Trump Already Being a Fucking Moron - Calls The Clintons "Good People" on TV

After Trump stunned the nation during the second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, in which he quipped that under a Trump presidency "she would be in jail", and suggested that he would demand a special prosecutor probe into Clinton's email server and the Clinton foundation, moments ago MSNBC's Morning Joe reported, citing a source, that president-elect Donald Trump will not pursue any investigations into his former political rival Hillary Clinton "for her use of a private email server and the Clinton foundation."

Trump reportedly feels that Clinton has "been through enough."

Trump had routinely attacked Clinton on the campaign trail over her use of a private server as secretary of State and for foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was in the Obama administration.

The report, first announced by Mika Brzezinski, comes just a week after a 60 Minutes interview where Trump indicated that he may not launch a full investigation into the Democratic nominee. “I’m gonna think about it,” he said at the time to Leslie Stahl. “I don’t wanna hurt them. They’re good people,” he continued of the Clintons.

There are two main arguments by the pussy, cuckolded conservatives who agree with Trump's decision:

1) She's been through enough

2) We need to heal the nation

Both of these "arguments" are retarded and demonstrably false.

1)  She's been though enough?!?!  Like what?  What exactly has she been through?  Being an entitled cunt for the last 25 years?  Demanding ridiculous sums and outrageous perks to show up and speak to people who have paid the requisite bribe to her "charity" foundation?  Flying around on private jets at taxpayer expense?  Ruining the lives of all around her?  Getting a fat pension despite being worth a hundred million, all skimmed from selling favors?  Standing up there with that smug fucking smirk on her face while asking "Did I wipe the hard drive?  You mean like with a cloth" all the while laughing at you fucking chumps?

You know who's been through enough?  Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.  I don't see anyone saying we should let them off the hook (we should) because THEY have been through enough.  To the contrary, many conservative morons want them put to death.  Without them, I doubt Trump would have won the election.

But look how quickly all the Trumptards are to forgive and forget a woman they all wanted dead 60 days ago.  A woman who would cut Trump's balls off and put them on her mantle if the situation was reversed.  If Trump had lost, she'd have had the Department of Labor, the EEOC, and the IRS all crawling up Trump's asshole til the day he died.

You know who also went through enough?  Martha Stewart.  Remember her?  Made false statements on insider trading, obstructed justice (same as BleachBit) and insider traded to avoid a $45,000 loss.  She went to federal prison and paid $30,000 in fines.  All for a fairly minor offense and sum of money.

But HILLARY, who possibly reaped $100 million in bribe money and obstructed justice?  Well, she's just been through enough already!  She lost an election!  It's so rough to do that.  How will she ever recover??

Fuck that cunt.  Throw the book at her.  There can't be one set of rules for the little people and another for Washington D.C. cocksuckers.  When you have a viper under your boot, you don't let it go.  It won't thank you for doing so - it will bite you.


2)  We need to heal the nation?  No we don't.  Not if it means trying to placate a bunch of stupid liberal cunts who won't even accept the outcome of an election and immediately take to Twitter to literally call for the assassination of Trump.  Weakening in the face of their crying is like a parent giving a baby the candy it wants because it screams loud enough.  Fuck that shit.

Fuck healing.  Fuck reaching across the aisle.  Fuck "having a conversation" and "working together".  You can't do that with your liberal enemy.  They must be crushed and destroyed.  Mercy is not an option.  That is the game they play and the game that must be played against them if you are to win.  Ignore their crocodile tears.  If the roles were reversed they'd be hatching plans right now to take both of your testicles while laughing at you.

There can be no compromise because a compromise to a liberal cocksucker is them wanting to take both your balls, you wanting to keep both your balls, and then compromising by taking one of your balls.  Fuck that shit.  You get none of my balls, bitch.  There are some things you can't compromise on.

If you do?  They will be back next year for half of your remaining nut.  And the year after that...and the year after that...until you have no balls left at all and are standing there a nutless fucking pussy like John Boehner or Mitch McConnel or John McCain or Pau Ryan or all the other pussies who repeatedly caved to the left at the slightest whiff of trouble.

You tell those fucking assholes Schumer and Pelosi: you lost...we won.  Here is the new agenda.  You can either get on board or get out of the way.  Otherwise, you will get run over and smashed into the mud.  Go fuck yourself.  They pull a knife...you pull a gun.  They put one of yours in the hospital?  You put one of theirs in the morgue.  THAT's how you beat the scourge of socialism, welfare state bullshit and all the PC bullshit.  Sheer strength of will and overpowering force.  You can never waver.

In Most Awesome Night Ever, a Conniving, Lying, Cheating, Evil Piece of Shit was Denied Her Lifelong Dream. I Feast on Liberal Douchebag Tears

Ding dong, the witch is dead.

Decades of avarice, lying, cheating, intimidation, treating people like dog shit, fake smiles, medical cover-ups, probably murder, and stealing (through the corrupt CGI "charity") finally caught up with Hillary Clinton and she was defeated in probably the biggest upset in political history.

Every liberal cocksucker rag had her at 98% to win the election.  Clinton herself even had the fireworks display already planned and set up to go off at 9:30pm on Tuesday night in New York.  This smarmy, smug socialist "what, like wipe it with a cloth?" gigantic turbo cunt got taken totally by surprise, which makes it all the more enjoyable.  Like, the literally got hit in the head by a lightning bolt out of the blue (from her point of view - those of us with a brain figured she might actually lose.).

Hillary Clinton "couldn't stop crying" once she learned of her loss to Donald Trump on Tuesday, best-selling conservative author Ed Klein told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.

"About 6:30 this morning she called an old friend," he began on "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "She was crying, inconsolably.

"She couldn't stop crying.

"Her friend said — her female friend from way, way, back — said that it was even hard to understand what she was saying, she was crying so hard."

First let me say this:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  Fuck you, you doddering cunt.

The evil Clinton curse is dead.  Gone.  Powerless.  Bill is a doddering old disgraced pervert who molested a bunch of chicks.  Hillary has zero power.  Nada.  Zilch.  There is no reason for anyone to ever listen to her again.  There is nothing she can do for them.  Nothing she can hold over their heads, since she will never, ever hold a position of power again.  And their only "heir" is a hideous, disgusting, just-as-annoying entitled cunt named Chelsea who will also never get anywhere in politics thanks to her butt-ugly Webb Hubble face and her long list of enemies she and her parents have made over the years.

I could not be happier.  Oh, unless she has a debilitating stroke and spends the next 15 years in a wheelchair drooling all over herself (quite possible considering all her medical problems which will soon be revealed).

Or maybe I'd be happier watching her stand trial for all her many crimes mishandling classified info and selling access through her fake charity, which may also still happen.

Anyways, this is a great day for America.  All the retarded plans this cunt had for us will never be enacted.  Single-payer healthcare?  Not for a while at least.  All the criminal scams with "green energy" and carbon trading to line her pockets while yammering about "global warming"?  Not gonna happen either.  Handing out gifts to entitled liberal douchebags in the form of student loan forgiveness and "free" useless education to a new generation of "women's studies basket weavers"?  Nope - that dream is also dead.

It is fucking awesome.

And to aaaaallllll you pussy, faggot crybabies out there walking around in circles crying and chanting "fuck Trump" and "not my president": BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  Suck a dick and enjoy the next 4 years.  You didn't see any of us setting shit on fire when Obama got elected to 8 long years of economic destruction through socialist policies.  You're all like a bunch of retarded 5-year-old who don't know what's good for you and the country, and the adults have to make you eat your veggies.  Cry all you want, faggots.  It's not gonna change a thing.

Second Shitty Presidential Debate Summarized

By Tim Urban:

In case you missed it, I took the time to transcribe the entire second presidential debate. Here’s what happened:

Martha Raddatz: Hi I’m Martha.

Anderson Cooper: And I’m Anderson. And we’ll be your moderators tonight.

Martha: We’d like to remind all audience members that they’re props more than anything and should stay silent through the debate. The format of the debate will be a series of questions from members of the audience. We’ll start with a woman named Patrice Brock.

Audience Question: Thank you and good evening. The last presidential debate could have been rated as MA—mature audiences—per TV parental guidelines. Knowing that educators assign viewing the presidential debates as students’ homework, do you feel that you are modeling appropriate and positive behavior for today’s youth?

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Clinton: I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do good things. There’s nothing we can’t do together, you and me Patrice. I want to work with people of all ethnicities. I want to heal the country. Make it a better place. For you and for me and the entire human race. And our children. And grandchildren.

Trump: This country’s going to shit. Healthcare costs are going up. We made Iran great again. We get killed on trade—an $800 billion deficit last year. We’re gonna make great trade deals. We’re gonna bring back law and order. Did you hear about those policemen that were shot today? We need justice. I want to fix the blacks in the cities. I want to fix the Latinos, Hispanics, etc. I want to make them great again. Make America great again.

Anderson Cooper: Neither of you remotely answered the question, whatsoever. You literally both ignored Patrice. Anyway, I also don’t care about Patrice. Let’s talk about the tapes. Donald, you talked about kissing women without consent. Grabbing them by the pussy. That’s really very much definitely sexual assault. You bragged about sexually assaulting women. This is a real thing that happened. It is a thing that’s real.

Trump: Wrong. I don’t think you understand what sexual assault is. Grabbing women by the pussy is locker room talk. Assaulting women is grabbing them by the pussy. I’m sorry I grabbed women by the pussy. I never did that. And how can you say that’s worse than ISIS? ISIS is beheading thousands of people. How can you compare me to ISIS? They drown people in steel cages. I’ve never done that once. How dare you Anderson. We’ll see tomorrow what the American people have to say about you saying that ISIS isn’t a big deal. What do you think our enemies are saying when they see what’s going on here. Yes, it was locker room talk. Yes, I hate it. I have advanced strategies for ISIS. I will defeat ISIS.

Anderson: Okay, but do you assault women?

Trump: Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody. Not Mister Rogers. Not Susan B. Anthony. No one. Moving on a married woman is a sign of respect, something Mister Rogers and Susan B. Anthony never did. I’m what every parent hopes their daughter marries. All women respect me.

Anderson: But like literally—do you assault women?

Trump: Only with my respect. We’re gonna build a wall. We’re gonna have borders. People are pouring into our country from the Middle East to grab American women by the pussy. We’re gonna make America safe again. We’re gonna make America great again. We’re gonna make America safe again. We’re gonna make America wealthy again. China.

Anderson: Secretary Clinton, would you like to respond?

Clinton: Reagan. Bush. Eisenhower. Did they grab women by the arm? Yes. By the hand? Probably. Around the shoulder? Sure. But by the pussy? I don’t think so. Donald Trump is a bad man. He’s an everything-ist. He’s Matt Damon in School Ties. He’s the uncle in The Long Walk Home. He’s the mean slave owner in 12 Years a Slave. He’s the main German guy in Die Hard. He’s the woman in The Grudge. He’s Bluto. He’s Jafar. He’s the Joker. He’s a white walker. He’s a death eater. He’s a zombie. He’s a ghost. I, on the other hand, want to form one of those huge circles of different colored people that stretches all the way around the Earth where everyone’s holding hands. Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Trump: 30 years. 30 years this lady’s running the country and never once have I, nor has anyone else, been part of a circle of different colored people that stretches all the way around the Earth where everyone’s holding hands. 30 years of this fucking lady and never once did she paint anything with paint, let alone the colors of the wind.

Martha: Okay but back to your locker room assault. You’ve said that this campaign has changed you—that though being a clear predator in that video at the age of 59, you’ve now become good. Is that really true?

Trump: Martha—I don’t know how much clearer I can make this. I told detailed assault stories that included specific dates, names, and body parts. That’s just classic locker room talk. Every guy talks to other guys about detailed stories of his previous assaults that include specific dates, names, and body parts. You don’t know this because you’re not there—but whenever guys are alone, they talk about their previous assaults. That doesn’t mean they assaulted anyone, obviously. Unless they’re Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton is a bad fucking dude. Bill Clinton told me about when he held a Taco Bell employee down by the neck in the restaurant’s utilities closet and had intercourse with her. Bill Clinton told me about having a foursome with Chelsea’s three best friends while Chelsea was sleeping upstairs. Hillary missed it because she was busy laughing at a 12-year-old rape victim who by coincidence is sitting right over there.

Martha: Nicely done. Hillary?

Clinton: I’ll let Michelle Obama do the talking here. She said, “When someone talks about that time when your husband held a Taco Bell employee down by the neck in the restaurant’s utilities closet and had intercourse with her, you go high.” It works for Michelle, and it works for me. Also, you insulted a Muslim war hero’s parents and said a Latino judge was inherently biased and mocked a disabled reporter and said Obama was foreign.

Trump: The first three, sure. But you’re the one who said Obama was foreign. Also, Michelle Obama has openly said you’re the worst ever. Also, you cheated to beat Bernie Sanders. Also, you deleted 33,000 emails you sneaky fuck. And when I’m Führer, I’m hiring a special prosecutor to come after you.

Clinton: He’s lying about everything, it’s all on my website, and let’s just be happy that this loose cannon isn’t in charge of the law in this country.

Trump: Because you’d be in jail.

Audience: Oh dayome!

Anderson: We’d like to remind the audience to stop being a piece of shit.

Martha: But really, Hillary—what’s up with the emails you sneaky fuck.

Clinton: It was a mistake. I wrote 33,000 emails about Chelsea’s wedding and a yoga class, and I shouldn’t have deleted them. Now let’s get to the questions from the audience.

Trump: Of course—anything to divert from this question, you crooked shrew.

Clinton: Anything to divert from your campaign, you incompressible jizztrumpet.

Anderson: That’s enough. Now let’s resume this town hall farce with our second audience question.

Trump: Typical.

Anderson: Huh?

Trump: You never ask Hillary about her emails. You never spend time with me. You don’t care about me. This is one on three.

Anderson: No it’s not. Just a little. Next question.

Audience Question: Obamacare made things more expensive, not less. How will you bring healthcare costs down?

Trump: Well—

Anderson: No Hillary’s supposed to go first here.
Clinton: No it’s fine I’d rather go second.
Trump: No it’s fine you go first.
Clinton: No you.
Trump: No you.
Clinton: No you.
Trump: No you.
Clinton: No you.
Trump: No you.

Clinton: Obamacare is good.

Trump: Obamacare is a disaster.

Anderson: Hillary, your husband Bill also said Obamacare is a disaster.

Clinton: No he didn’t.

Trump: Bernie Sanders says Hillary has bad judgment.

Anderson: Let’s move on. Audience question.

Audience Question: I’m a Muslim. How can you help me not be hatecrimed?

Trump: Being hatecrimed is a shame. But we have a problem. Which is that you’re not telling us when the other Muslims are gonna kill us. In San Bernardino, there were Muslims that killed us and you didn’t tell us about them. If you had told us about them, we could have stopped it. I don’t think you ever told us about Orlando either, or 9/11 for that matter. I know that because if you had told us about 9/11, I’m pretty sure you’d be famous, and famous people don’t go to town hall meetings.

Clinton: You are Muslim. I am Muslim. Captain Khan, who died serving this country and who Donald hates, was Muslim.

Martha: Hey Donald, remember your Muslim ban? Let’s discuss.

Trump: I love Captain Khan. I have his name tattooed on my lower back. An American hero. Who Hillary killed by starting the Iraq War, another thing I hate.

Martha: Fuckin—dude—no. Answer the question.

Trump: Who made you so mean? Was it your parents? And who made you so simultaneously nice to Hillary? Also your parents?

Martha: Does the Muslim ban still hold?

Trump: Hillary wants to merge the US with Syria into one nation. She wants to increase the number of refugees from 10,000 to 65,000.

Martha: What the fuck Hillary?

Clinton: That picture of the dead four-year-old boy on the beach with the little sneakers.

Martha: Totes.

Clinton: Also, Donald literally wants to ban an entire major religion from entering the US. Can we just all reflect on that for a second? And also, he started the Iraq War, not me.

Trump: I was against the war in Iraq.
Clinton: No you weren’t.
Trump: Yes I was.
Clinton: No you weren’t.
Trump: Yes I was.
Clinton: No you weren’t.
Trump: Yes I was. Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton has bad judgment.

Martha: Okay new question. Hillary, you said in a secret speech that politicians need both a public and private position on certain issues. Is it okay for politicians to be two-faced?

Clinton: That was Abraham Lincoln, not me. More importantly, Trump is obsessed with Putin.

Trump: I’m not obsessed with Putin. I paid taxes. I took deductions. Hillary’s friends took deductions. Hillary is friends with rich people.

Anderson: The fuck? Okay well now that we’re here:

Audience Question: How will you ensure that wealthy Americans pay their fair share of taxes?

Trump: Well the first thing I’d do is (by the way one of the first provisions is (by the way you know I give up a lot when I run cause I change the tax code (by the way you know she could have done this years ago but she didn’t because her rich friends don’t want her to (30 fucking years, folks—30 years with this lady and nothing changes—nothing ever will change)))) get rid of carried interest. I’m also lowering taxes on the wealthy, and by the way Hillary is raising your taxes, which is a disaster. There’s no growth in this country. This country’s going to shit. China’s killing us.

Clinton: Literally all lies from this douche again. He will cut taxes for the super rich and raise them for the middle class.

Trump: Yeah she’ll close corporate loopholes—as long as they’re ones her rich friends don’t use. Also, Bernie Sanders says she has bad judgment. 30 fucking years, folks, with this lady. 30—

Clinton: 30 years my dick, Donald. I’ve done 400 legislation things in 30 years.

Trump: Nah.

Martha: New question. Aleppo’s in the shit. Thoughts?

Clinton: We need to stand up to Russia and Assad and save Aleppo.

Trump: And save who in Aleppo, the rebels? They’re worse than Assad. We need to fight ISIS.

Martha: But Mr. Trump, your running mate agrees with Hillary. He even wants to use military force to stand up to Russia and Assad.

Trump: Well he’s dumb. We need to be fighting ISIS. I know more about ISIS than the generals.

Clinton: Fucking no you don’t.

Anderson: Audience question.

Audience Question: Do you believe you can be a devoted president to all the people in the US? 

Trump: I want to help all Americans. The black Americans. The Latino Americanos personas. The Indian chiefs. Our cities are a disaster. Our education is a disaster. Poverty is a disaster. Natural disasters are a disaster. She said basket of deplorables.

Clinton: I want to help all Americans—the deplorables and the non-deplorables. I talked to an Ethopian kid who was scared of Trump.

Anderson: But what’s up with the deplorables thing?

Clinton: I only meant that truthfully, not publicly.

Trump: She has tremendous hate in her heart. The hate in her heart is a disaster.

Anderson: So Donald, remember when you kind of woke up in the middle of the night the other night and went on a 3am tirade attacking that random woman and telling people to watch her sex tape? What was…what was the deal with that?

Trump: That slut.

Anderson: Let’s move on to the next question, from a man named Kenneth Bone.

Audience Question: I’m Kenneth Bone. I’m Kenneth Bone and I’m wearing this sweater. And this is my mustache.

Anderson: Is that…is that it?

Ken Bone: What’s your plan with energy policy?

Trump: Coal. Coal is the way of the future. China is KILLING us. China is dumping steel on us.

Clinton: China is dumping steel on your shitty face. You buy a ton of Chinese steel. Climate change is a thing. Coal is a thing. Things are things.

Martha: Okay last question, thank fucking god.

Audience Question: It sounds kind of fun and hilarious to make you two say something nice about each other. Go.

Clinton: His kids aren’t terrible people. Somehow.

Trump: The bitch can fight.


Anderson: I’d like to extend my thanks and apologies to the 790 million people who watched this. Goodnight.

Deficit Hits One Trillion for Current Fiscal Year

Moments ago, the national debt outstanding hit 19.164 trillion dollars.

Exactly one year ago, when the idiots in DC "suspended" the debt ceiling, we were at 18.157 trillion.

Meaning, that as of this moment, we have spent over one trillion more than we took in during the past year.....in other words, we have run another trillion dollar deficit.

Will you hear about this anywhere else?  No.  Just here.

Trump is so Full of Shit, It Berns

 by Steve Chapman

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are the antithesis of the conventional politician. They are not programmed, their lines are not focus-group tested, and they take positions far outside the mainstream. But the victory speeches they gave in New Hampshire Tuesday night showed they have mastered the oldest political trick of all: promising things they can't deliver. 

Trump showed the most chutzpah, conjuring gaudy images of the wonders he will bestow. You name the problem, and he will banish it. "We're going to take care of our vets," he said. "We're going to have strong, incredible borders," he said. Building a wall, he said, is "not even a difficult thing to do."

This 2,000-mile long barrier will stop not only illegal immigration but drug smuggling: "We're going to end it at the southern border. It's going to be over." Noting the prevalence of heroin use in New Hampshire, he said, "We're going to work with you people to help you solve that very big problem and we'll get it done."

The Islamic State? "We're going to knock the hell out of them. And it's going to be done the right way." In every realm, Trump pledged, "we're going to win so much, you are going to be so happy, we are going to make America so great again, maybe greater than ever before." 

You may note that the absence of specifics in this shriek of ecstasy. Trump is like a car salesman trying to sell a car that not only hasn't been built but hasn't even been designed, by a company that has never built a car. The buyer isn't even told what kind of vehicle it will be or how much it will cost. Or maybe it's not a car but just some means of transport. 

Anyone who tried to get Trump the businessman to approve a project based on such vapor would be promptly evicted. This is not the art of the deal. It's the art of the con. 

His website goes into slightly more detail but fails to make his promises look plausible. The Tax Policy Center in Washington says his tax plan, which he bills as revenue-neutral, would cut receipts by 22 percent.

Trump told The New York Times editorial board he would slap a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods. Many of his supporters would love that, but he later denied saying any such thing, despite recorded proof: "They were wrong. It's The New York Times. They are always wrong." So it's anyone's guess what he would do about China. 

Sanders was not to be outdone in promising the moon. He vowed to "make public colleges and universities free," slash student loan debt, "rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, increase Social Security benefits, and "guarantee health care for all" through a single-payer system. 

Unlike Trump, he does not shrink from specifics. But, like the poet T.S. Eliot, he evidently thinks that "humankind cannot bear very much reality." So his proposals include a giant heaping of pixie dust. 

The tax increases that are supposed to fund "Medicare for all" would not suffice. The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget figures that over 10 years, the revenue would fall $3 trillion short of covering the cost. That's the optimistic view. A more pessimistic estimate comes from economist Kenneth Thorpe of Emory University, who favors a single-payer model. He calculates the gap at $14 trillion over a decade. 

Fattening retirement checks would also be expensive, and Sanders wants additional tax increases to pay for them. The resulting rates would be so high as to be not only punitive but economically harmful. 

A household whose income exceeds $250,000 would face marginal rates ranging from 62 percent to 77 percent, according to website Vox.com. The maximum rate on capital gains would nearly triple. 

Sanders doesn't burden his audiences with the negative effect these enormous tax increases are bound to have on the economy. Even liberal economists acknowledge that high rates discourage work, saving and investment, while fostering wasteful tax dodges. 

Nor does he admit that getting them through Congress—even a Democratic Congress, which is unlikely—would be impossible. Everything is supposed to happen through the "political revolution" he sees shimmering on the horizon. 

A lot of voters are drawn to these candidates because they are sick of being let down by elected leaders. But if they think Trump or Sanders will redeem their faith, they are in for a big surprise.

Bernie Sanders - The Bum Who Wants Your Money

From Investor's Business Daily:


Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday his parents would never have thought their son would end up in the Senate and running for president. No kidding. He was a ne’er-do-well into his late 30s.

“It’s certainly something that I don’t think they ever believed would’ve happened,” the unabashed socialist remarked during CNN’s Democratic town hall forum, as polls show him taking the lead in Iowa and New Hampshire.

He explained his family couldn’t imagine his “success,” because “my brother and I and Mom and Dad grew up in a three-and-a-half-room rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, and we never had a whole lot of money.”

It wasn’t as bad as he says. His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.

“I never had any money my entire life,” Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985, after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington.

Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances — “We will raise taxes;” he confirmed Monday, “yes, we will.”

One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.

Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”

Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.

The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”

So he tried politics, starting his own socialist party. Four times he ran for Vermont public office, and four times he lost — badly. He never attracted more than single-digit support — even in the People’s Republic of Vermont. In his 1971 bid for U.S. Senate, the local press said the 30-year-old “Sanders describes himself as a carpenter who has worked with ‘disturbed children.’ ” In other words, a real winner.

He finally wormed his way into the Senate in 2006, where he still ranks as one of the poorest members of Congress. Save for a municipal pension, Sanders lists no assets in his name. All the assets provided in his financial disclosure form are his second wife’s. He does, however, have as much as $65,000 in credit-card debt.

Sure, Sanders may not be a hypocrite, but this is nothing to brag about. His worthless background contrasts sharply with the successful careers of other “outsiders” in the race for the White House, including a billionaire developer, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and a Fortune 500 CEO.
The choice in this election is shaping up to be a very clear one. It will likely boil down to a battle between those who create and produce wealth, and those who take it and redistribute it.

Why Bernie Sanders Bullshit Socialism Has Never Worked and Will Never Work

Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.

In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning emerge. It is the initial illusion of success that gives government intervention its pernicious, seductive appeal. In the long run, socialism has always proven to be a formula for tyranny and misery.

A pyramid scheme is ultimately unsustainable because it is based on faulty principles. Likewise, collectivism is unsustainable in the long run because it is a flawed theory. Socialism does not work because it is not consistent with fundamental principles of human behavior. The failure of socialism in countries around the world can be traced to one critical defect: it is a system that ignores incentives.

In a capitalist economy, incentives are of the utmost importance. Market prices, the profit-and-loss system of accounting, and private property rights provide an efficient, interrelated system of incentives to guide and direct economic behavior. Capitalism is based on the theory that incentives matter!

Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don’t matter!

In a radio debate several months ago with a Marxist professor from the University of Minnesota, I pointed out the obvious failures of socialism around the world in Cuba, Eastern Europe, and China. At the time of our debate, Haitian refugees were risking their lives trying to get to Florida in homemade boats. Why was it, I asked him, that people were fleeing Haiti and traveling almost 500 miles by ocean to get to the “evil capitalist empire” when they were only 50 miles from the “workers’ paradise” of Cuba?

The Marxist admitted that many “socialist” countries around the world were failing. However, according to him, the reason for failure is not that socialism is deficient, but that the socialist economies are not practicing “pure” socialism. The perfect version of socialism would work; it is just the imperfect socialism that doesn’t work. Marxists like to compare a theoretically perfect version of socialism with practical, imperfect capitalism which allows them to claim that socialism is superior to capitalism.

If perfection really were an available option, the choice of economic and political systems would be irrelevant. In a world with perfect beings and infinite abundance, any economic or political system–socialism, capitalism, fascism, or communism–would work perfectly.

However, the choice of economic and political institutions is crucial in an imperfect universe with imperfect beings and limited resources. In a world of scarcity it is essential for an economic system to be based on a clear incentive structure to promote economic efficiency. The real choice we face is between imperfect capitalism and imperfect socialism. Given that choice, the evidence of history overwhelmingly favors capitalism as the greatest wealth-producing economic system available.

The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces, (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting and (3) private property rights. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three incentive-enhancing components.

Prices
The price system in a market economy guides economic activity so flawlessly that most people don’t appreciate its importance. Market prices transmit information about relative scarcity and then efficiently coordinate economic activity. The economic content of prices provides incentives that promote economic efficiency.

For example, when the OPEC cartel restricted the supply of oil in the 1970s, oil prices rose dramatically. The higher prices for oil and gasoline transmitted valuable information to both buyers and sellers. Consumers received a strong, clear message about the scarcity of oil by the higher prices at the pump and were forced to change their behavior dramatically. People reacted to the scarcity by driving less, carpooling more, taking public transportation, and buying smaller cars. Producers reacted to the higher price by increasing their efforts at exploration for more oil. In addition, higher oil prices gave producers an incentive to explore and develop alternative fuel and energy sources.

The information transmitted by higher oil prices provided the appropriate incentive structure to both buyers and sellers. Buyers increased their effort to conserve a now more precious resource and sellers increased their effort to find more of this now scarcer resource.

The only alternative to a market price is a controlled or fixed price which always transmits misleading information about relative scarcity. Inappropriate behavior results from a controlled price because false information has been transmitted by an artificial, non-market price.

Look at what happened during the 1970s when U.S. gas prices were controlled. Long lines developed at service stations all over the country because the price for gasoline was kept artificially low by government fiat. The full impact of scarcity was not accurately conveyed. As Milton Friedman pointed out at the time, we could have eliminated the lines at the pump in one day by allowing the price to rise to clear the market.

From our experience with price controls on gasoline and the long lines at the pump and general inconvenience, we get an insight into what happens under socialism where every price in the economy is controlled. The collapse of socialism is due in part to the chaos and inefficiency that result from artificial prices. The information content of a controlled price is always distorted. This in turn distorts the incentives mechanism of prices under socialism. Administered prices are always either too high or too low, which then creates constant shortages and surpluses. Market prices are the only way to transmit information that will create the incentives to ensure economic efficiency.

Profits and Losses
Socialism also collapsed because of its failure to operate under a competitive, profit-and-loss system of accounting. A profit system is an effective monitoring mechanism which continually evaluates the economic performance of every business enterprise. The firms that are the most efficient and most successful at serving the public interest are rewarded with profits. Firms that operate inefficiently and fail to serve the public interest are penalized with losses.

By rewarding success and penalizing failure, the profit system provides a strong disciplinary mechanism which continually redirects resources away from weak, failing, and inefficient firms toward those firms which are the most efficient and successful at serving the public. A competitive profit system ensures a constant reoptimization of resources and moves the economy toward greater levels of efficiency. Unsuccessful firms cannot escape the strong discipline of the marketplace under a profit/loss system. Competition forces companies to serve the public interest or suffer the consequences.

Under central planning, there is no profit-and-loss system of accounting to accurately measure the success or failure of various programs. Without profits, there is no way to discipline firms that fail to serve the public interest and no way to reward firms that do. There is no efficient way to determine which programs should be expanded and which ones should be contracted or terminated.

Without competition, centrally planned economies do not have an effective incentive structure to coordinate economic activity. Without incentives the results are a spiraling cycle of poverty and misery. Instead of continually reallocating resources towards greater efficiency, socialism falls into a vortex of inefficiency and failure.

Private Property Rights
A third fatal defect of socialism is its blatant disregard for the role of private property rights in creating incentives that foster economic growth and development. The failure of socialism around the world is a “tragedy of commons” on a global scale.

The “tragedy of the commons” refers to the British experience of the sixteenth century when certain grazing lands were communally owned by villages and were made available for public use. The land was quickly overgrazed and eventually became worthless as villagers exploited the communally owned resource.

When assets are publicly owned, there are no incentives in place to encourage wise stewardship. While private property creates incentives for conservation and the responsible use of property, public property encourages irresponsibility and waste. If everyone owns an asset, people act as if no one owns it. And when no one owns it, no one really takes care of it. Public ownership encourages neglect and mismanagement.

Since socialism, by definition, is a system marked by the “common ownership of the means of production,” the failure of socialism is a “tragedy of the commons” on a national scale. Much of the economic stagnation of socialism can be traced to the failure to establish and promote private property rights.

As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto remarked, you can travel in rural communities around the world and you will hear dogs barking, because even dogs understand property rights. It is only statist governments that have failed to understand property rights. Socialist countries are just now starting to recognize the importance of private property as they privatize assets and property in Eastern Europe.

Incentives Matter
Without the incentives of market prices, profit-and-loss accounting, and well-defined property rights, socialist economies stagnate and wither. The economic atrophy that occurs under socialism is a direct consequence of its neglect of economic incentives.

No bounty of natural resources can ever compensate a country for its lack of an efficient system of incentives. Russia, for example, is one of the world’s wealthiest countries in terms of natural resources; it has some of the world’s largest reserves of oil, natural gas, diamonds, and gold. Its valuable farm land, lakes, rivers, and streams stretch across a land area that encompasses 11 time zones. Yet Russia remains poor. Natural resources are helpful, but the ultimate resources of any country are the unlimited resources of its people–human resources.

By their failure to foster, promote, and nurture the potential of their people through incentive-enhancing institutions, centrally planned economies deprive the human spirit of full development. Socialism fails because it kills and destroys the human spirit–just ask the people leaving Cuba in homemade rafts and boats.

As the former centrally planned economies move toward free markets, capitalism, and democracy, they look to the United States for guidance and support during the transition. With an unparalleled 250-year tradition of open markets and limited government, the United States is uniquely qualified to be the guiding light in the worldwide transition to freedom and liberty.

We have an obligation to continue to provide a framework of free markets and democracy for the global transition to freedom. Our responsibility to the rest of the world is to continue to fight the seductiveness of statism around the world and here at home. The seductive nature of statism continues to tempt and lure us into the Barmecidal illusion that the government can create wealth.
The temptress of socialism is constantly luring us with the offer: “give up a little of your freedom and I will give you a little more security.” As the experience of this century has demonstrated, the bargain is tempting but never pays off. We end up losing both our freedom and our security.

Programs like socialized medicine, welfare, Social Security, and minimum wage laws will continue to entice us because on the surface they appear to be expedient and beneficial. Those programs, like all socialist programs, will fail in the long run regardless of initial appearances. These programs are part of the Big Lie of socialism because they ignore the important role of incentives.

Socialism will remain a constant temptation. We must be vigilant in our fight against socialism not only around the globe but also here in the United States.

The failure of socialism inspired a worldwide renaissance of freedom and liberty. For the first time in the history of the world, the day is coming very soon when a majority of the people in the world will live in free societies or societies rapidly moving toward freedom.

Capitalism will play a major role in the global revival of liberty and prosperity because it nurtures the human spirit, inspires human creativity, and promotes the spirit of enterprise. By providing a powerful system of incentives that promote thrift, hard work, and efficiency, capitalism creates wealth.

The main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: Capitalism works.

U.S. Debt Hits 19.02 Trillion

As of today, total U.S. debt sits at 19,020,000,000,000

On Oct 1st, 2015 (the start of the current fiscal year) is was $18,157,000,000,000.

The difference is the amount of red ink (deficit) we have already incurred this fiscal year: $863 billion.


Yes, we are 86% of the way to a TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT this fiscal year and the fiscal year is only 33% over.

Expect no mention of this from anybody...especially that crusty old cunt, Bernie Sanders.

 

Fiscal Deficit Now Over $800 Billion For Current Year....Crickets From All News Sources

Jan 23, 2106 the federal debt sits at 18.963 trillion.  

Since we started the new fiscal year on Oct 1, 2015 with a debt of 18.157, that means we have spent $807 billion more than we took in over the last 15 weeks or so.

CBO claims that this fiscal year will see a deficit of around $550 billion...which I called a lie almost a year ago.  We are already far past that with 8 months left in the year and the economy entering recession as we speak.

We WILL see another ONE TRILLION DOLLAR deficit this year.

But don't worry.  Deficits don't matter.

If You Don't Agree With Obama, You Are "Peddling Fiction"

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

If you’re not watching it purely for the entertainment value, sitting through a State of the Union speech ranks somewhere between a colonoscopy and a root canal.

Every year I opt for the former (entertainment value, not colonoscopy).

But because I live overseas, one of the added entertainment benefits is that I’m surrounded by foreigners who are seeing this highly ritualistic propaganda for the first time.

The absurdity starts almost immediately.

The Sergeant-at-Arms introduces the President of the United States, and he receives a massive, five minute standing ovation as he walks across the water to the podium.

The applause finally dies down briefly, until, immediately after, the Speaker of the House formally introduces the President. And then the applause begins anew.

Try explaining that to a foreigner who’s never seen it before.

Foreigner: “Why is everyone clapping again for the President as if they weren’t just clapping for him 30 seconds ago?”
Me: “Because that’s just the way they do it.”
Foreigner: “But why?”
Me: “… ummm… because they’re all trained monkeys?”

But it is at this point that the real propaganda begins, where the President of the United States tells his fellow Americans that they are prosperous and free.

He cited, for example, the 14 million jobs created since he took office.
Of course he failed to mention the more than $8 trillion in debt (77% increase) that has been accumulated since he was inaugurated seven years ago.

If the President truly wants to take credit as the job creator-in-chief, the basic math works out to be nearly $600,000 in government debt for every single job created.

Zerohedge showed yesterday, in fact, that while debt in the US has increased 77% over the last seven years, GDP has only increased by 13%.

Now, you’d think that for each additional dollar the US government was spending and indebting future generations, there would be at least $1 in GDP growth.


Ideally you’d get more than $1 in GDP growth. Duh. Businesses have to do this every single day.
If I borrow $10 million to buy and develop agricultural farmland, obviously the net effect once I’m finished should result in a property that’s worth MORE than $10 million.

But that’s not how it works when governments spend money. It took them $3.71 of debt to buy just $1 of GDP growth.

Yes, the overall result may show that the economy is technically bigger than it was in 2009.
But this ratio is completely screwed up, and it is not indicative of “the strongest, most durable economy in the world.”

In the meantime, there have never been more pages of laws, rules, and regulations ever in the history of the United States than there are today, January 13, 2016.

Just this morning, in fact, the federal government published another 369 pages of regulations. Tomorrow there will be even more.

Should you find yourself out of compliance with any of them, the government can summarily deprive you of your freedom, your property, and even your family.

And it can do so administratively, without a fair and speedy trial in front of an impartial judge and a jury of your peers.

This is not what freedom and prosperity are all about.

President Obama is undeniably upbeat about America. And he’s right, there are a lot of amazing people doing great things in the US.

The United States is a wonderful country. It’s clean. Modern. Reasonably safe. Standard of living is very high.

But decades of insane regulation, government debt, and astonishingly destructive monetary policy have resulted in a society where it is now easier to consume than produce.

Prosperity is not complicated. People figured out thousands of years ago that if you wanted to do well, you had to produce more than you consumed.

But the American system is the exact opposite, favoring those who recklessly borrow and spend, rather than those who work hard and responsibly save.

The President of the United States boldly accused everyone who doesn’t share his view as just making things up.

In his words, “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”

This is an extraordinary (and delusional) statement.

The government’s own numbers show that they are completely insolvent, to the tune of nearly $18 trillion.

The annual reports for the Social Security trust funds show that they are rapidly running out of money.

The Federal Reserve’s own balance sheet shows that it is precariously undercapitalized, with net capital less than 1% of total assets.

The Census Bureau’s data shows that the earnings for middle class Americans are stagnating.
The Labor Department’s numbers show that the number of Americans who have dropped out of the work force hasn’t been at this level since the Carter administration.

USDA figures show that the number of food stamp recipients is near an all-time high, simultaneously when the number of homeless children in America is at a record high.

And all of this, at a time when trust in government is near an all-time low.

These are all facts, not fiction.

The only fiction is pretending that this story has a happy ending.

Bernie Sanders Smorgasborg of "Free" Shit Very Popular With 20-Something Women.....Shocker

Young women could make history by helping elect the first woman president, but many of them are turning to the oldest white guy in the field.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, 74, a Vermont independent, will head into the Democratic presidential debate Sunday with a 19-point lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton, 50% to 31%, among Democratic and independent women ages 18 to 34, according to a recent USA TODAY/Rock the Vote poll.

Millennial women are among the supporters Sanders is counting on to help him pull off an upset Feb. 1 in Iowa, where his poll numbers are surging, and hold his lead in New Hampshire, which will hold a primary Feb. 9, to give him the momentum he needs to succeed in later contests where Clinton is favored.

The poll showed that the younger voters are, the more likely they are to be Sanders supporters.

Among both genders, Sanders has 57% backing in the 18-25  age group. That drops to 36% for those ages 26-34. For Clinton, the opposite is true. She gets 44% of those ages 26 to 34 and 25% of those 18-25.

Sanders has worked to energize young supporters with town meetings at colleges and recently in Iowa high schools, outreach on social media and interviews on the online message board Reddit.
The idea of not voting is unfathomable to Julie Fredrick, 23, of Jefferson, N.H., a Sanders volunteer who canvasses, participates in phone banks, connects on social media and leaves a trail of Sanders fliers in her wake.

She voted but didn’t volunteer for Obama in 2012 because she “wasn’t nearly as inspired” as she is now. She finds the same passion among her friends.

“For the first time, I feel empowered to create change,” said Fredrick, a marketing representative for a fine furniture shop. “This is a peaceful political revolution, and everyone’s very excited to be a part of it.”

Some Millennial women consider the Democratic socialist more trustworthy, and they like his anti-Wall Street message and focus on changing what he calls a corrupt political system.

Lillian Moravek, 17, of Westfield, Iowa, said his plan for free tuition at public colleges is most attractive.

"It’s a very important thing to be part of a movement that could pass that on to younger generations,” said Moravek, a Sanders volunteer who will serve as a co-precinct captain for her district’s caucus. “The second most important thing is, he’s a feminist, and so am I.”

Millennial women are less motivated than their older counterparts by the prospect of electing the nation’s first female president, said Krystal Marie Ball, contributor to Glamour magazine’s 2016 election project, called “The 51 Million,” referring to the number of U.S. women under the age of 45 eligible to vote. Although many have never voted for a Clinton, Hillary Clinton has been a public figure their entire lives, making them more likely to identify her with the ruling political class.

“Even though having a woman in the White House would be new and different, it’s hard to feel like Hillary Clinton is new and different,” Ball said. “They’re expressing their disgust and frustration with a political system,” and Bernie Sanders “is an expression” of that sentiment.

Taryn Hogarth, 22, a University of South Dakota student, said the history-making prospect of a woman president is a deciding factor for her mother but not her. She trusts Sanders more than Clinton to get money out of politics and reform the criminal justice system.  Though Sanders has served in Congress since 1990, she still sees him as “a fresh face” who makes her “excited for our government.”

“I would love to have a woman president, but I’d like the right woman president,” she said. “I want this to be based on the ideas and what they’re going to do for our country.”

 "Though Sanders has served in Congress since 1990, Taryn Hogarth, 22,  still sees him as “a fresh face” who makes her “excited for our government.”

Holy shit. I knew today's kids were morons, but when they start referring to a 74-year-old socialist Jew who has spent most of his life in government as a "fresh face" with new ideas, we are truly and totally fucked.


So the prospect of "free stuff" from a benevolent Big government that appears out of nowhere and makes EVERYBODY'S lives happier and better appeals mainly to (1) ignorant 20-somethings who still think socialism can work despite mountains of evidence (and corpses) to the contrary and (2) women, whose actions are ruled primarily by emotion rather than reason???

Color me shocked.

This idea that "we should have a healthy debate and let ALL ideas (including socialism) be heard at the table" is a mountain of bullshit.  Socialism doesn't work.  Ever.  It's killed tens of millions at the hands of Mao, Stalin, Castro, and others throughout history.  Compare East and West Berlin.  Compare North and South Korea.  Compare Havana now versus 60 years ago.  Compare Argentina now versus back when it had a capitalist system.  It is failure after failure after failure.

An analogy to this would be having a large symposium of astronomers comprised of the finest scientific minds in the field all getting together to discuss the building of a new telescope or something, and letting an idiot who believes the earth is flat and the sun goes around the earth have an equal seat at the table.

That person would be laughed out of the room and banished, as well he should.  His moronic flat-earth and geocentric theories were thrown in the dustbin centuries ago...same as socialism.

The REAL criminals here are the moron parents who have released all these cretins into the world without any knowledge whatsoever.  Taryn Hogarth's dad should be punched in the testicles until they are jelly for not explaining to his daughter at an early age that there is no Santa Claus - neither at the North Pole nor in Washington DC.

Of COURSE all this free shit appeals to the college kids (free tuition!) and the young girls (free shit for me and my kid I'm raising by myself!) because they are idiots who haven't lived in the real world yet and have suffered a form of child abuse by their public school teachers and parents who didn't educate them properly about history, economics or human nature.

Despite my rage at these young morons and Bernie Sanders - who has made it to age 74 STILL believing in Santa Claus - I am deep down hoping Sanders wins.  Why?

1) That means Hillary lost and is probably indicted.  Her head will explode since she has waited her whole life to be queen and fell short right at the end.  This is her last chance.

2) I have $300 on Bernie at 22-1 odds.

3) Bernie's actions will finally kill off the country and erase all doubt that we are on the wrong path.  With any luck, a few states will secede and I'll be a part of the new and improved US while these socialist asswipes create their own country where they can live like the peasants (i.e. everyone) in Cuba or Venezuela and wipe their hands with their asses after the toilet paper runs out in 6 months.

Blithering Idiots

 

Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

Whenever I see one of these stories about how little Americans have available for an emergency, my blood starts to boil. I understand that poor people making $25,000 per year are forced to live paycheck to paycheck. But when 63% of all Americans can’t handle a $500 emergency, and 46% of  households making over $75,000 can’t handle a $500 emergency, then they are just plain stupid, frivolous, and incapable of distinguishing between wants and needs. Delayed gratification is a trait almost non-existent among Americans today.

The first thing that infuriates me is the assumption that a $500 car repair or house repair is an unexpected emergency. It’s a fucking living expense. It’s not a fucking surprise. Your car will need new tires every few years. That’s $500 or more. Your hot water heater, air conditioner, roof, windows, etc. will need to be replaced. Everyone gets sick. That is not unexpected. Anyone who lives their life as if these expenses are a shocking surprise is a blithering idiot. And this country is crawling with blithering idiots.

So the majority of Americans can’t handle a $500 expense, but for the last two years there have been 35 million new cars “sold” to blithering idiots on credit or leases. Even though they have no money, they decide it’s a brilliant idea to commit to a 7 year payment of $300 to $500 per month on an asset that declines in value rapidly. Morons abound. These are the same people who must have their Starbucks coffee every day. These math challenged boobs could defer buying a Starbucks coffee every day, save the $3, and accumulate $750 of emergency savings in one year.

Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street


There are millions of brain dead Americans who are going to reap a whirlwind of consequences when this shit show implodes. They’ll be wailing and gnashing their teeth when their years of living for today catches up to them. Too fucking bad. The only way to accumulate wealth is to spend less than you make. It’s a lesson they failed to heed, and they will regret it for the rest of their pitiful lives.