Like he literally watched the debates, had a scotch, then typed printed and signed his resignation letter and, I'm guessing, slept like a baby on opium for the first time since June.
Like he literally watched the debates, had a scotch, then typed printed and signed his resignation letter and, I'm guessing, slept like a baby on opium for the first time since June.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Originally Posted by blake
yea because obv everyone is rushing to vote for Hillary lol
all the countless 10's of thousands of 'silent supporters' she has that couldn't be bothered to attend her rallies in high school gymnasiums
btw It's Saturday, and Trump is hitting five states and 3 events. NY, PA, VA, OH, and FL
Hillary napping it out
the guy is a fucking machine with a tireless work ethic
Hillary is a demented reptilian PIG
dont care who wins so much as I know the process is fair
Nothing worse then people who prince and prance around like they are the best won fair and square, only to find out they actually did not. And were angle-shooting/colluding/soft-playing and the like, that kind of thing. Starting to sound a little similar to poker in that sense
Last edited by buzzy; 10-22-2016 at 12:51 PM.
Cognitive dissonance
yea because obv everyone is rushing to vote for Hillary lol
all the countless 10's of thousands of 'silent supporters' she has that couldn't be bothered to attend her rallies in high school gymnasiums
btw It's Saturday, and Trump is hitting five states and 3 events. NY, PA, VA, OH, and FL
Hillary napping it out
the guy is a fucking machine with a tireless work ethic
Hillary is a demented reptilian PIG
In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time; performs an action that is contradictory to their beliefs, ideas, or values; or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas or values.
Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. An individual who experiences inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to try to reduce this dissonance, as well as actively avoid situations and information likely to increase it.
The GOP civil war is heating up. Paul Ryan is now a "progressive" who wants Hillary to win, according to Breitbart.com aka the Trump Campaign.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...r-on-paul-ryan
Actual article if you can stomach Breitbart's terribleness-
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...ton-president/
On Breitbart, you can also read "Obama sez no twerking at final White House musical event".
The reason that people call you guys alt-right racists is because you do a bunch of alt-right racist shit.
Why's Equador really protecting Assange? Ecuador is in a fight to the death against a return to Neoliberalism. This is what Hillary wants for the USA. Open border, TPP and Neoliberalism. Here's a crystal ball into our future.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/..._back_20161002
Chris Hedges
"A decade ago left-wing governments, defying Washington and global corporations, took power in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Bolivia and Ecuador. It seemed as if the tide in Latin America was turning. The interference by Washington and exploitation by international corporations might finally be defeated. Latin American governments, headed by charismatic leaders such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, won huge electoral victories. They instituted socialist reforms that benefited the poor and the working class. They refused to be puppets of the United States. They took control of their nations’ own resources and destinies. They mounted the first successful revolt against neoliberalism and corporate domination. It was a revolt many in the United States hoped to emulate here.
But the movements and governments in Latin America have fallen prey to the dark forces of U.S. imperialism and the wrath of corporate power. The tricks long practiced by Washington and its corporate allies have returned—the black propaganda; the manipulation of the media; the bribery and corruption of politicians, generals, police, labor leaders and journalists; the legislative coups d’état; the economic strangulation; the discrediting of democratically elected leaders; the criminalization of the left; and the use of death squads to silence and disappear those fighting on behalf of the poor. It is an old, dirty game.
President Correa, who earned enmity from Washington for granting political asylum to Julian Assange four years ago and for closing the United States’ Manta military air base in 2009, warned recently that a new version of Operation Condor is underway in Latin America. Operation Condor, which operated in the 1970s and ’80s, saw thousands of labor union organizers, community leaders, students, activists, politicians, diplomats, religious leaders, journalists and artists tortured, assassinated and disappeared. The intelligence chiefs from right-wing regimes in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and, later, Brazil had overseen the campaigns of terror. They received funds from the United States and logistical support and training from the Central Intelligence Agency. Press freedom, union organizing, all forms of artistic dissent and political opposition were abolished. In a coordinated effort these regimes brutally dismembered radical and leftist movements across Latin America. In Argentina alone 30,000 people disappeared.
Latin America looks set to be plunged once again into a period of dictatorial control and naked corporate exploitation. The governments of Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, which is on the brink of collapse, have had to fight off right-wing coup attempts and are enduring economic sabotage. The Brazilian Senate impeached the democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff. Argentina’s new right-wing president, Mauricio Macri, bankrolled by U.S. hedge funds, promptly repaid his benefactors by handing $4.65 billion to four hedge funds, including Elliott Management, run by billionaire Paul Singer. The payout to hedge funds that had bought Argentine debt for pennies on the dollar meant that Singer’s firm made $2.4 billion, an amount that was 10 to 15 times the original investment. The previous Argentine government, under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had refused to pay the debt acquired by the hedge funds and acidly referred to them as “vulture funds.”
I interviewed Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs and human mobility, for my show “On Contact” last week. Long, who earned a doctorate from the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London, called at the United Nations for the creation of a global tax regulatory agency. He said such an agency should force tax-dodging corporations, which the International Monetary Fund estimates costs developing countries more than $200 billion a year in lost revenue, to pay the countries for the natural resources they extract and for national losses stemming from often secret corporate deals. He has also demanded an abolition of overseas tax havens.
Long said the neoliberal economic policies of the 1980s and ’90s were profoundly destructive in Latin America. Already weak economic controls were abandoned in the name of free trade and deregulation. International corporations and banks were given a license to exploit. “This deregulation in an already deregulated environment” resulted in anarchy, Long said. “The powerful people had even less checks and balances on their powers,” he said.
“Neoliberalism is bad in most contexts,” Long said when we spoke in New York. “It’s been bad in Europe. It’s been bad in other parts of the world. It has dismantled the welfare state. In the context where we already have a weak state, where institutions are not consolidated, where there are strong feudal remnants, such as in Latin America, where you don’t really have a strong social contract with institutions, with modernity, neoliberalism just shatters any kind of social pact. It meant more poverty, more inequality, huge waves of instability.”
Countries saw basic services, many already inadequate, curtailed or eliminated in the name of austerity. The elites amassed fortunes while almost everyone else fell into economic misery. The political and economic landscape became unstable. Ecuador had seven presidents between 1996 and 2006, the year in which Correa was elected. It suffered a massive banking crisis in 1999. It switched the country’s currency to the U.S. dollar in desperation. The chaos in Ecuador was mirrored in countries such as Bolivia and Argentina. Argentina fell into a depression in 1998 that saw the economy shrink by 28 percent. Over 50 percent of Argentines were thrust into poverty.
“Latin America,” Long said, “hit rock bottom.”
It was out of this neoliberal morass that the left regrouped and took power.
“People came to terms with that moment of their history,” Long said. “They decided to rebuild their societies and fight foreign interventionism and I’d even say imperialism. To this day in Latin America, the main issue is inequality. Latin America is not necessarily the poorest continent in the world. But it’s certainly the most unequal continent in the world.”
“Ecuador is an oil producer,” Long said. “We produce about 530,000 barrels of oil a day. We were getting 20 percent royalties on multinationals extracting oil. Now it’s the other way around. We pay multinationals a fee for extractions. We had to renegotiate all of our oil contracts in 2008 and 2009. Some multinationals refused to abide by the new rules of the game and left the country. So our state oil company moved in and occupied the wells. But most multinationals said OK, we’ll do it, it’s still profitable. So now it’s the other way around. We pay private companies to extract the oil, but the oil is ours.”
“It depends on how you measure success,” he said. “If you’re going to measure it in terms of longevity, and how long these governments were in power—in our case we’re still in power, of course, and we’re going to win in February next year—then you’re looking at, more or less in Venezuela 17 years [that leftist governments have been in power], in Ecuador now 10, and in Argentina and Brazil it’s 13.”
“One of the critiques aimed at the left is they’re well-meaning, great people with good ideas but don’t let them govern because the country will go bust,” he said. “But in Ecuador we had really healthy growth rates, 5 to 10 percent a year. We had lots of good economics. We diversified our economy. We moved away from importing 80 percent of energy to [being] net exporters of electricity. We’ve had big reforms in education, in higher education. Lots of things that are economically successful. Whereas neoliberal, orthodox economics was not successful in the previous decade.”
Long conceded that his government had made powerful enemies, not only by granting political asylum to Assange in its embassy in London but by taking Chevron Texaco to court to try to make it pay for the ecological damage its massive oil spills caused in the Amazon, where the company drilled from the early 1960s until it pulled out in 1992. It left behind some 1,000 toxic waste pits. The oil spills collectively were 85 times the size of the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of Mexico and 18 times the size of the spill from the Exxon Valdez. An Ecuadorean court ordered Chevron Texaco to pay $18.2 billion in damages, an amount later reduced to $9.5 billion. The oil giant, however, has refused to pay. Ecuador has turned to international courts in an attempt to extract the money from the company.
Long said that the different between the massive oil spills elsewhere and the Ecuadorean spills was that the latter were not accidental. “[They were done] on purpose in order to cut costs. They were in the middle of the Amazon. Normally what you’d do is extract the oil and you’d have these membranes so that it doesn’t filter through into the ground. They didn’t put in these membranes. The oil filtered into the water systems. It polluted all of the Amazon River system. It created a huge sanitary and public health issue. There were lots of cancers detected.”
Long said his government was acutely aware that Chevron Texaco has “a lot of lobbying power in the United States, in Wall Street, in Washington.”
“There are a lot of things we don’t see,” he said of the campaign to destabilize his government and other left-wing governments. “Benefits we could reap, investments we don’t get because we’ve been sovereign. In the case of [Ecuador’s closing of the U.S.] Manta air base, we’d like to think the American government understood and it was fine. But it was a bold move. We said ‘no more.’ We declared it in our constitution. We had a new constitution in 2008. It was a very vibrant moment of our history. We created new rules of the game. It’s one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. It actually declares the rights of nature. It’s the only constitution that declares the rights of nature, not just the rights of man. We made Ecuadorean territory free of foreign military bases. There was no other way. But there are consequences to your actions.”
One of those consequences was an abortive coup in September 2010 by members of the Ecuadorean National Police. It was put down by force. Long charged that many of the Western NGO’s in Ecuador and throughout the region are conduits for money to right-wing parties. Military and police officials, along with some politicians, have long been on the CIA’s payroll in Latin America. President Correa in 2008 dismissed his defense minister, army chief of intelligence, commanders of the army and air force, and the military joint chiefs, saying that Ecuador’s intelligence systems were “totally infiltrated and subjugated to the CIA.”
“There is an international conspiracy right now, certainly against progressive governments,” he said. “There’s been a few electoral setbacks in Argentina, and Venezuela is in a difficult situation. The media frames it in a certain way, but, yes, sure, Venezuela is facing serious trouble. There’s an attempt to make the most of the fall of prices of certain commodities and overthrow [governments]. We just saw a parliamentary coup in Brazil. [President Rousseff had been] elected with 54 million votes. The Labor Party in Brazil [had] been in power for 13 years. The only way they [the rightists] managed to get rid of it was through a coup. They couldn’t do it through universal suffrage.”
Long said that even with the political reverses suffered by the left it will be difficult for the rightists to reinstate strict neoliberal policies.
“You have a strong, disputed political ground between a traditional right and a radical left,” he said. “A radical left, which has proved it can reduce poverty, it can reduce inequality, it can run the economy, well, it’s got young cadres that have been [government] ministers and so on. I reckon that sooner or later it will be back in power.”
Corporate leviathans and the imperialist agencies that work on their behalf are once again reshaping Latin America into havens for corporate exploitation. It is the eternal story of the struggle by the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich, the powerless against the powerful, and those who would be free against the forces of imperialism.
“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death,” Ernesto “Che” Guevara said. “We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country’s defeat is a defe
and even fewer want TrumpListen fuckstick, nobody wanted Romney. Nobody.
Project paper clip isn't a conspiracy theory, it's far to real.
CIA should be dismantled imo.
Lol at going to war and letting your enemies in the front door.
Lol at the "greatest generation ever", more like the most gullible retarded generation ever.
"Druff would suck his own dick if it were long enough"- Brandon "drexel" Gerson
"ann coulter literally has more common sense than pfa."-Sonatine
"Real grinders supports poker fraud"- Ray Davis
"DRILLED HER GOOD"- HONGKONGER
The corporations learned from their mistakes in Central America. The TPP was written in secret by a shitload of corporations with one goal. To make sure the United States cannot escape from Neoliberalism like they did in Ecuador. That's why the corporate courts in the TPP have more power than the elected govt. Vote for whoever the fuck you want and the corporations will still be in charge.
No more paying for environmental damage either. If it affects their future potential earnings the people pay for it.
WE ARE FUCKED.
Shouldn't have trusted some Chicago n-word. Fucker let his boys tweak the TPP to perfection over many years in secrecy then springs this shit on us right before he leaves office. If that fails, Hillary will pass it.
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The last two people that wanted to dismantle the CIA and FBI were JFK and RFK, respectively.
not to de-rail...
but you sir are fucking insane.
re: the bold up above there, in your miserable tirade of a post,
http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents
the list is pretty fucking big buddy.
here's a google search for news related items, look how long it is.
https://www.google.com/#q=uber+drive...senger&tbm=nws
yeah buddy. Uber and Lyft are a fucking cancer and they're just another example of how the SF Tech Industry destroys just about everything they touch, given a long enough time line.
"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."
George Steinbrenner
When you look at tactics corporate interest use in the Hedges piece, look at what Ecuador is saying, why they protect Assange at all costs, the content of his leaks then look at this Trump speech.
Sounds like Trump knows exactly what's going on, what's at stake. But I keep hearing he is a Buffoon so much so I've began repeating it.
I probably shouldn't answer you as you are such a tiny troll with a line of thinking as queer as your munchkin-troll voice on the radio but here are some stats for you to chew on: http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/uber-statistics/not to de-rail...
but you sir are fucking insane.
re: the bold up above there, in your miserable tirade of a post,
http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents
the list is pretty fucking big buddy.
here's a google search for news related items, look how long it is.
https://www.google.com/#q=uber+drive...senger&tbm=nws
yeah buddy. Uber and Lyft are a fucking cancer and they're just another example of how the SF Tech Industry destroys just about everything they touch, given a long enough time line.
BILLIONS of RIDES. Over 1 million per day. This mind you is just Uber! Lyft is big too. Just because a few bad experiences out of millions of rides a week doesn't really mean shit in the grand scheme of things, but you must know this. Chill out little Larry. You sound like you gonna blow a gasket.
Larry, what is your previous user name?It's quite obvious Larry is a awful dupe. Only someone from NWP/DD would know and reference shipping something to HOF since there is no HOF here. I am just trying to figure out which bike riding suicider we had on these parts the last few years. Maybe 408 Mike.
AT&T buys Time Warner for $85Billion fitting timing
Consolidate that Media oligopoly some more
Looks like female voters are going to send us on a one way trip to Neoliberal hell.
Women really are the rake.
Dumb bitches, all most think about is trendy shoes and handbags.
Ok im outta line again...
Almost time to shift into a new personality. What about that Mormon who's polling well in Utah? Why don't you talk him up for a while?
Impressive!
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