Before the Wisconsin primary the Koch Brothers, owners of
the Georgia Pacific paper mill in Green Bay, sent an e-mail to their employees
telling them to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Wisconsin primary. Odd you say?
No, not at all, it seems the Koch Brothers and Bernie have a lot of the
same interests.
The Koch Brothers and their legislative arm, ALEC control every
branch of government in the Badger State, and with the ALEC written voter ID
law, one of the most restrictive in the nation, they were able to pull off a
major coup for their two favorite candidates Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz.
With complete control of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court,
the Governor’s office, the Attorney General’s office as well as the Speaker of
the U.S. House of Representatives the Koch’s have made Wisconsin the home base
of the GOP so stealing the election was easy.
But Ted and Bernie should not let their excellent adventure
in the Koch’s Dismal Dairyland go to their heads for they are nothing more than
tools to stop the frontrunners, Hillary and Donald. As Big Pink put it Ted Cruz was just a one
night stand, a ten cent whore and I would posit so was Bernie.
Excerpt:
But it was the cheese! The
wonderful voters of the wonderful state of Wisconsin could not overcome their
cheesy love! Cheese! The voters of Wisconsin voted for the rat who shares their
love of cheese.
Rat Ted Cruz with his cheese grater
teeth, ready to make Parmesan powder out of a whole wheel of cheese, was a
natural fit for the GOP establishment in Wisconsin. But now that the
whoremonger GOP establishment has used Cruz, like a Kleenex, for their
pleasures, they came and went.
Cruz is still in bed hugging the dime he got for letting his orifices be
used by the GOP establishment. On
the bed side table stands a radio playing “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”
The answer is “no”. If the National
Enquirer is correct and Ted Cruz himself has employed the “lollypop” whore,
then Ted Cruz should know that after the money is paid, the whore is left
hugging the dime and not much else.
Ted Cruz is about to learn the
lesson that all whores, sex workers, prostitutes, hookers, eventually have to
learn: the client is not in love with you.
Ted Cruz is about to learn the lesson that all rats in the city learn:
that cheese is in a trap…
The GOP establishment having come
and gone will not rescue Ted Cruz in New York. John Kasich will be the whore of the hour now.
The GOP establishment will pay any
whore to get their pleasure. The GOP
establishment pleasure is to block the voters, disenfranchise the franchise,
and stop Donald J. Trump.
Ahh, the wise sage Big Pink is right, Cruz was just the
whore of the hour and Bernie, well his purpose is to stop Hillary. Once that is accomplished Bernie will be
discarded by the DNC just like lyin’ Canadian Ted Cruz and that “Bern” you are
feeling might just be an STD.
So why you ask would the Koch Brothers send an e-mail to
their employees telling them to vote for Bernie? Because he shares their vision
for America. From the Daily Caller:
Excerpt:
Koch Group Releases Ad Agreeing With Bernie Sanders On Ex-Im Bank
Freedom Partners, a group funded by Charles and David Koch,
released an advertisement Wednesday applauding Sen. Bernie Sanders for his
opposition to the Export-Import Bank.
During Sunday’s Democratic debate,
Sanders and Hillary Clinton
spared over the Ex-Im Bank, the government agency gives loans to businesses
wishing to export goods. Clinton praised it for bringing manufacturing jobs to
the Michigan area, however the Vermont senator criticized it for being
“corporate welfare.”
“I don’t think it’s a great idea for the American taxpayer to have
to subsidize through corporate welfare profitable corporations who downsize in
the United States of America,” said Sanders.
So are the Koch Brothers and Bernie Sanders right about the EX IM Bank? From PBS.org:
Excerpt:
In short, the Export-Import Bank
lends to foreign buyers like Transnet to make U.S. exports competitive. Without
an ECA of its own, the fear of the Bank’s defenders is that U.S. exports would lose out to goods
produced overseas.
Established in the wake of World
War II, when crippled foreign markets weren’t strong enough to purchase
American products, the Export-Import Act of 1945 has been renewed by Congress
16 times without a political fight as intense as this year’s…
And without an Export-Import Bank
at all, Hufbauer cautioned, there’d be
little incentive for American manufacturers to actually make their goods in the
United States. They could move to other countries with export credit
agencies that would support their exports. The implicit threat in this narrative:
the loss of American jobs….
Since 2009, the Bank touts that
they’ve supported 1.2 million private sector jobs, and 205,000 in 2013. Even Paul Krugman, not the most
enthusiastic supporter of the Bank, has
argued that “this is exactly the moment
when ending an export-support program really would cost jobs.”
But the bank also supports exports
produced by foreign companies in the United States, as long as enough material comes from U.S. suppliers and assembly
occurs in the states…
Besides support for American jobs, the Bank champions its commitment to
America’s small businesses. In fiscal year 2013, nearly 90 percent of the
Bank’s volume of transactions was for short-term deals on behalf of American
small businesses selling their goods overseas…
Heritage Action for America and the Club for Growth have slammed
the government-backed bank for meddling
in the free market, taking from the American taxpayer to enrich big
business.
“The Bank doesn’t cost the taxpayer. In fact, it returns a profit to
the Treasury — more than $1 billion in fiscal year 2013.”
Yes, Bernie Sanders is a useful tool for the Koch Brothers
and their non-profit think tanks Heritage and Club for Growth. And don’t forget that the Koch Brothers’ Club
for Growth was the subject of a John Doe inquiry in Wisconsin. It seems that they illegally funded and
coordinated with the Scott Walker campaign in the recall fight.
But the Koch Brothers’ bought and paid for Wisconsin State
Supreme Court shut down the John Doe probe.
From Journal Sentinel Online:
Excerpt:
Wisconsin Supreme Court ends John Doe probe into Scott Walker's
campaign
4-2 ruling halts inquiry focusing
on campaign finance laws
Madison— Dealing Gov. Scott Walker
a victory just as his presidential campaign gets underway, the Wisconsin
Supreme Court in a sweeping decision Thursday ruled the governor's campaign and
conservative groups had not violated campaign finance laws…
It could also reshape how campaigns are run in Wisconsin because it
makes clear campaigns can work closely with outside groups, allowing more
political money to flow without the names of donors being disclosed.
Well Bernie is starting to look like lyin’ Ted Cruz, selling
a bill of goods to the same gullible voters who voted for Ralph Nader. The same gullible voters who voted for the
Golden Calf turned Tin Cow, Obama.
Like clockwork, every four years media whores like Susan
Sarandon, Bill Mahr and Michael Moore pedal the illusion of a new “revolutionary”
outsider that’s going to bring them to the Promised Land.
Bernie’s latest lie is that Hillary Clinton is unqualified
to be President due to the Panama trade deal she negotiated as Secretary of
State. From Joe Conason at NationalMemo:
Excerpt:
Sanders Was Wrong: Panama Trade Deal Shut Down Tax Shelters
Ever since the #PanamaPapers exploded into
public consciousness, many observers have waited with excitement (or
trepidation) for the names of Bill and Hillary Clinton to appear somewhere in
those millions of pages. So far they haven’t, and frankly I don’t expect they
ever will.
Yet Bernie Sanders and his campaign nevertheless labored to tar Hillary
Clinton with the offshore shelters anyway, going so far as to call her “unqualified” to be president for
supporting the Panama free trade agreement (which she did as President
Obama’s Secretary of State, of course)….
Specifically, the number of
offshore incorporations fell from 4,741 in 2005 to 835 in 2015. Most important,
as of last year Mossack Fonseca appeared to have nearly completely ceased
incorporating the least transparent form of company — known as “bearer shares”
— which often don’t need to register an owner’s name.
Incidentally, last year — like
every year since the trade agreement was signed — the United States marked a big trade surplus with Panama, about $7.5
billion.
Bernie Sanders supporters I talk to say they support Saint
Bernard because he voted against the Iraq War authorization. But like everything Bernie says his history
as a pacifist is just another fairytale.
From Alternet:
Excerpt:
Bernie Sanders' Troubling History of Supporting US Military Violence
Abroad
Why aren't we talking about
Sanders' foreign policy more?
The presidential candidacy of
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has excited many liberals throughout the
country, but there's been very little analysis of his foreign policy positions.
This past Sunday Sanders criticized
Hillary Clinton for her support of the Iraq war, declaring, “On foreign policy,
Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq…Not only I voted against, I helped
lead the effort against what I knew would be a disaster…."
… but the difference between the
two candidates on war is hardly substantial and his political closet is filled
with as many skeletons…
While it's true he voted against
the Iraq War, he also voted in favor of authorizing funds for that war and the
one in Afghanistan. More recently, he voted in favor of a $1 billion aid
package for the coup government Ukraine and supported Israel's assault on
Gaza.
At a town hall meeting he admitted
that Israel may have "overreacted", but blamed Hamas for the entire
conflict. After a woman asked why he
refused to condemn Israel's actions, he told critics: "Excuse me! Shut up!
You don’t have the microphone.”
How low will lyin’ Bernie go when it comes to smearing
Hillary Clinton? According to Juan Cole
at Truthdig: Is Hillary Clinton
Responsible for Rise of Islamic State, as Bernie’s Campaign Manager Alleged?
Excerpt:
Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff
Weaver, alleged on Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s policies are responsible for
the ‘rise and expansion of ISIS throughout the Middle East…’
Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) arose in Iraq
as a reaction against the Bush occupation of that country and its punitive
policies toward Sunni Arabs, as part of a Shiite-led “debaathification.” (The ruling party 1968-2003 had bee(sic) the
Baath Party, which was secular, socialist and disproportionately dominated in
the upper echelons by Sunni Arabs).
It spread to Syria as a result of
that country’s 2011 revolution, which turned into a civil war when the Bashar
al-Assad regime used military weaponry on civilian protesters.
Although Clinton did vote to
authorize the Iraq War, it wasn’t the war per se that created Daesh there but
rather the US backing for Shiite policies of political reprisals against the
Sunnis. Clinton did not have anything to do with policy-making in Iraq.
On campaign financing, Bernie is bleating out his
fabrications that he doesn’t take money from special interests and that he
stands on the picket lines with workers against union busters. Guess what, it’s not so. From National Review:
Excerpt:
The Anti-Labor Skeleton in Bernie Sanders’s
Closet
On
September 4, brandishing a megaphone and wearing the trademark scowl he
reserves for talk of “millionaires and billionaires,” Senator Bernie Sanders
stood before around 100 picketing employees outside the Penford Products
corn-processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and denounced “the war against
working families.”
“I want you to know being out on a picket line and standing with workers is something I have been doing for my entire life,” he told the union workers. “I did it when I was mayor of the city of Burlington, did it in Congress, did it in the Senate. This is what I do.”
Campaign contributions from
Sanders’s recent past, however, paint a slightly different picture. During his
2012 reelection race, Sanders accepted $10,000 from a Midwestern sugar
conglomerate that was at the time locked in a long, bitter battle with its
labor force — a fight that ultimately left more than 1,000 union workers out of
a job…
At the time Sanders took their
money, American Crystal was already deep into one of the most contentious labor
disputes of the decade. In September 2011, the company locked out 1,300 Iowan,
Minnesotan, and North Dakotan workers from the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco
Workers, and Grain Millers Union for their refusal to ratify a labor contract…
Even after the union members’
children wrote to American Crystal executives in September 2012, begging the
sugar-processing giant to let their parents return to work before they lost
their homes, the company refused to budge…
Sounds like the confectionary’s union felt the Bern. And Bernie’s populist message is just another
rouse, it’s as fake as his “peace” credentials.
Today he stood before his fawning followers bleating out his plan to
give all Americans a three month maternity leave.
How will Bernie accomplish that if he’s unwilling to reign
in military spending as is pointed out by Margaret Kimberly at Black Agenda Report?
Freedom Rider: America’s Endless Wars
by BAR editor and senior columnist
Margaret Kimberley
There is no “peace” wing in either
the Democratic or Republican parties. “Not only has Obama declared unending war
against the rest of the world, but so has the rest of the two party duopoly…”
“How can Bernie Sanders bring social democracy
to the United States if he won’t cut the military budget or foreswear
interventions?”
America’s grand fantasy of a
Project for a New American Century has experienced a serious setback. Yet this
country still isn’t dissuaded from pursuing the imperial effort…
For nearly five years the Syrian
people have suffered as a direct result of American aggression. More than
250,000 people are dead and 9 million are refugees in their country and abroad….
While Republican and Democratic
presidential candidates, including “socialist” Bernie Sanders, express unending
support for imperialism and brutality in Syria, the project is falling apart…
The Democratic and Republican
candidates sound alike as they eagerly proclaim their loathing for Putin and
their determination to continue war by other means…. Even liberal darling Bernie Sanders spouts
nonsense about “Saudi skin in the game” in Syria when the Saudis have been an
integral part of the regime change effort…
If candidates like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders are slick enough
they can market themselves as peacemakers when in fact they will create as much
chaos and suffering as any of the Republicans.
So as Bernie and Ted are basking in the afterglow after
their Koch Brother corporate coup in Wisconsin and their “caucus” win in
Wyoming. They are now headed into what
Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report calls “Sports Bar Politics and Corporate Duopolies.”
Excerpt:
From the perspective of a sports
bar, Bernie Sanders’ 57% - 43% victory over Hillary Clinton’s Corporate Demo
Crusaders, in Wisconsin, keeps his Leftish Upstarts in the playoffs, although
their chances of grabbing the brass ring in Philadelphia this summer are slim
to none.
Donald Trump’s White Knights
stumbled, but may still rally to shut out the Corporate GOP Avengers, in
Cleveland, in July…
The corporate duopoly electoral
system is the equivalent of the sports league cabal: whatever the score, the owners win. The best possible outcome of
their quadrennial games would be a breakup of the duopoly, through a split in
one or both of the corporate parties.
For the first time in at least a
century, such an earth-shaking fracture is possible, and even likely.
Therefore, those who seek fundamental change in U.S. political alignments and
structures should root for whatever primary election results that contribute to
the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican duopoly system.
Amen brother Glen. It’s
just a matter of time until Bernie and Ted find themselves lying in bed hugging
the dimes they got for letting their orifices be used by the GOP and DNC establishment.
And just like clockwork the Nader/Obama/Sanders supporters will
wake up in a cheap hotel, the whores gone and their wallets gone. As they hear “Will You Still Love Me
Tomorrow?” playing on the bedside radio, they realize they’ve been rolled again.
By Patricia Baeten
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