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Spud,

"...Daniel Patrick Moynihan once stated, "WW2 started with Smoot-Hawley."

DP Moynihan, a fine Irish-American lad to be sure, didnt merely cut his teeth on good sense.

He broke his teeth on it.

When Moynihan published good sense about how the "Great Society" had apparently torn up the "poor Black Family" and was reaching up into the "middle class Black Family" to rend it as well...

The Dem Elites of that time taught him his manners.

Moynihan came back chastened and "with his mind right, boss." He eventually became a Senator, continued on for a long time, becoming known as one of the really smart Senators. But never quite spoke deep, challenging truth to any Dem power base again.

So he notes Smoot-Hawley - but not the decades of Progressive politics that culminated in the team of "media and President Roosevelt" that led to FDR becoming the almost "Progressive God-King" of the US Federal Gov.

The storied wonderful time of happy fireside chats is one way to look at it - thats mostly how we get fed a little historical nugget that's all most ever get taught.

You get a more deeply historically accurate tale of Progressive State Power taking over Germany, Italy - and Wash, DC, in that time, if you read "The Forgotten Man."

"With the possible exception of Al Capone's Chicago gang, 1930s America saw no greater pile of buccaneering stickup men and rogues than those with whom FDR surrounded himself. As one of the book's central themes, Amity Shlaes condemns them for introducing "regime uncertainty" into the economy, thereby exacerbating the Great Depression. Keep in mind that "regime uncertainty" is but a euphemism for "utter lawlessness."

This "regime uncertainty" was a direct result of the ideological underpinnings of FDR and his Brain Trust. In one of the book's most devastating chapters ("The Junket") Mrs. Shlaes gives a brief intellectual history of those men and their ideas. Suffice to say that during the 1920s and 1930s, the chatterers at Ivy League cocktail parties — and around FDR's dinner table — were decidedly smitten with Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.

One of the men Schlaes profiles is Rex Tugwell, a future prominent member of FDR's Brain Trust. While in Stalin's Russia, Tugwell looked about with open admiration. "I knew from then on how determined dictators come to manage a people" (p. 73). His admiration for raw power was par for the course among FDR and his cronies. Roosevelt himself declared during his 1936 campaign, "we are fashioning an instrument of unimagined power" (p. 299).

Throughout the book, Shlaes demonstrates that FDR considered the law not as something to be respected and adhered to, but as something to be cynically manipulated or ignored at leisure. In his hands, the law became a weapon to be used against his enemies and other, arbitrarily chosen targets. During his first year of rule alone, "10,000 pages of law had been created" (p. 202), and an army of bureaucrats and police had been raised to enforce them.

America in the Great Depression became a land covered by innumerable laws while sliding into the lawlessness of the NRA (National Recovery Administration). The NRA was FDR's favorite legislative pet. In it, he put his admiration of Mussolini's fascist model into action. Mrs. Shlaes pointedly notes that FDR's economic interventions were "often inspired by socialist or fascist models abroad" (p. 6).

By 1940, America had learned about FDR & Friends that "unpredictability was the only thing you could be sure of" (p. 374). While FDR would repeatedly announce that "we are bringing order out of chaos" (p. 208), Mrs. Shlaes shows unequivocally that his blasé attitude towards the rule of law was doing quite the opposite. How could the economy recover when FDR's own attorney general went into a court of law and sneered at "the supposed sanctity and inviolability of contractual obligations" (p. 233)?"

https://mises.org/library/amity-shlaes-forgotten-man

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After FDR had "tore America a new one" - but good - the reeling lawmakers spat out Smoot-Hawley. For sure, that was a mad, heedless act that has been noted as a tipping point that arguably, very convincingly led to WW II.

If we look past Smoot-Hawley, to the nation that did it, and really take a good look at what was going on when they did it...

We see an America slapped around and stumbling, thanks to FDR. Amity shows us what FDR truly wrought. His ideological minions in newspapers, academia, and book publishing kept up the Pro-FDR propaganda, and still do today. So most know only the pristine little, polished-up historical nugget about fireside chats.

Schlaes lays his sins bare. Wrecking the US did, in a way, wreck the world. And wrecking the US goes right back to FDR.




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Doc you have re-taught me history that I have forgotten. Having said that Smoot-Hawley was signed by Hoover on 1930. Should FDR have eliminate this bill like he did Prohibition in 1933. Me: Yeah. Did he not wish to do it? I dunno.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Smoot-Hawley-Tariff-Act

On FDR and Politics, economics?
There is this-

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/columnists/national/thomas-sowell-fdr-s-policies-prolonged-great-depression/article_3f80432e-e6c5-11df-affe-001cc4c03286.html

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I grew up Episcopalian. I don't remember when I heard that Jesus was a Jew but I don't remember any particular emotion as my family never had any issue with Jews. It's almost as if they didn't exists.

In fact when I moved out to Hollywood in 1977 and started working in the motion picture industry I had no idea Jews had anything to do with the movie industry for the entire time was working in the industry not even the word ever came up.

I was totally unaware that Jews dominated the movie industry until about 1995 when I read the research of John Cones. Cones has done the most extensive study of the Hollywood studios ever done. No one has been able to challenge it. If you don't believe me, see http://www.FilmReform.org and try to challenge his 14 books and endless papers on the subject. It's impossible because his study is factual. His thesis statement is "liberal, not very religious Jewish males of European heritage" dominate 70-80% of the MPAA studio/distributors and have done so for over 100 years. Cones has itemized by name exactly who these individuals were and are to this day. Again, see the URL I just cited.

When I realized that Jews dominated the movie industry and I realized that I have a German last name I started putting 2 + 2 together. Suddenly certain things made sense. I began wondering why the over 150 screenplays I had written, co-written and optioned from other writers and submitted to the MPAA studios were all rejected.

All but about 10 of the screenplays were written by OTHER writers -- NOT ME -- from all over Hollywood and the U.S.

To keep my personal bias out of the selection process, I did NOT even select the screenplays to be optioned. We had hired about 10 readers that constantly read the screenplays and if any 6 of them "recommended" a particular screenplay -- INDEPENDENT of the other readers -- we optioned that screenplay and took it to 4 or 5 of the major studios executives or major agencies, like CAA.

The readers were NOT allowed to talk to each other about what they were reading or what was in their Reader Reports (coverage). They were all in contracts and non-disclosure docs and there would be penalties if the readers talked to each other before reading and evaluating screenplays. It was VERY strict. Given this, I feel it is IMPOSSIBLE that at least one (1) executive at one studio would not have optioned at least one of the over 150 screenplays we had optioned or developed in house. This screenplay development/optioning and pitching process went on from about 1985 to about 2004 and it cost my company well over $500,000. See dNA DevelopMent at http://www.mecfilms.com/dna


My conclusion: there was something fishy going on in Hollywood.

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Somewhat interesting James, but it need a lot of deconstruction.
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>On Hollyweird, here's what will happen. It will be bought out by the Chinese, or the Indians, or both.

You obviously have not watched my 4-part mini series called MAINSTREAM.

Hollywood has been "bought out" so many times it's funny to "insiders." The entire game is to GET "bought out" -- and then the Hollywood studio oligopoly !@#$ and sucks the purchaser dry of ounce of cash they have and spits their dry, shrived up carcass out on Hollywood Boulevard. I itemize all the people, entities, Wall Street offerings and countries that been fucked by Harvey-Hollywood in the movie you did bother to watch.

 

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>Somewhat interesting James, but it need a lot of deconstruction.

All the websites we used to option and pitch the screenplays are still up to prove what we went through. Go to http://www.mecfilms.com/dna


Option Agreement at
http://www.mecfilms.com/dna/submit3.htm


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Cartel action to favor chosen ones and diddle the others is as raw and unpleasant as can be seen in a Bruce Willis movie. There's a scene where he and a Black gang leader are taken prisoner in a Military Surplus store in some dingy city neighborhood.

The Black guy ends up gagged and strapped to a frame, being diddled by one of the two White thugs running the shop. The two thugs had kidnapped Bruce and the Black Gang leader when both were unconscious as a result of a car-motorcycle accident.

Bruce saves the day and the bad guys get satisfyingly killed - but the Black guy still suffered the diddling.

Anyone who gets diddled feels his/her own bad feelings - none can know what if feels like in the mind of he or she who was diddled.

We've discussed here on EV, how the Cartel of YouTube and Patreon and Google and Twitter and Mastercard all work together to diddle some designated people - that surely feels raw.

Its not possible for me to imagine all the feelings of building an income from subscribers for years and seeing it all taken away because a cartel doesnt like my politics. Still, I can understand it to a degree.

So to any of should be able to clearly see what was just described - an empirical test in the real world. Paying for an experiment and seeing that you can't get a screenplay past the Cartel in Hollyweird.

For any who doubt the validity of that - review the weird news that was aimed at Mel Gibson for so long, while he was making "The Passion of The Christ."

That was an "indie" that hit big - really big. media charges that were hurled at Gibson during that time - and most of them simply blew away like morning fog after the movie "hit big."

They kept hitting him, but nothing like during the making of his "unapproved" movie.

After they, when "Braveheart" stumbled drunkenly around in front of a Cop at a DUI he had caused, and spurged out raw antisemitic rants - clearly fed by his childhood exposure to a much more overtly antisemitic time than now (if we exclude todays' Islam) - they had him!

It took him a while to emerge back into the film industry.

The Cartel of YouTube, et al, is being successfully fought in the marketplace - but like the Hollyweird Cartel, the Cartel there is still very dominant.

We have Fed Justice Dept lawyers who specialize in fighting Cartels. AG Barr seems to actually want to do things right at the Justice Dept.

Lets hope at least some of his subordinates remember how!






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