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Superheroes Of The GOP Debate
With Hillary Clinton cast as their arch-nemesis, the new 'avenging superheroes' - some the same as the old avengers - of the GOP presidential nominee race each have their own unique skills...
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Did the dims have a debate last night?
Yeah I heard hitlery had to rub one off during the break
Total waste of time. They've already plugged in the next one. It's just the serfs haven't figured it out yet.
Fascinating that the Americans even bother with this BS
As it does not matter.
A waste of space, time and energy.
Well, it would be interesting if a moderator (ANY MODERATOR) could possibly reach down and find their ball sack long enough to ask Hillary! how that ObamaCare & Libya thingy is working out.
I guess thats too much to ask on any level ;-)
Or "Who will be running things? You or the First Man?"
The number one single in 2017 will be You're Cheatin Heart and Hillary will blame everyone in the ME and push that big old button. As the Average American hears the sound of explosions and sees those big old fireballs reach into the sky, he/she will be wondering "What the hell" before the heat wave fries him/her.
And Obama will be on TV telling everyone not to worry as the Dems know how to clean up the Republican mess.
Meanwhile Bill will have a red dress to explain, however I don't think a first man has ever been impeached or fired before.
The cartoon shows the Neocon canonballs bouncing off Trump's chest. That is BS. Trump, even though he is financially independent, still kisses Israel's ring. Trump will not liberate the US from its Zionist occupation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lv-r_XQK4M
He'll kiss that ring until election day yeah. Afterwards? Not so much.
It should be obvious that America's political leaders are people of integrity, with deep moral convictions, who genuinely care about helping the plight of their constituents.
/s
or, what is up with all this?
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2015 Year In Review (Part 2)
A bonfire of the sanities
by David Collum
Friday, December 18, 2015, 8:35 PM
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/95809/2015-year-review-part-2
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part 1 was good too.
The Clintons
“We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans . . . Our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee.”
~ Hillary Clinton
You thought I forgot the Clintons? I had to finish the amateur division first. Trigger warning: Hillary fans really—really—should skip this section. It is unvarnished antagonism.
It turns out that an estimated 4% of the population is composed of sociopaths, which means on a purely statistical argument, the odds of Bill and Hillary getting together was ?0.2%. Besides noting the tsunami of scandals appearing daily, I completed a two-part preparatory sequence: (1) Sociopath Next Door by Shelly Fraser, and (2) Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer (see Books). Other recommended readings include “How to detect a liar”339 and a documentary on psychopaths.340 For the darkest of conspiracy theorists, I recommend the
"Clinton Body Count."341 and the official list of Bill Clinton’s payback pardons for primarily bank frauds and drug runners.342,343 For some serious entertainment and insights into life in Arkansas, watch The Clinton Chronicles.344 Although this low-budget documentary is an acquired taste, a couple of dozen politically connected cronies describe graft, corruption, and ties to other crime families including South American drug cartels.
“In a sane world, this kind of corruption would be disqualifying.”
~ Columnist Ed Morrissey in Clinton Cash
Hillary has left a slime trail since she first learned to slither. “One of the best jobs I had to prepare me to be president was sliming fish in Alaska.” She was fired within a week.345 Hillary also says she tried to be a marine on one occasion and an astronaut on another, only to be pushed back by the glass ceiling.346,347 Her attempts to be a lawyer were even stalled when she flunked the bar exam.348 Hillary first cut her teeth in politics as an intern in the Watergate investigation and, with a touch of irony, she supposedly got fired on an ethics violation.349 (Snopes says there are serious holes in this story.350) She and Bill moved into Arkansas politics, where vipers are welcome. She managed to get embroiled in Whitewater land deals that proved intractably complex.351 In 1978 she tried her hand at cattle futures trading. While her broker got sanctioned by the CME for nefarious tricks like slipping only the good trades into her account, Hillary got a 100-bagger on her investment.352 Not exactly a Martha Stewart plot line.
“He is complicit but he is not as deceitful as Hillary Clinton is. Don’t get me wrong, they are both missing the integrity chip, but while she is inherently dishonorable, his seems to be learned behavior....I think the most compelling thing about Hillary is that she will stop at nothing to achieve her end and that she views the public as plebeians easily seduced into believing her point of view."
~ Linda Tripp
Hillary followed Bill to the White House—“first Bill then Hill,” according to Linda Tripp—and got right to work cleaning the riffraff out of the White House travel office and replacing them with other riffraff.353 Travelgate crossed the line from political hijinks to sociopathy when she used trumped-up charges and prosecutions to flush out obstinate squatters. Bimbogate was an ongoing affair in which a host of women competing for Bill’s affections (and threatening Hillary’s ambitions) were squashed like cock roaches. Hillary supports women’s rights . . . except for when it comes to Bill’s concubines.
“My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.”
~ Hillary Clinton
Eventually Hillary got a real job, obviously starting at the bottom as a senator from New York. After blowing her first interview to be POTUS, she took an interim position as secretary of state. This résumé booster served as an extraordinary platform to launch a fund-raising campaign for another presidential run. She was the Ashley Madison of geopolitics. The mortality rate of Clinton affiliates continued to climb when some minor confusion in Benghazi provided awkward results. Although Benghazi got everybody’s underwear in a bunch, I haven’t mustered enough bandwidth to distinguish incompetence from moral depravity.
The fund-raising capacity of Bill, Hillary, and the closely affiliated Clinton Foundation evolved from a cottage industry to a multinational crime syndicate. To Obama’s credit, he recognized that Hillary would be off the reservation while on the job and tried to get her to promise to behave (to no avail).354 Hillary and Bill are estimated to have made at least $30 million over the last 16 months, with the bulk of their income derived from more than 100 paid speeches.355 Hillary Clinton makes 10.7 times as much for one speech as the median U.S. wage earner makes in a year.356 According to Byron York, Hillary Clinton made more than enough to join the 1%—$625K—in a single day by making two speeches in Silicon Valley.357 Bill makes even more. What’s so odd is that presidential honoraria drop off with time as Potus's go past their expiration date. Bill’s, by contrast, soared when Hillary became secretary of state. Even Chelsea could commandeer a twofold multiple of the median American’s annual salary for a typical speech.358 Her résumé is a little thin still but is currently undergoing an upgrade. Before we get into the graft, let’s first take a gander at the federal statute on quid pro quos:359
A public official cannot “receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for being influenced in the performance of any official act. . . . to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person."
Figure 42. Foreign donors to Clinton Foundation
Seems straightforward enough. It is also true that letting rich foreigners influence our national elections is especially frowned upon (Figure 42). If you don’t have time to read Clinton Cash, take a look at the list of Clinton Foundation donors over a two-year period.360 Some of the ethical and legal boundaries Bill and Hillary have crossed are as follows:
A mining deal led to a $100 million donation to the William J. Clinton Foundation.361
Chinese firm Rilin Enterprises made a $2 million foundation pledge . . . to get rights to build the new Chinese Embassy in Washington.362
The Wall Street Journal reported that as secretary of state, Hillary didn’t stop the foundation from raising millions of dollars from foreigners with connections to their home governments.363
Algeria gave the Clintons $500K, Hillary approved $5M of tear gas exports, and then Algeria gassed its own people364
The New York Post claimed to know of 181 Clinton Foundation donors who also lobbied Hillary’s State Department365
Bill Clinton sought paid speeches in North Korea and the Congo according to e-mails: His price tag in the Congo would have been $650K—probably more than the country’s annual GDP.366
Clinton aides started a Canadian charity that, despite a pledge of transparency, shielded the identities of donors who gave more than $33 million.367
Cisco dumped $1 million into the Clinton Foundation . . . and won the Foundation’s award for “outstanding corporate citizenship.”368
Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million . . . eventually cutting a deal with the Russians to buy Uranium One.369
The State Department approved sales of uranium to Russia as Hillary’s family foundation hauled in $145 million from investors in the deal.370
Frank Giustra, a mining financier, has donated $31.3 million to the foundation.371
Work for Ex-Im Bank by the State Department was followed, a couple of months later, by a $200,000 speaking fee for Bill at Goldman.372
Hillary intervened for UBS to get it out of a jam with the IRS and soon thereafter Bill was invited to give a $1.5 million talk.373
The Clinton State Department gave Algeria a one-year, 70% jump in U.S. arms deals just after the Algerian government donated to the Clintons.374
Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar donated to the Clinton Foundation . . . to gain State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged evils.375
The foundation received between $50,000 and $100,000 from the scandal ridden FIFA . . . to help chose a few cities for the World Cup.376
Qatar’s World Cup hosting committee donated hundreds of thousands to the Clinton Foundation377
Arizona State University raised tuition yet spent $500,000 on the Clintons. I imagine the institution didnot lose money on the deal.378
Bill Clinton received $16.46 million in payments from a George Soros–backed for-profit education company as Hillary Clinton’s State Department funneled tens of millions of dollars to a group run by the company’s chairman.379
Colombian oil money flowed to the foundation . . . as the State Department took no action to prevent labor violations.380
Bill got $2.5 million in speaking fees from Silicon Valley tech companies while Hillary handed out $40 billion in contracts to the same companies.381
Hillary took Monsanto (GMO) money, which must drive the Democrats nuts.382
Other disclosures include 27 speeches delivered by all three Clintons at universities and professional schools. Hillary supported $350 billion in free tuition (free for everyone except the taxpayer).383
The Clinton son-in-law raised millions from longtime Clinton supporters for a new hedge fund firm, Eaglevale Partners, in 2011.384
The CEO of Solazyme received $149 per gallon of gasoline from the military and donated between$100,000 and $250,000 to the foundation.385
The Rockefeller Foundation appears to have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. How weird is that?386
Hollywood collectively ponied up $15 million expecting nothing at all, and that is what they will get.387
For three years in a row beginning in 2010, the Clinton Foundation reported to the IRS that it received zero in funds from foreign and U.S. governments. It seems to have forgotten about an estimated 1,100 foreign donors.388 Maybe it was holding back on both because of charges that it hasn’t adequately disclosed its finances. Only 15% of foundation funds made it to charities, whereas 60% was listed under “other expenses.”389 The nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits.390
“If there was some foreign policy experience or brilliance Hillary Clinton had ever shown, maybe we overlook the fact that she and her husband have never met a foreign political donor they don’t like and haven’t taken from.”
~ Christopher Hitchens
“It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons.”
~ New York Post
Before moving on from the Clinton cash machine, one could argue it is unfair to provide only one side. Let’s hear the Clintons’ side of the story in their own voices and those of their supporters:
“The Clinton Foundation is doing ‘a lot more good than harm.’”
~ Bill Clinton
“No one ‘has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.’”
~ Brian Fallon, spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign
“We’re not going to make a retroactive review on these cases, and we will not make a retroactive judgment.”
Jeff Rathke, State Department spokesman, on Hillary’s undisclosed donors, ignoring the fact that all reviews are retroactive
“She was pretty busy those years. I never saw her study a list of my contributors, and I had no idea who was doing business before the State Department.”
~ Bill Clinton
“Has anybody proved that we did anything objectionable? No.”
~ Bill Clinton on the Clinton Foundation
“There are rich people everywhere. And yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries.”
~ Hillary Clinton
“I will still give speeches though on the subjects I'm interested in.”
~ Bill Clinton on speeches after his wife becomes president
It is not obvious to me that the Freedom of Information Act should get you access to e-mails by the secretary of state. It’s awfully hard to do that job without secure communications. That opinion aside, Hillary set up a private, albeit unsecured, server that she presumed was out of view of all prying eyes, not just the public’s (and seems to have been backed up on 8-track tapes). A Romanian hacker burst that little delusion.391 Recall that General David Petraeus,392 CIA head John Deutsch,393 and a four-tour war hero394 all were punished for passing unsecure intel. There are two fundamental problems with Hillary’s e-mail protocols:
(1) By running a private server, she forced anybody communicating with the secretary of state to send e-mails to an unsecure server. She forced them to breach federal laws collectively so that she could cover her ass—“just e-mail it.” Some were clearly troubled by it.
(2) Once the congressional committee chaired by Trey Gowdy served a subpoena for the e-mails, she had to give them up. Hillary claimed never to have received the subpoena until Gowdy showed her a copy.395
“About three people won’t vote for Hillary because of emails.”
~ Journalist Cokie Roberts
So what happened? It was working fine for Hillary until Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett leaked the server’s existence to the Benghazi defense team headed up by Gowdy.396 The blurring of official business, potentially embarrassing personal notes, and the graft and corruption from personal and foundation fund-raising efforts made this a little awkward.
The hunt was on. Everybody—Congress, Trey Gowdy, the AP, the Republicans, the American public—wanted to see those e-mails. Hillary said she destroyed them. Her lawyer said that he told her to destroy them,397 and, in a South Park moment, noted that “it’s all gone.” She became “deleter of the free world.” That is obstruction of justice or contempt, which gets you prison time in the free world (ironically speaking). Platte River Networks, the company that managed Hillary’s private e-mail server, said the server “wasn’t wiped.”398 A Clinton aide with no knowledge of federal disclosure laws was charged with vetting the e-mails that were released.399 The FBI finally got them.400 The intelligence agencies are shitting bricks. All is back to normal.
My wife says I am prejudiced against Hillary (although is no fan). I say I am well informed. For the first time in my life, I have detested a presidential candidate. Defenders of Hillary and Bill say, “Oh. They are all crooked.” No. The Clintons are grifters of a higher order. Their graft has its own zip code. If you support Hillary on her views, so be it. If you support her just because she’s a woman, you only get one soul and you are about to sell it to achieve a pyrrhic victory in the battle for social justice. And for Clinton detractors, heed the warning of Yoda: “There is another.”
“One of the merits is I am a woman.”
~ Hillary Clinton
Civil Liberties
“Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party.”
~ Warning on Samsung television
Every year I dive into civil liberties; we seem to be creeping toward fascism, and it is a ratchet mechanism. You don’t get civil liberties back. Let’s begin with a few snippets of breaches that popped up on the radar this year:
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Yeah thats what I heard too, something about a disturbance in the force ;-)
That's just the rumblings of compressed methane trying to find an exit from those gas bags. Enough of them in a enclosed space and maybe a brave soul will toss in a match.
The next few months will be unendurable without a case or two of whiskey.
Miffed
Ya just gotta love it, the Establishment dim's choices are Hillary Crony or Bernie Marx.
At this point it's such a shit show I'm just hoping Hitlery gets screwed out of it and someone videotapes her lamp hurling tantrums
I know, that's really scraping the bottom of the barrel for jollies. Look how low I've become.
Miffed
Low?? We all have dreams and yours is a beautiful one.
I get disturbed just thinking about Hillarity and Sanders. Is that normal?
Consider the source, but yes it's normal.......
Hillarity had to summon Satan to get a big 'O'' going...takes time to draw a pentogram on the floor. Waiting for the Dem/Rep debate when she cackles and her head spins in circles, ala The Exorcist, live on deceiTV. Hoping her opponent has a wooden stake on hand.
lmao!..."Why you do dis to me Dami?"
We heard she began to shed, and when those things shed the entire skin comes off. The moderator wisely stepped in and spared tens of thousands of precious Snowflakes from emotional damage that clearly would have never healed.
NICE!
Does anyone ever really question the status quo!
The agenda rolls on......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/as-events-spiral-ou...
"Did the dims have a debate last night?"
Can't tell if old Bernard is a zio or not a zio. Zio in waiting? Zio in disguise?
It doesn't matter anyway, he wants my guns, so he's off the list. Hilary wants them too...because she is Stalin. And that one guy who used to rule my home state....yeah he wants to take just as many of my freedoms as Hillacunt does.
O'Mallleys' legacy - gun grabbing and the rain tax. You have to look around the Beltway to find Marylanders who don't despise him.
jrreez i smell so much ddoom.
Trump is Neocon.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/was-trump-annointed/
Wrong!!! Trump is a NEOLIBERAL.
Wrong, Trump is a classic asshole.
pardon me, but I can picture someone being at the same time a neocon, a neoliberal and a classic asshole. all three terms aren't mutually exclusive
the whole reason why neocons and neoliberals aren't at loggerheads is that their policies work well together, particularly if you don't mention this little thing
Cruz is the only guy on the list that has the political know how and mojo to win. Trump will probably be able to steam roller his way to the nod but it won't be political skill. Bush is boring, Paul just does not really want to be there, he should go back to medicine. Carson and the girl...dunno, neither does anyone else. The rest, who could even name one except Crispy Creame?
I have to say Trump has played his reality TV persona to the max and skillfully. People already knew he could be brash so when he did it outside the TV environment he got away with it. No person who adopted a political persona could have done what he has done and gotten away with it. Have to give him point for that.
I'm a Texan. Ted Cruz is a senator, supposed to represent us Texas citizens. Ted Cruz has never done anything to represent us Texans. He is a complete asshole, and he is a miserable excuse for a human being.
We only have 11 more months to wait until that fucking little weasal is GONE!
Everything about Cruz just screams "FLIM FLAM MAN."
Just wait until the TPP comes up for a vote. Will he be "fooled" again. HA!
Those with the "political know how" aren't doing so well this time.
Every form of competition develops "rules", written and unwritten, and the winners are those who follow the rules most effectively. That applies until something occurs that dramatically disrupts the competitive environment, at which point playing by the previous "rules" guarantees you lose (rather like generals fighting the last war). Trump has totally disrupted the competition, having recognized the fundamental shift that has occured in the community relative to the political establishment AND been personally able to capitalize on it given his existing brand and his financial independence.
It is simple. Politicians are mostly lawyers and other weasels. Nearly all of them exhibit the same behaviour.
Those who do not, are normally marginalized in the House and Senate.
Trump is very wealthy and a complete self
absorbed asshole. This is what makes him perfect.
He will not play the same types of games that they play. Someone like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi will never be able to do to Trump what they did with Bush.
It will be a pleasure to watch him give these life long hacks get strokes as he blows up their carefully constructed reality.
9 zeros still add up to zero.
Trump is the 1% but he's the only one that doesn't need a middle man. Did you read Hilarious' donor list...Goldman on many times from different states, pure 1% list.
Not sure what admission price Trump would charge to be influenced. but it won't be as deadly as the Clinton cabal. Possibly Trump would restructure the whole deck of cards....a chance for Americans that want to proper?
We are in a crap shoot....
They imagine their super powers. They imagine a god or historical destiny supporting them. Insanity is believing your omnipotence.
Traitors.
Collectively, what do all of these comic book characters represent?
This whole election is so screwed up/manipulated, NOTHING would surpise me, for example:
Trump pulling out at the last minute, leaving the GOP in complete chaos, as a gift to Hillary. How much would Hillary have to pay him?
How about this FBI investigation of Hillary? All sound and fury signifying nothing as FBI/DOJ conveniently and suddenly announce no indictment, giving Hillary a last minute boost?
Will Obama pardon Hillary? ( If he does, I sure would love to know what the payoff is. Maybe it is why Hillary and Bill are giving all those speeches..making money to pay off Obama-don't worry, if Hillary wins, she will more than make up the millions in bribes and influence money she has made from those canned speeches.)
Trump assassination? (Gulp!-Shades of RFK?)
Brokered GOP convention?
FBI suddenly indicts Hillary at the last minute to thow the election to....don't laught...Bernie Sanders? I suspect that if FBI does cause indictment , this could signal significant internal turmoil within the branches of goverment- CIA vs rejected miltary outcasts vs FBI etc?
USA democracy makes the rest of the world politicians look like amateurs.
Yes yes...but you have to appreciate the spectacle of having the dimocrat front runner, still campaigning during an FBI investigation.
And no other dimocrat or MSM shill says a word about it, completely normal.
The...New Normal ;-)
They sold it to the public that Bill Clinton's impeachment was over an affair.
No mention of the fact that he committed perjury
in court.
Crash Test Dummies: Superman's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE (4:30)
Hillary's staffers need to do a better job at the debates - they need to have her line of coke ready to go for those breaks.
Anyone spot John Kasich? Oh wait - he's the Invisible Man!
Ironically, he gets a little more coverage than Fiorina. I'm doing a study on news coverage of the candidates, and having done a trial run on CNN.com so far, I couldn't help but notice that Jeb Bush gets outsized coverage of his campaign despite the low poll numbers (10% of the articles about GOP candidates are about Bush, despite his terrible performance).
If I can get the crawlbot to plug into IBM's Watson, I think it will be possible to add sentiment analysis, and quantitatively prove that the MSM writes puff pieces and hit pieces that are absolutely at odds with public opinion. I know that *we* already know it's going on, but certain people won't accept anything unless it has some "science."
Hillary's coat was made out of carpet remnants.
What are we going to do?
Didn't Donald's daughter marry a joo?