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July 25, 2016
How Clinton And Her Shallow-Brained Media Do Trump’s Bidding

Clinton's negative campaign against Trump, and the media leashed to her messages, are doing Trump a huge favor. Unless they can break away from their limited framework, stop their unintended advertising for Trump's campaign, they will propel him to victory.

Here is an example: Networks on Trump: A ‘Dark Speech’ From a ‘Vengeful’ ‘Demagogue’ – Newsbuster

The three networks on Thursday night immediately derided Donald Trump’s “dark speech” as one coming from a “vengeful” “demagogue.”

The "dark speech" theme was obviously a canned response by the Clinton campaign. Her independent media (not) dutifully repeated it over and over. But that negative "dark speech" theme, supposed to condemn Trump, only makes his point.

(Isn't it amazing how Putin can compel all U.S. media to parrot the very same message?)

Trump may well have painted a negative, "dark" picture of the state of the union. But the U.S. IS "dark" for many of Trump's core followers as well as for many swing voters. Real wages are stagnant. While new unemployment numbers seem to go down, labor partition rates are very low and sinking. Many people who would like to have a job have given up looking for one. The former big industrial areas have been shrinking for decades. The foreign policy of the U.S. is one of wars and terrorism with no positive message at home or abroad.

The Clinton campaign gurus and their media surrogates took up the "dark" scheme to set Trump into a negative light. But Trump followers agree with the description. The Clinton message confirms their believes. The people agree with Trump's "dark" diagnosis. Picking up on that and reinforcing it only reinforces his message.

When Trump describes the world as "dark", he solely does so to sell THE LIGHT – himself:

"Your world is dark. Let me enlighten it. I am the only one who can do it."

Reinforcing the "dark" scheme is pushing Trump's selling point.

In June the Clinton campaign spent about $50 million on TV ads. Trump did not even spent a tenths of that and has better polling results than before. He has pulled nearly even to Clinton. Trump raises much less money than Clinton. He simply does not need as much as she does. He can spend more time on real campaigning than Clinton who must hurry from one fund raiser to the next one. Meanwhile Clinton's negative campaigning against Trump reinforces his message.

That negative campaigning also does nothing to bring new voter for Clinton. People who like Trump will not switch to Clinton. People who do not like him will stay home or vote for a third party. Clinton fails to project an alternative to the usual beltway monotony. A same-as-ever program for an electorate that demands changes. Enthusiasm and voter turnout will decide the campaign. Michael Moore correctly anticipates that Clinton fails on both. Vicious attacks on Trump have no positive message and do not change that.

The current "Trump is like Putin" and "Putin wants Trump to win" campaigns misunderstand how Trump and his supporters think. They see Putin as a nationalist leader who defends the interests of his country. Someone straight with whom one can do business. Most Trump supporters see Putin as a positive example of a leader. A thug, maybe but one who gets things done.  Clinton's Washington DC circus completely fails to recognize that. 

Fred Hiatt's Funny Pages©, aka the Washington Post Opinion pages, have for months run one anti-Trump piece after the other. This is just one regular day:

source: Gregory Djerejian

The effect is essentially a marketing campaign FOR Trump. Not one day passes without two or three pieces with his name in big letters above it – branding that does not cost him a penny.

When one of Trum'ps children recently plagiarized parts of her convention speech, a New York Times journalist tweeted:

9:36 AM – 20 Jul 2016 – Binyamin Appelbaum @BCAppelbaum

1. Deny everything.
2. Blame Hillary Clinton.
3. Blame My Little Pony.
4. Deny everything.
5. Confess & apologize.

He doesn't get it. That is not the level on which the Trump campaign works. Here is the recipe. The journos' shallow-brained reaction is a main ingredient of it:

10:05 AM – 20 Jul 2016 – Moon of Alabama @MoonofA

A. Create "outrage"
B. Get huge media cov for 0 cents
C. Increase vote share
D. Laugh at stupid journos
E. Repeat

It works every time. Slip in a bit of plagiarizing and occupy the headlines. Hold a "dark" speech and let the Clinton campaign and her independent media make your point over and over again. Sell yourself as the solution to all the negatives they emphasize.

Whatever one might think of Trump – he IS a marketing genius. He knows exactly how the media tick and he makes them work for him without paying a penny.

The same encrusted, narrow and hardened view of omnidirectional belligerence which drives U.S. foreign policy is visible in the way Clinton and her media run the campaign. There is no room for diverging from the compulsory norm.

Trump breaks those structures and thrives. He uses the limits of mainstream framing against it. Like him or not, I don't, there is a genius in that.

Posted by b on July 25, 2016 at 08:44 UTC | Permalink
Comments

@97 jr. ‘IMO voting for a third-party with a paper ballot is preferable to spoiling the ballot.’
Of course. How on earth is anyone going to write-in their candidate’s name on their ballot without having a paper ballot in hand?
I’m not advocating ‘spoiling’ ballots. Why spoil your ballot? When you can use it to vote for someone you actually want to hold the office instead?
I point out that the people who tally the ballots often don’t tally write-ins. And if they do, they often tally only those officially approved as ‘write-in’ candidates – people who’ve registered with the ‘authorities’ beforehand, who’ve jumped through whatever hoops and paid whatever fees are required to get an approved ‘write-in berth’ on the ballot. All others are classified by the counters as ‘spoiled’. They are ‘spoiled’ by the ‘authorities’, not by the voters.
That’s in the states where it isn’t ‘illegal’ to write-in your choice on your ballot. Writing in your candidate’s name on your ballot is illegal in Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota.
Don’t worry, if the total of 3rd party / write-in / ‘spoiled ballots’ exceeds – even distantly approaches – the totals given to the animal crackers you’ll hear about it.
What was the 3rd party / write-in / ‘spoiled’ in 2012?
    Obama + Romney + Other
    62156980 + 58805060 + 1945906 = 122907946
    Other/Total =
    1945906/122907946 = 0.15 = 1.5%
That’s what we’re used to, if we pay attention at all.
Believe me, if ‘Other’ approaches the totals of the animal crackers everyone on earth is going to know it.

Posted by: jfl | Jul 26 2016 6:58 utc | 101

{QUOTE} You don’t have to roll the dice. Unhappy with the choices? Vote Green Party.
What’ll ya get? Support for:
> Preference voting that makes third-parties a lot more viable; […] {UNQUOTE} — Jackrabbit | Jul 25, 2016 8:58:21 PM | 82
The “Green Party” is just as corrupt as the others. To some extent they have this “preference voting” (essentially IRV) in Australia, and it enforces a rigid two-party monopoly. “Preference voting” (essentially IRV) is supported by massive billion dollar think tanks and academic flunkies with special stipends.
As I always say, begin protesting the elections (not the silly “parties”) and demand hedge strategy simple score voting with hand counted paper ballots.

Posted by: blues | Jul 26 2016 6:58 utc | 102

1945906/122907946 = 0.015 = 1.5%

Posted by: jfl | Jul 26 2016 6:58 utc | 103

@102, @100
@102 is a fix for a typo @100.
I wrote a little advertisement for No to Clinton, No to Trump, sent it to counterpunch, but they have apparently declined to publish it.
I have latched onto the idea as doable, as you may have noticed, so I posted it myself, but no one but myself and the odd few here will notice it. Perhaps someone can copy it or link to it and get it some attention, somehow?
Seems to me something has to be done … ready to entertain other suggestions. D-day is just about 100 days from now.

Posted by: jfl | Jul 26 2016 7:29 utc | 104

Video: Hillary Clinton, A Threat to All Humanity. World War III is “On the Table”. Her Candidacy Must be Opposed:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/video-hillary-clinton-a-threat-to-all-humanity-world-war-iii-is-on-the-table/5537686

Posted by: blues | Jul 26 2016 7:35 utc | 105

https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Stage-Capitalism-Crisis-Cure/dp/0745333133

Posted by: okie farmer | Jul 26 2016 9:34 utc | 106

Quite worrying that many leftists dont see hillary as a bigger threat than Trump, especially after his anti-neocon foreign policy. Wake up people!

Posted by: Level | Jul 26 2016 10:45 utc | 107

@108 Level
Yes, it’s unbelievable.
People are brainwashed or something.
A piece of shit like Tom Hayden can presentate himself with words as: democratic left, peace movement, progressive.
And he is anti Trump, of course.
“Trump’s most problematic foreign policy position is far worse that his fanciful commentary about Iraq. It’s his strange affection for Russia’s Putin and Paul Manafort ‘s lobbying relationship with a Ukrainian oligarch.”
http://tomhayden.com/home/by-dawns-early-light-a-new-democratic-party-stirs.html

Posted by: From The Hague | Jul 26 2016 11:28 utc | 108

A horrible fraud was perpetrated on Bernie Sanders supporters last night, worse than the betrayal at the hands of their faithless leader. Hundreds of hopeful Papa Bernie lovers were seen wearing fake Peter Pan hats that they believed were real Robin Hood hats.
You could see the realization dawn on these poor saps on the convention floor as tears filled their eyes and Papa Bernie morphed into Captain Hook before swallowing the souls of their unborn children in his syphilitic maw.
Great theater, but a poor ritual sacrifice. Real blood must flow like a river and wash it all away. Let it flow

Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Jul 26 2016 11:49 utc | 109

After hearing Bernie tell them that they must vote for Hell Harpy, after Bernie himself knows he was “cheated” by the Hell Harpy Machine…
If they cannot see now that Bernie was in on the act to defraud them the whole time, will they still vote for the Hell Harpy?
Was Michael’s blue dress to remind them of Monica Lewinski?
I don’t see how that was helpful.
Is it true? Do we all hold the potential within – to get out of the fields and into the house where it’s air condiitioned?

Posted by: fast freddy | Jul 26 2016 12:00 utc | 110

What is really amazing is no one points out that all this negative press for Trump started when he said he’d be neutral re Israel Palestine.
Every road in the West leads to Zion,and evrey pos crumbbun politician is their whore,but Trump.
Yes,Trump has walked the statement back somewhat,and thrown the zionists some bones,but that statement has the monsters up in arms.
And they interfere in our govt,business,and culture every day with their divide and conquer and bribery,and then point to Russia as the bad guy.
The hubris is a palpable as their greed and lust for hegemony.

Posted by: dahoit | Jul 26 2016 13:18 utc | 111

But the neocons love Hillary:
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/25/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-hillary-clinton/

Posted by: Curtis | Jul 26 2016 14:37 utc | 112

@113 Curtis
From your link:
“I would say all Republican foreign policy professionals are anti-Trump,” leading neoconservative Robert Kagan told a group gathered around him, groupie-style, at a “foreign policy professionals for Hillary” fundraiser I attended last week. “I would say that a majority of people in my circle will vote for Hillary.”
As the co-founder of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century, Kagan played a leading role in pushing for America’s unilateral invasion of Iraq, and insisted for years afterwards that it had turned out great.
Despite the catastrophic effects of that war, Kagan insisted at last week’s fundraiser that U.S. foreign policy over the last 25 years has been “an extraordinary success.”

Posted by: From The Hague | Jul 26 2016 15:28 utc | 113

Before Trump was a candidate I thought (and posted here) that the Repubs. could *easily* win the next election.
Yet, they seemed incapable of ‘reforming’ the Party, or changing directions. I pointed out they were aware of the ‘problem’ with ‘minorities’ (particularly Latinos, in the slice-dice-approach) and quoted iirc one proposal from a study group on this issue, lame.
Past precise words I don’t recall — they were along the lines of, > move libertarian (Ron Paul..), > move center economically (that sounds totally contradictory but can be made to work), > embrace the gay at arms length (freedom), > pretend to loose the racist xtreme-right and religionists, though they can be made to stick anyway. Basically, blast away some of the Dem-Repub. oppo and concentrate on Repub. values which means working out what they are! (Problem..)
That didn’t happen and now we see that Trump, one man, did it in a very different way – compare my ‘should have been done’, nothing special, standard pol comments, dopey perhaps, with what he did. Plus, a Libertarian candidate is now present (as Trump is more economically ‘left’ in part of his discourse.)
Heh, the Dems under Killary are totally beyond any such reasoning, and their stance is purely in-group protectionist. They holler, sub rosa, to the in-crowd, we will protect your money, your positions, the future HUGE profits to come to OUR members of the tribe (finance, drug trade, arms, med Corps, pol positions..), thru trickle down from our control (yeah, *that* trickle down does work) and if you don’t support you lose.
Non-political and criminal enterprise act this way. Thru paranoia (Trump is evil, green-clawed like Saddam..), our opponents deserve nothing but media aka literal death, hating and shaming, threats, etc. we defend our ‘righteous, deserved’ position, because we control financial circuits (Wall street..not a secure ally at all, can turn on a trillion dimes), control foreign policy (see the endless hyping of Killary’s ‘experience’, aka solid experience with extortion, corrupt exchanges, no one else can take her place or do better..), other. The Dems cannot change direction, if they got this far it was thru these tactics, there is no alternative, no Plan B. In fact losing the election is less dire than burning out. Better to keep a smaller ‘core’ to ‘fight on.’ (See the Mafia.)
Banger at 28 offers another level of analysis. To say my post is only one perspective from one angle.

Posted by: Noirette | Jul 26 2016 16:21 utc | 114

In case any non-US readers out there are confused about American politics, I offer you this little tidbit from the leaked Democratic National Party emails:

“…I talked to Ryan at 9:30 the evening before and he still had more meetings and calls that night. Ryan is a great example of a citizen-servant leader. He is a real patriot…”

My eyes have suddenly been opened. Not sure who this ‘leader’ Ryan guy is, but I now know my proper place in the USA: citizen-servant [sigh…]

Posted by: PavewayIV | Jul 26 2016 16:25 utc | 115

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan?

Posted by: lysias | Jul 26 2016 18:06 utc | 116

Assange is trolling pretty hard here. So he should. His date with Hilary’s grand jury may have 4 to 8 years of being realised.
I thought there may not enough time for the dump to be searched, but a day out from the DNC seems pretty well timed. Good man Correa.

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jul 26 2016 18:59 utc | 117

To add to that, I guess the odds go way down for Ecuador on the International Regime Change Market when Hilary wins. That’s pretty dark in my opinion.

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jul 26 2016 19:02 utc | 118

Pave and Lysias, Paul Ryan, for sure.
pic

Posted by: Noirette | Jul 26 2016 19:13 utc | 119

Really difficult not to vomit:

The issue of Russian involvement was not a matter of idle speculation. Students of the subject, including Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, say the Russians have not been shy about politicking beyond their borders.

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/26/487446231/different-breeds-of-convention-democrats-ask-whose-party-is-this-anyway
What can one really say? Well at any rate I can’t think of anything to say. The only adequate response would be to explain why this is so absurdly hypocritical.
Yats is the guy.

Posted by: RudyM | Jul 26 2016 19:18 utc | 120

Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Jul 25, 2016 11:32:53 PM | 91
I rather have an old rumple looking fella anytime over a bloodthirsty warmonger like Hillary…….

Posted by: notlurking | Jul 26 2016 23:08 utc | 121

@121- hell me too, no offense to old rumple looking fellas.

Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Jul 26 2016 23:23 utc | 122

@ From the Hague 113 and @ Curtis 112
No surprise there that Robert Kagan and elk will support Hillary. Victoria Jane Nuland is his wife. She is a left over from HRC at Foggy Bottom and is the current Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. There is that famous priceless photo with her and SoS Kerry meeting with Putin and Lavrov.
Trump has his share of neocons – John Bolton and elk

Posted by: likklemore | Jul 26 2016 23:57 utc | 123

@ The Hague.
What seems lost on most Americans is that the only thing these “foreign policy professionals” and their sycophants care about is their agenda. Also lost is how much power they wield. We can thank our crappy sold-out media for that.

Posted by: Curtis | Jul 27 2016 0:07 utc | 124

Monday’s gallup poll shows Clinton’s negative rating up 3% at -57%, and Trump’s down 1% at -59%.
This is the year to close the menagerie: no more elephants, no more jackasses. No to Clinton, no to Trump.

Posted by: jfl | Jul 27 2016 0:54 utc | 125

It may not be a post-RNC bounce, but political analyst and statistician Nate Silver’s latest forecast of the presidential election shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton with a shocking 15 percentage point-greater chance of winning if the general election were held today.

After a parade of D-list celebrities and conservative icons yelled that the nation had been overrun by criminals in the cities and murderous undocumented immigrants in border towns, the Republican party’s presidential nominee’s current likelihood of winning stands at 57.5 percent, compared with Clinton’s 42.5 percent.

FiveThirtyEight’s “now-cast,” Silver’s model, considers more than just polling in its forecast and currently predicts the popular vote going 45.4 percent to Trump vs. 45.1 percent to Clinton, with the Electoral College giving Trump 285 votes and Clinton 252.6. This is the first time the “now-cast” forecast has been projected Trump to win.

Silver, who correctly forecast both the 2008 and 2012, has Trump winning in the swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire:

LINK

Posted by: crone | Jul 27 2016 1:52 utc | 126

Q: Why is Donald Trump going to win the 2016 Presidential Election?
A: He’s the only person in the USA to notice that US Elections are Media Circuses and he’s USA’s most famous and experienced Ringmaster.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 27 2016 20:47 utc | 127

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My American friend Skype’d me this morning about the upcoming US elections. After 3/4-century of US politics, he is shaking in his boots: “Ï still remember ‘Whistle While You Work, Stevenson’s a Jerk, Eisenhower Has the Power, Whistle While You Work!’, … but 2016 is shyte gone sideways.
I reminded him that both Trump and Clinton are Royals, and this is just War of the Oranges, Two.
Cue ‘Exceptionals’ dog-whistle, and the little lame balloon man.
Kunt u een vork steken in dit ene!
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are distant cousins as family trees show same **royal ancestors**

Posted by: WilhemO | Jul 28 2016 2:51 utc | 128

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3210778/Donald-Trump-Hillary-Clinton-revealed-distant-cousins-family-trees-share-set-royal-ancestors.html

Posted by: WilhemO | Jul 28 2016 2:53 utc | 129

126
Betfair, where, you know, real people put real money on the selections, shows Clinton 2:1 over Trump.
Nate Silver will do whatever he has to do, after been wrong every time since he was last right, once.

Posted by: WilhemO | Jul 28 2016 2:55 utc | 130

113
And 1/3rd of your income every year paid for it. 10% tithe to the King, 10% tithe to the Pope, and 10% shakedown by their Mil.Gov Sharif. Same as it ever was. There were no taxes in 1776, Zuignap!

Posted by: WilhemO | Jul 28 2016 3:01 utc | 131

Not to pat myself on the back, but last night proves unequivocably, …with dozens of analyst confirmations today, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-agree-dnc-was-disaster-for-gop …that Bernie’s job was always to hold the Left for Special Delivery, and Trump’s job was always to drive the Far Right off the cliff in a crazy car, so that Clinton was free to grow her Central-Right base, then deliver a Reaganaut NeoLiberal Third Way coup de’grace to America.
Now we are told by the Guardian that Hillary and Donald are 19th cousins in the Royal British Bloodline, again is exactly as I described: Red Donald or Blue Hillary, same Goldman Soviet. America, and the World, had better have their Come to Jesus moment here pretty quick, before Globalist Banker Swine take power over the largest economic and military power in all of human history,
or January 7th will be the Day the Earth Stood Still.

Posted by: Cho Nyawinh | Jul 30 2016 0:47 utc | 132

This is an easy way to identify and sort the illegitimate media puppets from the actual journalists. Unfortunately, the list of real journalists is extremely small, if one even exists, in the mainstream media. Reporters used to find the news and report it. Now it is spoon fed to them from a teleprompter and they repeat it or lose their jobs. Or they keep their jobs and lose their integrity. They don’t do anything that a parrot couldn’t do.

Posted by: dogitydog | Jul 30 2016 13:50 utc | 133

Just finished working out pre-dawn, made coffee and breakfast for another day of writing and planning, and Bloomberg cut away from weekend financial news with the ‘horrific’ statement by Saatchi and Saatchi CEO Roberts that gender bias is ‘over’, to a cutaway of Hillary’s Acceptance Speech, in which she hectored her way through every GOOG and FB trending data analysis, for example, mentioning Black Lives Matter and Brave Police State in the same paragraph, while ignoring 10,000s of US combat troops still in Afghanistan, protecting her $8.5B grift to godfather Karzai, his CIA-WB successors Abdullah2 and Ghani, blood ticks on the ass of the Chinese and Indian strategic resource franchises, for which America won nothing but the CUA poppy trade. Jesus H Christ. She completely ignored the 10,000s of American deaths every year to both illegal and prescription opioides, and the metastasizing plague of ‘legal’ ghanja, and the surge in binge drinking that is devastating American youth, American youth now completely unmentioned by either candidate, because SS is approaching bankruptcy, the youth are locked into life-time credit-debt slavery of 1000 years, and all that matters now to the Vampire Squid, whether you vote Red Donald or Blue Hillary 19th cousins to the Royal Vampire bloodline, is mobilizing the Fifth Quintile, the seniors, the last Americans, ever, who will know savings, pensions and SS/MC, the last free Americans, the last credit-debt coven feast. Nothing. Her campaign is like watching Trump in WWE Raw.

Posted by: Cho Nyawinh | Jul 31 2016 1:24 utc | 134

@134 Did Kevin Roberts really say that!?! He’ll get lynched.

Posted by: dh | Jul 31 2016 1:41 utc | 135

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Free Crimea! Remember 9/11! (?) Hoo-ahh! And that’s why the US Congress illegally looted $50B last summer of 2015, to grift the dual-Israeli junta coup leaders in Kiev, and ‘backstop the verticals’ on the junta’s $35B junk bonds default, wholly illegal looting because 1 Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and 2 the junta are an unconstitutionally illegitimate government, …by their own admission.
$35B from $50B looted left $15B in a so-called ‘war chest’ another criminal cabal that’s underwriting new WB loans to the Kiev junta coup to upgrade E Ukraine roads and bridges to heavy military capacity, …with both IMF-WB committing money laundering war crimes for the fascist US junta coup.
A coup, let’s be crystal clear, that Red Donald or Blue Hillary will lead into Crimean War cognitive dissonance distraction, while The Exceptionals take down the world’s equities and bonds holdings in their Final Purge ‘Crash of 2018′, ..not the same kind of Holocaust as their Bolshevik Revolution in Russia of 100 years ago, but a beautiful and Kabalistic Jubilee of the Anti-Christs’ First War Putsch.
Tick-tock! Re-invest accordingly for the New Dark Ages.

Posted by: Cho Nyawinh | Jul 31 2016 1:54 utc | 136

134
The same thing would happen to any US CEO who posits that never in the 200 years prior to the 1998 Wall Street Soft Coup and 9/11 Hard Coup have Americans ever …ever…used ‘ShockandAwe’ (Shekhinah), ‘Homeland’, or ‘Exceptionals’.
#JeSuisKagansTotalement

Posted by: Cho Nyawinh | Jul 31 2016 2:01 utc | 137

@136 “Tick-tock! Re-invest accordingly for the New Dark Ages.”
That has to be gold! It has been trending up lately. What you reckon? Mining stocks or ETFs?

Posted by: dh | Jul 31 2016 2:09 utc | 138

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I don’t give investment advice.
Junior ‘miners’ (sic) own no equipment, have no inventory or even raw ore, and claim they hold ‘options’ on ‘proven reserves’, that just need a little more ‘drilling’ until the last sucker buys in. Read the torrid history of Vancouver Stock Market swindles.
The major miners are all over-sold, you’re ‘betting on the come’, which any seasoned gambler will tell you is the quickest way to lose your last life savings, outside of playing currencies or commodities futures. Lost forever.
ZeroHedge has an interesting note on GLD/SLV fiat paper fraud and high CEO CFO turnover in the funds over whether they really hold any physical gold, or just hedged COMEX options to purchase…along with estimated 33x others who ‘hold options’ in the same oversubscribed ounces. There is also a huge drawdown in COMEX holdings, which suggests the real oversubscription is more like 75x.
I know from personal experience that many of physical PMs are frauds, fraudulently graded, fraudulently represented, with a current 7% to astounding 35% buy-sell spread. When we chat with China, we see tungsten dealer with round disc ‘test weights’ in every global coin dimension, the markets are filled with fake, single-struck, tungsten-core coins and bullion counterfeits. That’s why AU, NZ and CA mint coins with holograms, Chinese counterfeits are so good.
Same goes for all grades of US paper currency, fakes are virtually indistinguishable without lights and testtrips.
So ask yourself, as the US$ undergoes repricing against JCB Yen appreciation and CCB Yuan depreciation, what will happen to the PM price? More importantly, what happens to the fungibility of PMs once GLD/SLV is shown as a Ponzi, and COMEX a hypersubscribed fraud, and the counterfeit pawn shops and coin dealers are burned out and gone?
Are you going to meet your E-Bay buyer in some Costco parking lot with an envelope full of counterfeit $100s and a counterfeit coin, then shoot it out, drug cartel style?
Can you imagine trading $30,000 weight with a stranger?
“Uh, hi, my name’s Bob. I have the coins somewhere near here, do you have my money?”
“We can’t do this deal here, meet me in the park tonight.”
You want to know what will happen in the New Wild West?
It’s obvious, Red Donald or Blue Hillary, *19th cousins of the same Royal Vampire bloodline*, are preparing US for War in Crimea in 2017 to jack the market and boost the oil cartels, then bring engineered Wall Street crash of 2018, immediately as the market tops, continuing the Anti-Christ Vampire 1000-Year Putsch:
1998
2001
2008
2011
2018
Kabala numerology for Return of Shabat, Ba’al and Enoch, a forbidden history of the Satan worshippers.
Today’s American seniors are the last who will know savings, pensions or SS/MC, as our children are sold into perpetual-war credit-debt slavery…forever. We are the Last Free Americans, …and all we get for ‘choice’ is which color shackles our children wear: red or blue.
Vote ‘WOODEN STAKE’ in November. And vote often!

Posted by: Cho Nyawinh | Jul 31 2016 4:01 utc | 139

Cho Nyawinh says:
…as our children are sold into perpetual-war credit-debt slavery…forever
♬ ♪ ♬ Forever never seems that long until you’re grown ♫ ♪ ♫

Posted by: john | Jul 31 2016 10:05 utc | 140

@139 Yes but just because you don’t trust gold doesn’t mean thousands of people won’t pile into ETFs when the panic starts. Somebody will make money. Knowing when to hold and when to fold is what counts.

Posted by: dh | Jul 31 2016 10:30 utc | 141

dh | Jul 30, 2016 10:09:59 PM | 138
Here in S.E. Asia (and Asia in general) gold is the only store of value universally recognised. Silver less so, but still better than paper.
Paper money (fiat currency) only has value in stable times when most of us are in social/societal agreement; during serious turmoil and collapse of the financial systems, paper money will suffice as toilet paper and starting fires; but far more valuable as toilet paper, IMO.
I’m not advocating gold as the only store of value, but having some can’t hurt.

Posted by: V. Arnold | Jul 31 2016 10:32 utc | 142

Another warmongering woman is UKs PM May:
Majority of Britons back PM May on launching nuke attack that would kill 100,000
https://www.rt.com/uk/354062-britons-nuclear-retaliation-poll/

Posted by: Lavel | Jul 31 2016 11:27 utc | 143

@142 At the moment Asians seem to be putting their money into North American real estate but GLD is starting to move.
I was wondering how Cho plans on surviving the ‘Crash of 2018’.

Posted by: dh | Jul 31 2016 13:12 utc | 144

@144 dh ‘how to survive the ‘Crash of 2018”
Of 2016, 2017, 2018, … whenever. The secret is to get out of money, to the extent that you can. We’re all going to hurt to the extent that we require money, so reduce dependency to the absolute minimum, that seems to me the best ‘hedge’. Easier for the old and young to accomplish. More difficult for the rat-race years between.

Posted by: jfl | Aug 1 2016 10:34 utc | 145

Unfortunately airlines, grocery stores, banks and credit card companies even 711s insist on money. They aren’t much interested in other economic theories. So practical suggestions only please. No Walden Pond.

Posted by: dh | Aug 1 2016 14:08 utc | 146

Sublime proof that what goes around comes around – regime change methods in the US:

” If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.’”
“If you can’t have an honest election, nothing else counts,” he continued. “I think he’s gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. The government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear Hillary in. No, we will not stand for it. We will not stand for it.”

Posted by: somebody | Aug 2 2016 9:04 utc | 147

Roger Stone’s delusions of grandeur: a crab louse who thinks he’s a gadfly.

Posted by: rjj | Aug 2 2016 11:26 utc | 148

@146 dh ‘… to the extent that you can. We’re all going to hurt to the extent that we require money, so reduce dependency to the absolute minimum …’
‘… airlines, grocery stores, banks and credit card companies even 711s insist on money …’
Especially 7/11s. And so does the local dalad … ตลาด … but on less of it. Airlines, grocery stores, banks and credit cards … well, I still have a bank account, but that’s been the extent of my dependency over the past decade or so. There’s still a class of people who’ve just kept on, I’m just not one of them. You were asking about survival, I guess that was a rhetorical flourish? Previously you were talking about ‘investing’ in gold, of increase, talking about keeping up, of continuing living in a way to which you’ve become accustomed. That latter may get trickier for all of us. Good luck, though. I have no advice for you there.
Walden Pond. I’ve been there. Now lies in the monied belts circling Boston. Haven’t read it in years. Don’t know that I’ve ever actually finished it. Are there devotees of Thoreau in England, or in Australia, if I mistook your Australian ‘accent’ for a British one? Does Thoreau have great currency beyond the USA? Does he still have currency in the USA? He did strike me as having a greater enthusiasm for theory and theater than for just walking the walk. The ladies treat him kindly. No doubt they furnished him with tea. People still smile at me when I smile at them. A good friend furnished me with some fine tea from Doi Mae Salong. She may even have picked it. It’s lasted months. I’m drinking some right now. Life’s sweet indeed.

Posted by: jfl | Aug 3 2016 7:09 utc | 149

145 146
Sing, dance and be happy, The Exceptionals are here!
https://youtu.be/vng34mUhe9Y
Way down upon the Swanee River…
I hear there’s a bank run on cowrie shells and glass beads!

Posted by: PierreAmstel | Aug 3 2016 8:27 utc | 150

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