Are you “Ready for
Hillary”?
It doesn’t matter. She’s
in charge. You, the proletariat, have no choice. That also means the Democratic
primary voters have no choice either. The empty pantsuit always gets what she
wants.
With last Friday’s
unauthorized leak of secret Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails, it’s
clear that the Democratic primaries were a contrived sham. Clinton’s cronies
made sure she was the winner before the first vote was cast. Julian Assange is
promising more damaging leaks regarding Hillary…I can’t wait.
The Clinton machine has
greased the wheels in her favor and fellow democrats have been swallowing the
kool-aid en masse [we all laughed when ‘slick willie’ waxed on about his great
love for Hillary even though he’s known to have had at least 17 extra-marital
affairs and of course, not one of the zombies at the convention seemed to
care].
The Clinton machine is a
vindictive one however. You may have
noticed the absence of former friends such Al Gore [who publicly blasted Bill
over the Monica Lewinsky scandal], former aide George Stephanopoulos who in
2000 wrote a critical and unauthorized memoir of the Clinton’s and even former
friend Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and UN ambassador….
Doug Casey on President Hillary Clinton… World
War III… and the Deep State
Nick Giambruno: There is a popular conception that only the “best and brightest”
go into government. I think this is a sacred cow that needs to be slaughtered.
What’s your take, Doug?
Doug Casey: It’s a real problem when a pernicious myth subverts reality.
Everybody believes that the institution of government is like Camelot -- a wise
ruler assisted by noble paladins. Maybe that meme gained traction in recent
times with John Kennedy and his good-looking wife, Jackie. They looked like an
ideal couple. They weren’t. But they were a lot better than what followed for
the next 50 years…
The fact is that the high
levels of government do get people with high IQs. They can pass tests. They’re
skilled at manipulating both laws and people. But they tend to be of low moral
character, number one. Number two, despite their high IQs, they’re actually
quite stupid. Let me explain these things.
From a moral point of
view, there are two types of people in the world. People who believe in
coercion when dealing with their fellow humans. And people who believe in
dealing voluntarily with their fellow humans.
Government is force. The
essence of government is coercion. So, people attracted to it are necessarily
the wrong kind of people, coercion-oriented people. Government draws much more
than its share of criminal personalities.
And they’re not the most
intelligent people—completely contrary to common belief. It’s because one sign
of intelligence is not just seeing the immediate and direct consequences of an
action—any intelligent six-year-old can usually do that. It’s seeing the
indirect and delayed consequences of actions. They’re very bad at that.
Almost everything
government does, certainly relative to the economy, creates distortions and
misallocations of capital. Their inflation of the currency discourages saving
and creates the business cycle. Their taxes and regulations destroy capital.
Their actions are almost purely destructive of society. This reminds me of one
definition of stupidity—it’s an unwitting tendency to self-destruction. So,
people in government are not “the best and the brightest.”
Everybody should purge
these false memes about the state and its employees from their mind and look at
reality as opposed to what they’ve been told is reality.
The problem is compounded
by the fact that television and movies generally portray government officials
as noble, thoughtful and virtuous. But this is a completely false impression.
Almost an alternate reality. They’re generally not that way. Prosecuting
attorneys, for instance, tend to be much more interested in collecting scalps
for their self-advancement than they are in justice. Cops have been transformed
from peace officers into law enforcement officers.
Frontline cops on the
beat used to use common sense in keeping the peace; that was their job. But
that’s becoming less and less the case; they’re now, instead, mostly charged
with enforcing a myriad of arbitrary laws. More than in the past, the wrong
kind of people are going into policing now. They’re guys who have an extra Y
chromosome. Most are now ex-military, who have picked up a lot of bad habits in
the government’s numerous foreign adventures.
Nick Giambruno: This kind of thinking—that government employees are naturally
good, virtuous people—appears to have even infected Gary Johnson, the
Libertarian Party candidate for president, who, unfortunately, is no Ron Paul.
He recently called Hillary Clinton “a wonderful public servant.”
You were talking about
how there are two types of people, those who favor voluntarism and those who
favor coercion. For me, at least, Johnson has muddied the waters on where he is
exactly.
Doug Casey: Regarding Johnson, I don’t know what his philosophical beliefs,
if any, are. The only thing that I think I know about him is that he wants to
see pot legalized on a national scale. Well, bravo. I’m all for that, even
though I’m not a toker. It’s a step in the right direction toward dismantling
the insane War on Some Drugs. But does he have any other libertarian
tendencies? He doesn’t seem to have a grasp of the basic principles… although
he seems better than the average politician. But that’s not saying much.
I’m especially concerned
about his running mate, William Weld, who’s an actual neocon. He’s an overt
statist, an active promoter of warfare, welfare, taxes and regulations. He has
no libertarian tendencies at all that I’m aware of. I mean, he’s a pure Deep
State guy.
It appears that the
Libertarian Party has been captured by the Republicans, which is surprisingly
clever on the Republicans’ part. Now they have two parties that are registered
in all 50 states. It’s kind of a backup system to the regular Republican Party.
They’ll need a backup, since the old GOP is a dead duck.
One thing you’ve got to
say about the Democratic Party is that, while their ideas are destructive and
evil, at least they’re more honest about them than the Republicans are about
their own. Democrats make no bones about being the party of socialism, and they
naturally attract the envy driven, the class warriors, the politically correct,
the cultural Marxists, the gender Nazis and the like. The Democratic Party is
beyond redemption.
The Republicans attract a
different group. Religious people. Cultural traditionalists. People who generally
favor what they think is the free market. They tend to be much more
nationalistic and pro-military than the Democrats. But, unlike the Dems, the
Reps have no real philosophical foundation.
The Democrats can be
viewed as the evil party and the Republicans as the stupid party. But they’re
really just two sides of the same coin, at least when it comes to their
leadership—they’re all Deep State members. The Libertarians once had a claim to
being the party of principle, back in the days when people like John Hospers,
Harry Browne and Ron Paul were their candidates. But now, the Libertarians can
be viewed, at best, as the smart wing of the stupid party. It’s a sad testimony
to the nature of politics…
With a little bit of
luck, Trump will end up destroying the Republican Party, which is held together
by chewing gum and bailing wire. Its disparate elements have very little in
common with each other. The neocons, the evangelical Christians, the social
conservatives and people who think they support the free market are there only
for lack of a better alternative. They really have nothing in common except a
dislike of the Democratic Party.
Although I suspect Trump
will win, I expect the Republican Party itself will blow up. The situation is
not unlike that before the War Between the States. Very unstable.
Nick Giambruno: Speaking of all this, I have to ask you about the Clintons. Bill
Clinton was your former classmate in college. What was your impression?
Doug Casey: He’s one of the most charming people you could ever meet. When
you talk to him, even if the room is full of people trying to get his
attention, when he looks at you and talks to you, he makes you feel like you’re
the only person in existence. He’s that good. He’s got a lot of interpersonal
skills.
I met him when he was
campaigning for president of the class at Georgetown. I never ran with the same
group he did, but he was knocking at everybody’s door and that’s how I first
met him. And then I met him again at our 25th class reunion, which he held at the
White House.
I was shocked that when I
walked up to him—and there must have been 400 people at the reunion—and I don’t
know how, or even if, he saw my name tag—but when I said, “Hey, Bill, how are
you?” he responded with, “Hey, Doug, it’s good to see you.” He’s a superpro.
Despite Bill’s charm, the
Clintons are essentially criminal personalities. I’m not just talking about the
$100,000 bribe Hillary got for supposedly trading cattle in the old days; now,
she wouldn’t even walk across the street for that little. From the earliest
days, starting with the strange death of Vince Foster, and then the strange
death of Ron Brown, there are a lot of strange deaths that have surrounded the
Clintons. They may well have gotten away with murder, quite frankly.
I think there are about
75 separate reasons why there should have been a full-scale investigation by
the FBI in the strange death of Vince Foster. I wish there were some agency
that was not part of the government that could investigate crimes, which is
part of the problem, of course. The FBI is really just an overrated, bloated,
politically driven bureaucracy. I sincerely doubt, for instance, that they'll
ever go after The Clinton Foundation, which is clearly nothing but a gigantic
slush fund.
The other thing I noticed
at the reunion -- and several of us noticed this -- is that Hillary was sitting
there with five or six really good-looking, young female velociraptors arrayed
around her. Some classmates and I looked at each other and remarked that it was
unusual for her to have all these good-looking young chicks around her. And, of
course, since then, there have been rumors that she’s an aggressive lesbian. I
have no other facts to back that up except for this one instance.
I’ve got to say, I
couldn’t care less about Bill’s or Hillary’s, or anybody else’s personal sexual
habits. As far as I’m concerned, that’s nobody’s business but theirs, and it’s
got nothing to do with anything. But it’s interesting, for what it’s worth.
Nick Giambruno: I agree. I think focusing on their personal lives is a
distraction from their real malfeasance. So, let’s talk about that.
Probably the most
objectionable thing I find about Hillary is her reckless promotion of war.
I think she advocated for
just about every conflict the U.S. has gotten involved with in the past 30
years, most of which have been unmitigated disasters.
She’s an ardent supporter
of arming the so-called moderate Syrian rebels and toppling Bashar Al-Assad.
She’s supported the
regime change in Ukraine.
She backed the surge in
Afghanistan, which, predictably, accomplished exactly nothing.
She was the deciding
factor in pushing Bill to bomb Serbia in the 1990s.
She infamously voted for
the 2003 Iraq invasion.
And, of course, she was
one of the main pushers of the NATO intervention in Libya that toppled Muammar
Gaddafi. After rebels gruesomely executed Gaddafi—they reportedly sodomized him
with a bayonet—Hillary said on national TV, “We came, we saw, he died.” It’s
sort of a sociopathic spin on “Veni, vidi, vici,” a famous saying from
Julius Caesar, the Roman leader, which means “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
These are just some
examples off the top of my head. She has apparently learned nothing -- or the
completely wrong lessons -- from this trail of disasters. She’s an unrepentant
warmonger. And I think the odds of WWIII breaking out will be much higher under
a Hillary presidency.
One nugget from Hillary’s
email scandal, known as the Blumenthal Memo, basically disclosed that the real
reason NATO wanted to go after Gaddafi was not a desire to bring freedom,
democracy and unicorns to the Libyan people, but because NATO feared that
Gaddafi would use his vast gold reserves to back a currency that would displace
a version of the French franc that is used in Central and Western Africa.
After NATO-backed rebels
toppled Gaddafi, plans for the gold-backed currency, along with the gold
itself, vanished like a double cheeseburger placed in front of Chris Christie.
Strangely, this damning
piece of information from her emails barely gets a peep in the mass media
narrative.
Doug Casey: You’re absolutely right, because the media itself is part of the
Deep State. They all are educated in the same universities by professors with
horrible values, and taught the same things. They go to the same clubs. They
socialize with each other. They have the same basic psychological, political,
economic and philosophical underpinnings. So, of course, they look at the world
through the same lens. And avoid mention of things that might be inconvenient,
or conflict with their worldview.
And as far as Gaddafi,
sure, he was a criminal. Can you name a head of state, certainly in the third
world, who’s not? He was not a nice guy, but, as these people go, he was better
than most. Assad in Syria is much the same. It’s hard not to be brutal when
your job description is to hold together an artificial non-country with dozens
of different religions, ethnic groups and fanatical political factions -- all
of them anxious to take over the government so they can steal and massacre
rivals, including yourself.
Mother Teresa would have
started acting like a thug if you put her in charge of one of these places. Of
course, these people are all demonized -- unless they’re stooges of Washington.
But even that is dangerous -- as Saddam Hussein, once a BFF of the U.S. --
discovered. Vladimir Putin is another example of somebody who’s been made into
the devil incarnate.
Nick Giambruno: Well, Hillary has basically said Putin is the new Hitler.
Doug Casey: It’s an amazingly stupid statement, in addition to being
inaccurate. I mean, it’s almost like these people want to start some version of
World War III. And they may succeed. It’s really very scary.
It could happen with
China in the East or the South China Seas. It could happen accidentally with
Syria. It could happen with the breakaway provinces in Ukraine. There are a lot
of trip wires.
I’m pleased to be
spending a lot of time in Cafayate, among the horses and grapevines of
Argentina, where I can watch this stuff on my widescreen, at least somewhat
insulated from what might happen…
Hillary didn't just
vote for Iraq,” Julian Assange reminds us on the Wikileaks page. “She made her own
Iraq. Libya is Hillary's Iraq and if she becomes president she will make more.
“I
have had years of experience in dealing with Hillary Clinton and have read
thousands of her cables. Hillary lacks judgement and will push the United
States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism. Her personality
combined with her poor policy decisions have directly contributed to the rise
of ISIS.
“Pentagon
generals objected to destroying the Libyan state. They felt Hillary did not
have a safe post-war plan. Hillary Clinton went over their heads. Libya has
been destroyed. It became a haven for ISIS.
“The
Libyan national armory was looted and hundreds of tons of weapons were
transferred to jihadists in Syria. Hillary's war has increased terrorism,
killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians and has set back women's rights
in the Middle East by hundreds of years. Having learned nothing from the Libyan
disaster Hillary then set about trying do the same in Syria. Hillary publicly
took credit for the destruction of the Libyan state.
“On
hearing that the country's president had been killed by her handiwork, she
became wild-eyed and gloated ‘We came, we saw, he died!.’ In the momentary
thrill of the kill, she had aped, of all people, Julius Caesar.
“Hillary's
problem is not just that she's war hawk. She's a war hawk with bad judgement
who gets an unseemly emotional rush out of killing people. She shouldn't be let
near a gun shop, let alone an army. And she certainly should not become
president of the United States.”
This
is the same woman, need I remind you, who waxes sentimental about the need to
get “unnecessary” guns out of the hands of Americans. As if someone who takes
delight in death has any moral leg to stand on about gun violence.
The
following is courtesy Devvy Kidd:
The
scandals that plagued the Clinton's while soiling the White House were endless:
Bloodgate, Cattlegate, Travelgate, White Water, Commerce Dept's 'pay to play'
which resulted in the murder of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the murder of
Vince Foster (allegedly had an affair with I believe bi-sexual Hillary),
renting the Lincoln bedroom and the one which should have resulted in Bill
Clinton being tried for treason, Chinagate. Of course, millenials know nothing of all those which is what Bill
& Hill are counting on. The rest of her supporters and decades long clean-up
crew don't care, she has something for everyone. A very accomplished, carnival-barker.
For an accurate and comprehensive list of the aforementioned plus Billy's
'women', click here.
Our advice…
>Start a business.
(And accept cryptocurrencies.)
> Make yourself as independent as possible from the crumbling
grid, tainted water supply and counterfeit fiat monopoly money.
Yours for another revolution,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
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