Looks like the establishment are finally ready to 'eat' Christie

[malaise]

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-28/christie-failing-economy-promise-as-new-jersey-falls-behind-u-dot-s
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While the economic hour is dark, there are brighter days ahead,” the governor said at the Trenton War Memorial across the street from the statehouse. “We have the tools to win the battle for a better future.”

By the end of his first term, economic indicators told a story of a state falling behind. Job growth in Christie’s first term was less than a third that of neighboring New York, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Pennsylvania outstripped the state’s 15 percent expansion in the value of goods and services produced by 4.4 percentage points. Adjusted for inflation, New Jersey’s median household income declined 12.2 percent, compared with a drop of 3.9 percent nationwide.
Story: A Coy Chris Christie Pays a Call on the Washington Business Lobby

Christie, 52, has yet to rewrite that narrative, traveling around the country as chairman of the Republican Governors Association while he says he’s considering a run for the presidency. New Jersey’s lagging growth and swelling pension obligations have contributed to eight credit-rating downgrades, a record for a chief executive of the state.

All I want now is Paul Fishman to weigh in with some charges

Get the popcorn DUers

[The Magistrate]

1. If So, Ma'am, They Will Be At It For A Very Long Time....

That is one turkey you could never get all the way down to the bones before it stank up the fridge....

[DetlefK]

2. Well, then throw that spoiled food out!

[malaise]

21. Fridge?

That would require an oversized freezer

[freshwest]

3. Article fails to grasp who Christie is working for: the Koch brothers.

New Jersey’s lagging growth and swelling pension obligations have contributed to eight credit-rating downgrades, a record for a chief executive of the state.

All the better to bankrupt the state, allowing the private sector to seize public assets for cheap, make the workers accept less and give what was promised to his pals. This is the pattern in every state that baggers like Christie have taken over. This is great news, it's what Christie intended.

People seem unable to grasp that the Christies, Walkers, Perry's , et al, do not see themselves as public servants or working for the public good. That's a sham, just the wool over the eyes of the public. This is why they berate people in public, refuse to answer questions, are on the road doing other things such as getting their marching orders from out of state, and ignoring their states.

They show no respect for the people because there is no profit fo them, they despise them as a nuisance. They are private contractors stealing from the taxpayers for the plutocrats. They've bamboozled the voters by using all the tools media is capable of to influence the psychology of the people. They will buy it every time, his voters.

The only way to stop the Koch juggernaut is to get out and vote against this. If the voters buy the RF101, they won't vote and the baggers who will vote every time will win and make things easier for the plutocrats and harder on the people.

[lonestarnot]

6. The operate the shock doctrine to its maximum utility for the theft.

[freshwest]

11. One major difference from that book. The media is complicit and the voters are willing.

It would not happen here without that, something the shock doctrine leaves out. Those who voted for Christie, et all, were not poor and disenfranchised but those who wanted to share in the spoils of such a system.

It's been legal so far. It will keep working quietly until the brainwashed public accepts a neo-feudalist social order. It may be ruled by technocrats or theocrats or both at different levels.

I know that does not follow the Marxist model, from feudalism to capitalism to socialism, etc. but IMO, the Libertarian philosophy breeds a mindset that lets that to develop. I've come to see tribalism, fascism and feudalism as a baseline social structure people fall into naturally when things get difficult for a variety of reaons.

The newer trappings of the free market that covers the older orders doesn't disguise the impact on those at the lower end of the economic scale. And I really need some coffee.

[calimary]

29. I wake up this morning and already I'm depressed.

I'm just amazed at human greed.

"Those who voted for Christie, et all, were not poor and disenfranchised but those who wanted to share in the spoils of such a system."

What's the long game here? Is ANYBODY on our side trying to strategize long-range? Is ANYBODY on our side trying to build for the future? Is ANYBODY on our side NOT simply assuming the youth and the Latinos will break for us so let's just take 'em for granted?

Damn what a dismal morning. I genuinely fear for my country. By the time anybody wakes up and takes this threat seriously, it won't be a threat anymore - it'll be a done deal, and reversing it might well be impossible. I don't want to live in an America that's turning into The Handmaid's Tale. And I'm afraid that's where we're heading.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. thisthisthisthis

They show no respect for the people because there is no profit fo them, they despise them as a nuisance. They are private contractors stealing from the taxpayers for the plutocrats. They've bamboozled the voters by using all the tools media is capable of to influence the psychology of the people. They will buy it every time, his voters.

Tragic, really.

[freshwest]

13. Their behavior shows their intent, not their words.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. and there is the *raison d'etre* of marketing.

To use words dishonestly, specifically to distract from behavior.

[freshwest]

17. Yep, sometimes you gotta stand back, look at it 'frame by frame' like a movie, and see what's up.

That's where body language comes in and tells much more than obfuscations.

Seeing a news anchor go from making a deliberately sad face to a smile in less than a second as the script rolls on the teleprompter.

There's no need for that, if it's just the news and not a commercial. To me, 'news programs' are all sales jobs. Not so much 'news' as they are 'programming' for the human mind.

It's like Elaine in Seinfeld mimicking an orgasm:

"Fake! Fake! Fake-Fake!"

Unless they're all natural born psychopaths or they're trained or maybe both. It's like being locked in a bad movie with all of this stuff.

[malaise]

22. Excellent post

[mstinamotorcity2]

27. Exactly!!!!

the real scary thing is what will happen if they wake up out of the republican induced coma. they are all ready ridiculously ignorant and to make that pool of fish angry will be like adding Asian carp to an aquarium.

[scarletwoman]

32. Excellent post! Succinct and spot on.

[arendt]

4. +1000

This is the clearest I have ever seen this explained. It deserves it's own OP.

Thank you.

[arendt]

5. directed to malaise's post, not the OP.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. you mean freshwest's post.

She and malaise are two brilliant posters...I can understand the typo.

[malaise]

23. Clearly you didn't see my

Earl Warren post - hahahahahaha - it should have been Thurgood Marshall

Great post from freshwest.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. oh, I didn't see, but if I had...

I guarantee I wouldn't have caught it.

[malaise]

35. ROFL

[Fumesucker]

7. They are fond of rancid blubber I trust

The Outlaw Joisey Whale will prove to be quite the greasy plateful.

Bon appetit.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. the Outlaw Joisey Whale.

[PeoViejo]

16. Good one. :)

or Jabba the Toast?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. LOLOL!

Christy the Hut.

[PeoViejo]

20. Good one, Blanche, :) n/t

[navarth]

19. I always call Rush Limbaugh Jabba The Slut. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

34. Flabby the Butt

I'd laugh, but he makes me puke. Dangerous combination, don't wanna aspirate a chunk.

[malaise]

25. DUzy

[etherealtruth]

8. I am hoping severe heartburn is in their future

[ReRe]

15. One of the things I...

... will be watching this election is how many Republican Govs are set out to pasture. Yes ( I'm not a bit ashamed to say that) I hope he is proved a failure as a chairman of the Republicon Gov Assoc, just another failure to add to his illustrious list of failings.

[malaise]

30. That should be penultimate nail in his coffin

I want Fishman to be the final nail

[Skidmore]

24. Now that is a mental image that does not go well

with breakfast.

[malaise]

26. Hehehehehhe

[djean111]

28. I repeat - Christie has not done anything that hurt THE RICH. The GOP admires the shiznit out of

that, and the bullying swagger is a plus. If Jebbie chooses not to accept the GOP version of entitled coronation, Christie seems more intelligent than the rest of the Klown Kar. And the Kochs have a lot of money and inflkuence.

So, wishful thinking, methinks.

[malaise]

31. I think you're wrong

Christie is going down