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NJCher

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1. this is very interesting, panfluteman
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 11:32 AM
Dec 2015
Uranus is shaking up the national sense of identity.

I'd like to remark on this. I have noticed that as the campaign goes on, the establishment types (example: Jeb Bush) who looked like such a sure thing, even to paranormal types, are now receding in importance.

Here is an example: John Hogue, who does prophecy using astrology and is a regular on the Coast to Coast AM show, has said all along that he thinks it will be a Hillary/Jeb match. That would be the old national identity--having these entrenched political families as our leaders.

Then, when Trump didn't flame out, Hogue seemed to feel compelled to understand the phenomenon a bit more, so he wrote a book on Trump. Here's what he says about Trump:

You say Trump is an oligarch. He is, but he is also a maverick one. I’ve often foreseen that only mavericks in the one-percent class have the power and finances to game their own system and change it. Actually Trump is freaking out the oligarchic class more than the Democrats because he’s never really been part of their club. Just study his life in depth and you’ll see he’s always been a bit of a rogue billionaire, like Ross Perot.

But he still sees Jeb as the candidate:

Moreover, I don’t rule out even corporate manipulation bringing Jeb Bush out from the polling polar cold if Trump flames out and doesn’t survive some rank stars tempting him to follow the more bombastic carnival barking angels of his spirit that get engaged just before the Iowa Caucus and don’t let go until April Fools Day. If he survives that trial of the early primaries, he’s probably going to face Hillary Clinton in November 2016. Then again, the GOP establishment might find a way to sabotage his chances and unearth Jeb Bush for that final run. Stranger things have happened, like my Oracle telling me it’s a Clinton vs. Bush run in 2016’s final race. It could still happen.

So despite Trump and despite Bernie's phenomenal popularity and despite this Uranus shake-up, Hogue still sees it as a Clinton-Bush contest.

BTW, here is how Hogue sees himself politically: I’m not a Conservative at all. Nor am I a liberal. I’ve progressed far beyond merely being progressive. I’m a “conserver.” I’m a neo-capitalist-communalist. I’m a full-blown Tantric-technocratic meditator-meritocrat who practices twenty-second century Dharmatocracy.

Whatever that means.

Also, I would like to add that Hogue almost entirely discounts Bernie. He says his oracles tell him America is not ready for a Jew to be president. I just don't see that, but then I live in a blue state, a very blue town, one of the most Democratic in the state, and one with a high number of Jewish residents.


Cher

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