[Her platform is almost the exact same as President Obama's]
That was the comment I was responding to. I over did it with the coffee this morning and proceed to write one of the longest things I have ever wrote, (I never went to college)
I know it’s loaded with broad statements, snark, and has bad rhythm, and sprinkles of hyperbole. If it gets pulled I have no problem with that, I know the rules, I know it’s election season. You see people are hurting out here. When I moved up here to JCMO scholastics paid $11 a hour, that was 12 years ago. Now? they pay $10.50 a hour. It’s the same at the majority of all factories and warehouses (the exception is Unilever, if you manage to actually get on after 3 or 4 years as a temp, they will pay you $20 a hour, tones of OT as well). Pick any random guy/girl who happens to have a kid/kids in their late teens to mid 30s that works at those factories, and I’ll show you a person is scraping by, buying everything second hand, taking all the OT they can, braking their backs to still be on food stamps. College just ain’t in the cards, even if they had the money they sure as hell don’t have the time. It ain’t roses and rainbows out here. You’d think it was if you were to frequent half the sites marketed towards Democrats though.
Again the comment I was responding to [Her platform is almost the exact same as President Obama's] a comment that was meant to garner support for Hillary if she were to get the nod.
Fantastic!!!!! The social floor needs lowering!!!! rein in spending!!! slash Social Security, unless of course it's increased funding to the the revolving door kickback machine, that legalized embezzlement/graft/kick backs scam that powers every decision Republicans, and Third Way crooks make.
Honestly have you ever seen a president who supports the scam that is charter schools more than Obama? I sure hope Hillary appoints a founder/owner of a charter school as United States Secretary of Education just like Obama did!!! I 100% agree public institutions just get in the way of people making money ( they get in the way embezzling, scaming, ripping off, the enriching the all ready wealthy at the expense of the working poor, by allowing those ‘’entrepreneurs’’ to drink at the public trough like thirsty hogs ). The Washington Consensus (aka soft fascism) has been a boom for the 1%, it has been doing exactly what it was designed to do for the past 35 years, why change a thing?
Republicans SUCK I mean sure they deregulated the savings and loan industry, awesome sauce! but then Reagan turned around and put 1,500 people in jail behind the savings and loan crisis, the US needs a true progressive leader that will continue the policy of handing out tax deductible fines for things like the Libor scandal, drug laundering crimes, and foreclosure fraud.
The US needs a president who is willing to put sanctions Venezuela, yet is also willing to support the GCC, the governments of Honduras, Mexico, Columbia,Paraguay, Ukraine, and the rest of the tyrants that toe the neoliberal Washington geopolitical line ex. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo , The Hashemites, General Idriss Déby Itno,Emomalii Rahmon, Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Islam Karimov,Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow, Prayut Chan-o-cha,Hassanal Bolkiah, Heydar oglu Aliyev, and Masoud Barzani. (I'm sure you know, but others might not, Masoud Barzani has refused to leave his office despite his term being over for more than a year, and just 2 weeks ago he used live ammo on protesters, no big deal, so has every one else I listed)
(side note a major offensive just took place in Sinjar (city not mountain) by the joint operations room of the, Peshmerga, Zeravani, Sinjar Alliance: HPS, YBS, YJÊ, PKK: HPG YJA-Star, International Freedom Battalion Rojava: YPG, YPJ and United States U.S. Special Forces. It's a pretty big deal, you'd expect to see cheer leading from Obama, the State Department, and the EU who are usually quick to tout the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) They've been mum lately, wonder why that is? Strange isn't it? Could it be that the US is busy arming Syria rebels to oust al-Assad while arming another tyrant just across the border? and don't want to look like hypocrites? the less eyes on that part of the world the better I guess. And it works. Ask anyone what the South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field is, ask anyone what wahhabism/salafism is, they won't have a clue what you're fucking talking about.
The US needs a president who is willing to not hand out crumbs to the pharmaceutical industry, like timid ass republicans, I mean really? medicaid part d? Weak sauce Mr. Bush, try TPP, and Obama care Bush Boy. The US needs a true bold progressive president who will hand out not billions, but trillions to the pharmaceutical industry, a president who is willing to take bold chances like renaming the the right wing think tank heritage foundation's bill that Newt Gingrich introduced back in 1995 ''Obama Care'' .
The US needs a bold progressive president who will go on all the talk shows as soon as they're reelected, and push the need to make ''tough choices'' like raising the retirement age instead of medicaid expansion. Convening the cat food commission, and pushing the policies they put forth is exactly the platform I want to see continued. Only a Democrat can push lowering the social floor, and have the liberals turn a blind eye (if a Republican pres does it they lose their shit)
Bush what a weak ass. I remember well when he rubbed Merkel's shoulders, lol you call that degrading a leader of a sovereign nation?!!!!! please. Try forcing the leader ( Evo Morales ) of a sovereign nation's plane to land, pull him off said plane, then search said plane, looking for a person who leaked information exposing the illegal crimes the NSA has committed, crimes that make the Stasi look like libertarians. For all you Republicans running? you think you have the stones for that? Rubbing shoulders? try getting, for the first time in history, disinvited to the Summit of the Americas.
The US needs a bold, progressive, president who is willing to fuel the fire of low intensity conflicts that scare the public in to emptying out their wallets to fund the MIC, how else can military contractors get rich? I mean, hey campaign coffers don't fill themselves you know, it's a quid pro quo world out here. And what a wonderful way to add fuel to the fire by expanding extrajudicial murders using drones. I mean hey, launch a Tomahawk cruise missiles in to a camp killing 41 civilians, including 14 women and 21 children, and you got a lot of pissed off Bedouins looking for revenge, am I right lol nudge nudge.
We are in a dire place in our countries history. Obama has done wonders expanding the powers of the NSA and persecuting whistleblowers (more than any other president), I mean the only person in jail for the torture program is the whistleblower, but it is not enough. Habeas corpus is a true threat to the nation. I have to admit Obama scared the shit out of me when he said he was leaving open the possibility of convening an investigatory "Truth Commission" for what President Obama called a "further accounting'' on the torture program, but thank god he was just blowing smoke.
There is one place where Hillary out shines Obama though, and that is foreign policy. I have to admit I was going to vote for Rubio, although I was hugely impressed with all the good work she did with Nuland NEXT STOP KAZAKHSTAN WOOO HOOO!!! The geopolitical goal of the US being the toll both on the new silk road is almost complete!!!!! The straits of Hormuz, Suez canal, the Straits of Gibraltar and since TPP is damn near a lock, the US PTB have the Straits of Malacca, on lock too! Wise move taking Malaysia off of the human trafficking worst offenders list, in order to get Malaysia unblocked from the trade pact . Obama is a true progressive leader indeed.
The Princeton oligarchy study proved what I all ready knew. It don't matter who's in the driver seat. Hell wall street deregulation, NAFTA, TPP, slashing of the food stamp program, cutting Social Security (Carter), etc all happened while a Democrat was president. Your typical Dem presidential candidate is nothing more than a fresh face to make it easier for the likes of people like you to swallow the pure bull shit that is the Washington consensus. Seriously what party took a hatchet to the social floor in Canada? The liberal party. What party took a hatchet to the social floor in the UK? The Labor party. Imperialism? US sponsored coups? expansion of the MIC/security state, privatization, social cuts, don't even hiccup when a new president is elected. The Washington consensus is just that, the Washington consensus.
You see bribery is not the right word for it. I have watched enough documentaries/programs on the halls of power, to know what the right word is. Every one uses the same word to describe what takes place on K street, the parties, the bars, the restaurants etc. Seduction. How you went from a guy who takes pictures with Cornel West, to touting a president who's vice president introduced the most draconian crime bill of this century, and touting the presidential candidate who's husband signed said bill, is easy to explain. Access is very seductive. The diners, the famous people, the collective feeling among you, and your peers that you are making a positive impact on the world. The perks outweigh the fact that them without money have no clout till the guillotines are out.
I've seen your comments pop up on my feed from time to time. You show a huge disdain for the working class people of your region, not that it is unwarranted, yet you show no disdain for them that have real political power in your party, and use it not to improve the world, but to improve a very small class of well connected people.
Go take a look at that picture of the Syrian kid who washed up on the beach face down.
This had nothing to do with Assad, and everything to do with market share. Bahrain, The Kurdistan Regional Government, hell any given month in Israel have all used the exact same horrendous, sadistic methods on protesters. Of course the US government will keep their damn mouths shut, no matter who's in charge..
Assad rejected the Qatar nat gas pipe line from the south pars/north dome field (located in the Persian gulf, largest gas field in the world, 60% in Qatar, 40% in Iran) at the behest of Putin. Qatar was out Billions, SA was out Billions, Russia maintains market share/clout in Europe. Assad had to go.
Zbigniew Brzezinski said it best when he said the biggest threat to US hegemony is a strong integrated, prosperous Eurasia, there can be no Russia/Chaina/Germany ascent lest the world become unstable, and by unstable he does not mean wars, he means a world were US hegemony is unstable and challenged. A world were the USA's PTB’s offer of plata o plomo wont carry as much weight in the resource rich developing world as it does now.
Go look at the picture of detained children held in the for profit detention centers.
The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) had been neglected for quite a while. A pink tide swept though the land of juntas. US ''NGO's'' promoting ''democracy'' were getting the boot, The ''DEA'' was getting the boot, the School of the Americas aka The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation was getting the boot, the voices of labor was being heard instead of being assassinated, or worse tortured to death (using methods taught to the USA by Paul Aussaresses while serving at Fort Bragg, the School of the Americas subsequently trained the juntas, and right wing death squads in the use of said torture). The voice of indigenous peoples were being heard instead of being assassinated, or worse tortured to death.
The voice of the ''peasants'' being heard? FUCK THAT!!!! next comes workers protections, and safety laws, and a living wage, Chiquita raises hell, Chevron raises hell, Murray Energy Corp raises hell, Ford raises hell. INCREASED OVERHEAD DECREASED MARGINS FUCK THAT!!!! Get back on the ball USSOUTHCOM!!! Well we have done all we can in Venezuela, sorry, but Honduras should be cake. Welcome to the Honduran coup, turning the country in to the murder capital of the world, a libertarian paradise with 2/3 of the police force privatized, and special economic zones where corporations can, get this collect taxes, putting in a US backed government that has FREAKING GROVER NORQUIST as a adviser, unleashing the flood of child refugees.
UNLEASHING A FLOOD OF CHILD REFUGEES. They're locked in cages like dogs, in for profit detention centers, Centers that get paid by the child, ah yes that lovely revolving door kickback machine keeps the mouths of those in power closed though. Campaign coffers don't fill them selves you know.
