The 2nd Debate is taking questions from the Public. This one could change things.
So I registered at https://presidentialopenquestions.com/ and asked this question. I hope we can get a million people or so to vote for the question I submitted. I know dip about social media and youtubing and whatnot, but I think this is a question that, if asked in public, changes a lot of public discussion.
The Question (at https://presidentialopenquestions.com/questions/9910/vote/#created=9910)
Will you keep the crackpot militarists out of your administration?
You get 200 characters for setting up the question, so I wrote:
15 years of military aggression and meddling has supercharged the growth of terrorism, led to a million deaths, and made tens of millions refugees living in fear. We paid trillions for this result.
I dunno. There's a hell of a lot that we don't discuss in our Free Press, but the inarguably self-defeating, in fact, suicidal, military aggression we've worked against humanity abroad, with loss of security and rights at home, —is huge. It impacts every other single issue we face in one way or another.
It was C. Wright Mills who wrote over 60 years ago about the birthing Dr Strangelovian tendencies of the day who said it best (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills):
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
The crackpot paranoids -- the neocons, the liberal interventionists -- are no longer budding, they pull the strings on our foreign policy. Only widespread suffering, misery, death, and terror can follow.
Maybe if my question can be asked in public, we'd have a "King is Naked" moment in our politics. I hope you will vote for my question being asked of the candidates, and you will do what you can to urge others to vote for it.
Thank you.
Comments
Why did you keep your unauthorized server in your basement?
Basements are notorious for damp. Especially a toilet.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Not quite sure that is as important to answer
as, in essence, "how many more crazy wars do you plan on considering"? Please register at the link above, and vote for my question; even propose your own as well.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
Chances are, none of our questions will ever be posited
Yours is definitely worth voting for.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I rather suspect that this is
I rather suspect that this is pre-stage 'business' in the theatrical sense and that the questions 'from the public' will still be scripted to suit the corporate candidate - probably related to Trump's taxes and his hair, and something enabling Hillary to polish her 'protect-corporate profiteering under the name of 'spreading democracy' credentials - but we'll see.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
How much more of the American Uranium reserves do you plan on
selling to Boris Badenov? Will you call and harass Natasha at all hours of the night? Are you okay w/ us calling the Clinton/Kaine campaign, "Moose and Squirrel?"
Give Hillary one war to start
She has to prove her manliness.
What is wrong with one more war?
/snark
The political revolution continues
And count on it in the first 100 days
it'll be a GOOD one (one that keeps on giving). My money's on Iran.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
All in with Syria. Which might lead to Iran.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
That's what I put my money on
Side bet of military actions against Russia in the first year.
All that crap may be starting now.
No, it's just beginning to boil. She is still pulling neocon strings NOW. And she will be elected only by crook.
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Eritrea
is what I read somewhere as being on the Clinton hit list.
Eritrea, the little country that could which doesn't accept foreign aid and which kicked out a passel of NGOs, and which is a standing insult to all the humanitarian interventionist careerists who want to add "service" in Africa to their resumes. Apparently any criminal or terrorist can be admitted into European countries if he says he is a refugee from Eritrea, so the reports of Eritreans behaving badly in European countries can be taken with a bit of salt. There probably are some, but a lot more came from somewhere else.
Mary Bennett
Apparently, that will be Hillarious.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npzN3dZR6JM]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpDqMWhkEm8]
Then again, maybe killing brown and beige people is funny part. Hard to tell, since I never got the joke.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtH7iv4ip1U]
Not to worry though. PBS's recent
Hillary 2016 infommercialdocumentary on Hillary and Trump rationalized away Hillary's bizarre habit of laughing maniacally at killing Middle Easterners. As I recall, it's because she is so "invested." Probably in more ways than one. Heck, you have to park those hundreds of millions somewhere. It may as well be with in the MIC.Reposting this, as it needs
Reposting this, as it needs to be seen. Ideally, the article should be read in full at source, if whatever device used permits this being done.
http://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wikileaks-secret...
The list of examples given (at source) which follows is of great interest, although I'd say that attempting to rehome the poor guys in Gitmo was humanitarian and laudable. Not to mention, the least that could be done.
(Please, if possible, see email communication copied at source)
Regarding the following, it seems that all Hillary knew were that her activities needed to be covered up because of generic rules/laws which shouldn't apply to Her, so it's possible that such rules/laws/agreements/ were ignored so thoroughly that she actually doesn't recall what they were, never having bothered to learn more than that such impediments existed for other people.
Personally, I immediately wondered if that first meeting which the President was unable to attend was perhaps timed for this purpose. It's known that Obama has tried to tone down some of the worst of Hillary's excesses as Secretary of State.
Was/were Hillary Clinton/her paymasters responsible for some/much of the drone program killing so many innocents, with Obama talking responsibility for such appalling and destructive war-crimes, much as a foreign leader was willing to do, according to an item on an above-referenced list of Wiki-leak subjects, available at source?
This psychopathic individual has no place in public policy, or in any position where she has the ability to harm others.
Please, ensure that this tendency is made known before the Clintons are in any position to casually remove any large sections of the American population which they may find objectionable.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
if you had the courage to name those crackpot militarists
may be it would cause some stir. But I would guess it won't be without consequences to yourself.
I would be scared.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Nice smoke screen
Like they would actually take questions from the public. "here is the number one question form the public. Secretary clinton, what do you feel is the most challenging thing about being a grandmother while running for president?"
"What fabulous designer are you wearing?
I simply have to have one of their ceiling-breaking creations!"
Lol!
Why, Secretary Clinton, do you not
use American designers? How about American manufacturers, do you buy from them?
Mary Bennett
Good one. n/t
My thought exactly...
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
it depends on how you define "the public"
aren't those who run the campaigns also private citizens? So then they could be called "the public".
By that I mean I would expect the questions to come from the campaigns. Not necessarily directly. Probably through intermediaries.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Regardless, the lives of millions
maybe a lot more, depends on the public acknowledgement that our aggression is cutting our own throats. One way or another this has to break into the mainstream, and immediately. The US is already announcing they are now exploring the military options in Syria; as if those options mean anything other than a shooting war with Russia and handing Syria over to jihadis.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
...The US is already
Not deliberately, if the jihadis might interfere with the prospective theft of the oil and natural gas discovered due to a Syrian agreement with a Russian company uncovering large reserves... but yeah, will probably will happen anyway.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Public questions seems like a safe bet.
Boaty McBoaty and how many recent species named after Colbert?
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
FYI-- it's Boaty McBoatFace.
Even better, no?
A few ideas:
Secretary Clinton: "Why do you always wear such long coats over your trousers? Are you hiding something? Especially the one you wore at a recent fundraiser with the potholder pockets.
Secretary Clinton: "What are your 5 most important accomplishments in the past 8 years?"
As this is all a stupid game, gaming the public, why not have fun with it
Because we are pushing for hot War
with Russia and ain't nobody having fun after that.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
because it's disgusting to have fun over such serious issues
like war and social injustice. That's why.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Okay, you're up to 8 votes now.
Edit: I guess I should add, I don't really believe that she's be accepting any questions of any real merit, like the one you submitted.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I doubt it myself.
That's why I hope it goes viral, somehow. Have the stunning reality that our militarism has completely failed break into the public conversation, have everyone pushing on 'why continue this way?"
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
13 Votes
You're up to 13 votes now. There was one question that has received over 4,000 votes regarding care for veterans. That will be a softball for both Clinton and Trump. I'm not saying that's not an important question, but we've heard the answer a zillion times already. If there weren't stupid wars, there wouldn't have to be so much care for our vets. I'm sure the vets would like that too.
Obummer
said we would be out of Iraq, Afghanistan and he would close gitmo.
They can ask your question but could you see the fingers crossed behind their backs?
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Looks like Gitmo is about to be closed
Sadly, it's a hurricane named Matthew that is going to close it.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
"Flood the Bunkers!"
Since Matthew passed over my home the other day I have been following it as it marches accross the Caribbean...and ran into the article that mentioned Guantanamo as being evacuated. I hope the damn hurricane does at least some good by blowing away all the suburban houses, Mickie D's etc. and floods out the military's hurrican proof bunkers. Haiti looks like it is being hurt again
From the Light House.
On the Wunderground map, it looks like Gitmo is a target.
Wouldn't that be a shame?
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Anybody remember when after Obama won in 08 MoveOn asked
its members what their most important single issue was, for the purpose of submitting to the new president an impressive roll call of concerns from his volunteers and activists?
I remember quite seriously looking over that list for 20 minutes. There were many issues I could have said topped my list. But I could not ignore the proverbial elephant in the room. Money In Politics or Campaign Finance superceded all.
Apparently most folks agreed. It topped the list.
The list was then submitted, and was promptly ignored.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Former secretary
Why do you think we should ally ourselves with child raping terrorist supporters that want to destroy all our other allies, like Israel? Sorry, I meant to ask why we should ally ourselves with Saudi Arabia.
I don't think anything will change at all. The questions will be screened thoroughly for anything that can make Trump look bad and Hillary look good. It's amazing how difficult it is for them to do both of those things already.
You are probably correct.
Only questions that cleave a difference between the two candidates will be allowed. Probably would not be about net worth.
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Of Course The Debates Are Rigged Just Like Primaries Were
It was pretty obvious that Holt only asked questions about Trump negatives and none of Hellery's.
But ok, for fun, let's PRETEND Team Hellery is not approving all debate questions ahead of time.
Question: Mrs Clinton which Middle East nations, in addition to Iran, are you planning to attack on day one?
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
The list of questions is endless.
TPTB will most likely choose the bland, adoring ones that will keep people zombified. For example: "Cats or dogs?" "Favorite ice cream flavor?" "Does Bill put the toilet seat down?" "Did you ever actually bake cookies?"