Something is not right: The Mercers (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Jen Sorensen; Impossible Channel; DW.com


Something is wrong, mal-.
Something is not right.
I'm in a handbag on a trip to...
and I'm feeling uptight.

Kiss your what? No way! Pee on me.

In the famous book series by Douglas Adams known as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he proposes that the purpose of a ruler, such as Trump, is NOT to wield power but to draw attention away from the real wielders of power.

In the series there is a charismatic Lothario, who is funny, foolish, idiotic, with an extra head.

"Ballcap Semiotics" (jensorensen.com)

He is always getting in trouble, with a head full of subversion but knowledge enough to know that if he ever talked like that, they [billionaires Robert and daughter Rebekah Mercer in Trump's case] would put a stop to it and to him.

So he's had a lobotomy of sorts and become the greatest leader ever because all he does is crazy things that keep people talking. He, like Pres. Trump, is supremely suited for this job.
 
The Mercers, who elected, also control Trump

Under so much stress, addicted to junk food

The Mercers met Breitbart (Breitbart News Network) and through him met Bannon, who took over when Breitbart suddenly died. Bannon was the Mercers' de facto political adviser (The New Yorker). The Mercers invested millions in Breitbart and gained a large stake in the company. The billionaire family originally funded [Mitt Romney in 2012 then] Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, before switching to Trump after his Republican primary win. Then he cinched the Republican nomination, and the Mercers called for "all hands on deck" to ensure his victory against Hillary Clinton. The  right-wing family donated money to influence the campaign, hiring Cambridge Analytica to put Trump in the White House. More

Who controls the media?

President announces new "U.S. SPACE Force"

Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone); D. Wilcock; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump's Space Force is almost a real thing

Today president announced he has directed the Dept. of War Defense to create a sixth branch of the military

Look, I can sign my name! (Michael Reynolds)

As the outcry over the situation at the border swelled to a deafening pitch Monday morning, Pres. Trump's mind was [set on distracting us to look] elsewhere.

In fact, it wasn't even within Earth's atmosphere, where it would have been bound by pesky forces like gravity and reality.

While contemplating the [final] infinite frontier during a meeting with the National Space Council, the president announced the creation of the "Space Force," a new branch of the military that will be tasked with handling extraterrestrial affairs.

Corey Goode says there already is a U.S. Space Command and an ET Alliance.

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"I am hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces," Trump said.

What are they waiting for?

Though NASA operates with an annual budget of close to $20 billion, merely understanding and exploring space is not enough for President Trump -- he wants to dominate it. "Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security," he said. Trump first floated the idea... More

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Charlie Rose: Mercers gave us Trump (video)

Joshua Green, Charlie Rose; Connie G., Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Charlie Rose Show (July 18, 2017): Joshua Green, a correspondent with Bloomberg Businessweek, introduces his new book, Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency out today.

It explains how the hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer hired Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and induced members of the country's electoral college system to select Donald Trump, making him president with a minority of popular votes but enough electoral votes to beat Clinton. More 

• The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency... (newyorker.com/magazine, March 27, 2017) It was Bannon who urged the Mercers to invest in a data-analytics firm. 
• How the Mercer family's partnership with Stephen Bannon shaped... (chicagotribune.com, March 18, 2017) Ted Cruz of Texas, and Bannon, then executive chairman of...that when the famously taciturn Robert Mercer urged him to hire Bannon and... 
• Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream... (theguardian.com) With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing American computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar... 
• What Do Robert and Rebekah Mercer Really Want? (The Atlantic) Their data firm, Cambridge Analytica, was hired by the Cruz campaign. ...Bannon co-founded GAI with Schweizer; Rebekah Mercer has sat on... 
• Jane Mayer on Robert Mercer & the Dark Money Behind Trump and... (democracynow.org, March 23, 2017) The Mercers bankrolled Bannon's Breitbart News, as well as some of Bannon's... The firm was hired by the Trump campaign to help target its... 
• Meet Robert Mercer, the Mysterious Billionaire Benefactor of Breitbart (newsweek.com) Rebekah Mercer also has ties to Stephen Bannon, the controversial Breitbart News....It was also Rebekah who convinced Trump to hire Kellyanne Conway... 
• The blow-it-all-up billionaires by Vicky Ward (The Huffington Post)

Billionaire Mercers got Trump elected

Joshua Green (amazon, July 18, 2017), new book description, edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Whodunit? Robert and Rebekah Mercer. How did they do it? They funded Trump with millions of dollars and their full support and backing. In exchange for their money and influence, they were told to hire Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and to make Mike Pence the vice presidential nominee. Now they have more say than Putin, Ivanka, Kushner, or any Republican official on what Pres. Trump does in office.

 

Devil's Bargain (Joshua Green)

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump -- the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Joshua Green explains a masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Donald Trump’s penthouse on election night.

The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump’s flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap.

 

It seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon (editor for Breitbart News) was a bomb-throwing pugilist who’d never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. 

Yet, Bannon’s hard-edged altright ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump’s unlikely victory.

 

Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to ["deplorable"] voters whom others couldn’t see.

 

Trump’s campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency [or German-style putsch] that had been building up in America for years. Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that will change the world.

Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of mastermind Steve Bannon. Devil’s Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies.

 

They really did plot "a vast, right-wing conspiracy" to stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton’s fall, we have to weave Trump’s story together with Bannon’s, or else it doesn't make sense. More