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An Election Of Leaks And Counter-Leaks
The tape of Trump talking dirty was released just in time to sidetrack from the release of more of Clinton's dirty secrets by Wikileaks. Trump's talk was juvenile and sexist bragging in front of other "boys". Surprising it was not. There will more releases like that, all timed to run cover for Clinton.
The just released emails of her campaign chairman John Podesta about Clinton's talk to Wall Street and other Clinton related issues are indeed revealing. She is the sell-out you would expect her to be:
*CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION ON POLICY*
Clinton: "But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position."
It is funny how the U.S. electorate has a deeper "very negative" view of Trump (-44%) and Clinton (-41%) than of the much vilified Russian President Putin (-38%).
When Trump will come back in the polls (not "if"), it will be a devious fight with daily "leaks" followed by counter leaks and a lot of dirty laundry washed in front of the public. Good.
Many of the people who will vote will vote against a candidate, not for the one that they will mark on their ballot. I expect a very low turn out election, barely giving a mandate, to whomever may win or get selected to have won.
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It’s clear from reading the 91, 92, 93, 94 post series above that the One Party program to waterboard the entire American public through cognitive dissonance and stress positioning domestic psyop has done permanent brain damage, even here on MoA.
The Donald? Mafia casino money-launderer and serial bunko artist!? The Hag?! Lunatic Grifter Extraordinaire!? That’s the ‘choice’ before the People? Really? Two CONS!?
Trump proposes to throw 20M disenfranchised Americans, the chronically ill and infirm elderly, to the wolves and make insurance ‘competitive’, exactly the same way Gramm-Leich-Bliley made the TBTF ‘competitive’, wiping out our 401ks, which he must, because QEn is losing gamma fast, and it’s only the massively side-betted US insurance industry ‘float’ that’s keeping the markets at a tulip mania 19 P/E, and the R/E in the double-digits.
Trump proposes to Make Education (Vouchers) Great Again, and Bring Back American Industry. That ship has sailed, bozo. Any business person would take one look at SEAsia and ASEAN total dominance of manufacturing and technology, with complete capture of lowest labor cost Cambodia and Myanmar, then wonder who the hell these dead-beat broke El Nortian gauchos and gun nuts think they are.
Trump wants to ‘protect’ Big Pharma with more Federal vouchers and Big Oil with more Federal subsidies, he wants to ‘Kill ISIS’ with a $T Pentagon,and build the IDIQNB DHS National Police State,’The Wall’. All by deficit spending, cutting taxes for the Ubers, and crushing health and human services, SS and Medicare.
For her part, Hillary promised everything and delivered nothing, as she always had. She will Make Everything Great Again, even kiss Trump’s ruby-red baboon ass, to get elected.
So now it’s 2018, the USA is -$24,000,000,000,000 in debt, the US dollar is in freefall, there is a run on the banks, the Red Phone is ringing and Hillary is black-out drunk in the potted palms. Do you know where your children are?
“My fellow Americans, tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. There will be risks, and results take time. But I believe we can do it. As we cross this threshold (of irredeemable fiat debt), I ask for your prayers and your support. Thank you, good night and God bless you.”
The Night Reagan Sold Out The American People to the One Party
Posted by: TheRealDonald | Oct 10 2016 4:21 utc | 103
Great analysis of the Trump phenome here: by Mel Robbins, but it lacks a little je ne sais quoi? Remember, Trump didn’t just drift in from the far Oort Cloud, he was selected by the RNC.
Yes, Mel, nothing Trump does ‘matters’, because he’s playing to the Far Rabbinical Right, the Crypto-Zionist Christians, the gun nuts, PM stackers, tax dodgers, the now bereft Right to Workers, Uber/Lyfts losers, Fiverr giggers. He’s playing to the Little People, the Left Behinds, the Down and Outs. What’s he offering? Zip, zilch, nada. A slogan.
But it’s not who he’s playing to, or who The Hag is playing to. It’s what they represent, what their stated goals and intentions are, what the intended outcomes will be. Both represent the Establishment. Both intend to Make the Establishment Even Greater Again. Both support more deregulation of Corporate, more Federal tax credits and vouchers for Corporate, both support unlimited “legal” H1B immigration for Corporate, both support The Fed and Central Bankers Mob, both support Free Trade, (no matter what Trump claims), and both support Citizens United cloaking to hide the iron claw of these Corporate and One Party Oligarchs.
You can’t fit a playing card between their intended outcomes: Extermination of the Middle Class by bleeding out the Fifth Quintile’s last remaining wealth.
The Show Must Go On! The MSM has cleverly crack-spread the Real Donald: mafia casino boss, serial bunko artist, tax-dodging bankrupt-scamming con man, into his persona as ‘The Outlier’. Trump, NYC career con man, is playing Robin Hood. The same can be said for The Hag. Made NY State Senator by the NYC Banking Mob, she’s a serial liar, grifter on a world-scale, the plotter behind Clinton Foundation Massive Grift, ‘Oh, yeah, we got bills to pay too!” No the MSM will have you believe she’s a graceful old lady just trying to do her job.
Just slapping lipstick on two pigs.
They are Reptilian Devil Spawn, playing The Randy Old King coupling with Driving Miss Daisy. It’s a morality play, a binge-watching soap opera told to a nation of idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. All that matters is their outcomes, the One Party’s soon -$24,000,000,000,000 fiat-created debt, IDIQNB government debt greater than GDP, an irredeemable fiat debt and a perpetual interest-only bleedout…forever.
“We won, you lost. It’s just business, get over it. Now pick your poison.”
Posted by: chipnik | Oct 10 2016 13:47 utc | 118
I see a lot loose talk from newbies like the SwilleryHAC or Blo’dacious, but precious bloody little that would refute my point about The Duckhead’s foreign polcy goals. They’re HUUUUGE!!!
At 184 dahoit actually makes 1/2 a point.
You know, I would think that if your program really was to revive American manufactures, you wouldn’t have your fabulous products made in China, your buildings made with imported steel, and your hotels stocked with foreign goods. So says the president of the steelworkers union.
Just the sorta fellow prole a red would quote, doncha think?
Trump’s failure to use American materials to construct his hotels in Chicago and Las Vegas shows not just the fundamental dishonesty that embodies this fraud of a man, but also the insincerity of his claims that he will bring jobs back to America and stand up for workers.
Let us all savor that juicy bit of rhetoric — “the fundamental dishonesty that embodies this fraud of a man….”
If he truly cared about American jobs, he would have created them. If he truly cared about American manufacturers, he would have used them. Instead, he chose to use artificially cheap, foreign products in order to pocket more money for himself….
Earlier this year at a rally in Fort Wayne, Ind., Trump even said, “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing.”
Yet, clandestinely, he is one of China’s best customers by continuously using their products and materials, to build his hotels, to furnish them, from the dressers to the Bibles, and to supply his signature clothing line, directly fueling the unfair trade he vows to end.
Nor would you say you thought that autoworkers were overpaid. Nor would you add that why outsource to China, when you could have states here undercut each others wages and standards in a race to the bottom?
Do you really think the Koch-funded Tea Party House majority would go along with the return of union labor?
Instead, it looks like more the of the same bait-and-switch that the Rethuglicans have been pulling since it was “Morning in America.” Just sayin’….
Given that we’re awash in thermonuclear and conventional weapons, and face global problems, particularly global warming, something apart from a Hobbesian “war of all against all” in international relations is needed. My own vision of One is a little more hard-rock than neo-liberal. “We may rise and fall but in the end we’ll meet our fate together.”
And so The Struggle Continues.
Meanwhile, as folks here insist upon the absolute probity of Their Fearless Orange Leader and refuse to countenence dissent, the Rethugs are now in a state of civil war. Hey, don’t take my word for it, Fox News says so.
The rats continue to jump the sinking ship. Judge Napolitano is the latest to make for lifeboats, as he Defends Clinton from Trump’s Four Accusers. This is again Fox.
Judge Napolitano replied, “I don’t think Hillary is at fault in this case. In any of these cases… We’re talking about a wife standing by her husband when claims are made against her husband as to which the proof is, as you say, is lacking. Claims that were late, claims that lacked credibility… claims that were later retracted and then reinstated. What woman wouldn’t stand by her husband in that circumstance?”
The LA Times offers an interesting structural analysis; gerrymandering got them a safe House majority, but suddenly made the only threat to GOP Representatives a primary opponent further right.
Those in safe seats face strong pressure to hold to The Donald, and not go after independents or moderates.
Senators don’t have the luxury of tailor-made districts as they run for office statewide, which is why so many more of them have abandoned Trump….
Among those who dropped Trump… were many senators running for reelection in battleground states… and the few House Republicans in the remaining competitive districts, such as Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado and Rep. Barbara Comstock in Virginia. Some like Rep. Carlos Curbelo in Florida were never on board.
So the folks with skin in the game, as opposed to loudmouths just talkin’ smack over the ‘net, are not terribly enamored of all The Duckery that their candidate has been up to of late, and seem to be shorting his prospects. “It’s just business, nothing personal.”
And good stuff on Trumpeters stuffing the electronic ballot box at Alternet.
Posted by: rufus magister | Oct 13 2016 4:21 utc | 186
As women start to que up to dish the dirt on The Multicultural Duckhead’s Roman eyes and Russian hands, Trump Is Retreating Into the Fringe Media’s Far-Right Paranoid World as His Campaign Falls Apart
The big dig has begun.
At a time when most presidential campaigns are trying to widen their reach to the largest possible audience during the final weeks of the campaign, Donald Trump seems to be consciously contracting and burrowing down….
[T]he entire goal of this last-ditch campaign effort: to stoke the fascination of the bunker dwellers and their remaining hardcore supporters. “[I]t will satisfy the Breitbart wing of the conservative movement, who only ever wanted to see someone really stick it to Hillary Clinton the way they would if given the chance,” wrote Noah Rothman at the conservative magazine Commentary. “But there is no evidence that Trump will benefit from this in the polls.” (A new NBC/WSJ poll showed Trump trailing by 11 points.)
Even now the campaign is adding to the heavy lift fleet over the Marianas Trench, as the excavation there continues apace. How can he afford all that tonnage and apparatus? He’ll stiff the suppliers, like he always does.
Folks are known by the company they keep. Who are Trump’s advisors and surrogates on foreign and military affairs? What do their records and views suggest about the policies of his increasingly unlikely “Administration”?
This piece from The Daily Beast dryly observes “Trump’s top brass is kind of tarnished.”
Several officers implicated in the Tailhook Scandal are behind The Donald. Why would these rapists be supportive of The Duckhead? Birds of a feather?
But the author focuses more on the dangerous and questionable views of prominent surrogates. Most noteworthy is retired Lt. Gen. Boykin. Folks might recall him as the Crusading Christian Warrior. He believes Christ, the Prince of Peace, will return packing heat. But since he believes the Jews to be the source of the world problems, I dare say our “antizionists” will not have a problem with him.
Well, except that being a fundamentalist Christian, he hates Islam even more. The Daily Beast quotes him as saying “We’re a Christian nation… and the enemy is a guy named Satan.” Speaking of a Somali warlord who had engaged US forces, he stated “I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.”
Perhaps you recall his colorful proselytizing, from the bully pulpit of Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, during the Second Gulf War? “He has described himself as a warrior in the kingdom of God and invited others to join with him in fighting for the United States through repentance, prayer and the exercise of faith in God.”
He would later be formally, though very, very lightly, disciplined for this violation of military regulations, which are in place to uphold the seperation of church and state.
But he did get somewhat harsher penalties for his 2008 book, which he did not vet with the security apparat, as is required. And which disclosed classified information. “Military officials didn’t listen to us. That’s unfortunate. If they had, perhaps this latest embarrassment could have been avoided.”
Retired Lt. Gen. McInerney, The Daily Beast recalls, was a Fox News analyst and key Pentagon asset as they gingered up the Second Gulf War. He feels that the present Administration has shorted the discussion on national security, and “especially on radical Islam….”
To be fair, they note that a number of officers with quite respectable resumes and views support The Donald, but it is folks like Boykin that speak for the campaign.
His foreign policy cadre may be dealt with more briefly. I’ve posted earlier about John Bolton and The Donald. Bolton is spoken of as Trumps Shadow Secretary of State, and is said to be keen on regime change. He may be The Duckhead’s only neo-con heavyweight, but I always thought Bolton the most unhinged of that unsavory lot, in his performances as UN Ambassador (a sort of lean, mean Captain Kangaroo).
But apart from that, his foreign policy bench is weak, and Politico adds that no prominent anti-establishment wonks have taken service with His Excellency, The Donald.
I don’t really see what Neil Young once called “a kinder, gentler machine gun hand” coming out of this lot.
Posted by: rufus magister | Oct 14 2016 2:42 utc | 192
As women start to que up to dish the dirt on The Multicultural Duckhead’s Roman eyes and Russian hands, Trump Is Retreating Into the Fringe Media’s Far-Right Paranoid World as His Campaign Falls Apart
The big dig has begun.
At a time when most presidential campaigns are trying to widen their reach to the largest possible audience during the final weeks of the campaign, Donald Trump seems to be consciously contracting and burrowing down….
[T]he entire goal of this last-ditch campaign effort: to stoke the fascination of the bunker dwellers and their remaining hardcore supporters. “[I]t will satisfy the Breitbart wing of the conservative movement, who only ever wanted to see someone really stick it to Hillary Clinton the way they would if given the chance,” wrote Noah Rothman at the conservative magazine Commentary. “But there is no evidence that Trump will benefit from this in the polls.” (A new NBC/WSJ poll showed Trump trailing by 11 points.)
Even now the campaign is adding to the heavy lift fleet over the Marianas Trench, as the excavation there continues apace. How can he afford all that tonnage and apparatus? He’ll stiff the suppliers, like he always does.
Folks are known by the company they keep. Who are Trump’s advisors and surrogates on foreign and military affairs? What do their records and views suggest about the policies of his increasingly unlikely “Administration”?
This piece from The Daily Beast dryly observes “Trump’s top brass is kind of tarnished.”
Several officers implicated in the Tailhook Scandal are behind The Donald. Why would these rapists be supportive of The Duckhead? Birds of a feather?
But the author focuses more on the dangerous and questionable views of prominent surrogates. Most noteworthy is retired Lt. Gen. Boykin. Folks might recall him as the Crusading Christian Warrior. He believes Christ, the Prince of Peace, will return packing heat. But since he believes the Jews to be the source of the world problems, I dare say our “antizionists” will not have a problem with him.
Well, except that being a fundamentalist Christian, he hates Islam even more. The Daily Beast quotes him as saying “We’re a Christian nation… and the enemy is a guy named Satan.” Speaking of a Somali warlord who had engaged US forces, he stated “I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.”
Perhaps you recall his colorful proselytizing, from the bully pulpit of Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, during the Second Gulf War? “He has described himself as a warrior in the kingdom of God and invited others to join with him in fighting for the United States through repentance, prayer and the exercise of faith in God.”
He would later be formally, though very, very lightly, disciplined for this violation of military regulations, which are in place to uphold the seperation of church and state.
But he did get somewhat harsher penalties for his 2008 book, which he did not vet with the security apparat, as is required. And which disclosed classified information. “Military officials didn’t listen to us. That’s unfortunate. If they had, perhaps this latest embarrassment could have been avoided.”
Retired Lt. Gen. McInerney, The Daily Beast recalls, was a Fox News analyst and key Pentagon asset as they gingered up the Second Gulf War. He feels that the present Administration has shorted the discussion on national security, and “especially on radical Islam….”
To be fair, they note that a number of officers with quite respectable resumes and views support The Donald, but it is folks like Boykin that speak for the campaign.
His foreign policy cadre may be dealt with more briefly. I’ve posted earlier about John Bolton and The Donald. Bolton is spoken of as Trumps Shadow Secretary of State, and is said to be keen on regime change. He may be The Duckhead’s only neo-con heavyweight, but I always thought Bolton the most unhinged of that unsavory lot, in his performances as UN Ambassador (a sort of lean, mean Captain Kangaroo).
But apart from that, his foreign policy bench is weak, and Politico adds that no prominent anti-establishment wonks have taken service with His Excellency, The Donald.
I don’t really see what Neil Young once called “a kinder, gentler machine gun hand” coming out of this lot.
Posted by: rufus magister | Oct 14 2016 2:42 utc | 193
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