Why Jamie Dimon loves Trumps policies
I bought my first house in Florida in early 2007. I got a Robo-signed loan from Chase Bank. By late 2008, I was caught up in the housing crash there and the Great Recession. My house was suddenly worth less than HALF what it was originally worth. I lost all equity practically overnight, yet was still paying on the original, highly inflated value. I was then laid off from my high paying job, got another, (far lower paying) job, and struggled to pay my bills for two long years after that. At the advice of a friend who was an exec at Sun Trust Bank, I finally stopped paying my mortgage in an attempt to get a modification from Chase. I got a lawyer. I spent countless hours trying to get in touch with Chase, to no end. I finally just closed the door on it. Literally. I lost my house to Chase in 2014. Meanwhile, all the banks - and the top execs like Dimon - who screwed over millions of people like me are multi-multi millionaires. It’s infuriating.
There is NO accountability for rich, white men in America. Not in banking. And not in politics. As I’ve learned, and continue to learn, the richer, the more powerful you are, the bigger the crimes you can commit. And nothing of any consequence happens to you.
If Trump isn’t held accountable, if he “wins” another Electoral College term, or incites another insurrection and manages to steal power, I’m packing my bags, selling my house, my cars, and everything I own, and I’m leaving. Costa Rica, perhaps. Maybe Portugal. I’m planning it all right now. Because this country is in a free fall and if we can’t get democracy off life support, the fascist MAGAs are coming for anyone who’s not a loyalist. It might take a couple of years but that is their end game. They’ll take all your worldly possessions, your home, your land, your artwork, your jewelry - don’t think they won’t! - and you’ll end up in a camp.
It sounds INSANE. It sounds impossible even to me. But so did Auschwitz and all the other death camps the Nazis built. And that was all very, horrifyingly real. I fear this is precisely where the right wing here in America right now is headed.
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