I think the people who voted for this clown, and now support him blindly(I am looking at you Paul Ryan), owe the rest of us an apology! I am also tempted to say we should make then wear Big Red T around their neck so that we all know who was responsible for this dark time in our history!
By Jeff Simpson Fourth of July weekend, and everyone gets together with their friends and likes to have a nice cookout, maybe some Spotted Cow and a burger. It is always good to take a couple days and relax with friends.
The members of the Bourgeoisie did just that.
Lally Weymouth, the former owner of the Washington Post and currently a senior associate editor there, held her annual summer party. Being owned by Jeff Bezos has its privileges. Ms. Weymouth, at her house in the Hamptons, entertained with a long gold carpet leading to a big tent put up next to her house, where the guests were served, champagne, rare filet and a big chocolate cake w/ice cream (among many other delicacies).
Ms. Weymouth, whose birthday was the next day, would of course, know many people in Washington D.C., since her grandmother bought the Washington Post many years ago.
No one should be surprised when a couple of celebrity guests walked in:
Yes , fresh from their offices in the White House, where their father continually calls any mainstream media that criticizes him #fakenews, here are Jared and Ivanka partying with a senior editor of the Post. Ok it could just be a random thing, but as we all know --- But Wait There is more!! A quick peak at the guest list and who do we see?
Who are all these rich, almost-completely white people? Here’s a breakdown:
Joel Klein: Former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education; then Executive Vice President of News Corps.; now an executive at New York-based health start-up Oscar.
Alan Patricof: Investor; founder and chairman of New York Magazine; a Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton, though he often lunched with Young Jared Kushner.
Boyden Gray: Former counsel to President Bush and a main architect of the Clean Air Act; former ambassador to the E.U.
KatharineWeymouth: The former publisher of the Washington Post; daughter of Lally Waymouth.
Mary Jordan: Washington Postcorrespondent “currently traveling America writing about the Trump era.”
Richard Cohen: Washington Post columnist.
Margaret Carlson: Bloomberg News columnist; the first female columnist at Time.
Gillian Tett: U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times.
Steve Clemons: Washington editor-at-large of The Atlantic.
Robert Hormats: Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates.
Carl Icahn: Billionaire investor.
Charles Koch: One half of the infamous Koch brothers and CEO of Koch Industries.
John Paulson: An investor and one of Trump’s top economic advisers during his campaign.
Dina Powell: The U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to Trump, evidently hand-fed to him by Mika Brzezinski.
Richard Edelman: Founder of the PR firm Edelman Group.
Maria Bartiromo: Anchor at FOX News.
Ray Kelly: Former Commissioner of the NYPD.
Bill Bratton: Ibid.
Jeff Rosen: Legal commentator.
KellyAnne Conway:
William Drozdiak: A non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Center of the United States and Europe; senior advisor for McLarty and Associates.
Steven Spielberg is there too, unfortunately for him.
Nothing like getting hard hitting news coverage from a paper of record after a night of the editor and reporters partying with all of the major players.
While families have been split over the current political climate, the people behind the scenes are eating rare filet and toasting to your foolishness. When George Soros and Chuck Koch are toasting together, or Chuck Schumer and Jared Kushner are sharing pleasantries over bacon wrapped scallops and billionaire investors from both The Donald and Hillary are sharing stories of their multiple divorces, all at a party of the editors of the Washington Post....then we know the whole thing is a sham. In the end we just turn into Spiculus, fighting for the Emperor Nero's enjoyment. George Carlin was dead on:
I was going to write about how Hillary Clinton would be a terrible President for the environment. As Naomi Klein puts it:
Books have been filled with the failures of Clinton-style philanthrocapitalism. When it comes to climate change, we have all the evidence we need to know that this model is a disaster on a planetary scale. This is the logic that gave the world fraud-infested carbon markets and dodgy carbon offsets instead of tough regulation of polluters – because, we were told, emission reductions needed to be “win-win” and “market-friendly.” If the next president wastes any more time with these schemes, the climate clock will run out, plain and simple. If we’re to have any hope of avoiding catastrophe, action needs to be unprecedented in its speed and scope. If designed properly, the transition to a post-carbon economy can deliver a great many “wins”: not just a safer future, but huge numbers of well-paying jobs; improved and affordable public transit; more liveable cities; as well as racial and environmental justice for the communities on the frontlines of dirty extraction.
If she's elected president, Hillary Clinton says she'll appoint her husband, Bill, to oversee the economy. During a speech in Kentucky Sunday she referred to "my husband, who I will put in charge of revitalizing the economy 'cause he knows what he's doing."
Yowza. I guess that is better than putting him in charge of our trade policy! However it got me to thinking, since the Clintons are very well known for cronyism, who else in her family can she put in charge of our Government.
Philanthropy is her true passion, Clinton said, and that's why she permanently left Wall Street to join the Clinton Foundation, which she runs with her parents, former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.'I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,' Clinton toldThe Telegraph. 'That wasn’t the metric of success I wanted in my life.
Because Chelsea is such a true philanthropist, I would say she could run the Department of Education, since she came to Madison to make fun of Bernie Sanders plan to give people free college education. Of course to do that she would need to give up her $11 million dollar apartment, $600,000/yr job and be thankful that she already paid for her $3 million dollar wedding prior to "serving" the public.
Chelsea Clinton’s husband is shutting down a hedge fund he founded after losing 90 percent of investors’ money. Marc Mezvinsky promoted Eaglevale Hellenic Opportunity as a means to bet on, and profit from, a Greek economic recovery. The fund was a spinoff of Eaglevale Partners, a larger hedge fund founded by Mezvinsky and two colleagues from his days working at Goldman Sachs.
The best thing about Mr. Chelsea is his sticktoitiveness
The effect on Mezvinsky’s hedge fund has been gruesome. It raised $25 million for its investments, but had already lost about 40 percent of its value by early 2015. Rather than shuttering the fund then, Mezvinsky pressed ahead.
On a darker note, federal prosecutors said Ed Mezvinsky habitually dropped the Clintons' names and boasted of their friendship during the 1990s as he defrauded friends, family members and institutions out of more than $10 million. Ed Mezvinsky was sentenced in 2003 to serve 80 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a massive fraud that prosecutors said amounted to a Ponzi scheme. He was released from custody in April 2008, but remains under federal probation supervision. Both he and his wife were forced into bankruptcy, and they quietly divorced in 2007, court records show.
It is unfortunate that we have finally had an administration free of real scandal and now we are apparently headed back to the Bush era of cronyism, self interests and unethical behavior.
As they say - In a democracy, we get the Government we deserve!
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