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Wall Street Spends Record Sum In Midterm Election (Betting On Republican Puppets This Time)

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Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

If you think anything is going to change for the better after Republicans take control of the Senate, you might have come down with a severe case of stupidity.

Just like the Democrats before them, the new crop will answer to the same Wall Street masters.

From Bloomberg:

Most of America isn’t interested in next week’s elections. Wall Street is an exception.

 

The $169 million from donors in the securities and investment industry is the most they’ve ever contributed in a midterm election, according to Center for Responsive Politics data. That makes them the most generous group for the first time in decades, with about two-thirds of the money going to Republicans in what the Washington-based nonprofit projects will be the country’s most expensive non-presidential election.

 

The industry’s biggest donor was Paul Singer’s hedge fund Elliott Management, with $12.1 million. Among top givers were employees from Ken Griffin’s Citadel LLC, Soros Fund Management LLC and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Wall Street’s lead over retirees, lawyers and other groups grows wider when commercial banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. are added.

 

Switching Allegiance

 

After giving more to Democrats in 2006 and 2008, securities and investment donors switched allegiance in 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act’s financial regulations into law. Three Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Cornyn, each received more than $1 million from the industry from the beginning of last year through Oct. 15, according to the center’s data.

Switching allegiances? Give me a fucking break, Bloomberg. Both parties are the same, Wall Street just shifts around to whichever figurehead has the momentum in any given election cycle in order to protect their criminal enterprises and get future bailouts.

Wolf’s peers are paying more attention than most Americans to the Nov. 4 elections that will determine control of the Senate. About two-thirds aren’t following midterm news closely or at all, a Pew Research Center survey conducted Oct. 2 through Oct. 5 found. Attention lags behind where it was four and eight years ago, overshadowed by interest in Ebola, Secret Service missteps and airstrikes against the Islamic State.

Of course, that’s because the American public knows that it doesn’t matter which Democrat of Republican crony they vote for. In contrast, Wall Street understands it still needs to sponsor the winning puppet.

When Pew asked voters which parties control the House and Senate, fewer than half answered both correctly.

Check please.

 

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Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:04 | 5402617 Deathrips
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New banker deaths... kind of. Did he do it? Who cares count him out......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11203291/British...

 

RIPS

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:04 | 5402624 whatsinaname
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Nice equation there (pictorial).

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:15 | 5402648 Deathrips
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If the robber was wearing a red or blue jacket...makes all the difference to some people. Blue Jacket robbery is for social good. Red Jacket robery is to save us all from the social good.

Why? The world may never know.....

 

Circle Fuckin Jerk'

 

RIPS

 

 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:33 | 5402706 palmereldritch
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Hope and Changeling

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:40 | 5402716 Rememberweimar
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The Federal Reserve Counterfeiters, the Wall Street money launderers, "Investment Banker" thieves, filthy Politicians, Military Industrial Complex murderers are all one big evil criminal club...

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:43 | 5402726 Publicus
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Both parties are the same party, just different sides of the same coin. There is no choice.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:44 | 5402873 BKbroiler
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When Pew asked voters which parties control the House and Senate, fewer than half answered both correctly.

 

And there's that.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:07 | 5403042 kchrisc
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"...which parties control the House and Senate"

The Zionist banksters.

An American, not US subject.

 

Really only two "parties": The Zionists and Greater Israel. In between is just theater.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 03:25 | 5403326 AldousHuxley
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wall st. has hillary clinton in their backpocket for the executive office, so democrats are already bagged.

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:09 | 5403827 Arius
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These are the most important elections to determine our future in the short and long term.

 

I would encourage everyone to please go out and vote. 

 

it does not matter your affiliation, just please go out there and VOTE!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:17 | 5403725 LordEffingtonTh...
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Like my new icon?  I uploaded it in your and your types honor.  Wannabee NAZI's.  You think it's going to help our cause if you come across as a NAZI?  I don't.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:38 | 5403764 McCormick No. 9
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I like your new icon. It livens things up around here. But I have to parse your post. It apears you're reacting to an openly anti-israeli/zionist (hell, anti jewish, let's be honest) comment above yours, and at least one more, subtler comment with no outward anti-jewish sentiment, but perhaps a certain "vibratory" feel to it. Perhaps the anti-hillary comment?

These commenters, you say, are wannabe Nazi's. Right. Because the nazis were, of course anti-jewish, and if Hitler were aive to day, he would either kill hillary or be her willingly-dominated love-slave (it's hard to say which).

Now comes the tricky part. You say, "You think it's going to help our cause if you come across as a NAZI?" (emphasis mine)

Our cause? So you're in solidarity with these anti-jewish hillary haters, but you don't want to be seen with them?

I guess it's good to keep everyone confused.

I am.

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:04 | 5403819 Dexter Morgan
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Obama and congress support the Nazi's in Ukraine, why can't we support Nazi's too?

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:56 | 5403112 A Nanny Moose
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Am presently in KCMO, visiting relatives. Everyone of them talking about who they would be voting for on Tuesday. I simply asked exactly what they thought they were voting for, and if they expected it to make a difference. They looked at me as if I were some sort of alien.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:07 | 5403824 Dexter Morgan
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Good one.  Were they all teachers or government employees?  I can't imagine everyone talking about voting unless they were all part of the system.  It matters to them if someone is going to cut of their money.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:35 | 5403088 junction
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If the spinmeisters at the Democratic National Committee really wanted to improve their party’s chances on Election Day, they would reopen the murder investigation of Hollywood, Florida cabdriver Dirk Hale, killed on February 8, 2002.  Hale lived in a Hollywood apartment house on Young Circle as the next door neighbor of lead 9/11 hijackers Marwan al-Shehbi and Mohamed Atta in May and June of 2001.  The FBI did stop by Hale’s apartment after his murder but immediately dropped the matter. On orders from the Bush administration Justice Department.  Noone at the DNC wants to tag the Republican Party with complicity in 9/11. 

Hale was killed on his last day on the job as a Hollywood cabdriver.  The Hollywood police charged one person with the murder, a black teenager, even though the Miami Herald story on Hale’s killing said “3 flee shooting, residents say.” (February 10, 2001 Miami Herald article). Standard operating procedure for the South Florida police.  The initial Sun-Sentinel article (also on February 10) on Hale’s death was in the far left column on page one of the Local news section.  The far right column had a story about the re-investigation of the murder of Broward Sheriff Officer Patrick Behan in 1990.  For that crime, two black teenagers went to prison, even though eyewitnesses to that crime identified a man in a car as the shooter, not two black teenagers on bicycles.  When in doubt, frame a black teenager. 

Within 48 hours of Hale’s murder, Katherine Smith, a Tennessee Department of Motor Vehicles employee died in a mysterious car accident.  A state trooper who was behind her said her Acura first exploded in flames before driving off the highway.  Authorities had criminally charged Smith with illegally issuing drivers’ licenses to some guys who may have used these licenses as IDs to get jobs later working on the World Trade Center sprinkler systems (the sprinklers that failed on 9/11 even though they were upgraded after the 1993 Ryder truck bombing).  Smith was out on bail, due to testify before a grand jury.  She never kept that appointment.  The FBI investigation into the WTC sprinkler installers with bogus drivers’ licenses seems to have gone nowhere after Smith’s death.  Smith’s murder is still unsolved, no black teenagers around to take the rap.

Who can say now what Dirk Hale unknowingly knew about the actors involved in the 9/11 conspiracy?  Those Friendly Checker cabs drove passengers to and from the airport.  Imagine if one of Hale’s airport pickups asked to drive to Hale’s apartment house on Young Circle, there to meet Atta.  A pickup who wanted to stay unknown and ordered Hale killed, someone who could have known too much.  I wonder if the NSA was monitoring Hale’s phone.  Hale had a Greyhound bus ticket in his pocket, he gave his landlord notice he was moving.  Murdered on his last day as a cabbie.  Quite a coincidence.

The Democratic Party leaders has been working in tandem with the Republicans to shield the 9/11 American mastermind murderers.  No big surprise there.  So, the Democratic Party loses control of the Senate.  Not as big a loss as the 343 firefighters murdered on 9/11.

 

 

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:24 | 5403737 Dapper Dan
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And the repugnant republicans don’t dare complain about the Democrats lack of investigation and prosecution against the bankers involved in the 2008 scandals.

Quid Pro Quo

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:21 | 5403734 LordEffingtonTh...
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Overly simplistic point of view.  The damage is slower with republicans.  Slower is better.  Maybe something will be left when true small government libertarian principles are finally given a shot.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:14 | 5403721 LordEffingtonTh...
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So you think it will be better to have democrats in office when Obama gets his dictator on and opens the borders to as many voters as he needs to maintain democrats in office ad infinitum?

 

I don't.  I think the only way we have any probability of fighting that off is if republicans win....and if we shortly there after melt their phone lines non stop.....and take to the streets of Washington DC

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:16 | 5402656 El Oregonian
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I'm not so sure that that fatted sheeple is a correct example of us. For the last 8 years we've been sheered pretty thin.

In fact, I'd say we're pretty darn feeble at this stage...

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:08 | 5402633 Pooper Popper
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Fucking Cock Suckers

Tony Montana

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:16 | 5402658 Aeternus
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Yea, well, if you're angry about this perhaps you should see what this sick polish game developer has been doing with his spare time. Even hardcore gamers are calling this the most violent and disgusting video game ever made.

Personally I don't see how it is any different than the GTA series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kn1LDeJuqU

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:27 | 5403084 BKbroiler
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I think that's how most people play GTA anyway.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 03:31 | 5403332 AldousHuxley
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You can look in the mirror and admit that your existence depended on your ancestors conquering other genetics pools through violent means or become a hypocrite and make up some fairy tale of civilization.

 

Think about why people are even interested in the game....they share the pain.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:27 | 5402686 10mm
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Low level banker. Food chain.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:36 | 5402711 doctor10
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Time for the Red-Blue Olympics -beats the bankerz having to deal with the peoplz directly any day.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:14 | 5402929 Uncle Sugar
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OT - they better shut the temperature monitoring stations off in the eastern U.S. tonight.  Those cold temps aren't going to jive with the global warning narrative.

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:47 | 5403784 McCormick No. 9
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No-one says "global warming" any more. That is such 90's era, Al Gore-ish language.

The smart people say "climate change". It means the same thing, code-wise, (although in reality it doesn't mean anything- the climate is always changing, colder, hotter, all the time) but is more slippery.

Smart, slippery people with an agenda(21), say "Yes, colder weather is  a scientifically proven result of climate change. Now give us your house, car, and money and go live in this wickieup."

He who diggeth a pit for his neighbor &etc.

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 09:32 | 5403624 Anglophobe
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i will be voting here in NJ in two days .... my plan is to vote for whichever party is not in power ... or any third party available .... id vote communist jsut to mix it up 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:02 | 5402618 Majestic12
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Aren't you all glad that you approve and give your permission???

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:08 | 5402629 Cognitive Dissonance
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Two opposing sides of the same sandwich. And we are the seasoned meat in the center.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:33 | 5402700 Rigger
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I always saw elections and the two party system as a choice in which side of the same coin you would like shoved up your ass first...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 01:56 | 5403261 SAT 800
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Sir; you're in danger of lapsing into cynicism.         /sa.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:34 | 5402704 BearTrap
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Or ketchup.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:08 | 5402638 NoDebt
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They're just backing whoever's winning.  Gotta keep that influence (control) gravy train rolling on biscuit wheels.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:14 | 5402651 kowalli
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sheepland

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:20 | 5402673 q99x2
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I'm not voting for either party. First any incumbent gets shit-canned. Second if there is an independent they have my vote. Third if the only choice is to vote for a democrat or a republican to get the incumbent out of office then they have my vote.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:43 | 5403859 CrazyCatLady
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Showing up means participation.  Non participation is the only way to exercise your voice now.  Do you really believe that the votes are actually counted?  Diebold is such an honest company arent they?

 

*edited for spelling

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:25 | 5402683 Taint Boil
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Red vs Blue - works every time.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:30 | 5402694 livefreediefree
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Sorry, but the only solution to this shit, the only solution, is to elect true conservative Republicans to the Presidency and Congress.

The only way to stop the incest between DC and WS, the only way, is to reduce fed'l gov't power. Back in the day when the fed'l gov't was more restrained, the corruption, Fascism, and crony capitalism was a muted roar.

Again, the only solution to smaller gov't and less corruption, the only solution, is to elect true conservative Republicans to the Presidency and Congress.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:42 | 5402730 kowalli
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Are you an idiot? Elections rigged - how the fuck are you elect someone?

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:47 | 5402740 LostPolarBear
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Republicans are not the saviors you seek.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 07:30 | 5403491 barroter
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Yes, the GOP will save us, like they did the last time.  So, which war will your sons enjoy? Russian? Iranian?

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 08:07 | 5403518 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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I doubt that important message will sink in.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:52 | 5402748 r00t61
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Sorry, but government is a disease, masquerading as its own cure.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:59 | 5402760 livefreediefree
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Sorry for introducing reality-based pragmatism (ie, Reality is and facts are) into your fantasy utopia.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:09 | 5402783 kowalli
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you are really ...

Facts Obama, Bush,Bush, Clinton and this time Clinon vs Bush - you fucking dumb of the dumbest people

Reality - by rigged election system you want to ecelect 1 good man from banksters - Hilary Clinton or Jeb Bush, who can change something? This system is corrupt from bottom to the top.

USA have 50ml in food stamp who will vote for food.

First thing to do- you must somewho take all powerfull points in government and banking system but you can't do it in less them 50 years, and you don't have 50 years because system is collapsing.

You are more dumb than my dogs shit

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:02 | 5402909 livefreediefree
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Doing nothing means not voting, and not fighting within the system.

If the system sucks, for the system not to suck, we must change the system. Will fundamental change happen via revolution? Please. Fuck, no. Only idiots and children believe the US will suffer a revolution.

Actually, those who are fiercely fighting for the system and want it to not only stay as is but also grow in power to the point where it'll institutionalize itself (eg, the EU) are the ones who complain that the system is rigged. If these institutionalists (nee, secular Progressives) convince more and more people to stay away from the ballot box, the corrupt elite win automatically and easily.

That's right. The corrupt elite love it when they see useful idiots abandoning the voting booth.

You deplore the system? You also vow to not vote? Then you've just voted FOR the system, you stupid mother-fuckers.

I realize I'm dealing with idiots, and would need to explain the difference between a 'Republican' and a 'conservative Republican', but I've got better things to do; ie, scratch my balls.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:26 | 5402956 TeethVillage88s
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Vote 3rd Party, support 3rd party, let 3rd party politicians sleep in your house, feed 3rd party politicians, help 3rd [arty candidates with whatever you can... insurance, housing, couch, meals, gasoline, phone charge, printing....

Support 3rd party media, visit coffee houses, gather intel on 3rd party media, events, and community activity.

Question: where are community activists if not in coffee shops... COOPs for agriculture... Farmers markets.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:31 | 5402971 Miffed Microbio...
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Dear God, most of us need a red pill but you need a bucket full. Since you admit to being a liberal and have "seen the light" consider the same may be true now that you are a conservative.

The system is so far gone IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to fix now within the system. No way are you voting for the system by not voting. You are REJECTING said system. The ONLY hope now is revolution and probably a violent one. We have had numerous chances to fix it and all were ignored and rejected by the people who had their own interests in mind rather than the good of the country. Once you accept the fact this country is in the fucking crapper and finished you will be forever frustrated by your voting results. My God, just watch Mr Smith goes to Washington and that was 1939. The elite could give a goddam the voting booths are empty. If voting was truly effective it would be illegal. It is simply dumb entertainment for the masses. Their agendas continue unabated no matter what party or person is in power. It gives me no satisfaction to say this. I wish it were possible to change.

Please wake up and save yourself. I thought as you for many years and it only brought frustration, anger and grief. Don't waste your time as I did.

Miffed

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:48 | 5403007 palmereldritch
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I understand your frustration Miffed but I would submit that, notwithstanding the illusion of the present-day electoral hologram of distraction,

Your vote is your receipt for revolution....

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 01:16 | 5403227 TeethVillage88s
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Miffed Thread is worth continuation:

"just watch Mr Smith goes to Washington and that was 1939."

- USA Corrupt from 1939
- Your Vote Corrupt from 1939
- WWI was Corrupt
- WWII was Corrupt
- You don't even know your mama, since you are product of corrupt society, sorry no sarc, your uncle sugar is a pimp to corporate subsidies, wars, continuing resolutions, and tax abatements, you have no true daddie, you are an orphan, you don't even know your true history

Was that too harsh?? I think it was okay.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 03:22 | 5403320 livefreediefree
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The ONLY hope now is revolution and probably a violent one.

Then there is no hope. I'll give you a Vigintillion-to-1 odds against a revolution occurring. There's better odds on Lena Dunham becoming a nun, and having her toit permanently sealed with super glue.

The elections of 1979, 1993, and 2009 wrought major change. We'll see if we can add 2013 to that list.

The cause of our problems today is toxic Progressivism, as practiced by supermodel Obama, who learned everything he (thinks he) knows in faculty lounges. His ideas are crafted in the fantasy utopia which Progressives create (aka, ivory towers), and in which Progressives live. Reality is definitely not their milieu.

The Progressive domination of the culture is the fount of all our ills.

Conservatives and libertarians champion small(er) gov't. If gov't is downsized, and if the free market is freed from the smothering, stifling control of the secular Progressive left, Wall Street would need to respond to the citizens of the USA, and not just our Progressive overlords.

Conservatives would also restrain the fed and stop the complete fucking bullshit of QE.

Think the Carter vs Obama analogy.

When Reagan became President, Volcker primarily but fully supported by Reagan slew the dragon of inflation, and put the US economy back into the mode which had worked for 200 years and had produced the largesse we all enjoy: Free Market Capitalism. Man, that was tough medicine. Doing what needed to be done caused 2 recessions. The fix took -- what? -- nearly 2 years. But fix it they did. And what happened was the largest economic expansion in our history.

The situation is different now (Almost inversely different?), yet the #1 goal of the next conservative President would be to appoint a fed chairman who would transform the banking system into something that is not merely a part of the corrupt Progressive command-and-control economy.

No more fucking Keynesianism. No more fucking socialism. No more fucking Progressivism. No more fucking identity politics. No more fucking dedicating our country's wealth to the unemployed rather than the employed, to the unproductive rather than the productive, to the lazy fucks rather than the entrepeneurs. No more fucking Wall Street sucking prime tit, and we serfs sucking ass, dick, and menses.

Is it possible to do this with our votes? Possible, but fucking damned hard.

We have 2 things going for us. The Progressives have really, really, really fucked up. Even the dolts that comprise the US electorate are beginning to realize that maybe a free lunch for everyone is a bad idea. Then, we have the upcoming great crash. If we are properly positioned to take advantage of it, we might be able to revert back to what used to work in a far shorter length of time.

If you espouse revolution, then I consider you in league with the evil bastards who almost totally control the system, said bastards being within a few years of being able to maintain their control in perpetuity. If you espouse revolution, you are the problem.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 08:03 | 5403515 JonNadler
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conservative republicans...you mean like Reagan, who  tipled the national debt?

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:41 | 5403906 livefreediefree
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Please see one of my previous posts which proved your claim to be a lie.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:18 | 5403730 LordEffingtonTh...
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The republican party has a use.  That is as vehicle / shell to be filled with Libertarian DNA.  It's going to be a very sucessful strategy when finally tried.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:51 | 5403794 McCormick No. 9
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Right! Like a virus! Yes, now i am really converted to nihiism.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:17 | 5403839 Dexter Morgan
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Livefree you are really a fucking idiot. 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:16 | 5403984 livefreediefree
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No, Dexter, what I am is a grounded realist. More importantly, I use my knowledge, experience, and wisdom to posit and argue the affirmative.

What about those here who object to my POV? What do they do? I paraphrase: "The system is fucked. The system is unfixable. We need revolution".

On a positive/negative scale, what's a metric for that POV? I daresay that it's 100% negative.

In the ZH article Martin Armstrong: "At What Point Does Revolution Take Place?", the author says: One good place to start (my note: vis-a-vis elections) is OUTLAW negative advertising. COMPEL political candidates to state what they stand for rather than calling their opponent a liar. Later, he echoes you negativists: At what point does revolution take place?

Notice anything about your POV, and the main thesis of that article's author? Yes, dear negativists, you're so unaware of your personal blindness that you fail to perceive yourself as committing the same atrocity that all the politicians who run negative ads do.

Rationality and logic works. Critical thinking, too.

However, rest assured, my precious and darling negativists, I won't "COMPEL you to state what you stand for rather than calling me an idiot". That would tax your brains to the point of combustible implosion.

Einstein called it the happiest moment of his life when he realized that a enclosed room accelerating through space experiences the same forces as an enclosed room in a gravity field. Since a light beam exiting and entering the room when the room was accelerating through space would bend slightly, so would a light beam entering and exiting the room in a gravity field. Thus, gravity bends light.

Using the same logic Einstein used (which I wholesale adopted as soon as I understood it), I compared your negativity with negative political campaign ads. Since politicians who run negative ads suck, you suck.

Einstein would agree with me.

To posit and argue the affirmative, one must first. posit an affirmative. Chew on that for a while.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:59 | 5403025 Bill of Rights
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Top post man I know exactly what you are trying to say. Fuck the mom's basement dopes.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:09 | 5403051 r00t61
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So getting into a voting booth and marking an "X" on a scrap of paper makes you "a good man," the only thing preventing evil from triumph?

If you are truly both that stupid and egomaniacal, if you actually think that the magical unicorn "Conservative Republican" is going to save you, then by all means, keep getting into the booth.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 03:27 | 5403327 livefreediefree
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You don't know it, but your POV is already fucked. Insidiously, what I said is eating at your cynical nihilistic philosophy from the inside out.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:19 | 5403068 Otto Zitte
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Mortal Kombat soundtrack

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:34 | 5403090 Otto Zitte
Sun, 11/02/2014 - 08:24 | 5403543 Agstacker
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You're assuming that the voting process is not manipulated.  Ever hear of diebold voting machines?

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:51 | 5403790 McCormick No. 9
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Thanks. You have just converted me to nihilism

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 07:30 | 5403490 barroter
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"The only way to stop the incest between DC and WS, the only way, is to reduce fed'l gov't power"  Add to that cornholing ALL lobbyists in a pitful of squid.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:22 | 5404002 livefreediefree
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Sure, but if lobbyists have only hundreds of billions rather than trillions to lobby for (or tens of billions rather than hundreds of billions), the damage they could do would be an order of magnitude less.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:34 | 5402709 Racer
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The star on the sheep should be a target not a star!

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:01 | 5402766 hangemhigh77
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Yes voting makes America a great and free country!!!  Yahoooooooo.  Ahh, it's all BULLSHIT!!!  Instead of voting let's hang all the candidates.  Now THAT would actually have a positive change effect.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:55 | 5402900 Alternative
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Best suggestion I've heard in a long time.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:09 | 5403965 thebigunit
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Holy cow!

The Kmher Rouge is still around!

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:03 | 5402770 NoWayJose
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A good month of TV and radio ads - filled with the same rhetoric and false accusations that were used in every election for the last 40 years.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:09 | 5402785 Cautiously Pess...
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Okay, so I am in Georgia (pronounced JO JA) and in the upcoming Governor's race I can a) not vote  b) vote for Nathan Deal (R) the incumbent  c) vote for Jason Carter (D) and yes he is Jimmy Carter's grandson -- acorn did not fall far from the tree  or  d)  vote for the independent Andrew Hunt.

Now, as much as I HATE the system and get the whole red vs. blue deal, if I choose any option other than option 'b', I only screw myself further than by just chosing option 'b'. In short, vote for the devil I do know.  It is just that simple.  The system sucks, but it is all we have ... short of watering the tree of liberty.  Basically, I get to choose death or bunga bunga (for those who have heard the joke, you will get what I mean).

Fun fact: GA is one of very, very few states that require a photo ID to vote.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:24 | 5402827 FeralSerf
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You could boycott the election if you believe you don't have any good choices.

A vote FOR any of those SOBs is counted as a vote that LIKES that SOB and his policies. Remember Obama's and Bush's claims of a "mandate"? There is no vote on the ballot that states you are voting AGAINST the other candidates.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:36 | 5402858 kowalli
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nothing will change at all. It's really doesn't matter a,b,c,d.

photo ID to vote- doesn't matter - only matters who is counting votes...

Jezz guys, even if you wanting that b will win - if they wanted c - c will win. It's simple.

elections is a theater, cinema

Why do you think that the turnover of people in the US Congress is even less than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and is 2%?

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:50 | 5402877 Yen Cross
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 I'm jaded as well my friend. I have faith in the facts.\

  A loaf of bread costs as much as a gallon of PETROL. Yet a gallon of Petrol has dropped by 20 pence in price.

 I'm using British unit's because North America is sleeping.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:45 | 5402876 WTFUD
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If you would like the feel good factor to return let's capture , eliminate and dump Osaka Bin Laid again, again.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:47 | 5402884 Fuku Ben
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Vote? Big waste of time

Buy out the foreign company that owns the voting machines and software in the US and then plug in your revolutionary candidate for the victory

They're still finding ballots in the garbage in Scotland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9H_FIiKlfs

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:22 | 5402934 Karaio
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Most of you do not know what a Anta. 

Anta is a strange animal, can reach 700 pounds, is hurting ugly sight, has a strange meat, horse meat seems so dark and has a horrible taste. 

If Anta was good we would, believe. 

Well, among the Brazilian, calling someone a "Anta" is an insane offense. 

Those folks in California have no concept of a Brazilian Tapir = can do! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE4hELqK5A 

This drawing of the horse + donkey = sheeple got interesting. 

hehe.

Uma outra coisa, uma Anta e uma Onça Pintada:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQwsrSapJI

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:40 | 5402981 TeethVillage88s
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Thanks. Looks like 330 to 710 lb. Good call.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:56 | 5403802 McCormick No. 9
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Yep. Looks like a politician to me!

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:45 | 5402997 nah
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Romney baby

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:02 | 5403033 kchrisc
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I will be "voting" this year by beginning work on another guillotine. This one will be motorized and the lunette, head brace, will be housed in a hidden compartment. I plan on operating it in all known speed traps.

"Sure officer, inspect that compartment all you like. Just put your head in right there. That's it..."

An American, not US subject.

 

AKA: The Noah of Guillotines

http://www.madehow.com/images/hpm_0000_0007_0_img0054.jpg

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:15 | 5403062 eyesofpelosi
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I will vote as usual, but the msm has spent so little time covering the story that I almost belive my vote will matter this year. /sarcasm, extra cheese, hold the recounts/

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:21 | 5403075 himaroid
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If you scratch many of the self professed "Libertarians" that post here, you will find a liberal/socialist just beneath a thin layer of skin.

So easy to detect. 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:46 | 5403100 joego1
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You are full of doggie dookie. Libertarians are closer to a what a Republican use to be. I guess you didn't notice that Ron Paul held his nose and ran as a Republican.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:55 | 5403111 homebody
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Until there is a viable third party - what should Ron have done - Independent with no effect on anything?

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:58 | 5403115 joego1
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I think he made the right move, reclaim the Republican party.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:27 | 5403083 homebody
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Idiots

If you do not push for a new type of representative, you will have to eat the shit that the current pigs spew.  I see some new faces that will push for change in government - keep the momentum rolling.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:47 | 5403103 joego1
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And the new representative is... drum roll please.... still waiting .......

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:33 | 5403116 homebody
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Maybe someone that will cut the pork in Washington for one.

 

Maybe someone that supports the Keystone.

 

Maybe someone that believes that public sector unions will be the death of the country.

 

Maybe someone that supports sealing the southern border and sending back the illegals to one of several countries from which they came.

 

Maybe someone that believe in energy independence.

 

In other words find anyone with a backbone and ethics.

 

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:43 | 5403773 yellowsub
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You realize this is America, right?

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:45 | 5403098 joego1
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This is leading up to another Bush Clinton rerun. I'm sick of this movie.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:49 | 5403106 WTFUD
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Wall Street Spends record amount translated means it's costing more to secure the votes of those treasonous PUBLIC servants.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:39 | 5403174 JoJoJo
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Democrats - home of homos, abortionists,lib Jews, climate alarmism,"war on women," race hustlers, lawyers, fattened public school teachers and all other gov employees, welfare state, wealth confiscation,ObamadontCare etc. 

Repubs have probs but I voted R from home/absentee. I did not want to even stand in line at the precinct with the above individuals.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:41 | 5403179 WTFUD
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O' come on ye gentle Hedgies we both know you'll be in church tomorrow morning singing ' We Plough the Fields and Scatter', with Gusto.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 01:10 | 5403219 f16hoser
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I'm not voting until after the Second Revolution which I give a 65% chance of happening. Also, if I hear someone say "you have to vote for the lesser of two evils" .....the Revolution begins then & there!!!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 01:30 | 5403224 Alternative
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You can't make a Fight Club out of stupid people. After all, it is only a movie. 

It is a nice fantasy that you can make a bunch of retards somehow start fighting for the cause that is sensible. Doesn't work that way in reality.

Fuck Bernanke! There, I had to officially join the club. 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:27 | 5403282 thebigunit
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"Both parties are the same, Wall Street just shifts around to whichever figurehead has the momentum in any given election cycle in order to protect their criminal enterprises and get future bailouts.

The reason you think that "both parties are the same", is that you've accepted the fiction of the "two party system".

Technically, there are many more than three parties, but in reality, there are three ideologogical focus centers.

I characterize this focus centers as: Tribalism/Socialism, Crony Capitalism, and Free Market Capitalism.

The Tribalist/Socialists are Democrats,

The Free Market Capitalists are Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians/Tea Partiers.

The Crony Capitalists are political whores, who flop back and forth.

When the Crony's flop to the Democrats, Democrats win.  When the Crony's flop to the Republicans, Republicans win.

Bottomline, because the Cronys like to jump aboard the winning boat and help steer, both parties often seem to be the same.

To break the cycle, the Free Market Capitalists need to take control of the Republican Party and pull up the ladder just as the Crony's are trying to climb aboard, after having worn out their welcome with the Dems.

Let the Dems have the Crony's as permanent baggage.  Then we'll have a real "two party system".

 


Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:33 | 5403287 Alternative
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We've got a winner here. He figured it all out!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 04:45 | 5403379 Haager
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"The Free Market Capitalists are Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians/Tea Partiers."

 

Ah..hahahahaha... I smell bigotry, dream on little fellow...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:20 | 5403995 thebigunit
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Like . . . you're going to give people homilies on the brotherhood of man?

 

Ah--hahahahaha...  I smell stupidity.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:24 | 5403862 Dexter Morgan
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The only FREE MARKET in the United States of Amerika is the BLACK MARKET.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 07:05 | 5403468 therover
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I am more interested in the net gain/loss of lawyers in CONgress as opposed to net gain/loss of Repubs vs Demos in the Senate. 

Too many lawyers in CONgress. 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 09:06 | 5403585 Lumberjack
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Liberal or conservative? Reactions to disgust are a dead giveaway

 

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-liberal-reactions-disgust-dead-giveaway.html

 

In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Current Biology, an international team of scientists led by Virginia Tech reports that the strength of a person's reaction to repulsive images can forecast their political ideology.

"Disgusting images generate neural responses that are highly predictive of political orientation even when those neural responses don't correspond with an individual's conscious reaction to the images," said Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute professor who led the study. "Remarkably, we found that the brain's response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individual's political ideology."

 

The results suggest political ideologies are mapped onto established neural responses that may have served to protect our ancestors against environmental threats, Montague said. Those neural responses could be passed down family lines—it's likely that disgust reactions are inherited.

"We pursued this research because previous work in a twin registry showed that political ideology—literally the degree to which someone is liberal or conservative—was highly heritable, almost as heritable as height," said Montague, who directs the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

Conservatives tend to have more magnified responses to disgusting images, but scientists don't know exactly why, Montague said.

The responses could be a callback to the deep, adverse reactions primitive ancestors needed to avoid contamination and disease. To prevent unsavory consequences, they had to learn to separate the canteen from the latrine.




Sun, 11/02/2014 - 13:16 | 5403631 rwe2late
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Vote for the other party and they will cost you an arm and a leg!

Vote for OUR party and you will only lose an arm.

So naturally, the lesser of two evils was chosen,

and 'only' an arm was lost.

 

(But then the next election came around and limbs had gotten scarcer)

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:53 | 5403797 Tegrat
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The only thing you can change by not voting, is your ability to vote at all. Follow the millions of fiat in ads/campaigns - it's not spent for a pre-determined outcome. Why do politicians wait until after mid-terms to do the most damage if it doesn't matter?

 

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:11 | 5403971 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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The article claims that most Americans are not interested in the upcoming election. I do not agree. This election is a clear and decisive opportunity for citizens to cast their vote against Barrack Hussein Obama, the first African-American President of the United States of America and his Sunni Muslim agenda of lies, bigotry, sexism, and racist attacks against the Constitution, the Congress, and the Bill of Rights.

The polling must be damaging to the Dems or else this election would be reported as a historic reflection of President Teleprompter and unique agenda which has transformed American into a land hope and change.

Instead of the current land of division, economic stagnation, and moral irrelevance.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:49 | 5404054 Winston Smith 2009
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Millennial poll: Why the youth vote now leans Republican

Among 18-to-29-year-olds who say they will 'definitely' vote on Nov. 4, 51 percent prefer a Republican-led Congress, while 47 percent want the Democrats in charge, a survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics finds.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2014/1029/Millennial-poll-Why-the...

Eventually, their disillusionment with the "Change!" candidate will evolve to a correct realization that the big money vetted candidates they are allowed to vote for are nothing more than puppets. Then, like Carlin, they'll do the right thing and simply refuse to play:

George Carlin - Why I Don't Vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsQ7jJJcEA

Meanwhile, the rest continue to play "Ping Pong for Morons" by electing one party, then bouncing back to the other, over and over again, like the lane changing idiots who change into the faster lane in a traffic jam only to find out it then slows to a crawl... but they can't figure out the simple reason why that happens so they continue to move back and forth between lanes.

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