They Live " again!".

Roddy Piper starts off on a wrong day
after he picks up a pair of
" shades"

While many in Americas are worried about what Trump does next . While our political system is in chaos right now .  You grab a beer and watch the WWE wrestling match . You probably want to pop a video into your VCR [ blu- ray disk today] and watch a movie called simply (1)>>They Live was released in 1988, following a couple of likeably macho salt of the earth types (played by (1.2)>>Roddy Piper and(1.3)>>Keith David) as they discover that the upper class of society are alien monsters lulling us into a stupor with pop culture, exploiting us and polluting our planet while living the high life. They Live which prevents the humans from seeing the subliminal messages and from (2)>>seeing the skull faced aliens as they truly are.  Change the size of the TV sets, gingerly sprinkle the phrase “1%” into the ideologue, digitally insert cell phones into the characters’ hands, have a few extras snapping selfies in the background and They Live.   (3)>>BUT GREED AND COOPERATE POWER is strong and real,  in fact a controversial new study from Princeton and Northwestern University's concludes that America is now ruled by the interests of the rich which of course makes us not a democracy but an oligarch is a deep understanding in this country that we are living in a rigged economy it is hard to believe but in the United States of America today the top one-tenth of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90% 1/10 of 1% bottom 90% study just came out fairly recently indicating that in the United States of America today the three wealthiest people in our country Bill Gates Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett now own more wealth than the bottom half of the American

Once You wake up , just maybe
things are not what they seem
after all...

people.  They Live is gold. Based on (4)>>Ray Nelson’s short story Eight O’Clock in the Morning, the movie is one of those rare subversive stories that forces viewers to question their world and their surroundings. Because, despite the fact that the movie is about ghoulish aliens, it communicates truths to the viewers that are only alluded to in mainstream movies. In fact, looking deeper into the storyline, one might realize that there’s probably more “science” than “fiction” in the story of They Live (5)>> … especially when one has “truth-seeing sunglasses”.   The hero of the movie, played by WWF wrestler Rowdy Roddy Pipper, is a drifter that is apparently nameless. In the short story and the movie’s credits, (5.1)>>he is referred to as Nada, which means ‘nothing’ in Spanish. While this nameless nothing is broke and homeless, he still manages to expose the alien’s hidden rule of the world. How did he accomplish that? With the only thing he’d ever need:  (5.2)>>The Truth. Oh, and also guns. He used a lot of guns. Most importantly, despite the fact that Nada was

tempted several times to shut up in exchange for “generous compensation”, he kept his integrity and never agreed to sell out to the aliens. Now, that’s a role model. To top it off, he says the best things ever.They Live, meanwhile is kinda real , with all this technology , it has created real monsters , perhaps we are all asleep ,  (6)>>put into some way a trance by the media , we may never WAKE UP!.  I wish they’d gotten to the sunglasses sooner — the B&W subliminal-world visuals were the best thing it had going for it.  They Live makes the process

"look all we want you do is
SLEEP , OBEY . We will
run things for you!

of understanding sociopolitical corruption into the stuff of paranoia-fueled throwback horror cinema. They Live is a staunchly working-class film in both tone and place.  (7)>>Set near Skid Row in Los Angeles, the film is entirely concerned with the lives of people at street level, hustling to get by in a society that privileges wealth and demeans its impoverished. Nada is a drifter, blowing into town in search of construction work. He lands some thanks to Frank (Keith David), but it’s hardly much. Everybody in Carpenter’s L.A. is scraping, living in pop-up encampments and hoping to keep getting by without being hassled. Yet before long, the police show up to tear down the shantytown, which sends Nada into a nearby church secretly run by radicals. Instead of weapons, Nada finds only a pile of sunglasses. It’s not until the next day that Nada puts the glasses on, and realizes exactly why they’re so valuable: (8)>>the sunglasses allow the wearer to see through the propaganda of the world, and see just how many hideous, skeletal aliens have infiltrated our everyday lives. From police to bankers to talking heads on your TV, the majority of the world’s most powerful people are out to brainwash you into consumption and obedience.  (9)>>They are our masters. We don;t know  "Wake up.” Now doesn’t that sound like the Illuminati? Now RRP finds these truth seeing sunglasses inside

.... Now I am reading clearly ....

the church which is actually the headquarters of an underground organization that is trying to take down the rulers.This movie from the eighties is actually telling us all of this! Come on! Then as people are watching tv it’s interrupted by broadcasts with these messages: “Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the under class are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society, and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused on our own gain. please understand. They are safe as long as they are not discovered. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.” Now tell me if that is not what’s happening at this very minute! When RRP  puts on these truth seeing sunglasses he can see the real deal, the alien faces, the subliminal messages all around; i.e. magazines, man holding money in his hand.   (10)>>Religion most likely is one of the ways that aka

Money is the god of this world
a easy slip by the aliens
to control people .

aliens keep people from seeing what is going on around them , if everything is but a deep subliminal illusion which the creatures preach from their pulpits to hypnotized humans who are caught up in the big capitalist cosmic swindle have become easy prey to the subconsciousness of suggestion like  “Marry and Reproduce” and  (10.1)>>“This is your God” in black on a white background. While the alien trick is to get people to think that the a god or gods  had to  created them , given them a set of morals , holy books , etc . But blind spirituality putting people into a trance , by given humankind an illusion by rejecting science ,  but in reality are being exploited like cattle .   The climax of the film is the destruction of the alien antenna transmitting the the subliminal illusions Nada and Frank engage in a gun battle with the guards in the studio hallways and offices. Holly, who works at the station, is found by Frank and Nada and she leads them up to the roof of the building where the dish is broadcasting. Making it to a stairway, Nada runs up to the roof expecting that Holly and Frank are behind him. Suddenly, Holly pulls out a gun, presses it against Frank's temple, and kills him. Through the special contact lenses that he is wearing, Nada notices the broadcasting antenna. Holly gets to the roof, then takes aim at Nada. Here, Nada finally realizes that  (11)>>Holly is yet another human collaborator with the aliens (and possibly the one who led the police to the rebels hiding spot). Then, a police helicopter appears where the aliens aboard order Nada to step away from the broadcasting

Nada ( Piper ) gives up his life
by destroying the Alien Antenna .

antenna. Aware that he is a dead man no matter what, Nada uses a hidden sleeve pistol and kills Holly. Nada then turns his attention back to the broadcasting antenna. Nada is immediately shot and fatally wounded by alien police marksmen in the hovering helicopter, but manages to get one final shot from his small pistol and destroys the broadcasting antenna. As a last dying defiant act, Nada gives  (12)>>the aliens in the hovering helicopter "the finger" as he lies dying on the roof of the building next to Holly's dead body, and the ruins of the broadcasting dish. With the signal now destroyed, people around L.A. and the rest of the country are surprised to discover aliens in their midst... seeing them on TV, chatting with them at the bar, meeting with them at the office... and even having sex with them. The explosion blows up the TV station antenna , the laser beam . The after effects , finally people WAKE UP to to REALITY !



notes and comments.

(1)>>They Live was released in 1988.More information can be revealed when putting into account the context in which the film was produced. During the time in which the film was produced, U.S. President Ronald Reagan established a series of economic policies popularly known as ‘Reaganomics’. As the U.S. was in a state of economic stagflation, President Reagan attempted to solve the issue with his ‘Reaganomics’: which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending and the deregulation of domestic markets. Such policies favour the wealthy upper class and cause impoverishment in the lower classes. President Reagan received both praise and criticisms for his policies which temporarily resolved the problem of stagflation during his presidency. As can be speculated, he was praised by the wealthy and powerful upper class and criticized by mostly everyone else. Such is the historical context in which the film was produced. With this context, one can see that the film’s narrative is a criticism of Reaganomics.(1.2)>>Roddy Piper.  “@R_Roddy_Piper: They Live is a documentary!!” ......... I knew it! Hahaha! Piper, whose real name is Roderick George Toombs, joined World Wrestling Entertainment in 1984; before that he wrestled in the NWA.Piper was known for his on-air feud with Hulk Hogan, and the wrestling entertainment company said Piper began his career as "one of the most-hated villains ever to step between the ropes."Piper and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff took on Hogan and Mr. T in the first-ever WrestleMania. WWE calls the bout "one of the marquee main events in its history."Piper was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005. He was also named one of the WWE’s “Top 50 Villains. (1.3)>>Keith David.  Keith David was born in Harlem. He began acting in plays at a young age, and his first credited appearance in a movie was as the character Childs in John Carpenter's The Thing. In addition to his voice work in video games and film appearances, Keith David has also been featured in interludes for the most recent Ice Cube and West side Connection albums. (2)>>seeing the skull faced aliens .  AND  you

The original Comic story that inspired
"They Live " 

know that they are blue skull-faced aliens hiding among us and controlling Earth’s citizens by making them buy things $$$.(3)>>BUT GREED AND COOPERATE POWER is strong and real. Currently, the domination of big money over our public institutions prevents government from being responsive to Americans. This certainly is not a new phenomenon—but it is growing. In the first presidential contest after the Citizens United decision, 84 percent of Americans agreed that corporate political spending drowns out the voices of average Americans, and 83 percent believed that corporations and corporate CEOs have too much political power and influence. This aligns with more recent research showing that 84 percent of people think government is benefitting special interests, and 83 percent think government is benefitting big corporations and the wealthy. Moreover, the anti-democratic influence of money in politics doesn’t end on election day. The dominance of corporations and business interests exists not just in election spending but also in lobbying elected officials and decision-makers. (4)>>Ray Nelson’s short story Eight O’Clock in the Morning.   You can read “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” here. In 1986 there was a comic adaptation by Bill Wray in Alien Encounters, which Carpenter saw and drew from.  (5)>> … especially when one has “truth-seeing sunglasses”.   When one has “truth-seeing sunglasses”.  We heard the term "pulling the wool off the eyes" When Nada wants [Keith David ]  him to “wear the glasses” that will awaken him from alien domination which is dubbed "sleep" . Well for that much we are being hypnotized by our modern technology .  We have constant "devices" like cell phones , 4k, 5k , Alexia and Google smart tech . Would you no think that

"We have some one who can see US!!!"

this stuff has dangers , besides being spied on , they can manipulate us , control us , we would never know it . SLEEP 👽 (5.1)>>he is referred to as Nada.  As in Nelson's story, Piper's Nada is so named because he is meant to be a blank slate, an everyman; he is given very little backstory and is never referred to by name in the film even once. Only his last name appears in the credits, although Carpenter has since let slip that the character's first name is John — and that he indeed has an extensive backstory, even if the filmmaker himself doesn't know what it is. (5.2)>>The Truth. Oh, and also guns. He used a lot of guns. They Live was one of the violent movies of the Reagan era in line with the Rambo films.  Though this is a campy, satirical, and wildly entertaining classic of a B-movie, there's also quite a bit of violence, including an exaggerated fistfight between two of the lead characters.   I found some of the violence in the film a bit worrisome because of the fact that our media today is bombarding us with real subliminal messages , this film just might send the wrong message to those susceptible  to certain imagery as a trigger to create real violence . Guns are not an excuse .  (6)>>put into some way a trance by the media , we may never WAKE UP!. Mass media manipulation news media CNN , MSNBC , FOX , ABC , CBS , NBC . See [ https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/02/27/lies-america-news-media-tell/ ] Propaganda is obvious, crude and naive, but it's also subliminal, underhand and insidious. Its paradoxical definition is more than just a semantic curiosity. It represents our inability to get to grips with how we are influenced, and by whom.(7)>>Set near Skid Row in Los Angeles, the film is entirely concerned with the lives of people at street level.  They Live is so close to reality in our modern world , it hits evey American . Over the years, Skid Row — like other homeless enclaves around the state —Considered Ground Zero of California’s homeless crisis, the streets of Skid Row are host to approximately 2,000 people on any given night, one of the highest concentrations of homeless in America. Bordered by Third and Seventh Streets to the north and south, and Alameda and Main to the east and west, the 54-block area has been a magnet for transients since the 1800s, in part because of its proximity to L.A.’s central train station. California’s steep rise in “modern homelessness” started in the 1980s, its foundation

formed by cuts in funding for mental health services in the decades before, coupled with economic pressures that led to

A Typical normal day in America , or
the WORLD. SLEEP

rising unemployment, high housing costs, dismantling of single-occupancy hotels and generally inconsistent delivery of services for the poor.But recently, things have gotten worse. As California’s economy rebounded from the Great Recession, the steep rise in housing costs made it a struggle for ordinary Californians to keep up.Today, one-quarter of the nation’s homeless population lives in California, about 134,000 people at last count. That’s a particularly huge number when you consider that the state is home to 12 percent of the total U.S. population. And given that California’s homeless population far outnumbers the services available to them, a higher percentage suffer from chronic mental illness and substance abuse than in other states.The number of people living on the streets and shelters of Los Angeles County surged 75 percent between 2011 and 2017. But a January 2018 count revealed that the number of homeless actually dropped 3 percent, to 53,195, driven by a decline in the number of homeless veterans, according to the Los Angeles Services Authority. L.A. officials are hoping this trend continues with a recent influx of country tax money. (8)>>the sunglasses allow the wearer to see through the propaganda of the world.    . These glasses let you see the world as it really is: the Earth has been invaded, and all of the "one percenters" and most of the cops are actually skinless space zombie free-enterprisers. The corporate media lies, everyone know that. If you get your "news" from corporate media (abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, WP, NYT) you are been fed propaganda (lies) not news.Today, propaganda posters have been replaced by digital visuals, such as the meme, that are easily produced, mass-disseminated and politically pointed, with the potential to do even greater damage to American politics and society than propaganda posters did a century ago.People have always believed what they wanted to, but the incalculable power of social media etc. now reinforce and insulate false beliefs to a heretofore unknown degree. That is dangerous for democracy, even moreso when weaponized and use against us by hostile foreign powers. The danger increases exponentially when those attacks are aided or actively ignored by our leaders.(9)>>They are our masters. We don;t know  "Wake up.”Nada soon discovers that many people around him are actually the same type of humanoids. Most

" Hay whats your problem !" 

of them are wearing expensive clothing resembling wealthy-looking businessmen and women. When Nada enters a local grocery store and insults one of them, the elderly lady speaks through her wristwatch, muttering about his location and the face that he "can see." Nada runs out of the store and into an alley where two humanoid policemen suddenly arrive. The two "policemen" ask where Nada got the sunglasses and he refuses to answer them. Aware that they intend to kill him, Nada escapes, killing both policemen. He steals a police shotgun. While evading the police, he stumbles into a local bank filled with humanoids. Realizing that the jig is up, he proclaims, "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum." A shooting spree ensues as Nada opens fire, firing all the humanoids that he sees. After killing many of them, one of the humanoids sees him and disappears after twisting a dial on his wristwatch. Fleeing the bank and into a nearby parking garage, he forces a woman (Meg Foster) at gunpoint to take him to her house in the Hollywood Hills.(10)>>Religion most likely is one of the ways that aka aliens keep people from seeing what is going on around them . A new conspiracy theory says, before religious texts like the Bible were written, alien lifeforms visited Earth and were seen as "gods" by the more primitive humans. In an article entitled "Aliens Are Coming Back To Retrieve 'Their' Religion," the website   ufointernationalproject.com tried to explain the theory. It claims either aliens created the religious texts for the benefit of mankind, or they were written by humans based on the "alien gods" who visited at that time.  As Carl Sagan has pointed out in (the now out-of-print book) The Cosmic Question, “space exploration leads directly to religious and philosophical questions”. We would need to consider whether our faiths could accommodate these new beings – or if it should shake our beliefs to the core. After all, when you have become God, you don’t want to see your world being destroyed. And that brings us to the crux of religion.  (10.1)>>“This is your God”.  THEY LIVE = Abbreviation for - The Hierarchy Enslaving You.   The word mammon comes from the Greek word mammonas. Similar root words exist in Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, Chaldean and Syriac. They all translate to “money, wealth, and material possessions.” In biblical culture the word mammon often carried a negative connotation. It was sometimes used to describe all lusts and excesses: gluttony, greed, and dishonest worldly gain. Ultimately, mammon described an idol of materialism, which many trusted as a foundation for their world and philosophy. While the King James Version retains the term Mammon in Matthew 6:24, other versions translate the Greek as “money,” “wealth,” or “riches.”  All of us who are now living in the United States face a clarion call to pursue mammon. The purpose of our schools and colleges is to get us better jobs, meaning jobs that pay more money. The most popular web sites, blogs, and motivational speakers are those who teach people how to build wealth.  (11)>>Holly is yet another human collaborator with the aliens. Holly Thompson is a hidden villainess, she is played by Meg Foster. Foster worked throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. She guest-starred in numerous TV shows including two episodes of Hawaii Five-O (1973 and 1976), The Six Million Dollar Man season two episode "Straight on 'till Morning" (1974), Three for the Road (1975), and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season four episode "The Muse" (1996). Other TV shows include Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Here Come the Brides, Storefront Lawyers, Barnaby Jones, Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice, The Cosby Show, Quantum Leap, ER, and Xena: Warrior Princess. She was Hera in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys  .  (12)>>the aliens in the hovering helicopter "the finger".  Nada  giving the finger to the aliens  , being shot at ( Piper) you all most feel so sorry for the fictional person .   Bless that man. Piper was a walking example of how far you can get when you love what you do, and fight for what’s yours.   They Live alien symbolizes corrupt, inhuman ambition that steps on the little guy, resulting in dozens of images, posters, and t-shirts in which real-life celebrities and politicians (Donald Trump is a popular figure) appear as the film’s aliens

Adios Brexit!

"British" and "exit" might be coming to an end , so The basics of  (1)>>Brexit, the troubled plan for Britain to quit the European Union. ..began , ended with  (1.2)>>Theresa May.  U.S. President Donald Trump says he is “feeling badly” for British Prime Minister Theresa May the chronically beleaguered Prime Minister, who announced Friday that she would resign.May held an emotional news conference in London hours earlier and said she would step aside June 7 after being unable to secure a Brexit deal.The president, leaving the White House for Japan, told reporters that “I like her very much.” Trump will meet with May in the U.K. early next month. He is heading to Europe for a state dinner in England as well as D-Day anniversary ceremonies.  More than half of voting-age British  — some 55 percent — think their government should never have held the referendum on EU membership, according to a new poll. It has become increasingly clear that the vote to leave the E.U. was impulsively fuelled by a combination of wary economic protectionism, narrow xenophobia, and out-and-out demagoguery; that its outcome was ill-prepared for, even by its advocates; and that, in any case, the pro-Brexit vote was never going to resolve the problems that its supporters sought to remedy.  In 2014 I began to  see that the United Kingdom was crumbling [see → shorturl.at/jEKT1 ]   As the saying goes of the UKgoes so does the world.  The Brexit idea may have been crafted by  (2)>>UK Nationalism , The vote to leave the EU in June 2016 was the result of a contingent alliance between sections of the electorate and an elite political project on the right of politics.  This elite project saw globalisation and the free market – along with renewed relationship with ‘traditional allies’ in the Anglosphere – as a viable and preferable alternative to membership of the EU.  What emerged as ‘Global Britain’ was perfectly aligned with the Anglo-British tradition of English nationalism, which portrayed England as a global rather than regional or parochial nation. This return of Britain subsumed the ‘England’ that had emerged in the decade before 2016.  England faded from political salience as ‘Global Britain’ took over once again.  In this situation, memory of Empire stood in as globalisation avant le lettre, allowing Brexiteers to portray Britain’s EU membership as a regional interregnum in its otherwise global history.  Scotland and Northern Ireland remained distinct as might have been anticipated, but England was further occluded by the new cleavages in politics revealed at 2017 election.  Brexit became a source of further political division in England after 2016.  Political divisions never stopped

Meet Boris Johnson , England's next
Prime Minister . And Trump Mirror .

nationalists proclaiming unity, but England’s unity was cloaked in British rhetoric as the UK left the EU. Now the U.K. is so conflicted and disorganized, and ­­­May was so under pressure by the hard-core  (3)>>Leavers, { The UK right-wing}  that it didn’t even fight these early battles. In a RAND study, we found that the EU knew from the outset it was playing a “zero sum game” in which it could only win if the U.K. could be seen to be losing. The U.K. wasn’t sure initially what game it was playing, or against whom. With May gone , the U.K. is going to be looking for  to succeed  as Prime Minister one of Britain’s most recognizable, and now most divisive politicians, (5)>>Mr. Johnson has a history of verbal gaffes, a poor record as a minister and many enemies in Parliament, not to mention among the voters who reject Brexit, which he helped persuade Britons to embrace in a 2016 referendum. He is viewed by his critics as Britain’s answer to Donald Trump. A larger-than-life character, Johnson combines a colorful personal life with an outspokenness and courting of controversy which is rare at the top of British politics. However, if Johnson can persuade  (4)>>Tory MPs to put him through — those who know him best seem most resistant to his appeal — Johnson will almost certainly become Britain’s next prime minister.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Brexit.  The UK and EU signed off on a 900-plus page withdrawal agreement and a political declaration on future ties after Brexit. May said this deal “delivers on the vote” by ending the free movement of people between the UK and EU, slashing payments to Brussels, and mostly taking the UK out from under jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. These commitments also mean the UK will be out of the EU’s single market and customs union. The government is banking on the supposed political benefits of the deal outweighing the economic costs.The agreement May negotiated has two parts. One is the binding withdrawal agreement. The other is a non-binding set of principles to guide future negotiations.Under the plan, the U.K. remains within a "customs union" with the EU for an unspecified period. This continues the trade that both parties wanted. The two sides will not impose tariffs on each other's imports. They are free to tax imports from other countries. Critics want the freedom to negotiate separate trade deals with other countries.The U.K. retains complete access to capital. The 3 million European nationals living in the U.K. can continue to live and work in the country without work visas. The 1.3 million U.K. citizens can continue to do the same in the EU.  (1.2)>>Theresa May. Before becoming Britain's second female prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher, May had spent six years and two months as home secretary beginning in 2010 — the longest tenure since James Chuter Ede, who had held the post from early August 1945 to late October 1951.As home secretary, May made a name for herself with her hard-line positions on immigration, which the government pledged to reduce. In 2015, she gave a controversial speech in which she said immigration made it "impossible to build a cohesive society."  May sought instead to rally support among the most right-wing members of her own party, choosing not to reach across the aisle until her exit agreement had thrice been rejected by those members she had hoped to persuade. It’s no surprise!     (2)>>UK Nationalism. The new English nationalism that surfaced so strongly during the Brexit campaign is, ironically, much closer to continental traditions of nationalism. It is much more ethnically and culturally exclusive than the English/British tradition, which developed when British politics stabilised after prolonged turmoil and civil war at the beginning of the eighteenth century.(3)>>Leavers. The days when Leavers talked about the sunlit uplands are over. Liam Fox has not even managed to replicate the scores of trade deals the UK will lose when we leave the EU. As for independence, Leavers cannot name any laws imposed on the UK by the EU that they do not like. Since the referendum, even public attitudes to immigration have become much more favourable.”It’s a far cry from the heady days of the Brexit campaign, when Leavers promised an additional £350 million a week to spend on the N.H.S. should Britain leave the bloc. But the Brexiteers, rather than repenting in the face of such a dire economic prognosis, have largely dismissed the government’s accounting. “We were told during the referendum campaign that we’d each lose £4,300 and that there would be a recession and higher unemployment,” said former international development secretary Priti Patel. “And yet we’ve seen record wage growth and record employment levels. If ministers spent time preparing for a no-deal scenario rather than dreaming up silly scare stories, we could all make a success of our post-Brexit future.” She was echoed by former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, who told The Daily Telegraph that the report “looks like a rehash of Project Fear”—referring to the theory that stories about the N.H.S. stockpiling blood and police preparing for no-deal riots were a deliberate scare tactic designed to throw a wrench in Brexit negotiations.”  (4)>>Tory.  The Tories political faction that emerged in 1681 was a reaction to the Whig-controlled Parliaments that succeeded the Cavalier Parliament. ... In addition, PinkTory is used in Canadian politics as a pejorative term to describe a member of the Conservative/Progressive Conservative party who is perceived as liberal. (5)>>Mr. Johnson has a history of verbal gaffes. Boris Johnson, the leading contender to replace Theresa May as prime minister,Despite this, he is tipped to be the country's next PM, thanks to the catastrophic failures of Theresa May, which have forced her resignation and triggered a leadership race in the Conservative party.But nevertheless the arch-Eurosceptic ex-London mayor is still the bookies' favourite to win the leadership race.They currently have Boris at 9/4 to be the next permanent PM, according to Paddy Power.

Biden's Paradox

Joe Biden should have ran
for President in 2016 , he would
have beaten any Republican  nominee .
BUT IS IT TOO LATE
NOW???

 (1)>> Joe Biden formally Finally  entered the Democratic race again ! , saying he was answering pleas from leaders around the globe to “save the world” from Donald Trump.  Seven years ago  (1.2)>>I wrote a few pieces about Joe Biden , in 2012 he was in a debate against  Sen Paul Ryan which was unforgettable . For a man who ran for the highest office , for Biden its been "decades" for trying . He ran for three times , 1984, 1988 and 2008 . While thanks to Obama  , Joe jumped to the 47th Vice President of the United States .  Biden could be in the  Guinness  Book for World records for a career politician . The big problem in this country is that we have a lot of incumbents in office .  So What is Biden's Paradox?. Is it that we are living in some kind of alternative universe where we ask why things happened that way ? OR WHAT IF .... .  We would never have heard of Donald Trump as President of a strange turn of events shaped American history .  (2)>>In 2012 President Obama was at the lowest point as a President,  his approval ratings plunged to about where Trump is right now , this time he was facing a strong foe named Mitt Romney . I wished that the 2012 election would have put Obama out . (2.1)>>I was done with both American political  Parties , but my choice not to vote for Obama had to do with his problem trying to force his health care on Americans , with out addressing  the rising costs ,  which by the way was not Universal Health care . It was too costly , it was so deceitfully called the  (3)>>Affordable Care Act it raised taxes , many people lost coverage , or where forced into a much higher premium . A big mess . So I cast my bets on Romney that he would beat him, in one of the debates Sen . Romney warned Obama about Russia . Strangely Obama blew off Romney . That's  for me a perfect collusion suspicion . The guy that's friendly to US - Russia relations beats the war hawk who wanted to build up the military with a new arms race  , BUT  right now with all this talk of Collusion made me research some shocking facts that Obama had made overtures to Vladimir Putin and was planning a reset with Russia in a vary similar way that Donald Trump was trying to do . Oddly again paradox played in and Romney lost .(4)>> I joked that perhaps Obama had help for the Kremlin {Russia} . If you look at the history of the last couple of elections , starting back in 2008 which is curious , the subject of Russia was buzzing  . Sen . John McCain and Palin both lost against Obama . Obama was talking about a new order that he would change America , making America more Muslim friendly, he talked about reducing arms, taking a next step in working with Russia as a economic partner .  (5)>>McCain was strongly old guard and anti-Russian , he and Palin put out jargon against Russia . For McCain the war against Communism never ended. He joked about overthrowing five nations , bombing Iran for example . Someways we should thank God he lost .   Sen. Mitt Romney was  just the same , he was openly pushing Russo-phobic rhetoric  and vary against a reset or normalization of relations with Russia . With all that background said , we have put this puzzle together.  Joe Biden had his chance to run for office in 2015, personally I'd hope that he would have ran for President back then . Why Biden did not run & besides his personal problems he had to deal with . Hillary Clinton forced him out of the race . She pushed the notion that America was ready for the first woman President . Obama shared that notion .  ( 6)>>He {Obama} said "Its time for that change".  So  I wrote  a piece about a future with Hillary Clinton having duly elected US President , it was not a pretty alternative . For Hillary the White House was Bill's third term , it looked awkward . While Hillary had enough political experience to be  a President.  Hillary had another problem that would have leaked into her first year, that was Benghazi , her emails , she would have been continuously investigated , it would have parallel much as we are seeing this with Trump .  Think of the ghosts of White Water for examples . In Hillary's case , she would have pushed for many of Obama ideas that would have run with great opposition , as both the House and Senate { 70 % of Congress} came under the control of the Republican Party.   And if you believe in alternative futures ,  (7)>>Bill Clinton would have died within two years of Hillary winning . Regardless Hillary's  Presidency would have paved the way  for women to attain that position .Her losing to Donald Trump may have halted that for another decade.  SADLY election rigging within our political system has been ignored because of Mueller - Russia - Meddling investgation  etc . While pointing the finger at Russia why Trump won as the explination as to what went wrong in 2016, we are  blindly overlooking our crooked political system that may more logically explain why he won. 
Biden's BIG PROBLEM.
While Trump has his Mueller- Russia fiasco . (8.1)>>Biden has his own kinda Russia problem , it his dealing in Ukriane . The story, like most out of Ukraine, is convoluted. The country’s oligarch-run ecosystem, much like the Trump administration, is a place where truth is a highly malleable concept.  Combining Ukraine intrigue with the White House is a bit like the classic logic riddle where you must navigate a town in which half the people tell the truth and the other half lie – except in this case, nearly everyone has a history of lying .Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.
The Return of Joe Biden.

So Joe Biden could have been that other alternative to Hillary in 2016 “Bazooka Joe” might make a more credible candidate .  Had he run . But investigating things why Joe rolled back seems to be connected to Hillary . The idea that America was ready for the first women President were at a climax,with dissatisfied voters . Most of that Barack Obama repeatedly discouraged Joe Biden from running for the presidency to clear the path for Hillary Clinton AS the first woman President.  The former US vice president has claimed.  Mr Obama’s pollster effectively told him he had “no real path to the nomination” and that running for the White House would “rock the boat”. That was such bad advice Obama gave Biden . WE SHOULD THANK OBAMA why TRUMP WON ! how Crazy is that . With one simple "bad" advice Obama gave Biden he changed American History ! Look at this this way . If I know the DNC , it mostly a rigged nomination , all the other 23 candidates who want the  Democratic nomination are not going to make it . Like before with Hillary , now the system going to try to mach up  (8.2 )>>Biden against Trump . But if Biden had stayed in 2016 and not shot himself in the foot, there would clearly have been a shift to the dynamics -- especially in one important way: Clinton's margins of victory (if not her victory itself) were due to her massive advantage with black voters. That's a voting bloc with which Biden also did well. So: What if?  The return of Biden will make any difference ?There’s also a superficial plausibility to the idea that he’s what his party and his country want and need. A lot of observers look at those Rust Belt white, working-class areas that gave Donald Trump the presidency and figure Biden would have won had he not been distracted by his son’s illness and death and outmaneuvered by Hillary Clinton’s head start. He’s ahead in early 2020 polls of Democratic possibilities, But let's suppose that both the House and the Senate are in the control of the Republicans. I think what Biden would probably do is emphasize his experience as a senator, as someone who is capable of reaching across the aisle.  (9)>>If he makes it to that point, then his experience will be a benefit.


NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>> Joe Biden formally Finally  entered the Democratic race again ! Yet Biden will get a chance to take on Trump only if he survives a Democratic field that now spans at least 20 contenders. And his party’s more liberal wing was far from welcoming in the hours immediately after he declared his candidacy. Justice Democrats, a group created from the remnants of Bernie Sanders’ failed 2016 campaign, came out against Biden on Thursday and spent much of the day assailing him on social media.As an older white man with often centrist views, Biden must now prove he’s not out of step with Democrats trying to push the party to the  alt -left.  (1.2)>>I wrote a few pieces about Joe Biden  See [ shorturl.at/jouL1 ]  in 2014  I thought about this regarding Joe Biden (2) >People who’ve been talking to Biden say the factor

The Democratic Party has
a better choice with
Joe Biden in
2016 over
Hillary Clinton .

weighing on his mind may be less Clinton than Obama. Even as a sitting vice president, Biden might not be too proud to run a long-shot campaign, they insist. He was living it up during those months in 2007 when he was lucky to get a dozen people in a room and finished with a grand total of 1 percent in the Iowa caucuses.But he might not be willing to risk losing the integral role he revels in at the White House. A presidential run would mean missing meetings because he’s out in Iowa or New Hampshire. He’d be asked to draw distinctions between himself and Obama, and the Biden orbit worries about the inevitable loyalty questions that would raise, the West Wing discussions he might start getting excluded from.Nobody who’s run for president twice stops wanting the job. But Biden’s been in politics more than long enough to see what’s happening around Clinton and what a Joe Quixote run would mean. Does he essentially give up the best job he’ll likely ever have two years early for a run at one he probably won’t get?Anyway, some around Biden say, maybe he’d be a better fit to be Clinton’s secretary of state. (2)>>In 2012 President Obama was at the lowest point as a President, Pres . Obama's ratings in 2012  parallels Trump's vary close .  Barack Obama's initial three-day average approval rating in that year  year is 46%, higher than the ratings he received in most of the latter part of 2011. He was generally in the low 40% range from August through December, including monthly approval averages of 41% in August, September, and October, and 43% in November and December.    (2.1)>>I was done with both American political  Parties. Two-thirds of Americans think there ought to be a third party in the United States. This number is now at a record high.  MY DISSATISFACTION with our political system is based on the extreme way both parties are out of touch with the average Americans . Both parties , their leaders have taken soft money , bribes from lobbyist's from big corporations , taxed Americans into poverty , led the nation to fight wars against the will of the American people , creating a new system of modern slavery that crosses all races . Crazy . This not exactly what the founding Fathers dream'd  of the new nation they founded . The 2018 VOTER survey, , asked the following question: “In your view, do the Republican and Democratic parties do an adequate job of representing the American people, or do they do such a poor job that a third major party is needed?” Sixty-eight percent said “a third major party is needed.” This view was held by solid majorities of both Democrats and Republicans, and especially independents.(3)>>Affordable Care Act it raised taxes.  Bait and Switch, Altogether, there were  21 new taxes linked to the ACA, some of them tax hikes and some of them tax breaks for U.S. health care  providers  not "consumers". You could not keep your doctor . What a farce , it was sold to the Americans as "socialized medicine" .   The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called “Obamacare,” may be the biggest insurance scam in history. The industries that profit from our current health care system wrote the legislation, heavily influenced the regulations and have received waivers exempting them from provisions in the law. This has all been done to protect and enhance their profits. In the meantime, the health care crisis continues. Fewer people, even those with health insurance, can afford the health care they need because of out-of-pocket costs. The ACA continues that trend by pushing skimpy health plans with low coverage and restricted networks. If all US residents were in one plan, Medicare for all, rather than the ACA’s tiered system that institutionalizes the class divides in the United States, not only would the health system be fairer and improve health outcomes, but it would be less bureaucratic, less costly and easier to implement.  (4)>> I joked that perhaps Obama had help for the Kremlin {Russia} .In July 2009, Obama went to Moscow, where he breakfasted on caviar with Putin and openly emerged to praise him for "the extraordinary work you've done on behalf of the Russian people." At the time, Putin was not officially Russia's president, but its prime minister -- though quite clearly he was still the real power in Russia. The change of office was a dodge to get around term limits on the Russian presidency. Obama not only accepted this arrangement, but effectively endorsed it at the time, offering Medvedev the farcical comment, while effusing about Putin, "I had a good conversation with the prime minister and I think his approach to the issues is very similar to yours." Throughout his two terms in office, Obama played down the threat Russia posed to America’s allies, interests and values, and ridiculed those who warned otherwise. “The traditional divisions between nations of the south and the north make no sense in an interconnected world nor do alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of a long-gone Cold War,” Obama lectured the United Nations General Assembly in 2009, a more florid and verbose way of making the exact same criticism of supposed NATO obsolescence that liberals would later excoriate Trump for bluntly declaring. Obama was also caught off microphone discussing a reset with Russia just before the 2012 election that went unnoticed by the media , he told Medvedev   "Tell Vlad that I'll have much more flexibility after the election is over."- Barack Hussien Obama "I will transmit that to Vladimir."  Dmitry Medvedev  Collusion??  (5)>>McCain was strongly old guard and anti-Russian. The veteran US senator and former presidential candidate used almostevery line of his article for the Pravda.ru website to blast Putin for human rights abuse, cronyism and election-rigging, as well as foreign policy.While Putin used his editorial to present the US administration as war-mongers and himself as a peacemaker in Syria, McCain sought to paint the Russian leader as "supporting a Syrian regime that is murdering tens of thousands of its own people to remain in power and by blocking the United Nations from even condemning its atrocities."( 6)>>He {Obama} said "Its time for that change".  Mr. Obama was betting that Hillary would win in 2016 . Contrary to the mainstream media reports that Obama was reluctant at a endorsement of Hillary , he was secretly on her side  . AS we know that Obama had spied on the Trump campaign using the FBI to wiretap Trump Tower in an effort to get dirt on Trump with Russia connections . Secondly Obama  blasted the level of political rhetoric in the United States in both parties, during the campaign ,  the exact strategy WAS A BLUNDER. One of the most puzzling elements of the 2016 election, at least for a lot of Americans, was the millions of voters who switched from voting for Barack Obama in 2012 to Donald Trump in 2016. Somewhere between 6.7 million and 9.2 million Americans switched this way; given that the 2016 election was decided by 40,000 votes, it’s fair to say that Obama-Trump switchers were one of the key reasons that Hillary Clinton lost.  (7)>>Bill Clinton would have died within two years of Hillary winning . Things are really different on Earth 2! But don’t think of this as science fiction. There are a lot of things that you, citizen of Earth 1, can probably infer about what life is like over here. Clinton’s first term has a lot in common with Barack Obama’s second term, for example. And the "laws" of political science — subject as they are to being broken now and again — are still largely intact. The president’s party usually suffers at the midterms here on Earth 2, for example, just as it does on Earth 1. So Hillary Win's in 2016 , Bill gets ill . Bill Clinton was reported in numerous tabloids as being ill and frail , dying . If that true , if you add paradox at play , Hillary's Presidency would have sealed Bill's fate . Our Madame President would not be so popular , Yes, the Rasmussen Reports poll Trump cited was an outlier, but her approval rating average is just 41.7 percent, the lowest at the six-month mark of any president elected since the 1930s (when approval ratings were first routinely collected). Yes, it’s silly to refer to Clinton as a “lame duck,”yes because of Bill . Even worse is the choice of Kane as her VP could of exasperated a huge scandal . (8.1)>>Biden has his own kinda Russia problem.   The New York Times’ report apparently corroborates what Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer wrote in his book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends” about the Biden family’s corrupt ties to Ukraine. Schweizer laid out the damaging facts: “Hunter Biden–Joe Biden’s son–got on the payroll of a very corrupt Ukrainian energy company called Burisma in the Spring of 2014 where he was paid about $50,000 a month to do quote-unquote regulatory compliance for this company. He now admits to the New York Times that that’s not exactly what he did. He doesn’t describe any work that he did, and the problem, of course, is Hunter Biden had no background in Ukraine, no background in energy,” Schweizer explained.  Biden bragged about the threat last year, telling an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations: "I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’" bragged Biden, recalling the conversation with Poroshenko. "Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."Joe Biden says that he had no idea Hunter was on the board of Burisma (for two years after he joined), and that the two never spoke about the Burisma investigation. The former VP claims that Shokin's removal was required due to his mishandling of several cases in Ukraine.   (8.2)>>Biden against Trump . AS I SEE THIS. The other 23 wannabees in the Democratic party who jumped in the race and not going to make it . One of them will be Biden's choice as Vice President , most likely a woman [ Kamala Harris😧] Its going to be a circus for the Democrats to pull this one . As so , Trump will face Biden in upcoming debates on TV , it's going to be watched all over the world like some gladiatorial game.  (9)>>If he makes it to that point. As we look ahead to 2020, let’s not underrate the power of incumbency — several past presidents, including Obama, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, survived a bruising midterm and approval ratings in the low 40s (or worse) only to be handily re-elected. Doanld Trump stands vary close to being reelected to a second terms , even if we don't like it . Surviving , what we call gas lighting an unstoppable future .