“Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you really want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln. Doug Ducey has failed at both.
Doug Ducey attended Arizona State University while working at Hensley & Co. the Anhauser-Busch distributor owned by the family of Cindy McCain (wife of John McCain). Evidence that you can have a college degree and still be stupid he obtained a degree in finance. Reminds me of Ocasio-Cortez’ degree in international relations! Viewing his career it is easy to see he is willing to do whatever the polls indicate. To me that is a sure indicator of a missing moral compass. He signs good and bad bills but reverses his opinion based on feedback – like most swamp creatures.
Doug Ducey was CEO of Cold Stone Creamery (CSC) from 1995 to 2007. He sold the business to Kahala Foods, a Canadian-based corporation with a Scottsdale office. Shortly thereafter the Small Business Administration listed Cold Stone Creamery as one of the 10 worst small business loan repayment companies. CSC franchises had a 31% failure rate. He failed to appear in court 16 times for various charges, cited 13 times for traffic violation, failed to pay his property taxes in 2008 and 2009 on his $1 million-plus Paradise Valley home. He quickly and quietly paid his back property taxes in 2010 to run for the Arizona State Treasurer’s Office!
Ducey was grossly – and fraudulently- over selling the CSC stock value in order to triple the selling of franchises between 2003 and 2006. During that time profits fell by 89%. After months of litigation by Kahala Foods the sale price was reduced to more accurately convey its’ value (Central.com/Arizona). Shortly after he became the Arizona State Treasurer.
David Stockman, Reagan’s Chief Budget Officer, in his book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America calls Ducey’s (and just about every other Wall Street CEO’s – fraud “Corporate Cannibalism“. This pandemic fraud (like the other pandemic fraud) is such standard procedure on Wall Street due to the incestuous relationship between it and Congress he calls Wall Street “a whore house in a casino.” Mitt Romney, as a venture capitalist expert at reading “the bottom line” of businesses, during his run for presidential candidacy asked an assembly of financiers “what is all this based on?” – speaking of the federal budget. He was told by bankers, investors and financial experts “Nothing! The mantra to be told the public was “Lie! Lie! Lie! Delay! Delay! Delay!” Stockman concluded his book saying nothing was done to fix the mortgage collapse of 2008 – nor separate the incestuous siblings. As a result, Stockman predicts financial collapses will become more frequent and more disastrous. He also says the U.S. government has given Wall Street seven bailouts since 2000! One has to wonder if this false narrative flue hysteria is a cover for the back door bank robbery by beltway bandits. Like the bank president who stages a robbery to cover his theft of investors funds. Hmm.
In The Complete Histories of Polybius, the historian says Athens became so greedy, selfish and tyrannical it became impossible to find anyone of intelligence and integrity to run for any office. Gibbon says the same thing as Rome fell for the position of Ceasar – having had twelve in two years. Doug “Dicey” Ducey is just one of many of America’s pseudo-Ceasars.
Ducey’s dictatorial, arbitrary abuse of authority and lack of common sense or proportion in this virus hysteria plainly exhibits a lack of statesmanship based on facts. That’s what happens with leadership posessing no moral compass, a lack of intelligence, and inability to separate fact from fiction – feeding their egos by exercising arbitrary authority. American citizens were duped into sending troops into Somalia due to a “disastrous famine.” The truth is Sudan’s famine (I’ve been to both countries) was ten times worse than Somalia’s. The U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Gali was partners with Somalia’s president Siad Barre in the Bank of Somalia. In order to recoup his losses by the revolt of General Aidid, BBG got his buddies in the U.S. -both political and media- to run a PR campaign to build up moral outrage for the “poor, suffering Somali people.” Since then that strategy -called at the time “the CNN effect” – has been used by every subsequent president to go to war. We are now seeing that “media effect” being used on us to convince us our lives are in danger.
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions (with facts or principles) is always their victim.” – Gustave Le Bon: A Study of the Popular Mind, p.106. This is true of both political partys’ membership . In the case of COVID-19 our government is capitalizing on Americans’ proclivity for hypochondria (and whining, sniveling, and “pity me” politics) to convince us to stay in our homes, close our businesses – and to shut our mouths (like I was told by the Sierra Vista postmistress. She also said the USPS does not receive any tax payers’ money!).
You, the Party slave brainwashed into thinking the “most important thing is the Big Picture” – getting a candidate elected with an (R) behind his name are to blame. If you believe that you are one of the “sheep being led to the slaughter”. How many McConnell’s, McCain’s, McSally’s and Ducey’s and Brandon Martin wannabe-swamp creatures have to be elected before you realize it is not the Party with the power! It is you! You give up that power when you register for either political party and slavishly continue writing checks so the aristocracy can choose their own candidate – not yours. You are like the serf’s of the Middle Ages who work their fingers to the bone so the Kings and Queens can sit on their thrones conferring knighthood on whoever increases their treasury (like England still does – Elton John being just one example). Without your signature the Party aristocracies and the blood money they feed on lose their death grip on our freedom. A third of Arizona is registered Independent. So far. Registered Independents, by the way, can vote in either primary. Ever wonder why the GOP-run (narrowly by 2 votes) state legislature requires two thirds more signatures for Independent candidates to run for office than Rs or Ds? Because Independents are a threat to the status quo. That is called gerrymandering and the Supreme Court takes a dim view of it. Take the Party needle out of your ballot, register Independent and regain your freedom. Regain your government! Make this your Independence Day!
Because since post-Reagan, there has been no significant ideological difference between an (R) and a (D) despite the slick, poll-driven themes. As a Party hack you have a choice of being ruled by either the “New World Order” (George H.W.Bush, Bush, Jr. and all their Skull & Bones frat brothers) or Lenin’s Socialism (Ds). Remember both Parties attend The Bohemian Grove celebrations where they throw a baby (doll) – symbolizing Hope- in the fire. Both Parties alternate leadership in the National Media Consortium every year.
Just different means to the same end – loss of free will.
