The Business Plot: Corporate America’s Bid to Overthrow the Gov’t | 113

Hysteria 51

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🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Everyone jokes about Facebook and Google taking over the country. But what if the most powerful corporations in America REALLY did organize a coup and turn the USA into a fascist dictatorship? Believe it or not, it almost happened in the 1930’s! That’s this week’s topic, The Business Plot. It might have a boring name, but the story itself is anything but. Huge American corporations attempting to organize hundreds of thousands former military to march on Washington and kick FDR out of office. And they would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those darn kids. Well, actually 1 kid. And actually, it was an adult war-hero named Smedley Butler. This bad mama jama won the Medal of Honor…twice (and tried to give it back both times because what he did was “no big deal”). This week we grab a pegboard and some string to try and put together the pieces of the Business Plot. Plus, the fellas discuss the merits of government cheese, Conspiracy Bot starts referring to himself as “daddy”, and we learn the robot has a penchant for Wheat Thins (who knew). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never put together a plot to overthrow the government, but we know a certain robot that’s thinking about it - Hysteria 51.

Shout out to Greg Daniels, writer and Director of the office for his hilarious Cult joke he wrote for Creed Bratton that Brent shamelessly changed and threw into our show.

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0:00.0	My friends, this whole system of income taxation has degenerated into a racket.
0:10.0	The sooner this impudent, intrusive, despotic, discriminatory, and perhaps revolutionary system of taxation is repealed, the better it will be for the honesty,
0:28.7	the industry, the wealth and the welfare of the whole American.
0:34.0	Rich guys don't like paying taxes.
0:36.0	Not shocking, who does?
0:38.0	I appeared before the Congressional Committee,
0:40.0	the highest representation of the American people under
0:44.0	its subpoena to tell what I knew of activities which I believe might lead to an
0:49.0	attempt to set up a fascist dictatorship. The plan is outlying to me was to form an organization of veterans
0:55.8	to use as a bluff or as a club at least to intimidate the government and break down our
1:00.8	democratic institutions.
1:02.6	The upshot of the whole thing was that I was supposed to lead an organization of 500,000 men,
1:08.4	which would be able to take over the functions of government.
1:11.6	I talked with an investigator for this committee who came to me with a subpoena on Sunday November 18.
1:19.0	He told me they had unearthed evidence linking my name with several such veteran organization.
1:25.0	Has it then seemed to me to be getting serious, I felt it was my duty to tell all I knew of such activities to this committee. My main interest in all this is to preserve
1:35.4	our democratic institution. I want to retain the right to vote, the right to speak freely,
1:42.3	and the right to right.
1:43.7	If we maintain these basic principles, our democracy is safe.
1:48.3	No dictatorship can exist with suffrage, freedom of speech and press.
1:53.0	Rich guys willing to overthrow the government to avoid doing so?
1:56.0	That's a bit more shocking and it's the topic the idiots are talking about this week.
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