It’s called self immolation.  July 20th 2016 will go down in Cruz family history as that moment when Ted Cruz detonated his career suicide belt and created the #NeverCruz movement.

Forget the non endorsement, that’s not the issue.  Senator Cruz had a remarkable opportunity, he blew it.  Cruz accepted an invitation to speak to the GOP convention then insulted the audience.  Cruz couldn’t rise above his own brutal ego and petty selfishness.  The arrogance simply went too far, he humiliated himself in front of millions.

Watch and see for yourself:

It happened just like we predicted it would.  Donald Trump gave Senator Ted Cruz the rope, and Ted hung himself -diminished himself- on national TV.

Don’t be too angry…  The backlash Cruz is going to get from his prideful and arrogant display will be written in the annals of political history and shared with political science classes for generations.

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Nigel Farage question and answer session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.  Mr. Farage answers questions about Donald Trump, 2016 nationalistic politics, the current European Union and Brexit.  Well worth watching.

Beyond the annoyingly GOPe progressive interviewer, this is a great interview:

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The significant roadblock to this effort would be UniParty leader and Obama facilitator/funder, House Speaker Paul Ryan.  The legislation required to make the changes needed would be almost impossible to achieve with Ryan acting as a roadblock to protect the Obama agenda.  Thus the clear recognition why it is so critical to remove Paul Ryan on August 9th.

(Via Reuters) If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.

Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump’s White House transition team, said the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

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Day #3 of the republican national convention in Cleveland Ohio begins tonight at 7:00pm EDT.   There are two Live Stream Options Below:

Live Stream Link – Alternate RNC Live Stream Link

• Laura Ingraham, Radio Host
• Phil Ruffin, Businessman
• Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida
• Eileen Collins, Astronaut (retired)
• Michelle Van Etten, Small Business Owner
• Kentucky State Senator Ralph Alvarado, Jr.
• Darrell Scott, Pastor
• Harold Hamm, Continental Resources
• Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
• Lynne Patton, The Eric Trump Foundation
• U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida)
• U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
• Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization
• Newt & Callista Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House and his wife
• Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Presumptive candidate for Vice President

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During a February Republican debate the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Stassel challenged Donald Trump on the projected revenue from his proposed tax plan.

In essence Stassel claimed some economists doubted the growth factor Mr. Trump projects in his tax proposal.

In a sixty second response time, it was factually impossible for Donald Trump to explain something more complex than a sound bite allows.  However, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Specifically, one of the larger hurdles Trump faces is a need to re-educate an entire generation on a fundamentally new vision of the U.S. economy.  A return to a Pro-Main Street, goods-based, manufacturing, technology, innovation and industry driven economic model.

Interestingly, many people have referenced a 1991 (25 years old) video of Donald Trump testifying before congress – as evidence of him being tuned in to political consequences of economic activity. The entire video is well worth watching because it gives you insight into a very specific moment in time as they discuss the ‘Reagan era’ 1986 tax reform act.

For the sake of this discussion post I would like to draw your attention to a very specific exchange between Donald Trump and Representative Helen Delich Bently (R-MD). (more…)

Just plain funny, and they have even created a website. Flippin’ hilarious.

Supporting Ted Cruz for president at this point is tantamount to campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Get behind the clear leader of the common-sense conservative movement, Donald J. Trump.

TedClinton.com

Candidates Donald Trump and Mike Pence are holding a campaign rally today in Cleveland, Ohio. The event is being held at the Great Lakes Science Center. It is scheduled to begin at 2:00 PM EDT. (The event is not open to the general public)

Live Stream Link

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Well, you can put this huge and under-reported Trump platform position in the AFFIRMED PREDICTION column.

Anyone thinking Donald Trump is not intensely serious about America-First economics just got a massive dose of reality.  Specifically demanded by Donald Trump himself:

“We support reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in high-risk investment,” said the platform released by the Republican National Committee. (link)

CONTEXT – Beyond the larger context of Globalists VS Nationalists (Americanism), the internal opposition to Common Sense economic conservatism (Americanism) can be broken down into two categories:

♦ The first group are those who are fundamentally naive about large and historic economic issues; and how the economy was changed, forced to change through the past forty years, by financial interests who created a second, “false“, paper economy. (more…)

Did anyone notice how quiet the convention auditorium was when Speaker Paul Ryan was delivering his Tuesday night speech outlining his perspectives on the future of the GOP?

The media don’t want to discuss the lackluster audience response, and the right side of the UniParty punditry definitely don’t want to draw attention to it – but the meek applause was deafening.  The Ryan party is in the minority, the Trump party is in control – this is now the people’s convention.

And right there the stage is set for Senator Ted Cruz tonight.  Donald Trump masterfully invited Ted Cruz to speak at the convention without requesting any endorsement.  Hundreds of column inches have previously outlined this seemingly unprecedented approach, however the maneuver is typical Trump – brilliant.

In the broadest of terms, Donald Trump won the GOP nomination because he has a pulse on the electorate.  Simply put, Trump gets the “Cold Anger”; Donald Trump understand the motivations behind the “Monster Voter”. (more…)

The same legacy media pundits/critics who decried the candidacy of Donald Trump are fraught with pearl-clutching criticism because the structure of convention day #2 prime-time speeches are not following their customary political norms.

Oh dear, oh my…. oh noes... the vulgarians are daring to put on their own show.  Those unwashed non-cosmopolitan’s have the audacity to break tradition with the professional political class, go figure.

Here’s some great speeches, starting with Donald Trump Jr.:

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