Comments by "irresistablejewel" (@irresistablejewel) on "Clinton Colluded With Russia To Smear Trump During Election" video.

  1. @george cushing Of course there is something wrong with the American political system when (as you say) there are foreign interests that can buy political influence, within America. There is also something wrong when some main stream media outlets openly give political donations; whistle-blowers (to impropriety in government and the secret service) are viewed as the enemy within, by the political establishment, and there is something really odd about a candidate who lost, but won't go away ... perhaps so much money has been "invested" in what we were told was a sure thing or there is anger at having to choose between Clinton and Trump, but there is definitely something wrong with the political system with all that going on. You say socialism sucks, I don't agree with you; but I think we can agree "crony-capitalism" does, unless you are an insider; when it seems you would be above the law. Yes Venezuela is in a mess, but I don't think America is entirely innocent regarding that; as it casts a baleful influence over a number of South American countries and I think if you look a little under the surface you'll find credit default swaps and much the same rot that seems to be plaguing most of the Western economies (except Iceland, who let their banks go bust and jailed bankers). I'm not trying to blame America for all of the problems in Venezuela, but neither would I describe Venezuela as having a particularly good socialist government. Try Canada; Norway; Scotland; even Russia for better forms of socialism and it should be pointed out that China with its one communist party seems to be putting most Western economies to shame; although state subsidised "private" industry doesn't appear to be a totally honest way to do business. I would insist that there is something wrong with a system that can be easily hi-jacked (only I think this occurred a long time ago, in America, it's just become a bit too obvious to ignore now); those that view money as a religion and profit as their "prophet" seem misguided (although it has made many of them fantastically rich); also there seems to be the mindset that if you can't beat 'em, you have to join them, but their objective is profit ... their profit, not your profit and foreign "investors" in politicians don't need to care if America goes bust or erupts into civil war because they aren't invested in America for the long term, short term profit will do just fine. Certainly no system is going to work particularly well if it is corrupt; but since America doesn't have a main party that is socialist (both the Democrats and Republican parties are definitely right wing); I don't see what socialists or socialism has to do with the mess we see before us. The root cause, in my opinion, is "Reaganomics", which was a re-hash of "horse and sparrow" economics; which led to the great depression of 1929. Repealing Glass-Steigal (a useful 4 page bill) removed a lot of the stops and the banks started trading "debt obligation" like it was money and now somehow the taxpayer is supposed to pay for a lot of these bad bets; while getting no interest on savings ... so it means there is trouble brewing for pensions funds as they struggle to get a return. I doubt socialism, or electing Trump, will pull this out of the fire. I guess someone has to go bust before America does; but the banks put millions towards the Clinton campaign (and they aren't short of ammo yet) to insure sure they don't go bust ... and seem to be having a "bunfest" with all this printed money. It clearly can't continue much longer this way; -$20T will not be paid by cuts alone ... but don't you find it interesting the people who oppose everything the President tries to do. It's very revealing ... I think as President you get one "wish"; one policy you'll get through; but the rest is up for auction ... looks like Obama just got Marijuana legalised. Closing the Cuban based torture facility was a bridge too far. So maybe lay off the socialists, Bernie (who may be a bit socialist) got sidelined ... but that's a DNC matter and there is far more to America than two right wing political parties. Have a nice day!
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  2. I don't understand what you are trying to say, George. I'm told that currently Venezuela is in a mess. Of course I'm being told this by many of the same main stream media (msm) outlets that gave political contributions, so actually are biased; but certainly if the electricity supply is failing then the country has serious problems. However I seem to recall that Venezuela has the eighth largest natural gas reserves in the world, and consistently ranks among the top ten world crude oil producers ... so it seems most odd to me that, of all things, there are energy shortages. I think you'll find that American oil companies in the 20th century were all over Venezuela, like a rash, they took 50%; the government took 50% (so loads of money); but it seems the country is very corrupt and (for reasons I don't understand) oil has been called "the devils excrement". The government there eventually nationalised the industry, which didn't seem to help either; then there is the cocaine trade and probably a host of internal issues that are too subtle for outsiders to really understand. Yes I keep hearing the right wing holding up Venezuela as "the poster boy" for socialism, when: there are far better examples; the oil industry seems to have had some influence over proceedings and corruption is rife. As I said already, systems (any) don't work at all well when corrupt and corruption is quite corrosive to structures. I admit I don't understand many of the issues; I think the msm have an agenda; but I believe enough to not want to holiday there. Sure; sometimes people just say stuff ... eg Trump is a Russian spy, or there are idiots who give the likes of Andy Borowitz (New York Times) prizes for writing fake news. There is clearly a lot of frustration in America and why not? The electorate being given a choice between two rich white Americans, who both accepted large cash contributions in order to run for the office of President. I'm not calling anybody corrupt (yet), but that's a game few can play. I can see why the right wing would like to talk about Venezuela (it's a distraction from the mess America is in); or why the establishment wants to throw any kind of mud at non-establishment candidates (to keep the game "in-house") or even try to call other: ideologies; systems or structures a failure if judged by their rules (which don't seem particularly good). I'm not sure how the American people rid themselves of corruption in government; maybe ask the Russians and Chinese, because there is lots of low level corruption in these countries (I've lived in both), but if corporations offer the government money (for services rendered) somebody goes to jail. In that way at least the left differ from the right; but of course they have other problems. The bit that annoys me is where people seem to think there is a left wing party in America. Maybe the Green Party is; the Liberal party traditionally occupies centre ground; but you won't hear much about them near election time as it then becomes a two horse race between two right wing capitalist political parties. USA hijacked is a betrayal of the American constitution. I believe the DNC experienced an internal leak (judging by download speed). Other American hotel chains (and fast food companies) have gone into 50/50 partnership with Russian companies, but Trump plc hasn't so I doubt collusion with the Russians, but other American companies would have had to pay kick backs to get in, so they probably did collude. Still at least Clinton didn't win; because she was bought and paid for some time ago and since her major sponsors come from Wall Street there is nothing left wing about her (Also I think she's in real trouble for starting this Russian witch hunt). The American political system is still very corrupt.
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