The 2016 US Presidential Election

[welshbairn]

And I thought UK papers were biased.

 

Fair and balanced like Fox..

 

 

[Yank Mike]

Dispatches from Obama's America:

 

The Obama administration is now arguing that the classes of illegal immigrants whom he "legalized," contrary to his constitutional duty to follow the rule of law, are eligible for welfare programs.

An illegal immigrant killed a US citizen while drag racing drunk. This gentleman was only in the country after being caught at the border because of Obama's policy to "automatically release minors entering the country. ICE declined to place a hold on him so he was released on bond. He is now on the run. ICE reports that under Obama administration rules vehicular homicide is not a serious enough crime to automatically place an illegal immigrant under indefinite detention.

[Yank Mike]

Holy shit. A blast from the past from Bill Clinton when Democrats weren't afraid to stand up to violent and revolutionary extremist groups on their left. He lit into BLM protesters today. Said they were defending gang leaders, murderers, and drug dealers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9snRQ9VAnyo

[P45]

Clinton is possibly the phoniest person I've ever seen. Walking out onto the stage with her big, cheesy grin and pointing at people in the front row like she knows them.

She's on an ego trip as much as Trump. You know what you'll get with her though. It'll be 4 more years of the status quo. She won't change or do anything significant.

 

I would be fascinated to see what Trump would do as POTUS. He'll either be great and do the good things he's mentioned or a complete disaster and be impeached after 6 months.

[banana]

Bizarre stuff in Colorado as Cruz is allocated 100% of the delegates without the vote going to the public. Both main parties have quite a bit of rigging going on.

[Yank Mike]

Bizarre stuff in Colorado as Cruz is allocated 100% of the delegates without the vote going to the public. Both main parties have quite a bit of rigging going on.

They canceled their caucus last year as the Trump train got going. All delegates were awarded to Cruz at a party convention. The official party twitter account then tweeted "We Did It #Nevertrump." LOL.The only real explanation ever given as to why the vote was canceled was that the party was afraid too many people would show up this time around.

[welshbairn]

They canceled their caucus last year as the Trump train got going. All delegates were awarded to Cruz at a party convention. The official party twitter account then tweeted "We Did It #Nevertrump." LOL.The only real explanation ever given as to why the vote was canceled was that the party was afraid too many people would show up this time around.

 

They reacted to a change in the national party rules that meant delegates would have to vote the way the voters wanted, either proportionately or winner takes all, by saying ok, we won't have a vote then. They want the delegates to be able to decide for themselves.

[Yank Mike]

Interesting article about Trump and his political mentor from the 1980's Roy Cohn. I'd never heard of Cohn, but apparently he was Joe McCarthy's hatchetman exposing communists and ruining their lives. He was also instrumental in some of the more underhanded moves involved with getting Reagan the Republican nomination over the objections of the Republican Party establishment.

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-roy-cohn-mentor-joseph-mccarthy-213799

[Yank Mike]

Latest Maryland poll. Trump - 47%, Kasich - 27%, Cruz - 19%. Trump leads in all congressional districts which means he's got a good chance to sweep the delegates.

 

Amazing video of how Colorado delegates were chosen. 600 candidates given 10 seconds each to speak.

 

Read somebody say that Pres Donald Trump would be one step up from Pres Morton Downey, Jr. Ha. I'd forgotten all about that dude.

[Poet of the Macabre]

I would be fascinated to see what Trump would do as POTUS. He'll either be great and do the good things he's mentioned

 

wut

[dirty dingus]

In 10 seconds.....I'm a religious nutjob....8 seconds left...any chance o a quick w**k.

[Yank Mike]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-me-ask-america-a-question-1460675882

Let Me Ask America a Question How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change.

By

Donald J. Trump

April 14, 2016 7:18 p.m. ET

 

On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election†without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred.

A planned vote had been canceled. And one million Republicans in Colorado were sidelined.

In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system. “These are the rules,†we were told over and over again. If the “rules†can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it.

Let me ask America a question: How has the “system†been working out for you and your family?

I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people. Members of the club—the consultants, the pollsters, the politicians, the pundits and the special interests—grow rich and powerful while the American people grow poorer and more isolated.

No one forced anyone to cancel the vote in Colorado. Political insiders made a choice to cancel it. And it was the wrong choice.

Responsible leaders should be shocked by the idea that party officials can simply cancel elections in America if they don’t like what the voters may decide.

The only antidote to decades of ruinous rule by a small handful of elites is a bold infusion of popular will. On every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong. The elites are wrong on taxes, on the size of government, on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy.

Why should we trust the people who have made every wrong decision to substitute their will for America’s will in this presidential election?

Here, I part ways with Sen. Ted Cruz.

Mr. Cruz has toured the country bragging about his voterless victory in Colorado. For a man who styles himself as a warrior against the establishment (you wouldn’t know it from his list of donors and endorsers), you’d think he would be demanding a vote for Coloradans. Instead, Mr. Cruz is celebrating their disenfranchisement.

Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district.

That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination. He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters.

While I am self-funding, Mr. Cruz rakes in millions from special interests. Yet despite his financial advantage, Mr. Cruz has won only three primaries outside his home state and trails me by two million votes—a gap that will soon explode even wider. Mr. Cruz loses when people actually get to cast ballots. Voter disenfranchisement is not merely part of the Cruz strategy—it is the Cruz strategy.

The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel†that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme.

My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.

What we are seeing now is not a proper use of the rules, but a flagrant abuse of the rules. Delegates are supposed to reflect the decisions of voters, but the system is being rigged by party operatives with “double-agent†delegates who reject the decision of voters.

The American people can have no faith in such a system. It must be reformed.

Just as I have said that I will reform our unfair trade, immigration and economic policies that have also been rigged against Americans, so too will I work closely with the chairman of the Republican National Committee and top GOP officials to reform our election policies. Together, we will restore the faith—and the franchise—of the American people.

We must leave no doubt that voters, not donors, choose the nominee.

How have we gotten to the point where politicians defend a rigged delegate-selection process with more passion than they have ever defended America’s borders?

Perhaps it is because politicians care more about securing their private club than about securing their country.

My campaign will, of course, battle for every last delegate. We will work within the system that exists now, while fighting to have it reformed in the future. But we will do it the right way. My campaign will seek maximum transparency, maximum representation and maximum voter participation.

We will run a campaign based on empowering voters, not sidelining them.

Let us take inspiration from patriotic Colorado citizens who have banded together in protest. Let us make Colorado a rallying cry on behalf of all the forgotten people whose desperate pleas have for decades fallen on the deaf ears and closed eyes of our rulers in Washington, D.C.

The political insiders have had their way for a long time. Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.

Mr. Trump is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

[LongTimeLurker]

Worth a look for why some people see Cruz as the bigger danger than Trump:

 

 

{the interesting bit starts around 3:10}

[welshbairn]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-me-ask-america-a-question-1460675882

Let Me Ask America a Question How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change.

By

Donald J. Trump

April 14, 2016 7:18 p.m. ET

 

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/11/trump-i-was-cheated-in-colorado-by-failing-to-follow-rules-that-were-clear-to-everyone-months-ago/

[Yank Mike]

Worth a look for why some people see Cruz as the bigger danger than Trump:

 

 

{the interesting bit starts around 3:10}

There were a few reasons why I crossed off Ted Cruz as somebody I'd possibly support in the Republican primary fairly early. His dad's religious beliefs were a big part in that. Some people think that it's wrong to look at a candidate's religion, but I have always thought it's perfectly acceptable. I'm not sure how much of his dad's religious beliefs are shared by Ted, but he certainly has done nothing to distance himself from these beliefs. And in fact it seems that he's often caught sharing the stage with some of the more "strange" elements of Evangelical Christianity.

 

If any of you care, despite what the presenter implies in this video, even most evangelical Christians would consider the beliefs of Rafael Cruz as mumbo jumbo at best, and a downright evil interpretation of the Bible at worst.

 

Also, John Kasich's religious statements caused him to be crossed of my list. In fact, I probably wouldn't even vote for him in the general election because he seems to decide large parts of his policy based on his religious beliefs. With Ted Cruz I'd have to sit down and think hard about whether he actually shares the End Time views of his associates, and if he does how that would affect his decisions as President.

[Yank Mike]

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/11/trump-i-was-cheated-in-colorado-by-failing-to-follow-rules-that-were-clear-to-everyone-months-ago/

So much BS in there. Not even sure where to begin.

You can say what you want about Trump not knowing the rules, but the Republicans have sheisty lawyers rewriting the rules as we go along. The political parties control the primary process, and the Republican Party is taking full advantage of this fact. Anything Trump could do other than getting as many votes as possible is just chasing his tail. He doesn't have backers in the establishment and his supporters tend to be the types who have lives outside of politics. The Ron Paul disciples in the past few primaries were big on attempting to outmaneuver the establishment in grabbing delegates. Wherever they succeeded the Republican Party would just rewrite the rules. That's how this works.

[welshbairn]

So much BS in there. Not even sure where to begin.

You can say what you want about Trump not knowing the rules, but the Republicans have sheisty lawyers rewriting the rules as we go along. The political parties control the primary process, and the Republican Party is taking full advantage of this fact. Anything Trump could do other than getting as many votes as possible is just chasing his tail. He doesn't have backers in the establishment and his supporters tend to be the types who have lives outside of politics. The Ron Paul disciples in the past few primaries were big on attempting to outmaneuver the establishment in grabbing delegates. Wherever they succeeded the Republican Party would just rewrite the rules. That's how this works.

 

The Colorado rules were in place last August. The American process for selecting Party candidates seems weird to us, but it's no less democratic than the process for selecting party leaders over here, at least till very recently. Democracy comes in when everyone gets to vote in the Election. I can't wait for the Republican Convention though, it will be like dropping a bunch of cats in a bath.

[Fotbawmad]

^^^

But we don't have free college, healthcare or daycare. It's only free if you fail to understand the nature of government. 

[Yank Mike]

I will throw a temper tantrum if I have to pay taxes so some hippie can move across the country, not work for 6 years, and earn a graduate degree in puppetry while spending most of his time smoking weed and partying.

Live with your parents and attend community college or the branch commuter school of Big State U for the first 2 years of general ed classes, take an extra year completing the last 2 years at Big State U so you can work 25-30 hours per week during the school year, work full time summers, and you graduate debt free. It's that simple. If you want the "normal" Big State U experience from 18-22 you can pay back your loans when you get a job.

[NotThePars]

Feel like Yank Mike could be a South Park character.