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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 11, 2017
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges examines the spectacle of the 2016 presidential election and the system that created President Donald Trump with Matt Taibbi, author of “Insane Clown President”. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil highlights some of the more absurd moments of the election season.
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Insane Clown President: Matt Taibbi Chronicles Election of “Billionaire Hedonist” Trump
Democracy Now! on Jan 17, 2017
http://democracynow.org – As a new study by Oxfam finds the world’s eight richest men control as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity, the group says it is concerned that wealth inequality will continue to grow following the election of Donald Trump, whose Cabinet members have a combined wealth of nearly $11 billion. We look at the rise of Trump, and those joining his administration, with award-winning Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi. His new book comes out today, titled “Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus.”
from the archives:
Flailing Trumpsters Upset a Hijacked Nation by Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader: Trump’s Presidency Will Be Tumultuously Unpredictable
The Enemy is Not Trump, It is Ourselves by John Pilger
Chris Hedges: Fascism vs Neoliberalism
I Would Love to Share in Your Incredulity by Thomas S. Harrington
Chris Hedges: The Liberals Gave Us Trump–What Will a Trump Presidency Be Like?
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On Contact @21:20 “….that was when I realized it was scary…if you wed a strategic mind to Donald Trump, that’s when you get an extremely destructive force….”
So where does the Trumpety circus go from here? Kiev? Ankara? Tehran? Tel Aviv? Ryadh? Moscow? Mars? Mexico? Rio? Buenos Aires? the Great Wall….? Vatican City? Salt Lake City? Burning Man? Maybe Nowhere…
Perhaps we should fake the Google maps and pretend we all live on the dark side of the Moon, where Elvis Hitler is plotting with Big Apple ‘n all the aliens….
Wasn’t this an enjoyable conversation? It could have gone much longer, in my opinion.
The scary thing is Trump’s unpredictability.
Very enjoyable, and amusing; so apologies if I came across as trite ~ just a surreal moment thinking about that statement, that registered as an especially astute observation….yes the unpredictability is spooky, but that ‘strategic mind’ Matt refers to or any éminence grise behind someone like Bannon who seems to be the closest strategist to the President, is even more worrying…
As if Trump’s zionist infatuation were not enough to cause concern, here is the sort of thing that sets alarm-bells ringing for me http://www.jpost.com/Us-Elections/Donald-Trump/Israeli-minister-throws-support-behind-controversial-Trump-adviser-Bannon-473109
Jeb Bush called Trump a Chaos candidate . That is what he is . what we saw was the dance between order and chaos .
It took a chaos man to start to dismantle the new world order . Trump being a clown is all calculated to confuse . the elites in media , pollsters , pundits , both parties could not combat his chaos .
he utterly dominated the news cycle . like Ty Cobb stealing home plate – there was so much chaos from Cobb – next thing you knew it he was sliding into home plate safe with a cloud of dust blinding everyone .
If Trump keeps that up – this new world order in all its internationalism does not stand a chance . The USA can get free of the whole damn thing . and hopefully make peace with the Russians and stop all this regime change insanity .
Hear, hear.
What should we do about this?
http://www.mintpressnews.com/steve-bannon-is-preparing-trump-for-holy-war/225071/
Maybe you should add that link to the comment section on this post. https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/pope-francis-calls-for-broad-front-against-tyranny-and-savage-capitalism/
At what cost?