How Democracy Is Losing the World | Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website

How Democracy Is Losing the World | Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
— Read on buchanan.org/blog/how-democracy-is-losing-the-world-130768

I am not a huge fan of everything Trump, but our choice was a proven corrupt politician in Hillary, or a political outsider and successful businessman in Trump.

The Trump support was driven underground, and without warning, he pulled off a huge upset. The deep state, establishment politicians from both parties, the media, leftists, globalists,and dictators all hate him with a passion. That fact in and of itself should give anyone with critical thinking skills pause.

The people who hate him are so filled with emotion that they are irrational, this is assuming they ever were.

The economy is doing well under Trump, he gets credit for that.

Where was all of this political scrutiny when an unknown half black man came out of nowhere to become President? Crickets were chirping in these above listed groups who now hate Trump. Much of the personal information on Obama is still sealed and not available to the public. What are they hiding and what were they hiding?

See the double standard here for what it is and don’t buy into this lynching of a duly elected President. The result may look much like where France is today.

The Deplatforming Wars, Part II: A New Hope – Taki’s Magazine – Taki’s Magazine

What’s needed is a test case about content removal that focuses on discrimination against an identity group (race, religion, gender).
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/the-deplatforming-wars-part-ii-a-new-hope/

Two thoughts about deplatforming. The silencing of the Trump supporters in the last election drove his supporters to other venues, making it impossible for the political pointy heads on the Hillary side to gauge the support of Trump. They underestimated Trumps support in certain states and moved resources. This gave Trump a surprise victory and left the Hillary supporters scratching their heads wondering “how could this have happened?”

The other point is deplatforming by the FANGS has opened other platforms up to new business who do not censor. They have shot themselves in the foot thinking they are the only way to network. Duck Duck Go browser and Word Press blog has given me a nice uncensored community. I don’t use anything Google and do just fine.

Let the marketplace decide the fate of these tech giants with giant egos. The yellow vests in cyberspace will prevail.

The stock market’s severe drop: Normal pullback or an ominous sign? – Los Angeles Times

The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 4.5% for the week, ending with a 559-point rout Friday that left the index in negative territory for the year. So is this the end of the decade-long bull market? Or is it the sort of normal, healthy pullback that often follows lengthy gains?
— Read on www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-stock-market-pullback-20181209-story.html

All of this partisanship by our government is causing concern

Clinton Foundation to be Investigated At Last | Armstrong Economics

All good things come to an end and this just may be the beginning of the long last decline and fall of the Clintons and their inherent corruption. The House subcommittee this week will convene a politically charged investigative hearing into the Clinton Foundation. Then President Trump is nominating former Attorney General William Barr to replace Jeff Sessions. Barr has been critical of the Russian investigation which is really pathetic but more importantly, he will pull no punches in investigating the Clintons. The Democrats will scream and yell and maintain that the Clinton family charity is a true international Messiah saving the world and promoting world peace will advocating a new cold war against Russia for spilling the truth. I find it amazing how the corruption of the mainstream media is so prominent that they push this Trump association with Russia to win the election but refuse to talk about the emails that revealed that Hillary had rigged the election and took over the Democratic Party so she would get the nomination. When you have countries that do not support women’s rights or gay rights donating money to the Clinton Foundation it was obviously for influence, not charity. The Clinton Foundation is the poster-child for political corruption and tax fraud. What we are about to witness is the start of a political war in the House before the handover to the Democrats in January. It was Donna Brazile, former chair of the Democratic Party, who wrote about how the Clintons took over the Democratic Party and used it for themselves. She wrote: “So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.” The Hill has reported the shenanigans of the Clintons and the investigation that has been underway regarding the Clinton Foundation. The submission also cites an interview its investigators conducted with Andrew Kessel that quotes the foundation’s longtime chief financial officer as saying he was unable to stop former President Clinton from “commingling” personal business and charitable activities inside the foundation and that he “knows where all the bodies are buried.” What is at stake is the core of the Democratic Party. Their reliance on the Clinton Foundation has been unprecedented. It was more than just corruption and tax fraud, the Clintons are the ones, not the Russians, who sought to manipulate the entire country for personal gain. Brazile further wrote: “I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie.” If we look back on April 23, 2015, just two weeks after Hillary Clinton officially declared her presidential campaign, her staff sent out a message on the strategy to manipulate the Republicans into selecting the worse candidate. They included this attachment a “memo for the DNC discussion.” The memo was addressed to the Democratic National Committee and stated bluntly, “the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field.” Here we find that the real conspiracy was Clinton manipulating the Republicans. “Clearly most of what is contained in this memo is work the DNC is already doing. This exercise is intended to put those ideas to paper.” “Our hope is that the goal of a potential HRC campaign and the DNC would be one-in-the-same: to make whomever the Republicans nominate unpalatable to a majority of the electorate.” The Clinton strategy was all about manipulating the Republicans to nominate the worst candidate Clinton called for forcing “all Republican candidates to lock themselves into extreme conservative positions that will hurt them in a general election.” The nonsense published by Newsweek and then withdrawn when they realized that rigging the election FAILED and there would be no Madam President, painted a wonderful woman who rose to the top and was the pillar of society beyond question. It was revealed that the entire dossier on Trump and Russians was funded by Hillary. Previously both John Podesta and former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz denied any knowledge of funding for this dossier. Any surprise at that? It was that dossier that began the entire Russian conspiracy and investigation appointing Mueller. Hillary had presented herself as a role model to little girls as a leader of the feminist movement in all but official name. Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri, in the hacked emails revealed that Palmieri and other Clinton allies’ hold very low opinions of Catholics. Hillary’s staff said Catholics are “severely backwards” and further demeaned them saying they don’t know “what the hell they’re talking about.” Jerry Oppenheimer reported in his book State of the Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton (2000), that the night Bill unexpectedly lost his 1974 Arkansas congressional seat bid, Hillary shrieked at his campaign manager, “you fucking Jew bastard.” Hillary was so shattered by the loss of her life’s dream to be the first woman president rather than what she could actually do for the country. Hillary refused to appear before her supporters. That was the most devastating thing any candidate had ever done in history. She took the loos so personal, it was just about her and nobody else. In the book Shattered, insiders reported that even President Obama called her and said: “You need to concede” We may now be standing on the threshold of justice. As the Hill reported, the question of whether the Clinton Foundation suffers from corruption and illegalities may be answered: “in 6,000 pages of evidence attached to a whistleblower submission filed secretly more than a year ago with the IRS and FBI.”
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/clinton-foundation-to-be-investigated-at-last/

Long overdue.