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Donald Trump's Soaring Popularity "Is The Country's Collective Middle Finger To Washington"
Submitted by Paul Brodsky, via Macro-Allocation.com,
Donald Trump’s ascendance as the early GOP front-runner is symbolic of a greater global trend: growing pushback against institutional political and economic power.
To many centrist politicians and mainstream political observers, Donald Trump is a boastful, insensitive egomaniac spouting populist rhetoric. Whether such a characterization is true is not worthy of debate, which may explain why the rantings of enraged career political pundits have no impact on Mr. Trump’s popularity among Republican voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and across America. It seems no amount of ink or air time spent tarring and feathering Trump’s reputation sticks; in fact it seems to help Teflon Don in the polls, where he leads a crowded field of career politicians.
Donald Trump is a threat not only to the nattering nabobs in the press corps and the Republican Party. His day in the sun may be symbolic of a broader dynamic: the declining power held by historically powerful institutions. Ask yourself if Trump’s campaign is making a mockery of the political process or exposing the mockery that the political process has become. A not-insignificant percentage of Americans away from the coasts, are looking past his utter lack of decorum and political savvy to hitch their wagons to his outrage.
Let’s forget, for a moment, about our personal politics, preferred policies, and individual candidates we may be excited to elect. Are we supposed to forget that the Supreme Court, through its 2010 decision that corporate donors should be treated legally as individual donors under the First Amendment, effectively subordinated individual voters into mere supporting targets to which political aspirants have to appeal? Most importantly, are we supposed to nod our bobble heads in agreement with the heads of the national parties to choose a candidate they find acceptable based on which will appeal to the best funded special interests?
Is anyone really polling in favor of Donald Trump or is he conveniently filling the role of the not-so-quiet counterfactual?
I recently texted one of the premier Sunday morning political pundits with these thoughts and he texted back:
“That's what I am arguing internally. This is the country's collective middle finger to Washington.”
As an investment strategist and consultant observing our current global economy and markets, it is difficult not to extrapolate this sense of helplessness against powerful institutions. Tell us again why six years of central bank financial repression is serving the interests of the greater factors-of-production? As investors, should we care about widening wealth and income gaps that are clearly part-and-parcel with central bank policies devoted to maintaining asset values (see here and here)?
Should we expect free, democratic markets that create, form and price capital efficiently - not that treat financial assets as balance sheet collateral for credit?
Who can voters elect to again have an economy that puts producers over rentiers, or to have markets that price value? I’m sure it’s not Donald Trump (a rentier’s rentier!), but I’m also sure it’s not the heads of the Democrat and Republican Parties. Who can investors elect to keep the rentier thing going? Is that really what investors should want? It’s complicated.
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Some are thrust upon you.
It's global (See Greece).
Trump loves Israel and Nut-in-yahoo.
Would you like to end up as Kennedy? I doubt it, That wouldn't have been a sign of Genius, he'is building, he's got the touch, he is Brash, arrogant, unafraid of anything, he is the America we honor in those old war movies, America was universaliy respected and admired, and Her word was her bond!
What happened? I don't know, things change and now we find ourselves here,,,what to do? I don't know that either, but I caution against threats to our Leaders, people who fear for their lives are apt to make grevious errors!
i sense many here are being duped into the r vs d bullshit. come on get real, hope>think critically>realize>moar bullshit same outcome; MARK MY WORDS, NOT A GODDAMN FUCKING THING WILL CHANGE...wishthink, ha-lol...
No one is being duped by the left right alex jones x-2 no shit we've heard it a thousand times paradigm. Tell us something we don't already know duh. It's YOU that needs to see more clearly. Don't mistake wild card pragmatism for dumbass sheeple. It makes you look one dimensional.
Correct.
If the border stays open we're done as a white, European nation. Now is not the time for a 6-foot wish list.
These ladies got they eye on the ball:
https://youtu.be/hhQfUiDhjQg
And those are things that the general public is really concerned about, things that will really help him do what is critical at the moment which is win enough public support to defeat the RINO establishment and the Dems?
We don't know what Trump will do. Obviously being a huge real estate developer, he is aware of the bankster owned government that runs DC since 1913 or earlier. He may be the Manchurian candidate for the Republicans just as Obama was for the Democrats, posing as an outsider to lull us into supporting him. But at least he will weaken the phony 2 party system we have. And he is an outsider unlike the CIA groomed Obama.
The only nice way out of the current mess is to nationalize the Federal Reserve, not abolish it, and let our government create it's own debt free money to lend out into the economy as did the 13 colonies with their colonial script. Trump, being a huge debtor, would appear to take more naturally to the side of the debtors than the side of the 'creditors' (fiat creating banksters)
Trump & DC deserve each other.
You deserve to shove your head up your ass.
What a well spoken rat fuck dependent EBT card holder. Goto Seattle for $15/hr McDonald job. Report back when franchise is closed down.
I see you've passed the debating team's entrance exam.
or replaced by a keypad with a swipe card. computer voice asks:will you be eating here or taking out? just speeding up the inevitable. wtf will all the plebs do, fix robots, ha...
These Trump threads are pitiful. Bunch of fuckan useless sheep posting at the Hedge now.
This is typical of the Hedhe now. Divisive distractions and clickbait postings.
The clickbait and level of advertising on this site has indeed approached full retard
And your Plan A is ... what exactly?
The institutionalized RINO GOP are shitting their pants. No more Clinton /Bush dynasties.
They aren't shitting themselves...they're PISSING themselves.
From LAUGHING.
#DELUSIONAL.
It matters naught when there is a One Party Corporatiive Government.
Let us assume Trump is the perfect candidate and gets elected to do all the things we want done, the Fed, immigration etc. What makes you think the party establishments in congress, which will still be there, the vast bureaucracy that is the federal government, or the monopolized media and lobbying interests will let him?
#41
Trump has a pen and a phone. And I'm pretty sure they're gold plated.
Not to mention wild eyed support by the masses to change EVERYTHING back to pre 911
He won't get everything done that a lot of people want to see but he will get some of it done, and that will be a novelty.
There'll be plenty of GOP members of Congress who ride into office on his coattails and when he makes it clear he wants someone more supportive of his ideas and policies than Boehner and McConnell, those two will be gone. The rest of the Repubs in Congress are not going to start off bucking a newly elected Repub President, especially when they know he is quite willing to make life really, really hard for each of them individually.
Just as Obama has been able to stack the upper levels of the bureaucracy with his people, so will Trump and he will undoubtedly use the DOJ to pursue bureaucrats frustrating his policies.
Trump doesn't play Marquess of Queensberry rules.
I like Trump with exception of him sucking up to zios... who else holds his loans? and his grandkids will all be zios.
Trump may not be the answer, but he is the middle finger.
Article was complete SHIT. Writer needs to go back to skuul, cuz he be dum.
Nevertheless, I give him credit for trying. May his blog get traffic and make a few bucks.
Power to da peepul!
Trump-Porn!
Electioneering porn.
Fuck these Fascist. Fuck these Totalitarian Authoritarian Psychopathic / Sociopathic Criminals. And, Fuck Centrailized Banking / Crimjnal Fraud entity aka the UNITED STATES, CORP. INC.
Trump and Hillary are buddies. Trump won't get the GOP endorsement so he will run as an independent. The main idea is to draw off republican votes. Assuming the diebold machines don't already do that.
Even were it true, it wouldn't do Clinton any good. The Obama crime family is taking out the Clinton crime family for good and once Jarrett has despatched Clinton, they'll be putting up their man Joe, with a campaign organization all ready to go.
The Repubs could forestall their justified death by getting religion on immigration but they won't. So good riddance. We screwed anyhoo.
Both parties are pitiful and clueless. Economic collapse seems a real possibility. Then we'll see some real, um, populism and some creative grass roots problem solving.
If voters do not shake up the deeeeply entrenched power base in DC then we might as well leave Obama in charge. Neither Obama or Hillary or any other Republican candidate can even stir the festering cauldron, much less change it.
Push back against institutional money power Trump? Yeah, like Freedom is Slavery and all that tirade
means nothhin' w/o blood.
Trump's Got A Trump Card
Brother Nathanael - Published on Jul 27, 2015
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jinjRYNuVyo (4:02)
Oh great!! Trump's a zio?? Why can't Brother Nathaniel let me sleep in peace?
Oh great!! Trump's a zio?? Why can't Brother Nathaniel let me sleep in peace?
"I am"... I cried "I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
Leavin' me lonely still"
The joke is on all those dummies who think they are "flipping off" the establishment.
Even IF Trump is making a serious run (and why should anyone think he is), in the end, it will be much ado about nothing, and once again the hopes and dreams of republic-loving Americans will be dashed on the rocks of establishment manipulations.
Trump is a pressure release valve...a hollow, harmless avenue for the masses to march down, but leading to a dead-end.
You are delusional if you think the system fix is to be found within the system.
Thank you for saying what needs to be said Mr. pipes.
Pressure valve exactly!! F
Fun to listen too but we are being manipulated once again all the signs are there... A Republican may win but the great collapse and reset will be blamed on his greed and arrogance and non caring attitude... Please we have seen this game too many times...
Oh, please.
Trump came on board about the time when Rand Paul was giving Jeb Bush a run for the lead. Hey look over there it's the Donald! Oh look he has a new show on TV and isn't running for president now, who could have even guessed that reality show? Everything he was talking about isn't real either, how about that?
So who told Rand to observe radio silence? Last pic I happened to see of him was him shaking Prof. Sharpton's hand. Some threat to Jeb!!
Middle finger? Hows about foot up thier lazy corrupt ass holes.
When Trump says "FUCK ISRAEL" during a live interview, then I'll 100% vote for him. As of now I'm not heading to the rigged polls.
is that the same middle finger that keeps sending back the same fascist congress critters every time?
I respect a man who speaks he's mind! Cause these days that takes big balls!
TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT!
Any downvotes will make you a instant libturd socialist!
He may be a rich self absorbed braggart, but watching this guy growing up in NYC tells me he most assuredly is raising his middle finger at people we here on ZH do not like.
And he is definitely not a person that the East Coast establishment has ever considered couth.
not related to a Clinton or Bush, what's not to like?
I'll never vote for the man BUT anyone who feigns complete indigance on behalf of the common man he has never been so adroitly gets my support in this kleptocracy! ;-)
don't worry nmewn yur vote will go where diebold damn well wants it to go..hillaryyyyyyy
The fact is you and I both know that our votes do not count at all in the current circumstances. We have been discussing this on ZH for 6 years now.
This being the case, Mr Trump begins to look like a suitable fuck you vote.
I am sick and tired of many things and the populist slur is high on my list, right up there with the Koch Brothers, the Clintons and the Bushes.
I also remember the last go around when Mr Trump was the only conspiracy theorist in the pack willing to question O'Perkerheads undocumented credentials.
Do as ya'll will, I don't vote for peckerwoods who think my rights can be managed or regulated by any bureacracy. As you all know "management" changes at 2-4 and 6 year intervals.
I now know I'll be able to outrrun it in my life, my children can't.
I don't bow to any tyrant (foreign or domestic) or ask them to "please" see it my way, I do it my way and everyone can kiss my ass who is servile enough to ever think it will ever be any different way.
Either way we know what is going to be the final outcome.
BOHICA my friend.
BOHICA my friend, some are long astro glide futures right now just killing it ;-)
William, I respect your opinion greatly and much of your opinion hangs on my walls. It's all fake and you know that well. What do you make of all of the donations that Trump allegedly made to Hillary? Whether any of that is true or not is beside the point. Tell me William, which one of these fucking morons takes on the Fed problem and The Squid, JPissM etc? The answer is none of them in any party.
For that matter, why does it matter who is president anymore anyway? Maybe I will write in Cecil the Lion for prez assuming I bother to vote. I would have to miss out on that free patriotic "I voted" stickers if I didn't vote. What we need are some "My vote didn't matter and neither did yours" stickers with a Mr. Yuk on it.
It's pretty simple. How was he going to do business in NYC and other Dem controlled major cities if he didn't pay off their leaders? It's extortion but if you're in business it's a cost you accept and get on with it.
His recent comments about Hillary ("worst Secretary of State ever", "criminal behavior with the emails") doesn't suggest he's a fan. In fact maybe he's finally got a chance for some payback over the extortion.
"Donald Trump's Soaring Popularity "Is The Country's Collective Middle Finger To Washington"
If all it took was our middle-fingers, tyranny would go around cutting off our middle-fingers.
It's going to take lots of "watering of the tree of Liberty" to end this tyranny.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
If only Syed Wali Shah's had been a regal lion like "Cecil" was: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2009.08...
After you, Alphonse.
Trump is a pure creation of our media. --> We know that the MSM in this country is thoroughly and 100% corrupted. --> Trump is now a populist speaking out against the power structure that created him.
Hmmm. Doesn't compute for me. The media are peddling him, and I'm not buying.
Exactly.
+1
I am not a Trumpophile, but one thing I know about this guy is he is not Mr Inside in the traditional sense of the expression. David Rockefeller looks at him and breaks out in hives.
For them Trump has always been the bridge and tunnel clown who puts his name up in gold plated letters. When he put his name up on the GM building it was one big poke in the Park Avenue establishment's eye since they all stroll around that neighborhood.
They love to chuckle everytime the garish nouveau riche with the big toupee stumbles and he loves to throw it right back at them by getting back up on his feet.
This has been going on for decades now.
+1,000
Just more theater for sleeping little minds.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
If only they had been regal lions like "Cecil" was: http://thewe.cc/thewe_/images_5/-----/illuminati-system/drone-strike-kil...
The governor of AZ has been formally invited to the Koch brothers fiasco now too, that makes four that I know of.
"Ducey received millions of dollars in dark money during his campaign." "GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker are also scheduled to attend the summit.."
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/07/30/doug-ducey-koch-brothers-network-summit/30911079/
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Trump is a populist fascist. He is certainly entertaining, but I would certainly not want him to be president, or any of the other pieces of shit that have a chance.
Donald Trump's tactics are not falling on deaf ears. The establishment is watching and taking notes. Just as how Obama came out of nowhere, so will the next establishment candidate, and he will be sexxxxxy, anti-establishment and how!!! That guy will be a monster a new Adolf Hitler.
None of these problems can be fixed from the top down as anyone reading this site should fully understand. So stop paying too much attention to the carnival games and get your grass-roots in order. Get your garden in order. Winter is coming...
Illegal immigrants can certainly be fixed from the top down. Lousy trade deals can certainly be fixed from the top down (since that's where they are made). Lousy foreign policy deals arming opponents can be fixed from the top down. Getting out of places like Ukraine can be fixed from the top down.
Correct. It's really not complicated.
The overwhelming personal characteristic Trump has that all the other candidates are lacking (including Hillary and Sanders) is Gravitas. As it is in life, so it is in an election: with it, you win; without it, you lose. If Trump can refrain from any more gaffs, faux-pas or mis-steps, he just may become the new Ronald Reagan. It is time for Americans to play their "Trump-card" and shake-up the listless, Washington political establishment.
WAIT a fucking minute! The Plebes hate Wx? Oh yeah, that's why Congress has a re-election rate in excess of 90%. Boobus Americanus gets fooled EVERY two years! Change? Revolution? fugetaboutit ...
As W.C. Fields, the Depression Era Zen Master, says: "Never give a sucker an even break."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_preside...
Is anyone really polling in favor of Donald Trump or is he conveniently filling the role of the not-so-quiet counterfactual?
A "None of the above" choice would have polled higher than the Donald. We never get that choice.
I really hope the Don sticks it out ... and for sure hope he fights the GOP in courts as they spurn him (as they're known to do ... e.g. Ron Paul) and doesn't try a third party run.
You are guys are fucking full retard if you think Donald Trump is going to save your lousy debt ridden asses. I see why so many great bloggers who have frequented ZH in the past have either left or are silent. Some of you folks are pretty damned young and I doubt that you young ones remember Ross Perot and how that all played out. Pull your heads out of your asses already for fucks sake.
When you Trump lovers were kids did you really believe in santa claus or the tooth fairy or did you know it was bullshit. Or in this case, do you still believe in shit like that.
So tell me why I am wrong if you think I am wrong. See you won't because you have no balls. And here is how I will beat you and it will be with one question. "How much debt do you have and what is your "aggregate" interest rate? What do you mean you don't know?
I don't need anyone to save me. I just want someone to TELL THE FUCKING TRUTH for a change. Other than Ron Paul, no one has told the truth since 1960. At least Trump has balls.
PS I have Had ZERO debt since 1994 and the Banks don't own me, they pay ME to be a client.
Trump has balls? You pay attention to his stance on the Wall St banksters and the FED? How about his Neocon foreign policy?
You guys are dumber than shit.
And the policy of all the other candidates( R or D) regarding the above is???? So you are going to sit this election out and whine? Or do you want another Bush or Clinton in the WH?
Absolutely none. And his is? Absolutely none! It's all hot topic shit like border control or vet's conditions.
It's a ONE PARTY SYSTEM. It's the system, dummy! Change the system first (money) then ask someone about their politics. Turn back to constitutional money and this shit becomes irrelevant.
And until that happens we do what? I'm going to vote even if you think it is a waste of time.
LISTEN TO MANIPUFLATION HE SPEAKS TRUTH YOUNG ONES..
You're not compelled to vote for the worst of a bad bunch, you know. What do you expect to achieve? The devil you know is better than the devil you don't isn't a foundational philosophy yet is applied almost universally. Sigh.
Got a bumper sticker for you;
"I WANNA BE SLAVED"!.. ergo.. VOTE!!
Your non-vote is soooo Cool! You stand for nothing, nothing tangible or real. Who or What Do YOU Support? We would all love to tear it to shreds. That's right, the Illuminati control everything. Why bother. Your fancy pants dreams go no where, and you act like you have some special knowledge no one else has figured out. How is your non-vote saving the World these days? Will this Fuckery never cease ...
So, a vote for the illuminati will work then? Gotcha.
"Who or What Do YOU Support? We would all love to tear it to shreds."
It's just that little old anachronism, The Constitutional Republic based on the rule of law and you are late to the shredding party. You keep on voting for the perpertrators and traitors to the constitution all you like. Join their club. You are already there, come to think of it.
Methinks you've collided with one too many bumpas. Stop chasing cars, you've caught up with them too often.
His forceful wishing will make it happen. Because voting is stupid .. or so this fucked up logic goes, I guess
WTF!?
Fiscal Reality. I wasn't calling you out because I don't even know you. I applaud your effort so I would agree with me for the most part. There is no one that is going to save us though through the system we currently have. I am not the smartest guy ever but I am not the dumbest either. I have seen the inside of politics. Sir, I met Ron Paul personally. I have experience in the field of politics and that something that depends on how long you carried water so to speak.
Your banks may pay you but where are your digitz? You know what I am intoning. Everyone needs to get out of debt but that is mathematically impossible. Someone is going to to take it in the ass in the end game but it does not need to be anyone who reads this site. Maybe the better way to state it is that I keep telling these college kids I work with that they need not rack up any more debt then neccessary and I have pounded that into their heads all summer long. They get it for now but they have seen me drive at least five different vehicles to work and they want to know how that can happen. No debt.
You don't get it do you?... We don't look for a Santa Claus...we look for a "shove it up their ass" side show. We want to see the elite writhe in agony. We want to see the media cock suckers have shit all over their face. Even for a single moment of delusion bliss, it would be worth it.
And your Plan A is ...?
"How much debt do you have and what is your "aggregate" interest rate? What do you mean you don't know?
I know exactly (though I'd have to ask Quicken for the details). But you ask the wrong question. The correct question is "what is your propensity to default and what interest collections have you paid".
That one I can answer without my Quicken detail: defaults: zero; interest collections and inflation and taxes: over 50% of my income.
I have been royally cheated ... that's how our system works.
For a properly managed Medium of Exchange, INFLATION = DEFAULT - INTEREST = zero. And I; as a reliable trader with a 70 year track record of zero defaults; with sustained debt levels of 25% or better (but now near zero ... as I'm about to auger in); should never have had to pay a dime of interest ... nor should I have had to trade in a non-zero inflation marketplace.
The problem isn't debt. The problem is defaults (deadbeat traders) and opportunistic interest collectors (usuarous parasitic capitalists). And the problem is non-zero inflation.
Just because communism obviously sucks doesn't mean we need to tolerate an equally sucky capitalism.
I hate Trump, but I hate existing politicians more.
Not that it matters anyway.
He will be nailguned, either self imposed or imposed on him by TPTB.
The large financial interests in the US have been around for a long time, and this will not change regardless of who is elected president. Donald Trump will maintain wealth distribution, class relations and US foreign policy. He will cut taxes for the wealthy and increase taxes for working people.
Those guys are just the custodians for the folks that own all the shares.
Only one question for The Donald:
YES or NO sir: Was 9/11 an inside job?
(I don't mean to be "devisive". I mean to separate the bullshitters from the bullshit. We must be "decisive" or we'll keep stepping in it!)
Good luck with that Sparkey. Are you interested in "bridges" of any kind...say, to nowhere?
DECISION MAKING IN THE NEW ORDER: "FIRST we fuck it, THEN we decide what the hell it is we just fucked."
So he either answer No and you rule him out, or he answers Yes and gets himself permanently eliminated.
No need for you to be waiting for a call from Trump about campaign or political advice.
What or who could be more institutional than Donald Trump?
What could he possibly know about being middle class? Or poor?
"What could he possibly know about being middle class? Or poor?"
We have lots of people who know what it is to be poor, people who know what it is to be poor usually stay poor,,As the twig is bent so grows the tree, born poor, stay poor! Sorry! but look at the bright side,, less competition for you and your's, It's an ill wind that doesn't blow aomebody some good.
'The Donald' born to wealth and privlidge , is the right man to take over America's finance, Finane, apparently, is important today, Donald knows money he took the 400 Million his Father left him and turned it into a 10 $Billion fortune, no man who was obsessed with being Poor could have done that! We need Leaders with high aspirations to lead us into a prosperous secure future!
You sucking Trump's cock there Sparkey?
People looking for a saviour will find a slaver. Trump is not a saviour. Classic limited hangout.
Who says people are looking for a saviour? It's the middle finger people are rallying around.
No need to be gross.
"What or who could be more institutional than Donald Trump?
What could he possibly know about being middle class? Or poor?"
amen.
So you'd have objected to Washington, Jefferson, and that lot?
Is your point that Trump thinks the poor and middle class have their evening meal prepared by their personal maids?
It is always the same ploy. You get somebody to rile up the malcontents during the summer so they can vent. Then comes the fall that candidate will say or do something a la Howard Dean and implode.
This will make all the other mental midgets look presidential and we are back to pick make me sick candidate A or make me gag candidate B.
Pick your poison.
Trump has been fun so far.
I stopped paying attention to Amerika's elections after I saw what Ron Paul went through.
The media is trying to kill off Trump, this in itself is seen by people as all the more reason to back Trump. I see the Trump voters as people who want to fuck Washington big time, and fuck the stupid one party system. The more media tries to bad mouth Trump and tear him down, the more people will decide to vote Trump to say "Fuck you media" "fuck you washington one party system".
And the media is also laying into Hillary more than I would have expected. What's up with that?
If the media was trying to kill Trump he'd be getting the Ron Paul treatment... silence. The fact that he is getting air time means he's part of the club and doing the club's (God's*) work.
They got permission.
Would it not have been interesting if Ron Paul had the same delivery style as Donald Trump? Rather than pay it ultra-deferential as Ron did, play it ultra-in-your-face.
Who knows what would have happened.
Having said that, I don't think people were pissed off enough at the status-quo when Ron Paul was active (in congress and campaigns).
But now? The polls tell me Ron might have gotten somewhere now. However, only if he went full-bore in-your-face like Trump. But sadly, Ron simply doesn't have that in his character.
Don't forget to factor in the fact that the world economy is starting to collapse right now, and by the time the election is held, things will be quite obviously very bad.
And who got us there? The status-quo. So they may have to assassinate Donald to get rid of him, because in a world-wide economic collapse, Donald Trump will look very attractive to a great many people (an expert in bankruptcy and success).
Rand is a sellout and [closet] neo-con, so he is no solution.
Ann, I was there for the Ron Paul adventures in 2008 and 2012 my involvement cost me a good paying corporate job. I managed to get on the inside by being elected a treasurer of a senate district for the GOP in 2008. Being elected gave me access to the state finance records for all parties. I audited as far back as I could go with what records I was provided and I found campaign fund fraud all over the place in the GOP. I called it out and no one liked that too much. Then I called out some bullshit accounting when I was a branch manager and that was not liked too much either. Oops.:-)
I really do not give a fuck what people think of me. I am on a blacklist somewhere for sure. They can all fuck off because I have ZERO DEBT which means my interest rate is ZERO. Not too many people can say that these days. I have not kicked ass in metals investing this year but time will go by and we will see. Whatever. I have kicked ass in metals hoarding though. I don't think you give a shit what people think of you either.
Honestly Ann, people are too stupid to figure it all out and once a few of them finally do they get pissed off at people like me. Hey, I never told anyone to buy a house. I do not tell people to buy PMs or cars or Harleys or in your case, a plane. People can do what they want right? But then when it all fucks off they look at us like we made that problem for them. Bullshit. You fly a plane because you love that and I don't blame you. I ride my Harley hard and I do it for the same feeling that you fly for. Freedom. We share a common thread in that if we fuck up even once it could mean our lives and the only one who can protect us is ourselves.
We don't need any more "presidents". We can make it on our own. I'm still typing and so are you.
Peace.
Can you give us some examples of that campaign fund fraud? I am asking looking for information not to be disputatious. ZH often provides us with opportunity for education from others with particular experiences and in this case you obviously have some relevant experience.
I'm not asking for names, etc, just examples of what happens.
"Lost" checkbooks, missing computers, undocumented "mileage expenses", "Personal expenses" with no documentation as to what that term meant. Donors who I knew where contributing under false LLCs because was there really was no such company. Dead people donating and signing checks. The list goes on.
The best part was that they tried to blame us for the issues.LOL I shut down the bank account and made a new one right way after I figured that shit out. I did not yet know how it all really worked yet. I cleaned that up and from there I started looking at some the federal funding, who takes it and where it comes from. That is where I really got into trouble because now you are messing with the boyz. I was an asshole about it too. Where did the money go?
Thanks for the info. Appreciate it.
I don't think I mentioned before that I too rode motorcycles for a while. But not "real motorcycles" you'd probably say, since I'm too short (5'5"), too wimpy (105lbs) and hate loud noises. So I bought Hondas, the largest of which was 500cc or 550cc (don't remember). My legs weren't long enough for their 750cc models. Really, they were too short for the 500cc versions too, though I could manage. Fortunately I never had any accidents. By nature I'm very alert, observant and physically coordinated, and I'm sure that helped. Riding motorcycles does indeed invoke a great feeling of freedom.
Yeah, obviously I haven't cared what people think since I was 4 years old. Otherwise I would have accepted the endless BS adults told me. I realized even then I had to make a total, clearcut, complete break from normal human life, otherwise I could never understand reality, only absorb unlimited nonsense that other humans told me.
I warned everyone I knew about the housing collapse to come starting in about 2004. Nobody listened. Afterwards, they didn't want to talk to me, which was fine with me!
Yes, taking our lives into our own hands, simultaneously in completely serious and radically fun ways... is absolutely the best way to live. For me, anyway. Most folks have no idea what that's like, never will, and probably can't at this point in their lives.
Yes, we can make it on our own. In my case, I am making on my own. I'm finally 100% self-sufficient now, and would literally live exactly the same for the rest of my natural life if every human on the planet died tomorrow. Well, except I wouldn't waste any time posting on ZH, and never be able to see new movies again. The first would improve my life, but the second would be a bummer. But actually, I have always had a massive attraction to the idea of living alone on a planet... though I would prefer to have one other human with me in the optimal version.
We are all connected on a quantum level of the collective unconscious, honestann. Give Karl Jung's Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, a read. I have Remote Viewed you a few times and I can assure you that you are NOT alone. You just don't see all the levels of the unconscious mind, conscious mind, and pre-conscious mind, it all their perspective because you don't study the mind, or consciousness, apart from what you physically see. You are an Objectivist at heart opining on subjectivist aspects of the corollary to Objectivist, and a materialistic, World view.
You have a BRAIN, honestann. Your brain is a data collecting sense organ that is capable of communication outside of what you perceive to be regular communication channels like a telephone or an Internet computer interface. When I have Remote Viewed you I did not do it with technology, I used my sensing & perceiving BRAIN.
NOTE: You are not as detached from civilization, or human beings, as you seem to think you are. In other words, you may think you are isolated, and no human being on earth can see where you are, or what you are doing, but that is wholeheartedly incorrect, I assure you.
Imagine what God sees. Now I'm a bit worried.
I don't worry about fictions and fantasies. I know they're all in the mind.
According to my metaphysical theory (understanding), I am connected to everything in the entire universe all the time (FTL notwithstanding).
So I understand that. But in the sense that most people mean, I am isolated and independent. To make clearer what I mean, I add that last part, saying that the rest of my natural life would continue without any significant changes if every human being on the planet died tomorrow.
And that's true. To be sure, all those weak connections (for lack of a better term) to other humans and their activities would change somewhat. But they'd have no noticeable impact on me other than a few items (no ZH, no new content on internet, no new movies to watch, and eventually the internet would fail altogether).
But the part of my life that most people call "normal life" would continue unchanged. I'd continue to grow and raise my food. I'd continue to eat. I'd continue to look through my telescope at the gorgeous southern sky. I'd continue working on the project I'm collaborating on... though I'd have to continue alone since all the other collaborators would be gone.
BTW, I know the nature of sensory, perceptual, conceptual and more-advanced-than-human consciousness better than all but one or two humans on the planet. The project I'm collaborating on is smarter than human "inorganic consciousness". Note that the original inventor (and project lead) already made a fully working proof-of-principle prototype. And it works. And it is smarter than human consciousness. The problem being... it was vastly slower than human consciousness, which rendered it more-or-less useless in practice. Our project is to implement the new design which will be vastly faster (faster than human consciousness). So... he definitely totally understand the nature of advanced consciousness, and after working on this project for a few years, I think I understand everything too. But of course the proof is in the implementation, so I can't claim I am certain I know everything he does until the new implementation works.
I know you (and most other humans) don't want hear this, but consciousness is simply a certain set of processes operating on a certain kind/configuration of mental content. Of course sense organs are required to make these processes be consistent with reality (which is what makes consciousness useful), and also obviously some kinds of robotics (manipulators) are necessary in order to be able to "do anything with reality".
I am mostly detached from uncivilization. I live in civilization, since everyone here is civil (me). Well, maybe my chickens aren't intentionally civil, but I've got them in an environment where it doesn't matter (they've got tons of room to run and wander around, plus I'm bigger and stronger than them, and know how to wield tools).
Your comment about the global economy is a very salient one. At the moment commentators are evaluating the nominees in terms of what they've said or how they've acted, essentially in isolation from the actual world experienced by voters, though clearly Trump has recognized and responded to real world concerns about illegal aliens and jobs shipped offshore.
As the election approaches the economy will be even worse and a great many voters are going to be thinking about who might improve it. Whether valid or not, Trump is inevitably going to look a lot better in that regard than probably all the others.
"Rand is a sellout and [closet] neo-con, so he is no solution."
Sad but true. I wish Patrick J. Buchanan were younger. I supported and voted for him in the past but he is too old now to run for President.
I had similar thoughts Ann. I was actually wondering if Trump would bring Paul into his campain somehow.
The funny thing is, Ron might accept if Donald agrees that Ron will have complete freedom to complain about the federal government during the campaign and the entire time he is VP. That would be hilarious, and a bit like the fantasy pairing honestann mentioned a few days ago which had George Carlin as VP with Trump (impossible because Carlin died years ago).
Agreed as to Rand.
I like Ron but thought him weird on foreign policy. Like all libertarians, he sounds great on the limited government-free market issues but then had some odd idea(s). I can't remember what bothered me. Support for Iran?? Scale military way back??
Nor do I recall his stance on immigration but it's apparently mandatory for libertarians to talk about free movement of people, which is nuts. It's that KIND of stuff that I think dooms libertarians.
I don't think Ron lacked forcefulness.
Agreed about the world economy.
Where is El Senor Gravitas ? Suddenly he becomes The Man. Putin for President, Trump for VP, or Hell, vice versa - Ill vote that ticket.
The Corporatists diversify equally at first, and then they collude to go long on one particular candidate. The fix was in when a 'Bush' entered the campaign. Trump is smoke n' mirrors for the 'moderate' more 'left-of-center' totalitarian dictator right winger wackjob genocidal sociopath named 'Jeb' 'who the fuck would name their kid Jeb' Bush. If you think Donald Trump is going to be the next President in the Whore House I have an old classic bridge for sale dirt cheap, honest, I'm not kidding.
One must put the next presidency in the perspective of nuclear World War Three, the World Bank, IMF, de Rothschild Bank, Worldwide bankruptcy, wholesale stock market implosion, and all out devastation in terms of social structures, and the entire social safety net, all in the next year alone. Trump ain't that guy, and Bush has already been through the coronation with the illuminatiCONS & Build-your-own-burgers. It would seem that barring a first nuclear strike by the Russian Federation, Jeb 'who the fuck would name their kid Jeb' Bush is going to be the next sociopath to sit where William Jefferson Clinton got a blowjob from Monica Lewinski. And that is fucked up, man.
"One must put the next presidency in the perspective of nuclear World War Three, the World Bank, IMF, de Rothschild Bank, Worldwide bankruptcy, wholesale stock market implosion, and all out devastation in terms of social structures, and the entire social safety net, all in the next year alone. Trump ain't that guy."
Republicans may get their wish to prevent Trump from becoming the next U.S. President. With the current BHO neocon dominated administration, we may get WW3 before the elections come due.
(7/30/2015) US imposes further sanctions on Russia over Crimea, east Ukraine conflict.
Keep an eye on Transnistria. This is where Russia will be forced her hand and, imho, it is going to happen soon.
There is considerable sediment to go to war with Russia or humiliate the Russians. With just WWI in mind, you'd think these neo-con morons would be double extra cautious about going to war but you'd be wrong. Russia, Libya, Egypt, Ukraine, Kosovo, China, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan .... Let's play soldier!
Not on our southern border, though. No, no, no.
What I love about Trump is he hammers EVERYONE that the MSM is scared to touch. Hillary, Obama, Kerry, illegals, Jebby, Rick Perry, Mexico, Univision, NBC, etc. just hearing him call journalists liars and bad people was enough for him to get my vote in the primary. I'm sick of spineless pantywaists dancing around the issues and being afraid to "offend". The more Trump offends,the better I like him. BRING IT DONALD!!!!
I can't wait until he is in the White house screaming "YOUR FIRED!" for 3 long years....
No offense, but I am sorry to inform you that Trump will not be allowed to win the GOP nomination nor the Presidency. As pointed out earlier, Ron Paul was blackballed by the GOP and MSM for telling the truth. Trump is going to get the same kind of treatment for speaking out.
The one party system in America needs to be completely destroyed along with the FED. That means bloodshed. No way to do it peacefully now (by voting, imo).
you nailed it spot on.
you nailed it spot on.
That is exactly right. Only way we can say" stick it. What other choice do we have??????????
Just maybe Trump is not beholden to a party's special interests.
Who else would have the strength to cut off the welfare bums, means test the retired, cut government, solve the illegal problem, work to balance the budget, etc - it will take an independent and arrogant person. That is if he lives to see some of it achieved.
Trump isn't arrogant. He's just a straight talker with intelligence and self confidence.
Taking a phrase out of context, I think what some people are really saying is that he's "uppity." Not you in particular but I see "arrogant" used a lot in this sense get down to it.
Obama in his Mussolini wanna be poses is an arrogant ass. Ditto when he's in his phone and a pen mode or apologizing for America before all the nations of the world.
If we're testing the March 2009 lows on the S&P by the spring of 2016 -- primary season -- for the third time in fifteen years, TPTB will be in deep doo-doo and this presidential cycle will be anything but politics as usual. In that case both Trump and Sanders will likely be nominated, as they will reflect the polarized opposites to which the right and left will flee under stress. Otherwise I expect another yawner featuring TPTB's hand-picked politicos, Jeb v. Hill. This fall will tell the tale.
Remember what happened to Perot when he was the front-runner back in 92'?
This is Richard Pryor saying, "Vote for none of the above!"
Do they know the difference between a cod-piece and a comb-over?
NO President, Democrat, Republican or Independent ... can change Washington. Do you think that the Congressmen and Sentors will vote in a way that harms the special interests who hand them money? Any President will be stalemated in Congress, if they attempt radical cuts in programs, personnel, or Congressional incomes.
I have yet to hear Donald Trump talk seriously about any ISSUE. I doubt that he has the knowledge or ideas to fix the system. Why would a real estate broker from the Bronx be able to "fix" the System? He's a PART of the System, he profited from it for his whole career.
To hell with voting. The elections have been rigged for my whole life and the outcomes are predetermined. The anti-Semites on here will go ape-sh** over this, but Israeli elections are a beacon of freedom to the whole world compared to elections in the USA.
I swore an oath to defend and uphold The Constitution, not the illegitimate, totalitarian, fascist, oligarchy-controlled government run by a pile of greedy, mercenary ho's. The entire system of institutions and governance in the United States are rotten and irredeemably corrupt.
So, yes, I'm all for Donald Trump. I don't think that he has a chance of "winning" or even staying alive until November 2016. But, if he helps speed the collapse of our Unconstitutional, rotten and corrupt system, then I'm all in!
I'm not an anti-semite. I support the rights of Palestinians -true semites. I do not support the Khazzarian usurpers who occupy their land.
It isn't about The Donald, really. However he represents to a long suffering White America a, well to use Tyler's phrase, MIDDLE-FINGER to the Ruling Tribe. Whether they are aware of the Tribe or not. I can tell you that the anger amongst our White brothers and sisters is RISING. Yet too many have NO idea who was behind their present and forthcoming hell.
Just look at the job Zero Hedge does. They are WAY AHEAD in terms of prognosis of the American, indeed World economies. While the BIG MONEY is either STUPID beyond belief or conscious and evil LIARS.
If ZH did nothing more than that it would be worthwhile. However ZH represents with its articles a TRUTH MACHINE that would, if enough folks read it, truly start a liberation that would CRUSH the Evil Machine.
Don't forget that the Department of Homeland Security has stated that Whites who are pro-2nd Amendment, Tea Partiers, and those for an Immigration Moratorium are the REAL terrorists.
Just look to England for what is coming HERE to the USSA and sooner than you think:
David Cameron takes on “non-violent extremists”
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You are so right!.
David Cameron has stolen the government of Britain on little more than a third of the popular vote.
The system of democracy in Britain makes North Korea look good.
When a party gets a third of the vote and take over half the seats in its house.
When 24% of the voters of Scotland can vote Labour and end up with 1 seat.
When 4,000,000 Brits can vote UKIP and end up with 1 seat.
That is no democracy, its a version of the dear leader.
Its a democratic fraud, farce and insult.
As for Cameron.
We thought Blair was a sh*t.
Believe me Cameron is going to make him look Kindergarten.
Cameron - for all his baby face - is one of the most evil swiines on the international stage.
He and Hillary are a pair.
God help us.
Trump is no Nigel Farage.
But he is the nearest thing you have.
Don't be the fools the British were on May 7th and already regretting.
When they were conned and lied back to the traditional line - and fell for it.
Use the middle finger and make your statement.
You may not get another chance
Americans haven't lost sight of the fact that we all came out of a female hole. What the slime in public office have ignored is that we Americans overthrew the likes of a King and his cohorts to be free to be you and me. And real patriots put their fortunes and lives on the line to effectuate the overthrow. Are you listening, Washington? You better wake up because we Americans are not going to stand for too much more of your bullshit. Oh! did I misspeak? Come and get me. I'm the house with the Confederate flag flying next to Old Glory.
The Jeb Bush republicrats are getting what they deserve. The GOP can take McCain and Boehner with you.
People are tired of just a nameplate (Democrat/Republican) change.
Both the Democrats and Republicans will spend a lot of money trying to stop Trump. All sorts of damaging commercials.
Trump our saviour? Watch this 4 min video first.
Won't let me post. Bro nat on YouTube , trumps got a trump card.
Don't be fooled Donald Trump will sell out just like the rest, just all talk just like Obama...... Change we can believe in.
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