Heartbreaking flooding in West Virginia. Sincere thoughts and prayers for anyone in the affected region. If there are any Treepers in need of any assistance at all please send us an email or comment below and we’ll do whatever we can to assist.

(CNN) West Virginia rescue crews worked steadily overnight and into the morning to answer emergency calls from residents stranded by fast-moving floodwaters that state officials say have killed at least 23 people.
Heavy rain battered much of the state earlier this week, and floodwaters pouring out of creeks and rivers prompted scores of rescue calls. Utilities were working to restore power for residents and businesses.
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At the heart of the common sense information surrounding the Brexit vote a few ordinary and uncomfortable points continue to be avoided by the echo-chambered media elite who have retreated to their safe spaces:
♦ First Point – The U.K. was sending Brussels $500 million per week of their wealth to be redistributed to the ‘lesser than’ affiliates.  In essence, Classic Fabian/Socialist Economics: From each according to their ability – to each according to their need.
Simultaneously, to the parasitic withdrawal – inbound immigration was putting unsustainable financial strain on the social/societal welfare systems of the host.
♦ Second Point – Inbound, seemingly uncontrolled, mass immigration to the U.K. was twice the level of job creation in the same time period.  That reality is unsustainable by any concept of societal economics.  Obviously the displaced and impacted workers were/are the residents of the host country. (more…)

It was August of 2015 when George Will said Trump supporters need to come into the republican party on his terms, not theirs (04:33 of video below):

[…]  These are voters the Republicans want, the Republicans want all voters, and particularly these voters, but to say that he’s tapped into something;… {shaking head} … Henry Wallace tapped into something, with the far left of American Politics in the late 40’s; the John Birch society tapped into something, George Wallace tapped into something, and it was up to the grown-ups in the labor movement in the late 1940’s, and the grown-ups in the conservative movement in the 1960’s to read those elements the riot act, and say: come back in, but come back in on our terms because we are not going down the road you want to go”…

That was August 2015.  Yesterday Mr. Will conceded defeat:
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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 †

A few days ago Bloomberg published a poll of 2,001 registered voters containing a sub-set of 945 voters considered “investors” in the financial markets (full pdf below).
From those voters who are also financial investors the results showed a 50% favorability for Donald Trump, and a 33% favorability for Hillary Clinton.  Not only do voters trust Trump more with their personal and family safety, they also trust Donald Trump more with their personal and family finances:

(Bloomberg)  More voters with a stake in the stock market say Donald Trump would be better as president for their portfolios than Hillary Clinton, with about one in four saying they’ll alter their asset mix if the Republican is elected and a similar share saying they’d do so if the Democrat wins.
A Bloomberg/Morning Consult national poll on investment, tax and economic issues shows voters with money in the market pick Trump over Clinton, 50 percent to 33 percent, as the person they think will be better for their portfolio. Those with more than $50,000 invested answer the question almost identically as smaller investors.
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The ruling class globalists are in full meltdown mode today across almost every media platform possible.

The U.S. political media is especially insufferable today.  They’re working overtime trotting out every pontificating member of the left-wing cloister to decry the decision of U.K. voters to exit the cosmopolitan superiority of The European Union.

It is a rather remarkable moment to behold, and the comparative contrasts deserve some emphasis.
• In months past, the political ruling class have waxed philosophically about the working people who don’t have enough money to cover any unanticipated life emergency greater than $500.
Today those same voices point breathlessly to the bankers (currency market) and investing class (financial market) losses – – seemingly unaware the ‘working people’ they previously defined as non-Vichy are unaffected by such consequences.
Oh dear, the global bankers are losing today?  Yeah, so, pass the cannolis.
Wait, wha.. huh?
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Appearing on Breitbart Radio Nigel Farage tells Stephen K. Bannon that President Obama’s visit to the UK (telling the people to vote Remain) offended a lot of British and backfired on the Remain campaign:
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“Threatening people too much actually insults their intelligence and the lesson from the Obama visit is even more fascinating”. 
“Here’s the most powerful man in the world coming from a country that we’ve always had a huge high regard for … and a lot of people in Britain said, ‘How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do?’ And it backfired and I think we got an Obama Brexit bounce because people do not want foreign leaders telling them how to think and how to vote.”
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US presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers official news conference at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland.
Yesterday the U.S. media pundits were attacking Mr. Trump for leaving the U.S. during the presidential race.  Today, not so much.  Trump appears rather prescient.