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Latest Articles: politics and politicians
‘Vote for The Donald for President – of Venezuela’
Post Date: 2015-07-17 08:16:57 by Deckard
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Writes Scott Lazarowitz: Given that Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is an entrepreneur, one would think that he would support economic freedom and free markets. But no, instead he supports draconian bureaucratic intrusions, regulations and crippling taxes on Americans. Go figure. So besides being anti-immigration, Trump also supports trade wars with Mexico and China, and believes that the U.S. government should continue to impose restrictions on Americans’ freedom of trade with foreigners.Trump also supports, or says he supports, a very militaristic U.S. government foreign policy, including his support for torture.It’s yet another ...
Charlie Gasparino Calls Out Jeb! on Lehman Millions
Post Date: 2015-07-16 15:57:28 by lana
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Charlie Gasparino Calls Out Jeb! on Lehman Millions From Charlie Gasparino writing at The Daily Beast: Jeb Bush says he released 33 years of tax returns this week because he wants to be the most transparent candidate to run for president in 2016. But if that’s really the case, why is he continuing to obfuscate some of his most lucrative and potentially controversial business dealings he had before announcing his candidacy, like his work as an “adviser” for investment bank Lehman Brothers? So, if Jeb won’t tell you what Jeb exactly did while working on Wall Street, in the interests of transparency and disclosure, I will try. Not much is known about what Bush actually ...
McCain: Trump really fired up “the crazies” in Arizona with his immigration talk
Post Date: 2015-07-16 13:31:16 by Tooconservative
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If there are any votes left among tea-party border hawks that haven’t already migrated (temporarily) to Trump, this ought to shake them loose. To think, there are conservatives out there in America today who are convinced their party’s elder statesmen view them with contempt. “It’s very bad,” McCain, who was eager to talk about Trump, told me on Monday when I stopped by his Senate office. The Senator is up for reëlection in 2016 and he pays close attention to how the issue of immigration is playing in his state. He was particularly rankled by Trump’s rally. “This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said. ...
Rubio Doubles-Down on H-1B Increase Amid Microsoft Layoffs
Post Date: 2015-07-16 13:12:21 by lana
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Rubio Doubles-Down on H-1B Increase Amid Microsoft Layoffs Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 80% has doubled down in his efforts to push legislation that would triple the number of H-1B visa holders in the United States, even after Microsoft’s announcement last week that it will terminate another 7,800 U.S. workers in order to replace them with cheaper labor — this on top of the 18,000 it’s already laid off. Rubio’s I-Squared bill would effectively further the plight of American STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and IT workers. Computer World notes that during a speech in Chicago last week, Rubio emphasized the false narrative that a lack of ...
GOP Border Wars - Trump Slams Fmr Texas Gov Perry On Immigration
Post Date: 2015-07-16 11:27:54 by Tooconservative
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Poster Comment:I think Perry is loving getting attacked by Trump so he can showcase his own record. It is getting him more press attention than other GOP candidates right now because it involves Trump.
Trumpism: The Ideology
Post Date: 2015-07-16 09:55:01 by Deckard
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It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a criticism. I just heard Trump speak live. It was an awesome experience, like an interwar séance of once-powerful dictators who inspired multitudes, drove countries into the ground, and died grim deaths. His speech at FreedomFest lasted a full hour, and I consider myself fortunate for having heard it. It was a magnificent exposure to an ideology that is very much present in ...
Walker Derangement Syndrome Off to a Fast Start [prof tenure]
Post Date: 2015-07-16 08:38:08 by Tooconservative
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One of the many things I like about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is that he’s supremely annoyed the professoriate. First, Walker . . . didn’t finish college!! The horror! My goodness, that places him with such political dinosaurs as . . . Harry Truman. Actually, if you know the story, it’s even better that you think. Walker found his political science courses to be boring and irrelevant to the real world, which most of them are today, and decided he’d be better off without instruction in the trivial and stupid content of most university political science classes today. So he dropped out. Good for him. But that’s only the beginning of his awesomeness. Lately he ...
Is Trump Really In First Place? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-16 00:35:34 by Tooconservative
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The Republican National Committee and networks want to limit debates to the top ten presidential candidates, based on averaging polling results from five different national surveys. In a prior column, I explained how this approach is unfair because debate performance drives polls, not the other way around. Also, early national surveys are especially volatile and hardly predictive of finalists. Finally, equally averaging the apples and oranges of surveys with different size (and limited) samples, and quite varied and even dubious methodologies. produces strange vegetables indeed. And in another column, I dissected one much publicized and deeply flawed specific national survey – the ...
Donald Trump Claims $10 Billion Net Worth After Filing Election Forms
Post Date: 2015-07-15 19:28:09 by Gatlin
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Exposing How Donald Trump Really Made His Fortune: Inheritance from Dad and the Government's Protection Mostly Did the Trick [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-15 10:21:15 by sneakypete
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This excerpt from "The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed" tells the real story about how Trump got so obscenely rich. By Brian Miller, Mike Lapham / Berrett-Koehler Publishers July 9, 2012 Print 91 COMMENTS Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Brian Miller and Mike Lapham's book, The Self-Made Myth: The Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012). You can read AlterNet's Vision editor Sara Robinson's review of the book here. In March 2011 Forbes estimated Donald Trump's net worth to be $2.7 billion, with a $60 million ...
Jesse Ventura endorses Bernie Sanders, 'I'll help him anyway I can'
Post Date: 2015-07-14 18:59:58 by Hondo68
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Jesse Ventura is supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders for president.youtube.comWith over 20 candidates currently running for president, mostly Republicans, the variety of choices is larger than in previous years. Despite this, one name is seeing his momentum grow in a positive way. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination for president, and another Independent former governor is throwing support his way. When Jesse Ventura announced in 1998 that he was going to run as an Independent and challenge both the Republican and Democratic nominees for governor of Minnesota, most people shook their heads and laughed at the former pro wrestler, actor and Navy SEAL. By the ...
The Idiocracy Candidate - Donald TrumpÂ’s awful speech at Freedom Fest
Post Date: 2015-07-13 20:31:29 by Deckard
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Donald Trump saved the "libertarian" portion of his Saturday speech at the annual Freedom Fest in Las Vegas for the opening paragraph. "I happen to like Rand Paul, I really do," the billionaire television character generously revealed. Why, the two GOP presidential competitors have even played golf together! Thus the defining characteristics of Trump's disconnected series of campaign mouth-blurts were established early: casually narcissistic, content-free, non-humble-braggadocio. But at least unlike other portions of the speech, Trump's golf anecdote didn't involve just making shit up. Example: For entire minutes, in an address that rarely stayed on a single ...
Amazon: 'No evidence' of bulk sales for Ted Cruz book [NYSlimes lies exposed]
Post Date: 2015-07-13 13:29:49 by Tooconservative
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The New York Times' refusal to put Ted Cruz's memoir on its best-seller list is once again being called into question — this time by Amazon, the largest Internet retailer in the country. On Sunday, an Amazon spokesperson told the On Media blog that the company's sales data showed no evidence of unusual bulk purchase activity for the Texas senator's memoir, casting further doubt on the Times' claim that the book — "A Time For Truth" — had been omitted from its list because sales had been driven by "strategic bulk purchases." "As of yesterday, 'A Time for Truth' was the number 13 best-selling book, and there ...
MARCO RUBIO DUCKS, DODGES, WEAVES THROUGH LAS VEGAS, SKIPS OFF STAGE WITHOUT CONDUCTING PLANNED Q&A WITH LIBERTARIANS
Post Date: 2015-07-11 09:47:40 by out damned spot
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80% , a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, offered no policy specifics whatsoever in a speech to Freedom Fest here at Planet Hollywood filled with rhetoric—and skipped off the stage without conducting a previously-agreed-to question-and-answer sessions with the audience. The speech, which lasted just about 20 minutes, was scheduled previously to go for 30 minutes and include 10 minutes of Q&A. Rubio, after finishing his remarks, ducked off the back corner of the stage without taking questions from the audience—which all week leading up to this moment has been critical of him. What’s more, Rubio—through his ...
Circus Circus: Welcome to America’s Reality Clown Show
Post Date: 2015-07-10 22:19:23 by Tooconservative
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In 2008, egged on by a media swooning with romantic feelings of hope and change, the country made a willful decision to elect an unqualified celebrity to the Oval Office. Since then, America’s number one export has been fame and its politicization: we have politicized fame. Advances in social media have made intolerable and talentless pop stars and D-list cable attention leeches alike into permanent fixtures of pop culture, and have rendered the concept of “statesmanlike decorum” extinct. Now a President slinging a selfie stick or a candidate doing Simpsons impersonations are just a web-click away. Pop singers are humanitarians. Reality TV stars are political ...
GRAHAM: TRUMP IS ‘GOING TO KILL MY PARTY’
Post Date: 2015-07-10 19:48:01 by out damned spot
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Thursday on CNN, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- SC)47% said Donald Trump’s recent controversial comments on illegal immigrants are going to “kill” the Republican Party. Graham said, “He said something that has brought people who are frustrated about the immigration stem to life, but he also said it in a way that’s going to kill my party. Here is the problem with the Republican party nationally. We are getting 27 percent of the Hispanic vote. We are getting less than 10 percent of the African-American vote and about 25 percent, 26 percent of the Asian vote. You’ll never convince me that we’ve gone from 44 percent of the ...
Burn baby, burn! - Detroit Republican torches tax code
Post Date: 2015-07-10 17:50:08 by Hondo68
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Oh man.. I think I pee'd a little instagram.com/p/49OU5qoMLV/— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 10, 2015 Oops? What sparked that incontinence issue? If you're having a bad day, here's a pic of @RandPaul lighting the tax code on fire pic.twitter.com/Qbervnn4Dr — Jordan LaPorta (@JordanLaPorta) July 10, 2015 Wait, what? Oh, it happened: Join me in Michigan! I'll be talking about destroying the tax code: http://t.co/x931Pj7Umr and watch for my new ads pic.twitter.com/no6T3m0xoI — Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 10, 2015 Sorry, Bernie Sanders. So much for #FeelTheBern. Rand Paul’s #FEELTHEBURN is much better, especially involving the tax code. Twitter was ...
DONALD TRUMP: ABOLISH GUN FREE ZONES ON MILITARY BASES
Post Date: 2015-07-10 02:01:49 by out damned spot
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Donald Trump says that if elected president, he will abolish the gun free zones currently imposed on U.S. troops by “[mandating] that soldiers remain armed and on alert at our military bases.” In an interview with Ammoland he said: “President Clinton never should have passed a ban on soldiers being able to protect themselves on bases. America’s Armed Forces will be armed.” Trump went on to decry gun free zones on military bases as a product of “political correctness” and said removing those zones “will… [enable soldiers] to defend themselves against terrorists.” He added, “Our brave soldiers should not be at risk because of policy ...
WHOA: Trump changing venues for Saturday rally in Arizona due to OVERWHELMING RESPONSE
Post Date: 2015-07-09 23:56:54 by out damned spot
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Amazing. Donald Trump is having to switch venues in Phoenix, Arizona for his rally this Saturday because he is getting overwhelming responses for people wanting to attend. His campaign says they are now expecting thousands to attend and are switching to the Phoenix Convention Center to accommodate the masses: *Robert Costa ✔@costareports Just in from Trump's office: "Due to the overwhelming response for Saturday's rally in Phoenix, Arizona the venue has been changed..." 5:15 PM - 9 Jul 2015 *"...to accommodate the thousands of people expected to attend and the event will now take place at the Phoenix Convention Center." *If Trump draws thousands, ...
Trump leads the GOP pack this week, though few think he will win the nomination (Bush, Paul tied for 2nd)
Post Date: 2015-07-09 21:22:37 by Hondo68
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The Republican horserace continues to be a contest of multiple candidates – with frontrunners sometimes ahead by only a few points, and no one dominating the race. In this week’s Economist/YouGov Poll, businessman Donald Trump leads among Republicans, ahead of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Trump looks even better as a candidate this week when Republicans are asked for their second choice. When they are, Trump extends his lead. One in four Republicans who are registered to vote say he is their first or second choice. But who are these ...
Donald Trump to visit Phoenix to talk immigration
Post Date: 2015-07-09 20:32:18 by Gatlin
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Controversial Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is coming to Phoenix to make remarks on illegal immigration and other topics. He'll be joined Saturday at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the 2 p.m. event hosted by the Republican Party of Maricopa County. Trump and Arpaio are both nationally known hardliners opposed to illegal immigration. Trump, the celebrity developer from New York who immediately roiled the GOP presidential race by making derogatory remarks about Mexican immigrants during the June 16 announcement of his candidacy, continues to defend his assertion that Mexican immigrants bring drugs and crime into the United ...
Christie vs. Paul on Surveillance and Security
Post Date: 2015-07-09 09:00:28 by Deckard
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Chris Christie says Rand Paul, one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, is "politicizing America's national security" by objecting to the government's indiscriminate collection of our telephone records. The New Jersey governor's puzzling charge against the Kentucky senator illustrates the bullying tactics of the national security state's defenders, who reflexively argue that civil libertarians endanger American lives by questioning mass surveillance.Christie, whose appointees orchestrated a huge, four-day traffic jam in Fort Lee to punish the city's mayor for declining to endorse the governor, knows a thing or two about politicizing ...
GOP leaders fear damage to party’s image as Donald Trump doubles down
Post Date: 2015-07-08 22:32:00 by Gatlin
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The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency. The call from Chairman Reince Priebus, described by donors and consultants briefed on the conversation and confirmed by the RNC, underscores the extent to which Trump has gone from an embarrassment to a cause for serious alarm among top Republicans in Washington and nationwide. Click here to read the rest of the story. Poster Comment: Screw the party''s image.I'll ...
Donald Trump: 'I Will Win the Latino Vote'
Post Date: 2015-07-08 14:36:51 by Gatlin
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Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes he will win the Latino vote, slamming Hillary Clinton for promoting what he called an immigration policy that would "let everybody come in… killers, criminals, drug dealers." "I have a great relationship with the Mexican people. I have many people working for me - look at the job in Washington - I have many legal immigrants working with me. And many of them come from Mexico. They love me, I love them," the 2016 GOP contender said in an interview with NBC News. "And I'll tell you something, if I get the nomination, I'll win the Latino vote." Trump said that "there's nothing to apologize ...
Trump: I'm not thinking third party -- for now
Post Date: 2015-07-08 09:52:00 by Tooconservative
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Donald Trump's 2016 presidential run seems custom-made for a third party. The billionaire developer has never held political office, never run as a Republican or Democrat. He doesn't need a party's money-raising apparatus. His anti-politician appeal — "Politicians are never going to bring us to the promised land" — cuts equally against Republicans and Democrats. And as far as Republicans are concerned, Trump appears to connect with GOP voters who are so disgusted with the party's current Washington leadership that they would be open to a third-party campaign. But in an interview Tuesday, Trump said he has no interest in running as a third-party ...
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