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Hillary Clinton Is Backed By Major Republican Donors
Authored by Eric Zuesse,
An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romney’s campaign were already donating more to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign than they had been donating to any one of the 2016 campaigns of (listed here in declining order below Clinton) Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore. Those major Romney donors also gave a little to two Democrats (other than to Hillary — who, as mentioned, received a lot of donations from these Republican donors): Martin O’Malley, Jim Web, and Lawrence Lessig. (Romney’s donors gave nothing to Bernie Sanders, and nothing to Elizabeth Warren. They don’t want either of those people to become President.)
Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who is even moderately attractive to big Republican donors.
In ascending order above Clinton, Romney’s donors were donating to: John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush. The top trio — of Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — together, received around 60% of all the money donated for the 2016 race by the people who had funded Mitt Romney’s 2012 drive for the White House.
So: the Democrat Hillary Clinton scored above 14 candidates, and below 6 candidates. She was below 6 Republican candidates, and she was above 11 Republican candidates (Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, and Jim Gilmore). The 6 candidates she scored below were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, and John Kasich.
This means that, in the entire 17-candidate Republican field, she drew more Republican money than did any one of 11 of the Republican candidates, but less Republican money than did any one of 6 of them. So, if she were a Republican (in what would then have been an 18-candidate Republican field for 2016), she would have been the 7th-from-the-top recipient of Romney-donor money.
Therefore, to Republican donors, Hillary Clinton is a more attractive prospect for the U.S. Presidency than was 64% of the then-current 17-member Republican field of candidates.
Another way to view this is that, to Republican donors, a President Hillary Clinton was approximately as attractive a Presidential prospect to lead the nation as was a President Graham, or a President Kasich — and was a more attractive prospective President than a President Lindsey Graham, a President Rand Paul, a President Carly Fiorina, a President Chris Christie, a President Rick Perry, a President Mike Huckabee, a President Donald Trump, a President Bobby Jindal, a President Rick Santorum, or a President George Pataki.
To judge from Clinton’s actual record of policy-decisions, and excluding any consideration of her current campaign-rhetoric (which is directed only at Democratic voters), all three of those candidates who were in Clinton’s Republican-donor league — Graham, Clinton, and Kasich — would, indeed, be quite similar, from the perceived self-interest standpoint of the major Republican donors.
As to whether any one of those three candidates as President would be substantially worse for Republican donors than would any one of the Republican big-three — Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — a person can only speculate.
However, the main difference between Clinton and the Republican candidates is certainly the rhetoric, not the reality. The reason for that Democratic rhetoric is that Ms. Clinton is competing right now only for Democratic votes, while each one of the Republican candidates is competing right now only for Republican votes.
Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric is liberal, but her actual actions in politics have been conservative, except for her nominal support for liberal initiatives that attracted even some Republican support, or else that the Senate vote-counts (at the time when she was in the Senate) indicated in-advance had no real chance of becoming passed into law. In other words: her record was one of rhetoric and pretense on a great many issues, and of meaningful action on only issues that wouldn’t embarrass her in a Democratic primary campaign, to attract Democratic voters.
In terms of her actual record in U.S. public office, it’s indistinguishable from that of Republican politicians in terms of corruption, and it’s indistinguishable from Republican politicians in terms of the policies that she carried out as the U.S. Secretary of State for four years. Her record shows her to be clearly a Republican on both matters (notwithstanding that her rhetoric has been to the exact contrary on both matters).
In a general-election contest against the Republican nominee, Clinton would move more toward the ideological center, and so also would any one of the Republican candidates, who would be nominated by Republican primaries and so running against her in the general election, to draw votes from the center as well as from the right. The rhetorical contest would be between a center-right Clinton and a slightly farther-right Republican; but, at present, the rhetorical contest is starkly different on the Democratic side than it is on the Republican side, simply because the candidates are trying right now to appeal to their own Party’s electorate (Democrats=left; Republicans=right) during the primary phase of the campaign, not addressing themselves now to the entire electorate (as during the general-election campaign).
Only in the general-election contest do all of the major candidates’ rhetoric tend more toward the center. The strategic challenge in the general election is to retain enough appeal to the given nominee’s Party-base so as to draw them to the polls on Election Day, while, at the same time, being close enough to the political center so as to attract independent voters and crossover voters from the other side.
A good example of the fudging that typically occurs during the general-election phase would be the 2012 contest itself. Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney drew closer to the rhetorical center during the general-election matchup; but they were actually much more similar to each other than their rhetoricever was. (After all, Obamacare is patterned upon Romneycare.) During the general-election Romney-Obama contest, Romney famously said that Russia "is without question our number one geopolitical foe, they fight for every cause for the world's worst actors.” Then, Obama criticized that statement, by saying, "you don't call Russia our No. 1 enemy -- not Al-Qaida, Russia -- unless you're still stuck in a Cold War mind warp.” But, now, as President, Obama’s own National Security Strategy 2015 refers to Russia on 17 of the 18 occasions where it employs the term “aggression," and he doesn’t refer even once to Saudi Arabia that way, even though the Saudi royal family (who control that country) have been the major funders of Al Qaeda, and though 15 of the 19 perpetrators on 9/11 were Saudis — none of them was Russian — and though 92% of the citizenry in the nation that the Saud family owns and whose ‘news’ media and clerics drum into those people’s heads the holiness of jihad, approve of ISIS (which the Saud family prohibit inside Saudi Arabiua even while supporting and funding the jihadists in Syria and elsewhere), and though the Sauds as the country’s leaders are using American weapons and training to bomb and starve-to-death Yemenis. Instead of calling the Saudi regime “aggressors,” we supply arms to them, and cooperate with them against their major oil-competitor, Russia. (For example, we arm the Saudi-funded jihadists that Russia is bombing in Syria, because Syria is a key potential pipeline route into Europe for Saudi oil and Qatari gas, to replace Russian oil and gas in Europe. So, we support the jihadists, even though Obama’s rhetoric opposes them — and even though Obama killed Osama bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda was funded mainly by the Saud family and their friends. Hillary Clinton is even more hawkish against Russia than is Obama. She would be even better for Republican donors than Obama has been.)
Also regarding such fudging: on 27 March 2009, President Obama in secret told the assembled chieftains of Wall Street, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks. … I’m protecting you.” Romney could have said the same, if he had been elected. And President Obama’s record has now made clear that he indeed has fulfilled on that promise he made secretly to them. The reality turned out to be far more like Romney, than like Obama’s campaign rhetoric had ever been. Similarly, on Obama’s trade-deals (TPP, TTIP, and TISA), he has been very much what would have been expected from Romney, though Obama in the 2008 Democratic Presidential primaries had campaigned against Hillary Clinton for her having supported and helped to pass NAFTA. Obama’s trade-deals go even beyond NAFTA, to benefit international mega-corporations, at the general public’s expense.
What Hillary’s fairly strong appeal to Romney’s financial backers shows is that the wealthy, because of their access to leaders in government, know and recognize the difference between what a candidate says in public, versus what the winning public official has said to them (in private) and actually does while serving in office. They know that she keeps her promises to them, not her promises to the electorate.
Hillary Clinton is a good investment for a billionaire — even for the 70% of them who are Republicans. And, based on those 2015 donation-figures, it seems that they would prefer a President Hillary Clinton, over a President Donald Trump. However, their three favorite candidates, in order, were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. But, in a Clinton-versus-Trump contest, Hillary Clinton would likely draw more money from Republican mega-donors than Trump would, and, of course, she would draw virtually all of the money from Democratic mega-donors.
In such an instance, Hillary Clinton would probably draw a larger campaign-chest (especially considering super-pacs) than any candidate for any political office in U.S. (or global) history. Hillary Clinton would almost certainly be the most-heavily-marketed political product in history, if she becomes nominated and ends up running against Trump.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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Well that fuckin' figures.
Death to the establishment!
<--- Not surprised, (didn't blink)
<--- Not surprised
Hillary and the Banksters are assholes; yet, they are the best of natural selection. Niceness is as unnatural and fantastical as a unicorn shitting skittles.
"Think about it. We all start out the same way... a single sperm among 50 million other sperm, all desperate to get to one egg. To win. You, me, everyone else on the planet ever in history, we all won that 100-meter in-utero, winner-take-all race to mama's enchanted, life-giving egg. First prize? Life? Second prize? Death. Right. Now, you think we weren't throwing a few elbows? You think you weren't knocking a few other sperm over, stabbing 'em in the back just to get ahead, just to win? Thom, you don't win that kind of race without being an asshole. I mean, a huge asshole. Your problem is you think that assholes are some sort of anomaly, some sort of aberration. Nature is an asshole factory, my friend. If you exist, you're an asshole. You think, therefore you are, but you are, therefore you're an asshole."
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Happyish (Showtime, 2015) - Nature is an asshole making factory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjTHtPn_No
The author of this article wrote a book whose premise is the economy does better under democrats than republicans.
That should make one skeptical under various theoretical frameworks I have seen explained here in the comment section of ZH.
Another one whose words I have to take as those coming from an enemies mouth for me to be highly skeptical of.
Just vote for Trump and be done with it. If for no other reason than I want to be entertained by the establishment types twisting on a pike and set up on them in a most unconventional way.
They've been publishing a lot of Zeusse lately right? He's a crappy writer in search of an audience. I got played by this whore!
The establishment is raid of The Donald. But they are shit out of luck. He's the next president. Hillary and all the other deadheads are toast. Long live The Donald.
It really doesn't matter any more... The fix is in, the bitch on the broom will be the first female POTUS of the United States...
The "good-ol-boy" GOP and RNC and terrified of Trump.
When there are only two bets to be made it's easy to cover all the numbers.
I'm sure Trump will have a whole team of guys digging through Hilary's past.
Skeletons galore, plus where are the FBI?
Some of the finest marxists I know are republicans.
And we all love Marco!
We don't need no freakin /sarc badges!!!
Filthy fucking marxist vermin have invaded every nook & cranny of everything.
"If I pay you will you keep me safe from da eeebil muslims?"
Oh yes, no problem.
"If I support your candidacy will you heep so many regulatory burdens on my competitors that it drives them out of business leaving me with a monopoly?"
Yes, without a doubt. How much we talkin?
"At least a million but I'll make billions being the sole provider of my products & services and you can tax me at whatever outrageous rates you want for your coffers as I'll just pass that increase on to them."
Sounds like a plan. Soon they will all be dependent on us instead of we being dependent on them.
"But this is starting to feel wrong, almost traitorous."
No problem, we can pass laws that lock people away in jail cells who oppose us.
"No. I meant what we're doing."
The Clintons: Just how many bodies are there?
<-------- Revolution
<---------Sweeping government change
When it becomes this obvious the game is rigged and the public wants out there's only 2 options..........
Given how it's worked out historically I'm thinking we're headed down the second path.
Corrupt bitch is for sale to the highest bidder. Come and get it!
As always the ZHeeple are being herded down into the shoot that leads to the Trump slaughterhouse.
Bread and circus. You dumb fucks just don't get it.
It's time to start taking action against the jews who are perverting this country!
Banksters, politicos, mediafucks. Find one and sKill it, post the event on jewtube. Bonus points for embedded moooosad and idf.
Will dhe be able to use the money for her defense team or will it be taxpayer funded.
This article was totally pointless. Hillary Clinton is unelectable. She has virtually no grassroots support. They all "feel the Bern". She has super-delegates in the bag and the fix is in. The only way she could beat Trump in the general election is through vote fraud.
"The only way she could beat Trump in the general election is through vote fraud."
+100
Hillary will still have the black, hispanic, 1/2 whites, muslim and jewish votes. You have ~70 million people on gov't assistance and they probably vote dem. Now, we find out the big $$ republicans are supporting her, too. Sheesh.
Prediction; Hillary wins Ca in a landslide. In fact I guarantee you won't believe the results across the nation. It will be a mandate for Hillary. Even the Donald will bow to her superior political machine, if he's alive that is. A call to audit the Fed Donald? Really, now it just sounds like more snake oil.
Yes, while we are sleeping, Hillary is working tirelessly, that's why her ankles are swolen, but not just for us but for the halfwit's, illegals and fucktard people too, reach out and embrace the cankle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfwhI5N95y8
Old Hillary will have 110% + of Washington DC behind her-if you get my drift
Just enough to make it work
The D will have to get out numbers UNHEARD of nationwide to counter the powers-that-be. They've spent 8 years consolidating their mess.
You spelled electoral fraud wrong
long live is right. if hillary is nominated trump better pick bernie sanders or ron paul as his v.p. (or similarly elite-hated mind and values in a younger maybe cyborg body).
beware of "lyndon johnson".
Zeusse is a really good writer actually, one of my favorites to see here on the Hedge. This piece was fantastic. What part of Hillary being another Manchurian Banking Candidate Democrat, like Obama, do you seriously doubt?
The man can barely assemble a sentence... but I agree, some of his content is good.
So the old cunt is a Republican in disguise??
Let's examine that on a few of topics.
1) Gun control
2) Regulatory burden
3) Taxation
Just because she likes to bomb other countries does not make her a Republican.
In reality it is the Democrats that started majority of wars since the 20th Century.
Obama is a good example.
.....and if will try to tell me that Obama is a statistical anomaly, the you will have to explain WW1, WW2 and Vietnam.
Did not say she was a Republican- just that she is a Manchurian Banking Candidate Democrat.
Sure shes for gun control, but, that is just an appeal for her base, like religious affiliation sometimes affects willingness of repubs to vote for a particular candidate. Banks don't really care about gun control either way as more gun control means the citizenry will be less able to defend themselves against the central government (and ultimately, from the banks themselves). Less gun control is just a profit opportunity for the banks.
Yea she is for more regulatory burden, but regulatory regimes favor large firms that are able to afford the costs of oversight, so regulation is a net give away to large corporations and the legal system. Banks like that. Centralization is their game, after all.
Shes definitely in favor of taxation, but only so can spend as wildly as the rest of them. Republican presidents spend like their is no tomorrow as well, only, they do it without raising taxes to pay for it (Reagan, Bush I and II). Banks are cool with either as they have strategies to benefit from both, either by speculating or by passing the costs along to consumers.
Shes definitely not a "Republican" when viewed through the lense of the issues you speak of, but luckily, for the banks, they don't really care about any of that shit- they just care that their monetary paradigm is protected in full by the full powers of the USA and it's armed forces. Hillary will guarantee that for them. As far as deep state monetary powers go, shes in bed with the banksters 110%.
DownWithYogaPants Just vote for Trump and be done with it. If for no other reason than I want to be entertained by the establishment types twisting on a pike and set up on them in a most unconventional way.
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You still haven't figured out that Trump is part of the establishment. The anti backing of other billionaires is simply billionaires in competition. Pretty much the real reason that Bloomberg is considering a run. For them, ideology and values is whatever is good for them. They are all progressives and quite frankly, many on ZH that think whoever becomes president is gonna use government to fix things are also progressive.
The problem is bigger then the presidency. The entire system is corrupt and must be reset. We need not only a purge of the politicians, but a purge of those that support that type of thinking. We need more people to understand that government is the problem and the solution won't come from someone in office in government.
and you have not figured out that most no longer care.
They are not looking for Trump to save anything. Not really.
They are looking for Trump to give these old political hacks nightmares and strokes.
They like people they can control. They cannot control him.
Yoga,
They have quite a game going. If the "economy" has done better under Dims than under Reps, it is because the propagandists point an Alinsky finger at the Reps as being representative of Capitalism (evil), Corporations (evil), the establishment (evil), and the status quo (evil), condemning all of it as EVIL.
Meanwhile, we haven't had a truly free market since before 1913, when a private cartel of bankers stole our freedom from us in a secret meeting on Jekyll Island.
Once you give someone else control of the value you use as the medium of exchange for "private contracts," an involuntary and third "silent partner" enters into every "private contract between two people" and you leave the basic framework of the free market. That third party is the controlling partner because they control the ultimate satisfaction of the exchange between the other two.
If there is truth to this hack's proposition, it would make perfect sense.
Central banking -- although the left lumps it in with "banking" as the epitome of greedy capitalism -- is a fascistic form of banking. The Dims tend to be more collectivist, more totalitarian, more socialist/communist/fascist, so of course the central bank prefers to have their "own kind" running the show.
What this hack is stating but is either too dim or too propagandist to admit is that the central bank (the Federal Reserve) want Dims to be in control. When they are, the Fed greases the financial skids to pump the markets. This gives the appearance of an improved "economy," but it has nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with monetary tricks and manipulation to create the appearance of an improved "economy."
Anyone who studies national debt and its exponential factor and how it ultimately results in war knows this:
The Dims, colluding with both a fascistic central bank and Crony Corporatists are leading this country not only straight into economic hell, but into what will prove to be a very nasty world war, which has already started, regardless of the lies the fascistic media keeps pumping out through the loud speakers.
When that day comes, this hack will know that the entire world knows he was a lying POS and part of the downfall.
I love that you can still take "I think therefore I am" as a universal axiom.
The new reality says that there is no objective truth, even when the choice is a few bullets in the mouth avoided only to state that it would kill you to accept the trigger pull.
I guess it depends on how much of either your father or mother you got. The egg certainly wasn't throwing any elbows, it was just hanging out waiting. In any case it would seem that inside of every nice person you meet, there is an asshole trying to get out.
This tells you everything you need to know about the Republican party. The elections are total shams.
I think Bernie might say the same about the Dim Party.
It tells you the the US is a one-party state. The Red-Blue, Repub-Dem dichotomies are classic divide and conquer, and a distraction from the men behind the curtain. And it works, even with the so-sophisticated ZH readership. Tylers even play their part in maintaining the sham.
Remember the last spending Bill? Total sellouts!
It's one party pretending to be 2: The Greed Party
(didn't blink)
My favorite comment of the month
Everyone should stop and think about this for just a minute. Who better face a republican candidate that Hillary Clinton? Why? Because Hillary Clinton will get slaughtered in the election and a Republican will be president. There is more to this than meets the eye. Berrnie Sanders is more of a threat than Hillary. So ... let's put the loser lady who will soon be in prison to run against a republican and get slaughtered.
Everyone should stop and think about this for just a minute. Who better face a republican candidate that Hillary Clinton? Why? Because Hillary Clinton will get slaughtered in the election and a Republican will be president. There is more to this than meets the eye. Berrnie Sanders is more of a threat than Hillary. So ... let's put the loser lady who will soon be in prison to run against a republican and get slaughtered.
So whose finger is best on the nuclear button?
Trump or Clinton?
Is either less risky than Obama???
Doesn't matter. Things are moving full steam ahead. 5000 tonnes munitions arrived in Germany from US stockpiles. Maybe Turkey will run out or maybe it has given its stockpiles to Daesh already.
War will have broken out before Obama leaves office in 2017
ebworthen said: "Death to the establishment!"
The J-Tribe runs both parties, owns and operates the media, .gov and EVERYTHING else!
To understand how this happened to America, Europe and Australia it is all explained here:
Review of 'The Culture of Critique' Dr Kevin MacDonald's masterpiece.
Preface to the First Paperback Edition of 'The Culture of Critique' PDF
Preface to the First Paperback Edition of 'The Culture of Critique' HTML
New Name For GOP: ‘Donorist’ Good. ‘AdelZuck’ Better
By Patrick Cleburne October 25, 2015
scum - you only exist to serve
She must be ok then. Them bankers have good hearts.
*snort*
Huh, it's almost like a lot of Republicans are party shills for the Fed, who would have guessed?
National security reasons I'm sure, their never used vacation homes won't wax themselves.
Hillary for dog catcher 2016!
Sorry, I'm against dog rendition, dog torture and unjustified wars of aggression against dogs.
She would just gas them all, and say "What difference does it make?" while she did it, wouldn't she?
There is no differentiation between the left and the right, they are all NeoCon Zionists funded by banks and assholes now. I'm sure most people here know that NeoCon is a movement that has very little to do with Rupublicanism. You can't really differentiate between Zionism and Neo-Conservativism anymore either. It's all one big amalgamated lump of shit that pretends there is differientiation with the Red Team/Blue Team meme. It's all the same beast now, so this is not a surprise.
At least the Blue Team voters can go from a Hillary rally to their Walmart jobs without changing clothes.
The illusion of choice – funny watching the sheep get slaughtered
Must see famous cartoon
6 corporations
Trump will audit the Fed.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/701868541545295872
Now, ya see, I wanna believe. What he said was that it was important to audit the Fed, NOT that he would set that in motion if he was in office.
You don't know what "is" is until a politician says "is.' When they say "No new taxes" if you read their lips they are really saying, "Fuck you."
Don will be no different.
He needs to come out and say "I WILL INITIATE AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF THE FED IF ELECTED PRESIDENT." Take that back to him, would you Snuggles? Thanks.
He's saving it, pacing himself. Doesn't want to come out with everything at once and then have nothing left to talk about while all the other candidates copy him.
Did Donnie also promise to only give you the tip and not to come in your mouth?
Republican establishment to back Hillary, Bernie supporters to back Trump.
Political Twister!
Of course, Twister is always more fun to play with drunk girls than with old hags like Hillary. But hey.
are we talking about "dry twister" or "crisco twister" ?
Coconut oil. But not with Hillary or Don!
(did we go to high school together...?)
Hillary is goimg to jail 2016. RNC doesn't support a single establishment campaign trail. More fear from establishment.
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Bullshit. Hillary might not win the POTUS but she won't do anything but pay a few thousand dollars in fines that the rest of us slaves would be in sing sing for 30 years. Money talks and gets to keep you out of jail.
That's why this country is so fucked up.
Anyone who thinks Hilary will do hard time has not been paying attention, in the last 8 years the top 20 banks have paid out *$235 billion* in fines and how many perp walks have we seen? Hilary *might* get a moving violation but can easily cover it with a speech or two.
We are so fucked.
Jeffrey Epstein. That is all.
No one is going to jail. No one in 2008 went to jail and no one connected to Wall St. is going to jail.
Greased Pig 2016! We are so fucked.
Hillary, a swine, representing an ass, which in reality, is a elephant. Loose translation... she is a lying pig with a giant, fat ass and jowls to match.
We really have a three party system:
The cronies just flop to whichever party that puts the most government "business opportunites" in their supperdish.
Hitlery as Pres would be dangerous. Just look at her record as Sec State and multiply by 10. Ka-Boom!
I agree. Ditto Trump. Can you see Kim Jong-un throwing one of his little shit fits, and Trump with his finger on the button?
Yes, and I see Donald not pushing it. He's a businessman, first and foremost. How is it good business for anyone to start a nuclear war?
You people with your ignorant fantasies, projected on a businessman who's never killed anyone. Unlike Hitlery, who has god knows how many deaths on her conscience.
Bloomberg is a good example of that. He claimed to be a lifelong Democrat then he ran as a Republican and then as an Independent. He never changed anything about his views or game plan. Hillary Clinton is basically an uglier version of McCain with the same views plus some "I care about social programs and people" rhetoric. She will say whatever she thinks will benefit her that very moment and they all do that to some extent.
There are more than a few issues that none of them will deviate from.
Hillary has always been about power and money. So power and money knows that she will sell out the first chance she gets (indeed already has). Taught at an early age that to get ahead you lie, cheat and kill. It's a good bet.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/15/hookers-for-hillary-clint...
Sort of like lawyers for Hillary, right?
And you're not counting the implicit subsidy of the press. At no cost, she is getting a friendly group of domestic media conglomerates, owned by crony captialists, who employ leftist useful idiots, to ensure their pet politician spends the next four years protecting their power and wealth.
Once Bernie is no longer competing for the affections of the biggest idiots, they will place her up on pedestal, bathe in her angelic light, and circle around her. The will spend the next six months singing her praises and launching every sort of attack on Trump.
There are ever more people waking up to the presstitutes and the propaganda, but I don't think there are yet enough to overcome six months of that monotone media drumbeat.
Hate to be a downer but even if Trump gave it his all he cannot stop the punishment that is coming. Central banks and their subsidiary agents and militaries operate like colonialism. If somebody gets into office they can pull the rug and damn near starve everybody if they want to. What politician can survive hundreds of millions going without? That's what kind of power we are talking about here. They decide whether bread is 400 bucks a loaf next month. These leverage has created the beast that we are dealing with. That doesn't even get into whats going on with potential conflict right now.
Upvoted and totally agree MsNo. They control the credit spigot and without it, everyone will starve. Reminds me of the Michael Douglas speech when he screwed Blue Star airlines:
"We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy?"
If Yellen hasn't precipitated the crash on Obama's watch she will not only be fired as soon as Trump takes over but subject to a very nasty inquiry. Certainly the FBI will be looking very closely at that leaking of information and they won't be as accommodating as Congress.
She knows that, the crash will be this year, and Trump will be rebuilding from a purged economy. And if the CBs don't want to play ball with Trump he will force them out.
....on 'today in wishful thinking'...
Was catching up on comedy. Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Please share. We love you Donald Trump. Keep the ball rolling.
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Blood "Donors' keeping the vile, Queen Vampiress alive.
How do we kill the vampiress, Helsing?
You cannot. She is of the Undead. You must drive a stake thru its heart. But first, we must find where the creature sleeps by day.
The Lying faces Of Hillary Clinton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGaK-4w8_IM
Evil money-god, deceptions, lies, and cheating. It is the cliton way, and the only way this evil hag could win against all odds, and against all things righteous in the world.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/more-dirty-tricks-hillary-nevada/r...
That cunt is going to win. I don't like Trump though.
You don't like him because:
This article needs to be spread far and wide. It's not a surprise at all to me. My dad told me they were all the same the 70's as a wee lad and nothing's changed my opinion since then.
I've been shouted down by both 'sides' saying that they're not playing for the same team.
This article should remove any doubt. Smart p eople figured that shit out many years ago.
Trump is lifing the lid off the overflowing septic tank we call US politics and government, shining a light down there, and letting every American who cares to look, see just how awfully rotted and corrput it is.
Those who won't look, or say things like "I don't like Trump" aer either willfully ignorant, or benefitting in some way from this fucking crony capital ponzi scheme where laws are only enforced against teh little people.
Trump. Get on board, or get run the fuck over. In your case, I'd prefer to run you the fuck over.
Thanks for playing.
which makes all feasible for the wildest 'conspiracy theories"..... to becoming actual FACTS....
the simplest fact is.... all politicians and those promoting their shit..... are no woorse than.....
KNOWN LIARS
k, well that's a good analysis. Once you leave the consensus reality what do you do? The "cogeto ergo sum" Cartesian analysis was brought up above in the comments... for whatever reason. 4 w d... you are absolutely correct. Logic stands here: if all politicians lie, then... perhaps conspiracy theories cut the Gordian Knot, apply Occham's Razor... and then one discovers empiricism.
Let them who have eyes to see and ears to hear...
When in fact most of us are brains in a vat.
Is there a distinction between truth and fact? We may know the facts but not the true reason. We may know the truth but not the facts why.
These people who lie do so for thier own benefit. Not ours. They would say it is for our benefit.
My eyes see this whole mother fucker is broken. And what I hear is that we need to help the system limp on.
Yesterday it was "Yes, We can!" And now it's "Are you for real?"
Politicians should all burn alive or recant. There will one day be a new liberation theology that will be for the average guy and gal and their family. Perhaps then people will be able to work, enjoy a free market, and follow their bliss. First thing to do is realize you are God's perfect witness of reality. And no one puts your brain in a vat without your consent.
Fuck, I just read where you have to register model airplane drones. What fuckery!
She's an authoritarian war monger for Israel (neocon) so....
Hell, she's the cloned daughter of Hitler and Mao.
Cannabinoid medicine will decimate the Medical Industrial complex. Look at who is for and who is against.
Hint. Hillary is against.
neocon zio pukes with $$$, that is the 'republican establishment'
Hilary needs charity.
Trump does not.
President Trump has arrived.
Neither the author nor those donors are counting on the personal publicity that will be coming to each of them as Trump holds them up to public display and takes each of them apart as well as Clinton. They'll be getting their own little hashtags on Twitter, their own little sections on his televised rallies.
In reality he won't have to do too many of them. They thought they could quietly buy some influence from behind the scenes. Trump is going to teach them that if you put big money in to attack him, you also get to be a target in the game, and a target that has almost no ability to defend itself.
There will soon be some very uncomfortable big money donors and they will get the message, this is an election where it's best to keep your money in your pocket.
Despite all the "rules" he has broken so far, almost no one appreciates that Trump is changing ALL the rules.
Establishment candidates....different cheek, same ass. Go Trump!
Among the few banks which remain at the head of all capitalist economy as a result of the process of concentration, there is naturally to be observed an increasingly marked tendency towards monopolist agreements, towards a bank trust. In America, not nine, but two very big banks, those of the multimillionaires Rockefeller and Morgan, control a capital of eleven thousand million marks.[16] In Germany the absorption of the Schaaffhausenscher Bankverein by the Disconto-Gesellschaft to which I referred above, was commented on in the following terms by the Frankfurter Zeitung,[26] an organ of Stock Exchange interests:
“The concentration movement of the banks is narrowing the circle of establishments from which it is possible to obtain credits, and is consequently increasing the dependence of big industry upon a small number of banking groups. In view of the close connection between industry and the financial world, the freedom of movement of industrial companies which need banking capital is restricted. For this reason, big industry is watching the growing trustification of the banks with mixed feelings. Indeed, we have repeatedly seen the beginnings of certain agreements between the individual big banking concerns, which aim at restricting competition.”[17]
Again and again, the final word in the development of banking is monopoly.
Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.
The German opportunist, Gerhard Hildebrand, who was once expelled from the Party for defending imperialism, and who could today be a leader of the so-called “Social-Democratic” Party of Germany, supplements Hobson well by his advocacy of a “United States of Western Europe” (without Russia) for the purpose of “joint” action ... against the African Negroes, against the “great Islamic movement”, for the maintenance of a “powerful army and navy”, against a “Sino-Japanese coalition”
One of the special features of imperialism connected with the facts I am describing, is the decline in emigration from imperialist countries and the increase in immigration into these countries from the more backward countries where lower wages are paid. As Hobson observes, emigration from Great Britain has been declining since 1884. In that year the number of emigrants was 242,000, while in 1900, the number was 169,000. Emigration from Germany reached the highest point between 1881 and 1890, with a total of 1,453,000 emigrants.
In the United States, the imperialist war waged against Spain in 1898 stirred up the opposition of the “anti-imperialists”, the last of the Mohicans of bourgeois democracy who declared this war to be “criminal”, regarded the annexation of foreign territories as a violation of the Constitution, declared that the treatment of Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipinos (the Americans promised him the independence of his country, but later landed troops and annexed it), was “jingo treachery”, and quoted the words of Lincoln: “When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs others, it is no longer self-government; it is despotism.” [2] But as long, as all this criticism shrank from recognising the inseverable bond between imperialism and the trusts, and, therefore, between imperialism and the foundations of capitalism, while it shrank from joining the forces engendered by large-scale capitalism and its development-it remained a “pious wish”.
“A steadily increasing proportion of capital in industry,” writes Hilferding, “ceases to belong to the industrialists who employ it. They obtain the use of it only through the medium of the banks which, in relation to them, represent the owners of the capital. On the other hand, the bank is forced to sink an increasing share of its funds in industry. Thus, to an ever greater degree the banker is being transformed into an industrial capitalist. This bank capital, i.e., capital in money form, which is thus actually transformed into industrial capital, I call ‘finance capital’.” “Finance capital is capital controlled by banks and employed by industrialists.”
The concentration of production; the monopolies arising therefrom; the merging or coalescence of the banks with industry—such is the history of the rise of finance capital and such is the content of that concept.
We now have to describe how, under the general conditions of commodity production and private property, the “business operations” of capitalist monopolies inevitably lead to the domination of a financial oligarchy.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
That's some wild shit. Should be required reading in common core.
Not rocket science here folks. Trump said it very plainly: he'd tax companies that send jobs overseas. Clinton would do the exact opposite: bend over and take it from the lobbyists, no grease, to get and stay elected. What is the issue here? Clinton is just another establishment democrat crook.
Sanders and Trump are not establishment candidates, so the lobbyist owned media will doo EVERYTHING in their power, make up every possible crooked lie, to make them out to look like they are insane.
I don't care who gets in. As long as it is NOT another Bush or Clinton.
Hillary, what are you doing with those "For Rent" signs?
You're gonna put 'em out, Bill, everywhere! The White Hut, national parks, national buildings.
I'm not sure you can do that honey.
Sure I can. See, the number goes to the Foundation. I hired a rent manager last week.
What if Americans want to use their parks?
They can watch them on National Geographic TV. Here, don't forget these rent signs in Chinese.
I like Trump because I can't imagine, 9/11, Katrina or Benghazi happening on his watch - this guy works 20 hour days which means he would have worked more in one month than the previous presidents did in a year - President Imbecile and President Hoops....
Trump would work more in one day than Bath House in 8 years.
Most divisive president in history and the Fed printed so much money it created an alternate economy for the rich and famous, gee can't imagine why republican donors would vote for "cankles". Could it be maintain the status quo? A fucking armadillo could figure that one out.
It appears the term "Republican" is very misused.
Uniparty getting ready to place another Distractor In Chief.
Who do we boycott?
This just proves that Hillary is "flexible".
We need someone like that more than ever.
Criminalty over ideology. Hillary 2016
Progressives are in all parties.
Well, I guess you can throw out any ideas of what you thought the USA was or what it stands for. Even what you thought it ever stood for. It's all about money. Money, and nothing else. The "shining city on the hill" has become a blacked-out ruin.
Voting, not even once.
Just in case the Donald wins the oval office, he will be politically neutered by a stacked bench (SCOTUS) which is now in process....
I am disappointed that the article buys into the myth that the political center contains people like HRC. The only way that could be true is if both ends of the observed spectrum were Fascist.
Their real choice was always Hillary. Jeb was their hedge in case the Dems did something really idiotic like nominate Sanders. Now it's clearer that Sanders can't count on the Occupy Mom's Basement crowd to get him nominated, they've cut off Jeb. They'll soon cut off the Pool-boy and the Canadian as well as it becomes clearer that neither can win primaries without more than the usual amount of voter fraud, and go all in on Hillary.
It'll basically be a re-run of Chirac versus (Jean-Marie) Le Pen, except this time the good guys have at least a one-in three chance of winning.
I have said for a long time that Hitlery is the perfect repubican candidate. Americans will be deciding between two repubicans.