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You thought the Republican convention was a ghastly spectacle of royal Trumpery (and Iago-style backstabbing featuring the arch-asshole Ted Cruz)? Now comes the Democratic Annunciation of I’m-With-Her-It’s-My-Turn, the incarnation of crony corruption in our late-state Republic of Racketeering. Remember that old movie, The Exorcist, with its demonic spewage of projectile vomit. Expect something like that on the grand scale in Philadelphia this week as the Exalted-Breaker-of-Glass-Ceilings steps forth to accept her victory tiara.

The New York Times is blaming the Ruskies for releasing those thousands of new emails disclosing the perfidy of the Democratic National Committee staff in pimping for Hillary against Bernie and trafficking with the major network news operations to manage and spin things Her way — and especially to rig the electoral machinery against Sanders. How much will his supporters Feel the Bern this week in Philly as the party attempts to put on an appearance of unity (Ha!) behind HRC? How can it conceivably be possible now for Bernie to stand by her side for the crucial unity photo op? I suspect he’d rather chew his right arm off.

For my money, the Ruskies should get the Nobel Peace Prize if they were behind the email release. What higher service to democracy than to expose the anti-democratic workings of the party that affects to call itself Democratic? The sudden appearance of 20,000 smoking guns made party chairperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz vamoose faster than you can say Debbie Wasserman Schultz, though her replacement, Donna Brazile is every inch just another blatant HRC foot-soldier. Perhaps she’ll have to orchestrate the proceedings with smoke signals or invisible ink instead of emails.

As the conventions rolled out, the aggregate miasma we call the news industry resorted to that tired trope of Optimism Versus Pessimism. Translation: you can’t handle the truth so somebody please bring out the rainbow-leaping unicorns. The American zeitgeist is a tattered garment worn by a three hundred pound tranny in a diabetic coma. It’s probably beyond salvation at this point. Somebody please put it out of its misery. Hence: Trump Versus Hillary, the odious versus the tedious, the election to end all elections.

I derived scant enlightenment listening to the Republican nominee Trump’splainin’ just how he will make America great again. As sheer oratory, Trump made Warren G. Harding look like Pericles. “I am your voice,” he bellowed to the assembled delegates dressed in costumes that made them appear like rodeo clowns from another planet. And that speech was carefully crafted by supposed professionals and mounted on a telepromper. Now Trump will go forth speaking in his usual incoherent vernacular as he vies to become the first president removed by a military coup d’état for blundering incompetence.

Hillary countered by showboating her vice-presidential pick, Tim Kaine of Virginia, America’s new high school Spanish teacher. I was only surprised that she didn’t choose Lebron James. Ambition called and Tim Kaine answered and you wonder just how he will regret picking up the phone as the campaign heats up and he has to Kaine’splain the growing allegations of Hillary’s misdeeds. Can a running mate up and quit before the election? It’s never happened before.*  But Kaine might be concerned about his reputation.

So, gird your loins for the awful pageantry of the week to come: kind of a road company version of The Manchurian Candidate. The election is now between the borderline personality Mommy and the arch-narcissist Daddy for the hearts and minds of a public sore beset by the initial spasms of economic and cultural collapse. Perhaps Big Brother is waiting in the wings.

*A reader reminds me that George McGovern’s running mate in 1972, Sen. Tom Eagleton of Missouri, stepped aside when it became public that he’d been hospitalized for mental illness earlier in life and subjected to electroshock therapy. My bad.

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1,033 Responses to “The Odious Versus the Tedious”

  1. pequiste July 25, 2016 at 9:42 am #

    ” The American zeitgeist is a tattered garment worn by three hundred pound tranny in a diabetic coma.”

    What color are the five inch platform heels and who does the makeup?

    • babbat July 26, 2016 at 4:23 am #

      A few years back Jim went on about Obama being like Abraham Lincoln . How wrong he was in his judgement of his character. Although I think Jim’s a got a fairly broad knowledge of the big picture that’s why I read this alway’s entertaining blog. I can’t help but feel that before a president is inaugurated you can’t really guess what they ‘re going to be like as the old saying goes you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Maybe Trump may not be such a fool after all given the difficulties of our current era. And how the emails have proven to have the media stacked against him. Maybe a lot of the old Romans thought Julius was a pompous bastard who played the masses , that’s why they killed him. Julius was what Rome needed at that time however . Maybe Trump being human and certainly having flaws is what the U.S needs. He openly speaks out against the Iraq war which opens up a dialogue about U.S foreign policy which couldn’t be talked about before to even semi patriotic people now, you can so he’s not all bad!

  2. wes loder July 25, 2016 at 9:48 am #

    Matters do appear to be getting uglier by the day. Quick, everyone, get out your AR-15s and carry them so we can all be safer. And I thought affairs were interesting in 1968.

    • BackRowHeckler July 25, 2016 at 10:37 am #

      Very few resorted to firearms back in ’68, Wes. For example, last week JHK mentioned events at the DNC in Chicago; as ugly as that was nobody was shot on either side, in fact only one injury was incurred which required hospitalization for more than 5 days.

      This time around, almost 1/2 century later, apparently the situation has changed.

      brh

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:40 am #

        Progress?

        • malthuss July 25, 2016 at 11:54 am #

          Oh gevult, you are back.

          • sprawlcapital July 25, 2016 at 12:26 pm #

            Oh [Oy] gevult, you are back.

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 1:51 pm #

            At least you two have each other to talk Yiddish to, if nothing else.

          • S M Tenneshaw July 27, 2016 at 3:39 am #

            Jagoffs gotta jag.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 11:38 am #

            @S M
            I have assumed that you have responded to malthuss & sprawl as you use their vernacular. Is that correct?

      • routersurfer July 25, 2016 at 2:52 pm #

        1968 will be a good year for the DNC compared to 2016. With or without bloodshed.

      • megaculpa July 25, 2016 at 6:59 pm #

        Not sure why you say that very few resorted to firearms in 1968. That was the year Martin King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. The latter was the odds on favorite presidential candidate.

      • swmnguy July 25, 2016 at 7:19 pm #

        Back in 1968, the police were fighters, not “Warriors.” They’d beat you up as soon as look at you, but they weren’t trained to kill you, nor did they want to.

        Today it’s the opposite. The police would prefer to kill you, at a distance preferably. As Warriors, the last thing they want is a fight. That implies some doubt as to the outcome.

  3. snarkmatic9000 July 25, 2016 at 9:49 am #

    Canada is looking better all the time.

    • cornpone2014 July 25, 2016 at 9:56 am #

      Maybe you and Rosie can ride together!

    • Elrond Hubbard July 25, 2016 at 10:49 am #

      Isaac Brock for the win!

      http://www.warof1812.ca/brock.htm

    • routersurfer July 25, 2016 at 2:55 pm #

      Do a good soil essay before you buy. Tons of junk land fir sale with little value for farming without help from Monsanto.

      • Elrond Hubbard July 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm #

        How many words long should the essay be? Oh, you meant assay… (I try to resist spelling/grammar flames, but this time I just can’t.)

        • Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 4:40 pm #

          Good job Elrond, that one slipped right by me. I may have let it pass anyway since I know our host likes to lurk on Mondays and I don’t want to get my ass thrown off.

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:04 pm #

            “our host likes to lurk on Mondays” – Q. Shtik

            Howdy former UESer.

    • megaculpa July 25, 2016 at 7:08 pm #

      I doubt that you or many other Americans would adapt successfully to life in Canada. We have strict firearms licencing, a national sales tax, abortion on demand and gay marriage, among many other differences. You can only buy beer at government stores and gas is five bucks a gallon.

      But the deal-breaker is that in Canada, it’s not socially acceptable to strut around boasting about yourself and insulting other people. Few American males, in my experience, would be able to so restrain themselves.

      • swmnguy July 25, 2016 at 7:20 pm #

        Oh, you’re just saying that.

      • Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 10:43 pm #

        a national sales tax, – megaculpa

        ==============

        Really? I love the idea of a national sales tax (one flat rate on everything). But only if it is in lieu of, not in addition to, an income tax. How does it work in Canada?

        • Elrond Hubbard July 27, 2016 at 11:30 am #

          Nope, the 5% goods and services tax (GST) is in-addition-to income taxes. (I disagree with you about income taxes, since sales taxes hit harder on people with less ability to pay. A universal flat tax becomes more and more of a free ride the richer you are, which is why the idea is so popular among billionaires.) Some provinces have their own sales taxes as well, often harmonized with the federal GST. Here in Ontario I pay 13% in total.

          On the other hand, I and everyone else here have health coverage. It comes out of the pocket labelled taxes instead of the pocket labelled private insurance, but I’m fine with that — a dollar’s a dollar either way, and Canadians overall pay WAY less in health care costs per capita. Also if I get in an accident, I don’t have to worry about bankruptcy icing on top of the shit-cake of a broken leg.

          • JimInFlorida July 27, 2016 at 6:14 pm #

            How about a direct tax on Wall Street instead??? Let’s get the conversation off of how best to tax We Teh Serfs and turn our attention on taxing the activities of the Top 1%.

            A 1% sales tax on all turnover of securities and derivatives. Considering that roughly $2 QUADRILLION flows through Wall Street (and LaSalle St. in Chicago) UNTAXED every year, a 1% tax will generate hundreds of billions in tax revenue. The kind of tax that cannot be passed off onto We Teh Serfs. If Goldman Sachs wants to do a million flash trades in a second, GREAT! ONE PERCENT OFF THE TOP EVERY DAMN TIME!

            Two-thirds get divided up among the 50 States for Medicaid, unemployment, social programs, and jobs programs.
            The other one third to the Feds for New Deal-style public works programs, local small scale agriculture subsidies, Medicare For All (base rate at $100/month with modest discounts based on means-testing), revival of passenger rail, student loan debt relief, programs to prosecute predatory lenders, and incentives to repatriate labor-intensive industry back to the U.S.

          • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 10:23 am #

            A tax on financial transactions is an excellent idea, as long as it correctly targets useless speculation without harming productive activity. High-frequency trading (HFT) is a prime target – something as simple as a tax of one penny per transaction could stop that cold. Then there’s currency and foreign exchange:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax

      • ccm989 July 26, 2016 at 10:31 am #

        Have been to Canada and was very impressed by how nice everyone is! One lady took the time to explain to me how well their public health care system works. She said it not only saved her life but her husband’s as well. The only problem with Canada is that its cold! But keep on being nice. Totally love that! And Trudeau. You are such lucky, smart, nice people! Just wish Americans would figure out what a great example of Democracy Canada is.

        • mastman23 August 1, 2016 at 10:25 pm #

          I worked for a company for 15 years that was based in Quebec Provence. They are extremely nice people and make you feel like family. Their Government serves the people not the way it is here in the one party duopoly oligarchy crooks. Americans are used and abused no matter who gets in office.

          Taxes in Canada provide almost everything most Americans cringe at the costs they bear to provide for their families.

          Health care, Daycare, Dental, University, all more or less provide within the taxes paid by workers. Simple truth is yes they pay more in taxes but when you add in the benifits of everyone getting good quality services like these you will find most Americans cannot afford the same apple for apple.

          There is no 35% private corporation guaranteed profit margins like Obama care anywhere in the world but here. Another gift to the people from Obama. And to make it worse its mandatory

          The American education model is third world at best and higher education is gifted to illegals low income and affirmative action all at the cost of taxation of the public. You make a decent living you pay the full bloated costs for a useless degree that is wallpaper at best these days in the Globalized markets.

          Affirmative action is and will be the death here of our economy if not reversed soon. My friends in Quebec even asked me what is this program and told me they think its insane and destructive. These are LIBERALS people and they look at us like we are MAD

      • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 5:46 pm #

        That’s all very well, but do you really imagine it’s enough? Your privileges are built on the bones of Native Americans and Blacks. How do you justify your continued existence? Shouldn’t you go back to Europe or simply suicide yourself? Does Canada provide the requisite pills yet? If not, they will soon.

        • Elrond Hubbard July 27, 2016 at 11:37 am #

          Nothing can change the past, so we just have to be mindful of where we came from and where we’re going. Toronto remains one of the safest cities in North America while having more than half its population born outside Canada, and not from white-skinned countries either. When I brought up this point before, Janos, you responded with some pseudo-thoughful B.S., but the fact remains that racial tensions don’t need to be a problem if people make an effort to be decent to one another, and if that decency finds its way into public policy.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:31 pm #

            Blacks aren’t satisfied with such a namby pamby answer and want payment, appeasement, and reparation. And some things can only be paid back in kind – blood for blood. In a Black asked you to kill yourself, what would you say? Do you have any right to say no?

            http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/03/17/students-support-affirmative-suicide-combat-white-privilege-video

            You’re really marking yourself, Elrond. The debate has moved far past where it was when you were in college. All Whites are racist but virtue of their very existence. And REALLY cool Whites knew it even back then as per the call by the Weathermen to kill White babies. You obviously didn’t travel in very high circles – then or now. You’re just not cool. If a Black asked you for this favor, you would refuse for him for bullshit, conventional reasons.

          • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 11:19 am #

            Another example of why arguing with Janos is pointless. Paraphrasing the original Ghostbusters: “Ray, if someone asks if you’re a god, you say yes!” Same goes if someone asks me to kill myself — I don’t care what their motive is, the answer is no. It takes a fairly diseased point of view even to pose that as a scenario.

            It’s not that the threat of me being killed by some racially-motivated black person doesn’t exist. Out of all the possible motives someone, somewhere, might have to hurt me, that’s one. But Janos has zero sense of proportion and less than zero sense of civility. He needs every last black person to be a threat to him, because he hungers, from the very pits of his soul, to be a threat to every last black person — a threat to their status as human beings like himself, if nothing else.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 2:53 pm #

            You’re being obtuse. This young man isn’t threatening you – he’s asking you to kill yourself for the good of the Black Race. What right do you have to refuse?

            Your answer is to offer him other White lives instead. But in the end, he will demand yours as well.

          • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 5:20 pm #

            Huh? Wow, I’m seriously at a loss here. Janos’ worldview is so drenched in irreality I can only gape in astonishment.

            This supposed ‘young man’: pulled out of Janos’ butt.

            This figment’s request that I “kill myself for the good of the Black Race”: also pulled out of Janos’ butt.

            The rhetorical question ‘What right do I have to refuse?’: An absurdity, apropos of nothing. Nothing, that is, outside of Janos’ butt.

            That my answer would supposedly to be “to offer him [whoever he is] other White lives instead”: utterly buttborne.

            Finally, the assertion that “in the end, he will demand [my life] as well”: You guessed it, yet another figment of a fundament.

            Seriously, Janos. Name something real that relates to this abject fantasy of yours. By real, I mean an actual event that took place in time and space. I can’t wait to hear what comes next.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 6:49 pm #

            Why do you insist on killing the messenger? I’m just repeating what the young Black said. Take it up with – if you dare, slave.

        • SpeedyBB July 27, 2016 at 4:39 pm #

          Poison pills have to be labelled in two languages. Colour-coding will do as well.

          Don’t want to screw up the big moment.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:33 pm #

            Yeah cuz otherwise you might throw up on the carpet. Not only would you live, but you’d have to clean it – and that’s worse than life.

  4. dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 9:52 am #

    I feel the Bern. Can’t grok “I’ll fight for you” as an campaign slogan.

  5. patrickd July 25, 2016 at 9:54 am #

    No way Trump gets elected. The voting machines are programmable, so HIllary will win – she’s who the elites want in power. She’s the ultimate yes person. Even if the machines wouldn’t/couldn’t be fixed, and if Trump were elected, no way he survives a quick coup d’etat via snipers. The criminal banksters in charge – the oligarchs – need compliance, not a loose cannon.

    No way in hell will I vote for either of these scumballs. If USians were smart, none of them would vote. But it’s obvious that USians are no where near smart. (USians are the Europeans who came over here starting 400 years ago, who murdered the vast majority of Americans and stole their lands. Americans are dark-skinned.)

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    • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 9:56 am #

      Not voting isn’t the same as demanding more.

      • patrickd July 25, 2016 at 10:39 am #

        Demanding of whom? No one is listening.

        • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 10:43 am #

          LOUDER!

        • pequiste July 25, 2016 at 1:55 pm #

          Or busy getting ready for some football!

          I don’t care about apathy.

    • Thinkgloballyactlocally July 25, 2016 at 10:24 am #

      As things are unfolding David Icke makes more and more sense.
      https://youtu.be/KMUsZAMAt-Q

      • patrickd July 25, 2016 at 10:38 am #

        Icky Dave is a psychotic moron. If he happens to make sense on anything at all, it is simply by accident.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:12 pm #

        Yes, it’s all just as the movie “They Live” reports. Queen Elizabeth is not a frail old woman, but in fact a giant reptile who eats people. They live and we sleep.

        • mastman23 August 1, 2016 at 10:34 pm #

          She only eats babies

      • SpeedyBB July 27, 2016 at 4:46 pm #

        Isn’t it fascinating that no matter how screwy his message is (and it is way up there among black holes) he is really something special to listen to.

    • zekesdad July 25, 2016 at 10:47 am #

      And who are the people and their descendants who came here after the land was already stolen and the slaves were freed?

    • Cavepainter July 25, 2016 at 10:57 am #

      Oh,…..the history reset button; at what point back in history do you believe is necessary to put things back — that is, reach justice. You know, human history hasn’t been “a walk in the park”. And as for White folks; aside for the very predictable ratio of sociopaths and psychopaths found in all denominations of humanity Western Culture has advanced all facets of human achievement more than any other.

    • outsider July 25, 2016 at 11:10 am #

      patrickd & Mr. K: I fail to understand why a President Trump may cause a coup d’état. From everything I read, most top US officers (and certainly the troops) are sick unto death of all these endless wars. Trump, other than pledging to wipe out ISIS “fast”, has emerged as the peace candidate. All the rest of the liberal interventionists, like Hillary, and the neocons who still control the GOP, continue to poke the Russian bear. It seems obvious to me that our current course of action against Russia can only end in disaster. Trump has not hidden that he wants better relations with President Putin, and that Russia should not be the enemy. I would hope that most of the top brass might agree with that.

      OTOH, a president Hillary should be the one concerned about a coup. After the e-mail scandal she can’t even get a security clearance now, and she’d be the Commander-in-Chief? I’ll bet that most officers think she should be in jail instead of running for our top job. Any one of them would be removed from command and prosecuted if they did anything close to what she did. And they will have to take orders from her to start new wars?

      • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:03 pm #

        “And they will have to take orders from her to start new wars?”

        Did they not take orders from her draft-dodging, dope smoking beard? He was truly loathed by the military.

        • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 12:30 pm #

          They always take orders. Basic training instills mindless obedience to orders. They are robots without the intelligence or courage to refuse orders. They wants their benefits and pensions.

          • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 6:28 pm #

            Wpac,
            For that comment you will be judged….

          • JimInFlorida July 25, 2016 at 7:47 pm #

            That is the art and science of the Economic Draft!

            The majority sign up because there is no employment or hope where they live. To get those benefits and pensions, they literally sign their lives away and submit to a very hierarchical world in the service of Organized Imperial Crime. Only children and fools believe that they put their lives on the line for Freedom.

            They have the intelligence to know what they joined and, to rebel for some glorious anti-war cause will yield ZERO reward, get them thrown in the brig, and have nothing to show for the risk.

            The Vietnam soldiers who fragged their war-loving officers and disobeyed orders were destroyed. BUT, the Imperial War Machine is still doing just fine, thank you.

            I was in the U.S. Navy during the Cold War era. At least we had the established propaganda which demonized the Russian Commies. Everybody was on the same page and we thought we were doing something good.

            It’s not so today. ZOG Amerika was the Evil Empire all along. WE are the terrorist power for Wall Street and loyal gofer for Israel. Only fools and desperate people join the Armed Forces to serve such a machine.

          • outsider July 25, 2016 at 8:11 pm #

            Good comment JimInFla. As US Marine General Smedley Butler wrote – “War is a Racket.”

    • orbit7er July 25, 2016 at 11:17 am #

      Vote for Jill Stein from the Green Party! Although many alleged environmentalists are really limousine Tesla Greens, the Green Party as a whole understands that we cannot afford “Happy Motoring” forever. and supports Green Transit and restoring Rail.
      Just as important, the Greens oppose the endless Wars costing US taxpayers $1 Trillion every year…
      You cannot reduce oil usage or greenhouse emissions with the endless War machine on its relentless path of destruction…

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:17 pm #

        Is her VP going to be racist rapper Immortal Technique? She has a big crush on him apparently, just like any other girl might.

    • Ishabaka July 25, 2016 at 1:37 pm #

      Yes, we all agree – you’re the only smart one in the USA.

    • routersurfer July 25, 2016 at 2:59 pm #

      Sure Trump can win!!!! We elected Nixon. Compared to this years crop of would be Presidents Nixon looks very good. Can anyone give me a reason to vote at all?

      • JimInFlorida July 25, 2016 at 7:52 pm #

        The only reason is to throw some support for the 3rd party candidate of your choice.

        Sort of like walking along a beach after a storm and finding lots of starfish washed up on the beach. You throw a few back out. You can’t save them all but, it mattered to the ones that you did save.

        Give your vote to a 3rd party candidate and go home knowing that you did right.

      • outsider July 25, 2016 at 8:15 pm #

        I think there is one very good reason this year to vote for POTUS. Try to stop Hillary’s march to WW3.

        • JimInFlorida July 27, 2016 at 6:50 pm #

          Personally, I’m voting for Trump.

          But, for those who cannot stomach either Trump or Hillary Rodan, I would urge them to NOT stay home but, help the 3rd party of their choice by voting.

      • SpeedyBB July 27, 2016 at 5:01 pm #

        When that came to pass, routersurfer, I was stopped in my tracks, stunned. When after all the perfidy, crookedness, Checkers, back-stabbing and disparagement (Eisenhower was asked about his Veep: He responded to a reporter’s question of whether he could give an example of a major idea of Vice President Nixon’s that was adopted by the administration. “If you give me a week, I might think of one.”) the electorate held their collective noses and voted him in, it was a profoundly disappointing commentary on what passed for a democratic process.

        Events of that time are handled very neatly in James Ellroy’s semi-historical novels: the fix was in. Big biz and organized crime propelled him into the Oval Office.

      • mastman23 August 1, 2016 at 10:36 pm #

        Freedom or Extinction. I assume you are a White Christian or Jew? those are reasons enough

    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 3:04 pm #

      Trump wont accept that – and in face he doesn’t accept that. His operatives are already planning for it if they try it. Confidant Roger Stone confirms as much.

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:08 pm #

        tell ’em all that they can take it easy. don’t sweat it. life’s too short.

        Plus the betting odds in NYC at 3-to-1, favor Hillary.

        So be cool.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 5:48 pm #

          You’re whistling past the graveyard. Your time is over. Trump KNOWS about the Federal Reserve scam and your role in it.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:01 pm #

            Mr Donald Trump is on to me? You got Tweeted?

            oh, oh

    • jloughrey July 26, 2016 at 4:06 am #

      The Republicans stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, so whose turn it is to steal this one is anyone’s guess.

  6. dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 9:55 am #

    Not Lebron James: Matt Damon would’ve cinched it. (Cinch, get it?)

  7. dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 10:00 am #

    “you can’t handle the truth so somebody please bring out the rainbow-leaping unicorns.” – KUNSTLER

    Quick, bring out Paul Krugman to describe US.

  8. Helix July 25, 2016 at 10:05 am #

    The title of the article says it all.

  9. noel bodie July 25, 2016 at 10:08 am #

    Trump was doing his best Mussolini impression….angry, fearful content with a jutting jaw, nodding approvals, posing etc. I thought I was watching a 1940’s vid

    • outsider July 25, 2016 at 11:23 am #

      Actually, noel, democracy is not all it’s “trumped” up to be. The takers, over time, always wind up demanding, and getting, more and more from the makers. Per Hans-Hermann Hoppe it is “The God That Failed.” As they said, at least Mussolini made the trains run on time.

      • noel bodie July 25, 2016 at 12:10 pm #

        Your Ryan/neocon duality of “makers/takers” pretty much tells me your simplistic view.

        • outsider July 25, 2016 at 12:50 pm #

          noel: I’m against anyone who is a neocon. Ryan is a neocon.

        • DrTomSchmidt July 25, 2016 at 12:57 pm #

          I’m sure he’d put the military/industrial complex down as a taker. Don’t discount the maker/taker model just because Ryan uses it. Expand it: anyone taking federal dollars is a taker, and a potential welfare queen. Makes all of Wall Street, the MIC, the healthcare frauds, and actual welfare queens sit together in a conspiracy against the rest of us.

      • routersurfer July 25, 2016 at 3:03 pm #

        Please put down the Rand and most of the swill out of The Chi School of Trust, Rockefeller style trusts……. Read about the fall of Rome. It will seem very familiar.

    • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:05 pm #

      “Trump was doing his best Mussolini impression”

      Yes…he might be a fascist, but he’s OUR fascist….

      • mastman23 August 1, 2016 at 10:36 pm #

        YEP

    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:20 pm #

      Very negative, huh fella? As if things are really rosy O’Donnell out there. As if we don’t need a Strong Man to keep order – which is the foundation of civilization and the social contract. Lose that and lose all.

  10. Beryl of Oyl July 25, 2016 at 10:18 am #

    Interesting that the Russians wouldn’t work against Hillary in time to help old commie Bernie.
    Interesting that the Democrats, the networks, and now many of the ‘pundits’ are all saying exactly the same things about Donald’s speech, in exactly the same way. Almost as if they got together.
    “Arch-asshole Ted Cruz”. I love it.

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    • PostPeakRancher July 25, 2016 at 10:25 am #

      Bernie made clear during his campaign that he had no intention of changing course in foreign policy in regards to the Middle East, Russia and China. So in that respect he’s just like: HRC, Obama, W Bush, Bill Clinton, HW Bush and Reagan.

      Trump on the other hand has said things would be different. I doubt they would. But I think the Russians also know that Trump is a self absorbed business tycoon who knows squat about geopolitics, statecraft, diplomacy, etc. And they probably feel that they may be able to better counteract anything the USA/NATO do under his administration than an HRC admin.

      If you thought that the Bush and Obama administrations were great at blundering into one foreign policy fiasco after another…just wait for a Trump administration! He’ll Trump both of them!!

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 10:45 am #

        I believe that Mr Trump wants to do some deals with Russia’s Putin.

        • PostPeakRancher July 25, 2016 at 11:08 am #

          I think so too. And maybe b/c of that the Russians think his administration will be less likely to do stupid things like topple the Ukrainian govt.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:23 pm #

          If so, that’s good. That’s why Capitalism is supposedly better than Socialism in regards to International Peace. Didn’t seem to work out that way with your folks at the helm though.

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:11 pm #

            Your folks, your kind, and your bubs just aren’t electable. So I guess you could say they’d do great things.

        • jloughrey July 26, 2016 at 4:11 am #

          I’d rather see some business dealings with Russia than a war with Russia like HIllary will be angling for. The rumblings are already happening in the Democratic White House.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:04 pm #

            Russia interfering in sovereign elections! Hey that’s out racket.

      • outsider July 25, 2016 at 11:29 am #

        In Trump’s first sentence, when accepting the nomination, he said that he wants “Peace.” I actually believe that he’s sincere on this. I just hope he has the guts to stand up to the neocon chicken hawk warriors who still control his party and our bought and paid for do-nothing congress.

        • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:44 am #

          Are you sure he didn’t say: “I want A piece”? It’s a nyc expression.

          • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:07 pm #

            “”? It’s a nyc expression.”

            …Even in your admittedly upscale neighborhood?

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 12:28 pm #

            elysianfield,

            There a re 2 NYC meanings associated with the expression: I want a piece”

            For the great majority, it refers to a desire for coitus with the current object-f-affection.

            I my “upscale neighborhood” it refers to The Skim. The Percentage. The Haircut. The Taste (I provided a few ethnic expressions for your amusement).

          • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:32 pm #

            Dannyboy,
            Excellent! How far into SOHO do you have to explore to hear “wet my beak?”.

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:14 pm #

            The Vig is a Downtown word now. My People are all Uptown now. The Lower East Side Jews always dreamed of Uptown. Now it’s Tribeca. You gotta laugh!

      • SpeedyBB July 27, 2016 at 10:09 pm #

        How about all this curious hysteria of “He’ll push the button and get us into nuclear war?!”

        Geez, the guy’s a real estate tycoon. He’s got assets. He’s never disguised his greed to acquire and hang onto more and more.

        Why would he risk losing it all in a fatal collision of abstract ideologies?

        (Never let the Pentagon’s mantra out of your sight: “Total Spectrum Dominance”. The boot in the face, forever.)

    • piltdownman July 25, 2016 at 10:30 am #

      “Almost as if they got together.”

      There is no need for them to get together. The modern media machine operates within a very narrow range of concepts. They pick up some trope and then it gets regurgitated over and over. It’s not that they’re trying to do this, it’s that they are lazy and NOT trying to do fresh investigation and reporting.

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 10:47 am #

        It’s that the population’s lazy and only uses one news source.

        • piltdownman July 25, 2016 at 8:43 pm #

          Agreed. Despite the huge number of sources, they align themselves with those who agree with them. I guess the real problem is that “news” is no longer what we once thought it was, a relatively neutral source of information. Perhaps that is naive….but I do recall (having worked in radio and TV as a young man) a time when even people at small-market radio stations took that kind of stuff seriously!

  11. PostPeakRancher July 25, 2016 at 10:20 am #

    Maybe I’ve just become accustomed to the times or numb to them, but I was pretty disappointed by the ‘chaos’ of the Republican convention. Everyone was predicting chaos, including our host here. But nothing happened.

    All these yahoos carrying assault rifles of various sorts and no running gun battles in the streets of Cleveland? No mass shootings for the sake of Liberty, or God, or Allah or whatever…. pretty boring convention…

    Maybe the dingbats outside the Democratic convention will sex things up a bit to juice the ratings for the cable ‘news’ networks.

    • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 10:49 am #

      ” Everyone was predicting chaos, including our host here. But nothing happened.” – PostPeakRancher

      I don’t want to make a big thing, but the predictive power here is low.

      Written essays are highly rated.

      • PostPeakRancher July 25, 2016 at 11:09 am #

        “I don’t want to make a big thing, but the predictive power here is low. ”

        HA! Yes it seems to be low everywhere.

        • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:47 am #

          Again, with the caveat: “I don’t want to make a big thing”, I just hope you aren’t relying on these predictions. Like I hope you are NOT a Post Peak Rancher.

  12. messianicdruid July 25, 2016 at 10:23 am #

    “It’s probably beyond salvation at this point.”

    It is definitely beyond saving if there is no repentance.  

  13. Gonga Din July 25, 2016 at 10:27 am #

    The “toadious” versus the “needious”. Slouchy, slouchier, slouchiest.

  14. K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 10:29 am #

    When I first noticed lots of native Chinese speakers with thick English accents moving into my local area I wondered what was up. Later I found news reports which detailed how I live in the area of the country new buyers of American Citizenship from the Chinese mainland find most desirable. Mystery solved.

    Now the reason Bernie was not getting the press and media recognition he deserved; something I also noticed, is explained. Russian intelligence has detailed how the Democratic Elite fixed things for Hillary. Mystery solved.

    I went to the New York Times and read the DAVID SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH article. They seem rather upset that the source of the leak is Russian but not so upset about the content of the leak. I’ll take this as lame-assed spin trying to make lemonade out of lemons. The article’s anti-Russian spin might convince all the 300 pound trannies in diabetic comas across the land to continue to support Hillary but it won’t convince me. The only glass ceiling I’ll break with Hillary is one I can smash using her head.

    CITHULU for president! Why settle for a lesser evil when you can have the real thing!

    • PostPeakRancher July 25, 2016 at 10:35 am #

      Right on K-Dog. I got a kick out of that NYT article. It seemed their thinking was “if we yell and scream so much about the evil Russians trying to sabotage the elections the sheeple will forget that the Russians actually revealed that it was the Democrats sabotaging the primary election.”

      The trick seems to have worked with lots of women I know who are all for HRC mainly b/c she’s a woman. Doesn’t matter how despicable she is…she’s a woman and it’s a woman’s turn to be President.

      • K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 10:45 am #

        Exactly right!

      • Beryl of Oyl July 25, 2016 at 10:49 am #

        PPR, they figure we’ve had despicable men, so turn about is fair play. I know some men who feel this way too.

        • PostPeakRancher July 25, 2016 at 11:10 am #

          Good point.

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 10:51 am #

        see Matt Damon comment above. He can draw the gals.

        • Beryl of Oyl July 25, 2016 at 11:16 am #

          It’s that boyish grin.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:31 pm #

        Are you starting to realize that most people, especially women, have no business being allowed to vote?

        • JimInFlorida July 25, 2016 at 8:05 pm #

          Too late Janos. The termites have eaten that house up.

          Evict the squatters, bulldoze down what’s left, rebuild the Old Republic from the original blueprints, and adopt new tenant requirements to keep the riff raff out.

    • outsider July 25, 2016 at 11:35 am #

      K-Dog: “CITHULU for president?” Please explain in English.

      • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:13 pm #

        “CITHULU”

        Cartoon character…Southpark.

        • Elrond Hubbard July 25, 2016 at 12:46 pm #

          “South Park”? Kids today… Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, the vast incomprehensible alien intelligences who ruled the earth in eons past in the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, and whose dread re-awakening is awaited by his cultists…

          Iä! Iä! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. (In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.)

          https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu

      • K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 12:49 pm #

        Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, published in the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

        Sorry about the spelling.

        • pequiste July 25, 2016 at 1:11 pm #

          I was told that Cthulhu was an old style spelling of Clinton.

          • FrankinReno July 25, 2016 at 1:34 pm #

            luv it

          • Farmer McGregor July 25, 2016 at 2:01 pm #

            “I was told that Cthulhu was an old style spelling of Clinton.”

            Spit coffee on the screen FUNNY!

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:40 pm #

        Cthulu and his people are the ultimate outsiders. They come from beyond the Earth yet are tied to it (cthnoic) inexplicably. So they are the ultimate insiders too. Sounds familiar….

        • SpeedyBB July 27, 2016 at 10:23 pm #

          “…from beyond the Earth?” Uh, Arkansas?

    • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 12:01 pm #

      Very good!

      D.C.: “The new R’lyeh”

      • K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 12:51 pm #

        R’lyeh

        The sunken city inhabitted by Cthulhu and his minions. The city used to be on an island above the ocean but the stars shifted and sunk the city beneath the sea. Cthulhu is trapped there today, dead but dreaming. When the stars are right the city will rise again.
        “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”

        • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:30 pm #

          And he will teach us new ways to shout and new ways to kill. Indeed we shall become like the Great Old Ones themselves, knowing good and evil.

        • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 2:44 pm #

          I think Lovecraft must be smiling beyond the grave , to know his fiction still has a hold on pop culture, albeit on the fringes.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 3:07 pm #

            Indeed even in his day, New York was awash with mongrels and Lovecraft predicated the worst if the tide wasn’t stemmed. It wasn’t and his fears have proven only all too true.

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:17 pm #

            You hate everyone in New York State? Or only everyone in NYC? Gotta be clear with your hate.

    • Cavepainter July 25, 2016 at 12:48 pm #

      Well,….no surprise in that; the gub’ment is broke, so on behalf of the players that brought the nation to this point sovereignty itself being parceled and sold like lots in a new cul-de-sac — displacing the interests of us citizens.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:27 pm #

      Bernie knew it was rigged. And perhaps that’s why he didn’t try very hard at first? And even when he did try, he accepted his defeat and endorsed an Entity who has no Principles at all. Liz Warren as well. They have disgraced themselves.

      Trump’s campaign and behavior during it has been a model of consistency and rationality in contrast.

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:19 pm #

        Janos’ campaign and behavior during it has been a model of consistency and rationality in contrast.

      • outsider July 25, 2016 at 8:30 pm #

        Bernie was supposed to be a sparing partner, so that it would not look totally like the queen’s coronation. But, sparing partners are not supposed to hit the champ more than a love tap. Bernie was probably the most surprised man in the country when his candidacy took off. He was never supposed to get as far as he did. That’s why he was told from on high to not talk about those “damn emails.”

        • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 9:36 am #

          And this came in a dream?

  15. Cavepainter July 25, 2016 at 10:36 am #

    The tell-tell of looming civil war is when society has become a bifurcation of identifying myths, uncompromising to each because each (as myths go) is unlinked altogether to objective examination of reality. Essentially, at that point, the limbic brain is in control. Among the number of obvious examples to site is the canonization by Black Lives Matter of the young black punks whose actions were blatant, provocative attacks upon the authority figures (police) representative of broader society, netting their own deaths. “Victim class” has become about the only growth industry in America.

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    • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:15 pm #

      Cave,
      Well said.

    • Cavepainter July 25, 2016 at 1:04 pm #

      The answer is in “The Power of Myth”, as written by Joseph Campbell. Myth always takes preeminence over more reasoned examination of empirical evidence because objectivity doesn’t support the certitude required by the psyche (or, for that matter, cohesiveness of social groups). Hence, the persistence of religion, mysticism, and yes, the more secular equivalents such as ‘positive thinking’ and the doctrinal fervency of the New Left (holding that all 8 billion humans can be accommodated if only national borders were dissolved, all cultures were equated as equal, all races were blended into a single hue, and all accepted minimal caloric requirement through a straw).

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 3:12 pm #

        Yes, humanity is not controlled by concepts but by symbols that embody myths. Thus our war against the Cathedral/Synagogue via memes is devastatingly effective. Or as Alinsky said, mockery is gold. It’s much easier to destroy than to build. The Enemy knows that and thus overthrew us. Now we return the favor.

        The Bill of Rights is saving us. Unless they can repeal the 1st and 2nd amendments in the near future, they are toast.

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:46 am #

          “Yes, humanity is not controlled by concepts but by symbols that embody myths. Thus our war against the Cathedral/Synagogue via memes is devastatingly effective. Or as Alinsky said, mockery is gold. It’s much easier to destroy than to build. The Enemy knows that and thus overthrew us. Now we return the favor.” J

          try reality

          • Elrond Hubbard July 30, 2016 at 8:31 am #

            The thing is, the poor boy is trying. What comes out of his mouth is the result. How sad.

  16. sbs July 25, 2016 at 10:39 am #

    “Can a running mate up and quit before the election? It’s never happened before.”

    What about Eagleton in ’72?

    • BackRowHeckler July 25, 2016 at 10:50 am #

      Eagleton was mentally unstable as I recall, and had spent a little time institutionalized. He had to go.

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:53 am #

        And current candidates are not mentally unstable? C’mon.

  17. Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 10:44 am #

    Both the Nobel and the Pulitzer should go to Putin, although he’s the obvious scapegoat. Heck, it was probably the FBI that hacked the DNC. We all know that corporate media and the supposed papers of record are almost in their entirety pushing Clinton by stomping on Trump, but where is our publicly supported news? You know, the news outlet that runs a ridiculous morning program with 3, yes 3, hosts on the payroll? Well, they’re carrying the administration’s, and Clinton’s water. No investigations, no digging. Who would have ever thought that the 4th estate’s legitimacy would one day rest on public media in an era of corporate media? That a right leaning page of links to obscure news stories, dredging the depths, would be a top source of information? Beyond salvation and want of… let it die

    • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:55 am #

      I thought CFN “is our publicly supported news”.

      • Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 4:37 pm #

        I’m rather unsure, there seems to be a dose of unabashed editorializing around here.

        As I see it, every Monday, the kennel warden tosses a scrap of thoroughly gnawed gristle to the weeklong starved mutts. They quickly lose interest in the meat after a few chews… and then begin chomping on each other’s tails soon after. The light fawn and white mutts don’t care for the brindled or the dark coats, and blame the small cabal of purebreds for everything that bedevils them in particular, and for the bleak situation they all, in their entirety, find themselves in. If only the west highland terriers were in charge! There is a Borzoi mix that shits in the corner and rolls in it… making a big, but ultimately pointless and incoherent display, and a hand-puppet trying to pass itself off as a mutt, whose entire purpose is to agitate, tempt, and controvert the efforts of others.

        Any news here is pissed and shat on, perhaps as it should be.

        • Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 5:20 pm #

          This is a terrific piece you have written here Frank. Let me see if I have correctly identified the characters:

          the kennel warden = JHK

          the small cabal of purebreds = the Elite, the 1%, the banksters, the oligarchy

          the west highland terriers = Janos’s Whites

          a Borzoi mix = Finca

          a hand-puppet trying to pass itself off as a mutt = wpa-ccc (formerly Asoka)

          The light fawn and white mutts = legal citizens of the US of European extraction

          the brindled or the dark coats, = Blacks, browns, biracial, first- language Spanish folks, people named Muhammad, persons of questionable or undocumented citizenship, i.e. all of those not in the light fawn and white mutts category.

          • Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 8:14 pm #

            Exactly. I suppose you’d be the stalwart three-legged border collie, occasionally rising to protect the old order, any order… and I the yipping and nipping toy bitch-on, I mean Bichon, my incessant barking getting me no further than curling into a ball and licking my own splendid arse.

        • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 6:39 pm #

          I love this site….

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:19 pm #

            What’s not to like?

        • JimInFlorida July 25, 2016 at 8:09 pm #

          LOL! Well said Frank! I love comments that are heavy on the metaphors and imagery!

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:20 pm #

            Well said! Gotta love comments that are heavy on the Nativism and Scientific Racism!

          • Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 8:26 pm #

            Funny you should say that. I sent a link to a blog entry from this site to an acquaintance awhile back, and although he enjoyed that week’s entry he had asked if I had read the comments, “…as they look like they are composed by a coterie of closeted right wing English professors, fellows and Scribner’s rejects…”

  18. BackRowHeckler July 25, 2016 at 10:48 am #

    Is it too soon here to mention events happening in Europe the past few days? They are particularly odious and shocking: in Germany a young pregnant woman hacked up with a machete by a Syrian refugee on the street, for “looking Jewish” (she died), and in SFrance a mother and her 3 daughters carved up with a dagger at a resort by a Moroccan immigrant because they were “inappropriately dressed”.

    How long can Western Europe carry on this way? Why have these national governments allowed this to happen? And German and French men, where are you? Why have you not recognized the danger your wives and daughters are in on the streets of your own countries, and why are you not protecting them?

    brh

    • Beryl of Oyl July 25, 2016 at 10:57 am #

      Evidently some sort of Muslim redistribution to the West is absolutely essential to globalization.
      One news source tried to make it sound like something personal between the “refugee” and the woman he killed, noting that they were “arguing”. He just happened to have a machete on him when she pushed his buttons, I guess.

      • Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 11:18 am #

        It was the muderous sun, or so said Meursault.

      • JimInFlorida July 25, 2016 at 11:44 am #

        DIVERSITY VISA provision in the Immigration Act of 1990.

        Until that tumor is removed, and the political area cauterized, all of Trump’s rhetoric won’t change a thing.

        The 300# post-op tranny that used to be Uncle Sam will still need to stay in ICU to help detox from 50 years of New Leftism.

        Perhaps there’s no hope but, future generations of oppressed Whites need to know that a last ditch effort was made to arrest the disease and punish the quislings who sold them out.

        • outsider July 25, 2016 at 8:41 pm #

          JimInFla: 1990 is a start, but we need to go back further. Until the Hart-Cellar Immigration Act of 1965 is repealed this nation will continue sloughing its way to Third World status.

          • JimInFlorida July 26, 2016 at 6:52 am #

            Yes! Most people know it as the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.

            I offer the sacrifice of the Immigration Act of 1990 to be first as it’s roots aren’t as deep as the one passed in 1965. Pretty much whatever LBJ signed into law is sacrosanct.

            If Trump can even get the DIVERSITY VISA program repealed and excised out of the Act, then the core of that Act is gone and the rest can be starved to death. THEN the The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 can be attacked.

            Sad to say, Ronald Reagan stood like a tower of Jello when that odious Act fell on his desk. No doubt his globalist minder, GHW Bush, told the mentally confused Reagan to sign it.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:44 pm #

        The Muslims are the foot soldiers who will take down the West, the nucleus of the swarm, the leaven that makes the dark mass of Blacks and Browns rise.

        That’s why Hillary wants to bring a million of them here on top of those already coming. For starters.

        • newworld July 25, 2016 at 3:33 pm #

          They bring us war, they all but say that these days. Besides the cosmopolitans are the first targets such as those pool goers who got a taste of the Shariah religious police in Germany this weekend.

          War is an awful option, but we white men have grown weak and feminine and were going down with a whimper, to be hectored by nobodies.

          Islam comes to fight and Islam will bring the terror that will trample the taboos we shamefully respect. This is good, even if Islam is bad.

        • Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 8:31 pm #

          Excellent Smithers… Excellent!

    • outsider July 25, 2016 at 11:52 am #

      Here’s a theory I’m developing. Aren’t the majority of these Muslim migrants younger, military aged, men? And young men crave sex. They’ve got to be turned on by all the beautiful Euro women, and they’re certainly not used to seeing all that skin in public. I think their sexual frustration must be enormous, as I doubt most of the women will willingly have sex with them. Could some be targeting women because they’ve gone crazy as they can’t get any? Possible solution: bar all new male migrants from entering, but encourage vetted females to enter until their numbers are the same as the men. Just a thought.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:47 pm #

        If we could do that, we could ban them altogether which is obviously the best option of all. No, the Elite want maximum social chaos so they can gin up control.

        If you want to help them for some reason, it would be far easier to help them in their own countries. Maybe their own rich cousins might help a bit too? “Helping” is just the Elite helping themselves to our world at this point.

    • malthuss July 25, 2016 at 11:53 am #

      The Tribes chickens are home to roost.
      Serves the tribe right.

      Even if this woman was Goyim, jews will be attacked by their pets.

      • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:57 am #

        “Even if this woman was Goyim” IT PROVES MALTHUS’ POV.
        I’m probably leaving this polite conversation.

        • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:19 pm #

          “I’m probably leaving this polite conversation”

          …again?

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 12:23 pm #

            I appreciate your interest. I have always dropped by on Monday to read KUNSTLER’S ESSAY and have enjoyed it. Comments, not-so-much.

            But, no sympathy required on that account. My Comments run free at WSR.

          • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 12:34 pm #

            WSR?

          • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 8:22 pm #

            WSR

            I use the same handle. See you there!

            Out

  19. Walter B July 25, 2016 at 10:53 am #

    So are the Clintons one of the biggest crime families since Al Capone? Very possibly, (for sure if you ask me or anyone I know), and if you are wondering why they are so universally accepted and bowed down to, the answer might very well be the same one as to why Al Capone was so popular – he spread it around and paid a lot of his profits out to the people that supported him, now didn’t he? His support was so widespread in fact that the few honest men left in government at the time had to solicit the services of the only honest man they could find, a Treasury Agent, of all people. Why do so many people still stand behind Hillary Rodan Clinton and her sexual deviate “husband”? Well with hundreds of billions of dollars in profits, they can certainly afford to buy just about anyone and everyone that they need, including the AG and the FBI Director! THAT much is painfully obvious. Heck they may even have enough to buy the old reptile the White House! And when Her Rectal Highness does in fact ascend the Throne that is her turn to occupy, all of those in the Military Industrial Complex will line up behind her to accept the massive amounts of handouts, payoffs and “contracts” she and Billy Bob will then be able to pilfer from the National Treasury. Or more correctly, handed out in mass by the Fed. This November, many questions will be answered and if the Clinton Crime Family re-occupies the Oval Office you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be over for America for the last Elliot Ness WAS the last, there will be NO more!

  20. Ishabaka July 25, 2016 at 10:55 am #

    Hillary, and Wasserman have yet to understand one of the important realities of the New Millenium – ANYTHING you do using the Internet is preserved, and available to one and all – forever.

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    • Beryl of Oyl July 25, 2016 at 10:58 am #

      Even if you hide the server in your basement.

    • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 11:58 am #

      Warning CFNers. Warning CFNers.

    • K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 12:38 pm #

      No, records are heavily edited by those keeping the records. I have seen archives on this very site modified and that is one of the rare things Janos will agree with me about. If the PTB want to bury you badly enough they can make any internet record they want. The reality of the new millennium is that the truth of ink and print has been lost to the volatility of the electric charge and the magnetic field.

      Available for one and all really? Methinks one cannot simply pull Liberté, égalité, and fraternité out of one’s ass and make it so.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:54 pm #

        Indeed I do and a job well done. Why you see fit to deny or otherwise defend Muslim terror in Europe against the innocent is one of the great mysteries, ultimately pointing to Man’s fallen nature and the darkening of his natural faculties.

        And NO, immediately shouting about American policy in the Middle East does not absolve the murderers and rapists, nor does it absolve you for having their back. Nor does it explain why they do it or you do it. The reasons are very dark, ultimately pointing to Man’s fallen nature. As Jeremiah said, the heart is corrupt above all things.

        • K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 8:46 pm #

          I do not defend Moslem terror or Muslim terror, or any other kind of terror.

          The issue I have is that I do not believe that all Moslem terror is Moslem terror. Some of it is theater scripted and acted out to shape public opinion so that the war pump is kept primed and ready to go. It is also done to keep American rights under the government thumb.

          Consider Germany, all of a sudden in the space of days they have three terrorists attacks where there had been none in Germany for a considerable period of time. Random chance does not favor the observed statistical spread of terror attacks here in America or over there. Of course you can consider me bat-shit crazy for thinking our government or any government would do such a thing to their own people but if you also consider history and some evidence, then I’m very reasonable, sensible, and of sound mind.

          As long as people believe what they want to believe and disregard the rest and as long as people do not hold news media and governments accountable to truth, deceptions will continue.

          Remember the Reichstag fire and earlier the Committee on Public Information (CPI) which promoted WWI on the American home front and abroad in 1917. It was necessary to promote WWI since America at the time had no ax to grind with Germany. It was done very successfully.

          The Hun is out to get us or the Sand Nigger is. It is the same lie in different wrappings.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 9:06 pm #

            The war against Islam is real. The weird thing is that our Governments are on the side of Islam for the most part. They let them in so yes, they are more to blame. But that doesn’t mean the Muslim Terrorists are innocent.

  21. BackRowHeckler July 25, 2016 at 10:56 am #

    These knife, machete and axe attacks have been going on in Israel for awhile now, Israel citizens assaulted without warning, favorite targets being woman and young girls as well. Needless to say Israelis at large take a dim view of this and do not try to explain it away, provide cover and excuses for the assailants, or cover it up (as is happening in Europe). No, these slashers are shot down where they stand, no f-kkiin around, where they stand!

    brh

    • Beryl of Oyl July 25, 2016 at 11:06 am #

      Someone had the sense to use the weapon at hand, a BMW, against Machete Man. There’s symbolism in there someplace.
      BTW, Remember how Hillary so admired Australia’s gun confiscation, and thought it could serve as a model to America? There have been three mass shootings in Australia since 2011. Three, in a country with a smaller population than this state.
      The globalist-controlled media has kept this under wraps.
      I’m not advocating for open-carry or any sort of weapons ownership, I’m just pointing out that it looks as if the most severe gun restrictions, which I have recently seen heavily touted in American media, aren’t working as they claim.

    • malthuss July 25, 2016 at 11:57 am #

      Last count that I read was 10,000 to 150 or so.
      10,000 palestinians dead, less than 200 jews killed.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 1:59 pm #

      As Matt Bracken said, in Israel or Texas they driver of The Truck would have face effective handgun fire on every block.

      Frenchmen did try to stop him. They just didn’t have the tools to do the job.

      Many of the Jewish gun control fanatics support handguns for Israeli citizens but not for Americans. A double standard that shows where their true allegiance lies.

      • Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 4:47 pm #

        I also question this thinking, I mean, how can they support firearms for intelligent, considerate, and even nebbish types in the old country and not the neck-tattooed infants driving lifted pickups and wearingTap-Out tees?

        • messianicdruid July 25, 2016 at 6:28 pm #

          Innocent until proven guilty and guilty until proven innocent are two [ double ] standards.

  22. FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 11:07 am #

    Larry the Chief Mouser: Prime Ministers, Presidents – come and go, but I and the Queen Remain!!

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Larry_Chief_Mouser.jpg

    SINK THE BISMARCK!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU

    Long live the Queen!

  23. nwcodetalker July 25, 2016 at 11:10 am #

    It was strange to hear Tim Kane on Meet The Press

    “I can’t take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to somebody with no consequence.”

  24. FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 11:26 am #

    Go on, keep making a flying monkey show out of your “democracy” and may be you gonna have to beg the Queen to take you back.

    And she just might, some parts at least.

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:23 pm #

      Motivated by jealousy, a bit?

  25. volodya July 25, 2016 at 11:28 am #

    Messianicdruid, it’s beyond salvation and there’s NO repentance. Quite the opposite, there’s a doubling-down, an in your face defiance. Event horizon? WHAT event horizon?

    You see it everywhere especially from the highest offices in the land, like the Fed. Incontinent money printing didn’t work? It not only didn’t work but resulted in multiple calamities? Well then, insist on doing much, much more of it, much, much faster, all the while glaring with contempt at those people bleating to please, please stop.

    Gutting the American economy was a disaster? Importing millions of people from the Third World made it worse? Why, then double down, negotiate more trade deals to gut what’s left and import MORE people all the while yelling loudly and against the evidence of people’s eyeballs that more people and fewer jobs are a GOOD thing.

    What, you don’t like it? Take it from luminaries like Joe Klein: things aren’t that bad. No, they aren’t. Guys like Joe would know, not you.

    And besides, complainers are just dog-whistling. This is all about racism and xenophobia. End of discussion.

    Yeah, you meant repentance in a religious sense I’ll bet. It would be a good start, a recognition that harm was done.

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    • messianicdruid July 25, 2016 at 12:39 pm #

      I’d appreciate repentance [ changed mind ] in any way. But until churchianity gets on its face in prayer seeking the rulership [ kingdom ] of the Creator God, our leaders are not going to change. We are being chastised and don’t have the spiritual discernment to realize it.

      http://www.firebreathingchristian.com/archives/12107

    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:18 pm #

      Yes, it’s sack cloth and ashes time. But Americans don’t do that anymore. It’s gets in the way of careers, eating out, and watching sports.

      So things are going to get sporty! Running down pedestrians wont be a crime, but the national pastime!

  26. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 11:32 am #

    “it’s a woman’s turn to be President.” –PostPeakRancher

    To even things out, it’s a woman’s turn to be the next 45 presidents.

    • outsider July 25, 2016 at 12:03 pm #

      wpa: We’d never last that long. There’s a good chance we may not even survive the first one.

    • JimInFlorida July 25, 2016 at 8:23 pm #

      Britain had a bad experience with Maggie Thatcher. A conservative harpy if there ever was one.

      Just like Maggie, Hillary will sell out what’s left of U.S industry to foreign buyers. Hillary’s lust for Wall Street will make Ronald Reagan look like a social justice liberal in comparison.

  27. venuspluto67 July 25, 2016 at 11:37 am #

    So does anybody remember this little gem of a political advertisement from early 2008? It’s positively guffaw-worthy!

  28. dweebus July 25, 2016 at 11:38 am #

    JHK-

    You pretty well nailed th is one!

    The odious and the tedious, yes indeed. And I think those who expect us in the Bernie camp to fall meeky in line are kideing themselves.

    A rewignation at the end of the week is too little, too late. HRc should have elivered Debbie W-S’ s head to Sanders in a proverbial basket yesterday, effective immediately, if you wanted a shot at pulling Bernie folks in.

    Th e boos at the AM breakfast W-S held infront of the FL eelegation were deafening. She said they were disruptive. What is more disruptive than sandbagging an election, then getting caught.

    When she gavels in the convention, expect all the Bernie delagats to show up. The heckling will be thunderous I am sure.

    What a fine way to show unity and annoit Clinton.

    *pukes in mouth*

    • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 11:40 am #

      And yes, I know there are typos. I am on mobile, so…

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:20 pm #

        Q does not forgive you.

        • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 3:17 pm #

          I noticed.

          I figured Q would be in a tiff. Alas, the preemptive acknowlegement of my failings was insufficient to alleviate his gastric distress.

          While gross errors, the kind that make an argument unintelligible are fair game, IMO, the constant nitpicking seems to serve no useful purpose.

          To be fair, there were a bunch of typos. I hate mobile touch-screens.

    • Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 12:59 pm #

      The odious and the tedious, yes indeed. And I think those who expect us in the Bernie camp to fall [meeky] in line are [kideing] themselves.

      A [rewignation] at the end of the week is too little, too late. HRc should have [elivered] Debbie [W-S’ s] head to Sanders in a proverbial basket yesterday, effective immediately, if you wanted a shot at pulling Bernie folks in.

      [Th e] boos at the AM breakfast W-S held [infront] of the FL [eelegation] were deafening. She said they were disruptive. What is more disruptive than sandbagging an election, [then] getting caught[.]

      When she gavels in the convention, expect all the Bernie [delagats] to show up. The heckling will be thunderous I am sure.

      What a fine way to show unity and [annoit] Clinton. – dweebus

      =============

      Have you been drinking this morning?

      • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 2:56 pm #

        Two cups of coffee, one to go.

        As I said, mobile. And a case of fat thumbs.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 3:16 pm #

        You dare much on a Monday morning. Man cannot change, not without grace And you left that behind at St Joe’s, hidden inside Sister Mary Knockitoff’s wipple.

        • Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 3:29 pm #

          whipple

          • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 6:38 pm #

            Remember Sister Mary Animal? What a beast!

        • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm #

          Nah, Janos. I come from the other side of the Reformation. King Henry VIII was a randy SOB, but he was OUR randy SOB.

          Mine was left in the under-the-desk basket of Mrs. Neff’s 7th grade grammar class. 35 years on, the woman still gives me nightmares.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 6:37 pm #

            I was talking to Q. Follow the indentations. But that’s good to know. The Protestants followed the zeitgeist of the age (capitalism) and a gaggle of geniuses supported them, producing a galaxy – an explosion that would ultimately prove as destructive as it was brilliant.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:13 pm #

            so that’s it.

    • jloughrey July 26, 2016 at 4:26 am #

      You know what makes me want to puke? The number of otherwise-intelligent people I know personally who declare “I’m With Her.” Like it’s supposed to be something good to support someone who bought, lied and cheated their way into the nomination? And who has a record of criminal activity a mile long? I can’t even stand to look at that vile she-witch. I keep hoping that Wikileaks or someone else will drop the final bomb to end Hillary’s massive crime spree once and for all, but she apparently wields enough power to make it all go away. I am far more frightened about her Mafioso demeanor and the collective disconnect and apathy on the part of Hillary supporters than I am the prospect of a Trump presidency. Either way, we are royally screwed.

      • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 9:44 am #

        So…you’re not with her?

  29. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 11:40 am #

    I prefer tedious to odious. Tedious is competent and is not blinded by hatred.

    • pequiste July 25, 2016 at 12:38 pm #

      Some of that “blind hatred” you dislike so much:

      http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-blast-idUSKCN1040Y7

    • DrTomSchmidt July 25, 2016 at 1:22 pm #

      Odious is competent. Built a few buildings that haven’t yet collapsed. Runs a profitable organization with 22,000 employees.

      Tedious ran an organization of 34,000 employees. Tedious decided to attack Libya AFTER seeing the results of removing Arab dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Tedious gets a pass on voting for the Iraq War (even tho Querulous [Sanders] was against it), but to have the evidence from Iraq at hand and STILL decide to pop Libya is singular incompetence. Laughing about “we came, we saw, he died” indicates sociopathy and maybe evil.

      I have no idea whether odious is blinded by hatred. If you are makingthatclaim, you need proof.

      • AKlein July 25, 2016 at 3:23 pm #

        Another point, Dr. Tom, one has to regularly meet a payroll, the other does not, and, from what I know, never has had to. In a society where money doesn’t just matter, but pretty much is the only thing that matters, successfully meeting a payroll should be a primary job skill.

        • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:26 am #

          You must know that he doesn’t pay his workers. He stiffs them, but hey, give him a pass if it makes you happy.

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 9:46 am #

      Pointing out that the Republican candidate is blinded by hatred to folks who are blinded by hatred doesn’t work.

      It’s that cancel-out thing.

  30. newworld July 25, 2016 at 11:49 am #

    The most interesting thing this week will be Trump’s tweets.

    There is a video going about causing great hilarity on the right, its Hillary having a spasm, funny as hell. So the great cult leader will give her speech this week several minutes into it she will seize up, face plant, but the lip synch machine will keep spewing her words while the goofs of the media read their script, that is my prediction.

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    • DrTomSchmidt July 25, 2016 at 1:25 pm #

      Remember that a previous Democrat, Boss Tweed, was brought down not by muckrakign journalism, but by the caricatures of Thomas Nast, as Tweed complained. Hillary can survive the scandals, but she will not survive being an object of mockery.

      • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:10 pm #

        Managed so far.

        You heard that “Sticks and Stones and Bones…but Names will Never Harm Me”?

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:18 pm #

      Brilliant Tweets! Make ’em President.

  31. Hospice Man July 25, 2016 at 11:53 am #

    Donna Brazile is already out as DNC chair because SHE’S in some of the incriminating emails and files. So the third poor soul in the job in 24 hours is Marcia Fudge, a hapless congresscreature who probably doesn’t even have an office key yet. She’s taking over on this, the penultimate day of the DNC and the reason her job exists in the first place. meanwhile, in trolling about the many thousands of attached files in the dump, I came across some interesting stuff on an Excel spreadsheet for the DNC. https://brooklynculturejammers.com/2016/07/25/clinton-wikileaks-dump-hits-fan/

    • dannyboy July 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm #

      “Fudge”,get it?

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:23 pm #

        One of yours? If only the Right had a Dan Savage on its payroll! But we’re simply too good to do something like that….

        • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:25 pm #

          At one Republican Convention, Dan went around licking door knobs hoping to give people his cold. God is merciful if that’s all they were in danger of getting.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 9:47 am #

            Ya’ still got it!

            And it shows.

            Shine brightly on.

  32. kansas ham on wry July 25, 2016 at 11:54 am #

    Better watch out! ‘Tranny’ is one of those words guaranteed to give the PC police the vapors (can’t argue with the exquisite imagery, though).

  33. volodya July 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm #

    So the Germans are saying that the Syrian refugee that blew himself up at a music festival last night pledged loyalty to ISIS.

    • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 12:16 pm #

      I believe the German police. But Islam is not the same as ISIS.

      The majority of the Muslim population wishes ISIS gone just as much as Americans do. No peaceful Muslim interprets Islam as a method to create Islamic supremacy in the world.

      We must acknowledge that Muslims are from varying backgrounds that many fellow Americans share, and they all believe in different values just like any of us. Our salvation is in accepting multiculturalism, tolerance, and diversity.

  34. newworld July 25, 2016 at 12:01 pm #

    This woman as president springs forth from childish nonsense, not that a woman cannot be the kick ass executive or the competent technocrat it is just that the world is going in the direction of “Hard men needed for dirty work” way.

    Does the Caliphate need “strong womyn” no and what a joke to think a “strong womyn” type would last as soon as her clothes were ripped off.

    And now for some reason the crooked establishment insists on working with the Caliphate to spread that thruout the West.

    You feckless leftists have brought war to the West and war is the way of the hard man, thank you.

    All of you “liberals” stop your virtue signaling for a couple of hours and go watch “Sicario” not only will you get to watch Benito del Toro burn up the screen you will see your future.

    Again thank you.

    • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 12:20 pm #

      “You feckless leftists have brought war to the West”

      The Bush presidencies (both of them) brought the war to the West by creating instability and millions of refugees, through their illegal and unnecessary invasions in the middle east. Leftists opposed the Bush family wars.

      • newworld July 25, 2016 at 12:48 pm #

        You are correct about the Bushes and believe it or not I opposed those wars because I predicted this.

        You multiculturalists and your Blank Slate Theory think that we have magic dirt in this country and the West in general so regardless of refugee status mass muslim migration would be no big deal because they are just like us and then add the incoherence of your virtue signaling babble and voila dar al Harb the house of war is literally here.

        So here we are today, this weekend in Germany some muslims with excellent German language skills went into a public beach area and spit and cursed out the infidels for their non-adherence to muslim culture, that is our future thanks to you and the Bush/Clinton crime syndicate.

        • malthuss July 25, 2016 at 1:04 pm #

          magic dust is like paint job theory.

      • messianicdruid July 25, 2016 at 12:50 pm #

        Do you really think that “…creating instability and millions of refugees, through their illegal and unnecessary invasions in the middle east…” has stopped?

      • Cavepainter July 25, 2016 at 1:19 pm #

        Wpa-ccc, quit going on-and-on with your “somebody done somebody wrong song”, at this point in history (human predicament) it offers no practical benefit — distracts from the immediate issue of how to optimize the slimming chance of any small portion of humanity surviving. The pie you seem intent on redistributing doesn’t exist and hasn’t for decades. The only hope for humanity is that some small number of us can flake away on a piece of the crust yet remaining (not overpopulated) of that fabled pie.

  35. volodya July 25, 2016 at 12:36 pm #

    So now that most disreputable organization – the FBI – goes full frontal in taking sides in the election. How? See, they’re supposedly “investigating” the hack of DNC emails.

    So what you ask? Just this, FBI help is needed in creating the fable that Putin prefers Trump so Putin got his bad-boy hackers to do the deed, covering the Democrats in turds of their own making and giving the Trump forces all manner of attack lines.

    It wasn’t enough that somehow, despite innumerable man-hours by dozens of FBI agents, NO evidence of criminal intent was found in Hillary’s handling of her emails. Hilarious. Berlusconi must have consulted on this one. Maybe he had his Italian clean-up crew go in to help those Virginia farm-boys at the FBI.

    In any case we’re fully entitled in thinking that the decision to not prosecute Hillary was a political decision by a Democrat administration to benefit the Democratic presidential candidate.

    I guess it’s not enough that the judicial arm of government is thoroughly politicized. Now it’s the enforcement and investigative side too. Justice is Blind? Not bloody likely.

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    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:31 pm #

      Obviously Putin prefers Trump. Why wouldn’t he? And if he did release those emails, who can blame him? The Western Media has refused to air his pleas about stopping the arms build up on Russian borders by NATO. And he has made it clear: any war will not be fought on Russian soil. We have been warned – just as Germany warned American citizens not to take the Lusitania since it was carrying munitions. The ads the German Government paid for were not run.

      • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 9:51 am #

        Or Putin would prefer to see US all f’d up?

    • newworld July 25, 2016 at 3:39 pm #

      Snowden claims the hackers can be tracked easily enough

  36. DurangoKid July 25, 2016 at 12:36 pm #

    If ever we needed a “none of the above”. Then what? Another two years of squabbling and wheel spinning as the PTB sort out candidates for Manager In Chief?

    As Chris Hedges points out the system is broken. Which is true except that it’s been broken for a very long time. What’s different this time is it appears broken. It has become difficult to impossible for the party wonks to put enough lipstick on this pig to ensure it gets a prom date.

    Why? Industrial culture is coming apart at the seams. There’s no more promise of prosperity. Everyone knows there’s something wrong but the opinion makers are obviously somehow lying about it. One candidate speaks to our rage at have our jobs ripped out from under us and the other is pulling out all the stops just to keep the game going for the next couple of quarters. Of course, neither speaks on the systemic issues, so it’s off to ballpark for another rainout. The only party player to hint at the underlying causes of all this mess was understandably torpedoed by his own party.

    Petroleum is no longer a growth industry. Empires have to grow or die. They rarely succeed at retreating. When they try it looks something like this.

    • K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 12:54 pm #

      Prosperity may be gone but being able to convince people it is alive and well remains a growth industry.

      Growth industry. I think there is a pun there.

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:20 pm #

      I beg to differ.

      • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 12:40 pm #

        About what?

        • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 5:51 pm #

          Most of DurangoKid’s Comment.

          1.”the system is broken.” – ‘bit overstated.
          2.”it’s been broken for a very long time.” – exaggerated
          3.” Industrial culture is coming apart at the seams.” – see #1&2 above
          4. “Everyone knows there’s something wrong” – then why all the blogging and pointing out that nobody ‘gets it’?
          5.the other is pulling out all the stops just to keep the game going for the next couple of quarters.” – exaggerated AND overstated.

          I’ll stop with this list, but I could go on.

  37. K-Dog July 25, 2016 at 12:46 pm #

    I’m wishing now I had made the decision to go to Philadelphia for Bernie when I had the chance. I’d be voting for Bernie whether he liked it or not now. As it was I only was an in-state delegate because I did not want to part with $3,500 out of pocket just to eat an authentic Philadelphia cheese steak sandwich. That is how I saw it at the time. I threw away the chance to be a stubborn wrench in the system.

    • volodya July 25, 2016 at 12:56 pm #

      Bernie needs to re-think his endorsement of Hillary. Maybe he needs to think about a third party challenge. Bernie won’t win but he would kick the legs out from Hillary’s candidacy.

      Is the prospect of the Trump clan stinking up the White House unbearable? Just think, if you want to reset a thoroughly rotten and unsustainable political and economic system, you sure as hell don’t do it with a status quo-ist like Hillary who’s deep in Oligarch pockets.

      Maybe there’s a chance under the stewardship of someone like Trump, who cannot control what comes out of his blow-hole, who might damage things out of inadvertence but to the point that they need a re-build.

      • Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 1:28 pm #

        someone like Trump, who cannot control what comes out of his blow-hole, – Volodya

        =========

        Hahaha, I like that.

        I’ll be looking for an opportunity to use it at some future cookout or cocktail party.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:34 pm #

        Yeah, why not live up to the idealism he has been spouting all his life? Strike a blow against the Machine and the Witch. But he wont. He just doesn’t have the requisite Manhood in him. He’ll always be the cowering boy we saw surrender his mike (phallic symbol) to the Black BLM Witch.

        Trump said he’d never give up his mike. And that’s the kind of guy we want in our corner.

    • newworld July 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm #

      Assuming you’re white do you really think there is much room for virtue signaling whites in today’s Democratic party?

      Doesn’t really seem the D party has much to sell a run of the mill white person. Maybe the snobbishness of the AGW types, or a mother hen role and maybe way down the totem pole a white union man could find a place if uncomfortable one at the table. At least the Koch brothers are on your side now, enjoy that.

      I know the GOP sucks no need to even type that in response.

  38. pequiste July 25, 2016 at 1:05 pm #

    Tedious?

    No way!

    The Wasserman Schultz email turd-in-the-punchbowl debacle for the Democrats is actually hillaryus.

    It is the doctrine of “Fairness” that the Clinton Party and the Democrats have openly shat upon with this exposure and the Bernie people are not going to have any of it.

    Could cost the Clinton machine the election if Bernie people sit it out.

    Comrades Putin and Xi Jinping are having a great week too enjoying the American spectacle.

    Black Lives Matter might find it tedious that Black lives (teens ) apparently don’t matter to gang bangers of AA background.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3706570/One-dead-ten-wounded-Florida-teenage-disco-mass-shooting.html

    And the odious ones (Yzlamik invaders) in Europe are having a blast in Germany among other tourist venues at the expense of the natives.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-blast-idUSKCN1040Y7

  39. volodya July 25, 2016 at 1:10 pm #

    Messianic druid, a changed mind is an exceedingly rare commodity. I read well known nationally distributed publications with columnists and opinion pieces by people from coastal places like NYC. I tell you it’s frightening the amount of deliberate distortion and willful misapprehension you find in those bulletins. Given the reputation of these magazines and newspapers, these opinions have wide currency. You can practically see people’s heads nodding. Evidence is something that you find if you go looking for it. But if you don’t look for it, you won’t find it. Same thing with evidence that you’re wrong or that you’re doing harm.

    What you see are people that would rather jump over a cliff than do a re-assessment. Such a thing and especially if accompanied by acknowledgment of being wrong and doing damage, is an indirect indictment of other people who have been doing and thinking the same way. People would rather not rock the boat. Easier to just go along and get along.

    • messianicdruid July 25, 2016 at 6:49 pm #

      I can attest that it [ changed mind ] usually requires intense pain. When most things are the way they are spozed to be, there is no motivation or time to think.

  40. FrankinReno July 25, 2016 at 1:24 pm #

    I’m loving to incredibly stupid hypocrisy of the Russian spy story. Are these people unaware of the fact that at least three US gov’t agencies (NSA, CIA and DIA) are tasked with spying on places like Russia (Not to mention US Citizens!) and digging up dirt on their leadership. Of course Russia, and others, do the same thing to us. Even if not the Russian gov’t, it’s 2016. Hacking is a thing, and it’s been that way for a long time.
    The real story is A) They let the shit get stolen in the first place, B) They didn’t advise people who personal information is now out there about the compromise, and C) They were caught with there pants down lying out their asses!
    And so now we get stupid ass covering by trying to make this into a really droll James Bond story about an evil, misogynist arch villain trying to undo democracy. The really funny thing is the truth they are trying to hide is not much different.

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    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:38 pm #

      If it’s true, the Russians have struck back effectively and in a way that will benefit Donald Trump and the American People, or at least the real ones, the good ones, and the real good ones.

      • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:30 am #

        the real ones (The Nativists), the good ones (The Scientific Racists), and the real good ones (Janos, Janos, Janos…).

  41. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 1:29 pm #

    “Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will begin receiving the briefings after the Democratic National Convention ends on Thursday, ABC News reported Monday. As the Republican nominee for president, Trump is now among a handful of people who do not hold a security clearance but have the potential to get these briefings. But he also has closer ties to a foreign government than perhaps any presidential candidate in recent history.

    Trump has called for following Moscow’s lead on various global issues and questioned whether it’s necessary for the U.S. to always defend other members of NATO, the alliance created during the Cold War to protect American partners from an expansionist Soviet Union. His rhetoric about foreign policy neatly matches the message coming out of Moscow: that America has little need for its long-time partners in Europe ? particularly in NATO ? or elsewhere, and that the U.S. should have less influence internationally. Trump has extensive business and financial ties to Russia. The Washington Post has described his relationship with Putin as a “bromance.” Troll accounts tied to the Russian government have promoted Trump on Twitter, the New Yorker’s Adrian Chen noted last year. And this week, mysterious hackers released internal Democratic National Committee emails ? a move that security experts and reporters are increasingly convinced was an attempt by the Russian government to swing the presidential election to Trump.

    Trump’s deep relationship with Russia has the intelligence community worried.”

    • FrankinReno July 25, 2016 at 1:48 pm #

      Oooohh… I’m scared now. Trumps gonna collude with Russians, to… what? Conquer Western Europe? Invade the Middle East? What? What’s the real worry in the real world? Russia’s gonna force the world to buy their natural gas exports? Oh for shame!

      How about Hillary colluding with mega corps to send more jobs overseas, colluding with mega corps to bring in more foreign workers to displace American workers, colluding with mega corps to subvert our constitutional rights to corporate privilege, colluding with mega corps to protect the corporate bailout/wealth transfer that is Obama care, etc.

      We have way more to fear from Hillary than Putin.

      Smedley Butler for President

      • volodya July 25, 2016 at 1:57 pm #

        I agree, the caste that Hillary represents (both American and foreign) created an economic system that gutted American manufacturing and consequently wrecked much of the economy and the prospects of millions of people. With Hillary it’s more of the same. Much more to fear from Hillary than Putin.

        • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:28 pm #

          You come in with Putin?

      • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 2:41 pm #

        Trump and Putin are the God Brothers Castor and Pollux. They are fulfilling Yockey’s and Lindberg’s dream of a Northern Alliance, a Wall against the Non-Western, Non-White World. We can only pray that they succeed. Things are far gone and time is short.

        • FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 2:52 pm #

          That would come as a surprise to Putin. I think he has a little more practical things in mind.

          Russia is a Continental Empire, it’s job is to unite peoples – some times with iron and fire – but to unite, not to build any walls.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 3:19 pm #

            You’re losing parts of Siberia to the Chinese and Caucasia to the Muslims. You need millions of White Americans to hold the Southeast even as Cossacks hold the Southwest. Wall of people in other words.

        • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:11 pm #

          Got a Concordance?

      • ozone July 25, 2016 at 4:13 pm #

        I love the smell of mimeographed hand-out sheets in the morning.
        It smells like……… The Ministry of Propaganda….

        • ozone July 25, 2016 at 4:14 pm #

          (For FrankinReno)

      • elysianfield July 25, 2016 at 7:08 pm #

        “Smedley Butler for President”

        Semper Fi….

  42. volodya July 25, 2016 at 1:52 pm #

    Just had a good laugh, a Mexican newspaper is advocating building a wall between Mexico and Central America to stem the tide northward.

    • pequiste July 25, 2016 at 2:05 pm #

      Legendary interview comment from none other than former presidente of Mexico, Vincente Fox (him of the outstanding mustache) regarding the Trumpster’s suggestion of “the wall”:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4OwJOVi0ec

  43. routersurfer July 25, 2016 at 2:23 pm #

    What a great read to start this wonderful week of DNC bullshit. If anyone thinks this will end well is taking the “Right” drugs being pushed by Big Parma. If the DNC does not go down in a manner that makes 68 look like a Church pancake breakfast we have lost our will to have any form of democracy. I hope it is not a slow news week. Back to watching animals kill children in FL. Wonder which religion is behind these killings?

  44. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 2:56 pm #

    “I hope it is not a slow news week.”

    Gonna be a challenge for Trump to keep the news cycle about him this week.

  45. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 3:06 pm #

    FrankinReno: So you don’t care that foreign actors may be trying to influence our election? Or that Trump has economic interests in Russia, a nuclear power and an adversary? Or that Trump has refused to provide any consistent details or coherent specifics about his foreign policy intentions? Or do you think with the intelligence briefings Trump might finally figure out what the nuclear triad is?

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    • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 4:18 pm #

      wpa-

      I think carrying water for HRC is rather a useless venture at this point. The corruption at the DNC is there, for all to see, in black and white. If the FSB hacked the DNC, what of it? This merely demonstrates their incompetence. It does not change the fact, that they, at the highest levels sandbagged Sanders to annoint Clinton.

      Is Trump clueless as to the intricacies of nuclear strategy? Probably. But most people don’t give a rat’s ass about our nuclear stance when they can’t make the power and light bill at the end of the month.

      Clinton is trying to re-run 1996 in 2016. The big difference, an economy which left the working class hanging in the breeze.

      And the pie has shrunk. To borrow a Van Jones phrase, “They don’t know what to do. So they just keep juggling chickens and chainsaws…”

    • FrankinReno July 26, 2016 at 9:58 am #

      No. Should I be.
      First, if I were, as an American, it would represent the extreme heights of hypocrisy because, check your history, we have been doing that around the world since just after we became the United States of America.
      Second, I am sure every spy agency in the world has dirt on every government in the world (including there own). It is likely that this information is constantly in play behind the scene. This time it’s bubbled to the surface. So? It’s not like this is the first time.
      Third, purely in the interest of democracy, they have done us a favor by exposing this type of behind the scenes crap. In our “system”, it is the job of the press to expose malfeasance such as this, but apparently, they were complicit in it.
      Fourth… What is it authorities always like to say to little people when they intrude in their private affairs? “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about!”

    • Florida Power July 26, 2016 at 12:10 pm #

      What happened to the “Russia is a minor regional power” talking point?

      Probably the same thing that happened to the “another mass shooting we’ve got to ban guns” talking point when our arrogant doofus pointed to crime statistics showing that America was in fact a safe place and getting safer contradicting Trump’s “dark vision.”

      Speaking of “dark vision” I wonder how long it will take for BLM to seize on this verbiage as racist?

  46. Q. Shtik July 25, 2016 at 4:26 pm #

    Everyone was predicting chaos, including our host here. But nothing happened. – PostPeakRancher

    ===============

    Predicting stuff is hard, especially about the future. Our host wrote the following on August 10th of last year:

    I’m serenely convinced that, among other things, the banking system is going to implode so hard and fast well before the nominating conventions that the nation will be in a state of near chaos.

    The period that could charitably be called “well before the nominating conventions” ran out last Monday, 7/18 and the banks are still standing. I am still making deposits and withdrawals, using my ATM card, doing on-line banking, etc.

    However, to Jim’s credit, he also said in the very same paragraph:

    I’m with those who think that the 2016 election campaign is going to be a wild spectacle beyond the current imaginings of news media.

    This has certainly come true and continues to happen as we speak.

  47. ozone July 25, 2016 at 4:29 pm #

    Why is someone trying to change the narrative regarding the *content* of the Wikileaks DMC e-mail dump/deluge? That should be the very serious question. It’s a grave question of trust in our “institutions”. Granted that the DNC is a private institution, but now it can provably be considered as rigged and commodified beyond the reach of the average drudge on the street. So, who gives a flying fuck who the revelator is/was? That’s just the distraction strategy. What’s in those e-mails is what’s in them. Too bad for the manipulators (formerly thought to have clean hands and pristine motives); another revelation of inherent and thorough corruption.

    Does anyone remember why Dan Rather lost his job? (I thought not.)

    • dweebus July 25, 2016 at 4:40 pm #

      Because changing the narrative is all they have at this point.

      My guess, Clinton will lose OH, PA, WI, MI, and IA. But for Chicago and East St. Louis, she’d lose IL. A Trump presidency is a strong possibility.

      The one benefit, if he does,, she will exit stage left, never to be heard from again…

      A less likely benefit, maybe, just maybe the two part duopoly is permanently shattered.

      • ozone July 25, 2016 at 5:25 pm #

        dweebus,
        Though I ain’t much in the hoping dept., those would be outcomes “devoutly to be wished”. 😉

      • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 5:31 pm #

        “My guess, Clinton will lose OH, PA, WI, MI, and IA.” –dweebus

        Clinton, with the help of nonwhite populations, will win in all the “Blue Wall” states: Iowa (7 percent nonwhite in 2012), Michigan (23 percent nonwhite), Ohio (21 percent), Pennsylvania (22 percent), Wisconsin (14 percent).

        These states have been reliably Democratic over the past few decades. Obama won all of them in both elections. Republicans haven’t won Michigan and Pennsylvania since 1988, and Wisconsin since 1984.

        • FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 5:52 pm #

          Hillary didn’t do all that rigging of primaries just to trust the fate of US Presidency to clueless American general election voters.

          We should see the fall of 2000 (Bush vs Gore) on steroids. All ambulance-chasers in the States are booked.

    • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 7:01 pm #

      Why do you, Ozone, trust the content after the hackers had been mucking around for a year collecting emails, with ample time to edit them and then release them strategically?

      If some government, say Saudi Arabia, decided to hack Trump’s emails, edit them, and release them strategically to get Hillary elected, would you be OK with that, too.

      Ozone, you are, in general, too trusting of governments.

      • Elrond Hubbard July 27, 2016 at 12:31 pm #

        If the DNC e-mails as released were not basically accurate, then why did Debbie Wasserman-Schulz resign without a fight? As chair of the DNC she has access to the originals and she could have released them for comparison. Instead she was out the door immediately, and none of the other people who sent and received incriminating messages have denied them either.

        For that matter, I haven’t seen any credible claims that the e-mails were edited until just now. Who besides you is making that claim? Evidence?

    • cbeard July 26, 2016 at 8:16 am #

      I can’t remember why Rather lost his job. I have totally forgotten, but Rather is a rather forgettable person. The Dan Rather moment that stands out in my memory was in a war correspondent situation or maybe it was a terrorist attack………. Oh, wait it was a California earthquake, with the freeway overpass collapse. The network was going to a station break (commercial) and Rather said “We’ll be right back with more death, damage, and destruction.” Then he flashes his best prima donna, plastic bullshit smile as if he were covering a good ship lollypop convention.

      • ozone July 27, 2016 at 9:21 am #

        cbeard,
        Oh ye of limited research skills: It was because the copies of Dubya’s “service” records were found to be *copies*. The fact that he was given preferential treatment to get into the Guard compounded by being conspicuously *absent* from that cushy duty was drowned by cries of, “These are not the original documents! Shame, Fraud!” …And the original documents had all conveniently vanished into the ether. As you probably don’t remember, that little item nicely quashed and Dan Rather having fallen upon his sword for the sake of 60 Minutes’ credibility/veracity, George the Lesser of Unquestioned Fighter-Pilot Bravery and Superior Service to His Country was crowned King of the Clueless Clowns…

        Do you remember what happened after that? I didn’t think so.

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:13 pm #

      saw the movie

  48. FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 5:06 pm #

    4 days ago, Hillary had convulsions on live TV, which most Protestant televangelists on Sunday announced signs of demonic possession, which her body already can not stand.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCQg94oOmk

    • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 5:20 pm #

      Must be tedious work for the demons involved.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 5:48 pm #

        Demons never tire doing the Devil’s work.

        • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 5:57 pm #

          “The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.” –Tolstoy

          • FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 6:05 pm #

            Don’t recall an urge to go out there and blow up a decent-size country, did you?

  49. Georges1202 July 25, 2016 at 5:29 pm #

    How can we reasonably expect anything else? A debased ‘culture’ such as this that gets more adolescent every day is not grist for any sort of sane society.

    There will be much winging about ‘How could this happen to us??” However the answer is all around us. Take a look.

  50. I AM SULLY July 25, 2016 at 6:02 pm #

    I feel like this is a repeat of 1968 …

    (but I fear it will be 1,000,000 times worse)

    Amazing article Jim!

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    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:34 pm #

      i drink your beer

  51. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 6:10 pm #

    Democratic Convention just passed both the platform and rules… by voice vote. Unity. Looks like Hillary will have the White House and the Democratic Party will control both the House and the Senate in 2017.

  52. FincaInTheMountains July 25, 2016 at 6:48 pm #

    Absence seizure
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absence_seizure

    The clinical manifestations of absence seizures vary significantly among patients.

    Absence with automatisms. Purposeful or quasipurposeful movements occurring in the absence of awareness during an absence attack are frequent and may range from lip licking and swallowing to clothes fumbling or aimless walking. If spoken to, the patient may grunt, and when touched or tickled may rub the site.

    Automatisms are quite elaborate and may consist of combinations of the above described movements or may be so simple as to be missed by casual observation.

    Absence with autonomic components. These may be pallor, and less frequently flushing, sweating, dilatation of pupils and incontinence of urine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCQg94oOmk

  53. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 7:34 pm #

    “Can anyone give me a reason to vote at all?”

    Many people fought and died to gain the right to vote. Women and minorities have gained the right. We still have to extend the vote to federal prisoners… and to all undocumented immigrants who sacrificed so much just to come here and pay taxes. No taxation without voting franchise!

    I vote to honor those who have gone before who secured my right to vote, not to decide who gains power. I usually vote for candidates from third parties whose ideas actually reflect my values, like the Green Party.

    My values:

    1. Grassroots Democracy
    Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect his or her life and should not be subject to the will of another. Therefore, we will work to increase public participation at every level of government and to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. We will also work to create new types of political organizations which expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process.

    2. Social Justice and Equal Opportunity
    All persons should have the rights and opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment. We must consciously confront in ourselves, our organizations, and society at large, barriers such as racism and class oppression, sexism and homophobia, ageism and disability, which act to deny fair treatment and equal justice under the law.

    3. Ecological Wisdom
    Human societies must operate with the understanding that we are part of nature, not separate from nature. We must maintain an ecological balance and live within the ecological and resource limits of our communities and our planet. We support a sustainable society which utilizes resources in such a way that future generations will benefit and not suffer from the practices of our generation. To this end we must practice agriculture which replenishes the soil; move to an energy efficient economy; and live in ways that respect the integrity of natural systems.

    4. Non-Violence
    It is essential that we develop effective alternatives to society’s current patterns of violence. We will work to demilitarize, and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments. We recognize the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in help- less situations. We promote non-violent methods to oppose practices and policies with which we disagree, and will guide our actions toward lasting personal, community and global peace.

    5. Decentralization
    Centralization of wealth and power contributes to social and economic injustice, environmental destruction, and militarization. Therefore, we support a restructuring of social, political and economic institutions away from a system which is controlled by and mostly benefits the powerful few, to a democratic, less bureaucratic system. Decision-making should, as much as possible, remain at the individual and local level, while assuring that civil rights are protected for all citizens.

    6. Community Based Economics
    Redesign our work structures to encourage employee ownership and workplace democracy. Develop new economic activities and institutions that will allow us to use our new technologies in ways that are humane, freeing, ecological and accountable, and responsive to communities. Establish some form of basic economic security, open to all. Move beyond the narrow “job ethic” to new definitions of “work,” jobs” and “income” that reflect the changing economy. Restructure our patterns of income distribution to reflect the wealth created by those outside the formal monetary economy: those who take responsibility for parenting, housekeeping, home gardens, community volunteer work, etc. Restrict the size and concentrated power of corporations with- out discouraging superior efficiency or technological innovation.

    7. Feminism and Gender Equity
    We have inherited a social system based on male domination of politics and economics. We call for the replacement of the cultural ethics of domination and control with more cooperative ways of interacting that respect differences of opinion and gender. Human values such as equity between the sexes, interpersonal responsibility, and honesty must be developed with moral conscience. We should remember that the process that determines our decisions and actions is just as important as achieving the outcome we want.

    8. Respect for Diversity
    We believe it is important to value cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, religious and spiritual diversity, and to promote the development of respectful relationships across these lines. We believe that the many diverse elements of society should be reflected in our organizations and decision-making bodies, and we support the leadership of people who have been traditionally closed out of leadership roles. We acknowledge and encourage respect for other life forms than our own and the preservation of biodiversity.

    9. Personal and Global Responsibility
    We encourage individuals to act to improve their personal well- being and, at the same time, to enhance ecological balance and social harmony. We seek to join with people and organizations around the world to foster peace, economic justice, and the health of the planet.

    10. Future Focus And Sustainability
    Our actions and policies should be motivated by long-term goals. We seek to protect valuable natural resources, safely disposing of or “unmaking” all waste we create, while developing a sustainable economics that does not depend on continual expansion for survival. We must counterbalance the drive for short-term profits by assuring that economic development, new technologies, and fiscal policies are responsible to future generations who will inherit the results of our actions. Make the quality of life, rather than open-ended economic growth, the focus of future thinking.

    • DrTomSchmidt July 25, 2016 at 8:57 pm #

      No taxation without voting franchise!

      Can I trade in my right to vote for Federal officials in return for never being taxed by them, then? That would be awesome.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 9:11 pm #

      In other words, Whites owe Blacks. Thus Blacks have the right to break into your home and take anything, including your life. Legacy of slavery is a stay out of jail card and moral blank check – as well as a check on les blancs.

      • Elrond Hubbard July 27, 2016 at 12:36 pm #

        Memo to newbies: When Janos writes “In other words”, you can stop reading, because whatever follows is guaranteed to be an extrusion of his own diseased imagination, not reality. If Janos doesn’t like milk, he’ll accuse you of putting spiders in it.

        • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:33 am #

          Followed “In other words” with “Whites owe Blacks” when, clearly Janos believes that Blacks owe Whites.

    • newworld July 26, 2016 at 11:09 am #

      Where was the gun control plank? Who has a right to self defense?

      It is all good and flowery, but beyond a few virtue signaling whites who are all but dying out the voting base of the D party has an IQ of less than 90, and that language will have to be roughened up a bit to have any appeal to the Idiocracy.

  54. ozone July 25, 2016 at 7:57 pm #

    We’re very sorry, blog-polluters, you’re efforts are having less and less effect on the CFN zeitgeist. Yes, there are still some deluded schmucks who will follow to the ends of their wishful thinking (i.e. death), but there are too many plain and simple indicators that things are not as you would like to have them portrayed. (That would be because your livelihood absolutely *depends* on illusions of stability and the continuation of the status quo.) The rabid bad-cop and the reasonable good-cop schtick are rapidly becoming clownish, not to mention absurd. Both fake “positions” promote the uber-state horseshit that has gotten us into numerous and intractable pickles that only serve the powerful and their paid toadies.

    …So, in that spirit:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/25/hillarys-strategy-snub-liberal-democrats-move-right-to-nab-anti-trump-republicans/

    I think Ted’s got that part about right.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/25/doubling-down-on-wall-street-hillary-and-tim-kaine/

    There are those that would rather we forget all about William K. Black. I wonder why?

    • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 8:26 pm #

      The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time.

      Listen to the speakers at DNC to hear the Zeitgeist: cab drivers, undocumented immigrants, Black, Latino, LBGTQ, etc. representing the members of our great society. Thanks, Ozone.

  55. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 8:10 pm #

    “‘How could this happen to us??” However the answer is all around us. Take a look.” –George1202

    I took your advice. When I was in WalMart today I took a look around and saw why America is great. Beautiful people, Black, white, and Latino, documented and undocumented, Christian and Muslim, taking care of their children, shopping for food, practicing random acts of kindness, with no violence at all.

    A short hispanic person politely asked me if I could reach something on a top shelf for them, and I was happy to help. Looking around, as you suggested Georges1202, was a very pleasant experience.

    America is already great. Thanks to your suggestion I have seen and experienced America’s greatness today.

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    • Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 9:13 pm #

      You should have then asked him to pick up something for you off the bottom shelf. Bet he would have told you to eff off.

      • newworld July 26, 2016 at 11:12 am #

        Hers was a canned answer I have seen that here before, how much they pay her is too much, she is just not that good.

        Such virtue signaling, helping a glorious person of color get down a can of beans or something, wow just wow.

    • Cavepainter July 26, 2016 at 12:25 pm #

      Uh huh, so you say, platitude after platitude. Accordingly: there are no highly contentious, irreconcilable differences between cultures; illegal immigration is not a breach of national sovereignty nor does it rob the citizenry of exclusive right to direct national destiny; that acculturation as occurs in the process of identity formation can be rendered irrelevant by the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Imagine”. This goes beyond ‘duh’; you are seriously detached from reality, stuck floating in a miasma of delusional soma.

      • pequiste July 28, 2016 at 12:19 am #

        Cave,

        After a second reading, I very much like your response here.
        YOu have accurately described the pathology that wpa-ccc suffers from. Well done.

  56. Frankiti July 25, 2016 at 8:37 pm #

    ”I derived scant enlightenment listening to the Republican nominee Trump’splainin’ just how he will make America great again.”

    Imagine how he feels after reading his own comment section.

    • wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 9:14 pm #

      JHK ya ha dicho que vea un intercambio robusto de ideas en los comentarios.

      Por lo menos hoy no hay comentarios de los racistas ni de los antisemitas pero seguro no demoran en llegar.

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:15 pm #

      “Imagine how he feels after reading his own comment section.”
      – Frankiti

      I REALLY CAN’T. UNIMAGINABLE

  57. Janos Skorenzy July 25, 2016 at 9:16 pm #

    http://www.amren.com/news/2016/07/dnc-erects-four-mile-eight-foot-tall-fence-around-philly-convention-site/

    No doubt the irony escapes them. You need both self consciousness and intelligence to get irony. They have plenty of nerd and wonks, but people who can really see life as it is? Few. And those few are in on the global scam. Evil in other words.

  58. wpa_ccc July 25, 2016 at 11:59 pm #

    Our Revolution is just starting.

    “When we started this campaign a little more than a year ago, the media and the political establishment considered us to be a “fringe” campaign. Well, we’re not fringe anymore.

    Thanks to your tireless work and generous contributions, we won 23 primaries and caucuses with more than 13 million votes, all of which led to the 1900 delegates we have on the floor this week at the Democratic convention.

    What we have done together is absolutely unprecedented, but there is so much more to do. It starts with defeating Donald Trump in November, and then continuing to fight for every single one of our issues in order to transform America.

    We are going to fight to make sure that the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party becomes law. This means working for a $15 federal minimum wage, fighting for a national fracking ban, and so many more progressive priorities.

    The political revolution needs you in order to make all this happen and more.” –Bernie Sanders

  59. BackRowHeckler July 26, 2016 at 12:28 am #

    Listening to Sanders speech … free tuition at State U is still in the offing, apparently, for any family earning less than $125,000 per year. That’s almost everybody. Also, forgiveness of accumulated student loans, which I understand total over $1 trillion now. Has this been written into the party platform? If Clinton wins, and this stuff is not pushed thru, there are going to be some mighty disappointed and pissed off young people. But where’s all the swag going to come from? Its not as if its Pax Americana 1958, an industrial powerhouse, a big rich colossus, victors in 2 world wars, towering over the world, stuffed with cash, standing at Armageddon battling Godless communism for the Lord. On the contrary, we’re $20 trillion in debt, haven’t won a war in a long time, and are threatened with annihilation by any number of existential threats out there.

    brh

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 1:10 am #

      Hillary’s plan will be fully paid for by limiting certain tax expenditures for high-income taxpayers. Haven’t you listened to Bernie? He explains in every speech that the wealth exists and provides details about where the money is.

      • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 1:23 am #

        But Hillary is not just going to redistribute from the rich to students. She is tapping all sources, including the students themselves through work-study employment.

        The New College Compact: Hillary Clinton’s plan requires everyone to do their part. The federal government will make a major new investment to make this possible, but states will have to step up and meet their obligations as well.

        States will have to commit to a combination of reinvestment and reform over the next four years and beyond to ensure that federal support is funding students and not excessive cost growth.

        Colleges and universities will be accountable for reining in costs to provide value to their students; improving completion rates and learning outcomes; and doing more to provide students from disadvantaged backgrounds with the tools they need to reach college and succeed once they get there.

        Students will be expected to work 10 hours a week to help defray the full cost of attendance. Clinton will push to expand work opportunities that build career skills and introduce students of all backgrounds to public service careers.

        As part of this New College Compact, Hillary will encourage and reward innovators who design imaginative new ways of providing valuable higher education to students while driving down costs. And she will crack down on the abusive practices of for-profit colleges that defraud taxpayers while burdening students with debt for educational programs of no value.

        • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 5:23 am #

          The New College Compact: Hillary Clinton’s plan requires everyone to do their part.

          ==============

          I. Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.

          II. Every citizen will be a public man, sustained by, supported by, and occupied at the public expense.

          III. Every citizen will make his particular contribution to the activities of the community according to his capacity, his talent and his age; it is on this basis that his duties will be determined, in conformity with the distributive laws.[5]

          • elysianfield July 26, 2016 at 5:17 pm #

            Q,
            Hmmm,

            From each according to his ability,
            To each according to his need….

            Could work…let’s give it a try!

        • stelmosfire July 26, 2016 at 10:27 am #

          10 hours a week to defray tuition costs? Your kidding right? I work ten hours a day and I’m retired. How about most of these dimwits get a real job after high school instead of college, maybe say roofing, tree work, laying railroad track perhaps. Some jobs never go away. Trees grow, roofs rot, etc. Oh wait, sweating is uncomfortable. I have a tenant spending a fortune for a useless grad degree. She is as dumb as a stump and can’t figure how to put a box fan in the window to cool the place at night.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:44 pm #

            We are all Roofers
            We are all Charlie Hebdo

        • newworld July 26, 2016 at 11:19 am #

          Every high paid admin is looking at a paycut, I’m sure they are all standing there smiling at Hillary but secretly loathing her.

          I hope Trump doubles down on the free college bit, it matters not a whit anymore to pretend to fiscal austerity nor trying to shoehorn more dumb kids into college both scams are worn out.

          I’m saying double down on that in the campaign.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:45 pm #

            Double Down
            Trump U!

      • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 5:32 am #

        [Bernie] explains in every speech that the wealth exists and provides details about where the money is.

        ==============

        …and if we’re a little short we’ll just print up the difference.

        • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:47 pm #

          Tax the Rich!

          wait….

          …i take that back.

    • malthuss July 26, 2016 at 10:59 am #

      From SBPDL–
      I saw the mother of Jordan Davis on CNN thus morning.

      You may recall that her teen-aged kid was riding in a car with a paroled felon when they stopped at a convenience store and parked next to a drunk white man.

      When old Mr. Snowflake complained about the ignorant, loud “music” emanating from their crate, they talked the talk and made threats, at which time he emptied a semi-automatic pistol into the car, killing Davis.

      I don’t quite understand how this story fits into the theme of unarmed black men being killed by police.

      If, instead, it’s about unarmed black men being killed in senseless gun violence not involving police, it’s going to be a long convenience if every mother speaks.

      Dozens of young black men kill or are killed every weekend because of “disrespect” but it only seems to matter if a white man is the shooter.

      Mommy has also abbreviated the story to: “My son was killed for playing loud music” leaving out the threatening cross talk.

      Eric Garner’s mom says her son was killed for “selling loose cigerettes,” apparently the PoPo rolled up on him and strangled him while he was trying to surrender.

    • Elrond Hubbard July 28, 2016 at 12:44 pm #

      BRH: “But where’s all the swag going to come from?”

      One of the major themes of this blog could be stated as: “Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid. Therefore, consequences.” But how that will actually play out in reality remains contested.

      Assuming the figure of $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt is accurate, there’s good reason to suspect that it will never be paid, or a great part of it at any rate. Either that unpaid debt will be forgiven or it won’t, but unpaid is unpaid – in other words, there is no swag and it’s not coming from anywhere.

      The question then becomes, who takes the hit? If it’s (A) the debtors, then we reduce an entire generation to unending, inescapable servitude. If it’s (B) the creditors, who made the loans in pursuit of gain not out of the goodness of their hearts, then they recognize their losses and regroup. Put me down for option B.

  60. wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 1:31 am #

    Bernie Sander’s supporters needed some time to get behind Hillary. It took them a few seconds to realize Trump is a birther who wants to ban all Muslims from the United States.

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    • FrankinReno July 26, 2016 at 10:51 am #

      Never gonna happen. Trumps a buffoon, but we have had buffoons in high office before. And don’t give me that crap about the nuclear button. I highly doubt that the crews in the subs or silos or bombers are going to take a 3 AM order to nuke Tuvalu without checking with some grown ups first.

      Hillary is a war criminal who started a pointless conflict in Libya (hey Libya, are you better of today then you were 5 years ago?), stoke the fires in Syria, poked the Bear in the Ukraine, all the while accepting generous donations to her “Clinton Foundation” (how is that even remotely legal, let alone ethical?) and doling out favors courtesy of the US Government.

      And that was AFTER her tour in the Senate, where she supported war, unwarranted surveillance, illegal rendition and torture, onerous debt collection (just for normal people, though), from a state she had never lived in until it was convenient for her. I mean, is there a state in the country with more billionaire donors for her to court?

      And THAT was after her tour as first lady, when her partner in crime betrayed the unions and working stiffs who supported him by by signing NAFTA. Not after going through it, line by line with a fine toothed comb to make sure it was a good deal for workers and the environment, like he PROMISED. Noooo, he signed it as soon as he could get a pen in his hands after swearing in like he PAID to do!

      We should remember that we didn’t get Clinton Care in ’93, when the Democrats had majorities in the House and Senate, principally because Hillary could couldn’t play nice with others and cut the deals necessary.

      Aside from people with a vested (financial) interest, only a complete moron with an absolute ignorance of history could support the lying, incompetent, murderous sociopath that is Hillary Clinton.

  61. KL Cooke July 26, 2016 at 2:24 am #

    Wimple, you ignoroids.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimple

  62. FincaInTheMountains July 26, 2016 at 6:53 am #

    The most stunning idiotism out of everything presented yesterday on the Dems convention was delivered, of course, by Bernie Sanders.

    He ended up saying that these elections are not about who would be in the White House, but about the program that was adopted by the very elite of the Democratic Party, which had just robbed him of victory in the primaries!

    Really, Bernie?

    As if any of them, starting with Hillary, are going to keep their word after usurping the power in the country!

    Bernie Sanders internal social program plus Hillary’s foreign policy is National Socialism in its chemically pure form.

    • pequiste July 26, 2016 at 10:25 am #

      Actually more like Trotskyite Communism; but I do like the chemically pure analogy: snort or inject?

      Nope – Democrats got the big rectal suppository after Bernie showed just how much the “rigged” system bothered him.

      America would be getting the Democrat version of a double colonoscopy (Hillary and Bill) up our collective asses should Rodan get elected.

  63. FincaInTheMountains July 26, 2016 at 7:52 am #

    Brave Thomas Bach refused Americans Russia Olympic blanket ban

    http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/pavel_shipilin/51193823/366481/366481_original.jpg

    I think the decision not to ban the Russians from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro cost IOC president Thomas Bach couple years of life.

    Many countries – members of the IOC, apparently faced with a difficult choice: to quarrel with the US or with Russia. As we can see, those who are with Russia are in majority.

    And although the decision is a compromise, we can say with confidence: the world has changed, and the Americans are not as omnipotent as they used to be.

  64. Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 9:22 am #

    Bernie the mush, the push-over, the dupe, the shill in the crowd rounding up all the hipsters and naive young marks. All for Hillary the hustler to sweep up. The DNC confidence game.

    • volodya July 26, 2016 at 12:07 pm #

      Hard to believe that people fall for it.

      • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:54 pm #

        …as opposed to the well-conceived notion that the world is coming to an end.

        • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 1:34 pm #

          No, the world will keep on turning for now, with or without human “civilization”.

          • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:17 pm #

            …as opposed to the extinction of real Americans?

  65. Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 9:30 am #

    So many christians, so few lions.. er, islamic radicals… bring in some more. Imagine a christian radical entering a Meccan mosque and beheading an imam? Oh wait, that wouldn’t happen because westerners are not allowed off the ranch in Saudi or in Mecca.

    At least the religious are offing each other. Always a silver lining.

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    • sprawlcapital July 26, 2016 at 12:42 pm #

      Frank,

      Organized religion is a high form of manipulation, the use of guilt to influence behavior. Religous leaders use guilt to extract money from their congregants.

      Scroll down to see my comment about Senator Corey Booker of New Jersey, Arch Manipulator and Page Boy to Her Majesty Hillary.

      • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 1:39 pm #

        Sometimes it is guilt, but most of the time it is ignorance, stupidity, desperation, and parental programming and or social engineering.

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:55 pm #

      beautiful thought

      greeting card?

  66. Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 10:30 am #

    Bernie….. explains in every speech that the wealth exists and provides details about where the money is. – wpa

    ============

    Willie, why do you rob banks?

    Because that’s where the money is.

    • Cavepainter July 26, 2016 at 11:53 am #

      Willie Sutton, famous bank robber of the 1920s-30s.

      • stelmosfire July 26, 2016 at 12:15 pm #

        Did you know him? ;o)

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:56 pm #

      Trump quote?

      Tweeted?

      • stelmosfire July 26, 2016 at 8:08 pm #

        Sorry Sir for my faux pas, I did not intend a derogatory remark. I simply can’t stand the Clintons lies. Trump may be an ass but I really don’t think he lies like a dog as does HRC!

        • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:30 am #

          k

  67. volodya July 26, 2016 at 12:00 pm #

    Ozone, I needed a really good laugh. She-Wolf of Goldman Sachs? That’s hilarious. Couldna said it better.

    I’m just a simple mule-skinner but some things are obvious even to simple mule-skinners. Like this progressive platform that the Dems have been touting. Does anyone seriously think that President She-Wolf won’t jettison this thing plank by plank? She’ll get it done before Bill chooses the drapes.

    Mind you, there will be the requisite culture war distractions, though the brilliance of gender neutral bathrooms as a flash-bomb is hard to beat. All credit to the Obama administration for originality. Did you see this coming? I sure didn’t. What a great shit-disturbing shit-disturber this was. Can’t stop laughing.

    Tell me Ozone, if a gender-confused chick takes a crap in the stall next to you, would you be all bent out of shape?

    Can anyone think of a more titanic energy-draining claim on a ticking clock?

    I’m sure they have a bucket of diversions feculating on the back porch. But whatever the provocation is, the followers of Madam She Wolf will take the bait and her opponents will too. Everyone will charge out to sniff out whatever turds get tossed out

    And they will predictably man the barricades, or should I say “person” the barricades? You could set your watch by it. All this while the usual suspects empty your pension fund. Let’s be real. There’s still money to steal and it will take some time to steal it.

    Goldman and other outfits will see to it that the systemic corruption is wide open for all politicians to see ie help us steal and get a cut. A BIG cut. Get rich beyond your WILDEST dreams.

    • messianicdruid July 26, 2016 at 9:41 pm #

      The Last official act of government: loot the Nation.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:56 am #

        What is the Next Officail Act of Government after that one?

  68. wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 12:11 pm #

    JHK: The US will never recover. There is no economic recovery.

    ========================

    New U.S. single-family home sales rose more than expected in June, reaching their highest level in nearly 8-1/2 years, the latest sign that the housing market was gathering momentum.

    The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new home sales increased 3.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 592,000 units last month, the highest level since February 2008.

    • sprawlcapital July 26, 2016 at 12:28 pm #

      Senator Corey Booker of New Jersey told the DNC delegates last night that “cynicism is the refuge of cowards”.

      Calling someone a coward is manipulative. No one wants to be accused of being a coward. Manipulators use guilt to get people to obey. In this case, Senator Corey was giving the order to vote for Hillary, and to be enthusiastic, not cynical, about her campaign, about her talents, and about her character.

      Well, Senator Corey, you clearly do not know it, but manipulators are the lowest form of life on the planet. So, Senator Corey, can you figure out what that makes you?

      Is this cynical? Tough sh*t,Senator Corey.

      • sprawlcapital July 26, 2016 at 12:30 pm #

        Senator Booker, not Senator Corey, The sentiments remain the same.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 12:36 pm #

        Indeed. Nelson Mandela told the Whites who fled Black terror and a new Order that systematically discriminated against them that they were cowards.

        Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?

        • sprawlcapital July 26, 2016 at 12:49 pm #

          Good examples of manipulators at work.

        • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:31 am #

          “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?” Janos

          Quite an admission!

          • Elrond Hubbard July 28, 2016 at 4:38 pm #

            *cackle*

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:50 am #

            revealing, eh?

          • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 12:09 pm #

            An admission? Cackle? Male bitches doing what they do.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:16 pm #

            Janos, who wrote: “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared”?

    • stelmosfire July 26, 2016 at 12:28 pm #

      Yea, houses are selling ( I would not call them homes), with interest rates in the tank and adj. rate mortgages to every Tom,Dick, and Henrietta. Banks dumping foreclosures at discount prices. What do you think will happen in a coupla’ years if interest rates go back to historical levels and the burger flipping jobs dry up? Can you say “default”? Get real A###ka. You my Man/Woman are living in LALALAND!

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 12:58 pm #

      Playing to his Following, as any author knows.

  69. volodya July 26, 2016 at 12:29 pm #

    It appears that these ISIS creeps are acting well, not without impunity seeing as the latest throat cutters were shot dead. But let’s say with a minimum of hindrance and with a maximum of surprise seeing as conventional intelligence and law enforcement seem to be impeded by such niceties as due process.

    So Hollande vows war against ISIS by “every means” er, um, but through up-holding the law. So he sez. So what does this mean? That they haven’t been employing “every means” to date?

    Hmmm, I wonder, would nationalist hard-men take this as a go? Does it mean reprisal hits? The French intelligence chief just warned about this.

    • pequiste July 26, 2016 at 12:39 pm #

      It means Francois ( Vichy) Hollande, and the current gouvernement du France, has not found the proper party to surrender to.

      If this crescendo of Yzlamik over-exuberance continues the French could even ask to surrender to Germany.

      Angela ( Jihadi lovin’) Merkel would defer to Al-Baghdadi in Raqqa or could even ask Sultan RecipE I ti take the surrender.

      Would they, or could they, use Compiegne again?

      Stay tuned!

      • volodya July 26, 2016 at 1:04 pm #

        Good point. It’s not without precedent either. This EU thing started mainly as between France and Germany. And if this EU thing isn’t pre-emptive surrender to Germany then what is it?

        What has France done? They’ve surrendered to a country that after three generations is still so conscience stricken that its own self defense is pretty much out of bounds. They can’t even contemplate it.

        Hard to believe that Germany is of any use whatever to anybody. except maybe only as a commercial power. But Germany is easy pickin’ to ruthless infiltrators like ISIS. They’ll go down

        France too. France as the intellectual powerhouse is done. Stick a fork in it. France as a military power is over too. What have they retreated to? Couture and cuisine, the last refuge of the flaccid. Countries and peoples have their time and then it’s over. Bye bye.

        • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 2:24 pm #

          France as a military power is over?

          (IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD – France announced on Tuesday that French fighter jets have carried out fresh raids on ISIS sites.

          France is provoking more ISIS attacks in France. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 1:04 pm #

      Stalin would love you, volodya. Stalin was not “impeded by such niceties as due process.”

    • SpeedyBB August 1, 2016 at 6:50 am #

      Well Volodya I sent praise your way once before for your acute comments and once again would like to spread an appreciation. Don’t know why this aspect never occurred to me. Payback. Find out who is applauding these acts and take them out.

      My first thought was that fat bearded sleazo on YouTube who was going on about “We will turn your children into our slaves, we will outbreed you and blah blah” laying it on so thick you suspected he was a CIA plant.

      He’d be the kind of target who’d be fun to disappear. Poof! As if by magic some of these ‘refugees’ just cease to be seen around. You would not need the awkwardness of death squads; some of those retired Foreign Legion types on the hard right would be able to rig some nasty surprises for the local Islamists. I am thinking along the lines of ‘Lucien Sarti’.

  70. wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 12:48 pm #

    These politicians (Trump and Clinton) should stop talking about bringing jobs back to the US. Ain’t gonna happen. They aren’t coming back, at least not most of them. How do we know? Because in recent years, factories have been coming back, but the jobs haven’t.

    Because of rising wages in China, the need for shorter supply chains and other factors, a small but growing group of companies are shifting production back to the U.S. But the factories they build here are heavily automated, employing a small fraction of the workers they would have a generation ago.

    We need to pay service sector jobs to $15 an hour. Clinton supports that. Trump wants to keep a starvation wage. He doesn’t even pay his own blue collar workers (electricians, carpenters, bricklayers, etc.) and Trump laughs at them, knowing they don’t have the money to take him to court.

    A $15 an hour national wage will continue the economic recovery. When people have money they can buy from businesses and manufacturing jobs are needed to produce goods.

    Clinton will also expand social security so seniors will get raises above the rate of inflation.

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  71. barbisbest July 26, 2016 at 1:44 pm #

    Unicorns are fictitious but rainbows sure aren’t. Some wereon’t enlightened by. The spectacle of the. R. N. C. Give me a break. Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that kit Kat bar.

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 1:49 pm #

      Unicorns are real.

      The so-called “Siberian unicorn” existed on the planet as recently as 29,000 years ago, according to a new discovery published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences.

      Up until recently, scientists had believed the “elasmotherium sibiricum” had been extinct for more than 350,000 years, the New York Daily News reported. The study by Andrei Shpansky and others at Tomsk State University in Russia now proves otherwise.

  72. wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 1:55 pm #

    (IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD – France announced on Tuesday that French fighter jets have carried out fresh raids on ISIS sites around Mosul, in response to the latest attack on Nice, which killed at least 84 people.

    ===============

    I would guess that ISIS will respond to this with an attack in France.

  73. Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 2:37 pm #

    Moments after the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia began, incoming interim DNC chair Donna Brazile issued a statement, apologizing to Sanders and his supporters…

    ===================

    …for getting caught making “inexcusable remarks” revealed in the internal email hack.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 5:53 pm #

      Yeah when the FBI let Hillary off the hook, the looks on her and Obama’s faces at the press conference spoke volumes. They had gotten away with something and they were as pleased as punch. Innocence just means getting away with shit.

  74. capt spaulding July 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm #

    It was funny listening to right wing radio last night. On the Joe Pags show, he was having a wonderful time talking about the DNC attempt to sabotage Bernie. As he was chortling about that, he mentioned that that was what the Republican leadership tried to do to Trump. You could hear that he realized what he was saying as he said it. He completely dropped the subject as soon as he said that.

    • capt spaulding July 26, 2016 at 3:40 pm #

      Did I say chortling?

    • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 5:58 pm #

      Sean Hannity and others were being idiot cucks about Sanders: They’re trying to persecute him for his Judaism! In reality, they were thinking of trying to hurt him with atheism if it was determined that he was an Atheist.

      They never miss a chance to win brownie points from their Masters.

      If Sanders had any manhood, he could have run with this for the betterment of America if not actual victory. But he’s a schlub, a schlep, and a schmendrick.

      • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 7:48 pm #

        Sanders is the guy on the boxcar that yells, “Hey, room for one more in here!”

        • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 7:50 pm #

          Israel grows Bibis, we grow Bernies.

          • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 9:09 am #

            I’m not an atheist. What do you call someone who does not believe in the easter rabbit, or ghosts, or probe wielding aliens? They don’t have a name, beyond “normal” or “sane”. I also don’t advocate mass murder. Murder requires an action, a premeditation, a process, an act. I advocate for less humanity through natural course and laws of nature. Letting a fever run its course is not murdering a virus, absurd…

          • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 4:24 pm #

            Strange, a Janos comment was removed here. How does that happen? How was it removed?

          • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:39 am #

            Removed by the Moderator.

  75. FincaInTheMountains July 26, 2016 at 4:43 pm #

    Lavrov, in response to the question of the journalist about Russian hackers compromising the servers of the DNC, said he did not want to answer this question using a four letter word (Russian analogue consists of just two letters and usually affectionately used in combination with the phrase “your mother.”)

    After employees of the US State Department wrote to the US President a letter, in which they demanded to start another undeclared war in addition to the four wars that the United States are already engaged in various parts of the world (and the Pentagon demands that a couple of wars to be dropped), I came to the conclusion that Russia must increasingly implement methods of public diplomacy.

    Not a bad way to overcome the informational blockade, the more that Americans know nothing about these wars and those they face because of NATO drills in the Baltic States or shooting down Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea or over the territory of Syria.

    And I can only hope that Vladimir Putin on camera could cover Hillary with three-story old-fashion Russian obscenity, KGB style, before pushing the red button.

    Somehow I always thought that this could save the day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBPlKkEVLGs

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    • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 5:22 pm #

      So let’s elect Hillary as she’ll have a personal motive (although she is complicit in fabricating it, but pretense is pretense nevertheless) to start WWIII.

      WWIII will bring us (USA and Europe) everything we want! Less people, more jobs, less refugees, less people (way less), less illegal aliens, less misnathropeslems, er, musselmen, less gender politics (grab a gun and a pack you cranky dyke and/or whiney d*ckless dude), did I say less humans?, reasons to inadvertlenty bomb and evaporate most of the middle east, less messicans (no, no query quedar aqui seño gringo), less chinese imports, less sprawl (less people, way, way less) less NY, DC and LA (vaporized), and finally, finally the “i told y’all the wurld gunner end” from 90% of the posters here.

      I’m with Her for the end.

      • trypillian July 27, 2016 at 1:36 am #

        LilliPutin will start it. He has small hands and needs explosions to compensate.

  76. Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 5:22 pm #

    I like to spread joy when I can.

    This will come as good news to both wpa and Janos and their respective ilks (I like the word ‘ilk. Someone’s ilk are people you, personally, don’t want to be counted among). Truth be told, wpa has no ilk at this site.

    I say wpa because we know he would have preferred Bernie but will settle for a Jill vote (yeah, right, huh?). (Imagine Q chortling.) (It is hard to describe a ‘chortle’. It’s a cross between a chuckle and a snort. I read that on-line. The air comes out of your blowhole in a different way than with an ordinary laugh (I also like the word blowhole). I chortle frequently and it’s always under the same circumstances. We’re at the dining room table or a picnic table and we’re with friends. Something hilariously funny (to me) comes to mind and I cannot wait to share it. But it is so hilarious I am overcome with uncontrollable chortling and cannot get it out. The sight of me infects everyone and they begin laughing. My wife is embarrassed………”Oh no, here we go.” She has seen me lose (not loose) control many times).

    But I digress:

    Wall Street is now substantially less certain of a Hillary Clinton victory than it was just a month ago.

    In the wake of the Republican National Convention and continued damage to Clinton’s reputation from the email scandal, just 52 percent of respondents to the July CNBC Fed Survey now believe the Democratic nominee will prevail in November, a sharp drop from 80 percent in the April and June surveys.

    • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 5:25 pm #

      That’s it, she’s a shoo-in.

      • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 6:55 pm #

        agree

        just look back at previous CNBC Fed Surveys. it’s a prop machine.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 8:53 pm #

        No, a shoo out as per Q’s chortle.

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:51 am #

          shoo

    • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 5:44 pm #

      Can you imagine that? From 80 to 52% in one month. I’ll bet Liberals like Rachel Maddow have begun carrying an extra set of undies with them.

      • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 6:06 pm #

        In Rachel’s case that would be Jockey shorts and in Anderson Cooper’s case, Victoria’s Secret panties.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 8:57 pm #

          Anderson went on a celebrity show about what their genetic tests reveal. He was utterly delighted when he heard that his great grandfather had been killed by his slave. Demonic.

          Gays have no past and no future. They MUST abuse children – that’s how their species reproduces or produces more gays.

          • elysianfield July 27, 2016 at 2:54 pm #

            “He was utterly delighted when he heard that his great grandfather had been killed by his slave, Demonic. ”

            Well, it’s no damn wonder…who would name his slave “Demonic”? I was of the opinion that “Toby” was the preferred personal name given to male slaves….

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 5:58 pm #

      I am an ilk of one. That is an original, like me. Google it if you don’t believe my ilk.

      • Elrond Hubbard July 28, 2016 at 5:46 pm #

        For the record, ‘ilk’ means ‘like’ — as in “the likes of you” or “I’ve never seen the like”. Similar to kind, type, etc.

        If you’ve ever read the Canterbury Tales in the original, the word ‘ilk’ and variations can be found all over them. I might be wrong, but I’d hazard a guess that ‘ilk’ was the original word back in the day, and actually morphed into ‘like’ over time (and that old geezers were complaining about youngsters using this weird, newfangled slang word instead of the normal one).

    • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 8:52 pm #

      Your chortles should be tracked, measured, and monitored. No doubt they could predict many things since they are involuntary eruptions from the Universal Subconscious. And what is that but the dark side of God?

      You could become an oracle, a kind of human groundhog. Even as you try to get your talkative friend to swallow his food, you are blowing yours out your nose.

  77. wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 5:46 pm #

    The DNC Hack Is Watergate, but Worse

    “We should be open to rational arguments from abroad but terrified about states playing a larger role than that. This is why we don’t let foreign entities make campaign contributions. We don’t allow noncitizens to vote. Consider our reaction, if an American political leader had pulled this stunt: He would be prosecuted, and drummed from political life. These are unacceptable tactics for an American; they can hardly be more tolerable when executed by a foreign power that wishes us ill.

    The DNC dump may not have revealed a conspiracy that could end a candidacy, but it succeeded in casting a pall of anxiety over this election. We know that the Russians have a further stash of documents from the DNC and another set of document purloined from the Clinton Foundation. In other words, Vladimir Putin is now treating American democracy with the same respect he accords his own.

    The best retaliation isn’t a military one, or to respond in kind. It’s to defeat his pet candidate and to force him to watch the inauguration of the woman he so abhors.”

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/07/the_dnc_hack_is_watergate_but_worse.html

    • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 7:23 pm #

      A Vote for Clinton is a vote AGAINST Putin.
      Vote Hillary, Defeat Putin.

      • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 7:45 pm #

        Putin is the only leader in Europe, outside of Orban that knows what’s up.

        More Putin, less weak Europe!

        • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:19 am #

          ‘Not medicine, but poison’: Hungarian PM says his country does not need ‘a single migrant’ RT

          ‘Hungary’s Viktor Orban Expresses Support for Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Plans’ WSJ

    • messianicdruid July 26, 2016 at 9:58 pm #

      Self inflicted wounds are not the fault of observers.

  78. wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 6:12 pm #

    News that Christie withheld emails and documents related to Bridgegate pretty much precludes his being nominate AG by President Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 9:20 pm #

      News that Christie withheld emails and documents related to Bridgegate pretty much precludes – wpa

      ============

      Still hangin’ on to that Bridgegate thread arentcha?

  79. FincaInTheMountains July 26, 2016 at 6:39 pm #

    “That’s it, she’s a shoo-in.” == Frank

    Sorry, Frank, I think she’s already in.

    For counter coup we need a unity between Trump and Bushes, I don’t think we have that.

    Hope I am wrong, but get ready, nevertheless.

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 6:43 pm #

      Of all the living Democratic and Republican Presidents (W, HW Bush, Clinton, Obama), those who have had the job and know what the job entails, none support Trump.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 26, 2016 at 6:49 pm #

        Dura, blya!

        • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 7:27 pm #

          Putin es un misógino pendejo

        • dannyboy July 26, 2016 at 7:44 pm #

          ‘Yiddish, Spanish, Russian slang spoken here at CFN.’

          …could be a sign in a store window in Brooklyn.

          • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 7:54 pm #

            Sounds like another reason to vote for Trump.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm #

            How much would you bid for one of Bernie’s tears? How many Kwatloos? His blubbery brother’s are going for much less but all of them are precious.

            If only Bernie had rebelled, taken Jill Stein as a second wife, America might have had a chance to have its own Jewish Dynasty. But it is not to be. The Trump Dynasty rises – and long will it reign!

          • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:23 am #

            @Janos,

            Are you Replying to Franketi? I know that you gave an informative lecture on the “Indenting Conventions Used on Cluster Fuck Nation”, but I may have dozed off.

            But the next-to-last word in your Lecture Title does summarize your personna.

      • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 9:26 pm #

        Of all the living Democratic and Republican Presidents (W, HW Bush, Clinton, Obama), – wpa

        ===========

        Did Carter die and nobody told me?

        At any rate, 2 dems and 2 Bushes……… what would you expect?

  80. tucsonspur July 26, 2016 at 7:24 pm #

    Jim, I think that you used the wrong adjective in describing Donald Trump. Odious does not mean like Odin. Ornery Ostrogoth would have been okay, but it does sound a little silly.

    Tedious is much too timid for Hillary. For her, odious or opprobrious is more suitable. That way, like the old song, we keep O-HI-O round on the ends and hi in the middle.

    Odious Opprobrious, that’s it. She enters to blaring trumpets;

    Odious Opprobrious, former Senator of the Empire state!
    Odious Opprobrious, would be Queen of the American Empire!

    Hail, hail, great Queen, Odious Opprobrious!!

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    • Frankiti July 26, 2016 at 7:57 pm #

      Getting the “ious” endings was more important than actually making sense. Clinton is not tedious, she’s notorious… through and through.

      • tucsonspur July 26, 2016 at 9:02 pm #

        I know, sometimes it’s more fun to just throw stuff out there.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 10:08 pm #

      Somewhere in that vast sea of Sea Hags, and their male cuck and faggot enablers, Buck is weeping: the first Woman President! Nothing else matter except the lack of a penis! The Vagina Monologue has proved prophetic – even more than Q’s chortles.

  81. Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 8:06 pm #

    the betting odds in NYC at 3-to-1, favor Hillary. – Danny

    ==============

    The odds are as changeable as Khloe Kardashian’s hair color. As of today Wall St has the odds at 52 to 48 for Hillary. A lot can happen in the next 100 days.

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 8:21 pm #

      Putin could dump more emails and I bet they will all be culled and edited to favor one candidate. Putin wants to help Trump. Putin is afraid of Hillary.

      • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm #

        Stop being ridiculous. World leaders are always trying to influence events outside their own bailiwick. Exhibit A: Obama against Brexit.

        • ozone July 27, 2016 at 8:56 am #

          Q.,
          Now you know his/her/its particular ‘ilk’.
          …That would be the Big Lie ilk.
          (Always remember that those of his ilk are [justifiably] terrified of their fellow citizens that are not of the Cult of the Big Lie. Bullet gouges and dark stains in concrete walls and all that.)

      • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:28 am #

        wpa,

        emial dumping doesn’t move the odds. ‘These things’ get explained away and lost from memory (November is the Long-Term). You’d need an Indictment for odds to move signficantly. Scandals…not.

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:25 am #

      Q.

      Here’s a tip:

      Don’t trust Wall Street

      They are fooling you.

      • elysianfield July 27, 2016 at 3:00 pm #

        Dannyboy,
        Ever heard of D.H. Blair? I spent some time in one of their boiler rooms. As I recall, their offices were in or about 200 Broad Street.

        • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:43 am #

          If I reply, will there be an Investigation?

          Just kidding! Yes I know D.H. Blair.

  82. stelmosfire July 26, 2016 at 8:24 pm #

    Send an ISIS fellow to my house. After my Yorkie freaks ( he sleeps on the bed ) Mr ISIS will be lookin’ ata 357. Sorry but I have had a gun in my face in FL and it is not a good feeling. The cops would not do a thing. W. Sunrise Blvd.

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 8:34 pm #

      Islam is not ISIS. ISIS kills Muslims. Muslims condemn violence.

      “We are saddened and deeply concerned by the increasingly vicious series of terrorist attacks around the world in the past few days and weeks, and the rising numbers of innocent people who have lost their lives, or members of their families, or their friends, to this senseless violence. The attackers directed their violent hatred against people who are different from those who torment them. The brutal killing in Normandy of a priest, a religious leader who had dedicated his life to his community and to the service of God, leading worshippers in prayer, is yet another demonstration that those who commit violence in the name of religion violate the tenets of any religion.

      When these horrors occur again and again, how can we not give into despair, cynicism and fear of our neighbours? But allowing fear and animosity towards others to cloud our minds endangers our societies’ ability to heal and to grow closer together. If we cannot reconcile our differences through dialogue none of us can hope to live in peace in future. In times when barbaric hatred threatens to pull us apart, we must remember the values that unite all humankind: compassion, mercy and kindness. To give in to prejudice, anger and hatred is to turn our backs on peace and dialogue, which are our best defense against violent extremism.”

      • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 9:50 pm #

        Who are you quoting?

    • stelmosfire July 26, 2016 at 8:39 pm #

      Take a guess? A bunch of BL youts. Go figure. The cops were like,What are you doing here? I was delivering a TV transmitter from CT. in a rented u-Haul.I guess it was my fault. They said get out of here, and wanted nothing to do with it.

    • Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 9:54 pm #

      My brother’s last employer was the City of Sunrise, FL. Any connection?

      • stelmosfire July 28, 2016 at 1:50 am #

        No Q, W Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 7/11 parking lot, I had not a clue where I pulled over for a soda but I guess a white boy in those parts was fair game. “Gimme’ yo wallet” was about all I heard.

        • stelmosfire July 28, 2016 at 1:51 am #

          Year was1982 and I was on a vacation from the firehouse.

  83. Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 8:37 pm #

    The White house was built by slaves. My daughters, two beautiful black young women now play with their dog on the White House lawn.

    Q.E.D?

    Vote for Hillary Clinton.

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:29 am #

      We AGREE!

  84. Q. Shtik July 26, 2016 at 8:40 pm #

    From each according to his ability,
    To each according to his need…. – Elysian quoting Marx

    =============

    Yes, I know about Marx. My grandfather, father and brother (all deceased) all have the middle name Marx. But I thought I’d give credit (if indeed it can be considered creditworthy) to Morelly whose misunderstanding of human nature was even greater than Marx’s and came more than 100 years earlier. See below from Wikipedia:

    Even though the phrase is commonly attributed to Marx, he was not the first to use it. The slogan was common to the socialist movement. Louis Blanc first used it in 1839, in “The organization of work”,[3]The origin of this phrasing has also been attributed to the French communist Morelly,[4] who proposed in his 1755 Code of Nature “Sacred and Fundamental Laws that would tear out the roots of vice and of all the evils of a society” including……..

    • jim e July 26, 2016 at 10:39 pm #

      Wow! Marx!
      Speaking of names… guess what my middle name is?
      (I like James earl Carter Jr.)

  85. Janos Skorenzy July 26, 2016 at 8:46 pm #

    Francois Hollande on the Church killing: “This will be a long war.”

    Yes, decades, generations, or even centuries until the two populations separate or one is driven out or conquered. All because you vicious, traitorous fools let them in.

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  86. mdm1mdm1 July 26, 2016 at 9:33 pm #

    Nate Silver has Trump beating Clinton in November, which I happen to think is almost a certainty. What I would like to be is a fly on the wall at the traditional pre inaugural hosting the president elect around the white house Obama will have to do. It will probably be the worst hour Obama ever spends in his life and he will be partially responsible for that miserable hour with the carnival barker. What irony.

    • wpa_ccc July 26, 2016 at 9:53 pm #

      “It’s hard to know what to expect out of the Democratic convention — I could tick off a half-dozen reasons why I’d expect Clinton to get a relatively large bounce, and another half-dozen why it might be quite small. We know, however, that the polls are normally a lot more predictive a few weeks after the conventions — by which time the convention bounces have died down — than a few weeks beforehand.” –Nate Silver

      • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:36 am #

        The smart money says that it is ‘her election to lose’.

        To clarify for the literalists: She has it sewn up.

        Celebrations to follow.

  87. pequiste July 27, 2016 at 12:05 am #

    As a result of the Democrats at their convention not having one word to say about Yzlamik terrorism in general or ISIS (Barry and Rodan’s JV team) in particular – and I don’t like saying this – I hope that Yzlamik terror now builds a full head of steam around the world, coming into the Autumn with a thunderous crescendo of murder and mayhem about the last week in October.

    This will set the environment for Trump to win in the USSA and for the nationalist parties to win in Europe.

    Only then, when leaders are given mandates by the citizens of their respective nations, can serious, hard choices be made how to put a mighty fear into the faithful of the prophet Mohammed’s “crescent and scimitar” brand that live outside of Dar al Islam, and to EXTIRPATE the jihad-active ones from both the Western and Eastern civilizations which they hate and wish to subjugate and destroy.

  88. Janos Skorenzy July 27, 2016 at 12:08 am #

    I just realized this election is a battle of archetypes. Hillary is obviously the very essence of the Evil Queen. She is not a Witch though – and cannot make herself seem fair. But her husband, the Wizard Bill Clinton, does this for her. And frail as he is, he can still summon up great power, unfortunately.

    Bernie is the Wise Man – an archetype still very strong in Jewish Culture, whether in modern or medieval form. Bernie has failed completely, betraying his archetype by bowing down to the Worldly Power represented by the Clintons.

    Trump is our only hope now. Will he be the Warrior King, his higher archetype, the one who combines strength and wisdom? Or merely the Strong Man? Only time will tell which way his heart decides. But realize this: even the Strong Man is better than out and out evil. Trump as Strong Man will preserve our Nation even if sacrifices have to be made, say in terms of surveillance. Think Hillary will respect our freedoms or wants the best for us? She plans to bring a million unvetted Muslims here. Now THAT’S Evil. Trump wont do that.

    • FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 2:15 am #

      “She plans to bring a million unvetted Muslims here”

      Unfortunately, you are wrong, Janos. Hillary’s people are vetting them very carefully in Jordan and Turkey,

      It is going to be very specific type of “Muslims”.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 27, 2016 at 4:06 am #

        Oh, not leaving the percentage of Jihadis to chance, eh? What a little change agent! She set out to do good and ended up doing well.

        • malthuss July 27, 2016 at 1:36 pm #

          fincaln the horseshiter, I mean horse whisperer.

        • SpeedyBB August 1, 2016 at 7:17 am #

          As I recall, that originated (or was at least carried) in James Michener’s HAWAII, in reference to the Bible-totin’ missionaries who moved in and clothed the nekkid savages in muu-muus.

          What happened in Hawaii (“came to do good, ended up doing very well”) (Doles in particular) is best summed up by Jomo Kenyatta’s bon mot:

          “When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:38 am #

      Footnotes, please.

  89. Pucker July 27, 2016 at 12:29 am #

    The Saul Alinsky, Joseph Goebbels, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton perspective—gangsterism; there is no morality in the pursuit of power—corruption, gas chambers and mass graves don’t matter as long as you win power. Saul Alinsky must have been one of those tragic Jews who became enamored with Hitler? This plays into the permissive 1960’s era ethos of “Anything goes, and nothing matters.” There has to be Rule of Law and accountability or we all become perverse and hideously ugly.

  90. Pucker July 27, 2016 at 12:45 am #

    There’s something seriously wrong with Americans. They seem to have lost the ability to make moral judgments using traditional American moral standards?

    And the “Willful Ignorance” is a bit strange, choosing to be ignorant in order to avoid trouble, or to avoid work and mental effort.

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    • JimInFlorida July 27, 2016 at 7:54 am #

      Pucker, you’re about 45-50 years too late with the concern that America’s ability to make moral judgment is impaired.

      “Willful ignorance” has been the norm for a long time now. Willful ignorance is a valuable mass control tool because it makes the masses believe that moral crises have only arisen recently and that “normalcy” is still within easy reach. The idea that moral rot can go on unabated for 50+ years can’t connect with a people afflicted with a short attention span. TPTB want such ignorance.

      Again, a bit late to the party, Puck!

      • messianicdruid July 27, 2016 at 11:00 am #

        “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being my priests. Since you have forgotten Me, I also will forget your children.”

        The Powers That Pretend have went to great lengths to discredit the “perfect law of liberty” but some have not forgotten.

  91. wpa_ccc July 27, 2016 at 1:58 am #

    “the Democrats at their convention not having one word to say about Yzlamik terrorism in general or ISIS” –pequiste

    There are four nights. Each night has a focus or theme. Wednesday night is when they focus on ISIS and violent extremism.

  92. wpa_ccc July 27, 2016 at 2:16 am #

    Four years ago Romney/Republican Party said Putin was a threat to the world. Now it seems the Republicans are pro-Russian and Russia is pro-Trump. Why did the Russians steal from DNC and not RNC? Why are more Americans not concerned about a foreign power trying to influence our elections?

    Why does Donald Trump give a dictator involved in organized crime like Putin an “A”? Why does Putin admire dictators Kim in Korea and Sadaam in Iraq? Why does Trump have campaign staff that have worked 10 years for Ukraine? What are Trumps business interests and investments in Russia and Ukraine? Why won’t Trump release his tax returns? What is he hiding?

    • Q. Shtik July 27, 2016 at 7:24 am #

      Because he is large and contains multitudes?

    • JimInFlorida July 27, 2016 at 7:45 am #

      Republican politicians, like Democrats, will pander to the ignorant masses and throw out buzzwords that focus groups say will connect.

      Putin was legitimately elected TWICE and remains popular in Russia and respected in much of the world. The same can’t be said for the POTUS, let alone the two candidates.

      The reason Putin may admire dictators like Kim Il Sung and Saddam was that they knew the importance of quelling agitators and social disruption, especially since all such disruption was caused by CIA, MI6, Saudi, and Mossad operatives. The legitimacy of such dictators comes from eudaimonic legitimization. In other words, their ability to deliver social stability, material needs, public services, and, most importantly, the cultural space to enable public and private virtue to flourish. A difficult thing to achieve with constant agitation by CIA-backed troublemakers.

      The democratic process’s claim to be the only legitimizing process has been thoroughly debunked by none other than the U.S. and U.K. The democratic process has long been usurped and manipulated by forces hostile to the well being of the masses. We have no benefactor king to defend us from predatory nobles. Unlike the old kingdoms of Old Europe, the U.S. has no religious institution that can keep the king under control by threatening to damn his soul to Hell for malfeasance. So, neither monarchy nor ersatz democratic process can work in the U.S. as it is.

      As for Trump, the whole stunt of releasing tax forms reveals nothing. I want to know his plans to reverse the damage done by 35 years of Reaganomics and how he proposes to enact those plans.

      • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:44 am #

        “As for Trump, the whole stunt of releasing tax forms reveals nothing. I want to know his plans to reverse the damage done by 35 years of Reaganomics and how he proposes to enact those plans.”
        -JimInFlorida

        He’s been “working” that Reaganomics thing for 35 years. You expect something different?

        • JimInFlorida July 27, 2016 at 7:00 pm #

          We can only hope that Trump had his own, “Road to Damascus,” conversion.

          Even though he and his ilk have been the unworthy beneficiaries of Reaganomics, there is the slim hope that Trump has sobered up just enough to see the wreckage in Flyover Country.

          Aristotle had harsh words for the Top 1% of his day,

          “Good Sir, you are an Athenian, a citizen of the greatest city with the greatest reputation for both wisdom and power. ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth or the best possible state of your soul?”

          • Dumbedup July 29, 2016 at 7:53 am #

            My hope is that Trump’s governing style will be different than his campaign style, but I fear he cares even less for the middle class than Hillary.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:53 am #

            doesn’t feel shame. What’s that word I’m looking for?

            Psycop…

      • messianicdruid July 27, 2016 at 12:03 pm #

        “…the U.S. has no religious institution that can keep the king under control by threatening to damn his soul to Hell for malfeasance.”

        Government churches [ 501c3 ] preaching from government issued Bibles [ KJV ] to members who are under various contracts to a governmental corporation will have little impact on national affairs.

        Fortunately, it is not up to an institution to bring about justice. We don’t need another president [ one who presides in the office of another ], we need the King. Until we acknowledge Him, the chastisements will continue.

        • JimInFlorida July 27, 2016 at 6:44 pm #

          Yes messianic, you are right about Government 501(c)3 churches. That’s why I was careful to proffer the superiority of monarchy when the King is SUBORDINATE to the Church, as in Medieval Europe.

          Of course, we all know that modernist chimera, Jewdeo-Xtianity, has caused Western Christianity to lose all credibility. Centuries of progress lost in 50 years!

          It’s not enough to make veiled referenced to Jesus Christ. How would he exercise power? Who would represent Him in Washington? It’s a cheap and lazy appeal to make reference to Christ to avoid the kind of confrontation that wrests back what’s been stolen over the generations.

          The churches that claim to represent Him have ZERO credibility. The true gods of Amerika are Belphegor, Mammon, and Molech. The National Religion is the Seven Deadly Sins. What is Amerika that Jesus Christ should even save it???

          • messianicdruid July 28, 2016 at 2:50 am #

            The Geneva bible was replaced with the KJV specifically because of the translator ‘s notes which showed the obligations of government as well as its authority.

            Scofield and Darby finished the work with dispensationalism obscuring the players and turning God’s enemies into churchianity’s idols.

            Easy believism replaced obedience accompanied by an eternal barbecue pit [ borrowed from paganism ] to scare people into the pews and tithes into the coffers.

            Jesus will say, “Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you, depart from me ye workers of iniquity [ lawlessness 1 John 3:4 ].” This will come as quite a shock to denominationalists.

            “How would he exercise power?” This is a study in itself. Time to start over. I would suggest beginning here:

            http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/teachings/books/the-barley-overcomers/

            “The overcomers will inherit the first resurrection.”

          • JimInFlorida July 28, 2016 at 6:55 am #

            Messianic, your answer gives me hope.

            Very few know the difference between the Geneva Bible, the King James Bible, the differences between them, and why. I had forgotten about Scofield and Darby; you’re right about them as well.

            Thank you.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:55 pm #

            The Theologica Germanica says that the very Light of God is Hell for the reprobates. Their resistance to it causes the heat. They are poor conductors in other words. Once they get over it, they will cool down. Eternal Hell is the most evil doctrine ever conceived by the mind of man.

      • Dumbedup July 29, 2016 at 7:49 am #

        +1000

    • ozone July 27, 2016 at 9:26 am #

      I love the smell of mimeographed hand-out sheets in the morning.
      It smells like……… Bullshit….

      Yet another dog that don’t hunt.

      • volodya July 27, 2016 at 11:49 am #

        How much do you figure the job pays?

        You know, work like this is something you might call “precarious”. Why? Because if it can be done on-line, it can be done from India. Even if the accent of the keyboard jockey is unintelligible, it doesn’t matter, does it?

        As we all know, the Oligarchs aren’t finished. First to go offshore was the rag-trade, then the wrench turning type of work and next comes the cubicle dwelling or work-from-home.

        The Oligarchs see one extra dollar in anybody’s pocket but their own as a cosmic injustice that must be rectified. For decades the agenda was tax cuts and wage suppression. Wage suppression is on the list even for the clerisy that strive mightily in favor of Oligarch interests. That expensively educated elite will expect loyalty for a job well done, but they will find exactly none. When the time is right, they will be thrown overboard.

        As Wall Street Stooge, that will be President H R Clinton’s job.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:57 pm #

          Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

          I’m way ahead now!

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:00 am #

            Got you priorities!

      • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:56 pm #

        You need to get a better dog (god), dog.

  93. trypillian July 27, 2016 at 2:37 am #

    The Punch and Judy Show continues. The Bovine vs Crusty, The Yankee penchant for avoiding moving parts in the great dumbing and I daresay numbing down reality has reached historic lows. Meanwhile, the Indian Point nuclear reactors have lost 25% of the bolts holding the nuclear fuel cooling system together. There are 100,000 Hiroshima bombs equivalent within the reactor cores and spent fuel pools. NYC is 25 miles downwind. The NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has done nothing to fix it, claiming too many moving parts, literally, to be bothered. How do you evacuate 22 million people from the dire consequences of a cooling system breach?

    • wpa_ccc July 27, 2016 at 2:59 am #

      July 8, 2016

      Indian Point Energy Center’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor is back online after it was automatically shut down Wednesday.

      Entergy Corp., the operators of the Buchanan plant, announced Thursday afternoon that the plant was reactivated earlier that day. No radioactivity was released and there was no effect on public or worker health and safety, Entergy said.

      The shutdown occurred while technicians were testing electrical systems Wednesday morning.

      Unit 3, the plant’s other nuclear reactor, stayed online during Unit 2’s shutdown and has been operating continuously for 205 days.

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 10:49 am #

      Indian Point sits on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 36 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. $tay tuned, it will be closed.

  94. tucsonspur July 27, 2016 at 4:12 am #

    “Will he be the Warrior King, …..Or merely the Strong Man”?

    Right now I would say the Strong Man. Not so much narcissism in a Warrior King.

    “‘Narcissism is not a disease’, suggested psychiatrist Peter Freed of Columbia University. ‘It’s an evolutionary strategy that can be incredibly successful-when it works’. Who would represent this successful strategy better than Trump?

    Consider the flourishing of all-about-me technologies that have been adopted by so many hundreds of millions of people. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even the selfie photographs that bloom by the millions online are all expressions of the kind of self promotion that Trump has practiced for profit throughout his life. The only difference is that he did it first, and on a much grander scale.

    In a world where many habitually broadcast photographs of their sandwiches just before they are eaten, we no longer agree that intense self regard is a sign that something is wrong. It may, instead, be a reasonable reaction to life in a society where extension of the self, through media, is an accepted way to escape feeling insignificant. Donald Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, one of us writ large. Given his intense desire to distinguish himself as special, if not sui generis, he is likely to find this conclusion disturbing. It is, for the rest of us too.”

    From D’ Antonio’s, “The Truth About Trump”.

    Anyway, after just finishing the book, I can more readily see a Strong Man on Facebook or Twitter, etc., than I can a Warrior King!

  95. FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 4:14 am #

    Senior porn and 19 Heroes of the Democratic Convention

    Final results:

    2,842 for Clinton, 1,865 for Sanders, and 56 “no votes.”

    The results as of the June 15:

    2,807 for Clinton, out of which 2,205 are pledged delegates and 602 superdelegates
    1,894 for Sanders of which 1,846 are pledged delegates and 48 superdelegates

    That is 35 superdelegates defected to Hillary either from Sanders, or from the drop-outs, but the 19 superdelegates remain true to Sanders. Believe me, it was not easy!

    More than three hundred Sanders’ delegates just got up and demonstratively left the convention, when the coition of Sanders and Hillary – the Senior porn – has begun.

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  96. Dentshop July 27, 2016 at 7:43 am #

    It’s quite funny watching the lame-stream media come out with platitudes about HRC. It reminds me of Baghdad Bob waving away reports that anything is wrong.

  97. Thinkgloballyactlocally July 27, 2016 at 8:35 am #

    „Truman, Churchill and Stalin meet for the third time to sort out their differences.
    Again, no progress.
    After two frustrating days, Stalin says: „Comrades! We know cats hate mustard. Whoever can induce a cat eat mustard, will have his way.”
    Challenge accepted.
    Truman, ever the straight shooter, takes the cat, takes a jar of mustard, and pours the latter into the mouth of the former. The cat spits out every last drop.
    Churchill, having watched this fiasco, prepares a sumptuous plate of liver, fish, and other cat’s delight , with mustard in the centre. The cat eats the meat – until he gets to the mustard, and leaves the rest.
    Stalin shakes his head with mock sympathy: „You have no idea, how to do this!” he says to the others. „Bring me a pound of mustard and watch!” Whith that, he kindly takes the cat in his lap, strokes him gently, then takes the mustard and smears it all over the rear end of the animal.
    The cat frantically chases his burning butt and cries, desperately licking the strong mustard off of the sensitive area.
    A triumphant Stalin exclaims: „And, as you see, the cat is dancing and singing and voluntarily eating the mustard”.
    (America’s 30 Years War: Who Is Winning? by Balint Vazsonyi 1998)

    The original story was about Hitler, challenging Himmler, Goering and Goebbels at a dinner . (Goebbels won….)
    Nothing is new under the Sun.
    Now people are ASKING FOR more police, more surveillance, more intervention/protection (=control) from the governments….
    Seemingly nobody remembers Pink Floyd’s The Wall:
    „We don’t need no education
    We don’t need no thought control”
    Looks like the whole population is well programmed and marching in the direction desired by the top 1%.
    Trump or Clinton? Does not matter…..”all road leads to Rome”…..sooner than later.
    We all will be prisoners and slaves because we don’t see the wood from the tree.
    Actually we refuse to even look at the big picture because it is too far from our pro-grammed comfort zone.
    EPPUR SI MUOVE (Galilei)

    • elysianfield July 27, 2016 at 10:50 am #

      “The cat frantically chases his burning butt and cries, desperately licking the strong mustard off of the sensitive area.”

      Grey Poupon?

      • FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 11:35 am #

        Nope, Grey Poupon is weak compared to real Russian mustard – you should ask for one in the closest Russian Deli.

        Just be careful with the stuff – it was developed by the leading Russian thermonuclear physicists, so it has a power of a small A-bomb, though completely polonium-free.

        • elysianfield July 27, 2016 at 3:07 pm #

          ” completely polonium-free”

          Finc,
          I would accept…”usually polonium-free” as a more defensible statement….

          • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:45 am #

            That D.H. Blair experience comes in handy!

  98. pequiste July 27, 2016 at 9:16 am #

    Jim gets top billing, and well deserved recognition, in a piece over at the Burning Platform.

    http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/07/26/worlds-made-by-hand/

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 11:01 am #

      “There is more humanity and hope in his novels than you would expect in a dystopian vision of the future.” _ Burning Platform

      kinda like CFN. “There is more humanity and hope in Kunstler’s Essays that you get in his Commenters’ dystopian vision of the future.”

      That is why Kunstler is a Commentator Excellente!

  99. fodase July 27, 2016 at 10:33 am #

    all police officers acquitted in freddie gray case

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-ci-miller-pretrial-motions-20160727-story.html

    just another nail in the myths the low-info, barbaric Left live by

    can’t reason with unreasonable people

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 11:02 am #

      “can’t reason with unreasonable people” -fodase

      So stop your “Reasoning”.

      • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 7:27 pm #

        It’s a left and right world, we aren’t going forward, we can’t go back, it looks like it’s all up from here as we are pretty far down. Time may be a fourth dimension, but the world has been parked on L or R.

        • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:46 am #

          Displays internal logic.

  100. volodya July 27, 2016 at 11:00 am #

    The Russki hacker theory is much more convenient for the clean-up crew trying to spin stories about a Putin-Trump alliance. Could it be that it’s a total fabrication? Could it be that the Russkis had nothing to do with it? No, let’s not be cynical.

    But let’s say that it really was Russkis behind the DNC email caper and not that Romanian hacker Guccifer. It was Assange and his boys at wikileaks that TIMED the release. I’m sure the Russkis (if it was really them) could have released them too. Much more fun though to have wikileaks do it.

    Given that it’s that thoroughly unpoliticized and utterly unbiased law enforcement agency the FBI that’s carrying out the investigation we can surely expect the truth to come out, can’t we? Sure we can.

    Just like with Hillary’s State Department emails. If the FBI sez no evidence of criminal intent, you can take it to the bank, right? So if they say it was Russkis, then it was Russkis. Right?

    Actually, isn’t meddling in a foreign country’s election process and internal affairs something that Americans are regularly accused of?

    Would this be something that goes under the column titled “Blowback”.

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    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 11:04 am #

      “Actually, isn’t meddling in a foreign country’s election process and internal affairs something that Americans are regularly accused of?”

      Hey, that’s our racket and we got muscle.

    • elysianfield July 27, 2016 at 3:20 pm #

      V,
      Did not the FBI, when questioned regarding the absent Emails, state that they were regrettably missing, and unrecoverable in the ether? Should not the FBI gratefully accept any help from any source in their quest for truth? Are not the 30K of Emails considered “clues”? I see no issue regarding the release of these documents, from any source. A small honorarium might be in order for assistance rendered…maybe “the” Ukraine? Syria?

  101. volodya July 27, 2016 at 11:29 am #

    Actually, isn’t “blowback” something that only happens to Republican administrations carrying out their usual disastrous neo-con wars and – cough – interventions?

    I remember it distinctly. In fact I’ve seen it on TV but also up close and personal, right in front of me, the deeply wise and world-weary countenance of people intoning the term, usually after some Islamist terrorist outrage, sometimes paired with admonitions against Islamophobia.

    So, given that this is an enlightened, progressive, Democratic administration, one beholden to ideals reflecting all that is good and pure and noble, this couldn’t be “blowback”.

    And every objective the United States under Obama has pursued related to Russia, or affecting Russian interests, was altruistic in nature and concerned with the betterment of mankind. And Putin, blackguard though he is, would surely know this. Right? So it couldn’t POSSIBLY be blowback.

  102. FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 11:45 am #

    There is another rumor floating around regarding the DNC Email leaks:

    On Sunday morning, July 10th at about 04:20 am, 27-year-old Seth Rich, an IT employee at the DNC, was shot twice in the back a-block-and-a-half from his home.

    Police who were patrolling the area heard the shots and found Rich still conscious and breathing in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. about 2 miles directly north of the Capitol building. He died an hour later in the hospital.

    The killer did not take Rich’s wallet, credit cards or cell phone. However, his mother, Mary Rich was told by police that her son may have been the victim of a robbery.

    She was quoted by an NBC Channel 4 report saying:
    “There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything.”

    The death still remains a mystery and DC police initially put up a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, but now over 2 weeks later and no suspects in sight, the reward has been raised to $50,000.

    Twelve days after his death, Wikileaks released 20,000 emails and 8,000 attachments from 7 DNC co-workers that led to the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

    Less fortunate Ed Snowden?

    • dannyboy July 27, 2016 at 12:17 pm #

      Rumors, rumors. This must be CFN.

      Ever been to the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C.?

      visiting would help explain the events.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 2:00 pm #

        Have you? Why don’t you tell what you heard?

        • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:50 am #

          Gentrified, formerly predominantly Black neighborhood. Long term (multigenerational) tenants priced out. Recipe for some mayhem.

    • elysianfield July 27, 2016 at 3:24 pm #

      “Police who were patrolling the area heard the shots”

      Finc,
      Actually, no officer close to the scene…the shots were detected by static sensors, the location triangulated, then units dispatched.

  103. volodya July 27, 2016 at 12:04 pm #

    So Trump just said about the Russians, that if they hacked, they probably have Hillary’s 33,000 state dept emails. Trump sez, I hope they do.

    Makes me laugh.

    Maybe if the FBI asks nicely, Putin’s boys will be good enough to hand them over. Well, not for free seeing as it took some effort. But maybe for a fair price. After all we are not communists. Neither are they.

    Or do you think they’ll maybe give them to wikileaks for free?

    • dannyboy July 28, 2016 at 9:52 am #

      Mr. Trump called on Wednesday on Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton’s email, essentially encouraging a foreign power’s cyberspying efforts.

      • sprawlcapital July 28, 2016 at 11:28 am #

        Mr. Trump called on Wednesday on Russia . . .
        [Mr. Trump on Wednesday called on Russia . . .]

        Now, that reads better!

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:03 am #

          And I was quoting the NYT!

          copywriters! editors!

          where are the red pens around here?

  104. fodase July 27, 2016 at 1:21 pm #

    hillary’s unsecured server emails will be released in juicy batches that will show her to be an incompetent grifter.

    the message is hampered by the collusion of the media to suppress and divert their content

    strategizing going on at the release point to overcome this to the extent
    possible

  105. Janos Skorenzy July 27, 2016 at 1:23 pm #

    The DNC: Every time the word “Black” or “Blacks” where mentioned, the crowd erupted in joyous applause. That old time religion is still growing strong. Sick. Sick. Sick. Some of these type critters even post here, believe it or not.

    Meanwhile, National Socialism embraces the Kunslterian/Mumfordian paradigm, though admittedly we are still hoping for a high tech green future. As Peter Thiel said at the RNC, we could have gone to Mars but instead chose to wipe Black butts. I’m adding the Black part in – he’s too smart to say that openly.

    http://www.dailystormer.com/make-public-transportation-great-again/

    We’re Gay tolerant and for Socialism. The Dems are going Black with “the Mothers of the Movement”, which movement isn’t made clear but obviously it’s all movements. They have given up on the Future. Therefore it belongs to us. No doubt Ozone will say with a guffaw, “That dog don’t hunt” as he chews on a blade of grass. He desperately wants to be a Southern Good Ol’ boy you see. Red Neck envy is a serious problem among rural Liberals….

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    • malthuss July 27, 2016 at 1:39 pm #

      bowel movement.

  106. pequiste July 27, 2016 at 1:29 pm #

    Even after the Mother’s of The Movement gave heart rendering accounts last evening at the Democrat convention of how their now deceased little angels were victims, and how my heart was grieving, yet again Police Lives Don’t Matter (and African-American lives too, to a certain demographic:)

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/persons-of-interest-idd-in-fla-nightclub-shooting/ar-BBuU6XX

    Good thing the cop shot back. A charming young gentleman (from the photo: vile, loathesome and odious) I’m sure, yet I’m cornfuzed why the cop only shot to wound the poor misunderstood yout’ – aggravated assault on a police officer? He should get an Obama sanctioned sinecure (he could be Barry O’s son!) plus a “rap” recording contract from Russell Simmons or Pee Doody, but he will get his Due Process from this country instead of a burning necklace, the kind they use in SOWETO in the former U. of S.A.(Union of South Africa.)

    http://www.sickchirpse.com/necklacing/

    • malthuss July 27, 2016 at 1:42 pm #

      Yahoo was celebrating Mike Jordan, who wants the popo to stop killing YBM.
      comments were more interesting—

      Undoubtedly, however, sneakers continue to create opportunities for some problems to play out. Early on, the Sneakerheadz clip shows news footage from a mob scene of customers stampeding to get newly released Jordans, and stories of actual deaths are far from rare.
      What can be done about it? Twenty-five years after Sports Illustrated’s big story, there’s still no good answer

      Why doesn’t Jordan-speaks-out-on-air jordan-shootings-i-can-no-longer-stay-silent-??
      1,200 people are killed each year over Jordan sneakers

      Why didn’t Jordan-speaks-out-on-air jordan-shootings-i-can-no-longer-stay-silent-??
      1,200 people are killed each year over Jordan sneakers
      Americans are willing to kill each other for shoes. And while each fatal incident may seem like a freak occurrence, sneaker-motivated deaths can mount over time.

      An estimated 1,200 people die over sneakers every year, according to a video posted Nov. 14 by GQ magazine. Excerpted from a recent documentary on sneaker culture called Sneakerheadz, the video suggests one factor in the violence is the marketing hype machine that transforms sneaker releases into consumer feeding frenzies.

      David T. Friendly, the director of the documentary, says the source of the statistic is an estimate offered by opponents of these marketing strategies originally reported by ABC News. “As a general comment, let me just say we were extremely sensitive to the issue of violence associated with sneaker sales while making our documentary,” Friendly said in a statement when asked if he’d received any indication the figure was inaccurate. “We carefully checked our source and still reported that number only as an estimate.” But whether it was 1 death or 1,000, he added, it’s enough that manufacturers should take the maximum precautions possible to protect lives.

      “It didn’t surprise me that kids would become violent and really ferocious about these shoes, because the way [companies] market them, they market them as if they’re the dream,” Mike Epps, the actor and avid sneaker collector, says in the video.
      In particular, critics have accused basketball legend Michael Jordan and manufacturer Nike, which owns the Jordan brand, of encouraging frenzied behavior over their shoes.

      The most sought-after Jordans are expensive and released in limited quantities, making them highly sought-after and valuable. In October, former NBA star Stephon Marbury singled out Jordan in association with “kids dying over shoes,” when he announced the return of his own $15 Starbury sneakers to market.

      Jordan has been robbing the hood since. Kids dying for shoes and the only face this dude makes is I don’t care. The time will change!
      5:26 PM – 4 Oct 2015

      Nike and Adidas have tried various measures to stem the bloodshed that can occur as people anxiously line up for sneakers, and Nike even changed the timing of its sneaker releases from midnight to morning, believing people would be less aggressive. But deaths don’t just occur during launches.
      There are deeper societal issues of violence and status involved. Looking back at Sports Illustrated’s famous 1990 cover story, “Your Sneakers or Your Life,” which focused on the murder of a 15-year-old boy over his Jordans and brought sneaker violence to national attention, it’s evident that the 17-year-old killer in that case didn’t do it just for the shoes.
      The victims of these crimes are disproportionately young, black men. !!!!!!!!!!!!! [and who are da killaz?]

      • tucsonspur July 27, 2016 at 5:48 pm #

        The next design line features Jordan blowing smoke off the muzzle of a mac-9 on the outside ankles, and literally shooting basketballs on the inside. Deaths will soar, but so will sales. Nome sayin’?

  107. pequiste July 27, 2016 at 3:16 pm #

    Police lives matter except to a demographic that respects nuthin (dindu)

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/charges-announced-in-fatal-shooting-of-kck-police-capt-dave-melton/ar-BBuDhNL

    Vile and odious just like the Yzlamik terror.

    The Democrat COnvention theme this evening should be a scream.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:07 am #

      Don’t scream. It makes you look kinda…

  108. Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 4:35 pm #

    Today Trump said, that he hopes the Russians found Hillary’s missing emails.

    The press spin: Trump wants Russia to hack into Hillary’s emails…

    I really enjoyed Chomsky’s ‘Manufacturing Consent’, I get it, but the bias was once nuanced or better concealed. Now it’s in the open, as is Hillary’s corruption and Trump’s ham-handedness. As is the destruction of our economy, our ‘nation’ our norms. There is no point in maintaining artifice, a face, a mask. And it can’t be maintained in the information overload age. The mask is off, and it’s one big un-costumed ball of uglies in the Veneto.

    • FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 5:06 pm #

      Everybody got those [bleeping] emails, starting from ISIS and ending with FBI. Of course FSB got them too by following Guccifer afer he tried to hack into the Kremlin’s Web Site – or a least that is their technical spin proving that they got it legally – not by hacking the DNC Server directly.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:25 am #

        Hugh Hefner got his hands on them first.

        Again

    • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 12:25 pm #

      Frankiti: “I really enjoyed Chomsky’s ‘Manufacturing Consent’…”

      Poor Edward S. Herman. No one ever remembers him, even though he’s the first credited of the two co-authors.

  109. FincaInTheMountains July 27, 2016 at 4:58 pm #

    “Roll call” – detail electors voting by each State during the Convention, Bernie Sanders urged not to pursue and to nominate Clinton “by acclamation”.

    What does it mean I do not understand, but after the announcement of this the States Roll Call had stopped. And each State votes separately on the Convention and the State Secretary certifies the signature of each of the super-delegate.

    I understand that Hillary was nominated by the same Wasserman-Schultz, who stole the election and after the convention will be fired. And she managed to do this because the only rival of Hillary – Bernie Sander – admitted defeat and they stopped voting. From supporters of Bernie Sanders it is known that several hundred delegates then simply left the Convention, saying: No vote, no unity.

    Forums then simply exploded, as no mention in the press I’ve seen so far.

    Indeed some pornography.

  110. PeteAtomic July 27, 2016 at 5:36 pm #

    If anybody is watching the DNC and believing that things like ‘debt free college’ ’15 dollar min. wage’ and ‘expansion of medicare’ will actually happen, then you are totally deluding yourself.
    The federal government will not be able to assume the massive liabilities inherent in any new social program without trillion dollar sized debt expansion. It will not happen.

    Furthermore, attempting to shift the close to 50% of monies in the current budget away from the defense industry and defense relevant agencies (like veterans affairs, state/CIA related costs, etc.) will not happen. WILL NOT HAPPEN.

    It’s so fascinating to watch grown adults suddenly trade their objectivity & sense of reality every 4 years for pixie dust & magical thinking during these presidential races.

    If the democrats win this cycle, be prepared to hear the howling of “diversity” and racial participation obsession, when all of the alchemical charlatanism of the DNC platform predictably falls well short or disappears altogether after the election is over. Sloganeering will be the only thing they have left.

    Is there something in the water? Is the phase of the full moon semi-permanent right now?

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    • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 6:12 pm #

      After George Dumbya Bush, we’ve become a nation of masochists, self-defeating personality disorder in full paroxysm. The Democratic Party is the national hair-shirt, our flagellation broadcast to the world. We continue to be evil, we continue our penance… we will break ourselves.

    • Dumbedup July 28, 2016 at 1:07 pm #

      Those things won’t come to pass with this Congress. In truth, both candidates are saying things that are either ridiculous on their face because they either can’t be done or there is no will to do them. But the Democratic Party makes these promises to assuage their progressive wing while pursuing neocon foreign policy. Trump makes promises about a wall, deals with Putin, prosecuting doctors who perform abortions and the like to appeal to the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican Party. I can’t stomach the hypocrisy and doubletalk by either party.

      This past weekend some friends and I sat around and tried to hash out the issues we face as a nation. After the arguing and demagoguery ceased it turns out that not even my right wing friends are happy. They support Trump but acknowledge his lack of mastery over statecraft and appreciation for Democratic principles and worry that he will blunder simply because he lacks experience or because he is so authoritarian.

      It really comes down to what issues are most important to you and whether you think that Trump’s style and rhetoric will change (Will he will become more “Presidential”) if he is elected. We know what we will get from Hillary.

      Gary Johnson appeals to me more every day. He is Trump without the fascist flair.

  111. Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 6:24 pm #

    The nomination of Clinton only serves to prove our animalism, the primacy of our instinctual reptilian mind. Our human weakness. Impulse over rationalism. The V is a force of power, the weak minded are all drawn back to it. Like Schrödinger’s cat, nobody knows if there is a pussy in that box, and nobody really wants to find out, yet it draws crowds, takes checks, and pulls voting levers.

    • Pucker July 27, 2016 at 6:56 pm #

      That’s it! The Americans are “Weak Minded”. That’s what their problem is! The Americans have “Weak Minds” that are easily dominated by propaganda or material or psychotropic inducement.

      • Pucker July 27, 2016 at 7:06 pm #

        The Americans have been mentally broken down into programmable consumers in order to serve the economic system as “Consumers”. So the Americans have very Weak Minds that can’t withstand advertising.

        • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 7:10 pm #

          Well consumer want to know

        • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 7:15 pm #

          Everything, and literally everything, is marketing. From proselytizing religions to presidential candidates. I was taught from a young age, and I taught it to my own, that everyone is trying to get in your pants, not your zipper, but your pockets, and if they can’t reach in, they’ll take a shortcut through your ear.

      • Thinkgloballyactlocally July 27, 2016 at 10:15 pm #

        Not only the Americans. The whole species’ mind is weakened. The question is: ” Why? Why we use only 10% of our potential? The “hardware ” is there….but the software…..the software is wrong. Home edition. We should update to the Ultimate (Universal? Ubermensch?) version. I mean everyone not only the pale faced ones….:-)
        Enlightenment, anyone?

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:38 am #

          I’m in

    • PeteAtomic July 27, 2016 at 6:56 pm #

      good posts Frank, thanks

  112. Pucker July 27, 2016 at 6:53 pm #

    Bernie Sanders cut a deal with Hillary and the DNC for the use of a private plane and a $20 million book deal so that he can be in the 1%.

    I’m going to eat some small green Hunan chili peppers so that when I take a crap I’ll “Feel the Berne Out”.

    • PeteAtomic July 27, 2016 at 6:57 pm #

      ha ha ha ha

      too funny

    • Frankiti July 27, 2016 at 7:09 pm #

      Eat them with numbing Sichuan peppercorns and add ghost peppers. And you still won’t feel the anal pain of a Sanders-head touring fan.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:11 am #

      toilet jokes?

      • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 1:14 pm #

        A good old-fashioned toilet joke is a breath of fresh air compared to some of the rhetoric that flies around here unremarked. For example, I was unaware of the jolly neologism “mudsharking” before I saw it being used in this forum.

        JHK himself isn’t innocent either. As the URL reveals, Jim originally titled last week’s post something like “Not doin’ nuttin'” before apparently thinking better of it. Comparing that to the etymology of the racial slur “dindu” suggests something about Mr. Kunstler’s mentality regarding race. Jim is serious enough about free speech to let a fair bit of anti-Semitism get expressed as well, but that doesn’t make him a beacon of enlightenment.

    • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 1:03 pm #

      Sanders never expected to win the nomination — he was as surprised as anyone by how close he came. His more realistic aim was to move the Overton window and force the Democratic party to make concessions to its left wing, who have long been jollied along with empty rhetoric combined with dire warnings that the only alternative, whoever the Republican nominee might be, would be far worse. By that measure, his campaign was highly successful.

      Whether policies like a $15 minimum wage, free college tuition, et cetera actually get implemented or not, the neoliberals have lost their absolute stranglehold on the politically permissible, thanks largely to Bernie Sanders.

  113. jhon July 27, 2016 at 9:17 pm #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcC5BeU96Rs

  114. Pucker July 27, 2016 at 9:49 pm #

    Bernie Sanders—the Socialist One Percenter….Man of the People…. What a fuck’n joke!

    Bernie Sanders doesn’t ride the sardine packed subway every morning to work because now he has his own private plane, and he can retire on the royalties from his $20 million book deal.

  115. Pucker July 28, 2016 at 12:13 am #

    I’m not sure of the origin and development of Bernie Sanders campaign? I suspect that it developed organically around Bernie through the Internet and the social media savvy Millennials? Bernie may have just ridden the wave to feather his own nest?

    The Millennials may see in Bernie Sanders what they want to see?

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    • Pucker July 28, 2016 at 1:05 am #

      “I believe in Jim Jones.”

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:13 am #

      Started in Brooklyn, when I was in school.

  116. FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 5:14 am #

    Senior porn(continue)

    After Obama’s speech, which 90% consisted of reminders of his accomplishments and how Hillary Clinton spoiled his life (first as secretary of state, and then simply being the Queen of the flying monkeys and the head of US party of war), and 10% of the exaggerated to absurdity (or sabotage) compliments to Hillary Clinton such as, “no one has ever been better prepared for the post of US president,” Bastinda climbed on stage and performed this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwQbKb1WvU

    • pequiste July 28, 2016 at 8:09 am #

      Barry O. accomplishment:

      JFK put a man on the moon.

      Obama put a man in the women’s toilet.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 8:28 am #

        O tempora, o mores!

      • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 2:55 pm #

        Trans people have been around since time immemorial, using the toilets like anyone else. Recently a few state legislatures, seized by psychosexual panic far, FAR out of proportion to any real-world threat, tried passing legislation to throw the full weight of the state at a very small and vulnerable minority, as a way of making themselves feel better. As for what all this state-level political nonsense has to do with Obama, maybe you could explain?

  117. BackRowHeckler July 28, 2016 at 6:54 am #

    2016, this ain’t the Summer of Love, my friends, but the Summer of Blood!

    (Summer of Love, 1967, Allen Ginsburg and poet Gary Snyder in Golden Gate Park, its finger cymbals and Ooms all around under a haze of smoke. Now its Musatafa in an explosive vest, toting a Kalashnikov, groovy!)

    My how things have changed.

    “YES WE CAN!!”

    This Priest decapitated in his chapel saying mass, and elderly man, in Normandy. An eye opener? A slap in the face by brutal reality? Hey Pierre, it might be time to step up, forego the soft living, and take care of the business of defending your country before you have no country left. The EU Elite drone on about ‘Tolerance’ and ‘Our European Values’ — mostly in their mouthpieces BBC, FT of London and the Guardian … Mohammed is telling you loud and clear what he thinks of you and your ‘European Values’ every time he lops off a head or guns down a Frenchman.

    “Take your ‘European Values’, you limp dick suckers, and shove them up your ass” … that’s what Mustafa is saying to you!

    –brh

    • elysianfield July 28, 2016 at 11:37 am #

      BRH,
      The BBC just reported, this AM, that Angela Merkel just “doubled-down” on Germany’s immigration policy…stating that there will be NO change in immigration as a result of recent…issues.

      How do they like it now? Apparently, a lot….

  118. BackRowHeckler July 28, 2016 at 7:10 am #

    Somebody above mentioned Indian Point nuclear reactor, possible trouble there … one of our young family members works in Manhattan (for an energy company), texted me, ‘squadron of black helicopters headed north up the Hudson River’. At first I thought he was busting my balls, as he is wont to do, as in “black helicopters are coming, put on your tinfoil hat”.

    But no, it was not a joke, helos were headed north, and in hurry. Nothing on the news about trouble a Indian Point, tho.

    brh

    • Thinkgloballyactlocally July 28, 2016 at 8:17 am #

      I put on my tinfoil cap anyway, just in case…..

    • ozone July 28, 2016 at 8:45 am #

      BRH,
      What a whimpering way for us in this region to go out, eh? …As per usual, as victims of hubris and the striving for profit above common sense and a modicum of safe practices. Fucking pathetic.

      • BackRowHeckler July 28, 2016 at 9:11 am #

        Oz, you mean being cooked in a meltdown?

        brh

        • ozone July 28, 2016 at 12:10 pm #

          Yep.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:11 am #

            Any more Justifications for Resignation & Defeat under development?

          • ozone July 29, 2016 at 11:07 am #

            Ah, Dannyboy, you have made the self-damning mistake of assuming that facing dangers, both real and eminently possible, results in resignation and defeat. For some of us [non-followers], it’s quite the opposite; it’s a spur to action.
            Try to remember that in future…

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:40 pm #

            ozone, Man of Action, what action is this you speak of?

          • ozone July 30, 2016 at 1:26 pm #

            dannyboy “wants to know”. Too bad; speculation is the root of all confusion. I intend for that to remain so…

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:22 pm #

            so you got nuttin.

    • stelmosfire July 28, 2016 at 11:34 am #

      Hey Marlin, A flock of CH-47’s ( Chinooks} flew over my house yesterday headed WNW, I never see those double rotor-ed monsters around here. I don’t have a clue as to why. Just sayin’

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:17 am #

      “Somebody above mentioned Indian Point nuclear reactor, possible trouble there … one of our young family members works in Manhattan (for an energy company), texted me, ‘squadron of black helicopters headed north up the Hudson River’. At first I thought he was busting my balls, as he is wont to do, as in “black helicopters are coming, put on your tinfoil hat”.

      But no, it was not a joke, helos were headed north, and in hurry. Nothing on the news about trouble a Indian Point, tho.” BRH

      I love the smell of Rumor & Gossip on CFN!

      R & G on CFN!

  119. BackRowHeckler July 28, 2016 at 8:31 am #

    Manhattanite ‘Danny Boy’ correct me if I’m wrong, but Indian River Nuclear Power Plant is up in Washington Irving country, those ancient, isolated Dutch villages north of NYC, where the headless horseman rode, and Rip Van Winkle returned after his 20 year nap.

    brh

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:18 am #

      If you read it in “Rip Van Winkle” it must be true.

  120. ozone July 28, 2016 at 9:09 am #

    Although Jeffery St. Clair is guilty of the self-destructive sins of wishful thinking and piteous projection (*multiple* counts), this bullet-point coverage of the DNC’s hallucinatory and hypocritical clown-show and douche-fest is quite funny:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/28/night-of-the-hollow-men-notes-from-the-democratic-convention/

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  121. volodya July 28, 2016 at 10:26 am #

    Dannyboy, Dannyboy,

    Sadly you bought into the Democratic party spin. Maybe you’re a Democrat partisan. No matter what your motives are, nobody with a stitch of sense would buy into that brand of nonsense. See, these are just efforts to deflect from Hillary’s monumental folly if not outright criminality.

    No, sadder still, owing to Hillary’s flagrant disregard for the law and the national interest and any semblance of common sense, the Russians likely have a complete record of Hillary’s State Dept emails. Most unfortunate.

    Now, given that the contents of those deleted emails are as yet unknown, maybe the Russians will be good enough to share them. Doesn’t hurt to ask. Which is what Trump did. No point asking Hillary.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:21 am #

      volodya,

      You lost me at “No matter what your motives are, nobody with a stitch of sense would buy into that brand of nonsense. ”

      not convincing enough

  122. Q. Shtik July 28, 2016 at 10:54 am #

    Strange, a Janos comment was removed here. How does that happen? How was it removed? – Frankiti

    Removed by the Moderator. – dannyboy

    =================

    Janos, please settle this. Was one of your comments removed by our host?

    This would not be his usual MO. Usually he would reprimand a commenter publicly for making a scurrilous remark or, at minimum, would email him a warning (as he did me for playing the self-appointed school marm) and then remove the offensive comment.

    • volodya July 28, 2016 at 11:23 am #

      Maybe it was a glitch.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:43 pm #

      Can’t remember in this case. It does happen if that’s the question. Therefore since it does happen, it can be done. I’m reasoning inductively here. Deduction wouldn’t work here since just because it can be done doesn’t mean that it is done.

      Of course, maybe it’s something else. That’s the weakness of induction apart from testing – the complete scientific method. Maybe posts just disappear apart from any moderators or moderation. Maybe some force or higher Kosher authority imposes its Will occasionally. Or maybe it’s just arbitrary. As Stephen King said, the Past is being eaten by the Langoliers. Someone has to. You can’t just let thing linger because that would interfere with the living present, cluttering it up to the point of toxicity. So maybe a hungry Langolier saw a nice treat and ate it ahead of schedule. They have very sharp teeth….

      • Frankiti July 28, 2016 at 2:03 pm #

        You accused me of being a mass murdering atheist, does that ring a bell?

        • Frankiti July 28, 2016 at 2:05 pm #

          well, an advocate of the former..

          • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 2:17 pm #

            What? You openly rejoice at the death of the religious. Your only selling point is that at least you seem fair about it and want all of them killed from any and all religions.

            “It’s promise was whispered in the first day s of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: “Ye shall be as gods.” It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision…The Communist Vision is a vision of Man without God.”

            Whitaker Chambers, “Witness”

            Maybe you are a very religious man after all.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 3:40 pm #

      More than one, apparently. Danny’s doing no doubt.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:04 am #

        So there IS a Jewish Conspiracy!

  123. volodya July 28, 2016 at 11:12 am #

    Elysianfield, the way I see it there’s a couple possibilities. One is that the FBI already have the 30,000 “deleted” emails and are sitting on them.

    Now, I know what you’re thinking, these Virginia farm boys aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer and so how long can they expect to keep them under wraps before some hacker gets them or some idealistic young turk inside FBI ranks dumps them out?

    I know what you’re asking and I know you’ve already fished out the answer, the FBI would be sitting on them because they’re festering with all manner of national security timebombs. To release them would raise a lot of consternation and questions like why take a pass on recommending prosecution of Hillary?

    You and I know the answer, the decision was entirely political. In a Democratic presidency the administration of justice is blind except to partisan considerations. So the way the FBI sees it, they’ll sit on the emails, and if push comes to shove, they really will try to erase them. But for now they take their chances and sit on them.

    As to the possibility that the Russians have them and are waiting for an opportune moment to release them, well, let’s hold our horses. Let’s not assume that the Russian calculation results in ruining Hillary’s presidency or her chances in the election. Maybe it’s as yet unknown to the US government what state or non-state actor has those emails and maybe the Russians would like to keep it that way for their own nefarious purposes. We don’t know what decision process Putin and his boys ran through. Maybe they deem Hillary so boundlessly boneheaded that they WANT a President H R Clinton.

    As to your suggestion that the FBI should gratefully accept help, yes they should. Hence the Donald’s asking for help, and yes, the stakes are such that an honorarium would be in order.

    And, as to your suggestion of “the” Ukraine or Syria, well, why not? The US would be “giving up” things it has no hold on anyway.

    • elysianfield July 28, 2016 at 12:24 pm #

      V,
      I think that the FBI, NSA, and certain other governmental entities are, of course, in possession of the Emails in question. Having said they don’t have possession requires a 3rd party’s “intervention”…Not a state player such as Russia, but an Assange-type cut-out, of sorts.

      Will the whored-up news media fully document any releases? I have doubts. Consider Roger Ailes leaving Fox…this puts the only right of center reportage in turmoil…maybe a sea change to more politically correct reporting? RT, which would normally step up, may have been neutralized because of the Russian/Putin comments…CCTV has, currently, little viewership, and even lesser credibility (They ARE Godless Commies, you know).

      I am eagerly awaiting the Trump/Clinton debates…Very High Drama…a veritable cage-match to the death. No rules. If Clinton has an ounce of sense, she will refuse the debates. Trump knows the score, and he will be in his most “New York” rude and ruthless mode. Unsayable things will be said…Cazart!

      Ukraine and Syria…why not, indeed!

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:04 am #

        Coauthoring a political thriller?

        or is it Science Fiction?

        • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 4:27 pm #

          Dannyboy,
          It is my most fervent wish that the transcript of the upcoming debates will read like cheap, pulp fiction…poorly written, violent, prurient, and deserving of a Bullwer-Lytton award….

      • sprawlcapital July 29, 2016 at 12:07 pm #

        Elysian:
        Unsayable things will be said…
        =======================
        I hope he is able to stay calm, to stay focused, and then is able to say these things in complete sentences.

        • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 4:39 pm #

          “I hope he is able to stay calm, to stay focused, and then is able to say these things in complete sentences.”

          Sprawl,
          I think the election may depend upon the utter destruction of what is left of Clinton’s reputation…Sturm und Drung. If Trump’s invective requires the monosyllabic as well as poor sentence structure, broken English, and in a Artie Johnson fake-German accent, so be it. Consider Trump’s demographic. Revolutionary theatre….

  124. FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 11:43 am #

    The Kremlin is polite and cautious, and its “oppression” is not too oppressive.

    The security agencies are driven into the legal field and balance each other, while work on purifying their cadres.

    The capital’s elite groups are delicately placed one against the other – and allow the whole structure to keep the balance.

    Regional elite periodically are being pulled to the federal level, thus strengthening the centralism of the ruling class.

    Jail time is only for those who committed serious crimes. Putin does not allow the armchair political wars to escalate into repressions.

    Putin, the most demonized head of Russia since the days of Stalin, no matter how much pressure from the outside, is the most humane ruler in a very long line of Russian Tsars, General Secretaries and Presidents.

    Sometime in the future, Putin’s bloodless method of building the state management system for country that had almost drowned in rebellion, thievery, nihilism and separatism, will be taught in universities.

    • FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 11:50 am #

      In 2002, Putin on the request of NATO negotiated a settlement of a conflict between India and Pakistan that almost went nuclear.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_standoff

    • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 1:48 pm #

      100% true. Look how merciful he was to Pussy Riot, the demonic girls who really deserved years of hard labor in Siberia. When will people begin to appreciate this man’s compassion and wisdom? Or will they notice them and mistake them for weakness? A fatal mistake, perhaps for the whole world.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:05 am #

        And I guess you found this out when googling “pussy”?

        • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 2:28 pm #

          Jews control the Porn Industry.

          • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 3:23 pm #

            Non sequitur. But potentially useful as a non-denial.

          • JimInFlorida July 29, 2016 at 7:31 pm #

            Jews monopolize the Seven Deadly Sins industries.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:44 pm #

            JIMBO, more Googled Truth?

            Aside to Kunstler: you provide the forum for this to go on. I don’t believe one worD of the “free speech” rationale, as you have, in the past, explained TO ME why you allow this to continue.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:51 pm #

            Janos,

            So you are knowingly making us rich with your porning. That’s the sickest case I ever heard.

            “Hate ’em, love ’em

            Stroke” – J

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 8:21 am #

            Dan, a hog amongst his kind sees no filth or anything out of order.

            Thus, you are willfully blind to the unmentionables who dominate America’s institutions of deviancy i.e. porn, gambling, pro-sports franchises, loansharking, the Israeli lobby, etc.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 11:46 am #

            “hog”

            that leaves me out.

  125. volodya July 28, 2016 at 11:50 am #

    The Counterpunch story was hilarious. That Hunter Thompson breakfast had enough to keep me going for three days. Some “pockets” my ass.

    Delusion is maladaptive. First comes the political unrest what with Bernie and Trump. No doubt the DemoRepublicrats will ignore it. And then the upheaval surely follows with hard-men with a liking for arm-bands leading it. For all this blather about Trumpian fascism, let’s just say these ninnies that blather on about it don’t know from fascism.

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    • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 3:34 pm #

      “Delusion is maladaptive.”

      Not necessarily. Shared delusions can be a useful in-group marker; hence religion.

      “A delusion has been defined as a fixed false belief that the social group as a whole does not share. What makes someone ‘ill’ is the failure to persuade others of the truth of the belief. All the prophet is doing is asking potential converts to exchange one arbitrary belief system for another. Bigelow noted that ‘each group requires something intimate, unique to itself, around which its members can cohere. Irrational beliefs serve this purpose far better than rational ones: they are not only easier to produce, but also less likely to be confused with enemy beliefs.’ It is the arbitrary character of the new belief system, like the arbitrary shapes and colors of a flag, that make it such a good ‘in-group marker.'”

      — Jay R. Feierman, The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion

  126. volodya July 28, 2016 at 1:18 pm #

    Damas y caballeros,

    Con respecto a Back Row Heckler’s post about Mohammed telling the preening French what’s what, there’s a scene in the Godfather part 2 where Michael Corleone recounts witnessing the suicide of a Cuban revolutionary who blew himself up and took a police captain with him.

    Said Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?

    Replied Michael: They can win.

    Facing the jihadist are the flaccid French, the self-loathing Germans, the cafe layabout Greeks, the preening mama’s boy Italians. And the others in the mess of the EU, too numerous to mention but variously incompetent, lazy, stupid, corrupt, preyed upon by vampiric oligarchs. None of them remotely with the vim and vigor to counter what’s facing them.

    Can they win? What do you think? Of course they can win. Hard to lose given the – cough – opposition, if you can call it that. Hard to contemplate an act like opening immigration floodgates without concluding that it was in cahoots with the worst elements in that burning garbage dump of Middle Eastern Islamic despotism.

    Is Islam a religion of peace? Or a psychotic death cult? What do you think? What does it matter? What matters is this: can they win?

    What about on this side of the pond? As they said over on the ArchDruid site a while back, Islam could end up in Europe as the religion of the downtrodden and dispossessed. As we’ve been saying for a while now, given that the Oligarchs and their bi-coastal clerisy threw overboard large areas of the US and hearing the dismissive (at best) rhetoric coming from the Democrats towards those people that got thrown overboard, I wouldn’t underestimate Islam here even if gets its spark as a stick-in-the-eye of Oligarchs and their liberal elite helpers.

    In my view, change tends to be gradual and then tumultuous and violent. So here’s a prediction, given the violent tendencies of youngsters subscribing to that religion, there will be blood. That’s not much of a prediction as we’re seeing blood now, quite a lot of it, all over the world. But Islam is coming here and, to mark its coming, there’s a steady recurrence of violent acts. I think that on this side of the world, it will be the liberals that tout multi-culturalism that will be the ones that bear the brunt, liberal multi-cultis being most averse to the religious absolutism of the true believer. The true believer knows this. The multi-cultis will try to shape-shift to save their sorry asses, they will proclaim solidarity and tolerance. They will talk about mutual accommodation, to live and let live. But they won’t be in a position to negotiate terms. And the true believer won’t be fooled. And besides, he will ask himself why does he need “tolerance” from anyone, least of all from those godless degenerates?

    To multi-culti liberal elites who encourage and empower all of this, who say it’s for the most high-minded of motives and who think they can stand above the mayhem: sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

    • elysianfield July 28, 2016 at 3:39 pm #

      ” can they win?

      What about on this side of the pond? As they said over on the ArchDruid site a while back, Islam could end up in Europe as the religion of the downtrodden and dispossessed.

      You know that God loves the poor, downtrodden and dispossessed, as he made so many of them….

  127. stelmosfire July 28, 2016 at 1:55 pm #

    So here I am bustin’ my ba##s and these dual engine Gulfstreams are lifting off all day long. Who the heck is in these things? I have been in them to pick up old constipated farts from a long distance trip. I’m talkin’ supreme leather seats, big screen TV’s, super hot hostesses, wine the works. Yea , maybe I’m jealous. Then they preach about global warming ( Which I believe to be accelerating) but come on! The common man is on the ground with a shovel and a hammer!

    http://www.gulfstream.com/product-support/service-centers/westfield

    • volodya July 28, 2016 at 2:19 pm #

      The Archdruid just wrote a blogpost about this very problem, wealthy elites that yammer on and on about global warming, flying to conferences about global warming, never for one minute personally doing anything to counter global warming. Give up the personal jet? Stop flying? Give up the SUV? Not on your life. Sacrifice is for little people.

      • pequiste July 28, 2016 at 3:06 pm #

        And the shortage will be divided among the peasants.

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:07 am #

          Dibs on 1 Lear Jet and 2 SUVs.

    • BackRowHeckler July 28, 2016 at 6:47 pm #

      Stelmos its not only lefty elites in that light aircraft. There are businessmen, govt types, and people who just like to fly. Let ’em fly! They build those small planes right here in the USA, out in Wichita. One thing I’ve learned is not to be envious of people who have more then I do. I think you have a pretty good life and a lot to be thankful for.

      brh

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:08 am #

        Wise and sage advice.

        Practical too.

      • stelmosfire July 29, 2016 at 3:14 pm #

        Noted BRH, I actually have it dick## compared to 90% of the poor SOB’s in the world, IE: clean water, electricity, fresh food, etc. but still it pisses me off when these $50,000,000.00 jets fly over everyday all day long headed west to LA or Jackson Hole burning 14,000 lbs of JP-8 with 4 to10 passengers. Thanks for your concern .01% ers.

        http://www.gulfstream.com/aircraft/gulfstream-g280

  128. FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 1:56 pm #

    Treaty with Russia on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters

    Russia is obligated by law to turn over every single piece of Clinton’s Email to US authorities based on the 1999 treaty between US and Russia:

    https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/106th-congress/22/document-text?overview=closed

    Guess who signed it from US? One William J. Clinton

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:09 am #

      Prescient

      Give the guy some credit.

  129. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 2:11 pm #

    “Then they preach about global warming ( Which I believe to be accelerating) but come on! ” –StElmosFire

    You, StElmosFire, and every major political party, in every country on earth, believe global warming is real. Even North Korea has a plan to mitigate the effects of global warming.

    Only one major political party in the entire world, the USA Republican Party led by Donald Trump, thinks global warming is a “hoax”.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:10 am #

      mut be then.

      awaiting tweet

  130. volodya July 28, 2016 at 2:36 pm #

    This just in: Bernie fucks off to sit in Senate as an independent and not a Demorepublicrat.

    Also: Jill Stein offers to stand aside in favor of Bernie. Maybe Bernie ought to consider this. It may sabotage the Democrat efforts enough to elect Trump. Would that be a GOOD thing? Well, with a President Trump we would laugh until we cry. In any case we won’t have to suffer through the phony baloney-ism of a “progressive” in the White House.

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    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:15 am #

      (1) “Well, with a President Trump we would laugh until we cry.”
      (2) “In any case we won’t have to suffer through the phony baloney-ism of a “progressive” in the White House.”

      I guess you rank avoiding phony progressivism over CRYING.

      This is the common thread here.

      Just be careful what you wish for.

    • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 3:49 pm #

      Sanders won’t consider it. Like most, he understands that lesser-of-two-evils banality is a remorseless fact of life under the American electoral system. I doubt that he likes it, but he has made up his mind not to kick against the pricks any further for this election cycle, instead contenting himself with having forced the Clintonite Democrat establishment to make concessionary noises toward their left.

  131. FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 3:31 pm #

    Mutiny on the knees

    Bernie Sanders has already been compared with Galileo Galilei, renouncing the Earth’s rotation.

    And Hillary openly enjoys the humiliation of the old man, as she was all over Obama as her property after his speech. Things reached the point that show the tears of emotion, crying Bernie Sanders and his brother, declaring the results of voting, when his supporters left the convention after he has passed their votes without their consent to Hillary Clinton.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdlkCwZR2c

    • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 3:38 pm #

      And his fat fool of a wife gushed with pride as Bernie flushed his idealism down the drain, repudiating his deepest self, his archetype – not to mention his life work and his young followers – some of whom will be scarred for life with tattoos of his face.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:17 am #

        Is this the Bash the People More Successful Than I Club meeting?

        • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 3:56 pm #

          The more authoritarian the speaker, the more that contempt for their fellow man becomes a given. Kiss up, kick down, but it’s mostly down, particularly with respect to women, minorities, non-conforming people generally. Definitely fellate the hard man, though, whoever that is.

  132. capt spaulding July 28, 2016 at 3:35 pm #

    People are still fighting over left & right. What you need to realize is that we live in a system which is being called inverted totalitarianism. It’s a system where corporate power has seized all of the levers of control. There’s no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil, or Raytheon. All you can hope for is a mass realization by the voters of what the truth really is. Most of these people are still arguing about conservative issues vs. liberal issues, when the real problem is that both sides are getting the shit kicked out of them by the corporations who currently rule the political spectrum. Time to wake up folks. Try to get past all of the fluff & smoke, and see what the powers that be are doing to you. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

    • pequiste July 28, 2016 at 3:50 pm #

      I salute you Captain S., for giving a concise assessment of the real situation – Corporatocracy/Plutocracy/Oligarchy – and where we all fit into the picture.

      We don’t, other than as workers on the global plantation.

      The folks in charge like it just fine that Bill and Hillary, Barry O., Dubya and Dad, and the rest of the marionettes are attached very well by their strings.

      This is the reason that so many of the “establishment ” are against Trump….even Pope Frankie.

      I think Trump frightens the Evil-fuckers-in-charge that much:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7I92r9GqUw

      • wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 4:34 pm #

        “The folks in charge like it just fine that Bill and Hillary, Barry O., Dubya and Dad, and the rest of the marionettes are attached very well by their strings.” –pequiste

        When you make reference to invisible nameless “folks in charge”, and refer to the rest of us as “marionettes,” you have gone into religious territory. It seems you are suggesting we are powerless. Nothing can be done against the gigantic totalitarian “them” who manipulate us with their marionette strings.

        It is easy to be paranoid. It is easy to boo. It is easy to be cynical and sarcastic. It is easy to feel manipulated and powerless. What is your practical solution?

        Do you have any practical suggestions for action to address global warming? I would suggest, as a first step, to vote for someone who recognizes global warming exists. Denying science, as Trump does, is folly.

        • pequiste July 28, 2016 at 6:05 pm #

          PAY ATTENTION!

          Regarding “evil-fuckers-in-charge” being nameless and invisible, you have not read Capt. Spaulding’s comment above, or my remarks since the inception of my participation here at CFN.

          The “marionettes” are the agents – politicians – frontmen/women – who act on behalf of the real power.

          The Kleptocrat/Oligarch/Corporatist powers are those who, as good Spaulding points out, and have many other “awake” persons, include, at the level just above the “marionettes” giant organisms in finance, media, government(s) and business. They wield enormous influence. Their agents work for them. Hillary Clinton’s donor list will provide insight as to who they are.

          Businesses in the Military Industrial Complex stand on their own as being gargantuan, powerful forces that perpetuate the system for their own glorification. Watch Eisenhower’s farewell speech:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
          (begining 1:39 is the most critical piece of advice)

          Then comes the hidden-in-plain-sight power of the worlds ultimate taskmasters: Central bankers and the demons who run that program. Their names are legendary and they command the dictator and king, oligarch and president, potentate and prime minister. Rockefeller and Rothschild are two of the most visible arms of the few families that OWN much of the world and the serfs who people it.

          So don’t be confused about who is who and what is what.

          I know that I know very very little about the mechanics of power, but sure as water is wet and fire will burn things, the evil power exists and has a dastardly plan for most of us.

          But I am not all cynic. Per your request: three practical non-lethal humane Global problem solutions at this point would include:

          – World Population Moratorium. Three generation cycle reduction of Earth population to 2-3 billions.

          – Global refuse reduction programme: reducing the effluent of human activity by minimum of 80%.

          – Worldwide fishing reduction of at least 75% of current catch. Allow the oceans food chains to be restored. It is unsure that the oceans can be saved from over-fishing at this point in time.

          Those are three areas that would change the world for the better, In my opinion.

          The United Nations, U.S. COngress, and Queen Elizabeth and the British Parliament will have non of it. No one on the payroll of the evil-fuckers in charge will have it done “democratically” or fairly.

          Fairplay is for suckers.

          The peoples of Earth have more pressing issues to worry about than with climate change: poisoning of the atmosphere (what are they spraying;) global jihad; nuclear war; death of the oceans…..and of course the Final Programme of the Evil Ones.

          See the Georgia Guidestones for the plan. Coming soon to your city or town.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:22 am #

            “Final Programme of the Evil Ones”

            I saw that Episode of Penny Dreadful. Quit taking credit.

    • wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 4:15 pm #

      “Time to wake up folks. Try to get past all of the fluff & smoke, and see what the powers that be are doing to you.” –Capt. Spaulding

      If Trump is elect, we will follow the way Poland has gone, into a neofascism. Workers will suffer. Trump opposes unions, workplace democracy, minimum wage, etc. If Trump is elected there will be more deindustrialization of the country. Then, in the name of austerity, Trump will destroy public institutions, education, public broadcasting and the political system.

      Equating Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump is insane. Donald Trump represents a systematic undermining that has occurred in the United States for years with regard to inequality of income and wealth and political power. If Trump is elected, there are irrevocable negative changes that will happen in the United States, including four Trump appointments to the Supreme Court.

      We have to be strategic, to look at the long term. We’ve got to understand that Bernie Sanders brought us much further along than we were before the Sanders campaign.

      We owe a lot to Bernie Sanders, his courage, his integrity, his power, the fact that most people under 30 voted for Bernie Sanders, more people than voted for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton together under the age of 30.

      We are building a progressive movement in this country, very successfully making strides. But over the next four years, I don’t want Donald Trump to irretrievably make it difficult, if not impossible, for us to move forward with that progressive movement.

      So, here is the pivot Q predicted: I am abandoning Jill Stein and I will vote for Hillary Clinton, the imperfect, but sane, lesser of two evils. I have accepted political reality.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 6:01 pm #

        …and I will be a good German for as long as it lasts

        Denazification
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

      • Q. Shtik July 28, 2016 at 9:49 pm #

        So, here is the pivot Q predicted: I am abandoning Jill Stein and I will vote for Hillary Clinton, the imperfect, but sane, lesser of two evils. I have accepted political reality. – wpa

        ===============

        BINGO !!

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:24 am #

          What’s the alternative?

          Moar Trump Towers?

          Moar Trump Universities?

    • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 4:01 pm #

      capt spaulding: You’ve been reading your Chris Hedges (and/or Sheldon Wolin). Good man.

  133. FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 3:56 pm #

    Would that be a GOOD thing? == Volodya

    There is no easy answer to that question: America awaits painful restructuring no matter who’ll be in the White House.

    Trump sincerely believes that he could make the right and very tough choices and Nation could succeed again – in 15 – 20 years.

    Hillary will go for the “final solution” – she’s not even planning for any painful and necessary economic reforms – pure brute force in its ultimate agony in the last effort to keep the world domination.

  134. Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 4:04 pm #

    The amalgamation of the races is not only unnatural, but is always productive of deplorable results. Our daily observation shows us, that the offspring of these unnatural connections are generally sickly and effeminate, and that they are inferior in physical development and strength, to the full-blood of either race. It is sometimes urged that such marriages should be encouraged, for the purpose of elevating the inferior race. The reply is, that such connections never elevate the inferior race to the position of the superior, but they bring down the superior to that of the inferior. They are productive of evil, and evil only, without any corresponding good. – Scott v. State, 39 Ga 321, 323 (1869)

    I don’t agree with all of this. Mulattoes are often quite strong and healthy. They might not make out so good when it comes to finding compatible organ donors though. But in the main, the good judge is correct. These people can’t help us, only hurt.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:26 am #

      Interesting Summer Reading List

  135. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 4:49 pm #

    Bloomberg, a political independent, bashed Trump, a fellow New York billionaire businessman.

    Here are seven of some of Bloomberg’s toughest shots:

    1. “I’m a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know a con when we see one.”

    2. “Throughout his career, Trump has left behind a well-documented record of bankruptcies, thousands of lawsuits, angry shareholders and contractors who feel cheated, and disillusioned customers who feel ripped off.”

    3. “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy.”

    4. “I know what it’s like to have neither party represent my views or values … Whatever our disagreements might be, I’ve come here to say we must put them aside for the good of our country and we must unite around the candidate who can defeat a dangerous demagogue.”

    5. “He says he wants to deport 11 million undocumented people, but he seems to have no problem in hiring them. What’d I miss here?”

    6. “The bottom line is Trump is a risky, reckless and radical choice, and we can’t afford to make that choice.”

    7. “I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump’s business plan is a disaster in the making.”

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    • JimInFlorida July 28, 2016 at 6:42 pm #

      Between Trump and Hillary, there are only two acceptable outcomes.

      Obama’s handlers must fabricate a real crisis that allows Congress the Emergency Powers to appoint Joe Biden as POTUS when Obama’s time is up. Biden, such as he is, doesn’t create the kind of mass anxiety that Hillary or Trump will generate. Biden is a middle of the road idiot but, not a Psycho Harpy or Hypocrite.

      Or, the Pentagon will have to stage a formal coup d’etat and then invoke Continuity of Government procedures if Hillary or Trump actually try to do what their billionaire handlers want.

      Obama and Hillary have cleaned out all legitimate high level officers in the Pentagon but, there’s always the chance that they might have their “Road to Damascus” conversion and collectively realize that Hillary or Trump will do something worthy of arrest or EXECUTION on the spot.

      In 1989, the Romanian Army was sent to quell an uprising against the Communist dictator Ceausescu. It didn’t take long for the Romanian Army to realize who the real enemy was! They turned their tanks around, headed to Bucharest, seized Nicolae and his wife AND EXECUTED THEM BY FIRING SQUAD! They were executed for crimes that were only a TINY FRACTION of what the Bush and Clinton Crime Syndicates have gotten away with! Nicolae Ceausescu was actually a competent administrator. Can the same be said for any POTUS since Eisenhower?

      Until the U.S. Armed Forces does the same thing on behalf of We Teh Serfs, they aren’t fit to lick the boots of the Romanian Army who actually honored their oaths to serve and protect The People.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 11:35 pm #

        Nobody would even talk to Joe Biden in Moscow after he, in 2011, gave personal guarantees to then-President Medvedev that US would abstain from bombing in Libya to persuade Medvedev not to veto Libyan resolution in the Security Council.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 12:07 am #

          Trump said Putin called Obama the N word. This is getting great. I feel I’m already in the Fox Fire Republic doing ape imitations during the rallies.

          http://www.dailystormer.com/hahaha-trump-says-putin-called-obama-the-n-word/

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:28 am #

            Interesting Summer Reading list.

        • JimInFlorida July 29, 2016 at 7:44 am #

          You are correct, Finca. However, I am looking at We Teh Sheep who have ZERO political memory of such things. Who can doubt that charge, considering that 30 years of criminal malfeasance by Hillary Rodan and Trump have been completely forgotten in the mass mind of Amerika? AT BEST, We Teh Sheep are permitted to vote for the propaganda we like.

          Joe Biden has suffered no damage from the media, the Sheep barely know he exists, and he’s photogenic. He would be acceptable to a population in great anxiety over the two existing candidates, whose sins are known and more sins manifesting daily. Whatever Biden is guilty of won’t be exposed to the Sheep who are already suffering mass toxic shock. If TPTB aren’t steering us in a Hegelian course towards Congressional appointment of a POTUS, then some other Power is doing it.

          The so-called democratic election process for the POTUS has completely lost all credibility. The idea of a fake Emergency Crisis that takes the corrupt election process away from the guilty parties, and dumps it on a body that has SOME accountability to the Sheople, would be appealing at this time.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:28 am #

            Can you serialize this for a strip?

    • Q. Shtik July 28, 2016 at 9:39 pm #

      Bloomberg is only saying these things because Trump is 6’2″ while he (Bloomberg) is only 5’8″……………. in platforms.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:29 am #

        Bloomberg is Wealthy and Trump not-so-much, you mean?

  136. BackRowHeckler July 28, 2016 at 6:40 pm #

    Somebody above mentioned Hunter S Thompson. I wish he was still with us; the guy would have a field day with this 2016 election cycle.

    brh

      • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 4:14 pm #

        Hooray! And good for the U.S. Navy.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:31 am #

      Matt Tabbai has picked up his mantle over at Rolling Stone Magazine.

      • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 4:56 pm #

        Dannyboy,
        Tiabbi carry HST’s mantle? He couldn’t carry his jock-strap….

        • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:28 pm #

          I defer to your experience in this. I have no experience carrying others’ jockstraps.

          • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 8:44 pm #

            Dannyboy,
            Never too late to learn…consider it another skill-set.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:08 pm #

            Here’s mine. Practice.

        • Elrond Hubbard July 31, 2016 at 7:19 pm #

          Now, boys, there’s no need for a penis-measuring contest. Raoul Duke’s reputation rests at least as much on his wild-man ways as his actual journalism, and he killed himself in the end. Taibbi is more grounded, has a work ethic AND his way with words is beyond price — “vampire squid” has already secured his place in the pantheon, and there’s more where that came from.

  137. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 6:58 pm #

    I did not know Hillary worked undercover in one of her first jobs.

    Police officers that perform undercover work are among the hardest working, most capable and courageous in the law enforcement community.

    Every day of the Democratic convention there are so many speakers praising police, defending law enforcement, and emphasizing that blue lives matter. Then I learned about Hillary doing undercover work, so I guess it makes sense. Historically, Democrats have always supported police unions.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 28, 2016 at 7:21 pm #

      Now that Russia might have and release her emails, suddenly the Democrats all become super patriots, despite their complete lack of interest in our borders, history, and people heretofore; and despite Hillary’s criminal negligence that may have allowed them to obtain her emails to begin with.

      Crooked Hillary? Yes, and crooked Democratic Party. From such crooked wood, nothing solid, straight or sound can be built.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:46 am #

        This from a guy who has posted these things ON JUST THIS ONE ESSAY”

        (1) “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?” – Janos

        (2) “Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

        I’m way ahead now! – Janos

        A real Straight-up guy.

  138. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 7:55 pm #

    The GOP has done nothing to help the president and the country in the last 8 years, not a damn thing. Republicans have worked very hard to obstruct the country from going in the right direction, from stimulus for infrastructure to College Funds for Veterans … they have derailed everything by filibustering,

    The Republican-controlled Congress is the Do Nothing Congress.

    Now polls say 70% want the country to head in a direction that does not blame Obama and the Democrats. 70% do not want paralyzed government with filibusters or refusals to hold hearings, approve appointees, and do their jobs as mandated by the Constitution.

    Obama has a good approval rating compared to other presidents giving outgoing convention speeches:

    29% … Truman
    49% … Eisenhower
    51% … Reagan
    58% … Clinton
    33% … G.W. Bush
    50% … Obama

    Changing paralysis can happen if Democrats take the House, Senate, and White House in November.

    Instead of focusing on ISIS and terrorism, I think Hillary should give FDR’s speech, still relevant today, even more so after the Supreme Court “Citizens United” decision:

    ““We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

    “They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

    “Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

  139. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 8:02 pm #

    On Wednesday, Donald Trump angrily told reporters that he had no connection to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I have nothing to do with Putin,” he said. “I’ve never spoken to him. I don’t know anything about him other than he will respect me.”

    But those comments contradict what he said in 2014, when he spoke at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. During this appearance, he discussed US-Russian relations and claimed that he had talked to Putin during a recent visit to Moscow, where Trump held his Miss Universe pageant. Here’s what Trump told the Press Club audience:

    “So what I would do—as an example, I own Miss Universe, I was in Russia, I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success. The show was live from Moscow and we had tremendous success there and it was amazing, but to do well, you have to get the other side to respect you, and he does not respect our president, which is very sad.” –Donald Trump

    Does Trump know Putin or doesn’t he? Have they spoken or haven’t they? Trump may want to get his story straight.

    • Q. Shtik July 28, 2016 at 9:22 pm #

      But those comments contradict what he said in 2014,

      ============

      Do I contradict myself, well then I contradict myself… etc. etc.

      • wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 9:40 pm #

        Walt Whitman never ran for president. Walt Whitman never had his fingers on the nuclear button. Walt Whitman had poetic license to contradict himself without starting a world war.

  140. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 8:22 pm #

    “suddenly the Democrats all become super patriots, despite their complete lack of interest in our borders” –Janos

    President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president. The peak year for Border Patrol agents under Obama was in 2011 with 21,444 agents, the highest according to records going back to 1924.

    Obama signed a bill in 2010 in response to increased violence in Mexico that included $600 million in supplemental funds for enhanced border protection. Separately, an additional 1,200 National Guard troops were authorized for the the border.

    Under Obama, border apprehensions have fallen from their high points. Border apprehensions peaked at almost 1.7 million in 2000 under President Clinton, and apprehensions in 2011 were at the lowest level since 1970. The post-2008 declines are due to the recession and loss of jobs which had attracted unauthorized immigrants. Net illegal immigration from Mexico has fallen to zero or even fewer coming than leaving.

    The highest number of border patrol agents has been under Obama. The lowest number of illegal border crossing has been under Obama. Work on the fence and other border security improvements (a bipartisan effort) continued under Obama.

    Janos, how do you say with a straight face “complete lack of interest in our borders”? Do you have other criteria in mind? Or are you just reciting Republican talking points which are not supported by factual evidence? Sounds like you are a good Republican with little regard for facts or truth.

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    • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 12:09 am #

      I thought the emails weren’t a matter of national security? That’s what every damn D said last week. Now suddenly they are the height of national security. Trump has you wrapped around his little finger, using your crookedness against you.

      • Elrond Hubbard July 29, 2016 at 4:44 pm #

        And so wpa_ccc’s question (about how Janos can say with a straight face ‘complete lack of interest in our borders’) goes unanswered.

  141. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 9:56 pm #

    Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater girl. Her values are showing through in the DNC: American flags, praise of police, chants “USA, USA!”, faith, family, religion, law and order, security, death to ISIS, etc.

  142. messianicdruid July 28, 2016 at 9:59 pm #

    “In December 2011, Vladimir Putin came closer than he’s ever been to losing his hold on power. His decision that year to run for a third term as Russia’s President had inspired a massive protest movement against him. Demonstrations calling for him to resign were attracting hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Some of his closest allies had defected to the opposition, causing a split in the Kremlin elites, and Russian state media had begun to warn of a revolution in the making.

    At a crisis meeting with his advisers on Dec. 8 of that year, the Russian leader chose to lay the blame on one meddling foreign diplomat: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    “She set the tone for certain actors inside the country; she gave the signal,” Putin said of Clinton at the time, accusing her of ordering the opposition movement into action like some kind of revolutionary sleeper cell. “They heard this signal and, with the support of the U.S. State Department, started actively doing their work.”

    Five years later, the U.S. presidential elections may have given Putin his chance for getting even.”

    http://time.com/4422723/putin-russia-hillary-clinton/

    What goes around comes around, picking up speed.

    • wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 10:09 pm #

      “What goes around comes around, picking up speed.” –MD

      Agreed! 100%! Fasten your seat belts! We’re going for a wild ride!

      • sprawlcapital July 29, 2016 at 12:06 am #

        “What goes around comes around, picking up speed.” –MD
        ============================
        Great line Messianic; did you write it?

        • messianicdruid July 29, 2016 at 10:09 am #

          Only the ” picking up speed” part. lol

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:49 am #

            DOA not “picking up whatever.

          • sprawlcapital July 29, 2016 at 12:53 pm #

            Only the ” picking up speed” part. lol
            ============================
            Messianic–

            I’ve heard “what goes around comes around” since at least the 1970s. It’s the “picking up speed” that I was referring to.

            Good work!

    • FincaInTheMountains July 28, 2016 at 11:22 pm #

      I concur, but I would still prefer that the first strike of the war that you so enthusiastically propagating to hit Riyadh and only then after a couple of hours New York

      • JimInFlorida July 29, 2016 at 9:58 am #

        Slowly but surely, my recommendation that Russia visit the horrors of war DIRECTLY upon the billionaires, is being accepted as the only solution.

        The global ZOG Matrix exists entirely for the Top 1% and, the core of the tumor is the billionaire class. The only way to stop the momentum towards WW3 is for Putin to be able to GUARANTEE that the billionaires WILL PAY WITH THEIR LIVES. Either preemptively, if the right crisis demands it, or, as the shooting starts. A few billionaires will bend over backwards to stop WW3, just to save their own hides. But, the vast majority will push forward because they can’t help it. Death is the only cure for a billionaire.

        Kill the billionaires or billions will die. It’s just that simple.

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:53 am #

          You and Finc promoting a nuclear strike on NYC?

          You are beautiful people.

          Also, very deserving of each other.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 2:25 pm #

            Danny is Odion. Finc is Tedion.

          • JimInFlorida July 29, 2016 at 4:39 pm #

            Dan, I never suggests wholesale bombing of NYC. I was very specific in extermination of the billionaire class and gave the reasons why. In the recent past CFN forums, I have illustrated the perfect metaphor of the ZOG-NWO.

            Putin will have to create and dispatch an assassination team whose sole mission is to find, shadow, and, when the time is right, purge the world of this cancerous class.

            NYC is a cancerous tumor on the world but, I would never recommend mass murder just to kill a hundred billionaires who might be living there. NYC can be cleaned up with other means.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:54 pm #

            “Odion”. “Tedion”. – J

            Janos, is there even a sliver of reality that you can grasp on?

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:11 pm #

            Jimbo,

            The real irony here is that most of those who made our money in NYC the old fashioned way (derivatives, defaul swaps, extortion) know Trump’s Con. Bloomberg even went public with the dirty secret. Trump is bent. Many people I know made lots of money on his scam.

            Now he’s scamming a very large group of yous. Same man, same scam.

            Don’t say nobody tried to tell you.

        • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 5:04 pm #

          “Kill the billionaires or billions will die. It’s just that simple.”

          Jim,
          I THANK GOD that I dodged that bullet…almost won the MegaMillions a few months ago when it was worth almost one billion…missed it by just five numbers….

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 7:22 pm #

            The average lottery winner will just blow it on consumer goodies and maybe park a bunch of it in the stock market. The idea of buying political access would not come across their imagination.

            The typical billionaire has a vast network of cronies and politicians at his beck and call. Plus, the billionaire has necessarily sold himself out to others to help him keep his ill-gotten gain. That is what makes him dangerous and not the lottery winner.

          • messianicdruid July 30, 2016 at 8:29 pm #

            My wife would spend her half as you say. I would put mine in silver, if I could buy that much, and the system would implode in months. If every American would buy 1 ounce that would work too.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 11:15 am #

            “If every American would buy 1 ounce…Wall Street would make it worthless.

    • JimInFlorida July 29, 2016 at 7:25 pm #

      If this is true, then Putin has exhausted his political capital. If he is unable to run for a 3rd term, then the only man fit to run Russia at this point would be Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (GAZ). The time has come for GAZ to be Russian President.

      GAZ would keep all the gains made by Putin and restore the best elements of the Soviet-era. GAZ would build new alliances among the disaffected of ZOG-NATO. I could see Ukraine’s eastern Oblasts break away to join Russia. I can see the old Warsaw Pact countries realize their error in aligning with Washington. A President Zyuganov would stand a good chance of getting them to come back.

      Poland may not side with Moscow today but, considering the Berlin-backed Muslim invasion, it would be in Poland’s best interest to find security with Moscow than be forced to take in these Muslim animals.

  143. Pucker July 28, 2016 at 10:28 pm #

    Chelsea’s wedding cost $2 million.

    Chelsea married a hedge fund dude.

    “Chelsea Clinton has an important role on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention: introducing her mother, Hillary Clinton, who will formally accept the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
    “This election is so important to me, because I’m now a mom,” Chelsea Clinton, who recently had her second child, told Today’s Matt Lauer. “And as proud as I am of my mom, this election to me is fundamentally about my children, about Charlotte and Aidan.

    “And I couldn’t imagine a better president for them,” the 36-year-old continued. “I couldn’t imagine a better grandmother for them, either. And so I think just standing there, thinking about my children and looking at my mom, I think it’s going to be overwhelming.”

  144. wpa_ccc July 28, 2016 at 11:43 pm #

    “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons.” –Hillary Clinton

    • Q. Shtik July 28, 2016 at 11:57 pm #

      We came, we saw, he died. – HRC

    • sprawlcapital July 28, 2016 at 11:59 pm #

      So many balloons dropped on the convention this evening. I have never seen so many balloons.

      But I am left wondering, how were so many balloons filled, and then tied? Was it by automation–can robots fill and tie balloons? Or were they filled and tied by low-wage girls in China and then shipped to the US in shipping containers? Or did illegal aliens working in Philadelphia for 25 cents an hour in sweat shop conditions fill all those red, white, and blue balloons?

      Some were jumbo-size, blue with white stars.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 12:14 am #

        Hillary, Chelsea, Huma, and the Ghost of Hill’s Mom blew them all up last night. Bill watched, giving encouragement.

        • sprawlcapital July 29, 2016 at 12:34 am #

          LOL!

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:55 am #

          You do know your balloons. Gotta’ give you credit.

          • sprawlcapital July 29, 2016 at 1:02 pm #

            Danny–
            If you could, you would award me a blue ribbon in a Write-Like-Hemingway competition. Admit it, Danny, you would.

            That’s what makes your presence here so valuable, Danny. You appreciate good writing.

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:55 pm #

            I do.

            I have been a fan of Kunstler’s writing since he was at P.S. 6.

  145. Pucker July 28, 2016 at 11:55 pm #

    Will Justin Bieber speak at the DNC convention?

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    • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 12:04 am #

      Naw, Justin is becoming a shit lord. He came out for Trump months ago. And declared himself a Christian last year. You leave him alone. He’s a fine though troubled young man.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:56 am #

        Justin Bieber is another person that Janos is doing better than.

    • wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 1:02 am #

      Other Republicans spoke at Hillary’s convention. There is a movement of Republicans for Hillary.

      Justin is Canadian and does not support Trump. Justin does not agree with Trump that women who seek abortions should be punished. Abortion is legal, and the Supreme Court has reaffirmed that twice.

  146. malthuss July 29, 2016 at 1:09 am #

    https://news.usni.org/2016/07/28/navy-name-ship-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk

    wonder how Harvey would feel about this?

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 10:57 am #

      Recognized.

  147. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 1:18 am #

    Post Hillary acceptance speech polls:

    86% … Positive

    12% … Negative

    “Donald Trump loses his cool at the slightest provocation.”

    “A war might be started, not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men – the ones moved by fear and pride.”

  148. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 1:46 am #

    I disagree with Hillary on guns.

    Hillary wants to keep the 2nd amendment, I want to repeal it. The 2nd amendment was based on arming slave patrol militias. It is no longer needed.

    http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery

    Hillary wants people and police to keep their guns, I want them all confiscated, all of them: pistols, rifles, semi-automatic assault weapons, muskets, grenade launchers, shotguns, automatic machine guns, revolvers, semi-automatic handguns, etc. … all of them. Hillary wants you to keep them. I want them purchased in a giant buy-back (of both guns and ammo) and melted down. No sports shooting, no hunting, no lethal firearms period for any reason.

  149. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 2:07 am #

    “The Second Amendment needs to be repealed because it is outdated, a threat to liberty and a suicide pact. When the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, there were no weapons remotely like the AR-15 assault rifle and many of the advances of modern weaponry were long from being invented or popularized.

    Sure, the Founders knew that the world evolved and that technology changed, but the weapons of today that are easily accessible are vastly different than anything that existed in 1791. When the Second Amendment was written, the Founders didn’t have to weigh the risks of one man killing 49 and injuring 53 all by himself. Now we do, and the risk-benefit analysis of 1791 is flatly irrelevant to the risk-benefit analysis of today.

    Gun-rights advocates like to make this all about liberty, insisting that their freedom to bear arms is of utmost importance and that restricting their freedom would be a violation of basic rights.

    But liberty is not a one way street. It also includes the liberty to enjoy a night out with friends, loving who you want to love, dancing how you want to dance, in a club that has historically provided a refuge from the hate and fear that surrounds you. It also includes the liberty to go to and send your kids to kindergarten and first grade so that they can begin to be infused with a love of learning. It includes the liberty to go to a movie, to your religious house of worship, to college, to work, to an abortion clinic, go to a hair salon, to a community center, to the supermarket, to go anywhere and feel that you are free to do to so without having to weigh the risk of being gunned down by someone wielding a weapon that can easily kill you and countless others.

    The liberty of some to own guns cannot take precedence over the liberty of everyone to live their lives free from the risk of being easily murdered. It has for too long, and we must now say no more.
    Finally, if we take the gun-rights lobby at their word, the Second Amendment is a suicide pact. As they say over and over, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. In other words, please the gun manufacturers by arming even the vast majority of Americans who do not own a gun.

    Just think of what would have happened in the Orlando night-club that Saturday night if there had been many others armed. In a crowded, dark, loud dance club, after the shooter began firing, imagine if others took out their guns and started firing back. Yes, maybe they would have killed the shooter, but how would anyone else have known what exactly was going on? How would it not have devolved into mass confusion and fear followed by a large-scale shootout without anyone knowing who was the good guy with a gun, who was the bad guy with a gun, and who was just caught in the middle? The death toll could have been much higher if more people were armed.

    The gun-rights lobby’s mantra that more people need guns will lead to an obvious result — more people will be killed. We’d be walking down a road in which blood baths are a common occurrence, all because the Second Amendment allows them to be.

    At this point, bickering about the niceties of textual interpretation, whether the history of the amendment supports this view or that, and how legislators can solve this problem within the confines of the constitution is useless drivel that will lead to more of the same. We need a mass movement of those who are fed up with the long-dead Founders’ view of the world ruling current day politics. A mass movement of those who will stand up and say that our founding document was wrong and needs to be changed. A mass movement of those who will thumb their nose at the NRA, an organization that is nothing more than the political wing of the country’s gun manufacturers, and say enough is enough.

    The Second Amendment must be repealed, and it is the essence of American democracy to say so.” –David S. Cohen

    • Q. Shtik July 29, 2016 at 12:19 pm #

      I want the tax breaks afforded to religious organizations and charities to be eliminated.

      Even better, I want all income-based tax systems eliminated and replaced with a single rate consumption tax.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:56 pm #

        Hey I use those. Hands off.

  150. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 3:23 am #

    “Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution.

    Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery? Go look at the graves of the brave patriots who died defending America — you will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”

    –Khizr Khan, father of slain Muslim US soldier

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  151. FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 3:24 am #

    Lord, my God, spare your people – Bastinda is a nominee!

    https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6ozs42mjuErXU9hK/giphy.gif

    But I admire the Americans as they fight on! Right at the Convention the Oregon delegation began chanting: “No Hillary!” “No War!”, So DNC cut off the light over them. And then they were joined by the biggest state – California. Unity Festival – not a chance!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_X1U9ddTDw

    And this Sunday Stephanopoulos laughed at Trump, who spends considerable funds for political advertising in Oregon and California – traditionally Democratic states. And now it has become clear that the money are well spent. Sanders Supporters convene a meeting of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party are going tomorrow to make the so-called citizens arrest – on charges of massive falsification of the voting results. And this is only the beginning!

    • FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 3:26 am #

      Hillary Clinton Is A Threat To All Of Humanity

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EGBOMvBrZw

    • FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 3:34 am #

      BREAKING: At DNC, Liberals Are Trying to ARREST HILLARY CLINTON!

      http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-dnc-liberals-trying-arrest-hillary-clinton/

      • wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 3:49 am #

        You’ve been punked, finca. The Political Insider is a fake news site.

        • Q. Shtik July 29, 2016 at 12:29 pm #

          What makes one news site fake and another one real?

          • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:15 pm #

            You can report Finc’s threat of attack on NYC to a real news organization. They inform the Department of Homeland Security.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:02 am #

      Finc,

      Nice attempt to undermine this country. But ineffective. Use a blog with more readership.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 1:34 pm #

        And how do you know I don’t?

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:19 pm #

          ‘Cause you are so busy typing, typing, typing here; that you have no time for anythings else. Including real life.

  152. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 3:38 am #

    “I’m from a small town in South Texas, and if you know your history, Texas used to be part of Mexico,” Eva Longoria said. “I’m ninth-generation American. My family never crossed the border, the border crossed us.”

    • tucsonspur July 29, 2016 at 4:37 am #

      She should move to Mexico. Pancho Villa crossed the border in 1916 and killed a lot of people in Columbus, New Mexico.

      Another stale tortilla, this Tejano doesn’t realize that if it weren’t for the US, all of Texas would be like Tijuana and she’d be washing her laundry next to the outdoor toilet.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:03 am #

        “She should move to Mexico.”

        Gotta’ love it.

      • Frankiti July 29, 2016 at 1:57 pm #

        Another “celebrity” imbecile. Texas was only part of Mexico for 15 years before they decided that they had enough with the new state of Mexico as they apparently were content under the mas o menos 130 year Spanish control and the French control before that.

        Mexico is not a pre-Columbian nation. It’s a post-colonial state.
        As is the United States. Mexico is Spain’s version of the US, except that the Spanish shtupped the natives instead of exiling and murdering them, although racism by mestizos against indigenous in Mexico is rather appalling.

  153. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 4:25 am #

    Trump is a Republican, with traditional Republican values. He is not an “outsider”

    CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering nominating Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary if elected to the White House on Nov. 8, according to four sources close to Trump’s campaign.

    The chief executive of Continental Resources would be the first U.S. energy secretary drawn directly from the oil and gas industry since the cabinet position was created in 1977, a move that would jolt environmental advocates but bolster Trump’s pro-drilling energy platform.

    • wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 4:29 am #

      Trump is supporting both fracking and drilling. So choosing oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary makes sense and confirms Trump is an “insider” not an “outsider”…

      Hamm, 70, became one of America’s wealthiest men during the U.S. oil and gas drilling boom over the past decade, tapping into new hydraulic fracturing drilling technology to access vast deposits in North Dakota’s shale fields.

      Hamm’s future was discussed at a private fundraiser organized by a Trump Super PAC, Great America PAC, in Cleveland. Hamm was there, along with major donor Foster Friess and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, one of the sources said, asking not to be named.

  154. BackRowHeckler July 29, 2016 at 6:43 am #

    Watching the DNC, one thing is clear: Identity Politics is the Order of the Day. Vote your race, vote your gender, that seems to be the message.

    Keep that in mind when you go to pull the lever in November, CFNers.

    brh

    • Thinkgloballyactlocally July 29, 2016 at 7:25 am #

      Also keep THIS in mind:
      https://youtu.be/z5KGqGEPTAE

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:05 am #

      “Vote your race, vote your gender…Keep that in mind when you go to pull the lever in November, CFNers.”

      Bumper Sticker
      Political Slogan

    • wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 4:36 pm #

      “Identity Politics is the Order of the Day” –brh

      That is a good thing, because most people have an identity.

  155. BackRowHeckler July 29, 2016 at 7:00 am #

    Quote of the day:

    “I hate Sweden. I’m just here to f-ck Swedish girls”.

    -Muslim migrant in Sweden picked up on sex assault charges.

    brh

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    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:58 pm #

      Found one guy who sounds like you, so you parade him around. Feel better about yourself.

  156. FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 8:09 am #

    Honesty of the demons

    So Bastinda is a nominee and I stole two hours of sleep in order to listen to her speech in which she accepted the nomination. Actually substantial part lasts just 7 minutes and starts at minute 44. Everything else – just gurgling in the Gorbachev-style designed to talk audience to a state of mental paralysis at the decisive moment, when the main line is delivered.

    And that main line is probably the first words of truth that Hillary said in her entire life. Another thing is that phrasing of this truth is such that not prepared person is difficult to recognize, but what’s the difference? Anyway, she told the truth.

    And it immediately became clear to which religious sect Hillary Clinton belongs. I recently re-read the charter and Magna Carta of this very esoteric community, which was formed during the First Crusade and they say that the lord of the flies, when buying the soul of man must introduce himself and speak under his true form, otherwise the deal is void and the person can reclaim it back at any time.

    From myself I just want to add that, after repenting of his evil deeds, a person can claim his soul back at any time, no matter what form the enemy of the human race has brought before him.

    But the sect is a sect and Hillary honestly said that she was concerned that the Trump is a small person and will not start a war, even with the excuse, and if he starts, he will do so out of fear or weakness, not as she, on the cold head and fully aware of the consequences. So now those who will vote for her could not wriggle out of the Highest Court of the Universe during the Judgment Day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXiy4D_I8g

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:07 am #

      “and I stole two hours of sleep in order to listen to her speech”

      You know that they tape these things?

      • FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 11:54 am #

        A husband and wife to enhance their sex life decided to rent a pornographic movie. After watching it for half an hour, the husband couldn’t take it anymore and goes to sleep.

        6 a.m. he wakes up – his wife keeps intensely watching the movie.

        — What’s in the hell wrong with you, how could you take it for so long? – husband asks

        — Oh, honey, I just needed to know if he was going to marry her or what?!

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 12:50 pm #

          Excellent!

          Russian humor, or originless?

          more!

          more!

          more!

  157. ozone July 29, 2016 at 9:04 am #

    What’s that, you say?
    Something that’s not speculation, supposition or the connecting of vaporous/invisible dots?
    Well then; buyer beware and look-the-fuck-out!:

    https://theintercept.com/2016/07/25/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-hillary-clinton/

    Ask yourself why this would be, then spread the word around ’cause this loft is where your chosen choir resides and the church is burning down.

  158. Jeremy July 29, 2016 at 10:56 am #

    Nice review Jim – Congratulations!

    http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/07/26/worlds-made-by-hand/#more-126997

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:08 am #

      More!

  159. volodya July 29, 2016 at 11:07 am #

    You lost me at “No matter what your motives are, nobody with a stitch of sense would buy into that brand of nonsense. ” Dannyboy.

    Yeah, I’m not surprised that I “lost” you. It’s like Orwell said, people can spend their entire lives not seeing what’s right under their nose. If it isn’t in their interest to see something, they won’t see it.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 11:42 am #

      You lost me with your opening insult. I did not find that very convincing. You cannot threaten a person into agreement.

      If you align with Trumps’ ‘Might Makes Right’ approach, good luck to you.

      • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 5:14 pm #

        “‘Might Makes Right’ approach”

        Dannyboy,
        The Might Makes Right approach is a valid one, and history is replete with examples. “Right” is a political, cultural or religious construct, and is subject to change.

        • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:32 pm #

          Trouble telling right from wrong, do you?

          • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 8:54 pm #

            “Trouble telling right from wrong, do you?”

            From my current perspective, no… however, a perspective clouded by wealth, or religion might give me pause. Exactly how deep into the Old Testament are you?

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 8:54 am #

            I stay away from discussing Politics or Religion. It leads to, you know…this here.

  160. pequiste July 29, 2016 at 11:21 am #

    And some icing on the cake of military bizarreness from Barry O.’s and Ash Carter’s Department of Defense.

    Please play the following tune:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw

    as you read the link:

    http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Navy-to-Name-Ship-After-Gay-Right-Icon-Harvey-Milk-388587352.html#ixzz4FlcrHeM3

    Nancy Pelosi can die now knowing she did her best to make the US Navy the laughing stock of the world.

    What color should this “warship” be painted? Pink? Lavender?

    Polka dots! And filled with seamen too…………………………..

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  161. Frankiti July 29, 2016 at 11:51 am #

    At a concert, throngs of young people were wearing the obligatory summer concert festival TS shirts (Bonnaroo, Coachella, etc.) along with Bernie ’16 tees. Bopping their heads in between vapes and spliff hits. Bad hair, bad tattoos, bad complexions, and bad vibes when one of the opening acts mentioned the Sanders’ campaign denouement (“He, uh like went back to Vermont as an indy maaaaan, he gave up, he tried maaan”).

    There is some real schadenfreude to be had when witnessing the next generation, the up-and-comers, the blind idealists, and vacuously self-absorbed getting Berned by politicians, the system, reality. The next generation of dummies primed to eat sh*t and like it.

    Bernie served his purpose. An entire generation learned a tough life lesson; obey.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 12:02 pm #

      Love your attitude and idealism,

      man

      • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 5:49 pm #

        Groovy.

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 7:59 pm #

          Stoned on porn?

    • FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 1:16 pm #

      Hey, danny, how come your sleep cell has been activated already?

      http://i.imgur.com/f1yeHVO.jpg

      • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 2:22 pm #

        What’s your problem? Zionism teaches that the Jews are a Nation without borders. There would have been no Russian Revolution without funding from Jewish strongholds like Manhattan. You owe everything to the Dannys of the world. I like to think of him as Mad Magazine’s Alfred P Neumann.

        • FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 2:29 pm #

          I like the sleeping cat better

        • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:43 pm #

          Your Reading List continues to fascinate.

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 2:27 pm #

            Disprove Janos’ claim, rather than nitpick over a MAD Magazine he read as a teenager.

            See what Alexander Solzhenitsyn had to say about Jewish involvement in Russian Communism. You wouldn’t DARE…

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:40 pm #

            Jimbo,

            Who wrote: (1) “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?”

            (2) “Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

            I’m way ahead now!

            …ya’ gotta’ consider your sources.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:00 pm #

        I won’t click your Russian infected link. Keep your deseased viruses.

  162. pequiste July 29, 2016 at 1:53 pm #

    I got it! I GOT IT!

    After allowing the Democrat National Convention’s antics to sink in – four days of non-stop “Identity” + “Race” + “Gender” + “Minority” + “Feminist” politics, it finally occurred to me what DNC stands for other than dastardly, nasty, corrupt politicians and rigged elections:

    Dilation ‘N Curetage;

    the kind we are ALL going to get should Rodan get “her turn” at the wheel. And it won’t be covered under ObamaCare either serf.

    • wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 4:38 pm #

      “Dilation ‘N Curetage; the kind we are ALL going to get should..”

      If men had vaginas, abortion would be sacred.

      • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 2:22 pm #

        If more men even SAW a live birth, condoms would be sacred and worn every single time. Hence, I have NO KIDS.

  163. barbisbest July 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm #

    Here’s a synopsis of this week’s blog. The lunatics are running the asylum! Ya think. The choice this year between a sociopath and well, probably another sociopath.
    We are the ultimate domesticated animal. I just heard McPherson say we are supposed to be the educated ape. Right! Arch asshole Ted Cruz. Gotta love that one.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 2:19 pm #

      Barb went thru a whole box of tissues last night watching the DNC. Childhood friend, “This one’s for you Hill.” Hill’s response, “I love you.”

      Hearts, Flowers, and Balloons! So many that lives were endangered.

    • malthuss July 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm #

      ultimate domesticated animal.

      You think Fluoride, GMOs and Chemtrails are an accident?

    • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 3:03 pm #

      That’s not very nice even if not untrue. We’re all stuck in the Matrix, our very life essences the generator that keeps us enslaved.

      Have you tried the Brahma Vihara or Metta meditations?

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:03 pm #

        “We’re all stuck in the Matrix, our very life essences the generator that keeps us enslaved.” Janos

        call 911 and don’t harm yourself.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:02 pm #

      The guy’s a psychopath. Evidence has been provided above in my earlier Comment.

  164. FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 2:25 pm #

    The principle of the “moral superiority” of the USA is antinomical to principle of “moral equivalence” in international politics, was formulated by a US ambassador to the UN during President Reagan’s administration Jeane Kirkpatrick in her article “The Myth of moral equality.”

    In this article, Jeane Kirkpatrick sharply criticized those who denied the moral and ethical superiority of the policy of the “democratic” countries compared to the policy of the totalitarian USSR.

    In particular, Kirkpatrick criticized the American left, one of which was then Bernie Sanders, who argued that support for the “Contras” in Nicaragua by the US is no better ethically than the Brezhnev doctrine.

    Thus this doctrine affirms that the US intelligence community, selling drugs to US population and weapons to Iran to finance death squads in Nicaragua, has retained moral superiority over the Soviet soldiers who suppressed Nazi revolt in Hungary and the fascist revolt in Czechoslovakia, the leader of which later proclaimed the principle of “humanitarian bombing” of Serbia – a country whose president has recently been quietly rehabilitated after he was executed by the Hague Tribunal.

    You will agree that this principle has a direct implication in the moral superiority of those who finance and supplies weapons to Bandera in Ukraine, Nazis in the Baltic States and the “moderate rebels in Syria” who just for fun cut off heads of 10 year olds.

    From this logical principle a chain goes directly to Reagan concept of the “Evil Empire”, since the actions of Soviet soldiers in the socialist countries were morally flawed, not because of the generally accepted moral criteria, but because they were for the benefit of the “Evil Empire.”

    And in here is the logic circuit to the US missile defense system in Romania and Poland, as if an attempt of Russia to protect itself from the “Empire of Good” is an aggression, even if military-challenged can see that it can be used only to intercept a retaliatory strike after a massive attack by the “Empire of Good”.

    This political philosophy certainly comes from one of the dualistic sects of the Middle Ages, who thought that belonging to “Good” is determined by the heritage, and not by actions on the basis of free will.

    Curiously, the pragmatic billionaire Trump is not among the initiates, and has proclaimed the principle of “making deals” basis for his international policy.

    “Making deals” involves the moral equality of its participants, and it gives Russia and the United States a good opportunity to reach an agreement and avoid a global conflict despite Trump’s temperament.

  165. Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 2:59 pm #

    Bill Clinton: It all depends what the meaning of is, is.

    Da Free John (((Franklin Jones))): All there is is is.

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    • malthuss July 30, 2016 at 1:36 am #

      He was raised Episcopal and went to ministry school.

      He was a scoundrel.

  166. Q. Shtik July 29, 2016 at 3:17 pm #

    Question:

    Who wore their breast augmentation better, Ivanka or Chelsea?

    • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 3:22 pm #

      Chelsea is kind of grotesque, in the regular American way. Ivanka is a bitch, but a hot one.

      Is she not perhaps a real life Dagne Taggert?

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:17 pm #

        Using the photos for pleasure?

    • Frankiti July 29, 2016 at 4:26 pm #

      Chelsea is the physical embodiment of joyless sex. The result of recalcitrance whilst breeding. Not a love child, but an enfant entente…

      • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 6:38 pm #

        I almost hate to say it because the comment is so malicious, but, to be honest, Chelsea looked like a prototype Sex Robot.

        • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 6:49 pm #

          “Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life – marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.”

          Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

          • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 6:53 pm #

            I recall during the time of the Treyvon Martin shooting that people in the media in reference to trying get Rachel Jeantel to get her GED kept repeating: “It takes a village.” At the time, I couldn’t understand what that slogan had to do with Racheal Jeantel’s borderline retarded IQ?

          • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 5:21 pm #

            ““It takes a village.” At the time, I couldn’t understand what that slogan had to do with Racheal Jeantel’s borderline retarded IQ?”

            Every village needs an idiot….

        • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 7:41 pm #

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_lips

        • Elrond Hubbard July 30, 2016 at 9:23 am #

          Pucker: “I almost hate to say it because the comment is so malicious, but, to be honest, Chelsea looked like a prototype Sex Robot.”

          But somehow, you managed to say it anyway.

          *slow clap*

  167. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 4:41 pm #

    “Ivanka is a bitch, but a hot one.” –Janos

    I did notice at RNC that Trump had his hands all over her. Trump has said several times in interviews he wants to bang his daughter.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 5:33 pm #

      Some say that in breeding is only deleterious because of latent flaws in the genetic code. If those flaws aren’t there, then it’s no harm, no foul. To go outside would probably to choose flaws. At the North Pole, every step you take is south. Of course flaws might be the price of gaining new potentials residing in other genotypes.

      • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:24 pm #

        And you thought on “loving” those nippers the way you do?

        • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 12:40 am #

          The Jews control porn. And you would have responded to the ad: Ninety pound female, incarcerated, HIV positive. Scared?

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 9:08 am #

            Why you want to broadcast your porn addiction and attraction to a 90 pound incarcerated HIV+ female’s personal ad baffels me.

            I know that your thrill is in revealing your depravity to others to share, but it’s really repulsive.

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 9:10 am #

            INGSOC Memo from:

            Comrade Boris Badenov
            Region 6 Airstrip 2
            MiniLuv – Mental Health Division

            To: unperson nic-named, “Janos.”

            Attention thoughtcriminal! Your crimethink has been reported by thoughtpolice liason, “Dannyboy.” You are prohibited from writing about friends of BB and revealing their activities!

            A counseling session will be arranged by the thoughtpolice station in your district. Failure to comply will result in your being relocated to our Mental Health clinic in the Ministry of Love for further treatment. You may also be banned from CFN and all record of your existence deleted. You can be made an unperson in fact as well as on this forum.

            War Is Peace
            Freedom Is Slavery
            Ignorance Is Strength
            51% Is Mandate
            Compliance Is Patriotism
            Dissent Is Thoughtcrime

            OBEY… unperson Janos!!!

            Comrade Boris Badenov
            Region 6 Airstrip 2
            MiniLuv – Mental Health Division

            cc: BB @ HQ-INGSOC

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:56 am #

            meltdown?

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 2:04 pm #

            No meltdown, Dan.

            I just slipped into an Orwellian character that I created and sometimes summon here on CFN.

            There is another INGSOC actor who periodically reports from a special Department under Big Brother himself and goes by the CFN name of, “Despatch from INGSOC HQ.” He often comes out as

            Vladimir Bhukov
            Minister of Minority Reparations and Majority Replacement (MinRap)
            Airstrip 2
            District 1

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:42 pm #

            Good luck with that. Get better soon.

  168. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 5:07 pm #

    The Democratic National Convention schooled Republicans on the Constitution, waved American flags, chanted USA! USA!, praised police, praised the American military, laid out plans to destroy ISIS, and showed how deep Democratic patriotism is by emphasizing how exceptional and great America is.

    The RNC gave us plagiarism and pessimism.

  169. FincaInTheMountains July 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm #

    Theresa May declares she would push nuclear button ahead of Trident renewal vote

    Theresa May told MPs she would authorise a deadly nuclear strike as she warned opposition to maintain the UK’s deterrent is “quite wrong”.

    In her first Commons speech since entering Number 10, the Prime Minister said the “very real” threat posed by Russia and North Korea meant Britain could not afford to “relax our guard”.

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-may-declares-she-would-push-nuclear-button-ahead-of-trident-renewal-vote-a3298726.html

    Theresa May told about her willingness to strike at Russia in the event that UK will suffer an incoming blow. But the fact of the matter is that the blow will be struck only in the case of attack on Russia, and the phrase Theresa May means that Brexit is not only and not so much unfortunate misunderstanding due to a whim of the people, but the result of a strategic decision the Queen’s Privy Council, which will have other consequences.

    In particular, the UK will not have their security assured by NATO but by their own nuclear forces, because NATO, instead of providing the security of Great Britain, has been provoking a nuclear war with Russia in which the United Kingdom would perish.

    • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 10:45 am #

      Britain’s greatest enemy resides in the heart of England! The Rothschild Crime Family. Nuke them instead! Seize their assets and use that wealth to buy back Britain’s auto industry from foreign owners.

      • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:58 am #

        You and Finc keep warning of your threats of violence. Useful.

        • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 2:19 pm #

          I never make a threat of violence.

          I only petition the Universe to summon up Great Men who are born and fashioned to restore the Right Order of Things.

          Which often requires demolition of the termite-eaten buildings and to punish the guilty for criminal negligence, malfeasance, and outright sabotage.

          • Elrond Hubbard July 31, 2016 at 7:27 pm #

            You need to read Crime and Punishment, stat. Spoiler: the murderer Raskolnikov can be rehabilitated, but only *after* he gives up believing in Great Men.

  170. Janos Skorenzy July 29, 2016 at 5:45 pm #

    http://www.infowars.com/videos-u-s-flags-collapse-in-close-proximity-to-hillary/

    And a little bird alighted on Bernie’s podium – yet who did they choose? Even Bernie betrayed himself and his young followers. The look on his face last night was of a man in torment. God uses signs sometimes during times of great crisis. Bernie ignored the sign of God’s approval just as people will ignore the sign of His disapproval of Hillary.

    When the Anti-Pope Bergoglio let loose doves, they were attacked by crows and sea gulls.

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    • JimInFlorida July 29, 2016 at 6:47 pm #

      One must ponder the kind of EVIL that Hillary represents than can make an old man like Bernie fear for his life, renounce his own campaign, and betray the True Believers who fell in behind him.

      Bernie is 74 years old and has enjoyed a long political career. He should have pulled out all the stops against Hillary Rodan. He is at the age when becoming a Martyr would be easy because he has so little time left on this Earth anyway. Bernie’s supporters would have marched into Hell with him had he doubled down against the Lizard Queen. Without a doubt, Hillary’s Flying Monkeys would have ASSASSINATED Bernie for such open rebellion and he would have earned a place beside JFK in world history.

      Yet, with all that behind him, what kind of EVIL power is with Hillary Rodan to enable her to Lie, Cheat, and Steal her way to power? For THAT REASON ALONE, just because such evil power has manifested in this plane of existence, that we must vote for Trump and give him a landslide victory. Compared to Hillary, Trump is a second-rate poser with no experience in politics or organizing. Thus, he is far less dangerous.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 12:49 am #

        Yes, someone has to call their bluff – even if it isn’t all a bluff. Bernie was tested and failed. He dreamed of doing great good all his life – and when his time came, he let it pass. His wife can gush all she wants, he knows the gravity of his failing.

        • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 8:15 am #

          My brain shifted gears while typing.

          The last paragraph should’ve read,

          “Yet, with all that behind him, Bernie threw away his one chance for glory and even the Crown. What kind of EVIL power is with Hillary Rodan that enables her to make a challenger so close to victory just throw it all away and even the hope of political redemption? For THAT REASON ALONE…..”

    • Q. Shtik July 29, 2016 at 9:31 pm #

      God uses signs sometimes during times of great crisis. – Janos

      ==============

      Thanks for letting us know how God runs the universe.

      • Frankiti July 29, 2016 at 10:42 pm #

        The universe is god and you’re not apart from it.

      • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 1:10 am #

        You’re welcome. What do you think of Robert Parker and his 100 point system for rating wine? Science or a Clintonesque scam of graft and influence, using people’s consumer snobbery to separate them from their cash second perhaps only to Steve Job’s advocacy of Apple Ipods?

        • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 8:08 am #

          Robert Parker sounds like just another hack who has found another way to stroke ignorant egos into thinking that, by purchasing wine according to his scoring, that this will give a wine buyer some ego boost of knowing something “special” about wine that the average rube doesn’t know.

          Me, personally, good ol’ Carlo Rossi jug wines are about the easiest drinking wines out there and the price is right! I’ve had the high priced and highly rated stuff and some are pretty harsh.

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 4:15 pm #

            He’s a chump from Maryland that lives in a split level and is a MASTER of marketing. This is ‘murica Jim, all gimmicks and sales pitches…

        • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 9:22 am #

          Funny that you are on to Robert Parker and not Donald Trump. I
          expect that is explained by your experience being more with wine and less with Real Money.

          But you can apply the same analysis: Wall Street et al has ‘run a game’ on you. They have caused you to entrust them with your money, promising safety and extraordinary return. This is the first step in any con. I think I can skip the next steps, as you lived through them and have reaped the final outcomes. So, how did that work for you?

          Now, on to Trump: He is using THE SAME SCAM. “Trust me, I’ll fight for you!” Promise along with the Promised Extraordinary Reward: “I’ll make America Great Again!” see what’s going on here?

          The reason that the citizens of NYC aren’t buying in, is that the have seen this con tried every day. They KNOW THE SCAM. They just ain’t buying it.

          Are you?

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 9:32 am #

            Trump is running the same psy-op that Obama did in 2008. Just different rhetoric. In essence, to adopt the people’s anxieties, give voice to those fears via focus-group crafted rhetoric, and make our cause into his cause.

            But, at least Trump is offering to lip sync with We Teh Sheep. Hillary makes no effort to conceal her allegiance to the transnational corporations and Wall Street. Her speeches have always sounded fake to the point of being amateurish and the unspoken lies drown out her stilted campaign rhetoric.

            THEREFORE, We Teh Sheep are only permitted to vote for the campaign propaganda we like. The winner will duly note our preference and then promptly put us away until the next election comes up. Such is the cruel farce of our “democratic” election process.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 11:06 am #

            JiminFlorida, because I want to help, I offer this (for the third time on this one essay) Here goes, with a different slant so that you may get it this time:

            I understand that you’ll feel taken-advantaged-of by Wall Street and NYC (using Washington as leverage). I understand that you do (although somewhat lost in all the anger at being ‘abused’ (a little exaggerated, don’t you think; we’re all grownups). But I digress.

            What Trump is doing RIGHT NOW is playing that SAME Wall St/NYC game on you, but BIG (no one ever accused Trump of SMALL cons). He is using the same scam that you have been falling for and bitching about: “Just turn over the Government to Trump, and America Will Be Great Again”. See it?

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 4:13 pm #

            Yeah Jim, at least you know for sure with Hillary that Wall Street is safe AND, she’s going to skim a fat slice off the top for her family of uglies. She ain’t playin’ yo *ss muthaf**ka, she straight fillin’ her purse

          • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 5:38 pm #

            Dannyboy,
            Am I wise to the scam? Hell, boy, I didn’t just fall off a turnip truck…I’ve been on 125th St, Watched a CEO get his ass chewed by a bunch of 20-somethings in a boiler room at DH Blair, fought with Hell’s Angels, Ate Chitlins (twice) and appeared on Judge Judy.

            Voting for Trump is not a vote for evolutionary change, trust me….

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:46 pm #

            elysianfield,

            Judge Judy burned your ass?

            …and with all that experience. Crying shame

          • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 9:01 pm #

            Re; Judge Judy

            Asses were burned, but not mine. Funny story.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:01 am #

            Dear Mr elysianfield,

            Can I suggest that, at some point, at some future time and place, we lay down our arms and shake hands.

            Because I’m dying to hear Re; Judge Judy Asses were burned, but not mine. Funny story.

            I gotta hear this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  171. tucsonspur July 29, 2016 at 6:03 pm #

    Janos,

    I tell you, I won’t worry about it, but I believe it’s Alfred E., not P.

    Forgive me, Q. No worries. I hope you’re not mad.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:26 pm #

      Mad is the correct diagnosis. (DSM 5)

      • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 7:59 am #

        The DSM 5 lacks diagnostic recognition of most classic deviant behaviors, especially sexual psychoses. The DSM 5 is loaded with politically invented diseases instead. It has been thus since the DSM 2, which removed homosexuality under blackmail by sexual deviants within the psychiatric profession. The DSM 3 began the conversion to politically-invented diseases and discarded even more sexual deviancies and psychoses, “normalizing” them by omission from the book.

        You must go back to the FIRST DSM, printed in 1952, to find the most correct compilation of mental diseases that have organic causes or, will result in actual harm to the self or society.

        • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:50 am #

          k

          got on it. diagnosis remains unchanged.

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 11:07 am #

            Madness is a venerable and known illness, going back to ancient times. At least you blew the dust off your old copy of DSM 1 and checked it.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 8:17 pm #

            “Madness is a venerable…”

            …at least you got your aspirations.

  172. Titchfield July 29, 2016 at 7:13 pm #

    Outsider, the theory you say you are developing (That European women are being attacked by Muslim men because these men are sexually frustrated) is a particular form of a more general theory (That sexually frustrated men do bad things) which has already been developed, and developed a long time ago. It’s a virtual axiom of the male worldview that men deprived of sex with women become destructive.

    A generation ago, the young Arab male newly arrived in Europe would have had less difficulty attracting the favourable attention of a European woman than he has nowadays. That’s my impression. Indeed, some of Europe’s women would have seen a good looking and culturally advanced young man from the Middle East as a choice slice of exotica.

    The current crop of Arab arrivals are different. They’re refugees, and that makes them losers. They’ve come in quantity, and quantity diminishes value. Additionally, they’re more closely identified than formerly with all the weirdness that’s Islam, and this makes them weird themselves, and frightening.

    But the attitude remains. Muslim men, as traditionally, see Europe as a society in a continual state of sexual riot. When they arrive in Europe, they expect to join the party (In the countries they come from, the party never started–Islamic puritanism). Denied what they’re after, realizing they’ve gone from the frying pan to the fire, it’s no wonder that some of them become murderously enraged.

    Your diagnosis, Outsider, seems plausible. But I’m not sure that your proposed solution to the disorder will actually work. Blocking the ingress of males and allowing entry only females is a simple enough as an idea to make it seem as though it will work in practice. But the male-to-female balance you’d like to see struck among among Middle Eastern immigrants living in Europe already prevails, naturally enough, in the Middle East itself. And the Arab Middle East–I’m stating a platitude here–is famous for the sexual frustration of its young men.

  173. Pucker July 29, 2016 at 7:17 pm #

    Another weird facet of Hillary is that she doesn’t know how to dress herself. Hillary’s wardrobe appears to consist of one pantsuit in different pastel colors.

    • dannyboy July 29, 2016 at 8:27 pm #

      You saying that your wardrobe is a lot prettier?

      • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 8:45 pm #

        Hillary seems to usually wear very drab colored pantsuits, except when she wants to give a “power speech” when she puts on a brightly colored pastel pantsuit.

        I recall that at the DNC Convention Hillary wore a solid bleached white pantsuit (Nurse Ratchet). Chelsea had on a bright scarlet red dress and scarlet red lipstick against shiny bleached white polished teeth (looked like a hooker). Bill Clinton, snoozing in the audience during Hillary’s speech, had on a non-description blue suit. Red, White, and Blue.

        • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 8:54 pm #

          The implicit sexual message of the color scarlet red is: “Fuck Me!” Right?

          Why did they want to send this message to American males?

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:44 am #

            your fantasy?

        • Q. Shtik July 29, 2016 at 9:19 pm #

          Hillary seems to usually wear very drab colored pantsuits, except when she wants to give a “power speech”

          Nurse Ratchet

          a non-description blue suit.

          =============

          . One of the curses of being a woman is always having to think about how to dress. If elected decisions about clothing, colors, jewelry and shoes will have to be made every day for the next 1461 days. For a man (heterosexual) it’s simple….. dark suit, shirt, tie, black shoes.

          . The nurse’s name ends with a d……. Ratched

          . non-descript

          Pardon my pedantry.

          • Pucker July 29, 2016 at 9:43 pm #

            Typo—“nondescript”.

          • Q. Shtik July 29, 2016 at 10:41 pm #

            If elected, decisions

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:46 am #

            “pardon moi”

      • BackRowHeckler July 30, 2016 at 2:36 am #

        Keep them one liners comin’, Danny

        clever, pithy, and to the point.

        Spoken like a true New Yorker.

        brh

        • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 8:39 am #

          Dannyboy brings nothing to the table.

          At least wpa_ccc brings LOTS of stuff when she shows up! Even if her info is massively skewed, or her interpretation is something alien to common sense, at least she earns her space here.

          Rather than crying to JHK to purge “controversial” views, Dan should either defend his position or disprove what he doesn’t like. To his horror, Dan may discover that White Goy rebels, like me and Janos, are right.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 9:25 am #

            “Dan may discover that White Goy rebels, like me and Janos, are right.”

            keep saying that over, and over, and over again. That’ll do it.

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 10:50 pm #

            They’re the same person Jim.

            In fact there are multiple multi-avatar personas.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:03 am #

            F,

            The idea that Janos and I have ANYTHING we share is IMPOSSIBLE.

        • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 9:23 am #

          appreciated!

  174. Pucker July 29, 2016 at 8:37 pm #

    Millennials can’t find good paying jobs to start families, and Chelsea gets up with her weird plastic smile and tells everyone about her second baby and her wonderful life married to her hedge fund husband and running the Clinton Foundation. Infuriating!

    • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 8:55 am #

      Another Marie Antoinette in the making.

      “If Millennials can’t find good paying jobs, let them eat index futures.”

      And to borrow from Stalinist times, “If you want milk, take your pail to the radio”

      Today,,,, “If you want a job, take your resume to the TV”

      • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:52 am #

        Ah! The “Marie Antoinette Delusion”. (DSM 1&1/2)

        • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 2:27 pm #

          Jews have separated the Soph from the Ain in order to sell the Aur to the Gentiles in order to obtain worldly AU. And when called on it, they claim they dindu ain.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:48 pm #

            Who is it that wrote:

            “(1) “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?”

            (2) “Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

            I’m way ahead now!”

            You got cred Janos!

          • Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 9:03 pm #

            You traffic in dirt and imagine that you wont be soiled. You are.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:05 am #

            J –

            Thanks for the alert. I won’t be joining you in future CFNs.

            Don’t soil yourself!

    • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 10:32 am #

      Don’t forget her journalistic sinecure. I always found that marriage fitting, hedging having to lay with Bill’s mug glued to Hillary’s body with a presidential sized payoff in Clinton pay-to-play and influence. Wolves, foxes, and coyotes have been known to gnaw their limbs off in a sprung trap. Chelsea’s mate may be gnawing off his todger come November.

  175. wpa_ccc July 29, 2016 at 9:03 pm #

    Trump’s Treason

    Trump has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This is a national security issue.

    Trump’s loyalty to the US is in question. Asking the Russians to engage in American politics indicates Trump truly is not qualified to be president of the United States.

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    • Thinkgloballyactlocally July 30, 2016 at 4:16 am #

      Wpa_cccp for President! 🙂

      • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 9:26 am #

        like your Handle!

        • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 3:56 pm #

          It belongs on a Subaru Forester next to the ‘Thank Your Farmer’, ‘Coexist’, “Can’t Hug a Child with Nuclear Arms’, ‘=’, and the Bernie ’16 barely covered by the “F*ck it, elect the b*tch ’16’ bumper stickers. Platitudes for ya

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:50 pm #

            My ride’s got Pete Seeger saying: “There is no hope, but I may be wrong” and a bumper sticker of cows grazing.

            Thanks for sharing.

          • messianicdruid July 30, 2016 at 8:50 pm #

            Mine are, “Legalize Freedom”, “Ron Paul 2012”, and I have the 2012 part covered up with one that says, “Honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet Him!”.

          • elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 9:05 pm #

            Bumper sticker;

            Jesus Saves! Moses invests….

    • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 7:45 am #

      As always wpa, you’re wrong.

      Hillary is a traitor to the American People. Her allegiance is to Wall Street and all the transnational entities that profit from it. Obviously, you’ve forgotten Bill and Hillary’s treasonous relationship with the Corporate Promised Land of China in the 1990’s.

      History provides for a challenger to ask for foreign assistance in overthrowing or blocking a malevolent rival. Trump’s request to Putin (if that actually happened) is perfectly in line with that Historical precedent.

      BTW, Washington DC is a foreign entity that contains a hostile foreign power, the semi-private ruling corporation called, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED.” We haven’t been under the Constitutionally-recognized organic Federal Government since 1861.

      SO… any charges against Trump or Hillary for treason, malfeasance, etc. are moot. All we can hope for is for this foreign entity can leave a few crumbs for us now and then, as opposed to criminal malfeasance and malicious harassment of We Teh Sheep.

      • wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 11:19 am #

        “All we can hope for is for this “foreign entity” [sic] can leave a few crumbs for us now and then” –JiminFlorida

        Yeah, just a few “crumbs”! “Now and then” (like monthly checks).

        Especially for veterans. Military members are rewarded with substantial tangible and intangible benefits.

        Here are just a few:

        GI Bill

        Tuition Assistance

        Service member Opportunity Colleges

        Education on Duty, etc.

        Advanced Technical and Specialty Training

        Cash Bonuses

        Tax-Free Housing & Food Allowances, or Free Room & Board

        30 Days of Vacation per Year

        Space A Travel – Free flights between bases

        Substantial discounts and deals throughout the private sector (link to Deals center)

        World travel

        Health & Dental Care for you and your family

        Special deals on Home Loans (VA Loans)

        Pension

        Health Care
        You and your family will have medical insurance (TRICARE) for as long as you remain in military service. If you remain in the Military through retirement, your medical benefits will extend throughout your lifetime and that of your spouse.

        Health Care for Reserves and Guard
        As a reserve you and your family are eligible for health care whenever you are activated, or under special circumstances you may qualify for military health care insurance (TRICARE) at a reduced premium.

        Meals
        As a continuation of the military tradition of providing room and board, meals (rations) are considered part of your pay. While on active duty you will be eligible for free dining services or you will be given an allowance to cover the cost of your meals when dining facilities are not available.

        Housing
        Housing on base is also included as a part of your compensation package. If you are married and on-base housing is not available, or you would like to live off base, a tax-free monthly housing allowance will be provided. The military also pays all travel and expenses for required moves.

        Affordable Life Insurance
        As an active duty servicemember, you are eligible for $50,000 to $400,000 in life insurance coverage at a cost ranging up to $29.00 a month.

        Life Insurance for Reserves and Guard
        As a reserve or guard member, you may be eligible for either full-coverage or partial-coverage depending on the type of unit you are assigned to.

        Travel
        Besides getting to see the world while serving your country, you will be eligible for “space available” (or Space A) military flights to almost anywhere in the world at no cost. In addition, you will be able to stay in lodging facilities at any military base and at world-class resorts that are specially created for military personnel, including the Shades of Green near Walt Disney World and the Hale Koa Hotel on the beach of Waikiki. And that’s not even mentioning the special military discounts and fare reductions offered by resorts and airlines all over the world. For more on Space A travel and other military travel benefits, visit the Military.com Travel Center.

        Veteran Benefits and Discounts
        The benefits of service extend far beyond your active duty or reserve service. The Federal Government and most states offer Veterans Programs for Education, Home Loans, Small Business Loans, Health Care, and more. Many retailers and businesses also offer veteran and servicemember special discounts. For a directory of all the discounts available, check out Military.com’s Shopping Center.

        So much free stuff! Golf courses, too! Millions of military veterans are on the government teat. They are takers who produce nothing. They are rewarded as long as they are obedient, willing to kill people and destroy stuff when ordered to do so. Mercenaries.

        • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 11:39 am #

          “Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed!’

          Akela

  176. FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 6:29 am #

    Deadly beauty

    ICBM warheads fall at the shooting range

    http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/shurigin/1370149/82775/82775_original.jpg

  177. FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 6:57 am #

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the statement of the head of the Central Command of the US armed forces in the Middle East General Joseph Votela, saying that the American commander supported the organizers of the recent military coup.

    According to Moscow rumors (unconfirmed), Russian Special Forces were involved in saving Erdogan’s ass from that hotel in Turkey, where he got almost locked up by the rebels.

    If that is true, Putin has just obtained a temporary ally in dipping Hillary and the US Party of War into severe difficulties.

  178. FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 8:28 am #

    Nobody’s talking about the fact, but Hillary Clinton has just overseen greatest foreign policy operational disaster in the history of United States

    From UK with greetings:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1erd6RnK3sE#t=50

    Meet Dick Cheney, now available in female

    • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 8:37 am #

      Witch’s getting old, Akela missed!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlirVEo4_wM

    • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 9:08 am #

      Akela raised his old head wearily:–

      “Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed. Now I have missed my kill. Ye know how that plot was made. Ye know how ye brought me up to an untried buck to make my weakness known. It was cleverly done. Your right is to kill me here on the Council Rock, now. Therefore, I ask, who comes to make an end of the Lone Wolf? For it is my right, by the Law of the Jungle, that ye come one by one.”

      Now Rann the Kite brings home the night
      That Mang the Bat sets free–
      The herds are shut in byre and hut
      For loosed till dawn are we.
      This is the hour of pride and power,
      Talon and tush and claw.
      Oh, hear the call!–Good hunting all
      That keep the Jungle Law!

      The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

      • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 9:27 am #

        You’re no Rudyard Kipling. Nice try though.

        • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 9:47 am #

          Looser for America!

          http://taggmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/hillary-clinton-2016.jpg

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 10:41 am #

            Trying to get someone to click on you Russian virus disease infected link won’t work.

          • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 10:53 am #

            Dannyvanquixote

          • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 10:59 am #

            I dare ya to click on it, Dannyboy!

            I was actually disappointed in the pic. I thought it would be a biting lampoon of the Flying Lizard Queen.

            It’s the DNC doing the same thing that many women do on Plenty of Fish or other dating sites. It presents a much younger Hillary. In this case, superimposed over a star graphic.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 11:09 am #

            “I dare ya to click on it, Dannyboy!”

            That’s your appeal? Should’a hung in a more sophisticated schoolyard.

          • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 11:30 am #

            Dannyboy note to his mom:

            “Mom, please wake me up at 7:30 and don’t believe that I have waken – I’m too insidious”

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 12:22 pm #

            “Your mother!”

            kinda’ childish retort, don’t you think?

          • FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 1:45 pm #

            as intended

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:02 pm #

            very revealing

  179. FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 9:39 am #

    Russian investigators search Price Waterhouse Coopers office in Moscow -TASS

    http://www.reuters.com/article/russia-pricewaterhouse-search-idUSR4N1AC010

    For those who are not in the know, Price Waterhouse Coopers is commissioned by State Department crypto-colonial administration to oversee some important Russian Financial Institutions, including Russian Central Bank.

  180. Q. Shtik July 30, 2016 at 10:20 am #

    this will give a wine buyer some ego boost of knowing something “special” about wine – JimInFL

    ==============

    All I need to know is that the price is $3.99 for Five Oaks:

    Pino Grigio
    Pino Noir
    Chardonay
    Riesling
    Merlot
    etc.

    at my local Rite Aid drug store where they sell more booze than they do Rxs.

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    • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 10:35 am #

      There are plenty of options for self-medicating in the land of the depressed, Pfizer or white zin, you’re covered.

      • Thinkgloballyactlocally July 30, 2016 at 12:07 pm #

        Send forgiveness viral – asks a Muslim Australian journalist on TV. Because there are already suggestions in Australia to put all Muslims in concentration camps.
        A really sobering 6 minutes.
        https://youtu.be/05Rn_5AqlrE

        • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 1:31 pm #

          That Waleed commenter was really stretching to grasp at the end of his reach. Muslim apologists have the hardest job in the world in trying to whitewash their cult. But, they don’t give up.

          Islam is at war with the West and the West has brought all this upon itself for submitting to their Jewish overlords. Therefore, modernist Christianity has only itself to blame for its cowardice and delusion. The stalwart Christianity of the Black Robe Regiment, and the antiseptic power of Carrie Nation, are completely unknown by the Cotton-Candyass Jewdeo-Xtianity of today.

          The fall of Christianity over the past 50+ years has left a void in all facets of life. Into which the psychopathic cult of Islam is rushing to fill. God will continue to lay the whip across America’s back until we’re either a bloody mess or until we decide to vomit out all the filth and kill the ones who fed it to us.

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 3:58 pm #

            Let them kill each other, and the buzzards will sort ’em out

          • pequiste July 30, 2016 at 4:13 pm #

            Yzlam: at war with the West; the East, the North and the South.
            At war with anybody and everybody.
            At war with itself.

            An Yzlamik immigration moratorium in USA/Canada for starters and maybe if Nationalist parties can get elected in Europe an immediate halt to the invasion there. A glimmer of hope – it is possible. But I’m an optimist.

            Otherwise, as we all know, Yzlamik jihad is coming with a bloodthirsty mission to convert – subjugate – enslave – murder. All in the name of Al, Mo and the Koran.

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 4:53 pm #

            Imagine if we could get the christian wackadoo evangelicals, the opus type catholics, the top-hat wearing jews, the church of latter day indians named macaroni, the jehovah’s amway salesman to bring jihad to isis… they can just fight it out over there. It would be like a coke commercial… “I’d like to let the religious jihad in perfect harmony, I’d like to buy them tickets to Mosul or Ramadi, to fight for that unreal thing..”

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:04 pm #

            The jihad is after you. They don’t threaten me. Maybe it’s something you did. Or maybe it’s in your mind. How’s your mind been?

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 7:26 pm #

            Clean and clear is the mind never infected by the 3 strains of Abrahamic virus…

            When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. -A. Nin

            The automatons need new code, or we need to jettison the hardware. I’m fine with either.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm #

            Frankiti,

            Now I get it! An Anais Nin cultist. Why didn’t you say sooner?

  181. wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 12:05 pm #

    “All we can hope for is for this “foreign entity” [sic] can leave a few crumbs for us now and then” –JiminFlorida

    Yeah, just a few “crumbs”! “Now and then” (like monthly checks).

    Especially for veterans. Military members are rewarded with substantial tangible and intangible benefits.

    Here are just a few:

    GI Bill

    Tuition Assistance

    Service member Opportunity Colleges

    Education on Duty, etc.

    Advanced Technical and Specialty Training

    Cash Bonuses

    Tax-Free Housing & Food Allowances, or Free Room & Board

    30 Days of Vacation per Year

    Space A Travel – Free flights between bases

    Substantial discounts and deals throughout the private sector (link to Deals center)

    World travel

    Health & Dental Care for you and your family

    Special deals on Home Loans (VA Loans)

    Pension

    Health Care
    You and your family will have medical insurance (TRICARE) for as long as you remain in military service. If you remain in the Military through retirement, your medical benefits will extend throughout your lifetime and that of your spouse.

    Health Care for Reserves and Guard
    As a reserve you and your family are eligible for health care whenever you are activated, or under special circumstances you may qualify for military health care insurance (TRICARE) at a reduced premium.

    Meals
    As a continuation of the military tradition of providing room and board, meals (rations) are considered part of your pay. While on active duty you will be eligible for free dining services or you will be given an allowance to cover the cost of your meals when dining facilities are not available.

    Housing
    Housing on base is also included as a part of your compensation package. If you are married and on-base housing is not available, or you would like to live off base, a tax-free monthly housing allowance will be provided. The military also pays all travel and expenses for required moves.

    Affordable Life Insurance
    As an active duty servicemember, you are eligible for $50,000 to $400,000 in life insurance coverage at a cost ranging up to $29.00 a month.

    Life Insurance for Reserves and Guard
    As a reserve or guard member, you may be eligible for either full-coverage or partial-coverage depending on the type of unit you are assigned to.

    Travel
    Besides getting to see the world while serving your country, you will be eligible for “space available” (or Space A) military flights to almost anywhere in the world at no cost. In addition, you will be able to stay in lodging facilities at any military base and at world-class resorts that are specially created for military personnel, including the Shades of Green near Walt Disney World and the Hale Koa Hotel on the beach of Waikiki. And that’s not even mentioning the special military discounts and fare reductions offered by resorts and airlines all over the world. For more on Space A travel and other military travel benefits, visit the Military.com Travel Center.

    Veteran Benefits and Discounts
    The benefits of service extend far beyond your active duty or reserve service. The Federal Government and most states offer Veterans Programs for Education, Home Loans, Small Business Loans, Health Care, and more. Many retailers and businesses also offer veteran and servicemember special discounts. For a directory of all the discounts available, check out Military.com’s Shopping Center.

    So much free stuff! Golf courses, too! Millions of military veterans are on the government teat. They are takers who produce nothing. They are rewarded as long as they are obedient, willing to kill people and destroy stuff when ordered to do so. Mercenaries.

    • Cavepainter July 30, 2016 at 12:30 pm #

      It’s done, it’s over, America is no longer “a people”. There is no longer a common body of ideals to which all give credence. A credence once supported not because everyday reality evidenced full realization of those ideals but because of the promise therein expressed. Today we exist as dispersed shards, Balkanized; splintered by the rhetoric of the self-serving priest/profiteers of America’s only remaining growth industry – victimology.

      That “hope” for over two hundred years nurtured in our national conscience the patience to weather the inherently slow progress of social and cultural change. Now, eaten up with a neurosis of guilt we’ve lost perspective; unable to fairly balance appreciation for what we’ve achieved on behalf of all humanity. Rather, national conscience is skewed away from the rational concepts of “Enlightened” governance as written into our nation’s founding documents. Redirected, on goes the “horse hair shirt” of blame for all the globe’s problems. Narcissistic really; a grandiosity no less (in perversely reverse measure amounting to masochism) than jingoism or xenophobia.

      Virtues of Western culture are now obscured, buried under – of all things – racist diatribe against populations of European extraction (“Whitey”). Scapegoated we’ve become; blamed as a citizen body for misdeeds committed in our name by special interests that pirated our government and have maniacally manipulated public discourse to point of “mind control”. Yet, under the torrents of PC we aren’t allowed to recognize that we are victimized of our very nationhood. Thus, all aspects of sovereignty have become denigrated as profane (national borders, immigration control, exclusive privilege of citizenship to be represented via process of democratic elections in directing national destiny). It’s all gone.

      • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 12:58 pm #

        Well said Cavepainter!

        With all organic markers that once defined the Old Republic gone and/or smeared, all Whitey can do is attempt to leverage the Class Struggle weapon in order to hold what little he has left. Eugene V Debs and FDR brilliantly wielded that weapon and it is still just as sharp and powerful now as then.

        Back then, it was to gain the Working man’s rightful share of national wealth. Today, it is to hold a desperate position; caused by quislings who brought us to that condition.

        Along the Class Struggle battlefield are much clearer lines of skirmish, where certain groups are overrepresented among the Top 1% and not for meritorious reasons. The scoring is all too obvious and the stolen booty out in the open for anybody with eyes to see. The Top 1% could not have gotten so far without their vast armies of black / brown mercenaries and Useful Idiot White Quislings.

        The brainwashing has gone on too long to allow an organic White Reawakening. Hence, my argument in favor of Class Struggle.

      • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 4:05 pm #

        The US was always in want of labor, when the natives wouldn’t be brought to kneel, the indentured were sent over, when they died and/or ran off with the tribes, the Africans were brought in, when they had enough the Irish and poor Europeans were let in on the east and the coolies out west, when they had enough the meztizos were courted. The US has always exploited cheap labor under the BS melting pot/land of immigrants rubric.

        This is the land of the exploited, home of the dollar.

    • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 12:40 pm #

      wpa, I’d be O.K with all those bennies if they were also made available to the long-suffering captives of Corporate Amerika. Most everything listed could be made available and, WITHOUT CAUSING PRICES TO RISE ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES SOLD by the private sector.

      The problem is NOT that we are spending too much on the social services for the poor and working classes. The problem IS that we are spending too much to guarantee the extortionate Economic Rent demands and fringe benefits for the Top 1% !!! War booty is the primary benefit that the Top 1% clip their coupons to get every quarter.

      We have an OVERCLASS that must be overthrown and hard ceilings put up to prevent such cancerous acquisitions of malfeasant wealth in private hands. Get rid of that parasitic class and there will be adequate funding for all to enjoy a good part of what the military veterans get.

      Nothing wrong with accumulation of wealth for old age and economic uncertainty. HOWEVER, the Top 1% accumulates the kind of private wealth that usurps the right of the masses to access the political process and distorts the democratic process for apportioning the common wealth to utilitarian purposes.

  182. volodya July 30, 2016 at 1:15 pm #

    Here we go again, another DNC-Hillary fandango as reported by good ole’ Matt Taibbi over at Rolling Stone, this time about money from rich donors meant for local Democratic party committees getting shoveled into national party coffers and the Clinton campaign. Terms like money laundering getting bandied about. I’m sure there’s nothing to it, nah, this is just tedious inside baseball. Go back to sleep.

    Oops, except that Politico talked about the same issue and Sanders campaign people were also making accusations. Bad, bad stuff. Especially as – cough – “progressives” are supposed to be above dirty deeds, you know, being high-minded and educated and everything. You know what I mean.

    The Sanders campaign manager said if Hillary can’t raise the funds to run in a competitive primary without money laundering how is she going to run against Trump?

    So what do you think, was this a fair series of Democratic primaries? Was the national party evenhanded in its dealings with candidates?

    So, how do they get Bernie-ites to vote for Hillary? Is it the lesser of the two evils argument? Hold your nose and vote for Hillary despite what was done? Or will Bernie supporters hold their noses and vote for Trump, just out of spite?

    Are Hillary and the people at the DNC such imbeciles that they think they won’t be found out? Or is it that they don’t care because the fix is in and no matter what, by hook or by crook, no matter the trail of money or manner of shit-stained emails and documents, no matter whose legs they have to break, HRC will be taking the oath of office in January?

    • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 1:37 pm #

      Bernie supporters SHOULD vote for Trump BECAUSE of Bernie’s cowardice and betrayal.

      Unlike Hillary, a President Trump could easily be contained since he doesn’t have a vast crime syndicate that operates outside of official Washington. Right there is the best reason for Bernie supporters to put Trump in.

      Otherwise, vote for Jill Stein and go to bed with a clean conscience.

    • pequiste July 30, 2016 at 4:04 pm #

      V.,

      I just love well phrased, loaded, rhetorical questions.
      In your case you’ve answered the questions you pose.

      Jim,

      Isn’t Jill Stein a member of the ZOG team irrespective of Green Party affiliation? If yes, wouldn’t that preclude any sort of a clean conscience?

      • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 7:37 pm #

        I’ll have to confess lack of due diligence in determining Jill Stein’s ZOG membership. She doesn’t appear to be an apparatchik of the ZOG matrix. Just a bourgeois activist who would probably be shocked if events propelled her into a genuine three-way race!

        If nothing else, she would count as a protest vote. That’s all we can hope for in any case.

        • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:08 am #

          I plan to vote for the next President of the United States of America. Sorry that you are confused in this matter.

  183. FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 1:41 pm #

    The collapse of the US two-party system is irreversible and now in the US there are three political clans, approximately of equal strength: the Trump clan, the Clinton clan and the Bush-Obama clan.

    The reason for this is Hillary plans to bring in 65 thousand “refugees” from the Greater Middle East and the Trump’s assertion that Senator Cruz’s father was participating in the assassination of President Kennedy.

    Bush clan is closely linked to good old England, which is headed by Queen Elizabeth II, who four months ago, began to make a giant 180-degree turn, giving up on Britain’s policy towards Islam, which it has been carrying out for at least 300 years.

    And the consequence of this turn is Brexit and attempted coup in Turkey, and the collapse of NATO, and the failure of the electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton.

    Moreover, the visible part of this reversal was the BBC film “World War Three: Inside The War Room ” and to understand modern politics is impossible without watching this movie.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/05/inside-the-war-room

  184. wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 4:37 pm #

    pequiste, ZOG is a white nationalist acronym meaning “Zionist Occupied Government” … which is a lie. The USA government is run by whites, with some non-whites and the non-white numbers are growing because white nationalism is a fantasy. The future is multicultural, multiracial. Rates of violence have gone down as non-white populations increase.

    Violent crime and gun-related-crime are decreasing, not increasing. Don’t believe me? Today, the national crime rate is about half of what it was at its height in 1991. As multi-culuturalism increases, crime decreases.

    Violent crime has fallen by 51 percent since 1991, and property crime by 43 percent. As multi-racialism increases, crime decreases.

    The violent crime rate is the lowest since 1970. And this holds true for unreported crimes as well. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, since 1993 the rate of violent crime has declined from 79.8 to 23.2 victimizations per 1,000 people.

    White nationalism is a myth, a fantasy, that will never happen because the tide of history is going in the opposite direction. Whites are becoming a minority. Colored populations and the Muslim religion are growing and are bringing benefits. More color, more integration, more miscegenation, more tolerance … and less crime.

    • Cavepainter July 30, 2016 at 4:56 pm #

      All “Whites”, listen up; the true path to world peace, end of wars, equality, justice, life fulfillment for all, has been revealed by wpa-ccc. Here’s your chance to save the world all you Whities: take all your pure white children out and sacrifice them on the holy pyre of PC, then dutifully kill yourself in operatically suitable fashion to show true penance for all we have done that has postponed the rest of humanity reaching the Promised Land.

      • wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 5:45 pm #

        Cavepainter, such silly self sacrifice certainly will not bring back to life the millions of whites murdered in white on white violence in the 20th century. Whites will dwindle out, of their own accord, no need for suicide or more white on white sacrifice.

    • Cavepainter July 30, 2016 at 5:52 pm #

      Whoops, I believe I’ve been hoodwinked by a non-person; one of those fictive identities turning up on blog sites of anonymous postings such as this. My sense is that wpa-ccc is contrived by a committee of paid staffers whose creation serves as agent-provocateur. What agency and purpose I can’t guess, but the mechanical persistence and order of argument, accompanied by such body of (sic) references as to suggest ‘ministry of truth’ cleansing drives me to no other conclusion. Its inhuman.

      • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 6:09 pm #

        And best ignored

      • Cavepainter July 30, 2016 at 6:37 pm #

        I will hazard guess as to purpose of a fictive personality, known here as wpa-ccc, Maintaining schisms as wide as possible within our nation’s body politic will prevent that “honest” discussion so often mentioned as cause of national dissension. The extreme represented by wpa-ccc is aimed at exacerbating division, distracting from the theft ultimately felt by all — that is, governance without the restraints imposed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Nothing new, maintain divisions in order to conquer.

      • pequiste July 30, 2016 at 6:52 pm #

        Y’know Cave, I’ve finally come to about the same conclusion, and after reading the above disgusting genocidal remarks by wpa-ccc, that I too, have been hoodwinked by the hateful entity known as wpa-ccc. Your observations concerning persistence, order of argument, and robust references, are spot on. Is it a prototype of A.I. utilized as an internet troll? Intriguing hypothesis, but to use it at The ClusterFuck Nation?

        Gee – I don’t know, but in our present world ANYTHING is possible.

        Commencing immediately, I shall be taking Franks’ sage advice unaltered regardless of the Caucasian-baiting by the entity.

        • wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 7:00 pm #

          Stop your disgusting antisemitism and I’ll stop rubbing white moral depravity in your face.

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:08 pm #

            Take that away and how will they pleasure themselves? Together?

        • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 7:12 pm #

          I have my own hunch, this is the blog version of the Phil Hendrie show, and the real, the actual, are lured into participation with the contrived, their outlandishness and illogicality are the bait. The host is a writer, and his dystopian novels, though I have not read, I can assume are filled with colorful characters… he did dabble in horror so that perhaps explains the Janos Skorenzy (sic) avatar… and the discordant permissiveness he is a benefactor of…

          • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 8:03 pm #

            Insulting our Host!

            You must know that you are free to leave (a right that would not be available under Trumpet).

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 8:32 pm #

            Insult? Phil Hendrie is hilarious.

          • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 8:33 pm #

            Dannyboy aka wpa/asoka’s yet other avatar..

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:39 am #

            Invent what you want…but that’s called delusional

      • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 7:43 pm #

        Cave, this fictitious person, wpa_ccc, definitely writes as a woman.

        I am willing to go out on a limb and profile her real identity.

        wpa is a tenured Jewish female professor of Women’s Studies at Bryn Mawr. Without a doubt, she has paid her dues at numerous LGBTQ marches and yelled herself hoarse in defense of her local abortion clinic.

        I can envision our resident apologist for the Harpy-In-Chief:

        wpa ccc is stocky; with muffin top,
        has mild case of cankles,
        short dark hair tied in a bun,
        believes cosmetics exist to oppress womyn,
        ALWAYS spells women as “womyn,”
        has a poster of Andrea Dworkin in her office,
        and always has that, “I’m offended,” scowl on her face.

        • Cavepainter July 30, 2016 at 8:16 pm #

          A archetype, no question, and so tuned and precisely modeled as to cause me more certainty of conclusion. After all, if the intended aim is to divide the citizenry pitting the genders against one another would be elemental, given the innate tension between the genders’ agendas. Hell, ritually reconciling that tension has been a cornerstone of all societies’ stability (excepting modern consumerist societies such as ours which exploit the difference to promote products — now political ambitions).

          Too, robots are taking over the internet.

        • wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 8:23 pm #

          JiminFlorida, your description is almost correct. Actually I have two posters in my tenured faculty office: one is of Andrea, the other is of Catharine MacKinnon.

          Of course, your theory is in competition with the artificial intelligence and government agent theories proliferating of late.

          Mazel tov.

  185. FincaInTheMountains July 30, 2016 at 5:28 pm #

    The US elections lately resemble double-down bets when a gambler obsessed with his fiasco doubling the stakes over and over again in the hope that the first prize will fully recoup all previous losses.

    For example, if the Democratic Convention was to demonstrate the unity of the Democratic Party and convince Sanders’ followers to vote for Hillary, it is a complete failure. And the main pro-Clinton channel is already responding to this failure that deprived Bastinda of the slightest chance to win in the fall, by a serious discussion of the possibility of arrest and removal from the election of Donald Trump on charges of calling for Russian hackers to find a secret emails that Hillary erased from her private server, which has become the subject of the FBI investigation.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/videos/#188823

    And serious American journalists, who have still retained some common sense, point that if Hillary had stolen the election, as it follows from the emails already published by WikiLeaks, she is guilty of high treason and it is not up to her it to accuse Trump of one.

    And the smartest of them said that Hillary Clinton by accusing Trump admits that she lied to investigators, claiming that the emails she deleted were personal correspondence about yoga classes, and there are no state secrets.

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/5055458029001/krauthammer-trumps-russia-reference-set-a-trap-for-clinton/?#sp=show-clips

    However, I would venture to predict that now the heat of the political struggle will begin to decline as to digest everything that has happened in recent times in one day is impossible, and we all need some time out, including Trump, Hillary Clinton and me.

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    • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 6:16 pm #

      Yoga class! Ha! I can picture Huma holding her up by the cankles as she attempts the “falling pear” (a handstand).

    • dannyboy July 30, 2016 at 7:09 pm #

      Yes, take some time out.

    • Pucker July 30, 2016 at 8:54 pm #

      It is bizarre. Why are they seemingly doubling down for this crazy woman? They could have easily gotten rid of her and chosen Joe Biden who would beat Trump easily. Do they want Nurse Ratched so badly? What gives?

      • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:20 am #

        Joe Biden had lost his son, Beau and was shaken.

  186. wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 8:06 pm #

    Trump has now attacked the grieving mother of a killed American soldier. The founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America defended the Khan family, after Trump claimed he had made sacrifices of his own, without actually naming any. Trump went on to boast of business successes and made charity work claims.

    “For anyone to compare his ‘sacrifice’ to a Gold Star family member is insulting, foolish and ignorant,” said IAVA CEO Paul Rieckhoff in a statement to ABC News. “Especially someone who has never served himself and has no children serving.”

  187. elysianfield July 30, 2016 at 8:34 pm #

    Another sign of the Apocalypse;

    Just saw on RT a segment regarding a new web site that allows people to crowd-source nuisance law suits against those entities with deep pockets…called “TrialFunder.com”. The lawyer that was spinning this site mentioned one trial where each investor, over 7 months, received over 140% ROI in a case of alleged police brutality.

    Sooo, every swinging dick attorney now will be able to find billable hours in any outrage, real or imagined, no matter how improbable the issue. The possibilities are endless…racist police? Police brutality? Bad water from a municipality? Changed the bus schedule? Lines too long at the DMV? Cows stopped giving milk? Chickens stopped laying? Police enforcement efforts driving up the price of Crack? Christ, the list will be never ending, and everyone gets paid. Everyone can bet a few hundred, tune in, cash out.

    What’s that you say? This will give the disenfranchised a taste of Justice? The sorry news is that any probable outrage already has lawyers sniffing around the edges, looking for a payday…THIS type of funding will result in the truly ridiculous/insane/completely improbable complaints coming to litigation, and in vast number.

    This ability to fund unworthy litigation will serve to destroy any and all taxpayer-funded entities…death by 1000 cuts.

    After graduating, and with my undergraduate degree, I was considering law school, until it was explained to me that I was disqualified from applying because my parents were married….

    Yes, I have a bad attitude….

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:24 am #

      Isn’t this CFNfunder.com, without the funding? Pooling all your complaints, real or imaginary.

      • elysianfield July 31, 2016 at 5:32 pm #

        “without the funding?”

        Speak for yourself….

        • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 10:19 am #

          I ALWAYS speak for myself.

          Despite the best efforts to put words into my mouth.

  188. wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 8:52 pm #

    Another example of a taker is Chris Christie. He continues to receive a salary even though he cannot do the full-time job of being governor because he is working full-time for the Trump campaign.

    Trump is gambling that he might be Trump’s attorney general but the political reality of BRIDGEGATE is such that it may be rather difficult for the governor to win senate confirmation.

    Every check Christie takes from the state of New Jersey is theft.

  189. Janos Skorenzy July 30, 2016 at 9:12 pm #

    http://bbs.dailystormer.com/t/khizr-khan-s-constitution-class/43869/23

    Nobody has the “right” to immigrate to America because by definition, they aren’t citizens and have no rights under the Constitution. People like the Khans have usually been forbidden from immigrating here, and that their kid got himself killed in some fool war against his own co-religionists is of no moment. These are undesirables as per their activities at the DNC prove.

    • wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 9:39 pm #

      Janos, you may believe that undocumented workers or immigrants or migrants don’t have legal rights because they are lawbreakers by entering the country illegally and owe no loyalty to the United States.

      You may mistakenly believe that only U.S. citizens (natural born or naturalized) are protected by the Constitution. You are not only wrong — you are really, truly wrong.

      The U.S. Supreme Court settled the issue well over a century ago. But even before the court laid the issue to rest, a principal author of the Constitution, James Madison, the second president of the United States, wrote: “that as they [aliens], owe, on the one hand, a temporary obedience, they are entitled, in return, to their [constitutional] protection and advantage.”

      More recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) that “due process” of the 14th Amendment applies to all aliens in the United States whose presence maybe or is “unlawful, involuntary or transitory.”

      But the grieving military family Trump attacked were here legally. Their son was a legitimate soldier who died saving the lives of other American soldiers. For Trump to deign to speak of his “sacrifice” is an insult. Trump has sacrificed nothing and lost no one. Nor has he served in the military, nor his sons.

      • Cavepainter July 31, 2016 at 12:58 am #

        C’mon, I know you (the committee that has created you) have done your homework, so to I know you know that the 14th Amendment numbers among the most contested on account of it having been so skewed in interpretation from the original intent of its drafting. You do know the phrase “birthing tourism”, and “anchor baby”, and………

      • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 1:54 pm #

        The spread between what is LEGAL and what is RIGHT has become a vast chasm.

        I believe Janos was appealing to the more ancient and venerable RIGHT that protects the tribe (or tribes) who settle a land and develop it for themselves and their posterity. THEY have the first right of determining who may settle in with them. NOT undesirables who demand entry by leveraging a bad law that was passed by quislings and for malfeasant reasons.

        Sometimes the right to occupy a land comes by way of conquest. Not exactly honorable but, if the invaders yield up eudaimonic gains that can benefit both parties, then that conquest can be cashed in as merit.

        Yes, the benefits of White invaders into the American Indian lands can be called into question, as well as the broken treaties. But, the modern development of the U.S. would never have happened without the White invaders.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 6:38 pm #

          Bush the Clueless actually signed some nonsense saying that America was founded on the Noahide Laws or the Seven Laws of Noah. Pretty innocuous? I doubt it. Some day someone will use this against us. The Jews have much longer time horizons than most Whites – alas. The Whites who can match them are with them for the most part.

          http://thewatcherfiles.com/noahide_laws.html

          They don’t think we deserve the Ten Commandments you see. And Christianity can be banned under the Noahide Laws.

      • messianicdruid July 31, 2016 at 11:27 pm #

        The CONstitution IS NOT To Limit What You OR I can or cannot do, it is to limit what the Federal government can or cannot do.

        And when they want to re interpret what they can or cannot do you better raise hell about it.

        The Bill of Rights is another thing. Even if you say those rights belong to all does not mean the Federal government has the authority to do anything for all people.

  190. wpa_ccc July 30, 2016 at 10:06 pm #

    It is bizarre. Why are they seemingly doubling down for this crazy woman? They could have easily gotten rid of her and chosen Joe Biden who would beat Trump easily. Do they want Nurse Ratched so badly? What gives? –Pucker

    Pucker, maybe it’s because Hillary is winning? According to the polls taken after the Democratic conventions Hillary has a big lead, a 15 point lead, over Donald.

    Among likely voters, Clinton garners 46% support to Trump’s 31%. Libertarian Gary Johnson now captures 7% of the vote, while Jill Stein sits at 2%.

    Trump is a loser, in more ways than one. Hillary will defeat him in a landslide.

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  191. BackRowHeckler July 30, 2016 at 10:27 pm #

    Article in WSJ this weekend claims Trans Alaskan pipeline is currently moving about 525,000 bpd, down from over 2 million bpd back in the late 70s. Despite that, and other oil company news that states due to declining revenues, investment in exploration and development in new oil fields has been curtailed, gasoline still seems to be plentiful and cheap.

    For a layman like myself, this business of petroleum is hard to figure out, and hard to predict. One thing tho, we don’t hear about peak oil much anymore, even on this site.

    brh

    • Frankiti July 30, 2016 at 10:33 pm #

      It peaked interest.

    • JimInFlorida July 30, 2016 at 10:54 pm #

      The ETF scheme that disconnected precious metals prices from physical supply and demand is surely at work in suppressing oil prices.

      According to the ways of High Finance, if there is an overabundance of oil ETF’s, then that’s the same as an oversupply of oil. The CLAIMS to buy oil is now the same as actually HAVING oil to sell.

      The oil may be the underlying asset but, if the pricing mechanism is based on the CLAIMS to buy, then an oversupply of paper claims causes the price of oil to drop. Wrap your head around THAT!

      JHK has rightly diagnosed post-industrial Amerika’s dependence on grift, fraud, false weights and measures, and other flim flams. But, once you figure out how ETF’s worked to destroy the price of precious metals, then it’s easy to figure out why the price of oil is low.

      • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 12:00 am #

        The CLAIMS to buy oil – JIF

        ===============

        Please explain what you mean by “The CLAIMS to buy oil.”

        • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 6:55 am #

          It was late and I wasn’t thinking clearly.

          It should read, “The CLAIMS to *own* oil is now the same as actually HAVING oil to sell.”

          In other words, like with the gold ETF’s, if you have a piece of paper that represents a claim to some alleged gold in a vault, then High Finance says that’s just as good as having a gold coin in your hand.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:28 am #

            You display enough understanding of “the ways of High Finance” to understand the following: Trumpster is a Racket!

          • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 8:14 am #

            I think your understanding about ETFs being perceived as CLAIMS on physical assets (gold, oil) is incorrect. I own and have owned various ETFs and never once believed I possessed a CLAIM that I could redeem somewhere for an underlying physical asset.

          • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 9:19 am #

            Q, you may be technically correct but, how can an ETF have any value unless it represents a fractional claim to some underlying asset? Even if it wasn’t structured to be easily cashed in for the underlying asset, the POTENTIAL must exist.

            That’s how banks can traditionally leverage $10 in credit for every $1 dollar on deposit. The credit, itself, becomes currency. To evenly exchange a piece of paper worth a fraction, for the whole underlying asset, would destroy the value of everybody else’s paper and the whole thing would go down because the asset is now gone. Just the THREAT of that happening is probably how paper is overpowering the reality of declining oil reserves.

            That is my argument on how ETF’s distort the pricing mechanism of the real asset. Perhaps I’m confusing ETF’s with some other financial instrument but, I am still proffering how oil prices are so low despite the fundamentals saying otherwise.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 10:00 am #

            It is a claim on the PRICE of the underlying asset.

            As an easy example consider the previously gold-backed dollar. Too many dollars, not enough gold backing. The end of Goldbacks.

            Think derivatives. Claims, on claims, on claims…on Price. TheEnd

            Think rehypothecation. The end.

            now you understand Trump’s racket. He did it with Real Estate Financing.

            to quote the great Dave Chappelle: “We’re rich, bitches!”

      • malthuss July 31, 2016 at 12:00 pm #

        The problem is NOT that we are spending too much on the social services for the poor and working classes.

        yes, it is. Anyone with common sense knows a multi racial socialist society is a race to bankruptcy.
        we are almost there [ground 0, $].

        • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 1:33 pm #

          I made a sweeping comment like that on purpose. To elaborate would distract from the main point I wanted to make, which was that we are spending WAY TOO MUCH on our Overclass.

          However,,, going to the other side of the equation of succoring the poor and working classes is no longer a matter of social virtue but, of holding a mongrelized social fabric together while under economic siege.

          If this were the 1950-1960’s, when we had a full set economy, featuring heavy industry, domestic sourcing, and agriculture to employ the lion’s share of domestic labor, then you would be able to scorn those riding on the public dole.

          Thanks to Jewish NGO’s, the Saul Alinski types, Cloward-Piven, and corporations seeking cheap labor, we have suffered 50 years of poor quality immigration and higher levels of illegal immigration. What would be sustainable in terms of succoring the lower classes has broken under the weight.

          Until mass repatriation can be done i.e. kick out 3rd worlders and Muslims by police-aided attrition (as they are arrested for crimes), then they must be kept afloat to prevent being used as mercenaries by militant NGO’s.

          Until a full 1% Wall Street Sales Tax on all turnover of derivatives and securities is levied, there won’t be money to retire the crushing debt burdens of the tax donkeys. But, even after that, they need a pay raise and a better job.

          An across the board 15% import tariff must be levied against sweatshop nations, i.e. those nations enabling Corporations to skim rents and profits via labor arbitrage. Price controls can be set to prevent the tax from being passed down to the Sheep who have little choice in the matter. If profit goals fall short, take it out of executive pay, perks, and bonuses.

          An incentive to repatriate former American industries that employed lots of semi-skilled labor should be enacted as a way around the tariff Ticket Gate.

          Mass employment at good wages is the only way to hold a multi-racial society together until police-aided expulsion of undesirables can run its course.

          • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 1:38 pm #

            Of course, I left quite a few strings hanging and edges unhemmed. I suppose I’d like to see 1950’s America come back and I believe it would be possible IF the political will existed and the process could be put in motion.

          • messianicdruid July 31, 2016 at 11:35 pm #

            I think you are describing the tension in society and some viable corrections very well. But being late on Sunday you are going to have to repeat them.

          • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 10:21 am #

            Beddy-bye m.

            Sweet dreams about “Jewish NGOs”

  192. Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 1:09 am #

    From the Philly convention:

    “Hi, I’m Lena Dunham, and according to Donald Trump, my body is probably, like, a two.”

    =============

    Yeah, you wish.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:09 am #

      Jews are so entitled now that they think they can just declare themselves Beauty Queens and have it be so. Same thing with what’s her name from Sex in the City. But she is actually compared to Lena – who insists on parading around naked for no reason.

      A similar phenomena is at play in Academia where mediocrities like Krugman are hailed as geniuses by the likes of Danny.

      • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:36 am #

        THE DEVIANT VERSUS THE DEGENERATE

        Here’s this week’s real Beauty Contest. Vote on the man who wrote:

        “(1) “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?”

        (2) “Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

        I’m way ahead now!”

        Vote “DEVIANT” if you think he wrote (1).
        Vote “DEGENERATE” if you think he wrote (2)
        And as in any ‘engineered’ election, you can vote (1) and (2).

        • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 8:00 am #

          Dan, you seem to be inordinately taken by the line you keep quoting (see (1) above) and have worked it for all the mileage that’s in it (which is not much) and should give it a rest.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:12 am #

            I have taken your advice. I slept soundly after posting and had good rest.

          • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:04 pm #

            Yes, like the rest of his Tribe, he thinks repeating something enough makes it true. The six million is the ultimate example of this philosophy. Making themselves into a caricature is a small price to pay considering the benefits that accrue if they succeed. They tried it during and after WW1, but it didn’t fly.

            Believe it or not, Ozone once said that. So I played off it with a bit of self depreciating humor. Danny then tries to use that to destroy me. What a monster.

          • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 11:04 am #

            What ARE you talking about?

            “Believe it or not, Ozone once said that. So I played off it with a bit of self depreciating humor. Danny then tries to use that to destroy me. What a monster.”

            Rants?

            There is not one reality-based phrase in your entire rant. Maybe talk to ozone about things.

      • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 7:49 am #

        1. One wonders where Dunham gets the supreme self-confidence to go before the cameras naked with such a disproportionate body. It defies normal modesty. (In a sense, she is Trump-like…an inability to see one’s self through other’s eyes.) I don’t think she thinks she’s a beauty queen…she somehow just doesn’t care. And to have permanently marked her body with an unusually ugly tattoo makes one scratch their head as well.

        2. The show you mentioned is Sex AND the City, not Sex IN the City.

        3. I read Krugman’s column every Monday and Friday in the NYT and wonder if he was handed his Nobel like children are given ‘Participant’ trophies. I would love to see him replaced at the Times by David Stockman but, of course, this will never happen.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:33 pm #

          The Krug Slug is Danny’s favorite columnist. He thinks he’s a genius! And that Krugman is Jewish has nothing to do with Danny’s admiration. You should be ashamed of even thinking such a thing. In fact you should be fined and/or locked up.

          • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 5:14 pm #

            Paul is my neighbor! We have shared experiences. Here’s one that we share from his July 22, 2016 Column:

            “If you want to feel good about the state of America, you could do a lot worse than what I did this morning: take a run in Riverside Park. There are people of all ages, and, yes, all races exercising, strolling hand in hand, playing with their dogs, kicking soccer balls and throwing Frisbees. There are a few homeless people, but the overall atmosphere is friendly – New Yorkers tend to be rushed, but they’re not nasty – and, well, nice.

            Yes, the Upper West Side is affluent. But still, I’ve seen New York over the decades, and it has never been as pleasant, as safe in feel, as it is now. And this is the big bad city!

            The point is that lived experience confirms what the statistics say: crime hasn’t been lower, society hasn’t been safer, in generations.”

            – New York Times – The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman

      • malthuss July 31, 2016 at 12:01 pm #

        Sarah J Parker, the streisand look alike.

        • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 5:15 pm #

          “they all look alike”?

  193. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 1:45 am #

    Trump goin’ down…

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Billionaire industrialist and conservative benefactor Charles Koch’s expansive political network will not help Donald Trump win the presidency. Koch has put the network’s budget at roughly $750 million through the end of 2016.

    That’s the message from one of the Koch network’s chief lieutenants as hundreds of the nation’s most powerful Republican donors gathered for a weekend retreat on Saturday. The network will not be a Trump ally.

    The next forty years worth of Supreme Court justices are going to be determined by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Real Republicans will vote for Hillary.

    ==================

    “It now looks exceedingly difficult for Trump to assemble even the barest Electoral College majority without beating Hillary Clinton in a trifecta of the biggest swing states: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

    President Obama won all three states in 2008 and 2012, and no Republican has won Pennsylvania in nearly three decades.

    With a divisive campaign message that has alienated many women and Hispanics, Mr. Trump appears to have pushed several traditional swing states out of his own reach. According to strategists on both sides of the race, polling indicates that Mrs. Clinton has a solid upper hand in Colorado and Virginia, the home state of Senator Tim Kaine, her running mate. Both states voted twice for George W. Bush, who assiduously courted Hispanic voters and suburban moderates.

    In addition, Trump allies have grown concerned about North Carolina, a Republican-leaning state that has large communities of black voters and college-educated whites — two audiences with which Mr. Trump is deeply unpopular.

    Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a longtime political ally of the Clintons, said that Mrs. Clinton could effectively throttle the Trump campaign by winning Virginia, where he is confident of her standing, and one other swing state. He named Florida as the most inviting option.

    “If you put a combination together of Florida and Virginia, it’s virtually impossible for Republicans to win the presidency,” Mr. McAuliffe said. “Electoral College-wise, we are in a very strong position today.” –NYT

    ===================

  194. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 1:49 am #

    “Hillary Clinton rightly pointed out that all a foreign leader has to do to get a rise out of Trump is launch a malicious tweet. God save us when Trump can respond to digital provocations by replying with megatons instead of megabytes. No tweet would ever get a response from Clinton. She doesn’t respond unless she gets served with a subpoena; engraved in stone; in triplicate.
    ….
    Which brings us to another Trumpian weakness. The guy is hiding his tax returns in an effort to avoid public scrutiny of whether he has fulfilled his most basic duty as an American: to pay his fair share to support the nation we all love. He should release those tax returns now.
    ….
    There is no way I would ever vote for a guy with the temperament of a rabid weasel, the maturity of a drunken kindergartner and the depth of a California reservoir.”

    –David Mastio, deputy editorial page editor of USA TODAY

    • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 6:48 am #

      Wow, a ‘deputy’ editor at USA Today. What next, Reader’s Digest?

      • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:40 am #

        i’m expecting a blast from the dailystormer.

    • Cavepainter July 31, 2016 at 11:46 am #

      Waite, “the nation we all love”? Aren’t you the one petitioning for delegitimizing of representative democracy for the US citizenry until its majority White, European extraction population has been displaced by those of “color”, and preferably those who’ve stolen into the country or been flooded in by Obama Executive order as “refugee” from 3rd World nations not yet corrupted by Western Culture’s Enlightenment?

  195. JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 7:24 am #

    Holy crap! 912 comments! Will this be the first CFN article to get 1000 comments???

    I used to read JHK’s articles just for themselves and seldom read the comments. Until ONE DAY…. I saw Janos. Bravely holding on as the sole voice of the Forbidden Words i.e. anything that defends Whites. Then I started reading the comments after reading the feature commentary.

    Pretty soon I would do a Ctrl-F keyword search for Janos to get his perspective and see his responses.

    Eventually, I came on board. I guess we’ve made CFN safe for others to come on board and bring some balance to the ideological makeup of the CFN salon.

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    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:43 am #

      Here’s what’s priming the pump:

      “Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

      I’m way ahead now!”

      He’s MOTIVATED! (can’t control his addiction)

      • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:10 pm #

        And where are the huge mountains of ash that should be found at Auschwitz? Not there, Danny. Thus all physical investigation has been banned. Authorities are terrified of Truth that there is no there there. The Truth is without value if it gets in the way of the flow of Shekels.

        It is a good place to play Pokémon Go though. But even THAT has been banned!

        • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 12:55 pm #

          who wrote:

          “(1) “Reminds me of a personal ad I once read: Ninety pound female, incarcerated and HIV positive. Scared?”

          (2) “Ozone once said that if we go over 300 entries, I get free porn for a month.

          I’m way ahead now!”

          Was it
          (1) DEVIANT
          (2) DEGENERATE
          (3) DEGRADED
          (4) DEBASED
          (5) DEPRAVED
          (6) all of the above?

          And I’m only at the Ds with his washed-up enfeeblement.

    • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 8:28 am #

      Actually there were times back in the day that the comment count exceeded 1000.

    • malthuss July 31, 2016 at 12:04 pm #

      You tube — X 22 report.

  196. FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 7:40 am #

    Democratic Convention and the nomination of Hillary Clinton is a blatant seizure of power by the Party of War

    https://pajamasmed.hs.llnwd.net/e1/trending/user-content/51/files/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-28-at-2.46.00-PM.sized-770x415xc.png

    I always said that Obama would never endorse Hillary Clinton, unless his children were taken hostages. Maybe his children were not taken hostages, but when we saw how Bernie Sanders and his brother cried, offering to nominate Hillary by acclamation as his supporters were leaving the convention, one can not honestly deny the possibility that the threat was possibly even more egregious than agonizing death of their grandchildren.

    But this arrogance with which Bastinda seized he power has a bright side: she would prefer to come to power without all that noise and dust, as a result of completely legal, democratic procedures, and looking back on the balance of power a year ago, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that it was all setup and calculated exactly.

    But then, out of nowhere, descended Trump and Sanders, and the number did not play out.

    The whole doubling-down game showed that Hillary is really connected with Ahnenerbe, Middle Eastern ODESSA, and the forces in the United States, which in 1940 demanded that America fought on Hitler’s side.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/07/28/hillarys-america-new-dsouza-film-exposes-dems-connection-to-the-kkk/

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:49 am #

      “pajamasmed”
      “pjmedia”

      What did you google to get those? “Kids in pajamas”

      • FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 7:55 am #

        Glitching in the algorithms? – get debugged ASAP

        • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 8:40 am #

          “Glitching in the algorithms? – get debugged ASAP” – Finc

          You some kinda’ wannabe Russian hacker?

          • FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 8:51 am #

            So what? Makes me in high demand lately!

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:15 am #

            So YOU got those emails!!

            Wowee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  197. ozone July 31, 2016 at 9:44 am #

    I don’t wonder at how vicious the partisan game has gotten in this country, and you shouldn’t either. Trust is a society’s glue, and if you don’t believe that, you can’t be trusted to give reasonable opinions on how a society should be constructed.

    “Tweaking” or “creative cheating”? You decide according to their own tortured explanation.:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-30/clinton-lead-over-trump-surges-after-reuters-tweaks-poll

    …As is the usual M.O. in cases like this (that involve political actors or obfuscating shenanigans), previous data has conveniently ‘evaporated’. (Which certainly makes me put more trust in their conclusions. 😉 )

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:53 am #

      The VERY FIRST COMMENT offers good reason. Many people who poll for Trump are polling their discontent and anger. OK

      But voters make up their MINDS and choose Hillary Clinton for the next President of the United States of America!

      • ozone July 31, 2016 at 10:52 am #

        The attempt to employ the traditional smoke and mirrors to prove service and loyalty is all very admirable, but I would tend to wonder what kind of uninformed and research-averse “mind” would gleefully cast their vote

        • ozone July 31, 2016 at 10:54 am #

          …for Hillary Clinton.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 11:14 am #

            I too am…”for Hillary Clinton”

            Get out the Vote!

          • Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 11:20 am #

            Hate to say it but……….my wife.

        • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:13 pm #

          She should be voting as you vote. She has no interests “of her own” apart from you. You are supposed to be one flesh.

          • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 4:18 pm #

            Repeal the 19th Amendment!

          • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 8:10 am #

            must be a single-guy

  198. ozone July 31, 2016 at 10:08 am #

    And, most definitely, a pox on both their houses. This piece mirrors my perceptions very well:

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45197.htm

    “Talk of how we got here is tiresome and useless. Jefferson warned; FDR admonished; Ike forebode. In a sentence: a system whose sole purpose is to make citizens into ignorant, hoodwinked, terrified “consumers” must fail.

    So: political trainwreck with election of one of these monsters and then..? The game doesn’t end. Calamity, as has been observed, is of long life. Crises don’t have clear beginnings or clean ends. With either in office we are in unknown waters where–go all in on this–there will be dragons.” — Paul Edwards

    • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:16 pm #

      Ike and FDR were hardened Establishment Men. Their warnings were guilty conscience in the case of Ike and just more cover in the case of FDR.

      The whole concept of “Party” is suspect. The Founders warned against all such factions.

  199. Being There July 31, 2016 at 10:12 am #

    As always Michael Hudson hits it out of the park. Paul Craig Roberts sent an email with a link to Hudson’s article in CounterPunch.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/29/obama-said-hillary-will-continue-his-legacy-and-indeed-she-will/

    • ozone July 31, 2016 at 10:43 am #

      BT,
      Yes, that’s a very incisive article [for those paying attention] and it’s making the rounds of many different sites. Strangely enough, there are mentions of trust and distrust scattered throughout. Hmmmm 😉

      • Being There July 31, 2016 at 4:01 pm #

        I also got it from his website. michael-hudson.com. Always the best place to find his articles.

  200. sprawlcapital July 31, 2016 at 10:35 am #

    I cannot let the month of July go by without stopping to note what was one of the worst months in the history of warfare, July 1916.

    The first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, was the worst day in the history of the British Army: 19,240 dead in a single day. The British also suffered more than 30,000 wounded.

    Meanwhile, the Battle of Verdun was raging, mostly a conflict between the French and German forces. During the Verdun struggle, which was about possession of a French fortress, the soil that soldiers walked on was mostly a mixture of human flesh and bone: soldiers blown apart by exploding artillery shells. After the war the bones were collected and interred in a large memorial building. For obvious reasons, German and French bones had to be mixed in their final resting place .

    The first day of the Battle of the Somme was an exercise in Imperial British arrogance and stupidity. The British for several days conducted an artillery barrage so massive it was heard across the English Channel. Nothing could survive, they thought. The advance through the German lines would be easy, they thought. Surely, some British officers had visions of victory celebrations in a few weeks, in Berlin.

    However, the Germans had dug in, taking numerous machine guns with them. When the British advance began, the troops were surprised to find they were being mowed down by machine gun fire.

    Their were also French forces at the Somme.

    In less than a year, the first of a million American troops would arrive in France.

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    • sprawlcapital July 31, 2016 at 10:38 am #

      Their [there] were also French forces at the Somme.

  201. Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 10:50 am #

    It is a claim on the PRICE of the underlying asset.

    As an easy example consider the previously gold-backed dollar. Too many dollars, not enough gold backing. The end of Goldbacks.

    Think derivatives. Claims, on claims, on claims…on Price. TheEnd

    Think rehypothecation. The end.

    now you understand Trump’s racket. He did it with Real Estate Financing.

    to quote the great Dave Chappelle: “We’re rich, bitches!” – Dannyboy

    ============

    Dan, you have an especially annoying way of writing short sentences that we are supposed to take as pithy pearls of wisdom from a superior mind (e.g. Think rehypothecation. The end.). But trust me, as people short on answers as to why they should be trusted so often say, your remarks are NOT pithy nor are they particularly helpful in understanding complex financial phenomena.

    • Janos Skorenzy July 31, 2016 at 2:25 pm #

      Money must be kept close to the physical world that it represents. To let it become a commodity is utterly perverse. Likewise with commodities: let gold be worth what gold is worth. No bets on it. No sacrificing the present to the future. When that is done, the future is sacrificed to since it depends upon the present. The parasites grow fat ^ and the body dies.

      As it is, our money has children but people are too poor to. Hitler was literally the Father of his people because he put the People back to work by throwing out the Banker parasites.

      • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 12:58 pm #

        so it’s back to barter and clans for you?

  202. dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 11:12 am #

    Q. Shtik,

    I do notice that you use many, many, many, many words. Words, words, words…

    So, I will clarify your bewilderment.

    In order to clarify the financial concepts that you had challenged JiminFlorida’s understanding of, I provided some examples:
    “As an easy example consider the previously gold-backed dollar. Too many dollars, not enough gold backing. The end of Goldbacks.”

    The many examples I provided from REAL LIFE ended with the same outcome – losses to investors.

    So unless you have 30 years’ on Wall Street, I think I’m spending your money. Thx

    • elysianfield July 31, 2016 at 5:47 pm #

      “So unless you have 30 years’ on Wall Street, I think I’m spending your money. Thx”

      J’accuse!

      • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 8:11 am #

        Talking to the French!

  203. Q. Shtik July 31, 2016 at 11:14 am #

    Q, you may be technically correct but, how can an ETF have any value unless it represents a fractional claim to some underlying asset? – JimInFL

    ==============

    It’s akin to the Almighty Dollar which is based on “the full faith and credit” of the blah, blah, blah. Not even a tiny fraction of some underlying asset. It still buys stuff so long as there is faith. Eventually there will be a widespread epiphany and poof! there will go the faith.

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 11:26 am #

      Because I like to share…

      Diamonds are Forever

      • elysianfield July 31, 2016 at 6:06 pm #

        “Diamonds are Forever”

        Hmmm,
        The ultimate bug-out currency….

        Dannyboy,
        What if your best laid plans are interrupted? What if the enemy (less than 10 blocks away!) arrive at your door at 0200? How will you escape their wrath? Offer them the diamonds? Insider stock tips? Do you have weapons…can you fend them off? Could you distract them with any women in the household while you attempt an escape? Are you fit enough to fight your way through the roiling mob? Do you “work out every day…”?

        The social unrest that could be your undoing (and maybe a little bit as a result of your doing?) may not announce itself in a timely fashion.

        Quoting David Chappelle …”Sleep tight, motherfucker”.

        Were I to live in your “admittedly upscale neighborhood”, I would learn to sleep with one eye open…. Just sayin’

        • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 6:59 pm #

          I love David Chappelle! Quoted his wisdom in a Comment just above: “We’re rich, bitches!”. This, of course was a reaction to his $40 million contract for his show (that you are paying for through those consumer things).

          Thanks for your concern for my welfare. It’s all good. Gun, check. Protection, check. Houses in various locations, check. Diamonds, check.. I know you don’t have the foresight to ask about all of the most important preparations (note that they are not the ones on your list), but it’s all taken care of. Sleep like a baby. Good luck to you in all future efforts (if you are still efforting, that is)

          • elysianfield August 1, 2016 at 12:35 am #

            “I know you don’t have the foresight to ask about all of the most important preparations…”

            Danny,
            It doesn’t require foresight to understand that if you are trapped in your locale, all else is for naught. You may have prepared well, but you are still living in a locale where a simple electrical grid perturbation will put you and your family at risk. As your brothers in the real estate “game” are fond of saying…location, location, location.

          • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 8:46 am #

            pls reread, including: “Houses in various locations, check.”

    • BackRowHeckler July 31, 2016 at 5:37 pm #

      I don’t know, Q. I read somewhere all added up, land and waterways, mountains and streams and coastal waters, the USA has about $125 Trillion in assets. That’s plenty to cover existing debts and future obligations.

      We got plenty of swag!

      brh

      • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:00 pm #

        Better check on the custody of those assets.

  204. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 11:38 am #

    “Actually there were times back in the day that the comment count exceeded 1000.” –Q

    I went back and looked at the archives. You are right, Q. However, a large percentage of those posts were from an “Asoka.”

    Asoka’s numerous posts were regular and at all hours of day and night, on so many subjects… far more ouput than a single human being could produce, which suggests it was an entity that was actually a govt agency or an AI bot, not a human being.

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 11:50 am #

      You flatter these guys with “which suggests it was an entity that was actually a govt agency or an AI bot, not a human being.”

      …why’d they bother?

      • wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 2:13 pm #

        Dannyboy, government agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.

        They monitor YouTube and Blogger, and conduct DoS attacks like this blog has recently suffered… to shut down discourse altogether.

        Seems like W’s “talk among yourselves” doesn’t apply to the internet. The government injects all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets.

        The government also uses social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

        To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends:

        1) “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else)

        2) fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy)

        3) posting “negative information” on various forums.

        wpa–ccc
        Green Valley, AZ

        • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 2:34 pm #

          I just sayin’ that there’s nothin’ to infiltrate here.

          • wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 4:05 pm #

            “I just sayin’ that there’s nothin’ to infiltrate here.” –dannyboy

            Ha! It doesn’t have to be subversive to be infiltrated. Ask the lovely old pacifist Quaker ladies who were targets of FBI surveillance.

            Whether protesting the march to war, federal policy on AIDS research, civil rights violations, or simply enjoying the Nevada desert at a “Burning Man” gathering, the common theme that emerges is that simply publicly expressing strong political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm is often enough to trigger federal government surveillance.

            Some strong political views get expressed here on CFN.

            Clusterfuck Nation definitely qualifies for infiltration.

            See the book, Perilous Times, by Geoffrey R. Stone.

          • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:17 pm #

            You flatter yourself. “The lovely old pacifist Quaker ladies who were targets of FBI surveillance” had a mission at least. What do you’ll have?

            I’m waiting..

          • elysianfield August 1, 2016 at 12:38 am #

            I just sayin’ that there’s nothin’ to infiltrate here.

            Danny,
            Maybe they are just interested in your diamonds…

          • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 8:59 am #

            elysianfield,

            Maybe.

            I should note my appreciation to you, and other commenters here on CFN . As I have shared in the past, I drop by CFN on occasion “to get a feel” for the mood (every great investor knows this). And always I learn something.

            This time my education went so far as to review my Preparation (no, I am not a Prepper, but do prepare extensively for future contingencies).

            Thanks for the info exchange.

            d

  205. BackRowHeckler July 31, 2016 at 5:56 pm #

    “I love the smell of rumor and gossip on CFN” — Dannyboy

    That’s what this comment section is all about, Danny, with a heap of hyperbole thrown in for xtra seasoning.

    Which is why we love it so much!

    brh

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  206. BackRowHeckler July 31, 2016 at 6:00 pm #

    Incidentally I still consider this a Peak Oil site; if petroleum markets get sketchy again we’ll most likely get back around to the main focus, both Jim and CFN commenters.

    brh

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 7:18 pm #

      I’ll swing back then.

    • wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 7:20 pm #

      brh, I agree that this is a peak oil site. Unfortunately for Hubbert the current production uptick has already disproved Hubbert’s theory.

      Hubbert made an assumption, back in 1956, that new techniques wouldn’t significantly boost production. Hubbert was wrong.

      The world is swimming in oil, thanks in part to technologies such as fracking and horizontal drilling, which Hubbert did not predict would happen. Hubbert peak oil theory FAIL.

      Of course, true believers will, like a cargo cult, hang onto the theory. Failure is coming, they say. Failure is coming. True believers in the peak oil religion.

      • wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 7:44 pm #

        Marion King Hubbert predicted world oil production would peak in about 2000. Production has surpassed this forecast, reaching over 30 billion barrels in 2014. Peak oil theory FAIL.

        • BackRowHeckler July 31, 2016 at 8:50 pm #

          I know, WPA.

          Demand right now is about 95 million bpd, predicted to reach 100 million bpd by late next year; no shortages, no sudden spikes in price, no disruptions in delivery of product.

          brh

  207. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 8:03 pm #

    If you read CFN from ten years ago, Richard Heinberg was all the talk. He published a book, The Party’s Over, predicted that global oil production would soon peak, forcing tectonic changes for industrial society. Heinberg put the preppers into overdrive.

    The book was discussed on CFN, praised by environmentalists, name-checked by Bill Clinton — was the first in what would become a whole peak oil literature.

    A decade later, we still haven’t hit the peak, and new, extreme sources of energy threaten to fuel climate change for years to come. Peak oil-ers were so wrong. (except to peak oil theory cult members, of course)

  208. FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 8:10 pm #

    Hillary mess in Turkey is no over

    1,000s Turkish forces surround NATO’s Incirlik air base for ‘inspection’ amid rumors of coup attempt

    Some 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base used by NATO forces in Adana in what a Turkish minister called a “security check.” With no official explanation, speculations have arisen about a new coup attempt or VIP visit.

    https://www.rt.com/news/354042-turkish-police-incirlik-nato-coup/

    Hillary presented Erdogan an exciting opportunity of becoming a major nuclear power without all that costly Manhattan projects and other similar fuss.

  209. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 8:14 pm #

    Many on CFN say peak oil has just been postponed but is still a certainty. Estimates differ about when it will happen, but it is not in doubt that it will happen, they say. The fracking boom will crash, they say.

    Energy Watch Group’s analysis says that US shale oil will actually peak by 2017, followed by a steep decline.

    Energy analyst Chris Nelder says: “Global production will fall when the decline of mature fields overwhelms new additions. When, precisely, that will happen, no one can say for certain. But it’s almost definitely before 2020.”

    In 2020 they will come up with a new theory to explain why there has been no economic collapse. And we’ll have another presidential election.

  210. FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 8:25 pm #

    Southern strategic NATO flank against Russia practically ceased to exist after the Hillary’s fiasco to “regime change” Erdogan in Turkey. Turkey, formally remaining in NATO might turn into a big Trojan horse, which will add sleepless nights to our American friends.

    NATO is out of date.

    Aleppo is in the final cauldron, gossips blamed Erdogan, who arrested the Turkish military curators of Syrian “rebels” for attempted coup in Turkey.

    There is no one to sign invoices for ammunition and send pay checks to terrorists. It seems that Erdogan temporarily lost interest in Aleppo and northern Syria and all that is connected with it.

    Rebels will be allowed to get out of Aleppo with guns, their families and property, but the tanks, and artillery units they will have to leave behind. After the defeat in Aleppo and the lack of a stable support from the Turkey, terrorist armies will be difficult to catch on in Syria.

    Probably terrorist garrison will retreat from Aleppo to Raqqa, leaving behind 300 brave clueless souls and the mountains of the Turkish, German and American arms. Changing the Turkish position in the Syrian war makes the situation for terror army doomed to failure.

    I probably was wrong about Hillary all along. She could be the best thing that happened to Russia since invention of vodka and Napoleon defeat in 1812.

    Hillary for President!!

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    • wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 8:37 pm #

      Your idiot candidate speaks:

      Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t make a military move into Ukraine — even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country’s Crimean Peninsula.

      “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,” Trump said in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.”

      “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?” Stephanopoulos responded, in a reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014.

      • FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 8:43 pm #

        wpa, you convinced me! we are on the same side now – you and me.

        Good job, comrade!

  211. FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 8:41 pm #

    She should’ve listened to Obama:

    Obama: ‘Don’t Do Stupid Shit’ Foreign Policy

    http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/04/obamas-dont-do-stupid-shit-foreign-policy/

  212. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 8:42 pm #

    996 posts.

    In response to Trump’s attack on his wife, Khan said that the Republican nominee’s words were “typical of a person without a soul.”

    Khan said his wife did not speak because she breaks down when she sees her son’s photograph — a huge one of which was projected onto a screen behind the stage at the convention.

    “Emotionally and physically — she just could not even stand there, and when we left, as soon as we got off camera, she just broke down. And the people inside, the staff, were holding her, consoling her. She was just totally emotionally spent. Only those parents that have lost their son or daughter could imagine the pain that such a memory causes. Especially when a tribute is being paid. I was holding myself together, because one of us had to be strong. Normally, she is the stronger one. But in the matter of Humayun, she just breaks down any time anyone mentions it.”

    Khan said he asked his wife whether she wanted to address the convention.

    “I asked her: ‘Do you want to say something? Thank you? We are glad?’?” Khan said. “She said: ‘You know what will happen. I will sob.’ Would any mother be able to utter a word under those circumstances?”

    ===============

    Muslims educating America. Well done!

    • FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 8:50 pm #

      Absolutely!!

      We just miss 65,000 Islamist Educators that Hillary’s people are preparing for America in ME!

  213. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 8:47 pm #

    998 posts.

    Trump University: ‘This is straight up fraud’

    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that Trump “defrauded people out of money. They’re entitled to their day in court.

    “This is a hugely important case. If you look at the facts of this case, this shows someone who was absolutely shameless in his willingness to lie to people, to say whatever it took to induce them into his phony seminars. Telling people who are in hard economic times — we’re talking about 2008, 2009 — people desperate to hold onto their homes, to make some money, convincing them that he will teach them his entrepreneurial secrets.”

    N.Y. attorney general on Trump University: ‘This is straight up fraud’ CNN June 2, 2016

    • dannyboy July 31, 2016 at 9:02 pm #

      999

      Go New York!

    • JimInFlorida July 31, 2016 at 9:43 pm #

      Bill’s crimes in Arkansas, Hillary’s slimy games at the Rose Law Firm, CIA drug shipments to Mena, and the Arkan-cides done to their enemies, never stopped them from being elected President and Co-President in 1992.

      • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 8:13 am #

        You got it!

  214. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 8:59 pm #

    1.002 posts.

    “Vladimir Putin has emerged as the lodestar of certain elements of the political right across the West. Russia’s president poses as the champion of nationalism vs. rampant transnationalism, of Christianity vs. secularism, and of European identity in general.

    These are battles that set conservatives’ teeth on edge. The political left in the West has for decades been relentless in its support for global governance, for limiting Christianity’s moral imprint on policymaking, and for stigmatizing the West in general.

    But conservatives can certainly find a better champion for these causes than the former KGB agent who publicly pines for the supranational Soviet Union, presides over a society replete with social ills, and does not miss an opportunity to promote Russia not as a Western power but as an Asian one.

    It is an astonishing trifecta that Putin has worked very hard to accomplish.” –Mike Gonzalez

  215. FincaInTheMountains July 31, 2016 at 9:11 pm #

    Islamist Educators after graduation party

    http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/103158/80/1031588008.jpg

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  216. sprawlcapital July 31, 2016 at 9:33 pm #

    1004 comments! Congratulations to our host on one of his best essays ever.

    By the way, Danny, when I corrected “oh” to “oy” in that post a few days ago, I was doing just that–making a correction. It was not intended as an anti-Semitic slur.

    It has been my practice here to correct a few of the mistakes in spelling and grammar that I notice. You were not being singled out.

    Also, Danny, as a former Wall Street worker, are you supportive of the belief that there can be infinite economic growth on a finite planet?

    • dannyboy August 1, 2016 at 8:18 am #

      Thank you for the explanation, sprawl.

      To answer your question, I need to introduce myself more. I am not a Materialist, so, of course I am not “supportive of the belief that there can be infinite economic growth on a finite planet.”

      I believe that things change. The next change will be the rebalancing of spiritual, intellectual and emotional growth, as the Material bond eases.

      I am only sorry that so many are struggling with this change.

  217. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 10:59 pm #

    TRUMP CAMPAIGN IN DISARRAY

    WASHINGTON ? Both Donald Trump and his campaign chairman said Sunday they had nothing to do with altering the Republican Party’s position on Ukraine ? which must have been news to GOP leaders who confirmed last week that Trump’s campaign insisted on exactly that change.

    The modified party platform drops its call to provide arms to Ukraine in response to Russia’s occupation of that country’s Crimea province in 2014. It represents a victory for Russian president Vladimir Putin, who soon after annexed the region.

    Two Republican National Committee officials acknowledged privately last week that Trump’s campaign pushed for the change, which was made in platform committee meetings in the days prior to the start of the Republican convention in Cleveland two weeks ago.

    Nevertheless, the celebrity businessman told ABC News on Sunday that he didn’t even know about the change until afterward.

    “I wasn’t involved in that. Honestly, I was not involved,” Trump said.

    Meanwhile, his top aide, Paul Manafort ? who for a decade was an adviser to the Russian-backed president of Ukraine until he was removed from office in 2014 ? similarly told NBC News that the new wording was not his idea. “It absolutely did not come from the Trump campaign,” he said.

  218. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 11:48 pm #

    MUSLIMS SCHOOL TRUMP

    TRUMP: “I’d like to hear his wife say something, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”

    KHAN: “That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God’s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family,” she said. “When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion.”

    • JimInFlorida August 1, 2016 at 6:57 am #

      There are always exceptions to the rule. Nobody cares about the tokens who are brought out to distract from that rule.

      Islam contains fundamentals that encourage and justify terrorism against non-Muslims. Those fundamentals are called the SWORD VERSES. Islam is also fundamentally an Arab thing and imposes Arabic culture through the religion. Only the Persians (Iranians) have reformed Islam into a somewhat civilized form.

      I would argue that the best defense against Islam is for Christianity to return to its old militant form, represented by such people as the Black Robe Regiment and Carrie Nation. But, that would be like hoping that a gay bar will go back to being the blue collar bar it might have been a century ago. Won’t happen.

  219. wpa_ccc July 31, 2016 at 11:52 pm #

    HEADS UP, Q.!

    NEWARK – Even before federal prosecutors indicted two former aides to Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal last year, the case had already received more than a year of intense media coverage as each new detail emerged about the alleged conspiracy.

    This week, attorneys will begin the process of finding 12 New Jersey residents who can — or who will say they can — impartially consider the evidence against the two at a scheduled September trial.

    Attorneys are scheduled to submit proposed juror questions this week.

    Former Christie aide Bridget Kelly and former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive Bill Baroni are charged with wire fraud and civil rights violations for allegedly purposely causing traffic jams for four days to punish a Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse Republican Christie.

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