Except that Trump was not the leader, and Trump is not going to be the leader.
The leader has been and will continue to be people like Paul singer who: speak out against Trump; fund opposition research against Trump;, call him names and then.....
....politely get invited to dine with president trump at the White House.
Except that Trump was not the leader, and Trump is not going to be the leader.
The leader has been and will continue to be people like Paul singer who: speak out against Trump; fund opposition research against Trump;, call him names and then.....
....politely get invited to dine with president trump at the White House.
No not everybody has to pay fealty to this man. Singer, Mercer, and the Murdochs don't run in any elections. Remember that in 2015 trumps strategy was to run to the left of Hillary on several positions like the outsourcing of jobs and powerful magnates said we don't like this guy.
So for the financial rulers it's not a question of Trump or not Trump - it's a question of whether Trump is going to do their bidding and stick to their imperialist, financialized approach to economics and taxation .... if he does, then he's fine with them. But if Trump got the idea that he could raise taxes on rich, watch how fast that support would evaporate.
If we judge anything by the last half century, then it becomes very obvious that nobody in power really cares what voters think, or whether they like trump or not.
For example, powerful people like Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh don't really seem to care what Trump thinks and maybe even care more about what the public thinks even though their positions are not popular.
We have to understand that media loves Trump; trump sells copy; media has a story that people will look at if it has the word "Trump" on it - like this one.
A case can be made for another "leader" - the US dollar as reserve currency. If you dig a little bit into recent congressional hearings and other statements by democrats - even liberal Democrats - you'll see that the Democrats support this leader as much as the GOP does. It was people like truman, Acheson, rusk, McCloy, McNamara who originally created this "leader" after ww2. A leader that is a close relative of the us foreign policy position - the entire world shall be open to direct foreign investment by us companies. We will destroy, undermine, go to war with any country that objects. This is NOT partisan and it never was, ever since truman jumped on the (vehement) anti-communism wagon. So today you will see the threat of war and the predictions of war with China increase in enormous, direct relationship to China's limitation of foreign direct investment and you'll see people like the Secretary of State Blinkenntalk about how things with China will be fine as long as they allow more foreign direct investment.
Actually, the well from which money was dumped into the election, then and now, was from wealthy plutocrats. Trump is famous for saying anything that will get him votes.
And the plutocrats know this, they have their own oppo research, and the money to hire investigators, and lobbyists.
AS regards Paul Singer, he has only one agenda, no taxes on the wealthy, let the middle class support him and his business. He is a vulture capitalist and here is what he has to say:
Singer is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a non-governmental, nonpartisan research organization.[104] He is chairman of the board of trustees for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank in New York City,[105] and on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a political lobbying group in the United States that promotes Jewish Republicans.[68] He also served on the board of directors for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.[106]
In 2016 Singer invested $500,000 in a PAC supporting John Faso, a Congressional candidate in New York's 19th congressional district opposing progressive candidate and Wall Street critic Zephyr Teachout. Teachout responded to the donation by challenging Singer to come to the district and debate her.[107] The same year, Singer supported Senator Marco Rubio in the presidential primary.[108]
As of September 2019, Singer had not donated to Trump's reelection campaign.[109]
According to ProPublica, Singer was linked to an Alaskan fishing trip with Justice Samuel Alito in 2008. Singer gave Alito free private jet travel from all across the country to Alaska, where a group including Alito and Singer went fishing. A few years later Alito voted with six other colleagues in Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd. brought by Singer's companies after Argentinian debt was bought up. Alito never recused himself. The Federal Record of that case should have had Paul Singer as a Related Party, triggering a recusal analysis and decision.[110]
Like the Doctor you seem to have an affection for Putin and Communists.
I am 84 and not one who equates socialism with communism, America has been striving to be great as it has been a mixed economy, with socialism regulating and restraining the excesses of socialism. Socialism is NOT the ownership of the means of production.
Lenin referred to the USSR as State Capitalism, in reality it was corporate state (councils) that were organized along resource lines, like people (KGB), forestry, mining, industry, agriculture, construction each had their own bank, and a central bank, to coordinate and handle payments via the other banks.
The preferred method of handling debts, between trusts, was by barter, failing that then gold. the GOSBank was the "central" bank, it controlled the movement of gold.
The USSR was on a 100% gold standard with one ruble valued at .981 grans fine gold, and only enough rubles were printed to equal the amount of gold held by the banks.
Smuggling rubles out of the USSR was a crime, even a felony offense, because the holder of a ruble outside of the USSR, could present a ruble to the NordBank in Paris (the USSR's banking window to the world) and demand gold.
The USSR was very libertarian in that regard (only gold is money, paper just represents gold, which is redeemable on demand.
It was also libertarian when it comes to working and living, Art 12, of the 1936 Soviet Constitution states in essence, If you don't work, you don't eat. The unofficial motto of the GOP and Libertarians. Stalin also criminalized abortions.
Marx was a proto libertarian, he opposed slavery in the south, because it cost too much to produce, forcing his partner, Frederick Engels who inherited a textile mill, to buy the less expensive and cheaper quality, Egyptian cotton.
He wrote letters to southern newspapers, imploring them to free the slaves and hire them back at market wages, as that would enable them to produce cheaper cotton. Planters had to feed, clothe, house, entertain and pay preachers to brain wash their slaves.
Surprise, the old line Marxists and C ommunists are little more than Libertarians.
Oh Marx was also against import tariffs. He was a vociferous advocate for abolishing the "Corn Laws" corn in England and the continent is what Americans call grain. However maize is a form of grain, and thus it wound up in the vernacular as corn.
Except that Trump was not the leader, and Trump is not going to be the leader.
The leader has been and will continue to be people like Paul singer who: speak out against Trump; fund opposition research against Trump;, call him names and then.....
....politely get invited to dine with president trump at the White House.
No not everybody has to pay fealty to this man. Singer, Mercer, and the Murdochs don't run in any elections. Remember that in 2015 trumps strategy was to run to the left of Hillary on several positions like the outsourcing of jobs and powerful magnates said we don't like this guy.
So for the financial rulers it's not a question of Trump or not Trump - it's a question of whether Trump is going to do their bidding and stick to their imperialist, financialized approach to economics and taxation .... if he does, then he's fine with them. But if Trump got the idea that he could raise taxes on rich, watch how fast that support would evaporate.
If we judge anything by the last half century, then it becomes very obvious that nobody in power really cares what voters think, or whether they like trump or not.
For example, powerful people like Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh don't really seem to care what Trump thinks and maybe even care more about what the public thinks even though their positions are not popular.
We have to understand that media loves Trump; trump sells copy; media has a story that people will look at if it has the word "Trump" on it - like this one.
The point is driven home is some excellent historical works (Marty jezer's for example) and by much discussion by Chomsky over the years.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-investment-climate-statements/china/
A case can be made for another "leader" - the US dollar as reserve currency. If you dig a little bit into recent congressional hearings and other statements by democrats - even liberal Democrats - you'll see that the Democrats support this leader as much as the GOP does. It was people like truman, Acheson, rusk, McCloy, McNamara who originally created this "leader" after ww2. A leader that is a close relative of the us foreign policy position - the entire world shall be open to direct foreign investment by us companies. We will destroy, undermine, go to war with any country that objects. This is NOT partisan and it never was, ever since truman jumped on the (vehement) anti-communism wagon. So today you will see the threat of war and the predictions of war with China increase in enormous, direct relationship to China's limitation of foreign direct investment and you'll see people like the Secretary of State Blinkenntalk about how things with China will be fine as long as they allow more foreign direct investment.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/cyberlaw_winter10/What_Happens_If_The_U.S._Dollar_Is_No_Longer_The_World%27s_Reserve_Currency
Actually, the well from which money was dumped into the election, then and now, was from wealthy plutocrats. Trump is famous for saying anything that will get him votes.
And the plutocrats know this, they have their own oppo research, and the money to hire investigators, and lobbyists.
AS regards Paul Singer, he has only one agenda, no taxes on the wealthy, let the middle class support him and his business. He is a vulture capitalist and here is what he has to say:
Singer is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a non-governmental, nonpartisan research organization.[104] He is chairman of the board of trustees for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank in New York City,[105] and on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a political lobbying group in the United States that promotes Jewish Republicans.[68] He also served on the board of directors for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.[106]
In 2016 Singer invested $500,000 in a PAC supporting John Faso, a Congressional candidate in New York's 19th congressional district opposing progressive candidate and Wall Street critic Zephyr Teachout. Teachout responded to the donation by challenging Singer to come to the district and debate her.[107] The same year, Singer supported Senator Marco Rubio in the presidential primary.[108]
As of September 2019, Singer had not donated to Trump's reelection campaign.[109]
According to ProPublica, Singer was linked to an Alaskan fishing trip with Justice Samuel Alito in 2008. Singer gave Alito free private jet travel from all across the country to Alaska, where a group including Alito and Singer went fishing. A few years later Alito voted with six other colleagues in Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd. brought by Singer's companies after Argentinian debt was bought up. Alito never recused himself. The Federal Record of that case should have had Paul Singer as a Related Party, triggering a recusal analysis and decision.[110]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_(businessman)
Are you a Republican troll, a Putin troll, or just an unremediated Tankie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Like the Doctor you seem to have an affection for Putin and Communists.
I am 84 and not one who equates socialism with communism, America has been striving to be great as it has been a mixed economy, with socialism regulating and restraining the excesses of socialism. Socialism is NOT the ownership of the means of production.
Lenin referred to the USSR as State Capitalism, in reality it was corporate state (councils) that were organized along resource lines, like people (KGB), forestry, mining, industry, agriculture, construction each had their own bank, and a central bank, to coordinate and handle payments via the other banks.
The preferred method of handling debts, between trusts, was by barter, failing that then gold. the GOSBank was the "central" bank, it controlled the movement of gold.
The USSR was on a 100% gold standard with one ruble valued at .981 grans fine gold, and only enough rubles were printed to equal the amount of gold held by the banks.
Smuggling rubles out of the USSR was a crime, even a felony offense, because the holder of a ruble outside of the USSR, could present a ruble to the NordBank in Paris (the USSR's banking window to the world) and demand gold.
The USSR was very libertarian in that regard (only gold is money, paper just represents gold, which is redeemable on demand.
It was also libertarian when it comes to working and living, Art 12, of the 1936 Soviet Constitution states in essence, If you don't work, you don't eat. The unofficial motto of the GOP and Libertarians. Stalin also criminalized abortions.
Marx was a proto libertarian, he opposed slavery in the south, because it cost too much to produce, forcing his partner, Frederick Engels who inherited a textile mill, to buy the less expensive and cheaper quality, Egyptian cotton.
He wrote letters to southern newspapers, imploring them to free the slaves and hire them back at market wages, as that would enable them to produce cheaper cotton. Planters had to feed, clothe, house, entertain and pay preachers to brain wash their slaves.
Surprise, the old line Marxists and C ommunists are little more than Libertarians.
Oh Marx was also against import tariffs. He was a vociferous advocate for abolishing the "Corn Laws" corn in England and the continent is what Americans call grain. However maize is a form of grain, and thus it wound up in the vernacular as corn.
It should be Pop Maize not Popcorn.