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The “D” Division Invades The Swamp. The War On America Is On In America (January 25, 2021)

Posted in Bideni, First Amendment, O'Bama, Presidency, Trumpi, Wall Street, War, War and Wall Street Party on January 25, 2021 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “The ‘D’ Division rolled into Fort Swamp last Wednesday without much genuine fanfare or even many fans. Attendance at the Emperor’s coronation looked like a Bideni campaign rally last fall.”

J “To the accompaniment of more centurions than the Empire acknowledges in its many overseas wars of choice. A bleak and barren tableau against a desolate and deserted landscape with a rank and file of American flags made in China. No citizens were on the National Mall and no shoppers were in the nation’s shopping malls.”

. . .

K “One crime family leaves and another crime family arrives. I provoke all manner of perplexed responses when I observe that we are giving up an Ivy League President and getting someone who graduated something like 97^th in a law school class of 58 at a regional law school.”

J “Trumpi only got into an Ivy League school because he is from a second generation crime family. The Bidenis are now an established second generation crime family and thus Hunter had a spot held for him in the Ivy League.”

. . .

K “Bideni is a foot soldier for the neoliberals in domestic policy.”

J “And an errand boy for the neoconservatives in foreign policy.”

. . .

K “Nothing ever changes.”

J “Everything stays the same.”

. . .

K “He was true to himself until the end and simply could not muster the courage and integrity to pardon Assange and Snowden and instead pardoned some stray punks and thugs. He is a waste of protoplasm in a great wasteland.”

J “He pardoned people who reminded him of who he is not who he wants to be. He will always be the saurian beast until he slithers off this Planet.”

. . .

K “Bideni promised that nothing will change; he will keep that one promise. Day 6 is a modest improvement, but under the most optimistic scenario the country will only marginally improve under him/her/them.”

J “Marginal is the best we can do in this country. He will broadcast a few flashy but hollow and symbolic policies. Few legitimate grievances will be addressed. This is the third term of the O’Bama administration. O’Bama spawned Trumpi. He/she/they are the transitional Presidency to a new more slick and subtle Trumpi Version 2.0 in four years.”

. . .

K “The war on America and Americans now begins in earnest.”

J “The only way to grow and expand the war industry is to invade and colonize new territory. America is just sitting there between the two vast sloughs waiting to be plucked and plundered. America is the last frontier and the last battleground.”

. . .

[See ““Here Are the Superheroes To Come and Save Us”: Media Waste No Time Fawning Over Biden” in “MintPress News” by Alan Macleod dated January 22, 2021.]

[See the e-commentary at “The “War And Wall Street Party” Concludes Its Confabulations (August 31, 2020)”, “The Choice: Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate v. Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate (April 13, 2015)”, “The ‘War and Wall [Street] Party’ On The War Path (February 1, 2016)”, “The First Look At The ‘Second Political Party’ (January 3, 2011)” and “DNC: ‘We’re Losers. Vote for Us.’ (February 27, 2017)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Give war a chance

No hope and no change

Dissent is patriotic

Hank Aaron

There is something to and something about ivermectin that compels a closer look-see

?The Dow at 20,000 or less by Halloween?

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Seeing 2020: A Sanctuary City Is Legal If It Respects And Protects ____________. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 20, 2020)

Posted in Clinton, Guns, O'Bama on January 20, 2020 by e-commentary.org

. . .

undocumented aliens?

gun owners?

. . .

[See the previous e-commentary delivered on MLK Day.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

MLK Day

Lobby Day in Virginia

It seems crazy but it is true that the first two Black Presidents were Republicans – Clinton and O’Bama

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Third Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2018 (April 9, 2018)

Posted in Amazon, Awards / Incentives, Cameo In Courage Award, Courage, Facebook, Google, O'Bama, On [Traits/Characteristics], Privacy, Profile In Courage Award, Technology on April 9, 2018 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “The envelope please. . . . This year, the ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award is awarded to . . . Chelsea Elizabeth Manning and Julian Paul Assange. Courage is rare. It must be celebrated. It is one of the “rare-earths” within the human heart and is very rare on this Earth.”

. . .

And a tip of the hat to the great nation and good people of Ecuador that provide a home and a haven for Mr. Assange.

And a partial tip of the lid to former President O’Bama for commuting all but four months of Ms. Manning’s sentence. A presidential commutation reduces the sentence being served but does not change the fact of conviction. A presidential pardon would have forgiven the criminal offenses. But at core O’Bama lacked the fortitude and courage to pardon Ms. Manning and Mr. Snowden and Mr. Assange. He could have just done it.

[Please send nominations for the “Cameo In Courage” Award for 2019 and a supporting letter by January 25, 2019 to e-ssay@gci.net and send the entry fee to your favorite charity.]

[See the e-commentary at “Hero or Traitor? (June 10, 2013)”, “Second Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2017 (March 6, 2017)”, “First Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2016 (May 9, 2016)”, “Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016)”, “Profile In Cowardice Award (May 12, 2014)”, “Profile In Courage Award, 2015 (May 11, 2015)”, “Chelsea And Ed: Time For “Con” “dign” Treatment (November 30, 2015)” and “On Courage and Truth (March 17, 2008)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“In a dozen plus years and without a debate or a vote, technology has deprived us of privacy. With little debate and many hasty votes, Congress has deprived us of privacy at every opportunity. We as a society should create a rebuttable presumption in favor of privacy even if it appears to sacrifice security. Our personal insecurities are actually creating greater national insecurity.” See “Hero or Traitor? (June 10, 2013)”.

Boycott Facebook. See “Boycott Facebook (August 2, 2010)”. And Google. And Amazon.

Love is elusive and transitory; the Internet is forever.

The Internet never forgets.

What’s said on the Internet stays on the Internet.

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MPP / MPA: Are They Really Masters? (November 13, 2017)

Posted in Bureaucracy, Bush, Clinton, Education, Kennedy, O'Bama, Pogo Plight, Schooling, Schooling Industrial Complex, Trumpi on November 13, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “These Masters of Public Policy and Masters of Public Administration types all suffer from a collective groupthink.”

J “That they are the Masters of the Universe. They are actually the errand boys and errand girls for the real Masters of the Universe.”

K “Apparatchik manufacturing. The law schools historically have manufactured them.”

J “These programs are a ‘law school substitute’ or a ‘law school light’ program.”

K “The most important part of the curriculum is ‘Excuses 101’ that salvages any ill-conceived whim.”

. . .

K “Maintaining groupthink is the overriding concern and the unifying doctrine.”

J “And building the old boy network to divide the spoils.”

. . .

K “Look at the responses on the mid-term.”

What choice did we have?
Nobody saw it coming.
All policies have unintended consequences.
All of the above.

J “They are the ‘D’ students.”

K “Are we all the ‘D’ students?”

. . .

K “Better to get an MFA?”

J “Better to skip the classroom, boycott the S.I.C. and teach yourself.”

K “Have you ever seen the syllabus for a Master of Coarse Arts degree?”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “Schooling The Apparatchiks For The Kleptocrats (December 7, 2015)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016).”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” Frederick Douglass

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

There but for the grace of God go I

Appropriately Proud Single Mom: “My three ‘D’ students took their mom out to dinner for her birthday. My M.D. student, my J.D. student and my Ph.D. student.”

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer

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Trumpi Goes Neocon; Capitulates In Syria; Supports ISIS; Attacks Without Provocation (April 17, 2017)

Posted in Bush, Deep State, Kleptocracy, Neoconservatives, O'Bama, Rule of Law, Russia, Syria, Trumpi, Wall Street, War, War and Wall Street Party on April 17, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “Trumpi capitulated. He is no different after all. Tossing five dozen Tomahawks was his initiation into the gang of Washington chickenhawks.”

J “My first thought was that he took off his mask and revealed himself, but we cannot forget that he does know what he is doing or why he is doing it or even who he is. How would the public react if the newspapers and antisocial media sites reported that Trumpi supports ISIS. Attacking Syria is attacking a country that is attacking ISIS.”

K “His first Hundred Days have been pockmarked by chaos, confusion and complete capitulation to the ‘War and Wall Street Party’. Trumpi lacks the strength, the courage, the experience, the maturity and the integrity to disregard the Neoconservatives and to deep six the amoebic and amorphous swamp beast they call the Deep State.”

J “So now forces are being unleashed to deep six the world. Bummer.”

K “What Bush somehow managed to avoid and what O’Bama somewhat skillfully managed to avoid may be coming to a planet near you. Will it be an expanded proxy war or a full contact world war.”

. . .

[See “Women for Syria: A Day of Action” held on April 13.]

[See the recent interview with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and the interview with retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson for some perspective.]

[See the e-commentary at “Seriously Sizing Up Syria Seizing Up (October 12, 2015)”, “The Drums of War (February 20, 2012)”, “Syria: Gas and Fog (August 26, 2013)”, “Time To Talk: Hear The Guitar (December 9, 2013)”, “The Percolating Middle East (February 22, 2016)” and “Smedley And Ernest On Our Friend ‘War’; The ‘Racket’ Continues (September 7, 2015)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Without evidence or authorization . . . from Congress or the United Nations Security Council

Smoke and mirrors so often hide the true source of gas.

Too many drums; not enough guitars.

Pay your taxes; buy a bomb.

Pay your taxes; buy a guitar.

Make America Grating Again.

Make America Psycho Again.

Political Experience: 0 + Military Experience: 0 + Economic Experience: 0 + Diplomatic Experience: 0 = ?

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“Trumpi Care” v. “Romney – O’Bama Care”: Who Cares? (March 27, 2017)

Posted in Congress, Health Care, O'Bama, Romney on March 27, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “O’Bama had a bad plan, few ideas, and fewer clues.”

J “Trumpi has no plan, no idea, and no clue.”

K “And the Republicans have no plan, no idea, and no clue.”

. . .

K “For the past seven years, House Republicans have taken meaningless vote after meaningless vote after meaningless vote after meaningless vote to repeal or roll back provisions of the Unaffordable Care Act. Now that they control all three branches of government, they are unable to conduct even one simple vote to do what they have done these innumerable times in the past.”

J “That is what happens when you actually get what you want.”

K “Seems to me that you can’t always get what you want, but if you try and try and try and try sometimes, you do not get what you do not need.”

. . .

K “The ACA versus the AHCA. Our own national March Madness. Both are losers.”

J “The syllogism of health carelessness is so obvious. ACA = Insurance Company Control; AHCA = Insurance Company Control; ergo ACA = AHCA.”

K “And we are the losers. Could you report the score by reporting that it was an upset with both sides each scoring less than zero points.”

. . .

K “As a country, every industry is more monopolized than at any time in American history. That includes the health insurance industry.”

J “The few providers increase premiums which lowers participation rates which results in a deterioration of the risk pool which leads to an increase in premiums which lowers participation rates which results in a deterioration of the risk pool which is then repeated and repeated.”

K “The death spiral is increasing. The only way to force participation will be to provide a mechanism to impose increases in the penalties from not participating tied to increases in the premiums for participating. The premium soon will be $5000 a month for a $50,000 deductible policy and thus the penalty for non-participation must be $5000 a month.”

. . .

J “Sixty years olds do not need maternity coverage and sixteen year olds do not need mammograms.”

. . .

K “What about H.R. 676, the Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act, that provides for a single payer?”

J “What we have now in most states is a ‘single exploiter’ system. A ‘single payer’ system does not heap wealth on the health insurance companies. It is doomed.”

K “We as a country cannot afford it, but we as a people cannot not afford it.”

. . .

J “Until someone challenges all the theft forced and enforced by the government from the people to the insurance companies, nothing will improve and everything will get worse.”

K “But who really cares?”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at the Category titled “Health Care.”]

Bumper sticker of the week:

ACA = Insurance Company Control; AHCA = Insurance Company Control; ergo ACA = AHCA.

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Second Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2017 (March 6, 2017)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Bush, Cameo In Courage Award, Courage, Fukushima Daiichi, Health Care, Kennedy, O'Bama, Profile In Courage Award, Romney, Trumpi on March 6, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “This year, the Awards Committee for the ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award is bestowing a special lifetime achievement award to . . . Mr. William E. Binney, Mr. Thomas A. Drake and Mr. John Kiriakou, all of the United States, for dedicating their professional lives to the good of their country at considerable cost to themselves.”

J “Great choices. Long overdue.”

. . .

K “Mr. Drake is also the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.”

. . .

J “Kennedy, Inc. gave their award to O’Bama, Inc. I wouldn’t call it a courageous decision, but I would call it a predictable and strategic move.”

K “Cross-breeding within the ruling class. JFK instead of the AKC. ‘Credential cross-collateralization’ is the way I describe it when each side benefits from bestowing awards on each other. The award is an effort by the Kennedys to keep the Kennedy brand visible and relevant.”

J “If O’Bama had proposed, pursued and passed a single payer health care system as propounded by the enlightened members of the medical profession rather than selling out and selling the nation a bill of goods described as the ‘Romney – O’Bama Unaffordable Health Careless Act’, he would be both a man of his word and a courageous man of his word. But he is not.”

K “He also spent considerable public resources prosecuting truly courageous individuals and public servants acting courageously such as the Binneys, Drakes and Kiriakous.”

J “The grand and perverse irony is that O’Bama went to great lengths to punish the courageous.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “First Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2016 (May 9, 2016)”, “Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016)”, “On Courage and Truth (March 17, 2008)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Fukushima Daiichi – 3/11/11

From the Kennedy Clan:

Thank you for taking the time to submit a nomination for the 2017 Profile in Courage Award.

This year we received a record number of nominations – nearly 30,000 – from people wishing to recognize courageous leaders for standing up for the greater good.

We are heartened by the unprecedented interest in heralding acts of political courage by our elected officials, and thrilled to have so many qualified nominees. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to be the first to hear about this year’s winner.

[But we do not care what you say because we do whatever advances our interests.]

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Women’s March On Washington (Woodstock With Conviction) / Coronation (January 23, 2017)

Posted in Abortion, Bush, First Amendment, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Journalism, Newspapers, O'Bama, Police, Population, Press/Media, Society, Trumpi on January 23, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “Rarely have as many citizens peaceably assembled – most sporting pink knit caps with ears – and confronted an equally peaceful assemblage of police.”

J “By my best wild ass guess, at the Coronation on Friday, there was about one (1) security person from the Metropolitan Police Department / U.S. Marshal’s Service / Capitol Hill Police / Transportation Security Administration / National Guard / Coast Guard / National Park Service Police / Secret Service / Uniformed Secret Service / Supreme Court Police / Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Administration per twenty-five (25) attendees. At the community gathering on Saturday, there was about one (1) traffic division cop per two hundred fifty (250) attendees. The vibe changed radically in twenty-four hours.”

K “The authorities only expected 100,000 to 200,000 participants to wander by and then over 500,000 citizens decided something had to be done. Because of budgetary concerns and sequestration, someone said they may be required to cancel the public sector Coronation in 2020 and allow the private sector to organize and orchestrate a ‘People’s March 2020’ in its stead.”

J “The people can do it. I watched a Black female police officer and a White female police officer surrounded by and talking to participants who took group pictures under a hand-lettered sign that ventured the notion: ‘The future is female’.”

K “I don’t believe there were any arrests at the March.”

. . .

K “The Metro ridership statistics are revealing. O’Bama 2009 took gold, O’Bama 2013 took silver, Women’s March 2017 took bronze, Bushy 2005 took honorable mention and Trumpi 2017 also ran.”[1]

J “What were Andrew Jackson’s numbers?”

. . .

K “The crass and coarse missive delivered at the Trumpi Show on Friday continued the campaign. The commentators almost uniformly dismissed the speech as ‘dark’ and ‘dystopian’, yet for most of the Trump supporters life is indeed accurately depicted as dark and dystopic. Trumpi revealed a kernel of truth about the desperate lives of mostly rural folk, but it was not the pretty city talk the journalists and pundits wanted to hear.”

J “For most journalists, the system is working for them, so they report that the system works.”

K “The system is not working. Ordinary folks are not working.”

J “Trumpi is threatening and challenging many individuals and institutions that do not know kindness and do not take kindly to a threat or a challenge.”

K “For both terms, I was concerned that O’Bama would be dispatched like Kennedy.”

J “When it comes down to policy, however, Trumpi’s band of bankers and billionaires will do little if anything to improve the plight of the little people. He’s safe from enhanced retribution.”

K “Some of the riders rolling with the ‘Bikers for Trump’ articulated some of the real economic problems plaguing America. Yet they don’t realize they are being played for chumps by Trumps.”

J “Trumpi is ditching the ‘Bikers for Trump’ and riding off into the sunset with ‘Bankers for Trump’ and ‘Trillionaires for Trump.’ Both the latter two gangs sport the same colors – Green – and the same logo – $.”

. . .

K “A Trumpi supporter said he did not understand what they wanted. Dignity, parity, equality, etc. I suggested that he read and reflect on the signs as a start. The patriot-participants collectively championed the single greatest challenge of our time – saving the Planet – and the single greatest plan – planning parenthood and allowing women to control their biological and economic destiny.”

J “They are right, there is no PLANet B, there is no other planet to plunder. The March was akin to and will be regarded as a ‘Woodstock’ event.”

K “The patriot-participants undertook a peaceful and powerful pilgrimage for the people.”

J “Now the hard work. They must stay focused, organize locally and work hard.”

. . .

[1] Attendance is measured by the number of trips by 11:00 a.m. on the Metro rail system on the day of the event:

O’Bama 2009: 513,000

O’Bama 2013: 317,000

Women’s March 2017: 275,000

Bushy 2005: 197,000

Trumpi 2017: 193,000

Motorcycle jacket of the week:

If you can read this message on the back of my [Langlitz] motorcycle jacket, my President has fallen off.

Bumper stickers of the week / Signs of the times on the Washington Mall:

Dear Mr. President: Am I beautiful enough and young enough to rape?

Keep your rosaries off my ovaries

Keep your theology off my biology

If men could get pregnant, you would be able to get an abortion at an ATM

If I incorporate my uterus, will you stop regulating it?

Nasty

Not my President

Trump is a chump

This pussy riots

I stand with Planned Parenthood

Feminism rocks

Tired of history, try herstory

Queers against Islamophobia

No one is free if anyone is oppressed

Not my President

Love still trumps hate

Grab ‘em by the legislative balls

Be a President for everyone

Planned Parenthood

Women are humans too

Love your Mother Earth

Nasty women rule

Our rights are not up for grabs and neither are we

Education matters

Fight sexism

Where do I start?

Our bodies Our minds Our power

I may survive rape, but I may not survive this

Not usually a sign guy, but geez

Save the Nest, Price Carbon, Now

Queer feminist southerner against racism

Don’t forget to set your clocks back 300 years

We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to

Girls just want to destroy the imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patrimony

Switch the patrimony. Jane Austen Fight Club

Empathize and mobilize

President Trump, I did Nazi that coming

I’m afraid

Make America kind again

Pussy lives matter

Resist

Predator in chief

A woman’s place is in your face

Clean the cabinet

Stronger than fear

Women’s rights are human rights

My rights are not wrong

This pussy has claws and is not up for grabs

No human is illegal

Make American fact-check again

We are the noisy majority

Keep your paws off my body

Rapist in chief

Pussy power

You ain’t seen nasty yet

Blame rape on rapists not women

Nyet means nyet

We count

Respect my existence or expect my resistance

Our rights are not up for grabs

You cannot love America when you hate so many Americans

An immigrant did not take your job

Don’t tread on my [anatomical uterus]

Girls just want to have fun-damental rights

Keep your hands off my [silhouette of pussy cat]

Free Melania

Not my President

Validate Putin

Nasty women vote

Hate will not make great

This pussy fights back

She’s someone~~’s daughter sister mother~~

I served for better than this

History has its eyes on us

A woman’s place is in the House . . . and in the Senate

I’m with her. And her. And her. And her. And her. And her.

<- I’m with her -> [Arrows emanating in all directions]

Nasty and united for equality

Electile dysfunction

I can’t believe I have to protest this shit again

Nasty women make history

I am a woman not a womb

We the people, not the college, should not that be, common knowledge

Lean the fuck in

No mandate to oppress

Men of quality don’t fear equality

Russian prostitutes for Trump

Now that you are in subsidized housing, show us your tax returns

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud

Keep calm and democracy will die

Bad hair administration

Respecto mi existence o espera resistencia

Life begins when you stand up to feeble-minded fascists

If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?

You can’t comb over misogyny

My pussy, my choice

There is no PLANet B

Time to grab patrimony by the balls

Super callous fascist racist extra braggadocious

The power is in our pussies

We shall overcomb

Gender rules are a sham

Respect science, study history, don’t be a jerk

You know what? Bitches get stuff done

Fight like a girl

We will not change the world by behaving nicely

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Swilling The Swamp (January 9, 2017)

Posted in Deep State, Genius, O'Bama, Presidency, Trumpi on January 9, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “Cunning and catchy phrase. Donaldo Trumpi fooled the populace into believing he would do something to change the epidemic and endemic corruption, cronyism and incompetence in Washington.”

J “But it is just another grand lie. Salt water crocodiles are supplanting fresh water alligators.”

K “What he meant is that he would drain the swamp in the financial sector in New York City and decant it into the D.C. swamp.”

J “O’Bama appointed Timothy Geithner and Eric Holder. Trumpi nominated Steve Mnuchin and Jeffrey Sessions. Same old, same old; same new, same new.”

. . .

K “Remember when President Jerry Ford nominated Edward Levi who was a calm hand as Attorney General at Justice.”

J “Finding a lawyer with a tutored intellect, integrity, courage, judgment and wisdom in the United States is almost impossible today.”

. . .

K “By the time he was inaugurated, O’Bama had surrounded himself with the ‘D’ apparatchiks of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’. By the time he is coronated, Trumpi will surround himself with the ‘R’ apparatchiks of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’.”

J “Same old, same old; same new, same new.”

. . .

K “They say ‘in vino veritas’ or ‘in wine, truth.’ Trumpi does not drink, Twitter is his drink. Yet ‘in Twitter veritas’ is insightful. And imprudent.”

J “Communicating in 144 characters is gross. Yet the communications are refreshingly candid in a town that runs on deceit and dishonesty.”

K “They say the Presidency is the ultimate bully pulpit, and he is the ultimate bully assuming the pulpit.”

. . .

K “He grew up or at least got older in opulence, yet so many of his antics are those of the parvenu. He was and is not accepted by the old money in New York City and was and is not trusted by the Deep State in D.C. He had the chance to end run all of them by appointing talented individuals who would assist him challenge the status quo and implement his more rational campaign pronouncements.”

J “If he had done it right, he would have had the satisfaction of knowing that the old guard and the old hands know he did it right even though they would never acknowledge his accomplishments or accept him as a person or the President.”

K “And the personal satisfaction of knowing that he did it right.”

. . .

K “Sometimes, if you want to be a genius, you need to be a genius.”

J “Not. gonna. happen.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “The ‘Ownership State’ and ‘Bush, Inc.’ (April 11, 2005)”, “Corporations United (February 15, 2010)”, “Commodities Futures / Future Commodities (March 8, 2010)”, “Schooling The Apparatchiks For the Kleptocrats (December 7, 2015)” and “On Merit and the Meritocracy (January 11, 2010).”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Faking America Great Again

Keeping America American Again

Keeping America Hoodwinked Again

Draining the swamp into the swamp

Crocodiles replacing alligators

We did get fooled again.

There is a disturbance in the farce.

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Mario Cuomo

You campaign in doggerel. You govern in derision. Donaldo Trumpi

“All you need in this life is a tremendous sex drive and a great ego. Brains don’t mean a shit.” Mayor Anthony “Captain Tony” Tarracino

Nero – Caligula In 2020 For a clear vision of the future

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Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Bush, Cameo In Courage Award, Citizens United Decision, Clinton, Collapse, Kleptocracy, O'Bama, Politics, Profile In Courage Award, Schooling, Supreme Court on October 24, 2016 by e-commentary.org

. . .

J “The Kennedy Corporation is in remission.”

K “Earnings are down, but the brand is still in play. They are keeping a spot at the round table with their ‘Profile In Courage Award’ that is bestowed on other members of the Ruling Class.”

J “That’s it. I need to give an award to get a reward.”

. . .

J “After the proclamation by the Republican wing of the Supreme Court in Corporations United that two step corruption is legal and encouraged, the ‘Clinton Global Initiative’ provided the template. The rich and powerful now can formally invest in and own those in public office.”

K “The Owners now can formally own the owned. ‘Bush, Inc.’ should get more credit because it was one of the first corporations to offer ‘preferred shares’ dubbed ‘Rangers’ and ‘Pioneers’ and the like. The investment opportunity was first profiled in the e-commentary titled ‘The “Ownership State” and “Bush, Inc.” (April 11, 2005)’ years before Citizens United was foisted on us.”

J “Trading interests in Senators is also discussed in the e-commentary titled ‘Commodities Futures / Future Commodities (March 8, 2010).’ Add a few shares of a United States Senator to your 401(k) portfolio.”

. . .

K “Yet the ordinary citizen cannot be a large shareholder.”

J “The ordinary citizen still can toil as a sharecropper for the shareholders. The citizen cannot own anyone or anything of substance. And only the Owners can own the apparatchiks. It is very subtle.”

K “There is no ‘Nader, Inc.’ I looked it up.”

. . .

K “‘Kennedy, Inc.’ has executed a Memorandum of Understanding with ‘Harvard, Inc.’, ‘Bush, Inc.’ with ‘Yale, Inc.’, ‘Trump, Inc.’ with ‘Penn, Inc.’, ‘Clinton, Inc.’ with ‘Stanford, Inc.’ and now ‘O’Bama, Inc.’ with ‘Harvard, Inc.’ and ‘Chicago, Inc.’.”

J “They sure have inked a lot of inside deals. Yet ‘Clinton, Inc.’ plays the field and also owns and is owned by ‘Yale, Inc.’.”

K “Clinton clearly plays the field, yet so do some of the others. If there is a formal MoU, the kids just show up in the Fall; if there is not a formal MoU, the kids are encouraged to call ahead and let the administrators know they are matriculating. Unless something more sexy comes up in the interim.”

J “That’s what I heard. Seems to work. Well.”

. . .

K “The kids who should not make it, do. The kids who should make it, don’t.”

. . .

K “There is so much inbreeding and cross breeding.”

J “With predictable consequences.”

. . .

[See the incisive commentary of America’s greatest political, economic and social commentator of the last century, George Carlin. Professor G. William Domhoff’s classic examination of power in America, Who Rules America?, could serve as the written text and footnotes to accompany Professor Carlin’s public presentations. Both develop observations developed earlier by Professor C. Wright Mills in The Power Elite.]

Bumper stickers (or window stickers) of the week:

Harvard, Inc. College Yale, Inc. Law School

The Elite ain’t.

If Hamilton returned today to survey the outcome of his financial innovations, he would be appalled, outraged and disgusted by the degeneration of the American economy into a Kleptocracy.

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