Trump Wins, Obama People Riot

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Nov 2016

Donald Trump won an unexpected and decisive victory for president on Nov 8^th.  It took a day for the results to sink in, for organizers to organize, and then for the riots to begin.  Yesterday was the fourth day in a row in which rioting at the results of the election took place.  These riots occur at night, when rioters are less easily identified; and they occur in cities that are bastions of progressivism: New York, Chicago, and cities along the west coast.

On Monday, Nov 7^th, news media were still taunting the Trump campaign about whether or not he would accept the results of the election.  The media were fussing about “a peaceful transfer of power.”  The media taunted Trump about his claims of the “rigged system.”

And this continued until about 9:00 p.m. election night, when it became clear that the exit polls were wrong and that Trump was going to win the election.  The shoe got put on the other foot, and look what happened.  Progressives - Obama’s people, Bernie’s people, Hillary’s supporters - began to riot – after they got organized.  So much for emotion; what we have here is calculation.

The media, ever carrying water for Obama, gave the riots heavy coverage, and they wondered what Trump was going to do to calm the waters.  What concessions could be extracted from him in his moment of triumph by these bullying crybabies?

Trump has so far remained silent.  Calls have come out from the Trump side for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to say something.  But so far, silence.

Rule No. 6 of Saul D. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals reads, “A good tactic is one your people will enjoy.”  They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more.  They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.  Rule No. 7 reads, “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”  Rule No. 8 reads, “Keep the pressure on.  Never let up.”

The reason why progressives opted for rioting is that this is a tactic their people enjoy.  We saw it for ourselves starting with the rioting in Ferguson, MO.  Black Lives Matter is a movement built upon rioting and violent confrontation.  Rioting, destruction of private property, and looting went on long after any emotion of anger had expired.  Rioting continued because it became a fun way for progressives so inclined to bay at the moon.  They could feel good about themselves making a moral exhibition of themselves.

The reason Obama has so far resisted calls for him to say something is that he does not want to appear powerless before his mob.  If he calls for calm and he is ignored, then he looks weak and devoid of followers.  In addition, his erstwhile followers may turn upon him, accusing him of being a traitor to the movement.  None of this looks good for his legacy.

Rule 7, and sheer exhaustion will ensure that rioting eventually ceases.  This is the moment when Obama may come out calling for an end to the “protests” and “demonstrations,” that is, fecklessly once it is over.

Rule 8 ensures that dedicated progressives are not going to give up.  They are going to continue progressivist bullying in an effort to deflect Trump from fulfilling his campaign pledges.  They will have plenty of supporters in the media, who are progressive to the core.

The people protesting Trump’s triumph are unworthy of democracy.  They are unworthy of the blessings of America.  They lack the fundamental civility necessary for a peaceful democracy.

Van Jones is a commentator at the Clinton News Network, an admitted communist, and former member of the Obama Administration.  He is also a black racist.  Jones ascribed Trump’s victory to “whitelash.”  To Jones’s mind, it’s okay for 85 % of the black electorate to vote for Hillary Clinton, but when 60 % of white voters vote for Donald Trump instead of Hillary, that’s a sign of racism.

Jones is a moral idiot.  Jones looks and seems intelligent from time to time, but he can’t reason his way out of a paper bag.  And he doesn’t want to, for his mind is too poisoned by hate.

He complained about the fear Trump’s election engendered.  Well, so what!!  Let the fearful suffer the pain of their fear – a condign punishment for being stupid.  For thinking they can bully people with their passive-aggressive tactics.

So it is with progressivism everywhere.  Progressivism is a secular religion, and if you disagree with a progressive, that makes you immoral and unworthy of consideration or civil treatment.  Bullying is standard practice with progressivism.

Really, lack of civility is what is most offensive about the rioting.  Hillary lost fair and square; and rioting against Trump, who did nothing but win, is simply an attack on democracy itself - on the constitutional republic itself.

The media are tempted to hang the continued rioting on Trump.  He would be wise to say nothing until he assumes office, and even then to let his actions speak for him.

The following quote appeared earlier this week on Mark Steyn’s website:

“Media which got everything wrong will now tell you all the things that will happen as a result of the thing they said wouldn't happen.”

It is worth absorbing this insight.  As the media try to hang rioting, or offer anything else on Trump, it will be example of the above observation.

The media never learn, and they can never by humbled.

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Trump’s Triumph

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Nov 2016

Early this morning, Donald Trump was confirmed elected as the next president of the United States.  Trump, who has never held elective office or military command, pulled off the greatest surprise and electoral feat seen in a generation.  He did it despite all his flaws, by becoming the champion of those whom his opponent, Hillary Clinton, described as “deplorable, irredeemable, and not American.”  Those people would be the “factory workers, veterans, cops, the kitchen help, farmers, people who make trains run, pick up trash, and keep the country moving” in the words of New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin.

America has had its Brexit moment.  Trump the underdog led the “forgotten masses” to triumph.  In that respect, Michael Moore got it right.  Trump’s victory was their revenge for the contempt in which they have been held by the political elites for decades.  The basket of deplorables were fully aware of Trump’s flaws, and didn’t care.  His pugnaciousness, his disrespect of political correctness, his humanness, and his choice of enemies as well as his flaws made him even more desirable as a vessel for their discontent than some plain vanilla conservative nominee would have been.

Trump’s sheer bigness as a personality in American life and his great wealth enabled him to withstand the concerted attacks of “the fraudulent hucksters of the national liberal media” and political establishmentarians.  Trump owes his success only to the support he received from the voters.  Nobody owns Trump, except for the American electorate.

For his part, Trump put aside all political rancor in his moment of triumph.  “Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division…To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people….I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans…I’m reaching out to you…so that we can work together and unify our great country.”  Trump has been saying this for months, and it was Trump, not Hillary Clinton, who actually stood for ‘Stronger Together.’

Trump continued, “[O]urs was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement, made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and for their family.  It is a movement of Americans…who want and expect our government to serve the people – and serve the people it will…..The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”

More than Hillary Clinton lost the election.  Progressivism and its bastard child, political correctness, lost.  Big media lost.

Progressivism is the belief in rule by experts, and no one is more expert than the shapers of public opinion, the big media.  The New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, and CNN (the Clinton News Network), abandoned all pretence of objectivity and fairness during the campaign.  The dirty pool they played redounded against them.  They heaped their contempt not just on Trump, but on those who supported him.  The unprofessional media assault on their champion hardened their hearts, and Trump supporters turned out by the tens of thousands to cheer him at his campaign rallies.  After eight years of progressivism under Barack Obama, a large segment of the electorate yearned for change, and Trump promised to smash every convention Washington held dear.

Big changes are coming, and these changes are for the better.  From a small beginning, Donald Trump built a business worth billions.  He developed over the course of his career a perspective and a skill set unlike anything seen in America.  He has admirable goals, and he knows how to achieve them.  His first goal was the most improbable, to be elected President – and that happened.  Trump beat every professional politician in sight on his first try.  He demonstrated something never before seen.

Trump’s goals are worthy of America and its people.  They are great goals: to make America great again, to fix America’s inner cities, rebuild her infrastructure, put millions of people back to work, take care of America’s veterans, restore respect for law and order, to put the Supreme Court back onto its proper path of adjudicating law, not making it; and igniting a great economic revival.

With great goals as his aim, and with the political skills he has so unexpectedly proven, the next for years will be great years of reform and revival for America.

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Hillary’s Collapse

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Nov 2016

Today is Election Day in the United States.  The LA Times Daily Tracking poll has Trump up by three, while the IBD daily tracking has Trump up by 2.  All the other polls lag in time and report the history of last week.  Three weeks ago everybody forecast that Trump’s campaign was doomed, and now he is poised for victory.

Hillary will run up her national vote in states like California, Oregon, and Washington. Cities like New York, Philadelphia, Alexandria, Pittsburgh, and a few others will provide her with wide margins of victory that the hinterlands of those cities will have to overcome to provide Trump his margin of victory.  Battleground states like North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and New Hampshire look like Trump victories, while Democrat strongholds Michigan and Pennsylvania have become closely contested.  Trump may well win either the popular vote or the Electoral College.

Hillary’s collapse in the waning weeks of the campaign began the moment people thought she was poised for victory and started to contemplate what a Clinton presidency might be like.  In the midst of this disturbing thought, FBI Director James Comey announced the discovery of another trove of Clinton emails on the laptop of disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner.  People then realized that it might not be over.

Hillary’s felonious handling of emails might come back to bite her as president.  Meanwhile, the cascade of leaked emails from WikiLeaks poured into the coverage of the campaign.  The corruption of the Clinton Foundation was laid bare.  The arrogance and contempt of the Clinton team towards outsiders and even among themselves became public knowledge.  The unsavory sale of favors by Hillary while Secretary of State in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation or for money to Bill directly became impossible to hide.  Whatever campaign message Hillary had became buried under this avalanche of new scandals.  A tide had turned.  Hillary was reduced to a totem, immobile and representing nothing new and potentially nothing but trouble.

Trump, meanwhile, recovered.  He pounded on the theme of the American people having to rise up to deliver justice themselves, of themselves having to destroy a corrupt and rigged system.  His message resonated.

During his speech to the Democrat National Convention in July, President Obama spoke of people having to help “carry Hillary across the finish line.”  I remarked at the time that it spoke poorly of the candidate, and would indeed be necessary.  The last five days of the campaign have shown it to be the prophesy expected.  Hillary’s rallies have had to count on Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bruce Springstein, Lady Gaga, and others as headliners to attract people.  Hillary makes her appearance at the end, as incongruous as if the Phillie Phanatic waddled on stage after an act featuring Beyoncé wiggling.  President Obama, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Vice President Bite-me have hit the campaign trail trying to drum up support among minorities for Hillary’s dead-in-the-water campaign.

Meanwhile, Trump by himself has been drawing between 10,000 and 30,000 people at his rallies.  Getting 10,000 people together in New Hampshire in November is no mean feat.  Even rural Virginia was amazingly mobilized by a recent Trump rally.  Trump has momentum, and he has the determination of large numbers of people behind him.

We will learn later tonight if Hillary banked enough votes in early voting to stave off her final collapse at the end of the campaign.

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Maid in America

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Nov 2016

The stock markets on Wall Street are booming today on the news that FBI Director James Comey declared that Hillary Clinton would not be charged with a felony following the discovery of another trove of emails last week.  The joy in the media is palpable.  Investors evidently believe that Hillary’s election is now assured, and Wall Street looks forward to the governance of she who accepted so much Wall Street cash both before and during the campaign.

The statement by Director Comey was that the review of 650,000 emails found on the laptop of disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner, some 10,000 of which were archived emails between Huma Abedin, Weiner’s estranged wife, and Hillary Clinton, determined him not to change his conclusion of July, 2016 in respect of Secretary Clinton.  Most took this cryptic statement to mean that Hillary is in the clear, and they may be right.  If she is elected president.

The fact is that a trove of emails classified at birth (whether marked or not) were discovered at an entirely unexpected place: the laptop of someone not related at all to the Clinton State Department.  Since Hillary Clinton accepted responsibility for the care and custody of the communications sent to her and from her, this duplicate set of emails represents yet another consequence of her setting up a private email server system, through which passed highly classified secrets of the United States government.  This is another breach of the duty of care she owed to America as Secretary of State, and is a direct consequence of her decisions.

Huma Abedin may not be in the clear.  She told the FBI that she had turned over all the devices that contained her emails.  This discovery proves that statement was false.  Both Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton deserve to lose their security clearances over this unexpected discovery alone, but Clinton’s election as president would make that latter event impossible.

Additional evidence of Hillary’s casual disregard of security protocols was revealed on the weekend by the New York Post. The Post reported that while secretary of state, “Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government emails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washington, DC, emails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such material.  In fact, Marina Santos was called on so frequently to receive emails that she may hold the secrets to emailgate — if only the FBI and Congress would subpoena her and the equipment she used.  Clinton entrusted far more than the care of her DC residence, known as Whitehaven, to Santos. She expected the Filipino immigrant to handle state secrets…Clinton would first receive highly sensitive emails from top aides at the State Department and then request that they, in turn, forward the messages and any attached documents to Santos to print out for her at the home.  Among other things, Clinton requested that Santos print out drafts of her speeches, confidential memos and “call sheets” — background information and talking points prepared for the secretary of state in advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state.”

“Pls ask Marina to print for me in am,” Clinton emailed top aide Huma Abedin regarding a redacted 2011 message marked sensitive but unclassified.  In a classified 2012 email dealing with the new president of Malawi, another Clinton aide, Monica Hanley, advised Clinton, “We can ask Marina to print this.”  “Revisions to the Iran points” was the subject line of a classified April 2012 email to Clinton from Hanley.  In it, the text reads, “Marina is trying to print for you.”

Both classified emails were marked “confidential,” the tier below “secret” or “top secret.”

Santos also had access to a highly secure room called an SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) that diplomatic security agents set up at Whitehaven, according to FBI notes from an interview with Abedin.  From within the SCIF, Santos — who had no clearance — “collected documents from the secure facsimile machine for Clinton,” the FBI notes revealed.  Just how sensitive were the papers Santos presumably handled? The FBI noted Clinton periodically received the Presidential Daily Brief — a top-secret document prepared by the CIA and other US intelligence agencies — via the secure fax.

A 2012 “sensitive” but unclassified email from Hanley to Clinton refers to a fax the staff wanted Clinton “to see before your Netanyahu mtg. Marina will grab for you.”  Yet it appears Clinton was never asked by the FBI in its yearlong investigation to turn over the iMac that Santos used to receive the emails, or the printer she used to print out the documents, or the printouts themselves.”

Marina Santos is a poor Filipino immigrant who is responsible for cleaning Hillary’s Washington, D.C. residence, “White Haven” (vice “White House”).  Hillary used her as a go-fer.  Printing out emails was too demeaning to ask of Huma Abedin, and so Huma was instructed to ask Marina to do it.

Marina’s access to a SCIF is mind-blowing.  What is the point of a SCIF if unsecured cleaning staff can go in, unsupervised, at any time?  A Presidential Daily Brief is born classified at the Top Secret level, and Hillary’s cleaning lady was tasked with printing out the faxed copy and collating it.

Hillary’s high-handed attitude towards inconvenient protocols is consistent with her “above-the-law” attitude.  Testing how this attitude would work in a president would be a dangerous experiment to embark upon.  Hillary Clinton as president is a constitutional crisis waiting to happen.

All this and much else could be avoided were Donald Trump elected president.

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Jake Tapper: Foole

Vincent J. Curtis

31 Oct 2016

For some inexplicable reason I watched Jake Tapper on CNN this Sunday morning, and caught his interview with the lovely Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager.

In the course of the interview, Tapper played a tape of a man chanting at a Trump rally and asked Conway to denounce him, a tiresome and pointless media trick.

The rally was chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!”  The man, who was in the back row, turned to the media at the back of the room and showed he was wearing a Hillary T-shirt.  He chanted towards the media, “Jew-S-A! Jew-S-A!”  Apparently.  I could hardly tell.

When Conway asked Tapper why he required her to denounce the man, Tapper replied with the well-known (!) association of the alt-right with Trump, and his failure to denounce them.  Conway, rather than make a fuss, proffered the required denunciation.

It hadn’t occurred to Tapper that perhaps the man was an agent-provocateur of the type uncovered last week by James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, a Bob Creamer special.  One of Hillary’s disavowable paid agents.  Why else would he make a spectacle of himself to the media at a Trump event?  What’s with the Hillary T-shirt?  Why did arrange himself so conveniently for the media to see him?

Besides, Trump is well-known as being pro-Israel; it is the left-wing progressive Democrats that have a problem with Israel.  Why would a supposedly pro-Trump alt-right movement do something to embarrass Trump?

It makes no sense.  Why would Tapper think that Trump was somehow responsible for this man?

The Black Lives Matter movement is a hate movement.  It hates cops and has called for cops to be killed.  And Hillary panders to them.  Has Tapper called on Hillary to denounce the extremists in her party, such as Black Lives Matter?  I don't think so.  What we have got from Hillary are excuses that the Black Lives Matter movement has a point.

Tapper gets this week’s media Foole award, so spelt in honor of the late comedian George Carlin.  Carlin intended to be funny.  Tapper is funny without intending to be.

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Bill Clinton Inc.

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Oct 2016

In the posting headlined Chelsea Clinton: Foundation an Ethical Mess, I report Chelsea Clinton discovered the all conflicts of interest at the Foundation, her alarm at the tactics employed by fundraisers like Doug Band, and the need to bring in a governance review lest her father’s good name be tarnished.  The effect of that governance review was to push Doug Band from his position of high influence at the Foundation.  Band bitterly denounced Chelsea Clinton in emails to John Podesta for her interference as he struggled to maintain control, and expressed anger and bitterness at the ingratitude of Bill after all Band had done for him.

Band had been Bill Clinton’s “body man” during the latter part of Bill’s presidency, and he maintained that role in the years following.  He had become something of a gatekeeper to Bill Clinton in respect of everyone but his family.  Band discovered to his dismay that, for Bill, blood is thicker than water; and when Chelsea spoke to her father about her problems with the Foundation, Band saw, and bitterly regretted, the political knifing characteristic of the Clintons used against him.

In the course of defending himself to the lawyer running the governance review, he prepared a thirteen page memorandum explaining the relationship of himself, Teneo, and his close associates in Teneo, with the Clinton Foundation.  The section reproduced below concerns what he and his associates did to help Bill make money, and how self-sacrificing they were in helping the great man^TM keep body and soul together over the years in retirement.

Thanks to WikiLeaks, we have Doug Band explaining what he called “Bill Clinton Inc.”

For-Profit Activity of President Clinton (i.e., Bill Clinton, Inc.)

Independent of our fundraising and decision-making activities on behalf of the Foundation, we have dedicated ourselves to helping the President secure and engage in for-profit activities – including speeches, books, and advisory service engagements.  In that context, we have in effect served as agents, lawyers, managers and implementers to secure speaking, business and advisory service deals.  In support of the President’s for-profit activity, we also have solicited and obtained, as appropriate, in-kind services for the President and his family – for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.  Neither Justin nor I are separately compensated for these activities (e.g., we do not receive a fee for, or percentage[1] of, the more than $50 million in for-profit activity we have personally helped to secure for President Clinton to date or the $66 million in future contracts, should he choose to continue with those engagements).

With respect to business deals for his advisory services, Justin and I found, developed and brought to President Clinton multiple arrangements for him to accept or reject. Of his current 4 arrangements, we secured all of them; and, we have helped manage and maintain all of his for-profit business relationships for the past 11 years.  Since 2001, President Clinton’s business arrangements have yielded more than $30 million for him personally, with $66 million to be paid out over the next nine years should he choose to continue with the current engagements.

President Clinton Paid Speeches:

In support of the President’s paid speech activity, Teneo partners have created and secured the following paid speeches for President Clinton.

UBS – $900,000 - $450,000 in 2011; $450,000 to be paid in 2012

Mr. Kelly asked UBS to offer President Clinton paid speeches based upon a concept he developed with Bob Mccann for the firm’s clients.  In addition to the $540,000 UBS contributed to the Foundation, Teneo partners have secured a commitment from UBS for President Clinton to deliver three additional paid speeches for them in 2012, should he choose to do so.

Ericson – $750,000 plus $400,000 for a private plane

After meeting one of Director of Ericsson on a business trip, I learned that they were sponsoring an inaugural event in China. I pursued them to invite President Clinton to China to speak at this event.  I negotiated a fee for President Clinton of $1 million dollars to speak for two one-hour sessions in Hong Kong, which he did this past weekend.  In addition to the $1 million speaking fee, I negotiated additional coverage of the cost of a private plane.

BHP – $175,000 in 2012

BHP is hosting a board of directors meeting in June of 2012. Teneo is organizing the event for BHP and encouraged them to do it in NY and pay Presdent Clinton through Walker. The offer is currently at the state department being vetted.

Mati Kochavi

President Clinton recently turned down a 2 year, $8 million offer to become Honorary Chairman of Mati Kochavi’s new media business venture. Mati is a former client of Teneo who we were referred to through Marty Edelman. I went back to Mati and proposed a new structure without any business connectivity other than 4 speeches for $1 million and $250k to the foundation should President Clinton choose to accept it. That would also include any broadcasting of foundation events or anything President Clinton would like exposure for on his website. This offer will be presented to President Clinton in Walker speech invitations which he can choose to decline or accept with no role or relationship with the company.

Barclays

Teneo cultivated its client relationship to help secure two paid speeches in 2010 and 2011 totaling more than $700,000.

Other Matters:

Justin Cooper and I have, for the past ten years, served as the primary contact and point of management for President Clinton’s activities – which span from political activity (e.g., campaigning on behalf of candidates for elected office), to business activity (e.g., providing advisory services to business entities with which he has a consulting arrangement), to Foundation activity (e.g., supporting his engagement on behalf of the initiatives and affiliated entities of the Foundation), to his speech activity (e.g., soliciting speeches and staffing and supporting him on speech travel) to his book activity (e.g., editing his books and arranging and supporting him on book tours) to supporting family/personal needs (e.g., securing in-kind private airplane travel, in-kind vacation stays, and supporting family business and personal needs).  In the unique roles in which we have had the opportunity to serve, we have been able to help balance the multiplicity of activities that demand his time and engagement to best fulfill his personal, political, business, official former President, and Foundation/non-profit goals. 

We appreciate the unorthodox nature of our roles, and the goal of seeking ways to ensure we are implementing best practices to protect the 501(c)3 status of the Foundation.[2]  As we go forward, we welcome the opportunity to identify better strategies for serving the President, the Foundation and its affiliated entities.”

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Justin Cooper we saw previously as being instrumental in setting up Hillary’s off-the-books-server.  The principals of Teneo have done rather well for themselves after separating themselves from the Clintons.  Despite all the money accounted for by Doug Band, it doesn’t come close to explaining how the Clintons collectively came to be worth north of $250 million.  There must be more shenanigans going on at the Foundation by which the Clintons enriched themselves that Band was not aware of.

This corruption is just the tip of the iceberg, and if the Clintons regain control of the Oval Office again, the political drama in Washington, D.C. will be unending.  A Republican controlled Congress will be in a political war with the executive branch as the Congress tries gain the information required to cripple a Hillary Administration and perhaps lay the groundwork for another impeachment of another Clinton.

Hillary brought this upon herself and is bringing it upon America.  The election will decide if the American electorate has the stomach for four more years of this contention or if it wants America to go in a different direction.

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[1]  For example, the Harry Walker agency, the President’s speaking agent, receives a10% fee on every paid speech without regard to whether they originated the speech.  The agency conservatively estimates that in the last decade, $20 million in speeches for the President have derived sole from Justin and my efforts.

[2]  For example, I understand our policy on uncompensated (comped) passes to attend CGI is being reviewed.  Historically, CGI has accommodated as many paying members as we can identify; the majority of members that attend are comped.  In the absence of an established policy, there are a variety of methods used to determine who receives comped passes.  We have comped individuals that fall primarily into the following categories:  spouse of CGI employees, government employees, potential donors being cultivated – including target Teneo clients, President Clinton’s family and friends, family and friends of Foundation employees, guest requests of foreign dignitaries, and celebrities.  As the Foundation identified a formal policy for comped passes, we encourage the creation of a policy that will be commonly applied – as opposed to applied by exception.  We are happy to help identify the range of instances where comped passes benefit the goals of the Foundation so the final policy operates in service of the Foundation’s goals.

Michael Moore Gets Trump

Vincent J. Curtis

29 Oct 2016

Of all people, Michael Moore understands why Donald Trump’s candidacy is resonating throughout America.

MICHAEL MOORE, FILMMAKER: “[Trump is] saying the things to people who are hurting. And it's why every beaten down nameless forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for. They've essentially lost everything they had except one thing. The one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution, the right to vote….Corporate America hates Trump. Wall Street hates Trump. The career politicians hate Trump. The media hates Trump. Yes on November 8th, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy-Bob Blow, all of the Blows get to go and blow up the whole God damn system because it's your right. Trump's election is going to be the biggest “fuck-you” ever recorded in human history, and it will feel good.”

The people Michael Moore has championed his entire career are voting for Trump, and Michael Moore perfectly articulates why.  He understands them, and he gets Trump’s appeal to them.  At that moment, however, Moore is transformed into a Hillary-like superior person who doesn’t want mature grown-ups to act upon their own rational decisions, because he, Michael Moore, knows better.

“There, there. I, Michael Moore, know better, and you’ll regret what you’ve done.  Do what I tell you to do instead.”  That’s the Progressive in Michael Moore.  He, the expert, knows better and you should do what he says.

On Fox News (of all places for a good progressive to be found!) Thursday night, he said, “I'm here and I'm here on Fox to appeal to people who are watching to not [vote for Trump]. I understand why you're angry. You have every right to be angry. The system has failed you. But he is not the solution to this.  And I make the case in the film (i.e. Trumpland) -- the film is sort of a humorous love poem to Hillary Clinton.”

Okay, Moore.  Why should the Blows vote for Hillary?  How is four more years of same-old, same-old going to make things better?

“Because she will make this better.  She's the proponent of universal health care, she's been that way for 25 years. And that is what's going to -- Obamacare will get better under her. Remember, the real problem about Obamacare is not the Obama part of it. It's the private insurance companies are still calling the shots. They get to raise these rates. There's no control like there is over Medicare and things that the government has a stay in. Obamacare was only a halfway measure. We'll get the rest of it under Hillary Clinton. She's going to do so many things, to raise the minimum wage, she's going to do things that will help equality for women.”

The problems of progressivism, in other words, are going to be solved with heavier doses of progressivism.  Just like the answer to the pressures of totalitarianism is a further turn of the screw.

Moore admits that Obamacare was sold on a lie.  Not the lie of “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor…” but the lie of being “comprehensive” of not being merely a failing way-point on the road to a socialistic single-payer plan like in Canada and Britain.

It is laugh-worthy to see Moore place so much faith in Hillary.  Obama is much more of a progressive than Hillary is, and Obama got all there was to get out of a Democrat controlled Congress, with 60 votes in the Senate.  Moore himself supported Bernie Sanders in the primary because he was the more progressive candidate.  And Moore is telling us that Hillary will deliver single-payer health care from a Republican controlled Congress?  With all the scandals, the perjury, and the above-the-law treatment she has received her whole career beclouding her candidacy even now?  How many dozen times has the Republican House voted to repeal Obamacare?

Since Michael Moore finds the lies told to pass Obamacare morally acceptable, corruption in a progressive, you would think, is something he can stomach.  And you would be right.  Megyn Kelly exposed it:

KELLY: What about all of the Wikileaks disclosures, do they bother you?

MOORE: No, not at all.  

KELLY: You don't care about the Clinton cash?

MOORE: I care about women should be paid the same as men, I care about the polar ice caps melting, I care about the big, big issues.

Funny things is, Hillary’s entire campaign has been about Donald Trump being totally unfit^TM for office.  Trump is the one running on the issues, not Hillary.

Hillary hasn’t run on anything she would do other than “work hard^TM,” and her scandals are even now destroying whatever legitimacy she would have as president.  It hasn’t occurred to Moore that Hillary’s service to the downtrodden was done in the same sense that Al Capone’s soup kitchens were operated during the depression in Chicago.  It was a publicity stunt that accidently helped people.

She and Bill, with the aid of Doug Band, figured out how to monetize the Clinton brand, and the Clintons are now worth north of $250 million, after having done no work.  The Oval Office for Hillary will simply be her final Eldorado, and if anything gets done the progressives like, it will be pure accident.

Michael Moore gets why Trump appeals to Moore’s people.  And that brings out the morally empty, intellectually superior progressive in Moore.

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