Facepalm, LOL

I feel sorry for you folks.

We have evil May, every picture makes her look evil anyway, and cuddly Corbyn.

But at least they are capable of dealing with a dictaphone being rammed under their nose, without freaking out or mimicking a disabled anyone.

But then, who actually knows what they get up to in private.

a reply to: boncho

Wow on the Golden, Bonch. That looks accurate to like 2%!

I have a print of "Pi".. and If he shows up at the first debate
with a tie that looks like a half finished Go game, I'm repacking
my winter back-buster... we may all need one.
And I'm not even a numerologist.

a reply to: SLAYER69

First extra star on the rack, Slayer. Like snowspirit said
later on, I'll bump him too... I'm fearful that one or the
other of those two are going to actually get the job.

"Ya know I always wanted to be a farmer..."
Anthony Wilford Brimley, from "The Natural"
Now we get the UNnaturals. Stamp book's about empty...

a reply to: SLAYER69

We often bandy about the term "deny ignorance" here on ATS, and with good reason.

We know that without enlightened, wise, informed and deprogrammed people, nations, and by extension the globe, will always be controlled by those who are running the program, by those who can skew the view of the unwary, motivate people around non-issues, motivate people against one another, drive wedges between voting blocs and decrease the unity with which we face that which is to come. We are essentially, easier to control this way.

Our brothers and sisters across the pond in the United States, are living in an era of extreme division, driven by an expensively maintained program of deliberate acts, obfuscations, lies and deceits, put together by persons rich and powerful the world over. By this method they have been separated from their rights, little by little. By this method they have been rendered powerless, by parties unwilling to allow non-narrative candidates to run for office, despite overwhelming public support. By this method over successive decades, they have been coerced into paying for illegal wars and the destitution of entire regions of the globe, death on an industrial scale since before the Reagan era, and following on from that.

Our members here know that, even those who staunchly stand beside either one of the current batch of cretins running for office, know this to be absolutely accurate, regardless of the precise details of who may be responsible.

But the vast majority of people in the US do not have access to the same information that our members have, do not have access to the truth, because they are not being driven to find that truth. They are shown the flashing banners, they see the ticker tape, they hear the National Anthem of the United States of America, and without relent or question, do what their programmers demand of them, without being aware of the programming itself in the least.

I do not think it is fair to throw up ones hands at the people of a nation so UTTERLY controlled as those of the United States, when they make choices that boggle the mind. This is, one must remember, a nation whose most heroic and selfless are called traitors, whose least noble and wise are called heroes, and whose most corrupt are called leaders. While people like Edward Snowden are in exile and under threat of arrest if they return home, and while people like Trump and Clinton are in line for the presidency, the moral centre of the nation has to be considered a contested zone, an area which is being influenced not by the pure concepts of justice, freedom, liberty, but by concerns far less noble.

In a nation where right is considered wrong, where injustice is stock in trade, where people are fooled into extending their wrists that they might be shackled to the abusive corporate structures which are bleeding their communities dry, overpaying those who need for nothing, and underpaying those who can barely afford to accommodate themselves, there can be no doubt that the control program being run against the people is absolutely effective. It has rendered education so poor as to allow even geniuses to have the wool over their eyes, and for those not gifted with heights of intellect to bumble about in total ignorance, to never even question the rod at their backs, the whip across their shoulders, the boot on their necks.

This is not a nation whose people, en masse, can be held responsible for the actions of their leaders, or even for electing worthy leadership. They are not operating in their own minds, but following a program, and until the machine is smashed from within and without, that program will continue to run. There will be anomalies within, as there always are, as you are SLAYER69, as all our American members (with very limited exceptions) are. But for the vast majority, all there is in their lives, is their place within the program, the unseen hand at their backs, the need to bow to a pressure from an invisible source, to act, feel, and vote a certain way.

These people are not acting of their own minds, because the circumstances they are in denies them reason. Throw up your hands at the program, not the components of the machine which runs it.

a reply to: SLAYER69

Holy Crap...

originally posted by: SLAYER69
Really America?

Really?!?!

These two are the best we can come up with?

Looks like our American politics is some sort of Freak show...

The fact that these two are our candidates should be proof positive that the people have no control of who gets picked.

I refuse to believe that the majority of americans are that idiotic when it comes to picking a valid POTUS.