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[JackLuis]

Why it’s probably too late for Republicans to stop Trump

Thursday night's fractious presidential debate was the long Republican campaign condensed into little more than two hours: Donald Trump sailed above the other candidates, who mostly engaged in round-robin fighting that left each of them wounded and him largely unscathed.

As a result, the debate, the sixth in a nomination contest that has defied predictions, left a GOP establishment that fears disastrous repercussions from a Trump nomination no closer to finding a way to head him off, with the first balloting now a little more than two weeks away.

Trump repeatedly dismissed the nuanced arguments of his peers in favor of the blunt and forceful assertions that have made the billionaire the party's national front-runner.

Declaring that "I will gladly accept the mantle of anger," he made clear that he understands what many of his establishment foes still seem not to — that much of what they see as weaknesses in his campaign are the wellsprings of its support. But in this debate, he also sanded some of his sharp edges with humor and worked to humanize himself.

But even the emotional disputes between the two (Cruz & Rubio) illustrated the difficulties of breaking out of the pack. As Rubio tried to press an argument against Cruz, he ran into a competitor for the establishment mantle, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who relegated him to silence with an arch put-down.

"No, you already had your chance, Marco, and you blew it," Christie said.

That was the question left hanging at the conclusion: Have they all missed their chance to take down Trump?

"The Little Rock Strategy" seems to be working!

As Trump excites the Red Necks, the rest of the Clown Car tries to recapture Trump's wingnut base and drives off in a ditch to leave Hillary to pick up the pot.

"Horny Bill" laughed as the Rethuglicans fight to the death of the GOP! "Mu ah Ha Ha ha!"

 

[Beco]

(ANTIMEDIA) Before the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, Louis XV predicted, “After me, the Deluge.” Before being overthrown, Libya’s secular dictator tried to warn the West of a new Reign of Terror, essentially foretelling, “After me, the Jihad.”

This was disclosed with the recent release of phone conversations from early 2011 between Muammar Gaddafi and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The West was then gearing up to use unrest in Libya as a pretext for military intervention and regime change. Gaddafi desperately tried to convey through Blair the folly of such a war, pleading that he was trying to defend Libya from Al Qaeda, which had set up base in the country. He said:
“They have managed to get arms and terrify people. people can’t leave their homes… It’s a jihad situation. They have arms and are terrorising people in the street.”

Gaddafi’s warning went unheeded, and NATO, led by the U.S. and France, launched an air war that toppled Libya’s government. Later that year, Gaddafi (himself a brutal oppressor, like all heads of state) was forced out of a drainage pipe, and then beaten, sodomized, and shot in the street by a mob. His corpse was then draped over the hood of a car.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had done more than any single person to advance the Libya War, was informed of Gaddafi’s death while on camera. Fancying herself a modern Caesar, she chortled, “We came, we saw, he died!”
Since then, Gaddafi has been proven tragically right. As Libya descended into civil war and failed-state chaos, jihadi groups connected to Al Qaeda conquered much of the country. Libya underwent the same American “liberation” that had already befallen Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia — and would soon be visited on Syria and Yemen.

Shortly after Gaddafi’s overthrow, some of the now-rampant jihadis helped the CIA run guns from Benghazi to fellow jihadis in Syria.

Benghazi had been a rebel stronghold. The Obama administration claimed a Gaddafi-perpetrated “genocide” was imminent in that city, using that claim as the chief justification for the war. There was zero indication of such an impending atrocity. But there was ample evidence of an Al Qaeda presence in Benghazi, as Gaddafi tried to tell Blair, saying that members had “…managed to set up local stations and in Benghazi have spread the thoughts and ideas of al Qaeda.”

After the regime change, on September 11, 2012, the jihadis turned on their U.S. allies in Benghazi, sacked the U.S. diplomatic compound, and murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens.

After the regime change, on September 11, 2012, the jihadis turned on their U.S. allies in Benghazi, sacked the U.S. diplomatic compound, and murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Now ISIS has spread throughout Libya. Just days ago, ISIS perpetrated a truck bombing that killed dozens at a Libyan police academy in Sirte, a former Gaddafi stronghold. Indeed, Gaddafi informed Blair that jihadis had “attacked police stations” back in 2011.

Gaddafi further warned Blair:
“They want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump the Bully Hits a Wall

As every verbal bully can tell you, simply slathering your adversary with insult is never enough to drive him publicly, humiliatingly into the ditch. If you’re going to wound, the insults have to contain some truth—often just a seed of truth, enough to nurture injury’s bitter fruit. So in calling Jeb Bush “low energy” again and again and again and again, Donald Trump is not dishing a random taunt at his opponent. The insult works because Bush does look low-energy, perhaps because the rapid loss of 40 pounds has left him looking wan and feeble, like a skinny guy sloshing around in a fat man’s skin.

Like Trump, Cruz commands an alpha male’s ego. When towel-snapped, he does not shriek. When denigrated or teased, he does not frown or wince. He does not have to be perfect because he already thinks he’s perfect, which is just one of the reasons why the rest of Congress despises him.

The best way to beat a trash-talking bully is to convincingly pretend you cannot hear him. Donald Trump,

So will the trash talking New York prick be bested by an arrogant Texas Bible Thumper? Stay tuned for the next debate!

 

[JackLuis]

The Trump Legacy explained

New documents reveal how Donald Trump’s racist dad inspired Woody Guthrie’s most bitter writings

In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take.

Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an equal share for all in America. Below that is the signature of Donald Trump’s father, Fred. No pairing could appear more unlikely.

Trump would be investigated by a U.S. Senate committee in 1954 for profiteering off of public contracts, not least by overestimating his Beach Haven building charges to the tune of US$3.7 million.

What Guthrie discovered all too late was Trump’s enthusiastic embrace of the FHA’s guidelines for avoiding “inharmonious uses of housing” – or as Trump biographer Gwenda Blair puts it, “a code phrase for selling homes in white areas to blacks.” As Blair points out, such “restrictive covenants” were common among FHA projects – a betrayal, if ever there was one, of the New Deal vision that had given birth to the agency.

A Rethuglican Father and his son is wearing the same sheet. Even David Duke thinks the Donald is a little too fascist!

 

[phrodeau]

All those opposed now includes National Review.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430137/donald-trump-conservative-movement-menace

http://c5.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/pic_against-trump_300X250B.jpg

 

[Wrong Element]

Trump retweets a neo-Nazi:


https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-retweets-support-from-neo-nazi-white-164217608.html

 

[Beco]

Cant stop Trump!

 

[JackLuis]

I still think that Trump is part of a Clintonian conspiracy to drive the Rethuglicans so far to the right so that Hillary can swoop in and secure the White House for the Eastern Establishment/Wall Street 1%.

I mean Trump almost makes Cruz seem 'middle of the road' which is really weird given that teabagging Bible Thumper's rhetoric.

 

[Wrong Element]

Department of Small, Non-Intrusive Government:


If elected president, Obama will force Americans to say Merry Christmas.

 

[sr71plt]

Obama???

 

[Sean Renaud]

I still think that Trump is part of a Clintonian conspiracy to drive the Rethuglicans so far to the right so that Hillary can swoop in and secure the White House for the Eastern Establishment/Wall Street 1%.

I mean Trump almost makes Cruz seem 'middle of the road' which is really weird given that teabagging Bible Thumper's rhetoric.

That's a rediculous amount of work to go through for a sure thing. I mean basically you need to prevent Bernie and. . .maybe Rand Paul. After that Hillary is worse than most Republicans for the 1%, granted it's by so little it would be hard to tell but this is like one of those Saturday Morning cartoon plots where the mad scientist invents a teleporter. . .and uses it to rob a bank. Instead of selling the thing so people would simply bringing him the contents of the bank.

 

[Beco]

I still think that Trump is part of a Clintonian conspiracy to drive the Rethuglicans so far to the right so that Hillary can swoop in and secure the White House for the Eastern Establishment/Wall Street 1%.

I mean Trump almost makes Cruz seem 'middle of the road' which is really weird given that teabagging Bible Thumper's rhetoric.

Trump is part Martian.....god only knows what he's thinking. Its like he's a local NY guy, born and raised and running for President of his local Rotary Club.....reminds me of Tony Soprano

 

[Sean Renaud]

Fuck you Beco. You accuse him of being an alien, claim to be groot and now all I can see is a debate between him and Bernie Sanders where his hair keeps dancing while nobody is looking and Bernie has a break down because nobody else can see it.

 

[Wrong Element]

Obama???

That was a bit of an error, wasn't it?

 

[RUlookingup]

That was a bit of an error, wasn't it?

Now if Obama had a son........

 

[JackLuis]

Trump forced to delete Facebook video honoring vets after Cruz campaign points out they’re Russians

Friday was not a particularly good day on social media for aspiring GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

After being criticized for retweeting a post from a Nazi-sympathizer’s account, the Trump campaign was forced to pull a video from the candidate’s Facebook page because the veterans the billionaire was honoring were Russian soldiers.

According to The Blaze, the video in support of U.S. military personnel contained stock footage from Shutterstock of Russian vets wearing medals featuring the hammer and sickle.

Staffers from rival Ted Cruz’s campaign were quick to notice the small detail that was not caught by Trump’s social media people, and posted screenshots of the medals with the comment: “Interesting choice for a photo of veterans in this @realDonaldTrump video.”

I like that Trump is so detail oriented.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump and Fox News trade barbs again after he complains about ‘biased’ Megyn Kelly

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Monday he was “not 100 percent” certain he would participate in a debate this week co-hosted by Fox News Channel because he did not think moderator Megyn Kelly could treat him fairly.

Trump told CNN he would probably participate, but added: “I’m not 100 percent; I’ll see. If I think I’m going to be treated unfairly, I’ll do something else. But I don’t think she can treat me fairly, actually, I think she’s very biased. But that doesn’t mean I don’t do the debate.”

Trump added he had won every debate so far. “So I want to do the debates, they’re good for me, but I don’t think she can treat me fairly and I’m not a big fan of hers. Maybe I know too much about her.”

Thursday’s debate, also co-hosted by Google , is the last one before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, the first contest in the nomination race for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Another Rethuglican debate? Get that Corn Popper ready, they tend to be Looooong and boooooring.

 

[JackLuis]

Former Pentagon chief Robert Gates: Republicans’ grasp of national security is at a child’s level

Robert Gates , a Republican stalwart and former US defence secretary who served under eight presidents, has derided the party’s election candidates for a grasp of national security issues that “would embarrass a middle schooler”.

An ex-CIA director who first joined the White House under Richard Nixon, Gates joked that if frontrunner Donald Trump wins the presidency, he would emigrate to Canada. He condemned the media for failing to challenge candidates from both parties on promises he believes are unaffordable, illegal or unconstitutional.

“The level of dialogue on national security issues would embarrass a middle schooler,” Gates said of the Republican contenders at a Politico Playbook event in Washington on Monday . “People are out there making threats and promises that are totally unrealistic, totally unattainable. Either they really believe what they’re saying or they’re cynical and opportunistic and, in a way, you hope it’s the latter because God forbid they actually believe some of the things that they’re saying.”

Gates is among Republican elders dismayed by the way this year’s campaign is unfolding with establishment figures such as Jeb Bush, whose father he served as director of central intelligence, failing to gain traction against mavericks with unusual prescriptions for keeping America safe.

Gates was the only defence secretary in American history to be asked to remain in that office by a newly elected president. Working under Barack Obama, he was alongside Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state and praised her as “tough minded” with “a lot of common sense” but admitted they began to disagree on issues towards the end, notably the intervention in Libya .

He did not mention Bernie Sanders by name but did suggest both Democratic and Republican candidates are being given an easy ride by the media. “Frankly, I think that the press needs to be more aggressive,” he said. “A lot of people in both parties are making huge promises and commitments.

“In some cases the things they’re saying they’re going to do are unconstitutional or merely against the law and others are, from a budgetary standpoint, inconceivable, and so it seems to be that the press has not hammered hard enough and been relentless in saying, ‘How the hell are you going to do that?’”

 

[Aglaopheme]

Trump will not participate in the next debate.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...onald-trump-says-hes-unlikely-to-debate/?_r=0

“Let’s see how much money Fox is going to make on the debate without me,” Mr. Trump said at a press conference here, where he continued to attack Megyn Kelly and the crew at Fox News, with whom he sparred at an earlier debate.

“It’s time that somebody plays grownup,” he said. Just after Mr. Trump started speaking, his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, confirmed that he will not be attending the debate, saying, “He will not be participating in the Fox News debate on Thursday” and that “it’s not under negotiation.”

That is some funny funny stuff right there. Very Presidential.

 

[BotanyBoy]

That is some funny funny stuff right there. Very Presidential.

I bet it works for him.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I bet it works for him.

How do you mean? A bump in the polls?

“I don’t like her. She doesn’t treat me fairly. I’m not a big fan of hers at all,” Mr. Trump said in the interview.

So very Presidential.

 

[Adjudicator]

Cruz makes a valid point. If Trump can't stand up to Kelly, how will he ever hold up against Clinton and/or World leaders? How is he still being taken seriously by anyone?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump says he will hold a competing event (debate?), what is he going to debate an empty chair?

Whiny titty baby Trump can't face a girl? Lets see how this debate goes without the primary clown? Cruz will take center stage no doubt and give the people a full dose of... whatda ya call it?

 

[RUlookingup]

Trump says he will hold a competing event (debate?), what is he going to debate an empty chair?

Whiny titty baby Trump can't face a girl? Lets see how this debate goes without the primary clown? Cruz will take center stage no doubt and give the people a full dose of... whatda ya call it?

The only clowns are the Democrats who are hitching their wagon to 3 losers. O'Malley....yeah sure......Hillary....the anointed one and Bernie the Socialist Senior Citizen. Sure, you'll win with those 3.

 

[Beco]

If you watch the machine closely, you begin to see how people are basically sheep, and as we know, sheep get slaughtered....

American presidential candidates in the Republican Party are openly espousing proposals and language that accompany genocide. Front-runner Donald Trump has pushed American racism into the public sphere, scapegoating Muslims and Hispanic immigrants as threats to white Christians. He has proposed monitoring and registering Muslims in a national databases, forcing Muslims to wear special identifying badges, and mass deportations. He is openly supported by neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups, and uses his Twitter account to retweet and cirulate their ideas. His campaign spokewoman openly dehumanizes Muslims, and is joined in that regard by Ben Carson, who referred to Syrian refugees as “rabid dogs.”

Taken together, those statements and proposals meet the criteria for the first three of Genocide Watch’s eight stages of genocide – classification, symbolization, and dehumanization. It’s disturbing enough to prompt Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister, Eva Schloss, 86, to call out Trump for his racist rhetoric and his refusal to show compassion for refugees fleeing unimaginable violence in Syria:

This is not just a European problem, it’s a global problem. If countries as big as the U.S. and Canada would take in more people, then we would get much closer to a solution. If Donald Trump become the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster. I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism.

-- Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's Stepsister