All Hail the Doo-Wop-Poly

Submitted by Azazello on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 1:20pm

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So it's finally happened, the President of the United States is a complete fucking idiot.
I'm not at all surprised. Here's H.L. Mencken:

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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But, you might object, the people had a choice, didn't they ?
Well yeah, sorta'.
This just came out, from The Hill, FBI launches new Clinton Foundation investigation

The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes.

Reaction was predictable.

Clinton's chief spokesman, Nick Merrill, on Friday morning excoriated the FBI for re-opening the case, calling the probe "disgraceful" and suggesting it was nothing more than a political distraction from President Trump's Russia controversies.

Could it be the other way around ? Might Hillary's Parting Sh*t, RussiaRussiaRussia, be the "disgraceful" political distraction ?
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I've always been a believer in the two-party system, following Jefferson:

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise, depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all.
- Thomas Jefferson, to Henry Lee, Aug. 10, 1824

But something went wrong back in the early '90s. Those who fear and distrust the people got control of both major parties. We had no choice in 2016.
All Hail the Doo-Wop-Poly.
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Submitted by Shahryar on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 2:27pm

yay Youngbloods!

I saw them many years ago in Seattle...many years ago for sure! One of the highlights was "Donna". Yes!

Submitted by divineorder on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 2:49pm

Haha doo-wop-poly, thanks AZ, needed a good chuckle.

Doowappolyyyyyy strikes again!

Amid Calls from Trump, F.B.I. Renews Questions Over Clinton Foundation Career prosecutors shut down the case in 2016 over lack of evidence. The new interest comes as Mr. Trump has taken the highly unusual step of calling for investigations into political… https://t.co/WkwbcW20gk

— BrooksRebecca (@BrooksRebeccama) January 5, 2018

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-04/fbi-launches-new-investigation...

Also of note, as tweeted by WikiLeaks and reported by the Dallas Observer, the Clinton Foundation has been under investigation by the IRS since July, 2016 after 64 GOP members of congress received letters urging them to push for an investigation. The investigation is being handled by their Dallas office - far away from Washington insiders.

And the beat goes on....

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 3:38pm

Heh

Sham a lama ding dong!

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

Submitted by eyo on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 4:26pm

Qatar needs to come clean on $1m donation to Clintons

Just piling on a bookmark from arabnews.com last year: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1149741

Did Qatar give the Clinton Foundation $1 million in exchange for getting the Obama administration to whitewash its suspicions that Doha was supporting Daesh? It is worth closely examining the circumstances of the $1 million “gift” to the foundation, which came when Hillary Clinton was serving as US secretary of state and Qatar was being seen as soft on terrorism.
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The controversy over the donation and Qatar’s ties to extremists was buried in the high-profile political mudslinging between her campaign and that of Donald Trump. The US media focus shifted from questions about the donation to assertions that the WikiLeaks e-mails were the result of Russian hacking to help Trump.
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The Clintons believed Hillary would win the election, so why waste any time cleaning up the Qatari donation mess? As president, she could just brush it under the carpet. Trump’s victory was a shock to the Clintons, the mainstream news media, Al-Jazeera and Qatar’s royal family.

eutimes.net: Hillary Clinton's "Sudden Move" Of $1.8 Billion To Qatar Central Bank Stuns Financial World

Oct 16th, 2016
According to this report, the Bank for International Settlements is the world’s oldest international financial organization and acts as a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions; the Qatar Central Bank is the bank of that Gulf State nations government and their “bank of banks”; JP Morgan Chase & Company is the United States largest “megabank”; and the Clinton Foundation is an international criminal money laundering organization whose clients include the Russian mafia.

Wondering if the anxious nostril breathing is what lit Her room on fire the other day? heh

solidarity

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 4:48pm

@eyo No fan of the Russian

@eyo No fan of the Russian mafia (scary folks), but I bet that's not the worst people the Clinton Foundation makes deals with.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 4:28pm

I wonder how many knowing what they know now

would have joined in a presidential election boycott. It was never a choice and always a farce. I don't agree with the two party system because it presents also a false choice. Jefferson's quote sounds exactly like the fake system we have now of republicans with the reputation of representing the higher classes and the democrats with the reputation of representing the common people. It doesn't work that way, never has except in spurts that suited the upper class. Something did go wrong in the 90's, the 1990's, 1890's and 1790's.

Submitted by Azazello on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 4:48pm

I don't see it that way, but it's alright.

@Big Al
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 10:46am

This is why it makes no sense to protest Trump

without simultaneously, and with equal or greater fervor, protesting the system which brought us Trump.

Rather like the relationship of Constitution to the Bill of Rights, one can't simply imply the latter while spending all or most of one's time talking about the former.

I believe it was Madison who told George Mason we didn't need to write down a Bill of Rights, because that was implicit in the Constitution.

Of course, Mason himself had the problem that he believed in human rights and also believed in slavery--but that didn't mean that in this instance, he was wrong and Madison was right.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Azazello on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 3:47pm

As I recall the history,

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal @Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
it was Jefferson who insisted on a Bill of Rights. Madison was his protege. TJ was in France at the time as our ambassador. Here's a excerpt from a letter to Madison from Jefferson in Paris, Dec. 20, 1787. He's referring to a draft of the US constitution.

... There are other good things of less moment. I will now add what I do not like. First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly & without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of he press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal & unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trial by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land & not by the laws of nations. ... Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, & what no government should refuse, or rest on inferences.

This letter is typical of their correspondence at the time and Madison was won over.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 4:45pm

@Azazello I mis-remembered that

@Azazello I mis-remembered that it was Mason because he did the actual writing. Thanks for the correction.

As always, Jefferson's politics and morality appear schizophrenic to any logical mind. Racism is a hell of a drug.

Credit where it's due, he was, of course, spot-on in this instance.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Azazello on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 5:18pm

Yeah, I know, the Monster of Monticello.

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
Still, I think we'd all be a whole lot better off if he had managed to get that anti-monopoly amendment into the Bill of Rights.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 7:42pm

@Azazello I didn't realize he

@Azazello I didn't realize he included regulation of monopolies in his bill of rights. Holy shit.

He was really smart.

We are not really taught the financial and economic aspects of the revolutionaries' problem with Britain, are we? These days, you have to play Civilization IV to get it: "Banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver