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Guest Post: A Trump "Morning In America"
Submitted by starfcker via The Burning Platform blog,
This week marks a seminal shift in the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. This is the week the establishment rolled over and began to accept that he is their front runner. The wild attacks and blatant put downs will be muted from here on out as the establishment struggles to come to grips with their new reality. Trump has proven to be an immensely popular and muscularly resilient candidate. He has survived fire that would have killed any ordinary candidate.
His reward will be to watch a batch of the so-called serious candidates be exiled to the sidelines. The Rick Perrys of the world, the Lindsay Grahams of the world, were valuable to the establishment at 5% support. They have no value at 0%. 5%, 10 times could have allowed an unpopular Jeb Bush to win a lot of primaries with a surprisingly low percentage of the vote, as long as the minor candidates siphoned off some of the rest. With a half of dozen of them at 0%, that strategy is toast.
Republican kingmakers are nothing if not pragmatic, they want results for their money. They aren’t getting it. They are unhappy. They are angry. But like a chameleon changing colors, they want to be on the winning side. They all know Trump, they also know they can deal with Trump, so they will. The Blitzkrieg is over. Trump survived. The establishment sacrificed many of their finest media plants this past weekend. Every one of them ended up looking like exactly what they are, cheap desperate prostitutes, willing to say whatever was required of them, as long as their paychecks kept coming .
Media brands that took a dozen years to build, are now damaged goods. Where will Trump take this, who knows? But the man knows how to make a deal, the man knows how to win, and the man knows how to set a mark so people don’t screw with him in the future. It must suck to be Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier, and know that you are shut out from the Trump circus for the indefinite future. May their shows suffer damage as a result? They might, and it’s certainly a fate no one else is going to risk. Lots of bazookas got laid down at their feet by the mercenary media this week. They took their best coordinated shot at him, and failed. CNN doesn’t have the ratings muscle to go after him in the next debate the way Fox did. Look for a totally different and much less confrontational take on Donald Trump starting now.
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voting matters and this time it's different.... /sarc
God bless Donald Trump and keep the Clinton's safe from harm
Prediction: Hillary is toast..
the Dem establishment will deep six Socialist Sanders..
Trump is pumping on all 12 cylinders
Nobody really wants another Shrub
It will be Trump V. Biden in 2016
This will be a hoot.
Even if Sanders survives and it was Trump V. Sanders..
Trump V Sanders would be a hoot, too
It will be Trump V. Biden in 2016
The world's largest gaffe contest.
Last Comic Standing
quick note to self.......5 up votes with 5 votes perfect score.....again.
edit: oops 8 votes now no perfect score.....the paid voters have left the building
Presstitutes, whoring for their Zonist MoneyChanger Federal Reserve Bank pimps
< Morning in America.
< Morning for America.
Have Trump and Sanders not heard of a MASER and what it does to cockpit avionics? JFK Jr and Senator Wellstone haven't either, they're dead.
Trump/? V Warren/Sanders
Is it free crack night at the tylers party? How does this trash make the line-up?
They Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5tz-rfdIk
Reagan ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY
FU, Volcker
Bernie's so white he's scared of black chicks so the R's just have to plant a couple in the front row of every appearance and Bernard will shit his pants and run off screaming in terror, should be fun.
#White socialist lives matter
Best comment I've read here in months...
I sure hope the Electoral College picks Trump.
/s
Being the least bad candidate does not make one a good candidate.
Insulting those who insult you, does not constitute a political ideology.
Has he mentioned the Fed even ONCE? And of course he wants that protector of the people, Carl Icahn, as his MOF.
Carl Icahn, as his CRN.
There is never going to be a good candidate. Ever.
The best you can hope for is a candidate who makes some of the oligarchies interests diverge. A little chaos among the ruling class gives all of us a chance at progress. Bill Clinton is a perfect example. Sure he's terrible, but while he an the GOP were fighting early on we had lower government spending, a relatively hands off FED and housing cratered while wages rose. There's a reason the 90's are remembered so fondly.
With any luck were going to have a chaotic election process that pits the varying factions of the oligarchy against each other. Combined with the unstoppable oncoming asset deflation regular folks may scratch back a small portion of what has been ripped away since 2000.
Slick Willie was Best, Republican. President. Ever. Balaced the budget (Dan Burton (R) of Indiana: "The surplus is spinning out of control!"). Signed welfare reform. Signed DOMA, massive trade deals like Nafta and Gatt, financial and telecommunications deregulation, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, who is better? Poppy? W? McCain? JEB!? Ha.....
Of all you mentioned only the budget (which he could only do because a Democratic President forces a Republican Congress to actually legislate like Republicans), welfare reform and the telcom deregulation are actually "wins" for the average Joe. Credit where credit is due though. He stuck to his guns on raising taxes instead of passing off the cost of .gov to the proles through FED furled inflation. Like I said the 90's were good times.
Any super-chaotic election is a good election, especially those that end in secession.
Well, we were promised circuses. This one is shaping up to be an absolute blowout.
Agree on Clinton & Sanders - neither is viable.
But there's no way in hell the GOP establishment will allow Trump to be their nominee. They'll railroad him, force him into a 3rd-party campaign, and then we'll have the first 3-way race since Perot.
Dems assume that they will easily win a 3-way race against Trump & a token RINO... but I like Trump's chances in that 3-way race.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro- Hunter S. Thompson
I'll save you a seat on the Zoo Plane.
Doc woulda loved this crazy shit even though it would have made him sick in his soul.
It dissappoints me immensely that he is now seldom remembered and little respected.
Under 30-year olds know nothing of him save the druggy confusion of a Johnny Depp film on cable..
Thompson was the Poet Laureate of American Politics, the Edgar Allen Poe of American social disintegration.
I miss him all the time...
Come on, he didn't even make the "Enemies of Nixon" list!
"We've come to a point where every four years this national fever rises up — this hunger for the Saviour, the White Knight, the Man on Horseback — and whoever wins becomes so immensely powerful, like Nixon is now, that when you vote for President today you're talking about giving a man dictatorial power for four years. I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England — or the Queen — and have the real business of the presidency conducted by... a City Manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics."
Doc? Doc who? Doc Mengele? Yeah he and his cronies did business with the Bush family through Union Bank.
Man fat Jeb does not look very master race too me. He looks like he at 100 too many chalupas.
http://bushnaziconnections.blogspot.com/
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm
It must suck to be Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier, and know that you are shut out from the Trump circus for the indefinite future.--- yet they seemed so full of themselves at the debate...
TV is a evil joke watched by idiots who like being brainwashed and like being totally f**king stupid.
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that TV -- for lack of a better word -- is good.
TV is right.
TV works.
TV clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
TV, in all of its forms --TV for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.
And TV -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
"Fox news. Fair and balanced." ....not so much.
Jeb's drug money will buy the GOP nomination.
None of this matters.
What's up doc?
jeb is just like cuntlary; there is not enough money in existence to make either one appealing to ANYone. you can polish shit, but you can't make it shine
Ahh, but you can polish a turd:
https://youtu.be/yiJ9fy1qSFI
+100 for that bit of shiny...
you're right. i was a patent proofreader in the late '70s and a process patent was granted for polishing a turd.
You sure as hell can.
I polish turds every damned day.
That is all most of us have to work with any more: turds, shit, caca...
Most of it human. People that can't spell their own names or walk across a level floor or understand plain spoken instructions let alone give them... People so painfully incompetent that it's a wonder that they even managed to hire someone else to hire me to fix their disasters for them.
I can make shit so bright you gotta wear welding glasses to gaze upon it.
It glows in the dark for days when I'm done buffing it.
The day the shit polishers of this nation say fuck it and walk away everything is going to be revealed for the steaming pile of uselessness it is in very short order.
I figure that it's only 1 person in 500 to 1,000 that are really keeping the US Turd In A Puchbowl afloat...
Ahh, but you can polish a turd: I just had to watch it, haha
Cuntlary..... I FUCKIN LOVE IT.
Clitlery sounds better, though.
Clintons and Bushes and Gores, oh no!
Clintons and Bushes and Gores, oh no!
(to the tune of lions and tigers and bears...)
Who said Jeb will win?
I said he'll be the GOP candidate.
You sound like Daffy Duck.
She's terrible, but that term is offensive.
The 'C' word is about the worst thing you can call a woman, but in rare instances, it is also appropriate.
Those rare appropriate instances are becoming much, much less rare, IMHO.
Jeb for the GOP, Sanders for the Democrats, and Trump runs independent. Sanders wins popular vote, Jeb comes in last. Election is thrown into the Republican-misled House of Representatives, which votes in Bush as our next president.
I can see it clearly.
No doc, Hilda will win because that's what they want.
The animators of this bad cartoon.
What you want is irrelevant.
Wrong. They want Jeb. They're destroying Hillary. They don't want her.
It's going to be another Bush, and it's going to be another Bush winning despite losing the popular vote.
Believe that.
I do, though less so than I was two months ago. Not so much that I think Trump will get the nomination, but that Jeb just doesn't really seem like he wants it. And nobody I know likes him at all (or her, for that matter, but that's a different story).
Can they really steal an election that deftly? I'm sure they can, but it will have to be pretty brazen at this point. The article makes a good point in that 10 candidates limping along at 2-5% can splinter a field and let Jeb skate in, but when the pre-ordained losers are tracking at zero, that's not a strategy that's going to work.
Never bet against the Satanic Bush family, they've proven it again and again. But what's going on with Trump doesn't seem orchestrated, like maybe he's more a wild card. But I still tend to doubt it.
I think Trump is a plant who will go Ultra right wing and start getting incoherent, and the the Zionist media will say...see people, this is why we need a moderate like Jeb Bush running....The Zionist FED needs their sheeple to believe real change is possible, so a republican will be the next President, then the Zionists will have their next BIG war and the leftist "anti-war" sheeple will seek change with a Blue Zionist Puppet in 8 years.
Hillary has had more negative press from the Zionist media in two months than Obama has had in ten years. She's done for.
Because, you know, American people aren't particularly interested in candidates that are out to destroy the Establishment that they are increasingly blaming for their woes (Sanders and Trump). Nah, it's all a massive evil plot but dem evil jews.
http://bushnaziconnections.blogspot.com/
More about the Bushes who are good friends with the Clintons.
I never knew they killed a Congressman and also a Senator who tried to take on The Federal Reserve. I know they kill Presidents who mess with Central banks.
"If you wanted to know who and what was responsible for causing the Great Depression, all you need to do is follow the money." (The gold).
Few people believed him, and nothing was ever done about it. Immediately two attempts were made on Congressman Louis T. McFadden’s life but they eventually succeeded in killing him in 1935.
Trump is not the approved candidate of the Deep State. He will be removed from the race, one way or another like Ron Paul.
Hillary and Jeb are the selected candidates who have sold their souls to the Deep State.
Enjoy your selections in the land of the free. Presidents make not one iota of difference to the policy or conduct of the United States.
Hillary and Jeb are toast. The deep state has projectile vomited hillary out, a noxious steaming stream, while Jeb will be let go like a quiet smelly fart.
Both involutary actions brought on by Trump therapy.
And no, law abiding citizens of the USA do not have to accept criminals in government.
Grimaldus
Hillary is Toast, but Jeb is the next president. He comes from a long, proven line of traitors willing to cede control of the country to the Zionist Bankster cartel.
What we need is an arrogant, silver-spooned little rich brat who took daddy's money and turned it into an empire full of bankruptcies to lead us into our glorious future and that shining city on the hill.
Just like we needed a B-rate actor-turned corporate shill to do the same back in 1980.
Mourning, America. From Reagan to Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump. What a line of suck-session that would be.
well, a portion of your screen name is accurate; Pointless; offer an alternative
Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders? You're fucking kidding? He's just a big a joke as Trump.
Bernie Sanders: "Last of the Hippies!"
I suppose you favor anarchy, or nobody.
Sanders is no joke. America is. And it's time for it to stop being passed around.
Gary Johnson (hopefully he'll run again)
If I vote again, I will vote for Johnson.
My Johnson.
pods
And it's time for it to stop being passed around.
Unlit.
dude i liked your first post a lot, agree 100%, but you lost me at sanders. you think the solution to all this is MOAR governemnt? thats exactly what sanders represents, and promises every time he talks. I think all these people on here are insane, or just looking for a hero to worship, for trusting donald trump, but sanders is just as bad.
Looking to the government to fix the problems originally caused by government has NEVER worked. Doing so will only make it worse.
Sanders is a COMPLETE FUCKING JOKE.
Socialism. Does. Not. Work.
Exhibit A
This Land Is Land is Your Land - Bernie Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Z01US5tyg
Bernie Sanders , yes that will do it , a J boy in the White House , final captiulation . Good bye USSA. Welcome China & Russia.
I was hoping Rand Paul would have made a better showing, even as "Ron Paul Lite", But he was not effective in the debate. He has the most Libertarian Views, and i despise him far less than Jeb, Christie or Cruz, all three so full of themselves it makes me wretch.
Trump is an asshole. Sometimes you need a real effing asshole to get things done.
Problem is What he WILL get done is a mixed bag. Illegal immigration issue? Check!
Second Amendment? Were screwed, same as if we had the Ben Carson. But I was hoping Carson could win the hearts and minds and pull in the minority votes.
No one except Rand would maybe take on the FED AND the IRS.
Carson's would take on the IRS but his ideas on Fair Tax don't have traction, the Free Shit Army will see to that.
Carson would be a repeat of Carter, well intentioned outsider with no traction. he would go on to greatness with some foundation after one term like Habitat for Humanity.
Rand would bend over for something the cartel has on him, not sure what it is, But his father Ron Paul would take a bullet before bending over, frankly surprised he hasn't already.
What we need is Winston Effing Churchill.
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Unfortunately Trump is the closest we have to that.
Not sure what they have on him that will bend him over, but I’m sure he's not squeaky clean. Somewhere there is a female intern, mark my words.
Remember, Ulysses S. Grant, with pretty much no knowledge of anything other than killing his own soldiers, became president. Not a great one, but hey.
Another fucking retard who has fallen for the Trump sideshow. The whole fucking world is on crazy pills. It's amazing how all these "independent thinkers" look within the system for people to save them.
Good lord, this is like the second time this week I agree with Engali. The whole fucking world truly is on crazy pills.
Are you kidding me? Is this site really being run over by Trumpites? I need a new hang out.
Its like telling people we never landed men on the Moon.
They WANT to believe, Doc.
Esp. if there is no other easy solution (or no easy solution, period).
We will accomplish A LOT more through corporate boycotts than we will under the current system, through VOTING!
yes, doc, its frustrating. Why so many on here even trust him that he is being upfront about all this is scary. Both trusting that he is being upfront with his intentions, AND thinking that he actually has a solution to all this borders on insane. Wake the fuck up, people
At least it's no longer being run by stormfront rejects.
The folks are desperate for anyone who may slow the onslaught of 3rd world immigrants into this once great country and slow down the "planned" Genocide of the White race being carried out by the Central Planners today.. We obviously all know who these Planners are.
Trump may not do shit but you overlook the level of desperation by the American people.. We're exhausted. Sick of the lies and BS! Just to hear someone speak the truth from time time is worth the price of admission!
Another example of speaking the truth, THANK YOU!
+1
You'd have to be pretty insulated, i.e. living in the elite, sheltered left or right coasts of the US, not to sense the seething of most of America while they watch Ferguson, the Border, Baltimore, not to mention the somehow more-fucked-up US foreign policy (which I admit I didn't think could get worse after GWB) and yeah, and they lose ground every day while the pols let more and more people into the country that don't contribute to the economy in a meaningful way.
I could go on but I agree with you that Trump is tapping into a feeling of desperation and disgust of a VERY large part of the US, especially the middle and lower-middle classes.
There are certainly times in history where someone seemingly came out of nowhere and rode the populist waves made by the disenfranchised into power. Some as recent as the 20th century.
Americans are lucky the country is SO freaking big, because if the entire US had the density of eastern seaboard there would already have been a civil war and/or anarchy and/or military rule.
A Jeb/ Hillary ticket is a nightmare for America..
I would rather have a Ron Jeromy/ Asia Carrera Ticket...
At least the country wouldn't end up in ashes after 8 more years..
Watch the Ron Jeremy documentary. It's flawed but fascinating. He's an interesting man. He's frugal, popular, and would be a better president than most of the clowns that have been trotted out so far by the R&D party.
I like your old school style there
Asia is old school porn.
Hairy light and tight.
If the Lions of the GOP didn't have a door open for Trump, they wouldn't throw eggs at him, they'd simply turn off his mike.
He's a manufactured 'outside' candidate. Just as all the others are, or as others are plastic 'inside' candidates.
The Republican Party is less different from the Democrats than a Lincoln is from a Ford.
'Conservatives'? My Ass!
The whole purpose of their existence is to keep those who oppose the communists from revolting without actually changing any policies...and that is all.
Can you sell me some of that?
Now don't you feel safe knowing you are not to be considered!
I got a kick out of this:
Websites Trump Organization owns
TrumpIsFired.com
ComplainToTrump.com
TrumpNetworkMarketingFraud.com
IHateTrumpVodka.com
ImBeingSuedByTheDonald.com
TrumpNetworkPyramidScheme.com
NoMoreTrump.com
TrumpMultiLevelMarketing.com
TrumpNetworkFraud.com
DonaldTrumpPonziScheme.com
TrumpNetworkSucks.com
TrumpNetworkPonziScheme.com
TheTrumpNetworkPonziScheme.com
DonaldTrumpSucks.com
TrumpCorporationSucks.com
TrumpOrganizationSucks.com
TrumpVodkaSucks.com
LOL, well, I guess that about covers it.
If you want to say the Donald sucks, at least say it while on his payroll, it seems! :)
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/
They forgot to buy the "trump is a reptilian shapeshifter .com". Obviously, all these sites are owned so you or anyone else can't pay a dollar and own the name and therefore create the site.
I simply cannot wait for White House Apprentice first season.
The contestant lineup has already been announced:
BUSH
CARSON
CHRISTIE
CRUZ
FIORINA
GILMORE
GRAHAM
HUCKABEE
JINDAL
KASICH
PATAKI
PAUL
PERRY
RUBIO
SANTORUM
TRUMP
WALKER
Still waiting for Trump to fire himself.
He'll be gone once he has to write a check using his own money.
There is no choice, just the illusion of choice.
Follow the white pussy.
The CIA will hit Trump and make it look like El Chapo did it.
That is how bad it is, when the CIA, a well documented criminal organization and part of the government, can be construed as executing such a plan. Shows you where the trust factor in .gov has taken the people, down the road to hell.
Trump is theater--a play, and player, as a distraction from things of value and substance for the American people.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Why does a lion tamer use an upside down chair in the cage with lions? Instinctively a lion moves against the tamer, but a chair suddenly introduces the four chair legs as points of aggression against it. The lion then will attack the chair, become confused, and then overwhelmed, and its instinctive drive to move against the tamer will dissipate.
Don't be distracted by Zion's chair.
http://losnuevosguerreros.org/pluginfile.php/16/mod_glossary/entry/1088/...
"Do not try to bend the government(spoon),
Realize the truth. There is no government. Only corporations."
If your observations are true, then Trump is a reflection of a Kardashian America.
"...then Trump is a reflection of a Kardashian America."
This much was obvious from the moment Trump considered running for office. Look at the TV/program ratings - we love our 24/7 false reality that reinforces our petty rationalizations. Trump embodies all of this. His poll numbers are no mystery. Pundits who belittled/dismissed/ignored Trump aren't worth their weight in shoelaces, because they fundamentally misunderstand/loathe the average american.
Hillary is the reflection of Kardashian America.
Trump used to be a Democrat.
He favors single payer.
It is ALL Good.
LOL.
"Trump used to be a Democrat.
He favors single payer."
1. Who says Trump isn't still a Democrat? -his voter card?
Depending on when you checked I've been registered with BOTH major parties and at least one Third Party.
I don't even remember which was last as I gave up on this flawed horse-shit democrazy years ago.
WHY register with a different party? To vote AGAINST a Candidate in a PRIMARY. -Deductive Math as Political Calculus.
2. Single Payer = pay ONLY for Services, not for middlemen and so-called 'health insurance' which is anything but.
-As to the .GOV bureaucracy: I hate them as much as anyone. The less the better. Computers might diminish the dead weight eventually. I repeat: LESS BUREAUCRACY IS BETTER.
Businesses should be freed from the imposition of running the health care scam for the profit of other businesses.
Why should your employer be responsible for your child's dentitstry or your wife's blood sugar issues?
IF you are gonna be a fucking baby and demand someone take care of things you claim you are incapable of taking care of yourself, then organize a true NOT GOV'T MANANGED + ZERO PROFIT social organization or create a lean .GOV enterprise with serious sanctions for fraudluent activity and quit putting the onus where it can never naturally belong..
trollin...
People sorta follow odd men who stick it to the big shots and root for them like a sports team. But when the primary comes. Trump will say something so damaging the hangers on will be shocked and say he self destructed. But those desire for an anti bush will be saved and bush will walk in with one of the lap dog also rans
My take on the Hillary problems is that Obama wants his socialist legacy to continue. Will Hilliary do it no, thus the sudden FBI interest in the email servers. Will Biden do it, of course not he was just a harmless idiot filling a useless position. That leaves Bernie the Man Sanders. I ask you who better to fill B. H. O. s shoes than an avowed socialist. He will fulfill the prophecy.
They dont even try to hide it anymore..
Another dumb fucking idiot using words whose definitions they don't understand.
Barry, a socialist. Funny.
And Bernie - sure, he calls himself a socialist, but in terms of real socialism, he is not that.
Go take Political Science 101 and learn something about political thought and theory. Then, comment on someone's socialist leanings, or lack thereof.
You tell it Tsar...I upvoted you because there is way too much throwing around of terms here...and few who throw 'socialism' around have any idea what it means.
Whenever I hear someone describe Obama as a socialist I cringe...
Every time I post a rebuttal to the Obama-as-socialist comments my red arrow numbers start flipping like a slot machine, so I hope you have better luck than I have had. But I gave you an upvote to show my support.
You got an up-vote from me.
This place has gone downhill over the past few years. Ever since it stopped being an economics-only site and became...whatevver it is now, the riff-raff it attracts is downright hideous.
You have to take these braindead fucktards with a grain of salt. I come here for the economic analysis that you really can't get elsewhere. I stay for the lunatic fringe that dominates the comment sections.
My guess is that this will be a classic battle that defines the apparent path of the US. A pure Socialist vs. an avowed Capitalist, Trump head to head with Sanders will be the fight of the century. BTW none of this really matters just as long as the bankers are pulling on the strings of both puppets. Who will actually smite the puppet masters is anyone's guess.
Be funny as hell if Trump picked Sanders for his VP...or vice versa.
I'd vote for that ticket...hell, I'd vote for ANY ticket that didn't have a Bush or a Clinton on it.
And at this point, I WANT a lunatic in the White House. I mean a REAL lunatic, not someone who is just playing the role. Someone so off the charts and unpredictable that everyone in Washington starts carrying extra underwear just in case he calls a press conference to announce something..."Oh fuck! What NOW?"
And I want him to have such mind-blowing luck that all of the assassination attempts fail in a truly epic way..."Shit! We cannot get RID of this guy! Wtf!?"
Do you honestly believe that Trump with his massive ego will let anyone direct his actions? I am not advocating his run, just that being the kind of man he appears, with the money he holds and controls, would be a bankster puppet?
I kinda doubt it and his finger on the nuclear trigger scares the shit out of me.
I'm puzzled listening to the canidates pandering to their respective bases and frustrated by the questions from the electorate. Trump comes the closest in exposing the central problem in this disfunctional country. Fact is, our government has gotten perverted by the strench of big money special interests, that should be the central issue. I reject the left vs the right ideology differences and the entire establishment that profits from that status quo. Fox vs CNN hate each other with a passion yet they manage to agree to cut to commercial break at the same time . . . that says it all, money. Take the damn money out of politics put K street out of business and we'll have a system that will serve the people, no one should enter politics to get rich. . . I going to have a drink damit.
The debate was hilariious. Lots of candidates bemoaning that every candidate is for sale, present company excluded (insert startled snort laugh here), but utterly failing to name any names, offer any details, or propose anything in the way of even a hint of what they would do about it if elected.
Of course, we already know what each of them would do if elected: announce reforms designed to cut off the sources of money to the other political party (those slimy bastards!), and at the same time stuff their own pockets with the money obtained from continuing with the sale of bits and pieces of their souls and whatever might be left of their honor to the people and the companies whose money got them elected.
Just one question, IiW, and I don't mean it to be confrontational or to implie in any way that I know the answer. How could a Big Money Man like Trump have any intention of changing the special interest system that has given him everything he has? Aside from not being able to forget the +20 years of history Trump can never divorce himself from (and it's not a good history), I have to question his intentions. Has he seen so much perversion and corruption that he's finally been sickened to the point of having to change it? Is he concerned for his country and wants to do his patriotic duty? Is he tired of seeing incompetant politicians bungle executive decisions and wants to up the game, so to speak. I really don't know the man's motives ... and he's not being forward about it. My guess is he sees it as another way to increase his power and influence, and that he could care less about changing the status quo. He certainly can't be any worse than the a**holes we've had for the past 25 years, but that's hardly a recommendation.
Any thoughts on the matter?
"He certainly can't be any worse than the a**holes we've had for the past... "
Yes he can.
No matter who is elected the system is not going to be improved/reformed.
It will all have to be forcibly dimantled..
Every election since Eisenhower's 'beware the MIC' farewell proves this fact.
I didn't mean to imply he would change things, but by my saying 'closest thing' he acknowledged paying politicians and 'that's our system, I don't like it but that's our system' were his words. I would also not consider him a lobbyist, despite his ego and even with his few billion, he's still a 2 bit player in the big D.C. money game. As far as personal motives, if you've been around for 6 or 7 decades it might make you puke at what we've become. I feel the donald's frustration . . .
Nah. The state caucus will be the death blow to trump. The GOP is not about winning. It's about the same thing the DNC is about--simply remaining in the game. Being at the plate when the profits of DC are dished out.
Trump is saying all the right things to start calming the GOP down. In his recent Sean Hannity interview it was all about MOAR war. Just what the big money that runs DC is hankering for. Will that lure be enough to call off their Bush dogs at the state level? Time will tell.
There will be hell toupee.
This article seems to imply that Fox/media & GOP establishment will now "make nice" and try to work with Trump. Perhaps.
But the obvious question is why would Trump forgive these jackals and cooperate with the very critics-turned-sycophants that spent the last 3 weeks insulting him?
Trump doesn't need the media nor the RNC/country club establishment. They'll either be forced to accept Trump's ascent & leadership within the GOP, or he'll 'go rogue' and run a 3rd-party campaign. Nothing in Trump's background/history would suggest that he'll "make nice" with people who obviously hate him. But there's plenty of evidence in Trump's past to suggest that he'll seek retribution for the slights against him and win on his own terms.
Trump doesn't bribe his way into the club... he buys the club and then fires the board. Beltway pundits cannot even fathom such a mindset, but the american people can... which is why he's at the top of the polls - conservative voters want a guy like Trump to steamroll the RNC and fire crony toads like Boehner & McConnell.
IMHO: So the choice will be Il Duce or Il Douchebag (Trump vs Sanders). One will be a dictator we'll be dragging through the streets in four years and the other one will be a patsy to Black Lives Matter radicals (and everyone else in the world). Oh well - while we're 'going out' - we might was well go in a fucking big way. So who is going to play Hitler this time?
Memory is such fickle thing. We've seen this schtick so many times before, but this time it's different ... right.
Trump leads in meaningless polls. No one ever got elected by wining a poll. The RNC has stacked the primary process in 2016 the same way they did in 2000 and 2004 and 2008 and 2012, which is well within their rights as party spokesmen, so that who they want will win the nomination. Trump can't change this no matter how many phone calls he makes to FOX and CNN. In the meanwhile the circus grabs ratings and publicity, and poorly informed citizens feel like there's some hope.
But none of this changes the FACT that the Fed has 4-5 trillion off books, that Fed interest rates are at 0% or lower, that every single existing market is gamed, that US gov debt is growing at the same "critical" rate it has been for the past 10 years, that China is imploding and no longer can support comodity markets or countries (bye-bye Canada and Australia), that war drums are beating across the globe, etc, etc, etc. Not a single candidate is speaking about any of the issues, nor can they because the public isn't interested in hearing about them. It's 1984, Brave New World, and Planet of the Apes all rolled in to one.
In my opinion there are some candidates that would shake things up, but they will never be allowed to be brought forward for a vote. There's too much at stake and too little interest by the public in changing to something sustainable. We have passed the point where the bulk of the population of the world has only one thing on their mind ... "Where's my free stuff?". I'm not sure when TSHTF, but it's foolish to spend one second on anything that is not helping you to prepare for when it does
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Bill ...fair and balanced.
I cancelled my voter registration. I am tired of this shit show.
And.. the next American demogogue is thus annointed. I can't wait to vote...with my feet. I'm leaving this hell hole called a Democracy. When people are stupid enough to take a morally and finanaial bankrupt like Trump seriously, its time to wave good-bye. American morons. Suffer you fools!!!
So Rancho Mirage and Koch handouts got nothing out of Ted Cruz, Marc Rubio and consorts?
They all buckled under to Trumps huge elephant trunk?
WHat a bunch of tea party w*****.
So I guess Koch buys not what he wants but what he gets!
Trump & Dump
The country is a joke, a bad one.
.......shocking unexpected death by "undiagnosed" heart condition
.......shocking unexpected plane crash
If Trump is the best Republicans have to offer I guess they want Clinton to win, she don't need to do much but to play the women card... it's all bought and paid for, this is just a circus, selection has been made long before the "election".
Truth be told, I've been watching less and less of Fox News over the last three years as the apearances of Carl Rove and the increasingly statist and establishment Chris Wallace have made it unwatchable to liberty-minded eyes. The debate was the final straw. I endorse this article.
Ok... WTF ?
Just REMEMBER a few short months ago...
It was EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA...EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA...EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA...EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... EBOLA... 24/7 - !!!
All Put out by all the MSMedia news engines... Run By Whom ??? - and then all of a sudden it was gone... EBOLA news was gone... POOF ! - No more EBOLA... but what was standing there instead... ISIS... the real story... and the continued bakanization of the Mid East countries for whose benefit ??? Who is it that runs barter town ???
and now TRUMP... you gotta love him for ripping the establishment a new one... but common... REMEMBER... The Repubs would NOT even let legitimate Ron Paul delagates sit down to vote at their last ReThug convention... love him or hate him the refreshing TRUMP is going nowhere...!
I predict he will be blown out of the water by some rediculous scandal down the road that will covered by the MSM engines 24/7... or worse... But one way or another... POOF... TRUMP will be gone... and who will be standing there... Hillary Bush vs Jeb Clinton... as always... with Jeb Clinton looking like he will slide into office since he loves the NeoCon PNAC protocols and he answers to MasterBlaster.
TRUMP... is a rich, beautiful and refreshing DIVERSION... and POOF... he will be gone... like EBOLA went POOF... and we all will be left with is a NON Election like always...
Ok... Cue sad music at this point...
Edgey...
Don't Cry for Me Jefferson... Its not like I didn't Dissent...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_idyN44Twc
Rick Perry was glad handing at a mens shelter in SC today. I guess he really is broke.
Donald Trump is an Eminent Domain thief with a nasty habit of engaging government authorities to seize people's homes, small businesses and other property whenever Trump covets such property for one of his development schemes.
Two who fought back were Vera Coking, an elderly widow in Atlantic City whose home Trump wanted for a limousine parking lot and Michael Forbes, a Scottish farmer whose home and farm Trump wants for a golf course.
With the help of the libertarian Institute for Justice, Mrs. Coking was able to thwart Trump's attempted theft of her home in Atlantic City. Mr. Forbes may not be so lucky and may eventually be evicted from his home, along with his family.
Jeb:
Thank you Mr. Bush.
We'll put your resume on file and call you if we have any openings.
Next.
Trump is just obama for republicans.
Hey Tyler did I do something wrong, where is the Post of Trump and Stone from 2 days ago??
Perhaps TPTB moved for censoring ZH?
Perhaps there was some Racial Remarks in the Posts?
well in Seattle people got tired of the corruption and the 'same old same old' year after year. They voted in a Socailist woman to the city council, and it looks like she will be re-elected-the Dems tried to put a "progressive" to oppose her, but that wont work. People want change. We voted in a black pres....why not a socialist?
If they can't derail the Donald, they will put Elizabeth Warren in, whether she wants it or not.
Trump won't be allowed to run as an independent, just like Ron Paul wasn't.
Just what did they say to RP before the Convention?