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The Not-Hillary President
It is impossible to know what the Not-Hillary inauguration will bring. Not-Hillary because putting up Hillary as candidate was the most stupid thing the Democratic party and it paymasters could do. She had extremely high negative ratings and stood for everything that one could dislike with the party's policies. Many who ended up not voting or voted for Trump could have been easily won by a different Democratic candidate even with much of the same general policies (see: Obama, Barack).
Hillary would surely have lost against any middle-of-the-road Republican candidate. History will note that she was an arrogant but incompetent Democratic candidate who lost against a rather bad Republican candidate, one who lacked support even from his own party. Trump won barely, but she lost completely.
Seen from the perspective of power centers Clinton once had all the support she needed. But she then lost a decisive group due to her uncompromising neo-conned foreign policy. Here is an interesting take based on a theory from the 1950s:
[T]he power elite can be best described as a “triangle of power,” linking the corporate, executive government, and military factions: “There is a political economy numerously linked with military order and decision. This triangle of power is now a structural fact, and it is the key to any understanding of the higher circles in America today.”
The 2016 US election, like all other US elections, featured a gallery of pre-selected candidates that represented the three factions and their interests within the power elite. The 2016 US election, however, was vastly different from previous elections. As the election dragged on the power elite became bitterly divided, with the majority supporting Hilary Clinton, the candidate pre-selected by the political and corporate factions, while the military faction rallied around their choice of Donald Trump.
That is only a rough take. The corporate factions are divided within. The oil industry does not like it when wars disturb its long term businesses (see Russia and Libya). Boeing wants to sell planes to Iran. Other corporate parts don't mind such wars as long as they create new markets or easy access to cheap labor. The media love war as it creates ever thrilling content around which they can sell advertisements.
The decisive political point in this election round was the fight between neo-conservatives/liberal-interventionists and foreign policy realists. One side is represented exemplary by the CIA with the U.S. military on the other:
A schism developed between the Defense Department and the highly politicized CIA. This schism, which can be attributed to the corporate-deep-state’s covert foreign policy, traces back to the CIA orchestrated “color revolutions” that had swept the Middle East and North Africa.
The CIA created bloodthirsty future enemies the military will later have to defeat. Fascists in Ukraine and Takfiris all over the Middle East are used by the CIA to further neocon aims but then require relative cheap military intervention at high human costs. The Generals do not like that. (The precedence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan was enough for them.) Neither does the military industry. Fighting Takfiris does not require big ticket items. Ratcheting up the rhetoric against peer competitors (without ever fighting a real war) is the best justification for a two million strong military and huge military contracts.
It is still astonishing that the military Trump faction of the power triangle could win the fight. Trump made that possible when he used a hostile media for his gain. The corporate media stood strongly behind Clinton but that was not enough to hide her negative sides. Trump's salesmen bluster proved too fascinating to not be reported. In the end the media that hated him ended up making the very best advertisement for him. For weeks the neoconned Washington Post editorial page ran five or six anti-Trump pieces per day. That alone was for some reason enough to vote for Trump.
Trump will now have to win over other parts of the power triangle. The corporate part is the easy one. He will lower its taxes. He will also, in one form or another, reinstate tariffs along the U.S. borders. His confrontational position against main exporting countries, China, Germany, Mexico etc, will also transfer into higher U.S. corporate profits. It may even create some additional jobs in the U.S. which would help him to get reelected.
The military will demand its due beyond the three generals now in Trump's cabinet. But soldiers do not like to go to war. That means that Trump will increase conflict rhetoric against some foreign countries but also that he will not start any serious war. Expect the announcement of some super nifty, new but useless military wonder weapon for which Trump will promise trillions (Reagan's star wars redux).
The most difficult faction to win over to his view is the political/executive/secret services side including many people within his own party. Neoliberalism has inflicted those on all levels. Trump will have to neutralize or fire people in their upper ranks early and often. If he fails to do that all his plans will be challenged and stymied in their early implementation.
Trump is a highly gifted salesman, one of the best I have ever seen. His general business skills are more average. He is full of bluster before going into negotiations. His current rhetoric in relations to other countries should be seen as opening shots. Such threats and offers alike are to him just parts of a negotiation process. His main aim with those will be to get some manufacturing back into the United States. He needs some success in this, in creating jobs, jobs, jobs and raising wages, to secure his reelection.
Economically Trump will lower taxes and increase spending (after some minor for-show cuts.) U.S. national debt will rise significantly. Interest rates will rise in conflict with his aim to lower the dollar value in exchange markets. His U.S. centric protectionism will allow other countries to also take steps in such a direction. At one point Trump will have to take up a fight with speculative Wall Street banking. It is an impediment for all his other aims. This will be his most difficult fight and the one he will probably lose.
Over all I do not expect anything exceptional from Trump. His time in the White House will probably turn out to be minor remake of Reagan's.
Posted by: Circe | Jan 21, 2017 1:49:45 AM | 136
meanwhile he was palling around with … a host of other Neocons like Woolsey
Woolsey, a died in the wool Neocon of the First Order, publicly cut and run! So your patently false assertion is BS.
Re fake, fake, fake, fake, fake.
Are you perhaps aware of the term ‘Projection’ ?
Secondly, endlessly repeating key words, tautologically, does not strengthen your argument, it fundamentally cripples it to anyone with a rational mind using logic & reason. See, ‘The boy who cried, ‘Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire!”
He was an empty vessel; the ideal puppet to parrot the deep state’s plan.
How can anyone know this, have you invented and have access to some new fangled ‘Brainwave thought scanner’ ‘thingywhatsit’ ?
Secondly it is verifiably documented, proven, corroborated fact, throughout this site, that at the very least, major elements of the ‘Deep-State’ CIA/ODNI/MI6/MSM have been doing everything they possibly could & can, & continue to do so, to destroy Trump & his faction. Your fallacious non evidence based relentless assertions are akin to a proselytizing ‘God-Botherer’ demanding we all accept your faith that the earth is Flat and the Solar system revolves around Earth, and a mythical Eve was made from one of mythical Adam’s ribs, when Earth was built in six days and is only 5,000 years old!
What utter inane BS.
It was all programmed.
Hm, so you are a fatalist, a believer in pre-determinism, another God-Botherer associated belief, ie non-existence of free will ?
If so, then why rabidly and relentlessly attempt to convince others your baseless & fallacious assertions and prophecies are, in fact current, as well as, future fact ? Do you have a Diploma for your Clairvoyants/Mind-Readers course, proving you qualified ?
Posted by: Outraged | Jan 21 2017 7:42 utc | 132
Today the buck stops with Trump alone. No more Hillary or Obama to excuse his actions. The Not-Hillary President is an excuse not to hold Trump’s feet to the fire. There’s only so much one can re-hash the past. We are entering the Trump era. So Trump has no choice now but to be the REAL Donald J. Trump; he can no longer rely on his showmanship. He is no longer in election mode where he can get away with the sales pitch without delivering the goods. However, he has yet to move on from the election, and you have not moved on either with this post rehashing the past; blaming this, that and the other. Is this the solution for life as well?: blame the past and everything and everyone one around us conspiring to defeat our purpose and goals? Shouldn’t we instead move on with integrity, conviction and responsibility and stop blaming others for our inaction and our failures? The next chapter must begin with honesty because Trump is all about deception.
Is Trump capitulating already? Hell yeah! and has been capitulating for some time now. He’s in bed with Zionists and he alone made that choice; but still you fail to call him out on that. Nothing good has ever come from appeasing Zionists; that’s how Iraq and many other geopolitical blunders happened; and nothing good will ever come of this unholy alliance. Today, the REAL Trump was praising the mobsters at Langley and then crowing about how many times he made the cover of Time and what a big crowd he had yesterday and how he’s going to expand the CIA and professing his love for them getting rousing applause. But he lied! He said the media fabricated a feud between him and the CIA. Bullshit. He should go back and check this tweet!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819164172781060096
Even if Trump was justified to show his disdain for Brennan; it’s deceptive to turn that around today and pretend that the media fabricated this feud with the CIA! So basically, Trump graduated from exposing media bias (which is okay) to now exploit the fact that people mistrust the media to deflect to them whatever deception he resorts to as President. This is a dangerous manipulation and fascist ruse.
It’s f…king time to get on HIS case, expose him and lose the tired Hillary narrative, already. Now his actions will be scrutinized and they are fair game for criticism. No more, it’s this, it’s that, it’s the other – poor Trump; he’s a lamb among wolves, a man-baby who needs our coddling. When Obama capitulated; he deserved all the criticism he got from many including – NO EXCUSES from me, like oh, he meant well, but the corrupt system was out to get him. Today, all I hear is: the corrupt system is out to get poor Trump, it’s the deep state, poor thing: What’s next? His shorts are too tight and stopped the circulation to his brain so he’s not responsible? All he needs is someone like you to buy into this and skilfully cover his ass. Both Obama and now Trump are grown men! It’s not the CIA, KGB, Mossad, media or the Soros conspiracy! Quit the man-baby needs our protection shit. He’s a grown man who knew exactly what he was getting into and either he has integrity and balls to shun all influence or he doesn’t, and will fail, mostly because he was already bought; and was never the man-god you fantasized with, but just another corrupt billionaire lusting for power. He’s dishonest and; he already sold his soul to the highest bidder – Adelson.
So as of this day, no one is to blame for whatever shit Trump pulls, not-Hillary nor a vast conspiracy nor the man on the moon pulling strings, only Trump himself! What Trump does or doesn’t do is HIS CHOICE alone.
Now, I must address the elephant in the room today: the protests. If there are hundreds of thousands marching in the streets; that’s THEIR prerogative and right. Stop, before you blame this on a vast neoliberal, Soros conspiracy, and then cry poor Trump! People are up to their eyeballs; they don’t need Soros or anyone else to mobilize them; they’re disgusted with good reason. Who cares what role this other billionaire plays! He’s a gnat, compared to the bigger picture that needs to unfold from this. I say throw him out like yesterday’s trash along with the rest of his corrupt billionaire Zionist oligarch club!
There are groups out there from all walks of life fighting for all kinds of causes rallying together. That’s good, but my only criticism and concern is that they get stuck in a place where they don’t see the forest for the trees, kind of like you’re doing with this post. Eventually, I hope, people will get it through their thick noggins that the two-party monopoly ruled by the deep state, is suborning their politicians and therefore subverting their democracy and is the real source of evil and corruption in the system. Until and unless they rally under that same banner first (the forest – the wider problem) and their other many grievances second (the trees), nothing will come out of this.
The whole lot in Congress should be thrown out with some exceptions. People of integrity need to step up and run for office and other people need to support them and run out of town whoever is being funded by Wall Street and Zionists.
The narrative needs to change from, protesting Trump only, to protesting the entire corrupt system that includes Trump and we should all get behind the protest movement for the latter reason; because we all have this problem in common despite our other differences.
Thankfully, some are starting to get it; although, it has to go further. Example, today, Michael Moore, moved away from the Trump narrative speaking at a rally in Washington, basically stating, and I’m paraphrasing,: thank-you very much Democrats; you did some good stuff and now it’s time for you to GO!
Here are his exact words:
“We have to take over the Democratic Party…The old guard of the Democratic Party has to go.” More on the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1maU_nnlNY
Michael Moore stood up against the Bush Administration. He is standing up against Trump, because Trump is a fraud and the REAL Donald Trump is worse than Bush; AND now he’s standing up against the Democratic Party. This is a good start, but more and even better activists are required to speak out with greater clarity, promoting instead the narrative that attacks the two-headed corrupt monopoly dragon and their Zionist financiers until they’re run out of town. Why not aim for that higher narrative instead of staying mired in everyone’s out to get Trump-man-god-savior-of-the-universe?
Therefore, Not-Hillary, Trump-god, defenceless man-baby victim of conspiracies is a status quo, cyclical narrative; because both are two sides of the same coin. What difference does it make if they take money from Soros or Adelson? It’s the same f….cking cabal and Trump is already doing the cabal’s bidding.
Now you may not have a horse in a movement to rid Washington of the cabal that rules it; you may have the limited agenda of ensuring Russia is out of the Empire’s crosshairs. Well, how is that going to help when a new administration with a different scheme to ensure imperial hegemony replaces this one 4 or 8 years from now with the same monopoly in Congress? What matters here is a permanent solution, not a short-term fix; the long view not the short-term immediate gratification that blinds you from recognizing that nothing has changed BUT THE DEVIOUSNESS OF THE STRATEGY to advance the Empire. A temporary pretense at reset with Russia to replace China and Iran in the crosshairs instead is not the solution for achieving global stability and a multi-polar world. It is a selfish and narrow-minded surrender to the Empire’s morphing machinations.
Posted by: Circe | Jan 21 2017 22:27 utc | 183
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