THE DECK | THE MONOPOLY GRIFT
As cocoa leafs float this way, the pardons follow — clearing the lanes so the king’s ransom can rise.
🃏 The Monopoly Grift
How pardons clear the lanes, and why monopolies always move in silence.
Monopolies always sell themselves as efficiency.
But behind the curtain, they operate like royal courts:
one king at the top,
a loyal circle of distributors,
and a marketplace built on favors instead of fairness.
And here’s the part no one wants to say aloud:
Pardons are not mercy.
Pardons are market tools.
A pardon clears the lane.
It erases accountability.
It removes obstacles.
It protects the people who protect the revenue streams.
That’s the real grift of consolidation.
You don’t just own the market —
you own the right to operate inside it.
Pardons become currency.
Access becomes leverage.
Influence becomes a toll booth.
When you control the infrastructure,
you don’t need to win the game —
you raise the price of playing it
and decide who gets to stay on the board.
🃏 The Pattern Always Repeats
Whenever monopoly power tightens its grip, the same assets spike:
tech access
federal contracts
data rails
infrastructure choke points
global trade paths
and yes — the shadow-economy commodities
that quietly built half the fortunes of the 1980s
Not literally.
But metaphorically?
Dead-on.
Because whether it’s Miami in the 80s
or Miami in the 2020s,
the pattern is unchanged:
Lane clearing → Market capture → Public squeeze.
Argentina becomes the test site.
Florida becomes the neon warning sign.
And America becomes the prize.
🃏 This Is Not About Drugs or Conspiracies
It’s about monopoly tactics hiding in plain sight:
secure distribution
eliminate competition
rewrite policy
control the ports
silence the press
and use the pardon power as a bulldozer
to clear the lanes for the next phase of consolidation.
Monopolies don’t need guns.
They need shortcuts.
They need silence.
They need a country too overwhelmed to notice
that the lanes around them are closing.
🃏 We Don’t Need Kings
We need a country that remembers its own power.
TJ Baden
CreatorHuman™
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This piece is human-authored from lived experience, with AI used for clarity, structure, and accessibility.
