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The internet is dividing this country, we are exposed to bad stuff that we never looked at. “the knockout game” for example. What is wrong with people?
So you’re arguing that ignorance is bliss and we should self-censor any information that runs counter to the oligopoly’s approved media narratives?
Maybe you should run off to Huffpo, little fella.
nice spin. I am saying watching Gorillas in the Myst over and over can make one racist.
not politics
“I am right, you are stupid”
You and your sheeple can have your Trump, smart people know better.
I think H20 meant that a little differently than it seems. I took it that the knockout game was cause to ask “What is wrong with people?”
One problem with the internet is that stuff can get mis-interpreted.
“knock out game” - not what you thought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockout_game
That reminds of this.
https://xkcd.com/386/
Great advice!
It’s an epidemic of E-SAD. Election Season Affective Disorder. Avoid rage contagion.
I was thinking about some of these points the other day, especially the internet argument one. Totally futile to try to change someone’s mind, especially when they’ve hardened their positions.
I don’t think flaming, shaming or name calling works, either. As I’ve said, I’ve done my share of this, but usually when I’ve been hit first. And I’m not particularly proud of the times I’ve taken the initiative.
I mean, I don’t think anyone who’s ever been flamed on the internet had the thought “Wow, that guy really told me off, I think I’ll sign up for Facebook and give him a big, wet LIKE!”
Too funny Palmy.
“I am right, you are stupid”
That about sums up Canklepants’ and her eight imaginary friends’ response to any and every post that scrutizes The Donald’s motives.
By contrast, a similar response to anti-Bernie or anti-Hillary posts is oddly missing. Do you see why all of the “arguments” that ensue here concern Trump?
22 Times President Obama Said He Couldn’t Ignore or Create His Own Immigration Law
November 19, 2014|Matt Wolking
“I am president, I am not king. I can’t do these things just by myself. We have a system of government that requires the Congress to work with the Executive Branch to make it happen. I’m committed to making it happen, but I’ve got to have some partners to do it. … The main thing we have to do to stop deportations is to change the laws. … [T]he most important thing that we can do is to change the law because the way the system works – again, I just want to repeat, I’m president, I’m not king. If Congress has laws on the books that says that people who are here who are not documented have to be deported, then I can exercise some flexibility in terms of where we deploy our resources, to focus on people who are really causing problems as a opposed to families who are just trying to work and support themselves. But there’s a limit to the discretion that I can show because I am obliged to execute the law. That’s what the Executive Branch means. I can’t just make the laws up by myself. So the most important thing that we can do is focus on changing the underlying laws.” (10/25/10) - See more at:
http://www.speaker.gov/general/22-times-president-obama-said-he-couldn-t-ignore-or-create-his-own-immigration-law#sthash.qO58X9fJ.dpuf
Obama Announces His New Immigration Plan
An executive action will allow undocumented parents of citizens to apply for relief from deportation.
By Tierney Sneed
Nov. 20, 2014, at 8:52 p.m.
President Barack Obama unveiled the executive action he will take that will shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation during a live address from the White House Thursday night.
The president’s executive order comes after Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul that could have addressed the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. An immigration bill stalled in the House of Representatives after passing in the Senate with bipartisan support in 2013. The president’s new action does not prevent Congress from trying again to act legislatively, and Obama has said he would revoke his executive order if Congress passes an immigration bill Obama found acceptable.
Now if we just import a few million more entitlement voters from south of the Rio Grade, the DNC’s long-cherished goal of a permanent Democrat supermajority will be within grasp. Of course, Obama will have to find some horror of a new Supreme Court judge to sign off on trashing the Second Amendment - gotta disarm the proles before risking any attempts to forcibly herd them onto the oligarchy’s neoliberal plantation to be fleeced at will - and continue trampling the Constitution into irrelevance. Forward!
Obama will have to find some horror of a new Supreme Court judge to sign off on trashing the Second Amendment
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/27/obama-pledges-gun-control-push-following-kansas-shootings/
Prof, your “Potamkin condos” Friday was the line of the year and you got no props for it. Nicely done.
The election discussion is heating up pretty good, but let me get in and out with a quick comment. You’ve been saying for a long time that a vote for Trump was a vote for Hillary. This week was a watershed, and I realized, among other things, that that’s backwards. A vote for Hillary now is a vote for Trump. And Trump’s going to be president.
There is a hurricane howl building out there and it’s settled on three words: Make it stop. Voters are realizing that Trump and Sanders are the only two candidates who can possibly mean it when they say “it is going to stop.” And once they’ve got it in their heads that there are candidates who might actually mean it - that it might actually stop - they will never go back. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
That’s all there is to it. You were talking about a “national embarrassment” yesterday, but there is no embarrassment, there is nobody left to be embarrassed. There are still moral voters out there who will give or withhold their support on principled grounds, but how many of them will reject Trump, who has said that America should not be involved in these wars, in favor of anyone from the war and more war establishment? “Embarrassment” has lost the plot.
When you post, ask yourself whether the person you’re trying to reach is going to hear anything that will make them stop and give another answer than “Make it stop.” And if your response to that is to say that Trump isn’t really going to make it stop, then you might consier offering an alternative, and start arguing *for* that candidate instead. It’s hurricane weather.
And Trump’s going to be president.
Yes, yes he will be. Hillary can’t win.
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
NJ residents not happy Christie endorsing Trump
NJ residents we spoke to are not happy at all with Governor Christie’s endorsement of Trump.
By: Dan Bowens
Posted:Feb 27 2016 08:41PM EST
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - The newest political bro-mance is now official. Governor Chris Christie made good on his endorsement of Republican front runner Donald Trump and was warming up the crowds at rallies in the south for the New York billionaire.
The Garden State Governor’s decision head back to the campaign trail leaving some residents in his home state a bit frustrated.
“It’s like more than disappointing, it’s like I regret moving to NJ” one resident told us.
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“it’s like I regret moving to NJ”
It’s like life in NJ with the Governor out of town is just not worth living.
Is this what you’d call your “posting factual information about Donald Trump”? You’re a fraud and a windbag. Pompous Leftist SJW SoCal University academic who only cares about racial skin color group identity politics.
Not sure if I exposed you or everyone already knew, but it’s obvious now.
I’d like to say I’m done commenting to you for the day (or forever), but I know I won’t be able to control myself. Maybe I’ll try to limit it to one line zingers.
You are a fraud who deceives HBB readers by posting under nine different screen names, including Donald Trump. Everyone can see through your scam. It is lame and inane.
“Maybe I’ll try to limit it to one line zingers.”
Please enlighten HBB readers with your Trump University prose.
Meltdown, you are a buzzword spouting, spit personality nutcase with the cognitive ability of an empty walnut shell. You make me feel like Albert Einstein by comparison, and I like it.
Don’t ever change.
It is entertaining to watch Meltdown melt down day after day. I especially enjoy trying to parse his Trump University English!
As a white guy the professor would support Trump if he only cared about racial skin color group identity politics.
“Meltdown, you are a buzzword spouting, spit personality nutcase with the cognitive ability of an empty walnut shell. You make me feel like Albert Einstein by comparison, and I like it.”
Well played! Excellent phrasing.
You do realize most English majors have jobs as Starbucks baristas or waiters in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery”?
Exactly how many are in this “some residents” group? Certainly the media is frustrated so they pose these gotcha feelings.
Despite your own “prediction” that Hillary can’t win, the Iowa Electronic Market shows her chances increasing with her and Trump’s recent success. As usual, the Republican Party leaders look like sitting ducks at a hunting Lodge.
The widening gap
Your favorite has already taken $150 million in bribes. Who does that benefit?
Who is my “favorite”? I don’t care for Hillary or Trump. I like some things Sanders says, but generally don’t trust socialism.
I’m a man without a favorite. Stop letting the voices inside your head tell you otherwise, Mr. Pineapple.
What quacks like a duck day, night and in between?
“What quacks like a duck day, night and in between?”
Donald Duck and Trump
Socialism would be better than Crony Capitalism you trust and vote for year after year.
“Socialism would be better than Crony Capitalism you trust and vote for year after year.”
Which of your eight imaginary friends are you talking to at the moment?
You vote crony capitalism, that’s what you are going to get.
It’s Trump vs. Goldman Sachs. Take your pick. We’ve seen how well Goldman Sachs aka hope ‘n change has worked out for the nation.
This is an interesting take.
I like 5% unemployment and corp profits hitting an all time high a few yrs ago.
Just add competition to the ACA, keep moving fwd.
But then again, only whiners are on the forums thinking they are the smartest person in their mom’s basement.
Got Popcorn?
97 percent chance. Go findee more fact to cut and paste.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-02-26/trump-will-become-president-statistical-model-says
Is that you, AlbuquerqueDan? Shouldn’t we consult the Rasmussen Polls to get the real story?
Wow. A model that’s predicted every presidential election but one correctly since 1912, and we’re just hearing about it now.
I’m inclined to agree with it at this point… the dems are going to run their establishment candidate, and they’re going to get stomped. People are sick enough of the status quo to vote for Donald J(ackass) Trump in the absence of any credible alternative. The closet trumplings will trumple him into office.
After 4 years of President Trump, they’ll be begging for the status quo, and the Illuminati conspirators will have won the long game.
“Trump Will Become President, Says Extremely Accurate Statistician”
Sounds like the guy tore a page out of the book How to Lie With Statistics. ‘Extremely Accurate Statistician’…give me a break.
He’s probably the World’s Tallest Midget too.
“the Illuminati conspirators will have won the long game.”
If that’s what’s bothering you, you can relax.
The corrupt GOP establishment is terrified of Trump. That is reason alone to vote for him.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/mcconnell_tells_vulnerable_gop_senators_its_ok_to_trash_trump.html
It has also been said that being anti establishment does not necessarily mean being against expanding the police state. In Trump’s case, he has been explicitly saying he will expand the police state. You guys are drinking punch, but the worst part is you are involving millions of unwilling people who hate big government in is and allowing the dagger to be over their necks.
Weaklings want rulers.
9/11 was an effective narrative. Remember all those NYFD hats? LOLZ
Badge licking and uniform fetishism provides emotional resonance.
Bill you simply have no credibility on anything political zero, zip, nil. You want open borders. You also do not care about a functioning society or others.
Get rid of the cops! Do you really think that is a rational thought?
Just keep paying your taxes though. The prisons are full of tax protesters who went down the sovereign citizen rabbit hole.
Canklepants ^^
She also calls herself Anklepants, DumidolFanger, Yuuuge in Burma, Meltdown, and Donald Trump.
Is that you behind the curtain, Jane?
SH, Trump is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take a wrecking ball to the corrupt establishment GOP. This election also comes down to Trump vs. Goldman Sachs, and to have the electorate repudiate bankster control over our political process - unlike in 2008 and 2012, where 95% of the electorate mindlessly bent over for Wall Street-owned candidates like Goldman’s boy Obama - will send a message to The Powers that Be that they can no longer ignore. Once Trump is in office, then would be the time to try to shape and influence his policies, or fight against them. But right now breaking Goldman’s stranglehold on our politicial process is job #1.
This is exactly it. It’s not that people are drinking punch and begging for a strong leader. It’s that huge swaths of decent Americans of all stripes see what job #1 is - NO to Goldman, to globalism, to the war machine - and everything else takes a back seat. I’m describing this clinically, not as a true believer; this is just what’s going on.
As far as eventually shaping/influencing his policies goes, there’s a legion of complacent “liberals” in the lower echelons of the 2-5% who’ve been singing Kum By Yah while we’ve gotten mired in another Vietnam, that might find some use for themselves if there’s some frank political discussion on the table.
Well said. I’m looking at this clinically as well. At some point We the People need to draw a line in the sand against the corrupt status quo, rather than sanctioning it election after election with our votes for co-opted establishment stooges. I think Trump is intelligent enough that once in office, he would moderate some of his more outlandish stances. Mexico is our neighbor; we need to have neighborly relations with them and stop the gratuitous insults against Mexicans. Similarly, we can’t afford to further alienate 1.3 billion Muslims.
While I happen to agree with many HBB posters’ valid objections to Donald Trump, in this case the imperative of delivering a resounding “F*** you” to the corrupt status quo has to take precedence. That is the best of some very bad options, and non-participation due to a holier-than-thou ideological purity is by default casting a vote for continued oligarch control and usurping of our institutions and goverance.
There is a huge flaw in your logic, which is that Trump will somehow naturally be a better strongman Dear Leader than the establishment oligarchs would be. His rhetoric suggests exactly the opposite.
America is supposed to have checks and balances. Under the oligopoly, the judiciary, legistlature, and executive have all been usurped and co-opted by the banksters, with the sanction of 95% of the electorate. Let’s say Trump gets in and tries to rule as an autocrat. Then the sheeple might realize there is a damned good reason for separation of powers and checks and balances, and instead of bending over for oligopoly stooges, they’ll start refusing to vote for co-opted candidates and put in decent representatives like that Tulsa chick from Hawaii that actually represents her constituents.
“…that Tulsa chick from Hawaii that actually represents her constituents.”
Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate on how we can collectively build on grass roots, locally representative governance?
To the poster who asserted that Mr. Trump would not represent the Nation well before world leaders:
As an executive in a F100 firm, I will tell you this: you assess your audience and what you want out of the conversation before you ever step into the room or enter the conference call. You temper your persona in accordance with the audience, and in alignment with what you want out of it.
Mr. Trump has assessed his audience very well - the majority of the country, who have seen their wages stagnate and who have been shafted by the PTB over the past twenty years. Only to see that their children - on whose behalf they have been stoically laboring over the past twenty years - have been deemed superfluous. It p*sses them off, and Mr. Trump speaks to that anger. He shares it. I share it.
OTOH, Mr. Trump is the only one of the candidates whose phone call will be returned immediately by the other world leaders (such as they are).
He has built their hotels, built their impregnable houses, and spoken with them up close and personal about how to arrange the financing for their programs. Plus which: he understands one of the great teachings from Machiavelli’s credo.
The teaching arises from a question: would you rather be loved or feared?
Relying on “love” leaves all of the variables in the relationship under the control of the counterparty, with you out of the equation. They can decide not to love you.
Inspiring fear and awe, on the other hand, is entirely under your control. Hence, understand that fear is an essential tool of leadership when dealing with the rest of the world.
Mr. Trump understands that. No banana republic leader or petty despot will ever film Mr. Trump bowing before a petty despot in a photo op. Or before a powerful one, come to think of it. Same cannot be said of any of the others. Mr. Obama shamed the Nation by bowing before the world leaders before whom he has bowed.
The ancient knowledge about projecting power has been lost and forgotten amongst the sniveling kum-ba-ya crowd.
Mr. Trump is actually more nuanced, and has more levels to his thinking, than any of the frothing hysterics on this board. Which sort of indicates that he has greater intelligence as well. Just MHO, of course.
Anyone who holds the office of president of the United States will be able to get pretty much any world leader on the phone. Also, Obama has not bowed before any despot. There is no photographic evidence that he has ever done any such thing.
These are the facts, not based on anyone’s feelings about Obama.
Irrelevant.
Oblama has bowed to middle despots as well as former soviet state despots.
Facts my friend. Stick with the facts.
So you must have meant to write that my statement was incorrect, not irrelevant.
Which despots has the president bowed to, and what has this bowing consisted of? I assume that you don’t mean that he has literally bowed.
“Mr. Trump is actually more nuanced, and has more levels to his thinking, than any of the frothing hysterics on this board. Which sort of indicates that he has greater intelligence as well. Just MHO, of course.”
+1. Bingo. Well said.
Bubblebot = M-T Skull
‘When you post, ask yourself whether the person you’re trying to reach is going to hear anything that will make them stop and give another answer than “Make it stop.”’
Marketwatch: Warren Buffett says America is still great. Does that mean the same thing as a bank executive that says their bank’s capital reserves are adequate?
Warren Buffett is exactly what’s wrong with this country. He is deeply entrenched in the predatory lending game. Just read about his mobile home loans.
FoxNewsHate provides the following narrative:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/27/clinton-pays-tribute-to-black-victims-ignores-officers-killed-in-line-duty.html
And below that provides four additional police narratives. Remember my prediction for the Long Hot Summer? I wasn’t wrong, I was just too early…
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
Goon, I also think we’re in for a long hot summer. The Hillary voters sense they can caper with impunity, and they’re going to take full advantage.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/28/war-on-cops-race-riot-in-salt-lake-city/
This country is going to collapse into a three way civil war between TradCons, Sharia, and SJW’s. Where’s Neil with the popcorn? LOLZ
“Bring it on” — George W. Bush
I wasn’t wrong, I was just too early…
Tyler Durden probably makes the same claim for all of his doom and gloom predictions.
New York Times real journalists provide a Rubio narrative:
“The dinner at News Corporation headquarters — which has not been previously reported — and the subsequent outreach to Mr. Limbaugh illustrate the degree to which Mr. Rubio served as the chief envoy to the conservative media for the group supporting the legislation. The bill would have provided a pathway to American citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants along with measures to secure the borders and ensure that foreigners left the United States upon the expiration of their visas.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/marco-rubio-pushed-for-immigration-reform-with-conservative-media.html
Huffington Post real journalists provide a Trump narrative:
“President Trump said he was “just fooling around” this morning when he placed two pieces of bacon — a forbidden food in the Muslim religion — between the pages of the Quran at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. The action instantly provoked a crisis that threatens to plunge the world into Armageddon.
“Everything has to be so f*cking P.C.” the President told reporters. “Nobody’s allowed to have fun anymore. The bacon needed blotting, okay? It was greasy. The Washington Hilton kitchen probably has a Mexican chef.”
Video of the desecration, in which the President slammed Islam’s holiest book shut on the strips of pork while making snorting pig noises, went viral seconds after he tweeted it, and ISIS leaders instantly issued a statement declaring it an act of war “that will be swiftly and violently avenged.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/president-trump-was-just_b_9294918.html
Breitbart provides a refugee narrative:
“Speaking at a town hall event in Berlin, the 31-year old billionaire said German leadership in the refugee crisis has been “insipiring” and a “role model for the world.”
“I hope other countries follow Germany’s lead on this,” he added. “I hope the U.S. follows Germany’s lead on this.”
Speaking at the same event, Zuckerberg also emphasised his commitment to tackling “hate speech” on Facebook.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/26/germanys-open-door-policies-inspiring-says-facebook-ceo-zuckerberg/
Why are billionaire oligarchs so eager to push “fundamental transformation”? Is it because that’s the quickest path to become trillionaires, once they have free rein to loot and asset-strip the 99%?
If observers from other countries can clearly see the problems with Trump, why can’t Americans see them?
Another day of this? Yesterday’s bits topped 300 posts by the time I came back into cell phone coverage.
Hillary can’t win. Accept it and move on.
Top of the morning to you, Goon.
A glorious morning indeed. Life is pretty good when you stop pretending that this country has a future.
“I just wanna get my kicks before the whole sh*thouse goes up in flames” — Jim Morisson
I’m only in this for the narrative. The structure of the narrative is irrelevant. Control of the narrative is everything.
I always remain optimistic about America’s future, and contribute my small but steadfast efforts to help ensure it.
America’s future
There isn’t one. Get over it.
“Big darkness, soon come” — Hunter S. Thompson
Meanwhile, enjoy your views from the mountain tops while you sit back and watch the flames of bitter old white male populist rage consume the country formerly known as America…
It’s like life in America without Hillary and her Wall Street bankers just isn’t worth living.
I always remain optimistic about America’s future, and contribute my small but steadfast efforts to help ensure it.
Thanks for the good laugh.
enjoy your views from the mountain tops
I will do precisely that:
http://imgur.com/ZFt6OWD
Someone I know died at age 80 last week. I’ll take another five decades spinning on this globe before I rot in a box for eternity.
My future has already been stolen from me. I owe nothing to the future of those who will follow.
“At least I’m enjoying the ride” — the Grateful Dead
Which laugh was better that one or the one you get from his thinking I’m you and you’re me?
http://youtu.be/pY8KPcj6fco
Hi Yuuge, Meltdown, Anklepants, Canklepants, DumidolFanger,…
or is this the real Donald Trump?
Meltdown = Yuuge in Burma = Anklepants = Canklepants = DumidolFanger = fake Donald Trump =…
WAIT FOR IT…
“Which laugh was better that one or the one you get from his thinking I’m you and you’re me?”
Trumpling University English is incoherent.
I always remain optimistic about America’s future, and contribute my small but steadfast efforts to help ensure it.
+ 1. Goon cares about America’s future, too, or he wouldn’t post about it all the time. The “I don’t care let it all burn” teenager attitude he affects is merely there to cover the major flaws in his logic, and because he thinks it’s something a Hunter S. Thompson would write (it’s not).
WAIT FOR IT…Canklepants is really Count Olaf in disguise!
Bear doesn’t matter what I think i haven’t got a vote. The US voters will vote for who they want; it may well be the get the leader they deserve but as an American politician once said
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
“The US voters”
You mean those eligible voters who bother to register and buckle their knees while begging for a ruler.
yeah it’s not like the voting has anything to do with Bill paying higher taxes
this is a race between goldman and trumpster.
Leaders
The Republicans
Time to fire Trump
The front-runner is unfit to lead a great political party, let alone America
Feb 27th 2016
IN A week’s time, the race for the Republican nomination could be all but over. Donald Trump has already won three of the first four contests. On March 1st, Super Tuesday, 12 more states will vote. Mr Trump has a polling lead in all but three of them. Were these polls to translate into results, as they have so far, Mr Trump would not quite be unbeatable. It would still be possible for another candidate to win enough delegates to overtake him. But that would require the front-runner to have a late, spectacular electoral collapse of a kind that has not been seen before. Right now the Republican nomination is his to lose.
Worse, it might not stop there. Polls show that 46% of Americans of voting age have a “very unfavourable” opinion of Mr Trump, which suggests his chances of winning a general election are slight. But Mr Trump’s political persona is more flexible than that of any professional politician, which means he can take it in any direction he wants to. And whoever wins the nomination for either party will have a decent chance of becoming America’s next president: the past few elections have been decided by slim margins in a handful of states. When pollsters ask voters to choose in a face-off between Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner wins by less than three percentage points. Mr Trump would have plenty of time to try to close that gap. An economy that falls back into recession or an indictment for Mrs Clinton might do it for him.
That is an appalling prospect. The things Mr Trump has said in this campaign make him unworthy of leading one of the world’s great political parties, let alone America. One way to judge politicians is by whether they appeal to our better natures: Mr Trump has prospered by inciting hatred and violence. He is so unpredictable that the thought of him anywhere near high office is terrifying. He must be stopped.
The world according to Trump
Because each additional Trumpism seems a bit less shocking than the one before, there is a danger of becoming desensitised to his outbursts. To recap, he has referred to Mexicans crossing the border as rapists; called enthusiastically for the use of torture; hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice, was murdered; proposed banning all Muslims from visiting America; advocated killing the families of terrorists; and repeated, approvingly, a damaging fiction that a century ago American soldiers in the Philippines dipped their ammunition in pigs’ blood before executing Muslim rebels. At a recent rally he said he would like to punch a protester in the face. This is by no means an exhaustive list.
Almost the only policy Mr Trump clearly subscribes to is a fantasy: the construction of a wall along the southern border, paid for by Mexico. What would he do if faced with a crisis in the South China Sea, a terrorist attack in America or another financial meltdown? Nobody has any idea. Mr Trump may be well suited to campaigning in primaries, where voters bear little resemblance to the country as a whole, but it is difficult to imagine any candidate less suited to the consequence of winning a general election, namely governing.
With each victory, the voices trying to make peace with Mr Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party grow louder. He has already been endorsed by some Republican congressmen. Some on the left point out that he is less conservative on social and economic questions than some of his rivals (while privately hoping the Republicans nominate him so that Mrs Clinton can give him a shellacking).
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A very factual article indeed!
I am doing my best to remediate your Trump University brainwashing. It is a very, very difficult job!
Mexico
Two former Mexican presidents compare Donald Trump to Hitler
Felipe Calderon and Vicente Fox said the outspoken presidential candidate was stirring up hate like the Nazi dictator
Donald Trump has been accused by Felipe Calderon of ‘exploiting feelings like Hitler did in his time’.
Photograph: Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images
Martin Farrer and agencies
Saturday 27 February 2016 23.07 EST
Last modified on Sunday 28 February 2016 07.22 EST
Two former Mexican presidents have compared Donald Trump’s to Adolf Hitler as the cross-border war of words over the Republican presidential frontrunner’s immigration rhetoric intensified.
Felipe Calderon, a conservative who was president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, told reporters at an event in Mexico City on Saturday that Trump’s political rhetoric was “racist” and evocative of the Nazi dictator.
“This logic of praising the white supremacy is not just anti-immigration,” Calderon said. “He is acting and speaking out against immigrants that have a different skin color than he does, it is frankly racist and [he is] exploiting feelings like Hitler did in his time,” Calderon said.
Calderon added that Trump’s discourse was “sowing hate” against the United States around the world and that was “not in Washington’s interest”.
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Another great factual piece!
I’m happy you are benefiting from the education.
Two former Mexican presidents compare Donald Trump to Hitler
That coming from those two crooks, under whose watch the narco state rose in Mexico and strangled it, is rich.
And their accusations of racism ring hollow. Few are more racist than upper class Mexicans.
Yeah, those two guys did such a great job in MX, we should definitely listen to what they have to say…indeed.
Hitler thing is so played out. If Trump is running neck-and-neck against Hilary in the fall, what are they going to call him?
These people, and their useful idiots, will stoop to levels previously unimaginable to continue the charade.
They use people of color as a human shield to obfuscate their true motives.
If Hitler had a sister, she’d look like cankles.
…just for the record, he did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Hitler
If you start off by assuming that Godwin’s Law applies every time someone points out a striking similarity between a political candidate and Hitler, then you have no chance to detect the real thing when it is staring you in the face.
Take the blinders off and put on your thinking caps, folks.
This flawed logic is little different from, “It is impossible to see bubbles until after they pop.”
While this may be true for those who travel life’s journey with their heads buried in the sand, it is not a constructive way forward.
How ’bout them Long Island Hitlers?
Nephews; their father had a slight resemblance.
Three Quiet Brothers on Long Island, All of Them Related to Hitler
Washington Times (yes, it’s a Moonie rag) provides a Sky Wizard narrative:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/23/clifford-may-how-not-to-resolve-the-palestinian-is/
No smaller government or less regulation or lower taxes happening here. $4.5 billion a year in direct aid. And a $600 billion a year military industrial complex all in the service of this racist apartheid state.
American taxpayers, do you feel like you’re getting your money’s worth?
nother financial crisis is “certain” and will come sooner rather than later, the former Bank of England governor has warned.
G20 concludes Brexit would ’shock’ world economy, George Osborne says
Read more
Mervyn King, who headed the bank between 2003 and 2013, believes the world economy will soon face another crash as regulators have failed to reform banking.
He has also claimed that the 2008 crisis was the fault of the financial system, not individual greedy bankers, in his new book, The End Of Alchemy: Money, Banking And The Future Of The Global Economy, serialised in The Telegraph.
“Without reform of the financial system, another crisis is certain, and the failure … to tackle the disequilibrium in the world economy makes it likely that it will come sooner rather than later,” Lord King wrote.
He added that global central banks were caught in a “prisoner’s dilemma” - unable to raise interest rates for fear of stifling the economic recovery, the newspaper reported.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/28/mervyn-king-new-financial-crisis-is-certain-without-reform-of-banks
While I hear the Koch brothers are in big financial trouble (oil), word is they have chosen little Marco Rubio, the lightweight from Florida.
Good morning, CawCawCaw, Anklepants, Canklepants, Yuuge in Burma, Meltdown, DumidolFanger…
Did I miss any of your imaginary friends?
Here we go again. I already said, that ain’t me.
FRAUD!
Your wrong that I am all those posters and the Donald Trump poster above also. I’d be willing to wager a self imposed ban until November 9th that I am telling the truth.
You talk the talk, care ta walk the walk?
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I guess that settles that. SJW Porf now going full Lola.
So much for guts.
Meltdown is going full buzzword now, plus posting again under another of her fake personas (”Jane”).
Drudge Report links to a New York Times real journalists narrative on California, the most impoverished state in America:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/us/san-francisco-wants-homeless-to-leave-tent-camp-but-some-vow-to-fight.html?referer=
Trump versus Clinton: the lesser of two evils is far more evil than Obama versus Romney, Obama versus McCain, Bush versus Kerry, Bush versus Gore.
Spot on, Bill. A lot of Republicans have announced their decisions to vote for HRC in order to help stop Trump.
It is my expectation that a Trump versus Hillary campaign will be far more polarizing than any prior one, yet the prospect of having either one a ruler would be far more disastrous than the Bush or Obama disasters, and that his campaign will end up with a marked increase in percentage of those who don’t want to vote for either and just stay away from the ballot box, spending time instead at Peet’s coffee shop.
I don’t get it. I’ve seen you rail over and over and over about guns and taxes. You think there’s no difference between Trump and Hillary on those issues?
And yet, we’ll end up with a disaster. Now if those “stay at home” people were to actually vote for someone else, maybe, just maybe, we could keep Hillarump out of the White House.
“…we could keep Hillarump out of the White House.”
There is a plausible goal! Too bad the forces of destiny are setting up the exact opposite outcome.
Trumplings are no less collectivist than Hillary worshippers.
Right…they are definitely more thuggish, though.
No wonder the party is in such a predicament. They can’t even honor voters’ choice for once. They are always used to dictating what’s good for them. Hope they vote Hillary and stay there for good, especially the neocons. The neocons ruined the republican party, let’s hope Trump is the answer.
Will there ever be a Nuremburg war crimes trial for the neocons?
Dick Cheney
Richard Perle
Condoleeza Rice
Paul Wolfowitz
Donald Rumsfeld
And their greatest cheerleader, William Kristol
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” — Johnny Rotten
Robert Kagan is voting Hilary. Good for him, I say.
Hope they all vote Hillary and stay on that side.
I’d rather have a neocon in the White House than a fascist Bunga Bunga dictator. Neither is an attractive choice, though.
Ah I get it. So basically to justify your vote for the corrupt status-quo, you have to demonize everybody else as Hitler?
Bunga Bunga is Berlusconi’s nickname, thanks to the squad of sexy strumpets he hangs with. Do try to keep up!
let’s hope Trump is the answer ??
A narcissistic, bigoted con-man is not the answer….
More evil than Bush?
Get your head out of …….
Trumplings are thuggish.
There is some conversation about making cash go away (to force every transaction to be a bank skimmed transaction) and also negative interest on bank deposits. I look for bad things come in threes. A possible trifecta partner here would be criminalizing crypto currency other than the “official” version. China is already talking about replacing bitcoin and its alternatives with some kind of mao-coin. Post credit expansion, the banks will need as much skim as they can make.
A Wall Street bought and paid for tool like Hillary would be a very interesting candidate for such interesting times.
There are two kinds of people. Which one will you be? A loser like them? Or a winner like me.
FRAUDULENT POST ALERT
CawCawCaw, Anklepants, Canklepants, Yuuge in Burma, Meltdown, DumidolFanger…
There are other kinds of people you forgot to mention:
Liars, hucksters, scam artists, thugs, fascist dictators…
Come to think of it, all of them are losers, along with the suckers who fall for their scams.
Exactly.
At least the majority of people are clear-minded and won’t vote for either. They will start doing things to ward off the sociopaths that the idiots hallucinate to rulership. I listed a lot of direct approaches already, among them is ignoring bad laws.
Since when have you ever cared about the majority of the people? You’re a selfish hoarder. Look out for number one and screw the rest. Harry Browne style.
Since when have you ever cared about the majority of the people? You’re a selfish hoarder. Look out for number one and screw the rest. Harry Browne style.
Before I add your new schizo name to the Joshua Tree list Canklepants:
Your logic is twisted. You are a collectivist saying I’m not a collectivist.
Nutter alert…
You brought up “the majority of people” not me. But your not interested in others voluntaryism = billism.
The Welfare/Warfare stooges are gyrating early this morning.
Realtors are liars.
You can say that again.
Snowden tweets: Donald Trump Vs Goldman Sachs
Dumb post of the day award recipient
Because it doesn’t say Trump is fascist?
Because it doesn’t say anything, period. Only you and your eight imaginary friends understand what you were trying to say.
And so, just like that, with a sweeping victory in South Carolina, Sanders’ Socialism crawls back into its cage and crony capitalism is alive and well.
Snowden Sums Up The Presidential Campaign With Just One Tweet
Zero Hedge - February 28, 2016
As Edward Snowden so perfectly sums up
2016: a choice between Donald Trump and Goldman Sachs.
6,558 retweets 7,955 likes
“2016: a choice between Donald Trump and Goldman Sachs.”
It is hard to argue with that. Too bad Trump is such a poor alternative.
On the contrary, Trump is the RICH alternative. And the only reason he’s sustained any support is precisely because he’s rich. Otherwise, he’d need GS on his side, not be against it.
As I said months ago, it will take a billionaire to break Citizens United.
“falling housing prices”
02/25/16 Price change $429,000 -1.9%
02/12/16 Listed for sale $437,500 +59.1%
06/26/15 Sold $274,900
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1866-S-Lincoln-St-Denver-CO-80210/13369814_zpid/
One third of that price is about $140k. My guess is that the typical household in that neighborhood has an income less than half that much.
A lot of people are going to suffer when this home improvement fad comes to an end.
I hear there’s a hot new bromance on the political scene. Vlad, move over. Chris is giving your favorite man Donald a “bear hug” (wink, wink)….
Trump calls for reigning in freedom of the press. You guys ready to get sued for libel for your posts?
“One of the things I’m gonna do, and this is only gonna make it tougher for me, and I’ve never said this before, but one of the things I’m gonna do if I win… is I’m gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws.”
He went even further and made it clear what he meant, saying, “We’re gonna open up those libel laws, folks, and we’re gonna have people sue you like you never get sued before.””
-Donald Trump
countercurrent news
Trump’s platform includes rescinding selected parts of the Bill of Rights.
Lola is jealous.
Don’t be an idiot.
Freedom of the press means the press is protected from prosecution for publishing the truth. There is NO protection for publishing falsehoods.
Didn’t Fox News have to cast themselves as “entertainment” in order to circumvent journalism laws?
donald trump is a shoe in.
Based on which voices inside your head?
Trump on witness list in fraud case against now-defunct Trump University
By Kimberly Hefling
02/23/16 06:30 PM EST
Donald Trump might have to take a detour from his busy campaign schedule for a task he’d likely rather avoid as the election heats up: court witness.
A civil trial in the fraud case against his now-defunct Trump University could come sometime after May 6 — the scheduled date of the last pre-trial conference in a case filed by former students. Court records indicate he’s on the witness list for both sides, although no trial date has been scheduled. May primaries are scheduled in states such as Nebraska, West Virginia, Oregon and Washington and California’s is June 7.
Trump University was not a degree-granting school and did not have a campus, but it ran real estate seminars that critics have called a useless and expensive fraud, with some students paying thousands of dollars in hopes of getting rich. Trump attorneys have said there’s no merit to the accusations.
Neither his attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, nor a campaign spokeswoman immediately responded to a request for comment.
A separate suit filed against Trump University by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2013 is still pending.
The latest court filings from the federal district court in San Diego were first reported by Yahoo.
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Is there at least some chance these fraud charges will stick, leaving The Donald behind bars later in campaign season writing his memoirs, Mein Trumpf?
GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump
The Post’s View
By Editorial Board February 24, 2016
THE UNTHINKABLE is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/02/24/d993b548-db0e-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html - Similar pages
3 days ago ..
“GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump”
I’m impressed that you are catching on!
“GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump”
Comment by Donald Trump
2016-02-28 06:29:01
“There are two kinds of people. Which one will you be? A loser like them? Or a winner like me.”
Don’t tell me you are still under the spell of that real estate huckster?
Huckster or Wicked Witch? Pick your poison.
Huckster or Wicked Witch? Pick your poison.
I’m going with he Brooklyn Jew who says we’re getting screwed.
He’s a middle finger to the establishment without being a strong candidate for tyrant or warchief himself.
Trump or Goldman Sachs. Take your pick.
Take your pick.
If you really believed your “middle finger to the establishment” claim about Trump, you’d be strongly supporting Bernie for the same reason.
If you’re just choosing Trump, then the middle finger thing is just a cover for your support of his unconstitutional promises.
“I’m going with he Brooklyn Jew who says we’re getting screwed.”
Too bad he’s getting Ron Pauled by his party.
“Too bad he’s getting Ron Pauled by his party.”
That is pretty damn accurate.
Kudos if you came up with that.
Ron Paul never had votes in the GOP. At least Bernie has some votes.
Barney Sanders is pro-debt slavery.
Bernie Sanders is window-dressing. Hillary and the DNC already have the superdelegates locked up. The fix is in.
Say what?
So, the Don is a fascist dictator, and the people are asking for GOP losers to vacate the vote? Something doesn’t sound right.
Does Trump University offer remedial English classes? If so, perhaps you should sign up for one.
GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump
“Now it is faced with a front-runner who…said of a protester, “I’d like to punch him in the face.” This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists. He admires Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and sees no difference between Mr. Putin’s victims and people killed in the defense of the United States. He would round up and deport 11 million people, a forced movement on a scale not attempted since Stalin or perhaps Pol Pot. He has, during the course of his campaign, denigrated women, Jews, Muslims, Mexicans, people with disabilities and many more. He routinely trades in wild falsehoods and doubles down when his lies are exposed.”
Washington Post
” a forced movement on a scale not attempted since Stalin or perhaps Pol Pot.”
Trump, the biggest progressive ever?
Yep. Trump is progessive, alright, along with Yuuuge in Burma and her eight lovely sisters.
The only winner here is me. And I’m living in your head rent free.
Fraudulent post alert!
How is Barney Sanders doing?
Berned out, from the look of things… and the last credible candidate leaves the state. Its clown vs witch from here on out.
I don’t think the Democrats will go for him. Trump would have a better chance of beating Bernie than Hillary.
Did you expect anything else form the Demorats?
Demorats are the conservative party….they just want to conserve the fraud, corruption and crony capitalism.
I know who you will voting for.
True, dat. Hillary has a decades-long history of fraud, corruption, and crony capitalism. Just the kind of candidate, in other words, who will pander to the free sh*tters for their votes, then cut them in on their share of the take for facilating her swindles against taxpayers and the middle class. Forward!
“I know who you will voting for.”
Did one of your imaginary friends let you in on the secret?
Spirit messages from his betters.
“I know who you will voting for.”
Does Trump University offer courses in Ebonics?
Hillary and the corrupt DNC own the superdelegates. Bernie’s run is just to maintain the illusion of a democratic process, when the outcome was always baked in the cake.
It’s a grim party indeed when Hillary jumps out of the cake.
But you will eat that cake anyway. So what’s the problem?
How do the voices in your head tell you how others are going to vote? Do you need to point a special metal wand towards the sky in order to receive the message?
Barney Sanders is a socialist.
“If there is one commonality among all tyrants it is the collectivist philosophy. The idea that it is justifiable and even noble to sacrifice the rights of the individual in the name of serving some greater good.” - Larken Rose
‘Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”’ - Ayn Rand
“Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory . . . both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state.” - Ayn Rand
Well said, SH. Meanwhile, Zuckerburg pats you on the head, gives you a dog treat, and tells you “good boy!” for living your life on social media.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/zuckerbergs-virtual-reality-photo-our-future-in-the-matrix_022016
I love Facebook. I have a lot of voluntaryist friends on it, some of them are bitcoin friends - no coincidence. I love my friends’ posts and share them with my statist friends.
I guess you feel left out. Sorry.
Sunday funnies from TBP.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/02/28/sunday-funnies-102/
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” – H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
I love Mencken.
You lie….you vote crony capitalism.
You don’t know how I vote…unless one of your eight imaginary friends told you, in which case I stand corrected.
Have we decided what form of government is better than democracy?
When will rents revert to historic norms?
http://www.businessinsider.com/londons-housing-crisis-just-reached-a-turning-point-2016-2
There could be Global Warming this year.
If Donald J Trump is elected President, the smoke pouring off the e-mail shredders in Washington, D.C. could raise the global temperatures by as much as 2 degrees Fahrenheit (°F).
The hot air emanating from The Donald’s mouth could definitely be a major contributor to global warming.
Hillary can’t win:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/26/donald-trump-leads-polls-in-eight-of-twelve-super-tuesday-states/
Fundamental transformation hits the highways of Southern California.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/27/us/california-highway-shootings/index.html
Richmond is in NorCal. I must somehow jinx the places I leave behind, as I lived in Richmond and drove that stretch of I-80 daily for eight years. Before that I grew up and lived out most of my youth four miles east of the Ferguson riot zone.
The oligarchy in action: Faux News colluded with Marco Rubio to push for amnesty for illegals.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/27/marco-rubio-pushed-for-immigration-reform-with-conservative-media/
Oligarch media and oligarch puppet join forces to push for amnesty. If you are still watching cable news or subscribing to cable and thus financially supporting such propaganda, cut the cord and starve the beast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/marco-rubio-pushed-for-immigration-reform-with-conservative-media.html?_r=0
The Clintons and Wall Street: 24 years of mutually enriching crony capitalism.
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2016/02/wall-street-and-clintons.html
A foretaste of what we can expect once our permanent Democrat supermajority allows the DNC to take its corruption and kleptocracy to the next level.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/robert-mugabe-celebrates-92nd-birthday-by-eating-giant-birthday-cake-in-town-beset-by-drought-a6901176.html
Crime, corruption, and malevolence of every sort will flourish once we have our permanent Democrat supermajority in place and the co-opted cops and judiciary will allow the Hillary voting demographic to caper with impunity, as long as they remit a cut of the loot to their Democrat Party cohorts.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2016/02/mexico-states-metropolitan-zone.html
Secure your e-mail and social media on your mobile devices. Tablets, Droids, iPhones by setting up two way authentication.
My sister’s facebook account was hacked and that would not have happened if she set up two way authentication.
Free tidbit from security conscious.
Trump wants to give Big Brother the right to hack your iPhone.
So get an old-school flip phone.
I use an old Nokia dumb phone I’ve had since 2005.
Man, I’ll never forget buying my first cell in NYC right outta college. Nokia 8210. Everyone thought I was nuts for not having a landline.
That was my first and best cell phone.
Partners in law firms are required to drive luxury cars. Information security engineers are expected to know how to work with smartphones because we sometimes make apps for them.
2g is being discontinued
My sister’s facebook account was hacked and that would not have happened if she set up two way authentication.
Better yet, shut down your Faceplant account (or don’t open one in the first place) and deny the creepy Zuckerburg and his surveillance state partners the means to track and monitor you.
Testify, brothah! The hypocrisy of having a Faceplant account and whining about internet freedom and privacy is completely laughable. Not to mention, it was never an ambition of mine to be an unpaid asset of Zuckerberg’s.
B…b..but as a self-proclaimed “urban anarchist” or some such thing, SH shouts from the rooftop how he has untethered himself from the system. Seems a bit inconsistent, no?
LOL, as a voluntaryist, you, too, can volunteer to be one of Zuckerberg’s assets at The Matrix Uploaded.
Yeah Facebook is for massive losers. Bill, please friend me!
You seem desperate for Facebook friends, Yuuuge.
Better yet, shut down your Faceplant account (or don’t open one in the first place) and deny the creepy Zuckerburg and his surveillance state partners the means to track and monitor you.
And get rid of the tracking device known as the SmartPhone.
I don’t have a Facebook account. Never have.
I don’t have an I-Phone. Never have.
A flip phone is all I have and I use it only to talk with people.
It would be poetic justice if Hillary gets elected just in time for our financial house of cards to collapse due to years of acccumulated fraud and Keynesian hucksterism.
http://kingworldnews.com/alert-paul-craig-roberts-just-warned-the-financial-house-of-cards-may-not-make-it-through-this-year/
we need some some dovish talk this week to keep the rally going. Keep getting the shorts to cover is key. There are no other buyers basically.
The shorts are a floor under the market.
Central banks have become the shorts worst enemies.
Who will come out this week to talk about more stimulus or not raising rates?
They seem to have total control over the show.
Makes one wonder why anyone would want to be next prez. I guess the high of having all that power is just too addictive and intoxicating, and makes them overlook all of the cr@p they’ll have to deal with. Just look at how much Obama has aged in the last seven years.
7 Cape Breton homes Americans fleeing Donald Trump can consider
A piece of paradise, often for a fraction of the price of homes in big American cities
Photo gallery
CBC News
February 27, 2016
This home is set on Four Mile Beach near Sugar Loaf, in northern Cape Breton. It’s on the market for $349,000.
If you’re an American concerned about a Donald Trump presidency, Cape Breton has a deal for you.
“Cape Breton if Donald Trump wins” started as a tongue-in-cheek campaign, the brainchild of radio DJ Rob Calabrese, but the idea caught on. Calabrese said he was flooded with serious inquiries from Americans looking to visit — or move to — the island. Realtors even saw a spike in interest in real estate for sale on the island.
Here are seven properties that could fit the bill for an American seeking to put some distance between themselves and Washington.
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SH, I may have found the perfect life partner for you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3467851/1940s-obsessive-eats-rations-sleeps-air-raid-shelter-dreams-traditional-housewife.html
Black voters look set to repeat their mistake of voting for an oligopoly stooge who cares nothing for them.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/02/25/black-economic-lives-dont-matter-examining-the-african-american-plight-under-obamas-fake-oligarch-recovery/
The most reliable sheep out there. Little bit of free $hit and a heavy does of imaginary racism, they are yours for life.
No group got screwed over by hope ‘n change as badly as African-Americans, yet they’re voting for an even more slavish Goldmanite, Hillary Clinton. The stupid, it burns.
Dumb people vote liberal. It keeps them in the poor house.
Drudge Report link provides a disease narrative on the fundamental transformation:
http://nypost.com/2016/02/26/super-lice-outbreak-hits-25-states/
And so, just like that, with a sweeping victory in South Carolina, Sanders’ Socialism crawls back into its cage and crony capitalism is alive and well.
Snowden Sums Up The Presidential Campaign With Just One Tweet
Zero Hedge - February 28, 2016
As Edward Snowden so perfectly sums up
2016: a choice between Donald Trump and Goldman Sachs.
6,558 retweets 7,955 likes
Since 2013 Hillary’s grand total is slightly less: $21.7 million for 92 private appearances
“Since 2013 Hillary’s grand total is slightly less: $21.7 million for 92 private appearances”
That’s $10.85 million a cankle.
Is it just me or has the bear turned into a DNC organ grinder monkey?
Steadfastly maintaining his intellectual independence to all things political while relentlessly banging the Goldman Sacks sponsored tom-tom.
It’s quite clear to me that his ‘professorship’ involves trying to limit dissent against our one-world betters.
Good luck with that.
To paraphrase George W Bush, you’re either with us (Goldman Sachs) or against us. Professor Bear has firmly come down in the Goldmanite camp, disavowals to the contrary.
Is it just me or has the bear turned into a DNC organ grinder monkey?
Every election cycle without a fail. He still thinks he’s impartial. The delusion…..
I would like to endow a Chair in his honor:
The Donald J. Trump Chair of Bloviating Windbag Social Justice Warrior Racial Group Identity Public Union Pimp Chair.
“The Donald J. Trump Chair of Bloviating Windbag”
It would be far more on target to shorten the length as shown.
Prof - you have had your responses, and you are still stuck on a track like a runaway train. This is how OCD people behave. That is counter to survival. Evidently, you lack control of your executive function. Have you thought about the example you are setting for your sons, who - once they are out from under your roof - will lack life skills while sporting a bulls’ eye on their backs?
A more considered view of the world - including actual analysis of the facts on the ground - would be a good model to provide. Instead, you are foaming-at-the-mouth-batsh*t-crazy. You are providing your sons with a behavioral framework that will get them shot, should they ever meet an LEO on an off day.
Jane, I realize that you are among my betters. Clearly my academic pedigree could never match your lofty standards. Thank you for the valuable advice about my efforts to inform HBB readers with factual information.
Did you happen to catch the news about the Harvard Professor who is sounding the alarm on Trump?
The Harvard Crimson
Professor’s Op-Ed Calls For Unity Against Trump Campaign
By Nikitha B. Reddy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
5 days ago
Danielle S. Allen, a Government professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, called on Americans across the political spectrum to organize against businessman Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign in a Sunday op-ed that has generated widespread reaction.
Allen said she found the need to write the op-ed for The Washington Post after Trump’s victory in Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina. Describing the primary as a “turning point,” Allen wrote in the piece that voters should recognize that there is not much time left to change the outcome of the Republican presidential nomination contest.
In the op-ed, which now has over 5000 online comments, Allen examined the dangers she perceived in Trump’s rise to political prominence, which she believes is a product of growing divisions in the United States. Instead of choosing not to challenge Trump, Americans must support “coordination across party lines and across divisions within parties,” Allen wrote.
“We, the people, need to find somewhere, buried in the recesses of our fading memories, the capacity to make common cause against this formidable threat to our equally shared liberties,” she wrote. “The time is now.”
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You guys revel in your Trump love fest 24/7, then try to paint me as some kind of closeted Hillarycrat.
Seems pretty hypocritical, given that you are constantly trying to convince the board that the Donald’s feces smell like rose petals, while I don’t make any similar statements about ANYONE.
I love this chick (Tulsi Gabbard). Unlike virtually all of her Democrat colleagues, she does not appear to be corrupt and is not afraid to break ranks to question the status quo, i.e. US support for “Syrian rebels.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-dnc-to-endorse-bernie-sanders-2016-2
I like her.
Look who’s giving the hitler salute?
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/lH.HbggAm.40YgLK7527kA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTg1MztpbD1wbGFuZQ–/http://l.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w1280/689933ec44ea5f5656821f610b67e0f51b1d506b.jpg
I guess Trump University doesn’t offer HTML courses? BTW you can get the training for free online.
Aren’t the Dumbos I mean the Oscars tonight?
Brooklyn hipsters fight school de-segregation: They ‘aren’t racists’ — ‘they just don’t want to be in a ghetto’
Travis Gettys
23 Sep 2015 at 10:30 ET
More than 100 parents showed up to oppose a proposed rezoning plan that would desegregate two public elementary schools in Brooklyn Heights.
The rezoning plan would push upper-middle-class white families from an overcrowded public school that serves the Dumbo and Vinegar Hill neighborhoods to an under-capacity elementary school that currently serves black families who live in the city-run Farragut Houses, reported the New York Times.
The city sees redrawing the school district lines as an obvious solution, but families from both schools oppose the move.
Parents who live in Dumbo, a formerly decaying industrial district where condominiums now regularly sell for millions of dollars, are worried about the overcrowded Public School 8 but think the rezoning plan was developed too hastily and without their input.
“I am disappointed that (education officials) haven’t involved (my) community,” a Dumbo father told Gothamist. “Why is redrawing a few lines on a map (a solution) for fixing a severely underperforming school? Because that’s what the numbers show for (Public School) 307. How is sending Dumbo and Vinegar Hill students to 307 going to fix its problems? If it hasn’t happened yet, why would it happen next year?”
Third-graders at P.S. 8 passed state tests at an 86-percent rate in 2012, with just 1 percent performing “below standards,” but P.S. 307’s pass rate was just 16 percent — and 37 percent of students fell below standards.
But parents say that doesn’t tell the whole story about P.S. 307, and they’re worried about the changes that an influx of wealthy white children will bring to their school — which has benefitted from having too few students.
“We have Pre-K and kindergarten students learning Mandarin three times a week,” said Faraji Hannah-Jones, co-president of the school’s PTA and the father of a kindergartener. “We have our second-graders learning to play violin, we have a health and wellness program. But you just look at the outward appearance — you see the Farragut houses.”
New York City, which assigns children to schools based on geographic zones, is one of the most segregated school systems in the U.S.
Researchers have found that minority students who attend integrated schools perform better academically, earn higher incomes and are healthier than minority students who attend segregated schools.
Gary Orfield, who published a study last year on school segregation in the state of New York, said rezoning a school to take advantage of gentrification was the exact opposite of what the city had done for decades.
The researcher said white parents “aren’t racist” for opposing the rezoned school district, but were merely concerned about their child being a minority student at a mostly poor school.
“They aren’t people who don’t want to be with other races and other cultures — they just don’t want to be in a ghetto,” said Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles. “They don’t want to be in a school where everybody’s poor and their kid is the only white kid or the only Asian kid.”
But a spokesman for Church of the Open Door, which many Farragut residents attend, said race was a factor on both sides of the debate.
“We know some white people don’t want to go to PS 307 because it’s predominantly black,” the spokesman said. “And some of the black people don’t want this influx of white people coming in.”
P.S. 307 enjoys rich programming, in part, because the school benefits from Title 1 funding for minority school where at least 60 percent of students qualify for free lunch, and some parents fear rich white students will spell an end to those programs.
“We fought hard to build this school, and we’re not just going to let people come from outside when we worked so hard and dedicated ourselves,” said one parent. “Our blood, sweat and tears are here.”
A revised plan will likely be presented Sept. 30, and rezoning could be finalized by the end of the school year.
I love it when lib-tards get a healthy dose of what they’re pushing for society at large.
Cloward-Piven is real.
Will 2016 be the year the San Francisco housing bubble finally crashes?
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/02/25/bust-royale-for-insane-san-francisco-silicon-valley-housing-markets/
The Wall Street-owned GOP Establishment is desperate to stop Trump and check any threat to the crony capitalist, neocon status quo. Fellow travelers and useful idiots, grab your ankles for your oligarch betters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0
Will a tech bubble crash trigger a housing bubble crash?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-28/second-tech-bubble-has-burst-and-here-come-mass-layoffs
As most of us are on the sideline ready to buy once the deals come in, we all hope so. But will Chinese investors scoop them up first? Or will we be too scared to buy in the middle of a recession?
Us? We?
sorry, i forgot about you po folks in upper NY waiting for the thaw.
Not too many are interested in paying massively inflated prices for rapidly depreciating assets.
Remember;
US Housing Demand Plummets To 20 Year Low
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yX5B5Hn95bQ/VYC3Wr6ihBI/AAAAAAAAj7I/alOslZa-cK8/s1600/MBAJune172015.PNG
It is a sad commentary little boy Marco Rubio can’t win in his home state. Floridians despise him as a opportunist phony.
FRAUD ALERT
Who wouldn’t thought that voting for corrupt, incompetent Democrats would result in blighted urban dystopias?
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/02/26/more-than-30-blocks-of-fiscal-irresponsibility/
I think that you posted this yesterday, didn’t you? There’s plenty of rural poverty in Republican-controlled areas. Many of the poor people in such places are white. Yet these crackpot right wing websites never discuss such places. There’s some sort of bias going on there. They weep and wail about suffering minorities, but they don’t give damn about poor white people. Why do they hate whites so much?
Assuming that you have sons, you will see this played out in their futures assuming the SJWs prevail. Because, in the SJW credo, whatever resources are available will be allocated first to the illegal aliens (because they produce litters quickly, thereby producing SJW majorities quickly); then to the minorities (ditto); then to the pink collar cohort who run ALL of our governments at whatever level and disdain your sons; and finally, whatever crumbs are left will go to our disenfranchised white young men who are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.
Why you would froth at the mouth to thus ensure the destruction of plain white young males who are not part of nature’s aristocracy, I cannot fathom.
Just to cue you in: as a tenured professor at ITT Tech or Corinthian U., your parentage does not confer privilege upon your average sons.
You are truly bizarre.
Does Jane belong to the same Trumpling family as Meltdown and her eight lovely sisters?
“Just to cue you in: as a tenured professor at ITT Tech or Corinthian U., your parentage does not confer privilege upon your average sons.”
Jane is your better, Mike.
It appears that she is confusing you with me. I don’t work on education and have never claimed to.
Assuming that you have sons,…
Was this meant to be a remark regarding my comment about the article that Raymond linked to? I think that my comment is pretty clear. There’s plenty of poverty and misery in America. it’s not all concentrated in the cities. Yet certain media outlets only take an interest in urban societal dysfunction.
I didn’t forth at the mouth. I didn’t advocate that any policy that treats some people better than others based on race or gender. Also, your SJW philosophy exists only in your head.
And what the heck are you getting at with the phrase “nature’s aristocracy”?
More establishment mouthpieces pile on Trump as their panic mounts at the nightmarish prospect of the 99% awakening to the swindles being perpetrated on them by the oligarchy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-28/trump-must-be-stopped-plead-economist-and-cfr-financial-establishment-panics
Tulsi Gabbard may well be the sole Democrat politician with integrity. And she’s easy on the eyes….
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/tulsi-gabbard-rising-democratic-star-endorses-bernie-sanders/
I am. Tulsi fan. I think she is reading too much into Sanders. But so many of the anti war types made that same mistake with Obama. Sanders is the lesser of all the evils among both parties but he is a statist. If I had to choose between Sanders and Trump and could not write in anyone else, I would pick Sanders quickly. I hate the arrogant sumbich trump.
Could you be persuaded to cast a primary vote for Sanders (depending on your state’s party registration requirements)? He needs your support if you’re willing to give it. You take support away from Hillary, plus he polls better against Trump in the general than she does. These things seem to be in line with your stated preferences, and allow you to exercise your right to vote, which is a good thing if you can do it without violating your principles.
Iranians voted for reform. Will we?
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-iranian-reformists-set-to-win-all-tehran-parliamentary-seats-2016-2
Households in SF wanting to buy that median home must have a minimum qualifying annual household income of $254,000, on top of the $240k in cash for the down-payment. And this is where the absurdity re-surfaces: the Census Bureau estimates that the median household income in San Francisco is $75,600.
Got Yuan?
Now do you really expect wages to triple or quadruple to meet grossly inflated prices?
Of course not.
Prices will continue falling to meet wages.
San Jose, CA Housing Market Implodes; Prices Crater 9% YoY On Collapsing Housing Demand
http://www.zillow.com/almaden-valley-san-jose-ca/home-values/
Look at Jerry Garcia playing.
Listen to Jerry Garcia playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBj7igoatWY
Bill Kreutzman, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and John Mayer filling in for Jerry played this in Broomfield last November. Everybody on the stage and in the audience seemed pretty happy to be alive…
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPkmY6HwuI
Little Feat “Spanish Moon” - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCROkG4SKao - 321k -
Allman Brothers — Ain’t Wasting Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Ro7LLEaQQ
Great tune.
I hit One Way Out while I was there.
This one’s for Bill. The Eagles — Already Gone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTrEAo0mbgA
This is a better one for Bill, given his affinity for Zuckerburg and Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
ECB central planners trying to jawbone up the market, again.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-may-force-ecb-to-take-action-2016-02-28?link=MW_latest_news
Why are government economic policymakers incessantly preoccupied with artificially inflating asset prices? Why not just stand back and let the Invisible Hand pick which enterprises provide something of value?
Little Marco Rubio gave amnesty to criminal aliens guilty of “sex offenses.” DISGRACE!
Making libelous remarks while accusing others of doing so is despicable.
Senator Sessions, in endorcing Trump, calls on voters to “bust up the oligarchy” (instead of bending over for it). The establishment GOP’s bankster puppetmasters will not be amused.
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-endorses-2016-2
The Fed’s debasement of the currency assures gold will be the best investment of 2016.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-28/gold-evolves-from-a-barbaric-relic-to-biggest-winner-of-2016
Shanghai Composite going down faster than Marco Rubio on a Wall Street lobbyist.
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/shcomp?countrycode=cn&mod=MW_story_quote
And the Oscar goes to…
The white guy.
I never watched the Oscars before, it looks like a cross between a Bernie Sanders rally and a prom at Darien High-school in Connecticut.
Town of Darien website
Darien Census Information
Race/Ethnicity
White 18,816
Black 89
Does Trump support the Ku Klux Klan? Trump plays the know-nothing defense in the CNN interview, but the look of fear in his eyes is palpable.
Not to suggest such a revelation would dent the support of his brain-dead disciples…
Trump is a sicko and his worshippers are being whipped up into a frenzy.
The full stadium scene in Nazi Germany of the mezmerized crowd and the madman are in my mind.
The fact that he won’t repudiate David Duke’s support provides a clear picture of where he stands. As George W. Bush once pointed out, ” You’re either with us, or you’re against us.”
He ended up disavowing Duke some time Sunday afternoon or evening. I wonder if he wanted to claim ignorance during his appearances on the Sunday morning news shows.
Donald Trump stumbles on David Duke, KKK
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 7:15 PM ET, Sun February 28, 2016 | Video Source: CNN
Trump: ‘I know nothing about white supremacists’
Donald Trump Mussolini tweet
Trump tweets fascist dictator’s quote
Story highlights
* Donald Trump deflected questions about disavowing David Duke, saying ‘I just don’t know anything about him’
* Duke and other white supremacists are largely backing Trump’s GOP presidential bid
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump stumbled into a racially charged controversy Sunday, saying in an interview on CNN that he didn’t know enough to disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
Hours later, Trump tried to clean up his comments on Twitter amid an outpouring of criticism from his Republican presidential rivals. Sen. Marco Rubio slammed the remarks, saying they make Trump “unelectable.”
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Trump should continue talking. He’s an obvious idiot who does not care to be kind. When enough people are offended by him, all 100 of his followers will be the voters for him.
Is it possible that Trump is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which is preventing him from recalling who David Duke is?
Donald Trump Can’t Disavow the KKK Because It Might Demoralize His Base
By Michelle Goldberg
Let us dispel with the notion that Donald Trump doesn’t know who David Duke and the KKK are. In 2000, Trump briefly flirted with running for president on the Reform Party ticket, but concluded that the party was too full of extremists. Among them were David Duke, the Louisiana politician and former Grand Wizard of the KKK, right-wing populist Pat Buchannan, and all-purpose fringe figure Lenora Fulani.
“The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani,” the New York Times quoted Trump saying in a statement. “This is not company I wish to keep.”
How things have changed! On Sunday morning, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Trump to disavow Duke’s support for his current presidential bid. “I know nothing about David Duke,” Trump replied. “I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.”
Tapper kept pressing him, but Trump refused to say a negative word about either Duke or the KKK. “I don’t know what group you are talking about, you wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about; I’d have to look,” Trump said. “If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong, but …”
Tapper interjected, “The Ku Klux Klan?”
Trump continued, “You may have groups in there that are totally fine and it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups, and I’ll let you know.”
“OK, I mean I’m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but,” said Tapper.
“I don’t know any—honestly I don’t know David Duke,” replied Trump. “I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him, and I just don’t know anything about him.”
What’s interesting here is not that Trump is lying, but why he is lying.
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Bill moves on.
Bill is smart.
Be like Bill.
It would be counter productive to ignore the potential rise of the twenty-first century reincarnation of Hitler. A preemptive response could prove far less costly than waiting.
Books
Donald Trump and the Wig of Evil – in pictures
Watching the rise of Donald Trump from loudmouthed celebrity to serious US presidential candidate spurred illustrator and filmmaker Guy Larsen to produce a satirical children’s book in which Trump is controlled by a malevolent hair piece
Watch a reading of the book on YouTube
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Donald Trump is unfit to be president.
Politics | Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:17pm EST
Tech CEO Whitman calls Trump ‘unfit’ to be U.S. president
NEW YORK | By Jonathan Allen
Meg Whitman, Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard gives an interview to CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange November 2, 2015.
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Meg Whitman, the head of technology firm Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE.N), said on Sunday that Donald Trump was “unfit” for the U.S. presidency, and criticized New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose failed presidential bid she supported, for endorsing him.
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Party leaders are nervous that Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer from New York City who deviates from some of the central tenets of Republican conservatism, may alienate voters if he is their candidate in the Nov. 8 general election. He has proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States and declined a journalist’s invitation on Sunday to condemn the Ku Klux Klan, the violent white-supremacist group.
Christie, who scrapped his own presidential bid earlier this month, became the most prominent Republican figure to break ranks with party leadership by endorsing Trump on Friday ahead of this week’s “Super Tuesday” contests, when voters in 11 states go to the polls.
Whitman, who was a co-chairwoman of the national finance committee of Christie’s campaign, said in a statement to reporters that Trump would take the country on “a dangerous journey” and that Christie was aware of this.
“Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump is an astonishing display of political opportunism. Donald Trump is unfit to be president”, said the statement from Whitman, who is chief executive and president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and chairman of HP Inc.
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US Election 2016
Last updated: February 28, 2016 11:16 pm
Republicans race to derail Trump
Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
The Republican establishment is rapidly rallying behind Marco Rubio in an eleventh-hour attempt to derail Donald Trump, amid fears that this week’s Super Tuesday primaries could tighten the outspoken billionaire’s grip on the party’s nomination.
While Mr Rubio and Mr Trump ramp up their attacks on each other ahead of the March 1 primaries, Republican grandees and lawmakers are turning to the Florida senator as they become increasingly worried that the property tycoon could lock up the GOP presidential nomination within three weeks.
They fear that a victory for Mr Trump could fatally fracture the party and prevent them from winning the White House in November. Betting markets now give him an 80 per cent chance of securing the nomination, according to Predictwise, which aggregates prediction markets.
Meg Whitman, the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise boss and former top Chris Christie backer, slammed the New Jersey governor for “political opportunism” after he endorsed Mr Trump. “Donald Trump is unfit to be president,” she said. “He is a dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears.”
Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee senator, on Sunday became the 63rd GOP congressman, senator or governor to back Mr Rubio. Illustrating the animosity towards Mr Trump, the frontrunner had received only four such endorsements, according to FiveThirtyEight.com, until he was backed on Sunday by Jeff Sessions, the Alabama senator who has one of the toughest stances on illegal immigration in Congress. Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who is loathed by Senate Republicans, has been endorsed by the governor of Texas and 24 Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Many mainstream Republicans believe Mr Trump would struggle to beat Hillary Clinton, the clear Democratic frontrunner after her resounding victory over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina on Saturday, given the comments he has made about Hispanics, Muslims, women, disabled people and people who have criticised his campaign. According to an average of recent polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, Mrs Clinton has 45 per cent support, compared to 42 per cent for the New York property mogul.
Mr Trump says he has sparked a “movement” of fans who appreciate his willingness to speak out. In an interview on Sunday, he refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group, telling NBC News, “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about.”
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Is there any truth to the allegations that Donald Trump has mob ties?
Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump’s Ties to Mob-Linked Twice-Convicted Felon
By Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross
Feb 28, 2016, 7:01 PM ET
PHOTO: Donald Trump, highlighted left, stands with Felix Sater, highlighted right, at the Trump SoHo Launch Party on Sept. 19, 2007 in New York. Highlights added by ABC news.
Mark Von Holden/WireImage/Getty Images
Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz questioned Sunday whether Donald Trump’s business ties to a twice-convicted felon with prior mafia associations, described late last year in an ABC News investigation, could eventually undermine Trump’s chances in a general election contest.
“The important point is, George, in the general election, Hillary Clinton is going to shine a light on all of this,” said Cruz, speaking on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”. “And Republican primary voters deserve to know.”
Cruz raised the questions about Trump’s real estate dealings with Felix Sater, a Russian émigré who appeared in photos with Trump when Sater was an executive of a real estate company in business with the Trump Organization and later carried a Trump Organization business card with the title “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump.” Cruz questioned whether Trump’s tax returns would reveal anything more about the relationship.
“He’s clearly hiding something,” Cruz said.
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Another day, another 4%+ drop in Chinese share prices…
ft dot com/markets
Global Market Overview
Last updated:
February 29, 2016 5:15 am
China bourses start week on sour note
Peter Wells in Hong Kong
Monday 03:45 GMT. Chinese bourses started the week on a sour note, sliding more than 4 per cent in early trade.
The Shanghai Composite was down 3.9 per cent, having fallen as much as 4.4 per cent within the first half-hour of trading. The tech-focused Shenzhen Composite was down 5 per cent, clawing back some of an initial 6.2 per cent drop.
The falls echoed last week’s volatility in China, when mainland bourses on Thursday tumbled more than 6 per cent to record their biggest one-day drops for a month.
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China stocks have retraced all of 2015’s gains, as no amount of promised stimulus is sufficient anymore to getting a rise out of the flaccid market.
China Stocks Tumble Toward 15-Month Low as Stimulus Bets Unwind
Bloomberg News
February 28, 2016 — 5:54 PM PST
Updated on February 29, 2016 — 12:16 AM PST
Chinese stocks fell, with the benchmark index approaching the lowest level since November 2014, as some investors were disappointed by a lack of specific measures to boost growth during the Group of 20 meetings in Shanghai.
The Shanghai Composite Index dropped as much as 4.6 percent. The measure has declined 24 percent this year, the worst performer among 93 global equity indexes, on concern capital outflows will accelerate and earnings deteriorate as the economic slowdown deepens. The yuan headed for its longest losing streak this year.
Investors had hoped the government would announce measures to bolster the economy over the weekend, according to JK Life Insurance Co., after People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Friday there is room for more easing. There are also increasing signs funds are shifting from equities to housing, according to Steve Wang, chief China economist at Reorient Financial Markets Ltd.
“Investors feel disappointed over the lack of good news from the G-20, while the yuan has started to weaken again,” Wang said in Hong Kong. “There are signs of panic buying in China’s property market as prices in large cities continue to rise. A hazy economic outlook prompted some people to sell shares and buy homes, while many stocks remain overvalued.”
The Shanghai Composite declined 2.9 percent to 2,687.98 at the close as an index of 50-day price swings reached its highest level since November. The equity gauge fell 1.8 percent in February, extending January’s 23 percent plunge. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index slid 1.5 percent, capping a fourth straight monthly decline. The Hang Seng Index lost 1.3 percent.
Increased volatility in stocks threatens to undo policy makers’ efforts to project an image of stability in the nation’s financial markets after months of turbulence reverberated across the world. Investors are also selling before the nation’s legislators meet on Saturday for the annual National People’s Congress, where economic policies for the next five years will be approved, according to Partners Capital International Ltd.
“Before the G-20 meetings, people expected stabilization policies and the central bank to make statements, but not too much happened,” said Ronald Wan, chief executive officer at Partners Capital in Hong Kong. “People tend to cash out before the parliamentary meeting.”
Economic Data
The yuan fell 0.1 percent to 6.5477 a dollar in Shanghai in a seventh day of losses, as China’s central bank lowered the currency’s reference rate and the greenback advanced. The dollar plays the biggest role in a currency basket against which the monetary authority gauges the yuan, PBOC Governor Zhou said on Friday.
China is due to report its first gauge of economic strength for February on Tuesday with the release of the Purchasers’ Manufacturing Index. The measure probably remained unchanged at 49.4 from a month earlier, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Readings below 50 indicate contraction.
Property prices in the nation’s richest cities are surging at the same time as margin traders unwind bullish bets on equities. Home prices in Shenzhen jumped 4 percent in January from a month earlier, taking gains over the past 12 months to 52 percent, the statistics bureau said last week. Prices in Shanghai are up 18 percent over the past year. The outstanding balance of margin debt on the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell to its lowest level since November 2014 on Friday.
“The red-hot property market may attract more and more fund inflows and investors worry this might divert liquidity from the stock market,” said Shenwan Hongyuan Group Co. analyst Qian Qimin.
Measures of technology, consumer discretionary and industrial stocks sank at least 3.9 percent on the CSI 300 Index. China Life Insurance Co. was the biggest drag on the Shanghai Composite, closing at its lowest level in two weeks with a 3.3 percent decline. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., which has the second-largest weighting on the gauge, extended its loss this year to 12 percent.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission may shelve the overhaul of initial public offering processes and the start of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong exchange link as new chairman Liu Shiyu’s priority will be promoting stability rather than reforms, the South China Morning Post reported, citing unnamed “industry insiders.”
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In Mexico, Trump takes a beating — and not just the piñatas
Donald Trump pinatas hot items in Mexico
Piñata makers in Mexico have discovered that many customers are eager to take a whack at Donald Trump. Alicia Lopez Fernandez puts finishing touches on a Trump piñata at her family’s shop in Mexico City.
(Marco Ugarte / AP)
Laura Tillman
February 26, 2016, 5:03 PM | Reporting from Mexico City
Dalton Javier Avalos Ramirez remembers watching Donald Trump announce his candidacy for the U.S. presidency last June. In that speech, Trump lobbed the first in an eight-month stream of insults, saying that Mexico was sending many of its worst north of the border and that such immigrants are “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people.”
Avalos Ramirez, a resident of the border city of Reynosa opposite Texas, went back to his piñata workshop, and in anger sculpted paper and paste into Trump’s image. A suit. A wide mouth seemingly in mid-insult. A tuft of yellow papier-maché hair whipping in the wind.
After making countless piñatas in a small workshop with his siblings since childhood, Avalos Ramirez never guessed that this gesture of protest would result in dozens of orders, both from Mexican customers and those across the border. Some customers filled Trump with candy and gleefully pummeled him to bits at birthday parties. Others took him to protests and set his likeness aflame.
Eighty or so Trumps later, the orders are still coming.
Avalos Ramirez, in a phone interview from Reynosa, didn’t realize that he would inspire scores of imitations and give many other Mexicans the ability to express their anger at the anti-Mexican rhetoric that’s become a mainstay of this American election cycle. This week former president Vicente Fox voiced that anger with an F-bomb.
Responding to Trump’s comment that he will build a large border wall and make Mexico pay for it, Fox said in an interview with Jorge Ramos on the Fusion network, “I’m not going to pay for that f_cking wall!”
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Trump pinatas selling out in San Francisco’s Mission District
In the presidential campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump is beating all contenders in the polls. But in San Francisco’s Mission District, people are taking a whack at his image.
KGO
by Janet O
Friday, August 28, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) –
In the presidential campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump is beating all contenders in the polls. But in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District, people are taking a whack at his image.
The store owner at Discount City in San Francisco says he does not like Trump, but he admits poking fun at him has been good for business.
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ft com > World > US >
US Election 2016
February 28, 2016 5:08 pm
Trump becomes Mexican political piñata
Jude Webber in Mexico City and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2015 file photo, Alicia Lopez Fernandez paints a pinata depicting Donald Trump at her family’s store “Piñatas Mena Banbolinos” in Mexico City. The piñata was a special order made after Trump’s comments that some Mexican immigrants to the U.S. bring drugs and crime, and some are rapists.
(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
©AP
After months of trying to ignore Donald Trump, Mexico has gone on the attack before Super Tuesday, with two former presidents likening the US Republican frontrunner to Hitler and the foreign minister calling him ignorant and racist.
Felipe Calderón, president from 2000-2012, at the weekend attacked what he said was Mr Trump’s “exalting of white supremacy”. His comments came the day after Vicente Fox, his predecessor in office, said on television that Mr Trump “reminds me of Hitler”.
“I don’t think this logic of exalting white supremacy is even acting against immigration — Donald is the son of immigrants,” Mr Calderón said after a weekend gathering of his National Action party in Mexico City. “He is talking about immigrants who have a different skin colour to him. Frankly, it’s racist and exploits sensitivities, rather like Hitler himself did in his day.”
Mr Fox last week lashed out at Mr Trump’s stated plans to barricade the nearly 2,000 mile US-Mexico border, saying he would not “pay for that “f****** wall”. Mr Trump blasted back during last week’s Republican debate, saying he should apologise for using a profanity. Mr Fox not only refused, but gave a slew of media interviews in which he redoubled his criticism. He told CNN on Saturday: “He reminds me of Hitler . . . he’s going to use the executive power to do what he’d like.”
There was no immediate reply from Mr Trump, who won the South Carolina primary on Saturday and hopes to cement his status as the Republican frontrunner in this week’s Super Tuesday contests, when 11 states — including border powerhouse Texas, a key Latino bastion and the home state of his rival Ted Cruz — will vote.
Last week, Mr Trump brushed off the endorsement of David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, after the white supremacist said voting against Mr Trump was “treason to your heritage”.
On Friday, Mr Trump said he did not know that Mr Duke was backing him. When pressed by reporters, he said “I disavow” before changing the subject. But speaking to CNN on Sunday, he declined several chances to disavow the comments from Mr Duke, and refused to condemn the KKK.
“I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists,” Mr Trump said. “And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.”
Asked whether he would condemn the white supremacist organisation, Mr Trump said: “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about.”
The brash billionaire also has a habit of retweeting favourable comments posted about him by white supremacists.
Mr Calderón said Mr Trump was less a danger to Mexico than to the US itself. “He is sowing anti-American hate across the world and that, in the future, could make it very difficult for Americans worldwide,” he said.
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Is the Republican Party finally showing its true stripes as the party of bigotry and hatred?
Campus
Protesters oppose Republican candidates, bash Trump piñata
By Gabe LaBounty
February 25, 2016
Under the banners of free-speech and anti-bigotry, students volunteered to take a baseball bat and crack the Trump-shaped piñata. Students from different majors, genders, ages and races all took a swing at a representation of the Republican Party’s frontrunner.
In the spirit of free speech, students from a variety of political based organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society and Students with a Say gathered Thursday to protest the 2016 Republican presidential candidates. Protesters gathered more specifically at the event called “Dump Trump” by the activists and crawled through campus, winding their way around police to finally set up shop at the corner of Elgin Street and Cullen Boulevard.
The parade of protesters went from M.D. Anderson Library to a designated zone outside the Moores Opera house, then back to the library, through the PGH breezeway and eventually onto Holman Street where a line of cops on horseback blocked its path down Cullen. All the while the protesters were swarmed by baffled students and cops recording the event on their phones.
The protest began as a meager collection of confused onlookers but eventually evolved into a herd of students looking to voice their opinions in American politics.
Graduate student and communication major Fabian Sneevliet is the city-wide coordinator for SDS and an organizer of the movement, along with SDS’s leader Alex Hayes. Sneevliet has been involved in the organization for over a year now.
“We are a group of radical students on campus who stand for the empowerment movement,” Sneevliet said. “It’s an anti-sexist and anti-racist movement. We agree with the ideals of feminism, and we seek to organize the students on campus for social justice.”
Liam Wright is a member of Students with a Say, an on-campus organization designed to create a space for students to discuss politics on campus. Wright stressed the importance of democracy among students and said he thought the younger generation feels alienated from politics and interacting in their government. He believes the organizations stand against the GOP’s general stance on social justice and equality.
“If you look at the principals of the front-runners of the Republican Party right now, they are attacking some of the students who go here,” Wright said. “Some students here are Muslim, Mexican-American, immigrants… Having this here almost seems like an insult to those students.”
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The Hate Behind Donald Trump’s Success
Why is no one in the Republican establishment directly condemning Trump’s nascent movement of thugs and fanatics?
By Sasha Abramsky
February 24, 2016
Let me introduce you to a few Donald Trump supporters, men and women whom I met randomly, in line at the First Baptist Church, in Sparks, Nevada, yesterday evening. I wasn’t looking for cranks or fanatics. I was simply asking people to talk to me about whom they were voting for in the caucus and why.
Meet Gene A., retired supervisor at a sugar factory. (Gene was quite comfortable advocating mass murder, but in true coward’s form he didn’t want his last name used, in case his words could be traced back to him.)
What did Gene think about Trump’s calls to “temporarily” bar Muslims from entering the country?
“They’d be happier in their own country where they can pray the way they want. They’re not here in America to do any good. They’re here to do evil.”
Would he expel all Muslims from America?
“Absolutely. You can’t tell the good from the bad, so you have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I’d give ’em a choice—a trench on one side or a ticket out of here.”
Are you talking about execution?
“Absolutely. That’s what they do to us in their countries. I’d give ’em a choice: Get out of here or else.”
At his words, a lady sitting nearby gave a thumb’s up, and murmured her agreement.
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The Republican Party is so hate-filled, they even hate their own leading candidate for the White House!
US election 2016: Lifelong Republicans turned off by Trump
Katty Kay Presenter, BBC World News
19 February 2016
From the section US Election 2016
One of the many extraordinary things about this election is not how many people love Donald Trump, it’s how many don’t. And I don’t just mean Democrats, or even Republican party grandees.
When asked about Mr Trump, a good number of ordinary, lifelong Republican voters express feelings that can only be described as loathing.
Having covered four US elections, I’ve never heard anything quite like it.
It’s not just anecdotal, Trump’s negative opinion ratings (the degree to which he is unpopular) are significantly higher than any of the other candidates (including Hillary Clinton) and higher than either Mitt Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008.
I thought it was worth finding out just why these Republicans are so opposed to their frontrunner.
What I heard in South Carolina was not so much disagreement with his policies but dislike of his temperament - asked to describe him they used words like, “egotistical”, “bully”, “narcissist”, “bigot” and “racist”.
The list went on. Some even said they couldn’t use words that are polite enough for television.
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How the Republican Elite Created Frankentrump
To rouse its voters, the GOP exploited hate, anger, and paranoia—and set the stage for the tycoon.
—By David Corn
Thu Feb. 25, 2016 6:00 AM EST
Frankenstein: Universal Studios; Trump: Matt Rourke/AP.
After Donald Trump’s third win in a row, pundits and political observers are beginning to accept a stark reality: This guy may become the Republican Party standard bearer in the 2016 presidential election. (The morning after the bigoted, bullying tycoon triumphed in the Nevada caucuses, the Drudge Report splashed a headline simply declaring, “The Nominee,” below a photo of Trump.) And tweeters, scribes, and analysts throughout the political-media world began wondering if the GOP elite could do anything to stop him from seizing control of the Republican Party. Whether possible or not to de-Trumpify the GOP at this point, Republican insiders, pooh-bahs, and bigwigs only have themselves to blame for Frankentrump. In recent years, they have fomented, fostered, accepted, and exploited the climate of hate in which Trump’s candidacy has taken root. For the fat-cat donors, special-interest lobbyists, and elected officials who usually run the Republican show, Trump is an invasive species. But he has grown large and strong in the manure they have spread across the political landscape.
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Trump is the Republicans’ Frankenstein
By ROBERT KAGAN
For the Washington Post
Sunday, February 28, 2016
(Published in print: Monday, February 29, 2016)
When the plague descended on Thebes, Oedipus sent his brother-in-law to the Delphic oracle to discover the cause. Little did he realize that the crime for which Thebes was being punished was his own. Today’s Republican Party is our Oedipus. A plague has descended on the party in the form of the most successful demagogue-charlatan in the history of U.S. politics. The party searches desperately for the cause and the remedy without realizing that, like Oedipus, it is the party itself that brought on this plague. The party’s own political crimes are being punished in a bit of cosmic justice fit for a Greek tragedy.
Let’s be clear: Trump is no fluke. Nor is he hijacking the Republican Party or the conservative movement, if there is such a thing. He is, rather, the party’s creation, its Frankenstein monster, brought to life by the party, fed by the party and now made strong enough to destroy its maker. Was it not the party’s wild obstructionism – the repeated threats to shut down the government over policy and legislative disagreements; the persistent call for nullification of Supreme Court decisions; the insistence that compromise was betrayal; the internal coups against party leaders who refused to join the general demolition – that taught Republican voters that government, institutions, political traditions, party leadership and even parties themselves were things to be overthrown, evaded, ignored, insulted, laughed at?
Was it not Sen. Ted Cruz, among many others, who set this tone and thereby cleared the way for someone even more irreverent?
Then there was the party’s accommodation to and exploitation of the bigotry in its ranks. No, the majority of Republicans are not bigots. But they have certainly been enablers. Who began the attack on immigrants – legal and illegal – long before Trump arrived on the scene and made it his premier issue? Who was it who frightened Mitt Romney into selling his soul in 2012, talking of “self-deportation” to get himself right with the party’s anti-immigrant forces? Who was it who opposed any plausible means of dealing with the genuine problem of illegal immigration, forcing Sen. Marco Rubio to cower, abandon his principles – and his own immigration legislation – lest he be driven from the presidential race before it had even begun? It was not Trump. It was not even party yahoos. It was Republican Party pundits and intellectuals, trying to harness populist passions and perhaps deal a blow to any legislation for which President Obama might possibly claim even partial credit.
Then there was the Obama hatred, a racially tinged derangement syndrome that made any charge plausible and any opposition justified. Has the president done a poor job in many respects? Yes, and for these failures he has deserved criticism and principled opposition. But Republican and conservative criticism has taken an unusually dark and paranoid form. Instead of recommending plausible alternative strategies for the crisis in the Middle East, many Republicans have fallen back on a mindless Islamophobia, with suspicious intimations about the president’s personal allegiances.
Thus Obama is not only wrong but also anti-American, un-American, non-American, and his policies – though barely distinguishable from those of previous liberal Democrats such as Michael Dukakis or Mario Cuomo – are somehow representative of something subversive. How surprising was it that a man who began his recent political career by questioning Obama’s eligibility for office could leap to the front of the pack, willing and able to communicate with his followers by means of the dog-whistle disdain for “political correctness”?
We are supposed to believe that Trump’s legion of “angry” people are angry about wage stagnation. No, they are angry about all the things Republicans have told them to be angry about these past 7½ years.
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The GOP’s Spectacular Failure to Take Out Donald Trump
By Chas Danner
February 27, 2016 1:05 PM
Donald Trump is still crushing the GOP’s head.
Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images
In the wake of Chris Christie’s bombshell endorsement of Donald Trump on Friday, the New York Times has published a must-read, in-depth report on the desperate Republican establishment’s many spectacular failures to counter the candidacy of Donald Trump. From the inability of mainstream Republicans to unite against such an obvious threat, to Marco Rubio’s haphazard efforts to gain the support of departed rivals, to Mitch McConnell apparently giving his fellow senators permission to run against Trump this fall, the report paints a shocking (yet somehow still unsurprising) picture of a party in complete disarray and horrified disbelief. Here are some highlights:
GOP Senators Up for Re-election Should Feel Free to Attack Trump
With the balance of power in the Senate at risk, Mitch McConnell is already getting ready to do serious damage control should Trump win the nomination and thus imperil contested down-ticket Senate races. According to the Times, the Senate majority leader has already given his colleagues permission to run negative ads against Trump this fall if they feel they have to distance themselves from the potential nominee in order to win reelection. “We’ll drop him like a hot rock,” McConnell apparently said.
Marco Rubio’s Failed Courtships of Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney
Christie was reportedly really peeved by a “tentative” voicemail Rubio left for him after he dropped out following the New Hampshire primary. Rubio’s chosen approach was apparently to assure the New Jersey governor that he still had a bright future in politics:
In addition, efforts by Rubio and his campaign to attract the support of Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney were also unsuccessful. “There’s this desire, verging on panic, to consolidate the field, but I don’t see and movement at all,” added Senator Lindsey Graham, who on Thursday night also half-joked that the GOP “has gone bat-shit crazy.”
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Can you imagine Trump giving a State of the Union speech?
Saturday, Feb 27, 2016 04:55 AM PST
“The state of our union is f**king awesome”: Bill Maher mocks “Andrew Dice Trump” delivering the SOTU address
After Trump blasted Vincente Fox for foul language, the “Real Time” host imagines him working blue VIDEO
Brendan Gauthier
“Real Time” host Bill Maher ended his popular “New Rules” segment with a scarily feasible representation of what a Trump SOTU address might look like.
“Donald Trump must admit that, of all his reversals, hypocrisies, and 180s, his condemnation this week of Vicente Fox for using foul language is the most ridiculous of all,” Maher prefaced. “Talk about the pot calling the kettle orange”
Maher then rolled a series of clips of Trump using the same foul language, adding, “Something certainly has changed in political discourse.”
“Sure, Dick Cheney once told a senator to go fuck himself. And Joe Biden called Obamacare a big fuckin’ deal, but those comments were off-mic, not intended for public consumption,” Maher continued. “But when Andrew Dice Trump speaks, he doesn’t even try to clean it up.”
“The state of our union is fucking awesome,” Maher began, playing the role of foul-mouthed commander-in-chief. “Now thanks to the programs we put in place, inflation has been kicked in the taint, we are job-creating like a motherfucker, and our deficit is shrinking like a cock on a cold morning.”
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