Most robberies are done and over quickly. Depending on the nature of the theft the timescale could be anything from a few moments for a spontaneous bag-snatch to the month or so it takes, with lawyers in tow, to rob a contractor who has, in good faith, refurbished one of your hotels and isn’t being paid.
Nobody has so far commented on this, but the election of Trump and his subsequent installation in the White House, complete with the damaging policies now being pursued, is the most sophisticated theft, maybe, in the history of the world.
Think of it: he is legally elected, and in this he has the support of law enforcement. Instead of a single robbery of, say, jewels, Trump and his oligarchs are there for four, maybe eight years, quite legally depriving poor Republican voters, and giving to the Mob (whoops! Excuse me) the rich, his close, like-minded cronies in particular. Support for this breath of fresh air is waning somewhat, but he retains the enthusiasm of a significant proportion of the population as he deprives people of healthcare and civil rights, and most things that make America liveable, and claims this is what he promised to do. Since he controls the right-wing media he can misrepresent his actions with impunity. And when (and if) his supporters wake up to the fact that they have been conned, he can blame the Democrats (who wouldn’t let him do this, that or the other) and the liberal media who have been “more unfair to him than any other U.S President in history”. And people believe him through it all! What an artist! His chances of ending up in jail are zero, too!
Five minutes research (more research than Trump has done in his life) shows that he and his fellow thieves, operating on an unprecedented scale, will have robbed the American people of one and a half trillion (you read it correctly) dollars by the end of eight years. No, this is not scientifically arrived at figure, but is presented in the spirit of Republican ethical thought. And in any case we now know that science is a scam, don’t we, and dreamt up to interfere with The Great Loser Robbery, 2016-2024.