It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Last night’s FOX News GOP Presidential Debate Extravaganza featured the most riveting two minute political exchange ever heard on national television. During a brief colloquy between Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Fox moderator Brett Baier, the pugnacious casino magnate revealed the appalling truth about the American political system, that the big money guys like Trump own the whole crooked contraption lock, stock, and barrel, and that, the nation’s fake political leaders do whatever they’re told to do. Without question, it was most illuminating commentary to ever cross the airwaves. Here’s the entire exchange direct from the transcript:
FOX News Brett Baier (talking to Trump): Now, 15 years ago, you called yourself a liberal on health care. You were for a single-payer system, a Canadian-style system. Why were you for that then and why aren’t you for it now?
TRUMP: As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you’re talking about here.
What I’d like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I’m negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.
You know why?
Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians, of course, with the exception of the politicians on this stage. (uneasy laughter) But they have total control of the politicians. They’re making a fortune.
Get rid of the artificial lines and you will have…yourself great plans…
BAIER: Mr. Trump, it’s not just your past support for single-payer health care. You’ve also supported a host of other liberal policies….You’ve also donated to several Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton included, and Nancy Pelosi. You explained away those donations saying you did that to get business-related favors. And you said recently, quote, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
TRUMP: You’d better believe it.
BAIER: — they do?
TRUMP: If I ask them, if I need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so you understand, a lot of money.
TRUMP: I will tell you that our system is broken. I gave to many people, before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that’s a broken system.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did you get from Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi?
TRUMP: Well, I’ll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why?
She didn’t have a choice because I gave. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn’t know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world. It was.
BAIER: Hold on…..We’re going to — we’re going to move on.” (Transcript: Read the Full Text of the Primetime Republican Debate, Time)
There it is, two glorious minutes of pure, unalloyed truth on national television. How often does that happen?
How often does a fatcat billionaire-insider appear on TV and announce that the whole system is a big-fat scam run by crooks and patsies?
www.counterpunch.org...
How often does a fatcat billionaire-insider appear on TV and announce that the whole system is a big-fat scam run by crooks and patsies?
Never, that’s when. But that’s what Trump did last night. And that’s why the clatter of ruthless miscreants who run the system behind the smokescreen of fake politicians are sharpening their knives right now before Manhattan’s rogue elephant does even more damage to their precious system.
Just think about what the man said. He not only explained that the whole system is rigged (Baier: “And when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”…TRUMP: “You’d better believe it.”), he also said that the politicians will do whatever they’re told to do. (TRUMP: Well, …with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn’t have a choice because I gave.”)
Doesn’t that confirm your darkest suspicions about the way the system really works, that money talks and that elections are just a way to get the sheeple to rubber-stamp a corrupt, fraudulent system?
Of course, it does.
So, let’s summarize: Moneybags capitalist loudmouth explains to 80 million dumbfounded Americans watching prime time TV, that the system is a total fraud, that the big money runs everything, and that even he thinks the system is broken.
How do you beat that? Seriously, my wife and I were laughing and high-fiving and like we just won the lottery.
Thanks for that, Don. We owe you one.
originally posted by: swanne
a reply to: Willtell
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
But nothing can ever change the fact that a one-eyed man still lacks an eye.
originally posted by: Willtell
originally posted by: swanne
a reply to: Willtell
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
But nothing can ever change the fact that a one-eyed man still lacks an eye.
Amazing you get the message and you talk about eyes
A man saves you from drowning and you worry about his bad breath!
I wonder who is really blind
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Willtell
What in that exchange is news???
Political systems have been rigged since the days they were invented, way back during the Paleolithic. Shamans held the power, or a hunt chief, or both... ...and who did they select to replace them? Their cronies in most cases, I'm sure.
blog.seattlepi.com... ace/
The Obama administration immediately collided with obdurate Republicans and entrenched interests. “They have so much power and influence that no president alone can take these guys on,” said Sanders. One of the big flops of the Obama Administration has been groups (e.g. Americans United for Change) set up to promote its agenda
Sanders would build a “grass-roots movement” to light a fire under the Republicans.
The corporate power that Sanders has criticized for 50 years is showing itself in the 2016 race. Billionaire oilmen Charles and David Koch summoned five GOP presidential candidates to a meeting of wealthy Republican donors last weekend, where they performed before men with the power to make — or break — candidates.
“I think this entire nation is out of whack when you have a situation where billionaires — the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson — literally hold their own caucuses with the Republican candidates summoned to attend,” said Sanders.
But Sanders predicts folk will rise up in 2016. “This campaign is going to send a message to the billionaire class that you can’t have it all,” he argued.
originally posted by: swanne
a reply to: Willtell
You seriously are going to trust a politician and call us sheeps?
Sorry, forgive me for not worshipping Trump, but as long as a dude follows the system, he is still part of the system. He can pretend he is outside the system so to attract votes, but this illusion will quickly crumble in the first two years of combined presidency and pressure from a council on foreign relations.
originally posted by: Willtell
He’s an insider telling you this system is rigged