THE RACE CARD IS ALL LIBERALS HAVE
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/podcast-race-card-all-liberals-have/
Pretty thin gruel.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/podcast-race-card-all-liberals-have/
Pretty thin gruel.
2018 Midterm Election
- Thread starter Walter
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Just in time for the midterms Trump cancels raises for 2 million federal employees
https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/30/beto-orourke-could-be-the-next-obama/
"SNIP.....
Beto O’Rourke Could Be the Next Obama
August 30, 2018 at 12:02 pm EDT*By*Taegan Goddard*339 Comments
Peter Hamby: “The hype emerging from the Democrat’s campaign points to something rather obvious: O’Rourke is good at this, way better than most of the Democrats sniffing around the next presidential race from the boring hallways of Capitol Hill. Whether he wins or loses his race—and yes, even if he loses—O’Rourke should be included in every conversation about the 2020 Democratic primary. That’s because, unlike most of the paint-by-numbers politicians in his party, O’Rourke actually understands how politics should be conducted in the Donald Trump era: authentic, full of energy, stripped of consultant-driven sterility, and waged at all times with a social-media-primed video screen in mind. O’Rourke is making a bet that running on his gut and giving voters a clear choice against Cruz, rather than just a mushy alternative, offers not just a path to victory in Texas but an antidote to the entire stupid artifice of American politics in the Trump era.”
“The most appealing thing about O’Rourke is both delightfully uncomplicated and extremely powerful: he talks about politics like you and your friends do.”
.....SNIP"
Meanwhile republicans run a racist facebook group member for Florida governor. Why it means people like Walter could run:
https://thinkprogress.org/florida-g...cist-anti-muslim-facebook-group-6e6d527c6fc2/
"SNIP.....
Beto O’Rourke Could Be the Next Obama
August 30, 2018 at 12:02 pm EDT*By*Taegan Goddard*339 Comments
Peter Hamby: “The hype emerging from the Democrat’s campaign points to something rather obvious: O’Rourke is good at this, way better than most of the Democrats sniffing around the next presidential race from the boring hallways of Capitol Hill. Whether he wins or loses his race—and yes, even if he loses—O’Rourke should be included in every conversation about the 2020 Democratic primary. That’s because, unlike most of the paint-by-numbers politicians in his party, O’Rourke actually understands how politics should be conducted in the Donald Trump era: authentic, full of energy, stripped of consultant-driven sterility, and waged at all times with a social-media-primed video screen in mind. O’Rourke is making a bet that running on his gut and giving voters a clear choice against Cruz, rather than just a mushy alternative, offers not just a path to victory in Texas but an antidote to the entire stupid artifice of American politics in the Trump era.”
“The most appealing thing about O’Rourke is both delightfully uncomplicated and extremely powerful: he talks about politics like you and your friends do.”
.....SNIP"
Meanwhile republicans run a racist facebook group member for Florida governor. Why it means people like Walter could run:
https://thinkprogress.org/florida-g...cist-anti-muslim-facebook-group-6e6d527c6fc2/
Maybe they won't like Trump anymore either when they see this:
https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/1035261512275771392?s=20
Republican who said ‘Hitler was right’ wins Missouri primary race
Steve West routinely expresses conspiracy theories on his YouTube channel
A Missouri Republican who once claimed “Hitler was right” has won his primary election.
Steve West is now the party’s nominee for a seat in the state House, representing Clay County, an area to the northeast of Kansas City.
He has a radio show, broadcasting under the pseudonym Jack Justice. Mr West said on that show in early 2017: “Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ection-state-representative-a8492951.html?amp
Steve West routinely expresses conspiracy theories on his YouTube channel
A Missouri Republican who once claimed “Hitler was right” has won his primary election.
Steve West is now the party’s nominee for a seat in the state House, representing Clay County, an area to the northeast of Kansas City.
He has a radio show, broadcasting under the pseudonym Jack Justice. Mr West said on that show in early 2017: “Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ection-state-representative-a8492951.html?amp
So, that is the calibre of folks getting "elected now.
BTW: what was Hitler "right about?? in this chaps estimation??
America will not be the same again.......... Trump has unleashed an ugliness that is surfacing with plenty of support.
Record black employment , record Latino employment. America will never be the same .
NATO: A criminal and a liar
Using a Goebbels-style mechanism to whitewash the truth, repeating lies and inventing non-existent threats to perpetuate itself, NATO uses the media to brainwash a gullible western public, employing a manipulation of fear to implement its trans-national policies, parading Russia as the eternal ogre. Let us take a look behind the scenes.
It is difficult to know whether it is more sad, or ridiculous, to hear Western commentators speaking about Vladimir Putin as a tyrant, and Russia as a threat. It is even sadder to hear a gullible western public, fed on a menu of barefaced lies, reiterating such utter nonsense as if they had received the Truth from some kind of oracle. As NATO's rhetoric reaches hysterical proportions, perhaps it is time to search for this Truth by examining the facts, rather than believing in fairy stories.
The NATO ploy is in fact quite primary, and runs along the lines of a medieval witch-hunt, or a mass-lynching in a primitive society after someone has pointed at a passer-by and shouted out "He's a wizard!" or "She's a witch!". The story goes like this: (drum roll) (dramatic orchestrated music, beginning piano and reaching a crescendo) Russia has threatened all its neighbors. Russia has seized Crimea from Ukraine after attacking Georgia and forcing Chechnya into submission. Russia then invaded Ukraine. Now Russia is threatening the Baltic States. Next stop... Manchester. Then (drum roll) Texas!! Silence. (violins) But NATO is here to protect you (Vivaldi's 4 seasons). NATO has the clout to rout, to install democracy over plutocracy, to usher Russia into a corner, to protect Europe and European values, NATO values, against the hordes from the East. (Large photo as a backdrop, showing Tony Blair grinning inanely among a hundred Albanian boys named ToniBler in his honor. Camera pans into his face. Something sinister lunges behind his eyes, which burn red as he hisses "Told you so! I got that trillion-dollar deal!"
"Cut!! Cut!! Cut that Blair bit out! Finish it on the word East, put it on track seven, and give it an echo, like East east east east and fade out. Cool. OK that should do the trick".
Brainwashing
Funny? Not really, they actually managed to sell the story, because supposedly intelligent, cultured and informed people are repeating it with great authority. Sky News is even today peddling Theresa May as the best option for the next Prime Minister of the UK because she has the authority "to stand up to Putin over the Baltic States" or some such nonsense.
As Goebbels did, if you invent a lie and repeat it ad nauseam, people get brainwashed into believing it, and we see this on the pages of this very newspaper, Pravdareport, in the "freedom of expression" comments section, where Russophobic messages of hatred accompany every single article, complete with insults against Russia and its people and President. OK such is par for the course when you practice freedom of expression but the intention is clear.
So let us tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but and out NATO's strategy for what it is, namely an attempt to create a raison d'être, an exercise in self-perpetuation because after all, what is NATO? It is the cutting edge of the Sinister Six Sisters, the BARFFS (Banking, Arms, Energy, Finance, Food, Pharmaceuticals Lobbies), implementing their policies in its target states and at the same time paying the bills of its board of directors, those involved in the arms trade. NATO's official budget, it announces, is around one billion USD - quite obviously this would not fill a cavity in a crocodile's tooth but it serves to pull the wool over the eyes of the willing gullible fools who swallow everything NATO says without question. The real figure is the collective military spending of all NATO countries, which is around one point two trillion USD each and every year, that is one point two thousand billion dollars, or 1.2 x 10 to the power 12 or 1,200,000,000,000 USD. No money for your healthcare, Mr. Tomlinson? No place at school for little Johnny, Mrs. Browne? No funding for Master Bates' dental plan?
NATO's budget: 1.2 trillion USD each and every year
So with a budget three times higher, annually, than the amount of cash it would take to eradicate global poverty, for good, in a single payment, it makes sense that NATO wishes to perpetuate itself, does it not? And let's be honest, Serbia was small fry. Iraq was a foreign policy disaster (did anyone hear them speaking about Russia invading people back in 2003?), the intervention in Libya was a re-run of Iraq and the country with the highest Human Development Index in Africa is today a failed State crawling with terrorists. Burkina Faso? Chad? Too small, no resources. So then they remembered Russia.
See more at NATO: A criminal and a liar
Capitalism Isn
The secret is that democracy and capitalism are actually opposite principles that balance each other like men and women, boom and bust, inflation and deflation.
Clueless economists and politicians want an economy that grows at 3%-plus with no recessions or cycles of inflation and deflation.
They all went nuts when the S&P 500 reached all-time highs last week, which is a side effect of QE and continual artificial stimulus. .
The problem is that it’s those very dynamics and play of opposites that actually drive innovation and a standard of living that has grown nine times since 1900!
Find a time in history when that has happened…
Lobbying by special interests should be outlawed or severely limited.
Political contributions should be capped at something like a $1,000 per household per candidate.
Corporations, at best, get the same $1,000 cap, if anything at all.
Central banks should not be able to artificially stimulate the economy with money printing or interest rate manipulation.
And if they do, it should only be allowed for brief periods during times of defined emergencies, like recessions with unemployment over 10%, or stock crashes over 50%, etc.
The Fed should simply grow the money supply in line with GDP growth and only provide injections of liquidity when needed to keep the banking system from getting overwhelmed and melting down unnecessarily…
NOT to prevent recessions and natural rebalancing that keeps the economy healthy and innovation moving forward. That is free market capitalism with consequences for failure.
We are on the verge of the greatest political, social, and economic revolution since the advent of democracy itself.
Our newfound information technologies make capitalism more innovative than ever through bottom-up network systems, rather than top down.
It’s more competitive than ever.
They make democracy more robust since everyday individuals can be much more informed and participate in many more ways.
It’s more inclusive than ever.
This revolution is about the revitalization of the two most important principles in history, not about the failure or destruction of them.
Our greed, our shortsightedness, and our political system is what has failed here.
I’m afraid that the system is going to have to break down further than any previous time in history for us to understand and restore these simple principles.
One of the things my father told me stuck with me: “People are not realistic. Hence, they are irresponsible.”
It’s not that people mean to be irresponsible, or in this case, want to kill democracy or capitalism.
The desire for an easy, risk-free life and economy kills these proven and successful principles without us even knowing or seeing it.
It’s time we listen to people that do understand capitalism and democracy. It’s time to start seeing the obvious here.
David Stockman is one of those people you should be listening to.
He’s the author of the bestselling book, The Deformation of Capitalism, and he’ll be speaking at our Irrational Economic Summit in Austin, Texas this October.
Seats are running out, and the Hilton Hotel is nearly booked full.
Be sure to reserve you seats now before there are none left.
If you’ve any faith in the system – the original untampered system – then you won’t want to miss out on the chance to hear some of the greatest minds come together and talk about the current state of our economy and markets.
Using a Goebbels-style mechanism to whitewash the truth, repeating lies and inventing non-existent threats to perpetuate itself, NATO uses the media to brainwash a gullible western public, employing a manipulation of fear to implement its trans-national policies, parading Russia as the eternal ogre. Let us take a look behind the scenes.
It is difficult to know whether it is more sad, or ridiculous, to hear Western commentators speaking about Vladimir Putin as a tyrant, and Russia as a threat. It is even sadder to hear a gullible western public, fed on a menu of barefaced lies, reiterating such utter nonsense as if they had received the Truth from some kind of oracle. As NATO's rhetoric reaches hysterical proportions, perhaps it is time to search for this Truth by examining the facts, rather than believing in fairy stories.
The NATO ploy is in fact quite primary, and runs along the lines of a medieval witch-hunt, or a mass-lynching in a primitive society after someone has pointed at a passer-by and shouted out "He's a wizard!" or "She's a witch!". The story goes like this: (drum roll) (dramatic orchestrated music, beginning piano and reaching a crescendo) Russia has threatened all its neighbors. Russia has seized Crimea from Ukraine after attacking Georgia and forcing Chechnya into submission. Russia then invaded Ukraine. Now Russia is threatening the Baltic States. Next stop... Manchester. Then (drum roll) Texas!! Silence. (violins) But NATO is here to protect you (Vivaldi's 4 seasons). NATO has the clout to rout, to install democracy over plutocracy, to usher Russia into a corner, to protect Europe and European values, NATO values, against the hordes from the East. (Large photo as a backdrop, showing Tony Blair grinning inanely among a hundred Albanian boys named ToniBler in his honor. Camera pans into his face. Something sinister lunges behind his eyes, which burn red as he hisses "Told you so! I got that trillion-dollar deal!"
"Cut!! Cut!! Cut that Blair bit out! Finish it on the word East, put it on track seven, and give it an echo, like East east east east and fade out. Cool. OK that should do the trick".
Brainwashing
Funny? Not really, they actually managed to sell the story, because supposedly intelligent, cultured and informed people are repeating it with great authority. Sky News is even today peddling Theresa May as the best option for the next Prime Minister of the UK because she has the authority "to stand up to Putin over the Baltic States" or some such nonsense.
As Goebbels did, if you invent a lie and repeat it ad nauseam, people get brainwashed into believing it, and we see this on the pages of this very newspaper, Pravdareport, in the "freedom of expression" comments section, where Russophobic messages of hatred accompany every single article, complete with insults against Russia and its people and President. OK such is par for the course when you practice freedom of expression but the intention is clear.
So let us tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but and out NATO's strategy for what it is, namely an attempt to create a raison d'être, an exercise in self-perpetuation because after all, what is NATO? It is the cutting edge of the Sinister Six Sisters, the BARFFS (Banking, Arms, Energy, Finance, Food, Pharmaceuticals Lobbies), implementing their policies in its target states and at the same time paying the bills of its board of directors, those involved in the arms trade. NATO's official budget, it announces, is around one billion USD - quite obviously this would not fill a cavity in a crocodile's tooth but it serves to pull the wool over the eyes of the willing gullible fools who swallow everything NATO says without question. The real figure is the collective military spending of all NATO countries, which is around one point two trillion USD each and every year, that is one point two thousand billion dollars, or 1.2 x 10 to the power 12 or 1,200,000,000,000 USD. No money for your healthcare, Mr. Tomlinson? No place at school for little Johnny, Mrs. Browne? No funding for Master Bates' dental plan?
NATO's budget: 1.2 trillion USD each and every year
So with a budget three times higher, annually, than the amount of cash it would take to eradicate global poverty, for good, in a single payment, it makes sense that NATO wishes to perpetuate itself, does it not? And let's be honest, Serbia was small fry. Iraq was a foreign policy disaster (did anyone hear them speaking about Russia invading people back in 2003?), the intervention in Libya was a re-run of Iraq and the country with the highest Human Development Index in Africa is today a failed State crawling with terrorists. Burkina Faso? Chad? Too small, no resources. So then they remembered Russia.
See more at NATO: A criminal and a liar
Capitalism Isn
The secret is that democracy and capitalism are actually opposite principles that balance each other like men and women, boom and bust, inflation and deflation.
Clueless economists and politicians want an economy that grows at 3%-plus with no recessions or cycles of inflation and deflation.
They all went nuts when the S&P 500 reached all-time highs last week, which is a side effect of QE and continual artificial stimulus. .
The problem is that it’s those very dynamics and play of opposites that actually drive innovation and a standard of living that has grown nine times since 1900!
Find a time in history when that has happened…
Lobbying by special interests should be outlawed or severely limited.
Political contributions should be capped at something like a $1,000 per household per candidate.
Corporations, at best, get the same $1,000 cap, if anything at all.
Central banks should not be able to artificially stimulate the economy with money printing or interest rate manipulation.
And if they do, it should only be allowed for brief periods during times of defined emergencies, like recessions with unemployment over 10%, or stock crashes over 50%, etc.
The Fed should simply grow the money supply in line with GDP growth and only provide injections of liquidity when needed to keep the banking system from getting overwhelmed and melting down unnecessarily…
NOT to prevent recessions and natural rebalancing that keeps the economy healthy and innovation moving forward. That is free market capitalism with consequences for failure.
We are on the verge of the greatest political, social, and economic revolution since the advent of democracy itself.
Our newfound information technologies make capitalism more innovative than ever through bottom-up network systems, rather than top down.
It’s more competitive than ever.
They make democracy more robust since everyday individuals can be much more informed and participate in many more ways.
It’s more inclusive than ever.
This revolution is about the revitalization of the two most important principles in history, not about the failure or destruction of them.
Our greed, our shortsightedness, and our political system is what has failed here.
I’m afraid that the system is going to have to break down further than any previous time in history for us to understand and restore these simple principles.
One of the things my father told me stuck with me: “People are not realistic. Hence, they are irresponsible.”
It’s not that people mean to be irresponsible, or in this case, want to kill democracy or capitalism.
The desire for an easy, risk-free life and economy kills these proven and successful principles without us even knowing or seeing it.
It’s time we listen to people that do understand capitalism and democracy. It’s time to start seeing the obvious here.
David Stockman is one of those people you should be listening to.
He’s the author of the bestselling book, The Deformation of Capitalism, and he’ll be speaking at our Irrational Economic Summit in Austin, Texas this October.
Seats are running out, and the Hilton Hotel is nearly booked full.
Be sure to reserve you seats now before there are none left.
If you’ve any faith in the system – the original untampered system – then you won’t want to miss out on the chance to hear some of the greatest minds come together and talk about the current state of our economy and markets.
https://www.salon.com/2018/08/31/gr...l-decriminalize-marijuana-if-they-win-senate/
"SNIP....
Green wave: Elizabeth Warren predicts Democrats will decriminalize marijuana if they win SenateElizabeth Warren thinks a Democratic Senate will pass a bill ending the federal ban on weed
MATTHEW ROZSAAUGUST 31, 2018 6:25PM (UTC)
Less than a week after it was revealed that President Donald Trump had secretly created a*marijuana task force*— one entrusted with both cracking down on states that have legalized marijuana and spreading anti-marijuana propaganda — a new interview with a 2020 presidential contender*suggests that Democrats are determined to end the federal prohibition*as a central part of their agenda if they reclaim the Senate in November.
.....SNIP"
That should garner some young voters. And maybe some Trump voters too.
Look to Trump to bring up Antifa as a threat during the midterms. The alt right is already at the ready for that conspiracy theory. Look at how their conspiracies have been directed at gaslighting police:
https://wgno.com/2018/08/30/lawsuit...-police-has-antifa-roster-from-neo-nazi-site/
"SNIP.....
Lawsuit claims Louisiana State Police has ‘antifa’ roster from Neo-Nazi site
POSTED 5:47 PM, AUGUST 30, 2018, BY*WGNO WEB DESK,*
Most filed a public records request in May seeking all Louisiana State Police emails containing hate speech and racist catchphrases, such as “white genocide.”
....
Eventually, a batch of 64 emails were handed over, and Most noticed that a document entitled “full list of antifa.docx” had been making the rounds among high-ranking LSP officials and local law enforcement officials.
When most requested a copy of the “antifa” document, the LSP said “releasing the document could ‘compromise’ an ongoing criminal investigation in which LSP anticipates arrests, and reveal the identity of its ‘Confidential Informant,’” according to Most.
The actual document originated on 8Chan, was popularized by Neo-Nazi websites like Stormfront, and contains the names of thousands of ordinary, law-abiding citizens who signed an online petition against President Trump, according to the lawsuit.
......SNIP"
https://wgno.com/2018/08/30/lawsuit...-police-has-antifa-roster-from-neo-nazi-site/
"SNIP.....
Lawsuit claims Louisiana State Police has ‘antifa’ roster from Neo-Nazi site
POSTED 5:47 PM, AUGUST 30, 2018, BY*WGNO WEB DESK,*
Most filed a public records request in May seeking all Louisiana State Police emails containing hate speech and racist catchphrases, such as “white genocide.”
....
Eventually, a batch of 64 emails were handed over, and Most noticed that a document entitled “full list of antifa.docx” had been making the rounds among high-ranking LSP officials and local law enforcement officials.
When most requested a copy of the “antifa” document, the LSP said “releasing the document could ‘compromise’ an ongoing criminal investigation in which LSP anticipates arrests, and reveal the identity of its ‘Confidential Informant,’” according to Most.
The actual document originated on 8Chan, was popularized by Neo-Nazi websites like Stormfront, and contains the names of thousands of ordinary, law-abiding citizens who signed an online petition against President Trump, according to the lawsuit.
......SNIP"
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