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June 20, 2015, 10:07:19 AM
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Well, he can´t be worse than the totally certifiable crap that is on offer already. And unlike those looney tunes whores he isn´t corporate-owned I would have to guess, since he is a corporation himself. So that´s something.
but is really a great thing that we have to choose lesser if the two evil i mean common america deserves better the land of the brave and home of the free and no one better to run the country?
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June 20, 2015, 07:42:02 AM
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Donald Trump: Protecting Scotland's Interests? Russell Brand The Trews (E338)

Published on Jun 10, 2015
In this episode of The Trews I discuss the world leaders pledge to end the reliance on fossil fuels and examine Donald Trump's activities in Scotland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sPLwQFup50
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June 19, 2015, 03:27:46 PM
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Well, he can´t be worse than the totally certifiable crap that is on offer already. And unlike those looney tunes whores he isn´t corporate-owned I would have to guess, since he is a corporation himself. So that´s something.
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June 19, 2015, 07:44:46 AM
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June 19, 2015, 07:13:30 AM
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Many of Trump's companies have gone bankrupt. What makes you think this guy can run the country? Do I hear a Miss President of the Universe?

I second that. Even I do not believe that he can run a country. He just giving it a shot as usual. It's open election, free country, anybody can do it. Donald Trump, you will not Triumph  Grin
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June 19, 2015, 04:23:10 AM
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Many of Trump's companies have gone bankrupt. What makes you think this guy can run the country? Do I hear a Miss President of the Universe?
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June 19, 2015, 04:20:44 AM
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I know I don't even have to waste my breath on pointing out Trump's flaws. He will reveal himself easily enough.
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June 19, 2015, 12:15:42 AM
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I think Trump is just one old, sad, melting banana crushed and buried under a monkey's butt :/
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June 18, 2015, 09:39:28 PM
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Sadly it looks like the states are going to have another Bush or Clinton.

The demographics have changed a lot, as more and more Hispanic voters become eligible for voting. And add to this, the declining popularity of the GOP among the younger generation (regardless of race). Jeb Bush has no chance of defeating someone like Hillary Clinton, who is enjoying overwhelming support from the minorities, feminists and the LGBT lobby. Unless Rand Paul is the GOP candidate, Pinocchibitch is going to win hands down.
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June 18, 2015, 04:42:35 PM
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The Donald does this every election cycle, and he always drops out mid-way through campaign, once the real candidates start to emerge. He does it as a publicity stunt. It's pretty easy for him to give some half-assed speech in one of his hotels (doesn't cost him much), he can drop a few lines about how successful he is or mention one of his many hotel properties and get free publicity, which will make him relevant for a minute and maybe a bump in his business.

He's like the court jester in these election proceedings. Keeps the late night talk shows with plenty of monologue material. Enjoy the show!

I think this is probably the only reason he bothers. Why else? He knows he hasn't got a chance but does it any way again and again. Sadly it looks like the states are going to have another Bush or Clinton.
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June 18, 2015, 02:51:59 PM
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What is so funny is he probably would fix our debt crisis fairly well.
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June 18, 2015, 12:44:24 PM
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The Donald does this every election cycle, and he always drops out mid-way through campaign, once the real candidates start to emerge. He does it as a publicity stunt. It's pretty easy for him to give some half-assed speech in one of his hotels (doesn't cost him much), he can drop a few lines about how successful he is or mention one of his many hotel properties and get free publicity, which will make him relevant for a minute and maybe a bump in his business.

He's like the court jester in these election proceedings. Keeps the late night talk shows with plenty of monologue material. Enjoy the show!

Yeah, I think you´re right. It´s entertainment and of course this whole campaign is nothing but a laughable reality show anyway. For appearances sake only, the outcome has almost certainly already been decided.

Very true and this is what gets me, they have the country divided in so many ways and politics is just another - people get so worked-up over their side versus the other yet the whole thing is a sham and can be likened to professional wrestling, both sides are the same and it is all fixed.
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June 18, 2015, 02:36:57 AM
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The Donald does this every election cycle, and he always drops out mid-way through campaign, once the real candidates start to emerge. He does it as a publicity stunt. It's pretty easy for him to give some half-assed speech in one of his hotels (doesn't cost him much), he can drop a few lines about how successful he is or mention one of his many hotel properties and get free publicity, which will make him relevant for a minute and maybe a bump in his business.

He's like the court jester in these election proceedings. Keeps the late night talk shows with plenty of monologue material. Enjoy the show!

Yeah, I think you´re right. It´s entertainment and of course this whole campaign is nothing but a laughable reality show anyway. For appearances sake only, the outcome has almost certainly already been decided.
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June 18, 2015, 02:13:28 AM
#2
The Donald does this every election cycle, and he always drops out mid-way through campaign, once the real candidates start to emerge. He does it as a publicity stunt. It's pretty easy for him to give some half-assed speech in one of his hotels (doesn't cost him much), he can drop a few lines about how successful he is or mention one of his many hotel properties and get free publicity, which will make him relevant for a minute and maybe a bump in his business.

He's like the court jester in these election proceedings. Keeps the late night talk shows with plenty of monologue material. Enjoy the show!
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June 17, 2015, 07:36:31 PM
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America, You're Fired!



Before leaving the house early one morning in 63 BC, an anxious Julius Caesar told his mother, “Today thou shalt see thy son either pontifex maximus… or an exile.”

Caesar was running for his first BIG elected office- pontifex maximus, the high priest of Rome. And he was a young upstart at the time.

His opponents were all older, more reputable men. And his chances were low.

But Caesar had an ace up his toga. Since he couldn’t win on merit, he planned to buy the election, blowing ridiculous sums of money to butter up the voters.

He spent lavishly on games, gifts, and feasts. And he borrowed nearly all of the funds to do it.

This was an enormous risk for him; if Caesar lost the election, he wouldn’t have been able to repay his financiers, and likely would have fled the city.

Caesar had borrowed so much money, in fact, that he single-handedly depleted cash reserves among Rome’s major lenders, causing a significant bump in interest rates.

Cicero remarks on this in a letter to a friend, writing: “Bribery’s thriving… the interest rate has doubled.”

Of course, it wasn’t technically ‘bribery’.

Ancient Rome had a very fine line between bribing voters (known as ‘ambitus’), and simply being a generous guy (‘benignitas’). Caesar insisted he was the latter.

When the votes were finally counted (or not counted), Caesar was declared the winner, thus continuing the long-standing tradition of buying your way into office and rewarding your benefactors with political favor.

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He wasn’t the first to do this. And he certainly wouldn’t be the last.

In the Land of the Free today, the modern scion of the Republic, very little has changed from Ancient Rome.

One primary difference is that rather than spending campaign money on gifts and games to entertain voters, the election itself has become the entertainment.

Presidential races today are nothing more than a two-year, multi-billion dollar circus performance.

Mainstream election coverage already ranks among the most banal reality television, focusing on scandal, conflict, one-liner zingers, and hairstyle choices.

And now that Donald Trump has entered the race, the 2016 Presidential election will assuredly become the Greatest Show on Earth.

I can just imagine the media eating up his witty use of the phrase “You’re Fired” in campaign speeches that refer to his opponents.

But perhaps it’s America that’s fired.

Sure, you get to engage in the most demeaning exercise of casting a ballot so that one of these people can steal half of your money and use it to make you less free.

They call that ‘voting,’ and we’re told it’s our civic duty. But it’s just an illusion.

Just like in Caesar’s time, the election will go to the people who spend the most money.

But I’m not talking about the candidates. They’re just puppets. Entertainers.

I’m talking about the people who bankroll them.

These financiers have learned some valuable lessons since 63 BC: you never back just one horse.

Instead, they hedge their bets by heavily funding multiple candidates and buying influence over all of them.

One only need look at Hillary Clinton’s top donors to get a sense of who they are: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc.

Anyone who strays from their interests has his/her funding cut and is pronounced ‘unelectable’ and ‘unpresidential’ early in the circus by the media ringmasters.

This makes voting nothing more than a pointless, demeaning illusion of choice between candidates who have already been preselected by their financial backers.

It reminds me of what it used to be like wandering down the grocery store’s cereal aisle when I was a kid.

Sure it seemed like there were a ton of options.

But when you really looked closely, you could see that all the products were all packed full of the same unhealthy chemical ingredients and GMO grains.

And only about three companies produced all of them– Kellogg’s, Post, and General Mills. Not much of a choice after all.

Yet people fall for this scam every single election cycle. They think that their vote matters, and then they go to the polls and ‘choose’ whoever has the best jump shot, or whoever promises them the most free stuff.

(Remember, it’s not bribery if a candidate is just being generous!)

Curiously the country always ends up worse than before– less free, and more broke.

If you really want to vote in a way that counts, you have two far more powerful ballots you can cast.

They’re called your feet.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-17/america-youre-fired
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