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| St. Simon's Island, GA: 54 Private Jets at Meeting to Stop Trump |
| 2016-03-10 |
| [Breitbart] Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday that "something like 54 private jets" had arrived at an elite meeting of tech CEOs, GOP party insiders and big donors set on stopping Donald Trump before he wins the Republican nomination. The meeting was the annual World Forum, an off-the-record conference hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a leading Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank. AEI has hosted the "secretive" event since 1982, but this year had a unique focus. Republican pundit Bill Kristol and former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove were there, among others, including leaders of both the House and Senate. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #24 54 private jets. I guess all these people are climate change deniers. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-03-10 22:15 |
| #23 Why I like Trump: Obama hates him The media hates him The establishment republicans hate him The establishment democrats hate him The Mexican presidents hate him The terrorists who want to migrate to America hate him Mitch McConnell hates him Mitt Romney hates him The guys in private jets hate him .......... |
| Posted by: Airandee 2016-03-10 19:44 |
| #22 I'm still going through my memory of fascist leader who arose from the business class, particularly successful ones. Lots of crony capitalists at the trough, but not El Supremo. Mostly failed artists, newspaper men, poly sci students, community organizers, et al. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-10 17:22 |
| #21 Facism has lost its original meaning. Nowadays it means anybody who did not drink the Koolaid. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-10 15:47 |
| #20 Procopius, open your eyes. My eyes are open. They observe that the 'Right' is as intolerant as the 'Left' when it comes to a democracy and the people. "The masses are unable to digest the 'evil' of the other guy and need to be It's all illusion. All ritural and ceremony. The republic is dead. It's an oligarchy. Too much power and money have been concentrated. As the story reports, those having it are not going to give it up politely. Your real choice is Pompey, Caesar or Crassus. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-10 15:23 |
| #19 For those you meet who don't know where fascism falls in the political spectrum, please tell them to take ten minutes of their lives to educate themselves by watching this video in order to save themselves from spending the rest of their lifetimes embarrassing themselves. Then again, like the tree falling alone in the forest, are they embarrassed if they don't know what they are doing is embarrassing? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-03-10 14:27 |
| #18 Those people took control of the GOP and did what they wanted to. The voters caught on and they want to protect their position. They have long moved past the good of the nation, or even the good of the party. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-03-10 14:20 |
| #17 These people are what is wrong with the GOP |
| Posted by: newc 2016-03-10 13:30 |
| #16 sounds like an Allen and Co. meeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Company_Sun_Valley_Conference |
| Posted by: 746 2016-03-10 13:27 |
| #15 So vote Cruz and stop worrying about what Trump would or wouldn't do. If Cruz wins the nomination, I believe Trump would do the right thing. If Trump wins the nomination and the party attempts to screw him out of it, he will retaliate--and should. We either believe in the process or we don't. Go Cruz! |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-03-10 13:21 |
| #14 Fascist is what we call people to the right of us, AC. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-10 13:10 |
| #13 It drives me nuts the way people throw around the term "fascist". Fascism was specified by Mussolini. In his own words it is: Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity (11). Now who in this election believes in and stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State??? Take your time it's not a hard question. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-03-10 12:55 |
| #12 Back at the end of the 90s Apple computer was on the ropes. Desperate, they brought in Gil Amelio. Promised him a large golden parachute (because the turn-around job looked impossible) and set him lose to try to save the company. Now Gil was no savior, he didn't have what it took to recreate Apple but he was just the guy to stop the bleeding and take all the negatives for doing so. Then Jobs worked his way in and rebuilt the company. Trump is no Jobs but he might be a Gil Amelio. At this point I'd settle with that. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-03-10 12:11 |
| #11 #9, who did you say your candidate is? The lady with her own email server? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-10 11:50 |
| #10 What will he be next week. A secret convert to Judaism? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-10 11:24 |
| #9 Procopius, open your eyes. They write about him being a fascist because he behaves like one. Ordering war crimes, for instance, and insisting the military will obey HIM and not the UCMJ or their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. And htat's just one example. And yes he tried to walk it back, but his first words show his instincts and (lack of) character. You might want to stop defending him on this unless you want people to think you support him because of his fascist tendencies. And the negatives are a FACT - they are repeatedly verified by multiple statistically valid surveys - so are you just sitting there telling me "LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU" when confronted with facts? Are you becoming a Trumpbot every bit in denial and willful ignorance as the Obamabots were back in 2008? Take a hard look in the mirror about what you are doing and who it shows you to be. |
| Posted by: Chart Phing8054 2016-03-10 10:57 |
| #8 The rump party. The turd party... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-03-10 10:47 |
| #7 More likely the GOPe will go third party. Even though they have the infrastructure, if Trump shows up with even a good plurality and they dump him, they indeed become the third party. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-10 10:28 |
| #6 Not difficult to stop Trump. Just goad him into a third party run and you will have President Clinton. |
| Posted by: KBK 2016-03-10 10:06 |
| #5 Trump will become a grandfather again(#3?) in the spring. That's an opportunity for the media to moderate his public behavior without changing the message. Look for clashing grandbabies soon there after. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-03-10 09:34 |
| #4 But if his negatives are so high, as I read here yesterday Think about that. Who's writing it and who's pushing it for consumption. He's a demagogue, he's Hitler, he's a fascist, etc, etc, etc. What will he be next week. What personifications will they keep coming up with? Freudian projection on parade from real crony-capitalist fascists that have very serious interests in the power and money that have been centralized in their paws for the last several decades. All the info mongers said he was suppose to fold in a month or two. So much for talking heads. We're witnessing people crawling over broken glass and it panics the oligarchs and their retinues at St. Simon's Island. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-10 08:23 |
| #3 What are they so afraid of? |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-03-10 08:12 |
| #2 I'm delighted to see Trump stir up the politicians. And the media. But if his negatives are so high, as I read here yesterday, the Beest might take it. Mrs. Bobby, no liberal by any stretch of the imagination, fears The Donald so much she just might vote for Hillary. He's gonna hafta started acting more presidential before the election, and maybe the Pubs could help with that. But if he did, you'd have to be there, to see it live, because the press would never report it. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-10 08:00 |
| #1 I've not heard of any such 'secret meeting' to "stop" the Champ. Strange, very strange. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-10 07:25 |