COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Another Look at Hillary Clinton. Is she mocking someone having a seizure or is she having one?

Didn’t Trump get pummeled by the press  for mocking a disabled person during a joke? Is that the best explanation, that Hillary is making a joke mocking a seizure?








STATEMENT BY FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS

The undersigned individuals have all served in senior national security and/or foreign policy positions in Republican Administrations, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. We have worked directly on national security issues with these Republican Presidents and/or their principal advisers during wartime and other periods of crisis, through successes and failures. We know the personal qualities required of a President of the United States.
None of us will vote for Donald Trump.

From a foreign policy perspective, Donald Trump is not qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief. Indeed, we are convinced that he would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.

Most fundamentally, Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President. He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.

In addition, Mr. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding of America’s vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances, and the democratic values on which U.S. foreign policy must be based. At the same time, he persistently compliments our adversaries and threatens our allies and friends. Unlike previous Presidents who had limited experience in foreign affairs, Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself. He continues to display an alarming ignorance of basic facts of contemporary international politics. Despite his lack of knowledge, Mr. Trump claims that he understands foreign affairs and “knows more about ISIS than the generals do.”

Mr. Trump lacks the temperament to be President. In our experience, a President must be willing to listen to his advisers and department heads; must encourage consideration of conflicting views; and must acknowledge errors and learn from them. A President must be disciplined, control emotions, and act only after reflection and careful deliberation. A President must maintain cordial relationships with leaders of countries of different backgrounds and must have their respect and trust.

In our judgment, Mr. Trump has none of these critical qualities. He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior. All of these are dangerous qualities in an individual who aspires to be President and Commander- in-Chief, with command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

We understand that many Americans are profoundly frustrated with the federal government and its inability to solve pressing domestic and international problems. We also know that many have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us. But Donald Trump is not the answer to America’s daunting challenges and to this crucial election. We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history.

Donald B. Ayer
Former Deputy Attorney General


38 comments:

  1. I mentioned it once before.

    My wife worked with disability folks for years.

    Some are wonderful, wonderful kids....

    Some are pure assholes, and merit a little mocking once in a while like, say, maggot rat dead beat dad hawkins merits mocking....

    If that seems cruel to you, go into the business for 20 years like she did.....then report back to me.

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    1. This turdo that Trump 'mocked' was a reporter, hiding from criticism behind his disability....fuck him, is what I say....

      Seems cruel to you?

      Then I say.....you haven't been around it like we have.....

      They can be absolutely tormenting uncivilized little assholes....

      The have 'special needs' but that doesn't in any sense make them 'special kids'.

      Some are 'especially bad' kids.....

      Grow up and get over this faux weep-weep shit....

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    2. Cameras, and duty to report abuse ? O yes.

      My wife was never reported for abuse.

      Once, however, she bucked the chain of command and reported the super for abusing the ladies that work - they are almost all women - directly with the kids. This was at the end of four years, and it was her parting shot, and I don't know what became of it. It wasn't a sexual complaint, but along the lines of him using his power to harass, intimidate, etc.

      No one could stand his ass and he finally disappeared somewhere....

      The very best place for a disability kid is in a loving home. Due to parents often needing to work this is a rarity these days....

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    3. The bright side ?

      Our disabled kids are rarely Rio street kids.....

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  2. Reckless and dangerous would be a marvelous improvement over the current occupier of the WH.

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    1. Always chose 'reckless and dangerous' over 'determined and pledged to destroy'.

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  3. Typical Fried Circuit supporter at rally -

    TWILIGHT ZONE: ORLANDO TERRORIST'S DAD FOR CLINTON!
    CHEERS HILLARY AT RALLY
    SAID GOD WILL PUNISH GAYS
    SUPPORTED TALIBAN....DRUDGE


    Dead center, front row seat.....

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    1. Orlando terrorist’s father endorses Hillary, on display at rally in Florida


      posted at 6:51 am on August 9, 2016 by Larry O'Connor

      Apparently, the father of Omar Mateen, the radical Islamic terrorist who committed the deadliest terror attack on American soil since Sept 11, is a big fan of Hillary Clinton.

      Clinton held a rally in Kissimmee, FL, a suburb of Orlando, the site of June’s terror attack. She began her rally by paying tribute to those who were slaughtered by Mateen while the terrorist’s father, Seddique Mateen, sat right behind her, prominently displayed and in full view of the camera.

      There he is, right behind Hillary’s shoulder:

      Sateen father

      Here’s a report on the bizarre and discomforting display from the local NBC affiliate:

      WPTV happened to notice the man, who has a mustache and was wearing a red hat, behind Clinton. It was Seddique Mateen, the father of Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen.

      NewsChannel 5 asked Mateen what he was thinking about when Clinton spoke about the Orlando incident.

      “We’ve been cooperating with the federal government, and that’s about it,” he said. “Thank you.”

      It gets better, the terrorist’s father endorsed Clinton on camera:


      Mateen didn’t want to answer any other questions, but just hours later, we ran into him by chance at a rest stop on the way back to West Palm Beach. He wanted to do an interview and show us a sign he made for Clinton.

      “Hillary Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions,” he said.

      Yup… He’s with her!

      You’ll remember Clinton-supporter Sateen has ties with the Taliban, has run for president of Afghanistan, produces anti-American YouTube video shows and has suggested that the Pulse nightclub is partially to blame for his son’s murderous rampage.

      Good to know Hillary’s locked up the all-important “parents-of-terrorists” vote.

      http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/09/orlando-terrorists-father-endorses-hillary-prominently-displayed-at-rally-in-florida/

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    2. Why haven't they published the pic of Seddique Mateen next to Rufus the Dufus?

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  4. .

    Following up on David Duke's endorsement, the American Nazi Party now endorses Donald Trump.

    American Nazi Party chairman says Donald Trump presents ‘a real opportunity’ for movement.


    Regarding the letter printed above from the 50 former national security advisers, it has to be discounted given the piss-poor performance of American foreign policy over the past 6 decades. That being said, it's hard to argue with this...

    Mr. Trump lacks the temperament to be President. In our experience, a President must be willing to listen to his advisers and department heads; must encourage consideration of conflicting views; and must acknowledge errors and learn from them. A President must be disciplined, control emotions, and act only after reflection and careful deliberation. A President must maintain cordial relationships with leaders of countries of different backgrounds and must have their respect and trust.

    In our judgment, Mr. Trump has none of these critical qualities. He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior. All of these are dangerous qualities in an individual who aspires to be President and Commander- in-Chief, with command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.


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    1. And FUCK YOU both Smirk'n'Quirk

      The Communist Party, USA - you know, the Stalinists -is full center behind Fried Circuit, and she hasn't denied them, as Trump has done with the KKK.

      May you both visit Gaza and we'll see what happens to you two turds in a pod....

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    2. Stalin killed millions of farmers just like me......not that you City Shitters would give a shit....millions starved to death because of his policies.....

      Have you read about it ?

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    3. I doubt it, but really, you should read about it.

      Hillary, the Demcrats, are talking National Police Force....

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    May you both visit Gaza and we'll see what happens to you two turds in a pod....

    May you visit an Israeli settlement or the Israeli section of Hebron carrying a Palestinian flag.

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      Of course, we know that won't happen. You guys are always suggesting someone here go to Israel or Gaza or any of the Occupied Territories but I notice none of you seem to ever make it over there yourself.

      Smart.

      Did you read the State Department Travel Alert I put up yesterday?

      Why would anyone in their right mind visit there or, for that matter, anyplace in the ME?

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    2. May you die in a head on collision with a brick wall with a can of beer in your hand, and five in your gut.

      There, take that....

      I'd be a hell of a lot safer in an Israeli settlement with a Palestinian flag than you two turds would ever be in Gaza.....

      The Communist Party, USA supports Hillary.

      I don't believe for moment, Quirk, that you won't end up voting for Fried Circuit.

      Fried circuits attract.....

      Ash is a given.

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      May you die in a head on collision with a brick wall with a can of beer in your hand, and five in your gut.


      You and your bro, two peas in a pod. Always wishing harm on others. This is the extend of you ability to argue a point, curses and verbal abuse.

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    Have you read about it ?


    Have you read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or what's been written about the American Nazi Party or David Duke or any of the nativist groups now supporting Trump?

    Of course not, you have a pretty restricted reading list.

    How can any moron try to justify Trump's embarrassing mimicry of a disabled reporter? Even his audience only responded with a smattering of nervous laughter. Even the Trumpettes were embarrassed but not our resident hick from Idaho.

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  7. Yes I've read the Rise and Fall maybe three or four times. Also the entirety of Churchill, that great man. And tons about Stalin, that psychopathic killer.

    So David Duke has endorsed Trump ? Trump has declined the endorsement. The Communist Party, USA has endorsed Hillary. Has she declined the endorsement ? Not that I have heard about.

    She is an Alinskyite, if you know what that is and means.

    What is the reading material there at The Barber Shop you are currently using as your 'safe space' ?

    And don't give me a bunch of crap about those with disabilities.

    We've been in the business. We've been around them, my wife trying to help them, for years, for decades.

    Some are true assholes. Just like you.

    And ask for, and deserves a little mocking.....just like you....

    Some are as fraudulent as you, if it can be believed....

    What disability are you claiming these days ?

    Since you've been out of the fraudulent ad business for so long, you must have figured out some money stream from somewhere ?

    Emotional disability is always a good place to start. Physical, mental, alcoholic, there are many possibilities for a accomplished grafter like you !

    In short: Up Yours


    Cheers !

    Sadly, I need to go do some necessary things at this point. I still work, part time.

    Let me know when Fried Circuit denyies the commies....

    And why is she always hiding from the Press ?

    What is it she has to hide that she is so fearful of the Press ?

    tata

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      I still work, part time.

      :o)

      What, spare greeter to cover during lunch and breaks?

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  8. Politics1.com @Politics1com

    "If she gets to pick [SCOTUS] judges, nothing you can do folks ...though [with] the second amendment, folks, maybe there is" - Donald Trump

    2:14 PM - 9 Aug 2016

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  9. Mike Morell:

    Can't get his story straight on whether we should engage Assad and Putin

    He won't disclose his direct ties to the Clinton campaign through Beacon Global Security when endorsing Hillary

    He ignores Clinton's own Russia scandals while claiming Trump is Putin's "unwitting agent"

    He lies about past failures of vetting refugees who turned to terrorism

    He attacks Trump for being used by ISIS for propaganda purposes when his own comments have been used by ISIS for recruiting

    And he has played an active role in covering up Hillary's Benghazi debacle

    It's time to question not only whether the attention paid to Morell by the D.C. court media is warranted, but whether Mike Morell - who spent 33 years in the business of lying and deception - is trustworthy at all.

    https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/08/09/clinton-defender-former-cia-deputy-director-mike-morell-cant-get-his-story-straight-on-syrias-assad-and-putin/?singlepage=true

    Trump is so dangerous, he might give Russia control of 1/5th of our uranium supply.

    And don't forget that Putin has all of Hillary's emails and isn't above blackmail. And the Chinese too.

    BTW, how's Libya working out these days?

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  10. Sharyl Attkisson ✔ @SharylAttkisson
    ...nothing against Morell, he's an expert in many areas, but his employment at pro-Hillary PR firm is required disclosure (in my opinion).
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    All these assholes a for a continuation of our faultless foreign policy of the past 5 decades.

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  11. Mat Johnson ✔ @mat_johnson

    August is usually when the candidates pivot to political assassination.

    2:36 PM - 9 Aug 2016

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  12. Rio Olympics: French fencer's phone falls out of his back pocket during a match

    http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-oly-rio-2016-rio-olympics-french-fencer-appears-to-1470771883-htmlstory.html

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  13. Mark Murray ✔ @mmurraypolitics

    New NBC/WSJ/Marist polls:

    IA: Clinton 41, Trump 37 (+4)

    OH: Clinton 43, Trump 38 (+5)

    PA: Clinton 48, Trump 37 (+11)

    Aug 3-7

    4:00 PM - 9 Aug 2016

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  14. QuirkTue Aug 09, 12:42:00 PM EDT
    May you visit an Israeli settlement or the Israeli section of Hebron carrying a Palestinian flag.

    Quirk, there are members of the Knesset that carry the PA Flag, bash Israel and advocate the dismantlement of same, they also have been known to try to storm checkpoints manned by the IDF.

    sadly you never have been to Israel.

    Now of course Bob and I advocated you walk around "gaza", not a specific violent clash flashpoint.

    But there again?

    Walking ANYWHERE in ISIS controlled lands of Gaza, ops, I mean Hamas, is a fatal choice.

    Walking around Israel? As a Palestinian? Goes unnoticed unless they are screaming Allah uakbar or waving a knife.

    Quirk, you really should go to Israel and see the Jewish Homeland, if could even melt your black heart...

    However I do not advocate going to the arab controlled areas (controlled by Hamas/ISIS) as they would be happy to bury you up to your neck and stone you...

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  15. FOR SMIRK'n'QUIRK

    Our house historians and experts on Islam.....

    (this doesn't even mention India, and the east)

    On Islamic Violence: Forget the Koran, Look to History

    What Islam really teaches is ultimately academic: facts are facts.

    August 9, 2016

    Raymond Ibrahim

    Originally published by PJ Media.

    Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

    The debate around Muslim violence all too often centers around doctrine—around what the Koran and Hadith (words and deeds of Muhammad) really mean and say. Forgotten in this debate is that Islamic scriptures are unnecessary in determining whether Islam teaches violence and war against non-Muslims.

    History suffices.

    Consider some facts, attested to by both Muslim and non-Muslim primary historic sources: A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the 7th century, the jihad burst out of Arabia. In just a few decades, Muslims had permanently conquered what was then two-thirds of the Christian world. The heart of the Muslim world today—nations like Egypt, Syria, all of North Africa, Turkey and more—were, in the 7th century, the heart of Christendom.

    Thereafter it was a continuous war on Christian Europe. Among other nations and territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim domination throughout the centuries are (to give them their modern names and in no particular order): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta, Sardinia, Moldova, Slovakia, and Montenegro.

    Less than three decades after the traditional date of Islam’s founding (622), three of the five original Christian centers (“sees”) founded by the apostles—in Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem—were forever swallowed up by Islam; the fourth, Constantinople, valiantly resisted the Islamic onslaught for centuries, but was finally conquered in the name of Islam in 1453. Though sacked and burned by Muslims as early as 846, only distant Rome—the Vatican, fifth of the ancient Christian sees—remained unconquered.

    The few European regions that escaped direct Islamic occupation due to their northwest remoteness include Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Germany. That, of course, does not mean that they were not attacked by Islam. Indeed, in the furthest northwest of Europe, in Iceland, Christians used to pray that God save them from the “terror of the Turk.” This was not mere paranoia; as late as 1627, Muslim corsairs raided the northern Christian island seizing four hundred captives and selling them in the slave markets of Algiers.

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  16. .....Nor did America escape. A few years after the formation of the United States, in 1800, American trading ships in the Mediterranean were plundered and their sailors enslaved by Muslim corsairs. The ambassador of Tripoli explained to Thomas Jefferson that it was a Muslim’s right and duty to make war upon non-Muslims wherever they could be found, and to enslave as many as they could take as prisoners.

    There was no mystery about Islam in those days. As early as the 8th century, Byzantine chronicler Theophanes wrote in his Chronographia:

    He [Muhammad] taught those who gave ear to him that the one slaying the enemy — or being slain by the enemy — entered into paradise [e.g., Koran 9:111]. And he said paradise was carnal and sensual — orgies of eating, drinking, and women. Also, there was a river of wine … and the woman were of another sort, and the duration of sex greatly prolonged and its pleasure long-enduring [e.g., 56: 7-40, 78:31, 55:70-77]. And all sorts of other nonsense.

    Six hundred years later, in the 14th century, Byzantine emperor Paleologus II told a Muslim scholar: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman — such as the command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

    Such was the honesty of interfaith dialoguing in former times.

    It deserves repeating, by the standards of historiography, the aforementioned historical outline is unassailable, and attested to by both Muslim and European sources, from the traditional beginning of Islam till the modern era.

    In short, regardless of what the Koran and other Islamic scriptures really “mean,” for roughly one millennium—punctuated by a Crusader-rebuttal that the modern West is obsessed with demonizing—Muslims waged unrelenting war on the West. And they did and continue doing so in the name of Islam.

    And therein lies the rub: Today, whether as taught in high school or graduate school, whether as portrayed by Hollywood or the news media, the predominant historic narrative is that Muslims are the historic “victims” of “intolerant” Western Christians. (Watch my response to a Fox News host wondering why Christians have always persecuted Muslims.)

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  17. ....So here we are, paying the price of being an ahistorical society: A few years after the Islamic strikes of 9/11—merely the latest in the centuries-long, continents-wide jihad on the West—Americans elected (twice) a man with a Muslim name and heritage for president; a man who openly empowers the same Islamic ideology that Western warriors fought for centuries.

    Surely the United States’ European forebears—who at one time or another either fought off or were conquered by Islam—must be turning in their graves.

    But all this is history, you say? Why rehash it? Why not let it be and move on, begin a new chapter of mutual tolerance and respect, even if history must be “touched up” a bit?

    This would be a somewhat plausible position if not for the fact that, all around the globe, Muslims are still exhibiting the same imperial impulse and intolerant supremacism that their conquering forbears did. The only difference is that the Muslim world is currently incapable of defeating the West through a conventional war.

    Yet this may not even be necessary. Thanks to the West’s ignorance of history, Muslims are allowed to flood Europe, so that hardly a day now passes without headlines of Muslim on non-Muslim violence. Most recently—or at least as of this writing—Muslims invaded a church in France, forced the priest on his knees, and slit his throat.

    All this leads to another, equally important point: If the true history of the West and Islam is being turned upside down, what other historical “truths” being peddled around today are equally false? The narrative concerning Islam’s alleged peacefulness is only being questioned because the world sees Muslims committing violence on a daily basis. But surely there are other nefarious and seditious forces that are intelligent enough not to expose themselves?

    In the future (whatever one there may be) the histories written about our times will likely stress how our era, ironically called the “information age,” was not an age when people were so well informed, but rather an age when disinformation was so widespread and unquestioned that generations of people lived in bubbles of alternate realities—till they were finally popped.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263785/islamic-violence-forget-koran-look-history-raymond-ibrahim

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  18. By the way, Smirk, Germany became a nation later than we...it had been a land of Principalities, and would that it had remained so. Not all the Princes were nice folks, but they hadn't the means to make much trouble.

    Once they became what we call a nation, the trouble immediately began.

    Shirer touches on this but not deeply.

    Nations are a mixed blessing. A rule of thumb might be....the smaller the better.

    I would love to secede from everything east of the Mississippi, and most of that south of the California line.

    And let you and yours stew in your own juices. You and yours have created horrid cities, and trashed most of your countryside.

    You should like the offer.....we out this way would have zero interest or influence in your affairs, but it must be mutual....

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