Heh, it's all about his hate-on for Megyn Kelly. Figures.
I think we needed this.
I think we needed this.
Do we?
I mean, sure, you can make any thread you want, but hardly any of us are Republicans. We're not as interested in the internal workings of a party thoroughly infused with classism, sexism, and racism, as we are about its outward manifestations of hate towards vulnerable groups in society.
(Although I hope Michael Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring. Whatever else you might have to say about him, at least he wouldn't have to take any money from anyone to finance his campaign.)
(Although I hope Michael Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring. Whatever else you might have to say about him, at least he wouldn't have to take any money from anyone to finance his campaign.)
You could say the same thing about Trump, really.
It doesn't avoid the problem of why we don't want a plutocracy financing political campaigns. They aren't taking orders from big money; they are big money.
(Although I hope Michael Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring. Whatever else you might have to say about him, at least he wouldn't have to take any money from anyone to finance his campaign.)
You could say the same thing about Trump, really.
It doesn't avoid the problem of why we don't want a plutocracy financing political campaigns. They aren't taking orders from big money; they are big money.
Except that Bloomberg a) is way richer than Trump, b) didn't inherit his wealth, c) has never filed for bankruptcy, and d) is closer to the centre than Trump. And I'm not necessarily thinking about his going for the Republican nomination--he might just decide to run as an independent. A sane Ross Perot might have a decent shot (or at least do to the Republican candidate what Perot did and lock up the election for the Democratic candidate).
(Although I hope Michael Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring. Whatever else you might have to say about him, at least he wouldn't have to take any money from anyone to finance his campaign.)
You could say the same thing about Trump, really.
It doesn't avoid the problem of why we don't want a plutocracy financing political campaigns. They aren't taking orders from big money; they are big money.
Except that Bloomberg a) is way richer than Trump, b) didn't inherit his wealth, c) has never filed for bankruptcy, and d) is closer to the centre than Trump. And I'm not necessarily thinking about his going for the Republican nomination--he might just decide to run as an independent. A sane Ross Perot might have a decent shot (or at least do to the Republican candidate what Perot did and lock up the election for the Democratic candidate).
You forgot one thing: e) has actual political experience.
I think we needed this.
Do we?
I mean, sure, you can make any thread you want, but hardly any of us are Republicans. We're not as interested in the internal workings of a party thoroughly infused with classism, sexism, and racism, as we are about its outward manifestations of hate towards vulnerable groups in society.
(Although I hope Michael Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring. Whatever else you might have to say about him, at least he wouldn't have to take any money from anyone to finance his campaign.)
You could say the same thing about Trump, really.
It doesn't avoid the problem of why we don't want a plutocracy financing political campaigns. They aren't taking orders from big money; they are big money.
Except that Bloomberg a) is way richer than Trump, b) didn't inherit his wealth, c) has never filed for bankruptcy, and d) is closer to the centre than Trump. And I'm not necessarily thinking about his going for the Republican nomination--he might just decide to run as an independent. A sane Ross Perot might have a decent shot (or at least do to the Republican candidate what Perot did and lock up the election for the Democratic candidate).
(Although I hope Michael Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring. Whatever else you might have to say about him, at least he wouldn't have to take any money from anyone to finance his campaign.)
You could say the same thing about Trump, really.
It doesn't avoid the problem of why we don't want a plutocracy financing political campaigns. They aren't taking orders from big money; they are big money.
Except that Bloomberg a) is way richer than Trump, b) didn't inherit his wealth, c) has never filed for bankruptcy, and d) is closer to the centre than Trump. And I'm not necessarily thinking about his going for the Republican nomination--he might just decide to run as an independent. A sane Ross Perot might have a decent shot (or at least do to the Republican candidate what Perot did and lock up the election for the Democratic candidate).
Technically, Trump never filed for bankruptcy. One of his sub-corporations did. As much as I hate the guy, there is a difference (bankrupting a sub-corporation can be tactically smart as the law allows the share holders and owners of the sub-corporation limited liability).
And yeah, Bloomberg... The same guy responsible for ordering New York's police force to brutalize occupy protesters.
I think we needed this.
Do we?
I mean, sure, you can make any thread you want, but hardly any of us are Republicans. We're not as interested in the internal workings of a party thoroughly infused with classism, sexism, and racism, as we are about its outward manifestations of hate towards vulnerable groups in society.
The republican primary results are likely to influence the general election results, which I assume we all care about?
Plus I have a lot of virtual money riding on Cruz or Rubio winning and Trump losing
I think we needed this.
Do we?
I mean, sure, you can make any thread you want, but hardly any of us are Republicans. We're not as interested in the internal workings of a party thoroughly infused with classism, sexism, and racism, as we are about its outward manifestations of hate towards vulnerable groups in society.
The republican primary results are likely to influence the general election results, which I assume we all care about?
Plus I have a lot of virtual money riding on Cruz or Rubio winning and Trump losing
I think we needed this.
Do we?
I mean, sure, you can make any thread you want, but hardly any of us are Republicans. We're not as interested in the internal workings of a party thoroughly infused with classism, sexism, and racism, as we are about its outward manifestations of hate towards vulnerable groups in society.
The republican primary results are likely to influence the general election results, which I assume we all care about?
Plus I have a lot of virtual money riding on Cruz or Rubio winning and Trump losing
Rubio and Cruz are both almost as pestilent as Trump. Chris Christie is probably the only one who isn't shit. Jeb Bush at least isn't probably got a Lawful Neutral alignment which is better than the rest.
Well, 'probably isn't shit' is hardly a rining endorsement.
Well, 'probably isn't shit' is hardly a ringing endorsement.
Yeah, I've heard a really terrible story involving Bob Dole wherein Ted Cruz dashed Dole's hopes of getting a good UN treaty passed for "threatening the sovereignty of the United States". I don't agree with Dole's politics, but that was DISGUSTING, and a lot of Republicans think that was Cruz's Moral Event Horizon, to use a trope.
I think his dad's book positing Ted as a savior just fully and completely both validated-in-his-mind and contributed to a Messiah Complex.
It would not surprise me if Cruz had a total breakdown if / when he loses, ranting that he is the Chosen One.
Ted Cruz is everything everybody hates.
Lt Fred, not because I doubt it's true but purely for the Schadenfreude, do you have a link to the comments from Ted's old roommate?
Apparently people have realized Ted Cruz is totally fucking despicable, he's falling fast in New Hampshire.
Meaning...sigh...Trump...
Well, I for one still take a bit of amusement from how silent the birthers have been about Cruz.
You forgot fascist.Well, I for one still take a bit of amusement from how silent the birthers have been about Cruz.
Well, he's not a Kenyan Muslim Atheist Anti-Christ Communist, is he?
No I didn't. I just didn't put it on the list because I cannot with 100% certainty say that he isn't one.You forgot fascist.Well, I for one still take a bit of amusement from how silent the birthers have been about Cruz.
Well, he's not a Kenyan Muslim Atheist Anti-Christ Communist, is he?
ETA: The book is available as a PDF online for anyone to download and read. The author allows its use for download, feeling that his findings were important enough that the possible benefit to society outweighs his monetary gains. As such, it is entirely legal to download and read. The link is available here (http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf).
...If he can get to Presidential Candidate so soon, maybe I should go into politics, once I get far enough...Being a billionaire helps.
And Der Trumpenfuhrer won South Carolina.
Jeb!...is out, I hope he doesn't commit suicide like mom says. This was I think the final nail in the coffin of the Bush Dynasty.
Oddly enough, that would be Trump. He is so universally hated by both parties' pols, that Congress would actually unite to thwart him at every step, like imagine the obstructionist Congress during the Obama administrations X 10.
The remaining GOP candidates are conservative Christian-identifying Tea Party shills, though. They would be effectually worse than Trump, because they already have a lot of friends in Congress. I really hope that it is Trump versus Sanders, because what better icons than they in an election, depicting how deeply divided my country is?
The remaining GOP candidates are conservative Christian-identifying Tea Party shills, though. They would be effectually worse than Trump, because they already have a lot of friends in Congress. I really hope that it is Trump versus Sanders, because what better icons than they in an election, depicting how deeply divided my country is?
Cruz doesn't have many friends in Congress.
Apparently he asked McConnell to pass a resolution saying that in the opinion of the Senate he fulfilled the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, like they did with McCain. McConnell refused even to introduce it.
What is this?
What Trump says resonates with people who vote in Republican contests. He's thrown out the dog whistle and they love it.
What Trump says resonates with people who vote in Republican contests. He's thrown out the dog whistle and they love it.
Like, I get how it works from a demographics perspective and who those people are, I grew up around them. What I don't get is how people can be this dumb, and how we as a collective species could allow such stupidity to persist to this point?
Since that sounds strangely eugenicist, I meant how we could allow the stupidity that is Trump to last to this point in the campaign. Like, this reflects on us as a supposedly rational species that we're witnessing this.
What Trump says resonates with people who vote in Republican contests. He's thrown out the dog whistle and they love it.
Like, I get how it works from a demographics perspective and who those people are, I grew up around them. What I don't get is how people can be this dumb, and how we as a collective species could allow such stupidity to persist to this point?
Since that sounds strangely eugenicist, I meant how we could allow the stupidity that is Trump to last to this point in the campaign. Like, this reflects on us as a supposedly rational species that we're witnessing this.
They're not necessarily dumb. They're fed up with mainstream politicians (Rubio, Bush, Kasich, sort of Cruz) and Trump has more name recognition than Carson. Since Trump is the only contending candidate who is from outside the mainstream, they're gravitating toward him.
What Trump says resonates with people who vote in Republican contests. He's thrown out the dog whistle and they love it.
Like, I get how it works from a demographics perspective and who those people are, I grew up around them. What I don't get is how people can be this dumb, and how we as a collective species could allow such stupidity to persist to this point?
Since that sounds strangely eugenicist, I meant how we could allow the stupidity that is Trump to last to this point in the campaign. Like, this reflects on us as a supposedly rational species that we're witnessing this.
They're not necessarily dumb. They're fed up with mainstream politicians (Rubio, Bush, Kasich, sort of Cruz) and Trump has more name recognition than Carson. Since Trump is the only contending candidate who is from outside the mainstream, they're gravitating toward him.
Okay, so let me rephrase this, if they're not dumb, would you describe any Trump supporter as smart?
What Trump says resonates with people who vote in Republican contests. He's thrown out the dog whistle and they love it.
Like, I get how it works from a demographics perspective and who those people are, I grew up around them. What I don't get is how people can be this dumb, and how we as a collective species could allow such stupidity to persist to this point?
Since that sounds strangely eugenicist, I meant how we could allow the stupidity that is Trump to last to this point in the campaign. Like, this reflects on us as a supposedly rational species that we're witnessing this.
They're not necessarily dumb. They're fed up with mainstream politicians (Rubio, Bush, Kasich, sort of Cruz) and Trump has more name recognition than Carson. Since Trump is the only contending candidate who is from outside the mainstream, they're gravitating toward him.
Okay, so let me rephrase this, if they're not dumb, would you describe any Trump supporter as smart?
I know Trump supporters I consider rational.
Okay, so let me rephrase this, if they're not dumb, would you describe any Trump supporter as smart?
Cruz wins Oklahoma? I'm not even American and I'm getting fucking scared for you guys.
Okay, so let me rephrase this, if they're not dumb, would you describe any Trump supporter as smart?
I'm thinking desperate might be the operative word for the 'not dumb' supporters.
Okay, so let me rephrase this, if they're not dumb, would you describe any Trump supporter as smart?
I'm thinking desperate might be the operative word for the 'not dumb' supporters.
Exactly, Trump supporters are poor whites with increasingly shitty economic prospects and loosing privileges in society they always took for granted. The GOP establishment has done nothing for them and the democrats are little better. And in their desperation they turned to a man they did not fully understand. A man who isn't looking for anything logically, who can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. He just wants to watch the world burn.
Georgia for Trump...
I'm looking at you Proggy
Looks like Der Trumpenfuhrer won big.
Now that he's achieved this, what sort of insanity will spill from his mouth next?
Very true, Askold. So what are the immigration requirements where you are?
Cruz wins Oklahoma? I'm not even American and I'm getting fucking scared for you guys.
Very true, Askold. So what are the immigration requirements where you are?
Don't go there, go to Cape Breton (http://cbiftrumpwins.com/#intro).
Very true, Askold. So what are the immigration requirements where you are?
At a rally the other night for Senator Ted Cruz, the dour conservative scold famed for his severe ideological filter, righteous anger crackled through the auditorium of Houston Baptist University.
Some of Texas's most senior Republican politicians sneered from the stage at their own party hierarchy, congratulating Cruz and the Tea Party caucus for humiliating and dumping leaders like former House speaker John Boehner.
To these people, Boehner and his cohort are "RINOs" — Republicans in name only — the hated moderates who care principally about fiscal issues, rather than, say, abortion or gay marriage or the prevention of prayer in schools.
One speaker promised that as president, Cruz would govern "with a Bible in one hand and the Constitution in the other." The crowd roared. That, here, is the dream.
So, basically a literal rehash of the factors that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Except now the fascist strongman has even worse hair, no real personality, and going by his platform, he wants to triple the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's strength and capabilities and "broaden their ability to deal with illegal immigrants".
Really, Donald? You're going with ICE as your Schutzstaffel?
Waffen ICE just sounds silly.
Really, Donald? You're going with ICE as your Schutzstaffel?
So, basically a literal rehash of the factors that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.He'll never actually follow through. Both conservative politicians and rich people love having illegals around. Conservative politicians to win some easy support from the yokels and distract the bleeding hearts on the other side of the fence from any other issues, and rich people because they're the next best thing to slaves. Conservatives promise to actually deport illegals then never do it pretty much every election cycle for this very reason.
Except now the fascist strongman has even worse hair, no real personality, and going by his platform, he wants to triple the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's strength and capabilities and "broaden their ability to deal with illegal immigrants".
Really, Donald? You're going with ICE as your Schutzstaffel?
Waffen ICE just sounds silly.
You are forgetting that Trump is deciding his role in history is to be the next Hitler. He WILL do something to the illegal immigrants and ICE is going to play a role in that.Hey, just because you're obsessed with Nazis doesn't mean everyone else is. Not to mention, deporting illegal immigrants is not even remotely comparable to Hitler in the first place, but I digress.
So, basically a literal rehash of the factors that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.He'll never actually follow through. Both conservative politicians and rich people love having illegals around. Conservative politicians to win some easy support from the yokels and distract the bleeding hearts on the other side of the fence from any other issues, and rich people because they're the next best thing to slaves. Conservatives promise to actually deport illegals then never do it pretty much every election cycle for this very reason.
Except now the fascist strongman has even worse hair, no real personality, and going by his platform, he wants to triple the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's strength and capabilities and "broaden their ability to deal with illegal immigrants".
Really, Donald? You're going with ICE as your Schutzstaffel?
Waffen ICE just sounds silly.
You've been ICE'd has a pretty good ring to it.*knock knock*
Am I the only one imagining this spoken in a thick Austrian accent?You've been ICE'd has a pretty good ring to it.*knock knock*
"ICE to see you!"
Am I the only one imagining this spoken in a thick Austrian accent?You've been ICE'd has a pretty good ring to it.*knock knock*
"ICE to see you!"
(http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv17/canadian_mojo/guns-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Terminat.jpg) (http://s665.photobucket.com/user/canadian_mojo/media/guns-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Terminat.jpg.html)
What killed the dinosaurs?
What killed the dinosaurs?
What killed the dinosaurs?Nothing. They're called "birds" nowadays.
He might follow through if he figures out how many people are sitting in prison doing nothing that could be made to work.Sure, he could, but those people are all American citizens and therefore subject to any existing legal protections. It would take far longer than the 8 years tops that trump would have as president to get them on the same level as illegals. That's to say nothing of what the supreme court might have to say about it.
If there aren't enough of them it could be followed with the welfare bums who are also sitting around doing nothing that could be made to work.
If there aren't enough of them it could be followed with the working poor who are obviously spending too much time sitting around doing nothing that could be made to work more.
There's lots of domestic slave labour to exploit and unfortunately, it would be very Republican to exploit them. The danger with a him being a populist and opportunist is that wind filling his sails is already blowing in this direction and could quickly get out of control.
Does anyone take Donald Trump seriously, anymore?
I found this todayDoes anyone take Donald Trump seriously, anymore?
I say we just embrace calling Trump a Nazi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y4fN6WqQBY
I think I found the reason for Niam's Trump obsession (http://www.salon.com/2016/03/03/american_psycho_for_prez_donald_trumps_sons_epitomize_the_80s_style_yuppie_villainy_of_his_campaign/)
I think I found the reason for Niam's Trump obsession (http://www.salon.com/2016/03/03/american_psycho_for_prez_donald_trumps_sons_epitomize_the_80s_style_yuppie_villainy_of_his_campaign/)
Fuck this comment from that article is a thing of beauty:
Milieu
4 days ago
((With apologies to P.B. Shelley))
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
and two tiny hands beside it thrown
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Drumpfadumazz, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Really I love the hands bit.
This sudden massive upturn in protestors and violent reactions at his rallies may be what is making fence-sitters vote Cruz in the latest primaries. I hate Cruz and actually fear him more than Trump. A fundie sociopath Tea-hadi is actually a worse person to have in power, from a practical standpoint. And Cruz can apparently beat Clinton and Sanders according to a lot of head-to-head polls, unlike Trump.
Well, he may be losing support soon... It has become known he orders steak well-done.
Trump has just won the state of Florida, which is winner-take-all, giving him 99 delegates. This brings him up to 568 out of a needed 1,237 (putting him over 45% there). And he is up in Florida, and slated to win the other states today. I literally can't even.
Lions Guard? As someone else asked, does that mean Trump is from House Lannister?
The parallels are easy to make. Rich, blond, arrogant...
Either way is tough, dry, and tasteless. Never cook a steak more than Medium. Otherwise you may as well be eating a hamburger or warm jerkey.
Either way is tough, dry, and tasteless. Never cook a steak more than Medium. Otherwise you may as well be eating a hamburger or warm jerkey.
Only a poor cook blames his dish. I've had plenty a flavourful well-done steak and plenty a garbage medium and below steak. If you know how to cook your meat, any style can be good. Personally, I don't order below medium, because I don't want to be host to parasites.
The parallels are easy to make. Rich, blond, arrogant...willing to consider incest...
Something I've been wondering, when can Donald Trump go to jail for inciting violence?
Something I've been wondering, when can Donald Trump go to jail for inciting violence? How much further would he need to go? He's already told his supports stuff like
"If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell. I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise."
And now he has made thinly veiled threats to incite riots if the GOP doesn't give him the nomination. Can he get arrested please?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/marco-rubio-florida-donors-1.3499862
In brief: Rubio's donors spent $25,000,000 in their effort to deny Trump Florida.
I have got to wonder what the Germans think of this whole Trump phenomenon.
The facial expressions are just a minor detail in how Trump is actually very much like Mussolini in his campaign. Mussolini also appealed to the ignorant masses and made up meaningless catch phrases and ideologies while talking.
Hitler was consistent on driving up hate against the untermensch and riding a wave of nationalism, Trump and Mussolini on the other hand are completely unpredictable because they don't really care what they say or do. Mussolini and Trump both try to create a similar cult of personality for themselves, though for Trump it was formerly used only for business. Putting his name on everything and making HIMSELF the most important thing in any venture. Rather than skill in business he was hoping to make money come to him because even his name has such value that people would take him on to projects just to get the TRUMP name attached to it. ...How successful that was is a matter of debate.
But just like Mussolini added ideas from Nazis to his Fascism Trump is now riding on the racism train, I doubt that Trump is really as racists as he makes himself seem with his comments about Mexicans and Muslims, he just saw a way to make himself slightly more popular. Similarly Hitler and Mussolini didn't really see eye to eye but Hitler used him since he had few allies available and Mussolini aligned with Hitler since making a deal with the Allies wouldn't have given him a similar chance to take over other countries.
so, I've been crunching some numbers. If Kasich wins every delegate from here on out, he cannot reach 1237 needed for the nomination.
Trump is favored heavily to win New York. If he does so, then Cruz needs to win 772 out of the remaining 829 Delegates* to reach 1237. This is even harder when you consider that 112 of these 829 are going to be appointed proportionately. So, for Cruz to hit 1237, he needs to win every state, except New York, going forward. Trump is the only person with a realistic chance of hitting 1237. So, we're either looking at Trump running in the general election or a brokered republican convention. And I fully expect Trump to run as an independent if he gets the majority of delegates, but not the nomination. This is shaping up to be quite entertaining.
*the delegates ignore the 95 that are part of New York
If the GOP doesn't let them bring guns they will lose some voters who care only about the 2nd Amendment. Although I am certain that at least a few candidates would cry fake outrage over the denial to allow guns in hopes of making those voters stay.
...If they do let them bring guns I fear it will end in tragedy and also cost them voters and possibly a politician or two.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/26/politics/guns-petition-republican-national-convention/
22000 people sign a petition to allow them to openly carry guns at the Republican National Convention.
"I mean, Cleveland is a dangerous city. Its fraught with crime...terrorism even! And it'd be a pity if something...happened...if Donald J. Trump is not elected as the nominee. I mean, shots might be fired, long knives might be drawn..."
...If they do let them bring guns I fear it will end in tragedy and also cost them voters and possibly a politician or two.
I think you mean plurality, not majority. Also, haven't some states' filing deadlines already passed?
I think you mean plurality, not majority. Also, haven't some states' filing deadlines already passed?
By the end of the Republican convention, July 21, the filing deadlines of 11 states will have passed. Significantly, that includes Texas, Florida, and North Carolina. Trump-as-independent would undoubtedly be a spoiler at best anyway, but there's really no way he'd win without being on the ballot in those states. How much he'd care is another question, of course.
And that is why I whisper into the minds of all who will heed: Cthulhu endorses Donald Trump.
Who better to usher in a new and monstrous age of ultimate chaos?
In him, I recognize a kindred spirit.
I admire the tremendous obelisk he has constructed to mar the skyline of New York City with its vast dolomite shadow.
We share an affinity for the huge, the mammoth, the gargantuan, the nightmarishly tremendous.
My geometry is not of this puny world, just as his arithmetic is not of this world.
Like the obsidian vaults of my drowned Cyclopean city, his positions are blurred and fuzzy. Like me, he is not bound by the rules of reality. Like me, he obeys no mortal physics, changing shape and angle, acute one moment and obtuse the next.
Like me, he possesses the power to drive those around him to insanity.
I too have built walls of fantastic proportions, almost beyond the compass of the mind of man. But I grow weary of slumber and now, like Trump, I wish to build again.
“I can tell you this,” Carson said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “If there are shenanigans, if it’s not straightforward, all of those millions of people that Donald Trump has brought into the arena are not going to stay there.”
“And the Republicans are going to lose,” he added. “And it’s going to be not only the presidency, but it’s going to be the Senate, and it could even be the House. It’s going to be absolute destruction.”
I think you mean plurality, not majority. Also, haven't some states' filing deadlines already passed?
By the end of the Republican convention, July 21, the filing deadlines of 11 states will have passed. Significantly, that includes Texas, Florida, and North Carolina. Trump-as-independent would undoubtedly be a spoiler at best anyway, but there's really no way he'd win without being on the ballot in those states. How much he'd care is another question, of course.
Except that if he can win a few otherwise-Republican states, he might not be a spoiler; he might just hand the Presidency to the GOP if the election goes to the House, thanks to gerrymandering.
Oh Nein! How can The Donald compare against the Master Debater Ted Cruz? I mean even after Ted got married - usually men go to pot as a result of kids - he kept on with the Master Debating! His wife even seemed kind of disappointed that he kept on neglecting her in favor of Master Debating!
The Donald is in big trouble - I mean, Ted Cruz I've heard practises for the big shows like in Congress by Master Debating like ten times in a single day!(click to show/hide)
Who's ready for a contested convention!? Cause Ted Cruz won Wisconsin tonight.
Ironbite-beat Drump by a good margin too.
Alex Jones and a number of others are planning and beginning execution of "Days of Rage", to " make sure the party establishment does not steal Trump's nomination."
And so the Night of the Long Knives commenced.
And Roger Stone really does not want you to judge him for it, it's totally not Hitlerish at all.
Alex Jones and a number of others are planning and beginning execution of "Days of Rage", to " make sure the party establishment does not steal Trump's nomination."
And so the Night of the Long Knives commenced.
And Roger Stone really does not want you to judge him for it, it's totally not Hitlerish at all.
Alex Jones and a number of others are planning and beginning execution of "Days of Rage", to " make sure the party establishment does not steal Trump's nomination."
And so the Night of the Long Knives commenced.
And Roger Stone really does not want you to judge him for it, it's totally not Hitlerish at all.
Sounds more like the One Hour Hate.
Wasn't that the Two Minutes Hate?
Wasn't that the Two Minutes Hate?
You're right. My mistake.
Couple of weeks old but given Cruz is looking more and more like the GOP nominee here's Samantha Bee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMgaqhTZBlg
Yeah, I mentioned as much a few months ago from something a professor told me. Cruz is flat out a dick.
I've seen that video before, and I seriously want to know what passages in the bible that idiot thinks condemn the capitol gains tax. Just fuck the what?Oh, there's quite a few.
Small picky point, it's thy both times there. Thine is like an, used when the next word starts with a vowel sound. So it's thy butt but thine ass, you see? :p *goes back to lurking*I've seen that video before, and I seriously want to know what passages in the bible that idiot thinks condemn the capitol gains tax. Just fuck the what?Oh, there's quite a few.
'And Jesus said unto his disciples, "If ye shall use thine money to purchase an investment, suffer no tax collectors upon thine capitol gains. So sayeth the Lord".' Republicans 14: 5-
'Thou shalt pay no taxes upon thine wealth gained by the selling of an investment, for it is an abomination' Finances 3: 16-17
'If the government tries to tax your capital gains, do me a favour and punch it in the face' Trump 967: 23
The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28700919/colorado-republicans-cancel-2016-presidential-caucus-voteQuoteThe GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote.
It looked like Trump could have gotten the majority of the votes so the GOP decided that it is safer to cancel the caucus rather than giving Trump a chance to gain more delegates.
...Are they trying to destroy their own party? This is pretty much the worst choice they could have made. Even if Trump really had won the state that would have merely been a few delegates but now his craziest fans have actual evidence that the GOP is trying to stump Trump and who knows what they are going to do.
Armed rebellion? Political assassinations? "GOD is on our side" posters and passive angry protesters with guns and hamburgers?
Instead, Republicans selected national delegates through the caucus process, a move that put the election of national delegates in the hands of party insiders and activists — leaving roughly 90 percent of the more than 1 million Republican voters on the sidelines.
The campaign also teamed with controversial conservative organizations, such as the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Gun Owners of America and religious liberty groups, to rally support.
The Colorado Republican Party only exacerbated the fears of the Trump camp on Saturday when it tweeted after Cruz claimed victory at the convention: "We did it. #NeverTrump."
A second after the tweet, a state party spokesman came running into the press box at the convention and shouted "it wasn't us!"
The party quickly deleted the tweet and posted: "The last tweet was the result of unauthorized access to our account and in no way represents the opinion of the party. We are investigating."
Of course that was gonna come back and bite him in the ass. Everything Cruz does comes back to take a nibble on his buttocks.
Ironbite-the man doesn't understand that words and actions have consequences.
He believes God has destined him to save/rule America. Therefor, he can say and do whatever he want's because God will save him.
Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich’s answer to LGBT people turned away by businesses is “get over it,” while his advice for those business owners it to pray.
Kasich, the governor of Ohio, has said he wouldn’t have signed anti-LGBT laws like the ones recently enacted in North Carolina and Mississippi, but today on CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash, he said that as president, he wouldn’t do anything to stop states from passing such legislation.
“There is a legitimate concern for people being able to have their deeply held religious beliefs, religious liberty,” he told Bash. “But there’s also people who we shouldn’t be discriminating against. … We need to strike a balance, and I just wish we’d take a breath and calm down and take a breath, because you see, trying to legislate that balance is complicated and you keep doing do-overs, because nobody gets it right.”
He continued, “What I would like to say is just relax, and if you don’t like what somebody’s doing, pray for them, and if you’re feeling like somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get over it?”
He said he thinks the conflict between LGBT rights and religious liberty will eventually settle down. The law passed in Mississippi allows businesses, individuals, and nonprofits to refuse services to LGBT people and others who somehow offend their religious sensibilities. The North Carolina law does not address religion but prevents cities in the state from enacting or enforcing LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination laws and also bars transgender people from using the restrooms, locker rooms, and other single-sex facilities that match their gender identity, if those facilities are located in government buildings.
On the eve of New York’s primary, Republican front-runner Donald Trump told a crowd that he wanted to talk about the terrorist attack – which happened “down on 7-Eleven.”
“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down,” Trump said on Monday. “And I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action.”
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Trump did not seem to realize that he had invoked a chain of convenience stores, and the crowd did not seem to mind. He continued speaking without hesitation, recalling the bravery he witnessed after the attacks.
After recalling the attacks which didn’t happen at the convenience stores, the bombastic billionaire went on to talk of “the New York values that we all know so well” to target Senator Ted Cruz.
“Despite its problems, we love this state,” Trump said. “We know it’s going to come back. If I’m president, it’s going to come back so fast, you won’t even believe it.”
I just....I mean....WHAT!?
Source: http://freakoutnation.com/2016/04/watch-trump-tells-new-york-crowd-of-the-terrorist-attacks-on-711/QuoteOn the eve of New York’s primary, Republican front-runner Donald Trump told a crowd that he wanted to talk about the terrorist attack – which happened “down on 7-Eleven.”
“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down,” Trump said on Monday. “And I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action.”
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Trump did not seem to realize that he had invoked a chain of convenience stores, and the crowd did not seem to mind. He continued speaking without hesitation, recalling the bravery he witnessed after the attacks.
After recalling the attacks which didn’t happen at the convenience stores, the bombastic billionaire went on to talk of “the New York values that we all know so well” to target Senator Ted Cruz.
“Despite its problems, we love this state,” Trump said. “We know it’s going to come back. If I’m president, it’s going to come back so fast, you won’t even believe it.”
I mean of all the flubs to have but this just like takes the cake.
Ironbite-if you'll excuse me I'm off to 9-11 to get a slurrpee.
In fact, if the poll results in the congressional districts stand, then Trump will win about 80-85 delegates. And, if Trump wins 80 delegates, then the GOP only has 669 delegates left to delegate. Assuming that Cruz wins all of them, he'll wind up with 1233: just short of the 1237 he needs to secure the nomination.
Ergo, Trump will represent the GOP or we'll have a contested convention to look forward to in Cleveland.
What about the mutant oompa loompah will he win enough to get to 1237?
I don't think it's news that the Left is attacking supporters of Republicans as racist, sexist, etc.. The Left has done that for every GOP nominee since Gerald Ford, and the Right is now quite numb to it. (Which creates a bit of a boy-who-cried-racist problem this election.)
What's unusual in this election is that Republicans are attacking the supporters of Trump, often in rather personal ways. This is unusual: even in the multiway melee of the 2012 race, everyone pretty much bent over backwards to respect each other's candidate choices, even when they disagreed with them. I think this personal outrage stems from a sense of betrayal: this was going to be the Conservative Year, the Year of Ideas. We had several fantastic conservatives up for president (Cruz, Rubio), plus a number of other interesting voices from various corners of the party (Paul for the libertarians, Kasich for the moderates, Bush for the donors), and we were really looking forward to a nice long intramural argument about the future direction of the party as we decided. We were even more looking forward to taking our bold new conservative vision and crushing Hillary Clinton -- a deeply vulnerable candidate in a weak economy running for her party's third term in office -- on our way to the White House. We thought everyone in the party was looking forward to this, except perhaps for the donor class, whose power was threatened for the first time in decades. Practically any of them would have been the greatest, most conservative GOP nominee since Reagan, possibly including Reagan.
And then this guy Trump comes along, who is transparently not conservative -- indeed, anti-conservative on a variety of key issues, from abortion to entitlement reform -- and who, on top of that, is a liar, a cheat, a terrible businessman, a bad Christian, a serial adulterer, who says things (in order to get news coverage) that confirm literally every terrible stereotype progressives have ever peddled about conservatives, who wants to severely curtail our Constitutional freedoms (including the First Amendment, and, as far as anybody can tell, Article I), and who can't even stick to any of it, as he contradicts himself constantly. The absolute antithesis of everything everyone I've ever met in the active Republican Party, conservative or establishment, had any interest in seeing. Impossible to view with anything but contempt.
Then suddenly a huge chunk of our base -- people we thought were basically on our side, who valued small government and moral values and wanted to see conservatism triumph over the establishment -- is backing this guy, turning the Year of Ideas into the Year of Trump. Add to that a healthy dose of Pauline Kaelism (http://www.wsj.com/articles/i-dont-know-anybody-who-supports-him-1453836070) (us movement conservatives tend not to know very many actual Trump supporters), and it's hard not to feel like we were just stabbed in the back, like the conservative movement is S.H.I.E.L.D. and Donald Trump's supporters are HYDRA, waiting decades for the day when they would finally emerge and seize control.
This leads naturally to some very hurt feelings on the part of mainstream Republicans (both conservatives and establishment) toward the Trumpers, and that leads to personal invective against not just Trump but also his supporters. We're reaching for the same easy cliches we've learned from the Left: racist, misogynist, fascist, idiot, and so forth. Of course, this only makes the problem worse, in the end, because we're not going to win Trump supporters back over to conservatism by calling them racist rubes and so forth. On the contrary, insulting Trump people is only going to drive them further away, split the party even more. Ultimately, we have to figure out what's driving this exodus from conservatism and somehow regain the trust of Trump fans.
Something I read a while back about what 2016 was supposed to be for the Republican Party, and what it's instead become:QuoteI don't think it's news that the Left is attacking supporters of Republicans as racist, sexist, etc.. The Left has done that for every GOP nominee since Gerald Ford, and the Right is now quite numb to it. (Which creates a bit of a boy-who-cried-racist problem this election.)
What's unusual in this election is that Republicans are attacking the supporters of Trump, often in rather personal ways. This is unusual: even in the multiway melee of the 2012 race, everyone pretty much bent over backwards to respect each other's candidate choices, even when they disagreed with them. I think this personal outrage stems from a sense of betrayal: this was going to be the Conservative Year, the Year of Ideas. We had several fantastic conservatives up for president (Cruz, Rubio), plus a number of other interesting voices from various corners of the party (Paul for the libertarians, Kasich for the moderates, Bush for the donors), and we were really looking forward to a nice long intramural argument about the future direction of the party as we decided. We were even more looking forward to taking our bold new conservative vision and crushing Hillary Clinton -- a deeply vulnerable candidate in a weak economy running for her party's third term in office -- on our way to the White House. We thought everyone in the party was looking forward to this, except perhaps for the donor class, whose power was threatened for the first time in decades. Practically any of them would have been the greatest, most conservative GOP nominee since Reagan, possibly including Reagan.
And then this guy Trump comes along, who is transparently not conservative -- indeed, anti-conservative on a variety of key issues, from abortion to entitlement reform -- and who, on top of that, is a liar, a cheat, a terrible businessman, a bad Christian, a serial adulterer, who says things (in order to get news coverage) that confirm literally every terrible stereotype progressives have ever peddled about conservatives, who wants to severely curtail our Constitutional freedoms (including the First Amendment, and, as far as anybody can tell, Article I), and who can't even stick to any of it, as he contradicts himself constantly. The absolute antithesis of everything everyone I've ever met in the active Republican Party, conservative or establishment, had any interest in seeing. Impossible to view with anything but contempt.
Then suddenly a huge chunk of our base -- people we thought were basically on our side, who valued small government and moral values and wanted to see conservatism triumph over the establishment -- is backing this guy, turning the Year of Ideas into the Year of Trump. Add to that a healthy dose of Pauline Kaelism (http://www.wsj.com/articles/i-dont-know-anybody-who-supports-him-1453836070) (us movement conservatives tend not to know very many actual Trump supporters), and it's hard not to feel like we were just stabbed in the back, like the conservative movement is S.H.I.E.L.D. and Donald Trump's supporters are HYDRA, waiting decades for the day when they would finally emerge and seize control.
This leads naturally to some very hurt feelings on the part of mainstream Republicans (both conservatives and establishment) toward the Trumpers, and that leads to personal invective against not just Trump but also his supporters. We're reaching for the same easy cliches we've learned from the Left: racist, misogynist, fascist, idiot, and so forth. Of course, this only makes the problem worse, in the end, because we're not going to win Trump supporters back over to conservatism by calling them racist rubes and so forth. On the contrary, insulting Trump people is only going to drive them further away, split the party even more. Ultimately, we have to figure out what's driving this exodus from conservatism and somehow regain the trust of Trump fans.
Something I read a while back about what 2016 was supposed to be for the Republican Party, and what it's instead become:QuoteI don't think it's news that the Left is attacking supporters of Republicans as racist, sexist, etc.. The Left has done that for every GOP nominee since Gerald Ford, and the Right is now quite numb to it. (Which creates a bit of a boy-who-cried-racist problem this election.)
What's unusual in this election is that Republicans are attacking the supporters of Trump, often in rather personal ways. This is unusual: even in the multiway melee of the 2012 race, everyone pretty much bent over backwards to respect each other's candidate choices, even when they disagreed with them. I think this personal outrage stems from a sense of betrayal: this was going to be the Conservative Year, the Year of Ideas. We had several fantastic conservatives up for president (Cruz, Rubio), plus a number of other interesting voices from various corners of the party (Paul for the libertarians, Kasich for the moderates, Bush for the donors), and we were really looking forward to a nice long intramural argument about the future direction of the party as we decided. We were even more looking forward to taking our bold new conservative vision and crushing Hillary Clinton -- a deeply vulnerable candidate in a weak economy running for her party's third term in office -- on our way to the White House. We thought everyone in the party was looking forward to this, except perhaps for the donor class, whose power was threatened for the first time in decades. Practically any of them would have been the greatest, most conservative GOP nominee since Reagan, possibly including Reagan.
And then this guy Trump comes along, who is transparently not conservative -- indeed, anti-conservative on a variety of key issues, from abortion to entitlement reform -- and who, on top of that, is a liar, a cheat, a terrible businessman, a bad Christian, a serial adulterer, who says things (in order to get news coverage) that confirm literally every terrible stereotype progressives have ever peddled about conservatives, who wants to severely curtail our Constitutional freedoms (including the First Amendment, and, as far as anybody can tell, Article I), and who can't even stick to any of it, as he contradicts himself constantly. The absolute antithesis of everything everyone I've ever met in the active Republican Party, conservative or establishment, had any interest in seeing. Impossible to view with anything but contempt.
Then suddenly a huge chunk of our base -- people we thought were basically on our side, who valued small government and moral values and wanted to see conservatism triumph over the establishment -- is backing this guy, turning the Year of Ideas into the Year of Trump. Add to that a healthy dose of Pauline Kaelism (http://www.wsj.com/articles/i-dont-know-anybody-who-supports-him-1453836070) (us movement conservatives tend not to know very many actual Trump supporters), and it's hard not to feel like we were just stabbed in the back, like the conservative movement is S.H.I.E.L.D. and Donald Trump's supporters are HYDRA, waiting decades for the day when they would finally emerge and seize control.
This leads naturally to some very hurt feelings on the part of mainstream Republicans (both conservatives and establishment) toward the Trumpers, and that leads to personal invective against not just Trump but also his supporters. We're reaching for the same easy cliches we've learned from the Left: racist, misogynist, fascist, idiot, and so forth. Of course, this only makes the problem worse, in the end, because we're not going to win Trump supporters back over to conservatism by calling them racist rubes and so forth. On the contrary, insulting Trump people is only going to drive them further away, split the party even more. Ultimately, we have to figure out what's driving this exodus from conservatism and somehow regain the trust of Trump fans.
This all makes sense to me, apart from the distinction between 'Conservative' and 'Establishment' as I thought the two were synonymous.
Something I read a while back about what 2016 was supposed to be for the Republican Party, and what it's instead become:QuoteI don't think it's news that the Left is attacking supporters of Republicans as racist, sexist, etc.. The Left has done that for every GOP nominee since Gerald Ford, and the Right is now quite numb to it. (Which creates a bit of a boy-who-cried-racist problem this election.)
What's unusual in this election is that Republicans are attacking the supporters of Trump, often in rather personal ways. This is unusual: even in the multiway melee of the 2012 race, everyone pretty much bent over backwards to respect each other's candidate choices, even when they disagreed with them. I think this personal outrage stems from a sense of betrayal: this was going to be the Conservative Year, the Year of Ideas. We had several fantastic conservatives up for president (Cruz, Rubio), plus a number of other interesting voices from various corners of the party (Paul for the libertarians, Kasich for the moderates, Bush for the donors), and we were really looking forward to a nice long intramural argument about the future direction of the party as we decided. We were even more looking forward to taking our bold new conservative vision and crushing Hillary Clinton -- a deeply vulnerable candidate in a weak economy running for her party's third term in office -- on our way to the White House. We thought everyone in the party was looking forward to this, except perhaps for the donor class, whose power was threatened for the first time in decades. Practically any of them would have been the greatest, most conservative GOP nominee since Reagan, possibly including Reagan.
And then this guy Trump comes along, who is transparently not conservative -- indeed, anti-conservative on a variety of key issues, from abortion to entitlement reform -- and who, on top of that, is a liar, a cheat, a terrible businessman, a bad Christian, a serial adulterer, who says things (in order to get news coverage) that confirm literally every terrible stereotype progressives have ever peddled about conservatives, who wants to severely curtail our Constitutional freedoms (including the First Amendment, and, as far as anybody can tell, Article I), and who can't even stick to any of it, as he contradicts himself constantly. The absolute antithesis of everything everyone I've ever met in the active Republican Party, conservative or establishment, had any interest in seeing. Impossible to view with anything but contempt.
Then suddenly a huge chunk of our base -- people we thought were basically on our side, who valued small government and moral values and wanted to see conservatism triumph over the establishment -- is backing this guy, turning the Year of Ideas into the Year of Trump. Add to that a healthy dose of Pauline Kaelism (http://www.wsj.com/articles/i-dont-know-anybody-who-supports-him-1453836070) (us movement conservatives tend not to know very many actual Trump supporters), and it's hard not to feel like we were just stabbed in the back, like the conservative movement is S.H.I.E.L.D. and Donald Trump's supporters are HYDRA, waiting decades for the day when they would finally emerge and seize control.
This leads naturally to some very hurt feelings on the part of mainstream Republicans (both conservatives and establishment) toward the Trumpers, and that leads to personal invective against not just Trump but also his supporters. We're reaching for the same easy cliches we've learned from the Left: racist, misogynist, fascist, idiot, and so forth. Of course, this only makes the problem worse, in the end, because we're not going to win Trump supporters back over to conservatism by calling them racist rubes and so forth. On the contrary, insulting Trump people is only going to drive them further away, split the party even more. Ultimately, we have to figure out what's driving this exodus from conservatism and somehow regain the trust of Trump fans.
Political observers warn the partnership threatens to weaken Cruz's anti-establishment image and Kasich's positive "happy warrior" narrative, just days before a crucial Indiana primary.
The collaboration to peel away delegates before Trump can amass the 1,237 he needs to clinch the nomination also risks fuelling resentment toward the prickly processes and legal manoeuvres used to manipulate the Republican nomination process.
"This reminds people about everything they hate about politics," Roger Stone, Trump's former senior campaign adviser, said Monday in Washington.
The Cruz-Kasich partnership "puts the lie to the idea that Ted Cruz isn't an insider," he said.
Heck The Kochs have sort of endorsed Hillary (http://www.vox.com/2016/4/25/11501504/hillary-clinton-koch-support). Just a vague "it's possible she'd be better than Trump or Cruz" (No shit really).
Understandably she responded that she didn't want their endorsement.
Wow an actual Koch endorsement would be the absolute kiss of death.
Wow an actual Koch endorsement would be the absolute kiss of death.
The Kochs aren't daft, and I can't figure out if (1) The GOP field is actually that bad or (2) they're intending to use their endorsement as a kiss of death.
And as for the Kasich-Cruz alliance, if Trump doesn't make a commercial with this song in the background, I will be disappoint
Kasich let his hand brush against Cruz's stalwart face, his wisened features betraying none of the joy he felt at this wondrous occasion. "I love you, Cruz."
"Its a sin I know, but I love you too, Kasich." Cruz embraced him, and the two Republicans hoped beyond hope their love would prevail against the very ghost of Hitler.
The polls have closed and that backfired wish that Republicans made on a monkey's paw seems to have added Pennsylvania (71), Maryland (38), and Connecticut (28) to his resume, while leading in Rhode Island (19). So, it looks like the man who guarantees us that there isn't a problem with his penis is one step closer to clinching the nomination.
ETA: And the giant bag of candycorn swept today...
The polls have closed and that backfired wish that Republicans made on a monkey's paw seems to have added Pennsylvania (71), Maryland (38), and Connecticut (28) to his resume, while leading in Rhode Island (19). So, it looks like the man who guarantees us that there isn't a problem with his penis is one step closer to clinching the nomination.
ETA: And the giant bag of candycorn swept today...
I think it's misleading to say that Pennsylvania has 71 delegates in the context of "Trump won Pennsylvania," since 54 of its delegates (3 for each of 18 congressional districts) are elected directly and are not bound to any candidate--the ballot doesn't even list which candidate they support, if any. So Trump actually only gets 17 bound delegates from his Pennsylvania win.
The polls have closed and that backfired wish that Republicans made on a monkey's paw seems to have added Pennsylvania (71), Maryland (38), and Connecticut (28) to his resume, while leading in Rhode Island (19). So, it looks like the man who guarantees us that there isn't a problem with his penis is one step closer to clinching the nomination.
ETA: And the giant bag of candycorn swept today...
I think it's misleading to say that Pennsylvania has 71 delegates in the context of "Trump won Pennsylvania," since 54 of its delegates (3 for each of 18 congressional districts) are elected directly and are not bound to any candidate--the ballot doesn't even list which candidate they support, if any. So Trump actually only gets 17 bound delegates from his Pennsylvania win.
I know that, I did that as a service to show the relative size (and importance) of the states.
ETA: It appears that Cruz is desperate, as he has named his VP choice before his eggs have hatched (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cruz-idUSKCN0XO26H). Spoiler, it's Fiorina. For those who forgot, she has all the right-wing absurdity of a Sarah Palin type, but she speaks better. It's all lies, but she speaks well in debates. Not really sure how it helps Cruz other than to (1) present a business person opposite Trump and (2) highlight Trump's misogyny in the remaining states.
I really don't see why Fiorina would jump on board. She has nothing to gain with the party (or in general) by jumping on a sinking ship while the rats are hopping off.
ETA: It appears that Cruz is desperate, as he has named his VP choice before his eggs have hatched (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cruz-idUSKCN0XO26H). Spoiler, it's Fiorina. For those who forgot, she has all the right-wing absurdity of a Sarah Palin type, but she speaks better. It's all lies, but she speaks well in debates. Not really sure how it helps Cruz other than to (1) present a business person opposite Trump and (2) highlight Trump's misogyny in the remaining states.
I really don't see why Fiorina would jump on board. She has nothing to gain with the party (or in general) by jumping on a sinking ship while the rats are hopping off.
Maybe Cruz figures that if he loses, everyone will blame Fiorina and he can continue with his "momentum" for future elections. It's not like the GOP actually details with reality so this could make perfect sense to him.
I really don't see why Fiorina would jump on board. She has nothing to gain with the party (or in general) by jumping on a sinking ship while the rats are hopping off.
I really don't see why Fiorina would jump on board. She has nothing to gain with the party (or in general) by jumping on a sinking ship while the rats are hopping off.
She gets her name in the news for the first time since she dropped out.
Ted Cruz is dropping out, apparently (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ted-cruz-drops-out-of-presidential-race-222763)
Ted Cruz is dropping out, apparently (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ted-cruz-drops-out-of-presidential-race-222763)
But Kasich continues?
How many more delegates does Trump need to get the 1237?
But Kasich continues?
How many more delegates does Trump need to get the 1237?
But Kasich continues?
How many more delegates does Trump need to get the 1237?
190 which won't be much of a problem.
It's sad, I was really hoping for a giant clusterfuck of a brokered convention that would finish off the republican party, c'est la vie.
Fingers crossed
Let's hope so. And let's hope the announcement is from some insider walking on stage drunk and scream "No we aren't voting for Hitler 2.0 just cause you voted for him. Jeb Bush is the candidate because FUCK YOU!"
How long is Kasich going to keep going for? Can't be a good use of his money.Till he's offered something like a cabinet position or something.
And so the Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of Ronald Reagan, nominate a hateful, ignorant, reality show demagogue. RIP GOP.
Really? The Republican voters just took the party back. They had enough of the globalist neo-conservative movement.
It's a surreal perspective to hear from someone living in a hellhole, constantly worried about the threat of being massacred by raiders, but really worried about the idea of Trump as president: "Sure my village could be massacred at any moment by lawless
gunmen, in a dysfunctional breakaway state, but what the hell are you thinking getting ready to elect Trump as president?"
Well, the only question now is what the people like Rubio and Cruz will do. Will they spite Donald Trump by refusing to send their delegates over, or will they send the delegates to him because they just despise Hillary Clinton that much?
.@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio showed up at a Trump rally in Texas today and punched Donald Trump in the face.
“Rubio walks in with his whole crew and said 'F-you, Trump,'” said James Hardy, a Trump supporter at the rally. “Then he jumped up on the stage and decked the Donald. Rubio's more athletic than he looks. I gained a lot of respect for him today, he's got my vote now.”
According to witnesses, Trump dropped to the ground and started crying. After punching Trump, Rubio then pushed Chris Christie over, who rolled into the crowd like a bowling ball. Nine Trump supporters were toppled like bowling pins and taken to the hospital with severe injuries. Rubio then grabbed the microphone.
“This rally is now mine, and all of you are voting for me now,” said Rubio, pausing to take a sip of water. “Look at Donald on the floor, crying like a little bitch. Who's the choke artist now, asshole?”
Rubio then kicked Trump in the testicles and Trump vomited. Since news of the attack, Rubio has skyrocketed in every poll in the nation and is now in first place.
“This is the kind of thing that Republicans respect,” said GOP pollster Frank Luntz. “It's a brilliant political move. I'm not sure why someone didn't just kick Trump's ass and call him a bitch before.”
Although having one of the most punchable faces in history, Ted Cruz has somehow thus far escaped this election cycle without getting punched in the face.
http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of--30284
Yep, The Onion called the Republican nominee for 2016 three and a half years ago.
http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of--30284
Yep, The Onion called the Republican nominee for 2016 three and a half years ago.
More depressingly, The Onion accurately predicted the 2001-2009 Bush presidency (http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/).
So, the local farm owners desperately tried to hire US citizens to labor in their fields. They could barely get any one, most of those that did try it soon quit because it really is exhausting, dangerous work.
So, the local farm owners desperately tried to hire US citizens to labor in their fields. They could barely get any one, most of those that did try it soon quit because it really is exhausting, dangerous work.
I bet they didn't pay nearly enough for the work.
Employers can freely break the law paying their workers as little as they do because undocumented Americans are afraid of alerting the authorities and calling attention to themselves.
I have to say, as a foreigner, American agriculture is utterly fucked. It's not just that it's wage slavery in a 1st world country that's technically illegal but in reality rather blatantly encouraged by all levels of government, but also nearly universally celebrated by all but the most xenophobic of Americans. In a country notorious for having some of the most stubbornly divisive politics in the world, one of the few issues that both the left and right can agree on is that an industry reliant on illegal wage slaves is actually a good thing, and hiring citizens for decent pay, hours and working conditions instead is either "going to ruin us" or "racist", depending on which side you ask.+1
Honestly, when it comes to immigration, you lot are fucking weird.
There are easily as many if not more undocumented workers doing day labor in general construction, but especially for small to medium sized home building contractors. My cousin's niece's husband is a prime example of this exploitation. He owns a specialty maintenance company that does painting and rust remediation on water towers, radio and TV broadcast antennae, etc. Most of his work crew are immigrants from Central and South America, particularly Hondurans and Guatemalans. All of them are either still here on expired visas or straight up illegals who crossed via ship to Jacksonville (a major seaport)...where assholes like my cousin's nephew-in-law keep them scared of ICE, uninsured, off the books, and horrifically underpaid.
There are easily as many if not more undocumented workers doing day labor in general construction, but especially for small to medium sized home building contractors. My cousin's niece's husband is a prime example of this exploitation. He owns a specialty maintenance company that does painting and rust remediation on water towers, radio and TV broadcast antennae, etc. Most of his work crew are immigrants from Central and South America, particularly Hondurans and Guatemalans. All of them are either still here on expired visas or straight up illegals who crossed via ship to Jacksonville (a major seaport)...where assholes like my cousin's nephew-in-law keep them scared of ICE, uninsured, off the books, and horrifically underpaid.True that. I should not have implied that this sort of thing is exclusive to agriculture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBGgFHdJOiI
Go to the end, about 1:20. Donald Trump claims to have violated a number of federal statutes, including the Equal Pay Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and last but not least, the every popular Title VII. And you can trust me, cause my law school gave me a labor and employment law award today, so I know my shit.
But I want this guy to stay around. I can't imagine what life will be like once he goes away. I can dig listening to this guy for 8 years. Definitely not as president, but it would be perfect if maybe he could run for 8 years. Hillary did.
Which politician would you like to be the GM in an RPG campaign?
Which politician would you like to be the GM in an RPG campaign?
Guess who's leading the latest "Stop Trump" group?
Just like how all the Bernie or Busters will show up to vote for Hillary?Different party, different culture. Democrats can't even control the congress when they have the majority because enough of them will disagree with the majority and side with the Republicans to bog things down. Meanwhile the Republicans can keep their gang in order even when they are doing something incredibly stupid like shutting down the government and pretending that it is Obama's fault.
Just like how all the Bernie or Busters will show up to vote for Hillary?Different party, different culture. Democrats can't even control the congress when they have the majority because enough of them will disagree with the majority and side with the Republicans to bog things down. Meanwhile the Republicans can keep their gang in order even when they are doing something incredibly stupid like shutting down the government and pretending that it is Obama's fault.
Amazing that Crooked Hillary can do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband was the WORST abuser of women in U.S. political history!
A bunch of Republicans including political strategists and some fellow called Mitt Romney are apparently trying to start a last-minute third-party presidential campaign (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-gop-effort-to-draft-an-independent-candidate-to-derail-trump/2016/05/14/1b04682e-1877-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html). Their goal isn't to provide a realistic challenge for presidency but only to act as a spoiler for the future Trump bid. They are just having difficulties in finding an actual candidate since Mitt himself isn't apparently interested in this kind of role. Watching the Republicans rip themselves apart to avoid an even worse fate is glorious.
Adams has often commented on political matters. Despite this, in 2016 he wrote on his blog "I don’t vote and I am not a member of a political party."[19] In 2007, he suggested that Michael Bloomberg would make a good presidential candidate.[20] Before the 2008 presidential election he said, "On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff",[21] but said in December 2011 that, if he were president, he would do whatever Bill Clinton advised him to do because that "would lead to policies that are a sensible middle ground".[22] On October 17, 2012, he wrote "while I don't agree with Romney's positions on most topics, I'm endorsing him for president".[23]
In 2015, he stated that he would not endorse a candidate for the 2016 elections, but he has been offering praise for Donald Trump's persuasion skills, especially on his blog. Adams has predicted that Trump will win both the Republican nomination and the general election in a huge landslide.[24] After Trump lost to Senator Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucus, rather than achieving a landslide victory as Adams had forecasted, Adams said that he suspected election fraud was committed and suggested that the caucus results were fixed by Republican Party elites.[25][26][27] Part of Adams' views on the Trump campaign stem from his background in hypnosis.
Huh? Wasn't Scott a weird alt-right-in-spirit type?
Trump's objective here is clear, several campaign strategists and political reporters observed: To discredit the people who call attention to his lies, his contradictions, his lack of transparency and the less seemly aspects of his history.
"Why attack media?" asked Michael Barbaro of The New York Times. "So you can keep saying they are 'discredited' when tough stories come out. It's deliberate attempt at inoculation.
Somebody get him a safe space!
I will immediately repeal ObamaCare!
I'm surprised there has not been protest violence like this all along. What he has said about Latinos and Muslims and women and blacks and etc. has infuriated a great swath of the population. Really, I think this was a case of the PD not preparing enough and following the lead of other events where the PD's kept the opposing supporters very, very far away from each other, like all the way on the opposite-sides-of-the-arena far away.
I'm surprised there has not been protest violence like this all along. What he has said about Latinos and Muslims and women and blacks and etc. has infuriated a great swath of the population. Really, I think this was a case of the PD not preparing enough and following the lead of other events where the PD's kept the opposing supporters very, very far away from each other, like all the way on the opposite-sides-of-the-arena far away.
Yup and conservatives will point at protesters and say look how violent they are. Look how crazy they are, and pay no attention to the fact that Donald Trump's messages are what's pissing them off.
I'm surprised there has not been protest violence like this all along. What he has said about Latinos and Muslims and women and blacks and etc. has infuriated a great swath of the population. Really, I think this was a case of the PD not preparing enough and following the lead of other events where the PD's kept the opposing supporters very, very far away from each other, like all the way on the opposite-sides-of-the-arena far away.
Yup and conservatives will point at protesters and say look how violent they are. Look how crazy they are, and pay no attention to the fact that Donald Trump's messages are what's pissing them off.
Yup and conservatives will point at protesters and say look how violent they are. Look how crazy they are, and pay no attention to the fact that Donald Trump's messages are what's pissing them off.
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
Yup and conservatives will point at protesters and say look how violent they are. Look how crazy they are, and pay no attention to the fact that Donald Trump's messages are what's pissing them off.
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
No one said that. However, the fact that the protests was violent does not excuse or justify Trump's xenophobia and racism. Oh, I forgot, you're the one who harks on the evils of LIEberalism.
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
For the sake of a good argument, sure. Why not. For I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. Donald Trump represents a real and concrete threat to the well-being of these people. Who among us would not react if our well-being, our daily life was threatened? Who among us would not stand up, say 'no more', and even resort to violence if that's what it takes to get people to listen?
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
For the sake of a good argument, sure. Why not. For I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. Donald Trump represents a real and concrete threat to the well-being of these people. Who among us would not react if our well-being, our daily life was threatened? Who among us would not stand up, say 'no more', and even resort to violence if that's what it takes to get people to listen?
As of yet, Trump has taken no concrete action against either Mexicans or Muslims, for the simple reason that he is unable to do so with any kind of effectiveness. Is a preemptive strike against somebody who has done nothing except make abhorrent statements justified or practical?
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
For the sake of a good argument, sure. Why not. For I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. Donald Trump represents a real and concrete threat to the well-being of these people. Who among us would not react if our well-being, our daily life was threatened? Who among us would not stand up, say 'no more', and even resort to violence if that's what it takes to get people to listen?
As of yet, Trump has taken no concrete action against either Mexicans or Muslims, for the simple reason that he is unable to do so with any kind of effectiveness. Is a preemptive strike against somebody who has done nothing except make abhorrent statements justified or practical?
I'm sorry, are you saying they were justified?
For the sake of a good argument, sure. Why not. For I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. Donald Trump represents a real and concrete threat to the well-being of these people. Who among us would not react if our well-being, our daily life was threatened? Who among us would not stand up, say 'no more', and even resort to violence if that's what it takes to get people to listen?
As of yet, Trump has taken no concrete action against either Mexicans or Muslims, for the simple reason that he is unable to do so with any kind of effectiveness. Is a preemptive strike against somebody who has done nothing except make abhorrent statements justified or practical?
You know he's not actually president yet, right?
As of yet, Trump has taken no concrete action against either Mexicans or Muslims, for the simple reason that he is unable to do so with any kind of effectiveness. Is a preemptive strike against somebody who has done nothing except make abhorrent statements justified or practical?
As of yet, Trump has taken no concrete action against either Mexicans or Muslims, for the simple reason that he is unable to do so with any kind of effectiveness. Is a preemptive strike against somebody who has done nothing except make abhorrent statements justified or practical?
Yes. It is better to defeat your enemy before they can inflict damage, than to wait until the damage has already been done to attack. In addition, it is a far easier objective to try to prevent him from becoming president than to try to stop anything he does once he is already president. The common people cannot influence Capitol Hill, nor can they storm the White House. Now is the time to attack Trump.
As of yet, Trump has taken no concrete action against either Mexicans or Muslims, for the simple reason that he is unable to do so with any kind of effectiveness. Is a preemptive strike against somebody who has done nothing except make abhorrent statements justified or practical?
Yes. It is better to defeat your enemy before they can inflict damage, than to wait until the damage has already been done to attack. In addition, it is a far easier objective to try to prevent him from becoming president than to try to stop anything he does once he is already president. The common people cannot influence Capitol Hill, nor can they storm the White House. Now is the time to attack Trump.
I'm not a fan of Donald Trump, but if you go to his rallies and assault his supporters, you are part of the problem. Simple as that. Not only does this just make him more popular, but more important, it violates his supporters' basic human rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and association. You want to stop Trump? That's fine, so do I. But there are far, far better ways of doing so. Find a method that doesn't hurt innocent people or make it look like he has a point.
Yes. It is better to defeat your enemy before they can inflict damage, than to wait until the damage has already been done to attack.
No doubt Donald Trump hates environmental protection in part for the usual reasons. But there’s an extra layer of venom to his pro-pollution stances that is both personal and mind-bogglingly petty.
For example, he has repeatedly denounced restrictions intended to protect the ozone layer — one of the great success stories of global environmental policy — because, he claims, they’re the reason his hair spray doesn’t work as well as it used to. I am not making this up.
Early results from California show that Jim Gilmore has 36 votes. Could this be the start of some late breaking Gilmorementum?
Early results from California show that Jim Gilmore has 36 votes. Could this be the start of some late breaking Gilmorementum?
#ImWithGill
EDIT: Finally I can post again, several days in a row my posts would constantly time out. Did I get banned or something? whatever I did, I promise to be a good boy this time.
Early results from California show that Jim Gilmore has 36 votes. Could this be the start of some late breaking Gilmorementum?
#ImWithGill
EDIT: Finally I can post again, several days in a row my posts would constantly time out. Did I get banned or something? whatever I did, I promise to be a good boy this time.
You were banned. Truth is, nobody likes the Winnipeg Jets. Only good thing to come out of Winnipeg is Chris Jericho.
Someone has already claimed that today's mass murder is going to win the elections for Trump. "Everyone at the club was a Shillary voter and the survivors are going to vote for Trump."
Someone has already claimed that today's mass murder is going to win the elections for Trump. "Everyone at the club was a Shillary voter and the survivors are going to vote for Trump."Sure, 50 or so Hillary voters dead and, let's say another 50 or converted to Trump. Yeah, that's totally going to change the course of the election.
Apparently hackers have unearthed the DNC's file on Trump, Mother Jones has published it here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/hackers-just-released-what-appears-be-dncs-trump-opposition-research-file (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/hackers-just-released-what-appears-be-dncs-trump-opposition-research-file)
Having read through a bit I'm surprised the DNC didn't release it. It's not as if they don't want this stuff out there.
Court documents revealed he told authorities he wanted to kill Trump for more than a year, but had only worked up the nerve to do so at the weekend. If he failed, he had planned another assassination attempt at a rally in Phoenix, for which he had already booked tickets.
Sandford told police he had never fired a gun before but went to a Las Vegas shooting range on June 17 to learn how.
He acknowledged he would only be able to get one or two shots off before being shot himself by security, and had accepted his own death.
Sandford told police he’d been living in the US for a year and a half, but was unemployed and living out of a car.
Authorities said he was in the country illegally.
Sandford’s lawyer said his client had autism and had previously attempted suicide.
Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign committee is violating black-letter federal law by sending campaign fundraising emails to foreign nationals - including foreign politicians - in at least Iceland, Scotland, Australia and England.
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Donald Trump should have known better," said Paul S. Ryan, CLC deputy executive director. "It is a no-brainer that it violates the law to send fundraising emails to members of a foreign government on their official foreign government email accounts, and yet, that's exactly what Trump has done repeatedly. The FEC's forum last week highlighted how foreign corporate money could infiltrate U.S. elections, but Trump's fundraising antics show that the FEC must also monitor candidates directly soliciting foreign money.
"If the FEC fails to take action on our complaint, it could send a message that Trump and other candidates have the greenlight to fundraise overseas,” Ryan added.
Does this mean that Trump is disqualified and the Democratic nominee wins by default? Or is there any punishment for violating the rules/laws/regulations like this?