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Nearly 10% Of Democratic Party Superdelegates Are Lobbyists
On July 25, these superdelegates will cast votes at the Democratic National Convention for whomever they want, regardless of primary and caucus outcomes. Democrats like to describe superdelegates as mostly elected officials and prominent party members, including President Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
But this group, which consists of 21 governors, 40 senators and 193 representatives, only makes up about a third of the superdelegates. Many of the remaining 463 convention delegates are establishment insiders who get their status after years of donations and service to the party. Dozens of the 437 delegates in the DNC member category are registered federal and state lobbyists, according to an ABC News analysis.
What are the odds that the Rs are planning to adopt a similar super delegate model to stop any possible future Trumps?
0% for the 2016 election.
Let that sink it for awhile.
No, I meant after 2016. This ones already done.
Probably depends on how well Trump does in the presidential election.
If he wins the presidency, it will be interesting to see if he can reshape the GOP, or if the GOP establishment will bide its time, hold its ground, wait him out, and reappear after his comet has passed.
If Trump wins the Presidency, that’s an indication that the GOP as we know it is over. There is just too much daylight between neocon element, the evangelical element, and the trickle-down element, and the money isn’t enough to hold it all together anymore.
Plus there’s a huge demographic shift. Look at the barely legal Millenials feeling the Bern. Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Mag once visited a Tea Party rally and was most impressed by the amount of “medical hardware.” Not exactly a group that can “bide its time.” We are looking at a totally different electorate in 2020.
He will have to reshape the GOP, and it won’t be easy, although I think the current establishment GOP is fading. There are some younger snake hatchlings in the party, though. If I were Trump, I’d watch my back around Ben Sasse of Nebraska.
It’s been said that he only wants one term, but if he does sufficiently well, he’ll have to go for the next one in order to shore things up enough so that it doesn’t crumble after he leaves.
If Trump wins the Presidency, that’s an indication that the GOP as we know it is over
Even if he loses, the GOP as we know it is over and they know it.
Even if he loses, the GOP as we know it is over and they know it.
Some people say that, but the whole Trump phenomenon dependent on his personality. If he loses and then ends his political career, the GOP could easily just go back to what it was doing before he came along, cobbling together coalitions of rich people, religious people, dittoheads, the NRA and so forth.
The GOP and the Democrats are two sides of the same globalist coin. When the globalists have gained enough power, they will no longer need to maintain the charade of a two-party system.
The GOP and Democrats are two hairy ass cheeks wrapped around the same bunghole: predatory capitalism. Both parties are on the make and on the take, devoid of anything resembling true principles or convictions beyond an insane desire to hoodwink enough of the sheeple to gain another four years doling out the graft and patronage.
If he loses and then ends his political career, the GOP could easily just go back to what it was doing before he came alon
There will be a Trump every election.
The gap is too wide between the so called establishment republicans and the rank & file that I don’t think it will ever be repaired.
Back in 1992 there was guy named Ross Perot who ran for president as an independent. That was a year or so before NAFTA and he warned that many jobs would be lost to Mexico. He got around 19% of the vote. Many people thought that most Perot voters would have voted Republican if he hadn’t run. So GOP leaders such as Bob Dole spoke of the need to bring those people back to the Republican party.
Perot ran again in 1996, helping the Democrat Bill Clinton to get re-elected. He didn’t run afterwards and the GOP won the next two elections. It’s hard to identify anything that the Republicans actually changed to win back the Perot voters.
There are similar delegates in the Republican party who can choose to vote for whichever candidate they personally prefer. They’re just represent a smaller portion of GOP delegates.
GOP’s own free agent delegates are no ’super’ controversy, yet
While Democrats will have more than 700 “superdelegate,” nominators unbound by primary or caucus results when their summer convention starts, there will be far fewer free agents at the Republican gathering.
A combination of state and national party rules decide how many delegates vote and how their tallies are allocated at the conventions. Most delegates are “won” by candidates duing caucuses and primaries, with some states giving all of theirs to the party’s winner, some apportioning them and still others applying a combination of the two systems.
The Democrats have a total of 4,762 delegates this cycle, including 712 superdelegates who can pledge their vote to whomever they want and can change their minds if they wish. Superdelegates typically include Democratic Party officials, governors and other lawmakers. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton says she has already locked down 457 superdelegates, which combined with her regular delegates, gives her 1,058, compared to 451 for her opponent Bernie Sanders.
The Republican party has about half the number of total delegates — 2,472 — and a relative handful of truly unpledged or “unbound” delegates — 298 — going into the Republican Convention. In addition, there are a small number of delegates who were won by Gov. Jeb Bush and Ben Carson in Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia before they dropped out of the race. Those delegates are free to pledge to other candidates now.
But not all states have the same rules. Iowa, for example, does not release its allocated delegates even when a candidate leaves the race.
In order to win the nomination outright, both parties’ candidates must hit a magic number of delegates — for the GOP it’s 1,237; for Democrats, it’s 2,382. If no one hits that mark, the nomination is “contested” going into the convention. If after a first round of votes there is no clear winner — and this is where the unbounded, or “superdelegates” play a big role — the convenion becomes “brokered,” leading to politcal horsetrading and addtional rounds of voting to come to a consensus.
Who are the truly unbound?
Aside from the released delegates, all of the delegates representing the Republican National Committee — there are three from each state, the District of Columbia and the territories — are unpledged. In addition, each delegate from North Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming can vote for whomever they want, despite the results of their caucus or primary contests. The only difference there is, while delegates in those states can choose their own candidates, they are bound to them through the nomination process.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/04/gops-own-free-agent-delegates-are-no-super-controversy-yet.html
For all the handwringing about Citizens United and campaign finance reform, I heard a study that noted that you could predict with 80% accuracy who the superdelegates would cast their votes for based on which campaign gave them more money.
In other words, the superdelegates are for sale–you just need to pay their price.
Yet there is no handwringing about the Democrats nomination process…
In other words, the superdelegates are for sale–you just need to pay their price.
How are they given money?
The vacant condos in Vancouver.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/03/10/the-vacant-condos-in-vancouver/
Homebuilder calls it quits in SF Bay Area:
Homebuilder Hovnanian is stepping out of the Bay Area market due to the inherent frothiness seen in skyrocketing home prices. The company called area land prices “lofty, almost speculative” and is withdrawing from the market to concentrate its efforts elsewhere. San Francisco’s home prices have risen by double digits over last year for the past six months, according to MarketWatch. Reports put the area in a bubble with prices near record highs and low affordability. Hovnanian also announced it will quit Raleigh, NC; Tampa; and Minneapolis.
http://tinyurl.com/jxcelte
The Sea Island Conspiracy: how oligarchs conspired with Beltway elites to negate the popular will of the electorate and maintain the crony capitalist status quo.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/03/11/the-sea-island-conspiracy/
46,000 Democrats in Philly become Republicans due to Trump. Are traditional blue collar Democrats finally had enough of a party that panders only to its oligarch donors and ever-growing dependency classes?
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/03/10/report-46000-pa-democrats-become-republicans-due-to-trump/
Possibly. One of the better commentators alluded to that the other day [paraphrase]: “all Dems seem to care about are minorities and spotted owls.” Trump’s original campaign looked like Occupy Wall Street. And I still wonder if Trump went racist to distract from his centrist agenda and to rack up delegates until it was too late. Will he return to being centrist after mini-Tuesday?
No.
How’s Trump a racist, Ben Carson is endorsing him!
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE POOR. (Not you Oxy;))
As with everything Ben Carson does, it was the strangest endorsement speech ever. The man’s not low energy, he’s on his own bizarre wavelength. Trump seemed embarrassed by the whole thing, ready for it to be over, much like when he hustled Christie onto the plane back home.
If you think Ben is in his own dimension, you should see his followers.
The man’s not low energy, he’s on his own bizarre wavelength.
Why do you hate black people?
I heard Carson’s speech this morning. It was about the very best thing that could have happened for Trump’s campaign short of winning the nomination.
Carson was to-the-point, he didn’t shy away from Trump’s commonly criticized points, and he praised Trump in the most committed, unabashed way possible.
It was startlingly positive.
And I still wonder if Trump went racist
Please explain exactly how Trump went racist.
Enforcing existing immigration law doesn’t count.
Wanting to screen incoming muslims to make sure they are not ISIS and will not commit mass murder doesn’t count.
“explain exactly”
You won’t get that from the spaniels of the establishment. if one took your examples at face value you might call him a vigilante. The emotional reaction to that word would be more like he is a hero than a villain. Labels are chosen for their intended emotional reaction rather than their logical basis. Its’ a hellofa way to run a country.
“Please explain exactly how Trump went racist.”
Exactly. As though he didn’t start out that way.
That’s just Spaniel Speak.
“You’re an SJW pineapple speaking spaniel, lola.”
Labels are chosen for their intended emotional reaction rather than their logical basis.
It’s a heckuva a way to debate. I think it’s how people who have weak arguments do it.
The problem is that few people know what these labels are supposed to mean. What is someone trying to communicate by calling someone else a pineapple? Do people who use such labels dislike the taste of pineapple? And now spaniel has been introduced. I’ve heard poodle used in a political context, but why spaniel? Are they a particularly obedient breed?
Sorry to leave you feeling obscured.
A Spaniel is a sycophant.
A Pineapple is a socialist poster who constantly stirs up BS. A Dole Troll.
Angry old man gibberish. Only they know what the words mean, and it changes from day to day.
Do you know how pineapple was chosen? Dole is a giant corporation. I would think that oranges and grapefruits would more symbolic of “socialism”. It’s so easy to separate the sections and share them with others.
Dole is a giant corporation.
They and other giant American fruit companies were notorious for CIA connections and being very favorable to right-wing dictators, and very hostile to “socialists” in the countries they operated in, back in the day.
A nonsensical label.
Says the pineapple.
It’s a play on words. On The Dole is an archaic term for social welfare payments.
Unfortunately, a joke explained is a failure.
So… on the dole means, um, on the dole, and Dole is a giant fruit company, so you call us pineapples, which is a fruit, because Dole is a fruit company, and…we’re on the dole, and…
Yes, it’s a terrible joke.
Pineapple = Dole = dole = welfare…
Trumpling humor is too clever by half!
Whenever Trump made a campaign promise to remove illegal immigrants or deny some immigration, or whenver he had protestors removed, the media and Dems cast him as being racist and zenophobic. But at the same time, his poll numbers increased and his media exposure skyrocketed. My questions is: did Trump deliberately continue the emphasis on those issues in order to maintain momentum?
(whether or not it was actually racist, and whether or not it fooled the racist elements into supporting him, are separate issues.)
Trump never went racist.
Is it possible that those 46,000 PA democrats switched to GOP to vote for Trump, because they know Hillary’s got her nomination in hand and they want to vote for the least electable Republican?
A more likely explaination is that those 46,000 PA Democrats were blue collar workers fed up with being deep-dicked by the oligarcy and its Republicrat henchmen.
I am intrigued by the notion that some of the former Obama Zombies, McCain Mutants, and Romney Retards may have been showing signs of brain-wave activity of late by supporting Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. I’d always assumed that stupidity was a lifelong condition, but clearly, the awake and aware 5% who voted for Ron Paul in 2008 are now being joined by millions of others in rejecting the crony capitalist status quo. That suggests many former vegetables are now engaged in something approximating critical thinking.
Can zombies, in response to some external stimuli, actually rediscover their humanity, as in the movie WARM BODIES? Would any disillusioned Obama Zombies, McCain Mutants, or Romney Retards care to comment?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07s-cNFffDM
RKH logic: 95% of the voters are zombies except when the vote for the tyrant Trump or the tyrant Sanders.
You may not be a zombie, Bill, but as a non-participant who parks on the sidelines sniveling and gesticulating, you’re a no-show and a non-entity when it comes to pushing back against the Oligopoly.
Will TPP be the last straw for blue-collar Democrats as they realize their party “leadership” and elites are throwing them under the bus?
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/03/10/obama-to-push-passage-of-tpp-trade-deal-despite-rising-public-opposition/
Are Democrats waking up to the totalitarian corporate-statist apparatchiks running their party?
http://reverbpress.com/politics/wasserman-schultz-totalitarian-says-michigan-mayor/
“While rising debt issuance usually points to a strong economy, danger could be lurking ahead.
Last year, credit card debt in the U.S. surged by approximately $71 billion to $917.7 billion, according to a new study from CardHub.com. The research also found that most of the debt accrued in 2015 came in the fourth quarter, when Americans tacked on more than $52 billion.”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/10/us-credit-card-debt-balloons-to-917b-what-it-means.html
“While rising debt issuance usually points to a strong economy, danger could be lurking ahead.”
Now there is an interesting statement; boil it down a bit and you will get:
Rising debt issuance = a strong economy.
So, does that suggest that the reverse is true? Declining debt issuance = a weak economy?
Doesn’t ring true.
Doesn’t ring true.
Leverage makes sense when things are going up, doesn’t make sense when things are going down.
“rising debt issuance usually points to a strong economy”
Sounds like another historical disconnect. Yes, debt issuance WAS a sign of a strong economy — back when banks were ALOT stingier about issuing debt only to the creditworthy. The debt was houses, cars, furniture, college; signs of borrowers with income.
And Q4 2015 up through a few weeks ago was the cheapest gasoline that ‘Merika has had in years. People are BROKE.
Wages have been stagnant and people have been broke for a looooong time. It was HELOCs and other easy credit that enabled the spending sprees.
Several tens of millions of people are paying out the wazoo for ObamaCare.
I am one of them.
Saving $10 a week on gasoline doesn’t even come close to making up the difference.
Don’t diminish the power of falling crude prices. Falling prices are the only thing thats going to turn around this multi-decade long disaster.
What are you talking about, Housing Analyst, crude prices are going back up. Local gasoline prices have shot up almost 50 cents per gallon over the last month.
Raindrops in the desert my friend. Raindrops in the desert.
Why do falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels anger you so?
Several tens of millions of people are paying out the wazoo for ObamaCare.
My employer and I have been “paying out the wazoo” long before Obamacare (and in my case the annual cost increases have stayed within historical norms). While the ACA didn’t solve any problems it’s disingenuous to imply that things were hunky dory before it took effect. Healthcare in the USA, from a cost perspective, has been fooked for decades.
“People are BROKE.”
The economy needs a boost… maybe a limited supply of Beanie Babies created in the likeness of our former Federal Reserve Governors with unique serial numbers, each with a framed Certificate of Authenticity signed by Janet Yellen? Just imagine having the Marriner Eccles doll on your bookshelf… your friends would be impressed with your investment and fine taste. Everyone knows they would go up in value.
So what’s keeping the FedRes from conjuring some money from thin air and mailing every household in the country a check?
I’m sure that option is still on the table.
A nation of MT Pockets and tire kickers.
Yep, $30k/yr millionaires. Hehe.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=30k+millionaire
The Emperor has no clothes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/10/the-most-difficult-central-bank-meeting-in-history-ecb-keeps-inv/
Obama blames the UK’s David Cameron rather than his own former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and her fellow neocons for the “sh*t show” in Libya. Nice, throwing a globalist “ally” under the bus.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/barack-obama-says-david-cameron-allowed-libya-to-become-a-s-show-a6923976.html
Well, Cameron is a “foreigner” and even worse, is a “conservative”; plus Obama is supporting Hitlery. so it isn’t surprising that he’s using the Brit PM as a scapegoat, especially since Sander keeps bringing up Clinton’s Libya foreign policy fiasco.
This Cameron thing is really weird. Obama seems to enjoy trolling from time to time.
I really think Obama would rather see Trump in the WH than Hillary, there’s no love lost between him and the Clintons. Perhaps this is an effort to focus more of the blame on Hillary by calling out Cameron and getting him to respond.
Or perhaps it’s just an effort to leave behind as much damage as possible for the next occupant of the WH, whoever that may be.
Or maybe it’s part of Obama’s pathological refusal to accept any responsibility or accountability for the non-stop fiascos that happened on his watch.
Ray K;
You beat me to it - uh,uh, uh, Murika. I think I will push the button identifying me as ‘present’.
He is making a habit out of blaming others lately…
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-gop-blame-rise-donald-trump/story?id=37547549
BTW, there is a clinical term for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Lately? He’s always blamed others.
A vote for Hillary is a vote for corruption.
Hillaryous is unelectable.
The latest Vegas odds (the top four) …
Hillary 1/2
Donald 10/3
Bernie 12/1
Ted 16/1
Link …
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/politics/other-politics/us-politics?ev_oc_grp_ids=791149
(1/2)/(10/3) = 3/20…
Not sure that is the right calculation, though.
Hillary promises not to deport anyone without a criminal record. And also gets gamed by the Mexican anchor asking the debate questions during the Univision debate. Why this isn’t front page news and the Drudge headline I do not know.
This makes things very very easy for Trump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-debate-deporting-children_us_56e0e3ebe4b065e2e3d4d907
This makes things very very easy for Trump.
Except for all those hispanic votes.
How do u process someone w no ss number for crime tracking?
The party of the people.
The party of the little guy.
The party where every vote counts.
And here is a hint - republicans don’t have “superdelegates”
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The UnDemocratic Democratic Primary
medium.com - Matt Rhoades - 3/8/2016
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) promises he’s in the Democratic primary to stay, but that pledge may soon fall victim to simple arithmetic and an arcane Democratic Party process known as “superdelegates.”
A casual observer of politics may wonder: how is that possible? After all, heading into yesterday’s contests, Senator Sanders has won nearly half of the primaries and caucuses held to date: of the 20 contests held so far, Sanders has won eight, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has 12.
Yet, Senator Sanders trails by a more than two-to-one margin in the delegate count: of the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, Secretary Clinton has amassed 1,130 delegates, while Sanders stands at 499.
Superdelegates consist of Democratic officeholders, as well as 21 “distinguished members,” a group made up of former presidents, vice presidents, DNC chairs, etc.
In non-political speak, “distinguished members” are really Democrat political insiders and D.C. powerbrokers, not the everyday voters Democrats claim to represent. ABC News recently reported that, “dozens of the 437 delegates in the DNC member category are registered federal and state lobbyists, according to an ABC News analysis. In fact, when you remove elected officials from the superdelegate pool, at least one in seven of the remainder are former or current lobbyists.”
To put the influence of these insiders in stark context: in 2016, there are 712 superdelegates up for grabs, making up nearly 30 percent of the magic number.
As an insurgent candidate, Senator Sanders’ candidacy is fueled by grassroots energy across the country inspired by his socialist message. Yet his chances of getting his party’s nomination are slim and getting narrower by the day.
This scenario is reminiscent of the early 1980s and the original implementation of superdelegates.
In 1984, superdelegates powered the “establishment” candidate, former Vice President Walter Mondale (D-MN), over the “insurgent,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson(D-IL), a point not lost on Jackson, who became one of the system’s loudest and most vociferous opponents. In the subsequent election, Jackson blasted superdelegates as “voodoo politics,” and noted that, “when people are inspired and hopeful, they work diligently. When they feel they have not been treated fairly, they are discouraged.”
In 1984, Jackson won 19 percent of the popular vote, but received only 10 percent of the delegate count. The facts are indisputable: whatever the motivation, superdelegates had a chilling effect on the first viable African American presidential candidate, re-routing and suppressing the will of the voters in favor of the establishment choice.
And here is a hint - republicans don’t have “superdelegates”
Maybe they don’t have as many as the Dems and their votes are more regulated, but let there be no doubt, the GOP establishment will do everything it can to derail a Trump nomination and nominate a Wall St. stooge and neocon like Cruz or Rubio.
This is true. But the republican establishment has to fight for every vote to derail Trump.
The democrats with their superdeleagtes don’t have to worry about silly voters. They know what is best. You will conform.
The Republican Party is imploding.
I think maybe a few party boss skulls are imploding. And millions of casual observers.
From a populist point of view it is showing new signs of life.
The status quo is fracturing, irrespective of party lines.
The status quo is fracturing, irrespective of party lines.
We live in interesting times. We’ll see if it’s a curse.
What’s wrong with that? Let it implode…
And this is from the NYT!
“Anyone claiming America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction”
– Obama, State of the Union, 2016
Not good news for Hillery - running for the Third Obama term.
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Who Gets the Blame for the Slowing Economy?
New York Times | MARCH 10, 2016 | Steven Rattner
ECONOMIC alarm bells are ringing: Financial markets have wilted. Forecasters have been slicing their projections for future growth. And some leading wise men — including the megabillionaire George Soros — are predicting a return to disastrous 2008 conditions. That’s almost certainly an overly pessimistic view. But without a doubt, the leading global economies are in a major slowdown.
Meanwhile, key private sector actors are particularly fearful that central banks, which have kept growth alive by keeping interest rates near zero, have run out of ammunition, making the need for more robust fiscal policy even more urgent.
Then there’s China. Unlike their counterparts in developed countries, Chinese leaders aren’t afraid to act; their problem is that they often don’t seem to know what to do, particularly when it comes to managing financial markets.
Most scary to China watchers is the country’s fast rising debt…
The past two recessions were caused largely by private actors: the risky lending of the mid-2000s and the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century.
This time, if we fail to break out of the current stagnation — or worse, fall into global recession — the fault will lie with our leaders.
“disastrous 2008 conditions”
What’s so disastrous about a cleansing?
Many Americans became unemployed in 2008 and 2009.
Including myself, getting laid off for the second time in my career (having missed getting laid off several other times that I am aware of in the 15 years prior to that).
Most tech workers that I know don’t even know which end of a screwdriver to pick up. It’s going to be really hard for them to find something else to do.
Most tech workers that I know don’t even know which end of a screwdriver to pick up. It’s going to be really hard for them to find something else to do.
Plus “tech” has become highly specialized and skills that are hot today can become ice cold tomorrow and the skills aren’t always transferable. And domain knowledge is more important than ever. It isn’t good enough to be a competent coder anymore.
The question is, were those jobs built on organic growth…or easy credit? If it’s the latter, when does the charade end?
In order to answer those two questions, it would necessary to get an understanding of what is meant by organic growth and how some jobs came into being due to organic growth while others did not. An investigation into such notions would probably reveal that there’s no way to define organic growth and that it’s based on a sort of a fairy tale understanding of the way that the American economy works.
Also, my guess is that people who talk about jobs built on organic growth or easy credit must imagine that their own jobs are the organic ones.
Put rates back at what they were, say, in 1998-2000 and I would say most jobs created in such an environment were organically grown. Mortgage rates were about 9-10%, IIRC, as a relative measure.
I, too, lost a job (field engineer) in 2010 that was created right before the “disaster.” I knew when I took it that it seemed too good to be true and to this day I haven’t been replaced.
Went back to a company I worked for pre-2000. This is a long term job that I’ll probably only lose if I screw it up…
“Also, my guess is that people who talk about jobs built on organic growth or easy credit must imagine that their own jobs are the organic ones”
Well, I’m not sure what inspires that projection. It wasn’t meant as a holier-than-thou pronouncement so much as a question of how much of the recent credit expansion has created more imbalance, in this case in jobs.
What’s so disastrous about a cleansing?
I guess if it turns into chronic diarrhea.
I was listening to the Joyce Kaufman show yesterday, she said the guy outside her early voting place said there were only 2 candidates people were voting for, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
It was then that Joyce said an Oily Boyd couple behind her (Oily Boyd my words not hers) chimed in with a squeaky voice… We’re voting for Hillary!
Bernie Sanders Draws Thousands at Rallies Across Florida
By Yamiche Alcindor
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent Thursday talking to thousands of people in rallies across Florida in an effort to garner support before the state’s primary next week.
Mr. Sanders began his day in Miami and flew to Gainesville for a morning rally at the University of Florida. There, he told about 5,600 supporters that he would need their help to score another victory like the one he had in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday. He also continued to contrast his stances on trade with those of his rival, Hillary Clinton.
“We just pulled off a major upset in Michigan the other night, and on Tuesday we have five states coming up, including Florida,” Mr. Sanders said to cheers. “If you guys come out to vote, we are going to pull off another upset.”
http://www.nytimes.com/…/03/10/bernie-sanders-draws-thousands-at-rallies-across-florida/ - 161k - Cached - Similar pages
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Speaking of radio I camped outside of Salida last night and picked up a Dallas/Fort Worth AM station political show airing during the debate last night.
People in Washington, New York, California are so clueless about the sentiment of the rest of the country.
People in Washington, New York, California are so clueless about the sentiment of the rest of the country.
They, and especially those on the “Acela corridor” believe flyover is utterly irrelevant.
I learned something interesting from the debate last night, regarding the Disney H1B visa issue. While I’m not a fan of Marco Rubio, he did explain the loophole that was taken advantage of, where Disney “eliminated” the positions and hired a “consultant”, which then supplies the personnel. This allows Disney to stay within the letter of the law. Where it really goes south, though, is requiring the fired employees to train the personnel working for the consultant.
And this is something he’s actually quite good at, explaining the law to the people in a way they can understand. I saw him do this when he was a state legislator here in Florida, it’s actually a rare talent, so I’ll give him that. He once took apart the host of a local PBS television show on the issue of sales taxes and the internet and he did it with some class and humor.
Aren’t we all so tired of the loopholes and who creates them?
Yes, we are, Hi. The H1B legislation was window dressing for the rubes, with the back doors built in by lobbyists and legislators so the corporations could do what they wanted in the first place.
Google ‘Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit’ and start reading.
Bill Gates’ dad’s law firm, who hired Jack Abramoff, did the dirty work for Bill Jr. to open the techie immigrant floodgates.
Ain’t globalism grand?
I thought it was interesting that Disney ends up getting named in the middle of the debate as a huge bad guy.
to open the techie immigrant floodgates.
And opened they have. Silly Valley looks like half of Bangalore moved there.
“Silly Valley looks like half of Bangalore moved there.”
Certainly true of eBay’s office over by the airport.
Donald Trump has lived in New York City his entire life.
Not quite his entire life. He’s been living rent free in your skull for 6 months now with an 8 year lease option.
MikeyMite can leave the dinner table now.
The grownups are having a conversation.
“Not quite his entire life. He’s been living rent free in your skull for 6 months now with an 8 year lease option.”
I am not only laughing at this now, but I am laughing about the look on the dude’s face on the job this afternoon when I remember this and he asks me…
What are you laughing about?
8. That bigger and bigger government, with more and more regulations and higher and higher taxes will not help you, but it will enslave you.
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7 Harsh Realities Of Life Millennials Need To Understand
ZeroHedge - 03/10/2016 23:55 -0500
1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant
Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he’s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds. Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it’s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt.
2. You Cannot Be Whatever You Want To Be
The reality is if you’re 17 years old and still can’t figure out basic division, you’re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you’re overweight and unattractive, you’re not going to be the quarterback’s prom date. If you lack fine motor skills, you’re not going to be a heart surgeon. It’s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be.
3. Gender Studies Is A Waste Of Money
4. If You Live In America, You’re Already In The 1%
That’s right. Even though you work at McDonald’s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you’re still far better off than the vast majority of the planet. Don’t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries like Ukraine and Greece, and you’ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it’s the only reason you aren’t already worse off.
5. You Don’t Have A Right To It Just Because You Exist
That includes healthcare, guaranteed income, and somewhere to live. Just because you’re here and breathing doesn’t mean society owes you anything. Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else’s, too.
6. You DO Have The Right To Live As You Please — But Not To Demand People Accept It
7. The Only Safe Space Is Your Home
That’s lame, as usual. If these are some sort of universal truths that were inadvertently left out of the Bible, everyone should understand them, not just millenials.
lame, as usual
As are the majority of your devoid of content or original content contributions to this blog.
You Southern Poverty Law Center trolls get paid to troll any Breitbart article.
Breitbart is mostly nonsense. Someone has to point it out. When I do, Bretbart fans are very rarely able to come up with a cogent defense.
Irrelevant.
Thanks for illustrating my point.
Once again…. irrelevant.
Record high taxes collected.
Yet we still have deficits worse than the worst of the Bush Administration.
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$1,248,371,000,000: FY2016 Taxes Set Record Through February; $8,263 Per Worker; Feds Still Run $353,005,000,000 Deficit
By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 10, 2016 | 3:59 PM EST
The U.S. Treasury hauled in a record of approximately $1,248,371,000,000 in tax revenues in the first five months of fiscal 2016 (Oct. 1, 2015 through Feb. 29, 2016), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
Despite these record tax revenues in the first five months of the fiscal year, the federal government nonetheless ran a deficit of approximately $353,005,000,000 during the same period.
The record five-month tax haul of $1,248,371,000,000 equaled approximately $8,263 for each of the 151,074,000 people in the country who had either a full or part-time job in February.
However, even while taking in a record $1,248,371,000,000 in tax revenues from October through February, the Treasury was spending $1,601,375,000,000, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. Thus, so far this fiscal year, the Treasury has run a deficit of $353,005,000,000.
My taxes are going down, by design. 40% less for FY 2015 than 2014.
I bet alumni donations are way off too.
How did that work out for you Mizzou? - Destroying freedom of speech and catering to race hustlers…
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Enrollment drop forces University of Missouri cuts and hiring freeze
Kansas City Star ^ | March 9, 2016 | staff
An anticipated enrollment decline of 1,500 students following protests that roiled the University of Missouri has forced the college to cut general revenue budgets by 5 percent and institute a hiring freeze to help close a projected $32 million shortfall. Interim University of Missouri chancellor Hank Foley sent a memo to the campus on Wednesday detailing the moves, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. “I am writing to you today to confirm that we project a very significant budget shortfall due to an unexpected sharp decline in first-year enrollments and student retention this coming fall,” Foley wrote in the memo. Foley’s memo did not address the protests, which stemmed from what some students perceived as indifference by university administrators to racial discrimination. But officials have said they believe the turmoil, which culminated with the resignations of the former system president and campus chancellor, contributed to the enrollment decline.
“Realize most of our expenses are people,” Ward said. Take “$32 million, and look at an average salary of $40,000, $50,000, and we’re talking about hundreds and hundreds of positions impacted.” The 5 percent cut would eliminate about $20 million of the shortfall, Ward said, leaving the university with a $10 million gap. He stressed that the revenue drop was independent from threatened legislative cuts to state funding. Missouri House lawmakers have proposed chopping $1 million from the Columbia campus and shifting those funds to Lincoln University, the historically black college in Jefferson City. The cuts proposed this week for MU’s flagship campus would be on top of $7.6 million in cuts that Missouri lawmakers had earlier proposed for the entire university system’s budget.
Those SJW’s should just skip the $80,000 in student loans and start pouring my coffee after they graduate high school.
Why would SBUX hire a high-schooler when they could hire a college grad for the same wage? No matter what they majored in, a college grad has passed through that vulnerable 18-22 age range. Probably no gang, likely not on drugs, acceptable minimal English skillz, no kids yet, etc.
And more desperate to hold onto their job in order to pay off those college loans!
Ain’t financial slavery grand?
Thuggery is the new black.
The Lurking Menace of a Trump Rally
An undercurrent of violence courses through Trump’s events and speeches. In North Carolina, it erupted into the open.
Donald Trump watches as a protestor is removed from the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, N.C. Jonathan Drake / Reuters
David A. Graham Mar 10, 2016
2016 Election
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.—It only took five minutes from the time he began. Donald Trump was in the middle of a riff about “Lyin’ Ted Cruz” when a protestor stood up.
“So early,” Trump said. “Get ’em out.”
The Republican frontrunner made it through just four more sentences before the next one stood up. “Hello! Go home to mom.”
That’s how it went through Trump’s rally in this military town, home to Fort Bragg, on Wednesday. At least 18 times during Trump’s speech, police came and plucked people out of the crowd, each time creating a large disturbance. The frequent disruptions added to an already charged atmosphere at the Crown Coliseum. In several recent nationally televised appearances at his resorts following election wins, Trump has seemed subdued—even “low energy,” to borrow an epithet. The AP argues he’s moderating into a general-election candidate. But there was little of that on display Wednesday.
Just below the surface of a Trump rally runs an undercurrent of violence. There are few overt threats. But there are thousands of people who are deeply angry at the state of the nation, whose anger is being intensified by the speaker on stage.
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If only Trump had “pulled a Bernie” and gave the protesters the microphone - he would be loved like liberals like you.
Seriously - what was supposed to be done? Thousands of people pack into a stadium on PRIVATE PROPERTY to hear a man talk and one or two protesters decide they want to interrupt the speech.
Security quickly and efficiently escorts the protesters out of the building and without using violence.
Seems about as far away from a “menace” as you can get.
You want to see a real “undercurrent of violence?” Go to a BLM Matters demonstration.
Or just review the footage from Ferguson or Baltimore.
I’m not a liberal.
But you are a black-and-white thinker.
I’m not a liberal.
Yeah - I know. You are a fiercely independent voter who just happens to vote almost 100% democrat.
Who says he hasn’t run into a single Trump supporter where he lives - San Diego metro, population 2+ million.
Once again, PB shows his hand.
Since the racist label hasn’t seemed to work, now the SJW narrative is to paint Trump’s supporters as violent and angry (white men).
This is EXACTLY why Trump is so popular - he cuts through all of this kind of politically-correct BS. His discussion of Muslims last night in the debate, for example.
No, I do know one Trump supporter.
I guess it goes without saying that this is one of the most border-line crazy and paranoid people I have ever met in my many decades on this planet.
Those “protesters” are trampling on the rights of thousands of Trump supporters who have a right to hear their candidate without constant disruptions from provocateurs.
This is an interesting point. Trying to shout down a speaker isn’t an encouragement of free speech. They can have their protest but shouldn’t be trying to suppress the speech of the person with whom they’re disagreeing.
There was an incident at University of Maryland a few years ago where a conservative speaker was to deliver lecture. A large protest forced him to stop speaking, and he was unable to deliver his speech.
How is that respecting free speech? They could have protested outside the auditorium instead of suppressing the speaker from being heard.
Thuggery is the new black.
Why be so racist?
Why don’t you ask Dear Leader that question at one of his campaign rallies?
They just figured out that (likely) Putin took down another one last November.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mikhail-lesin-ex-putin-aide-died-blunt-force-trauma-washington-n536456
Putin’s got a long reach. They beat him to death at a hotel on Dupont Circle, good god. I suppose it was better than the polonium?
Hey donk.
Could have also been a victim of polar bear hunting.
At least he was not a Marine quietly eating a meal in the capital…
˜Black Lives Matters” Advocates Arrested for Robbing, Beating Marine Veteran
Breitbart News | February 23, 2016 | JEROME HUDSON
Two suspects were arrested just days after surveillance video showed a decorated Marine veteran being brutally attacked by a group of black teenagers outside of a McDonald’s located in Washington, D.C.
D.C. police investigators said they took a 17-year-old male and a 17-year-old female into custody and charged them with aggravated assault and robbery, respectively.
They asked me if I believe that black lives matter, victim Christopher Marquez told WJLA-TV after the attack. I felt threatened and as if they were trying to intimidate me, so I figured I would just keep eating my food. Because I wouldn’t respond back to them, they were calling me a racist.
As soon as I walked out of the McDonald’s I got hit in the back of the head, or the side of the head, said Marquez, who served in the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2011 and fought in the Iraq War. I just dropped to the ground.
Why do you think it was Putin? Wasn’t the guy a Putin crony? Couldn’t it have been done by the opposition?
From the article:
“[Russian spokeswoman] did not comment on Russian media reports that Lesin had been a potential FBI informant.”
“Ben Carson Endorses The Donald Press Conference”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-11/ben-carson-endorses-donald-press-conference-live-feed
Thanks, Jake. Nice press conference. Looks like we have our Surgeon General.
And theres no better candidate to do some wholesale and strategic slashin’ and cuttin’ than a surgeon like Carson.
Slash away Doc….. slash away.
Have a cup. Drink up.
http://goo.gl/oikLRe
America needs strong leadership. Politicians can talk but they don’t get things done. I have a strong track record of success and if elected I will do what I have promised to do: Make America Great Again!
In all 57 states…
“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.”
– obama, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
traveling can wear you down.
“57 states blunder” or the 4.9% unemployment is what matters. you decide.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/deficit-shrinks-1-trillion-obama-era
Don’t knock those little states.
Rubio made hay of his victory in the “state” of Puerto Rico.
Cruz has boots on the ground in the “states” of Guam and Marianas in order to win a majority of delegates in at least 8 states/or territories.* And Cruz may need them if he does not win enough actual states.
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*(that’s they how threw Ron Paul out of the 2012 convention.)
7 Harsh Realities Of Life Millennials Need To Understand
The Libertarian Republic - March 11, 2016
Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven to be little more than entitled, spoiled, anti-intellectual brats who place far too much emphasis on feelings and nowhere near enough emphasis on critical thinking. To the millennial, words are cause for the creation of safe spaces, alternative ideas must be stifled, and anything they perceive to be a microaggression is enough to send them spiraling into a state of mental distress.
It’s time millennials understood these 7 harsh realities of life so we don’t end up with a generation of gutless adult babies running the show.
1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant
Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he’s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds. Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it’s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt. The reality is that people will offend you and hurt your feelings, and they won’t stop to mop up your tears because they shouldn’t have to. Learning to accept criticism, alternative viewpoints, and even outright insults will make you happier in the long run than routinely playing the victim card.
2. You Cannot Be Whatever You Want To Be
This is a comforting lie parents have started telling their children to boost their morale in school. Unfortunately, millennials are now convinced it’s true, especially as society has now decided to push this narrative as well. The reality is if you’re 17 years old and still can’t figure out basic division, you’re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you’re overweight and unattractive, you’re not going to be the quarterback’s prom date. If you lack fine motor skills, you’re not going to be a heart surgeon. It’s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be. In fact, once you accept this, you’ll be able to focus on the things you can be — the things you really are talented at.
3. Gender Studies Is A Waste Of Money
You heard me. While some millennials taking useless degrees will claim they’re beneficial for teaching or research positions, the reality is that they just put themselves several thousands dollars in debt to learn how to be a professional victim. While you’re struggling to make ends meet after graduation because nobody who pays more than minimum wage is interested in your qualifications and you’re drowning in student loan debt, be sure to check out the next harsh reality before you start complaining.
4. If You Live In America, You’re Already In The 1%
That’s right. Even though you work at McDonald’s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you’re still far better off than the vast majority of the planet. Don’t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries like Ukraine and Greece, and you’ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it’s the only reason you aren’t already worse off.
5. You Don’t Have A Right To It Just Because You Exist
That includes healthcare, guaranteed income, and somewhere to live. Just because you’re here and breathing doesn’t mean society owes you anything. Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else’s, too.
6. You DO Have The Right To Live As You Please — But Not To Demand People Accept It
By contrast, you do have the right to live however you please, so long as it’s within the confines of the law. If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people’s behavior as long as it doesn’t infringe upon someone else’s rights, but that doesn’t mean society isn’t allowed to have an opinion.You don’t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you’re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it. Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.
7. The Only Safe Space Is Your Home
No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it’s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your “safe space” away from the harmful words of others, then you’re best to just stay put at home. Remember, though: if people in the outside world scare you, people on the internet will downright terrify you. It’s probably best to just accept these harsh realities of life and go out into the world prepared to confront them wherever they may be waiting.
Yup.
The Obama Doctrine
“Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void—began with a thundering speech given on Obama’s behalf by his secretary of state, John Kerry, in Washington, D.C. The subject of Kerry’s uncharacteristically Churchillian remarks, delivered in the Treaty Room at the State Department, was the gassing of civilians by the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
A man’s conversation with a little boy:
“What does the cat say?”
“Meow.”
“What does the dog say?”
“Woof.”
“Good. What does the sheep say?”
“We just need to elect the right people.”
“We just need to elect the right people.”
AKA lesser of the 2 evils.
This is rich….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/barack-obama-says-david-cameron-allowed-libya-to-become-a-s-show-a6923976.html
Yeah, that was a real show stopper.
OTOH, it’s nice payback for the UK petition to ban Trump. Not that this was Obama’s intention, though. As a lame duck prez, he’s all about “protecting his legacy”.
I guess Trump has made it possible for Obama to unleash his inner vulgarian.
Trump, if he becomes president and sticks to his principles, is the worst of all evils and will be the most hated American all around the world.
If he does not stick to his principles his current (now) worshippers will feel duped. RKH will agree he’s been duped, into not having the revered authoritarian fascist policies enacted.
This is no endorsement of Trump but he will in any case turn a lot more people against authoritarianism - either the entire world or the Americans.
https://tucker.liberty.me/why-a-donald-trump-victory-could-be-great-for-liberty/
Trump, if he becomes president and sticks to his principles, is the worst of all evils and will be the most hated American all around the world.
Ummm…no. Obama showed us the way.
“Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”
– obama, speech in St. Paul, Minnesota (3 June 2008)
Obama -
4.9% unemployment and cut the deficit, what is not to like? Yes, we are still fighting the Bush wars and trickle down still down not work.
https://www.facebook.com/IamFreddieB/videos/10153443510543861/
and sticks to his principles
No president ever stuck to his principles, why would Trump?
Happy Friday! :mrgeen:
KeyRankItUp to 11, sit back and count your growing pile of cash.
https://youtu.be/772NKQjj1u4
lol@donk http://goo.gl/018zKG
HOw much higher do you think our taxes will go up to pay for all of the Trump ideas?
ISIS war
rebuild military
deportations
wall
new airports
new roads
more prisons
You aren’t being honest. He said let Russia fight ISIS. He said quit paying to defend Germany, Japan, etc. If you think illegal immigration is cheap, visit a Phoenix emergency room.
‘The Republican Party needs candidates to stay in the presidential race in order to force a brokered convention and deny front-runner Donald Trump the nomination, a former senior aide to President George W. Bush said Friday. That strategy will surely alienate some of Trump’s supporters, said Sara Fagen, now a partner at public affairs firm DDC.’
“Donald Trump fundamentally breaks the Republican Party, and it is not the same party moving forward ever again,” she told CNBC. Fagen noted that the delegates at the Republican National Convention are made up of the establishment’s base, so they may not side with Trump in a brokered convention.’
So you Trump bashers are standing with the Bush family. The same Bush family you blame everything on. You now have the neocons, who want to bomb everything, standing with Clinton. The group that recently gathered to find a plan to stop Trump was entirely millionaires and billionaires. In other words, the 1% you go on about all the time. I suggest you wake up and smell the oligarchy you are defending.
You aren’t being honest.
I am guessing you are being polite. LOL
I’ve mentioned this before. It’s hard to reach conclusions when falsehoods are repeated over and over. I’ve said I don’t really like Trump, but I do want to see these “establishment” people go. Who the heck gave them either party? Who says they get to stay? I think we should give the pitchforks, tar and feathers another look. But that ISIS thing is a perfect example. The poster couldn’t be more wrong about Trumps position. If we stop doing regime change, wouldn’t that cut down on military spending? Especially since we wouldn’t be creating jihadist breeding grounds like Libya, Iraq and Syria. Great Caesars Ghost, if you are going to attack someone, at least get your facts straight.
You aren’t being honest. He said let Russia fight ISIS. He said quit paying to defend Germany, Japan, etc. If you think illegal immigration is cheap, visit a Phoenix emergency room.
you are not being honest.
Last Updated Mar 11, 2016 8:47 AM EST
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump suggested at Thursday’s CNN Republican presidential debate in Miami that he would be willing to support a massive ground force to take on ISIS.
This is a shift for Trump, who has, as a presidential candidate, often portrayed himself as less hawkish than his Republican opponents.
Trump made the troop comment in response to a moderator’s question as to whether he would follow a military commander’s advice to increase the number of ground troops to fight the terrorist group.
“We really have no choice,” Trump said. “We have to knock out ISIS. We have to knock the hell out of them. We have to get rid of it and then we have to come back here and rebuild our country, which is falling apart.”
Radio host Hugh Hewitt pressed on specific numbers.
“I would listen to the generals,” Trump said, “but I would - I’m hearing numbers of 20 to 30,000. We have to knock them out fast.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a shot at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and other U.S. airports during a campaign event in New Hampshire on Wednesday evening.
“You go over to Qatar, you over to Saudia Arabia, you go over to some of these countries — China — and you see airports like you’ve never, ever seen before,” he said during during an event in Keene, N.H.
“Then you come back and you land at LaGuardia … or Newark or LAX and you walk into a filthy terminal that are falling apart and you have broken terrazzo floors and that’s all you have.”
LaGuardia Airport, which is scheduled to be redeveloped by New York officials, has been a frequent target of politicians. Vice President Joe Biden referred to LaGuardia as a “third world airport” in 2014, which drew the ire of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D).
Trump’s comments Wednesday were part of a broader call for more infrastructure investment, which comes at a time when Congress is facing an Oct. 29 deadline for renewing the federal government’s authority to reimburse states for transportation projects.
‘Trump made the troop comment in response to a moderator’s question as to whether he would follow a military commander’s advice to increase the number of ground troops to fight the terrorist group.’
But Putin will have finished ISIS off by the election, so it was a hypothetical. My beef is all the people who pounce on any and every bit of anti-trump media (and the PTB are working overtime) to set your hair on fire. I’m not impressed with your lack of critical thinking. Look at who’s against Trump; pretty much every scumbag in politics, the military industrial complex and those sordid cesspits called think tanks. People should be mad as hell they dare to expose themselves as “establishment”. There’s no establishment in the constitution. They’re actually what the framers were trying to prevent.
‘Donald Trump fundamentally breaks the Republican Party, and it is not the same party moving forward ever again’
That’s right Sara, and then maybe we can get some war crime trials up and running for the Clinton’s and the Bush oligarchs.
He said it, not me. Hwy hasn’t Russia finished isis, what are they waiting for? I am glad Trump is blowing up the GOP, one more party to go.
If you promise war trials for Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, Trump has my vote.
You’re a Lola.
I support Bernie, just say not to the oligarchy.
So you Trump bashers are standing with the Bush family. The same Bush family you blame everything on. You now have the neocons, who want to bomb everything, standing with Clinton. The group that recently gathered to find a plan to stop Trump was entirely millionaires and billionaires. In other words, the 1% you go on about all the time. I suggest you wake up and smell the oligarchy you are defending.
Well said, Ben. No matter where HBBers are on the ideological spectrum, they’d have to be fools not to see the central importance of prying the oligarchs and their neocon, corporate-statist Republicrat political prostitutes off the levers of power. Let the record show that sanctimonious ideological purists like Bill, who are waiting for a mythical Libertarian Messiah who is NEVER going to show up, were no-shows when the once-in-a-generation opportunity arose to DO SOMETHING to kick the oligarchs, neocons, and corporate statists to the curb.
By default, Bill, you have allied yourself with the same oligarchy you so shrilly (and impotently) denounce. Goldman Sachs thanks you for your passivity. Now kindly STFU, hike up your skirt to give your oligarch masters easier access, take up your Libertarian pom-poms, and stand clear of those of us in the trenches who refuse to go quietly into that long Goodnight.
Freedom comes with responsibility.
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffet
We got to see how thing actually work in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, when the economic tide shifted.
I think with the political tides shifting, we get to see how things actually work again.
Breitbart reporter files charges against Trump campaign manager
A Breitbart reporter is filing a criminal complaint against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski alleging that he grabbed her at a press conference this week, The Hill has learned.
The Jupiter Police Department confirmed in a statement shared with The Hill that it was investigating an alleged battery from Tuesday night at Trump National. The police report was filed Friday morning.
Breitbart’s president and CEO earlier Friday rejected the Trump campaign’s claim that Fields may have made up the story.
“Breitbart News stands behind Michelle Fields,” Larry Solov said in a statement, adding that “Trump’s suggestion that Fields made up the incident Tuesday evening contradicts the evidence.”
Washington Post reporter Ben Terris wrote Thursday that he witnessed Fields being grabbed, identifying Lewandowski as the person who did it.
Fields on Thursday displayed bruising on her arm on social media and in an interview with ABC News. Fields and Terris can be heard in audio from the scrum Tuesday night immediately after the incident.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/272680-breitbart-reporter-files-criminal-complaint-against-trump-aide
Michelle Fields has a long and inglorious history of claiming various assaults or misdeeds against her.
http://gotnews.com/calling-bullshit-michelle-fields/
People with mortgages do not get to ski at Crested Butte:
http://imgur.com/KQDZTkm
Region VIII
do you do everything alone? hard to find people not working with $$.
Will there be a mass exodus out of the Democrat Party as American workers realize they’ve been massive screwed over by “free trade”?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/11/pat-caddell-the-american-people-have-figured-out-theyve-been-screwed-by-free-trade/
Broke-ass ‘Muricans in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery” can’t even afford to shop at Wally World.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-facing-perfect-storm-182336105.html
A seven-year bull market in fraud, corruption, and insanity.
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/its-been-a-seven-year-bull-market-in-fraud-corruption-and-insanity/
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it is profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” — Frank Zappa
The elitists are terrified of the rising populist tide.
http://thedailycoin.org/?p=65286
Being an effective, willing Oligopoly presstitute certainly pays well.
http://www.businessinsider.com/katie-couric-picks-up-12m-ues-condo-2016-3
‘Muricans now carrying a trillion dollars in credit card debt. Stupid is as stupid does.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/credit-card-debt-in-the-united-states-is-approaching-a-trillion-dollars
Three gang-bangers/Comrade Pelosi lifetime entitlement voters pull gun on Trump supporter after pulling up his yard sign. Got intimidation?
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/mexican-gang-members-pull-a-gun-on-trump-supporter-then-this-happened/
some great comments on slashdot today re: San Fran real estate and blaming the tech industry for the insanity;
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/03/11/1352246/some-root-for-a-tech-comeuppance-in-san-francisco
2017 - Mother of all collapse
Are both corrupt, crony-capitalist parties imploding? Democrat voters have traditionally turned a blind eye to their party’s corruption, graft, and patronage schemes, but now that they have to lie down in the bed they made, maybe they’ve finally had enough.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/03/its-not-just-corrupt-cronyist.html
“Imploding” An interesting word as it is used here, but what does it mean?
What are the ramifications of having a major political party “implode”. What follows such an implosion?
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression Part 2) - 3D …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B7y5vCe_H4 - 244k -
Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies at 71
By ROBERT JABLON, AP
1 hour ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Keith Emerson, founder and keyboardist of the progressive-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died, his longtime partner announced Friday. He was 71.
Mari Kawaguchi said she found Emerson dead at around 1:30 a.m. at their condominium in the coastal suburb of Santa Monica, California but he could have died Thursday evening or night. She declined to disclose the cause of his death.
“Keith was a gentle soul whose love for music and passion for his performance as a keyboard player will remain unmatched for many years to come,” his former bandmate, drummer Carl Palmer, said in a statement. “He was a pioneer and an innovator whose musical genius touched all of us in the worlds of rock, classical and jazz. I will always remember his warm smile, good sense of humor, compelling showmanship and dedication to his musical craft. I am very lucky to have known him and to have made the music we did together.”
RIP, Keith Emerson. Thanks for the tunes!
I’m at a hotel in Gunnison, so I have cable TV. CNN live reporting the Trump rally in Chicago that just got cancelled.
Goon prediction: somebody is going to DIE at one of these events before the month of March is over.
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
Quite a scene, a powder keg for sure.
I saw one of the protesters holding up a professionally made sign that said…
We Are Not Rapists
His sign needs to say…
I Am Not A Rapist
Although he may not be and many “undocumented immigrants” are not…
Illegal Aliens Murder at a Much Higher Rate Than US Citizens Do
By Randall Hoven
July 13, 2015
Here are the numbers of crimes per day committed by illegal aliens in just a few crime categories, based on those GAO numbers and the 90% figure for SCAAP persons over four years.
Kidnappings: 9
Murders: 15
Sex offenses: 43
Burglaries: 71
Assaults: 131
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/illegal_aliens_murder_at_a_much_higher_rate_than_us_citizens_do.html#ixzz42eQrgXoY
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Could they be trying to discredit him the same way they did OWS.
Put in some plants and take pictures of them doing bad things, or put in some plants on the other side to get the Trump supporters to do something bad. Capture it all on film and play it over and over again.
Some “democracy” when the anti-Trump protesters try to forcibly prevent Trump supporters from attending a rally for their candidate.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-cancels-chicago-rally2016-3
Trump, destroying the GOP just as planned. Fox news wants civil unrest, good for ratings…
Luckily basketball is on.
I’m no fan of Fox News, but the entities stirring up the civil unrest are more like WaPo, the NYT, NBC and ABC, at least from what I’ve been reading and seeing. Those seem to be the worst offenders.
The media loves this stuff and they love to gin it up good. There is a special place in hell for them. And also for the likes of George Soros.
If you’re fed up with the Oligopoly-controlled media, there’s a simple solution: cancel your cable, newspapers, and periodicals, and instead support blogs like this one and citizen journalists and bloggers. Also note that you’re going to get a lot more truth from poster comments, in many cases, than from the managed “Narrative.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/03/11/horse-race-livewire-10/
I don’t have cable, newspapers, or periodicals. Nor am I a member of Faceplant and other such social media
I do, however, catch the headlines on the aggregators. And that’s where I see the BS, it’s right there in the headlines.
One thing Trump has done is awaken people to the media manipulation. And he takes his message directly to the people at his rallies, but we can’t have nice things, we can’t have a good time because of the spoilers.
I wonder if this “spontaneous unrest” was plotted during the Oligopoly’s recent Sea Island confab.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Sea Island is less than 20 miles from Jekyll Island. Isn’t that interesting?
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1291075,-81.3346572,11.21z
Yes, I remarked on that myself.
Soros must be writing some fat checks tonight.
And the boyz from Sea Island as well.
Trump didn’t destroy the GOP. The corrupt GOP establishment destroyed the GOP.
I have my misgivings about Trump, but there’s something deeply wrong with this country and with its Establishment when a political candidate and his supporters are forcibly prevented from exercising their legal and Constitutional rights. There is going to be a backlash to this, and it won’t be pleasant.
RKH, this is gonna end in a bloodbath. Mark my words
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
Brother Goon, I think you’re right about the long hot summer. It feels like battle lines are being drawn.
Nice smiley, there, goon. Betcha can’t wait. Hubba-hubba.
Chick-A-Boom, Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPStw1SzcQc
Sometimes you just need to smoke a cone of weed and listen to the Velvet Underground play Sister Ray:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=53F5nY68cBM
Nah, I’ve come around to your way of thinking. Just let Chitown bleed out like Detroit. And take away the EBT card.
You must not be that high yet tonight?
Wilco — Dreamer Of My Dreams:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=95wQnKCw3M0
This is more my speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF8ov34Gels
A pub band at their best……
More my speed too.
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Most of the acts now couldn’t play a pub date to save their patooties. They’d have a nervous breakdown without auto-tune and back-up dancers.
Don’t even get me started.
It’s two groups of whites, who hate each other with a passion, and one group uses people of color against the other. Most of the white people in the media are of that latter group.
Meanwhile….
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/11/469974819/chicago-murder-rate-spikes-less-aggressive-policing-blamed
You use the phrase “people of color”. You haven’t been able to escape MSM indoctrination.
Forever whispering racism aren’t you?
The interesting thing is, they’re trying to pin this on Bernie Sanders, the other outsider. A real two-fer.
Say, Mikey, what brand of SSRIs do you have to use just to get through the day?
Is Trump developing a case of paranoia to match that of his devotees?
The Wall Street Journal
Donald Trump’s campaign cancels rally at Chicago arena
Published: Mar 11, 2016 8:50 p.m. ET
(Photo by Jonathan Gibby/Getty Images)
By Ben Kesling and Mark Peters
CHICAGO—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump canceled a rally scheduled for Friday evening at a university arena in the Democratic stronghold of Chicago, citing security concerns.
Thousands of people—including supporters and many college students and other young protesters—were waiting inside the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion for the event to start about 30 minutes after the scheduled 6 p.m. speech by the candidate.
Cheers went up among many protesters when the announcement came, but a chaotic scene soon emerged with protesters and Trump supporters scuffling on the arena floor.
Police rushed into the fray to try to restore order.
One person raised a Mexican flag amid chants of “We stopped Trump!”
“This is exactly what I was hoping for,” said Celso Ramos, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Everyone says our generation doesn’t do anything.”
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