What Donald Trump is doing here is positioning himself as the go-to guy for that constituency that still believes in the War On Drugs.
By default, that also makes him the de facto candidate for the prison-industrial complex.
The War On Drugs and the prison-industrial complex are inseparable twins. One's not gonna last long without the other. The astronomical rise in the prison population since Richard Nixon declared the War On Drugs is what's made the current success of the privatized prison-industrial complex possible.
"El Chapo" and every other so-called drug lord is 100% the product of America's War On Drugs. In spite of that so-called war, Joaquin Guzman and his ilk have been more than successful in supplying the American market with drugs.
Obviously, America has a near-insatiable demand for the stuff. You can't blame that on Guzman.
Nor can you blame Trump for making political hay out of these realities.
These problems would be solved by legalizing drugs.
Showing posts with label US election 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US election 2016. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2015
Sunday, May 17, 2015
GOP announce Jindal-Trump ticket for 2016
Well, its not actually the GOP, it's just the think tank here at Falling Downs.
But think about it. That's a combo that could grow legs, and long ones at that.
That's a combo that could take Hillary to the wood-shed.
The fact that whupping Hillary a year and a half out utterly consumes the GOP and the media speaks volumes re: the dismal state of American democracy.
Bobby Jindal. When I was a kid, the idea that a Paki could possibly find himself in the governor's mansion in the great state of Louisiana would have been met with unmitigated ridicule.
Unless he was there to serve tea.
But hey, he's got this far, why not go all the way?
After all, he's proven his bona fides as an unquestioning mouthpiece for big money.
And why not The Donald as his second fiddle? After all, Donald is the great American success story personified... all he did was inherit Daddy's tenement empire. Given the straight line that NYC real estate has made straight up over the past 50 years, how could he not become a billionaire? We'll just forget about all those failed casinos for the moment, which should work out OK, because if there's one thing the American voter is good at, it's forgetting.
The race is on!
But think about it. That's a combo that could grow legs, and long ones at that.
That's a combo that could take Hillary to the wood-shed.
The fact that whupping Hillary a year and a half out utterly consumes the GOP and the media speaks volumes re: the dismal state of American democracy.
Bobby Jindal. When I was a kid, the idea that a Paki could possibly find himself in the governor's mansion in the great state of Louisiana would have been met with unmitigated ridicule.
Unless he was there to serve tea.
But hey, he's got this far, why not go all the way?
After all, he's proven his bona fides as an unquestioning mouthpiece for big money.
And why not The Donald as his second fiddle? After all, Donald is the great American success story personified... all he did was inherit Daddy's tenement empire. Given the straight line that NYC real estate has made straight up over the past 50 years, how could he not become a billionaire? We'll just forget about all those failed casinos for the moment, which should work out OK, because if there's one thing the American voter is good at, it's forgetting.
The race is on!
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