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Title: Heavily-Armed Swamp Critters - Did Trump Ever Stand A Chance? (Trump Goes Full Empire)
Source:
ZeroHedge
URL Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017- ... rs-did-trump-ever-stand-chance
Published: Apr 14, 2017
Author: Bill Bonner
Post Date: 2017-04-18 09:02:03 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1231
Comments: 10
By our calculation, it took just 76 days for President Trump to get on board with the Clinton-Bush-Obama agenda. Now there can be no doubt where he’s headed. He’s gone Full Empire. Not that it was unexpected. But the speed with which the president abandoned his supporters and went over to the Deep State is breathtaking. Among the noise and hubbub of the election campaign, there was one message coming from the Trump team that was music to our ears. Middle East wars? He was against them, he said. He claimed to have opposed the 2003 attack on Iraq. He said it was one of the “worst mistakes” the country ever made. As for further involvement, why waste American lives and American wealth on wars you can’t win? “America First,” he said. This was a refreshing position. It put the Republican neocons and Establishment Republicans against him; many went over to Hillary rather than risk giving up their think tank grants and consulting fees. A 2013 poll showed 52% of Americans thought the U.S. should “mind its own business internationally.” But the elite gained power and money from foreign wars; they weren’t going to give them up. Non-entitlement spending in the swamp goes largely to cronies in the military-security industry. But Donald Trump promised a “new foreign policy.” No more trying to be the world’s policeman. No more fighting other people’s battles… and making things worse. No more wasting American money and American lives on foolish, unwinnable wars. Ending America’s pointless and unsettling romp in the desert would be a good first move. The bill for these misadventures is now said to be $7 trillion. As to Syria, Trump was typically direct. Don’t attack the country, he warned Barack Obama in a 2013 tweet, or “MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN…” But then, last week… the last great hope for the Trump administration blew up in Syria. Now the neocons are delighted. And the cronies. And the zombies, too. Here’s the outlook: no real change to O’care. No cutbacks in entitlements. No attempt to balance the budget. No belt-tightening at the pudgy Pentagon. (Instead, it will get more money.) And now this: The wars in the Middle East will not only go on… they will accelerate. For now, the U.S. is not only fighting terrorists. It is also fighting the people who are fighting the terrorists. It’s a perfect Deep State war: It is guaranteed neither to win nor to lose, but simply to go on indefinitely. This gives the insiders more and more of the nation’s wealth to piddle away in absurd wars in preposterous places. Meanwhile, Congress adjourned. When it returns in two weeks, it will confront another crisis of its own making. Bloomberg reports: Government funding expires on April 28, which will give Congress five days to unveil, debate, and pass an enormous spending bill… or trigger a government shutdown. “What a mess,” said Paul Brace, a congressional expert at Rice University in Houston, offering his own pessimistic view of the unified Republican control of the House and Senate so far under President Donald Trump. “It was so much easier when all you had to do was oppose Obama.” […] House Republicans “have differences of opinion. And they aren’t just political differences. They are policy differences,” said Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio. It will be tough for Congress to come to terms with its budget. The debate will open old wounds and gouge new ones. Already, the federal budget deficit is expected to average $1 trillion a year over the next 10 years. Mr. Trump will want to spend more. We need to spend more on infrastructure, on the military… and to revive the economy… he’ll argue. Many House Republicans, especially the idealists in the Freedom Caucus, will find it difficult to go along. Some will notice, cynically, that the whole program – including the attack on Syria – is little different from what Hillary had offered. Consumer prices are already rising, others will note. Besides, who wants to go back to his home district after having signed on to $30 trillion of U.S. debt? Others, the activists, will want to back Trump. The Obama years have been disastrous, they will say. The typical household is little better off than it was at the bottom of the last recession. Half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. And there are 66 million working-age adults without jobs, they’ll report. The feds must do something! Increase spending to stimulate the economy (and not coincidentally steer a few bucks to major campaign contributors and other important hacks). The more financially alert among members of Congress will recognize that eight years of stimulus has done little to help the real economy. These realists will see a runaway locomotive headed to a dangerous curve. They’ll want to know how the feds will finance huge new deficits just as the Fed tightens interest rates. But the shrewdest among them will call their brokers. The highest stock prices since the dot-com crash are based on the belief that, somehow, Team Trump will push through a corporate tax cut, leaving businesses with more after-tax money. “That’s not going to happen,” they will say to themselves. They will want to get out of the stock market before other investors catch on. * * * The "Deep State" is more dangerous than ever. It already controls just about every aspect of American life... from health care to education, from the food on our tables to the never-ending war on terror. In his latest warning, Doug Casey’s longtime friend and colleague Bill Bonner exposes how the cronies behind the Deep State have pushed the world to the brink of an irreversible disaster. Click here to learn how that disaster will unfold... and how it could change your life forever. Worst Mistake
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
You are so depressing with your posts, mostly because they so mirror my own thoughts.
bulllcrap, another day and the DNC continues with it's trolling with deckard and his buttbuddy hondo68
Here you go, jeremiad, calcon sees through what Deckard and Hondope are trying to do….act as unlicensed agents for the Democratic Party with the sole purpose to depress the good descent folks on LF and turn them against Trump. Ole calcon continually calls their dumb asses out for trying to do that. You da man, calcon….you da man.
#9. To: Gatlin, LF Muslim Brotherhood, calcon, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#7)
Mission Accomplished! You deserve to be depressed for supporting the Trump/McCain/Hillary D&R party Muslim Brotherhood.... = TRIPOLI - McCain & Libyan Keib , Fashion conscious --> (Matching ISIS uniforms - pants, shirt, jackets, Islamic Flag, etc...) Woman’s version of the ISIS uniform that McCain, Gatlin, calcon, Hillary, and Trump so dearly love. "Democratic Rebels/Freedom Fighters" to you guys, terrorist scum to the vast majority of Americans.
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#3. To: jeremiad, deckard (#1)
#7. To: calcon. jeremiad, deckard (#3)
bulllcrap, another day and the DNC continues with it's trolling with deckard and his buttbuddy hondo68
Replies to Comment # 7. the sole purpose to depress the good descent folks on LF
Shame on you both! 
pair up for the elections, which turned bloody #LyElect 
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