And with all due respect - It is doubtful Trump fans are capable of intellectualizing as you have stated?
Without his attacks on “Mexicans” and pandering to the nativist xenophobia rife in parts of the U.S. Trump would now be another Rick Perry or Scott Walker.
At first, Trump was parody on a need for change. However, once he began taking himself seriously, he reduced his persona to that of a wealthy bad clown bobbing like a rotten apple in a tub of h8.
With nine Republican debates to go, American voters will need huge doses of “far right-wing victimhood“ anti-venom for the poison and malinformation yet to come.
“FrankenTrump” may actually survive for a few more debates. His nativist followers are big fans of zombies and such nonsense.
Donald Trump has managed to yank that rotting corpse of xenophobia from it’s shallow grave in many parts of our country and stupidly displayed it in full view.
Doctor Ben Carson joins the cheap-shot-spin extreme right-wing candidate fray with “"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that."
What corporate-controlled media dog whistle is attached to our current twice-elected President?
Doc Carson also said “Islam, as a religion, is incompatible with the Constitution.” Substitute “Catholicism,” for example, with “Islam” and see what you get? Confusing theocracy with a specific religion is uneducated and panders to many of the worst aspects of volatile nativist America.
Apparently, the political advice being spoon-fed to Doctor Carson is incompatible with reality and very unAmerican. The President is not “in-charge” per se, he is a component of a trilogy of powers which by our Constitution are specifically divided between Congress, our court(s) system and the Executive Branch.
And how about this for a “Doc Carsonesque” cheap-shot? - No far right-wing Republican We-Got-One-Too, impossibly polite, Wanna-be Oligarch who can prescribe powerful psychoactive meds should be put in charge of this nation.
Doctor Carson, much like his xenophobic reactionary co-candidate Donald Trump, is clearly not of Presidential quality.
At first, Donald Trump was a silly sideshow at the American political circus, the never-ending “electoral process” foisted by corporate-controlled media to stuff viewers minds with distraction, malinformation and total bu!!$#¡†.
Of late, this accidentally wealthy, repeatedly bankrupt egomaniac bully has begun to take himself seriously and now features a persona much akin to many 20th Century overtly racist, hate-mongering pilonidal abscesses on the @$$ of world history. His vicious xenophobic media-borne swagger may well sway others weak of mind to physically act upon the lunacy he now openly personifies and spews.
Much amplified by media, Trump has morphed into a racist bad clown appealing to the absolute worst aspects of our educationally diminished, media-blinded, low information minority of nativist citizens.
Without any doubt, Trump has actively and glibly yanked the parasite and vermin-infested rotting corpse of blind h8 from it’s shallow grave in many parts of our country.
The current Republican Party, to remain remotely relevant, must get busy and rebury the unAmerican putidity a ridicules media charlatan and political vandal named Donald Trump has so stupidly resurrected in THEIR name.
Excellent point about Eisenhower and Nixon. They would receive the media dog-whistle “Socialist” or “Communists” by the far right-wing reactionary current Republicans.
With the emergence of pure evil like Trump and Cruz, the GOP is disappearing and being replaced by the lunacy that destroys countries and destabilizes entire regions.
Incidentally, Ike was the last actual Republican President. When Nixon went b@†$h!† a quiet insurgency began their odious infiltration culminating with another weak-of-mind so-called Republican President.
Nick - to quote “America is over, unless there is a silent majority much larger and braver than I can see.”
America is NOT over. There is a very intelligent and brave American majority that is far too busy attempting to provide for their families and their future to be visible except at the polls when it matters.
Which is why President Obama was elected, TWICE, despite frothing, noisy Limbaugh/FAUXNews-led reactionaries and a hostile attempting-to-manipulate the public corporate-controlled media.
We are not as dumb as corporate-controlled media pretends to paint us.
Desperation of the American far-right has set in and was in plain sight during these “debates.”
Without another major war or orchestrated crisis within the next year, the current GOP will lose the White House to a Democrat and in time, their money leveraged highly reactionary content in Congress. (The absolute worst in U.S. history.)
Irving, Texas is just another far right-wing Texass $#!†#0Le in the Top 100 Conservative cities in America.
In February, Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne FALSELY claimed Muslims opened the nation’s first Sharia court in Irving.
And Spyguy is very correct, Irving Police have screwed this young man AND his family with the now permanent record of this “incident.”
There is a local groundswell of support for the Irving P.D. and the Zero Tolerance school district for their IGNORANT OVER-REACTION. The three day suspension issued to the young student will stand.
Please bear in mind that many adults in Texas are the least educated of any state in our once great country. All of the cities around Dallas are in the top 100 of most conservative in America including Irving.
If Texas needs an expert they send for one from Oklahoma, Louisiana or Arkansas.
The reason high school football is so popular in Texas is that Texans root for the high school they dropped out of.
Global climate collapse which is caused by human beings burning forests, jungles, the poison coal, tar sands petcoke, fuel oil, firewood, large engine fuels and garbage with no restraint is unparalleled in history.
Since manmade climate destruction has no known historical analog, tree ring data is interesting but does not apply.
Multinational interests exploiting energy-rich areas in the Middle East and South Asia have been destabilizing those regions since oil and gas became gold.
Consequently, powers indigenous to those regions are disrupting and distracting our nation and countries in the path of resulting mass human migrations.
Greed twisted out-dated foreign policy exercises in futility have now become dangerously ABSURD.
Time to leave these regions far behind and allow ancient tribal conflicts well beyond our control to be resolved without greedy outsider influence.
Corporate-controlled media, h8 radio and peer group pressure via “social media” and some of the so-called “churches” are taking a significant toll on the growing number of limited attention span, over-medicated, insecure and undereducated folk in our once great country.
It is truly amazing and saddening to witness good people actively work against their own interests and those of their families at the indirect behest of a handful of wealthy reactionaries.
Please consider - If current due-diligence was placed on “experts’ analysis” in 2001 and 2003, two completely unnecessary interminable wars would have been avoided or at least scaled to a proper response.
Military assessment simply does not agree with the motives of loud cackling chickenhawks and frothing MIC war-mongers in Congress who have now become desperate.
Unless another major war or orchestrated crisis occurs within the next year, the current GOP will lose the White House to a Democrat and in time, their highly reactionary content in Congress. (The absolute worst Congress(s) in U.S. history.)
Without specifics to define “Doing more” such talk is merely campaign rhetoric to secure Obama-haters and seniors votes within her party. Such talk also attracts campaign contributions and influences from strategic weapons manufacturers.
Please take note that the last huge planet-killing nuclear submarine remaining on-order was recently delivered to the Navy.
Syria has been a major customer of very expensive Russian air-defense systems, military aircraft, weapons/ammunition and other related goods and support services.
The events of the Islamist and Arab upheavals in Syria threaten that business relationship.
Other factors contribute such as Ukraine but Assad is a business deal Russian leadership can ill afford to lose.
The small Russian Tartous (Tartus) naval facility on the Syrian coast is the only officially active naval site (leased from Syria) Russia maintains on the Mediterranean Sea. The Tartous site is functionally for repair and replenishment of Russian naval vessels. (There is also some very minimal anti-piracy activity on Crete and Cyprus.)
The Russian/Syrian listening post, Center C, on the peak of Tel Al-Hara Mountain near Golan Heights was intended to monitor military activity in the region but was taken by the Free Syrian Army earlier this year.
Bashar Al-Assad and Russia are close business partners. An evacuation of Tartous by Russia would further weaken the Assad government and be bad for business.
Renewed Russian interest in the Mediterranean, all but abandoned in the 1970s, might also be a response to U.S. military operations in Lask, Poland.
Relax y’all, St. Kim Davis, the patron saint of corporate-controlled media distractions returns to work on Monday the 14th of September.
In the mean time, Friday is shopping day. Hickory Stripe Bib Overalls are on sale and solid color muu muu dresses are a bargain at $9, as well. Gotta look good for the next Republican Presidential candidate who wants to exploit these folks.
Those who had the power and authority to make necessary changes to prevent another dramatic, heavily orchestrated terrorist attack on the seats of power in our country proceeded to take full advantage of the circumstances.
Rather than promptly deal with a known foreign enemy from the Saudi Peninsula, steps were taken to actually protect that enemy. A war that lasted half-again as long as WWII resulted. Those NOT responsible took the blame and paid the price. That region remains in utter chaos even today.
Any President and Commander-in-Chief, especially one of diminished capacity, must rely heavily on advisers in a crisis situation. The motives behind and the quality of the advice adopted was very low in quality and fraught with special interests.
In the publics' confusion that followed 9/11, a national police state was created, unifying command and control of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence activity under the Department of Homeland Security. The implication was foisted that somehow existing intelligence methods and law enforcement had failed to protect the country and the DHS was the solution.
Domestic electronic information gathering by means of recording EVERYTHING began in earnest around 2004 and ramped up dramatically in 2006. Congress, who controls ALL BUDGETS AND SPENDING, has yet to significantly defund mass information slurping, the sole means to permanently stop these activities.
Interests within the private sector who provided the tools to engage in massive and over-zealous information gobbling saw the precedent and rapidly followed suit with their data scarfing systems which are far more extensive, today, than any taxpayer-funded and unConstitutional mass wiretap. Unfortunately, the results of private sector data collections on individuals and families is for sale to the highest bidder.
How will this broad spectrum of both government and private sector collected information and raw date be used in our future, say 10 or 20 years from now when it can be more easily sorted, analyzed, collated and binned?
As average citizens should be concerned, 9/11 and GWOT totally ABOLISHED the long cherished FREEDOM of INDIVIDUALS PRIVACY for every single person residing in or associated with anyone living within the U.S. right now and for as long as these collections of data and information exist.
Fortunately, remedies do exist and there is still time to apply them.
Dick Cheney should have resigned when he shot an old hunting partner in the face with a shotgun in early 2006 at the Armstrong Ranch in Texas.
Cheney was initially appointed Vice President by the Supreme Court in 2000 and managed to coerce the Bush administration, Congress and the U.S. public into the Iraq War by 2003 using lies, malinformation, intimidation and subsequently convicted co-conspirators as tools. His influence also helped spawn the odious and misnamed Patriot Act and the AUMFs of 2001 and 2002 which resulted in the abolition of privacy within our country.
In retrospect, his behavior then was clearly the actions of a knowing madman. His unapologetic behavior today is merely another symptom. True psychopaths have been instrumental in dragging entire regions and countries to eventual ruin throughout history.
Cheney is responsible in part for the on-going chaos in Mesopotamia and directly responsible for the deregulation/stripping of enforcements for the fossil-fuel industry thereby accelerating global climate collapse. The consequences of his efforts, combined, are instrumental in driving the tragic mass human migrations currently experienced across Europe, today.
What other historical travesties has this protected-by-law b@†$#!† monster in store for us?
Given the dates from antiquity in that cherry-picked factoid, those who use abortion as a hot-button dog whistle on emotional parishioners seem to want our country to regress 1,000 years.
And what is it with Right-to-Lifers desiring to extend the long arm of the law into every woman and girl in the U.S. by proxy?
Why corporate-controlled media chooses the term “immigrants” to describe mass human migrations is misleading and duplicitous.
The Supreme Court appointed a dynastic President with limited capacity advised by a gang of “knowing madmen” in 2000. By 2003, Iraq was invaded and occupied under proven fictitious circumstances utterly destabilizing the region then, now and in the foreseeable future.
The direct result of a falsified war is the current mass human migration seen in Europe today.
Aside from the fact the U.S. was duped, misled and lied to by the aforementioned “knowing madmen” driving our over-medicated, undereducated, corporate-controlled media blinded country into war, the U.S. shares the blame with the UK and vested multinational interests of the region for this tragedy.
Congress and the President must now decide and agree to choose the right course of action and mop up another mess left behind by a bunch of non-indicted co-conspirators and criminals against humanity.
Both Sanders and Trump are emblematic of the simple fact that a majority of Americans are simply fed up with the current state of our nation and the obvious imbalance which corporate-controlled media is attempting to SELL as acceptable. It is NOT acceptable.
Other Presidential candidates and current members of Congress should heed well the warning the popularity these very unlikely candidates have achieved and represent.
The constant state of war. The monkey-grabbing of common wealth and power into the hands of the few. The forced divisiveness in an armed nation of IMMIGRANTS is absurd and now dangerous. The abolition of privacy kicked-off by a dramatic act of orchestrated terror. The ignorant indifference towards our only home, Mother Earth, which threatens every living thing on our planet. An asinine replacement of American democracy by an oligarchy of anal-retentive greed, dynastic control and institutionalized corruption can no longer be tolerated.
Inmate Davis is not a criminal. She obviously lacks full capacity.
The Kentucky officials over her have pulled the old “Pontius Pilate trick,” washed their hands and left her in the jaws of a greater power for her non-compromising zeal.
Davis features herself as a media frenzy martyr. And indeed martyrdom is a very Christian act. Something that has worked powerfully for thousands of years. Nevertheless, in today's United States it is the act of a somewhat deranged individual.
The symptoms are obvious. She needs help, not incarceration.
Man-made global climate collapse isn’t “about Obama.”
Since the multinational fossil fuel industry realized it’s unfortunate necessity well over a century ago, our entire planet has been continuously bullied by greed, war and manipulation until our truly frightening future has been revealed.
If the passion spewed against those with names easy to remember was applied to immediately finding a better ways to boil water, generate electron flow, make engines of transport much more efficient and stop killing, burning and consuming every other living thing then some progress can be made.
Otherwise, we are all sad little crickets chirping in a vacant brown field that was once our beautiful garden.
Perhaps the U.S. “newz” media could stop substituting facts for faith and understand that “knowing” and “believing” are not the same and, in fact, are the polar opposites.
Corporate-controlled media is always beseeching viewers to “believe” when we should “know.” And, if facts are necessary, we get “trust us” and a line of well-written bovine droppings from nicely attired, excessively made-up, semi-attractive display readers and carefully prompted “experts.”
Unfortunately, it will take a lot more than a boycott to bring about what is really needed.
One of the many horrific effects of human-induced climate change is sudden and unexpected mass deaths like 120,000 Ice Age saiga antelope dying within a few months in remote locations such as Kazakhstan.
The distance from Austin, Texas to the Canadian border (the topic) is well over 1,000 miles.
Building a wall around Texas has much more merit than a wall across the Canadian border. With the lowest ranked educational system in the U.S. (Ranked #50 out of 50 by numerous sources.) Texas influences should be contained.
And if unhappy with Austin trends, consider Lubbock, Abilene or Plano? Some of the most conservative cities in Texas (and the U.S.) by far.
Incidentally, the suburbs around Dallas are amongst the most conservative in America. Plano, Arlington, Garland, Carrollton, Mesquite, Irving, Fort Worth and Grand Prairie all make the Top 100 Most Conservative cities.
Austin has the Broken Spoke, UT, great BBQ and food trailers.
Be proud.
If Austin needs money they should tap the TEF which has handed over hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer $$$ to Oracle, Dow Chemical, Apple, Home Depot, Visa, Frito-Lay, Kohl’s Department Stores, Facebook, Petco, Lockheed Martin, Vought Aircraft, T-Mobile, even the U.S. Bowling Congress. Why not their capitol city? Or petition the Walton family (WAL*MART), the wealthiest family in America. Some live in Texas, out by Weatherford. They can afford it.
With all due respect, Marquette University has a very low ranking amongst our leading colleges and the various controversies over Govidate Walker’s academic performance should not be so easily dismissed.
You are very correct, Marquette is not a junior college. Standing corrected.
It does not alter the fact, Govidate Walker is simply not Presidential material by any stretch of imagination.
We can elect a Kenyan-born Socialist, Reverend Wright following, Muslim ex-pothead, cinnamon roll hoarding person-of-color as our President, TWICE - electing a too old Jew(ish) Socialist agitator Senator Bernie Sanders will be a piece of cake.
Especially if rabble-rousing, anti-capitalist, closet Socialist, TARP-loving, turncoat Okie now blue state Senator Elizabeth Warren is the running mate/person.
It would be the 2016 Blue State Socialist Conspiracy to take away those guns and War-on-Religious Freedoms ticket.
Donald Trump is being thrust into our Presidential primary forefront to distract from anything remotely important or meaningful.
Corporate-controlled media is in business to sell us stuff and promote malinformation on behalf of the oligarchy. Trump is the current “shiny thing over there” and nothing more.
When the primary candidate out of the Neo-theocracy Wing of the Gross Oligarchy Party (GOP) trots overseas and pretends to sound as though he possesses some measure of U.S. foreign policy decision- making, Huckabee merely enlarges the embarrassing mockery in American politics the knuckle-dragging fringe the evangelical far-right exemplifies.
Reverend Huckabee openly displays himself as a lawless, pandering, noisy, chicken-fried maladroit unfit to lead a congregation much less our country.
If efforts put into whining and complaining about a cascading stripping of the right-to-privacy (enabled by an obscure 1981 Reagan Administration Executive Order 12333 (authored by a then Chief-of-Staff), made robust by the misnamed Patriot Act and the AUMFs) was applied to actually curtailing these egregious well over thirty year-old oversteps with effective specifics - then well-intended pieces like this one would be worth the read.
The writing on the NSA topic has become an aging cottage industry, offers scant useful purpose and serves to sidestep the biggest privacy offender. Indeed our government has exceeded Constitutional authority for at least three decades but is NOTHING compared to current private sector information gathering/gobbling.
NSA monitoring primarily looks for useful intelligence, information which may lead to evidence for due-process and a conviction in a court of law.
The private sector knows on an ongoing basis who you are, where you are, when you wake up, what you eat, who you know, your maladies and your favorite porn tags to itemize just a few of many specific data points clandestinely gleaned and recorded from most citizens - even little children.
The captured and recorded very personal information can be (and is, in fact) packaged and sold to the highest bidder without regulation, controls or the individuals permission in a batch or as a subscription.
How will previously prostituted highly-granular day-to-day personal data be used in your future, say, ten years from now?
There is a very real chance that one of these right-wing anti-Planet Earth political harlots (no offense to harlots intended) could be held responsible for more human tragedy, pain and suffering than all the “leaders” in the history of civilization, combined.
The initial wave of mass devastation brought on by the century of greed and indifference by the MIC aka fossil fuel crime syndicate will likely occur during their administration if actually elected.
All of these “crude” candidates should review history very carefully on how the right-wing Mussolini finally ended his tenure of leadership.
'We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators' - Dick Cheney, Sept. 14, 2003 on NBC
He left out the part about decimating Iraqi infrastructure, aiding and abetting corruption, promoting incompetence and further dividing the entire region in the foreseeable future.
So, for the more than 80% - Ol´i`gar´chy OLIGARCHY - the state of our nation from the opening of the 21st Century until TBD and the descent continues unabated.
Coincidentally, 1: government by the few 2: a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also , a group exercising such control 3: an organization under oligarchic control. The legal definition of OLIGARCHY - This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people.
Speaking truth-to-power gets one nowhere when 99% of our information and newsworthy items are parceled-out by four or five closely aligned corporate-controlled butt-trumpets.
There was a time in our recent history when former U.S. President Carter’s statement of fact during this interview would be headline news - “ . . . . now just an oligarchy.”
With the “dumbing-down of America” now in place - only about 20% of our population would have a clue as to what “oligarchy” actually means and the significance.
Although our country has fallen to anal-retentive wealth, faith over fact, h8, pharmego and indifference, that alarming set of circumstances does not sell FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, pick-up trucks, high-fructose foods and beverage or DRM encapsulated products. Therefore - CRICKETS.
Is it any wonder our country now exists without a clue in the hands of a few while it pretends otherwise?
The faux-Republican bottom of the barrel has been scraped unleashing Senadate Cruz. Corporate-controlled media loves these silly candidates giving them undue credibility a la Trump.
Canadian-citizen Freshman U.S. Senator Cruz of Texas has consistently shown himself to be a purposefully malinforming naked opportunist who plays to emotion, h8 and faux-folksy religiosity chased from the temple 2,000 years ago.
A closer examination of actual SCOTUS experience(s) at this point in the endless campaign cycle will save Republicans significant time, effort and money if truth be told.
If it’s non-substantive or inconsequential FAUXNews will Trumpet at full amplitude.
Trump surmises if Ted Cruz can get away with it, so can he. Trump has more money.
A very low and illogical means to gain media airtime is to amp-up unnecessary outrage with unprovable controversy at the expense of a well-known aging Senator who actually went through an ordeal and survived - as opposed to Trump whose worst life experience is his continuous bad hair day.
Perhaps Trump is in the race to make other extremists running as Republicans look less obnoxious?
If that is the goal, Trump is a success. If not, he’s wrest the “obnoxious crown” from Senatidate Cruz. At least for now.
The gauntlet has been thrown down by Trump in any event. Who can be more outrageous and inappropriate on behalf of the current Republican Party?
The shrub is praying for Jeb to get “his turn” so he won’t be getting a higher priority on the docket along with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Addington, Yoo, Rice and others - including those in the psychiatric profession who enabled this foul tribe in their most odious of unAmerican activities.
Good Texas-based attorneys will cost him a ton hence the groveling for speaking fees.
The fact Bernie Sanders is categorized as a “liberal” by current media standards is an accurate basis of measurement for how far to the extreme right our country has lurched during the past half century.
In the decade following WWII our country was unified in victory over enemy imperialism, racism and fascism. The national agendas of both the Republican and Democratic Party would be, by today's standards, indistinguishable from each other.
Bernie Sanders is very close to being an “Eisenhower Republican” of the time or as the current retro-American frothing-at-the-mouth extreme right-wing Republicans term his political leanings - just another “socialist” or “commie.”
Both Jay L and Kozmo make valid and insightful observations about our country and its need for a state of continuous war on all manner of people and inanimate objects.
Here is a suggestion to curtail this national obsession based on personal experience by actually surviving war, firsthand.
EVERY U.S. occupant WITHOUT EXCEPTION be forced under severe penalty to serve in the U.S. military for three years.
BRING BACK THE DRAFT! No deferment for privilege, wealth, college or pilonidal cyst.
The bellicose gaggle of right-wing extremists in U.S. political endeavor who have tied their political futures to the concept that personal religious beliefs and interpretations of scripture trumps the law and human rights will make them UNELECTABLE.
Governor Abbott of Texas has signed a directive http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21131 making that concept part of the legal fabric of that State and in doing so has assured he will be a ONE-TERM Governor.
SCOTUS rules in favor of mercury poisoning for all of us, while protecting fossil fuel industry profits of the few.
Yet, corporate-controlled media continues their criminal pettifoggery by leaving out this important fact and focusing instead on news that riles up those with the IQ of a squid, (No offense to squid.)
As a reminder, the events of recent times - Universal healthcare improvements, LGBT rights, international copyrights agreements, diminishing antiquated cloth symbols of h8 and restoring some confidence in our government - is ALL OLD BUSINESS. Events that should have occurred decades ago but were deferred by the “United Stateus Interuptus” era starting with dubious 9/11.
The U.S. is now badly retarded from the initial 8 years of blundering demented/evil post-9/11 intent which was followed by another 7 years in attempts for corrective action (sustaining vigorous resistance in the process) to begin the repair.
And what is the result of the recent pinch of progress in our country? Frothing at the mouth right-wing extremists in government have done a bellicose and uniform to-the-rear-flank maneuver.
Which in fact is the exact opposite of leadership.
Presidential candidates openly spread h8 and threaten to bring down our country as it stands, Governors’ sign directives for their State to give personal beliefs in mythical beings priority over the rights and needs of real citizens, members of Congress reaffirm the vow to continue their lock-step march back to 1920 at the behest of the super-wealthy.
There is more and urgent OLD BUSINESS to be addressed to actually restart our country -
REPAIR OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS!
• Actual campaign reform(s).
• Equal and uniform voting rights.
• Voting system result debugging. Currently, CATS voting is little more than a digital SHAM.
• Prioritize the actual democratic process over the desires of corporate media.
• Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE
PREVENT THE DEMONSTRATED CATASTROPHIC RISKS PRESENTED BY A BADLY DEFORMED FINANCIAL SYSTEM
• Ordinary citizens at risk for banks reward.
• Banks instrumental in hiding TRILLION$ of taxable profits and assets.
* Stop free money to the 1% while everyone else pays 28%.
GREATLY DIMINISH THE POWER AND CONTROL BY THE GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY ON OUR COUNTRY
• Save our entire planet!
THIS WOULD BE A DECADES LATE LONG-OVERDUE BEGINNING!!
Extreme right-wing h8 groups and their leaders are being protected by local law enforcement and elected officials - which emboldens heinous actions further.
Today, we have Governors, U.S. Senators and Presidential candidates openly soliciting/accepting money and favor from h8 groups and warped rich persons.
When publicly exposed, these elected officials (potential and otherwise) feign indignation, do some media arm-waving and move on a short time later to soliciting more money from the “Cookie Jar of H8.”
Rather than pressing and illuminating this persistent loathsome tendency within our country, corporate-controlled media distracts from the actual issue by focusing on some dumb-azz piece of cloth.
Appallingly, there is BIG MONEY in promoting hatred and divisiveness at every level in our country as it recedes into time back to the 1920s. The well-financed shift to the extreme far right in these “United States” has overtaken the urgent need to curtail institutionalized stupidity and is sad to witness. Get ready to duck and cover or run.
And with all due respect - It is doubtful Trump fans are capable of intellectualizing as you have stated?
Without his attacks on “Mexicans” and pandering to the nativist xenophobia rife in parts of the U.S. Trump would now be another Rick Perry or Scott Walker.
At first, Trump was parody on a need for change. However, once he began taking himself seriously, he reduced his persona to that of a wealthy bad clown bobbing like a rotten apple in a tub of h8.
With nine Republican debates to go, American voters will need huge doses of “far right-wing victimhood“ anti-venom for the poison and malinformation yet to come.
“FrankenTrump” may actually survive for a few more debates. His nativist followers are big fans of zombies and such nonsense.
Donald Trump has managed to yank that rotting corpse of xenophobia from it’s shallow grave in many parts of our country and stupidly displayed it in full view.
The sole foundation of his current popularity.
Doctor Ben Carson joins the cheap-shot-spin extreme right-wing candidate fray with “"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that."
What corporate-controlled media dog whistle is attached to our current twice-elected President?
Doc Carson also said “Islam, as a religion, is incompatible with the Constitution.” Substitute “Catholicism,” for example, with “Islam” and see what you get? Confusing theocracy with a specific religion is uneducated and panders to many of the worst aspects of volatile nativist America.
Apparently, the political advice being spoon-fed to Doctor Carson is incompatible with reality and very unAmerican. The President is not “in-charge” per se, he is a component of a trilogy of powers which by our Constitution are specifically divided between Congress, our court(s) system and the Executive Branch.
And how about this for a “Doc Carsonesque” cheap-shot? - No far right-wing Republican We-Got-One-Too, impossibly polite, Wanna-be Oligarch who can prescribe powerful psychoactive meds should be put in charge of this nation.
Doctor Carson, much like his xenophobic reactionary co-candidate Donald Trump, is clearly not of Presidential quality.
At first, Donald Trump was a silly sideshow at the American political circus, the never-ending “electoral process” foisted by corporate-controlled media to stuff viewers minds with distraction, malinformation and total bu!!$#¡†.
Of late, this accidentally wealthy, repeatedly bankrupt egomaniac bully has begun to take himself seriously and now features a persona much akin to many 20th Century overtly racist, hate-mongering pilonidal abscesses on the @$$ of world history. His vicious xenophobic media-borne swagger may well sway others weak of mind to physically act upon the lunacy he now openly personifies and spews.
Much amplified by media, Trump has morphed into a racist bad clown appealing to the absolute worst aspects of our educationally diminished, media-blinded, low information minority of nativist citizens.
Without any doubt, Trump has actively and glibly yanked the parasite and vermin-infested rotting corpse of blind h8 from it’s shallow grave in many parts of our country.
The current Republican Party, to remain remotely relevant, must get busy and rebury the unAmerican putidity a ridicules media charlatan and political vandal named Donald Trump has so stupidly resurrected in THEIR name.
Excellent point about Eisenhower and Nixon. They would receive the media dog-whistle “Socialist” or “Communists” by the far right-wing reactionary current Republicans.
With the emergence of pure evil like Trump and Cruz, the GOP is disappearing and being replaced by the lunacy that destroys countries and destabilizes entire regions.
Incidentally, Ike was the last actual Republican President. When Nixon went b@†$h!† a quiet insurgency began their odious infiltration culminating with another weak-of-mind so-called Republican President.
Professor Cole - I stand corrected.
And a "hats-off" to your many loyal contributors. Not the usual rabble seen elsewhere.
The saga of Ponce de Leon Montgomery County Alabama Georgia Beauregard Possum aka Pogo ran in leading newspapers for 27 years.
Informed Comment has run for eight years on the internet.
Only 19 more to go.
Nick - to quote “America is over, unless there is a silent majority much larger and braver than I can see.”
America is NOT over. There is a very intelligent and brave American majority that is far too busy attempting to provide for their families and their future to be visible except at the polls when it matters.
Which is why President Obama was elected, TWICE, despite frothing, noisy Limbaugh/FAUXNews-led reactionaries and a hostile attempting-to-manipulate the public corporate-controlled media.
We are not as dumb as corporate-controlled media pretends to paint us.
Count on it.
Desperation of the American far-right has set in and was in plain sight during these “debates.”
Without another major war or orchestrated crisis within the next year, the current GOP will lose the White House to a Democrat and in time, their money leveraged highly reactionary content in Congress. (The absolute worst in U.S. history.)
Congress and the President decides immigration quotas.
Learn something.
The American reactionary evangelical right will be accusing the Pope of being a Muslim in 5-4-3-2-1.
With all due respect - Not a day goes by when some bunch of @$$#@†$ in Texass fail to embarrass our country and everyone in it.
Irving, Texas is just another far right-wing Texass $#!†#0Le in the Top 100 Conservative cities in America.
In February, Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne FALSELY claimed Muslims opened the nation’s first Sharia court in Irving.
And Spyguy is very correct, Irving Police have screwed this young man AND his family with the now permanent record of this “incident.”
There is a local groundswell of support for the Irving P.D. and the Zero Tolerance school district for their IGNORANT OVER-REACTION. The three day suspension issued to the young student will stand.
Please bear in mind that many adults in Texas are the least educated of any state in our once great country. All of the cities around Dallas are in the top 100 of most conservative in America including Irving.
If Texas needs an expert they send for one from Oklahoma, Louisiana or Arkansas.
The reason high school football is so popular in Texas is that Texans root for the high school they dropped out of.
Global climate collapse which is caused by human beings burning forests, jungles, the poison coal, tar sands petcoke, fuel oil, firewood, large engine fuels and garbage with no restraint is unparalleled in history.
Since manmade climate destruction has no known historical analog, tree ring data is interesting but does not apply.
This will not end well.
Many Americans hope and pray that y’all can solve your own problems.
Vested multinational interests not of your region stimulated current problems and THEY are not going to fix it.
OUTGOING US commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno needs to get his antidepressant meds adjusted.
Syria and Iraq have been around in various forms for thousands of years. The U.S. for a few hundred years.
What is amazing is that after a decade these loser military and foreign policy wonks have yet to fully appreciate the simple fact that WE LOST!
The mess which resulted is directly responsible for the spreading regional chaos being experienced today.
Heck of a job.
Multinational interests exploiting energy-rich areas in the Middle East and South Asia have been destabilizing those regions since oil and gas became gold.
Consequently, powers indigenous to those regions are disrupting and distracting our nation and countries in the path of resulting mass human migrations.
Greed twisted out-dated foreign policy exercises in futility have now become dangerously ABSURD.
Time to leave these regions far behind and allow ancient tribal conflicts well beyond our control to be resolved without greedy outsider influence.
The lede for this topic should be “We WILL melt all the Ice in Antarctica if we Keep on Burning Fossil Fuels.”
Corporate-controlled media, h8 radio and peer group pressure via “social media” and some of the so-called “churches” are taking a significant toll on the growing number of limited attention span, over-medicated, insecure and undereducated folk in our once great country.
It is truly amazing and saddening to witness good people actively work against their own interests and those of their families at the indirect behest of a handful of wealthy reactionaries.
TWO BUSH - THREE WARS!
We should never make that mistake, again.
Valid points, all.
The “dumbing-down of America” is taking it’s toll.
And viewing the “nightmare” from the inside is terrifying.
The majority of these misguided vigilante @$$#@†$ are armed to the teeth.
FAUXNews, war-mongers in Congress and non-indicted war criminal Cheney were the loudest in foisting this non-issue. There is desperation from the MIC.
Time is running out for their continuous state of war.
TB - Points 1 & 2 are well-stated but 3?
Please consider - If current due-diligence was placed on “experts’ analysis” in 2001 and 2003, two completely unnecessary interminable wars would have been avoided or at least scaled to a proper response.
Military assessment simply does not agree with the motives of loud cackling chickenhawks and frothing MIC war-mongers in Congress who have now become desperate.
Unless another major war or orchestrated crisis occurs within the next year, the current GOP will lose the White House to a Democrat and in time, their highly reactionary content in Congress. (The absolute worst Congress(s) in U.S. history.)
Professor Cole - no more bull$#!† FAUXNEWS headlines, please.
Much thanks.
Without specifics to define “Doing more” such talk is merely campaign rhetoric to secure Obama-haters and seniors votes within her party. Such talk also attracts campaign contributions and influences from strategic weapons manufacturers.
Please take note that the last huge planet-killing nuclear submarine remaining on-order was recently delivered to the Navy.
Syria has been a major customer of very expensive Russian air-defense systems, military aircraft, weapons/ammunition and other related goods and support services.
The events of the Islamist and Arab upheavals in Syria threaten that business relationship.
Other factors contribute such as Ukraine but Assad is a business deal Russian leadership can ill afford to lose.
The small Russian Tartous (Tartus) naval facility on the Syrian coast is the only officially active naval site (leased from Syria) Russia maintains on the Mediterranean Sea. The Tartous site is functionally for repair and replenishment of Russian naval vessels. (There is also some very minimal anti-piracy activity on Crete and Cyprus.)
The Russian/Syrian listening post, Center C, on the peak of Tel Al-Hara Mountain near Golan Heights was intended to monitor military activity in the region but was taken by the Free Syrian Army earlier this year.
Bashar Al-Assad and Russia are close business partners. An evacuation of Tartous by Russia would further weaken the Assad government and be bad for business.
Renewed Russian interest in the Mediterranean, all but abandoned in the 1970s, might also be a response to U.S. military operations in Lask, Poland.
Relax y’all, St. Kim Davis, the patron saint of corporate-controlled media distractions returns to work on Monday the 14th of September.
In the mean time, Friday is shopping day. Hickory Stripe Bib Overalls are on sale and solid color muu muu dresses are a bargain at $9, as well. Gotta look good for the next Republican Presidential candidate who wants to exploit these folks.
"I suspect he admits his errors in the book, takes responsibility, and asks for forgiveness."
Nope.
Those who had the power and authority to make necessary changes to prevent another dramatic, heavily orchestrated terrorist attack on the seats of power in our country proceeded to take full advantage of the circumstances.
Rather than promptly deal with a known foreign enemy from the Saudi Peninsula, steps were taken to actually protect that enemy. A war that lasted half-again as long as WWII resulted. Those NOT responsible took the blame and paid the price. That region remains in utter chaos even today.
Any President and Commander-in-Chief, especially one of diminished capacity, must rely heavily on advisers in a crisis situation. The motives behind and the quality of the advice adopted was very low in quality and fraught with special interests.
In the publics' confusion that followed 9/11, a national police state was created, unifying command and control of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence activity under the Department of Homeland Security. The implication was foisted that somehow existing intelligence methods and law enforcement had failed to protect the country and the DHS was the solution.
Domestic electronic information gathering by means of recording EVERYTHING began in earnest around 2004 and ramped up dramatically in 2006. Congress, who controls ALL BUDGETS AND SPENDING, has yet to significantly defund mass information slurping, the sole means to permanently stop these activities.
Interests within the private sector who provided the tools to engage in massive and over-zealous information gobbling saw the precedent and rapidly followed suit with their data scarfing systems which are far more extensive, today, than any taxpayer-funded and unConstitutional mass wiretap. Unfortunately, the results of private sector data collections on individuals and families is for sale to the highest bidder.
How will this broad spectrum of both government and private sector collected information and raw date be used in our future, say 10 or 20 years from now when it can be more easily sorted, analyzed, collated and binned?
As average citizens should be concerned, 9/11 and GWOT totally ABOLISHED the long cherished FREEDOM of INDIVIDUALS PRIVACY for every single person residing in or associated with anyone living within the U.S. right now and for as long as these collections of data and information exist.
Fortunately, remedies do exist and there is still time to apply them.
Dick Cheney should have resigned when he shot an old hunting partner in the face with a shotgun in early 2006 at the Armstrong Ranch in Texas.
Cheney was initially appointed Vice President by the Supreme Court in 2000 and managed to coerce the Bush administration, Congress and the U.S. public into the Iraq War by 2003 using lies, malinformation, intimidation and subsequently convicted co-conspirators as tools. His influence also helped spawn the odious and misnamed Patriot Act and the AUMFs of 2001 and 2002 which resulted in the abolition of privacy within our country.
In retrospect, his behavior then was clearly the actions of a knowing madman. His unapologetic behavior today is merely another symptom. True psychopaths have been instrumental in dragging entire regions and countries to eventual ruin throughout history.
Cheney is responsible in part for the on-going chaos in Mesopotamia and directly responsible for the deregulation/stripping of enforcements for the fossil-fuel industry thereby accelerating global climate collapse. The consequences of his efforts, combined, are instrumental in driving the tragic mass human migrations currently experienced across Europe, today.
What other historical travesties has this protected-by-law b@†$#!† monster in store for us?
Donald who?
Given the dates from antiquity in that cherry-picked factoid, those who use abortion as a hot-button dog whistle on emotional parishioners seem to want our country to regress 1,000 years.
And what is it with Right-to-Lifers desiring to extend the long arm of the law into every woman and girl in the U.S. by proxy?
Ew.
The President AND Congress decide.
You left out the Congress part.
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/how-united-states-immigration-system-works-fact-sheet
See III. Refugees and Asylees
No need to thank.
Bush sold his bogus ranch to move into Preston Hollow in Dallas. It's only 8,500 sq. ft.
Maybe some could be housed in his bogus library over by SMU?
Why corporate-controlled media chooses the term “immigrants” to describe mass human migrations is misleading and duplicitous.
The Supreme Court appointed a dynastic President with limited capacity advised by a gang of “knowing madmen” in 2000. By 2003, Iraq was invaded and occupied under proven fictitious circumstances utterly destabilizing the region then, now and in the foreseeable future.
The direct result of a falsified war is the current mass human migration seen in Europe today.
Aside from the fact the U.S. was duped, misled and lied to by the aforementioned “knowing madmen” driving our over-medicated, undereducated, corporate-controlled media blinded country into war, the U.S. shares the blame with the UK and vested multinational interests of the region for this tragedy.
Congress and the President must now decide and agree to choose the right course of action and mop up another mess left behind by a bunch of non-indicted co-conspirators and criminals against humanity.
Let Detroit become New Damascus.
No more dead toddlers face down on the beach.
Both Sanders and Trump are emblematic of the simple fact that a majority of Americans are simply fed up with the current state of our nation and the obvious imbalance which corporate-controlled media is attempting to SELL as acceptable. It is NOT acceptable.
Other Presidential candidates and current members of Congress should heed well the warning the popularity these very unlikely candidates have achieved and represent.
The constant state of war. The monkey-grabbing of common wealth and power into the hands of the few. The forced divisiveness in an armed nation of IMMIGRANTS is absurd and now dangerous. The abolition of privacy kicked-off by a dramatic act of orchestrated terror. The ignorant indifference towards our only home, Mother Earth, which threatens every living thing on our planet. An asinine replacement of American democracy by an oligarchy of anal-retentive greed, dynastic control and institutionalized corruption can no longer be tolerated.
Sanders and Trump are a loud and clear message.
Make no mistake about it.
A pattern has emerged. Corporate-controlled media is featuring demented personalities this fall.
• Trump
• Davis
* Walker
• Cruz
To name just a few.
Egyptian billionaire has a temporary solution?
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/09/04/Egyptian-telecom-billionaire-offers-to-buy-island-to-shelter-refugees/8411441390479/
A couple of fast attack subs, an AEGIS cruiser and a fleet of destroyers and it’ll all be good.
King Salman can afford it.
Inmate Davis is not a criminal. She obviously lacks full capacity.
The Kentucky officials over her have pulled the old “Pontius Pilate trick,” washed their hands and left her in the jaws of a greater power for her non-compromising zeal.
Davis features herself as a media frenzy martyr. And indeed martyrdom is a very Christian act. Something that has worked powerfully for thousands of years. Nevertheless, in today's United States it is the act of a somewhat deranged individual.
The symptoms are obvious. She needs help, not incarceration.
And a whole lot less attention.
All history does not start with Obama.
Man-made global climate collapse isn’t “about Obama.”
Since the multinational fossil fuel industry realized it’s unfortunate necessity well over a century ago, our entire planet has been continuously bullied by greed, war and manipulation until our truly frightening future has been revealed.
If the passion spewed against those with names easy to remember was applied to immediately finding a better ways to boil water, generate electron flow, make engines of transport much more efficient and stop killing, burning and consuming every other living thing then some progress can be made.
Otherwise, we are all sad little crickets chirping in a vacant brown field that was once our beautiful garden.
Perhaps the U.S. “newz” media could stop substituting facts for faith and understand that “knowing” and “believing” are not the same and, in fact, are the polar opposites.
Corporate-controlled media is always beseeching viewers to “believe” when we should “know.” And, if facts are necessary, we get “trust us” and a line of well-written bovine droppings from nicely attired, excessively made-up, semi-attractive display readers and carefully prompted “experts.”
Unfortunately, it will take a lot more than a boycott to bring about what is really needed.
One of the many horrific effects of human-induced climate change is sudden and unexpected mass deaths like 120,000 Ice Age saiga antelope dying within a few months in remote locations such as Kazakhstan.
http://phys.org/news/2015-05-mass-deaths-rare-kazakhstan-antelopes.html
So, let’s keep those pet coke and coal-fired facilities burning red hot, destroy more jungles and forests so WE CAN BE NEXT!
YEEHAW!
In all fairness, CNN did cover a salmon spawning on our President’s shoes.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/obama-salmon-spawning-alaska/index.html?eref=edition
The distance from Austin, Texas to the Canadian border (the topic) is well over 1,000 miles.
Building a wall around Texas has much more merit than a wall across the Canadian border. With the lowest ranked educational system in the U.S. (Ranked #50 out of 50 by numerous sources.) Texas influences should be contained.
And if unhappy with Austin trends, consider Lubbock, Abilene or Plano? Some of the most conservative cities in Texas (and the U.S.) by far.
Incidentally, the suburbs around Dallas are amongst the most conservative in America. Plano, Arlington, Garland, Carrollton, Mesquite, Irving, Fort Worth and Grand Prairie all make the Top 100 Most Conservative cities.
http://www.city-data.com/
Austin has the Broken Spoke, UT, great BBQ and food trailers.
Be proud.
If Austin needs money they should tap the TEF which has handed over hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer $$$ to Oracle, Dow Chemical, Apple, Home Depot, Visa, Frito-Lay, Kohl’s Department Stores, Facebook, Petco, Lockheed Martin, Vought Aircraft, T-Mobile, even the U.S. Bowling Congress. Why not their capitol city? Or petition the Walton family (WAL*MART), the wealthiest family in America. Some live in Texas, out by Weatherford. They can afford it.
With all due respect, Marquette University has a very low ranking amongst our leading colleges and the various controversies over Govidate Walker’s academic performance should not be so easily dismissed.
You are very correct, Marquette is not a junior college. Standing corrected.
It does not alter the fact, Govidate Walker is simply not Presidential material by any stretch of imagination.
Govidate Walker ended his formal education when he dropped out of junior college.
Not an idiot but merely someone's tool.
Perhaps building a wall around the current gaggle of silly GOP Presidential candidates would be much more useful?
Nice satire, Bob.
Thanks.
Being a self-Christened pseudo-demigod doesn’t count.
She is in non-compliance therefore contempt-able.
And a potential running mate for Senadate Ted Cruz.
We can elect a Kenyan-born Socialist, Reverend Wright following, Muslim ex-pothead, cinnamon roll hoarding person-of-color as our President, TWICE - electing a too old Jew(ish) Socialist agitator Senator Bernie Sanders will be a piece of cake.
Especially if rabble-rousing, anti-capitalist, closet Socialist, TARP-loving, turncoat Okie now blue state Senator Elizabeth Warren is the running mate/person.
It would be the 2016 Blue State Socialist Conspiracy to take away those guns and War-on-Religious Freedoms ticket.
The only time Russia and the U.S. collaborate is if Russia gets paid handsomely in some way.
Will the tab be one (1) each Ukraine?
Donald Trump for President is merely a parody of many of the worst aspects of our once great country.
Trump is the digitally connected corporate media version of a P.T. Barnum sideshow.
Because the current gaggle of GOP Presidential candidates are simply non-relevant extremist CIRCUS, Trump’s sad little bad-hair parody gets the press.
With Trump, the joke is on US.
In states such as Louisiana and Texas, many well-intended folks are too undereducated to realize their demonstrated ignorance.
Blame a dual-valued state’s culture, a proven inadequate educational system and local peer-group pressure.
Besides a bunch of education jus' gets folks uppity and rabblerousin.’ Who needs that?
Welcome to the PRIVATIZATION of EVERYTHING.
Especially OUR PRIVACY.
Donald Trump will NEVER be our President.
Looking at the Senadate Cruz career history, he seems to be unable to hold a position for very long.
"Iran’s Iraqi enemy" = Sunni
ROGUE STATE whoops
Nothing more dangerous than a "prime rouge state" without a clue.
Donald Trump is being thrust into our Presidential primary forefront to distract from anything remotely important or meaningful.
Corporate-controlled media is in business to sell us stuff and promote malinformation on behalf of the oligarchy. Trump is the current “shiny thing over there” and nothing more.
When the primary candidate out of the Neo-theocracy Wing of the Gross Oligarchy Party (GOP) trots overseas and pretends to sound as though he possesses some measure of U.S. foreign policy decision- making, Huckabee merely enlarges the embarrassing mockery in American politics the knuckle-dragging fringe the evangelical far-right exemplifies.
Reverend Huckabee openly displays himself as a lawless, pandering, noisy, chicken-fried maladroit unfit to lead a congregation much less our country.
It's a start.
The current GOP should take note.
Chickenhawks are always so vicious.
Kinda like the Patriot Act and the AUMFs.
Not our conflict.
Time to leave and let the region settle their own issues.
U.S. involvement/tampering merely destabilizes further.
If efforts put into whining and complaining about a cascading stripping of the right-to-privacy (enabled by an obscure 1981 Reagan Administration Executive Order 12333 (authored by a then Chief-of-Staff), made robust by the misnamed Patriot Act and the AUMFs) was applied to actually curtailing these egregious well over thirty year-old oversteps with effective specifics - then well-intended pieces like this one would be worth the read.
The writing on the NSA topic has become an aging cottage industry, offers scant useful purpose and serves to sidestep the biggest privacy offender. Indeed our government has exceeded Constitutional authority for at least three decades but is NOTHING compared to current private sector information gathering/gobbling.
NSA monitoring primarily looks for useful intelligence, information which may lead to evidence for due-process and a conviction in a court of law.
The private sector knows on an ongoing basis who you are, where you are, when you wake up, what you eat, who you know, your maladies and your favorite porn tags to itemize just a few of many specific data points clandestinely gleaned and recorded from most citizens - even little children.
The captured and recorded very personal information can be (and is, in fact) packaged and sold to the highest bidder without regulation, controls or the individuals permission in a batch or as a subscription.
How will previously prostituted highly-granular day-to-day personal data be used in your future, say, ten years from now?
Good luck with that.
John B has it right.
Wonder if Jeb tortured frogs like his brother?
There is a very real chance that one of these right-wing anti-Planet Earth political harlots (no offense to harlots intended) could be held responsible for more human tragedy, pain and suffering than all the “leaders” in the history of civilization, combined.
The initial wave of mass devastation brought on by the century of greed and indifference by the MIC aka fossil fuel crime syndicate will likely occur during their administration if actually elected.
All of these “crude” candidates should review history very carefully on how the right-wing Mussolini finally ended his tenure of leadership.
In a gas station.
And they won’t be able to blame it on Obama.
Outgoing US Army chief Gen. Ray Odierno.
The stink of falsehoods and duplicity reek from this abysmal bloodline which obviously has no soul.
NO MORE BUSH in our White House.
TWO BUSH, THREE WARS!
No Anti-War Movement?
Bring back the draft.
A televised version of a bunch of Conservatives in klown suits at some gaudy local pub vying to out-Trump each other.
Watching this malinformation spill could vacuum your skull.
'We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators' - Dick Cheney, Sept. 14, 2003 on NBC
He left out the part about decimating Iraqi infrastructure, aiding and abetting corruption, promoting incompetence and further dividing the entire region in the foreseeable future.
So, for the more than 80% - Ol´i`gar´chy OLIGARCHY - the state of our nation from the opening of the 21st Century until TBD and the descent continues unabated.
Coincidentally, 1: government by the few 2: a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also , a group exercising such control 3: an organization under oligarchic control. The legal definition of OLIGARCHY - This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people.
OK 20% is a bit much
Speaking truth-to-power gets one nowhere when 99% of our information and newsworthy items are parceled-out by four or five closely aligned corporate-controlled butt-trumpets.
There was a time in our recent history when former U.S. President Carter’s statement of fact during this interview would be headline news - “ . . . . now just an oligarchy.”
With the “dumbing-down of America” now in place - only about 20% of our population would have a clue as to what “oligarchy” actually means and the significance.
Although our country has fallen to anal-retentive wealth, faith over fact, h8, pharmego and indifference, that alarming set of circumstances does not sell FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, pick-up trucks, high-fructose foods and beverage or DRM encapsulated products. Therefore - CRICKETS.
Is it any wonder our country now exists without a clue in the hands of a few while it pretends otherwise?
The faux-Republican bottom of the barrel has been scraped unleashing Senadate Cruz. Corporate-controlled media loves these silly candidates giving them undue credibility a la Trump.
Canadian-citizen Freshman U.S. Senator Cruz of Texas has consistently shown himself to be a purposefully malinforming naked opportunist who plays to emotion, h8 and faux-folksy religiosity chased from the temple 2,000 years ago.
A closer examination of actual SCOTUS experience(s) at this point in the endless campaign cycle will save Republicans significant time, effort and money if truth be told.
Rush to the max.
Trump Crazies-Without-a-Clue Wing of the Republican Party
Making the truly unacceptable extremists and maladroit running for President as Republicans look good.
Led by a media vuvuzela bigot with bad hair and zero chance at nomination.
Step right up, folks. (Cue the midway music.)
If it’s non-substantive or inconsequential FAUXNews will Trumpet at full amplitude.
Trump surmises if Ted Cruz can get away with it, so can he. Trump has more money.
A very low and illogical means to gain media airtime is to amp-up unnecessary outrage with unprovable controversy at the expense of a well-known aging Senator who actually went through an ordeal and survived - as opposed to Trump whose worst life experience is his continuous bad hair day.
Perhaps Trump is in the race to make other extremists running as Republicans look less obnoxious?
If that is the goal, Trump is a success. If not, he’s wrest the “obnoxious crown” from Senatidate Cruz. At least for now.
The gauntlet has been thrown down by Trump in any event. Who can be more outrageous and inappropriate on behalf of the current Republican Party?
Secession from reality is a sure sign of a PAID-OFF politician.
Insanity, not so much.
The shrub is praying for Jeb to get “his turn” so he won’t be getting a higher priority on the docket along with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Addington, Yoo, Rice and others - including those in the psychiatric profession who enabled this foul tribe in their most odious of unAmerican activities.
Good Texas-based attorneys will cost him a ton hence the groveling for speaking fees.
Yep - see comment here : https://www.juancole.com/2015/07/started-veterans-charity.html
Enjoy
The TWO-BUSH-THREE-WARS dynasty must remain history.
And here we were being told Jeb was the “smart one.”
No more Bush in our White House!
Professor Cole - Thank you the clear reminder of the great promise we once held for our country.
And the sad reality of how promise has been broken.
The fact Bernie Sanders is categorized as a “liberal” by current media standards is an accurate basis of measurement for how far to the extreme right our country has lurched during the past half century.
In the decade following WWII our country was unified in victory over enemy imperialism, racism and fascism. The national agendas of both the Republican and Democratic Party would be, by today's standards, indistinguishable from each other.
Bernie Sanders is very close to being an “Eisenhower Republican” of the time or as the current retro-American frothing-at-the-mouth extreme right-wing Republicans term his political leanings - just another “socialist” or “commie.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
7-2-15 NYT look under "Politics"
Burning down churches attended by non-Whites in our South is a nighttime hobby for toothless knuckle-dragging inbred wannabe-Confederate cowards.
Donald Trump behaves as though he’s taking direction from that squirrel glued to his head.
Trump will NEVER be elected President and is no where near as entertaining as Senator Ted Cruz who trots out a new psychotic episode every few days.
But for real GOP presidential candidate entertainment a Huckabee/Christie chicken-fried steak eating contest would be hard to beat.
Both Jay L and Kozmo make valid and insightful observations about our country and its need for a state of continuous war on all manner of people and inanimate objects.
Here is a suggestion to curtail this national obsession based on personal experience by actually surviving war, firsthand.
EVERY U.S. occupant WITHOUT EXCEPTION be forced under severe penalty to serve in the U.S. military for three years.
BRING BACK THE DRAFT! No deferment for privilege, wealth, college or pilonidal cyst.
The bellicose gaggle of right-wing extremists in U.S. political endeavor who have tied their political futures to the concept that personal religious beliefs and interpretations of scripture trumps the law and human rights will make them UNELECTABLE.
Governor Abbott of Texas has signed a directive http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21131 making that concept part of the legal fabric of that State and in doing so has assured he will be a ONE-TERM Governor.
Four of five deadliest heat waves in human history have occurred in the 21st Century -
1) Europe, 2003: 71,310
2) Russia, 2010: 55,736
3) Europe, 2006: 3,418
4) India, 1998: 2,541 (barely missed the cut)
5) India, 2015: 2,500
Pakistan 2015 ranks #8 at 1,250 and counting.
But but but human-driven global scorching is a myth according to the U.S. GOP Congress, SCOTUS and the majority of GOP Presidential candidates.
SCOTUS rules in favor of mercury poisoning for all of us, while protecting fossil fuel industry profits of the few.
Yet, corporate-controlled media continues their criminal pettifoggery by leaving out this important fact and focusing instead on news that riles up those with the IQ of a squid, (No offense to squid.)
There is currently no Treasury draining multi-decade war(s).
An unacceptable condition for MIC and those who carry water for them in media and government.
We are all being played.
Corporate-Controlled media will selectively turn down the volume for oil-rich regions when they are directed to do so.
As a reminder, the events of recent times - Universal healthcare improvements, LGBT rights, international copyrights agreements, diminishing antiquated cloth symbols of h8 and restoring some confidence in our government - is ALL OLD BUSINESS. Events that should have occurred decades ago but were deferred by the “United Stateus Interuptus” era starting with dubious 9/11.
The U.S. is now badly retarded from the initial 8 years of blundering demented/evil post-9/11 intent which was followed by another 7 years in attempts for corrective action (sustaining vigorous resistance in the process) to begin the repair.
And what is the result of the recent pinch of progress in our country? Frothing at the mouth right-wing extremists in government have done a bellicose and uniform to-the-rear-flank maneuver.
Which in fact is the exact opposite of leadership.
Presidential candidates openly spread h8 and threaten to bring down our country as it stands, Governors’ sign directives for their State to give personal beliefs in mythical beings priority over the rights and needs of real citizens, members of Congress reaffirm the vow to continue their lock-step march back to 1920 at the behest of the super-wealthy.
There is more and urgent OLD BUSINESS to be addressed to actually restart our country -
REPAIR OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS!
• Actual campaign reform(s).
• Equal and uniform voting rights.
• Voting system result debugging. Currently, CATS voting is little more than a digital SHAM.
• Prioritize the actual democratic process over the desires of corporate media.
• Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE
PREVENT THE DEMONSTRATED CATASTROPHIC RISKS PRESENTED BY A BADLY DEFORMED FINANCIAL SYSTEM
• Ordinary citizens at risk for banks reward.
• Banks instrumental in hiding TRILLION$ of taxable profits and assets.
* Stop free money to the 1% while everyone else pays 28%.
GREATLY DIMINISH THE POWER AND CONTROL BY THE GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY ON OUR COUNTRY
• Save our entire planet!
THIS WOULD BE A DECADES LATE LONG-OVERDUE BEGINNING!!
This is NOT our conflict and never has been.
The presence of any U.S. personnel - military, paramilitary or contracted simple inflames the entire region further.
The Iraq BLUNDER cannot be undone.
Time to go.
Extreme right-wing h8 groups and their leaders are being protected by local law enforcement and elected officials - which emboldens heinous actions further.
Today, we have Governors, U.S. Senators and Presidential candidates openly soliciting/accepting money and favor from h8 groups and warped rich persons.
When publicly exposed, these elected officials (potential and otherwise) feign indignation, do some media arm-waving and move on a short time later to soliciting more money from the “Cookie Jar of H8.”
Rather than pressing and illuminating this persistent loathsome tendency within our country, corporate-controlled media distracts from the actual issue by focusing on some dumb-azz piece of cloth.
Appallingly, there is BIG MONEY in promoting hatred and divisiveness at every level in our country as it recedes into time back to the 1920s. The well-financed shift to the extreme far right in these “United States” has overtaken the urgent need to curtail institutionalized stupidity and is sad to witness. Get ready to duck and cover or run.
This will not end well.