More Media Confusion Over Trump and General Insincerity

Yahoo - AP - GOP candidates to attend pope events despite differences. What a bunch of hypocritical pandering weasels. The Republican candidates that want pictures of them with the pope, especially the ones that claim to be Catholic; but still disagree with all he stands for are just scum. I am not a Catholic, left that church 40 years ago; but, some of those candidates claim to be Catholic and then claim that the pope shouldn't talk about policy. That is his job. Now they want to get their picture taken with him. I am disgusted.

Bloombergview - Turns Out the Housing Crisis Wasn't All About Subprime. I will get to Trump, the first two links have more to do with just the insincerity and lies of the media. It is the media's inability to see the obvious or at least to mention it that disgusts me. This article begins by saying that more mortgages failed than just the subprime loans. No news there. It then claims that the problem was that banks underestimated the risk and allowed to many loans, that is a lie. The banks knew the risk which is why they sold their loans to others. This article completely ignores the reality of how the crash went down.

Now to Trump and the continuing attacks on him. Yahoo - Donald Trump earns 25 times as much as the overpaid CEOs he bashes. This is an interesting article, Donald Trump has said that CEOs are being paid to much. The article states that Trump makes even more. Okay. Trump OWNS his company, it is not publicly traded. CEOs are employees of companies who may or may not have stock in the companies. There is a big difference. Trump makes money from his television show and not just his company, he is involved in many businesses. Owners of companies (stockholders) should make more than the employees, that is capitalism. Why does a conservative complain that Trump makes more than CEOs, because they don't care about ownership only what you can steal. The article does admit that some hedge fund managers make more than Trump but fails to mention that Trump risks his own money to make money and hedge fund managers risk your money to make money, there is again a big difference between Trump and hedge fund managers.

Yahoo - Business Insider - Donald Trump rages at the media during 'massive' Dallas rally. The media and his opponents regularly say they don't understand why people support Trump and that is just a fad; but, in reality, they know better. Read the article and you will see that the author mentions focus groups who have been asked about Trump and how his supporters don't trust the media or the establishment. I particularly like this line: “The media and the establishment are deathly afraid of Trump,” a focus group member said. “That’s why I particularly love him. Because the media has become de-facto the power behind the throne in this country.” The truth always comes out in the side words of the articles. The media knows we no longer trust the news and that is why we don't care if the media bashes Trump. The media is as scared of Trump as his opponents because he is showing that the Emperor has no clothes.

As you watch the election remember the words of Mahatma Gandhi, first they ridicule you, then the attack you and then they claim they always agreed with you. Trump has made it past the ridicule stage and now the question is whether or not he can make it past the stage where everyone attacks him, after failing at that things are going to get real interesting. My staunchest conservative friends believe their own party will find a way to take him out violently and they support Trump, that means they don't even trust their party.

 Newsmax - Pollster Zogby: Trump Campaign About to Fizzle.  An article with no facts to back it up and little chance of being right, what does it matter when the media only says what they want to happen with no care for reason.

The Real Reason the Media Hates Trump

It is a fact that 90% of all the media in the United States is owned by 6 companies. It does not matter if you believe the left or right owns the media, you would just be wrong. The establishment owns the media. Overwhelmingly the media is there to support the status quo and avoid any changes in the fundamental regulations except to reduce them.

I enjoyed The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he poked fun at the hypocrisy of the left and right; but, he offered few if any policies because in the end he was a satirist as he always admitted. The same is true for Stephen Colbert. In the end both of them were still part of the problem, they were free to complain; but, unable to present alternatives. The same is true for the candidates for president this year, they offer no real workable solutions to anything. If they had promoted limiting wealth or tripling welfare payments or eliminating all tax deductions they would have been taken off the air. If you doubt me, show me one person on television who has promoted those things. It doesn't matter if you agree with those policies or not, don't you find it odd that nobody in the media promotes those things in the media.

Consider my blog, I never cuss on the blog, I show no nudity or offensive pictures, I violate no libel or slander laws, I have openly said that I am a pacifist and want out of Iraq and Afghanistan and I believe that we need to change the rules of the game so that the middle class in America can rise again and I am a Nationalist who still believes in helping people in other nations too. I would never be allowed in the mass media because you are not allowed in the mass media unless you are owned by one of those 6 companies. The media seeks to limit political discussions to a very narrow range of options, to keep the status quo and Trump messes that up for them because they don't control him.

A populist is someone who draws their support, not from the establishment; but, from the majority, the people. The media detests populists anymore because the media is part of the establishment. What scares the media about Trump is that he may make suggestions that are not in keeping with the narrow band of things acceptable to the establishment and if he does, they will have to report it. It is not what he has said that scares them, it is what he might say.

Here is a thought. What if Trump promoted a truly merit based college system, how would the media respond? What if Trump said that college had to be free and only merit based, would he get attacked by the media? Now, if you believe in us only paying for people based on merit, would you support it? I believe most people would be against it because they want to believe they can buy there way into success. In reality, college is soon to be only for the wealthy and that rare genius that the wealthy need to support their system.

Now, here is a really interesting thought that is scary to the establishment. If a major economic crash occurs before the presidential elections, what will the government do? Will they bail out the banks with taxpayer money again? Would the nation put up with that? What if they implemented the laws that they have put in effect that allow the banks to pay their debts with your savings as was done in Greece if there is a crash, will the nation tolerate that? If this crash happens before the elections and either of those two things is done, nobody other than Trump or Sanders will be electable to president because all the others supported those changes and are part of the establishment that bailed out the banks last time. If Trump or Sanders does not win and the crash occurs after the elections of some establishment candidate (Bush or Clinton or the other lackeys) then next election, the left and right will get more extreme, that is history and if you don't learn from history you will repeat it.

Republican Tax Plans To Help The Wealthy

Yahoo - AP - GOP tax proposals tilt to rich despite populist rhetoric.

The Republicans, except Trump, are almost universal in calling for increased tax deductions and lower tax rates for the wealthy. I am amazed at the party anymore. "Conservatives" praise Steve Jobs and attack Bill Gates because Gates wants to pay more in taxes, while Jobs outsources all manufacturing to China.

If you don't like the idea that I support of a flat tax with no deductions then what if we at least gave no deductions to companies that sent jobs overseas ? If you don't like that then what if we cut all available deductions by the percentage of payroll and jobs that a company had in the United States as compared to the rest of the world? Not the Republican way?

Senator Rubio wants to eliminate ALL taxes on investment income. I guess you shouldn't have to pay taxes if you gamble on the stock market and win, only if you work for a living. This is another attack on people who actually have jobs and work for a living. The Republican answer is consistently that if we stop taxing the rich they will create jobs in the United States. What if they created the jobs first rather than outsourcing them and then promising to care about the United States if they didn't pay any taxes and only the workers did. I find it anti-American to give tax breaks to companies that send jobs overseas.

What about foreign companies that create jobs in America. I would give them a tax break based on the number or percentage of jobs of their company that they put in America, that promotes foreign investment. Is that not a conservative belief? The problem is not with the tax rates, it is with the deductions.

The Real Failure of People Attacking Trump

I was reading this article in the Financial Times about how people running for the Republican presidential nomination needed to bow out so that a real contender could stop Trump and protect the Republican party. I guess the Financial Times only represents the Republicans according to their words. That is disgusting.

I also have read an article from CBS news which talks about how Trump said that talking garbage about him has not helped any candidate. Donald Trump warns opponents: It's "unlucky to attack me".
He is right, it is not appreciated when politicians or the system attack Trump and for good reason, they are insincere and we all know it. That is the part they don't get, it is not about Trump, he merely exposes their insincerity.

Presidential candidate Scott Walker has blasted Trump and then turned around and said we should consider building a wall between the United States and Canada. Huh? Why did it take the media and others so long to call him on that, they took on Trump immediately for saying we should do so with Mexico and then his opponents agreed with him, at least about the wall.

Here is what the Republicans don't get. Working people want answers that will help them. It is really that simple. The only answers the other Republicans have to helping America is outlawing gay marriage, decreasing taxes on the wealthy, decreasing welfare, social security and eliminating universal healthcare. Am I missing something? I don't think so, oh yeah and making abortion illegal again, like it worked before (and I am morally opposed to abortion). The Democrats are no better, they also only repeat promises that they didn't keep or that didn't work except for Sanders.

The message of every Republican candidate other than Trump is to turn back the clock. Increasing deregulation, increasing privatization and eliminating benefits for half of all Americans is their message while at the same time undoing everything that has occurred since the depression. The Republicans have threatened to shut down the government again, do we all benefit from that? Here is where Trump is different, he says the Iran deal is a bad deal; but, that he will make it work. He doesn't deny the present realities, he says, how can we work with it while the others try and turn back the clock.

My friends are just about all incredibly Republican and detest socialism. I am the outlier; but, like Trump, they know I mean exactly what I say and they also know I am liberal, not a Democrat, liberal. What we have in common is that we all care about Americans and America and we know the parties no longer represent our interests. I used to tell the people I mentored that when they were negotiating with someone the number one thing they should consider is what interests their opponent represented. It didn't matter if your opponent loved you, hated you, was rude, lied or whatever, in the end they would always do what took care of their interests. Look at politicians the same way, if they are funded by the financial institutions then they will make policies to protect those institutions even when they hurt the nation. That is politics. Trump benefits from real estate and that benefits when average Americans have jobs, are happy and secure and want to buy property. It is to his advantage to see America do well. There is nothing wrong with that, that you can count on in a politician, the others sold their souls to globalist interests and those are not American interests. The real failure of the other candidates is the failure to put American interests first and actually mean it.

Thoughts About The Media and Trump

The Pimpernel is neither Republican nor Democrat and neither left nor right. I personally am disgusted by the politicians of this nation and have been for quite awhile now. I am neither a pure capitalist or a communist, I am for all of America and all Americans. I don't believe in dogma over what is right. I believe that a society does best when it works together, I don't believe in everyone for themselves. I think the essence of selfishness is the essence of all sin. People that know me and have read my blog will tell you that it reads like I sound in person. The thoughts I have written about here are my true thoughts, at least when I wrote them, I have changed some of my perspectives over the years.

So, what does all of that have to do with Trump. Well, I couldn't imagine rooting for him 30 years ago. He is crass, obnoxious and not what I would want in a statesman. Yet, here we are with him being the only candidate on the right who I could consider voting for because all of the others are just actors who have sold their souls and their votes to the big money. Nothing the others say matters because it doesn't reflect what they will do.

You know why Jeb Bush promised to cut taxes for the wealthy? It wasn't to get more votes, it was because the rise of Trump has hurt his ability to get more from donors. Only days ago I read about how his money was no longer coming in. He is promising tax cuts to the wealthy so they will send him money for his campaign. Trump had previously said, he will tax the rich more. Just saying that for a Republican was an act of defiance to the system. Trump is for America first and that is what is refreshing because all of the others have proven they don't care about us.

Now we get to the press. Never before have I seen the left and right unanimous in being against a candidate. The liberal media should be focused on liberal candidates because the primaries are about to begin and their number one priority should be on their party; but, it is not, it is focused on Trump. Which Republican candidate other than Trump has the liberal media talked about in the last two months? I'll wait for the answer.

Jeb Bush Has Now Proven He Only Cares About the Rich

I was on the fence about Jeb Bush, I figured he was just another Bush; but, more boring. He has just announced his new tax plan. He wants to cut taxes to increase growth. Haven't we been doing that since Reagan and has it helped the average American? He also wants to cut the taxes on businesses by almost half and it would be half of what the rest of us pay; but, then again, many big companies are not paying any taxes now and few are paying taxes on the money they make overseas to the United States.

I should point out that while he would cut the corporate tax rate by almost half, he also want to give corporations more in deductions. He is convinced this will increase growth; but, for whom. Since the crash just about all the increases in wealth have gone to the top one percent while wages have remained constant and have not kept up with inflation. Wait, he also wants to allow companies that made money overseas to bring it back into the country without being taxed at all. Read that last sentence again, if they keep their money overseas for ten years, they get to bring it back into the US with no tax on it. He is a true man of the people, the wealthy people, not the American people. This guy cares less about average Americans than Twit Romney.

It is pretty simple. When Reagan pitched trickle down economics (the idea that giving tax breaks to companies and the wealthy would lead to more investment in industry in the United States), America thought, it is worth a try and we trust the guy telling us. It hasn't worked and I think we all know that 35 years later. Even more businesses have outsourced since being given tax breaks. Wages for American workers have not even kept up with inflation.

Yahoo - CNBC - Jeb Bush: My tax plan will push growth to 4%.

 I personally don't care about how much growth 1% of us see, I care about how much the nation benefits. Here is the question you should ask politicians, if we vote for you how will your policies increase wages and the number of middle class jobs. I like that question.

Rand and Ron Paul - Idiots

Huffington Post - Rand Paul: Income Inequality Comes From 'Some People Working Harder' Than Others.  He said that basically, the harder you work, the more you succeed. It would be great if the world worked that way. Is your job easier than it was ten or five years ago, are you working harder and are you making more? Has everyone worked less since the crash of 2007-2008, I mean the people that kept their jobs not the ones who lost their jobs. If you kept your job and are working harder are you making more. The stats say that we are working harder, productivity of the American worker has been going up for 40 years and pay has been flat, no increases as productivity has increased. Is Rand Paul unaware of this? Nope he knows, he just doesn't care.

The Pauls promote a form of libertarianism, one that believes there should be no government regulation and that it is everyone for themselves in this world. The only time we are supposed to work together is to protect ourselves from physical threats. What has Rand Paul had to say about exporting jobs to other countries?

Why couldn't Ron Paul get as much support as Donald Trump has? The more people get to know what the Pauls really believe, like no social services, the less people like them. Oddly enough, or maybe not, the more people listen to Trump, the more support he has received. Maybe we already knew he was a trash talker and pointing that out a hundred times is just stupid. I smoke, how many times do you think I have been told that smoking is bad for me? People probably know more about Trump than anyone else running for president. More people know who Trump is than any other candidate except Hillary Clinton. To most of the nation, Jeb Bush is just another Bush; but, was governor of Florida. Outside of Florida he is only known for being a Bush. As far as how he thinks, we saw him for years on television and may have even read his books. The media makes him out to be a buffoon and trouble maker who is not serious about winning. They never manage to quote anything from his books that would back up either of those things.

If the pollsters want a real question, I will offer one up. Which politician do you think will keep his promise if he makes it and you keep up your part of the bargain? Everyone other than Sanders and Trump have kept their word when they made promises. I support strengthening our border control; but, would not deport 11 million people; but, I would deport a percentage based on what they have done since moving her and based upon the amount of time they have been here. Having said that, I know that Trump honestly intends to and if elected would do everything he could to deport them, he is not just talking lies and everyone else knows it too. The truth is that when Trump said he wanted to deport the illegal aliens, nobody questioned if he meant it, not the other Republicans, not the Democrats and not the media. Instead they talked about why it was a bad thing or how he was extreme. Nobody doubted that he meant what he said. Think about it.