Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Donald Trump, judging by polls as of December 21, 2015, is the most likely candidate to be the next president of the US.
Trump is popular not so much for his stance on issues as for the fact that he is not another Washington politican, and he is respected for not backing down and apologizing when he makes strong statements for which he is criticized. What people see in Trump is strength and leadership. This is what is unusual about a political candidate, and it is this strength to which voters are responding.
The corrupt American political establishment has issued a “get Trump” command to its presstitute media. Media whore George Stephanopoulos, a loyal follower of orders, went after Trump on national television. But Trump made mincemeat of the whore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRTCxMAqC4
Stephanopoulos tried to go after Trump because the world’s favorite leader, President Putin of Russia, said complimentary things about Trump, and Trump replied in kind.
According to Stephanopoulos, “Putin has murdered journalists,” and Trump should be ashamed of praising a murderer of journalists. Trump asked Stephanopoulos for evidence, and Stephanopoulos didn’t have any. In other words, Stephanopoulos confirmed Trump’s statement that American politicians just make things up and rely on the presstitutes to support invented “facts” as if they are true. Trump made reference to Washington’s many murders.
Stephanopoulos wanted to know what journalists Washington had murdered. Trump responded with Washington’s murders and dislocation of millions of peoples who are now overrunning Europe as refugees from Washington’s wars. But Trumps advisors were not sufficiently competent to have armed him with the story of Washington’s murder of Al Jazerra’s reporters.
Here is a report from Al Jazeera, a far more trustworthy news organization than the US print and TV media:
“On April 8, 2003, during the US-led invasion of Iraq, Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayoub was killed when a US warplane bombed Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Baghdad.
“The invasion and subsequent nine-year occupation of Iraq claimed the lives of a record number of journalists. It was undisputedly the deadliest war for journalists in recorded history.
“Disturbingly, more journalists were murdered in targeted killings in Iraq than died in combat-related circumstances, according to the group Committee to Protect Journalists.
“CPJ research shows that “at least 150 journalists and 54 media support workers were killed in Iraq from the US-led invasion in March 2003 to the declared end of the war in December 2011.”
“’The media were not welcome by the US military,’” Soazig Dollet, who runs the Middle East and North Africa desk of Reporters Without Borders told Al Jazeera. ‘That is really obvious.’”
http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/04/2013481202781452.html
A political candidate with a competent staff would have immediately fired back at Stephanopoulos with the facts of Washington’s murder of journalists and compared these facts with the purely propagandistic accusations against Putin which have no basis whatsoever in fact.
The problem with Trump is the issues on which the public is not carefully judging him. I don’t
blame the public. It is refreshing to have a billionaire who can’t be bought expose the insubstantialality of all the Democratic and Repulican candidates for president. A collection of total zeros.
Unlike Washington, Putin supports the sovereignty of countries. He does not believe that the US
or any country has the right to overthrow governments and install a puppet or vassal.
Recently Putin said: “I hope no person is insane enough on planet earth who would dare to use nuclear weapons.” http://sjlendman.blogspot.com
Unfortunately for Putin and for Trump, if news reports can be believed, Trump recently said that
he would use nuclear weapons against ISIS. This is a disqulifying statement. There is no reason to need nukes to defeat a force as small as ISIS. More importantly, as the US is the only country to use nuclear weapons against the population of another country, for the US to do so again would confirm for the Russian and Chinese governments that the US government is insane, untrustworthy, and in need of extermination before Russia and China are attacked. You cannot use nuclear weapons without consequence.
As I have said in a number of interviews, Trump’s problem is that he has no movement behind him, no advisors that he can trust, and he does not understand the issues. Trump has learned
that forceful statements are appreciated by voters. Therefore, he doesn’t differentiate intelligent forceful statements from insane statements. As long as his statements are forceful, Trump thinks that they work.
Recently I watched a video of a woman described as a “Trump advisor” who repeaded neocon nazi William Kristol’s statement: “What’s the use of nuclear weapons if you can’t use them?”
How did a William Kristol neocon nazi get on Trump’s staff? What more proof do we need that even if Trump is elected, the establishment will prevail despite Trump.
Trump cannot be a dissident politician without a dissident staff. He doesn’t know the people who would comprise a dissident staff. Trump knows how to make deals, and the Establishment will staff up a Trump presidency with deals. The minute Trump takes office, he would be already captured.
In France Marine Le Pen’s National Front Party could bring political change. In the UK Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party or Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party could bring political change. But in the US there is no prospect of change from elections. Change can only come from collapse or from bloody revolution. The American Establishment will not accept change.
And most likely, the American Establishment would assassinate Le Pen and Farage and Corbyn before accepting change in France and the UK.
These are the facts on the ground. How Russia and China deal with them remains to be seen.
We have the media, political consultants, and the ‘political class’ working against us.
All of these groups are fearful of losing status. Over and over they want to define what we should have – cause if we don’t listen to them – they lose control / power / influence / money.
Perhaps the worst are the one’s who say “Trump isn’t presidential” – what the hell is presidential? A good bullshit talker like Jeb?
I think Trump is a problem solver. We need that.
“And most likely, the American Establishment would assassinate Le Pen and Farage and Corbyn before accepting change in France and the UK.”
Did you fall this morning and hit your head.
Once Trump wins the primary, he will choose Cruz as his VP. Cruz is a brainiac and Trump’s attacks on Hillary will be much more laser like. He is our best hope.
SpecOps…I think Cruz has a good chance of getting the nomination; we are still a few months away and a lot can change.
“Once Trump wins the primary, he will choose Cruz as his VP. Cruz is a brainiac and Trump’s attacks on Hillary will be much more laser like. He is our best hope.”
An interesting theory and an interesting combination. I think I like that.
Cruz is a greasy little weasal. Kokoda, put down the pipe. You’re going to lose with cruz. PCR didn’t quite make it through his column without the nazi card. Nice try, loser
According to PCR, trump fans are just immigration and free trade lovers under the spell of the next hitler. Fuck you, Paul roberts. Loser
Sieg Heil
If voting made a difference, (EVEN VOTING FOR TRUMP) it would be against the law.
What a bunch of blind sheep followers, Jeebus H. Krist.
Keep living in your deluded world of actor saviors.
Santa is real, The Easter Bunny is real, Skittle Pooping Unicorns are real………I Believe…..I Believe…..I believe…………………….
Bea….what you say is partly true, BUT – if we don’t vote, then it’s two wolves and a sheep discussing what’s for dinner; Liberty is a well-armed sheep disputing the vote.
In other words, if you let just the wolves (FSA) vote, then we have no chance.
ROLL THE GUILLOTINES !!!!!!!! Wolves heads need to roll. Eight more years of bullshit and lies….NO THANKS !!
At this point I think Hillary has a better chance of getting elected.
After all, she has the powers of the Democrat Party behind her working to get her elected while Trump has the powers of the Republican Party working against him to get him defeated.
Bea, with you attitude about voting making no difference I’m a bit surprised you pay any attention to it -the candidates- in the first place.
PCR has has started to ‘jump the shark’ in his rhetoric. The nazi card is a bridge too far for me. His family possibly needs to look into Nursing Home options.
Donald Trump’s tax plan would cut federal revenue by 22%, study shows
By Richard Rubin
Published: Dec 22, 2015 1:44 p.m. ET
Proposal would boost after-tax incomes of wealthiest by average of more than $1.3 million a year
Donald Trump’s tax plan would cut federal revenue by $9.5 trillion over a decade and boost the after-tax incomes of the wealthiest households by an average of more than $1.3 million a year, according to an analysis released Tuesday.
Trump’s plan, which would cut tax rates and push millions of households off the income tax rolls, would reduce federal revenue by 22%, requiring either significant new borrowing or unprecedented spending cuts.
“The revenue losses from this plan are really enormous,” said Leonard Burman, director of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, which released the study. A bipartisan panel reviewed the report before its release.
Trump’s tax plan would compress today’s seven individual income tax brackets into three and set a top rate of 25%, down from 39.6%. He would exempt each person’s first $25,000, or each married couple’s first $50,000, from income taxation. The plan would also cut the tax rates on business income to 15% and curb some deductions.
In a year when Republican presidential candidates have been competing with each other to offer large tax cuts, Trump’s is the largest. It is 41% bigger, for instance, than Jeb Bush’s plan, according to the center.
Both Parties are Deep Establishment. Trump is a rich mostly politically Moderate Outsider who saw the political vacuum and picked up a Conservative Banner; instantly people rallied to him and he to them. Given wise Conservative assistance, he could become a great reformer like Andrew Jackson and John Kennedy. I think a Trump-Cruz ticket would beat even the Hillary-Sanders American Communist Party Machine.
ANON- OK elect Trump and when he goes to the WH and NOTHING CHANGES and it’s business as usual and the sheep look around and go “Uh oh, we got fucked again”, I’m sure you will be the head fuktard who says ” If we only elect ( fill in blank ) he will get us out of this”. WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE NOW.
Keep riding the merry-go-round til you puke.
Trump / Cruz is a winner. Trump appears to have the leadership qualities we need at least to build a Damn wall / fence across the border.
Cruz can get part of the Hispanic vote.
Cruz is ineligible, and for that simple reason Trump won’t pick him. If Trump does pick Cruz, we will know for sure that the intention all along was to install Hillary.
HOUSTON…….WE HAVE A PROBLEM……..
These maroons think Trump and Cruz are outside the beltway and the establishment (?)
The blindness, IT BURNS !!
Earth to Maroons………
Cruz’s wife works for GOLDMAN FUCKING SACHS in a upper managerial position. FOX in charge of hen house AGAIN goofballs.
OK sure, lets go full retard and vote for the TRIBE to win again.
Who in the political class is not part of the system????Who in the business world is not part of the system.????? That’s a given but there are still patriots within the system who still care about our nation. They can see the destruction that is coming.
Who really gives a shit anymore? Trump said Hildabeest was “Schlonged” by Obongo in ’08. The establishment is apoplectic. I hope he keeps up the pressure on this POS(Hil). They don’t know what to do with him! And the American people love it!
Other than a couple of people commenting (Bea Lever being one), most are clueless in regards to how you are being played like a fiddle.
Foolish little fiddles.
Trump or no Trump. Hildabeast or no Hildabeast. Cruz or no Cruz. If you listen well to what they say the only message you should be hearing is to get more ammo and several more rifles.
Faux is trying so hard to taint Donald.I do not believe anything Faux says anymore.The other day they brought up the words Christian radicals.Not Muslim.Who’s their Daddy?