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Oct. 12, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Hillary Must Lose

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	I don't mean to sound too much like an ancient Roman when I say this, but it is for the good of the Republic that Hillary Clinton does not win the 2016 presidential election.
	Hillary Clinton is by far the worst presidential candidate it is possible for the United States to have at the moment.
	And not because she would be bad at her job, but precisely the opposite.
	Let's start with the DNC.
	The DNC appears to be a massively corrupt organization that had an agenda that was fixed from the beginning.
	And apparently, allegedly, they have no compunction rigging the electoral system within their own party.
	I think there's a lot of, like I say, people don't realise, in certain neighbourhoods in particular, they put them in a bus neighbourhood.
	Oh, I don't want to say that.
	Oh, like minority neighborhoods, like black neighborhoods and Hispanic neighborhoods.
	And Chinese too.
	But they're just allegations, basically just hearsay.
	We've got no hard evidence for that.
	What we do have hard evidence for is the DNC actively conspiring to rig the election against Bernie Sanders.
	In a recent leak of 20,000 DNC emails from January 2015 to May 2016, staff discuss how to deal with Bernie Sanders' popularity as a challenge to Clinton's candidacy.
	Instead of treating Sanders as a viable candidate for the Democratic ticket, the DNC worked against him and his campaign to ensure Clinton received the nomination.
	Instead of treating Sanders with impartiality, the DNC exhibits resentful disdain towards him and the thousands of disenfranchised voters he could have brought into the party.
	The release provides further evidence the DNC broke its own charter violations by favoring Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee long before any votes were cast.
	Another chain reveals MSNBC's Chuck Todd and DNC staff members discussing how to discredit MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's call for Wasserman Schultz to resign.
	We know there was an institutional conspiracy in the DNC against Bernie Sanders and in favor of Hillary Clinton.
	So when Trump says this a race where you lost, fair and square, unlike the Bernie Sanders race where you won, but not fair and square in my opinion.
	And all you have to do is take a look at WikiLeaks and just see what they said about Bernie Sanders and see what Deborah Wasserman Schultz had in mind.
	Because Bernie Sanders between superdelegates and Deborah Wasserman Schultz, he never had a chance and I was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil.
	He's telling the truth.
	He is currently speaking truth to power.
	He knows it's true, we know it's true and she knows it's true.
	So what the fuck is she smiling about?
	Why is that funny?
	That is something you would think she should think was going to tank her fucking career.
	This should be the end of her.
	Hillary is smiling because she knows this is not going to affect her campaign.
	She knows she doesn't have to care whether everyone knows that she was the primary beneficiary of a conspiracy within her own political party.
	She even, and this is assuming that she wasn't directly orchestrating it, which, I mean, given that she is the primary beneficiary, I would be surprised if she wasn't.
	But she doesn't care.
	It doesn't matter.
	And why it doesn't matter will become self-evident as we continue.
	The next issue surrounding Clinton's campaign is the media.
	Media bias in favor of Hillary is a ubiquitous meme at this point.
	Everyone knows it's happening.
	But the thing is, I think it's a lot worse than people really understand it to be.
	For example, what appears to be happening with Hillary is the same thing that American journalists did with their military when they were out in Iraq.
	She seems to have embedded press in her campaign.
	Hey guys!
	Hi!
	Welcome to our big plane!
	It's so exciting!
	What do you think?
	I think it's pretty cool, don't you?
	I have a few more.
	Because Amy wants the camera.
	I am so happy to have all of you with me.
	Have you missed it?
	I've been just waiting for this moment.
	No, really, and I'll come back, talk to you more formally, but I want to welcome you on to the plane.
	So the people with the most direct access to Hillary Clinton are being flown around with her on a big private plane, undoubtedly pampered with all sorts of food, drink, and various other small luxuries.
	And they get to feel all-important while they're doing it.
	I mean, look at the way she was talking to them, addressing them, as if they were her buddies.
	This is how she acts in press conferences.
	Thank you, Madam Secretary.
	Like the hat.
	I appreciate that.
	Is this a new look?
	No, it's kind of an old look now.
	Oh, you're bringing it back?
	I'm bringing it back.
	Went shopping in your closet?
	You got it.
	I do a lot of that.
	Well, you can look on the map and find Aleppo.
	I love you, Andrea.
	You are indefatigable.
	You're my kind of a woman.
	I'll tell you what.
	Look at this.
	Okay.
	I know.
	Go ahead.
	I mean, the sympathy vote, the whole thing.
	I love it.
	She could not look more relaxed if she tried.
	That was an environment she was genuinely pleased to be in.
	You cannot expect the press to be even vaguely adversarial.
	Even when their questions are pertinent, they allow her to get away with the standardized canned rhetoric that she normally comes out with, that you've seen in all of the debates she's been in.
	She knows the official line to trot out for every single question, and they never challenge her on it.
	But the thing is, I think it's worse than that.
	I think there is some kind of cross-party pressure behind the scenes to be anti-Trump.
	Listen to Bill O'Reilly talk about this.
	It's a complicated situation, but I think everyone can agree except for the media organizations that now have ordered their employees to destroy Trump.
	There's at least three of them.
	And I can't say who they are right now because I don't have it nailed down.
	But I am 100 percent convinced.
	And these media organizations have actually put out, if you support Trump, your career is done here.
	All right.
	And that's how intense it is.
	Are you talking about news organizations?
	Not individuals.
	Right.
	News organizations have sent, not officially, but through the corporate grapevine, that we don't want anybody supporting Trump.
	I don't see any reason why Bill O'Reilly would be lying about that.
	I don't see why he'd make that up.
	And it's a bizarrely specific thing to make up, that there is a giant media conspiracy to oppose Trump and to now destroy him after he won the debate against Hillary Clinton.
	Even a right-wing demagogue like Glenn Beck has come out in opposition to Trump and support for Clinton, saying that voting for Clinton was a moral ethical choice, which is such a bizarre term to use for someone who is so obviously not either moral or ethical.
	And the third point, of course, is the fact that she is unethical.
	And I'm not going to use examples from decades ago to demonstrate that she was unethical then, because I have examples from the modern day to demonstrate that she is unethical now.
	Before we go on to something important, we'll start with something of relative unimportance, which is Hillary's million little lies.
	This scenario in time, where they've just compiled a bunch of the petty lies Hillary has told in the course of being interviewed in public.
	And they're really silly, small things that there is no discernible gain for having told, but there is obviously something to lose when someone discovers you lie about it.
	I mean, watch this.
	There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.
	Problem is, that's not what happened.
	And we should know, CBS News accompanied the first lady and daughter Chelsea on that Bosnia trip.
	Why would you make up a claim like that that makes you temporarily sound more impressive than you really are?
	But in any kind of reading afterwards, people are going to be like, God, she's just a liar.
	She's just pathological.
	And this article's just packed with them.
	Just instances like that where she's just fabricated something that's nonsense.
	It just didn't happen and it's to so little gain.
	And then we come to the Podesta emails, the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
	So this is a man who is in the very upper echelons of her campaign.
	If he knew something, then you know she knew it as well.
	So when he says in one of his emails that while this military paramilitary operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.
	They know who is funding ISIS.
	Do they say anything?
	No, they don't.
	Do they do anything about it?
	No, they don't.
	And I think we can work out exactly why a little later on in this video.
	Podesta was also forwarded an email from Erika Rottenberg, in which she says, None of my friends' circle can understand how it is viewed as okay, secure, appropriate to use a private server for secure documents and further why Hillary took it upon herself to review them and delete the documents without providing anyone outside her circle a chance to weigh in.
	It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I've either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.
	Other people aren't going to get away with that sort of thing.
	So when Donald Trump says this.
	It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
	Because you'd be in jail.
	Secretary Clinton.
	They are cheering because Trump is speaking truth to power.
	Anybody else would get shit canned for that.
	She doesn't, because she's special.
	It's not really unethical, but the next thing I want to talk about is the contempt with which these people just seem to hold the voting public.
	And no, I'm not talking about the elite team aware.
	He says, I know she's begun to hate everyday Americans because I think what he's talking about there is the phrase everyday Americans being hackneyed and cliched, but being pushed into using it in the speech.
	It's when the insiders say things like, as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics, and in general, conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry.
	And they do this because it's in their interests.
	They're all politicians.
	They all care about getting elected.
	It's easier for all of them if they have an unaware and compliant citizenry.
	And when he says the unawareness remains strong, but the compliance is obviously fading rapidly, you know, he is talking about Trump and his support.
	They know this is a populist uprising against the establishment.
	And in a desperate attempt to control them, they have to be shamed in the harshest terms possible.
	Grossly generalistic.
	You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
	Right?
	The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
	The fourth reason Hillary Clinton must lose the 2016 presidential election is because of the sources of her financial backing.
	The sources of a person's income are their interests.
	These are how this person pays the bills.
	This is how they live their life.
	And so they keep these interests in the forefront of their mind before making any major decisions as to not accidentally endanger their own interests through an incompetent decision.
	And he who pays the piper calls the tune.
	Over the course of Hillary's career, she has taken millions from Wall Street, from major banks, from international corporations, and from various massive media entertainment conglomerates.
	When people call Hillary the corporate candidate, they're not being flippant.
	This is a literal description of the people who finance her career.
	The overwhelming majority of her campaign contributions have been large individual contributions.
	If you're not making large individual contributions to Hillary's campaign, she doesn't care what you have to say.
	Not listening to you will not cost her money.
	Whereas if she doesn't listen to the people who have consistently given her money over her career, that will be a very expensive proposition.
	She is incentivized to do what they want.
	And on top of this, she's further incentivized by taking at least $153 million in speaking fees from 2001 to go and speak at places like Goldman Sachs.
	It's the most incredible gravy train you can imagine.
	Bernie Sanders explained it perfectly.
	Senator Sanders, you've said that the donations to Secretary Clinton are compromising.
	So what do you think of her answer?
	Not good enough.
	Here's the story.
	I mean, you know, let's not be naive about it.
	Why do over her political career has Wall Street been a major, the major, campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton?
	Now, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.
	Here is the major issue when we talk about Wall Street.
	It ain't complicated.
	You've got six financial institutions today that have assets of 56% equivalent to 56% of the GDP in America.
	They issue two-thirds of the credit cards and one-third of the mortgages.
	If Teddy Roosevelt, a good Republican, were alive today, you know what he'd say?
	Break them up.
	Re-establish class legal.
	And Teddy Roosevelt is right.
	That is the issue.
	Now, I am the only candidate up here that doesn't have a super PAC.
	I'm not asking Wall Street or the billionaires for money.
	I will break up these banks, support community banks and credit unions, credit unions.
	That's the future of Banking in America.
	Quick follow-up because you.
	Thank you.
	I'll tell them.
	In my view, Secretary Clinton, you do not.
	Congress does not regulate Wall Street.
	Wall Street regulates Congress.
	And we've got to break off these banks.
	Going to them and saying, please do the right thing.
	No, that's not naive.
	Just like Trump, Bernie was speaking truth to power and representing people's legitimate grievances with the system that is incentivizing their politicians away from listening to them as voters and interested in listening to their campaign contributors.
	It's no wonder that Bernie was doomed to lose from the start.
	And because of this, when Hillary ever brings up money in politics or corruption in general, it comes off as being so hollow, it's obvious that she can't even persuade herself.
	I respect the passion and intensity.
	I represented Wall Street as a senator from New York, and I went to Wall Street in December of 2007 before the big crash that we had.
	And I basically said, cut it out.
	People like Donald, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education.
	That is wrong.
	And we're going to make sure that nobody, no corporation and no individual can get away without paying his fair share.
	I want to give you our country.
	And so I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.
	Donald doesn't agree with that.
	I swear to you, that is the most breathtaking thing I've ever heard from the mouth of a human being.
	I never thought anyone could lie like that.
	To suggest that the person at the epicenter of such a web of converging interests would ever be able to reform any of it, let alone even want to do that, is just the most bold, barefaced lie and just the most contemptuous thing you could say to the people who are paying attention.
	Nobody believes you, Hillary.
	Not one person.
	The fifth point in the case against Hillary Clinton is the Clinton Foundation itself, which does indeed seem to be the front for some kind of money laundering scheme.
	This was something that was revealed along with the DNC conspiracy against Bernie from the WikiLeaks.
	Email releases, which were corroborated by a Politico, revealed the DNC's joint fundraising committee with the Clinton campaign was laundering money to the campaign instead of fundraising for down-ticket Democrats.
	What a fucking surprise.
	And this is not the only problem with the Clinton Foundation.
	Not only is it doing this, but it is also acting as a method by which foreign powers can directly influence Hillary Clinton.
	As Glenn Greenwald has stated here, but you can simply go to the Clinton Foundation website and check for yourself.
	This is all public knowledge.
	The kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Qatar donate tens of millions of dollars to her organization.
	For some reason, all of the worst countries on earth, when it comes to human rights abuses of all kinds, donate money to Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation.
	I can't imagine it's really that they're that bothered about the charity work that she does.
	I can't help but think that this is their way of influencing her to work for them.
	And I think you'd have to be pretty naive to think that they were genuinely interested in doing charity work.
	If I were really pushed to speculate, I would say this is one way they cover their ass and keep Hillary quiet about the fact that she knows they funnel money and materials to ISIS.
	More than half of the donors to the Clinton Foundation are from outside of the United States.
	This is a way for major corporations and interests and governments around the world to buy influence into the U.S. political system.
	And if you think it's not, you are wrong.
	Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation.
	While she was Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors.
	Now you all need to know out there, this is basic stuff.
	Foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the American political process.
	They cannot make financial contributions.
	But the Clintons figured out a way to create a foundation where foreign governments and foreign donors could donate millions of dollars.
	And then we found, thanks to the good work of the Associated Press, that more than half of her private meetings when she was Secretary of State were given to major donors of the Clinton Foundation.
	When you talk about all these baseless rumors about Russia and the rest, Hillary Clinton, you asked the trustworthy question at the very beginning.
	The reason people don't trust Hillary Clinton is because they are looking at the pay-to-play politics that she operated with the Clinton Foundation through a private server while she's Secretary of State.
	And they're saying enough is enough.
	Pence is right.
	Clinton is not a philanthropist.
	Clinton is a Machiavellian power schemer.
	And the Clinton Foundation is a very convenient and probably very profitable tool for her to use in order to gain this power.
	And it's not like you can really expect them to reform on their own.
	What incentive do they possibly have?
	I mean, when launching an internal investigation, they send Chelsea Clinton of all people to do it.
	There is no reason why they should change.
	This is all going great for them.
	This is what they want.
	This is the system they have designed for themselves and the backs that they scratch and the way that they do business.
	This is normality to them.
	Bear all this in your mind and then listen to Hillary speak at the debate as to who and what she is going to serve.
	I want to send a message, we all should, to every boy and girl and indeed to the entire world, that America already is great, but we are great because we are good.
	And we will respect one another and we will work with one another and we will celebrate our diversity.
	These are very important values to me because this is the America that I know and love.
	And I can pledge to you tonight that this is the America that I will serve if I'm so fortunate enough to become your president.
	She's offering nothing more than the perpetuation of a highly corrupt status quo that has become detached from its voting body, does not care about their lives, is openly contemptuous of many of them, if not most, and is simply interested in perpetuating its own control over the situation, which is why Donald Trump is so hated by them.
	It's why they're all against him.
	All of these interests have aligned around Hillary Clinton as a result of the forces and incentives produced by the system that they have helped to craft to produce a more favorable outcome to themselves.
	And all Donald Trump is doing is pulling back the curtain.
	My question is, what specific tax provisions will you change to ensure the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share in taxes?
	Mr. Trump, you have two minutes.
	Well, one thing I do is get rid of carried interest.
	One of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you.
	I give up a lot when I run because I knock out the tax code.
	And she could have done this years ago, by the way.
	She's a United States, she was a United States Senator.
	She complains that Donald Trump took advantage of the tax code.
	Well, why didn't she change it?
	Why didn't you change it when you were a senator?
	The reason you didn't is that all your friends take the same advantage that I do.
	And I do.
	You have provisions in the tax code that, frankly, we could change, but you wouldn't change it because all of these people give you the money so you can take negative ads on Donald Trump.
	But, and I say that about a lot of things.
	You know, I've heard Hillary complaining about so many different things over the years.
	Oh, we should have done this.
	But she's been there for 30 years.
	She's been doing this stuff.
	She never changed, and she never will change.
	Did you use that $916 million laws to avoid paying personal federal income taxes for?
	Of course I do.
	Of course I do.
	And so do all of her donors, or most of her donors.
	I know many of her donors.
	Her donors took massive tax write-offs.
	A lot of my federal income taxes.
	A lot of my write-off was depreciation and other things that Hillary, as a senator, allowed.
	And she'll always allow it because the people that give her all this money, they want it.
	People, what do you have to lose?
	It can't get any worse.
	And she's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years.
	Nothing's going to ever happen.
	Let me tell you, if she's president of the United States, nothing's going to happen.
	It's just going to be talk.
	And all of her friends, the taxes we were talking about, and I would just get it by osmosis.
	She's not doing me favors.
	But by doing all the others favors, she's doing me favors.
	Mr. Trump thanks.
	But I will tell you, she's all talk.
	It doesn't get done.
	In the person of Hillary Clinton, all of the worst aspects of the American political system have come into alignment into a single interest that they are all backing.
	And Trump threatens that, and they know it.
	And so do Trump's supporters.
	That's why they don't care if he says something unseemly.
	It simply doesn't matter.
	There are historical forces at work here.
	And it looks very much to me like Trump is a Gracus and he is opposing the continual downward spiral of a republic into a principate.
	So everybody showed the debate last night.
	So let me tell you.
	What I said, we are going to get a special prosecutor to get this camera.

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