THE ART OF THE DEAL
It’s WIN / WIN!! for the political parties
On May 3rd, 2016 the Republican party declared Donald J. Trump its “presumptive nominee” for President of the United States of America even though some states, some really big states like California, had not yet held their primaries / caucuses.
At first I thought, “WOAH! Trump’s ideas really have some serious popular support despite the man only getting an endorsement from The National Enquirer and his son-in-law’s weekly newspaper, The New York Observer.” << By the way the newspaper tycoon wannabe, son-in-law and daughter didn’t change party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in time to vote for their dad in the NY primary even though they had almost a year to do so. I guess the primary was the last thing on their minds even though the son-in-law wrote and published an endorsement of Trump. >> But that’s OK because I’m pretty sure everyone knows by now that the newspapers and news distribution services are owned by just a few corporate super-conglomerates that simply won’t print anything that runs contrary to a pre-scripted narrative.
The well known media bias thing only added more validity to Trump’s $36 million self-funded campaign claims that he was a “non-establishment candidate”. He proudly touted that he wasn’t beholden to anyone because he was funding his own campaign. Clearly, he was not like the other smarmy politicians who had to kiss up to their sponsors, say whatever it took to get elected, and then do the exact opposite once in office. Trump would say whatever fell from his lips and no one could do a thing about it. He was the epitome of “not politically correct” and lots of people loved it!
That was until he was officially on the hook for ONE BILLION dollars on May 3rd. At 6:05pm, the ink wasn’t even dry on the signed contract yet when GOP National Chairman, Reince Priebus, who you might remember as reading from a teleprompter during the last Republican National Convention in 2012, sent out a Tweet.
Reince Priebus Tweet announcing Donald Trump 2016 nominee
I thought that was odd, considering that the GOP literally hates Trump because of his past contributions and shmoozing around with high falutin’ democrats like:
Trump golfing
Donald Trump’s wedding
Then I thought about it. Trump just did what Romney did last election! Trump had successfully negotiated a deal with the Republican National Committee on May 3rd. Like Romney, he would sign some letters endorsing some Republican candidates and put together a professional team to collect money. Voila! He had the “presumptive nominee” title. (Remember when that term wasn’t even a thing?) Of course, the loans Romney had made to himself during his campaign would get repaid first and the rest would go to the RNC. SWEET!
For those who were paying attention during the last RNC in 2012 you might remember when the term “TEAM ROMNEY” magically rolled onto the scene. That’s when it happened. That’s when a hybrid corporation was created of Romney lawyers and RNC lawyers to facilitate the rules change to accommodate the “presumptive nominee” and literally black out any competition or dissent from duly elected delegates representing other candidates still in the running during the convention. Trump now has all the benefits associated with the 2012 rules change. But of course, that doesn’t mean that the RNC can’t change the rules yet again. (See James Perloff’s excellent blog post about the history of political party rules changes.)
Anyway, Trump just did the exact same thing as Romney, but on steroids. Trump is now technically on the hook for ONE BILLION DOLLARS. He is no longer “Mr. Non-Establishment” because of paying his own way. Quite the contrary, he’s groveling to the corporations and the uber-elite just like all the other narcissists who feel compelled to lead millions of people. I mean, let’s face it, Trump’s a businessman and that’s why he hooked up with Goldman Sachs and Soros men to head up this new team despite accusing his GOP competition of being in bed with these same entities. He wants his darn $36 million back and if I know him, he may even be offered a commission from the RNC for collecting money for their organization.
The beauty part is that even if he loses the election, he’s not out of cash and the two party system rivalry keeps rolling thanks to this donation machine. ‘No harm / no foul’ and Trump has effectively spread his personal brand thereby making his name worth even more. The brand name Trump is conveniently included as an asset in his personal net worth (which we will probably never get to see, by the way. UPDATE: Donald Trump is worth somewhere between 4.5 and 10 Billion)
Now, before everyone gets in a bunch, I’d like to call out the fact that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has announced that it is going to pull in TWO BILLION DOLLARS for the DNC and her run for presidency. This should not be a problem for her as she is very much connected to income streams that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have set up for themselves ie. the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation as well as the separate, Clinton Family Foundation, among others. Not the least of which is their association with Evelyn de Rothschild who many assume to be the richest man on the planet.
The Clintons with The Rothchilds
The Rothschild family is estimated to be worth FIVE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS accumulated mostly through funding both sides of globally important wars and then collecting interest on the loans from the war torn nations. This has been going on for hundreds of years. Rothschild’s wealth is so vast that he is not even in the same league as anyone garish enough to allow themselves to appear in a magazine’s Top 100 Richest list. Though you may come across the figure of $20 Billion for his personal net worth on the internet, his influence is beyond any price tag. Evelyn (pronounced Evil-Lyn) is an interesting character, look him up some time.
Anyway, the only stumbling block is that Hillary Clinton, despite having all the illustrious democratic “super delegates” locked up for about a year now, a goodly portion of which are lobbyists, she may very well be totally unelectable because of some legal snafu – the latest has to do with email. (pssst…make sure you scroll all the way down at that email link – it might have to do with Evil-Lyn, but I digress.) She has a whole laundry list of things that could be pulled out of mothballs and cause her to be jammed up just in time for the election. In the interest of brevity I’ll just list some items that you might want to investigate for yourself if you aren’t familiar with what I am talking about:
Clinton Nixon trials
Clinton Whitewater
Clinton Vince Foster
Clinton Bengazi
Clinton Wall Street speeches
Clinton Foundation Russian Uranium Deal
Clinton Emails
Note: if you are researching online use the search engine IXQUICK.com and not Google and remember that SNOPES (a.k.a Barbara and David P. Mikkelson) may not give you the definitive answer.
Now, despite all of these things appearing as if getting Hillary Clinton elected might be a problem, these vulnerabilities could very well make her more attractive for those who really run the show because these same vulnerabilities could easily be exploited should she deviate from the “pre-scripted narrative”. In other words, she’s got a short, tight leash.
Which brings me to Bernie Sanders and why he is a non-issue at this point. He is posturing himself as an enemy of Wall Street and big banks. Well, there you go. Period. End of Story. (That’s not to say that many government contracts might be created from a Sanders presidency.) Trump just by-passed a ton of voters by making a lucrative deal with RNC head honchos and Clinton has had the DNC game locked up with corporate lobbyists for more than a year. So basically, if you feel compelled to vote during the primary / caucus, or in the general election for that matter, it’s really only for your own personal sense of being involved in a process that you are emotionally attached to because of how you were educated (or not) about how leaders in America are currently selected. These elections have devolved into high tech marketing surveys. I kid you not.
As you can see from my overview of Trump and Clinton, the 2016 presidential election is all about money. And not just insane amounts of money piling up in campaign coffers. I mean, the next President of the United States is going to have to deal with serious changes in the US dollar and how the world deals with these changes. I’m pretty sure those “in the know” are bracing themselves. If / when the US dollar falls, because of it being based on nothing but the military might to make other countries accept it and our system of reserve style banking, a lot of other economies that are hinged to the US dollar will have big problems too.
Remember that the founders of this country didn’t envision any of this for us. There is nothing about the general public voting in primaries / caucuses, the astronomical costs of throwing a made-for-TV convention, or political parties getting funded with tax money (although tax money paying for conventions supposedly has stopped and that’s probably why we are seeing the deals for the office of president being done this way today). None of this is included in The Constitution of the United States at all. So why do we keep doing it this way?
Hand holding US dollars
