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America’s Greatest Enemy – The Establishment
US Defense Watch ^ | April 12, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 04/12/2016 12:26:55 PM PDT by pboyington

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1 posted on 04/12/2016 12:26:55 PM PDT by pboyington
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To: pboyington

I suppose the elites are laughing as they read your beautiful rhetoric.


2 posted on 04/12/2016 12:30:10 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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To: pboyington
The Establishment could care less about Ted Cruz. He is a useful, dutiful and ambitious dupe who they will use to destroy Trump then discard like dryer lint.


3 posted on 04/12/2016 12:33:39 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (The GOPe deserve nothing more than a middle finger)
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To: pboyington

The Uniparty has been intentionally flooding the country with fraudulently documented foreigners and refusing to enforce the laws.


4 posted on 04/12/2016 12:38:25 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: pboyington

Would it were not true.


5 posted on 04/12/2016 12:39:16 PM PDT by onedoug
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ok, while I agree with the premise... let me get this straight: Sanders who has been in Federal office since 1991 is NOT establishment, but Cruz who has been in office for 3 years and routinely fought the establishment on its shenanigans IS establishment? I don’t think so.

Here’s the thing, and the trumpeters heads are going to explode when I say this but, oh well: The establishment is about expanding their own power. Therefore they are for expanding the power and scope of the federal government. (I think we’d all agree up to this point). They don’t care which party, they only pay lip service to that. It’s only about expanding government. Period. Thus Sanders is just as establishment as any other Dem, hes just more honest about it. So that leaves us with Cruz v Trump. To me, Cruz is the only one in the race who has at any point, on any issue, advocated for removing power from DC. Trump certainly has not. He’s run on stopping threats to the country but not on returning power to the people. Thus, for me, the only anti-establishment candidate in this race is Cruz.

However, again, I generally agree with what you’ve written pb (and your namesake’s story is what first lit the spark that grew into a love of aviation and a career). And one more thing...I don’t think we avoid the violence. It’s coming. Unfortunately.


6 posted on 04/12/2016 12:40:17 PM PDT by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: pboyington

“drag down American Blue Collar wages to a Third World status.”

The end game is, “Globalism”.


7 posted on 04/12/2016 12:41:06 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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Free Traitors™ suck.


8 posted on 04/12/2016 12:43:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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NAFTA was the beginning of the end.


9 posted on 04/12/2016 12:44:07 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: pboyington

Yep, the establishment IS the enemy.


10 posted on 04/12/2016 12:47:11 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Axeslinger
Trump called for closing several departments, Education for one. So your argument is based on a faulty premise.

Cruz seemed like he wasn't establishment. Turns out he was. Whatever he has to do to get the nomination, he is willing to do. Bushes don't work for people who are going to end the Bush Crime Syndicate's hold on the GOP. They have dinner with Hinckleys, and seduce Cruz's.

11 posted on 04/12/2016 12:49:08 PM PDT by Defiant (The Shills are alive, with the sound of Cruz-ick....)
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It’s about globalism vs. nationalism. Trump and to a lesser extent Sanders are nationalist. Cruz is a globalist although he pretends not to be. Heidi Cruz is a bigwig at Goldman Sachs and the CFR, and worked on promoting the North American Union. Ted voted to enable TPP to be passed by 50 rather than 60 votes in the Senate, though he now pretends to be against it. He was for a 500% increase in H1Bs before he realized it was poison with voters. If he ever became president he would toe the line of the Bush establishment that are now running and funding his campaign. Though of course the author is right, they will drop him like a hot potato after the first ballot at the convention. Only Trump presents a real nationalist challenge to the establishment, which is why they are hell bent to destroy him, even if in means a Democrat landslide in November.


12 posted on 04/12/2016 1:19:46 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: COBOL2Java
The establishment's legacy.
13 posted on 04/12/2016 1:20:29 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: pboyington
It is the Establishment. It is the single greatest threat to the life, liberty and happiness of the American people since the British Empire in 1776.

Folks like Hillary. Hairy Reed. Shummer. And the elitist liberals like Donald the Duck who support them.

14 posted on 04/12/2016 1:22:06 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: pboyington
The status quo -- which I guess is what he's talking about -- is the result of various groups pushing their own agenda. Throw them out and you'll have other groups (plus a lot of the same groups) pushing their agendas and you'll end up with something as messy as what we have now.

Starmann is working with a "the people versus the interests" model that might have been valid a century ago, but that's questionable now. Once upon a time Wall Street and Main Street had very different philosophies and ways of life. That's not so true now. A lot of people on Main Street have Wall Street (or Hollywood, etc.) values.

You aren't going to find a situation where 70 or 80 or 90 percent of the people share any particular belief or set of beliefs. You'd be lucky to get 50 percent and your majority would likely break-up over the details. There may be some bloc out there of never-voting Americans, a silent majority, that would tip the balance heavily in one direction, but they don't vote and wouldn't have the persistence to achieve goals over the long haul.

15 posted on 04/12/2016 1:45:41 PM PDT by x
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A 19 minute video with an ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION OF HOW THE GOP ELITES IN COLORADO SCREWED TRUMP! (It’s all part of the master plan by the DC GOPe crew to screw him out of the nomination)
I don’t agree with Stefan on some of his vids but I believe he’s got this one right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiZ5HW2wqU


16 posted on 04/12/2016 1:46:11 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: 1Old Pro

THE MEN WHO OWN AND RUN AMERICA

I know, I know — many of YOU already know this! Some of you could have MADE this video.  But if you are old enough to recall that, for example, that bottle of Coke you could buy for a nickle in 1946 and are a bit unclear why it now costs 10X that or more today, this video will answer that question.

How is it that this LOOTING of America and the rest of the developed world has gone on for over a century?

Well, in addition to wishing to NOT be MURDERED like Rep. Louis McFadden, others and, more recently, JFK (who was making noises about issuing US Notes, bypassing the Fed), the conscious IGNORANCE of or COMPLICITY with the scan by the majority of the current politicians prevents anything from being done to restore an honest monetary system!

Unless he’s lying through his teeth — and I don’t believe he is — when he says “These are BAD PEOPLE”, Donald Trump is not only on to them, but has been declaring that he’ll do something about their crimes!  That’s why the oligarchs are scared “obamaless” (I’m sure you will figure out what I meant to write there) that he might actually make it to the White House!  If you fully understand sordid history of our “masters”, you KNOW they will do whatever it takes to prevent that!

One final comment before I shut up:  What do the now intensifying efforts by Romney, Cruz, Kasich, Preibus and many, many others in the GOPe (not to mention the Dems) tell you about where THEY are with respect to the continuation of this century long economic RAPE of America and her citizens from which THEY undoubtedly benefit?

Just askin’ a question you might wish to put to YOUR representative at the upcoming Town Hall Meetings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwO1onXAaI


17 posted on 04/12/2016 1:47:56 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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These two are the mascots to the article.

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18 posted on 04/12/2016 1:51:21 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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NAFTA was the beginning of the end.

Yup, and guess who supports NAFTA?

19 posted on 04/12/2016 1:53:41 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: GilGil

I knew I smelled an election coming on. Pheww!


20 posted on 04/12/2016 2:52:13 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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