46, and then it was Willie's machine. Nancy Pelosi was one of their machine manufactured candidates. When Philip died, his wife Sala Burton took his old seat, but she didn't dig it so she stepped out and the popped in Nancy Pelosi in to replace her as a machine manufactured product. Fast forward to now and Nancy has her own machine in the Senate and she's not paying tribute but rather competing with Newsom and Harris and Willie, which puts her at odds with the Willie Machine (inherited by Newsom who was Willie's handpicked Mayoral replacement). They ran a retribution campaign on her, using DiFi, who they equally hate for backing Dan White who shot Moscone (their brother) and then she was crying about it like it was her loss and she used the event for a career to gain sympathy and to retain the mayoral job and so on, yet she more corrupt than them and only in it for herself and not paying them tribute either and acting like she's the one who's hurting when they were genuinely, legitimately hurt Moscone got shot -- that was their friend; their brother. In 2020, culminating this yea, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom set a trap and fucked over DiFi and Pelosi so hard (gloriously) that I admire them for it. The piece detailing it is written and coming soon. I would love to have you copy edit it.
I'm making a career change back into writing right now. When I finished DiFI part 1, I gave it to my mom, a hardened Democrat and she said "Oh, Christian, this makes me so mad!" and I thought "Bingo, paydirt, then it's then well evidenced and angering but she's not saying she disagrees or that I am off base, so it's ready to go!" I do all my own research and I verify everything in triplicate at primary source level to ensure I get 100% complete and accurate facts (all of them) and it's shocking how far off the media is always -- and like miles and miles off. The shit they pump is pure propaganda. Pravda. And I'm religious now... about the First Amendment. And it's unbelievable to me the censorship and manipulation. It's like I live on a different universe from society because I don't trust anything I read that I didn't research myself to the fullest and so on this topic or that I have 100% of the information and once you do have that and you see what's being pumped out it's gobsmacking. What's your email please or mine is christian@macrolinkllc.com and I'll send you the Willie Brown vs Nancy/DiFi one for a copy edit and some outside input.
Finally, I used to cover Toronto at GS and I loved those dudes so much that I refused to do all the Wall Street stuff. I never show them bad trade or took advantage or legend them over because they were so descent to me. They were kind and real and good to me like it was back in San Louis Obispo where I grew up ... so I have a soft spot for Canadians ... plus Rush 2112 (the A side) is what turned me on to music. It sounded like heavy metal and that's how I found Maiden and Priest and Sabbath etc.
Music and bicycles saved my life. All my dad's side are all dead or in jail. I'm the last surviving Alexander male. That's because of my love for music and bikes (and my mom and my grandma and dogs and writing too) but Rush didn't make me like Canadians any less and Toronto was the San Francisco I always wanted San Francisco to be. Youre train of thought matches mine so damned close it's scary.
* House not Senate (Nancy)
... and she couldn’t take any of it with her.
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We should dig her up and give her the zombie and vampire treatment, just to be sure.
Imagine how far the proceeds from selling her properties could go towards feeding the millions of food insecure children in the US? Then her legacy could be for real...DiFi gives billions to feed American children.
Thanks for the info. Meanwhile look at what trump supposedly does
Thank you for this insightful article. Looking forward to the future ones! Jeff