LinkedIn is a Used Car Salesman Model

2026-05-13 · Ho Chanh Nghia

Originally published on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-used-car-salesman-model-khanh-pham-ybdfc/

LinkedIn is a Used Car Salesman Model

Does anyone ever hear about the used car industry that was damaged by used car salesman?

This is how I feel about the professional world. When I left home in 2001, and joined the USAF, I strived hard to meet and exceed all the standards of professionalism. I read and studied the profession of arms, which is beyond the basics of dressing and appearing professional. Inside and outside, fine tuned to represent the best of the best.

Finally I stop making excuses for the failed “professional” facade. People show up in suit and tie, and I think used car salesman. People flash credentials, and I think decorated used car salesman.

They made such a killing, making money off their customers, that no one wanted to walk into a car dealer, to buy a used car. Entire industry collapse, because the professional has little trust, little integrity. The entire industry is permeated with bad characters. While there may be good ones, but I would not expect to find one, from California, to Texas, to Florida.

I walked into a used car dealer in San Angelo Texas once, 2003? will never walk in again. To test drive, they wanted my car keys. We agreed on a price after 2 hours of stupid games at the office. Then he asked me to sign the documents. Then the 10,000 agreed price became 15,000. They brought out the manager to explain how the business works. It was approaching 6pm, and I had shown up early morning. I said, we are done, I am leaving. They said, I am not getting my keys. I was furious at this point, these are the sort of behaviors that I like to reward with a punch to the nose. But I called 911 instead. It took a 911 call, to get released from a used car dealers in the USA.

The USAF is usually representative of the “high professional” grade. Between the standards at Oracle and the standards at the USAF, it is easy to say the USAF is a place of high standards. Very high. Higher than high. Monthly, weekly, and random inspection of standards. Even your shades having the wrong color will warrant a traffic stop on your walk to the gym.

But it is all, I fear, a great deal of illusion, a performance for the public. Within, the decay is strong and unpleasant. After enduring several attempts at entrapment by the security experts of the USAF, which sought to place me in prison, I was deeply prepared to see the country suffer greatly. Do not dismiss this lightly, for mutiny and treason are indeed serious offenses. In any society. To a professional soldier, as I am, treason and mutiny represent the worst forms of corruption within the military.

As of now, in 2026, I see only Putin and a few of his followers as truly “professional.” In the country where I live, the United States, I see the opposite of that ideal.

The professional on LinkedIn or any other forum, such as in a hospital or courtroom, I do not judge them by the same standards as those at USAF HQ. Even if I apply the basic standard of “professional,” meaning they do things that improve their profession, they often fall short.

In the IT business, those who claim to be HIPAA compliant usually have no proof of such compliance, and there is often evidence of policies that have been compromised. The FBI was caught using prostitutes for an extended period and refused to pay. Police officers who win reality TV shows, where the best betrayals win, then claim they do not lie in court. Lawyers who do little to improve the legal system, reducing their profession to a protection racket.

Regarding protection rackets. In the 1990s, I finished high school in 1998. The Wa Ching game from Hong Kong was very much in operation. It was carried out in a manner similar to how Iran was dealt with. In southern California, there was the SF side. It always amuses me that there is a San Francisco side down south. I can understand why there might be an Ocean Side, often wearing O5 jerseys. They tell me about the old days. The days when they provided protection for restaurants in Chinatown. Businesses would have to pay them each month, or else they would face problems. And if another gang were to show up to cause trouble, they would drive in to resolve it. The lawyers in the USA are essentially just that.

If you ever review the rules of conduct and ethics for lawyers. Their preamble states, “A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.”

An officer of the legal system.

Having responsibility for the quality of justice.

Have you seen any of this to be true, for any of the lawyers?

Not here on LinkedIn, and not anywhere on the planet. I can assure you that U.S. lawyers, active and retired, have crossed paths with the personal story of how I faced illegal discrimination, and how the white men committed treason and mutiny. All of which put the burden on officers of the legal system to act. None acted. All ran away. If a soldier who ran away from the draft is called a draft dodger, what do you call officers who ran away from duty? Dereliction of duty? Tested these people from the city police, to State Attorney Pam Bondi, and other state attorneys in other states. Senators, Senate committees, president, vice president, and every layer of the U.S. legal and official system. Basically, I understood the Edward Snowden case rested around him using or not using the official channels; so my actions were the foundation for the legal war that he or I could win on. By using every mentionable legal and official channel, I demonstrated that Edward Snowden is 100% justified to avoid using the official channels. I took one for the team, so to speak. If you can count whistleblowers against corruption and illegal activities as being on the same team. We are in fact never were on a team, we never spoke, emailed or talked. I still have not even reviewed what he uploaded on WikiLeaks.

About the ethics of profession and professional.

Dr. Martha Deddrick is a senior medical professional with clinical experience. The highest credential in mental health. She used her position as a medical expert to interrogate me about selling secrets to China, so that no lawyer can be aware of the shit that I am dealing with. My first meeting with her, I was not upset that she was used by the military command to circumvent the law. So I explained to her how I drafted a 26-page letter against my commander for illegal conduct. Gave her a copy. She should have withdrawn herself from the case of treason. But she continued to assist the AFTAC people. Christopher Worley, John Parker, John Sutton, Michael Lindley, Michael Mulligan (may as well be Gillian). They were looking for a way to harm me, and Dr. Martha Deddrick was spearheading the effort. They tried forced blood tests, in hope of finding illegal substances. This is illegal by the way, in military or in civilian context. Then she tried labeling me a narcissist.

I was growing weary of this tiresome situation and insisted on taking legal steps. I wanted a lawyer, I said. Michael Lindley acted shocked, asking why I would need a lawyer, as if I were in trouble. He is about twenty years old, a military police officer. I told him, you are spreading rumors that I am selling secrets to China. Gillian, fresh from the US Air Force Academy, chimed in, “Are you selling secrets to China?” I had already dealt with him three times, and each time, he was clearly not capable of thoughtful engagement, so I chose not to answer his foolish question. He was, perhaps, the most useful idiot on this side of World War III.

So Michael Lindley convinced the prosecuting attorney to masquerade as my lawyer. I arrived at the lawyer’s office and was shocked. I asked him, aren’t you on the prosecution team? He said yes. I said, “Don’t you think it is illegal for you to represent me?” He replied, “Well, you wanted to talk to a lawyer.”

Do you see the professional standards?

When the entire society behaves like bandits, and I turn to LinkedIn, crying for help, what should the adults do?

Here is a raw example: this child is crying helplessly. The adults in the room have failed them. They run crying for help. They thought LinkedIn has adults.

How wrong was I in asking the adults in the room to be adults?

I was very wrong. There are no adults here. Adults take responsibility. There is not a great deal of that going on here.

I think I even saw a post by Ambassador Susan Stevenson. She was running the US consulate in Chiang Mai, and Kristie Kenny was running the US embassy in Bangkok during the time when I filed a complaint against my commander for sabotage, mutiny, and treason. She was here posting clichés like how it takes a village to raise a child. And the LinkedIn community cheered.

In March and April 2026, an Amazon data center was bombed.

Pause for a moment.

How far from reality is it for LinkedIn HQ to get bombed?

Pause for another moment.

How far is it from today for you to wake up at 2 a.m. to a bomb dropped on your personal roof?

In 1950 and 1960, many Vietnamese were like the people here on LinkedIn. Not a great deal of responsibility. Someone else got this, we just need to make a few more dollars. Then 1975 comes, and they have to give up every single dollar. Every inch of land. Two million dead. Two million raped and shot at sea by sea pirates.

I understand it is hard to imagine that you can go from comfortable air conditioned cubicles to refugee on a boat without food facing the threat of harm by pirates. It is difficult to grasp, it is hard to believe, it is nearly impossible. But it did happen. Not once. But many times.

146 BC. Roman forces entered the city of Carthage. The unimaginable happened. The improbable occurred. The unthinkable took place.

What happened before and led to 146 is similar to today. Different context and different details, of course, but similar patterns exist. Like the stories in War and Peace, the details vary but the structure remains the same. The rich enjoy themselves, and move farther from the front line, and then enjoy themselves more. The poor die on the battle fields, and more are sent.

Hannibal was successful at having Rome by the balls, and he needed Carthage to send aid to finish the job.

Carthage was plotting against their own leader, or just complacent like the professionals on LinkedIn. After all, what could possibly harm Carthage? It had stood for hundreds of years. It would be here tomorrow. It was true until it was not, and in 146 BC, it was no longer true.

2013-2014, I had the US military by the balls. Instead of a Chinaman on the noose for murdering three, I had the whiteman on the account for murdering three. One each year, every year, for three years. This is how much and how often AFTAC killed Americans. And they tried to kill me too. I falsely assumed that other people would care, because their neck may be the next one on the hanging tree.

Mayor resigns admitting to being an Agent for China.

https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/arcadia-california-mayor-eileen-wang-agent-china/

Let me ask you:

When was the last time a government allowed a foreign agent to resign?

Is this how Putin does it?

Is this how Jinping does it?

Is this how the USA does it?

Neither this country nor the next allow a foreign spy to just resign from public office. But we don’t know what we don’t know. I just know foreign spies do not get to resign from spying.

The point I am making though, is that your neck may be the next one on the hanging tree.

And the cause for this, is simply because you do not do your duty and take care of your responsibility today.

Your country. Your problem. Your responsibility. That sort of silly details.

Who would ever imagine that, having responsibility for their own country. Their own fellow human beings. What sort of professionals would do such a thing, carry such a stupid burden.

Especially if you’re Chinese, or have slanted eyes. You may be regarded as a Chinese spy for trying to influence America.