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Trump wants to make America great again
Hillary wants to make America Mexico
Hillary wants to make America Mexico
People are numb to these out of touch, privileged, liberal celebrity buffoons telling them how to vote.
Trump wins NC by 6-8 points. New poll today has him +7.
Trump supporters are the new counter-culture on campus. Dunham and Ferrell will get trolled hard.
Dunham should just go home and moleste her little sister
For the love of God, will someone PLEASE tell me what the fuck has she actually done to warrant all this? I feel like I am going to slam my head into a fucking wall with this bullshit, fuck.
In answer to Caleb's question, unless Clinton suddenly becomes a fascist or another form of authoritarian, then nothing is relevant. She is not an authoritarian with fascist, racist, and misogynistic views. Simple.
Plus, you know, this ONE email scandal of hers, plus the sexual indiscretions of people WHO ARE NOT ON THE BALLOT, are outweighed by the ABSOLUTE FUCKING TRUCKLOADS of Trump scandals.
The party if Reagan is actively supporting a puppet of the Russian government.
But yea, no, Hillary is soooo much worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...for-a-hospital-in-haiti-that-was-never-built/There’s real frustration among Haitians over failures in progress promised to them, not just by the Clintons but from the international community at large. In 2015, Haitian activists protested outside the Clinton Foundation in New York, claiming the Clintons mismanaged hundreds of millions in taxpayer money through the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission.
'FOBs': How Hillary's State Dept. Gave Special Attention to 'Friends of Bill' After Haiti Quake - ABC News“Need you to flag when people are friends of WJC,” wrote Caitlin Klevorick, then a senior State Department official who was juggling incoming offers of assistance being funneled to the State Department by the Clinton Foundation. “Most I can probably ID but not all.”
“Is this a FOB!” Klevorick writes later, when a Clinton Foundation aide forwards a woman’s offer of medical supplies. “If not, she should go to cidi.org,” she adds, directing the person deemed not to be a Clinton friend to a general government website.
So, the Clinton Foundation and the State Department were operating with very little breathing room between them. But is there any evidence that Clinton friends/donors benefited from this? Yes.“I think when you look at both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, that line was pretty faint between the two,” said Jake Johnston, a Haiti analyst for the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research. “You had a lot of coordination and connection between the two, obviously. And I think that raises significant questions about how they were both operating.”
Remember that Denis O'Brien is a "WJC VIP," as well as a "Close friend of Clintons." This will be important later on.One series of messages chronicles efforts by billionaire Denis O’Brien, a longtime donor to the Clinton Foundation and the CEO of the Jamaica-based telecom firm Digicel, to fly relief supplies into Port-au-Prince and get employees of his company out.
“This WJC VIP just called again from Jamaica to say Digicel is being pushed by US Army to get comms back up but is not being cleared by [the U.S. government] to deploy into Haiti to do so,” [Amitabh] Desai [director of foreign policy for the Clinton Foundation] wrote in an email with the subject line “Close friend of Clintons.”
Later, O’Brien writes to longtime Clinton aide Doug Band to express frustration. “We’re finding it impossible to get landing slots,” he says. “I’m sorry to bother you but I am not making any progress through conventional channels.”
Band tasks Desai to “pls get on this,” telling O’Brien, “Never a bother.”
and here we have begun to find the money.Scarcely a month into the reconstruction process, it was being described in a diplomatic cable as a “gold rush” for government contractors and aid groups.
Paradigm: "a typical example or pattern of something; a model."A week after the earthquake hit, Klevorick wrote to the USAID’s congressional liaison, Kate Beale, who previously served as a policy staffer in the offices of then–New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.
“Wjc/hrc friends come to you now,” she writes. “Would be great since you likely get this paradigm.”
If that's what $50,000 gets you...Desai forwarded a note to Klevorick from Garry Mauro, who served twice as the Texas state chairman for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns and has donated $25,000 to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. The offer was for “major assets in Haiti” from a company called DRC Emergency Services. On its website, the company boasts of having performed emergency response work at disasters around the globe, with over $2 billion in disaster response contracts. Desai noted that Mauro was “a friend of WJC.”
Klevorick replied, “also note hrc friend,” using initials for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The email chain does not indicate if Mauro’s recommendation led to a contract for DRC, though the company’s website states, “Within 24 hours of the earthquake’s occurrence, DRC assembled and mobilized a team of highly experienced and dedicated personnel to Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas.”
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“They wanted to get some of the business,” he said of DRC. “The Clinton Foundation was a facilitator. They didn’t have the money.”
Trump mangles facts on Clinton and Haiti jobs project | PolitiFactIn 2010, Haiti’s leaders unveiled a plan to spur growth beyond the capital city of Port-au-Prince. One project that emerged was to build an industrial park on the country’s northern coast a little over a mile from Caracol Bay. It was going to bring tens of thousands of good-paying jobs, government officials said.
Sae-A [a South Korean clothing maker involved with the project], under the name of S&H Global, would be the anchor tenant of the new industrial park, producing clothes for clients such as Target and Walmart. Bill and Hillary Clinton, champions of that vision, came to the park’s grand opening. In fact, both of them lobbied hard for the project. Bill Clinton in his role as special envoy to Haiti pushed for expanded garment making. Sae-A said Clinton herself invited the company to build a factory atthe industrial park.
The U.S. Agency for International Development allocated $170 million to support the industrial park by building a power plant and improving the port.
"What is happening here in Caracol is already having ripple effects that will create jobs and opportunities far beyond this industrial park," Hillary Clinton said at the Caracol opening ceremony.
But that really hasn't happened.
The industrial park has been besieged by criticism of millions of dollars wasted, displaced farmers and sluggish job growth. Today, four years, later, total employment is about 8,100. (The State Department told us after publication that new data show the facility now employs about 9,400 people.)
The linchpin is the $300 million, 600-acre Caracol Industrial Park, financed by U.S. taxpayer money and Inter-American Development Bank and geared toward making clothes for export to the United StatesThe Clintons were instrumental at nearly every step in its creation. The development program Bill came to sell as U.N special envoy, written by Oxford University economist Paul Collier, had garment exports at its center.
As only he can, Bill Clinton managed to tout the idea as an exciting departure from Haiti’s past. He successfully lobbied the U.S. Congress to eliminate tariffs on textiles sewn in Haiti. (The powerful Association des Industries d’Haiti lobbied, too, paying at least $550,000 to a D.C. lobbying firm led by Andrew Samet, a former Clinton Labor Department official, and Ronald Sorini, who was the chief U.S. Trade Representative negotiator on textiles during the North American Free Trade Agreement talks.)
The King and Queen of Haiti - Jonathan M. Katz - POLITICO MagazineSecretary Clinton joined in too: She hired Collier’s research partner in Haiti, Soros Economic Development Fund consultant Jean-Louis Warnhoz, as a senior adviser. She and her key aide Cheryl Mills negotiated an agreement between the Haitian and U.S. governments, multilateral financiers and the South Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd., which makes clothes for Old Navy, Walmart, Kohl’s, Target and other retailers.
Clinton Foundation facilitates $45 million Haiti hotel deal - CNN.comTwo years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled Haiti's capital, a deal brokered by former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation will add new lodging for aid workers and other travelers to Port-au-Prince -- in the form of a $45 million hotel.
Caribbean cell phone provider Digicel will own the hotel, which will have 173 new rooms and create 175 new jobs.
Digicel claims to be Haiti's largest private investor and cell phone provider and touts its charitable contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Of course. What else have we got. How about some favors that get repaid by some good old-fashioned nepotism?The modern industrial park, with wide, clear roads connecting rows of low-slung warehouses, would be paid for by the Inter-American Development Bank, which provided $256.8 million in grants to support construction. The bank has donated $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to its website. Large American retailers, including Wal-Mart and Gap Inc., have served as buyers for the clothes shipped from Haiti to the U.S. with special U.S. tax breaks. Wal-Mart has given $1 million to $5 million, and Gap has given $100,000 to $250,000 to the foundation. And in 2012, SAE-A, the Korean garment company that was recruited to become the anchor tenant of the park, gave $50,000 to $100,000 to the foundation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b6e3bc-cc05-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html[Angelo] Viard [a Democratic donor], said that he paid to become a member of CGI so he could attend two of the organization’s meetings.
In December 2012, VCS [Viard's company] won one of the first two gold-mining permits the Haitian government had issued in more than 50 years. The project was immediately slammed by members of the Haitian Senate, who called it a potential environmental disaster and “a waste of resources.”
Viard stressed that [Tony] Rodham was not involved in the effort to win the permit from the Haitian government, which was granted months before Rodham joined the board.
After $100M in the Clinton Foundation's coffers and certainly some directly into the Clinton's pockets (we've already proven the Clintons and the foundation are corrupt - I'm not buying that this didn't go any further than some borrowed time with the private jet), where did things go from there? Well . . .Giustra is a billionaire mining magnate from Vancouver who met Clinton in 2005 aboard his private jet, which he had lent the former president for a trip to South America. (Clinton really must like Giustra—or his jet—an awful lot, because he borrowed it 25 more times, according to the Washington Post.) Somewhere in the air between Little Rock and Bogotá, Giustra realized, as so many had before him, life would be more glamorous, important, and fun with more Bill Clinton in it: "I said to him, ‘Hey, tell me more about what the Clinton Foundation does.' "
Before long, Giustra had pledged $100 million, established a Canadian arm (the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership), and joined the Clinton Foundation's board.
TheBillionaire Whose Clinton Foundation TiesCould BeTrouble for Hillary Clinton - Bloomberg PoliticsGiustra and Clinton jetted in to dine with the country's authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.Days later, Giustra's mining company signed an agreement giving it stakes in three state-run uranium mines in addition to those it controlled in the U.S.
How Putin’s Russia Gained Control of a U.S. Uranium Mine - BloombergRosatom’s acquisition of Toronto-based miner Uranium One Inc. made the Russian agency, which also builds nuclear weapons, one the world’s top five producers of the radioactive metal and gave it ownership of a mine in Wyoming.
The deal, approved by a committee that included then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also followed donations from Uranium One’s Canadian chairman to the Clinton Global Foundation, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Ian Telfer, the former Uranium One chairman and current chairman of Goldcorp Inc., said he pledged a donation of $3 million to the Clinton charity in March 2008.
The company that became Uranium One was founded in 1997 and merged with two competitors in 2005. In 2007, it bought UrAsia, a company co-founded by Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra that owned uranium mining assets in Kazakhstan
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...ssed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=1Mr. Giustra, whose personal stake in the deal was estimated at about $45 million, said he sold his stake in 2007
TheBillionaire Whose Clinton Foundation TiesCould BeTrouble for Hillary Clinton - Bloomberg PoliticsIn Colombia, where his investments include oil, timber, and coal mines, Giustra dined one evening in 2010 with Bill and Hillary Clinton, who both met with Colombia's president the next day. Soon after, one company in which Giustra holds a stake "acquired the right to cut timber in a biologically diverse forest on the pristine Colombian shoreline," Schweizer writes, and another was granted valuable oil drilling rights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/u...entities-of-donors-to-clinton-foundation.htmlAides to former President Bill Clinton helped start a Canadian charity that effectively shielded the identities of donors who gave more than $33 million that went to his foundation, despite a pledge of transparency when Hillary Rodham Clinton became secretary of state.
The nonprofit, the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), operates in parallel to a Clinton Foundation project called the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which is expressly covered by an agreement Mrs. Clinton signed to make all donors public while she led the State Department. However, the foundation maintains that the Canadian partnership is not bound by that agreement and that under Canadian law contributors’ names cannot be made public.
“And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.”
It was only after Hillary became Secretary of State that Bill Clinton gave two speeches in Nigeria in 2011 and 2012. Both times, he was paid $700,000. What did Nigeria get in return?
It was only after Hillary Clinton left the State Department in 2013 that Boko Haram was listed as a terrorist organization. In 2012, the State Department was resisting pressure from Congress and outside groups to list Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.
In 2014, Robert Jackson, the State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, testified before Congress that, “The government of Nigeria feared that designating these individuals and the organizations would bring them more attention, more publicity and be counterproductive.”
In 2011, the Clinton Foundation lobbied the State Department to transfer funding away from AIDS programs to a training program for health professionals in Rwanda. This idea was approved over the explicit objections of some State Department officials.
Although Secretary Clinton officially recused herself, she had her Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills decide the issue. The problem is that before Mills got her job in the State Department, she was a board member at the Clinton Foundation.
Shut It Down: The Clinton Foundation Is Too Corrupt to Exist | The American SpectatorIn 2006, then-Senator Hillary Clinton voted for three amendments designed to put limits on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement.
In October 2008, Senator Clinton voted for the deal. It passed the U.S. Senate 86-13.
In September 2008, Hillary Clinton met with Amar Singh to discuss the legislation. In 2008, the Clinton Foundation also received a donation between $1 million and $5 million from Singh.
*Deep breath*
*snip*
Again, apologies for the length. I'd love to engage on this. If any of the above seems unfair or inaccurate, call it out - I believe I can defend it all.
No apologies necessary, I sincerely appreciate this. I did a VERY quick skim, will read the whole thing later. I will admit that while I do see a TON of good out of the foundation, I have been reticent myself to donate to it based on things I've seen lately. I have been open and honest when I've said that I don't think HRC is perfect or beyond suspicion, I just wanted to know what she's done that's *actually* illegal, and I really appreciate a honest and thought out response.
i would happily vote for the by far most qualified candidate for president in my entire lifetime if i were an american. eat shit if you think i need to justify or qualify that.
i would happily vote for the by far most qualified candidate for president in my entire lifetime if i were an american. eat shit if you think i need to justify that further.
*shovels shit*
thanks for the brief summary of your post history
thanks for the brief summary of your post history
For someone so sure his desired electoral outcome is an inevitable and foregone conclusion, I can't shake the feeling that you seem a touch... shall we "bothered," tonight
I imagine you'd likely have to read my posts in order to laugh at them, and by your interpretation of them, I'm going to assume you haven't. It won't surprise me if/when Clinton wins, and I don't particularly prefer Trump.edit: and don't worry. madam president is as certain as there being an earthquake in california some time in the future. but please feel free to make posts we can laugh at you about next week, the more the merrier.
Hm, would you like to engage on what you think I've said that's untrue? As I said at the end of that monstrosity of a post: I wrote that in order to engage with you all on those subjects, and if I'm wrong, I'd like to be called out for it (though I believe I can defend those points).abject stupidity trying to masquerade itself as truth is what bothers me.
Jesus, Dave, come on. Don't attack someone who has, by and large (especially as of late) been attempting to contribute to conversation. You know you're just going to get yourself in trouble. Be the bigger person.
You can
Did you watch the Dem Convention, they had illegal aliens on stage as speakers and then a key speaker encouraged illegal immigrants to support Hillary, most (many) states don't require I D, to register to vote
If you can't discuss things without insulting people, cool off until you can.
but that's half the fun of drunk posting on interference.
Did you watch the Dem Convention, they had illegal aliens on stage as speakers and then a key speaker encouraged illegal immigrants to support Hillary, most (many) states don't require I D, to register to vote
and i thought i was pretty clearly speaking to the trump supporters in general here, not caleb specifically.
whatever. i gotta be honest and say i stand by what i said originally. the way they disappeared the minute trump started talking about sexually assaulting people and are now acting like it never happened and they have some high horse to sit on now, they should be fucking embarrassed to come back here and act like they have some reason to gloat. fuck this bullshit.
I hate to say it, I really fucking do, but this election has made me so numb to verbal abuse, stupidity, corruption and borderline supervillainy that I can't trust myself to make a prudent decision with my available information.
Scrolling through all of that, all I want to do is shrug. I mean, it's a lot of bad stuff, sure, but then I look over to Trump, an overgrown adolescent with terrible platforms (is that even the right word for his vague proposals?), no tact, no political experience and some of the most uninformed supporters in recent memory and I just want to take a shower. What an awful candidate.
So one thing Hillary has going for her is that she isn't Trump. Fantastic. Then what? Well, a lot of Democrats are hitting a wall there. My apathy is nothing personal; as I said before, the emails and "corruption" mean nothing to me at this point. Everyone involved in this election has done or said something I find morally reprehensible, so at least impress me with some exciting policies and...nope. That's not happening either. Never has. I scanned through her policies back in January and nothing in her speeches nor those awful debates changed my mind. She's more in line with my thinking than Trump of course, but not enough to make me an active supporter. I fucking hate her donors too. Talk about a basket of deplorables, holy shit.
BTW, the Clinton campaign will drop a video of Trump lighting puppies on fire in Putin's backyard sometime before the election, so none of this matters. Trump will lose the election, handily. This campaign has been decided by gossip rags since day 1 and that will be the case until the bitter end. That's why the debates were shit. Clinton will have the last word and Trump's campaign will die a horrible death. There's got to be a whole storage locker of dirt on this guy that hasn't been released yet.