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Four Things We Learned From Trump's Visit to the Hill
Post Date: 2016-05-12 23:53:09 by Gatlin
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Donald Trump's whirlwind series of meetings Thursday on Capitol Hill with top GOP officials, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, didn't result in a complete healing in the rift between the presumptive nominee and some GOP leaders. Yet both sides hailed the trip as productive. The meetings were closed to the media, but here are four things we learned from the reactions to the high-profile visit: […]
Presidential Elections: The Business Of Illusion
Post Date: 2016-05-12 10:50:56 by Deckard
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It never ceases to amaze that in this nation of approximately 315 million people, these are the best candidates we can field for the office of President of the United States. Observe the prior and current field, and your “front four” for the Democrat and Republican Parties. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump. Keeping this in mind, it is the business of elections, rather than a process of elections. The election itself is a sham: it provides the illusion of choice, when it is the ones who pull the strings behind the scenes that select their “president” long before any of the uncomprehending public pulls a lever. Controlled ...
‘A World Where Gay Married Couples Can Defend Their Marijuana Fields With Fully Automatic Machine Guns’: Libertarian Candidate Austin Petersen Speaks to Breitbart News
Post Date: 2016-05-12 07:32:05 by cranky
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Austin Petersen once collected me in his Ford pickup, wearing a t-shirt, khaki shorts, and a baseball cap. We stopped off at a convenience store in the Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia, where he bought a packet of Turkish Gold blend Camels, and proceeded to tell me why I needed to advocate for gun ownership in my home country, England.I was in a blue suit, with a blue shirt, a red tie, and a white pocket square. I can’t forget it, because the British press won’t let me. That day Petersen and I took a picture that would be used to label me a “right-wing extremist” in Britain: awkwardly holding a pistol (with its shipping material still around it). How the tables have ...
Glenn Beck: Trump will beat Clinton, become president
Post Date: 2016-05-11 22:08:53 by Gatlin
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Glenn Beck is predicting Donald Trump will beat Hillary Clinton to become the next president. “Here’s my prediction, and I stand by it: Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States,” Beck said Wednesday on his radio show, according to a transcript on his website. "And I don’t think there’s any way around it. I believe Donald Trump will beat Hillary Clinton. ADVERTISEMENT “And here’s why: Hillary Clinton is such a flawed candidate. I’ve said this for a long time. My shoe would beat Hillary Clinton, right? Anything — a rock would beat Hillary Clinton.” Beck said Trump’s celebrity would attract enough ...
Kentucky Congressman on Trump: Republicans Want to Spend More, House of Cards, and the plot to kick out Boehner
Post Date: 2016-05-11 16:04:09 by Hondo68
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Rep. Thomas Massie: 'Republicans Want to Spend More Money Just as Much as Democrats Do.'The Kentucky Congressman on Trump: House of Cards, and the plot to kick out Boehner. "Everyone tries to label me in Congress and they have a hard time doing it," Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said in his recent speech at Reason Weekend 2016. An electric-car-driving Republican, this "crunchy con" even lives off the grid with the help of solar panels. "Some people say 'libertarian,' I like 'constitutional conservative'...some say 'Tea Party'—the names just keep getting worse from there." Massie's favorite moniker: "That one ...
Hillary Clinton is unraveling quickly
Post Date: 2016-05-11 08:25:37 by cranky
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A liberal friend is very concerned about the Republican Party. He tells me that Donald Trump will make it impossible for anybody anywhere running under the “R” column to win election. Even a dogcatcher in Podunk is doomed! The New York Times shows a similar concern. Surely written with furrowed brow, its front page worries because “Sparring in GOP Rises” and because “Rift Grows Wide as Republicans Abandon Trump.” It joins two other concerned lefties, the Huffington Post and CNBC, in declaring that the GOP is “unraveling.” All stand ready to help sponsor a dignified funeral, but that won’t be necessary. Their reports of the Republican ...
Former Big Ron Paul Donor Now Trump Delegate In California
Post Date: 2016-05-10 22:23:53 by Gatlin
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Peter Thiel — a co-founder of Paypal, board member at Facebook and prominent promoter of the libertarianism — is now a supporter of Donald Trump. On Monday, Trump revealed his slate of delegates for California in district 12, which covers San Francisco. One of the delegates pledged to Trump is Peter Thiel. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is also a pledged delegate for Trump in his congressional district. Thiel in 2012 donated over $2.5 million to a Ron Paul Super PAC, he said at the time, “The campaign really is for 2016. He added, “I think we’re just trying to build a libertarian base for the next cycle.” And while he is supporting Trump now, in a 2014 ...
The bright spot for the GOP is the defeat of Ted Cruz
Post Date: 2016-05-10 14:55:30 by Willie Green
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Many on the left are running around social media proclaiming that if Donald Trump is not at least the reincarnation of Hitler, he must be possessed by his spirit. Trump bears no resemblance to Hitler but a lot of his followers sure are fond of the Fuhrer. Trump is not an ideologue. In fact, he is more buffoon than anything. He has more in common with a stand-up comic than he does with a dictator. He has no belief system, other than making money and self-promotion. He wings it most of the time, just blurting out whatever comes into his head at the moment with no plan, no script just a sort of word hemorrhage that could use a tourniquet. He is so absent a belief system that he actually runs ...
The GOP ruined conservatism long before Trump: Why they still don’t get it
Post Date: 2016-05-10 13:28:34 by Willie Green
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Trump's nomination means the Republican Party is already lost — and that descent started long ago The Republican Party has experienced a good deal of success in the last three decades or so. They’ve won elections, they’ve raised ungodly sums of money, they’ve subverted democracy via redistricting, and they’ve expertly dictated the political and cultural narratives. What they haven’t done is govern effectively or, more importantly, conservatively.This is true at both the national and state levels. Modern conservative mythology begins with Reagan, a man who tripled the federal budget deficit (which shot up to $3 trillion during his tenure) and raised taxes ...
Donald Trump Praises London's New Muslim Mayor
Post Date: 2016-05-09 21:07:39 by Deckard
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Donald J. Trump has attracted enormous attention for his proposal to temporarily bar Muslim from entering the United States. But on Monday he said he was “happy” that London had elected its first Muslim mayor and suggested that the new official would be among the exceptions to his proposal. “There will always be exceptions,” Mr. Trump said when asked in an interview on Monday how his proposed ban would affect London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan.“I was happy to see that,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Khan’s election. “I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job because frankly that would be very, very good.” Asked why, Mr. Trump ...
Could Ron Paul Be Donald Trump’s Secretary of State?
Post Date: 2016-05-07 21:32:21 by Gatlin
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An unexpected tweet from a conservative journalist got a lot of people talking about the possibility that Ron Paul might be part of Donald Trump’s cabinet. Out of nowhere, Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post mused about Libertarian Ron Paul joining Trump’s cabinet. Now Trump supporters are hoping this will happen, believing it could help his campaign. Here’s what you need to know. Seemingly quite randomly on Wednesday morning, Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post tweeted: Click here for the remainder of the story.
Jury convicts Ron Paul aide of campaign finance violations
Post Date: 2016-05-07 21:24:57 by Gatlin
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Three campaign advisers to 2012 presidential candidate Ron Paul were convicted Thursday in a federal case alleging they conspired to cover up the campaign's payments to a former Iowa state senator who had agreed to endorse their boss. Prosecutors said it is illegal to cause a campaign to file inaccurate spending documents. They've pursued charges since July 2015 when a grand jury first indicted the men. Paul's campaign chairman Jesse Benton, campaign manager John Tate and deputy manager Dimitri Kesari argued they broke no laws when they paid a video production company, which passed on $73,000 to former Sen. Kent Sorenson. He dropped support for in the ...
Hillary Clinton Shutdown at East LA College
Post Date: 2016-05-07 20:53:45 by Hondo68
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Published on May 6, 2016 On May 5th, 2016, we shut down a political rally with one essential message: #DropOutHillary! It took about one minute for Alex and I to shut down Hillary's speech to the overflow section and boy were these Clintonistas angry! And not just angry, they were violent! Grown men and old Womyn were shoving us, ripping away our phones and signs, threatening to hurt us, calling us names (of course I called them names back. Just wait till you see the full video). It was like a Trump rally except more liberal. We based our calls on Hillary to drop out on her policies and exploits against the people of Central and South America. Specifically her support for the ...
GOP Third Party Revolt Gets Serious As Romney Powwows With Kristol
Post Date: 2016-05-07 15:34:35 by Deckard
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As Donald Trump becomes the Republican party’s presumptive presidential nominee, many influential leaders in the party are dealing with the crisis of conservatism he represents. Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and key Neoconservative organizer, is now leading an effort to draft a third party candidate. The movement is apparently becoming serious, as Kristol just met with the last Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. The Washington Post reported on Friday that Kristol met with Romney in Washington D.C. to discuss the movement. Kristol discussed three things with Romney Though Kristol was coy about what he discussed with Romney, despite a fairly ...
Trump: ‘Looking At’ Minimum Wage, ‘I’m Very Different From Most Republicans’ [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-05-07 15:20:00 by ConservingFreedom
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that you can’t live on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25-an-hour and that he was “looking at that, because I’m very different from most Republicans. I mean, you have to have something that you can live on” during an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. Trump was asked, “Bernie Sanders says he wants $15-an-hour minimum wage, and he has really gone after you lately for saying you’re happy with $7.25, the current federal minimum wage. You can’t live on $7.25-an-hour.” He responded, “No, and I’m actually looking at that, because I’m ...
Exclusive: NeverTrump’s New Goal – Keep the GOP Conservative, Or No President Trump
Post Date: 2016-05-07 15:00:57 by cranky
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WASHINGTON—Some major conservative leaders have secured over $200 million to present Donald Trump with the choice of running on a conservative agenda or losing November’s election. Many thought the NeverTrump movement would dissolve following Trump’s win in Indiana, after which his only remaining rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, dropped out of the presidential race. Instead, while many anti-Trump leaders have resigned themselves to the billionaire’s nomination, others are pursuing an aggressive campaign which some of them think could deny both Trump and Hillary Clinton the White House. Ken Blackwell—a senior adviser to the Our Principles PAC who served thirty years ...
Trump Blasts Clinton Corruption, Disastrous Trade Policies That Left ‘Empty Factories’ and ‘Destroyed’ Wages
Post Date: 2016-05-07 07:17:36 by cranky
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Donald Trump looked ahead to his general-election contest against Hillary Clinton on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, beginning with a little dig at the supposedly inevitable Democrat candidate’s inability to put away her primary challenger. “I was a little bit surprised. Who would think – I mean, even if you went back two weeks ago – who would think that I’m now watching Hillary, who can’t lose her opponent?” he chortled. “It was supposed to be the other way around. She was going to watch me. In fact, I thought she was gonna have like a three-month jump on me, at least. And all of a sudden, I’m watching her, because she can’t ...
Trump Picks Former Goldman Partner And Soros Employee As Finance Chairman
Post Date: 2016-05-06 20:18:20 by Deckard
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In an oddly ironic twist, today Donald Trump announced that he has picked as chairman of his newly launched fundraising operation none other than a former employee of the bank he has repeatedly criticized in the past, and which he used as a foil to criticize Ted Cruz: Goldman Sachs. Trump announced that heading up his own personal fundraising operation as national finance chairman will be Steven Mnuchin, a long-time business associate, chairman and CEO of the hedge fund Dune Capital. More importantly, however, he spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs where he was most recently a Partner, having built a fortung of $46 million before launching his own hedge fund. While employed at Goldman, he ...
The #1 Thing Driving People To Polls? Their Hatred For Trump and Clinton
Post Date: 2016-05-06 20:08:33 by Deckard
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When you were in grade school, a teacher most likely told you that voting was an honorable and noble civic duty, and that your responsibility as a voter was to learn all you could about the candidates and choose the one that best suits your views. Well, that’s what a teacher was supposed to tell you, anyway. But in this year’s presidential race, most likely between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, that’s not even remotely what voters are motivated by. A new Reuters/ Ipsos poll released this week shows that an alarming number of Americans — roughly half — are voting on one issue over every other. It isn’t about foreign policy. It’s not about domestic ...
Trump Just Broke A Huge Campaign Promise That Propelled His Nomination Win
Post Date: 2016-05-06 18:54:54 by Deckard
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As Donald Trump segues from the nomination contest to the general election, he has to make some big decisions. How does he build on the momentum he created with pro-authoritarian voters to launch a national campaign that has a prayer of winning? Trump made very big promises to a voting bloc who are frustrated with lying politicians in Washington. So, naturally, one of the first things he is doing as a national politician is to break some of the biggest promises he made to his most ardent supporters. Trump Promised He Would Self-Fund His Campaign, But Now… During the primary race, Trump accused his Republican rivals of being “puppets” of the donors to their campaigns ...
Will a Trump presidency really change anything for the better? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-05-06 08:57:21 by Deckard
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I want to start this analysis by stating that I fully understand the whirlwind of public interest in Donald Trump’s campaign. However, for those that don’t get it, let me break it down for you.A considerable portion of the American population considers themselves “conservative.” More than 38 percent of U.S. citizens, according to Gallup, hold conservative political and social views. Only 24 percent of the public considers themselves “liberal.” Now, I realize that the term “conservative” means different things to different people, so I would apply a simple rule to categorize them — a conservative is easiest to identify by his or her distaste for ...
Play the Lottery, Vote, What's the Dif?
Post Date: 2016-05-06 07:12:05 by Deckard
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There’re three questions strangers pose to me that cause me to lose hope in the long-term viability of the human race. The first one is, “Did you watch (insert lame TV show or sports game/program here) on TV last night?!” The second is, “Hey, you gonna play the Powerball?! The lottery is up to ten million bucks!” And third and last is, “Who are you voting for?” Ok, in order: Television is the best circus to pacify and entertain the masses since the Roman Coliseum went Chapter 11. If anyone thinks the government isn’t telling you what they wish you to believe on that device, you are sadly mistaken. The lottery is a gambling game run by your state ...
Trump Fans Float Rand Paul As Their Top VP Pick
Post Date: 2016-05-06 06:11:05 by Hondo68
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Now that Donald Trump’s two main opponents are out of the way, the conversation is shifting to who his running mate will be. And, as ever, the good people of Reddit have it all figured out. Supporters of Donald Trump launched into a massive discussion on the Donald Trump subreddit, /r/the_donald, after Tuesday’s primary. And a Vocativ analysis of the over 4,300 comments reveals that Trump fans are most ready for joint ticket with Rand Paul. Users participating in the thread, which was tagged as a serious discussion, mentioned Rand Paul more than any other potential candidate, a total of 295 times. Users cited his ability to court the Libertarian electorate, and his foreign policy ...
Reince Priebus: Today Starts the GOP’s Unification Process
Post Date: 2016-05-04 20:03:57 by cranky
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video Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the “unification” process of the party was now underway. Priebus said, “[Trump] will be the presumptive nominee. You’re not the presumptive nominee until you hit 1237. That being the case, I’m just stating the obvious. So look, where it leads is it’s time to unite is what it leads to.” He continued, “Well, first of all, let me just remind everyone that’s what’s happening in the Republican party is pretty historic when you look at voter registration against the ...
President Donald Trump would name Rudy Giuliani secretary of Homeland Security
Post Date: 2016-05-04 19:31:33 by cranky
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With the Republican presidential nomination locked up, Donald Trump has already started cutting “secret deals” to surround himself with familiar faces, we’re told. And Confidenti@l has learned that one of those faces belongs to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. “A secret deal has been struck by Donald Trump, and Rudy Giuliani would be head of Homeland Security,” according to a GOP insider. There’s no doubt that Trump could use a secretary of Homeland Security who can at least tell a skyscraper from a Slurpee machine. A couple of weeks ago, while campaigning in Buffalo, the bloviating billionaire recalled watching rescue workers “down at 7/11” after the ...
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