Tonight on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Donald Trump engaged in a lengthy conversation with host, Sean Hannity. What appeared to be intended as a professional interview turned into more than an hour of Donald Trump bragging about his accomplishments. Not only was it just bragging about his own accomplishments, the reality television star and billionaire mogul seemed to repeating himself as if he were trying to convince himself of his greatness.
Such quotes from the lengthy interview with Sean Hannity include the following:
- "I have really strong values."
- "I have a lot of money. Way more than Obama."
- "I am a great leader. Everyone always talks about how great I am and how much better I am than the president."
- "I'm a driller [opposed to nuclear energy] but I'm 'green' about it. I build a lot of golf courses."
Oh and when The Donald wasn't bragging about himself and doting on his money, he spent the remainder of the interview trash-talking Obama without offering any reasons as to why. He just kept repeating, "He's a bad president. He's worse than Jimmy Carter."
And don't even get started on his blatant attempts at baiting the birthers and other far-extreme groups in the US. He trash-talked Muslims, and then went on to say that the Tea Party are who brought the deficit to the attention of the US people and government. Can you believe that?
It's hard to see Hannity look nervous during an interview, as he usually rubs elbows with the crazies perfectly, but it looked like Donald Trump was bothering even him with his obvious delusions of grandeur. Is Donald Trump a leader? It seems like he's more of a self-centered and self-proclaimed "know-it-all," to be honest.
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Trump seems plainly to be trying to provoke Obama into "fighting back".
It can help drawn your opponent into the fray, if you 'give' him something that he will feel comfortable or empowered, 'using against you'. Doing something or behaving in a way that lets your opponent feel superior to you, and encourage him to then assault you with your flaw ... is 'bare knuckles 101'.
Blabbing on about yourself like you don't have a self-concious brain cell in your head, is a time-honored standby.
Trump is 'throwing down the gauntlet': "Go ahead, runner-up to Jimmy Carter - pick it up ". Make my Day.
And of course, having outraged Liberal bloggers so mad at you, their fingers tremble on the keyboard as smoke curls out of their ears ... only enhances the theater. ;)
Politics - and esp. election campaigns - are on no where near the 'elevated' plane of law-making. This is grunt-level stuff.
Much of what we will be watching for the next 19 months will be just right for chimpanzees & dogs. Forget 3rd grade.
This ain't 3rd grade - it's pre-school. ;)
Conservative bloggers are in a dither: Wow! - Obama just spilled his guts on an open mic!
Uh-huh ... sure he did, snickers Rolling Stone:
"Obama, Trashing Republicans, Thought His Mic Was Off? Oh, Sure..."
"This was supposedly a slip-up — off-color commentary made unknowingly in front of an open mic. But the president and his staff are too fastidious for that ... "
"No, this has the hallmarks of a faux fuckup."
"A little red meat, judiciously phrased, in what will be reported as off-the-cuff remarks. Politics well played."
Bare-knuckle politics. 101.
President is too low an office for him.
The crown would muss his comb.
What is with the Charmin softness?
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work calls. back on break.
" The massive debts the public is accumulating to bail out the speculators will then become part of a global budget crisis that will be the rationalization for deep cuts to social programs, and for a renewed push to privatize.” "
I buy that. And the previous 'scoping' of it:
"Wake up America. You are under attack. Stop kidding yourself. We are at war. In fact, we have been fighting this Civil War for a generation, since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981."
Yes. Actually, since the mid-to-late 1970s, and we had known it was coming - and were laying the groundwork for it - since the late 1950s.
That's page 1 of 2, from the first refs. I have to return to tending my Subsistence for awhile. ;)
"Civil War" is its more-endearing excess ... during our Civil War, 1 out 10 American males died.
And the smarmy goes winging off into the wild blue, from there.
Still, the useful points are useful. Especially on the historic depth & wide context of our current predicament.
I.e., "It is highly unlikely that this is *just* a particularly bad recession".
In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures
This a calm, if ominous, low-brow-cerebral article. There is no need for histrionics or Kool Aid, because most of America totally believes the thesis.
We were robbed, big-time. And the bastard are getting away with it.
Ultimately, I entertain the comforting thought that this offense is going to come back to bite the perps - and everything they represent - worse than had they simply done their 16 months at the Country Club Fed Pen.
Many of the guilty, I suspect, will come come to sincerely wish that they had been duly prosecuted, incarcerated, and freed to resume reality as they knew & loved it.
Because what may happen is that their preferred reality may end.
Not right away. For now, that reality continues on, for the same reasons that not one of them has been so much as charge, much less prosecuted.
Eventually, the status of Corporations, Banks, and assorted Financial/Fiscal Institutions will change. They have obviously grown ... not only too big for their britches, but to a size & power that is clearly antithetical to society's greater & overriding interests.
And paradoxically, that appears to be why they are being allowed to skate. For now. Most of the power that exists in current reality, is held by them. We need that power, to look out for our greater interests, on the global stage. Only they have what it takes to dominate there.
In the years to come, we may see a shift away from the kind of society that needs this kind of ... sellout. At that point, we can then start pulling the bricks out of the legal foundations that have over-endowed the Corporate Estate, and return to them to business-tool status, without making ourselves vulnerable to hazards on the international stage.
Here's the punch-quote from the piece:
"But several years after the financial crisis, which was caused in large part by reckless lending and excessive risk taking by major financial institutions, no senior executives have been charged or imprisoned, and a collective government effort has not emerged. This stands in stark contrast to the failure of many savings and loan institutions in the late 1980s. In the wake of that debacle, special government task forces referred 1,100 cases to prosecutors, resulting in more than 800 bank officials going to jail. Among the best-known: Charles H. Keating Jr., of Lincoln Savings and Loan in Arizona, and David Paul, of Centrust Bank in Florida. "
A long article. A little mind-numbing. Full of key links. A keeper.
Dual justice? Yeah. "Duh", even. American peasants gonna "snap" and apply the 2nd Amendment resolution? "Radical/hilarious".
Repeatedly, we see folks (here & elsewhere) painting Big Money as running/controlling our government. "They got Power! They've over-powered Congress!"
Yeah? What about the military? They have far more power than Wall Street. Is the Pentagon strong-arming the White House? Because they have the power?
No. It doesn't work that way. The Capitol - Congress, and the courts - have made the Corporation & derived institutions what they are, as a means to project & deploy power ... just as they project & deploy power & force through the Pentagon.
These people at ZeroHedge are into the Kool Aid, as far as who really has the power ... but still, they make good points too. They're uninhibited; say stuff others are chicken to say. Yeah, they babble some too - but it's tolerable ... even entertaining. ;)