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Would you rather have Donald or Hillary as emperor?
Rand Paul Compares Donald Trump to ‘the Emperor With No Clothes’
6:36 pm ET
Alan Rappeport
Senator Rand Paul at the American Legion Post 23 in Bowling Green, Ky., on Monday.Credit Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press
Lagging in the polls, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky set aside his right to privacy agenda on Monday afternoon to take up another cause: derailing Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Paul laid into Mr. Trump in an afternoon conference call, calling him “a bully” and an “empty suit,” and comparing him to the “emperor with no clothes.”
“Are we going to fix the country through bombast and empty blather?” Mr. Paul asked. “Somebody has to challenge him.”
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Fear The Trump
Many do.
The sales of adult incontinence products are increasing at incalculable levels as he wins primary after primary and steamrolls his way toward a general election victory.
Don’t Fear The Trump
All our times have come
Here but now they’re gone
Seasons don’t fear the Trump
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are
Come on Professor…don’t fear the Trump
Professor take his stand…don’t fear the Trump
We’ll be able to fly…don’t fear the Trump
Bernies not your man…
La la la la la
La la la la la
Don’t Fear the Reaper- Blue Öyster Cult - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMYSWiPm7E0 - 215k -
Oh, no!
There goes To-kee-yo
Go, go, Godzilla!
“Somebody has to challenge him.”
A long conversation right there.
Why?
About what?
Do what?
Why do anything?
What can be done?
How come you’re begging someone else to do it?
Let go or be dragged.
^^^^This!
I don’t want to think of Donald or Hillary with no clothes.
Easy, Trump. Clinton \ Hitler might require more thought. Although not much.
Fascinating. I keep hearing people refer to Trump as Hitler too! Used to be, people would be a bit embarrassed to make such an association. Now everyone’s doing it almost as an afterthought.
Will the real Hitler please stand up?
Sieg heil!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TR5N1doYNM
Another day of this?
Each and every day until November.
I’m tellin’ ya. A crusade to save the HBB from Trump. Now that’s living!
The open borders globalist agenda won’t stop until America is turned into a third world sh*thole.
See also the coils of razor wire around all the freeway overpass signs in Southern California.
Globalization really bites the big one. It’s made this country very depressing, IMO. I can see the effects in my own small area.
And I’d be willing to bet, that with all the human trafficking these days, the US has more slaves within its porous borders than it did prior to the Civil War.
Never mind the razor wire on the highway signs.
Just don’t forget to score your registration sticker with a utility knife. I learned that lesson the hard way.
Can you explain that one?
George Soros’ endgame is the extermination of white people, with the limited exception of an Anglo/Israeli elite left to rule over the assorted browns of the future Idiocracy.
Gun confiscation, elimination of national sovereignty, destruction of individual civil liberties, it all adds up.
Globalists gonna globe.
Yes, I’m aware of the Soros agenda, I was curious about that scoring the registration sticker with a utility knife.
What’s that about?
In Southern California people peel the registration sticker off your license plate. So you score the sticker with a utility knife so they will see they can’t get the sticker off in one piece.
Thanks, Overbanked. That’s interesting. Something to probably be aware of here in Florida, too.
The beach at Santa Monica looks really nice, but behind that facade is the most impoverished state in America:
http://imgur.com/YU1mb0V
I used to live over by the tall building to the far left!
The beach at Santa Monica looks really nice, but behind that facade is the most impoverished state in America:
That’s because there are two Californias. One is inhabited by affluent people who live near the coast and who drive luxury cars while the other one is inhabited by people who live further inland in gang infested communities.
George Soros’ endgame is the extermination of white people, with the limited exception of an Anglo/Israeli elite left to rule over the assorted browns of the future Idiocracy.
Where do India, China, S Korea, Japan, etc. fit into that narrative?
Rockstar, I don’t have an answer to that narrative.
But look which way immigrants flow, to USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Western and Northern Europe.
The whole globalist narrative is hating whitey, blaming whitey, wanting more free sh*t from whitey.
Where I live, they don’t just take the registration sticker - they steal the entire license plate, usually to put on a stolen car of the same make and model, which buys then a day or two before you notice that your plate is missing.
The easiest way to slow this down is to put some JB Weld epoxy into the screw head which makes it harder to remove (then use a dremel tool with a tiny cutoff wheel to cut a slot across it when you need to remove the fastener). They also make tamper-resistant fasteners.
“That’s because there are two Californias.”
+1 Yep.
Kind of a one-note drum there, PB. Getting stale….
Kind of a one-note drum there
Says the guy who posts the exact same thing twenty times a day, every day.
What??? Ray K posts on a variety of issues, with links.
posts on a variety of issues, with links
And what does he say in almost every post? The same thing. “Since 97% of the electorate is so amazingly dense blah, blah.
I assume that what a “one-note drum” means?
Think of it this way Lola….. Every one of his posts(and mine) guarantee a space to occupy in your empty skull, rent-free.
Dogs climbing 14,000 foot mountains:
http://imgur.com/RBU9G0h
“Dogs climbing 14,000 foot mountains:”
Can that dog Yodel?
Seinfeld - George Mountain Climbing - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQSmOY3rxI - 261k -
Fear The Trump
I’m no Trump supporter but I tend to agree, he seems to be stuck on Trump. Who do you support PB?
Whichever candidate yells the least.
Hillary, Hands Down!!!
Did you post this recently PB? (SNL Trump ad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0pO9VG1J8&feature=youtu.be
Hillaryous is unelectable.
Unelectable until the returns come in, then the deniers run into the fox newsroom screaming Ohio was wrongly reported.
This “Hillary is unelectable” sounds identical to the 2011 Obama meme: “He will never be re-elected.”
The denial (as suggested earlier) continued even after Romney had lost.
John Meacham (presidential historian) said that Bush 43 may be the last Republican ever elected in the United States.
You and John are in for the surprise of your life Donk.
The nation rejects even one more day of molestation by Bill the Leering Lewd and Hitlery.
lol - “The nation rejects….”
There you made my point. Is there an echo in your bubble? Polls show Hillary winning easily. Of course, Trump could win, but rather than blather on insulting them, list the states that Trump could win for 270 electoral votes?
Western Europeans have the exact same sort of candidate as Trump, they’re called Right Wing Nationalists. Maybe, Trump will change his tune later in the campaign.
Mr. Trump is your next US President. Get over it and get on with your ife.
Does a nationalist have to be right wing by definition? Couldn’t you have a left-wing nationalist? Oh, wait, that would be the leaders of the old Soviet Union.
OK I gotta keep this straight…”watching” is the pro Trump troll and “wondering” is the anti Trump troll. I get them mixed up sometimes.
With Draghi posed to drop more helicopter money, precious metals and mining stocks should do well.
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/the-bulls-as-loose-as-the-mining-stocks-are-ripping-higher/
As I predicted, NIRP is causing the intelligent 5% to flip the central bankers the bird and park their money in the one asset the banksters can’t print or manipulate: physical precious metals. When the retail invester herd gets spooked as they finally realize the extent of the central bankers’ debauchery of the currency, methinks the stampede into precious metals is going to be epic.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hsbc-negative-interest-rates-gold-2016-3
Ray, what about the war on cash (coins and bills) that is actively being waged, and won, by banks? If/when cash disappears, gold will just become just another store of electrons, like any stock. Banks can then manipulate the value of gold, or worse, extract extra taxes on gold as they please.
Hey Donk.
If/when cash disappears, gold will just become just another store of electrons, like any stock.
I guess you mean GLD, not physical gold.
Banks can then manipulate the value of gold, or worse, extract extra taxes on gold as they please.
They’ve been manipulating gold, stocks, real estate, fiat for centuries anyway. What’s new?
This is why you buy some of each asset class. I prefer REITs over real estate because even if I own a house to rent to someone else, the principle is too much of an asset class. A primary residence is not an investment.
No, I meant physical gold, eagles and such.
Unless you’re in a real go-time situation, you can’t buy stuff with gold. Wal-Mart or Macy’s or McD’s won’t take it.* At least right now, you can sell it back to your dealer for physical dollars** and take the dollars to Wal-Mart.
But if the banks make a cashless world, what would the dealer do? Change the digits in your checking account. In that case, gold is no longer unique. It may was well be money market mutual funds, or bitcoin for that matter. In fact gold may be worse. Conducting an electronic sale at the dealer’s would flag you as a libertarian/distruster. And they could easily extract extra taxes like they do for cigarettes or whiskey.
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*yeah yeah, I suppose you could find a fellow voluntaryist gun dealer willing to take a golden eagle under the counter, but that’s a rarity.
** question: my area is full of “we buy gold” jewelers and stores. When they buy gold from you, what do they pay you in? Cash? Pre-paid debit (I hate those things)? Paper check?
Libertarian distruster”
I’m in
“you can’t buy stuff with gold. Wal-Mart or Macy’s or McD’s won’t take it…”
This is an interesting perspective. It is like saying that sound money will be worthless when we are forced to use really really bad money. I actually wouldn’t notice if the three named places to get stuff went away, not that it matters to your point.
When the global recession is finally acknowledged, US TREASURY BOND prices will go through the roof, if rates go negative they will go to the moon.
People sitting with a gold bar they want to keep for a hundred years are OK, but things that provide ” income” (from a bond, a viable business, a job, or a dividend) will be more sought after than any metal.
“the stampede into precious metals is going to be epic.”
Should have already been so, as the world was flooded with cheap fiat years ago. What’s happening now is cascading defaults.
Is our debt- and credit-fueled “growth” binge coming to an abrupt end?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/04/debtor-days-are-over-as-bis-calls-time-on-world-credit-binge/
More extend and pretend.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/schauble-no-need-to-decide-now-about-greek-debt-2016-03-08?link=MW_latest_news
Foreign buyers are pulling back, realtors say.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/03/08/foreign-buyers-are-pulling-back-realtors-say/
So US Housing demand falls to??? 30 year lows? 50 year lows?
More financial chicanery from Goldman Sachs, pimp for Obama, Hillary, Cruz, and Rubio. Of course no criminal charges will be filed and Goldman will pay a slap-on-the-wrist fine, if that.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ex-goldman-sachs-top-banker-subpoenaed-in-us-probe-2016-03-08
I liked it better when Kessel was posting political stuff. He was my compass for the day!
Do you really want the intern molester back in the Whitehouse?
Jeffrey Epstein does.
re: intern molester in white house
Very, very few really want Hillary, but the election is about who you prefer.
Self-induced abortions? Another land war in Asia? Zero taxes on the Uber wealthy?
I’m voting against all that. I’ll even campaign for Hillary
lol@donk.
Do you really want the intern molester back in the Whitehouse?
I want the White House demolished. And same for all other Statist temples.
Statist temples
Add the Southern Poverty Law Center HQ in Montgomery, Alabama (aka the “Poverty Palace”) to that list.
Globalists gonna globe.
I want the White House demolished.
Here you go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eujwxh_r43E
The thought of Bill The Leering Lewd back in DC horrifies the nation.
2banana’s Rule #341 on Buying a House: Never buy a house in a long term democrat ruled city with insane public unions and a huge free sh*t army.
And the current democrat mayor of the Philly is proposing a “Bloomberg Tax” on sugary drinks to pay for full day kindergarten.
Almost out of other people’s money…
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A plan to help the city’s pension woes: Buyouts
March 7, 2016 — Philly.com
Butkovitz is proposing that the city offer up-front cash payments to retirees, who, if they took the option, would surrender their lifelong pensions.
Such buyouts could benefit the city by dramatically reducing the pension fund’s overall liability. The fund is $5.7 billion short of its $11 billion obligation to city workers’ pensions.
There is still the question of how to pay for the buyouts.
Taking the cash from the city’s current pension assets would severely drain the fund, city actuary Ken Kent said at last month’s pension board meeting.
Butkovitz is suggesting that the city sell bonds to cover the buyouts. The debt service on those bonds would reduce the benefit of the program.
Police officers and firefighters covered by the plan can retire at 45 with a full lifetime pension. Other municipal employees can retire at 55.
Police and fire employees can receive up to 100 percent of their final highest salary. Municipal employees can receive up to 80 percent of the average of their three highest salaries.
Don’t include SF Seattle and Portland OR.
Two decades of democratic rule hasn’t hurt them.
‘Don’t include SF Seattle and Portland OR.
Two decades of democratic rule hasn’t hurt them.’
ummmm…..the operative word would be ‘yet.’
Being “early” is often known as being “wrong”, but point well taken.
On the eve of WW I, what did the French Foreign Minister reply to his British counterpart when asked “was the French revolution a good or bad thing for France?”
Answer: It’s too soon to tell.
And as I read Antony Beevor’s tome on WW2 - Seems ol’ Neville Chamberlain and his French counterpart at the time were utterly blind to the ‘yet’ of Stalin, Hitler and then Germany being allowed to rearm with no British intervention. All this on the heels of the Versailles treaty with the mandate that Germany pay confiscatory reparations for starting a nasty trench war in the teens.
I have to wonder when the ‘folks’ in this country are gonna erupt with ‘enough’ of this liberal and conservative oligarch crap and hit the streets with torches and pitchforks.
That’s not true. Portland and Seattle have crumbling infrastructure, wholly inadequate mass-transit systems (despite collecting billions of $ for the same annually), and are now struggling with significant homeless populations.
Meanwhile, the political leaders in Seattle are painting rainbow crosswalks, and buying out a failed rent-a-bike program.
Forward!
There are three checkboxes:
2banana’s Rule #341 on Buying a House: Never buy a house in a long term democrat ruled city with insane public unions and a huge free sh*t army.
Sure it has.
Aside from DC where 85%+ of voters vote the same way, SF is quite likely the most monolithic of all large American cities. Diverse it is not.
I think seattle is going up 9.3 % on ‘re tax
Ben Dover
Driving prices lower is a good thing irrespective how you get there.
Greece is a victim
FWIW …
IMO blogs are the free-enterprise responses to the tightly held, tightly controlled MSM, and the internet allows anyone easy access to millions of these blogs.
From Wiklipedia …
“On 20 February 2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr and 75.8 million WordPress blogs in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger is the most popular blogging service used today. However, Blogger does not offer public statistics. Technorati has 1.3 million blogs as of February 22, 2014.”
IMO this is amazing, and again FWIW.
Here’s a list of the fifteen most popular blogs …
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/blogs
For those who like science …
100 blogs every science student should subscribe to:
http://www.forensicsciencetechnician.org/100-blogs-every-science-student-should-subscribe-to/
At good colleges science students need to spend a lot of time studying and working in the lab. It would be impossible to find the time to follow 100 blogs.
Great links Combo!
Trenchant observations (from the editor and others) and informative links = a fantastic HBB blog
The Washington Post editorial policy is all globalist, all the time.
It’s incredible. My google news aggravator page always has a bunch of WaPo article linked. Ugh. What a complete waste. Today’s editorial wants to know why if Bernie is Jewish, aren’t more Jews interested in him? Who gives a big rat’s patootie?
The Don’s campaign has been a tremendous public service in so many ways. It’s like taking a plunger to a severely clogged sewer line and having a ton of crap come gushing out. It’s exposed the rigged political/electoral system for what it is. One of his more brilliant moves has been his exposure of the media. “They’re so dishonest”. That was a great preemptive strike which I think has, maybe not for all, but for many, neutralized the negative editorials, talking head blather and MSM ads. And he keeps beating that drum and it seems to be working. Less trust, less credibility for the MSM is a good thing, IMO.
Agreed.
I’ve known for quite some time that NeoCons know no party lines…now many, many more do.
A huge public service accomplishment, if nothing else.
Bush = Obama = Rubio = Clinton = Romney
= McCain = Reid = . . . and the list goes on
Combotechie: IMO blogs are the free-enterprise responses to the tightly held, tightly controlled MSM, and the internet allows anyone easy access to millions of these blogs.
And rest assured, this fact has not gone unnoticed among the power elites and pundits.
To paraphrase Bill Buckley, “Many support the airing of different opinions, but are then shocked and offended to discover there are truly different opinions.”
This will happen to nearly all EU countries.
And with the course we are on - it will happen here.
America has a higher debt ratio than Greece.
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Grexit back on the agenda again as Greek economy unravels
Telegraph (UK) | 06 March 2016 | Helena Smith
After three emergency bailouts and the biggest debt restructuring in history, talk has again turned to the country dropping out of the currency union
European finance ministers will once again deliberate over how to treat Greece’s ongoing debt crisis this week despite the country desperately grappling with refugees pouring across its borders.
The review has been held up by disagreement among lenders over how much more Athens needs to cut from public spending. It is seen as key to reviving Greece’s banking sector and restoring business and consumer confidence.
“I think the situation right now is more dangerous than it was last summer,” the former finance minister Gikas Hardouvelis told the Guardian.
“Then it was a question of the political will of a few people,” he said, referring to the tumultuous negotiations that paved the way to Athens receiving a third bailout in August. “Now it’s a question of implementing reforms and working hard and if a government doesn’t believe in them and implements them begrudgingly, progress becomes very difficult.”
Monday’s meeting comes at an especially sensitive time. Greek unemployment remains the highest in Europe at almost 25% – and just under 50% among the young. Many companies are relocating to Bulgaria, Albania, Romania and Cyprus as a result of over-taxation.
Meanwhile, the once booming tourism trade has taken a hit as bookings to Aegean isles have collapsed because of refugee arrivals. Last week, it was announced by Greece’s official statistics agency, Elstat, that the debt-stricken nation had dipped back into recession.
what happened to free markets?
It was killed by bigger and bigger government, more and more regulations and higher and higher taxes.
We now have crony capitalism. Where and the rich and powerful use government to crush their business enemies and political enemies. (IRS audits, large corporations destroying any competitors through regulations (coal), etc.)
We now have crony capitalism. Where government picks and chooses winners and losers. And gives the winners billions in taxpayer dollars. (Tesla, Solyndra, etc.)
We now have crony capitalism. Where bankruptcy laws are ignored and contracts shredded in order to appease political allies (the unions of GM) and with billions of taxpayer dollars thrown in.
We now have crony capitalism. Where large political donors can ignore the SEC and financial laws and enrich themselves without any fear of jail (Jon Corzine)
We now have crony capitalism…
seems like you have to overpay just to be in the game.
….. and now you’re in the poor house because of it Az_Donk.
Everything is priced over retail right now. So yeah, yer gonna pay through the nose…
what happened to free markets?
China.
The freedom was used to buy the government and enslave the population. This is the end game of capitalism. Time to flip the table and start over.
Hey look over there - Trump is a Nazi because he wants to enforce EXISTING immigration laws…
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EXCLUSIVE – Paula Jones: The Truth About Bill’s Women Would ‘Destroy’ Hillary’s Political Career
Breitbart | March 8, 2016
The “truth” about Bill Clinton’s affairs and alleged affairs would “destroy” Hillary Clinton’s political career, declares Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued President Clinton for sexual harassment.
Klein asked Jones whether she believes female voters should be concerned about the allegations that Hillary was complicit in covering up her husband’s ill treatment of women, including Jones herself.
Jones responded, addressing female voters:
Think about if you were in my shoes and this happened to you. And the governor or whoever it was had a wife and then they’re running for public office but all that time when that was going on, the scandal and all of these women that were coming out and all of the stuff that my lawyers, investigators had dug up with other women that said the same thing. Plus, him actually doing it actually in the White House while he was the sitting president with Monica Lewinsky.
Why would Hillary not want to say, ‘I’m going to get to the bottom of this and these women deserve to be heard. And I’m gonna listen to every one of these women. And I’m gonna make a decision after I hear everything that they have to say. And at that point in time I will make a decision.’
But she never has come to any of these women to see if her husband did what he did to them. And you know she don’t want to. Because she knows it’s true.
Hard to imagine Trump won’t have quite a catalog of affairs to compare with Clinton’s. One can almost imagine him bragging about having more and better affairs than Bill.
“He’s hitting these trailer-park hussies when I was nailing high-quality models in Manhattan!”
Q: what does Bill say to Hillary after having sex?
A: I’ll be home in twenty minutes!
LULZ
The “truth” about Bill Clinton’s affairs and alleged affairs would “destroy” Hillary Clinton’s political career, declares Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued President Clinton for sexual harassment.
It’s hard to believe that there’s still some truth out there that we haven’t heard about that’s worse than what we know went on in the Oval Office.
Why would Hillary not want to say, ‘I’m going to get to the bottom of this and these women deserve to be heard. And I’m gonna listen to every one of these women. And I’m gonna make a decision after I hear everything that they have to say. And at that point in time I will make a decision.’
The answer is in the title of a song - Stand by Your Man.
Mike:
Hitlery trashed Tammy Wynette back in the day.
I think that you may be right about that. She’s a big flip-flopper on the whole Tammy Wynette issue. Was that part of the statement about baking cookies?
Drudge Report links to a Netanyahu narrative:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-08/netanyahu-scrubs-white-house-visit-disputes-criticism-on-notice
No smaller government or less regulation or lower taxes happening here.
Just $4,500,000,000 a year of American taxpayer dollars to prop up a racist apartheid state, because Rapture.
Did the IDF ever apologize to Rachel Corrie’s parents?
In a related narrative, New York Times real journalists report on Iran testing ballistic missiles today.
How is this America’s concern? Because Rapture.
How much will the boots on the ground invasion cost? Never mind, because Rapture.
How sensible is a foreign policy anchored in a belief system that thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old? Who cares, because Rapture.
Another narrative:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/biden-arrives-in-israel-to-talk-billions-in-military-aid–and-patch-things-up/2016/03/07/d2dce47a-cec2-11e5-90d3-34c2c42653ac_story.html
because Rapture
You don’t want to be left behind.
“I’ll Go Full Power If There’s No Agreement” - Kuwait Breaks OPEC Production Freeze
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-08/ill-go-full-power-if-theres-no-agreement-kuwait-breaks-opec-production-freeze
A globe awash in crude in an environment of collapsing demand.
Considering crude production rates are in the $6-$8/barrel range, oil prices have a long way to fall yet.
Somebody call the Waaaambulance - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIikqPmbgvI - 158k -
F**k Your Feelings - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmlWwCnZqY - 257k -
I always heard sticks and stones but this works too…
“words can’t sprout fists and punch you in the face”
F**k Your Feelings
One big wah-wah rant. By a Brit who looks like an orc.
Breitbart provides a globalist narrative:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/08/cologne-two-child-sex-attacks-in-two-weeks-at-cologne-baths/
Eating Rudy’s Texas BBQ is a hate crime, LULZ.
They need to import these refugees to Texas, where they would receive their fair measure of bullet holes.
“The Commodity Rally Is Not Sustainable” - Goldman Is Now Waiting For The Next Big Drop
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-08/commodity-rally-not-sustainable-goldman-now-waiting-next-move-lower
One last opportunity to exit.
Opinion: Here’s why stocks won’t make you as much money over the next seven years.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-stocks-wont-make-you-as-much-money-over-the-next-7-years-2016-03-08?siteid=rss&rss=1
Hold on there one minute: Stocks are GUARANTEED to trade higher one year from today—according to this blowhard:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/historic-pattern-says-the-risk-of-a-2016-bear-market-is-zero-2016-02-25
•Every single time the S&P 500 gained more than 1.5% a day for three consecutive days, it traded higher a year later.
•The S&P 500 violated the low set prior to the kickoff move only twice (1987, 2000). Both times it bounced back quickly.
Trump defeats Kasich in Ohio, this election is effectively over on Saturday:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/272086-poll-trump-leads-kasich-by-small-margin-in-ohio
The proper grammar is “If Trump defeats Kasich in Ohio, then this election will be effectively over on Saturday.”
This is one of my grammar pet peeves, and it started with the NFL. The announcers would say stuff like “he intercepts that ball he’s gone,” in the present tense, as if it were actually happening. Someone not watching the game would think the announcer was calling the game, not offering hypothetical analysis.
And no, I don’t consider it a pick pick. It’s a tangible grammar issue. Speak real English, Mr. Master of Liberal Arts. I know you can.
Trump win, Hillary cry.
Woman, if you were paying attention you’d remember that my undergraduate degree from Football Factory State University is in Liberal Arts, not my masters degrees.
Anecdotal: I was told that my senior focus area on the fiction of Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dreiser, Dos Passos, Anderson, Sinclair, Faulkner, et cetera was too male and too white.
“Woman, if you were paying attention”
…..
I’m dying laughing.
Dead white male authors are among the worst discrimination victims on the planet.
Trump is the nominee… the king clown of the clownshow that the GOP made itself.
Let the circus commence!
Tyrant Trump will be a war monger and expand wars beyond even Obama.
http://original.antiwar.com/Dan_Sanchez/2016/03/07/trump-will-make-his-peace-with-the-war-party/
Are you so sure, Bill?
The Donald’s promise to be a neutral negotiator on Israel/Palestine could potentially put the Pentagon out of business.
Advice: Read that article and then tell me you think “this time our God President will be different.”
The punch bowl has never looked so good has it Goon? Time and time again millions of duped say “My candidate is the best and he will follow his promises and unicorns will crap candy.”
The blindness is incredible here. Especially on this blog where people pat themselves on the back for not being sheep buying overpriced stucco boxes. I cannot believe these self congratulating people saying how skeptical they are have been duped into following a rich lobbyist who is a bully. For hundreds of bit bucket threads you guys have been against rich lobbyists. But Trump is your exception. It boggles my mind.
I never said I support The Donald.
But his massive F U middle finger to the Israeli lobby is one position I certainly agree with.
How many more dead goyim do these neocons need?
But Trump is your exception. It boggles my mind.”
I can only assume its a “fourth turning” unraveling ?
Politicians have been screwing with voters for so long that they retaliate by electing a anti political Bully as revenge.
The arrogance which accompanies the blindness is even more astonishing. Have you ever witnessed such extreme arrogance among blind people before in your life?
The Donald’s promise to be a neutral negotiator on Israel/Palestine could potentially put the Pentagon out of business.
We’ve got our armed forces in over 100 countries. A Palestinian state would be nice, but it’s not going to convince the American PTB to bring them all home and shrink the military industrial complex.
Irrelevant.
Donald’s promises are just as meaningless as any other politicians.
Maybe, but this speaks to his appeal, which can be summed up in two words:
“He might….” possibly
as opposed to the others: “They won’t..” definitely.
Here’s a comment from one of the ZH posters:
“Michigan here. Democracy is pretty retarded but I feel that Trump is the last bastion of hope for this country from turning into a thirld world sh*thole.
First time voter for Trump.”
Democracy is pretty retarded? This sentiment supports the notion that Trump fans want an authoritarian strongman who’ll fix the country. If he gets elected president, a lot of these people will be disappointed.
Not nearly as disappointed as you SnowFlake.
I disagree. First of all, the US is not and never has been a democracy. And, we either do or we don’t have a country, we either do or don’t have laws.
Personally, I’d settle for strict enforcement of immigration laws and penalties for employers who don’t abide by them. Such as those imposed on Trump himself.
But that’s beside the point. Many of us are well aware that, should the Donald get elected, we may be very disappointed. But it’s not like we’re not used to it. And like I said, he might…possibly. And that’s the best we’ve got at this time.
The US is generally considered to be a democracy. Though whether it is not, I don’t know what a person wants who thinks that democracy is retarded. If such a person is a Trump supporter, my description of such a person is a good guess of what’s going on in his head.
I was hoping it was still a republic
There’s no contradiction there. We’ve got both a republic and a democracy. It’s odd that people would be opposed to democracy.
Democracy is pretty retarded
The zerohedge mantra. Straight from the Kremlin.
“This country’s made a lot of mistakes and the war in Iraq was one of them. We got into a war, we have destabilised the entire Middle East.”
– Donald Trump
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“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.” — Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002
The Iraq Resolution or the Iraq War Resolution (formally the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, enacted October 16, 2002.
Those voting for the resolution were:
- Clinton, Hillary (D-NY)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
You’re contrasting what Trump is saying today with that Hillary said in 2002. Trump supported the war back in 2002/2003, though not enthusiastically.
Has Hillary EVER SAID she was wrong on the war in Iraq?
About the war in Libya?
About the war in Syria?
Please tow the line and never loose your pet peeves.
Why don’t these black lives matter?
Why is this not national news 24/7?
Why doesn’t obama preach to us that this could be his son?
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Gangster charged w/executing boy after luring him from playground, revenge on boy’s father
Daily Mail UK | 08 March 2016 | Snejana Farberov
A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of nine-year-old Tyshanw Lee, who police say was lured from a playground and killed execution-style because of his father’s gang affiliation.
Dwright Boone-Doty, 22, was charged on Monday night in the November slaying death of the child. He is also facing additional counts of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in an October shooting that left a 19-year-old woman dead.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Boone-Doty was being held on unrelated gun charges when investigations linked him with Tyshawn’s death, describing his role in the shooting as that of the ‘executioner.’
Why don’t these black lives matter?
They surely do matter. Why do you think that they don’t matter?
Why is this not national news 24/7?
You read this on a foreign website. It’s international news. That’s even better.
Why doesn’t obama preach to us that this could be his son?
Your obsession with that one sentence that came out the president’s mouth is bizarre.
obsession with that one sentence that came out the president’s mouth
Obummer Derangement Syndrome. His presidency drove some people stark raving mad. Hence Drumpf.
Drumpf
+1
If you’ve ever raised an arm, YOU are Hitler.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-loyalty-oaths-220416
The comparisons are truly laughable.
Meh, everyone’s Hitler when you don’t like them. I thought my parents were Hitler when they grounded me as a pup.
“Meh, everyone’s Hitler when you don’t like them.”
Ergo it is impossible for anyone like Hitler to again come into power. If this ever happened, whoever pointed out the obvious resemblances would automatically be wrong according to Godwin’s Law.
If you drive a Volkswagen YOU are a Hitler.
Useful idiots are rocket fuel for Trump. How can you possibly miss the similarities? Are you that desperate for a savior?
Dang right, I don’t understand it either. Trump is a man, Hitler was a man and there’s men on this blog. We are all Hitler. Even the women, if they’ve ever raised their arm.
Pentecostals too???
“Come Out with Your Hands Up!”
- Pentecostal revival brochure
Strawman Godwin Law invocation alert!
desperate for a savior
+1
Goon:
Can you verify the homeless camps near Coors Field?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HOMELESS_CAMPS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-08-10-46-11
I haven’t been to a Rockies game in a few years but this doesn’t surprise me.
Denver homeless also congregate on the Cherry Creek bike path, Civic Center Park downtown, and where I most frequently see them along the Platte River bike path that goes south from the REI downtown past the Broncos Stadium and connecting with the Bear Creek bike path to Lakewood and Morrison.
If you need to score some meth or heroin, Civic Center Park is the place.
I drove past Coors Field on Saturday. I don’t recall seeing any tents, but it was dark and I wasn’t looking for them.
Did Mr Market suddenly deduce that the healthy U.S. economy poses no obstacle for the Fed to continue with liftoff plans?
Let’s see.
Hitler wanted and made happen the following:
Gun control
Nationalization of whole industries - to include healthcare and transportation.
Class warfare and class hatered
A government that could investigate you for any reason and at any time
An all powerful government
Thought and speech control
Using the government to after his political enemies
Arbitrary lists (like our no fly list) that could be use to deny all sorts of rights and freedom
Anti-tobacco
A pressed that never questioned him
Hmmm - now who does that sound like today in American politics
I read that that gun control thing was a myth. More importantly, Hitler was a maniac. Who cares what he wanted?
It is a myth to you because you can’t believe your political heroes mirror the exact same policies of Hitler. It is much easier to paint your political opponents and racists, Nazis, etc…
Hint. Hitler was a socialist. Socialist have the same policies and same end game. The slogans and uniforms are the only thing that change.
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Disarming Jews in Nazi Germany
Nazi law to disarm Jews
On November 11, 1938 (the day after Kristallnacht) the Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons were promulgated by Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, effectively depriving all Jews living under the Third Reich of the right to possess any form of weapons including truncheons, knives, or firearms and ammunition.
Before that, some police forces used the pre-existing “trustworthiness” clause to disarm Jews on the basis that “the Jewish population ‘cannot be regarded as trustworthy’”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany
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How the Nazis Used Gun Control
In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. Constitutional rights were suspended, and mass searches for and seizures of guns and dissident publications ensued. Police revoked gun licenses of Social Democrats and others who were not “politically reliable.”
During the five years of repression that followed, society was “cleansed” by the National Socialist regime. Undesirables were placed in camps where labor made them “free,” and normal rights of citizenship were taken from Jews. The Gestapo banned independent gun clubs and arrested their leaders. Gestapo counsel Werner Best issued a directive to the police forbidding issuance of firearm permits to Jews.
In 1938, Hitler signed a new Gun Control Act. Now that many “enemies of the state” had been removed from society, some restrictions could be slightly liberalized, especially for Nazi Party members. But Jews were prohibited from working in the firearms industry.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365103/how-nazis-used-gun-control-stephen-p-halbrook
So taking guns from people because they practice a certain religion is similar to taking guns from people because they’re convicted felons or severely mentally ill.
Also, see palmetto above at 2016-03-08 09:17:20
The Hitler thing is stupid and in fact childish. The much more effective meme, which they seem to have abandoned, is the “con-man” label. Way more effective if you want to create doubt about a candidate, and Trump knows this and is fighting it.
However, Romney was the wrong messenger there. If he’d been willing to say, “and as a con-man myself, it takes one to know one”, then it might have stuck. Also Trump handed them a gift with the H1B visa flip-flop. Did they take it? No.
“The Hitler thing is stupid and in fact childish.”
Ergo anyone who ever points out a similarity between a certain political candidate and Hitler is acting like a child?
If everyone on the planet is as successfully brainwashed into thinking this way as you have been, then the next Hitler will have absolutely no problem whatsoever in rising to power.
Anyone who uses deo for the BO is Hitler, because they had to raise their arm.
Hey Banana, Don’t forget the Nazi love for the idea of a God, with “Gott mitt uns” inscribed in every soldier’s belt.
Are you really basing your argument on what has been written on the German Army Belt Buckle since the times of Bismark?
Facts are hard for liberals. Emotions are much easier…
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Religious views of Adolf Hitler
His anti-Christian world view is evidenced in sources such as the Goebbels Diaries, the memoirs of Albert Speer, and the transcripts edited by Martin Bormann in Hitler’s Table Talk. The historian Evans wrote that Hitler repeatedly called Nazism a secular ideology founded on science, which in the long run could not co-exist with religion. Goebbels wrote in 1941 that Hitler “hates Christianity”. Speer wrote after the war that Hitler had “no real attachment” to Catholicism, but that he never formally left the Church. Rees concludes that “Hitler’s relationship in public to Christianity—indeed his relationship to religion in general—was opportunistic. There is no evidence that Hitler himself, in his personal life, ever expressed any individual belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church”.
In 1937, Goebbels noted Hitler’s approval of anti-Christian propaganda and the show trials of clergy. Hitler’s impatience with the churches, wrote Kershaw, “prompted frequent outbursts of hostility. In early 1937 he was declaring that ‘Christianity was ripe for destruction’, and that the Churches must yield to the “primacy of the state”, railing against any compromise with “the most horrible institution imaginable”.In his entry for 29 April 1941, Goebbels noted long discussions about the Vatican and Christianity, and wrote: “The Fuhrer is a fierce opponent of all that humbug”
Adolf Hitler was skeptical of all religious belief. Alan Bullock saw Hitler as a “materialist”, not only in his “dismissal of religion” but also in his “insensitivity to humanity”.Hitler’s materialist outlook, wrote Bullock, was “based on the nineteenth century rationalists’ certainty that the progress of science would destroy all myths and had already proved Christian doctrine to be an absurdity”.Richard J. Evans wrote that “Hitler emphasised again and again his belief that Nazism was a secular ideology founded on modern science. Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition. ‘In the long run’, [Hitler] concluded, ‘National Socialism and religion will no longer be able to exist together’”.
In effort to counter the strength and influence of spiritual resistance, Nazi security services monitored clergy very closely.Priests were frequently denounced, arrested and sent to concentration camps. At Dachau Concentration Camp, the regime established a dedicated Clergy Barracks for church dissidents.
Bullock wrote that, “once the war was over, [Hitler] promised himself, he would root out and destroy the influence of the Christian Churches”.[213] Phayer wrote that “By the latter part of the decade of the thirties church officials were well aware that the ultimate aim of Hitler and other Nazis was the total elimination of Catholicism and of the Christian religion.
According to Speer, Hitler stated in private, “The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
Similarly, Hitler was transcribed as saying: “Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers [...] then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
“the Nazi love for the idea of a God…”
Not even close.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Donald Trump is an distinguished statesman…… with a squad of sexy strumpets.
OK, where’s the pic? Lol.
A whole host of strumpets. Thank you Mr. Trump!
http://goo.gl/J6mLv8
Has China FINALLY put its economic woes behind it? What a relief!
Oh bugger!
ft dot com > GlobalEconomy >
Chinese Economy
Last updated: March 8, 2016 5:02 pm
IMF issues warning on global growth as China exports plunge
Shawn Donnan in Washington, Chris Giles in London and Gabriel Wildau in Beijing
The world faces a growing “risk of economic derailment” and needs immediate action to boost demand, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday as new figures pointed to the worst monthly collapse in Chinese exports since 2009.
Speaking in Washington, David Lipton, the IMF’s influential second-in-command, warned that the global economy was “clearly at a delicate juncture”.
Policymakers around the world need to take urgent action to respond to slowing growth and fresh threats posed by turmoil in commodity and financial markets, he added.
“Now is the time to decisively support economic activity and put the global economy on a sounder footing,” Mr Lipton told the National Association for Business Economics.
Among the “most disconcerting” signs of trouble in the world economy, he said, were “a sharp retrenchment in global capital and trade flows” over the past year.
Those concerns were highlighted by the weak trade figures out of China on Tuesday. They showed both imports and exports falling in February as China’s demand for commodities such as crude oil, iron ore and copper fell and weaker global demand dragged on exports of manufactured goods.
In dollar terms China’s exports fell 25.4 per cent in February from a year earlier, the worst one-month decline since early 2009 and down from an 11.2 per cent drop in January. Imports fell 13.8 per cent, trimming losses after an 18.8 per cent fall in January.
The IMF is growing increasingly concerned about the state of the global economy because of what it sees as signs of a further slowdown. It has already said it is likely to lower its 3.4 per cent growth forecast for this year when it issues its next round of predictions in April.
It is not alone. The OECD on Tuesday said leading indicators pointed to easing growth in the UK, US, Canada, Germany and Japan.
China’s economy has also shown signs of slowing further this year after growing at its slowest pace in a quarter century in 2015. At the opening of an annual parliament meeting on Saturday, Premier Li Keqiang recommitted to a target of 6.5 per cent average growth over the next five years, a goal that many economists believe is unrealistic.
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Markets | Tue Mar 8, 2016 5:31pm EST
Related: China
World equities fall on fresh China fears; oil sinks
NEW YORK | By Caroline Valetkevitch
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) March 4, 2016.
Reuters/Brendan McDermid
World stock markets declined on Tuesday after weak data from China reignited concerns about a slowing global economy and oil prices pulled back from recent sharp gains.
China’s February trade performance was worse than economists expected, with exports tumbling the most in over six years, days after leaders sought to reassure investors the outlook for the world’s second-largest economy remains solid.
“The data this morning has dampened sentiment more so than anything else at this point in terms of confirming some of the concerns regarding growth in China,” said Ryan Larson, head of U.S. equity trading at RBC Global Asset Management in Chicago.
Weighing on oil prices, Goldman Sachs suggested the recent rally was unsustainable and analysts predicted U.S. stockpiles reached record highs again last week.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled at $39.65 a barrel, down $1.19, or 2.9 percent, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures CLc1 dropped $1.40, or 3.7 percent, to settle at $36.50.
The declines came a day after Brent and U.S. crude settled at their highest levels since December.
In the U.S. stock market, energy shares led the way lower. The S&P energy index dropped 4.1 percent, while shares of Exxon Mobil were off 2.2 percent at $82.63.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 109.85 points, or 0.64 percent, to 16,964.1, the S&P 500 lost 22.5 points, or 1.12 percent, to 1,979.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 59.43 points, or 1.26 percent, to 4,648.83.
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Not more stock market losses! When will the carnage finally end!?
China Stocks Drop as End-of-Day Rally Unravels on Growth Concern
Kana Nishizawa
Cindy Wang
March 8, 2016 — 5:34 PM PST
Updated on March 8, 2016 — 9:09 PM PST
Asian Stocks Slide Deepens on Global Growth Concern; Won Weakens
* Copper, steel and coal producers lead declines in Shanghai
* CLSA says Chinese stocks may decline when NPC meeting ends
China’s stocks fell, giving back gains from an end-of-day rally that was driven by suspected state-backed fund buying. Commodity producers led declines after oil and metal prices slumped.
The Shanghai Composite Index slumped 2.7 percent. Jiangxi Copper Co. plunged the most in two months to lead miners lower in the wake of an industrial-metals selloff. The gauge erased a loss of 3.3 percent to close higher on Tuesday, led by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and PetroChina Co., which are considered favored targets of government buying because of their large index weighting.
The securities regulator has asked listed companies, mutual funds and brokerages to stabilize the market during ongoing annual policy meetings, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said Friday. The government support comes as plunging exports adds to evidence of a deepening economic slowdown. Concern that earnings will deteriorate and a weakening yuan will spur capital outflows has made the Shanghai Composite the worst performing global index this year with losses of 20 percent.
“The market is very short-term,” said Francis Cheung, a senior strategist at CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong. “Near-term data is negative like trade and so there is selling pressure. The government is supporting the market for the National People’s Congress, so when it ends, we could see a pullback.”
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-08/gop-leaders-tech-execs-plot-against-trump-secret-neocon-island-meeting
“The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump,” Huff Post writes. Here’s a list of attendees:
Apple CEO Tim Cook,
Google co-founder Larry Page,
Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker,
Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.),
political guru Karl Rove,
House Speaker Paul Ryan,
GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.),
Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.),
Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas)
Kevin McCarthy (Calif.),
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.),
Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.),
Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas)
Diane Black (Tenn.)
The creature from Sea Island. Why do these guys always choose some coastal Georgia venue to hatch their plans? Wasn’t Jekyll Island enuf?
Ironically enough, it’s the failed efforts of these deviants that strengthens the Trump movement.
And Dr. Evil was heading the table, right?
Secret neocon island? How disgusting of these pigmen pigs.
This whole Davos/Aspen set could disappear tomorrow and it would be no loss to America. They hate hate hate American national sovereignty.
And little Tommy Cotton has his head stuffed up Netanyahu’s butthole.
That whole conclave of pigs need to drink some polonium milkshakes.
Is this the same place as “orgy island” where democrat senators and Bill Clinton go to have sex with minors?
No, this sounds more like an orgy island where GOPsters go to have sex with minors. It’s in Dixie!
ICE policies allow illegal alien drunk drivers who kill or injure American citizens to go free.
http://goodlatte.house.gov/press_releases/870
Will Italian banks spark another financial crisis?
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/global-risk-insights/italian-banks-financial-crisis
Tune in next year to, “The Apprentice” the season at the White House.
In the first episode Dennis Rodman and Pauly Shore go after ISIS.
Trump vs. the corrupt crony-capitalist establishment. Pick your poison.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/07/tech-ceos-and-top-republicans-take-secret-meetings-to-stop-trump-with-brokered-convention/
Why do they Fear The Trump?
There’s some buzz emanating from Jupiter.
Trump kept a-rollin’ all night long…
Did he get rolled in Idaho?
Keep breeding…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/vietnam/12188175/Woman-gives-birth-to-twins-with-different-fathers-in-rare-case.html
LMAO
Millennial disagrees with Hillary Clinton at Fox Town Hall, March 7 …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B40dW2ewVRM - 157k - Cached - Similar pages
20 hours ago
Every Hillary Clinton sticker I’ve seen so far has been on the bumpers of cars driven by heavyset middle age or boomer women who are portraits in bovine stupidity, without exception.
Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with comparisons to Hitler
Donald Trump on Tuesday rejected comparisons people have made of him to Adolph Hitler.
“I don’t know about the Hitler comparison. I haven’t heard that. But it’s a terrible comparison, I’m not happy about that certainly. I don’t want that comparison,” Trump said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-says-hes-not-happy-with-comparisons-to-hitler/
Irrelevant..
again Drumpf lies, of course he has heard.
from 5 mos ago:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-comparing-donald-trump-to-hitler-makes-perfect-sense/
5 months old?
Irrelevant.
I’m not happy about that certainly. I don’t want that comparison,
Sounds like he’s learned from his KKK equivocations.
Mississippi voted for evil. So noted.
“Trump wins Mississippi”
Thank you Mississippi!
You’ll never win Michigan!
He just did! Trump kept a-rollin’ all night long!
Am I the most depressed person on this blog now?
Wow: Look what just happened to Trump’s odds of becoming the nominee
Written by The Analytical Economist on March 5, 2016
Much has happened in the past week to affect the outcome of the Republican presidential primary. Trump had a particularly poor performance at Thursday’s debate – though as we reported, the questions posed in the debate were biased against Trump and favored Rubio.
After the debate, Trump made the decision to skip speaking at CPAC, though as many pointed out, this could be because a walkout by Cruz supporters was planned against him (and most at CPAC are Cruz fans).
In the past week, much has changed, and one of the ways we can measure this is by prediction markets. FOX News host John Stossel’s website electionbettingodds.com aggregates the election betting odds on this primary and calculates the probability of which candidate will win the primary based off those bets.
It’s surprisingly accurate, often outperforming the polls in predicting elections. Insider trading is technically legal in election betting, and there will always be insiders placing bets to make the odds accurately reflect the true probabilities of each candidate’s victory.
After a poor debate performance and skipping on CPAC, the odds have worsened for Trump, and sweetened the most for Cruz.
In the past day, Trump’s odds of winning the Republican primary have fallen 8.7 percentage points to 57 percent, while Cruz’s rose 10.3 percentage points to 18.4%. In the past week, Trump’s odds have fallen 20 percentage points.
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If Trump wins another state I am going to lose my mind.
Thank you, Michigan!
Thank you, Mississippi!
Don’t lose your mind, Allin! Like to thank Ted for what he’s done with Rubio.
He is a little boy in short pants and lifts.
I figure Ted takes Idaho. Does Hawaii even have any Republicans? Hawaii probably goes for Rubio or Kasich.
Why?
Because he supports the Goldman Sachs puppet.
Oh…
Except Trump kept a-rollin’ all night long…
Trump appears to have got a tax break for people who don’t earn over $500,000
Published: Mar 8, 2016 2:43 p.m. ET
Crain’s says New York credit meant for people making $500,000 or less
By Jeffry Bartash Reporter
A New York tax break Donald Trump received suggests he earned less than $500,000 in actual income last year.
Donald Trump might be a really rich guy as he claims, but a small tax break he received in New York suggests his actual income isn’t more than $500,000 a year.
In 2015 Trump apparently qualified for a $302 break on his property taxes, according to Crain’s New York Business. The credit is known as the School Tax Relief Program.
Married people like Trump are only supposed to be eligible if they make $500,000 a year or less, Crain’s says. The article includes a copy of the tax filing in which the credit is listed.
Trump has said his net worth tops $10 billion, but he’s refused to release his tax returns. So there’s no way of knowing how he qualified for the New York tax break.
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Will the DNC have enough millions of new dependency voters by 2020 that their permanent Democrat supermajority will be a fait accompli?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senator-record-number-of-minors-set-to-flood-the-southern-border/article/2585215
Corvallis, OR Housing Market Craters; Prices Implode 7% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/corvallis-or/home-values/
It seems like the better Trump’s primary performance, the more dismal the prospects of a Republican win in November, at least according to the Iowa Electronic Markets Winner-takes-all Presidential Election futures prices.
Could Trump possibly be sinking the Republican prospects for a win in November, whether by accident or design?
By “Republican prospects” you are of course referring to the sellout neocon RINO establishment who have long since been co-opted by a venal and corrupt .1% in the financial sector. Yeah, I really give a rat’s a$$ if Trump sinks that corrupt cabal’s prospects for four more years at the trough.
Read what the professor wrote. It’s about the presidential election. In other words, it’s about Trump.
Thank you Michigan!
+1000. While the cousin-marrying two-headed inbred Jeds in Mississippi went for Hillary, the good people of Michigan, Ds and Rs, gave a middle finger salute to the corrupt Republicrat establishment. Maybe there’s hope yet….
cousin-marrying two-headed inbred Jeds
How many fit that description, do you think?
Most.
The collectivist comrades of the DNC and the corrupt, amoral scum that votes for them should visit Venezuela for a glimpse of what lies ahead once we have our permanent Democrat supermajority utopia.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/85618a072237458884023e91a66148f7/socialist-dream-under-threat-venezuelas-chavez-city
I get up to NY and I’m going to do great. I get up to NJ and I’m going to do great. It’s a movement.
Are you secretly trying to guarantee a Clinton win in November?
Nicest city among this list??? Outdoor life, good people, weather and sunshine matter.
Boise, ID
Santa Fe, NM - does best on list, but lots of crime
Bend, OR
Spokane, WA
It looks like Sanders beat Her Essence of Snake Oil in Michigan. Are ‘Murican middle and blue collar workers finally rejecking neoliberal oligarch-sponsored trade bills and economic policies that throw them, and our manufacturing base, under the bus?
I know politicians. They’re liars. What we’re going to do is beat Hillary Clinton. And we’re going to beat her badly.
You are a politician.
“I know politicians. They’re liars.”
If you are a politician, and politician are liars, what is the logical implication?
How shocked is the Establishment going to be if the deteriorating rust belt states give the finger to the crony capitalist status quo by voting for Trump and Sanders?
Can zombies return from an undead state? Can the Obama Zombies, McCain Mutants, and Romney Retards go from being completely brain-dead to being conscious that what they’ve been voting for is complete sh*t and resolve to be citizens instead of sheep? Are the 95% hopelessly, irrevoccably stupid?Or can they awaken…this is intriguing question of our time…once stupid, always stupid? Or is it possible to walk into the light?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07s-cNFffDM
Very positive economic news!
“Deflation Is Coming To The Auto Industry As Used Car Prices Drop, Off-Lease Deluge Looms”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-08/deflation-coming-auto-industry-used-car-prices-drop-lease-deluge-looms
Remember…. Nothing accelerates the economy, creates jobs and raises the standard of living like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Yay! This is great news, as we will be in the car market again soon.
Why are all these people voting for Trump?