GOP Convention

[ducks]

what's your unemployment number, LGBT hater?

do you like same sex or the opposite sex like normal people

[rmt]

Please explain - if unemployment is truly 5%, why millenniums can't find jobs, why this great demand for workers hasn't resulted in wages going up, why one is competing with 10s of others for the same job, why it took my husband (with decades of experience) 5 months to get a job?

US job cuts rise to 65,141 in April; 2016 layoffs at 7-year high: Challenger
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/05/us-job-cuts-rise-to-65141-in-april-2016-layoffs-at-7-year-high-challenger.html

[boutons_deux]

Please explain - if unemployment is truly 5%, why millenniums can't find jobs, why this great demand for workers hasn't resulted in wages going up, why one is competing with 10s of others for the same job, why it took my husband (with decades of experience) 5 months to get a job?

US job cuts rise to 65,141 in April; 2016 layoffs at 7-year high: Challenger
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/05/us-job-cuts-rise-to-65141-in-april-2016-layoffs-at-7-year-high-challenger.html

The "participation rate" is historically low, due to the Banksters Great Depression, globalizatoin, the austerian Repugs refusing to stimulate the economy, the Repugs laying of 100Ks of state employees, teachers, etc, etc.

People are coming back into the labor force, but most are finding nothing but shitty jobs, their college degrees being useless, and their enslaving college debt (thanks, Repugs!) lucrative for interest-charging capitalists, and predatory debt collectors.

Several Repugs are touting how well their states are doing, while LYING that Obama and ACA have destroyed the economy.

[rmt]

My name is Meredith McIver and I’m an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization. I am also a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family.

In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady [sic] speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people. A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.

Yesterday, I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family, but they rejected it. Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences.

I asked to put out this statement because i did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump’s historic campaign for president and Melania’s beautiful message and presentation.

I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused. Today, more than ever, I am honored to work for such a great family. I personally admire the way Mr. Trump has handled this situation and I am grateful for his understanding.

http://www.amny.com/news/elections/melania-trump-s-rnc-speech-meredith-mciver-trump-organization-staff-writer-takes-responsibility-1.12068563

[Splits]

If only Obummer would have handed off the economy in a responsible manner like W.

[140]

My name is Meredith McIver and I’m an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization. I am also a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family.

In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady [sic] speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people. A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.

Yesterday, I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family, but they rejected it. Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences.

I asked to put out this statement because i did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump’s historic campaign for president and Melania’s beautiful message and presentation.

I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused. Today, more than ever, I am honored to work for such a great family. I personally admire the way Mr. Trump has handled this situation and I am grateful for his understanding.

http://www.amny.com/news/elections/melania-trump-s-rnc-speech-meredith-mciver-trump-organization-staff-writer-takes-responsibility-1.12068563
:lmao so that's the best they could come up with?

[rmt]

:lmao so that's the best they could come up with?

Yes, they don't have the 10s of people vetting speeches like Hillary does. Melanie Trump probably wasn't even aware of plagiarism (has she ever written a paper in her life?) - I'm surprised the media isn't crowing that she admires Michelle. And why is the media blowing it all out of proportion - it was still top of Google News this morning - 2 days after with the 2nd night of the convention in between?

[hater]

Melania is a dumb ass broad tbh. Trump would be better off riding solo in the white house and having parties with Ron Jeremy and hugh Heffner in the oval office.

Fuck that broad.she can't even get a speech right. The one thing she is asked to do she fucks it up :lol

She's better off going home and waiting fro trump to lay that pipe

[CosmicCowboy]

Melania is a dumb ass broad tbh. Trump would be better off riding solo in the white house and having parties with Ron Jeremy and hugh Heffner in the oval office.

Fuck that broad.she can't even get a speech right. The one thing she is asked to do she fucks it up :lol

She's better off going home and waiting fro trump to lay that pioe

:lol penis envy

[hater]

Probably that too. Bitch is dumb

Does she not know that there are 2 parties in this country and Michell Obama belongs in the opposing party? :lol

She's fucking up. Christie Soprano might need to make a house call tbqh

[ducks]

Melania is not dumb
she speaks 5 languages she does not like to speak. She was convinced by trump to give the speech. She is new to this type of thing. She is a complete outside on this. Trump spoke with media before because of his tv he loves the media attention. Some do better then that. George Bush was not a great speaker. The current president is a good speaker. I do not agree with a lot he does but he is a great speaker!

Donald Trump Jr is a great speaker also

[boutons_deux]

Team Trump Released A Letter To Try To End Its Plagiarism Scandal. It May Backfire.

The statement was printed not on campaign letterhead, but on Trump Organization letterhead. In it, Meredith McIver identified herself not as a campaign staffer, but as “an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization.” She notes that she offered her resignation “to Mr. Trump and the Trump family,” but makes no mention of offering to resign from the Trump campaign.

that letter “raised all kinds of questions about whether this has been illegal support.”

“His company is not supposed to be supporting his campaign,” Noble explained, which would be an illegal corporate contribution. While campaign disclosures have indicated that Trump for President has been paying the Trump Organization for some staff time, which is permissible under campaign finance law, Noble observed that “the lines are becoming very blurred.”

“Nowhere in here does she say she was working at the Trump campaign,” he added. “Then she talks about resigning, the implication is resigning from the company. Why would she be doing that if she was working for the campaign? This raises a lot of questions.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/20/3800321/donald-trump-melania-plagiarism-corporate-contribution/

Ignorant of the law (and lots of other stuff), and hiring "the best lawyers", Donny Trash thinks he's immune to the law, anyway.

[ducks]

Donny Trash thinks he's immune to the law, anyway.


no that would be the clintons

[TheSanityAnnex]

Team Trump Released A Letter To Try To End Its Plagiarism Scandal. It May Backfire.

The statement was printed not on campaign letterhead, but on Trump Organization letterhead. In it, Meredith McIver identified herself not as a campaign staffer, but as “an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization.” She notes that she offered her resignation “to Mr. Trump and the Trump family,” but makes no mention of offering to resign from the Trump campaign.

that letter “raised all kinds of questions about whether this has been illegal support.”

“His company is not supposed to be supporting his campaign,” Noble explained, which would be an illegal corporate contribution. While campaign disclosures have indicated that Trump for President has been paying the Trump Organization for some staff time, which is permissible under campaign finance law, Noble observed that “the lines are becoming very blurred.”

“Nowhere in here does she say she was working at the Trump campaign,” he added. “Then she talks about resigning, the implication is resigning from the company. Why would she be doing that if she was working for the campaign? This raises a lot of questions.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/20/3800321/donald-trump-melania-plagiarism-corporate-contribution/

Ignorant of the law (and lots of other stuff), and hiring "the best lawyers", Donny Trash thinks he's immune to the law, anyway.




Ignorance of the law worked for Hillary. I hope Trump says exactly that if questioned.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Adviser Stands by Call for Clinton to Face 'Firing Squad'

"as far as I'm concerned, the laws of the land on treason could be a firing squad if she's found guilty."
He first made the comments on the Jeff Kuhner Show, and when confronted with his earlier remarks he said he stood by them.

"I stand by it because treason is treason. When you take information on a server, that's a non classified server, classified info, and you've got names of American CIA, Secret Service, ambassadors or whatever and you're sharing that out there, you're giving the enemy information," Baldasaro said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/card/trump-adviser-stands-call-clinton-face-firing-squad-n613436?cid=sm_fb

This is the kind of vigilante trash that's attracted to Donny Trash

It doesn't matter to this ignorant, emotionally deranged trash that Repugs had a hard-on for years and spent many $Ms trying convict Hillary, and, typically for Repugs, ended up flaccid, just as they did with Slick Willie.

[CosmicCowboy]

What did thinkprogress say about Hillary paying Huma from the State department and the Clinton Foundation?

[hitmanyr2k]

Please explain - if unemployment is truly 5%, why millenniums can't find jobs, why this great demand for workers hasn't resulted in wages going up, why one is competing with 10s of others for the same job, why it took my husband (with decades of experience) 5 months to get a job?

US job cuts rise to 65,141 in April; 2016 layoffs at 7-year high: Challenger
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/05/us-job-cuts-rise-to-65141-in-april-2016-layoffs-at-7-year-high-challenger.html

Maybe your husband is in the wrong industry. Maybe his personality sucks. Who the fuck knows? There are a lot of variables that go into landing a job. It's not all about skill level and experience. It's Obama's fault people aren't qualified for the jobs out there?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/news/economy/job-openings/

I've seen the same jobs available in my area for the last 6-12 months...still sitting there waiting to be filled. Great paying jobs. I'm still in disbelief they haven't been filled yet. Those layoffs in your article are from the energy sector. Well...people had to realize the energy boom doesn't last forever. It goes up and down. When the price of oil goes down there are going to be winners and losers. I live in Pennsylvania and every time a coal plant gets shuttered it's time to blame the government!! It's the government's fault the natural gas boom started pushing out coal. It's the government's fault that electricity demand has gone down which has resulted in less demand for coal. It's the government's fault that people in the city don't want to breathe in toxic air every time the wind blows the wrong way giving their children health problems and bringing down their property value. It's the government's fault that coal workers were too short-sighted to see the trends in their industry and cope with the hard truth that cheaper, cleaner fuels were going to eventually replace their more expensive and dirtier kind of fuel. The Beaver Cleaver generation think these jobs are supposed to last forever like it's not an ever-changing world. Rather than look in the mirror and hold themselves accountable for their blindness it's easier to use someone else as the scapegoat. It's like a programmer from the 80's and 90's blaming the government because hardly anyone uses COBOL anymore in this day and age :lol The smart people saw the trends, knew the dinosaur languages were being phased out, adapted and learned newer languages/skills.

[RandomGuy]

The convention just highlights the problems of the GOP.

Many have said that it may be one of the last hurrahs of a dying national party.

I wouldn't write off the GOP yet. They can still attract young people, as the GOP interns can attest to in this white-angle shot of GOP congressional interns.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/18/11/3661C39B00000578-3695505-The_GOP_speaker_posted_a_picture_on_Instagram_capt ioned_I_think_-m-68_1468839586422.jpg

[RandomGuy]

Yes, they don't have the 10s of people vetting speeches like Hillary does. Melanie Trump probably wasn't even aware of plagiarism (has she ever written a paper in her life?) - I'm surprised the media isn't crowing that she admires Michelle. And why is the media blowing it all out of proportion - it was still top of Google News this morning - 2 days after with the 2nd night of the convention in between?

Meh. It is a tempest in a teacup. Slightly amusing, but the kind of stuff that makes for ratings.

[RandomGuy]

Please explain - if unemployment is truly 5%, why millenniums can't find jobs, why this great demand for workers hasn't resulted in wages going up, why one is competing with 10s of others for the same job, why it took my husband (with decades of experience) 5 months to get a job?

US job cuts rise to 65,141 in April; 2016 layoffs at 7-year high: Challenger
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/05/us-job-cuts-rise-to-65141-in-april-2016-layoffs-at-7-year-high-challenger.html

The great recession cut very deep. The labor market is only really now bouncing back, with wages finally being pressed upwards due to constraints.

The answers are in in your own link:


Challenger cautioned that it is not unusual to see job cuts rise while the economy is improving. He noted layoffs were elevated near the height of the dotcom bubble in the late '90s.

"Like IBM and Intel, companies are shifting strategies that require them to cut in some places while adding in others," he said.

[RandomGuy]

Maybe your husband is in the wrong industry. Maybe his personality sucks. Who the fuck knows? There are a lot of variables that go into landing a job. It's not all about skill level and experience. It's Obama's fault people aren't qualified for the jobs out there?

.

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Thanks_8eee9a_5432328.gif

[Splits]

:cry muh jobs :cry

http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/latest_numbers_CES0000000001_1980_2016_all_period_ M06_net_1mth.gif

derp derp derp

[hitmanyr2k]

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Thanks_8eee9a_5432328.gif

:lol I've done this one....

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/489/946/057.gif

[baseline bum]

:lol I've done this one....

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/489/946/057.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/Ul4SBLimosuUo/giphy.gif

[rmt]

Maybe your husband is in the wrong industry. Maybe his personality sucks. Who the fuck knows? There are a lot of variables that go into landing a job. It's not all about skill level and experience. It's Obama's fault people aren't qualified for the jobs out there?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/news/economy/job-openings/

I've seen the same jobs available in my area for the last 6-12 months...still sitting there waiting to be filled. Great paying jobs. I'm still in disbelief they haven't been filled yet. Those layoffs in your article are from the energy sector. Well...people had to realize the energy boom doesn't last forever. It goes up and down. When the price of oil goes down there are going to be winners and losers. I live in Pennsylvania and every time a coal plant gets shuttered it's time to blame the government!! It's the government's fault the natural gas boom started pushing out coal. It's the government's fault that electricity demand has gone down which has resulted in less demand for coal. It's the government's fault that people in the city don't want to breathe in toxic air every time the wind blows the wrong way giving their children health problems and bringing down their property value. It's the government's fault that coal workers were too short-sighted to see the trends in their industry and cope with the hard truth that cheaper, cleaner fuels were going to eventually replace their more expensive and dirtier kind of fuel. The Beaver Cleaver generation think these jobs are supposed to last forever like it's not an ever-changing world. Rather than look in the mirror and hold themselves accountable for their blindness it's easier to use someone else as the scapegoat. It's like a programmer from the 80's and 90's blaming the government because hardly anyone uses COBOL anymore in this day and age :lol The smart people saw the trends, knew the dinosaur languages were being phased out, adapted and learned newer languages/skills.

My husband is in the tech industry and if he gets an interview, he usually gets the job. Unfortunately, with the filters used by placement agencies (whatever key words they're using) and so many people applying for the same job, it's not easy to get to the interview stage. My dh is not a dinosaur as I am - he's up to date - "we hired you to drag us into the 21st century" - so say these government officials at his latest job.

I don't get you people. You complain about there being no jobs for millenniums. Wages are not going up but there are lots of jobs out there that can't be filled. Does that make sense to anybody? It's simple supply and demand. If there is such a demand for workers, then wages should be going up.

It's not just energy jobs, but tech jobs (further down in the article). Funny you should mention COBOL programmers of which I'm one (even started with punch cards - lol- that's how old I am).

https://www.laserfiche.com/simplicity/looking-job-hows-your-cobol/

COBOL supports 90 percent of Fortune 500 business systems every day
70 percent of all critical business logic and data is written in COBOL
COBOL powers 85 percent of all daily business transactions processed
$2 trillion worth of mainframe applications in corporations are written in COBOL
1.5 million new lines of COBOL code are written every day
5 billion lines of new COBOL code are developed every year
The total investment in COBOL technologies, staff and hardware is estimated at $5 trillion
An estimated 2 million people are currently working in COBOL

The problem is that the program is in operation, but the world isn’t cranking out many COBOL programmers anymore. The COBOL programmers we do have are nearing retirement, with as many as half of them aged 50 or more, according to Bloomberg Business Week. This goes beyond the government, as it affects private industry as well. “In some cases, only one or two people understand the core banking software the bank runs on and the older programming language in which it is written,” writes American Banker, which it calls the “key person” problem.

Consequently, active COBOL programmers are in short supply. So, thanks to the law of supply and demand, salaries for COBOL programmers are going up. “The salary for top talent can reach six figures, and agencies and companies are still awarding contracts today for COBOL software maintenance,” writes FedTech. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management estimated that the maintenance costs for the retirement system could go up 10 to 15 percent due to the lack of programmers.

I'm sure we can both find articles to say just about anything - like the pitiful 38,000 jobs report in May vs 162,000 expected (below). So please explain to me why US economic confidence is low if there are so many great jobs around and the economy is fine and dandy.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/03/us-nonfarm-payrolls-may-2016.html

[TheSanityAnnex]

Cleveland Police ?@CLEpolice 8m8 minutes ago

Protestor lit flag on fire, then lit himself on fire, catching others on fire. Flames extinguished by firefighters. No serious injuries

:rollin

[TheGreatYacht]

The republican nominee can't even fill up a third of the arena. Sad!

[Reck]

So many nobodies on this convention.

The DNC is star studded compared to this.

[DMX7]

The republican nominee can't even fill up a third of the arena. Sad!

It will be full or mostly full when he speaks. He's not speaking till tomorrow.

[ElNono]

Maybe your husband is in the wrong industry. Maybe his personality sucks. Who the fuck knows? There are a lot of variables that go into landing a job. It's not all about skill level and experience. It's Obama's fault people aren't qualified for the jobs out there?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/news/economy/job-openings/

I've seen the same jobs available in my area for the last 6-12 months...still sitting there waiting to be filled. Great paying jobs. I'm still in disbelief they haven't been filled yet. Those layoffs in your article are from the energy sector. Well...people had to realize the energy boom doesn't last forever. It goes up and down. When the price of oil goes down there are going to be winners and losers. I live in Pennsylvania and every time a coal plant gets shuttered it's time to blame the government!! It's the government's fault the natural gas boom started pushing out coal. It's the government's fault that electricity demand has gone down which has resulted in less demand for coal. It's the government's fault that people in the city don't want to breathe in toxic air every time the wind blows the wrong way giving their children health problems and bringing down their property value. It's the government's fault that coal workers were too short-sighted to see the trends in their industry and cope with the hard truth that cheaper, cleaner fuels were going to eventually replace their more expensive and dirtier kind of fuel. The Beaver Cleaver generation think these jobs are supposed to last forever like it's not an ever-changing world. Rather than look in the mirror and hold themselves accountable for their blindness it's easier to use someone else as the scapegoat. It's like a programmer from the 80's and 90's blaming the government because hardly anyone uses COBOL anymore in this day and age :lol The smart people saw the trends, knew the dinosaur languages were being phased out, adapted and learned newer languages/skills.

The tech sector is all about niches, but you're right that you gotta move. We made a good amount of money with mobile apps a couple years ago when it was all the rage, but nowadays, it's a waste of time and money if you're not doing it for some big corp that's paying top dollar.

Sometimes is all about connections too, tbh... A friend I haven't heard of in years called up about a year ago out of the blue, he's working on a Fortune 500 company and needed some work done. We're almost exclusively working for them now, expanding, developing new tech... we've done a bit over $300k worth of work for them since and have a couple of new projects lined up. Things change rapidly sometimes, you gotta be ready to jump in when the opportunity shows up.

[boutons_deux]

Pam Bondi decided not to sue Trump University — and got a $25,000 donation from Trump

In 2013, according to the Associated Press (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e16a8223c24048d290883370dc6abe5b/florida-ag-asked-trump-donation-nixing-fraud-case), Bondi announced that she was considering joining a lawsuit that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was filing against Trump University.

Then, four days later, a $25,000 check from Trump to Bondi’s reelection campaign showed up. Bondi ended up not suing Trump after all, even though she had plenty of reason to do so. Florida had received complaints about Trump’s series of real estate seminars, and a class-action lawsuit on behalf of students in the state is currently in progress in federal court in New York.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12242170/pam-bondi-trump-rnc-convention (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12242170/pam-bondi-trump-rnc-convention)

... bought off like a cheap whore, leaving her state's citizens screwed by Trash University.

[ElNono]

Never heard of this Alvarado guy... Argentinian dad, uh?

[ElNono]

He gonna get a lot of work going his way building det wall...

[boutons_deux]

Twitter Freaks Out After Laura Ingraham Appears To Give Nazi Salute At RNC


http://a3.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/orltgzbgzxtd23df3bv0.jpg

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laura-ingraham-rnc-nazi-salute-twitter?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Dubya's Homeland for still reeks of der Vaterland

[DMX7]

that went well...

[Reck]

Ted Cruz hijacked the shit out of the convention tonight. Hahahahahhaha

[TheGreatYacht]

Ted Cruz hijacked the shit out of the convention tonight. Hahahahahhaha
I missed it! What happened

[djohn2oo8]

I missed it! What happened
Basically did not endorse Trump, and told people to "vote their conscience" which is basically don't vote for Trump :lol

[DarrinS]

Twitter Freaks Out After Laura Ingraham Appears To Give Nazi Salute At RNC


http://a3.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/orltgzbgzxtd23df3bv0.jpg

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laura-ingraham-rnc-nazi-salute-twitter?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Dubya's Homeland for still reeks of der Vaterland




:lol so stupid

[Reck]

I missed it! What happened

Told people to go vote down ballot instead of for Trump.

Epic ending.

[TheGreatYacht]

Basically did not endorse Trump, and told people to "vote their conscience" which is basically don't vote for Trump :lol

Told people to go vote down ballot instead of for Trump.

Epic ending.
Tahahahahahahahhahaa :lmao

[DMX7]

cruz is so selfish

[baseline bum]

Told people to go vote down ballot instead of for Trump.

Epic ending.

Shit, that was the one speech I wanted to see and forgot about it. :pctoss

[FuzzyLumpkins]

cruz is so selfish

His nasally voice alone makes me cringe when he talks.

[Reck]

Trump has another bullet to dodge tonight. If Rubio does the same as Cruz, this will be a terrible night for Trump.

[DMX7]

Great speech, Eric!

[TheGreatYacht]

Reducing the brightness on the empty seats :lmao

[TheGreatYacht]

Trump has another bullet to dodge tonight. If Rubio does the same as Cruz, this will be a terrible night for Trump.
I think Rubio's speech is recorded IIRC

[DarrinS]

Great speech, Eric!

I don't like Donald, but his kids are pretty damn sharp.

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Ignores RNC Convention, Instead Tries to Silence Real Art of the Deal Writer

Donald Trump is trying to intimidate yet another person from speaking their truth about him. This one is his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, who said that if Trump got elected it would be the end of civilization

MSNBC reported that Trump sent a cease and desist letter to Schwartz:


Trump is demanding that Schwartz return all of the royalties he’s received since the 1987 ‘Art of the Deal’ was published.Speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC,

Schwartz said, “It’s nuts and completely indicative of who he is.

There’s no basis in anything legal.

I suspect that Donald Trump called up his chief legal person and said, ‘go after that guy and do whatever you have to do.’”

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/20/donald-trump-ignores-rnc-convention-silence-real-art-deal-writer.html (http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/20/donald-trump-ignores-rnc-convention-silence-real-art-deal-writer.html)

O so very "artful" by Donny Trash.

Come on, Trash, send Schwartz $10Ks to shut him up, like you did with Bondi.

[Reck]

Doing damage control live. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Planning To Just Let Mike Pence Run The Country, Apparently

Trump plans to saddle his veep with most of the duties of being president. Because why not?

Trump has, throughout his campaign, made it clear that he believes that being president is a really easy job ― no sweat for him!

One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio,

Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?

When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. :lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-mike-pence_us_578fa289e4b0f180da63defd

[TheGreatYacht]

Speakers saying 'Donald Trump' before each sentence so the media can't say that they said Hillary's name more :lmao

[hater]

I don't like Donald, but his kids are pretty damn sharp.

We will all be his children in a few months and he will be amazing to us

Can't wait

[ElNono]

We will all be his children in a few months and he will be amazing to us

Can't wait

:lol

[rmt]

What Cruz did was terrible - he irreparably damaged any chance he has running for president in the future - the Trump supporters will not forget. He shouldn't have accepted the spot if he intended to tell everyone to vote their conscience - this is not what a Christian should do - deliberately torpedo the night - better to decline like Kasich - all the headlines tomorrow will be about him.

That was some quick thinking on Newt's part - can't have prepared for Cruz's "vote your conscience"

Eric Trump was good, not as great as his brother's though.

[baseline bum]

Donald Trump Planning To Just Let Mike Pence Run The Country, Apparently

Trump plans to saddle his veep with most of the duties of being president. Because why not?

Trump has, throughout his campaign, made it clear that he believes that being president is a really easy job ― no sweat for him!

One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio,

Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?

When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. :lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-mike-pence_us_578fa289e4b0f180da63defd





Already been done with Cheney

[Reck]

What Cruz did was terrible - he irreparably damaged any chance he has running for president in the future - the Trump supporters will not forget. He shouldn't have accepted the spot if he intended to tell everyone to vote their conscience - this is not what a Christian should do - deliberately torpedo the night - better to decline like Kasich - all the headlines tomorrow will be about him.

That was some quick thinking on Newt's part - can't have prepared for Cruz's "vote your conscience"

Eric Trump was good, not as great as his brother's though.

Ted will be fine.

After Trump gets his lights tune in nov the party will realign itself or just die. Trump will leave it in shambles and let the party official deal with the aftermath. Wait and see.

[boutons_deux]

I don't like Donald, but his kids are pretty damn sharp.

:lol entitled, bullying pricks, just like their entitled, bullying prick of a father.

[ElNono]

What Cruz did was terrible - he irreparably damaged any chance he has running for president in the future - the Trump supporters will not forget. He shouldn't have accepted the spot if he intended to tell everyone to vote their conscience - this is not what a Christian should do - deliberately torpedo the night - better to decline like Kasich - all the headlines tomorrow will be about him.

That was some quick thinking on Newt's part - can't have prepared for Cruz's "vote your conscience"

Eric Trump was good, not as great as his brother's though.

He's betting Trump will lose, so he can come out and say "told you so"... not a terrible play, except he would probably be even worse than Trump as a prez candidate.

[DMX7]

:lol entitled, bullying pricks, just like their entitled, bullying prick of a father.

You don't know anything about them.

[baseline bum]

Lying Ted: Obama exports jobs and imports terrorists :lmao

[boutons_deux]

You don't know anything about them.

:lol Look in the press, their all entitled, bullying pricks. What redneck, bubbas, farmers, blue collar Americans, etc see in these assholes is mystifying.

They are ALL being conned by a grifting liar and shitty businessman.

[TheGreatYacht]

Preachin' Ted tbh

[rmt]

Trump needs to take the high road, not comment and let other Republicans reprimand Cruz - ignore it and move on.

[DMX7]

Did trump almost kiss Pence? Hahahahah

[DarrinS]

Pence is no Palin

[baseline bum]

This Cruz speech makes me want to vomit. :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Jesus fucking Christ, what a boring speech. Very, very, very Boring! Sad!

[baseline bum]

Cruz wants to build the wall :lol

[Reck]

Mike Pence is a boring stiff.

[baseline bum]

:vomit: Cruz with the Party of Lincoln bullshit

[boutons_deux]

Mike Pence Handed Hillary Clinton The White House With His Fox News Driven VP Speech

The Pence speech was empty and fluffy. It was more of the standard delusion that Republicans have been telling their voters for eight years.

Republicans keep telling themselves that America is terrible, but yet, Democrats keep winning presidential elections.

Mike Pence lacks the strength and fire to deliver the message that needs to be delivered.

Mike Pence made Republicans happy with his speech, but for the bulk of the country that doesn’t watch Fox News, Pence sounded like a man from another planet.

Pence claimed that Hispanic would vote for Trump because Trump will build the wall and deport Mexicans.

The Trump/Pence ticket was born out of a Republican electorate that is being driven by Fox News and conservative media.

Pence was out of touch with the reality of the real America.

The America that is changing and growing more diverse.

Gov. Pence’s speech was a gasp of the dying angry white right.

Mike Pence couldn’t do the impossible.

He couldn’t make Republicans sound rational, and he couldn’t sell Donald Trump to an electorate that doesn’t trust him.

Gov. Pence didn’t reach out to voters that Republicans need.

He railed for the Republican base, but that base is not big enough to win in November.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/20/mike-pence-handed-hillary-clinton-white-house-fox-news-driven-vp-speech.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Repugs! :lol

[rmt]

Mike Pence is a boring stiff.

I think Trump brings enough excitement to the ticket - Pence will balance/stabilize him - like the string to a kite.

[TheGreatYacht]

Trump looked embarrassed to stand there next to Small Head Pence. Sad!

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You don't know anything about them.

Neither does Darrin but that doesn't stop him.

[DarrinS]

Lying Ted: Obama exports jobs and imports terrorists :lmao

I know. He mostly exports illegal immigrants. In record numbers.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

:vomit: Cruz with the Party of Lincoln bullshit

Ignoring the Nixon encouraged migration of the dixiecrats is fun though!

[DarrinS]

Neither does Darrin but that doesn't stop him.

Get off my dick, homo.

[DarrinS]

:vomit: Cruz with the Party of Lincoln bullshit

Yeah, them Dems freed the slaves and passed the civil rights act.

[DarrinS]

Epic BLM pandering coming at the DNC. She won't "bring them to heel."

[baseline bum]

Yeah, them Dems freed the slaves and passed the civil rights act.

What does 1865 have to do with the modern Republican party whose base is the slave states?

[Pelicans78]

I think Trump brings enough excitement to the ticket - Pence will balance/stabilize him - like the string to a kite.

You're so brainwashed. Not sure you should be allowed to vote.

[Reck]

Trump looked embarrassed to stand there next to Small Head Pence. Sad!

It's a lot to be embarrassed about.

Pence takes a lot of weapons Trump could have used against Hillary that now he cant.

Cant talk about teh Iraq war vote
TPP
Establishmen candidate
Loves trades

Etc.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Get off my dick, homo.

Now with the homoerotic imagery. Is that how you hit on your preferred partners, start arguments with them?

[ducks]

Bash said that a source told her that Cruz was went to a donor suite after his speech — and that "people were so angry at Ted Cruz that they were calling him a disgrace to his face.

"This source said that a state party chair was yelling at him so angrily that he had to be restrained," Bash said. "That gives you a sense of just how intense the — frankly — the animosity is here now on the floor."

Even a Cruz campaign chair from Virginia told the reporter "he is very, very disappointed in him."

[DarrinS]

What does 1865 have to do with the modern Republican party whose base is the slave states?

I know -- "Southern Strategy" -- everyone flipped sides -- yada yada yada

[DarrinS]

Now with the homoerotic imagery. Is that how you hit on your preferred partners, start arguments with them?

gnat -- small annoyance

[FuzzyLumpkins]

gnat -- small annoyance

I'm so insignificant that you have to tell me? What a dipshit.

[DarrinS]

Can't wait for the BLM convention :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I know -- "Southern Strategy" -- everyone flipped sides -- yada yada yada

Then why are you being intentionally obtuse?

[TheGreatYacht]

It's a lot to be embarrassed about.

Pence takes a lot of weapons Trump could have used against Hillary that now he cant.

Cant talk about teh Iraq war vote
TPP
Establishmen candidate
Loves trades

Etc.
Exactly :lol

Not that it will matter though, bc Cruz crew just ended Cuckald's slim chances. 0% support from African Americans on key states, going to get a lot of new Hispanic voters to vote Hillary, Muslims hate him, females will won't vote for him, the Pence ticket cost him a ton of gay voters, and now the Cruz crew will sit this one out :lol

[Reck]

Bash said that a source told her that Cruz was went to a donor suite after his speech — and that "people were so angry at Ted Cruz that they were calling him a disgrace to his face.

"This source said that a state party chair was yelling at him so angrily that he had to be restrained," Bash said. "That gives you a sense of just how intense the — frankly — the animosity is here now on the floor."

Even a Cruz campaign chair from Virginia told the reporter "he is very, very disappointed in him."

Standing for your beliefs is a bad things these days?

I dont like Cruz in the least but I respect that he said no and told it like he believes it is. No kissing ass.

[ducks]

http://www.snappytv.com/tc/2411054/1235335

[DarrinS]

Then why are you being intentionally obtuse?

Southern Strategy is Dem mythology.

[ducks]

Cruz if he could not endorse trump should have done signed pledge

Does not he believe in his word?

[TheGreatYacht]

Cruz if he could not endorse trump should have done signed pledge

Does not he believe in his word?
You would endorse someone who insulted you and your family? Very, very, very disappointed in you. Sad!

[rmt]

Standing for your beliefs is a bad things these days?

I dont like Cruz in the least but I respect that he said no and told it like he believes it is. No kissing ass.

That is not the place to say what he believes. One doesn't torpedo a convention like that. Trump won fair and square - it makes him look like sour grapes. First, he pledged to support the nominee and didn't. Second, as a Christian, he must forgive. Third, as a person, just classless.

[rmt]

You're so brainwashed. Not sure you should be allowed to vote.

What, and you should decide whether I should be allowed to vote?

[TheGreatYacht]

Cuckald cucked. He let it happen :lol

755972015249645568

[ElNono]

http://www.snappytv.com/tc/2411054/1235335

:lol Christie talking about integrity

[Reck]

That is not the place to say what he believes. One doesn't torpedo a convention like that. Trump won fair and square - it makes him look like sour grapes. First, he pledged to support the nominee and didn't. Second, as a Christian, he must forgive. Third, as a person, just classless.

Why did Trump invite someone he spoke so badly about? This was a perfect night for Cruz to take his measured revenge.

Chances are that if I call you an ugly pig and your father a murderer that probably had a hand in the killing of Keneddy that you would not even look at me, let alone invite me into your own house.

Trump fucked up.

[ElNono]

That is not the place to say what he believes. One doesn't torpedo a convention like that. Trump won fair and square - it makes him look like sour grapes. First, he pledged to support the nominee and didn't. Second, as a Christian, he must forgive. Third, as a person, just classless.

:lmao

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Southern Strategy is Dem mythology.


From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf

[DarrinS]

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html

[ElNono]

755953158203908096

[TheGreatYacht]

755964536910249984

:lol

[DarrinS]

Lol, homophobic

[baseline bum]

I know -- "Southern Strategy" -- everyone flipped sides -- yada yada yada

And the Republicans are the party of progressivism because of Teddy Roosevelt 115 years ago?

[angrydude]

Then why are you being intentionally obtuse?

Because everyone who flipped sides is dead. It has absolutely nothing to do with modern politics.

[angrydude]

Can't wait for the BLM convention :lol

This. I'm waiting to see what happens when the police providing security get shot at.

[ducks]

You would endorse someone who insulted you and your family? Very, very, very disappointed in you. Sad!

I would have said I took a pledge a year ago in this place and even though I do not agree with trump I will keep my word and endorse him


Scot walker said that day anyone on that stage is better then Clinton and said he would
He did that again tonight

[Reck]

I would have said I took a pledge a year ago in this place and even though I do not agree with trump I will keep my word and endorse him

What kind of idiot are you? All bets are off when you fuck with family members like Trump did.

He went easy on Trump as a matter of fact. I would have done much worst.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Because everyone who flipped sides is dead. It has absolutely nothing to do with modern politics.

No they aren't; it was 50 years ago not 100 that it started and it didn't happen overnight. Nevermind, the notion of children and who they typically learn from, tradition, and the like.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

This. I'm waiting to see what happens when the police providing security get shot at.

:lol you cannot even defend the abortion that is the GOP convention directly but instead have to hope that the dems fuck up worse.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html

So you can repeat headlines like a dumbfuck. Bravo.

That makes it an academic argument and not a foregone conclusion. The distinction is whether or not the GOP actively encouraged it but the migration happened nonetheless.

[DarrinS]

And the Republicans are the party of progressivism because of Teddy Roosevelt 115 years ago?


Hillary's mentor filibustered the civil rights act for 14 hours


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA

[hitmanyr2k]

Cruz if he could not endorse trump should have done signed pledge

Does not he believe in his word?

Didn't Trump also say he would back out of that pledge if he were treated unfairly? Meaning "if I lose I'm not endorsing a damn thing" :lol

[hitmanyr2k]

Hillary's mentor filibustered the civil rights act for 14 hours


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA

You do realize Byrd was ashamed of his hateful ways and changed right?

[DarrinS]

I don't like Cruz or Trump, but I respect Cruz sticking to his principles, even if it was a big FU to trup.

[ElNono]

This. I'm waiting to see what happens when the police providing security get shot at.

It hasn't started yet, and I can't wait for it to be over, tbh

[florige]

Shit, that was the one speech I wanted to see and forgot about it. :pctoss



The last I heard was Cruz wasn't coming at all. I was at the gym and all of the sudden Cruz pops up on the screen. I kept trying to pay attention to see if the subtitles ever had him endorsing Trump or at least mentioning his name. Never saw it. :lol

[DarrinS]

You do realize Byrd was ashamed of his hateful ways and changed right?

That's sweet. I think Gore's dad also voted against it.

[ducks]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/no-sign-trump-endorsement-plenty-cruz-ambition-125701181.html

[ducks]

Cruz should have said we should unite and come together to beat Clinton

[baseline bum]

It hasn't started yet, and I can't wait for it to be over, tbh

:lol No shit. Cruz's speech was the first RNC/DNC speech I have watched since the 92 election.

[rmt]

Why did Trump invite someone he spoke so badly about? This was a perfect night for Cruz to take his measured revenge.

Chances are that if I call you an ugly pig and your father a murderer that probably had a hand in the killing of Keneddy that you would not even look at me, let alone invite me into your own house.

Trump fucked up.

I think it was Trump's peace offering. He didn't have to invite him - he invited all his republican opponents - probably because he wanted to unite the party. It's ironic that the pledge they all agreed to which Trump was reluctant to agree to (but eventually did) - Kasich, Bush and Cruz refuse to endorse - broke their pledge.

It's in the Lord's prayer - Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us - I don't care what anyone says, I'll forgive - how can your heart belong to God if it's filled with hatred and bitterness against someone and if you won't forgive as God has forgiven you.

It gives Hillary ad material and the media fodder, but I don't think it hurts Trump with the voters.

[spurraider21]

:lol party of lincoln... modern republicans in the 1860's would have said "we need to leave it to the states"

[ducks]

Sheldon Adelson, a major Republican Party donor, even denied Cruz entry to his personal suite after his speech, according to CNN and BuzzFeed.

[ElNono]

It's in the Lord's prayer - Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us - I don't care what anyone says, I'll forgive - how can your heart belong to God if it's filled with hatred and bitterness against someone and if you won't forgive as God has forgiven you.

:lol they're politicos, they'll sell their soul to Allah if they have to, to get a vote. This is particularly hilarious, because Trump is probably most phony guy when it comes to "christian values".

[hitmanyr2k]

Sheldon Adelson, a major Republican Party donor, even denied Cruz entry to his personal suite after his speech, according to CNN and BuzzFeed.

That's because Trump is now Adelson's bitch and Cruz didn't toe that line like a good little boy.

[ducks]

Oh cnn had a picture with trump and Anderson together

[ducks]

Ted not trump will need Anderson money in a general election

[rmt]

:lol they're politicos, they'll sell their soul to Allah if they have to, to get a vote. This is particularly hilarious, because Trump is probably most phony guy when it comes to "christian values".

I have no illusions about Trump - he didn't run primarily as a conservative Christian - he ran a populist campaign. The man doesn't even know II Corinthians is Second Corinthians. Cruz, otoh, ran on being a conservative Christian.

[baseline bum]

:lol party of lincoln... modern republicans in the 1860's would have said "we need to leave it to the states"

:lol Today's Republicans

[ElNono]

I have no illusions about Trump - he didn't run primarily as a conservative Christian - he ran a populist campaign. The man doesn't even know II Corinthians is Second Corinthians. Cruz, otoh, ran on being a conservative Christian.

Teddy is another professional politician that will hit all the talking points the base wants to hear. It's not really an indictment on him, since that pretty much sums up almost every politico, tbh. He's just all about himself (as we've seen many times before, and tonight again).

[ElNono]

:lol Today's Republicans

:lol Reagan would be basically Kasich-lite nowadays

[DarrinS]

:lol Reagan would be basically Kasich-lite nowadays

And JFK would be Reagan-like

[SnakeBoy]

Teddy is another professional politician that will hit all the talking points the base wants to hear. It's not really an indictment on him, since that pretty much sums up almost every politico, tbh. He's just all about himself (as we've seen many times before, and tonight again).

I think rmt makes a good point. Yeah they are all politicians but Cruz is one who has built his base by claiming to be the bestest purest kind of christian.

[DarrinS]

:lol party of lincoln... modern republicans in the 1860's would have said "we need to leave it to the states"


And yet the history can't be erased.

[spurraider21]

And yet the history can't be erased.
the party label means jack shit over the course of that period of time, though.

the deep south suddenly switched from democrat to republican in the 60's. do you think party ideologies shifted, or do you think the entire southern populace decided to change their ideology and approach to politics and just willy nilly decide they're conservative republicans now

[Aztecfan03]

I think it was Trump's peace offering. He didn't have to invite him - he invited all his republican opponents - probably because he wanted to unite the party. It's ironic that the pledge they all agreed to which Trump was reluctant to agree to (but eventually did) - Kasich, Bush and Cruz refuse to endorse - broke their pledge.

It's in the Lord's prayer - Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us - I don't care what anyone says, I'll forgive - how can your heart belong to God if it's filled with hatred and bitterness against someone and if you won't forgive as God has forgiven you.

It gives Hillary ad material and the media fodder, but I don't think it hurts Trump with the voters.

Trump had long ago walked back on the pledge, so that was no longer valid. And forgiveness doesn't mean endorsing a lunatic for president.

[Aztecfan03]

Cruz should have said we should unite and come together to beat Clinton

Why? Trump isn't any better.

[Aztecfan03]

I don't like Cruz or Trump, but I respect Cruz sticking to his principles, even if it was a big FU to trup.
To me, Cruz is the best candidtate since i started voting in '08( and a lot longer, really) But I would have been fine with any of the other candidates, especially rubio or walker, or at least voted for them while holding my nose (kasich, christie, ...) but manchild Trump is just like Clinton and doesn't stand for one single thing i believe in.

[ElNono]

I think rmt makes a good point. Yeah they are all politicians but Cruz is one who has built his base by claiming to be the bestest purest kind of christian.

But rmt also seems shocked that he didn't act like that kind of pure Christian he claims to be... And I'm saying, this should not be surprising at all.

This is a US Senator that's already campaigning for the 2020 election, and the 2016 election hasn't even happened yet.

Some peeps here bitched about certain politician and president campaigning all the time. Well, that's exactly what Cruz is doing.

He talks the talk, but when it comes to walking the walk... That's a different story

[spurraider21]

But rmt also seems shocked that he didn't act like that kind of pure Christian he claims to be... And I'm saying, this should not be surprising at all.

This is a US Senator that's already campaigning for the 2020 election, and the 2016 election hasn't even happened yet.

Some peeps here bitched about certain politician and president campaigning all the time. Well, that's exactly what Cruz is doing.

He talks the talk, but when it comes to walking the walk... That's a different story
buddy of mine is a total, die hard GOP guy... not a trumper at all. but he didn't like cruz because "he's another obama" :lol

he liked scott walker and rubiobot tho...

[TheGreatYacht]

The man said to vote your conscience and principles..... and got booed :lmao

Southerners provide great comic relief, tbh :lol

also, evolution is real.

[rmt]

Trump had long ago walked back on the pledge, so that was no longer valid. And forgiveness doesn't mean endorsing a lunatic for president.

Whatever Trump did with the pledge had no bearing (separate issue) on Kasich, Jeb and Cruz signing their pledge and breaking it. Republicans don't like that he came to the convention and broke his word in such a public manner when they're trying to unite the party - else stay home and don't sabotage the convention.

[boutons_deux]

And yet the history can't be erased.

:lol

Repugs claiming to be the party of Lincoln in anything other than name only is just another HUGE REPUG LIE

Today's Repugs aren't even the party of Ike.

[djohn2oo8]

755967178285907968

:lol trollin.

[boutons_deux]

755967178285907968

:lol trollin.

yep, Hillary bitch slappin Trash.

[Splits]

:lol I love all this :cry he broke the pledge :cry bullshit like a girl scout troop or something

:madrun mommy mommy Bethany broke the pledge! :madrun

[RandomGuy]

This Cruz speech makes me want to vomit. :lol

Cruz's lack of endorsement for a guy who could lose big may well seem like a very smart move on November 11th.

[boutons_deux]

Cruz's lack of endorsement for a guy who could lose big may well seem like a very smart move on November 11th.

yep, commentators say Kreepy Kruz is expecting Trash to lose catastrophically, then Cruz will anoint, proclaim himself as The Uniter, The Rebuilder. Election 2020 already started.

[CosmicCowboy]

Fuck Cruz and his religious zealot bullshit.

[boutons_deux]

Even After Republican Backlash, Ted Cruz Won’t Endorse Trump ‘Like A Servile Puppy’


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-rnc-2016_us_5790c893e4b0bdddc4d340e2?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Even%20After%20Republican%20Backlash% 20Ted%20Cruz%20Wont%20Endorse%20Trump%20Like%20A%2 0Servile%20Puppy&utm_content=Even%20After%20Republican%20Backlash%2 0Ted%20Cruz%20Wont%20Endorse%20Trump%20Like%20A%20 Servile%20Puppy+CID_160a4541fe12d22bd318c0f87d7a66 52&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20More

Repugs! y'all keep electing America's Best! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Repugs! y'all keep electing America's Best! :lol

That is some rich freaking hypocrisy there considering Hillary is the Dem candidate...

[Ignignokt]

yep, Hillary bitch slappin Trash.

You know that cuts to her too?

[clambake]

trump should say that we no longer have to think about cruz, and thats already a victory.

[InRareForm]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIHDfN5A5Zi/

[InRareForm]

Say what you want about Cruz he is a good speaker, he got everyone listening to him, and then threw the vote your conscience. Lol play of the game

[Warlord23]

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/622_350/5790c8331300002c0005f1dd.jpeg?cache=pvjzbmmljz

House of Cards should just end now ... no way they can dream up anything half as outrageous as this clown show

[Spurminator]

He shouldn't have accepted the spot if he intended to tell everyone to vote their conscience - this is not what a Christian should do - deliberately torpedo the night

"And the Lord said, 'Lo, thou shalt remain loyal to the Holy Republican Party and proclaim thy support of Party leadership. Thou shalt disregard all of my other Holy Commands if they interfere with the pursuit of GOP power over thy earthly government.' And the people bowed." - 2 Theocratics 34:15

[CosmicCowboy]

It was still a Trump endorsement.

No Republican with a conscience could ever vote for Hillary Clinton.

[Th'Pusher]

Cruz's lack of endorsement for a guy who could lose big may well seem like a very smart move on November 11th.

He can also be blamed for a Hillary presidency if trump loses and the margin is tight.

[Th'Pusher]

It was still a Trump endorsement.

No Republican with a conscience could ever vote for Hillary Clinton.

http://fortune.com/2016/07/16/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-republicans/

[boutons_deux]

He can also be blamed for a Hillary presidency if trump loses and the margin is tight.

All Repugs, going back 40 years, can be blamed for Hillary presidency.

[TheGreatYacht]

It was still a Trump endorsement.

No Republican with a conscience could ever vote for Hillary Clinton.
Your party booed their own conscience :downspin:

[Warlord23]

It was still a Trump endorsement.

No Republican with a conscience could ever vote for Hillary Clinton.

Policy-wise Hillary is way more Republican than Trump. Trump being an incompetent know-nothing clown is another reason why some R's will pull the lever for Clinton. The only argument that Trump voters have is a word salad involving the words Benghazi, Vince Foster, Lewinsky and email server.

[angrydude]

Fact is if Cruz wasn't going to endorse he should have skipped the convention like Kasich. Instead he made it all about himself. Totally classless.

[hater]

Can't wait for the BLM convention :lol

:lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Fact is if Cruz wasn't going to endorse he should have skipped the convention like Kasich. Instead he made it all about himself. Totally classless.
No. He'll be the "I tried to warn y'all" guy when Hillary crushes Cuckald.

Genius move tbh. Probably the only republican with a pair

[boutons_deux]

Okay, It Got Much Weirder

Here's the text as sent out by the RNC at 8:21 pm ...
http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/w_652/qhrd4t49imtymo5gvpii.jpg

In other words, whatever Cruz was trying to do he did it in plain sight. In fact, there's more the advanced text tells us.

In Newt Gingrich's speech that came a short time later, Newt referenced Cruz's speech, praising Trump for allowing former foes to address the convention and suggesting, against all common sense, that Cruz had in fact said that people should vote for Trump.

Here's the key.

Those passages were not in the advance, embargoed versions of the speech.

That clearly suggests that convention planners were completely caught off guard by what Cruz said.

It seems they did not read the speech, even though what Cruz would say was the subject of immense scrutiny and pressure by Trump and the RNC.

Is that possible?

Or did they simply not realize how the words would play in front of the convention crowd?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/okay-it-got-much-weirder?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Trash runs a very tight ship, just like his lips. :lol

[DMX7]

Fact is if Cruz wasn't going to endorse he should have skipped the convention like Kasich. Instead he made it all about himself. Totally classless.

There's a reason he is disliked by so many people including people he works with in the senate and in Washington.

[DMX7]

Okay, It Got Much Weirder

Here's the text as sent out by the RNC at 8:21 pm ...
http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/w_652/qhrd4t49imtymo5gvpii.jpg

In other words, whatever Cruz was trying to do he did it in plain sight. In fact, there's more the advanced text tells us.

In Newt Gingrich's speech that came a short time later, Newt referenced Cruz's speech, praising Trump for allowing former foes to address the convention and suggesting, against all common sense, that Cruz had in fact said that people should vote for Trump.

Here's the key.

Those passages were not in the advance, embargoed versions of the speech.

That clearly suggests that convention planners were completely caught off guard by what Cruz said.

It seems they did not read the speech, even though what Cruz would say was the subject of immense scrutiny and pressure by Trump and the RNC.

Is that possible?

Or did they simply not realize how the words would play in front of the convention crowd?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/okay-it-got-much-weirder?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Trash runs a very tight ship, just like his lips. :lol



Unless Ted guaranteed an endorsement for Mr. Trump, then it was a bad move by Mr. Trump to invite him to speak. Mr. Trump defeated Ted very badly during the primarily and Ted was still understandably upset and he mentioned that this morning when he again defended his family.

[boutons_deux]

Just how far do Trump’s ties to Putin go?

http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/ap_493475329330.jpg?itok=l-hHqGQs

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/just-how-far-do-trumps-ties-putin-go?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

Heidi Cruz Escorted Out Of RNC As Crowd Turns Nasty Over Ted Cruz's Flameout

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heidi-cruz-rnc-escorted-off-ted-cruz?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

... in other reports, she also had flames coming out of her asshole

[Spurminator]

This seems like a good safe mix of people.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSsQ4E8OZJY

[angrydude]

No. He'll be the "I tried to warn y'all" guy when Hillary crushes Cuckald.

Genius move tbh. Probably the only republican with a pair

Exactly. He made it all about himself. Like getting invited over to dinner and instead of eating you shit all over the kitchen table. Then people call you brave for doing what no one else dared to do.

[SnakeBoy]

But rmt also seems shocked that he didn't act like that kind of pure Christian he claims to be... And I'm saying, this should not be surprising at all.

This is a US Senator that's already campaigning for the 2020 election, and the 2016 election hasn't even happened yet.

Some peeps here bitched about certain politician and president campaigning all the time. Well, that's exactly what Cruz is doing.

He talks the talk, but when it comes to walking the walk... That's a different story

Okay gotcha. Agreed

Cruz is a piece of shit. For the first time in my life I went and voted in the primary - for Trump. Not because I wanted Trump but just to try and help Cruz lose Texas which would have put an end to his POTUS aspirations. Really hate that fucker.

[ducks]

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/07/20/rnc-convention-laura-ingraham-donald-trump-media-sot.cnn

[TheGreatYacht]

:cry he called mah wife for 5 minutes :cry

[DarrinS]

:cry he called mah wife for 5 minutes :cry

Man -- you're binge watching this shit

[TheGreatYacht]

Man -- you're binge watching this shit
This is kind of important, dipshit.

[DarrinS]

This is kind of important, dipshit.

It's a pep rally, dipshit

[TheGreatYacht]

It's a pep rally, dipshit
You think cuckservatives nominate their candidate in a pep rally? dipshit.

[boutons_deux]

Holy shit, Repugs and their tools are lying as badly as, no different from Alex Jones, Fox, Breitbart, all of hate media.

Thanks, you Repug voters!

[boutons_deux]

Trump Accidentally Fires Off ‘Boring Mike Pence’ Tweet During VP Speech Before He Can Stop Himself

http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/5382/8/16x9/1600.jpg


http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-accidentally-fires-boring-mike-pence-tweet-d-53266 (http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-accidentally-fires-boring-mike-pence-tweet-d-53266)

[Pelicans78]

Trump Accidentally Fires Off ‘Boring Mike Pence’ Tweet During VP Speech Before He Can Stop Himself

http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/5382/8/16x9/1600.jpg


http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-accidentally-fires-boring-mike-pence-tweet-d-53266 (http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-accidentally-fires-boring-mike-pence-tweet-d-53266)




Not even real Boots. This came from The Onion.

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s Repulsive Acceptance Speech Just Got Hillary Clinton Elected President

Donald Trump's acceptance speech is so repulsive to so many Americans that he just may have gotten Hillary Clinton elected to be the nation's next president.

Trump is terrible on the teleprompter, so his delivery was poor.

Trump promised that there would be no lies. :lol ( Another Great Repug said "I'm not a crook" )

He then proceeded to lie throughout the entire speech.

Every time Trump said these are the facts, it was the cue for another lie.

Donald Trump immediately settled into his comfort food of robotically reading off statistics to make himself sound knowledgeable.

Trump painted immigrants as roaming bands of criminals who are terrorizing the American people,

“The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015.

They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the impact on public safety or resources.”

Trump is alienating every group of voters that he needs to win. Trump is playing to angry, white, conservative America.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/21/donald-trumps-repulsive-acceptance-speech-hillary-clinton-elected-president.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Trash! :lol

Trash supporters! :lol

Repugs are so fucked! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Ben Carson Just Said Trump’s Kids Grew Up Plagued By The ‘Disadvantage’ Of Wealth

Calling Trump's wealth a disadvantage was stunningly stupid, but it's par for the course.

http://15130-presscdn-0-89.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ben_Carson_25535421921-701x467.jpg :lol :lol :lol y'all

In a Fox News interview on Thursday, the retired neurosurgeon and short-lived presidential candidate said that Trump’s children are “delightful” but grew up in a “disadvantaged environment” because of their wealth.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/21/ben-carson-trumps-kids-grew-plagued-disadvantage-wealth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[TeyshaBlue]

It's a pep rally, dipshit
+10

[TeyshaBlue]

Mike Pence looks like a Bob Knight starter kit.

[Pelicans78]

Not sure why Trump has decided to go with Nixon's "law & order" mantra in such a big speech.

[boutons_deux]

Not sure why Trump has decided to go with Nixon's "law & order" mantra in such a big speech.

gotta kill the knitters, gotta kill the Mexicans, crime is rampant, be very scared, vote for Trash.

total lies, no facts, nothing but redneck racist xenophobic baiting.

[Spurminator]

Worked for Nixon the last time whitey was this scared of the negro.

[Spurminator]

:lol L....G....B......TQ?

[Reck]

Boutons never heard of twitter username generator apparently. :lol

[Reck]

:lol L....G....B......TQ?

:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Worked for Nixon the last time whitey was this scared of the negro.

yep, racism is on the founding principles that defines America.

[Pelicans78]

Worked for Nixon the last time whitey was this scared of the negro.

Nixon mainly used it to talk about violent protesters against the Vietnam War, but there was an element against black protesters as well, especially after MLK's assassination. And tbf, Nixon won that election in 1968.

[Thebesteva]

All I see is an asshole on stage asking for everyone to make his life better...Hilary is no better. Can we just do away with presidents in general?

[boutons_deux]

Nixon mainly used it to talk about violent protesters against the Vietnam War, but there was an element against black protesters as well, especially after MLK's assassination. And tbf, Nixon won that election in 1968.

His cranking up the war on drugs was to go after war protesters, knitters, Mexicans, the latter two being the original Anslinger anti-drug targets back in the 30s.

Repugs have been, still are 100% nasty, stinking, destructive motherfuckers for decades.

[spankadelphia]

Black Lives Open Fire is the worst thing that could have happened to the Dems this election. And they egged it on.

[SnakeBoy]

This seems like a good safe mix of people.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSsQ4E8OZJY

What's with the white dude with dreadlocks thinking he's a person of color.

[da_suns_fan]

This is a disaster. Trump is at his best cracking jokes and bitching about political correctness. This pivot to to anti-violence is a really stupid decision.

[djohn2oo8]

Black Lives Open Fire is the worst thing that could have happened to the Dems this election. And they egged it on.

Getting shot by the cops for.putting hands up is something they egged on? stfu

[boutons_deux]

What's with the white dude with dreadlocks thinking he's a person of color.

cultural appropriation to insult the Jamaicans, or maybe he thinks he's the creature in Predator.

[Reck]

The fact check people have some hard work to do tonight. :lol

[hitmanyr2k]

Nixon mainly used it to talk about violent protesters against the Vietnam War, but there was an element against black protesters as well, especially after MLK's assassination. And tbf, Nixon won that election in 1968.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-drugs-tool-target-black-people-article-1.2573832

Nixon was another racist GOP crook.


“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said in the interview after Baum asked him about Nixon’s harsh anti-drug policies.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying,” Ehrlichman continued.

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Crook Ronald Reagan continued the effort to destroy black communities by allowing the Contras to import their crack cocaine into the U.S. which lead to drug wars in the streets.

[Reck]

The Hillary wants to abolish the second ammendment is the most retarded shit the republicans hop on.

[spankadelphia]

Getting shot by the cops for.putting hands up is something they egged on? stfu

"Hands up, don't shoot!" was a big lie. Michael "Gentle Giant" Brown attacked and robbed a convenience store clerk and then tried to steal a cop's gun. This didn't matter to the dindu hordes because this is apparently normal behavior in da hood. Not so in White America.

Trotting his mother onstage will be a disaster for the DNC.

[spankadelphia]

The Hillary wants to abolish the second ammendment is the most retarded shit the republicans hop on.

She has gone on record as saying she disagreed with the Heller ruling. You know, the one that passed 5-4 and was a single vote away from limiting the 2nd amendment to powder muskets.

[Reck]

She has gone on record as saying she disagreed with the Heller ruling. You know, the one that passed 5-4 and was a single vote away from limiting the 2nd amendment to powder muskets.

This has been debunked, fact checked like 50 times already. It's a talking poinit republicans like to make. Just another long running lie.

[spankadelphia]

"We're totally not coming for your guns, goy. Just ignore all those circuit court rulings that will inevitably make it in front of the SCOTUS. And don't worry, our judge selection will be totally unbiased and non-political. Trust us."

:downspin:

[TheGreatYacht]

Too long of a speech, tbh. Will be easily forgotten once Hillary announces her VP tomorrow. Democrats also have the last word next week.

Melania's speech will be remembered more.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

"Hands up, don't shoot!" was a big lie. Michael "Gentle Giant" Brown attacked and robbed a convenience store clerk and then tried to steal a cop's gun. This didn't matter to the dindu hordes because this is apparently normal behavior in da hood. Not so in White America.

Trotting his mother onstage will be a disaster for the DNC.

The Ferguson DA making a farce of the grand jury proceeding to go along with multiple obvious conflicts of interest and institutional racism was real.

[angrydude]

Lots of denial going on here.

[Reck]

Lots of denial going on here.

About?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

About?

That the GOP convention is a train wreck.

[Big Dog]

Trump with the power move tonight. Hit on all points, calling out Barry and Shillary like omfgcrazy.

Can't wait for next week's shitfest of continued promises and delusional views of how America is doing great.

[DarrinS]

BLM fraud convention starts next week

[Reck]

BLM fraud convention starts next week

If no one plagiarizes anyone, it will have one up on this one, for sure.

[hitmanyr2k]

I'm not sure Trump gets a bump from this convention. It was a complete dud. Negativity, anger and half-truths work with the base and all but after a week of that shit Trump's speech was overkill tonight. I thought he would be smarter and take a more mild-mannered but serious approach in an attempt to look Presidential. Instead he came off as more of a old man yelling in fire and brimstone.

[TheGreatYacht]

BLM fraud convention starts next week
Triggered

[Reck]

I'm not sure Trump gets a bump from this convention. It was a complete dud. Negativity, anger and half-truths work with the base and all but after a week of that shit Trump's speech was overkill tonight. I thought he would be smarter and take a more mild-mannered but serious approach in an attempt to look Presidential. Instead he came off as more of a old man yelling in fire and brimstone.

They fucked up when they spent 3 nights bashing Hillary non stop and undermining their own themes of the nights.

They also had no substance. No idea what policies they want to do, or anything close to that. Just more we will build walls but won't tell you how much it will cost, etc.

Complete and utter disaster.

[Spurminator]

Triggered

:lol no kidding


Epic BLM pandering coming at the DNC. She won't "bring them to heel."


Can't wait for the BLM convention :lol


BLM fraud convention starts next week

[angrydude]

They fucked up when they spent 3 nights bashing Hillary non stop and undermining their own themes of the nights.

They also had no substance. No idea what policies they want to do, or anything close to that. Just more we will build walls but won't tell you how much it will cost, etc.

Complete and utter disaster.

Just like Trump shouldn't have gone negative in the Republican primaries? lol. 9/10 going negative works extremely well.

Cant' wait for the BLM convention when you be praising the speakers as comedic geniuses for saying Trump is orange and has small hands.

The speech is almost universally being praised as extremely effective.

And Trump could have told you exactly what he was going to do hour by hour for his first 100 days and you would still claim he wasn't giving any substance. Then you would call him racist, sexist, and anti-gay. Then you'll say he isn't ready for prime time. Then you'll say how you would love to vote for a reasonable Republican like Romney or McCain. The Republican party used to be sane back in the day.

lol

[DarrinS]

They fucked up when they spent 3 nights bashing Hillary non stop and undermining their own themes of the nights.

They also had no substance. No idea what policies they want to do, or anything close to that. Just more we will build walls but won't tell you how much it will cost, etc.

Complete and utter disaster.


There will probably be very little bashing of Trump at the DNC

[DarrinS]

Triggered

Im a white straight man, so that's impossible :lol

[hitmanyr2k]

Just like Trump shouldn't have gone negative in the Republican primaries? lol. 9/10 going negative works extremely well.

Cant' wait for the BLM convention when you be praising the speakers as comedic geniuses for saying Trump is orange and has small hands.

The speech is almost universally being praised as extremely effective.

And Trump could have told you exactly what he was going to do hour by hour for his first 100 days and you would still claim he wasn't giving any substance. Then you would call him racist, sexist, and anti-gay. Then you'll say he isn't ready for prime time. Then you'll say how you would love to vote for a reasonable Republican like Romney or McCain. The Republican party used to be sane back in the day.

lol

That would be a first :lol Somehow he's going to do all of these "tremendous" things and have the money to pay for it all while reducing the debt while rebuilding the greatest military ever blah blah blah

[ElNono]

:lol why people still insist that elections like this are about policy and things like that, tbh?

It's all about looks, manners, empathy, delivering a speech, looking presidential, etc... both bases already know who they're voting for, the rest are just looking who they can place a bet on at a personal level.

I mean, at the end of the day, all those guys are likely going to be disappointed no matter who they vote for anyways.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

:lol why people still insist that elections like this are about policy and things like that, tbh?

It's all about looks, manners, empathy, delivering a speech, looking presidential, etc... both bases already know who they're voting for, the rest are just looking who they can place a bet on at a personal level.

I mean, at the end of the day, all those guys are likely going to be disappointed no matter who they vote for anyways.

While Trump is historically coy on actual policy I don't see why it has to be all or nothing.

The exit polls in the last election had Romney being hammered with independents for being so vague on policy outside of repeal Obamacare.

[ElNono]

While Trump is historically coy on actual policy I don't see why it has to be all or nothing.

The exit polls in the last election had Romney being hammered with independents for being so vague on policy outside of repeal Obamacare.

But that's the GOP as a whole, and the Dems too to a large extent. Romney made really shitty decisions, like picking a terrible VP, that I think even scared some of the base, and couldn't shake freaking Joe Biden on a debate. Ryan wanted to privatize Medicare, talked up school vouchers. The thing is, that's basically what you hear pretty much every time from the Republican platform. I haven't looked this year, but I doubt it's much different. Heck, do you still know what the GOP as a whole wants to replace Barrycare with? It's been what, 6 years?

I suppose he thought "repeal" was going to be enough to propel him, like it did for Congress in 2010. He was even running against a president that already faltered on some of his promises.

I still can't believe they bungled that election, tbh, but they managed.

Frankly, from this cycle, and even if you consider his ideas lunacy, the only guy that really has said how he's going to pay for this or that has been Bernie. Skimping on details has been the norm for a while now.

[rmt]

But that's the GOP as a whole, and the Dems too to a large extent. Romney made really shitty decisions, like picking a terrible VP, that I think even scared some of the base, and couldn't shake freaking Joe Biden on a debate. Ryan wanted to privatize Medicare, talked up school vouchers. The thing is, that's basically what you hear pretty much every time from the Republican platform. I haven't looked this year, but I doubt it's much different. Heck, do you still know what the GOP as a whole wants to replace Barrycare with? It's been what, 6 years?

I suppose he thought "repeal" was going to be enough to propel him, like it did for Congress in 2010. He was even running against a president that already faltered on some of his promises.

I still can't believe they bungled that election, tbh, but they managed.

Frankly, from this cycle, and even if you consider his ideas lunacy, the only guy that really has said how he's going to pay for this or that has been Bernie. Skimping on details has been the norm for a while now.

http://abetterway.speaker.gov/_assets/pdf/ABetterWay-HealthCare-PolicyPaper.pdf

[ElNono]

http://abetterway.speaker.gov/_assets/pdf/ABetterWay-HealthCare-PolicyPaper.pdf

Thanks for the link (although I gotta admit I laughed when I read June 22, 2016, tbh). I haven't read it entirely yet, but I will.

I wish it would actually be a bill, personally, not the hodge-podge of small bills in the echo chamber that's the House, trying to trim or impair Barrycare here or there.

[spankadelphia]

There are people posting in this thread right now that are going over The Wall.:stirpot:

America too white, evil, oppressive, and institutionally racist for you? I have great news, you don't have to stay! Historically, oppressed people get the fuck away from their oppressors if/when the opportunity arises. Now is your chance!

[FuzzyLumpkins]

But that's the GOP as a whole, and the Dems too to a large extent. Romney made really shitty decisions, like picking a terrible VP, that I think even scared some of the base, and couldn't shake freaking Joe Biden on a debate. Ryan wanted to privatize Medicare, talked up school vouchers. The thing is, that's basically what you hear pretty much every time from the Republican platform. I haven't looked this year, but I doubt it's much different. Heck, do you still know what the GOP as a whole wants to replace Barrycare with? It's been what, 6 years?

I suppose he thought "repeal" was going to be enough to propel him, like it did for Congress in 2010. He was even running against a president that already faltered on some of his promises.

I still can't believe they bungled that election, tbh, but they managed.

Frankly, from this cycle, and even if you consider his ideas lunacy, the only guy that really has said how he's going to pay for this or that has been Bernie. Skimping on details has been the norm for a while now.

And the new electorate ate up Sanders. Hillary got the nomination due to backdoor deals with minority groups and unions plus the superdelegates more than anything else. The Dems see this and put more than half of Sanders policy proposals onto their platform.

Last election the election polls were pretty clear that Romney being too vague on policy cost him. Go to the current candidates websites and look at the policy proposal pages and tell me who you see as more forthcoming.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

There are people posting in this thread right now that are going over The Wall.:stirpot:

America too white, evil, oppressive, and institutionally racist for you? I have great news, you don't have to stay! Historically, oppressed people get the fuck away from their oppressors if/when the opportunity arises. Now is your chance!

:sleep

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://abetterway.speaker.gov/_assets/pdf/ABetterWay-HealthCare-PolicyPaper.pdf

So expand HSA tax credits which would basically give more money to the financial industry.

Cement the relationship between payroll and healthcare with no notion of price control.

More tort reform stupidity.

Cap medicaid on a per capita allotment.

Subsidizing pharmaceuticals and device companies even more.

Make sure boomers get their medicare funding.

Eliminate abortion funding.

Well that was the typical supply side GOP solution to everything.

About the only thing in there that actually would curb costs for the consumer was the antitrust reform.

[ElNono]

So expand HSA tax credits which would basically give more money to the financial industry.

Cement the relationship between payroll and healthcare with no notion of price control.

More tort reform stupidity.

Cap medicaid on a per capita allotment.

Subsidizing pharmaceuticals and device companies even more.

Make sure boomers get their medicare funding.

Eliminate abortion funding.

Well that was the typical supply side GOP solution to everything.

About the only thing in there that actually would curb costs for the consumer was the antitrust reform.

I read most of it, and it's basically what Ryan ran with in 2012, with a few tweaks that are popular now, like preexisting condition coverage and the the tax credit for portability.

I like some ideas in theory, like more competition between insurance companies, but really, that's the not the real problem with cost. And there's no way to control that without things like serious patent reform, or basically admitting that in certain areas, profit motive can't be more important that the well-being of citizens.

I've never liked ACA at all for the same reason. There's no cost control, and without that, you can't make the rest work.

[InRareForm]

trump has no idea on what foreign policy is

[boutons_deux]

Nixon mainly used it to talk about violent protesters against the Vietnam War, but there was an element against black protesters as well, especially after MLK's assassination. And tbf, Nixon won that election in 1968.

Nixon won because he scuttled the Paris Peace, denying the Dems the campaign advantage of stopping the VN war just before the election, just like St Ronnie scuttled Carter's attempt to get the hostages released.

Repugs were converting the racist Dems in the South to be racist Repugs in the South (Southern Strategy) so Nixon used the war on drugs to criminalize blacks to please his racist base.

[boutons_deux]

trump has no idea on what foreign policy is

he doesn't care about being President, or about America. Trash offered Kasich responsibility as veep for both domestic and foreign policy, iow, veep as CEO, Trash as non-executive chairman of the board President.

[boutons_deux]

profit motive can't be more important that the well-being of citizens.

... There's no cost control

One reason America is fucked is that for-profit BigHealthCare puts profit above patients, and BigHealthCare own legislators, makes/blocks policy to protect/increase profit, not to provide care.

It's the fundamental corruption of American health care: health care is an expensive privilege, not an "inalienable" right.

BigHealthCare is unstoppable, sucking $3T+/year out of Americans' wealth.

[boutons_deux]

con man, liar Trash making explicit all the implicit hate, lies, paranoia, racism that the Repugs have campaigned on for 50 years

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13781818_1033252496729596_7586406572846964263_n.jp g?oh=7a3ee70c9bf1410ecc68b51aa2cd98bd&oe=5835EED8

[angrydude]

TDIL safety explicitly means hate, lies, paranoia, and racism.

Presidential elections are about being the person people trust to do the right thing. It's not a high school debate that's graded on points. Never has been.

[boutons_deux]

TDIL safety explicitly means hate, lies, paranoia, and racism.

Presidential elections are about being the person people trust to do the right thing. It's not a high school debate that's graded on points. Never has been.

Trash's "law and order" is code word, a dog whistle, aimed at the Repug white racist base, for racism against blacks, browns, just like "states rights" was, is a code word for Jim Crow racism.

Voter expressing their preference through voting for "person .... to do the right thing" are almost 100% ignored (aka disenfranchisement) by politicians who always prioritize the preferences of their donors.

[boutons_deux]

Media Across The Political Spectrum Aghast At Trump's "Dark," "Ugly" Convention Speech

Media figures from across the political spectrum reacted with horror on Twitter during Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC),

calling it the "bleakest, darkest, most fascistic speech" that just kept getting "darker and darker."

Several commentators compared the speech to that of a "fascist" "dictator."

( many tweets in the link )

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/21/media-across-political-spectrum-aghast-trumps-dark-ugly-convention-speech/211814?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair+%28Media+Matters+for+America+-+Blog%29

Are there 40M, 50M people who will vote for this mentally disordered piece of shit created by the VRWC/Repugs?

[boutons_deux]

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/