U.S. Electile Dysfunction 2016

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Echoing the theme of a recent exchange of quips in the Lounge "Things that make you go Hmmm other than having learned how to purr..." thread:

Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton's Fake Populism Is a Hit | Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone:


And on the 'R' side of the Pharisaic-hypocrisy aisle:

How Silicon Valley almost joined the Confederacy; and the Rand Paul speechwriter who probably wishes it had | Mark Ames, PandoDaily

Hillary now proposes an overhaul of the tax code......

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/04/2...6pLid%3D647275


Right..........

Of course, she says nothing about how it will be done......

One thing that I think we need is an AMT (Alternative Minimum) for corporations.

We already have one for individuals.

[ewmayer]

o Nomi Prins: The Clintons and Their Banker Friends | naked capitalism

o State Department says no review of undisclosed Clinton Foundation donations

The State Department does not plan to review previous donations to the Clinton Foundation that went undisclosed, despite an agreement that the charity run by former President Bill Clinton would make its financial backers public during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

In response to a question about whether the State Department is looking into numerous reports, including one by Bloomberg, that the Clintons did not live up to their end of the deal, spokesman Jeff Rathke on Thursday told reporters it was not.

“The State Department has not and does not intend to initiate a formal review, or to make a retroactive judgment about items that were not submitted during Secretary Clinton’s tenure,” he said.

Hey, I'm sure if there had been any pay-to-play influence-peddling action going on here it would have come out already, because after all the Secretary of State is required by law to place all official correspondence such as e-mails in the public-recordkeeping domain. I mean it's not like Hillary was conducting official state business using a private phone or e-mail account, was it? Oh, wait...

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Both Rand and Hillary are in Silicon Valley this weekend ... Rand actually made the right kinds of noises about internet privacy (i.e. ending warrantless government bulk surveillance) at a tech-startup-farm gathering; Hillary was busy raking in $ from the tech oligarchy. (But while remaining a "reg'lar folks populist", or something.)

I hope Bernie Sanders' announcement at least gives a large fraction of the Dem base pause about the 'inevitability' of Hillary getting the nomination. I am appalled by the thought of another Bush or Clinton presidency, but I fear that is what Boobus Voterus Americanus will dutifully sign off on.

[Xyzzy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us...iraq-data.html

So Jeb Bush now says he would not have invaded Iraq if he knew then what he knows today. Neither would Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, John R. Kasich, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum or Marco Rubio. In fact, Mr. Rubio said, “Not only would I not have been in favor of it, President Bush would not have been in favor of it.”

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us...iraq-data.html

So we are to believe that Dubya would not have invaded Iraq had he known that the same not-just-'flawed'-but-actively-falsified-to-fit-a-preconceived-narrative-intel his administration was disseminating to the lapdog MSM was as bogus as he must have known it was? Really?

BTW, note the NYT - which uncritically regurgitated the same bogus (again not 'flawed' - actively falsified) intel, is as loath to use the right desciptor as they are to use the correct word 'fraud' in their coverage of the TBTF banks' 'missteps', the multitrillion-dollar-fraud-based house of cards which blew up the global financial system in 2007-2008.

[ewmayer]

Canadian rocker Neil Young strikes sour note on Donald Trump's use of song | Reuters

Another Bernie Sanders supporter - bloody Canadian socialistsgood on Neil. Maybe The Donald could use a campaign anthem which pays homage to the world's most famous combover, such as 'Blowin in the Wind' or 'Muskrat Love'.

[only_human]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Canadian rocker Neil Young strikes sour note on Donald Trump's use of song | Reuters

Another Bernie Sanders supporter - bloody Canadian socialistsgood on Neil. Maybe The Donald could use a campaign anthem which pays homage to the world's most famous combover, such as 'Blowin in the Wind' or 'Muskrat Love'.

His trending theme: We shall over comb.
You know else had a hideous comb-over? Hitler!

Coincidence? I think NOT!

The invisible hand that rocks the cradle paid astroturfers to attend his big escalator ride:
Donald Trump Campaign Offered Actors $50 to Cheer for Him at Presidential Announcement

[Batalov]

Godwin's law in action!

[chappy]

In unrelated news, Neil Young really just wants Trump toupee.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by chappy

In unrelated news, Neil Young really just wants Trump toupee.

Is it just me, or does Neil look like Donald Knuth's slightly-less-nerdy long-lost brother?

Hey, hey, my, my
Machine code can never die
There's more to the threading than meets the eye
Hey, hey, my, my

Out of the mem and onto the stack
You fully traced this, but it still goes splat
And once it segfaults, you can't trace it back
When you're out of the blue and into the black

The context is gone but it's not forgotten
Is this the story of the Compiler Rotten?
It's better to memcheck out 'cause RAM never sleeps
The context is gone but it's not forgotten

Hey, hey, my, my
Machine code can never die
There's more to the threading than meets the eye

"D00d, this band really bytes..."

[only_human]

A more humble Trump would have channeled Garth Brooks:

"We Shall Be Free"

This ain't comin' from no prophet
Just an ordinary man
When I close my eyes I see
The way this world shall be
When we all walk hand in hand

When the last child cries for a crust of bread
When the last man dies for just words that he said
When there's shelter over the poorest head
We shall be free

When the last thing we notice is the color of skin
And the first thing we look for is the beauty within
When the skies and the oceans are clean again
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, walk proud
'Cause we shall be free
When we're free to love anyone we choose
When this world's big enough for all different views
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew
Then we shall be free
We shall be free

We shall be free
Have a little faith
Hold out
'Cause we shall be free

And when money talks for the very last time
And nobody walks a step behind
When there's only one race and that's mankind
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith, hold out
We shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, have a little faith

We shall be free

[ewmayer]

An NC reader/commenter who goes by the dual guises of craazyman and craazyboy - they often carry on long conversations with each other - has started a series of very funny mock-news posts riffing on Hillary's shameless self-draping of the Rooseveltian mantle in her campaign speech last weekend at - of course! - Roosevelt Island in NY harbor. Here are links to the first 2 installments of what promises to be an entertaining series of "fireside snarks":

#1: Hillary and Her Antique FDR Vacuum Tube Radio | 6/15

#2: Hillary and Her Very Exceptional Press conference | 6/18