Submitted by Pachamama
Recently we had occasion to review the series “House of Cards” and with the much heralded first Q&A sessions between Clinton and Trump being primed for profit, we now consider how art mimics reality, or is more realistic than reality. The differences, if any, between fiction and fact in politics. The centrality of war and peace in this election, if any of this could be serious, for a minute.
As we write both Clinton and Trump are going through their rehearsals in order to present what has been determined should be their best image/s. It’s all about perception management, not fact necessarily. Not truth either, if lies have more purchase. They are politicians playing ‘actors’ attempting to win an Oscar or two.
In the ‘House of Cards’ the president of the USA was portrayed in a more realistic manner than the current one or the wannabes are on the networks. President Underwood was seen as a serial murderer; a manipulator; the son of a man with ties to the KKK; a man surrounded by henchmen, bag men, wet workers, dry workers, willing to break any law in the protection of Underwood and in the finale – willing to go to war to avoid negative news reports about his own sins.
The activities this weekend at the UN suggest that an imminent Clinton presidency would mean a declaration of war on Russia. Clinton is obviously head of the war party in wait. Russia has had to asked ‘who was in charge in the USA’. Obama is clearly not, as the Pentagon has openly disobeyed his orders and bombed Syrian soldiers to show defiance to him. He is now the little boy sitting at the kiddie’s table.
And the CIA continues to arm terrorist groups in Syria in contravention of direct orders from Obama. It is clear Clinton, Samantha Powers and ilk are intent on a humanitarian nuclear war to further the interests of the one-percenters. Russia phobia has gone mad in the USA. And Trump may be our worst best hope, imagine that. For Hilary Clinton is a very, very, wicked bitch.
These are not the images we will see in the reality show which will dominate network coverage over the coming weeks. Any realities would require more than a soundbite, be too complicated for a dumb-down public, be absent of the zingers which Ronald Reagan made popular, fail to deliver the killer blow which both candidates will strive for but a draw could be satisfactory for both candidates and is the most likely outcome.
What we will certainly not see are the political infrastructures before, during and after these Q&A sessions to influence perceived outcomes. It is imminently possible to, by objectives measures, win the debates but loose the perception game. And this has happened before. So the showmanship around these sessions are more important than what actually happens during the Q&As themselves. Is this not then mere political theater?
The same will be true for the actual presidential elections. It is very possible to win the elections and loose the presidency. These days, the best way of achieve the ‘dark arts’ of the political game is to make the false claim of voter fraud by non-White population segmentations unlikely to support you while plotting with the internet experts to rob the electronic vote train as it conveys tallies to the central counting center.
This was the type of voter robbery Romney and Carl Rove attempted in 2012 to deny Obama a second term. Had it not been for the hacker group ‘Anonymous’ we would have had a flipping of tallies as happened in Florida 2000. In the fictional account, President Underwood had developed a more profound method for the total influencing of public perceptions by manipulation the news voters read – from jump street, making sure that only information supportive of him occupied the first items on most search engines, influencing other mainstream media houses, like only a sitting president could.
We know that the Clintons have not been dissimilar to President Underwood. Indeed, all US presidents have employed violence to achieve stated aims, at home and abroad. Clinton is particularly troubling and represent an existential threat to all mankind with her intent to escalate aggression against Russia, her willingness to deploy nuclear weapons, her blind support for the Zionist regime in Palestine, as ultimate war hawk. Now that the Clintons family has married into Jewry we should expect Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, on steroid, should she win.
As far as violence is concerned, Trump represents a somewhat unknown quantity. Clinton loyalists have been trying to influence perceptions by arguing that he is a friend of the Russians. A country Clinton sees as her primary enemy, a la Ukraine. In this their acolytes in the media have been helpful in painting Putin as a dictator. But Clinton herself, is not unknown for her love affairs with the worst of dictators. They say Trump cuddles Putin. We are unsure what his orientation is likely to be about war and peace but expect that Trump may very well end up in the children’s room, left out of the loop, when the adults, the war party, discuss these matters.
However, given his history, his mental disposition, a 14-year-old boy trapped in a man’s body, his innate dislike for people of colour. We would also contend that no remarkably dissimilar policy positions from those of Clinton or President Underwood should be expected. We will also argue that Trump’s inability to show empathy and his spoilt-child orientation makes him particular dangerous in possession of nuclear weapons should he get a look-in.
A president Clinton will provide more material for writers on the ‘’House of Cards’’. Her administration will be characterized by so many investigations that it will make the Bill Clinton presidency look like a cake walk. Those investigations will be centered on the Clinton Foundation et al which has devolved into a hundreds of billions of dollars in money laundering, a trans-national, criminal enterprise, operating under the cloak of a 5O1C3 and not properly registered in various jurisdictions nor properly reporting.
A Trump presidency is no less likely to be characterized by criminal investigations. He too has issues with the usage of Trump Foundation money, tax code violations etc. The viability of these proceeding may very well depend upon the relative numbers of Republicans and Democrats ‘selected’ in the Senate and the House of Representatives. But a Democratic presidency and a Republican congress will be more eager to go for the impeachment of Clinton, from day one.
It certainly is not helpful to the people of the world that Clinton has already suggested her husband to be the employment czar. In the ‘House of Cards’, President Underwood moved heaven and earth to have his wife, the first lady, in an open marriage, to be the vice-presidential candidate. How life mimics art!
This political theater is manufactured to be unfair. For Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson will not be there, neither would the other up to 100 candidates who are on some ballots. The corporation, run by Republicans and Democrats who own this project is less interested in fairness than the League of Women Voters who ran the debates up to the 1980s.
President Underwood would have been glad to locate this set of moderators willing to keep fictions alive. Moderators refusing to do any fact checking. Moderators who have said that even obvious misstatements made will not be highlighted. Moderators prepared to have candidates disobey rules of truth without sanction.
The elections in the USA should be about the survival of the planet, the avoidance of war, the extent to which the one-percenters are seeking to gain more control over us all. What is certain is that a Clinton victory will insure all the above. It is difficult for us to contemplate circumstances where a Trump presidency could avoid these sets of outcomes given the diffusion of the war party forces and the acceptance of the PNAC agenda by all mainstream political forces.
Maybe the election will be a watershed. A time when the ‘House of Cards’ collapses. But we seriously doubt. However, these dog and pony shows should not properly qualify as debates. They are more Q & A sessions, billed like fights between Ali & Fraser, with the winner known ahead of time, depending on who spends the most money in advertising on the networks sponsoring same.
597 responses to “Clinton Versus Trump – Fiction Versus Fact”
Peeling the onion that is Trump Foundation layer by layer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-foundation-lacks-the-certification-required-for-charities-that-solicit-money/2016/09/29/7dac6a68-8658-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-politics
WESLEY SNIPES went to jail for not paying his taxes why is Donald Trump a now confessed tax cheat still walking around America free as an official candidate to be President of the USA? what is wrong with this picture ?
you keep saying tax cheat , what he and snipes did are totally different ..snipes is a cheat please tell everyone what trump has done that is illegal or shut the phuck up
AC
You are making very foolish comments. Not paying income taxes, even if true, is not the same as tax evasion, which is a criminal offense. .
Some real estate professionals in the United States do not have to pay income taxes. There are many reasons for this. For example, US tax laws permit developers to use certain “paper” losses from real estate projects to offset the tax liability they would normally have from “active” income.
You do not know the details of Trump’s tax returns. Neither do I. It is best to say nothing, instead of spouting off like an ignoramus.
For all the people who think Donald Trump is a tax cheat, just bear in mind that is virtually impossible. His tax returns are audited by the IRS every year.
“BTW the Party of Lincoln is now the Party of Trump”
But isn’t the party of Jim Crow the party of the Clinton’s too?
“Richard Nixon released his tax returns while he was under audit, Trump’s returns prior to 2009 are not subject to an audit and he can release those but he didn’t pay taxes during those years if the evidence from previous years is any guide. Public documents show Trump didn’t pay any Federal Income tax in 1977,1978 and 1984. He also didn’t pay any taxes for two years during the 1990’s, all of this information was unearthed because he released tax returns for Casino licenses and lawsuits”
Yes Mr Trump like most of American establishment politicians have skeletons fraudulent tax returns and otherwise in their pockets none more so than Mrs Clinton. So Mr Trump’s tax return infelicities are par for the course.
“Now another tax avoiding millionaire is saying he is “smart” for not paying taxes.”
Rather than focussing on Trump we should be focussing that none of the millionaires in Barbados black or white avoid paying their fair share of taxes as well.
“Georgie Porgie September 29, 2016 at 11:01 PM #
SARG
DO YOU SEE THE CHARACTERISTIC RESTING TREMOR OF PARKINSON”S and L-DOPA DYSKINESIA
DO YOU SEE THE DISPLAYS SWALLOWING DISORDERS OF PARKINSON”S AND ITS TREATMENT
DO YOU SEE THE DISPLAYS OF WEAKNESS IN THE LEGS
DO YOU SEE THE DISPLAYS OF THE MASKING OF THE PILL ROLLING TREMOR OF PARKINSON”S and L-DOPA DYSKINESIA
DO YOU SEE THE OTHER FEATURES LIKE FREEZINGS OR THE LATERAL STRABISMUS
THIS IS SOLID MEDICINE—-IT CANT BE REFUTED
REMEMBER DR GEORGIE WAS RIGHT IN 2010
YA TINK HE RIGHT AGAIN”
Killary is as sick as a dog, she refuses to release her full medical records.
Trump is as sick as a dog, he also refuses to release his full medical records.
Both pumped up full of medication to keep them going.
Neither should be installed in 1600 Pennsylvania.
“Pachamama September 29, 2016 at 8:13 PM #
What is realism?”
Like Thomas believing what you see
LATEST NEWS- “RUSSIA REJECTS US CALLS FOR A HALT IN BOMBBINGS OF ALEPPO”
How much more snubs would the Great Satan be subjected before it loses its status, respect and clout as leader of the free world of which we are a part and n which we ultimately depend for protection should the security of we in the region be again threatened.
TRUMP is an official candidate for the highest office in the USA he will become the chief executive Officer of the USA if elected . His tax returns would be of concern to every law abiding citizen that pays their taxes there will be no excusing DT.
DT has leverage his portfolio as a business man and wants the country to believed he is a king of the deals but seems to forget that his portfolio carries many bankruptcies none which the voters would forget,
The supporters of Trump are the being played by DT and he is the joker among the pack
@Chad45 & Lawson, you are practical and sensible to recognize that AC’s is talking nonsense to compare Snipes and Trump’s tax issues. Yet you both then offer your nonsense to validate that Trump can be elected to the office of President of the USA and still refuse to be honest with the electorate about his financial & tax matters.
That type of electorate self-serving and irrational partisanship is what places these ‘tainted’ leaders at top in every nation around the world.
Maybe Hillary is in fact not in the best of health. And definitely she was very dishonest in handling her communications issues etc. But unless she is tending towards being incapacitated how can she be less competent or practical to lead the US as compared to Trump.
This is a man who boldly lies to the public and when shown evidence of the absolute falsehood simply reestablishes his statement and broadcasts to thousands of cheering fans that the media and opponents are wrong. Clearly sowing a dangerous divisiveness.
A man who acclaims the leader of the country which has been ‘implicated’ in a cyber attack on the US. And to score cheap political points makes statements to dismiss what his intelligence briefing would have validated. He deliberately modified the verbiage of his party platform to support Putin and Russia’s militaristic actions. At any other time in the last 10 years this would have prompted an investigation for possible treason and he would be no where near the White House.
A man who disputed the legitimacy of the 44th President of the US and demanded he show a birth certificate to confirm what an entire immigration service and senate had already. Never before such behaviour. The same man who now REFUSES to provide his tax certification. Always done before.
A man who at 70 years still disparages in the most puerile and petty ways all classes of people is to be elected to lead such a multicultural and diverse country. Is this for real!
I don’t adore Hilary Clinton and if in fact she is sick then I am concerned but to support Donald Trump is frankly to be ‘deplorable’. This is not about a Republican ethos this is about a crass human being – a very successful one, no doubt – who is not fit to lead a nation..
This can’t just be about Supreme Court appointments or the defective ACA, They will be resolved without this man.
It’s amazing to see a bunch of folks from this little rock offer support for his brand of racism, divisiveness and hate under a spurious guise of economic and social improvement. Just shows that we are no different to the folks across the great expanse of the US.
http://ow.ly/J4NC304Ip66
According to Trump/Drumpf. ..none of you who support him have the right genes.
You either MoneyB. .lol
http://ow.ly/7Mh8304Ipln
The “superior” Drumpf…lol
http://ow.ly/RZkq304Ipvi
Drumpf….”the superior”
Talking what nonsense that is the problem with so called intellectuals they would get on their soap boxes an degrade , The WESLEY SNIPES reference shows a difference in race and class , However the issue of tax avoidance is at the heart of both issues , Trump has scam the system and has admitted to doing so, Unfortunately he will get away because of his influence in politics over the years as being a big donor to both political camp, The odds being that Trump going to jail is between slim and none
“who is not fit to lead a nation..”
in general agreement with your post but must add neither is Mrs Clinton fit to lead as her unfavourable ratings suggest
“The odds being that Trump going to jail is between slim and none”
You are so right as is the case with Mrs Clinton as well.
> Google+ > > > Web > > Photos > > more > Sent Mail > [Barbados Underground] Comment: “Clinton Versus Trump – Fiction Versus > Fact” > InboxBin > B > Barbados Underground > [image] “The odds being that Trump going to jail is between slim and none” > You are so right as is the case with Mrs Clinton as well. [image] > David > to comment+zra06rg-y8t6vmyrv9bs5ct41ko@comment.wordpress.com > 0 minutes ago > Details > >> It is amusing to observe the level of interest in the US presidential >> election. Have we seen the same when several Caribbean Countries held their >> elections? >> >> We think not! >> > > What does it tell us? > > We are hooked on cable! > > Out bajan identity is shot. > > We have become sheep. >
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> It is amusing to observe the level of interest in the US presidential > election. Have we seen the same when several Caribbean Countries held their > elections? > > We think not! >
What does it tell us?
We are hooked on cable!
Out bajan identity is shot.
We have become sheep.
@AC, if you don’t know the details of your point then research it rather than throw shade about people trying to be ‘intellectual’. That too is nonsense. Being able to discern fact from fiction is commonsense. There is nothing to intellectualize on the tax issue between Snipes and Trump and it has nothing to do with race as other people (White) have been charged and convicted just as Snipes was.
Snipes unfortunately did NOT FILE his tax returns. He was also involved in other tax problems where he (like Trump) attempted to avoid/evade taxes as well but the non-fling is that which I was referring.
Donald Trump HAS filed his taxes. He has also used the various deductions, depreciation, write-offs and related legal processes allowed to him as a business owner to reduce the incidence of his taxes paid. In some years he had reduced that to $0.00 apparently.
Potatoes and Oranges, AC. Get your breakfast menu right, please.
@charles skeete at 6:27 AM…The fact that Clinton is also not fit to lead is incomparable to that of Trump. She is badly flawed surely but by standards of recent presidents going all the way back to Kennedy she is certainly ‘fit’ to lead.
She is a person prone to lying, secrecy, subterfuge et al.
He is an unhinged, self-absorbed egomaniac.
This is president of the US bro…major problems pop-up regularly and you need a studied, steady person to navigate them with the guidance of a group of advisers. He has shown limited if any capacity to be steady and studied.
If he were to win the White House after this outlandish performance he would presume he could do as he wants. Yes of course Congress would curb him in some areas but he has total control in many others.
Trump is great at what he does in the business world. He is simply not Presidential timbre.
I see written comments about Trump being unfit for the predidency.
But what qualifies Hillary? Most presidents were elected after they proved to be great military commanders (Washington, Eisenhower, Grant), popular and successful governors (Reagan, Bush, Bill Clinton), or exceptional legislators (LBJ). Hillary has accomplished nothing in her public career — no legislation, no programs, not even a memorable speech.
Why is she fit for the Oval Office?
Is it her ability to solicit bribes from Arab leaders?
Is it her bottom-of-the-class academic record?
Her ability to repeat the briefing book material she has memorized?
Her habits of secrecy?
Her lies about dodging bullets as she landed at the airport in Yugoslavia under combat fire?
@ David
This lotta interest in US elections is driven by those who live there ..and by whose ideals are based there. They all agree that it is a choice between shiite and hobby – and yet are harping on and on, about the downsides, and lack of positives… of each option….
Steupssss!
Of interest to Bushie is this new push by those seeking reparations, to go after educational scholarships for blacks in those countries that benefitted from slavery…. instead of money…(which we all know now that they DON’T have…)
This displays a blissful ignorance of the root of what ails modern society.
These people have developed their particular albino-centric philosophy now for half a millennium – with the chaotic results that we now see being exemplified by the choice for a US president.
OBVIOUSLY SOME SHIITE IS FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH THEIR PAST AND CURRENT WAY OF THINKING.
Boss … see if you can find out from ‘Miller the nuksie’ exactly why we would want to have them ‘educate’ our young people as a means of reparations …. and what results this nuksie would then expect…
See if you can get the anunnaki to understand that what is needed is the development and refinement of a COMPLETELY NEW way of thinking, one that is COMMUNITY ORIENTED, righteous, and developmental, as opposed to the selfish, greed-driven and vindictive albino-centric thinking that has been exemplified by these ‘developed’ societies.
@Charles Skeete
But isn’t the party of Jim Crow the party of the Clinton’s too?
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I thought that we had resolved this argument before, didn’t the Parties switch positions? Didn’t the switch start with Goldwater and was completed by Nixon and further buttressed by Reagan’s Philadelphia Mississippi speech?
“Boss … see if you can find out from ‘Miller the nuksie’ exactly why we would want to have them ‘educate’ our young people as a means of reparations …. and what results this nuksie would then expect…”
Lol….Bushman…the education would be on how to go broke after stealing land, displacing natives, kidnapping and enslaving people for centuries…boasting about wealth, riches, superiority and practicing racism for over 500 years…and still going broke…lol
If the scholars dont learn something from that…it’s hopeless…mankind is lost forever.
@ Bushie
Why the separation based on where somebody lives. One person could live in several places at the same time.
While we admit localism has its place, for it to be the holy grail of what Bajanism is to be in an age globalization stares in the face of historical realities, existential realities.
Why are your prescriptions so tinged that they fail to measure central commonalities between African people universally as dominant.
This myopic general tendency files in the face of fact. Marcus Garvey, for examples, could not have been himself had he not gone to the USA. He certainly could not be the Caribbean transformational figure he is now recognized to be,without a connection with African peoples in the USA and the world.
We have never had a PM or other figure, elites figure, who were not, in some way, influenced by somewhere else.
Certainly there is little that is uniquely Bajan. So why not get ahead of this erosion and embrace all Bajans everywhere in the world as citizens period. Like you have previously agreed.
The type of inbreeding suggested leads to another type of anti-developmentalism. Even xenophobia. A xenophobia which including any Bajan who leaves the shores for more than 6 months.
@Bush Tea
Our education systen as you know is failing. You keep making the point, why are Barbadians selling out our assets acquired over many years by the sweat to foreigners. You see it right there.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/secrets-nyc-murder-alley-notorious-street-gang-warfare-article-1.2811956
Some history lessons from one state for those who like to blame Obama for everything.
AND
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/usatoday-urges-americans-not-vote-donald-trump-article-1.2812275
The real real reality of the face that is now the US elections with both candidates being seen as useless.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton just happen to be in the same bar having a drink after the New Hampshire primary. Donald walks over to start a conversation and leans over with a smile on his face and says, “The media is really tearing you apart for that scandal.”
Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the massive voter fraud?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using my secret private server with classified material to hide my activities?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, hiring cronies,
And taking bribes from foreign countries?
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the drones being operated in our own country without the benefit of the law?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”
Trump: “No, not that one either.
Hillary: “You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The IRS targeting Conservatives?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Turning Libya into chaos?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Turning our backs on Israel?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The joke Iran Nuke deal? ”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Leaving Iraq in chaos? ”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance executives?”
Trump: “No, not that one.”
Hillary: “Giving our cronies in Solyndra $500 Million and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Threats to all of Bill’s former mistresses to keep them quiet”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “OK, OK, I give up! … Oh wait, I think I’ve got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware and the new china I ordered for the White House when Bill left office?”
Trump: “THAT’S IT! I didn’t know about that one until the press brought it up”.
This one is for Lawson…lol
Lol….Bushman…the education would be on how to go broke after stealing land, displacing natives, kidnapping and enslaving people for centuries…boasting about wealth, riches, superiority and practicing racism for over 500 years……METICULOUSLY documenting all their atrocities…..and still going broke…lol
Bushman…dont lose hope…I got a relative attended one of those prestigious Ivy Leagues….I had to pay for the damn thing though…steupss. ..but you would not believe the knock on effect..even Barbados is benefitting……she was born there though not raised there.
……those brilliant kids know what time it is…give them the benefit..they see it even clearer than you or I do.
The details of my point goes to the heart of the issue one of tax avoidance which DT conceded to Hilary in the debate. The only questions remains to be answered by Trump is how did he avoid paying taxes and for how many tears and who were his professional advisers and enablers
Wesley Snipes had professional advisers and he went to jail for not paying taxes. There is no doubt that Trump had professional advisers . Both Trump and Snipes are tax cheats Snipes spent years in jail as an example to others meanwhile Trump makes fun and scoffs at the system
With all the serious allegations leveled against Trump there needs to be a justice dept investigation into Trump shady business dealings. The horse has bolted out the stable and govt intervention is necessary to stop its mad trampling across the states of america
Trump cannot be given preferential treatment it is unfair to those who have played by the rules and furthermore america cannot afford to have another crook like Richard Nixon as the commander and chief the risk of a similar scenario must be stop
Clinton’s life good or bad has been an open book for 40 years but what do we know about Trump? Most of the information about him has been gleaned through ghost written hagiographies and even one of his coauthors has been denying the contents of the book. Most of the other details of his life has been revealed through braggadocios comments in interviews about how wealthy he is, of course we have also heard about his serial bankruptcies which never seem to affect him personally. The public record shows that his father was arrested at a Klu Klux Klan rally and was accused of racial bias in the 1950’s. When young Donald joined his father’s Company it was sued by Nixon’s Justice Dept. for racial discrimination in 1973 (the Company used racial coding to hide its practices placing “C” on the applications for Black applicants and “9” for Puerto Ricans). After paying a fine the Company said it had ceased the practice but a sting operation (hello Chad) in 1975 revealed that it was up to its old tricks and the Company was fined again. Trumps explanation for this in the recent debate was that many Companies in the US was doing this so they just joined the crowd (BTW let’s examine that explanation everybody was racist so we felt comfortable being racist too) it boggles the mind.
Fast forward to today every move Trump has made has been done to benefit himself financially even the most recent foray where he announced that Obama was born in the US while touting and leading a tour of a branded hotel in Washington DC. He used his Charitable Foundation for his own benefit paying a political bribe to the Atty.General in Florida who was on the verge of investigating one of his profit making Enterprises (Trump University). Trump announced that if he is elected he will place his holdings in a “blind trust” overseen by his children, that would be the first recorded instance of a one eyed blind Trust because it would be impossible to separate a Pres Trump of the US from a Trump who will be looking after his own. The old Donald would be in the WH cutting deals to benefit himself and his family and the younger Trumps would be sitting around at family dinners getting the inside info.
Finally the man seems incapable of controlling himself an argument with Rosie O’Donnell made it into the recent debate, he is firing off tweets about a former Miss Universe, he retweets messages from racists….. I could go on and on…..
WW,
Let’s be clear I dont support Trump, he is barely ahead of ShilLIARy Rotten KILLaTON, my position is really much the same as yours.
However, Shill is WUSSER and few people have conducted HONEST research and back her without serious analysis.WHY?
1 she victimised Sick Willie’s criminal transgressions with Brodderick’s RAPE, K Willey and many more. If she was worthy of female or any support, she would have left Sick Willie long time ago, why not? Shill is Power Hungry and that was THE reason she is with Sick Willie!!!
2 she compounded this by taking $$$$$$$$$$$$ from the ME bastards that tret females horribly! NO knowledgeable, honest , thinking female would vote for her, ever once they have this info!
3 She dont like Black people check the video. Laugh behind dem back, same for poor whites. Just gi me your vote and see yah in 4 yrs!
4 Foundation ripped Haitians of their new homes!!! Very low blow when you are supposed to help the poorest people in the western hemisphere in their time of genuine need.
5 33,000 State Dept Emails DELETED, she can never be trusted and for this alone should be in PRISON, as U or I would be. Certainly we would never get Govt clearance again.
see above, no more time.
Black people here telling why they dont want ShilLIARy. Includes the most abused Haitians protesting Clinton Foundation. No homes but Private Jets??????????????????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFsQPUG5lNs
@ Bush Tea
De ole man would hazard a guess that, if tomorrow fumbles and his group of fecundities (to wit you calls dem nuksies) were to float a referendum choice of “Referendum or Accede to Becoming the 51st State of the United States of America” de ole man would bet dat 95% uh bajans wud vote fuh um!!
Dis is why I doan really put too much stock in Reparations, in fact dis is why I doan really put too much stock in things temporal, BECAUSE MAN IS CRAFTED IN SIN and deceit and self indulgence.
But back to your point Bush Tea.
We Bajans is like them “down Lowe fellers” we is “secret Americans” and secret homosexuals and lesbians rather, to be politically correct “we have an advanced same sex orientation gender expression”
As such, if I was to write and article here speaking to obesity in american kids and cite a pistule on Rosie Odonald’s bottom, Tom, Dick and AC would be able to pull stats on the cellulite content of that pimple.
When GP talk bout it doah, we ent interested cause “who GP???” whu ent he dat feller who embarrass de DPP in court back in de 80″s?
“close he tuh badword down!!”
If i tell you that you are worthless enough times AND I REINFORCE IT through white man lenses of facial features you ent going believe dat Serena Williams and she sister is walking pulchritude you going got de hots fuh dem anemic looking white skeletons dat the Donald alway attracted to!!
BU’s greatest challenge is quite simply put “the essence of life” Bush Tea.
How long will WW&C and The Sage Annunaki, and Due Diligence and Jeff Cumberbatch, and Caswell Franklyn and Hopi, and Donna and Simple Simon and SSS and Artaxerxes and the Honourable Blogmaster and so many other names dat de ole man cant remember off hand, how long will they possess that “essence of life” to be able to come here and slowly repeat the mantra until it makes a difference ??
Observe the evolution of the site and you will see the change but do we have the time Bush Tea? and the patience and resoluteness?
Sometimes we tire, even as a deer pants, even though right next to the stream…even while wishing that we will not be interested in America, as they are not interested in us but that we will keep our eyes Watching GOD
Sarge,
She dont like Black people according to Black people who can research and THINK honestly!
@GP
I am only a Doctor Boobie so I can’t comment on your observations, but looka there were many other “experts” saying Trump had a cocaine problem after his constant sniffles during the debate.
Simply put Trump is a Fraud and scum bag.Hillary undewent the rigors of a congressional and justice dept investigation as was found not guilty. The republican party is seeing red because of their candidate failure to pass the litmus test of transparency and integrity. Meanwhile there is also the self interest of politics involved by others who see a financial windfall in store by the sale of books attached to clinton unproven alleged allegations to the clinton foundation.
On the Other hand there is DT who hace used his foundation as his personnel ATM machine to pay off personnel debt and fund his lavish lifestyle
ac,
The Clinton Foundation mashed up the poor Black Haitians!! Did U watch the video where they are protesting at the Foundation????????????????
Clinton’s taking Private Jets on Foundation $$$$$ and the Haitians are living outdoors after 6 yrs????? That is alright with U??????????? SHAMEFUL!
ac,
All DTs are questionable–David Thompson TOO!
Barbados is not the only country selling its assets to foreigners.Behold,none other than the Lord Mayor of London,himself an immigrant,is calling for an inventory of ownership of London properties with real estate moguls forecasting a deluge of Chinese buyers about to invest in large number.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/29/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-inquiry-foreign-property-ownership
@ Pachamama September 30, 2016 at 8:22 AM
Pacha, what I would like to hear from you is your take on the Indo-Pakistan feud brewing on the border of intolerance.
Would this British-backed experiment again fail as it has done in the ME or would we see a reignited clash between two branches of the same family using religious superiority as the guise?
Would Islam, having suffered a few humiliating body blows from the Russians, recoup under the banner of jihad to attack the infidels of Hinduism thereby leading to a possible resurgence of fears of nuclear holocaust as vividly portrayed in the Bhagavad Gita?
@Bush Tea at 7:47 AM re ” This lotta interest in US elections is driven by those who live there ..and by whose ideals are based there. They all agree that it is a choice between shiite and hobby – and yet are harping on and on, about the downsides, and lack of positives… of each option….Steupssss!”
This is an amazing screed coming from one as learned as you. Therefore I will accept that it’s just an ‘I like to debate’ screed and not overly serious so here is my mild contretemps.
Let’s accept that you are right. These debates are driven by ex-Bimmers. Still for a man who was a teacher and would have quoted many non Bajan theorists and directed your students to dissect and study their works your remarks are confounding and counter-intuitive.
We cannot exist without being aware or paying close attention to outsiders and particularly taking interest in the US.
It is often said that there are more Jamaicans living worldwide than those on that gorgeous island; definitely the same can be said for Bajans. By some estimations there are over 100,000 persons of Bajan family descent, birth or somewhere in between living in the east coast tri-state area alone. Added to those in Florida, the Carolinas and out on the US west coast that’s a lot of Bajan-tinged peoples.
Now sir I know you understand the hard value of that economic inflow to Bim. And too the economic power of US tourists completely unrelated to that.
So when David makes his well stated remark that cable news does heighten our awareness of US politics you really can’t offer your shrill type response, now can you!!! smile.
And btw, I recall much chatter here when St. Lucia and Grenada and also Jamaica and T&T had their elections. So I certainly don’t get the disconnect with the US elections. We harped on all their downsides too…particularly how Mia was getting involved in de people ting. We can’t effect none of the elections in the Caribbean either.
So wha exactly you saying, bro, that we can’t speak on the spectacle of a Caribbean Fidel strong-man type, who courting Russia, cussing people left and right and will certainly pull that nice grant to our regional Family Planning offices as soon as he gets in the White House.
Not getting you atall bro!!! Sounds to me like your albino-centric dismissal needs a real dose of common-sentricity!!!
Miller,
Sharia loving Jihadist types have/ will and DO KILL any other humans that dont agree with them including moderate Muslims.
Murder Christians in Indonesia.
Murder Hindus/ Sikhs/ others in India and Pakistan
Murder the Lebanese Christians by truckload
Murder Christian and other minorities in Syria/ Iraq etc
Murder and enslave Africans for 600+++yrs, indeed thousands of years.
Murder dumbAss Europeans and Americans today.
I have personal contact with Lebanese, Pakistani Christians etc who had to migrate to save their lives!
If you want serious carnage let Pak/ Afghanistan attack India.
ACs…Killary is guilty as hell…the legislators and people are just too exhausted with both of them to really do anthing just yet…….if you know how the US system works.
….both Killary and Trump know this…
……but their time will run out…..
…later is always greater.
@ Miller
We, like you, have been watching developments closely.
When we see the parade of the balance of forces we are minded that nuclear war is not indicated despite the extreme rhetoric on all sides.
To us the commercial interests on all sides will ensure war is avoid in the near to medium term.
But protests against Indian rule in Jammu and Kashmir have been gaining momentum and have been met with overwhelming military force by New Delhi.
This conflict is not properly located within the current terrorism discourses. It has it origins in the 1940s independence/partition decisions by the British.
Yes, they are Muslims who were promised a plebiscite to determine their destiny. 70 years since the wicked British and the UN have not been able to keep those promises.
The Gita is no more violent than the Bible but Hindus are as racist as the Zionists and as inspired as the Sunni Wahhabi fundamentalists of ISIS. The people of Jammu & Kashmir are thankfully largely Shiites.
MoneyB. ..those are the reasons everyone hates Killary…
I hope the people of Barbados are watching how the 2 party tag team of demons are playing out in the US elections…the people got some serious decisions to make for their wellbeing and those of their children, grandchildren and future generations.
Another bold faced lie told by the republican corrupt machine desperately facing a battle of lack of integrity and transpatency by DT. The clinton / haitian charties gave and donated millions to Haiti as agreed by the USAID there is no iotto of truth as to what is being said. George Bush and the clintons jointely participated in giving to USAID to haiti .there is no truth to show evidence that the Clintons used their charitable funds for their personnel gains