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From a recent Donald Trump speech:
For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don’t have your good in mind. Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven’t seen before…
The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry…
The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We’ve seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors…Before you suggest this is the stuff of paranoid fantasy, consider both Bill and Hillary Clinton have attended the infamous and secretive Bilderberg Group annual meetings where the global elite meet, but nobody knows what happens there.
Whether the Clintons are at the heart of this global conspiracy, or merely pawns in it, remains to be seen. But they clearly are aware of it.
But then Trump takes a scary turn:
Let’s be clear on one thing, the corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They’re a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it’s for themselves…
This election will determine whether we are a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged. This is reality, you know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it. The establishment and their media enablers [wield] control over this nation through means that are very well known.He is correct, but the implications of his statement are troubling. When somebody says something like this, there is only one thing to do, and that is to break up the cabal. And when they suggest that, it means control of the Media and overthrowing the conspiracy. From a potential agent of government, that is worrying. This is a step towards fascism.
On the other hand, if there is a global conspiracy, then Trump has no hope of winning, since they will undoubtedly work to defeat him. Unless he is part of the conspiracy, in which case electing him will be pointless.
Trump is a walking, talking logical Catch-22, whereby his own ideas prove him wrong.
Unfortunately, the Democrats are doing everything to prove Trump right...
Breitbart:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s membership on the executive board of an energy company, Joule Unlimited, which received millions from a Putin-connected Russian government fund, also included “75,000 common shares,” according to an email exchange uncovered by the Wikileaks hacks.The story goes on to point out that "Podesta joined the Joule Unlimited board in June 2011", and then:
“The disclosure that Clinton Chair John Podesta transferred his shares in Putin-backed Joule Unlimited to an anonymous holding company when he joined the Obama Administration is extremely concerning,” said Donald Trump Senior Communications Advisor Jason Miller in a statement.
Podesta failed to fully disclose his position on Joule Unlimited’s board of directors and include it in his federal financial disclosures, as required by law, before he became President Obama’s senior adviser.Are there any laws which the Clintons and their associates actually follow?
Speaking of the Clintons...
CNN:
Catholic and evangelical groups slammed Hillary Clinton's campaign in a statement Thursday over comments revealed in the WikiLeaks emails hack between two high-level campaign officials.This is the about the same emails which this blog covered two days ago, and concluded:
Dozens of religious leaders who signed the statement expressed their "outrage at the demeaning and troubling rhetoric used by those within Secretary Clinton's campaign."
The statement is referring to a 2011 email between campaign chairman John Podesta, whose email was hacked, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri and John Halpin, a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress.
In the email, Halpin wrote that 21st Century Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch and NewsCorp Chairman Robert Thomson, who are both Catholic, are attracted to the faith because of "systemic thought and severely backward gender relations."
Palmieri responded: "I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable, politically conservative religion -- their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelical."
The religious leaders said in the statement, "Podesta's refusal to raise any objection makes him equally party to this bigotry. It is inexcusable. It is shameful. It is un-American."
If you read the whole story, this is actually nothing. Palmieri isn't saying there is anything wrong with Catholics or Catholicism. She is making a derogatory comment about one Catholic, Rupert Murdoch, with an implication against Robert Thompson. She isn't saying all Catholics behave this way. It is about how wealthy people use religion as a status symbol.
If anything, it appears to be an interesting observation about wealthy conservatives.This isn't bigotry against Catholics. One might argue it is bigotry against wealthy Catholics, but I don't think that this is about what these religious groups are complaining. They are being short-sighted and knee-jerk complaining because they heard a derogatory comment and the word "Catholic" used in the same sentence, and forgot to actually read the entire message for what is being said.
The Catholic Social Justice Warriors can now sit down, please. They are making fools of themselves.
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