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Honest question; The Barge
Topic Started: Aug 7 2008, 01:07 AM (213 Views)
Klaus
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There is so much talk about "The Barge" here.

Would anyone care to explain to a foreigner what exactly it is.

Wikipedia says this, but none of it seems to fit what is being discussed here:

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Barge may refer to:

    * A barge, a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods
    * "Barge", the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Tupolev Tu-85 bomber
    * Barge (CN), a commune in Piedmont (northern Italy)
    * B.A.R.G.E, the Big August Rec. Gambling Excursion, a yearly convention in Las Vegas
    * As a verb "to barge about", = 'to blunder about clumsily'; and see wikt:barge in, ref. waterfront clumsiness of barges: example here.

Barges may refer to:

    * Barges, the name of a contact adhesive
    * One of several communes in France:
          o Barges, Côte-d'Or
          o Barges, Haute-Loire
          o Barges, Haute-Saône
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Wiki has an entry about it here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_...erican_Politics



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jon-nyc
Aug 7 2008, 11:59 AM

OK, but after reading about the paranoid style in American Politics I still don't know what "The Barge" is - the term does not show up in this Wikipedia article.

This is a funny article, by the way - I thought that usually the right-leaning persons in the US accuse the left-leaning ones to fall for conspiracy theories, and not vice versa.
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Klaus
Aug 7 2008, 05:07 AM
There is so much talk about "The Barge" here.

Would anyone care to explain to a foreigner what exactly it is.

I haven't been following those posts, so I'm not too clear on it either, Klaus.

I think it's some theoretical group of greedy rich politicians with more control over things than we realize?
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Klaus - the term 'the barge' is a Burtonism, or at any rate is confined to a small group (cabal?) of conspiracy theorists with whom David associates. So you are unlikely to find reference to it on the web.

As for a definition, Hofstadter's is the best I've seen. In fact, every aspect of this definition has been used by David at various times (in his own words of course).

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I still don't know what "The Barge" is - the term does not show up in this Wikipedia article.


The Barge was David Burton's term for the people that he thought were the orchestrated conspirators acting as our puppetmasters. In a different age (or perhaps in this one, too), the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, etc. of the world. The ones who were ensuring the election of Hillary Clinton, according to him, because she was their candidate of choice to fulfill their master plan.

I've never heard the term anywhere but in his posts, and in posts referring to his posts.
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Ah, OK, that clears it up. Thanks, Jon and Quirt.
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QuirtEvans
Aug 7 2008, 05:22 AM
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I still don't know what "The Barge" is - the term does not show up in this Wikipedia article.


The Barge was David Burton's term for the people that he thought were the orchestrated conspirators acting as our puppetmasters. In a different age (or perhaps in this one, too), the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, etc. of the world. The ones who were ensuring the election of Hillary Clinton, according to him, because she was their candidate of choice to fulfill their master plan.

I've never heard the term anywhere but in his posts, and in posts referring to his posts.

That's pretty much right. Also, people had asked for some more specifics over time. Never got any, though.
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Klaus
Aug 7 2008, 05:07 AM
There is so much talk about "The Barge" here.

Would anyone care to explain to a foreigner what exactly it is.

Wikipedia says this, but none of it seems to fit what is being discussed here:


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