Category Archives: The Ruling Class

Drain the Swamp!

That’s Trump’s excellent campaign slogan these days, added to his older Make America Great Again. More like Make American Normal Again, as gay Pay Pal co-founder, Silicon Valley billionaire, and Trump supporter Peter Thiel puts it.

Normal as in no more half trillion dollar trade deficit. No more NAFTA and other free trade putting 94 million American adults—almost half the adult population—out of work. And no more fighting five undeclared, simultaneous wars with no victory in sight. Fix those things and closing the southern border to cheap, unskilled illegals and ceasing the flow of cheap, unskilled Muslim refugees from the Middle East would be a piece of cake.

Well, I mixed some Rush Limbaugh in there with what Thiel says on this video which Limbaugh has on his site. Thiel’s trying to educate the Ruling Class. It’s well worth a listen. How many Silicon  Valley billionaires are backing Trump? Just Thiel as far as I know. And he’s angry. But very measured in his anger. He wants to drain the swamp before it’s too late. Too late to stop something worse than a controversial presidential election.

And here’s Trump’s latest summation of a speech on his issues: ObamaCare, Nafta, Common Core, high taxes and cuts in defense spending.

“I am not a politician,” he said. “My only special interest is you, the American people. The guiding rule of the political class in Washington, D.C., is that they are looking out only for themselves. They will say anything, and do anything, to cling to their power and prestige at your expense. I’m running to change and reverse decades of failure, and to work with the American people to create generations of success.”

Works for me. I’m more than ready for an outsider president. Drain the Swamp!

The giant graft machine

First up when the Hildafelon is inaugurated as president and gets her paws on the giant graft machine known as the federal government is a new scheme to control private 401Ks, hopefully not older ones like mine but only the newer ones to come. With a built-in skim for the benefit of the Ruling Class.

“You would be forgiven for thinking that this sounds a lot like organized crime. That’s because it is organized crime, except the criminals write the laws, thus legalizing their plunder. This is a feature of the managerial state. It is the big rake. Instead of the criminals eluding the state in order to plunder the people, the criminals acquire credentials, which are a license to skim off a portion of middle class wealth. The whole point of winning office or gaining access is so you can get a taste of the skim.”

Which is what would make a Trump presidency so interesting. And so threatening to what the some call the administrative state but here the Z man calls the managerial state. Not to mention the whole Ruling Class.

‘Cause the billionaire conceivably wouldn’t need the skim the Hildafelon and Slick Willie need so bad they salivate at the very thought. Trump very likely would not play the game. You see now why the system is rigged?

Via the Z Man.

Our federal Tammany Hall

Of course the election is rigged, as Trump complains (and probably will again tonight at the final “debate”) and Obama and Hillary and Bernie complained long before him, all of which is conveniently forgotten now. But more than that the whole system is rigged. We are not only a Banana Republic now, where the dominant news media is in bed with the regime and its chosen successors, we have a federal-level Tammany Hall.

As for the Hall’s infamous Boss Tweed, his successors now come and go under different names but all with the same aim, to make as much money off the lobby as they can, while doing its bidding, and ignore larger, public problems until they become so awful or at least so prominent that the Hall is forced to recognize their existence.

To wit: The bombing and arson of Trump campaign offices in North Carolina and Ohio. Followed by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas’s uncovering of Democrat moves to disrupt Trump’s political rallies. “…deliberate, willful effort to foment violence, to break up a presidential campaign, [and] to intimidate voters,” in the words of Newt Gingrich. Meanwhile, the FBI is not moving to investigate. Nor the ATF. Most of the Republican Party is keeping mum.

But of course. When a candidate like Trump threatens the Ruling Class (mostly politicians and media types) anyone who backs him must expect trouble. And to be left to hang out to dry. Here in our part of Lefty land I have yet to see even one Trump yard sign. Not because people here won’t be voting for him, though probably not in sufficient numbers for him to carry the city of Austin (assuming the vote counting is clean, a big if), but because they don’t want their property trashed by the usual gangs of Liberal Fascists.

Via PJMedia.

UPDATE:  Local supporters aversion to risking anti-Trump attacks makes sense.

Rules of the Democrat news media

mediatruths

The rules are never clearer than in the final weeks before a presidential election.

Via Instapundit

Obama the actor and Hillary the body double

The Z man is quite funny sometimes, and none more so than in these final days of the quadrennial presidential whizbang, the circus Felonia keeps skipping, sleeping her way through the campaign, and sending her body doubles out to debate Trump.

Who is ever more desperate to wipe off the slime the Democrat news media (80 to 85 percent of big media, as Rudy G. recently put it) keeps pouring on him.

“…the one thing about Bubba that we can probably say with certainty,” writes the Z man. “His entire life has been organized around getting laid….Hillary is different…For all anyone knows, she could be a head in a jar and those old fat women we see waddling around from time to time are just body doubles…All of her capers somehow involve her putting cash in her purse. Back in Arkansas, she was the one involved in the phony land deals, bank jobs and influence peddling. Today, she is the one running the money laundering operations, that necessitated the secret e-mail system…”

And Obama? Is he real or is he Memorex, as an old television ad once had it? The Z Man again: “Obama may as well be an actor, for as much as anyone knows about the guy. Even after all these years, his back story remains a mystery to most Americans. He’s simply the young version of  Morgan Freeman playing President in Deep Impact. Staff write his speeches, prepare him for the fake interviews they stage for the public and otherwise direct every aspect of his public performance.”

And he is incredbily boring. Even his cow of a wife, Moochele, is merely a creditable stand-in for Chewbacca. Better looking, maybe, in a way, than the other animals in Star Wars, but still a wookie.

Via The Z Man

Our Banana Republic

“The whole country should be frightened by what has transpired with the collusion between the media and [the] Clinton campaign. The end result is that we are no longer a free country. How can you be free when the mainstream media and one candidate that they favor work together to destroy their opponent. Hate to sound apocalyptic but the foundation of our democracy is crumbling and the people should be out in the streets.” —commenter Kevin Barone at WSJ.com

A fair number (tens of thousands, at least) are in the streets, if you count the crowds at Trump rallies. This news media-Democrat party collusion has been going on for decades. It’s only now more blatant than ever and thus scarier than ever. And even the Dictator’s Club, aka the UN, is joining in to back Felonia.

Pass the bananas.

Party transformations

I often quote commenters at the Wall Street Journal’s site because they are so good. Comes one Joel Lumer to outdo them all. He underscores the obvious (but rarely spoken) impending transformation of our major political parties.

“…the Democrat Party has become the party of the rich, financial elites, political and media establishments, nomenklatura and bureaucratic apparatchniks. What the pundits are missing is that Republican party is transforming into a party of the working class and [what’s left of the] middle class…

“The new Republican voter sees that the S&P 500 index went from 670 in March 2009 to 2100 in 2016, while the median household income remained flat – and says something is wrong. They no longer want the old pros. They want someone who can represent people who ride the bus, shop at WalMart, eat at McDonalds, and take their clothes to the laundromat.”

And, I would add, someone who sees that the system is rigged against them and says it loud and clear. We’ll soon see whether there are enough of them to make him president.

Via WSJ