Listed below is a comparative graph, (from FEC records), showing the number of people on the campaign payrolls of: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump over the past thirteen months:

Obviously there are a few interpretations possible for what this data signifies.  However, two of the more obvious points would be:

• Two of the three candidates represented have never held executive management responsibility in the private sector where they needed to worry about labor efficiency.
• Two of the three candidates have never needed to make a payroll, or be personally accountable for the financial viability of their endeavors.  Their only budget familiarity is spending other peoples money.

It is not too challenging to identify which two candidates would be unfamiliar with labor costs, budgeting and efficiency.  In addition which candidate do you think would be more apt to focus on the elimination of bloated bureaucratic government, and waste?
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
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I doubt you could find a more apropos contrast than today with Donald Trump campaigning in Tampa Florida and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, while the insufferable old GOPe represented by Mitt Romney hole up in an exclusive and indulgent mountain top enclave…. while decrying the audacity of the vulgarian insurgency.
Here’s the ball cap clad blue collar businessman in Pennsylvania delivering a speech with his plane as the backdrop.  Think about it:

“His Plane”, the result of his effort, his acumen, his work ethic and his determination.
He’s effectively won the nomination.  The convention still a month away.  It’s mid June, and yet there’s Trump busting his butt on the campaign trail, visiting key battleground states and fighting for every possible voter.
On this exact day four years earlier, presumptive republican nominee Mitt Romney was taking a few weeks off, lounging and relaxing at the spa amid the white wine spritzer crowd – having determined the visits to the unwashed masses were no longer necessary.
Not Donald Trump. Not 2016.  Not this guy… Our candidate is sweating his ass off fighting against every possible adversary while the ankle biting Romney loyalists sip summer cocktails chilled with frozen artesian rain water. (more…)

It does not matter whether the Anti-Trumpist of the day emanates from Washington DC (congress), from media (punditry), or from the special interest groups doing the bidding of Wall Street (US CoC), the ultimate thread which connects them all is money. Lots, and lots, of money. These are financial interests.
Not meaning to be so simplistic, but it’s always about the money. Behind every globalist word, behind every globalist ideology, behind the convenient use of pop culture – you find the motives of power interests all circle around money.
Corporate media does an effective job promoting opinion that serves their interests. Admitting this is not cynicism, it is our reality. Controversies are used as tools, simply intended to sway opinion and applied when needed to serve those interests.
That is what they do.  That’s what this is.  That’s all this is.
Think about the current pearl clutching class of DC congress critters, in conjunction with the recently rolled out Mitt Romney approach, aghast with what they call Trump’s racism; or more recently with Romney’s new talking point: “trickle down racism“…
Contrast the accusation against the reality of the GOPe behavior in the Mississippi 2014 primary where race was specifically used BY THEM to retain Thad Cochran’s seat in the Senate.  Was mittens concerned about McConnell’s use of race to advance the GOPe objectives?
Nah, not so much.  Funny that.
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Candidate Donald Trump has a second rally scheduled today in Pittsburgh, PA at Atlantic Aviation. The event is scheduled to begin at 3:00 PM EDT
Live stream Link – Alternate Live Stream

“I use a rope every day, that’s how I make my living. If it catches cattle pretty good, it catches a bandit pretty good.”

(Eagle Point Police Department FB) Oregon rancher Robert Borba was at the Eagle Point [Wal Mart]  store loading dog food and a camping tent into his truck when he heard a woman screaming that someone was trying to steal her bike.

The 28-year-old quickly got his horse, Long John, out of its trailer. He grabbed a rope, rode over to the man who was reportedly struggling with the bike gears and attempting to flee on foot.
Borba lassoed the man around the legs and when he dropped, Borba dragged him to one end of the parking lot.
[…] Eagle Point police Sgt. Darin May said officers arrived and found the lassoed man and bike on the ground in the parking lot.  Police arrested Victorino Arellano-Sanchez  (story)

Candidate Donald Trump is holding a rally today in Tampa, FL at the Tampa Convention Center.  Doors open at 8:00am and the event is scheduled to begin at 11:00am
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †