I love it: Donald Trump’s campaign reveals the establishment for what it is, a swamp of corruption as fetid as those of Latin America. It is better entertainment than Vaudeville. The frantic scramble to rig the primaries, change the rules, and thwart the voters–anything to defend their cozy entanglement of political tapeworms–makes absurd any pretense of democracy.
This morning in the Drudge Report: “Trump Highest Number of Republican Voters in History.” Who do the Republicans want to get rid of? Trump.
On the same page a poll reports Trump tied with Hillary nationally. Who do the Republicans want to get rid of? Guess.
It’s wonderful. The GOP is looking for someone that Hillary can beat. She would squash Kasich or Cruz like stepping on bugs. Trump might actually win. This the Republicans strive to avoid. What could make more sense?
But it does make sense. The Republicans try desperately to ditch the only Republican candidate who could win the Presidency because…Hillary is one of them. Because, as every sentient being has by now noticed, the Republicans and Democrats are members of the same corrupt club of blood-sucking parasites, the action arm of the corporations, Wall Street, the Israeli lobby, and those who want the US to control the world at any cost–except, of course, to them. They are panicked at the rise of someone who might put first the interests of America. Better Hillary, a fellow parasite, than Trump, who isn’t.
The latest skulduggery is the Virginia governor’s allowing convicted felons to vote. The obvious intention is to increase the black vote for Hillary. In Chicago, the dead vote. In Virginia, the killers. This sort of thing of course explains the support for Trump.
Will the two parties succeed in blocking the Donald? Might they even resort to the Martin Luther King solution? My powers of political prognostication would be under zero if they could figure out how to get there. If the felony vote and delegate-tampering bring Trump to the convention with only 1236 delegates, and the Republicans broker-in some sad-sack compliant loser, well, the mask will be definitively, openly, for all time off. Welcome to Paraguay.
Which would be only another step in the country’s race toward the Third World.
What would the public do if Trump were robbed of the nomination? What could the public do? There might be protests, mass demonstrations in the streets, but so what? The Insiders’ Club would just wait them out. Once a society realizes that it has no power over its rulers, it lapses into resignation. Republicans do not loot malls or burn cities, and would soon go home. But all the world would see that the Americans have no recourse, that the Insiders do as they please. Welcome to China.
But the mask would be forever off. Very, very off.
If the Republicans deep-six Trump, and Hillary runs against Kasich, or or Cruz, or some other derelict, what then? Our choices will be not to vote, which will make no difference, to vote for either of the party candidates, which will make no difference, or to vote for Trump if he runs as a third party, which will make no difference. But at least we will have seen under the log, the squishy pale creatures scurrying. They will keep their grip on the country, but the world will know them for what they are.
And America for what it is: Corrupt to the roots of its teeth. The corruption is adroitly hidden, yes, or disguised as something else. Yet it is there. Consider the subprime disaster. To believe that it was an accident, or a cyclical downturn, or other artifact of econobabble, one has to believe that bankers, realtors, and Wall Street do not understand mortgages, credit, or defaults. You have to believe that officials of the Treasury, who slide back and forth between Wall Street and government like the motion of the tides, had no idea what was going on.
At the top, America is as corrupt as Mexico but American corruption is far more efficient. Among the white middle class, the rot is less. But within the clubhouse of insiders, at the level of the anointed, of the Adelsons and Epsteins and Clintons and Bushes, there is putrefaction most foul.
It is cleverly done, and seldom involves anything so sordid as open bribery. Yet the results are everywhere. Men who knew exactly what they were doing engineered the student-loan bubble. Yet it is legal, like so many scams. Huge military contracts for things not needed, the near-control of Mid-Eastern policy by Israel, poor medical care at high prices, the deliberate gutting of American industry so that corporations can enrich themselves in China–all of this is legal. You pay Congress and it makes legal anything you want.
Credit cards, which intentionally lure people into going deeply in debt and paying usurious interest rates, are legal. Big Pharma paid Congress to rule that Medicare cannot negotiate the price of drugs, opening a sluice to the Treasury. Corruption, but legal.
Under the rule of the Insiders Club, medical care is a fecund source of legal graft. Example: I once needed eye drops from Bausch and Lomb called Muro, which amounted to hypertonic salt water. A bottle of 1.8 (I think it was) ounces cost $23 in Washington, $19 in Winchester, Virginia. Exactly the same product in Mexico, $6. Price-fixing, but where and by whom? What Congressmen were paid to make it legal, or not look into it too closely, or at all?
Welcome to Guatemala.
Corruption has come to be the purpose of government, and the Club battens on it. You want to see the political equivalent of a public latrine in Uganda? Try HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. I promise that you will be horrified by the diversion of funds and lining of pockets.
You ask, Fred, why do you say this? Are you a student of HUD? No. I know nothing of HUD. I know much of government. HUD is an outfit with over thirty billion a year to spend, completely unwatched. Have you ever seen a newspaper story about HUD? I guarantee that it is dominated by the sacred ethnic groups who milk it like a prize Guernsey, and by big companies getting sweetheart contracts.
Or try Commerce, or Education, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or Congress.
It is to preserve these overflowing rice bowls that we have elections without substance between candidates without a difference. Hillary is just Jeb Bush in a dress, Biden a universally applicable cipher, Cruz a compliant applicant for membership in the club. Since the parties collude in avoiding issues that people care about, the contest becomes a popularity contest of the sort found in middle school. Whoever wins, the Insiders win.
Of course Trump also is a billionaire,but he is a turncoat, a class traitor, the Benedict Arnold of billionaires. He addresses the issues that the Insiders want to remain unaddressed. He is indeed dangerous. He threatens the endless (immensely profitable) wars, the endless (immensely profitable) shipping of American jobs to China, the endless (immensely profitable) importation of cheap Mexican labor. He threatens the sacred rice bowls.
It is why he must be stopped.
I’ve always thought that republicans didn’t want to win in 08′, 12′ or 16′.
They want the dem party to take the heat and implode so they can pick up the pieces, but at what cost to the rest of us?
It’s all about the party to these fucknuts…
We will see in the fall. I think the repugs are a little shocked at the little control they have over their own club. Every Wile E Coyote trick they try ends up with them running over a cliff or getting hit by a bus.
The GOP is so transparent when they throw an election, too. Look at who they served up to run against Clinton for his 2nd term, when public opinion was against the Clintons’ co-presidency: Bob Dole.
Only a brain dead GOP koolaid drinker would vote for Dronin’ Bobby Dole, the tax collector for the welfare state as he was called by his own crony, Newt Gingrich. They want to be able to throw another soft pitch to their “opposition”, like they did with McCain and Romney.
When do republican voters finally get wise? Maybe this time, but it won’t matter if Clinton gets in.
What would the public do if Trump were robbed of the nomination? A political entrepreneur could establish a new party (with a captivating name) and this time it would gain traction and become relevant. Over time, those Rep. elites would be out of a job.
A harsh serum of truth, first thing in the morning. Thanks, Fred. I think.
Trump is revealing a lot more than just the Republican Establishment.
He’s revealing the Leftists for what they really are (as in the violent protests and threats they make at his appearances, pepper spraying children, destroying police cars and so on), he’s revealing that the World Ruling Establishment actually exists and stands unified against the people’s desires not only in America but throughout the World, he’s revealing media up for what they really are along with some of the so called “conservative” talk show hosts that are really just establishment control agents and so much more.
Win or lose, Trump has done a great service to the people of the United States and the world as a whole by revealing all those snakes pretending to be benign as the poisonous vipers they really are.
The truth is being revealed, by the time the revelation is finished nothing will remain hidden.
But here’s a question: If Trump actually gets the nomination and it looks like he is going to be the likely winner this November, what will the Elite Ruling Establishment do about it?
I’m thinking that there is nothing that is not on the table for them, they will not allow any disruption in their power of plans for the world no matter how dire the consequences of their actions to prevent it may have to be.
Maybe all those street prophets standing around on the street corner after WWII with those “The end is nigh” signs weren’t wrong, just a few decades ahead of their time.
The Dems are just as bad with their selections- remember Dukakis? Owl Gore? Hillary? Seriously – they took Jim Webb out behind the woodshed and beat him like a rented mule before he ever had a chance. Our rulers are deathly afraid of the leader who has both on-camera charisma and unpredictability, and that’s why Trump is such a threat to them.
Lets just go ahead and start the deadpool on Trump. Winner gets name on banner left side of website. $5per pick. Lets retire the yearly TBP budget.
Do not want it to happen but historically this tends to happen when a pol goes off the reservation.
JIMSKI,
Might be better to have a pool on how many will be taken out along with him.
A number that could range from zero to millions depending on how desperate the Establishment is at the time.
Whether a Trump win, lose, or suspended election, the two party facade has been exposed for all to see. Anyone that trusts either party is a complete fool.
I think the most important part of the article is this…
“Republicans do not loot malls or burn cities, and would soon go home”
Thee elite know this and therefore are not worried. The chicken shits would keep paying taxes, servicing their debt, continue to work, and basically reside in the system that just told them to fuck off.
However, if Trump wins the presidency the fearless Dems will burn the place down. So that is what I hope happens because at that point the Repugs will have to find their courage and take the society back.
@anon,
good ones today. especially about collateral damage to the people
should they need to use a biggy false flaggy to disrupt the election
and get rid of Mr. NY billionaire. ISIS don’y you know, the existential
threat (an excuse) for anything and everything. Basterds.
Oh, and good one from Fred. Focused this time…and no, the
former middleclass white doesn’t loot malls and burn cars…
in effect…they are no threat to the establishment.
Many of the rest of the whites are too fat or dummy-dumb or
flat out sick from man made flu and foul food and water to even
register an appropriate response. What are they spraying over
our heads in the sky again? Some toxic stew to kill off the weak.
Nice country we have, not.
Accept that the United State_ has one ruling party.
Also accept that the RepubliCON division of the ruling party knew that Ron Paul would have easily kicked the Kenyan Usurper’s @$$ in 2008 and 2012, but instead picked paid losers McLame/Same and Mitt Zombie.
Kabuki theatre.
I keep hearing the media line ‘The elite politician’s’ don’t understand what is going on in this country?
Horsecrap, they now exactly what is going on, they are corrupt sell-outs. Including our representatives from this red state.
No country being properly governed would allow an invasion from a neighboring country, nor would they run deficits to current levels and accumulate debt to disastrous levels.
Greg in NC,
Fortunately, the Leftists usually concentrate on burning and destroying their own parts of town.
Might be a good idea to just cordon them off there and leave them alone to do it.
Here’s what’s gonna happen. Trump will get the nomination. The party will rally. They’ve already started. Trump will be co-opted. He’s already started. By August, Trump will be just another mouthpiece spouting the GOP Party line. The only difference between him and Hills will be personal scandal stories. A reality TV election.
Who wins? Who cares? Same – same. I only know that WE lose. Again. As always.
Olga (in NC) agrees with Greg in NC.
“Republicans do not loot malls or burn cities, and would soon go home”
Was the most important take-away.
Our overlords know that should they take Trump out of the game in whatever manner required that the sheep will do nothing.
“Republicans do not loot malls or burn cities, and would soon go home”
Well, there’s a first time for everything. Anecdotal yes, but judging from the conversations I’ve had with many, many, many hard-working tax-paying folks, there is so much seething anger boiling up in these people, ANYTHING is possible. These people have had enough.
Hey Anon,
I agree that they usually stay in their own areas and that is good, but this time they may have help mobilizing to our communities. That would make them easy targets though.
Greg.
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Raises a name. Jim Webb, why not him for vp with Mr Trump. Sure he is not Mr personable. Was disliked by many of his senate fellows. He is young enough for 2020 potential. He fought the good fight and he talks the good fight. Since Trump will probably emphasize himself as any American candidate first running on a GOP ticket, Jim Webb would attract a significant cross over vote and maybe encourage a few disheartened independents to give it a last shot. Possibly, such a fusion ticket could over come the 200,000 newly enfranchised felons who will otherwise guarantee Va for Hitlery
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Trump, Hillary, Ron Paul, Bernie
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama
Only fools are convinced voting matters and the Jimmy Carter of the day is different.
Morons still believe JFK was different and can’t accept some nut shot him and if he lived he would have been a disappointment to his worshippers just like Obama is to his groupies. The Trump worshippers are the latest group of morons falling for the Hope & Change saying of the day, too funny.
Prusmc, fuck Jim webb. I read his books, I thought he might be a democratic bright spot. Then came obamacare. Jim who?
‘A Time to Fight’, a book by Jim webb. That was the time Mr webb, what did you do? Punk
John,
Like him or not, you do realize that JFK was the only President to ever take on the Fed don’t you?
That alone qualifies him as different.
Fred is right about everything, especially conservatives not being the type to loot malls and burn cities. However, when conservatives eventually find their balls and break bad, the owners who emanate the “Putrefaction most foul” better look the fuck out because there will be no safe space for them as an immense conflagration sweeps over the land consuming all the deadwood.
On one hand I can’t wait to see it. On the other, I wouldn’t want to be within a million miles of it.
“JFK was the only President to ever take on the Fed ”
some people will believe anything.
It’s funny as chit the propaganda machine has created millions of FED Phobia nutcases.
John,
Ever hear of the red seals? The “United States Notes” issued by the United States Treasury in place of Federal Reserve issued money?
http://www.rapidtrends.com/it-almost-became-money-united-states-notes-versus-federal-reserve-notes/
How do you get around that in your position?
FWIW, Kennedy was shot in the head shortly after he started this and the issue discontinued, the same way Lincoln was shot in the head when he bucked the European banks in favor of our own issued debt as “greenbacks” that didn’t pay interest to them.
FWIW, Kennedy also was in the first stage of getting us out of Vietnam before he got shot, Johnson took the opposite approach afterwards when he became President.
This is a great post by feed, my favorite one in a long time. He is correct, in that white republican voters don’t loot and burn. I have a tough time picturing that. But they have the ability to actually grind all of this to a halt of they are angry enough. A bunch of dindu’s burning down their own neighborhood just makes for entertaining television. No one in charge is really scared of that. But white republicans who pay taxes and fight these wars, and pay these mortgages, grow the food, etc have the ability to burn this mother down by simply not doing those things anymore. Of they ceased to participate, what happens to this country and government? Nothing good. That would be a lot scarier than a bunch of rioting pavement apes.
Baloney article full of opinion backed by wrong facts and misinformation
1. His hypertonic salt example is idiotic. Many companies sell outside of the core market at gross margin pricing, while using the home market to recover fixed costs and recoup R&D. Besides, he can make his own from pharma quality salt packages. Bogus argument
2.Trump. His positions are unknown, and are close to Bernie Sanders. He has backed in the past universal health care, a wealth tax, and trade tariffs. He is an actor. Maybe is is a savior, maybe not
3. Israel controlling the ME would be news to Netanyahu who did what he could to change the Iran deal
4. Cruz is hated by the establishment. Ask John Boner
5. Polls show Kasich over Hillary. She might beat him, but the only facts we have show Trump losing to her. The authors offers opinion but shares no existing data or even acknowledges it
6. Credit cards are evil. Really? Perhaps a few misuse them just like drunks abuse alcohol. Credit cards are very useful to a lot of people who manage their cash flow
“Reed” is on an unstable rant this time. He’s usually better than this drivel
“Wow. Did Pat Buchanan actually just mention the possibility of assassination when he said they might try the “Martin Luther King solution”?”
they offed scalia. nothing happened. nobody cared.
think trump is any different to them?
Armed revolt and burning things down
is not the answer. The people who have created this mess
are nowhere to be found. So, those same people are trying
hard to foster resentment between groups…and it is working.
It similar to Freud’s “displacement” defense mechanism. Our
true resentment lies with the puppet masters, not some retard
collecting “entitlements.” The fraud the gov (congress) and the big
banks + Fed Reserve central banks have perpetrated is legion. The
result has yet to play out. The majority have yet to figure it out. The
FSA is too disconnected to ever realize anything. For those that can
see and hear and reason, there may be a chance for survival. Of course,
people that have known all along are ahead, but that is small satisfaction.
The guilty may as well be Satanists, and they are untouchable.
It’s obvious that Trump is NOT the one the GOP wants to get rid of most; after all, they know he prides himself on being a “dealmaker” and will happily make all the deals in the world with them if he becomes the next prez! OTOH, they know that Ted Cruz is the real deal, he’s been tried and tested, and unlike Trump, he won’t make deals with them, but will keep his promises to the electorate, AS HE ALWAYS HAS. That’s why John Boehner and the rest of the despicable weasels in DC hate him so much. They can’t control or bribe him, because they’ve already tried.
No Repulicans don’t burn malls.
But they have non violent recourse. Stop producing and paying taxes for one.
They also could get divorces and show up at the welfare office for a bounty of free shit. Play the same games and scams that the Democrats have been playing for generations. Hell be damned with any sense of self respect.
This whole commentary thread smacks of conspiracy theory and innuendo. Stop sugar-coating it. The government is crooked. The sharks are fighting for the juiciest portions of the American carcass. If SSS returns had some balls, he’d admit that.
” Mr webb, what did you do? Punk”
Webb was a platoon commander in Vietnam as a 1st Lt, in Delta, 1st of the 5th, in the shit. He was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze star twice, Purple Heart twice.
You don’t get to call him a punk.
@SSS (‘returns’, or sum such bullshit).
Because your generation so completely fucked mine, we view you and all your fat-ass buddies on the golf course as being quite expendable. This reality will finally hit you when you enter the nursing-home and realize that your non-English speaking illegal immigrant diaper-changer likes to ‘play’ with your private parts.
Enjoy your future, Baby Boomers. You brought it on yourselves. Compare the society your parents left you, to what you are leaving your children. Then shut-up, eat shit, and die. Fuckers.
For those that don’t know, SSS lives for thumbs down. He holds the all time record here. He and John are tied on this thread so SSS is gonna have to step up his game. My money’s on SSS!
It takes a lot to get your average conservative exercised. They do not routinely burn malls as noted. When they do get good and worked up they do things like the American Revolution.
Some may recall the comment after 2 million people showed up for a Tea Party rally in DC: What if the next time they come with guns?
I don’t think they should want to find out. What really holds the good people back is that unlike the street trash, they know that once they start down this road the only solution is to see it through to the end. We do not want to kill millions of people. If forced to, you will not want to be the guy who had the big Obama or Hitlery signs in your yard or on your car.
I seriously wonder why or if I should vote this time. I refuse to vote for “less of a threat” candidates any longer. I have seen and heard all of the hype over the last 40 years of “say one thing while campaigning, do another when in office” that leads to distrust in the public, or at least to the people who pay attention.
And in relation to corruption, I recently retired from a long stint as a manager in municipal government. I can tell you that I was hated by all of my peers. The reason for this hatred was that I would not take a bribe, payoff, kickback or a free meal from any firms that worked for us. I watched the greed and corruption for many years and was sickened by it. I was hated and vilified because I would not accept any “love” as my “corrupt co-workers” called it. The smell of corruption was sickening and I smelled it every day for many years. I left with my honor intact, always wondering that if this political corruption was this bad on a municipal level, how bad could it be on a state or federal level? Makes me shudder.
I believe we are an empire that is crumbling from within. I am watching my once great country fall to corruption, greed, obesity, immorality, unsound monetary practices and people who have the attention span of goldfish. Only God can help us now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/04/28/national-group-of-sheriffs-opposed-to-federal-government-overreach-gains-size-momentum/
Fred is back in peak performance mode with this post. For a whie he was using too much “acapulco Gold” or excessive quantaties of “Padre Rufo”. But he it it out of the park this time. I second what Gator stated. There are significant numbers of the 47 percent in even the stronest Red State to temp down any substantial protest. The local and state law enforcement authorities would clmp down hard. In part to give the impression that they are useful and i part from being frustrated from being held hostage to the politically correct and well protected criminals who the establishment feeds and cares for from day to day.