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‘So what do all neocons actually believe? The unifying principle of neoconservatism is the conviction that the United States has a moral duty to serve as the world’s policeman, preempting the development of challenges from rogue states, which has sometimes caustically been described as “invade the world.” In practical terms, this pursuit of de facto global hegemony means that military force is by default the first option in bilateral relations with foreign states. It also becomes necessary to manufacture an enemy or enemies that theoretically pose a significant threat. This role is currently being played by Russia, China, perennial favorite Iran, and the somewhat more amorphous “Islamo-fascism.”
‘The fearmongering is necessary for two reasons. First it justifies inflated military budgets that in turn keep the defense contractor money flowing to neoconservative organizations. Second, a robust military, per Irving Kristol’s thinking, guarantees that the United States will always be ready, willing, and available to protect Israel, an imperative derived from the perception that both the U.S. and Israel are morally exceptional states. All neoconservatives support military buildups and interventions, plus they all are zealous in their uncritical support of Israel, to such an extent that the two issues define them.’
‘Confronting the neocons requires first of all exposing the fact that they are not actually conservatives by any reasonable definition. Peter Beinart agrees that the “incoherent definition” needs to be retired and wants to replace it with “imperialist.” Call them what you will, but exposing their exploitation of the conservative label that enables their parasitical relationship with the GOP is perhaps the simplest way to create some separation from their peculiar brand of internationalism. Whether that will make them disappear or not is perhaps debatable, but, at a minimum, it would prevent them from defining what an acceptable Republican party foreign policy might or should be. Donald Trump has for all his faults opened the door just a crack in bringing about that kind of change, including in his rant a direct criticism of the neocons. In that respect, one should most certainly wish him success.’
I’m enjoying seeing all the little neoconservatives squirming at the results of our primary season.
Will they really vote for Hillary? I don’t think so, but they might stay home.
Yes they will vote for hillary.
Apparently the neocons mostly squirm for lyoung dark haired women.
Well no one much self identifies as a neocon. But those in favor of neocon like principles on the R side will mostly vote for the R nominee even if it’s Trump. There was a poll the other day showing most Kasich supporters’ second choice was Trump and most Cruz supporters’ second choice was Trump.
So the neocons will support Drumpf.
The R ones. And the D ones will vote for Hillary. With slight variation at the margins and a lot of hand wringing, nose holding and bloviating.
Yes they will vote for Hillary. She is a neocon to the core. The neocons and banksters are terrified of anyone who threatens to take control of our foreign policy away from AIPAC and Israel’s Likud Party or will crack down on the Wall Street grifters.
They’ll carry on about how they are going to vote for Hillary, but in the secrecy of the voting booth, they will trumple.
Hillary is a neocon.
“Neocon” doesn’t know party distinction, which is crucial to understanding who they are.
They most definitely are imperialists, but what the editor doesn’t realize is that imperialism can be foreign or domestic. (Imperialism isn’t defined as a geographic construct).
A neocon can be a domestic imperialist in that they are interested in dictating societal rules and norms to their own citizenry.
Obama is a neocon. A domestic imperialist. Using executive privilege is a maneuver used by a domestic imperialist. Obama is neutralizing the interests of the citizenry. Your voice, your sovereignty is being rendered meaningless.
Well said. It’s here that the neocons and neolibs meet in unholy union:
(from nakedcapitalism)
[Neoliberals] are constructivists, redefining and building a strong state to institute and maintain the kinds of markets they think will not come about on their own[2]. For the [neoliberal thought] collective, the most propitious time to make such bold interventions is during a crisis, when they are mobilized to define ‘exceptions’[3] to previous rules.
Law is subordinate to expediency, foreign and domestic.
neo-con belongs to the GOP.
If you think Obama is too tough on crime or bombs weddings too much or spends too much on the military, make up a new name.
O is a fiscal conservative compared to the GOP. He has cut the deficit and with a do nothing congress.
The Financial Times of London
US Election 2016
March 24, 2016 3:57 pm
Trump and Cruz would ramp up public spending
Barney Jopson in Washington
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) talks with rival Ted Cruz during a commercial break in the midst of the Republican U.S. presidential candidates debate sponsored by CNN at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida March 10, 2016.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
©Reuters
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are touting policies that would boost public spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, even as they vow on the campaign trail to slash the size of government, according to new estimates.
The candidates vying to carry the presidential flag for Republicans — traditional champions of fiscal conservatism — would increase spending by even more than Hillary Clinton, said the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an independent group.
“It’s a bit of a shocker. In this election there are a lot of shocking things,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB. “We are talking about an expansion of government by this amount at a time when public debt is already so high.”
Mr Trump and Mr Cruz have both lauded President Ronald Reagan, a hero of fiscal conservatives, even though the mythology of his time in the White House tends to gloss over the fact he presided over a near tripling of the national debt.
Mr Cruz would be the biggest spender. But Mr Trump would not be far behind, with both men devoting a lot more to interest payments because they would have to raise borrowing to pay for swingeing tax cuts, the CRFB said.
Over 10 years Mr Cruz, a conservative Texas senator, would boost spending by 6 per cent to an average of $5.4tn a year — equal to 23.4 per cent of gross domestic product — from $5.1tn under current law.
But last year, when he introduced a plan to abolish multiple government departments, he said: “We should shrink the size and power of the federal government by every and any means possible.”
Mr Trump, a New York property mogul, would raise spending by 3-4 per cent to an average of $5.3tn per year.
On the campaign trail, however, he stresses his desire to save money. “If you look at every single agency, we can cut it down, and I mean really cut it down and save. The waste, fraud and abuse is massive,” he said in a March debate.
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O is a fiscal conservative compared to the GOP. He has cut the deficit and with a do nothing congress.
There’s no limit to your idiocy.
There’s no limit to your ad hominem attacks in the absence of any factual evidence to support your opinions.
Excellent post.
Article I posted yesterday reports that the F-35 program is projected to ultimately cost $1.12 trillion.
That’s alot of Shekels to “secure the realm” LOLZ.
“secure the realm”
I thought that was a cliche… wrong!
“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
+1 Ben except that Trump has said many times he wants to expand the US military and is pretty casual in discussing the use of nuclear weapons….
Its the beginning of the end of the GOP that we see today IMO…My concern is how much violence will we see when the they realize they have become irrelevant…The country is in no worse shape than it was with Bush or Clinton — there will always be something to worry about, regardless of who is president. The country is just fine, the GOP is not. The GOP created this mess — their rhetoric has been hateful and divisive for years but it has become so obvious since Obama was elected. The GOP has been talking about us vs them on the economy, race, religion, lifestyle and safety for more than a decade, but it took a terrible, racist tone after 2008 which only served to deepen the divide. They wanted to divide, they wanted people to blame Obama, they keep telling people they are worse off; they manipulated people who long for Ozzie and Harriet. Now they are stuck with all these angry people who they cannot control. The only reason the GOP is in disaster recovery mode is because their plan has backfired, they created Trump and lost control.
Comment by nhtransplant
2016-03-25 11:11:01
Protecting your borders is not racist.
Red Herring….Whats happening right now within the GOP has little to do with the borders dude…Like I said before, is the manifest of what was started on November 2nd, 2000….
in no worse shape than it was with Bush or Clinton
Must be blind. 9 trillions in debt vs 19. It’s just a chump change.
their rhetoric has been hateful and divisive for years but it has become so obvious since Obama was elected.
Trying to play the race card?
Now they are stuck with all these angry people who they cannot control.
Like the SJW, BLM? Who are more angrier?
The GOP has been talking about us vs them on the economy, race, religion, lifestyle and safety for more than a decade, but it took a terrible, racist tone after 2008 which only served to deepen the divide.
Yes you di it! The race card. Do dems don’t play the same game?
they manipulated people who long for Ozzie and Harriet.
How do you know?
1. May be they are just tired of wars; iraq, afghani, syria, libya, yemeni..droning of innocents, hilary’s taking 300 large for speeches to banks.
2. May be they are tired of Bernake/Yellen money printing which benefits people like at the expense of the masses.
3. MAy be they are tired of bad economic policies which you support.
4. How the F do you get in a high horse and call anybody mad/angry is racist and $shit?
GOP should be dead. The stupid party must die.
Next step the evil party….that will be tougher as long as they have idiots like you.
I don’t think he meant SJW…. But FAOM.
Trump says he wants a strong military not necessarily an expanded military. He speaks at length on withdrawing from places like Korea and Japan unless we are compensated for the protection we provide.
Somewhat rational, isn’t it?
He’s the only candidate to say that and everybody screams Trump is an idiot.
Amerikka…what a Venezuela!
” unless we are compensated for the protection we provide”
This could prove quite profitable. Go in to some place, destroy the government and civil structure, then charge them for protection from the forces of chaos we’ve unleashed.
It’s called a Godfather Protection Racket. The Mob is very well versed in this approach.
Who from the list below has destroyed governments and civil structures?
A. Bush
B. Clinton
C. Obama
D. Trump
Why the silence about Trump’s mob connection?
It will feature in summer. Although it’s kind of sad that pro is grasping into straws. I bet if anyone dare ask why the media was mostly silent about Obama’s connection to terrorists like Ayers, he would label them as ray-cis or some $hit.
“…withdrawing from places like Korea and Japan unless we are compensated for the protection we provide.”
FWIW, these guys buy our t-bills… or else!
Good point. I guess US government is already a mafia and Trump’s not even there yet.
LOL jokes write themselves.
We’ve got our armed forces in dozens of countries. Most of them probably don’t buy many t-bills.
funny Ive been saying that for years, they can pay for their own protection,
Trump is a mixture of Neoconservative and Progressive. It is so plain to see. You guys are blind by his captivating bullying.
I’m under no illusions when it comes to Trump. But it’s a simple choice: Trump or Goldman Sachs. And a vote for Trump is a middle finger to the establishment GOP. Marc Faber said it best: a vote for Hillary is a vote for the status quo, but Trump with either be very good or very bad. But at least he won’t be as ghastly as Hillary.
This is now known as the Mormon Dilemma, Trump or Hillary?
That’s it.
I personally know Mormons who are voting both ways, in each case to keep the other candidate out of the WH.
know Mormons who are voting both ways
Are they into bisexual porn as well?
True to form, Trumpling…
Utah is #1 in online porn subscriptions. You gotta to wonder why? If Romney or Dingy Harry is the best you can produce, I would be viewing porn all day/night.
And more. As long as Trump serves as big FU to the establishment, I would still say job done.
Trump is a mixture ??
A toxic mixture….
Religious zealots have a way of systematically turning a blind eye to their Leader’s flaws and attacking anyone who dares point them out. It’s really no different than the psychology of the Housing Bubble or the fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
Leftist academics have a way of rationalizing away their support for evil and corruption.
Since I am not a leftist academic, that comment is off target, though it is perfectly consistent with 99 percent of the bullshit you spew here on a daily basis.
You have “professor” in your name and you hew to the collectivist party dogma. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…are you not a professor? Then you are an imposter, which is just as odious.
Also he’s happy to bully Christians, conservatives, and people without college degrees in favor of jihadi terrorist and folks on the dole.
“…collectivist party dogma.”
You, sir, have a very active imagination. I hew to no dogma.
You can tell a tree by its fruits, “professor.”
Posting informative and factual news articles in the hopes of shaking Trumplings out of their mental torpor does not make me a leftist or a Hillary supporter.
SOMEONE”S OPINION IS NOT FACTUAL
I know.
That’s why I post articles from respected sources instead of spewing unlimited volumes of opinion-based propaganda like you do.
I don’t cut and paste, you do. You cut and paste people’s opinions as facts. Respected by who, BTW?
I don’t respect them.
You most certainly do spew dogma, PB.
It reminds me of the time that I was listening to NPR and they did an internal survey of their employees which showed that a majority of them considered themselves to be conservative.
I almost drove off the road laughing.
Which candidate is not a neocon?
Which candidate is not a neocon ??
Kasich kinda and definitely Bernie…
I meant which candidate with a chance to win in November…
Trump definitely is not a neocon. Trump is a Trumpicon…hard to say which one is worse atm.
The narratives around Trump don’t seem consistent. Isn’t “the establishment” made up of neocons? But wait, aren’t those voting for him anti-establishment? But wait again…I thought those who were voting for him were crusty old Muslim-hating white dudes who presumably support neocons wars.
Just who is voting for him? All of the above?
+1 Sleepless. The brainless Trump worshippers won’t comment on your pointing out their endorsement of bashing Muslims, as they ar neocons.
Anyone who points out that Trumplings are brain-dead zombies exposes themselves to attacks by brain-dead zombies.
No implications. Really I just want to see the cross-section of his voters.
Donald Trump is our next US President. Get over it and get on with your life.
Your buoyant optimism seems unfounded, given that the IEM futures prices show diminishing prospects of a Republican general election win with every increase in the likelihood that Trump will be the nominee. (Note the data are recent, covering the span from January 2016 to the present.)
You have be honest and admit that it’s quite early to be so optimistic.
Irrelevant.
No optimism. I called the 2008 and 2012 election before the primaries started.
I too am happy that Trump is destroying the GOP. The stopped being conservative with Reagan. Nothing but mistakes.
My guess is Calif820 is Prof’s other gimmick account. Any thought on this Macbeth?
Some great comments there too!
“Second, a robust military, per Irving Kristol’s thinking, guarantees that the United States will always be ready, willing, and available to protect Israel, an imperative derived from the perception that both the U.S. and Israel are morally exceptional states.”
Didn’t Clinton and Trump both recently voice high profile endorsements of this approach?
Decrying “American Exceptionalism” is akin to saying there is no God - and equally accurate,
I have not even heard the suggestion that UN authority be required before engaging in military action. Bush 41 had it in the first Iraq invasion.
Debunking the idea of American Exceptionalism would go a long way to straightening out US foreign policy.
Few Examples of American Exceptionalism. There are more of course.
1. First and only country to use nuclear weapon on civilians.
2. Only country to invade & occupy sovereign countries in last 2 years.
3. Part of the cabal that displayed millions of Syrians/Libyans/Yemeni & started the same $hit in Ukraine.
4. Daily dronings of moms, children and innocents.
last 2 = last 20
4. Daily dronings of moms, children and innocents.
Drumpf wants to kill the families of terrorists, increase our use of torture and state surveillance, bomb the sh!t out of the Middle East, and somehow take their oil to pay for it.
Isn’t that even worse?
Isn’t that even worse?
Why is it worse? We already torture and drones have a habit of killing everyone around when it explodes. Many times they are families.
So at the very least, Drumpf will be just as bad as Hellary. But one candidate is evil and the other your favorite.
So clearly, all this bombing and torture stuff isn’t really all that important to you.
Trump is not my favorite. He’s just the enemy of my enemy.
ll this bombing and torture stuff isn’t really all that important to you.
I bet it was so important to you, you voted Obama twice and will vote Hilary in November, right?
You are a fookin Joke!
You are a fookin Joke!
You’re a hypocrite who makes a big show of piously opposing war and torture only when it suits your politics.
Turns out the holier-than-thou stuff was just a pose all along. Just another way to demonize your opposition.
Turns out the holier-than-thou stuff was just a pose all along. Just another way to demonize your opposition.
And yours not?
I do care about peace, liberty and prosperity for all…even for the brown muslims around the world. And at the same time I am thoroughly convinced that as long as the empire is intact, Amerikka, regardless of who wins the elections, is a problem not a solution. That’s why I don’t participate in your so called voting….I root for Trump mainly because it will be a big FU to the people who run the empire and also with the hope that he will bring in the collapse sooner.
And yours not?
I do care about peace, liberty and prosperity for all…even for the brown muslims around the world.
But you’ll accept bombing and torture as long as it brings down the empire.
So how are you any different than the neocons, who will accept bombing and torture as long as it prolongs the empire?
But you’ll accept bombing and torture as long as it brings down the empire.
Ha ha cute.
Just remember Trump has only talked nonsense but hasn’t killed anyone unlike Obama/Hillary. The choice is obvious if you love peace and despise warmongers. Innocents until proven guilty or some $hit like that?
‘So how are you any different than the neocons’
I want to get rid of the empire and they don’t. Without the empire, there would have been and will be far fewer terrorists to torture in the first place. Without regime change, the same. Not using jihadist to create regime change has also turned into a downward spiraling, violence creating cluster-thingy. Getting out of the empire/police the world/regime change business gives us a chance to pull the plug on the whole thing. Maybe the only way out. Announcing that NATO is obsolete is probably the most far reaching policy move a candidate could make.
I’m really curious about this cry baby, bathwater slapping stuff some are doing about Trump. What if you are wrong? What if this is the first maybe only chance to get these neocon scum off our throats? What if you are fighting the one opportunity for the general public to throw off the empire? What if you are wrong?
Oh, and act like adults. There are a lot of issues here. Here’s one; which candidate has said we are living in a big fat bubble and artificially low interest rates are a big part of it?
“Just remember Trump has only talked nonsense but hasn’t killed anyone unlike Obama/Hillary.”
Small hands or steady hands…it will be up to U.S. voters to decide.
Trump refuses to rule out using nuclear weapons against ISIS and says ‘we need unpredictability’ in fight against terror group
By Chris Pleasance For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:27 EST, 24 March 2016 | Updated: 07:26 EST, 25 March 2016
Donald Trump has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons against ISIS following the terror attack in Brussels that claimed 34 lives.
Defending the comments in an interview with Bloomberg, Trump said he didn’t want to talk at length because ‘the enemy is watching’, adding ‘at a minimum, I want them to think maybe we would.’
The remark is likely to provide fuel to Clinton’s campaign as she has referred to the need for ’steady hands’ in combating terrorism - implying that The Donald cannot be trusted with weapons such as America’s nuclear arsenal.
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“What if you are wrong?”
I have the same question for the religious zealots who daily pimp for Trump here. What if he really means to implement all the horrible policies he regularly proposes in knee-jerk reaction to whatever appeared in yesterday’s news headlines?
What if you are wrong? What if this is the first maybe only chance to get these neocon scum off our throats?
I get the same chance ( I think better), without the threat of more torture and war, with Bernie.
I don’t support the idea of a strongman who will advance my interests. My interest is in there being no strongman.
‘I have the same question’
No, I asked what if YOU are wrong? I didn’t ask you to deflect it at someone else. What if you are wrong and we don’t get another chance to dump the neocons and their humanitarian intervention bedfellows? Is the US going to lurch through Iraq/Libya/Syria style regime changes with the attendant jihadist blow-back for decades? Hasn’t this approach already failed with terrible consequences for hundreds of thousands of dead people and millions of lives ruined? This isn’t ancient history: it is ongoing as we type.
I don’t see Trump as a superior alternative to Cruz or Clinton.
And I have no reason to believe that he won’t be bought by the Neocons or Goldman Sachs if elected; in fact, as the author of The Art of the Deal, it seems highly likely that he WILL be bought.
It’s as simple as that.
It’s as simple as that.
Then why the f*ck all the histrionics against Trump? We all know he will be just like the others.
“We all know he will be just like the others.”
There is a significant chance that he would be far worse.
‘We all know’
Does wall street want to see NAFTA end? Does wall street want to see tariffs on China and Mexico, an end to enourmous military programs based on pork barrel politics? It’s not as simple as that. What you are engaging in is cynicism. We can all curl up and say things will never change, we’re doomed to be ruled by these people. It takes courage to throw the bastards out. Many will be afraid. Millions have said enough is enough.
Bernie offers the same deal with less risk. That’s the art of the deal.
I respect your positivism, Ben. As far as I am concerned, I just don’t see anything good coming out of the Amerikan political system.
How about running the neocons off? It’s 9/10ths done.
Bernie offers the same deal with less risk.
This dude couldn’t even challenge thuggery from BLM. Sent supporters to incite violence in Trump’s rally. He turned me off with that and the thing is I consider myself a BLM supporter.
And there’s one more thing. Since I have money and properties to protect, Bernie is probably going to hate me.
Aww, is Bernie picking on Trumpsie-wumpsie?
But then not having his bodyguards surround him at the first sign of trouble, like Drumpfy-wumpfy does?
“As far as I am concerned, I just don’t see anything good coming out of the Amerikan political system.”
We finally can agree on something!
This dude couldn’t even challenge thuggery from BLM. Sent supporters to incite violence in Trump’s rally.
I read that Trump changed his position. He now claims that it was Hillary who sent people to break up his rally in Chicago. It’s unclear which BLM thuggery you’re talking about that you think Sanders should have challenged.
t’s unclear which BLM thuggery you’re talking about that you think Sanders should have challenged.
Check twitter feeds, there were quite a few people affiliated with Bernie campaign gloating that day.
Trump is a quick study. I think once he gets into office, he will be asute enough to realize that a lot of his shoot-from-the-hip posturing needs to go out the window in light of the cold hard reality of his office and the limits on his executive powers.
He hasn’t learned yet in 8 or 9 months…what makes you think he will learn later?
In case you hadn’t learned from recent history, candidates say one thing on the campaign trail and do something very different once in office. Look at the latest exemplar, Mr. Hope ‘n Change, who campaigned as a progressive but once in office became Bush Lite. Trump is saavy enough to realize that having the actual responsibility of running the country will of necessity means he needs to temper his rhetoric and moderate some of his more outlandish positions.
Or you could just vote for Hillary and watch while she takes unfettered neoliberal looting and asset-stripping of the 99% to a whole new level, while redoubling Obama’s executive power grabs and Constitution-trampling.
Active imagination at work again, Ray?
another ProHillary comment from ProHillary Bear. I may have a new name tomorrow.
Have you ever heard of Ron Paul?
I supported Ron Paul to the max in 2008 and wrote in his name in 2012. But the establishment GOP rigged the game to ensure he didn’t get a fair shot, and 95% of the dolts called the ‘Murican electorate bent over meekly for the banksters and neocons by voting for Obama, McCain, and Romney. In case you hadn’t noticed, Bill, Ron Paul is not on the ballet, and Rand went nowhere due to his propensity for selling out. So now we are left with a simple choice: The Donald, warts and all, or Gold Sachs. Or abstaining, which makes you irrelevant. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to give the finger to the corrupt, clueless Establishment, and I’m not going to pass it up.
“Ron Paul is not on the ballet”
I would hope not. That’s something you just can’t unsee!
Here you go. Ron Paul wrote this and George H is the villain who started this 26 years of war.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/march/14/a-green-light-for-the-american-empire/
Donald Trump would not dare agree. He reserves the right to act worse than George H Bush.
Ensconced safely in an upper middle class high income community far away from the poor Browns and the section 8 ghettos protected by the Ray cops you despise. Quite the voluntaryist.
Precisely. Pontificating to the Great Unwashed about the moral superiority of an ideology that will continue to wander in the desert of American politics. Declining to vote for Trump is a de facto vote for Goldman Sachs and the neocons. Isn’t it time to dump the crony capitalist status quo?
LyingTed blames me for so many things I am starting to think he is having a mental health crisis.
What is Professor Bore’s other screen name?
South Carolina Dave?
I always thought it was Santa Clara although there’s at least one other no geographic option that comes to mind.
Must be both. Don’t know for sure. I divide my time between SoCal and midwest as well.
Hillary Supporter?
Is there an award for the most annoying screen names or most answers to your own posts? Because you would win both hands down.
Have to agree with you there. Answering your own posts is kinda gauche.
It’s the only option if everyone else ignores them. And if you use ten or more screen names, perhaps nobody will notice.
The only name I am using above or at all today is this one. The rest is your paranoid fantasy.
Talking to yourself is a sign of serious mental issues. Seek help at once!
Only used one name today at all. So funny, your paranoia. Whoever those others are, they must be getting as huge a kick out of your paranoid rabid dogspitting as I do.
Definitely he’s having a crisis of some sort.
“…Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him,”
What does that even mean?
It means Goldman Sach’s Trojan Horse is unraveling.
Sheesh. That had to be the most squirm-worthy, uncomfortable statement by a politician, ever. They don’t call him Creepy Cruz for nuthin’.
At least he said “copulate.” To avoid offending his shut-in supporters who send half their social security checks to charlatans like television evangelists or Ted Cruz.
Looks like there are three more women coming down the pike for Ted Cruz.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3413953/posts
I’m tellin’ ya, all this BS about Congressional gridlock is a steamin’ pile. No wonder these folks miss votes and such. They’re too busy doing the hokey-pokey in broom closets and stairwells, they see more ass than the restroom toilets after mealtime at Chipotle.
Color me surprised. I figured Ted Cruz would sleep alone in a women’s prison.
The canadian longs for sexy time with Trump?
Are Canadians attracted to men with small hands?
“What does that even mean?”
LOL…….. Reminds me of one of my favorite lines from SNL.
“I put on my pants just like everyone else, but when my pants are on, I make Gold Records.”……..
“……what does that mean????
The answer: More Cow bell.
Speaking of mental health issues, how many screen names are you using these days? I’ve given up trying to keep track.
Only one friend, only one. I doubt u can say the same.
Drudge Report has ten links at top left about ISIS to rally the base.
And under that an article linked about the racist apartheid state of Israel:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/how-islamic-jihad-hacked-israel-s-drones.html
No “smaller government” or “less regulations” or “lower taxes” happening here.
And yet he is ignoring The Thing, which is the Cruz story that has been around for months, peddled by Rubio’s people, but now somehow being blamed on Trump. I think he doesn’t want to waste the eyeballs over Easter weekend and will hit it Monday AM.
Huffington Post article reports that it’s considered bad etiquette to check your phone while having sex:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_56f55278e4b0143a9b47fe65
So, if your “lady” does that, then you know you’re a Beta Bucks.
Is that why the beta boys rage against the Don here?
Article linked from Google News reports first confirmed case of sexually transmitted Zika virus in California:
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/zika-transmission-through-sexual-contact-reported-in-california-46240/
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/24/camille_paglia_this_is_why_trumps_winning_and_why_i_wont_vote_for_hillary/
Trump may be raw, crude and uninformed, but he’s also smart, intuitive and a quick study who will presumably get up to passable speed as he assembles a brain trust over the coming months. Whether Trump can temper his shoot-from-the-hip impetuosity is another matter. There is a huge gap between the teeth-gnashing fulminations of the anti-Trump mainstream media and the perfectly reasonable Trump supporters whom I hear calling into radio talk shows. The machinations of the old-guard GOP establishment to thwart Trump voters and subvert the primary process are an absolute disgrace. But it’s business as usual for tone-deaf party leaders who, barely more than a day after the discovery of Antonin Scalia’s corpse last month, stupidly proclaimed there would be no hearings for an Obama nominee to the Supreme Court.
Republicans need to wake up and realize that Trump’s triumph is not due to some drunken delusion by a benighted rabble but is a direct result of the proven weakness of their other candidates. Ted Cruz, the last one still standing, is bombastic, sanctimonious and coldly sharkish behind that forced smile. Is Cruz a truly convincing model of Christian values of charity, compassion and humility? Jimmy Carter did it way better than this. Cruz seems consumed by a vainglorious conviction of his own destiny, tied to an apocalyptic view of history. He reminds me of glad-handing televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, who were loved and trusted by so many but whose careers ended in disgrace.
The humiliating wholesale rejection of cash-glutted Jeb Bush, dynastic crown prince, should have clued the GOP moguls into how out of touch they are with primary voters this year. Jeb’s first mistake (perhaps due to his wife’s dislike of the public eye) was not to run for president soon after serving as Florida governor, when he still had his chops. His second mistake was to loaf on the sidelines and play no role whatever in public debates over pressing national issues. By the time he returned to the scene, he was both uncertain and irrelevant. Then someone foolishly prodded him to lose weight, which reduced his gravitas along with the flab by now highlighting his bland, snub-nosed baby face.
Heidi Cruz, director for Goldman Sachs, former CFR member, and Bush operative, directly belies Cruz’s so-faux “conservatism.” Trump’s rather hot spokeswoman totally “spilled the beans” on Heidi on Friday.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-25/trump-spokeswoman-spills-beans-heidi-cruz-media-goes-crazy-over-cruzsexscandal
She’s not hot.
Consult the other patrons at the gay bar for a second opinion. To a red-blooded hetero, she’s definitely doable.
No you need your eyes checked.
I will put the matter before that most esteemed body of judges, the HBB posters. At least those of a hetero pursusaion with normal to above normal testosterone levels (apologies to our resident progressives). What say you, brethren?
I’d tap that.
I’d tap that.
You’d tap the flint water, too.
Brother Goon has spoken. The defense rests.
Brother goon - another man who needs corrective lenses.
Her hotness has been upheld by our expert witness. This courtroom is adjourned.
Goon was probably under the influence, too.
Under the influence of her hotness? Undoubtedly.
To a red-blooded hetero, she’s definitely doable.
Nope. She’s so post wall that she left a Wiley E. Coyote outline in it.
Here’s a man with fine taste. Cheers!
Heidi Cruz, director for Goldman Sachs, former CFR member, and Bush operative, directly belies Cruz’s so-faux “conservatism.”
I’m no fan of Senator Cruz, but it’s possible that he has political positions that differ his wife’s.
Sure, it’s possible. It just seems more likely that like another Goldman Sachs hireling who campaigned as a progressive, then governed as Bush Lite, Ted Cruz is yet another Goldman Sachs Trojan Horse masquerading as a conservative while mentally figuring out how he’s going to spend his thirty pieces of silver from the Establishment once he gets into office.
They’ve called themselves “the first Bush marriage” because they met working together on the Bush campaign.
How can people vote for anyone associated with W regime?
{smh}
Millions of stupid people voted for “Shrub” and then re-elected him despite his epic incompetence. What does that say about our electorate?
You can say the exact same thing about those who voted for “I’m going to close down Guantanamo Bay” and “You didn’t build that” Obummer, twice, as well.
American Exceptionalism:
Healthcare is About To Surpass Housing As The Biggest Source Of American “Growth”
What was most troubling in yesterday’s GDP report is that the second highest spending category making up the GDP calculation, Healthcare at $1.9 trillion, has been soaring in recent years, more than offsetting the housing weakness, and as the chart below shows, the US economy is within 2-3 quarters of the moment when outlays on healthcare (and Obamacare) will surpass spending on Housing.
The more we “grow” the deeper in the hole the 99% seems to be.
A Modern Miracle: Using prices to measure the growth of GDP.
Such a miracle doesn’t require an increase in output, it only requires an increase in prices.
No, the standard measure is adjusted for inflation.
LOL
Since I have trouble understanding stupid, amoral people, maybe some of our resident HBB progressives can help me out. How is it that Chealsea Clinton, scion of the most spectacularly corrupt power couple in American politics, can blithely throw Obama under the bus for Obamacare - and deservedly so - yet ignore her mother’s extensive involvement in socialized medicine and the intrusion of Big Government into every aspect of private citizen’s personal spheres? (Spoiler alert: Democrats will rationalize their support for corruption the same way they always do: by pointing out “their” sleazy candidate is less disreputable than the GOP alternative. Overlooking the fact that the GOP base just refused en masse to support the Establishment GOP’s annointed choices, Jeb and Marco, because we found them repellant, even if Hillary is far worse).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/25/daily-202-chelsea-clinton-goes-into-hostile-territory-college-towns-to-help-her-mom/56f40d59981b92a22dae36e2/
They tend to say the craziest things when reading from teleprompters. And they say Trump is an idiot. LOL
Understanding is easy. When you as a Demo party member are in power or running for a power position you have the national press running your defense. Most Dem’s take their marching orders from the leftist liberal press in spite of what they personally observe.
Hmmmm
Is that why toadfellow, professor, mightymouse, califoho, etc. copy and paste anti Trump articles constantly?
Thanks Ron for making it clear.
Thanks for making your multiple personality disorder clear for all who read here,
Yuuge in Burma
GD Lipschitz
Meltdown
Canklepants
TenFeetHigh
Jane
Fake “Donald Trump”
Anklepants
Albuquerque Dan
Did I forget any of your schizoid family members?
Are those the different voices in your head?
5 of those in that list are mine or my brothers names.
Ahhahahahahahhahahahaahha his paranoia has driven him crazy. I’ll say again, only one name today, one, uno.
I can imagine him scrolling through previous days and weeks for other names mad as a hornet and on the verge of a stroke.
mine or my brothers names.
You guys all still living at home with mom? How’s her meatloaf?
Who gets the top bunk?
We live in your empty skull AnklePants….. rent free.
You’re confusing the monkeys with the organ grinder. Our captured politicians and presstitutes have the same master: the Oligopoly.
In totalitarian China, brave citizen bloggers speak truth to power and suffer the consequences when power strikes back. In ‘Murica, an Oligopoly-controlled media renders the sheeple even more stupid, while Constitution-trampling necons and corporate statists strip away more of our liberties every year. What a contrast - the Founding Fathers would be mortified at what has become of the Republic they left us and the craven cowardice, stupidity, and docility of 95% of the population.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-26/china-disappears-dozen-people-plotting-coup-theres-no-excuse-taking-away-my-parents-
In totalitarian China, brave citizen bloggers speak truth to power and suffer the consequences when power strikes back.
“Believe me, if I become president, oh, do they have problems,” Trump said of the media. “They’re going to have such problems…With me, they’re not protected”
Business Insider
I personally loath most leftists, though I read and respect non-Oligopoly media outlets like The Nation. But I would defend and support any journalist who speaks truth to power, wherever they are on the ideological spectrum.
I would defend and support any journalist who speaks truth to power
But you’ll vote for the guy who says he’ll do the opposite.
He’s just following your path.
If he goes after the Oligopoly-controlled media on their lies and propaganda, all power to him.
It seems like Trumplings are missing the big picture, which is that a Republican primary vote for their Dear Leader is a vote for Hillary to win the White House come November.
https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres16_WTA.cfm
Born to be sheared.
Doesn’t matter. Overthrowing the corrupt, entrenched, clueless Establishment GOP moguls is Job One. By the time Hillary is through running the country into the ground, even the dullest of the sheeple will finally be animated to fight over long-overdue reform in the Party of Evil, just as the Republican base is withdrawing its consent from the Party of Stupid.
March Madness:
Based on March prices, the Iowa Electronic Markets Winner Takes All Presidential Elections Futures predict the biggest margin of victory (roughly 70:30 odds in favor) for the Democratic candidate over the past several elections. In fact, I don’t believe there has ever been this large of a persistent gap in the history of the IEM so early in an election year to favor one party’s victory.
For comparison:
2012 US Presidential Election Winner Takes All Market
2008 US Presidential Election Winner Takes All Market
2004 US Presidential Election Winner Takes All Market
2000 US Presidential Election Winner Takes All Market
Your comparison graphs show how irrelevant this is this far out.
Your myriad insipid Trumpling pimp posts daily under more than ten different screen names bely your own desperation.
Look how far Carter was ahead of Reagan in March. Means zip.
http://i.imgur.com/dEcdTaL.png
How many Shekels? Twenty Shekels per day:
http://imgur.com/Owe60Xr
Region VIII
Dear ‘Men’ Who Vote Bernie Sanders: You’re not Men at All..
Courtney Kirchoff Tuesday March 15 2016
You, the Bernie Sanders supporter, a male seeking hand-outs, lacks personal respect. You’re less like a man and more like a spineless amoeba. You’ve fallen for the party line that “life isn’t fair.” You believe Obama and Sanders who say the “deck is stacked against you.” Where a real man would heartily declare “Challenge accepted,” while forging a path to victory, you hang your head and skulk. You hashtag. You complain. You are a male with no belief in yourself. You’re no a man at all.
Read more: http://louderwithcrowder.com/dear-men-who-vote-bernie-sanders-youre-wimpy-and-gross/#ixzz441TZKbrA
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I wanna scream, I want you all to know
I would be wokin’ but the pays too low
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the Slacker Pneumonia And The Bernie Sanders Flu
Rockin’ Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJ78hYI6wk - 288k -
Phony here’s some LOLZ:
http://imgur.com/uTD9pli
That would make a Great album cover!
The System should be grateful its efforts to dumb down the masses have succeeded so brilliantly. Otherwise that special snowflake and her equally screwed-over peers might be frog-marching some bankster to a lamppost.
After you’ve spent forty years working in the private sector, you find out that statements like this are bullshit.
The only guy talking about modifying the current vampire squid paradigm is Sanders.
Donald Trump is a bullshit artist. Exhibit “A”? The “border wall” that Mexico is supposedly going to build. Why build a wall, when all you need to do is enforce current laws, and ignore the lobbyists when they want more H-1Bs?
Talk is cheap. Actions after the election are what counts. So you have to believe that the guy has a semi realistic plan, and the will to attempt to implement it.
If you guys think Trump is going to do anything other than what his cronies on Wall Street tell him, you are going to be deeply disappointed.
If you guys think Trump is going to do anything other than what his cronies on Wall Street tell him
He’ll bring in new cronies! Hope and change.
If you guys think Trump is going to do anything other than what his cronies on Wall Street tell him, you are going to be deeply disappointed.
Exactemudno! That’s why I don’t get all the histrionics against Trump. Trump will be another Bushobamallary.
“Why build a wall, when all you need to do is enforce current laws,”
Is Bernie going to do that?
Bernie Sanders promises halt to deportations, faster citizenship for illegal immigrants
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Monday, November 9, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Bernard Sanders said Monday he would grant a blanket deportation amnesty to most illegal immigrants and welcome a new surge of illegal immigrants from Central America as he accused Republicans of “racism” for demanding stiffer immigration enforcement.
Speaking to immigration activists in Nevada, Mr. Sanders, the son of immigrants, said illegal immigrants should get quick citizenship, and it shouldn’t be dependent on whether the border is secured first, and he demanded Congress pass a more generous bill than the 2013 immigration measure that cleared the Senate.
“The bottom line is that we cannot, and we should not, sweep up millions of men, women and children — many of whom have been here for years — and throw them out of the country,” he said in remarks prepared for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement summit. “We need a path to citizenship to bring 11 million people out of the shadows.
Mr. Sanders lashed out at existing immigration policy, saying it discriminates against women who accompany their husbands to the U.S. by denying them a chance to work as well.
And the Vermont senator said he would allow even illegal immigrants who have been deported but sneak back into the U.S. to get on track for citizenship under his plans.
Smart man Bernie. Why would he deport his future voters?
The “weakness” in Europe is that its citizens don’t love their countries, national cultures, or heritage enough to stand up for them. Instead, they voted for globalists and bankster adjuncts in the Establishment parties (sound familiar?) who were willing accomplices for the Oligopoly’s “fundamental transformation.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-europe-must-hunker-down-to-long-term-terror-threat-experts-2016-3
The “weakness” in Europe is that its citizens don’t love their countries, national cultures, or heritage enough to stand up for them.
But they sure are quick to tell us how superior European culture is. I wonder why they can’t be bothered to protect it …
Duh! What am I thinking? That’s OUR job!
Rampant corruption in high places that goes unpunished due to the likes of Eric Holder and Lorretta Lynch in the Justice Department, and is sanctioned by votes of tens of millions of ‘Muricans, tends to breed corruption elsewhere in the system, even in the senior officer ranks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12204859/PICIANDPUBTop-US-navy-officer-jailed-in-massive-bribery-scandal.html
What is the political calculus behind a candidate alienating half of the electorate with a steady barrage of offensively misogynistic statements?
Hillary Clinton is married to a rapist LOLZ.
Got Jeffrey Epstein?
Firing back twice as hard when someone attacks your wife is misogynistic? Thanks Hillary. Go vote for Obama again.
Why are you still talking about Romney?
Mormon teachings relegate women to a decidedly inferior domain.
It shows a lack of class and character on the part of the candidate, I’ll grant you that.
This was perfect (bird that landed on Sanders’ podium). What a contrast this affable, genuine guy is to Her Essence of Snake Oil, our own Lady MacBeth, Hillary Clinton.
https://www.rt.com/usa/337313-birdiesanders-crowd-goes-wild/
Democrats See Gains as Donald Trump Targets a Wife
Senator Ted Cruz may have urged Donald J. Trump to leave his wife, Heidi, “the hell alone,” but there is one group that is quietly hoping Mr. Trump’s attacks on his rival’s spouse and other women will continue indefinitely: Democrats.
As Hillary Clinton turns her attention to a general election campaign, Mr. Trump’s nasty skirmish with Mr. Cruz, including his warning to “spill the beans” about Mrs. Cruz, without offering specifics, and his reposting of a message that mocked her looks, have played into a crucial Democratic strategy to defeat Mr. Trump in November: to portray him as an unabashed sexist.
Mrs. Clinton’s allies hope to sway suburban and independent women, who will play an outsize role in deciding the fall election, to support her candidacy by pushing this theme. These Democrats say the matchup would be historic: one pitting the first female nominee of a major political party against a rival who has repeatedly dismissed and disparaged women and their looks.
“I want Donald Trump to talk every single day for the rest of this election,” said Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. “He just needs to keep spewing what he has been spewing.”
Although Mrs. Clinton will present herself as a protector of women, the political strategy is more about math than morality.
Mr. Trump has shown a particular weakness among female voters, who favored Mrs. Clinton 55 percent to 35 percent in a New York Times/CBS News poll released this week, twice the gender gap of the 2012 presidential election, when President Obama defeated Mitt Romney. And 31 percent of Republican women said they would be upset if Mr. Trump were the party’s nominee, according to the most recent CNN/ORC poll.
“Suburban women have been a critical swing group in the past, and there’s a lot about Donald Trump that is offensive to them,” said Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who served as a chief strategist to Mrs. Clinton in 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/us/politics/donald-trump.html
And no mention about Lying Ted started the $shitstorm by using Trump’s wife in the first place. You and your lame propaganda, mighty mouse.
If you know anything about Amerikkan women, most will vote (aka have sex with) a alpha dog than a lame shrew.
The article about the Democrats and how their looking forward to competing against Trump. Cruz is not mentioned because the Democrats that they won’t be running against him.
Also, if you bothered to read about this just little, it wasn’t an independent PAC, not the Cruz campaign, that ran the ad with a photograph of Trump’s wife.
Independent PAC that hopes to help Cruz, right? Are you a lwayer by trade? This kind of lying and obfuscation is only possible in only one profession.
You’re missing the point. Trump lied when he blamed Cruz for using Melania Trump in an anti-Trump ad. You went along with the lie, possibly because you follow your leader wherever he goes.
You went along with the lie, possibly because you follow your leader wherever he goes.
The biggest lie here is that PACs are independent of the political campaigns. It’s like saying Federal reserve is an independent organization without government influence.
How long will you continue to believe these lies?
It’s quite possible that many of these candidates and supposedly independent PACs break the law by coordinating their efforts, but there’s no proof that that happened with this particular PAC and Cruz.
happened with this particular PAC and Cruz.
This will come out 2 years later when it won’t matter at all. It happens all the time. Jesus, are you guys this clueless or just plain insane?
You admit that there’s no proof, but you somehow know how that it will come out in two years. You have complete confidence in that prediction. You think that anyone who disagrees with it is insane.
In other words, facts and logic just don’t matter to you.
Didn’t the ad call for a vote for Cruz at the end? Yes, no proof at all there? Cui Bono, Cui Boner, Cui Bonehead.
I don’t know, but it’s not relevant. It’s not proof of anything.
Irrelevant..
You lie. Cruz had nothing to do with the piece on Trump’s wife (no pun intended).
Says who? Lyin Ted?
Try to keep up with the news, dude!
Politics
Creator of Anti-Trump Ad Featuring Melania Goes on Twitter Tirade Against the Billionaire
Mar. 24, 2016 7:48pm
Oliver Darcy
The Republican strategist behind the anti-Donald Trump ad featuring the billionaire’s wife Melania posing nude for a magazine turned to Twitter Thursday evening to rant against the billionaire.
Liz Mair, who operates the anti-Trump Make America Awesome super PAC, ignited controversy when she targeted Utah Mormon voters with a web ad featuring a naked Melania Trump handcuffed to a bed. The photo was snapped as part of a special for GQ Magazine.
Despite the ad being created by Mair who operates an anti-Trump super PAC (the group is not pro-Ted Cruz, simply anti-Trump), Trump accused the Texas senator of being behind the ad. The billionaire warned Cruz to “be careful” or he would “spill the beans” on his wife. On Wednesday night, Trump posted an unflattering image of Heidi Cruz.
Mair turned to Twitter Thursday evening to knock Trump and address controversy over the ad.
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A libertarian Republican and Arsenal FC fan, Liz served as Online Communications Director at the Republican National Committee during 2008, where she led an aggressive and groundbreaking online media outreach effort aimed at electing John McCain, Sarah Palin and Republicans across the country. During the 2010 cycle, she advised Carly Fiorina on online communications. She also consulted for Gov. Rick Perry during his presidential run.
Only good thing about her is she’s an Arsenal FC supporter. Everything else on her resume is garbage. Does anyone with right mind trust people like Liz?
“Make America Awesome” is one of many oligarch-funded PACs trying to derail The Donald at all costs. They may not align themselves with Cruz, but they are all on the same team working for the same thing: continued Oligopoly control of the levers of power.
“Make America Awesome” versus “Make America Great Again” versus “We’ve Got to Take This Country Back”. What will the genius RNC campaign consultants come up with next?
What will the genius RNC campaign consultants come up with next?
Hope and change? Let’s be honest it didn’t work out so good.
Trump could borrow a page from O’s playbook with just a little creative editing:
“Hype and chains”
These women will have to live with the consequences of their vote. Reason and accountability, as Jack Nicholson proclaimed so famously in “As Good as It Gets,” are absent in this particular demographic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmFMFzXN0js
While we’re being sexist, this makes me think of something I saw on reddit today… “Telling a woman to calm down is like baptizing a cat.”
Ha ha!
you are a sexist, misogynist pig.
“…misogynist…”
I accidentally taught you a big word. My bad.
I accidentally taught you a big word. My bad.
Even as a professor, you are a joke. All professors I have known took a pride in teaching people. Sad pathetic life.
“Telling a woman to calm down is like baptizing a cat.”
Men are not any different.
Finally a topic you’re familiar with Rusty.
Finally a topic you’re familiar with Rusty.
LOL HA
Ted and Heidi Cruz: Patriots or wolves in sheeps’ clothing?
http://thedailycoin.org/?p=23356
Jim and Tammy Fay all over again.
It is truly ridiculous that people who are on welfare even get to vote, much less that their vote counts as much as someone who is working and paying taxes.
The collectivists have no shot at imposing their permanent Democrat supermajority without creating and enabling ever-expanding dependency classes.
Trump gave them this as a gift. With the GOP in fragments, the dems are going to steamroll them for a decade.
Trump gave them this as a gift.
If you are any brighter, you would have understood by now that Trump is the symptom not the cause. The seeds were firmly planted during Reagan’s raj….some might even argue long before that.
Nonetheless, he is the one that wrapped it all up with a big, bright bow.
that wrapped it all up with a big, bright bow
Nah. Bush/Cheney/McConnel/Bohner/Ryan/Cruz/Romney/Rubio/Firorina/Neocons/Right leaning think tanks/……they all wrapped it long ago.
Cloward Piven is real.
Should people on social security be allowed to vote?
Stumped ‘em!
Ive been out and took me a while to scroll back down here. Yes, people who have worked and paid into social security for their lives should get to vote. Anyone who proves they are a worker with a substantial body of work or is employed in a job that they’ve held for more than 6 months. No one who is having their bills paid by the government though. And if you get laid off you got 6 months grace.
Be a bum on yer own nickel (and your parents don’t count).
Social Security is not welfare.
So it’s deserved? Shouldn’t be taken away?
You keep your filthy socialist hands off their social security!
Any amount of social security over what you paid in, adjusted for some small interest/growth payment, is welfare.
+1.
Given how so many insist that if you could invest your SS contributions that you would have more set aside for retirement, the claim that SS is welfare seems a bit weak.
What is weak here is your magic money tree. It’s rotting from the inside out.
And now, a word about housing.
http://www.businessinsider.com/kb-homes-cfo-perfectly-summed-up-new-housing-crisis-2016-3
Bullish!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-26/chairman-insolvent-chinese-steel-company-hangs-himself-day-bond-maturity
Oh I wish Amerikkan banksters, politicians, lawyers had a itty bitty dignity like the Chinese.
The chinese may be sparing themselves a worse fate at the hands of their victims.
Which candidate can’t stop talking about the size of his hands?
Which insipid, tedious poster can’t stop obsessing about The Donald?
Obsession will go away when the Don better start collecting rents for living in their skulls.
You have to admit that Trump really does have short, stubby fingers. Not to suggest that correlates with the size of any of his other body parts (e.g. brain)…
You are unbelievably jealous of his billions
I’d rather be poor than have “small hands.”
Poor can be fixed, but “small hands” are for life!
’d rather be poor than have “small hands.”
Sadly for you, you are poor and have small hands. No wonder the jealousy.
All misogynists have “small hands”. That’s how it works.
Trump is the perfect example of an insecure misogynist with “short fingers.” Yuuuge in Burma is another one.
Donald Trump’s Achilles’ heel: ‘Short fingers’
Talking about short fingers only diminishes your argument. He’s got short fingers:
Perfect. LOL
I’ll bookmark that post so I can reference it when the Trumplings are sobbing in their beer over the November election outcome.
I’m curious where you found The Donald’s baby picture?
I’m curious where you found The Donald’s baby picture?
Inside your skull.
^
Your writing is incoherent.
Your thought process is incoherent.
I’m not the one who makes 100 insipid Trump pimp posts daily.
That would be you, your friend Yuuuuge in Burma and her ten lovely sisters.
None of whom are me, by the way.
You can’t hide stupid. No matter how many screen names you post under, it comes through loud and clear.
Just one friend, just one.
Post Politics
Donald Trump: ‘My hands are normal hands’
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa March 21
Donald Trump
(EPA/GARY CORONADO/POOL)
Fifty-two minutes into Donald Trump’s discussion of weighty issues with The Washington Post’s editorial board came an interlude about his hands.
“Normal,” the Republican presidential front-runner insisted. “Strong.” “Good size.” “Great.” “Fine.” “Slightly large, actually.”
Trump was asked whether he regretted talking about the size of his hands — and making an unmistakable allusion to his genitalia — at a recent debate.
The billionaire mogul blamed the episode on Marco Rubio, whose campaign was struggling at the time, and said the Florida senator was reviving a criticism leveled at him over the years by Graydon Carter, a New York society figure and editor of Vanity Fair. (”Short-fingered vulgarian,” is how Carter has often referred to Trump.)
[Size really matters to Donald Trump -- on everything]
On the stump in late February, Rubio mocked Trump for his “small hands.”
“You know what they say about men with small hands,” Rubio told a crowd in Salem, Va., pausing to let the audience laugh. “You can’t trust ‘em.”
At a March 3 debate, Trump said Rubio “referred to my hands, if they are small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there is no problem. I guarantee.”
Meeting with The Post’s editorial board, Trump said, “I had no choice” but to respond to Rubio’s derision.
[Are Donald Trump's fingers weirdly short? An investigation.]
“My hands are normal hands,” he said. Recounting the feedback he was getting in the aftermath of Rubio’s jibe, Trump said, “I was on line shaking hands with supporters and one of the supporters said, ‘Mr. Trump, you have strong hands, you have good size hands.’ And then another one would say, ‘Oh, you have great hands, Mr. Trump. I had no idea.’”
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Another crash indicator.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/03/25/world-trade-collapses-in-unit-prices-languishes-in-volume/
What does Trump have against women? Does it relate to feelings of inadequacy over his small hands?
It’s hard to find a woman that doesn’t titter at one’s attenuated special purpose.
News
Donald Trump will probably win his war on women
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
Picture: AP
By Tim Stanley
11:40AM GMT 25 Mar 2016
Every time Trump says something chauvinist, it merely affirms that he’s “real”. Moderate Republicans still haven’t found the words to stop him
Never wrestle with a pig, you get covered in mud – as the Republicans left tussling with Donald Trump can testify. The latest spat between Trump and Ted Cruz, the only candidate with a chance of beating The Donald with votes rather than backdoor shenanigans, involves both men’s wives. And it’s a reminder of why the pig always comes out on top.
It all started when an anti-Trump group released an ad before the Utah caucus attacking Melania Trump, reminding us – if we needed it – that the glamour puss once posed nude on a fur rug (and what animal wouldn’t be glad to die for that honour?). The ad was falsely attributed to Cruz. Trump went on the counter-attack, threatening to “spill the beans on your wife!” Then he shared an online meme comparing an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz to Melania. It seems that Heidi has suffered from depression. Which is really none of anyone’s business.
It’s hard to speak of the US campaign hitting a “new low”: it’s hit so many of those that the next caucus will be held in the centre of the Earth – where internet rumours say the dinosaurs roam and Hitler is preparing a comeback. We all know that The Donald is a bad man. Another anti-Trump PAC has been running an ad that features women quoting the many things that he’s said about people of their gender: “Bimbo! Dog! Fat pig!” It didn’t stop him winning the Arizona primary and it probably won’t dent his effort to be the nominee.
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Trump is an old school Alpha. A surprising number of people like this.
Beta males worship alphas. It’s a phenomena as old as the order of primates.
And are jealous. The behavior you exhibit everyday.
Talking to yourself again, I see…
It’s a phenomena as old as the order of primates.
If you get in with the right alpha, he’ll let you wear his letterman jacket every once in a while!
Especially Amerikkan women.
This is how silly it has gotten.
David Duke says nice things about Trump. The whole world goes mad. Trump has to apologize for it even though I doubt Trump even knows who David Duke is.
Anti Trump PAC (wink-wink Cruz’s campaign fully knows) features a naked Trump wife on a political ad. Trump posts pictures ofhis wife and Ted’s wife. And it’s Trump who has to apologize again, not Ted. WTF is wrong with this picture? Everything except Malenia(?).
This is how silly it has gotten.
Drumpf wouldn’t come out against Duke because they share the same base, if you want some truth-tellin’.
Not sure there are that many KKK supporters who’s going to vote for a NY liberal whose daughter is married to an orthodox jew.
2 groups always play up the KKK influence - KKK themselves, and the left.
David Duke did, in fact, say nice things about Donald Trump. He was willing to overlook the son-in-law. So it’s quite possible that Trump will get a lot of KKK votes. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Trump is a member.
Let’s be real here.
How many KKK votes are out there?
How many KKK votes are out there?
Apparently enough that Drumpf was worried about offending them.
A few hundred, including law enforcement plants? Sometimes I think some of the more looney-tunes white supremacist groups are secretly being funded by the Oligopoly so they can be conjured up as a convenient bugbear.
“How many KKK votes are out there?”
You have no idea.
“Trump has to apologize for it even though I doubt Trump even knows who David Duke is.”
You really should post less and try to keep up on the news.
You need to follow your own advice.
I post links to informative news articles from trusted sources here regularly for your reading benefit. And I see you learned a big word from reading some of them — misogynist. Good job!
When it all came up a few weeks ago, there was something in the news that said that Trump denounced Duke over something 10 or 20 years ago.
10 or 20? Can you be more specific.
I can’t remember the details, but the details are unimportant. He knew who Duke was some time in the past. When Duke praised him a few weeks ago and reporters gave him an opportunity to repudiate that praise, he hesitated for a few days. It’s unclear what his motivation was. It’s possible that he doesn’t what the real journalists telling him what to do.
Trump knew exactly who Duke was, unless he’s suffering from dementia.
The apple normally doesn’t fall very far from the tree.
John Legend brands Donald Trump ‘racist’ in spat with billionaire’s son
BY Meera Jagannathan
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Saturday, March 12, 2016, 12:09 PM
John Legend Sets The Record Straight With Donald Trump Jr. On Twitter
Singer John Legend branded Donald Trump “racist” in a heated online spat with the bellicose buffoon’s eldest son Friday, citing the GOP front-runner’s racially charged rhetoric and hate group endorsements.
The clash began after 38-year-old Donald Trump Jr., a loyal stumper for his divisive dad, ridiculed the droves of protesters who prompted Trump to cancel a Chicago rally.
QUIZ: WHO SAID IT: TRUMP, HITLER, MUSSOLINI OR STALIN?
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Anyone who screams racist, hitler, musssolini, etc. first I know they have lost the argument.
And there you go again, screaming them first.
I have no idea whether I am responding to the correct post, about Duke amnesia on the part of Mr. Trump.
I took a new yob three years ago. I got a new phone with a blank contacts list. My contact list max is 700 entries (I dunno if that’s good or bad - it was a free phone, I’ll take it).
On Friday I hit the wall on contacts number. I began methodically deleting, one by one. I did business, worked on design teams, worked proposals, etc. etc. with all of these people - enough so that I had to be able to identify whoever it was who was calling me at 8 PM or on a weekend. In other words, these were not anonymous folk.
I scrolled from “A” to “L” on my contacts list and deleted 250 names (I figured I’d start at “M” next year same time and do the same thing). I had ABSOLUTELY no recollection of the names, or the contexts in which I’d saved them.
Now it is true that I’d been somewhat maxed out over at least two of those three years, what with the new yob and finishing the grad degree in engineering. In my case, being on information overload wipes out my short term memory. The “new” new info wipes out yesterday’s relatively new info. I believe it takes three days and repetition to consolidate short term memory into long term memory.
I’d be willing to say that anybody with substantial interests (such as a world leader, megachurch minister, or old fashioned tycoon) has more of a daily info overload than I do, particularly if they are in the public eye, and shake a lot of hands.
The fact that Mr. Trump (or ANYBODY under those circumstances) cannot recall a name from ten years ago is no surprise to me. From ten years ago, I can’t even remember the name of my first boss when I came to DC Metro as an economic refugee. That name was VERY important to me at the time: I was an economic refugee from the Northeast, and I was Hugely. Motivated. To. Keep. That. Job. - For technical experience and income continuity.
I don’t believe that anybody who knows me, or has ever worked with me, would attribute my name retention failures to mental incapacity, or to disingenuousness. I therefore extend the benefit of the doubt to anybody else who is in an extended period of information overload.
A number of historians regard fascism either as a revolutionary centrist doctrine, as a doctrine that mixes philosophies of the left and the right, or as both those things.
wikipedia
“There’s a fire pit for evening campfires or making SMORES!”
http://maine.craigslist.org/reb/5470085925.html
Jeez, that looks like a pretty sweet place. Would be interesting to know just how overpriced it is.
About $160k higher than typical.
Faux News hotties make great eye candy, but are as vapid as they come.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/fox-anchor-leaves-co-hosts-dumbstruck-we-can-all-relate-to-surviving-concentration-camps/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im
As opposed to blech news coldies (coughRachelMaddowcough) on MSNBC.
‘Better Ted Than Dead’: Bill Maher says Ted Cruz is less awful than Donald Trump
By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times - Saturday, March 26, 2016
Bill Maher ended his talk show Friday night by settling the debate over which Republican presidential candidate is less awful, saying he would rather see Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in the White House than businessman Donald Trump.
The “Real Time” host said it was a hard choice between two candidates who were like Mussolini and Joe McCarthy, but said in the end that Mr. Cruz might be our worst president, but Mr. Trump might be our last, Mediaite reported.
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What a lucky election season it is when the choice among candidates comes down to picking the least awful one.
Maher would much rather have the D opponent be Cruz. He’s unelectable also.
Exactly what I said watching Real Time last nite.
I am a fiscal conservative with no club.
Thanks for the comedy relief. Get lost now.
One likes Jerry Browns high speed rail boondoggle. Very fiscally conservative.
“I am a
fiscal conservativeDebtDonkey withno clubMT pockets.”Fixt for you.
Liars club is missing its president.
no debts, spend wisely, no bail outs = Fiscal Conservative.
fixt
“No
debtscash,spend wiselynothing to spend, no way to bail out=Fiscal ConservativeDebtDonkey.Why are the Republicans lining up to back Trump’s nomination, given that Hillary Clinton appears set to trounce him in November?
Even Barak Obama and Bill Clinton are not going to vote for Hillary. Get real, pro.
I know my data are biased, cause I live in California, but I know a lot more people who say they will vote for Clinton to keep Trump out of the White House than the opposite.
I think there was a reporter in 70’s who was surprised to see nixon won because she had never known a person who voted for nixon.
I frequent santa monica a lot and that’s all i hear all the time. live in bubble, die in a bubble. sad pathetic way to live.
A lot of people probably quite enjoy their lives there. The big problem is it’s so expensive to live there.
Pauline Kael, the New Yorker Magazine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael
And the quote is supposedly falsely attributed:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/10/The-Fraudulent-Factoid-That-Refuses-to-Die
Republican party leaders must be freaking out over these current poll results!
CNN/ORC poll: Clinton tops Trump on presidential traits
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director
Updated 4:57 PM ET, Fri March 25, 2016
Washington (CNN)If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the respective front-runners in the race for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president, wind up leading their respective parties into the general, voters nationwide think Clinton would most likely win in the November election, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.
The poll also finds Clinton would start the general election contest with an edge over Trump on several potential presidential qualifications, with the former secretary of state widely seen as better able to handle the responsibilities of being commander in chief, more in touch with the middle class and more often aligned with Americans’ views on important issues.
Overall, 56% say they think Clinton would win a match-up between the two leading candidates in November while 42% say Trump would take it. Democratic voters are more convinced that Clinton would win (87% say she would) than Republicans are about Trump (75% say he would win), and Republican voters who aren’t currently backing Trump are particularly skeptical of his chances. Among that group, 40% say Clinton would win, 57% Trump, vs. 92% of Trump supporters who think he would win in November.
An earlier release from the same survey found Clinton ahead of Trump in a hypothetical general election match-up, 53% to 41% among registered voters.
The new poll also asked which of the two candidates was better described by a range of potential presidential attributes. On those, 55% say Clinton would make a better commander in chief vs. 36% for Trump, and 51% see Clinton as more in touch with middle-class problems vs. 36% for Trump.
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The origin and history of the Shekel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel
And because the old one wasn’t good enough, the new Shekel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_shekel
Opinion
Why Oil Prices Will Take Another Tumble
SERGEI KARPUKHIN
By Anthony Mirhaydari
March 25, 2016
Powered by Newsmax.
The stock market rally since the Feb. 11 low has been predicated on two things. The first was the persistent hope of an OPEC/Russia deal to freeze crude oil supplies. The second was the even more persistent hope that the Federal Reserve isn’t really serious about its claimed desire to normalize monetary policy with a series of regular interest rate hikes.
Crude oil led the way higher, surging more than 63 percent off of the intra-day low of $26.05 into a high of $42.29 set last week. Whenever the energy bulls lost enthusiasm, a random OPEC oil minster or political leader would drop a few choice comments, like on Feb. 25 when Qatar’s energy minister, Mohammed Saleh Al Sada, said an output freeze could send prices back above the $50-a-barrel threshold within a year.
That’s all under threat now as investors start to doubt the veracity of these two catalysts. On Wednesday, crude oil futures flashed a sell signal — based on a technical indicator called the parabolic stop-and-reverse — for the first time since early February as prices fell below the $40 threshold. Further declines look likely.
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There are two types of people in this world. Which one will you be? A loser like them or a winner like me?
Who are they?
I’m looking forward to seeing you lose in November so that your Trumplings will cease and desist. It’s too bad it will come at the price of four more years of the Clintons, but that’s the deal you made and America will have to live with it.
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Ted “Elmer Gantry” Cruz may have a prostitution scandal on his hands….
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-26/anonymous-threatens-expose-ted-cruz-prostitution-scandal
There must be a lot of first-time voters in the Democrat primaries, because a surprisingly high number (for Democrats) are rejecting the corruption and crony capitalism embodied by Hillary.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/26/horse-race-livewire-dems-caucus-in-alaska-washington-hawaii/
Hillary is so unlikeable, who actually wants to vote for this monster?
Stupid, amoral people, with whom ‘Murica is well stocked.
The Bill in LA® way to help starve the State. Paying 48% lower taxes for the 2015 year than the 2014 year!
Downsizing from two roofs over my head and traveling to one roof over my head, and switching to sack lunches and Charles Shaw wines is paying off.
So far no need to sell any stock funds this year. Next year my taxes will be even lower.
Starve the beast and smash the state.
That’s how it’s done, son.
“Starve the Beast.”
I believed George W Bush when he said that back in ‘01
From Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
‘The tax cuts and deficit spending of former US President George W. Bush’s administration were attempts to “starve the beast.” Bush said in 2001 “so we have the tax relief plan [...] that now provides a new kind—a fiscal straightjacket [sic] for Congress. And that’s good for the taxpayers, and it’s incredibly positive news if you’re worried about a federal government that has been growing at a dramatic pace over the past eight years and it has been”‘
So then his wars cost $trillions and he added the “Prescription Medicine benefit” of $0.5 trillion after his re-election.
Only individuals acting massively will starve the beast.
AFAIK the state collects more taxes every year in aggregate. It doesn’t sound like it’s starving at all to me.
San Francisco Mayor Bans Government Travel to North Carolina
North Carolina passed legislation this week voiding ordinance that would have allowed transgender people to legally use restrooms aligned with their gender identity
WITN - March 26, 2016
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has banned city workers from non-essential travel to North Carolina after that state approved legislation preventing anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
Lee said in a statement Friday that residents in the city with a large gay and lesbian population “will not subsidize legally sanctioned discrimination.” He says the new law turns back the clock on civil rights protections.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McGrory signed legislation this week voiding a Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed transgender people to legally use restrooms aligned with their gender identity. The ordinance also would have provided wide protections against discrimination in public accommodations.
The law prevents cities and counties from passing anti-discrimination rules and imposes a statewide standard that leaves out protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
… much to the relief of city workers.
Non essential travel? How is that defined? Shouldn’t non essential travel on the taxpayer’s dime anywhere be banned?
To other firearm fans whereever you may be. The Supreme Court just confirmed the 2A applies to all bearable arms, not just those at the time the constitution was written. The states that ban certain arms now don’t have a case.
It’s a beautiful day. Go to choich and talk to your sky wizard.
http://www.ammoland.com/2016/03/supreme-court-confirms-second-amendment-applies-bearable-arms-common-use/#comment-1958409
The decision finally recognizing it as a personal right and not a collective right was a 5 to 4 decision and one of those 5 is now dead. The next president will name the replacement, but you won’t vote!
Well my primary line is our rights do not come from government. My right to life is a natural right. I don’t need a government to guide me in what I do or not. But all the same, it’s nice the thugs are imposing limits on themselves and the states.
You mean mother nature grants you rights? Now that’s a kneeslapper! The law of the jungle grants you squat.
What constitutes a bearable arm? A suitcase nuke? Suicide vest?
In this modern age, is anything less than a suitcase nuke meaningful?
Happy Easter Lawrence Yun!
What is so special about Payson, AZ ?
I don’t know. It can be hot in Payson in the summer, though it is in forested countryside. Prescott is cooler in the summer. Prescott is a nice sized town large enough to have a Costco and chain dining restaurants.
Did you say free?
Bernie’s Free Sh#t Army marched in Connecticut yesterday toddlers be damned.
Parents turn Easter egg hunt at Pez into ‘mess’
Posted: Mar 26, 2016 3:45 PM EST
The free event drew hundreds of people, but it quickly got out of hand, according to parents.
“Unfortunately people chose to enter the first field prior to anyone from Pez staff starting the activity. The crowd moved to the second field, waited for only a couple of minutes and proceeded to rush the field without being directed to do so and before the posted start time,” Pez officials said in a statement on Saturday.
Read more: http://www.wfsb.com/story/31572301/parents-turn-easter-egg-hunt-at-pez-into-mess#ixzz447tmWUo9
Marauding parents in Easter Egg hunt rampage: Out-of-control adults push children to the ground, steal their buckets and leave one four-year-old ‘bloody’ at chaotic free event
By Mia De Graaf For Dailymail.com
Published: 07:14 EST, 27 March 2016
An Easter egg hunt descended into chaos on Saturday after parents in Orange, Connecticut, stormed the field.
Children as young as four were trampled by adults in a rampage to steal buckets and grab as many of the 9,000 hidden eggs as possible from the third annual free event at the PEZ headquarters.
One four-year-old son was left ‘bloody’ on the sports field and a two-year-old girl was shoved into the mud, witnesses claimed.
A horrified parent described the scene as ‘an angry mob of chaos’ with ‘not one toddler hunting for eggs’ among the crowds of adults.
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I think we’re way past due for a decimating plague.
https://winamainehouse.com/
“Explain in 300 words or less why winning our home would help you live out your “Maine Objective” and you just might win a house!”
My Mane Objective is to avoid crushing housing losses so It would help me avoid crushing housing losses.
Thank you for your consideration
phony scandals
The great media and establishment uncloaking is taking place right before our eyes.
Thanks Mr. Trump