The 2016 election is quickly becoming a reality instead of a sideshow…..and all the time since the summer JEB! has been scrambling to find a foothold for his campaign.
In recent months Jeb cannot buy any love….no matter how he tries to punch out Trump….the only thing all his money and rhetoric has done is see him slide in the polls…..How can that be? After all he is the smart one of the two brothers…..how can this be?
Since nothing so far has given him a step up in the polls he is gonna try something new…..
In 2013, after Edward Snowden dropped his NSA bombshell, President Obama called for an end to spying on certain world leaders. But Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli bigwigs remained on the “keep an eye on” list for “compelling national security” reasons, current and ex-US officials tell the Wall Street Journal. Included in the US spying sweep were conversations between Israeli officials and US lawmakers and American-Jewish groups, which, as one senior US official tells the paper, resulted in an “Oh s— moment” that the executive branch would be nailed for spying on Congress. The White House, though, felt the info necessary to rebut lobbying Netanyahu might do against a US-Iran deal; still, it was “wary of a paper trail stemming from a request.” And so “we didn’t say, ‘Do it’ [to the NSA],” a senior US official tells the Journal. “We didn’t say, ‘Don’t do it.'”
Instead, the administration more or less let the NSA share whatever info it saw fit, and the NSA did just that, reportedly following tight mandates about spying on communications “to, from, or about” Americans, the paper notes. For example, the agency took out names of individual lawmakers and any personal info in reports it submitted to the White House and also omitted any “trash talk” about the administration, officials tell the Journal. At least one presidential candidate isn’t surprised by the revelations. “This administration views Congress, Republicans, and sometimes even Democratic members of Congress as their enemy,” Ted Cruz tells CBS News. “At times, it seems like they view the American people as their enemy.” A National Security Council spokesman, however, tells CBS, “[W]e do not conduct any foreign intelligence surveillance activities unless there is a specific and validated national security purpose. This applies to ordinary citizens and world leaders alike.”
My opinion is that our boy JEB! is…….TOAST! All his money is going to do is….be wasted!
Thoughts?
Can anyone seriously blame Obama for keeping an eye on the snake, Netanyahu?
Please…
Oh some “good” American will defend Israel until their dying breath…..so sad….Happy New Year….chuq
LOL!
First… considering the absolute cluelessness of the potential, and, probable responses to the query, “Any thoughts?”, I decided to just ROTFL & get it over with… & I see I wasn’t wrong to do so….
Bro, you know as well as I do, it’s ALL a waste. Every penny spent on the circus we now call the election process would be better spent teaching kids how to play music, & sing, together….
None of it matters, anyway; whoever gets elected, from either party, is NOT going to do a thing for the American people on the street, other than continue to view them as another threat to their complacent entitlement, and, to the agenda of their corporate owners. er, sponsors….
Add up the campaign costs for just half the contenders for next year, & you could rebuild several third world countries recently flooded out by storms gone mad in the wake of climate changes, which, (Surprise!), started about 50 years ago….and more….& I ain’t talking about England, who already spent 5 billion pounds to start the clean up from their floods…. At least they have it to spend…. they’ll need it, to pay off the victims of all the pedophiles rampaging through the halls of Westminster….
It’s all just a circus, ffolkes… the tickets aren’t free, though… We all will be paying THAT price in the coming years….
gigoid. the dubious & happy fucking new year….
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And a Happy Fuking New Year To You….grin
A Circus?
More like a Greek tragedy…
‘Schadenfreude’ to you
Burn Dubai burn….
“FIRE” by Arthur Brown (1968) ~ new video https://youtu.be/ZLUGsn-NOis via @YouTube
BURN……
When this came out, I was working in the sugar beet fields, with a crew of other ‘hoers’ such as me….. The video is even more appropriate today than even then, when we all thought nuclear war was close….
Schadenfrude is exactly right, as is the Greek reference… But, being human, I’d rather go to the circus… If I must suffer extreme irony, so be it…. Besides, what else can we call those idiots, but ‘clowns’….
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g, t d
Sad that the election of the people that represent us has turned into big business…..a joke without a punch line….chuq