Although I voted for Jill Stein this year and for Obama in his first term, I am so glad Trump won.
I admit that I am late to the game. It started at the age 58 in 2008. That is when I became an activist. 15,000 hours of research later, 3 remixed films, dozens of videos, 3 websites, a magazine prototype, blah blah, blah and here I am. My take away from all of this is that government routinely omits, deceives and lies to the public in an attempt to engineer our perceptions and control our beliefs and opinions. MSM (mainstream media) is the principle agent of this deception.
Whether it is the War on Terror, The War on Drugs, The War on Poverty or The Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yeman, Libya, Syria, or 9/11 investigtions or vaccine safety, fracking, oil pipelines, or public safety — the official narrative as presented by the government is always a pile of dung disguised to hide the profiteering that is the real reason for exaggerated or manufactured realities. In fact that word “security” is usually followed by a barage of propaganda. When you here the word it is time to run for cover.
The public narrative I liken to some cheap, poorly assembled spy novel. You would never buy it. You would ask yourself who would attempt to sell a book that is so ill conceived and contrived until you realize that this bullshit is actually the official narrative of your country.
A chapter from this book of hypocrisy is being played out right now in North Dakota where the American Indians are getting it put to them once again by corporate America in collaboration with government..
Drive to North Dakota to witness this miscarriage of justice first hand or watch a collection of video clips from You Tube:
In this land of the free — people are being censored, compromised, imprisoned and silenced for disagreeing with the official narrative all the time.
And along comes Donald Trump.
On the down side he is a very scary fellow, a climate change denier, a billionaire real estate tycoon who is a loose cannon, a loud mouth, a bully, a huge law and order guy and someone who selected Atilla the Hun’s nephew to be his Vice President and is considering others of the same ilk, like Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, Rudy G and Chris Christie for key jobs. It could well be the cabinet from Hell.
However if you look at the first 6 items of his 100 day plan,
1 impose term limits on all members of Congress,
2 a hiring freeze on all federal employees,
3 a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated,
4 a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service,
5 a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government,
6 a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
and when you consider that he has been on the Alex Jones show, talks about media corruption, rigged elections and has pledged to tell the truth about 9/11 and how the buildings came down, you have to say; Wow is he for real? Maybe he is not Conan the Barbarian afterall, maybe he really will attempt to drain the swamp in Washington?
Much of the world is hoping and is waiting to see if Trump is the real deal. Is he prepared to tackle a systemic corruption that is as deep, as dark, as sinister and as diabolical as anything one can imagine. It will take brave, courageous and skillful men and women to expose how truly evil and corrupt is this American empire. Can Trump do it? Is he even willing?
Trump remains a total mystery to me.
Is he a Corporate Fascist or the Keeper of The Light?
Many Alternative News publications and are hoping for the later, in the hopes that he will follow through on his pledges to drain the swamp. Term limits alone has the cockroaches in Washington running for the nearest rock. Add to that the exposure of media’s collusion with government and the Elite to engineer and control the messsge and OMG.
You see while Trump remains a question mark, an uncertainty, Hillary is not. Her concession speech was carefully crafted to instill defiance while appearing to be conciliatory. A speech like this required far more time then she had on election night. That is why it was delivered the nex day. Everyone is stunned because … despite suspected vote rigging she still lost.
Hillary is a criminal. Flight records on the Lolita Express, voter fraud and manipulated delegate counts, Benghazi emails and her war mongering tendencies (“We came. We saw. He (Kaddafi) died”) are common knowledge. The Clinton foundation and the Haitian revelatons, her position on the Glass-Steagal Act, her long term cosiness to Wall Street is legedary… .yet her criminality is barely discussed in the press. Why is that?
It is far better for the press to divert American eyes to the good Hillary, the fake Hillary not the criminal Hillary. Media is always careful to mask their outright bias and favoritism but if you look – the blood runs black and white. While Clinton protests are front page news and the coverage will likely be prolonged, meanwhile oil pipeline spills and protests around the world, police brutality, water shutoffs in Detroit and fracking protests in North Dakota, genocide in Palestine and Clinton’s own criminality gets no news coverage.
If the criminal side of Hillary is fully dislosed the truth about MSM will also come out. Kept the light on all the protests in support of this noble woman and it will not shine over here. IMO Wall Street and the old boy network have not yet given up. There must be a way to get Hillary back in. This is not over yet.
Don’t shine the light on some of the fundamental changes that are deperately needed by this country and that this man supports. Term limits alone has these hypocrites shaking in their boots. Imagine truth telling in the media, peace not war … my God you might as well call us terrorists and hunt us down.
Like her husband Hillary also has that psychopathic ability to look directly into the camera and lie. She along with 90% of our elected officials engage in the most egregious of crimes while acting like they are your best friends.
Want to challenge this charade? It is so simple just think (apply some reason and logic) and demand proof. This is what Alternative Media is all about and what is missing from MSM (mainstream media). Facts? Proof ? Verifiable Evidence? Surely you are not referring to us (CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, FOX and PBS (petroleum broadcasting company)? People believe us because we say it is so.
So lets keep an open mind and an open heart and listen and watch very closely as Mr Trump lays out his transition team and outlines his plans for America. Will he attempt to drain the swamp of jump in? I am hopeful but then again I believed in Obama’s horse shit when he was first elected.
For those of you who believe our election system is solid and tamper proof, Harvard recently completed a study of the integrity of voting systems in civilized countries of the World and the USA came in DEAD LAST.
Further in 2016 the most likely candidate to have commited voter and delegate fraud was Hillary herself against Bernie Sanders. How can you forget that so soon?
Clinton Family Crime Syndicate
Take your pick …
Alienable human rights
Always within the context of scandal and controversies, and always unproven, and always without a decision (ruling) of a court, float the Clinton allegations around, what with – Whitewater. Troopergate. Paula Jones. Monica Lewinsky. Travelgate. Vince Foster’s suicide. Juanita Broaddrick, and, who knows what.
After a point, who cares?
The eternal battles between the liberal and conservative constituents, akin to and woven into, the same eternal battles between the Republicans and Democrats, has twisted and perverted this country beyond repair.
The truth is, high or low, rich or poor, we are all guilty and all culpable. It seems to me that we should prosecute every American for “high crimes and misdemeanors” and get it the hell over with.
Not really being a supporter of Clinton can ever push me to say I’m glad the Trumpers won. This whole fucking country is one big loser. As Lennon so nicely wrote, “You’re all fucking peasants as far as I can see.
I certainly don’t believe that we are endowed by some supercilious creator-creature to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but it would have been nice to have some peace of mind in a failing body and old age to enjoy my goddamn poverty stricken “retirement.”
(And, don’t flag this as offensive. I’ll just put it back in again.)
Now, re: HIS> 100 day plan as itemized above
That plan is meaningless and useless. It was espoused in October before he was elected. Trump is a lazy “executive” and, unlike Obama, is essentially a spoiled rich kid. It’s his cabinet that will drive this country, along with the fully Republican majority in the Congress (House and Senate!!).
Here’s a reality-check on the plan of the “Elect” really worth reading: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/10/501597652/fact-check-donald-trumps-first-100-days-action-plan
I call your attention to the likely appointment of Giuliani as attorney-general. In your all’s own primitive vernacular – god help us all.
A crueler, colder and more draconian America comes into view
Nobody can know what will happen once Trump takes office. No politician does everything he promises he’ll do. But if you look at the promises and platforms put forth by Trump and the Republican Party’s ideologues who are their congressional leaders and platform writers, the Obama years are poised to vanish, as a crueler, colder and more draconian America comes into view.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet, including America’s retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights, and campaigns and elections. He is the author of “Count My Vote: A Citizen’s Guide to Voting” (AlterNet Books, 2008).
Full text: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/16-worst-things-we-can-expect-trumps-first-100-days
War with Russia
Based on our years of demonizing Putin/Russia and on Hillary’s own declaration while Sec’y of State (We must DESTROY Russia), I feared Hillary would take us to war. (Besides, war is very profitable for those with the right investments).
I’m breathing a sigh of relief.
Full disclosure: I voted for Stein.
Just doesn't ring true
This is a good example of unsubstantiated allegations. Wherever the Hillary quote above came from, “We must DESTROY Russia” it should have been provided with evidence to support or prove the truth of it.
The thought that Hillary wanted to destroy a major superpower with all its people just because of one man just does not ring true.
hindsight
One thing that should not be lost in all of this is that the Clinton team WANTED Trump as the candidate.
In leaked emails that can be read, early on they hoped for a sort of circular firing squad situation with the many GOP mainstream candidates so that they’d eliminate one another, leaving the fringe candidates. They called it the Pied Piper strategy, and wanted everyone to work to make sure either Cruz, Carson, or Trump was left for them to run against.
Their strategy wasn’t to eliminate the possibility of a Trump, it was to have someone “awful” to run against. A strategic error?