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Looking Back On The Presidency Of Donald Trump - A Dispatch From The Future
Authored by Jon Lovett, originally posted at The Atlantic,
“It was the terrific leader of India, Gandhi, who said, ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, and then you win.’ Well we won, didn’t we?”
That’s how President Donald John Trump began his inaugural address, that clear morning in January of 2017. The fact that Gandhi never said these words was among the very least of our problems. Besides, the line drew rapturous applause from the crowd. According to a joint statement released by the White House and Nielsen, the Trump Inaugural drew the largest television audience in human history. As President Trump himself pointed out in his second press availability that afternoon, the numbers would only go up, once you factored in DVR.
It’s amazing isn’t? How adaptable we are as human beings? It was only a year earlier that Trump was a punch line. Obviously, everyone knew, he could never actually get anywhere once the votes were cast. American democracy was too robust to let that happen. He was too dangerous to win, and to win would be too dangerous. It couldn’t happen because it couldn’t happen.
And then, just like that, it did.
There’s no need to rehash how it all went down. He won the nomination, and then he won the general election. It wasn’t more complicated than that. Some have compared the tenor of the news on election night to the coverage of a tragedy or disaster. But that’s not exactly right. It wasn’t like a meteor strike. It was more like finding out a meteor is heading our way. The anchors were dazed and somber. There was a real effort on the part of journalists to assuage viewers. Twitter was a shit show, but Twitter is always a shit show. Many immediately expressed their regret for voting Trump. Some had just wanted to register a protest, not realizing that they would be swinging the election to an insecure, undisciplined narcissist unfit for public office.
The next morning, President Obama declared a bank holiday, to the chagrin of President-Elect Trump, who blamed the fear mongering of Washington elites for the massive sell off roiling global markets. No one seemed more surprised by the returns than the Donald himself who—at the one moment in his life when it was truly needed—couldn’t muster the bravura for which he was famous. Being elected president made him seem tiny, and of course it did.
Those were the darkest moments. Yet, in the dull terror of those first days, there were the stirrings of redemption. You could see it in the pride that journalists—even cynical, sneering political reporters—took in covering this historic and surprising transition. You could see it on display in the meetings that President Obama and White House staff held almost around-the-clock with congressional leaders and aides of both parties. But most of all, you could see it everywhere. Everyone was talking about the news. Everyone was watching and reading the news. There was a sense, in those weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day, that Americans were all in this together, preparing, girding, for what we didn’t know. And maybe it’s crazy, but we grew closer to each other, kinder, as we all participated in this event as one country. Some still scoff at this, and as time passes, it’s harder and harder to prove. But I think it’s true. I think we are different now.
Maybe Trump was a mirror, and we hated him because we hated what we saw in our reflection.
By the time President Trump raised his right hand and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, the Constitution itself had been enlisted. In what Trump supporters called the “Christmas Coup” and what everyone else called a historic act of national preservation, President Obama signed into law a bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support (with the exception of a few House Republicans and Ted Cruz, who abstained) which reasserted congressional primacy over the republic and stripped away the presidential prerogatives that had accrued over the previous century. In a talk at the Heritage Foundation, Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking only hypothetically of course, suggested such a law would survive judicial review. The liberals on the high court offered similar hints. The only source of debate was which parts of the law ought to be permanent and which should sunset after four years. You can imagine how that went.
Anyway, there’s no need to belabor the details of how the next four years unfolded: the budget crisis, President Trump’s impeachment, Vice President Cruz’s inauguration, the second budget crisis. It’s all pretty straightforward. It was a painful and frightening time, to be sure. And while it didn’t bring about the collapse of society, it did hurt us. Our economy suffered, as did our standing in the world. (Relations with Mexico remain tense.) One bright spot: We elected a man who loves to name things after himself, but all we named after him is the “Trump Recession.” He’ll be remembered for that forever. The irony was almost worth the price.
And maybe it was a price the American people had to pay. Maybe Trump was a mirror, and we hated him because we hated what we saw in our reflection. We were coasting and knew it. A generation of elites prized shamelessness and ambition over virtue. Our newness and pride as a nation didn’t protect us from decadence, but it did allow us to ignore it, glued to our grievances and our phones as our culture and politics grew ever more brittle and shallow and crass.
In the end, Trump is what America had earned. Trump is what America deserved. Trump was our reckoning. And while his rise to power was born of our failings, it also forced us to find our strength. It’s amazing how adaptable we are as human beings, isn’t it? Trump saved us.
Now it’s all up to President Fieri.
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Let's hope Trump saves us from the criminal progressive stupid!
Grimaldus
It could be worse, Hillary could win.
This isn't rocket science. America is sick of the banksters, Faux News, phonies like Rand "McCONnell" Paul, the RNC, Karl Rove, the Fed, and endless war. All you need to know on illegal immigration is summed up here:
Why Trump is Winning and MSM Reporters are Retards (Video)The Progressives and Libtards are scared to death of Trump.
Because they are losing control,
and they know what they deserve.
Some had just wanted to register a protest, not realizing that they would be swinging the election to an insecure, undisciplined narcissist unfit for public office.
Hold on pal, Obama is not up for re-election again.
Jon Lovett is a writer based in Los Angeles. He previously served for three years as a speechwriter to President Obama in the White House.
http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jon-lovett/
Just another Progressive Troll on ZH
Yeah, I was just about to post the same thing.
As a virtual person who self-identifies as a physical Mexican, we find ZH reader's support of Trump to be troubling.....
>wake up to another beautiful day in the Trump Empire
>my 2 Slovenian trophy wives have made me breakfast
>read paper
>all the cartoons are Ben Garrison cartoons
>the economy is booming thanks to "Trumpism", his brand of American protectionism
>crime is down 70% because so many spics were deported, and BLM nigs shot by the cops
>hop in my 100% American-made Ford Mustang
>all the houses in the neighborhood have Confederate and Gadsden flags
>young kids wearing Trump wigs because it's the coolest fashion
>on the way there, some spic tries to panhandle me
>"yo esse, you're a rich gringo, gimme summa that green homes!"
>call ICE rapid response team
>laugh as they beat him with batons and stuff him into a van
>spend the day working for America, not China or Mexico
>come home
>my Slovenian wives have cooked 100% American steaks for dinner
>we watch Emperor Trump's nightly fireside address to the nation while they take turns working my shaft
>he's about to close out the show
>we all say with him in unison: "Good night America, and don't be a dummy!"
>we laugh heartily together
>fuck my wives for a solid hour
>caw like an eagle when I cum
>shower and hit the sack
>just another day in the Trump Empire
You left out one item:
>pop a gummint-paid viagra
Interview Trump and Oprah from 27 years ago.
Watch what The Donald said then!!
And thanks to Bill Still for reminding us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrFUcSD3CEQ
He's pretty prescient even back then. I'm starting to favor the guy as more comes out, not that I'd vote for him, but I can see teh reaction from others is he represents "None of the Above" on the ballot.
Especially if the Republicons choose one of the others to nominate!
As a virtual person who self-identifies as a physical Mexican, we find ZH reader's support of Trump to be troubling.....
As a virtual person who self identifies as an American I/we find your conflict of tense & racist comment to be troubling. Are you in Mexico and hoping to get rid of more dead beats or are you in the USA illegally and afraid you'll be expelled and not be able to suck off the tit of liberal policies until the host is dead? Your failure to clean up Mexico is very troubling.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
Trump is perfect for America, his entire life is one giant selfie
The difference to Obama and the George Dabbeliu Bush being what?
With slender feminine women (ie Slovenian wives), you don't need viagra.
That shit is only required for american feminist landwhales.
Eerily similar to President Silencer's America, except my wife is a hot Sicilian, and at miday the whole staff goes shooting for a couple hours.
That was gold. Not sure why you got all the downs.
The 50 million illegals and H1Bs obviously.
Hmm, does Hollyweird know that one of their screenwriters is missing? :>D
It's become quite apparent that ZH editors actually support the establishment politicians. Without them, they don't have much of a website.
Message: WE the Duopolists will not recognize the legitimacy of a NON-Duopolist being duly and legally elected.
-Not Trump, not Deez Nuts, not ANYONE.
You WILL vote FOR US and continue to accept our Duopoluist Oligarchy -or WE WILL SHUT DOWN THE BANKING SYSTEM AND PROHIBIT ALL COMMERERCE ala Greece and WE WILL INSTITUTE MARTIAL LAW and We WILL pass and implement all manner of illegal 'laws' in concert with our fellow Duoplolists in the Caputred Congres and with Our rubber stamp Supreme Court, the IRS, etc., etc...
OBEY OR WE WILL PUNISH YOU VIOLENTLY,
-RUIN YOU ECONOMICALLY,
-STEAL YOUR PROPERTY AND DESTROY YOUR BUSINESSES,
-EMPLOY THE MILITARIZED POLICE AND THE REGULATORY AGENCIES WE CONTROL AGAINST YOU...
OBEY OR SUFFER AT OUR HANDS.
-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
No threats will be necessary.
No edicts will be made.
There is no need for theatre that puts names to the owners.
One simple programming message to Diebold is all it's going to take.
On election night we will see virtually everyone interviewed proclaiming they voted for Trump.
He will end the evening at 3%, Hillary/Jeb, one of the two, have an unprecedented win.
That is pretty much guaranteed.
Diebold won't be everywhere.
Those machines aren't as ubiquitious as some would think.
The Electoral College and the US Supreme Court are more formidable challenges.
I repeat: the cited article is clearly a thinly veiled command/threat to STFU and do as you are told -OR ELSE; and that kind of command/threat requires exactly the opposite of cooperation and compliance.
Whatever you think you have to lose, THEY have much much more to lose.
PULL THE PIN.
Because they are losing control, and they know what they deserve.
And hopefully they get it good and hard.
"they know what they deserve. "
They aren't Left OR Right, They aren't Red OR Blue, They aren't NeoCons OR NeoLibs, They aren't Public OR Private...
There are TWO SIDES to Every Counterfeit Coin and Every Counterfeit Bill. But TWO SIDES does not make two different coins or bills...
They = the Duopoly...
They = the False & Phony Choices, False & Phony Narratives, Sock Puppets & Shills, Cheaters and Whore Renters, Media Frauds and Professional Liars..
They = Divide and Conquer False Flagers, Mercenaries, Plants, Inside Jobers, Conmen and Hitmen, Honey Pot Cock Suckers and Balck Widows, Blackmailers, NSA Evesdroppers, INformants, Undercover Agents, Pimps and Whoremongers, Purgurers and Forgers.
They = the False Security Hucksters, Boogyman Manufacturers, Enemy Armers, Foreign First Citizens, False War Mongers...
They = the Race Baiters, False Blamers, Misogonists, Sex Deviancy Promoters, Human Trafficers, Slave Labor Employers...
They = Both the rapaciaous Coroporate AND Govenment Bureaucrats taking for themselves under claims of taking for others be those claimed others shareholders, constituents, the elderly, the workers, chldren and/or the disenfranchised and defenceless...
They = the Intolerant Meddling Religious Hypocrites and the Intolerant Anti-Religious Hypocrites...
Revenge is gonna be served HOT this time to the lot left, right, up and down.
White Hot, down the throat and straight up the ass.
A man told how his baby boy had a car seat with a steering wheel and a horn. When in the car, he thought he was driving it.
American voters are the same as this baby boy, They control the country as much as the child in the car saeat.
All thos arguments about Red/Blue Liberal.Conservative, are so much worthless noise.
Bill called The Donald to run and make Hillary look good.
A month later, after dozens of polls, The Donald called Bill and said, "You know what? Fuck you Bill, I'm gonna win this shit and beat your wife, so to speak."
+10000, for.............. "so to speak."
some funny shit right there alright.
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...not realizing that they would be swinging the election to an insecure, undisciplined narcissist unfit for public office.
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Hmm, kinda describes a lot of WhiteHouse denizens, don't it?
This country has enough enemies. What it desperately needs, is a good enema.
TRUMP: The Enema of the State.
The crazy part is Trump sounds like the sane one in the bunch. You listen to these other guys and yikes!!!
Trump is a fake.
I don't give a fuck what he is. I just want the "Great Wall of Trump".
Why? It wouldn't be LA without MexiCans.
Good. Kick them all out. Every single one of them. Then annex the border Mexican states and kick them out of there, too.
Rekindle Polk's legacy.
yo ese makin we loco here!
IMHO, it is better, for BOTH Americans and Mexicans, to take half of Mexico for the US than to give half of California to Mexicans.
You aren't exactly real, either, fonestar.
I thought he was a Canuck. Same difference, not worth a shit.
Trump should ask Kim Kardashian to join the team. If she declines, he still can ask Hitlery Rodham Marcos to head the new ministry for the "Moral rejuvenation of America".
Ok downvoters, you are right, my mistake. Kim Kardashian is overqualified. How about Sarah "betcha" Palin? Overqualification sure wouldn't be an issue.
CRAP WRITING
your therapist called, youve scheduled too many visits, work it out on your own but not on ZH
Some had just wanted to register a protest, not realizing that they would be swinging the election to an insecure, undisciplined narcissist unfit for public office.
There's no way we'd elect in someone like that twice in a century...oh, wait...
Can we just pay off the rest of Obama's salary and bring in Mr. Trump tomorrow?
All the dicks Obama can suck should do it. Long live Preisidente' Trump !!!!
THE QUEEN IS DEAD, long live the queen.
I'm no fan of Trump's, but those squishy-cunt faggots at the Atlantic can go suck a bag of dicks.
You forgot Pussy, Traitors.
"Maybe Trump was a mirror, and we hated him because we hated what we saw in our reflection."
But maybe I'm the mirror and Trump is the reflection and the mirror is in a room in the Trump Plaza and the light's not on so you can't see anything. Whoaaa!!
I seem to recall The Atlantic declaring Ben Bernanke "a hero" and "the savior of the global economy."
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/03/atlantic-magazine-cov...
The Atlantic is Corpratist Propoganda posing as liberal commentary. Don't take them seriously.
WTF?
I don't get the punchline.
Can someone explain?
http://www.guyfieri.com
who the fuck is guy fieri?
Watch the Food Network, "Drive-ins, Diners and Dives"
oops
Harvey Dent?
No
Yes
Poll: Lumberjack for Trump administration duties.
Please feel free to nominate any ZH member for all potential positions in reply comments. Miffed gets my vote for whatever she wants.. Same as WB7. Got lots more but your vote counts here.
While I am no fan of anyone and like my balls intact, I have to hand it to Mr. Trump for bringing up the issues to the front. If he needs to fill a low level position if he is elected, I would happily accept.
I've never been fired either and testing the wster here at ZH tried really hard for down votes.
I voted for myself. For the first time ever. I was kind enough not to do it for a State legislative election during the Enron fiaso but easily captured a County position shortly thereafter. I know how this shit works.
WTF? In nonoseconds I get a down vote... In seconds I upvoted myself again. I Am far from arrogant,
but to the down voter, no one is expected to kiss my ass and if you even try...
The problem is you are offering to suck at the .gov teat, at my expense, under the pretense of a noble gesture. You don't even have a clue about the problem!!!
WB7 for press secretary.
Miffed for head of CDC
Freddie for head of FCC
SgtShaftoe for USMIL Chief of Staff == 5 Stars baby!
HedglessHorseman for Sec of Agriculture
Radical Marijuana for head of DEA
MillionDollarBonus for Ambassador to China or Liberia
Kchrisc for head guillotine operator/Attorney General
Tall Tom for Supreme Court lead justice
MeatTrapper for Head of BLM
Deerhunter for Head of USDA
That's all I got.
The author misspelled the "Obama Gets a Third Term" act as this "Christmas Coup".
Didn't I see Lovett's name on the AM data dump?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3190615/Obama-Larry-David-play-g...
If we can survive two Bushs, a Clinton and an Obama we can survive anything... in comparison Trump is a cakewalk...
You have not survived that peice of shit yet, the facist fucker has a year and one half left.
Yeah, we'll call me an optimist. Well, actually, I don't think I have ever been called an optimist... Well, never mind then...
Betchu if the Dalai Lama were to visit the WH under Trump, he'd not be ushered out a side door past the garbage as did Mr Obyahah
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/politics/2010/02/19/dalai-lama-trots-pa...
The Atlantic does progressive butt hurt so well. Trump is driving that establishment nuts..if nothing else he has made lots of disfected people take notice. Anyone who thinks Trump could be worse than the last two imbeciles has gone full retard
True, but anyone who thinks he'll be better is just as far into the full retard zone.
disaffected - but thanks for the morning laugh :)
from The Atlantic ... one of the biggest obama-cock-sucking rags out there (am talking about michele's cock, and not barack's tiny clit). Waste of fucking time.
It takes a lot of nerve to dream this shit up after the ass rape disaster their favorite son has wrought upon us these last six plus years. Lets not forget that the markets and the unemployment numbers did not really tank until Obama took the lead in the polls against McStain. Every small business owner I knew at the time saw Obama as a real threat to their survival. They were right.
We are soooooooo fucked. There's no one, not a single person, that I know of that I would vote for, or even vote against.
We are soooooooo fucked.
And i'm long shovels and hands.
We all vote whether we go to the polls or not.
does his mother know about this?
His mother is an Obama whore, too.
Trump is a "insecure, undisciplined narcissist unfit for public office" . No difference between him and Hillary then.
So all of a sudden ZH comes up with an article that makes Obama look like a hero trying to make a last stand against Trump because Trump is somehow "unfit", unlike the lot we had for the past 20+ years. Is this a sponsored article? Serious question.
Hillary is a sociopath.
" Is this a sponsored article? Serious question. "
MORE FEAR AND MARKET INSTABILITY = EASIER TO SHILL GOLD.
SEVERAL OF THE 'TYLERS' ARE ACTUALLY ONE GOLD SHILL.
CAPICHE?
Lovett obviously has sucked some Bush dick and The Atlanic sucks off the tits of the average American. Free speech is great but ZH readers don't buy this load of puke shit.
Jon Lovett's name is on the list. Gonna keep churning out more pikes for the likes of this Pile Of Stinkin' Excrement.
Wait... a hit piece about the imagined consequences of a presidential selectee... how original...
There's a little of Hitler in this guy. How much? Enough? Enough to take over the popular will? Is it that we are seeing? We have to watch ourselves here.
For Germany Hitler was a hero, did everything right until September 1, 1939.
Trump may be the last chance - a difficult choice - but it may be this or say goodbye America.
when trump announces he will conduct treason and corruption trials (with guillotines) for all those involved in the bs this country has endured for at least the last 10 years, he's got my vote (he may have it anyways)
What's funny about this article is that the Atlantic author believes that the crony party system lead by Obama, the puppet, the community organizeer with 2 years of legislive experience before he was elected on hope and change, giving the banks a holiday right before he leaves office and throwing the Constitution in the garbage by giving away the 1st branch of our government. Is this how he wants to change America's mind against Trump.
Seems to me, the author just told America to vote for Trump because that's what the cronies will do if he is elected.
Progressives have always seen absolute government power as the solution. Every time someone talks of the power of the constitution they scramble to acquire even more absolute power. As is in their playbook for everything else, the crisis IS the tool, the gift that provides them with the propaganda base for which the emergency demands that suspend the constitution to save it. The contradictions, the hypocrisy of their actions and agendas never comes under scrutiny.They can claim unending love and willingness to sacrifice all of us "for the children" while funding and defending a campaign to kill millions of unborn children.
GET Your head out of your ass you opportunist. This is utter nonsense.
Hey fuck chops,
If you are so good at seeing into the future, give me the winning Lotto numbers for this Saturdays drawing.
Piece of garbage article.
Too many of you are still too stupid to realize you have absolutely no say in who gets elected as the president.
This time the anger is so great that the tide may win out over the machine.
They call it the electoral college. SHEET.
Even the so called power brokers will yield when looking at the masses of people holding torches and pitch forks.
Have you ever been to one of their ECU (electoral college university) keggers?
Damn!
So if Trump does win, what does that imply about your theory?
He must not be taking enough meetings from AIPAC.
Jon Lovett pimp for the Atlantic whore cracks me up as they shit in their pants.
This POS is really the best ya can come up with.
FUCK YOU!
Goodbye NWO...hello Biff's World.
But how long until someone questions the citizenships granted via the 'wet-foot-dry-foot' policy ?
I don't think its fair to blame the hypothetical financial meltdown on Trump in the article as we have been in it for about 8 years. It is at the very least the Clinton/Bush/Obama meltdown. I also find it rather hypocritical that in the article Obama gets legislation passed to curtail the overreach of the executive branch. Like he cares about balance of power, he would only do that if CONgress said they would protect him against future prosecution.
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If we want an easily defendable border....just withdraw the foreign deployed troops to North America and go "Full Imperial". That way everyone can see what a "real Imperialist" America is!
Annex Canada, Newfoundland, NW territory. and Mexico, Use geography in the north and Defoliants in the south to cut a DMZ south of the Mexican Border...many of the serious trouble makers are comming from Nicaragua and Honduras anyway, and the Mexican Government knows how to keep out foreign nationals they don't want!
The Great Wall of Trump could be much smaller, and just use the one the mexicans already "paid for".
Trump would call this a "hostile takeover" or a LBO...
Your kidding - right? Annexing Mexico and Central America is so 19th and 20th centuries. The only asset worth having is the Panama Canal.
Speaking as hitler, I say...
Annex the sudatenland.
The Atlantic. Fishwrapper. Just another example of clueless motherfukkerz. Right up there with Littlegreenfootballs.
Insular progressives living in a bubble in their hives.
When the bubble pops they will be ill equipped to deal with it, being anti-gun and pro-diversity and all.
They couldn't be any more disconnected from what most Americans think, feel, or do on a daily basis.
Fuck em.
The only thing I get out of this establishmentarian nonsense is this: The powers that be are afraid of Trump. Now, I despise Trump myself, for he reminds me of the worst demagogues Plato wrote about. I think the line he draws between Mexicans and us is outrageous, especially because Mexicans are coming here as a direct result of America's NAFTA, the CIA drug-running operations, and America's support for rigged elections and political horrors in that country. Also, it's ridiculous to suppose that elections will change anything; we're too far gone for that. If anyone posed a challenge to the kingmakers, they will kill or incapacitate him as they did to Lincoln, McKinley, Wilson, FDR, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter. Still, this article is forcing me to look at Trump a bit more closely. Since they don't like him, maybe there is something to the man?
I disagree with your assersion. ; especially because Mexicans are coming here as a direct result of America's NAFTA, the CIA drug-running operations, and America's support for rigged elections and political horrors in that country.
The Mexicans, Hondurans and every other shit hole third world country are shipping people out before their masses rise up in revolt. This safty valve needs to keep blowing out untrained, unemployed masses of people so civil war does not burn out the entire southern hemisphere.
Right now, all over the world, people are fleeing the madness of economic disaster. They head for the (richer) northern countries, where at least they will be fed... for now.
One of the 17 dwarfs joked about Trumps plan to deport the whole of aliens. He said trumps plan would cost billions.
How about a dollar figure on what will be spent to compleatly care for 20 million unskilled, unemployed workers. A whole new dependent class.
So you are suggesting that Trump would be worse than Bill Clinton, GW Bush, The Obomination, Bernie Sanders, and even Hillary The Bitch Clinton ?
If so, you be needin' a mind infusion.
Other than the bit about Trump winning and the establishment trying to pass laws to preserve their own power, and maybe the bit about the anchors being stunned, the article was all piffle, displaying the author's disdain for outside-the-beltway-America and his general cluelessness about what needs to be done to restore the greatness of America -- though I daresay the author is one of those who would be embarrassed to even talk about restoring the greatness of America.
This has to be one of the dumbest most useless articles I've read. It wasn't even a good hypothetical. Let's say Trump was legit, which he isn't, does anyone really believe that Deibold wouldn't take the selection from the people? Or that his private jet wouldn't have an "accident" ?
I haven't quite figured out why anyone would want to be Prez of Amerika. The bennies are great and you can go anywhere anytime on vacation and you can pick a fight with the biggest dude anywhere and laugh while the Secret Service guys kick his ass and women will blow you under the desk on the Oval Office and ... nevermind. I figured it out.
Article is total bullshit.
Obama and congress are to blame for hollowing out the economy and destroying the middle class. They can't get an economy going with 0% interest rates! Can't blame a future Trump who has never held any office yet. It was well known Obama's socialist presidency was going to be a big red stop tlight for the markets and the economy (and a green light for terrorists). And we were right.
It will probably take a personality like Trump's to blow right past all the PC garbage and fix things because it took a village to destroy it.
Say what?
"It was well known Obama's socialist presidency was going to be a big red stop tlight for the markets and the economy (and a green light for terrorists). And we were right."
I can hold two opposing ideas in my head at the same time.
- If you invested in the Stock market after 2008 near the bottom, you would be rich today.
- Who are the winners in Obama's Society? Wall Street. TBTF Banks. Other Banks. Hedge Funds and Private Banking. Corporate Leaders, Fortune 500, Dow Jones Companies, Ass-Kissing Media, NSA/CIA/DHS/US MIC Prison Complex, US Military has done well if you acknowledge that after war ends there are cuts to DoD (Not so well if your got purged, but RIF actions or Reduction in Force of Uniform Soldiers is pretty old tradition)
I'm not that awake, I missed some winners.
Privatization has not been halted, but government still performs at the usual level of waste and fraud while private contracts keep increasing.
The Country is functional while the kick the can strategy has revealed and grown huge weaknesses, huge deficits, huge FISCAL Spending, huge gaming by the FED, huge gaming by the TBTF, and the economy is in the shitter. When they chose the next 4 crisis: financial, economic, Sovereign Debt, and War... we won't be surprised.
But the Markets are still Great.
Obama is not a good president, he is a puppet. The English Trade Model is firmly in place in the USA, so Jobs and Economy are in decline since 1980, velocity of money is shit, but... this is TPTB program... this is an export from Europe.
Our Rulers don't want many people to rise to the upper middle class and don't really want many in the Middle Class.
He eats Pizza with a fork. 'nuff said!
Donald Trump is basically this....
I don't plan to end the empire in any way, I just plan to run it better, and force others to pay more for our wielding it on their behalf.
Also remember that Roy Cohn was his bosom buddy. Who is Roy Cohn?
https://larouchepac.com/20150817/british-empire-roots-american-social-co...
Also
Trump would be a disaster. His bravado is eerily reminiscent of W Bush.
Does anyone here really want someone committed to a 'better run' empire... Because good luck with that, it's not happening.
Sounds like Operation Honeymoon or whatever CIA Operations.
FBI used same ops as CIA???
Maybe Trump is in the FBI/CIA Network then?
Um, after three terms of FDR the federal government WAS riddled with commies. Hoover and McCarthy may have been rapacious hate mongerers...but they were right about the "Red Scare."
Maybe we should concentrate on getting Obama out of office first, and anyone that would be a replacement aka Hillary.
H.L. Mencken was absolutely right!
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
Ron Paul and Ross Perot just called from 'un electable-land' and they agree.
Maybe it's the Alcohol or the Hang over, but I don't have any idea what this article is about.
Peace Out.
it appears to be a missive written by a happy Obama supporter, glad in the hope that maybe, just maybe a man will be elected who will make obama look presidential.
Really, RE; not realizing that they would be swinging the election to an insecure, undisciplined narcissist unfit for public office.
If that dont describe the current occupant of 1600 pennsilvania ave.
Nothing else will.
"Trump claims that he and Cohn met at Le Club."
And Trump hasn't Drunk Alcohol or taken Drugs ever since.
Holy Shit, Trump is a Manchurian Candidate!!
Edit: Should have posted to jmc8888 or referenced Larouchepac.
wow, that was idiotic and we're all worse off for having read it.
Wow, that was incredibly moronic.
That is some funny shit Publicus. Got a good laugh out of it. It would be nice if it worked out that way !
Where do you get the Slovenian wives from? Got a link for that?
Huh? WTF??
The joke will be on the author when the Obama Depression begins in ...well I'll be damned..it is starting tonight...
Trump is crazy. Crazy like a fox.
ButY'allSeeThatHe'sGonnaBlameAllOnTheHomoNiggaOnDope
Sorry to say, but the ship is going down before the elections, so we might get to see a cover with an Obama crash bottom. Yikes.
Trump Presidency will be a perfect excuse for crash of the US of A. and Trump will make a nice scapegoat...
Lets all take a deep breath here. I mean, he can't really be all that much worse than W or O, right? Those two are like the Laruel and Hardy of back to back administrations, right? So now it's Don Rickle's turn...
Waste of time. My dogs could imagine the future better than this author. The inspiration MUST have been while at Starsucks, drooling over the new wine and tapas evening menu.