h/t Gates of Vienna
Barack Obama will fly to Britain next month to urge voters to back staying in the European Union, it was revealed this morning. Ha?
The US President is planning a 'big, public reach-out' to British voters to make the case for staying in the Brussels club.
It's okay to interfere in other countries' elections when Democrats do it...
But Brexit campaigners have hit back, saying the intervention from the president of a country that won its independence through a civil war was hypocritical and told Mr Obama to 'keep his views to himself'.
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Boris Johnson, in defiance of David Cameron, has some comments on this subject. But I think he might be misjudging Baraq. I think Baraq would happily surrender US sovereignty.
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But Brexit campaigners have hit back, saying the intervention from the president of a country that won its independence through a civil war was hypocritical and told Mr Obama to 'keep his views to himself'.
Sorry Brexit; if you asked Obama about the Battle of Concord, he would say something about a fast passenger jet.
[BizPacReview] The protests which broke out ahead of Donald Trump’s Chicago campaign rally last week quickly became violent riots when Bernie Sanders supporters and members of the Black Lives Matter movement joined forces to shut down the event.
According to Ann Coulter, sources inside the Chicago Police Department were apparently told by Chicago Mayor and notorious liberal Rahm Emanuel not to arrest any of the violent rioters at the Trump rally. Trump, undoubtedly, got wind of this and thought it would be prudent to canx. I agree.
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The Godfather would do such a thing? No, no! Certainly not!
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These leftist leaders give their Storm Troopers a pass. We saw the same thing when the OccupyWallStreeters and BlackLivesMatter were out in force to protest or do worse.
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Chicago Police Department were apparently told by Chicago Mayor and notorious liberal Rahm Emanuel not to arrest any of the violent rioters at the Trump rally.
[BizPacReview] A memo detailing talking points presumably geared toward protesters attending a Donald Trump campaign rally has surface on the Internet.
Posted under a Twitter account belonging to Olaff Jenkins, the caption says it was found at a Trump rally. The memo is dated Saturday, March 12, which is the day Secret Service had to rush the stage in Dayton, Ohio, after a protester tried to gain access while Trump was speaking.
It’s not clear who produced the talking points, or if they’re even legitimate, but protesters are instructed to identify themselves as a "multi-racial group of faith leaders, students, union and community members who are committed to non-violence."
The intended goal, as stated, was for members to "take action consistent with their conscience."
As for their purpose, several reasons for protesting are listed, including being 'alarmed by the racism and hatred that Trump is engineering. Copy of alleged doc @ link.
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OK, So some online rag that no one has heard of reposts a tweet from somebody no one knows showing a photo of something that no one is sure what it is or who produced it. Yepper, dem Trumpbots are savvy bunch.
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These protestors are professional community organizers and rabble rousers--this is what they do. They are the Brown Shirts of the left. Had Rubio or Cruz emerged as the front runner, they would be at their rallies protesting and stirring up trouble.
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Now you know why the Klan was such a long standing auxiliary of the Democratic Party. Thuggery and intimidation are SOP and why it's so much Freudian Projection when they call other Nazis.
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I saw CBS parade out a bunch of grade school kids. They were asked who was at fault for the violence at Trump's rallies, all of the kids said Trump. It is a sad commentary. The mainstream channels are ratcheting up their anti-Trump message to high gear.
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Anti war movement recycled into occupy repurposed into BLM and now this anti Trump concoction of knuckleheads awaits it's own title... Their internal polling must be showing Trump will have a big night tonight.
[FREEBEACON] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... said that her policies would "put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business" during Sunday night’s Ohio town hall on CNN.
Clinton was asked by TVOne’s Roland Martin about her Democratic primary success in states that tend to vote Republican in general elections, and he wondered how she could carry such states once matched up with a Republican rather than a far-left candidate like Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... (I., Vt.).
Clinton has struggled against Sanders in states that voted for Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... in 2012, losing such contests as Michigan, New Hampshire, Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.
"I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country, because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right, Tim? and we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people," Clinton said.
"Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on."
Clinton went on to say she had put forward specific plans on how to incentivize more jobs and invest more in poorer communities. Some additional Obama regime unfinished business. It won't take long, there can't be many remaining.
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And half of them, having been told straight up that is what's going to happen, will vote for her anyway...
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It's interesting to me that most people don't know that coal is used for much more than burning. Coal gasification plants provide raw materials for a wide variety of products from plastics to pharmaceuticals to even acetic acid (vinegar). Panderella here needs to get educated but that's not gonna happen.
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her policies would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” There's a sure vote-getting message. But as M. Murcek said, they will probably vote for her anyway (multiple times).
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And half of them, having been told straight up that is what's going to happen, will vote for her anyway...
The coal states have gone Republican since 2008. They know who took away their jobs and why, and the poor folk on welfare who might have continued voting Democratic don't bother to vote.
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Everybody wants to know how Trump is gonna build that wall. I wanna know how the Beest is gonna bring clean energy to West Virginia. Details please!
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It's interesting to me that most people don't know that coal is used for much more than burning. Coal gasification plants provide raw materials for a wide variety of products from plastics to pharmaceuticals to even acetic acid (vinegar).
I was one of those who did not know that, Deacon Blues. Now I do. Rantburg U rules! :-)
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The pain spreads, too. Eastern railroads are laying off workers and closing facilities as the coal traffic falls off. So there's less money to be spent at Burger King and Walmart, housing prices decline, etc. It's the Detroit-ification of the region.
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I thought Obama promised that 8 years ago?.... Another promise broken I guess. Is anyone still counting?
[Al Ahram] US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday blamed supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... for protests that shut down his reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... rally, calling the US senator from Vermont "our communist friend".
Trump's Republican rivals, meanwhile, hurled scorn at the New York billionaire, saying he helped create the increasingly tense atmosphere that is now sweeping the race for the White House with his fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... rhetoric.
Trump, who has rallies in Ohio and Missouri on Saturday, canceled the Chicago event on Friday after it turned chaotic, with scuffles breaking out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate.
The festivities follow a slew of recent incidents of violence at Trump rallies, in which protesters and journalists have been punched, tackled and hustled out of venues, raising concerns about degrading security leading into the Nov. 8 election.
"All of a sudden a planned attack just came out of nowhere," Trump said at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, Saturday morning, calling the protest leaders "professional people".
He said his own fans "were taunted, they were harassed by these other people, these other people by the way, some represented Bernie, our communist friend."
"Now really Bernie should tell his people...he should really get up and say to his people 'stop, stop,'" he said.
A front man for Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier on Saturday Trump called the protesters thugs.
"The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!" Trump said on Twitter.
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Curious how both Trump supporters and detractors both see him as a punishment.
[Bloomberg] An insider's guide to what could be the struggle to win a contested convention.
Here’s what non-Trump forces are doing--and will find themselves soon scheming to do--to pull off one of the biggest, perfectly legal, heists in American memory.
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Here’s what non-Trump forces are doing--and will find themselves soon scheming to do--to pull off one of the biggest, perfectly legal, heists in American memory.
Thought the Democrats did that to us the last time.
ALLAHPUNDIT: “LENDING” THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO TRUMP FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS MIGHT MEAN YOU NEVER GET IT BACK:
Which is why, if he cleans up [tonight], you’re going to see an explosion of pieces online like the one Ross Douthat published yesterday urging the RNC to deny Trump the nomination by any means necessary — including a rule change before the convention, if need be, that frees up delegates to vote their conscience. (“A man so transparently unfit for office should not be placed before the American people as a candidate for president under any kind of imprimatur save his own.”) A member of the RNC’s Rules Committee is already circulating a letter suggesting, contra all available evidence, that delegates are not bound on the first ballot and haven’t been in 40 years. The price of stealing the nomination from Trump after he’s supposedly clinched it would be sky high.
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Due to previous efforts, several states have already on the books laws that prohibit candidates who run in their party's primaries from running in the general election as independent or third party (except maybe New Jersey where their Supreme Court threw out the state constitution to allow the Donks to insert a senatorial candidate just before the election).
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I don't know what kind of President Trump would make. I don't really know what kind of person he is. The fact that the elitists in the Republican Party, The Democrat Party, and the liberal press are all playing "pile-on" says that he is making waves with his messaging which at this time seems to be populist and pro-USA. Why is that so threatening to the elites unless they are not for the people or the country?
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“A man so transparently unfit for office should not be placed before the American people as a candidate for president under any kind of imprimatur save his own.”
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If a political party pulls shenanigans to steal the nomination from whomever won according to the rules, then they don't deserve to be a party any longer.
This applies to Democrats as well who aren't getting us much press about it but are seeing heat over Sanders likely losing because of superdelagates most people don't really understand.
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This applies to Democrats as well who aren't getting us much press about it but are seeing heat over Sanders likely losing because of superdelagates most people don't really understand.
Did not Hillary have the superdelegates in the bag in 2008... until she didn't?
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..well, super delegates have to go home (to face the pitchforks and tar) cause there's only so many appointed positions (given how many are owed those positions already) that can be handed out quick enough to leave Dodge by sundown.
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It's real easy to rail against the "system" isn't it? But how many of us know (or more importantly understand) our state party's rules for pledging delegates? At the national convention if a candidate has failed to secure more then a third of pledged delegates it means over two thirds don't support said candidate. Should the nomination be settled by a simple popular vote? Shake your fists at the elites or the establishment if it makes you feel better. But the notion that a nomination would be stolen is disengenuous - at best.
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Rubio got Slaughtered in Florida by double digits. Frankly he and Kasich have handed Trump the nomination. I say that because Cruz has been adamant that if Trump had the delegates, he must be the nominee or the party will Fracture. And Cruz is right.
Granted the GOP might split anyway. And Trump might win anyway when Sanders supporters stay home, and more moderate Dimocrats(With some intelligence left) and Independents move to Trump instead of Hillary. It's a Clusterfark of a race. Like something from 1912 election! Though none of the nominee's stack up with Teddy Roosevelt.
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Governor Kasich appears to have won Ohio, a winner-take-all state, with 44% to Trump's 36%. And the Army Ranger/West Point grad/mid-size business owner will be replacing retired Congressman John Boehner.
[BBC] Donald Trump continued his march towards the Republican Party nomination in the US by taking three more primaries. And where there's a Trump win, there's a social media reaction. Yeah, but he lost Wyoming...
This time it was #ifTrumpwins that gathered momentum, bringing hope and levity to the serious world of campaign politics. If Trump wins he'll discover the job's tougher than he anticipated. He'll also have to keep his life insurance paid for when some professional advocate of love and tolerance shoots him, probably with an illegally acquired AK... Oh, so he's gonna keep Biden as vice-president?
Or, that was the intention when Comedy Central's Midnight programme incited its 500,000 followers to play with the hashtag. Oh, wow. Comedy Central. That'll give us an unbiased view.
Over 10,500 tweets mention both @midnight and #iftrumpwins, making up nearly 40% of the original tweets on the hashtag. The trend peaked at 7,468 tweets in the hour 0500-0600GMT with the fearful perspective of Dubai-based EDM producer Shuja Rabbani a top tweet. ... predicting WW3 will start in the Middle East, all because of The Donald.....
Two tweets from @PoliticsJim helped drive the trend, garnering more than 6,000 retweets between them. Both involved satirising Trump's campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again". Four words. Kinda hard to garble them, but they tried...
One involves a playful take on popular American painter and TV personality Bob Ross, whose PBS programme The Joy of Painting brought him worldwide fame in the 1980s and 1990s. The National Debt becomes a "money tree" with Trump supporters as birds. I guess they'll communicate with each other on their Obamaphones.
Another saw Jim subverting the slogan with cake, transforming it to "Bake America Cake Again" - a sentiment all Americans passionate about patisserie can get behind, regardless of politics. It's so stoopid it's meaningless. Perhaps a Marie Antoinette reference? After Michelle and her quarterly vacations to places none of us can afford to go anymore?
Judging by the spread of branded wine, water and meat Trump brought to his post-victory presser, no one is going to go hungry if he wins. That was probably from some press guy, gnawing the hand that fed him/her/it...
While we're on hunger... Well done to Doomsdavid for getting a topical twist into the #ifTrumpwins + Hunger Games formula. "Steak to the winner of the hunger games." I went to the grocery store recently, now that I can drive again. I couldn't afford steak. A decent cut was going for $16 or so per pound. I still grilled steaks periodically when the current Emperor took office.
And for those of you playing along who don't like cake or steak, there's Keem's very American offer in the event that we find ourselves writing "President Trump"... The writer suggests he (the writer, not Trump) will buy everyone a new car. His handle is Keem. Remember that so you can claim the keys to your new DeSoto or Studebaker, or maybe a Rambler American.
This is the latest example of the way in which digital media is now playing its part the Presidential race, following on from Super Tuesday's spike in searches for "move to Canada", which of course got another outing. Meaning all the commentary has been juvenile, spiteful, and trite. That announces the death of Twitter, doesn't it?
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So if Trump wins will he have the FAA put all the Beeb people on the No Fly list as Pedophiles and Islam supporters?
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Every time they do this, it makes me want him to burn the place down completely.I Actually like him for his forceful Media pounding. They are the lowest pieces of shit.
But,
I am not an arsonist so I need Cruz to use a Knife to gut it Legally..
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[BizPacReview] The protests which broke out ahead of Donald Trump’s Chicago campaign rally last week quickly became violent riots when Bernie Sanders supporters and members of the Black Lives Matter movement joined forces to shut down the event.
[BizPacReview] A memo detailing talking points presumably geared toward protesters attending a Donald Trump campaign rally has surface on the Internet.
Hillary Clinton
[Al Ahram] US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday blamed supporters of Democratic candidate 
Trump, who has rallies in Ohio and Missouri on Saturday, canceled the Chicago event on Friday after it turned chaotic, with scuffles breaking out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate.
[Bloomberg] An insider's guide to what could be the struggle to win a contested convention.
[BBC] Donald Trump continued his march towards the Republican Party nomination in the US by taking three more primaries. And where there's a Trump win, there's a social media reaction.
