This analysis is the precursor to the second part of what was written here yesterday: the first part of the latest Fox News poll.
Within the prior analysis we shared:
“Don’t expect the remaining embargo data (most likely GOP polling data) to be favorable to Donald Trump. Remember, there is a goal which never stops – THAT GOAL is the removal of Donald Trump at all costs. Promoting Ben Carson and Marco Rubio (to a lesser extent Fiorina) remains the media strategy”. (link)
The goal behind that strategy is the nomination of Jeb Bush.
The second part of the poll is now released, and exactly as predicted it shows exactly what we said it would most likely contain. However, in order to explain the content we first need to revisit the construct of why these events are surfacing with such intense predictability.
Simultaneously, it is also necessary to discuss and deconstruct another Fox Business report that John Kasich is being touted as a possible Vice-President pick by Donald Trump. Both the Fox Poll agenda, and the Fox Business report agenda are tied to the same overarching goals.
Bear with me because, despite my earnest efforts, more than likely this analysis is necessarily going to go in the weeds, it’s unavoidable.
Two current candidates represent a risk to the power-brokers who financially attempt to control the outcomes of presidential elections. Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are antithetical to the larger goals and agenda of a modern Wall Street filled with globalists and global market investors.
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both are fully and comprehensively understanding of the root of the problem and what has undermined the essential cornerstone of our Republic. The difference between them does not lie in a divergent view of the problem; the differences between them lies squarely in the approach to the solution.
Above all of the inherent issues of the day, and well above all of the consequences to policy agenda’s, and even beyond the ideological differences in politics, there is a group of global financial interests that are generally unaffected by the policies being debated.
Politicians love to discuss the issues that are downstream. Issues like: social benefits, social issues, guns, abortion, race-issues, small-ball tax adjustments, education, marijuana, etc. All of these issues are essentially ‘shiny things’, well downstream from the larger more substantive issues which influence generations.
This is where republican supporters for Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio or other similar candidates of like-minded sense and sensibility, don’t fully understand the scope of Wall Street and the entirely different principle of Main Street.
♦ Rupert Murdoch is one of the entities who operate in the air of Wall Street; he’s actually one of the more easily identifiable people who operate in this globalist space, the global financial market. Murdoch and those of similar consequence are focused on issues that are far beyond the issues of Main Street USA and champion Donald Trump.
Modern day Wall Street is the global financial market. Any national business-minded broadcast, cue up Fox Business News, is also focused on the global financial market, not Main Street.
Your local Chamber of Commerce organization in your community is focused on Main Street issues. However, when we are discussing the U.S. (National) Chamber of Commerce, we switch from discussing Main Street to discussing Wall Street or global financial markets.
Because Wall Street is focused on global financial markets, and specifically because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is focused on global financial markets, you can see the inherent disconnect from those who operate on Wall Street level, and those who operate domestically on Main Street issues.
Likewise the problems we face as a nation cannot be solved at a Main Street level, and we must fully understand that Main Street is down stream from Wall Street.
If we want to impact serious economic changes (both Trump and Sanders do) then we must travel to the source of the issue, Wall Street and/or the global financial markets. Those are the players above the policies being debated in the U.S. presidential election.
The intersection between the global financial markets (Wall Street) and U.S. politics surfaces when policy topics like the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal are being determined. Trade and U.S. banking policy (Treasury) are aspects where Wall Street gets interested and consequentially involved.
Knowing that Murdoch, (Fox News, and Fox Business News) and those of similar air and influence, have a vested interest in Wall Street issues – you begin to understand this:
Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)
Those who operate in this global finance world have a vested interest in controlling only those aspects that have influence on their business interests. They don’t necessarily care about Main Street consequences from the expression of those interests; therefore they don’t engage in policy issues of what’s going on down-stream. They simply don’t care; they only care about their consequential space – and retention of their larger financial interests.
♦ Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders understand the global policies have detrimental impacts on Main Street. Where they differ is in how to control those impacts.
Sanders believes the government should control what is going on in the stratosphere inhabited by the global financial markets – Socalism. However, it’s an impossible task to try and use government intervention to force compliance on capital. See Venezuela as a current example in economic collapse.
Trump believes the government should allow the global markets to use capital as they desire; however, national government can act as a dam blocking down stream consequences, and walling off any economic damage by controlling how much influence those global markets (ie. Wall Street) have over Main Street. Fair Markets and “fair trade”, not “free trade”, through national control of economic pressure valves.
In essence Trump’s position is: we are the customer, the market can provide any product they want, but in order to be successful they have to provide the products we want, at a price our markets can sustain, or they lose. Capitalism and “fair markets” with clear nationalist best interests.
Unlike Donald Trump, Sanders position is to tell the production class what to produce, how to produce it, who gets it when it is produced (economic justice). Unlike Trump Sanders has never produced anything – he has no concept of creating a pie, he can only divide a pie already created. Sanders also goes a step further, much like Hugo Chavez, by saying how much the producer will be paid for the product. (Socialism is an exhausting economic model)
♦ In order to avoid the political consequences of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, Wall Street (global financial markets) wants Jeb Bush and/or Hillary Clinton.
When you understand this basic principle all of the various actions taken by the Wall Street funded media (eg. polling) begin to make more sense.
This tenet is also why Fox News (Murdoch) is trying earnestly to eliminate Donald Trump – the principle(s) behind the corporate media outlet(s) have a vested interest in his failure. Those same principle(s) also have a vested interest in eliminating Bernie Sanders for essentially the same reason.
♦ Beyond the corporate media like Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS et al, we also have smaller, but in many cases not less impactful, media who also have a vested financial interest. Business models within various web-based media like Salem Media Group as an example.
This is why Donald Trump’s candidacy allows us to discover who the vested interests are.
We only need to watch how various “conservatives” change positions in order to attack the very platforms they previously espoused to hold (ie. immigration). In essence they are exposing their financial interests, their own business model, which is dependent on their maintenance by larger corporate financial influences.
None of the aforementioned corporate media entities would support a candidate willing to turn over the applecart of Wall Street to whom they are connected. Also none of the aforementioned would support a candidate who would eliminate, control or impact the source of substantive issues like the national debt, deficits, fiscal policies or international trade deals. Ergo all of the aforementioned support less consequential presidential candidates who are palatable for a purpose.
While all of the other candidates nibble around the edges they are careful to avoid directly hitting the target of the larger problems. There are only two candidates who are clear-eyed on the real source of what ails the U.S. system:
Left (Sanders rally) ~ Right (Trump rally)
This is why both Sanders and Trump are necessarily isolated, ridiculed and marginalized. However, this is also why the larger support base under each of these candidates is much more heavily engaged in the exponentially BIGGER policy issues which have real and long-term consequences.
Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are focused on the root causes. All other candidates are willfully blind to what’s going on ‘upstream’ and willing to argue about the ‘downstream’ consequences (gun control, abortion rights, gay marriage etc.).
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders represent risk to the Rupert Murdoch’s of the world and to Wall Street. No other candidates represent the same risk.
Ideally, the ultimate match-up would be Sanders and his democratic-socialist model, vs Trump and his unapologetic nationalist-capitalism model. However, this would represent a lose/lose to the global finance community of modern Wall Street, and thus must be avoided at all costs.
Wall Street wants this outcome:
This outcome has been the plan since October of 2013. Producing this exact outcome was additionally affirmed during the primary races within the mid-terms of 2014. The production of this outcome, and the protection of the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal was specifically why Mitch McConnell was given a financial open-checkbook in the 2014 mid-terms.
The people who operate in the stratosphere we are describing are long-term financial interests willing to spend massive amounts of money for desired long-term outcomes. Nothing is left to chance, and all possible outcomes must be covered within the plans – with built in contingencies (Rubio / Biden) to insure objectives are reached.
*NOTE* The Trans-Pacific Trade Deal legislative passage alone holds trillions of dollars in consequences. Hillary’s flip-flop position on the TPT indicates the Senate will take up the issue after the primary race (April/May ’16) and before the lead in to the general election (Sept/Oct ’16) – Wherein all political blow back can be avoided. This timing allows Hillary safe passage because the explosive issue will (hopefully according to McConnell) be resolved prior to it becoming an issue in the presidential election.
Fabulous, as always. Leave the “shiny things” to splitters. The GOPe won’t even take a winning mantra from Bill Clinton in 1992: It’s the economy, stupid. Trump knows this, and he is the only one who has the expertise, connections, brainpower, will, leadership, and smarts to pull us back from the abyss of sloth, unemployment, overregulation, bad trade deals, and Wall Street puppet masters. This is why the GOPe and media elites despise him.
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Yep, makes me wonder if Sundance – in a previous life – wasn’t in charge of maintaining the ship’s log on the Titanic. ‘RNC to crew – Jeb’s just pausing to take on ice!”
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No in a previous life he was the salty droid, right Jason?
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Huh?
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If we’re talking the trilogy Sundance is up to Part 3 – main difference I see is that in this case we’re taking the beating (from the pols, not Sundance – just in case there were any questions about the phrasing)
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What ever sundance may have been in a previous life, in this life, HE’S THE MAN!!!
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Ummmm to prevent the illusion of gender discrimination shouldn’t Sundance(spellcheck/autocomplete want’s to make Sundance ‘Sudanese’) be referred to as ‘the person…”?
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It’s all about the TPP. Republican blank check to obama=TPP
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obama will be long gone while the TPP destroys America.
It is about the filthy selfish prick politicians who are creating multigenerational wealth for their families through their corruption in DC.
They oddly think it will end well for them.
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He will be locked up too!
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Just add that to the long list of items that Trump will have to undo once he’s in office.
It’s okay, he’s up to the task–he’s the only candidate who is larger than the problems we face.
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when you give into a free trade deal, the corporation that wants to produce over there pays the politician a kickback. that’s how it works. the corporations pay the politicians. the politicians create loopholes for them and don’t charge them import tariffs as a gift.
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glad you mentioned it, after Hillary came out against Keystone, it was in the cards that she would be against TPP too, its because of Bernie Sanders and his surge in the polls, I find that interesting, because after all Trump has done bringing the Illegal Aliens issue to the forefront, Jeb Bush hasn’t flip-flopped or abandon the “Acts of Love” or TPP, in short, Democratic candidates are more responsive than Republicans to Main st concerns than Republicans, there has to be an all out rebellion offensive to take out Cantor, Boehner and McCarthy, they just won’t cave, Paul Ryan has not announced for Speaker because the list of rules demands means Main St will trump Wall St and they do not want to lose power to conservatives
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Thanks, Melania. This shows that Trump knows the game that is being played and the candidates that have been already bought by the Wall Street types. This for sure must make the hedge funds and Wall Street players very nervous, because Trump has put them on notice that they will be paying up what is lawful for them to pay up in terms of taxes.
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Regarding the debate last night: Iago Velazquez wrote: “It was a setup. A cynical and treacherous manipulation of the Democratic caucus by an washed up old liar with Bernie’s collusion and three; possibly innocent fall-guys. (although I think that Jim Webb caught on half way through the phony “Debate”) No wonder the embarrassed over-reaction about the E-Mails, they were in the middle of another Big Lie.” Made me think, perhaps Senator Sanders is not as removed as he appears to be or as he’d like us to think he is.
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Link?
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I admit I did not watch the debate, however, upon arriving home, I
did look at this site’s comments and others. My reaction to Bernie
Sanders comment about Hillary’s email scandal, was that he is in
the game to 1) further the socialist agenda and 2) a place sitter
for Hillary. The other candidates are just place cards at the table.
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I believe BS genuinely sees the too-big-to-fail banks as a leading problem. Here in the U.S. and in the world.
I don’t think he has anything against Hiraly’s politics, since she is also an elitist Marxist. However, he is against her strong ties to the big banks/Wall Street/high finance.
Him jumping into the email scandal would be the old saying: don’t argue with fools; they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Hiraly is wrestling loose of the email scandal. This seems impossible. Impossible. How? Two things: first, the populace gets fatigued from an issue, and two her patience was rewarded as the opportunity eventually opened up – the Golden Ticket of painting the entire Benghazi deal as a politically motivated witch hunt.
How did Hiraly know that the opening would eventually come? I don’t know. I guess lots of experience. But I will make this note: CTH has pointed out how Hiraly had a direct role in surface-to-air missiles going from U.S. to whomever in Libya to whomever in Turkey and/or Syria, then on to Afghanistan and ending up in one of our choppers YET no one anywhere except CTH has picked up the story and run with it.
The progressives know they can get away with almost anything. Just look at Bronco Bama – he did so little to fend off endless legal attacks on his presidential eligibility – it was like swatting flies. Look at how Tim McGirt waltzed away after destroying the career of Gen. Chessani. Just waltzed away.
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“the Golden Ticket of painting the entire Benghazi deal as a politically motivated witch hunt.”
“How did Hiraly know that the opening would eventually come?”
Cause, she doled out a big political favor to Kevin McCarthy (aka Golden Ticket). Time will tell what the favor is or pay off was.
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“Bronco Bama” LOL! that’s a new one i’d never heard. 🙂
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Our beloved Texan59 has been using that one for while. He posted a video clip some time back of a 4 yr old girl saying it.
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McCarthy was leveraged to make the statement, much the same way he was leveraged to drop his run for Speaker.
It’s obvious. He didn’t accidentally say something so stupid. Somebody owns him.
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Has Carville’s fingerprints all over it.
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yeah and he did it on a FOX news show guys discussion. I don’t trust Sean Hannity any more. That was to clear of a set up. He threw the pitch and McCarthy delivered the goods to Hillary. No way it was a mistake. Look she used that card last night to clear the decks on Benghazi and even used his name……. OH my the GOP is infiltrated. So she got out of all her scandals in one night…. She’s good…. Never think that possum is dead. Bernie gets a cush retirement for holding her place and taking the Dems to the edge of socialism which is an upgrade from the current Marxists.
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“The progressives know they can get away with almost anything.”
Exactly. It’s only gotten worse during Obamas regime. Now we have no borders and so many scams coming out of DC = both parties
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Let’s see if, in the fullness of time, Shillary “wrestles loose” of the email scandal. She isn’t being investigated by political opponents–she’s being investigated by the FBI. There has already been enough evidence outed in the press that is utterly damning–dozens of bits of classified information sent via an unsecured, illicit server that Shrillary herself set up for her own convenience.
This isn’t the usual political scandal–federal law (the Espionage Act) has been willfully broken by someone who, holding a federal security clearance, was required to know better. Shrillary blew off her obligations under that Act, knowingly and willingly. She will likely also face federal charges for “false official statements” and “impeding an investigation” and so forth.
Any of the other 3+ million citizens who hold federal clearances who perpetrated this act would already be up on charges by now. That Shrillary isn’t–yet–is likely an indication that the FBI is working very diligently indeed to ensure the case is iron-clad and unassailable. (It would be if I were the Special Agent in Charge…I know the firestorm of indignation; the relentless shrieking attacks that will follow the announcement that Shrillary is under indictment.)
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Once you get it in your mind that there are few coincidences
in politics, the set up becomes clear. The set up includes
both GOPe and democrat socialists. Instead of trying to
explain it away, one should be outraged!
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In an interview with Cuomo immediately after the debate Bernie flat out said that he was there to draw attention to specific issues- and said nothing about actually winning the presidency. I think that remark was unintentionally very enlightening, however, nobody seems to have picked up on it or even mentioned it in MSM circles as of this morning.
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I don’t know how Sanders can sit on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee and think we all want the same “quality” of healthcare our veterans (don’t) get. Shame on him.
Your comment made me watch that interview. Sanders said “transformation” and “wealth redistribution” more than once. And he wants to chase away the rest of our big businesses. Who agrees with that? Every person who shows up to a Sanders rally/speech has their hand out and wants something they didn’t earn. And they are PROUD of it.
No shame, that man.
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Sounds about right. Democrat Party is using Sanders and other three to give appearance of a debate, with Killary. Similar to how Jebby is RNC’s chosen candidate, Killary is DNC’s chosen candidate, and We the People be dammed. Last night’s DemWit debate was about making Sheepeople feel like they are choosing which pasture to graze in.
DRNC (DNC/GOPe) is determined to see Killary elected, regardless!
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The DNC didn’t like Hillary in 2008, and they don’t like her now. They’re controlled by Obama’s people, and even though Hillary is promising to be Obama’s 3rd term, there’s no love lost between those factions. The DNC is playing its own games, and many people feel there is a surprise candidate they’re going to throw out there.
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Moochelle.
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I agree, though, that Wall Street would be happy with her.
If she ends up being the DNC’s only choice, they would take her, but they don’t want her..
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The above was a comment on a post by Daniel Greenfield regarding the debate. I gave the name and put it in quotes because it was Iago Velazquez words. The remark about Hillary’s emails struck me as strange and out of place so the comment resonated with me. Here’s the link to the Facebook post. https://www.facebook.com/the.daniel.greenfield/posts/10153772917939063?pnref=story
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Perhaps she promised Bernie a seat in her Cabinet should she win the presidency. O’Malley and Chaffee came off as completely clueless. I saw Chaffee on Hannity’s show afterwards (he was the only one who agreed to appear, apparently) and he came off as a total airhead. Then a Dem operative appeared and while he was amiable enough, he never answered Hannity’s questions about the debt and who’s going to pay for all of this and just kept knocking off a litany of Dem giveaways to the lo-fo’s in exchange for their votes. Oh, and how much better the economy is and look at all the jobs Obeyme has created.
BTW, I got the impression Hildebeast was fed the questions in advance just by the way she began her answers. Otherwise, the entire dog and pony show gave the impression she was being anointed last night and the other 4 were there for comic relief.
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Sanders is 100% fraud. He’s Wall Street’s Trojan Horse.
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I would like to know your reasons for this belief. I don’t support Sanders, but so far I have no reason to doubt his earnestness. His real bleeding- heartless is not nearly as offensive as the Lee Press-On bleeding-heartness we usually see.
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Test test
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Is there any way to tie union bosses (e.g. Trumka. et al) into this? Articles such as this – http://www.wsj.com/articles/richard-trumka-the-paratroopers-of-crony-capitalism-1423613895 dated 10 Feb 2015 say no, but instincts tell me otherwise. Thank you for continuing analysis and explanations.
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Trumka, burned down a coal company’s lawyers house during contract negotiations.
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Sundance, Excellent!!!!!
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Thank you, sir. Had to think about this for a bit, but think I am understanding. We’ll see, I guess.
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Should have been a reply to your first remark, sir.
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Excellent, insightful, makes good sense too. Makes me wonder if the GOPe or Uniparty back in Oct. 2008 had anything to do with the timing of the Wall Street crack up and subsequent surge for Obama to pass up McCain/Palin right before the election? Seem to recall they took a small lead in pols then Wham = “Bush economy tanking”. And Barry was on his way. I always have wondered about that. Tho perhaps it was solely a Democrat deal, the Uniparty being indifferent?
(My first post here- love the site!)
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Funny that you mention that (and I really wouldn’t put it past them), but I’ve been pondering the idea that Wall Street and the hedge fund cartel will be willing to employ some type of nuclear option in the form of a massive stock sell-off, “flash crash,” or major “correction,” coinciding with Trump winning the nomination or tied in with an orchestrated, manufactured last-ditch scandal in the final months leading into November ’16.
All of this in an effort to economically terrorize the middle-class investors and producers in this country and steer them to the Uniparty’s Dem candidate.
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That is imo very likely from these corrupt narcissistic elites who are drunk on power.
But a stick of dynamite would not make me change my mind about voting for Donald Trump.
TRUMP 2016!
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200% convinced the 2008 Crash was enginered for HObama.
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Yes economy weak and an engineered crash, October Surprise, in 2016 seems quite likely. It worked like a charm last time = 2008
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Why do you assume such a thing would hurt Trump’s chances? After all it is Obama/Dem’s economy. And Trump is very strong on financials so that would actually help him. Now, a national security disaster could hurt Trump. That is why he needs to pick a general as his VP.
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I hope you are right that it wouldn’t hurt DT but ‘some kind’ of shocking surprise could very well be created to harm him. Maybe the right kind of VP-general?-is the best insurance to prevent his program from being destroyed so easily.
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Yes when the hedge fund criminals & Uniparty pull that stunt again it will serve as the biggest example for TRUMP to use.
TRUMP: Oct. 2016 “There they go again – stealing your money America.”
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I’ve always heard that Soros messed with the market at that time, to propel the Obama win.
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Or so we’ve been told.
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I heard that as well. A few rumors were going around that someone, no one knew who in my circle, that someone had pulled a substantial amount of money out of the markets just before that crash – I am talking about half a billion dollars or so. We thought it was someone in the ME at the time but it could have been Soros in hindsight.
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I read in the British online media during Obozo’s first term that someone stole $15 TRILLION out of the US Treasury in Sept. 2008 and laundered the money thru The Bank of England. The British Parliament got involved and ordered an investigation to trace the money. The timing of this is very suspicious as McCain was leading by 3-5 points in every poll at the time due to Palin being added to the ticket. The media report claimed that the housing market crash, as bad as it was, wouldn’t have been enough to tank the world’s economy. It was the stolen $15 TRILLION that almost did it. This resulted in Obozo pulling ahead and staying ahead. Given that someone who made his fortune shorting countries’ economies is basically carrying the entire Dem Party, though no name was mentioned in the report, makes one wonder as to the culprit.
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I would believe that Crystal.
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Chuck Schumer triggered the major crash in the Fall of the election by suggesting not all the banks had enough cash to meet customer withdrawals…Lines began to form in CA the next day and the major crash shortly after.
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Read my post just above and then remember that it was Chuckie Schmuckie who dumped all over Lehman Bros. (at relatively the same time as the $15 TRILLION allegedly being stolen out of the Treasury) that precipitated the housing market crash. Almost as if it was all coordinated.
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LOL ……..”almost”………
Evil Chuckie…..
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Absolutely, they were directly responsible for the Wall Street debacle and the timing. John McCain was supposed to take the fall. When he brought on Sarah Palin and suddenly started moving up in the polls, they knew they had to stop him. Recall how inept he was? Played his part well and, in the meantime, they destroyed an up and coming, popular successful Governor — because she had the audacity to take on Big Oil.
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To add: Frank’s/Doud dump about 2-4 trillion of worthless Fed bonds, Feddie, Sally, Fanny, on the market in 2007. This added to the pile. The sell off was triggered in Hong Kong, money in money market accounts were replaced by worthless Fed paper.
Agree with all of the above responses. Nobody has ever, ever investigated this.
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200% they DID.
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Sorry couldn’t read article without signing in what is gist of?
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The gist of something is the main or essential matter of something (sometimes with a sense of the real or most fundamental meaning). [it’s not slang, it is an actual dictionary word if you want to look it up]
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I think Pre was asking for a summary of what the article said, since he didn’t care to sign in to read it, not the definition of the word “gist”…
JR
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Yes, typical prog, too lazy to read.
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No. I’m going with SouthCentralPA on this one. I like reading the request that way.
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Yes I was but my reply did not work it seems so came out as hanging way below original thread.
For the record am female 😉
Not sure why some are being rude, that isn’t how this blog usually is.
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Our boys were 5 and 7 when we commenced backpacking in the Sierras. One of the cardinal rules we had was “Backpackers do for themselves.”
The response to your request was not rudeness but a bit of an elbow in the ribs from someone who fully knows that there isn’t a lot of time for “I didn’t read it. Can someone tell me what it’s about?” That’s all.
Of course it is not always possible to read (or access) something we are interested in but that doesn’t change the general rule. Backpackers do for themselves.
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I think that being called a lazy progressive is rude and unless you were typing under a different name I don’t know how you can speak for their intent.
I did not ask anyone/someone to tell me what it meant as I have previously said I had replied to the person who posted the link and it came out hanging as its own thread by accident. I had asked the person who had posted the link for a gist ( a small small recap ) in order to engage them and possibly help in their question of unions.
At the time nobody had responded to them, it was not a big deal.
Great backpacking story though.
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My deepest apologies for not comprehending the entire situation. I took your initial comment (that you could not read without logging in) to have reference to the post here on the Treehouse. Sometimes folks are on the road and have limited access due to connectivity or hardware issues. I misunderstood your situation to be of that type.
We frequently have readers who do not bother to read the post before asking others in the threads to tell them things that they would have known if they had.
I was not trying to speak for anyone’s intent. As a moderator it is my responsibility to anticipate logjams (which logjams are sometimes caused by a bunch of readers getting irritated with another reader’s expectations – ) and try to head those logjams off. That’s all I was trying to do. My mistake.
Sometimes ‘lazy progressive’ is a perfect descriptive. I think you ought not speak for anyone else’s intent in their usage of it. However, it may just be that someone else misunderstood your comment even as I did.
Add: I know what gist means.
Add #2: I never type under a different name. SMH
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Another great breakdown, thanks SD.
Regarding a Trump/Kasich ticket, I’d actually be okay with this, if only because it would help win the bellwether state (Ohio). Kasich is most assuredly a cuckservative member of the globalist GOPE, no question.
HOWEVER, the VP position is a fairly useless one without any real power, and Trump would never let Kasich influence the administration’s policy or governing decisions. If Kasich is the VP who helps the most when it comes to electoral votes, by all means Trump should use him!
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I do not think Trump is the kind of man who would hire anyone for a no show job ( traditional veep ).
Who is spreading this rumor about Kasich as possible veep anyway his own campaign?
Personally I hope Trump does not select any of the other candidates to be veep,
but I defer to The Donald 😉
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Fox Business. See video.
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And we’re supposed to believe that Fox Business has “the inside scoop” of what’s going on in Trump’s mind? I’m certain he isn’t confiding in them.
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Agreed.
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That Charlie Sasparilla (ha) FOX guy is a jerk! He has no more clue with his inside sources than any of us! His best part of the interview was wearing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat!
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I can see a Kasich as VP. He is too liberal and squishy for Pres but he has particularly valuable skills.
He was in Congress for a long time and knows where the bodies are buried (foreign relations and budget). Trump needs a strong arm for legislation passage.
He might be able to swing Ohio (so fundamentally necessary in a general) but if not, Kasich at least knows the individual ground game in Ohio.
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I do not understand the willingness to have someone as vice-president who is not seen as adequate for president. I understand the motive for manipulating the ticket but consider it short-sighted in terms of real life.
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Great point. Ronald Reagan made nice with the republican party
and took the first Bush as VP, which led us to Clinton, which led
us to Bush, which led us to Obama. All because the first Bush
reneged on his “read my lips, no more taxes” rhetoric.
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Liked by (at least) 3. I agree, Sharon. People forget that the VP is ”one heartbeat away” from becoming president- though some seem really encouraged by the idea.
I find it interesting- maybe perplexing, that people also seem to have forgotten all the jokes about 0bama choosing Joe Biden as ”insurance”. The assumption at the time was against impeachment, but life insurance might work, too. Yet, now, there’s talk of him becoming a candidate. Willful amnesia, maybe.
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Don’t forget that the bully wants Biden in the race only if he can choose his VP. IMO, that’s the only time he has exhibited transparency in all of his term in office.
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In the past, the nominee has not picked a VP from the list of other candidates. It is usually someone else,
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I agree Prenanny. I think TRUMP’S VP will have a real work load.
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Unfortunately, Trump would be abetting his own death to accept such alliance. And the strait and narrow gate would shut with generations-trapping finality.
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Hmmm, now the attempted Reagan assassination and link to Bush at the time crosses my mind….
Ok, screw Kasich!
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Also JFK & Johnson. There may be at least one other in the distant past, but I’m foggy today.
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“Ok, screw Kasich!” Yup, best idea, or I might have to start telling you facts about the things Kasich has done to we the people of Ohio, starting with the last governor election. Things are NOT good in Ohio, no matter what the media tells you. (Think Obama manipulations and continue from there.)
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Interesting observation ……
Remember that happened in January or February of 1981…..
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Also remember the assassin – John Hinkley – was the son of long-time GOP Party members. …..
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If Mr.Trump chooses an obvious RINO like Kasich as his running mate,it would completely undermine his claim of being independent of the destructive priorities of the Republican establishment.Since mass immigration is the NUMBER ONE issue facing our country,Trump needs to pick a running mate in the mold of a Sen.Jeff Sessions (R-AL) or Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to prove to the American electorate that he’s serious about cracking down on the problems associated with mass immigration. Choosing an open-borders ideologue like Kasich would be sign that he was lying to us about his views on immigration.
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“…without any real power…”
Until the GOPe has the President taken out, anyway.
NO GOPe!
No how.
No way.
(The VP should be the GOPe’s worst nightmare – Allen West, maybe?)
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Col. West, yes he would rip some butt over in the “E” wing.
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Yes! I do like Col. West as VP. Col. West has as strong and commanding presence as Trump. They would complement each other. A Win-Win. Two strong people to bring this country around to where it belongs.
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I liked Col. West. But, the problem with him is he is part of the warmongering crowd. The insanity of us meddling in other countries, spending Trillions of dollars, causing the deaths and maiming of our sons and daughters, not to mention the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives impacted in the Middle East and Northern Africa. We have had no legitimate mandate (legal or otherwise) to arrogantly think we can oust LAWFULLY ELECTED leaders of other nations. This chaos was planned and they wrongly thought Putin would not intervene. He’s been quite harsh in his rhetoric and it looks like Obama is trying to start WWIII. Never thought I’d be cheering the leader of another country.
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Media is saying “Putin running circles around Obama” in Syria but I don’t buy it. Iran gets the Bomb, Barry and Vlade shake on it at the UN, next thing you know Russia is moving into prime oil country and uniting the Shiites from Iran to Israel including Iraq while we pull out. Coincidence? Running rings? I don’t think so. Barry is setting up the Shiites with his pal Vlad to pressure Saudi and Gulf oil. Presto $200 / barrel oil. Marxists high-five and Vlad sell his oil at $200 plus chokes off the West.
The fix is in.
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IKR.
Obama creates the vacuum, enter Putin.
can’t help but wonder about the Mediterranean/Libya…next up ?
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More of Bari’s “flexibility” with Vlad post 2012 election? Hmmm. Perhaps Vlad has a copy of Bari’s alleged British passport (Kenya being a British Protectorate at the time of his birth).
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Yes I wondered about that ‘flexibility’ business. What could be more flexible than throwing Israel under the bus, sabotaging Saudi and jacking oil to the moon while we pull out? Even old Vlad said the US foreign policy in the region shows we have “mush for brains”. But I think there’s a larger/deeper plan between these two marxists.
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I LIKE IT! I would love to see some payback going on.
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We don’t need “payback”–we need to set the federal government back on track soberly and in a measured manner. We must quietly yet firmly right the wrongs with an eye on the Constitution and what is right.
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So what’s wrong with seeking justice and punishment for corrupt elites and politicians who have purposely lied and cheated and have become traitorous to our country? We need to get back to TRUTH and HONOR which is sorely lacking in every aspect of our society these days. Regardless, I hope you will be quietly and firmly successful in your endeavor, but I need to see some payback in the form of justice.
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Until the GOPe has the President taken out, anyway.
I’m assuming you don’t mean what it appears you mean. Please clarify.
Just yesterday a commenter suggested that this site may be run by radicalized right wingers, so yeah – words matter.
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Add my LIKE. This is my dream ticket.
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Trump doesn’t need him. He already is killing Kasich in Ohio.
If Trump felt he had to go with a moderate, which I don’t believe he will, to unite the party it makes much more sense to go with say a Giuliani. He would put New York state in play and screw Hilda-beast.
But I don’t think that Trump will go there.
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Put Kasich in as VP with Trump and then something “mysteriously” happens to Trump and Boom Rino in chief. At this point in time They are desperate and will resort to anything to maintain power. If I were Trump I would hire a food taster.
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It worries me too.
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Donald Trump is dynamite!
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TRUMP wants Secret Service Protection, says Obama had it at this time during his campaign and Trump getting the same huge crowds should have SS protection too.
GOOD POINT!
(video & article) “Trump: I should have Secret Service protection” 10-14-2015
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/256850-trump-i-should-have-secret-service-protection
“Trump: If I were a Democrat, I’d have Secret Service by now” – CNNPolitics.com 10-14-2015
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/14/politics/donald-trump-secret-service-request/index.html
“Trump: where’s my Secret Service protection?” HotAir 10-14-2015
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/14/trump-wheres-my-secret-service-protection/
Many articles today on this take your pick!
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+secret+serv&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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DHS said today “We haven’t gotten a formal request in writing from Trump” = lame
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did Valerie make a formal request ?
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I don’t share your willingness to accept a Trump/Kasich ticket.What if something were to tragically happen to Mr.Trump that would render him incapable of fulfilling the duties as POTUS? We would be right back to square one with ANOTHER godforsaken,open-borders RINO as Commander in Chief.
God help us!
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Not so fast…the GOPe pushed Poppy Bush onto Reagan in 1980 to bring the Republican party “together” for the general election. They brought in key operators to keep the Reaganites in check in case they tried to go too far in reforming the government and upsetting the status quo. Every Repub wanted tax cuts and to defeat the Soviet Union, but many of his key governmental, social and financial reforms were blocked by the Demos and the GOPe. Then when Bush won in 1989 (with a key endorsement from Reagan when Dukakis was surging), he promptly canned, demoted or banished all of the key Reaganites in the Executive branch.
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A Trump/Kasich ticket would not ensure a vote from many Ohioan’s. The man has his own “special” Bible for whatever lie’s he needs to spout.
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LOL
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Kasich, a Republican, campaigned against Obamacare in 2010, saying the law’s Medicaid expansion would “stick states with large and unsustainable costs.” He unilaterally implemented the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in 2013.
Insert religion here:
“Now, I don’t know whether you ever read Matthew 25, but I commend it to you, the end of it, about do you feed the homeless and do you clothe the poor,” Kasich told Montana legislators when asked about Obamacare at a Helena press conference the next day.
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I see. That’s special alright unless Matthew was urging us (through the words of Jesus) to have Rome or Jerusalem (DC) do our good works for us. Which he wasn’t of course.
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I didn’t see the video but Sundance did say this Fop News report needed to be deconstructed or some such
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Or else – John Kasich on Social Security cuts: ‘Get over it’ – http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/politics/john-kasich-get-over-it-social-security/index.html
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But Kasich is the Anti-Trump and would kill his chances.
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VP needs to be carefully selected as he can be pres-in-waiting and could take over in event of pres death, ill health etc.
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Reblogged this on Centinel2012 and commented:
Excellent work here and well written! The is the battle space we fight in and as long as we are able to get the message out we can still wind despite the money; the risk we face is the the ability of the power brokers to shut done the web which makes it harder to get the work out. If this tactic become likely because trump is shut out then we must prepared to use other (older0 means to keep the fight going. If we lose the battle of 2016 there is no going back we will end up in the the world of Orwell’s 1984. The reason i say this is the our local education system has been taken over and the next generation, post common core, will not be capable of understanding the world they live in; this is a fight to the death for the common man.
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I agree completely, “…we must prepared to use other (older0 means to keep the fight going.” Thank you for saying so, it takes courage. I hope we don’t leave this till the “nick of too late”.
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You are so right, Centinel.
I want to send a powerful message to congress about tampering with the copyright laws (which would destroy the net as we use it today and shut down the master, Matt Drudge). I feel that we all need to be taking this up and raising cane about this, overloading the phone lines to congress.
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Just WOW, Sundance. I made it through the weeds with you and am back on the trail. It all makes perfect sense.
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Agree. Maybe SD can use the alias “Weed Whacker” from time to time.
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i LIKE IT!
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:shrug: That didn’t seem very weedy to me. It is an excellent analysis.
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It’s interesting that so many polling outfits are stating that their polls are not accurate. Gallop is the most vocal about it; they’re no longer going to do pre-primary polls. Others are still going to do them but they say the polls are not truly representative of reality ( you know, cell phones and all). See 10/5 article in Politico for example. Either they are trying to get people to doubt the accuracy of Trump’s lead (remember how they got 2012 so wrong, ouch maybe we ought to vote for somebody else) or they are further in the bag and are knowingly skewing the results but want to later be able to say, well we warned you there was a problem.
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Or perhaps, as far fetched as it may be, some are unwilling to go along with the attempted deception embodied in manipulated polls.
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Or Trump is so far ahead that they can’t credibly lie about it.
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……..and they did it on Fox this morning. Just today we have a poll with Trump at 24% and Carson at 23%.
They even put together a tortured poll, including a voter’s first and second choice for candidates in order to illustrate Carson is in the lead.
Seriously?
I’m getting worried. I see polls strewn with oversampling of evangelicals, low samples, no black voters (or a 9.5% +/- in this demo) and it makes me crazy. Somehow, these polls are then included in the overall tracking to bring down Trump’s numbers.
I’m sick of it.
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and if were any other candidate but Donald Trump i’d be worried too. but remember this is DONALD TRUMP and not too many things get by on him. he is like a finely tuned sensitive instrument with a gauge that sends out bells and alarms should anything be amiss. he really pays attention to the polls too and he knows which ones are fake, i.e., manipulated.
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Trump can more than handle the 30lbs of pressure on this gauge. Need to get one that goes up to 160PSI!! HA!
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thank you for your expertise!
The Trump Gauge 160PS
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what should worry you was meygan’s guest host last night. None less than the most vile slithering creature on earth Debbie wasserman. Yes again Meygan has her soulmate in to comment after it looks like they were partying all night. Well at least Debbie looked like that. Coyote ugly. FOX is done now the GOP is done now ..Time to create our own reality not some crazy group of people with no scruples honor or integrity. Did you see the article on Brietbart about how to defeat the GOP on the local level. Sounded like they got the idea here.
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They’re 100% in the bag.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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Always watch what the left hand is doing when you are being distracted by the right one. The real action is not what they want you to focus on.
If they can not get rid of Trump, I would not be surprised if there was at least an attempt on his life.
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No doubt.
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hey I’m fred……
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I keep hearing various pundits stating with absolute confidence that Trump will not be the GOP candidate. I would like just once to hear the interviewer press them on that statement. What inside information do they have? Is this just wishful thinking on their part, or are they aware of some plan to get rid of Trump? Not that I’d expect a truthful answer, but I’d like to see them squirm to come up with an explanation for their confidence.
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Brilliantly done, sundance, as always!
Thank you so much. I know you invested plenty of time to compose that post. Much appreciated.
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Trump: I should have Secret Service Protection. 0bama did at this point in his campaign.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/13/democrats-debate-donald-trump-best-line-night/
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this makes me think of the scene in THE GODFATHER movie where Michael goes to the hospital to see his dad and realizes there are no police or guards around. he moves him to another room because people are coming there to kill him…..Trump should be careful.
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I just watched that movie! One of the greats!
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Good move on Trump’s part. now if anything happens to him, he’ll be on record wondering why he he didn’t get SS protection like others.
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Agree with the analysis.
I would add a point we must change. Bernie is not a socialist, he is a communist. Even if you suggest he is a marxist, marxism was seminal to communism. The “C”‘ word is not allowed by liberals. To not use it is cowardly. It alone clearly defines what ideology has taken power in America. Last nights demo-debate was a communist love fest, just like Bernie did back in the 60″s.
These people are radical, revoutionary communists with a purposed goal of usurping the Constituional Republic of the United States of America (they are almost finished). Its radical ‘change’ for America is communism. It is the action part of Alinsky and Cloward/Piven. Call your enemy by his name, not the names he demands you to use.
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Bernie is pushed by the elites and media too much – all for “bringing them out of the shadows” and all the free stuff, etc. How exactly does this help working class Americans?? He is a big phony, just like the rest of them. Besides being a disgusting man.
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He says specifically, that he’s a “Democratic Socialist,” aka, a Nazi. What about these prog-nazis do people not understand? They are about as transparent in their hypocrisy and freedom-killing agenda as they could possibly be!
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All five candidates said they were “Democrat Socialists” and none of them defended capitalism.
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Good point Mr. Black. Intersting Hitler called himself a German national democratic socialist. We separate Hitler typically as a fascist, but don’t think of him as a communist. But here is the definition of fascism: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. Communism’s identical twin. Hitler hated the commuists, not because they were different in ideology, but because they were his competition. They almost defeated his German socialist party.
The democratis could add fascism to their party platform along with their stated communist goals for America. This is the stuff tyrants and tyranny are made of.
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“Liberal Fascism” by J. Goldberg is an excellent study of the historical roots of the modern Democratic party in 20th Century Fascism (deification of the State).
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“Liberal Fascism” is a book that can be found on Amazon.com
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“Call your enemy by his name, not the names he demands you to use.”
good advice, cuz once you do, you’ve lost.
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Great point! Being a socialist seems to be palatable to democrats,
mostly the young crowd if I read Bernie’s rally crowds correctly.
Labeled as a communist, he might not do so well.
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Maybe not the blue dogs (more conservative), but the democrats have always been fellow travelers to the communists. While watching Mad Men on DVR recently, a couple of episodes reminded me of so many things I now remember my mom & grandparents talking about when I was a little girl. It didn’t start with the 60s & SDS/ Weathermen/ The Black Panthers. It goes way back to unions & civil rights. There were communists in the government back around FDR.
When the USSR collapsed & the Berlin Wall came down under Reagan, many people- even older people, thought it was over & we could quit worrying about it. A couple of years after 0bama took office (but before Paul Kengor’s book The Communist, I think), someone on a conspiracy forum mentioned Kent State & I got curious. What ever became of those people? Lo & behold, they’ve been- not only teaching & managing our universities, but working away in foundations, think tanks, NGOs, endowments, etc all the years. Like termites. If you watch the credits at the end of any PBS show, the list is full of these organizations. And they’ve been around for decades.
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“Call your enemy by his name, not the names he demands you to use.” I absolutely agree. The phrase “I am legion and we are many” immediately came to mind. The political designations they choose are just a smokescreen for what they all boil down to……Communists.
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And if one is old enough to remember, we might now give
McCarthy a pass on thinking Hollywood was full of
communists!
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Definitely. History has been “redefined”.
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McCarthy was 100% accurate with his info on Hollywood and the Communist-Democrat Party Media Monopoly
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Great piece, the difference between Sanders and Trump is the difference between socialism and Keynes (as in what the man believed and not what “American Keynesians” say he believed). Bruce Bartlett wrote a great piece in Forbes, Keynes Was Really a Conservative:
“In Keynes’ view, it was sufficient for government intervention to be limited to the macroeconomy–that is, to use monetary and fiscal policy to maintain total spending (effective demand), which would both sustain growth and eliminate political pressure for radical actions to reduce unemployment. “It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which is important for the State to assume,” Keynes wrote. “If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary.”
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/13/john-maynard-keynes-conservative-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html
What’s interesting about Trump is that, unlike Wall Street and most Democrats, he understands the biggest leakages effective demand comes from 1. unchecked immigration driving down wage, and 2. our chronic trade deficit (balancing trade would have the effect of $500 Billion a year in stimulus spending without adding a single worker to the government payroll or one penny to govt deficit).
I know firsthand how easy it is to see economic ideas hijacked by those with a socialist agenda (Google my screen name and Platinum Coin) but I genuinely believe Trump has a deep understanding of economics and intends to hijack Keynes back from the liberals.
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IMHO the overarching problem is government interference in the markets both globally and domestically. The Keynesian solutions you proscribe in regard to global trade is half the picture. Intervention in the global realm can be seen as an offshoot of the government’s responsibility to protect its citizens and provide a level playing field, But government intervention in domestic markets is the other half. Providing a level playing field domestically means no picking of winners and losers — no manipulation via taxes and unnecessary regulation to benefit some group or groups of citizens over others. If taxes and regulations strangling Main Street were drastically reduced, prices would fall dramatically. This would initially include the price of labor, making American workers more competitive globally. But note that lower wages would not mean reduced buying power, because the prices of goods and services would also be falling. AND in further counterbalance,reduced regulation and costs would lead to a burst of market activity and innovation that would increase productivity and tend to push up wages. Win/win all around for everyone but those who have a psychological need to control their fellows.
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I agree there are too many regulations and taxes are too high but the political support is there because people know something is wrong and that leaves them primed to support politicians who promise “hope and change” (even if the solutions make the problem worse, voters are all too generous in giving credit for trying).
What’s interesting is its possible to reduce (even necessary) regulations and tax rates at the same time. If the govt regulated with Pigovian taxes (taxing bad things, like, say, industrial pollution) they could use revenue raised to cut taxes. I’m not a big fan of Floyd Flake but his 16 page bill to tax carbon emissions and then use every revenue raised to cut payroll taxes would be a lot more cost-effective (for both economy and for taxpayers) than Obama’s 2000 page bill for a govt managed “cap and trade” carbon market, which was designed and would no doubt be gamed by Goldman Sachs. There are thousands of regulations on the books that could be replaced by Pigovian taxation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
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I am new to Pigovian taxation. Looking forward to studying link
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I wonde if there’s any chance the TPP can be stopped?
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Well, it could be stopped,if anyone in Congress actually wanted to stop it, But they don’t. So, feel free to anticipate the exportation of yet more jobs to China, a larger trade deficit, an increase in the budget deficit, and an even greater increase in the national debt.
Oh yeah… The name “Obama” and the chants of “Eight Great Years” still echoes in my head. Thanks to all the lo-fo Dem voters who were just happy to get “Free Stuff”. I hope everyone is preparing for the food riots that will ensue when the EBT cards no longer work and the BLM crowd decides it’s time to come to YOUR neighborhood and appropriate everything you spent your life working for.
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If things stay as they are, will it come to pass that Uncle Sam appropriates our lifetime of work before letting the EBT cards flash goose eggs?
When the term “Jobless Recovery” started making the rounds in 2009 the thought occurred that there would be more Americans burning through savings and retirement due to job losses, and fewer Americans with anything for the Free Stuff Army to appropriate.
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“So, feel free to anticipate the exportation of yet more jobs to China, a larger trade deficit, an increase in the budget deficit, and an even greater increase in the national debt.”
You are SO correct on this point. China isn’t part of the TPP by design. But they do have trade agreements with the other countries that are included.
So China can buy raw materials from those member countries, use cheap labor to assemble & produce the finished product, & then ship that product to us for sale.
That equates to lost domestic jobs for us, an increase in Trade Deficit against us, and no supply of raw material from us.
The USA then just becomes a client for foreign goods and a funnel for our domestic currency to flow overseas with no economic growth potential. Do that long enough & we become a dependent nation for almost all of our needs.
Trump, in his mentioning of China numerous times, sees the bigger picture. ( a macro version is his message of manufacturing & production moving to Mexico) Raw material is NOT being outsourced from us, manufacturing IS being outsourced from us, & finished product IS being imported to us.
All with no restraints or penalty. That is why he sees the necessity of “Fair Trade” with tariffs or taxes on imports.
Once it becomes economically not feasible for other countries to merely manufacture, produce, & export to us. they will cut back. That will permit US manufacturing to begin to see growth by replacing the imports with domestically produced product. That is what will grow the economy and result in US jobs, as well as reduce, or even out the Trade Deficit.
But, that impacts Wall Street in terms of revenues & profits. That is why they desire “Free Trade” and why they are determined to stomp Trump down.
Trump can do this….despite Wall Street. And they know it.
His message to them……Be afraid….be very afraid
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Yup. In one of his recent interviews, Trump pointed out that TTP would have a “back door” that would greatly benefit China.
I don’t consider myself overly savy with regard to economics, but it really is quite simple. All people need to do is get their head out of ther a$$ and consider the long-term ramifications
A few weeks ago Trump was on the Michael Savage show, and he announced, “Donald Trump will be on to explain to everyone how..explain so we can all understand, what he means when he talks about taxing China.”
I thought, oh good, I can’t wait. Trump,gets on and MS asks the question and Trump responds, “it means that we’re going to tax China for all the goods they ship to our country. And they’ll pay it bc they wont forfeit the US market.”
That’s it. Simple, direct, and 100% correct. Everyone else makes it out to be this big complicated issue. “It’s complicated, it can’t be done.”
No one ever thinks to ask why. It galls me to say it, but Gruber wasn’t too far off the mark.
SMH
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Yes, in a nut shell…….A tax or Tariff on imports makes that item more competitively priced with the same ilk of a domestically produced item. That in turn reduces the impetus to move manufacturing off shore.
That investment opportunity is now equally, in financial terms, more inclined to be made here rather than in a foreign country. And that grows both the economy & the resultant job opportunities domestically.
Trump has this down pat ….We will still have Trade but it will be “Fair”….
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From what I am seeing, the Lame Stream Media has given up trashing Trump and promoting Jebby for moment, and instead is anointing Killary Queen of last night’s DemWit debate.
Reading the Prada Platitudes, one would think Killary cured cancer, walked barefoot on mars, and whooped all of ISIS…
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Yep! the media have declared her the winner of last night’s debate and some are reporting her people are breathing easier again. She will get the nomination, especially after Sanders’ gift about the people not caring about her emails, and courtesy of McCarthy.
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I skipped the debate (not out of choice—other obligations) but what little I have had a chance to read (today) pretty much says just what you mentioned:
Hillary won, and her sycophants are breathing a sigh of relief because her “credibility” has been restored.
I’m kinda surprised, actually, to see the media jumping to support her. Not because they’re “Fair and Balanced” or anything even remotely like that, but because Hillary is just as un-electable this morning as she was yesterday morning. Her email server is revealing new things –remember the damaging relationship with Sid Blumenthal– and Trey Gowdy’s Committee is making advances, the protestations of Elijah Cummings not withstanding.Gowdy isn’t going to fade into that Sweet Good Night, and neither is Benghazi and the polls are reflecting this very thing:
Hillary loses to Trump or Carson if the election was held today. So why does the media still support her,instead of sticking a fork in her campaign? Are they just waiting for the perfect moment to condemn her for what she is, and call Joe Biden off the bench? Methinks so. And that moment will come when Loretta Lynch announces formal charges against Hillary for mishandling “sensitive” information during her tenure as Secretary of State. All that depends on Biden, and when he privately tells Obama that he’s ready to run, and to “Cry Havoc! And Let Slip the Dogs of War!”
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that’s simple: Liars love lies. liars flock to lies like flies flock to poop. it’s what they do.
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You have the facts right about that.
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Good point. I also think that Oevil and his wife don’t like the Clintons. Do you remember how Bill was so furious with how the Oevil people treated Hillary in ’08, and Bill said something to the effect that if it were any other time and circumstances, it would be Oevil bringing Bill and his group coffee! They Hillary camp started the birther movement.
Having said that, if Hillary endures and gets the nomination, she will say she is the come-back-kid who survived all that the republicans dished out at her, and therefore deserves the nomination.
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Just to clarify, his statement about coffee was about Obama being so inexperienced, he should be a staffer, not a presidential candidate – it wasn’t about earlier times and slavery or anything like that….
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Jeb Bush had less than $2 million net worth when he left office in2007. He received over $38 million in personal income in the succeeding 7 years, most from Wall Street. Trump labeled Bush’s Lehman stint a “no show job.” They are buying something but its not talent. Kasich, son of a mailman as he keeps telling us, has a net worth of $9 – $22 million from his Wall St benefactors.
When Jeb Bush was on all 5 Sunday talk shows in 2013 because he wrote a book, that signaled he would be the nominee and the entire media was in on it.
Here’s Home Depot founder Ken Langone calling the idea of 3 people from the same family in the presidency in 25 years a monarchy. His expressions are very good, like it all just occurred to him, the lightbulb went on in his head. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2015-10-13/langone-i-like-chris-christie-john-kasich-for-president
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Thank you Sundance! I really needed to be taken through the weeds to understand the scope of the take-over the globalists have perpetrated on the American people. There is one thing that I have come to understand, and that is, that the left never sleeps! Whether they operate in a more obvious and overt way as in the expected places (liberals/progressives/DNC) or the more subtle less seen places like the so-called conservative of the non Tea Party persuasion, like the RNC/GOPe and all the RINO’s everywhere,they never sleep and never come up short of ways to deceive us and take away what belongs to us.
They are extremely savvy at playing this game!
There is really no difference among the members of the Uniparty.
That is why they absolutely fear the Donald, because he has had occasion to buy them with his own money in the course of doing business and therefore knows they all have a price and are easily bribe-able.
We must pray for Trump’s protection and for successfully getting the nomination and becoming our next president.
Remember [all those who know that this fight is not only in the ‘natural’ but in the ‘spiritual’] we are not warring against “flesh and blood,” there are deeper and more evil things going on here, and if that side wins, I fear that this great country would cease to exist as founded.
Heard on the radio this morning, Trump is making a point of why he still doesn’t have secret service protection as Oevil had by this stage in 2008.
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O had the gold-plated race card. He insisted he was getting more threats than candidates usually do because he’s (half) black, even though FBI reports have always contradicted that.
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good point. but Trump also has an entire country MEXICO making threats and even that El Chupo drug cartell dork put contract out on him as well. Trump has legitimate case for SS protection. i don’t recall Obama having even close to the threats that Trump has. Trump’s are up-in-your-face threats. some of Obama’s were real, but most were imagined.
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case in point: i remember back in 2008 many good American citizens getting strange visits by SS from things they said in those presidential telephone surveys. not even threats, not even racial stuff, just plain regular every day folks who said negative or derogatory comments about him. it was like a Dem paranoia blown out of proportion because of the RACE CARD.
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I doubt Trump trusts the Secret /Service. However, he would certainly play them for effect.
If you study his videos sequentially from announcement to present, where he is not in a studio, he is in a protected environment like a Trump Tower lobby. Crowd scenes in the 1st 2 months were optically relaxed, but anyone with a trained eye could spot a large cadre of plain-clothed, very professional security. Gradually, a shifting has occurred so that now he just appears onstage and leaves quickly also. What I see of him moving through crowds there is a large, skillfully unobtrusive security platoon and I have seen sniper spotters as well. He is protected as money can buy.
There is a reason he occasionally slips in that it takes courage to run for president. There is a reason for that shine of pride in his wife and children’:s eyes , the wide smiles and standing tall :: Donald Trump is risking life and honor and they aere 100% with him.
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“Oevil” (lol, I’m new at this) had the SS protection in MAY 2007 I believe I read today but he must have put in a ‘formal request’ which DHS says Donald hasn’t yet. Jeeez. Yes I will pray for him
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Excellent analysis! Reposting on Facebook, thank you, as always SD!
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Sander’s ‘1%’ talk as far as earnings go makes me itchy but then you look at the connections to the ‘1%’ers (in both parties) apparently pulling the ‘who gets to be princeps’ strings and the ire takes on a conservative flavor.
Polls tend to stroke those who want the poll to say something. There are plenty of pollsters who’ll take on the task of managing the poll’s outcome to meet the customers’ needs, if the object were a standard and ‘truthful’ ( I use the term loosely whenever I deal with opinion harvesting) poll we’d really only need one company – now if we have 50 companies polling on the same subject we can easily have 67 different outcomes.
I can remember the class we had in grad school that covered opinion sampling. The instructor went to great lengths to detail how the sampling process should be conducted with utmost honesty in a most professional manner – then went in and showed us how unscrupulous ‘pollsters’/focus group managers, etc, could tilt the outcome. I swear I could hear mind-gears churning as the more resourceful MBA candidates started putting business plans together. That was shortly before New Coke came on the market, accompanied by advertisements telling us that EVERYONE WOULD LOVE NEW COKE! I sometimes wonder….
Hillary New Coke in pantsuits…
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except she’s no longer the pantsuit queen, now sporting the latest hot “Amish Man” fashion for women!
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Hillary’s new fashion ensemble from the “Amish Man” collection
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Just remember, with Hillary as president, one also gets
the philandering, rapist husband, Bill.
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nowhere close to Amish…
she’s General Mao Zedong in drag.
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That is what I was thinking a modified Mao
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OMG! yes you’re RIGHT. ah ha ha LOL!
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oops i just looked up General Mao Zedong in drag but could not find anything close to what Shrillary is wearing. the Amish Man ensemble stands! LOL!
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So far we agree on everything MoniQue, but this. The Amish guys I live around dress much better than she, or Mao! (heehee) 😉
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yes, but the key word is GUYS. Hillllary is a WOMAN. i meant no disrespect for Amish men, they look fine. but not on a FEMALE presidential candidate. LoL!
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I guess she finally figured out that an Orange prison jumpsuit might be in her near future if Obama ever unleashes Loretta Lynch.
“Black is the new Orange”.
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Once you see that the big government that conservatives hate and the big business liberals hate are two sides of the same coin, you understand how the game is rigged.
Trump scares the hell out of the GOPe (and their Democratic partners in crime) because he doesn’t want to stop the wheel, he wants to break the wheel. 👍
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Hillary is new Coke in Depends……..
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Huh?
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It looks like the guy is trying to equate online searches and social media subscribers I guess they are called to actual voting humans.
Let them keep thinking that, snicker.
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LOL! PHILIP BUMP, he’s as bad as NICK GAS. Both shamed members of the low testosterone male club. I wouldn’t put much on them; they both specialize in hit pieces on Trump. I used to comment on their articles but eventually stopped because their articles were literally so full of lies and propaganda it seemed silly to legitimize their foolishness.
Nick Gass, Politico
Philip Bump Washington Post
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Separated at birth twins? Maybe half brothers? Or just a very common type now?
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Nick Gass could be brother of the guy that handed the NH nutcase the mic.
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This also follows the new emergence of media flunkies following the desperate new theme of “Why Republicans Need to Nominate Ted Cruz”. http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/rothenberg-republicans-need-nominate-ted-cruz/ I noticed this new trial balloon yesterday. They hate Cruz, the original splitter plan was developed to crush Cruz, and now Cruz is their savior from Trump. Why not? The more they push anyone the more they fail. So why not Wall St, TPP, teddy bears for illegals Ted? If they think they can elevate Ted (who is raising money) just so they can knock him down for !Jeb later that says how desperate they are and this sounds like a half baked Rove idea of great desperation. “But could Cruz win? I don’t think so. He might well carry all or most of the 22 states that McCain carried in 2008, and if the Democratic nominee is damaged badly enough and Barack Obama’s standing in national polls low enough, I suppose it might be possible that he could win.”
“But it is far more likely that Cruz would underperform among swing voters and suffer additional Republican defections. His nomination would enable Democrats to make the election a referendum on him and the tea party, and it isn’t difficult to imagine 2016 becoming a modern day version of 1964, when Republicans suffered a humiliating defeat.”
Nominate Cruz to loose to a Democrat is now the fall back position. And if he accidentally won he is Wall St friendly with his Goldman Sachs wife.
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Cruz has a narrow swath of blind, social conservative, “Constitutionalists-when-it-suits,” Christian voters and that’s really it. Any other “supporters” are false, laying in wait to shift to Heb. Libertarian-leaners can’t stand the religion-based social conservatism and manipulation of the Constitution. True conservatives and constitutionalists can’t abide his duplicity in voting for every Demonrat/<0-bomba initiative and his manipulation of the constitution, as above. Even GOPe folks only view him as a useful tool, b/c they’ve seen him throw tantrums over their depradations, then skulk along in lock step with them, when it came down to the nut-cutting. All Cruzites get this through your heads–look at his record–look at the reality of the current race and the existing constituencies who will vote. He cannot win the nomination; ergo, he cannot win the general election.
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Your opinion is duly noted. Can I go now and put my hearing aids back in.?
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Cruz possibly has Texas. It will not win him the nomination nor a general election. But it is still bringing in money as is Wall St for old Ted. Thus he is a self-funding splitter unlike the rest who are looking at a donor rebellion and the stoppage of funds due to !Jeb hitting the bottom of the well. When I heard this “Cruz is the answer/surging” floated yesterday afternoon on tv I knew immediately that he was to be the next Rubio/Carson/Fiorina/fill-in-the-blank splitter to be pitted against Trump even though the eGOP hates his guts (especially Boehner/McConnell and the beltway prima dona media) and wondered if the Goldman Sachs crowd had sweet talked the US CoC that he is better than Trump and beatable by Hillary. This just reeks of desperation.
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Seeing a pattern–maybe Rove’s got a rotation plan for the GOPe bench and this is how it plays out. Trying to tire Trump and make it look like he’s distracted by all the ankle biters. Hope DT sees this coming. His best strategy is to rise above them, though maybe not yet–might still need to scrap a little to keep them weak and keep the rotation going, so no one gets significant traction. GOPe are so self-defeating!
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“…distracted by the ankle-biters…”
If this be the case, they just don’t understand Donald Trump at all. This is a man who routinely parses out his time in any of a dozen or two directions, each and every day.
Trump is a man who is fully accustomed to dividing his attention; to prioritizing tasks; to setting a solid agenda.
If Rove is trying to distract this man Trump, he has yet another rude awakening ahead.
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Cruz supporters are the only ones really making any noise besides we Trumpets. (Now, I will bite my tongue- probably off, & recuse myself from commenting further. boutis, Jett Black, rodney, amjean- Rock On!)
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How do you explain his near perfect conservative voting record? His lone war on the GOPe and Washington DC cartel of lobbyists and Wall Street types. Sometimes like Trump, what you see is the real thing. If it walks like a duck….
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Two issues that stand out: Voting for TPA and the Iran deal.
What is the value of a 90+% conservative voting record when
on two extremely important issues Cruz does a belly flop?
Also, from what I see the senate does very little in the
“conservative” area, so what good are the votes? Nothing
gets accomplished except a lot of talk and no action
with the exception of going along with Obama.
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Cruz is just a cuckservative who is good at hiding it. He is a conservative when it suits him – which is rarely and most of the time a go along to get along kind of guy.
Nationally, he won’t do well, he’ll never get the white blue collars and lower middle-class at all since his platform ignores them then add in his stance on immigration. which makes him poison to most.white Americans. Forget about cross-overs because he has nothing for them. Same with independents who want a secure border.
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You can’t look at his record and the legislation he has proposed and say that with a straight face. Ridiculous.
If you are going to make sweeping statements, back them up with facts. If not, it is just juvenile name-calling.
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Cruz voting record not really conservative…especially on key issues
Support for ObamaTrade and Obama-Iran already mentioned…but he also wanted Rubio-Schumer-Obama Illegal Alien Amnesty passed…if it contained his provisions for more H1B visas and Work Permits for 5 million Illegal Aliens. That is not Conservative
Also, Cruz wife, Heidi, works in his campaign. Heidi was an executive with Goldman Sachs, worked on the North American Union, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations….all not only anathema to Conservatism…but anathema to America
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As important or more important than the nature of Cruz’s “proposed” legislation and the legislation he’s actually supported and voted for is the fact that little, if any genuinely conservative legislation he’s proposed has ever been passed–i.e., not a winner.
Coffee’s for closers only.
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after reading some of the comments, I’m positive some on this forum prefer globalism over nationalism. we’ve been a Nationalist country from 1776 till about 1980. I remember we made American muscle cars. some are just brainwashed by Milton Friedman.
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America stopped being nationalist when Reagan became President?
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I think it was Kennedy.
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I’m afraid that ‘they’ have distorted the meaning of the word. Now to say you are a Nationalist – which I am – is to bring back memories of the National Socialist Party or in other words – the Nazis. It’s the latest word propaganda and one more thing to fight off. They want us to be embarrassed to be proud of our country and want to put America first.
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there’s a difference between ethnic and civic nationalism, yes ?
I think prior to 1914, we were more of the “ethnic”.
and since WW2, more of the “civic”.
then there’s the old-fashioned “republicanism”…..sovereignty of citizens as opposed to a ruling elite.
and then also the difference between being a “citizen” as opposed to being a “subject”.
citizens have the right to defend themselves (own guns), whereas subjects do not.
the communists have done a lot to distort, dispel and subvert the concepts.
they still do.
nationalism is a good thing.
national socialism is not.
jmo
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CLINTON AND BUSH WILL NOT BE THE WINNERS–TRUMP WILL BE THE WINNER AND OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don’t post comments in all caps. -Admin
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Well done, Sundance. There’s a commonality about both Trump and Carson that the emerging constituency senses and which is driving them (the constituency) away from the politicians in the campaign. in music this would be like a fundamental cord that is easily heard but not shared by the others. What this means (I think) is that the Republican campaign may be entering a shake-out phase where where two major, decidedly not traditional candidates, compete while the remaining GOPe splitters become increasingly irrelevant and forced to trail along in their wake. This is a very unstable time. The GOPe strategists posses tremendous financial resources and are hardly going to take this lying down. After all, big bucks and significant power is at stake. As Sundance predicted some time ago, with the splitter strategy failing, we may see the GOPe/uniparty shift it’s focus and resources to Hillary.
The insurgency versus the establishment fight is just beginning. For obvious reasons, Trump is better equipped to respond to this kind of perfidity but Carson’s role in the drama is also of some significance. We live in interesting times. GO TRUMP!!
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Internet polls and pundits have Sanders winning the debate in a landslide. Meanwhile Fox News proclaims Hillary the clear winner.
Drudge: 54 vs 9
Time: 54 vs 11
Fox5 San Diego: 78 vs 15
fox2now: 79 vs 16
Slate: 72 vs 17
Herald Tribune: 77 vs 15
Huffing Post, Washington Post, Forbes, Chicago Tribune: Sanders won
Fox News Alternate Universe:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/14/clinton-debate-performance-enough-to-keep-biden-on-sidelines/?intcmp=hpbt3
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/13/las-vegas-debate-proves-hillary-clintons-safest-bet-in-this-imperfect-lot.html?intcmp=hpbt3
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/13/hillary-moves-left-bests-bernie-with-just-two-email-questions/?intcmp=hpbt3
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The old Hillary gang online has convinced themselves she was fabulous. How they think her scandals and the Obama’s vitriol towards her will just go poof is beyond me. The few minutes of the debate that I watched she seemed like she had swallowed some pep pills or been injected with speed to animate her and get her moving. I think she is aging faster than her chronological age and has severe health problems thus her spotty campaigning and need for only a few debates.
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I didn’t see a clear winner……But, I did see 5 losers……
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Great article Sundance! WoW! Really GRRRRRREAT! Keep getting the truth out there.
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New to the site and throughly impressed. One thing. Ted Cruz.
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Megyn Kelly: I ‘Overestimated’ Donald Trump’s ‘Anger-Management Skills’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/10/14/megyn-kelly-i-overestimated-donald-trumps-anger-management-skills/
She still thinks its all about her.
She’s an apprentice compared to The Donald!
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Yes dear. You learned YOU can’t “manage” him when he is angry.
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She not even an apprentice, Megyn Kelly is an intern perhaps even one with a blue stained dress.
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Kelly is just one little person in a very big boat of people who underestimate Trump.
No matter, Kelly–perhaps everything will become clearer to you in the fullness of time. Your insignificant opinion will not sway the issue one way or the other. You’re an insignificant bug mashed on Trump’s windshield.
No, Miss Kelly– Trump has not “gone too far” this time; no, Trump is not “fading”; no, Trump is not “doomed”. He is gaining strength while you wallow in your self-induced irrelevance.
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As always great analysis by SD, and great comments from everyone here in the treetops!!!!!
SD, thank you so much for creating clearing a visible path through the weeds. You’ve managed to make a very complicated subject easy to understand.
#Trump2016
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Oops, my bad meant to say Survey USA. I’m pretty sure that was posted here, yet I don’t recall this bit being discussed. It probably was, but you know…..the big ‘ol FOX Poll with Trump losing to Biden is what’s in my head right now.
“Last week, Survey USA released an eye-catching poll showing how Donald Trump would fare in head-to-head matchups against potential Democratic nominees Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Al Gore. The most shocking result was not that he beat all four of the candidates. What made everyone’s jaw hit the floor is that he received more than 20 percent support among African-American voters in every matchup.”
Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/donald-trump-winning-hispanic-vote-in-florida-bush-campaign-falling-apart/#1q5BwE5bK8b8D3qv.99
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Love it! Just wait until he pounces on her about her email scandal,
travelgate, taking the china and furniture belonging to the White House
when she and Bill left, the four murdered in Benghazi, her philandering
husband as first man, etc. etc. I don’t suspect Trump, if pushed, will
hold anything back. He is not afraid of her or her handlers.
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Kept waiting for a website to report the number of viewers to the debate last night. Variety has just reported that 15.6 million watched the debate compared to the first Fox debate which brought in 24 million viewers.
Still waiting to hear third quarter donation totals for Fiorina, & Jeb Bush. Don’t know if I missed it, but seems funny that we knew within less than a week that Rand Paul had only brought in 2.5 million, yet, still haven’t heard on the two candidates that the media assured us were rising in the polls.
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Me too. Obviously weak #s or they would be talking about them..the next day after the GOP debate FOX was bragging.
Sooner or later FOX will mention it bc it’s a dig @ CN&N
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I’m more interested in what happened on DT’s live twitter feed during the debate. I don’t “do” twitter, so couldn’t (or didn’t know how to) monitor. Anyone here know? Did he have a substantial number of active or online “followers” during the debate? Not sure I’m phasing these questions correctly, but hopefully someone here will know what I mean and chime in.
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Trump gained over 140,000 new Twitter followers yesterday. Don’t know how many were actually online during the debate.
You don’t have to be signed up on Twitter to see Trump’s tweets. Just go here and keep refreshing the page to see if he has added any new ones:
https://twitter.com/RealDonaldTrump
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140,000 total, but during the actual debate (in just 2 hours) Trump picked up 70,000 new followers. More than all the Dem candidates COMBINED!
Source: “Trump Picked Up More Followers During Debate Than All the Dems Combined”
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/10/14/trump-picked-more-followers-during-debate-all-dems-combined
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BREAKING!!!
CNN/ORC South Carolina Poll: TRUMP 36%, Carson 18%
CNN/ORC NEVADA Poll: TRUMP 36%, Carson 18%
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/14/politics/republican-poll-donald-trump-nevada-south-carolina/index.html
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But–but–but… The FOX News poll has them tied…??
(Amateurish try, Fox. Everybody–including YOU–knows that Trump is burying the competition handily.)
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WHOA You are the bearer of good tidings. Love it!
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So has Trump stated whether or not he made a deal with SNL/NBC to have a say in the content of the script for the show, IE, for every shot of ridicule they throw at Trump, an opponent, R or D, gets a shot of ridicule, equal time? Or did he just lay back and say whatever you want to do to me, skits having me dressed as Hitler, or Caitlan Jenner, etc…?
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John Kasich is being touted as a possible Vice-President…
Right…When porcine drone pilots take over.
Look at who’s floating this.
–Charlie Gasparino…certifiable [insert something here other than “in the know”] and mostly kicked off CNBC. Wing meet nut.
–Noelle Nikpour…certified carpetbagger and completely insane.
http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/04/29/pundit-noelle-nikpour-considers-gop-run-for-patrick-murphy-house-seat/
http://nikpour4congress.com/
http://www.tcpalm.com/franchise/indian-river-lagoon/elections/arkansas-gop-strategist-noelle-nikpour-enters-race-for-patrick-murphys-seat_01090565
This district is sorta republican (RINO), but they are horse, golf, and boat people mixed up with tree-huggers and Wall Street Flesh Eating Zombies®. Bargain hunters can pick up some good waterfront (canal) property here left over from the housing bust. Note this about the district she’ll be dropping bucks in:
Allen West moved to the district from South Florida…
Sure…
Do yourself a favor…TURN FAUX OFF.
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I watched that childish exchange on Fox Business link SD posted it was absurd.
He heard it from a friend who heard it from someone who can’t be named blah blah
blah. The question remains who is spreading this silly rumor Kasich’s own campaign?
I hope West can serve some role in the Trump admin. Lord knows the DOD needs cleansing from top to bottom.
Day 1:
Close every damn mosque/foot bath on every single base
End gun free zones at every DOD facility
flush all of Bradley Manning’s pills an cancel any surgeries
Court martial Bergdahl and do what is done to traitors during war times ( that applies to Manning as well ).
Restore pro American ROE.
Dispatch planes to bring home anyone in military that is still fighting ebola.
Order bacon be served at every meal if someone doesn’t like bacon so what.
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BREAKING!!!!!
YouGov Poll: TRUMP 28%, Carson 18%
https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/10/14/whats-happened-jeb-bush/
Great Internals for TRUMP. Sundance please put up a new article with this great new polls.
Just Released!
CNN/ORC Nevada, Trump 38% +16
CNN/ORC South Carolina, Trump 36% +18
YouGov National, Trump 28% +10
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those are amazing numbers!
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I think this is reminder, that we need to keep more of an eye on the primary polls. National is all very well, but it is what is going on in the primary states that is going to really matter for the delegates. They are all looking very good for Trump.
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Yuuge #s!
Will be funny to watch the cuckservatives at Faux News hold back their tears as they deliver this recent polling (if they even do).
Scarborough sarcastically put it best on Twitter just now: @JoeNBC: Trump is only leading by 18 points in the latest South Carolina CNN poll. Poor guy. Maybe he’ll finally get the clue that it’s time to quit.
LOL
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This is great! You should check this “Stump The Trump 4” video:
***WARNING there is some bad language, but it is funny! ***
The New Hampshire bit with our favorite plant is great.
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Thanks for this, it is great!
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I was thinking that neither Jeb! nor Carly has done anything in about 10 years.
Trump surely must have people who read this board.
I wonder when he will bring up their lack of recent portfolio?
If you apply for a job what you did 10 years ago is nearly irrelevant.
It is what you have been doing recently that matters.
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Funny stuff Torch, very creative. Will have to look for 1-3.
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Now he’s going after Steven Tyler on twitter, hilarious!
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By the way he’s right! “Dream on” is to Aerosmith as “Forever Young” is to Dylan. Crap is crap!
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“National Security Scandal”, not “email scandal”.
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Well said, Steve!
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THANK YOU!! I have been saying that for months. As long as people only act like it’s an e-mail scandal, it is being dismissed. It has always been a National Security scandal and we should do everything we can to correct people about that. The distinction is Yuge!
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New poll numbers: Nevada and South Carolina!!!!!! Trump leading yuge!!!!
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/256922-poll-trump-tops-carson-by-double-digits-in-nevada-south-carolina
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Nevada is a “yuge” union state so this really is “yuge”.
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Ivanka Trump on female empowerment, her company and Donald’s presidential run
Wonderful introduction for people who are not familiar with Ivanka, what a credit to her father she is. If she starts on the campaign for her father, well get ready to start seeing him hit 40% in some of those primary polls!
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Great vid Torch. She will be a great role model to many young ladies.
And I loved how she dismissed MK as being irrelevant, nothing more than faux made for tv outrage..
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Ivanka is very impressive. She knows what she is talking about, which is in such a stark contrast to many liberals who have never earned a paycheck from a real world job/career. She shows real common sense in prioritizing her obligations and managing her personal life. Another remarkable contrast with liberals, who think that they are indispensable and that if they are not barking orders the world would stop spinning!
Wow! She is very family oriented! Another insult to the libs! Libs can’t stand beautiful women who are devoted to their family and are extremely successful in building a career.
Feminists’ preferred tool of persuasion: condescension.
She will be a great asset in Trump’s campaign going forward.
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There’s a line from an old country song- “Some folks think they’re better ‘cause they’re better off.”
Too many years ago for me to recall and give attribution, I read a piece that suggested if all the money in the world were to be magically distributed equally to every man, woman & child, within a few years, the rich would once again be rich, the poor would once again be poor and the rest of us would be pretty much right where we are today (maybe with newer appliances and a fresh set of tires). This is probably true, but not because the rich are ‘better’ in some way.
The way I see it is that all of us choose. You and I may choose relationships- friends, family, co-workers- and vocations that support but do not control our time or our lives. As a factory worker, I couldn’t wait till my eight hours were done. As a small business owner, I spent enormous amounts of time running my business. But I loved it; I didn’t mind at all.
So we choose.
Some choose accumulation of wealth above all else – every waking moment. I do not envy or begrudge those who have chosen gold. For all I care, the wealthy can sit in their yachts, clink their doubloons and enjoy all the days of their lives. But they do NOT have a right to fabricate my choices.
Yesterday, I sent a check to Donald Trump. A small check. He doesn’t need it. He’ll never even notice it. That’s not the point. I didn’t do it for him. I did it for me. I want skin in the game. I want to make a commitment. I want to choose! More than that, I want to be able to choose. And I want my sons and their children to be able to choose.
Donald Trump does not foreclose my choices. He is an assault on those who presume to control my choices. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead! Choose to win!!!
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I appreciate and am in full accord with your calm, measured, thoughtful essay. A wonderful statement of position worthy of the sacrifice Trump himself is making!! imo…
It was common folks from bottom to top of colonial society, from the dirt to the mountain tops, from squalor to high position, who put pittance or fortunes on the line to make our country possible. We all need to work from where we stand, spread and our positive commitment to others around us, encouraging rather than criticizing, loving rather than judging, shining our portion of sunshine for the benefit of our fellows, that is the leadership Trump is modeling for us..
Again, thank you and may God bless you and us all in this endeavor — — —
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Great analysis…and explains all the who and why
Globalists in one way are like Bernie…control of the re-distribution of wealth. Globalists actually take it one step further with the re-distribution (via Free Trade…and massive trade deficits) to Communist China
Heck, even the Socialist Bernie isn’t fond of Communist China
Trump, for all reasons you mentioned, is why the Communist Globalists fear his Presidency. Trump brings in Free Markets over Free Trade
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Climate Scam is another massive redistribution of wealth scheme opposed by Trump.
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http://usuncut.com/politics/6-reasons-bernie-sanders-actually-owned-the-debate-despite-what-pundits-claim/
so CNN takes down the poll that says 85% of the pollsters prefer Sanders. Hillary was in the single digits.
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We’ll see. Should Donald Trump win the Republican nomination, this will easily be the most fascinating election of my lifetime (1946, same as him). And the author’s right, there’s no doubt the US Chamber and their acolytes will spend billions in an effort to defeat him (unless in the unlikely event a truce is struck), but he’ll have billionaires in his corner as well. However, should this occur it will also lead to the demise of the GOP, win or lose. But the author’s right again, they don’t care, they’re all about the money, which they’ve made off our backs all these years. Talk about your unintended consequences!
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