Maddow is a seer. She picks up on news events that are key to what is really happening beneath the surface.
I haven’t watched her in over two years including any of her latest broadcast and I have her book but can’t bring myself to read it because her stories both upset me and resonate too much with me. But I have great respect for her. I know that she knows.
One trait of a deeply psychic person is that they are drawn to certain events that happen out there and they capture a bigger truth from those events. They see the big picture.
There are people who read widely and retain large amounts from what they read. But they can’t distinguish what is important. Then there are those who can Pick out those events that are key and from those events can “see” the big picture that is happening.
Maddow has that gift. In 2016 she did a story on a cyber convention in which a high ranking information chief from the Kremlin proclaimed that they had a breakthrough cyber weapon that would make Russia powerful in the world. I knew she had nailed the reason we were going to be in trouble as a democracy.
@jeanne-mayell, Seer. Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I totally feel that with Maddow. She has this far reaching, intuitive and intellectual brilliance that is jaw-dropping. I think she also surrounds herself with like-minded, incredibly smart research staff.
I generally feel okay watching her, which surprises me. I think it has something to do with her kindness and humor. Perhaps it softens the blow of what I'm hearing!
As for her picking up on the money laundering and Trump, I think most people here know or I should say that I have known and stated it here in this forum that the Trump family including Ivanka have made their money from mainly one thing—money laundering the dirty money of oligarchs from Russia and other countries around the world.
Money laundering is how trump has made his money.
The money these dark oligarchs have funneled via the Trumps and some others and hope to continue funneling into the west is the reason why they have had a choke hold on our democracy.
A number of years ago when I was out on disability, I became bored and started to watch "Million Dollar Listing: New York." Over weeks of watching the series, what struck me were the number of clients who would hire these realtors and search for high-priced properties on behalf of "overseas investors." Even though I already knew that was happening in NY, something about it made me uncomfortable. I couldn't put my finger on it. It had nothing to do with the realtors being featured in the program, or even the clients they were representing. I felt it ran deeper than that. At the time, because I was on disability I thought it was just my confused mind and exhausted body. Now I'm not so sure.
Let me give you assurance - you were in fact observing the demise of affordable living in Manhattan on that show. Setting aside all the Wall Street types who drove the market up, the developers built tons of towers of what are referred to as "safe deposit boxes." These are glass towers full of empty condos, owned by foreign oligarchs (mostly from Russia, Saudi Arabia and China). Some of them are not owned by individuals but by foreign based REITs (real estate investment trusts). They are sometimes bundled together into investment portfolios. The majority of investors in those REITs are also foreign, usually as entities (LLCs), to mask true ownership.
How do I know so much about this (besides being a native New Yorker)? Well, my BFF married a man who became one of the people who probably helped facilitate the 2008 bubble burst. They were middle class growing up, and he was always a very hard worker, and now they are very, very wealthy. They are also Republicans who refused to vote for Hillary despite having full awareness of Drumpf. In fact, just a week ago they went to dinner at Mar-a-Lago ("for laughs" they said, but then my BFF remarked about how nice it was "like a throwback to the 50s"). Bottom line, her husband continues to do REIT work around the world. EVERY major city has been "attacked" by this form of international capitalism. I know he has done work in London, Dubai, Paris, Vancouver, and many large US cities. And this will continue unabated here in the US as we are a country that refuses to cap or ban foreign real estate investment (because too many are getting so rich in the process).
Sidenote: my BFF is not really a Trumper, but they are longstanding "Reagan Republicans". The reason I don't cut off the friendship is that we agree on pretty much everything else. We do discuss politics sometimes, and there have been a few times where I have been able to sway her to my way of thinking (pinko commie socialist that I am, lol). When I feel I'm hitting a wall with her I back off a bit and let things sink in. She's pro-choice, pro-animal rights, believes in climate change and science, not religious at all (I think my atheism has seeped in on her), and thanks to me she is way less anti-immigrant than she was before. She and her husband donate big money to animal rights and planned parenthood and causes for the disabled. Where she still falls down is racial and criminal justice. I wanted to put this out there because other social media "friends" think I should ditch her. I think there's a lot of hope, and she is my ride or die, so I wouldn't consider ditching 30 years of close friendship over some political polemics. Lastly, when they decided to sell their Manhattan apartment, they used one of the guys on that show initially (I think Josh?), but they fired him because he sucked at his job.
I think there's a lot of hope, and she is my ride or die, so I wouldn't consider ditching 30 years of close friendship over some political polemics.
I like and admire this. We are all connected in the far bigger picture and to ditch a lifelong best friend over political views or semantics would be turning our back on a part of our own universal soul.
I blame the media for the election of trump. He was on TV constantly with free air time, but I still don't know how it happened when he never said anything. It was you won't believe how wonderful it will be.It's going to be great, etc.