Let’s start with money in the campaign. In 2008 Hillary Clinton spent money
like a drunken sailor to ward off the challenge of an upstart contender named
Barack Obama.
She ran out of money, he won the election.
8 years later there is concern that as Yogi said, it is déjà vu all over again. This time
she is spending to ward off Sanders and to try to keep the Vice President from
entering the race. Is it working? Polls show Bernie on her heels and the VP still undecided.
In his weekly address today, President Obama discussed the
criminal justice system, aka The Prison Industrial Complex.
“Ever since I was a Senator, I’ve talked about how, in too
many cases, our criminal justice system is a pipeline from underfunded schools
to overcrowded jails,” he said. Well now
we wait and see what can be done, like most things in this country, money is
the root of the problem. And as long as corporations and local governments are
making money by incarcerating people, we will have the highest ratio of
imprisoned to population in the world.
There is a report that the next “debate”
which will be on CNBC will be 2 hours long. The Donald is taking credit
for that, just as he was given credit for the fact that CNN charged 40 times
their normal rate for ads during last month’s debate. They hauled in $200,000
for each 30-second ad.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote of the choices available to the Republican Party for choosing a new Speaker when McCarthy withdrew from the race. At that time I
mentioned a Speaker being elected with Democratic votes. It is still a long
shot, but if the party does not come up with 218 votes, because the candidates
are not politically pure (pure of course as defined by the crazies in the Freedom Party
Caucus) then the only way forward would be for Dems to vote also.
That would take the current fracture and make it into a sinkhole. The irony of all this is that the FPC is
stuck with Boehner, who quit because of them, even longer, since he has said he
will not leave until a new speaker is elected.
Irony of ironies would be if Speaker Boehner decides to do
his job, throw the Hastert Rule into the trash and use Democratic votes to pass
legislation* that would benefit the country, but will not pass if he continues
on the path of must have the majority of his party voting yes.
*Where are the jobs, Mr. Speaker?”
The TV journalism and their moguls have way too much power in this country, and they should be broken-up just like the big banks. They no longer just report the news. They have become instrument of propaganda designed to shape public opinion, thought and behavior. Fully bought, owned, they service the private money political powerful interests who really run things in this country..
ReplyDeleteHow amazing that our attention can be so easily diverted into widely believing that "global warming" is humanity's new focus and main concern for the survival of this planet's immediate future. Then, to notice where they have both politically and conveniently shifted the blame and placed the responsibility for the problem's causes and environmental effects upon: 1) Our world's population size and growth, 2) Each individual's carbon footprint, 3) Our agricultural practices, 4) Atmospheric CO2 levels and reduced O2 levels caused by man's overuse, misuse and waste of carbon resources, 5) The developed world's expending of more than their fair share of resources as the result of all their past largess, waste, and selfish benefit over others (how they will divide the world-up one against the other.)
ReplyDeleteBut nowhere is there any mention of the world's wealthy elite, the corporate-banker-government-globalists and the capitalist family empires, who are the real "planners and deciders" for all of these above responsibilities and decisions about resource use, and of course, their enormous profits gained from such planned for harvest of mineral wealth and usage of these resources. Never, heaven forbid, would we want to shine the spotlight their way as to who the culprits and perpetrators really are. Much better to blame those whose very simple and sole livelihoods are dependent upon the leftover crumbs of these activities and whose ways for living and surviving have already been planned-out for them, already decided, and then placed in motion by these very "deciders" in the first place.
Instead, we've become those "to blame," who have little real means or wherewithal to fix these problems in the first place without a huge dislocation and deprivation born upon our very backs alone; but a people who can also be so very conveniently and politically blamed for the problem and who can then be made responsible for finding "the fix" entirely (which they count-on never happening), but to have the repair work actually placed upon our backs, when in fact, we really decide very little, and can affect much less, since even our politicians have little of the power required to decide anything and even much less, the will...And on top of all this, it may just be a great big invention (smokescreen) that we have all been led to believe-in, when all of it never really existed in the first place; but instead, really was designed and meant for purposes of a people's eventual enslavement and for their social direction to fit some ulterior need they have no way of seeing or understanding ...more shadows than realities.