Most Americans don’t think much about politics, let alone foreign policy issues, as they go about their daily lives. It’s not that they don’t care: it’s just that the daily grind doesn’t permit most people outside of Washington, D.C. the luxury of contemplating the fate of nations with any regularity. There is one exception, however, and that is during election season, and specifically – when it comes to foreign policy – every four years, when the race for the White House begins to heat up. The President, as commander in chief, shapes US foreign policy: indeed, in our post-constitutional era, now that Congress has abdicated its responsibility, he has the de facto power to single-handedly take us into war. Which is why, paraphrasing Trotsky, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is certainly interested in you.
The most recent episode of the continuing GOP reality show, otherwise known as the presidential debates, certainly gave us a glimpse of what we are in for if the candidates on that stage actually make it into the Oval Office – and, folks, it wasn’t pretty, for the most part. But there were plenty of bright spots.
This was supposed to have been a debate about economics, but in the Age of Empire there is no real division between economic and foreign policy issues. That was brought home by the collision between Marco Rubio and Rand Paul about half way through the debate when Rubio touted his child tax credit program as being “pro-family.” A newly-aggressive and articulate Rand Paul jumped in with this:
“Is it conservative to have $1 trillion in transfer payments – a new welfare program that’s a refundable tax credit? Add that to Marco’s plan for $1 trillion in new military spending, and you get something that looks, to me, not very conservative.”
Rubio’s blow-dried exterior seemed to fray momentarily, as he gave his “it’s for the children” reply:
“But if you invest it in your children, in the future of America and strengthening your family, we’re not going to recognize that in our tax code? The family is the most important institution in society. And, yes…
”PAUL: Nevertheless, it’s not very conservative, Marco.”
Stung to the quick, Rubio played what he thought was his trump card:
”I know that Rand is a committed isolationist. I’m not. I believe the world is a stronger and a better place, when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.
“PAUL: Yeah, but, Marco! … How is it conservative … to add a trillion-dollar expenditure for the federal government that you’re not paying for?
”RUBIO: Because…
“PAUL: … How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures? You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
(APPLAUSE)”
Here, in one dramatic encounter, were two worldviews colliding: the older conservative vision embodied by Rand Paul, which puts domestic issues like fiscal solvency first, and the “internationalist” stance taken by what used to be called Rockefeller Republicans, and now goes under the neoconservative rubric, which puts the maintenance and expansion of America’s overseas empire – dubbed “world leadership” by Rubio’s doppelganger, Jeb Bush – over and above any concerns over budgetary common sense.
Rubio then descended into waving the bloody shirt and evoking Trump’s favorite bogeyman – the Yellow Peril – to justify his budget-busting:
“We can’t even have an economy if we’re not safe. There are radical jihadists in the Middle East beheading people and crucifying Christians. A radical Shia cleric in Iran trying to get a nuclear weapon, the Chinese taking over the South China Sea…”
If the presence of the Islamic State in the Middle East precludes us from having an economy, then those doing their Christmas shopping early this year don’t seem to be aware of it. As for the Iranians and their alleged quest for nuclear weapons, IAEA inspectors are at this very moment verifying the complete absence of such an effort – although Sen. Paul, who stupidly opposed the Iran deal, is in no position to point this out. As for the fate of the South China Sea – if we could take a poll, I wonder how many Americans would rather have their budget out of balance in order to keep the Chinese from constructing artificial islands a few miles off their own coastline. My guess: not many.
Playing the “isolationist” card got Rubio nowhere: I doubt if a third of the television audience even knows what that term is supposed to mean. It may resonate in Washington, but out in the heartland it carries little if any weight with people more concerned about their shrinking bank accounts than the possibility that the South China Sea might fall to … the Chinese.
Ted Cruz underscored his sleaziness (and, incidentally, his entire election strategy) by jumping in and claiming the “middle ground” between Rubio’s fulsome internationalism and Paul’s call to rein in our extravagant military budget – by siding with Rubio. We can do what Rubio wants to do – radically increase military expenditures – but first, he averred, we have to cut sugar subsidies so we can afford it. This was an attack on Rubio’s enthusiasm for sugar subsidies, without which, avers the Senator from the state that produces the most sugar, “we lose the capacity to produce our own food, at which point we’re at the mercy of a foreign country for food security.” Yes, there’s a jihadist-Iranian-Chinese conspiracy to deprive America of its sweet tooth – but not if President Rubio can stop it!
Cruz is a master at prodding the weaknesses of his opponents, but his math is way off: sugar subsidies have cost us some $15 billion since 2008. Rubio’s proposed military budget – $696 billion – represents a $35 billion increase over what the Pentagon is requesting. Cutting sugar subsidies – an unlikely prospect, especially given the support of Republicans of Rubio’s ilk for the program – won’t pay for it.
However, if we want to go deeper into those weeds, Sen. Paul also endorses the $696 billion figure, but touts the fact that his proposal comes with cuts that will supposedly pay for the hike. This is something all those military contractors can live with, and so everybody’s happy, at least on the Republican side of the aisle, and yet the likelihood of cutting $21 billion from “international affairs,” never mind $20 billion from social services, is unlikely to garner enough support from his own party – let alone the Democrats – to get through Congress. So it’s just more of Washington’s kabuki theater: all symbolism, no action.
Paul’s too-clever-by-half legislative maneuvering may have effectively exposed Rubio – and Sen. Tom Cotton, Marco’s co-pilot on this flight into fiscal profligacy – as the faux-conservative that he is, but it evaded the broader question attached to the issue of military spending: what are we going to do with all that shiny-new military hardware? Send more weapons to Ukraine? Outfit an expeditionary force to re-invade Iraq and venture into Syria? This brings to mind Madeleine Albright’s infamous remark directed at Gen. Colin Powell: “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?”
In this way, Paul undermines his own case against global intervention – and even his own eloquent argument, advanced in answer to Rubio’s contention that increasing the military budget would make us “safer”:
“I do not think we are any safer from bankruptcy court. As we go further, and further into debt, we become less, and less safe. This is the most important thing we’re going to talk about tonight. Can you be a conservative, and be liberal on military spending? Can you be for unlimited military spending, and say, Oh, I’m going to make the country safe? No, we need a safe country, but, you know, we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined.”
I have to say Sen. Paul shone at this debate. His arguments were clear, consistent, and made with calm forcefulness. He distinguished himself from the pack, including Trump, who said “I agree with Marco, I agree with Ted,” and went on to mouth his usual “bigger, better, stronger” hyperbole that amounted to so much hot hair air.
Speaking of Trumpian hot air: Paul showed up The Donald for the ignorant blowhard he is by pointing out, after another of Trump’s jeremiads aimed at the Yellow Peril, that China is not a party to the trade deal, which is aimed at deflecting Beijing. That was another shining moment for Paul, who successfully juxtaposed his superior knowledge to Trump’s babbling.
This obsession with China’s allegedly malign influence extended to the next round, when foreign policy was again the focus. In answer to a question about whether he supports President Obama’s plan to send Special Operations forces to Syria, Ben Carson said yes, because Russia is going to make it “their base,” oh, and by the way: “You know, the Chinese are there, as well as the Russians.” Unless he’s talking about these guys, Carson intel seems a bit off.
Jeb Bush gave the usual boilerplate, delivered in his preferred monotone, contradicting himself when he endorsed a no-fly zone over Syria and then attacked Hillary Clinton for not offering “leadership” – when she endorsed the idea practically in unison with him. Bush added his usual incoherence to the mix by averring that somehow not intervening more in the region “will have a huge impact on our economy” – but of course the last time we intervened it had a $2 trillion-plus impact in terms of costs, and that’s a conservative estimate.
Oddly characterizing Russia’s air strikes on the Islamic State as “aggression” – do our air strikes count as aggression? – the clueless Marie Bartiromo asked Trump what he intends to do about it. Trump evaded the question for a few minutes, going on about North Korea, Iran, and of course the Yellow Peril, finally coming out with a great line that not even the newly-noninterventionist Sen. Paul had the gumption to muster:
“If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS, I am all for it, one-hundred percent, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it.”
Bush butted in with “But they aren’t doing that,” which is the Obama administration’s demonstrably inaccurate line, and Trump made short work of him with the now undeniable fact that the Islamic State blew up a Russian passenger jet with over 200 people on it. “He [Putin] cannot be in love with these people,” countered Trump. “He’s going in, and we can go in, and everybody should go in. As far as the Ukraine is concerned, we have a group of people, and a group of countries, including Germany – tremendous economic behemoth – why are we always doing the work?”
Why indeed.
Trump, for all his contradictions, gives voice to the “isolationist” populism that Rubio and his neocon confederates despise, and which is implanted so deeply in the American consciousness. Why us? Why are we paying everybody’s bills? Why are we fighting everybody else’s wars? It’s a bad deal!
This is why the neocons hate Trump’s guts even more than they hate Paul. The former, after all, is the frontrunner. What the War Party fears is that Trump’s contradictory mixture of bluster – “bigger, better, stronger!” – and complaints that our allies are taking advantage of us means a victory for the dreaded “isolationists” at the polls.
As for Carly Fiorina and John Kasich: they merely served as a Greek chorus to the exhortations of Rubio and Bush to take on Putin, Assad, Iran, China, and (in Trump’s case) North Korea. They left out Venezuela only because they ran out of time, and breath. Fiorina and Kasich were mirror images of each other in their studied belligerence: both are aspiring vice-presidential running mates for whatever Establishment candidate takes the prize.
Yes, it’s election season, the one time – short of when we’re about to invade yet another country – when the American people are engaged with the foreign policy issues of the day. And what we are seeing is a rising tide of disgust with our policy of global intervention – in a confused inchoate sense, in the case of Trump, and in a focused, self-conscious, occasionally eloquent and yet still slightly confused and inconsistent way in the case of Sen. Paul. Either way, the real voice of the American heartland is being heard.
But, but, walls don't work! Just look at Israel, their wall has never wor....well, it wouldn't work here because it would be too long, just look how useless that wall that China built was....well um...eh....RACISIM!
I love seeing the libbies and cuckservatives squirm trying to come up with reasons not to build a wall.:)
Neocons hate because their collective ethos is that of a single misanthrope that crafted their existence in the first place. In brief, neocons are fascist narrow minded automatons not really capable of a level of consciousness that would enable them to think critically, and independently, of the clique orthodoxy that guides their myopic thinking, or lack thereof. Neocons have no history aside from Corporatism, and Fascism.
Neocons hate because they are religious. Practically all religions have a force of evil, satan, the devil etc. If you are religious you are conditioned to this duality good and evil. They must have 'an evil' which they hate, it is the religious mentality as opposed to one of cooperation.
CLINTON/SATAN 2016
American Decline: Causes and Consequences
Grand Area (after WW-2) to be under US control: Western Hemisphere, the Far East, the former British empire — including the crucial Middle East oil reserves — and as much of Eurasia as possible, or at the very least its core industrial regions in Western Europe and the southern European states. The latter were regarded as essential for ensuring control of Middle East energy resources.
It means: Africa resources go to Europe. Asia resources go to Japan. South America resources go to US.
Now (2019) the Conundrum: Where will China get the resources needed for its survival? And Russia is not Africa.
“[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.” ? Zbigniew Brzezinski
Through either ignorance or malice the author repeats Rand Paul's statement about Trump's comments re China and the TPP.
Trump explicitly said the TPP provides a back door opportunity for China, thus noting he understands China is not an initial signatory to TPP.
The backdoor opportunity occurs in 2 ways. The ability for TPP to expand its signatory countries without going back to the legislatures of existing signatory countries AND the fact that products claiming to be made in TPP countries and eligible for TPP arrangements don't have to be wholly made in those countries, or perhaps even mainly made in those countries. China will certainly be taking advantage of that.
The fact that Paul does not apparently understand these points, despite being a Senator, displays an unfortunate ignorance unless of course he was just attempting to score a political point despite knowing it to be false.
Paul at least made his comment in the heat of the moment in a debate. Raimondo has had plenty of time to get the facts right but does not. How much of the rest of his screed is garbage?
I got the impression Trump thought China was part of the trade deal from this quote:
"Yes. Well, the currency manipulation they don’t discuss in the agreement, which is a disaster. If you look at the way China and India and almost everybody takes advantage of the United States — China in particular, because they’re so good. It’s the number-one abuser of this country. And if you look at the way they take advantage, it’s through currency manipulation. It’s not even discussed in the almost 6,000-page agreement. It’s not even discussed."
If China isn't part of the agreement, then what difference does it make whether or not currency manipulation is discussed? Your answer is that Trump meant they could be added to the agreement later, as in this previous quote of his:
"The TPP is horrible deal. It is a deal that is going to lead to nothing but trouble. It’s a deal that was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."
If that's the case, Trump didn't explain himself well in this instance.
So Trump is lambasted all morning about wanting to bom the crap out of ISASS while BO says ISASS is contained and France closes their borders?
Trump +100000000
MSM and BO = JOKE
after reading this maybe i'm more inclined to believe the paris incident was a false flag
Martial law declared in a "socialist style country" ... you could be right. Its not like this outcome wasnt predictable, I think most could see it coming.
just a coincidence that france has been calling for an international coalition to stop the palestine genocide
somewhere Putin is eating popcorn
The neo-con bogeymen are fabrications. America has met its true enemy and it's the neo-cons.
I am sorry, but the damage is done. There is no way to fix this. not trump, or paul. I feel both have good intentions, but its too late. the damage is done. I am ok, I think anyway, but I have lost much and realize that it is never coming back. I am lucky the good lord at least allowed me to keep m,y property which is off grid and somewhat ccomfortable, and that His wisdom has guided me thru very difficult times. I worry about my children every day. THey are in their late twenties, so I should be letting go, but in this world, I have to worry about them every day...anyway, not sure what I am saying, but I say it anyway...hope I did not "offend" anyone :-)
by the time anyone gets to the presidency in 2016, it will take them two or three terms to turn it around even a little. civil war and/or WW3 is upon us. Doesnt matter who is president in 2016
I do agree with your assessment.
Trump seems to tap into the collective conciousness of rational white people who vote and have some means of self-sufficiency. Of course the joooo neocons hate him. Duh
Here Americans, chew on this for a while.
www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral...
What the hell are these European people doing welcoming trash like this? it's like our own people embracing Hillary.
Germany is slitting its wrists! Trump is right on this one.
It could be that a bomb of such magnitude is going to go off, the only way to save the lives of innocents is to send them out of region until debris field is cleaned up. The infiltration of militants may not be the plan.
My parents never discussed religion or politics around the kids when we were growing up. Even when I was old enough to ask my father who he voted for, he told me they never even told each other. It gives you an interesting perspective when you find yourself in a political (or religious) discussion. I'm still apolitical. I'm pretty sure neither atheist nor agnostic accurately describes my total and enduring lack of interest in religion. The first and only time I voted was when I was 49 and I voted to get someone out and because I thought it was almost too late, not because I wanted someone in. Now I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter at all who gets in because the problems we have are going to require a complete reset.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/why-so-much-jewish-fear-and-loathing-of-do...
Neocons should not be used as a synonym for 'militarist.'
That subset was absolutely a Jewish-Zionist movement originating at the U of Chicago whether you know the history or not. Its also obvious just verboden to discuss. Not because its false, but because its true.
Neocons arent conservative - they are zioglobalists with prinary concern for Israel.
There are several groups of militarists in the deep state, but the Israel Firster faction is predominant.
Fucking obviously.
Gee I guess we should back Iran and Isis. Must be some great jewish conspiricy that keeps you impovrished, that or maybe you are just a moron.
Idiot, the us, and israel ARE backing isis.
Go back to watching fox news - this is all way over your willingness to spend time reading about.
You clearly have an internet connection - but you utter palpable nonsense.
Gee I guess we should back Iran and Isis. Must be some great jewish conspiricy that keeps you impovrished, that or maybe you are just a moron.
Arthur
When/where I grew up I'd never met a jew. I think there was one black family in the two hundred fifty square miles of the town, population 2,200 in 1976. I knew jackshit other than they were greased by nazis back in WWII.
Moved out of the desert to Orlando, Flawed?-Duh. Met a lot of regular jews. Good people, best man's dad and mom had tattoo'd numbers on thier arms. To me, their just regular people that have some other sort of religion that christianity is an offshoot from.
What I've learned is that Zionism is lead by a relative few of the jewish faith, many regular jews resent it as an abomination of jewish faith. Zionists are the self-selected political elite and are in no way keepers of the jewish faith. They are the equivalent, in Israel, to the CFR here. Oddly, they also comprise many of the CFR seats HERE.
Zionists do not represent the jews any more than Jamie Diamond, Blythe Masters, Warren Buffet, or Bill Gates represent ordinary Americans. Somehow, over time, Zionists came to wield massive influence within our government and corporate institutions.
Those are the simple facts that I have been able to glean from piles of research that are massively biased in both directions.
It's not a jewish conspiracy that keeps many impoverished, it's the Zionists that keep many impoverished, at war, divided, ignorant, and given bread and circuses. Not jews.
Perhaps you should spend a few years doing a little independent research of your own before belittling something you obviously have no clue about.
That rhetorical ballet aside, Israel has far far too much influence on us policy, and that is so because of wildly disproportionate Jewish... As such... Political, financial, media, etc power. And they - AS A GROUP -act in their in-group interests even when resulting policy is not in this country's interest - demanding, with 50 million Scoffield JudeoChristians that Israels interests be of utmost value...
And heres the kicker - as defined by an isrsel under likud and shas, parties so odious they make golden dawn look leftist, yet get no msm criticism for being so.
Its never 'all' any group - but Israels influence is excessive and deleterious, and that is due to jewish power and influence, with the xian zios giving the votes. Framed this way, it isnt 'Zionism' - it is simply a powerful minority with deep loyalty to a tiny foreign state warping us policy - and media coverage.
Jmo
I don't believe I have ever seen it put quite so succinctly. My complements.
Arthur,
Iran is formerly Persia, and its people are predominantly Shia. Shia's are considered apostates by Sunni's. Isis is Sunni. Sunnis get their funding via the Petrodollar system.
Persians changed their name to Iran to let northern Europeans know they were Aryans. Persians are not Arabs.
Neo-Con's are Jewish and they have fellow travelers who are non jewish. Many of their fellow travelers are Sayanim or Zionist Christians. So, Neo-Con ideology is no longer specifically Jewish, but it certainly has Jewish antecedents.
Your comment is full of illogic, is misinformed, and then you have the laughable temerity to call out someone else as a moron.
If you are not a moron, you can cogently explain what is moronic about the post, right?
So???
Impoverished. Fixed it for you you jew moron. LOL.
May all the fucking neOcons ROT IN HELL!
I'm going to actually vote for Hillary.
I can't think of a face I would rather see at the public crucifixion when this shitshow finally blows up.
I get warm fuzzies thinking about the shrieks as the nails get pounded in...
Now, that's downright evil my friend.
Of course, she deserves that more than anything.
I prefer lingchi.
Trump is a damned fool.
Aren't we all.
Look at all the fools that voted Republican in 2014 thinking they'd put a stop to Obama's agenda.
Ha!
Look at all the fools the voted twice for Obama thinking he'd reverse all the evils in the world only to find out he's as worthless as chicken shit on a pump handle.
Fresh chicken shit on a pump handle acts as a lube, you don't get blisters pumping.
Old chicken shit on a pump handle acts like a barnacle...you don't want to pump until scraping it off.
The only place "neocons" still exist is at ZH. Whatever Wikipedia says about it, the term had virtually no currency in the US before 2001, and had pretty much ceased to have any influence by about 2005.
Is Rubio sounding like an interventionist? Yes. Does he really know what he's talking about? Unclear. Is Trump sounding like a non-interventionist? Yes. Does he really know what he's talking about? Almost certainly not. Trump is the non-interventionist who wants to bomb the shit out of ISIS.
Rand didn't do anything to embarass himself at the latest debate, but he also didn't stand out enough to make up for many past errors. Give him a few years, maybe he'll grow up or something.
But the harder question is, what *should* the US do about stuff? Should we cowboy on alone, or pull back because none of the other kids want to help us. Can't we make common cause with Russia and France at this point? I mean instead of Iran and Turkey? The biggest problem is of course Obama - whatever various national interests at this point, nobody in the world thinks they can trust Nobel boy as far as they can spit a rat. Would anyone want to trust Rubio or Trump? Would you?
I'm all for taking our football and going home, protecting our end-zone, rooting for the home team, and putting a lot of sharp, pointy things up so they all face outwards. I'd like to not police the world, send my sons and grandsons off to kill some brown kid or get killed or maimed by a brown kid and then be totally ignored by the rat-bastards that sent them there, and accept open trade with anyone in the world that wishes to do business by our terms.
Works for me. OTOH I could go the other way too if it's properly done. Like Trump says, take the oil in payment for services rendered. In a lot of ways that's the safer way to go.
Nonsense - read this for background beginning with the philosopher Strauss. It has a fixed meaning that was subjected to semantic drift in the media. It came to be conflated with 'militarist' and the conservative thing was a misnomer they were communists who wanted to use American power for israel.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
Only on zh is absolutely absurd to claim.
You misspelt "shit".
I understand Lockheed and Raytheon have put a poolitical contract out on Donald - looking for blackmail material.
d's, and r's don't like trump, he's a walking 3rd party which can damage both the r's, and d's,.
it's public knowledge, proof, trump just quotes to voters, on what these politicians did, said, and how they voted, both r's, and d's.
how any politician can use the words america, and security is un beliveable, there should have been daily arguements on c-span from the both house floors about the wide open borders for 8 yrs.
just read today, fbi. is looking into 1,000 possible isis fighters,or cells, look what a couple dozen did in france today.
huge voting blocks are paying attention to trump, millinials, and 10's of millions of inner city non-drug buying or selling citizens.
terrorized prisoners, of their own city, neighborhoods, and homes.
fearful of sending their children out, or even walk to school, or being killed in school. for what their not being educated.
of course the huge anti-open borders, americans.
the govt. the fed.. and msm are the bigest threat to americas economy.
every year politicians complain, and it's seemingly proveable there's 300-400 billion yearly in waste fraud, and abuse in medicare, and medicade, and both r's, and d's have agreed on this for decades, whats been done?
who knows how many billions of waste, fraud, and abuse in the other 100+ govt. entitlements.
do like Obama did he took the word islamist out of the govt. languge, take the words terror, and terrorist out of govt. languge, and save. and save $2+tillion+ yearly, there's probably 2-3 million govt. employees that are working because the word terror, or terrorist was put in the purpose of their agency.
then take the tbtf, and tbtj, out of govt languge, it's going to cost 6-10 generations trilllions, for bailing out criminal banking, ciminal corp's, and criminal politicians, and appointees, just in 2008.
there's only 2 ways americas economy going to change, get rid of the fed., or get the 50% to quit paying taxes.
After listening to the press for the last week, I have come to a conclusion concerning Mr.Bush: The party big wigs have decided he can not win and are distancing their support for him. Their new golden boy? Marco Rubio. The press in the last week has barely mentioned Bush, but every breath has been about "the young Latino". "He's rising in the polls". I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that on radio and the TV. They also had him on Meet The Press last Sunday. Just thought I'd mention it. I can't stand Rubio. When he ran for Senate down here a few years ago, he road to Washington on the Tea Party's back. As soon as he got there, he did what all good politicians do: Dumped their platform and forgot all about them. Scumbag.
Yes, I have also seen the new "golden boy" regaled in the media. Let's see where he goes. I wonder if anyone represents the American people any better than the corrupt piece of dried up persimmon that is Hillary?
Here is my prediction. You saw it here first (but I'll post it a few more times). Within the next month or two, Donald will give a speech and he will break down in some way; as if he were demented or crazy. Yes, they will have mildly poisoned him, or used a laser that works through the retina from a distance, or suchlike. Very easy to do. It would be too obvious to actually kill him. They will make him appear utterly unelectable due to mild "insanity." There is too much money and control involved, for the Deep State to allow an outsider who is not a psychopath, to be elected. Yes, this is paranoid. Sometimes paranoia is correct.
Another possibility is that he will be elected, and then not do any of the things that he is saying he will do. At all. Whether he has changed his mind, or whether he was threatened, will be a matter of great speculation.
I guess I'll write in Ron Paul again. In any case, my vote in CA doesn't really matter.
I'm writing in Scrooge McDuck.
Oddly, that will probably be counted as a vote for Trump.
Trump picks cruz as veep, offends moderate and lefty independents and latinos on the immigration stuff, kisses Likuds ass (2 million right wing batshit jews out of 8 million israeli voters in asia dominate us foreign policy via nutty, aipac, adl, jinsa, conf of pres, etc etc etc)
And he loses to hillary. The gop can not win this election. Sorry - but admit the direness of our situation - shitty candidates all and one of the very worst and most essentially disingenuous- will win because women and minorities and lefties outnumber right leaning white males.
This is super obviously the political situation.
So - how do we 'prepare' for hillary? She is more wars, more printing, more wall st, more israel just like everyone but sanders who is nonetheless a crazy person and arch statist though I respect his at least not being a hyperinterventionist mic cocksucker.
But fucking hillary clinton gets in.
What does it mean apart from the same old thing?
Red team blue team same thing on wars, banks, and bending the knee to batshit psycho bibi.
Trump's competent
duplicate
I don't think Americans are really ready for Bill to be the First Man, do you? I don't think Americans think about that aspect of Hillary becoming Pres.
Personally, I hope she doesn't get in. There are many other women that are capable who could fit the bill, if the US is bound and determined to have a female president.
wtf, my post predicting Trump's poisoning (or the like) keeps disappearing. It only reappears when I post it again. wtf.
wtf, you got crabs, wtf
NSA baby!!!
Whay the NeoCONS HATE TRump
The PNAC NeoCON ZIO-SCUMMM* want the goyim fighting ISISrael's wars and DIEING fighting wars for the Greater Glory of ISISrael ... IN PERPETUITY !
How dare Donald TRump interfere with these plans and suggest that the goyim would be better off attending to their OWN needs... looking after THEIR OWN kith & kin!!!!
SCUMMM* - Satanic CAbal UNderwriting Mass Murder & Mayhem
"indeed, in our post-constitutional era, now that Congress has abdicated its responsibility, he has the de facto power to single-handedly take us into war. Which is why, paraphrasing Trotsky, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is certainly interested in you."
The post-constitutional era is the present time. Congress is stifled by politics while the rest of us only desire that the rights of the people are protected. The President has never been granted the right to take our nation to war. Other presidents have usurped that power and taken the power to themseves. Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama have all taken on the right to kill anyone who defied the right of the presidency. However, when the people ever abrogated their right to wage war it was only in response to a police state being established that threatened those who opposed the power of the established authority. Congress, the representatives of the people, has the right to declare war. Congress is also obligated to represent the people who elected them. When will we find a representative who has the backbone to stop the suicidal tendencies of the structures of power?
Don't set store by any politician. They were all sent as a group to suck Israeli dick. Yes, dear Donald too.
They will tell you what they think you want to hear.
Ivanka converted to judaism and all - was that for the grooms parents or genuine?
Or a dynastic thing?
RE NeoCON ZIO SCUMMM* hate Trump:
He should wear THAT like a Badge Of Honor
(SCUMMM* Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass Murder & Mayhem.
Latest Installment: Paris 11/13)
So ALL Republican candidates will ABSOLUTELY carry on printing to support the MIC while starving the people
So ALL Republican candidates will ABSOLUTELY carry on printing to support Wall Street while starving the people
Hildabeast. SAME
ALL LOSERS guaranteeing the status quo
NO viable candidate will not print
only ONE viable candidate will print to strengthen the power of the people
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Another hit piece today in Barrons:
"Donald Trump is trying hard to look presidential these days. Too bad he’s using Herbert Hoover as a role model. Hoover, of course, is best remembered as having been president during the stock market crash of 1929 that presaged the Great Depression. What helped turn a normal recession into a global economic disaster was the spread of protectionism, starting with the Smoot-Hawley tariff, which resulted in retaliation even before Hoover signed the bill in 1930."
If I recall my history, in 1927 amidst what everyone knew was already bubble stock market, the Fed dropped rates substantially. This was done against the protests of President Coolidge, his secretary of treasury, and many other politicians and business tycoons at the time. It ushered in a stock market bubble of massive proportions and the coming bust. Protectionism had little to do with it.
The standard narrative of what caused the Great Depression has been proven beyond all doubt to be pure bunk, including pinning the blame on Smoot-Hawley. What caused the Great Depression was the government's and the Fed's countercyclical interventions which prevented Mr. Market from weeding out the deadwood. Just like now, when the same kinds of actions by the same players are turning this never-ending Great Recession into the Really Great Depression. Have plenty of popcorn handy, kids. The stock market crash into the 2016 elections is going to be epic.
Well, what REALLY caused the Depression were the bills from WWI. Every nation in Europe had spent years of GNP on the War through debt, all the debts were due, and nobody could afford to pay them. So they loaded the whole pile on Germany, and then screamed when Germany literally could NOT make its payments, and then played extend-and-pretend for a decade. Which eventually caused the Credit-Anstallt collapse, and then everything finally fell like a house of cards.
Very like today, but the current run of bills were run up by pure financial frivolity and corruption. Although one could say that fighting a war that killed 1/4 of all European males of fighting age was an exercise in frivolity and corruption on the part of Europe's senile ruling elites. Nobody was willing to divide a shrinking pie equitably; they all thought it would be better to try grabbing The Whole Thing. Rather like world powers today, again.
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“If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS, I am all for it, one-hundred percent, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it.”
-Donald Trump, earlier this week at the debate
Rubio is a joke. Paul is the only sane candidaite. Sam Francis and Buchanan were Right all along.
Another hit piece today in Barrons:
"Donald Trump is trying hard to look presidential today. Too bad he's using Herbert Hoover as a role model. Hoover, of course, is best remembered as having been president during the stock market crash of 1929 that presaged the Great Depression. What helped turn a normal recession into a global economic disaster was the spread of protectionism, starting with the Smoot-Harley Tariff, which resulted in retaliation even before Hoover signed the bill in 1930."
If I remember my history correctly, in 1927 amidst what everyone knew was already a a stock market bubble, the Fed lowered rates substantially. This was done against the protests of President Coolidge, his treasury secretary and a lot of other political leaders and business tycoons. It turned the stock market bubble into a supernova. Had little to do with protectionism.
Right. The "protectionism" meme is a piece of corporate persiflage that's been duly trotted out every time someone suggests even SLIGHTLY protecting our decimated economy. According to Wiki: "the general view is that while it had negative results, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff was not one of the main causes of the Great Depression because foreign trade was only a small sector of the U.S. economy."
To corroborate the above, Econ 101 textbooks in 1985 when I took the course STILL classified international trade as sufficiently small in relation to domestic production as to be negligible in terms of calculating GNP.
The Donald is the only one out there who even addresses the plight of America's Middle Class private sector. He has my vote so far.
Lets make America Great again! Vote for The Donald.
educated, responsible position in a fortune 200company, and yes, will be voting for trump. why? sick to death of the existing elites, and the way they run things. a trump vote is a protest vote. a protest against the neocons and all their types that have caused so much misery around the world.
It's hard to know for sure but one thing is certain - they do seem to hate him - maybe it's just cos he's self-funding and they hate it when they don't own all the candidates?
If Trump is the Republucan nominee, you can bet that he will point out a lot of things Hillary has done. You know several others in the field will say nothing bad about Hillary. (A la Romney).
Not sure why Rubio still has support - Rand clobbered him on spending, including his new entitlement, and add Rubio's position on amnesty.
With JEB polling in single digits and hopelessly befuddled, Rubio is the Great Hispanic Hope of the establishment Republocrats. He is being well-pimped, is all. Paul is clearly more intelligent, more articulate, and more well-informed; Trump is more forceful and popular (but independent!). Neither suits an establishment that wants to hold the reins behind the throne.
Future POTUS Trump is 100% right. Seal the border both NORTH & South, DO NOT allow any middle easter death cults into our country! Period!
To include Israelis also
The Donald has talked many times about making our military the worlds best and no one will mess with us.
NEVER a word about cutting military spending.
So rest easy MICers ,the Donald loves fiat and will shower you with it.
Doubt me? Look at the MIC stocks. I missed that run too.
Comrades!!! Here's the Communist Party position on Trump:
On the one hand, we have the Republican Party, now dominated by rabid, hate-filled, racist, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-environment, anti-LGBT, anti-people, pro-corporate profit warmongers, exemplified by the billionaire Donald Trump. Domestically and internationally, this group of reactionaries are unanimous. They want anti-immigrant border walls built, unions broken and women's rights smashed. They want to pursue provocative policies that have clearly failed in Iran, Syria, Cuba and elsewhere. They want aggressive militaristic actions in Eastern Europe against Russia. They are racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-Muslim. With strong backing from Big Oil, they deny the reality of the emerging climate crisis. And their only loyalty is corporate profits.
http://cpusa.org/cpusa-statement-to-17th-international-meeting-of-commun...
Is Trump perfect? No he is a big spender. Actually Cruz and Paul make more sense ,But who do you want ? hill the crook?
ILLEGALS OUT.
Legals ,WELCOME>
I was merely pointing out that the Communist talking points are exactly the same as the Democrats.
You are tryng too hard Ms, And I do like you.
This article is progressive damage control to cover progressive war crimes of the illegal obirdbrain regime.
Progressives are fully in charge, not neocons.
Trump will win. Hillary will go to jail.
Adios illegal MF's.
And not looking too good for progressives or their neocon lapdogs either.
Can't wait for the prosecutions for treason.
Grimaldus
If it is cruel to deport the illegal parents of anchor babies... is it also cruel to send violent criminals to prison if they have kids?
Liberal logic, expoused by the Hilla-roid, Col. Sanders, Jeb and Marco... again shown to be fuckin' laughable. Too bad there are 50% moron sheep here in the USSA... how do you think the Pansy muslim bonelover O-Bonzo stayed in office? Vote RAND, Cruz or Trump. Let's deport ALL muslims too... they are a cancer.
The Military Industrial Complex became entrenched after Eisenhower left office and they murdered Kennedy. Since then, they have taken over. We cover the world to spread our seeds and enrich our corporations. Our government does not protect the people, it protects the corporations, wall street. That is the reality.
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/11/trump-was-right-about-tpp-benefitting-china/ Trump Was Right About TPP Benefiting China
Obvious to me that the author gotmpushed around physically and intellectually as a kid. And it is still happening today.
So everybody that doesn't want to be a chump for Israel is an isolationist?
It will not matter my posterior is screwed.
There will be one more "Election " allowed before the wheels come off anyway. It would be preferable to the MASTERS to elect someone who spouts anti-progressive "promises", therefore proving once and for all that capitalism does not work. Hello Agenda 21 / NWO government for your own good.
Fuckers
All Fuckers I say.