Up Like Trump

[iCEBREAKER]

As for Megan Kelly, that incident pretty much washed her up, didn't it?

Not it did not.  Please stop conflating your retribution fantasies with actual reality.

Megyn Kelly's ratings soar despite Donald Trump's tweets

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-kelly-ratings-trump-20150825-story.html

Kelly (further) established herself as an independent, top-rated, take no-shit-from-anybody journalist via the Trump imbroglio.

I'd love to see her as Press Sec in the Trump administration, but she wouldn't do that because she's a real pro, not the simpering partisan hack you desire her to be.

[Masha Sha]

All in all its pathetic, a clear reflection of real state of the American Republic... I have too high expectation for the USA... I should really lower them. The golden age is over... And no rebound in sight. I vote for herting as potus and Flynn as veepee... The rests are total jokes...

[Karartma1]

All in all its pathetic, a clear reflection of real state of the American Republic... I have too high expectation for the USA... I should really lower them. The golden age is over... And no rebound in sight. I vote for herting as potus and Flynn as veepee... The rests are total jokes...

The golden age is over since a long time. Maybe the Nineties were the last golden years of the US. There so many movies that represent that.
This is what happens when building an economy based on, well, numbers! Numbers not backed by any real thing.

Stock, CDS, derivatives and so on are crap but they are still the very basis of our rotten economy.

If that's the case, long live to BTC

Yes, it's a big freaking joke

[BADecker]

Five takeaways from Day 1 of the GOP convention

CLEVELAND — Darkness fell in Cleveland.

Ronald Reagan, the candidate Donald Trump most aspires to be, cheerily conjured the image of "Morning in America" in both of his winning presidential campaigns, blunting the edge of the harder-edged conservatism of his earlier career. On the first night of Donald Trump's Republican National Convention — personally stage-managed by the nominee — a blackout curtain of unrelenting gloom was lowered on the Quicken Loans Center in service of his slogan "Make America Safe Again."

A majority of Americans see the country on the wrong track, for sure, but polls don't illustrate a population gripped by widespread death-metal doom. Yet for about two prime-time hours, viewers were hit with a relentless recitation of death, anger, danger, helplessness, blood, murder, fear and terror — graphic stories about Benghazi, crimes committed by illegal immigrants and out-of-control terrorism abetted by Hillary Clinton.

It was no surprise, given the country's-on-fire tone of Trump's primary message (his campaign book was titled "Crippled America," after all) and to some extent it was an unconventional rendition of a conventional convention tactic: vividly illustrating the perils so that the nominee, who speaks on Thursday, can offer his white-horse optimistic solution to the nation's problems.

Still, laying out the case for Trump in such stark terms illustrated the weakness of a campaign he calls "a movement" bigger than himself. There's a fragility to Trumpism in the absence of Trump's personal presence — what a bummer it was hearing all that lousy news without the leavening of the candidate's offbeat humor and the power of his personality.

Here are five takeaways from a first day filled with convention-floor conflict, poor stage management, flashes of powerful anti-Hillary messaging and Melaniagate.

1. Trump is an apprentice at running a convention. There were moments of clarity and power (Sheriff David Clarke delivered a clarion message for "Blue Lives Matters" — and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talked about the candidate's "big heart"), but for the most part, the shaggy program wasn't up to the production standards of Trump's TV shows.

This is not a small matter.

Read more at http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-takeaways-225790.

[apollofire]

I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.

[BADecker]

I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.

The only economic prosperity that can come, will come when we get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank and the debt money system. This will eliminate income taxes. Trump isn't talking about this stuff. Trump won't bring prosperity. He is simply another side of a many faceted coin... a coin that is out there to plunder the people.

[Elwar]

I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.

to himself

[Spendulus]

As for Megan Kelly, that incident pretty much washed her up, didn't it?

Not it did not.  Please stop conflating your retribution fantasies with actual reality.

Megyn Kelly's ratings soar despite Donald Trump's tweets

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-kelly-ratings-trump-20150825-story.html

Kelly (further) established herself as an independent, top-rated, take no-shit-from-anybody journalist via the Trump imbroglio.

I'd love to see her as Press Sec in the Trump administration, but she wouldn't do that because she's a real pro, not the simpering partisan hack you desire her to be.

Looking into it a bit further I agree with you.  I don't have or watch cable or satellite (or over the air) TV, so I may be somewhat ignorant about this thing.

[BADecker]

I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.

to himself

Right! Trump's campaign for the people is all "trumped up," pun intended.

[Elwar]

Kasich is going to be president?!?

Oh ffuuuuuuuuuuddddddgggge (only I didn't say fudge).

http://gawker.com/donald-trump-offered-john-kasich-the-presidency-1783971713

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.

[amiraja]

I do not like him very racist trum

he can not be tolerated anymore

[BADecker]

I do not like him very racist trum

he can not be tolerated anymore

But think about one racism thing. People of different races often act differently. You might not like the way a person of a different race acts in your presence. This means, recognize the other races, and respect them.

[virtualx]

I do not like him very racist trum

he can not be tolerated anymore

But think about one racism thing. People of different races often act differently. You might not like the way a person of a different race acts in your presence. This means, recognize the other races, and respect them.

The behavior is largely influenced with the people they hang out with and mass media. Do you think these two had the same type of people near?

[BADecker]

I do not like him very racist trum

he can not be tolerated anymore

But think about one racism thing. People of different races often act differently. You might not like the way a person of a different race acts in your presence. This means, recognize the other races, and respect them.

The behavior is largely influenced with the people they hang out with and mass media. Do you think these two had the same type of people near?

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I should have added, It doesn't mean live with them.   

[BADecker]

What if the Fix Was In?

What if espionage is the failure to safeguard state secrets and the evidence that Clinton failed to safeguard them is unambiguous and overwhelming?

What if President Obama never really liked his former rival whom he appointed as his secretary of state? What if he had no real interest in seeing her succeed him because he and his wife simply could never trust her?

What if, when Clinton suggested to the president that the U.S. wage a secret undeclared war against Libya, the president went along with it as a no-lose proposition? What if he assumed that if her secret war succeeded he'd get the credit and if her secret war failed she would get the blame?

What if the means of fighting the secret war consisted of employing intelligence assets rather than the U.S. military? What if Clinton concocted that idea because the use of the military requires a public reporting to the entire Congress but the use of intelligence assets requires only a secret reporting to a dozen members of Congress?

What if Clinton expanded her war by permitting American and foreign arms dealers to bypass the NATO arms embargo on Libya by selling heavy-duty, military-grade arms directly to militias in Libya? What if this was Clinton's dream scenario — an apparent civil war in Libya in which the victorious side was secretly armed by the U.S., with democracy brought to the country and Clinton the architect of it all?

What if the CIA warned Clinton that this would backfire? What if the CIA told her that she was arming not pro-Western militias but anti-American terrorist groups? What if she rejected all that advice? What if providing material assistance to terrorist groups is a felony? What if the Department of Political Justice actually obtained an indictment of an American arms dealer for going along with Clinton's schemes?

What if Clinton's secret war in Libya was a disaster? What if she succeeded in toppling the Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, only to have him replaced by feuding warlords who control anti-Western terrorist groups that not only failed to produce democracy but instead produced destruction, chaos, terror, torture, and death?

What if Clinton managed her Libyan disaster using a non-secure email system even though she regularly sent and received state secrets? What if she sent many emails containing state secrets about her Libyan war to her friend Sid Blumenthal? What if Blumenthal had been turned down for a State Department job by the president himself?

Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/andrew-p-napolitano/fix-2/.

[Masha Sha]

Ivanka delivered a good speech... Too many giggle but overall I would have preferred her as potus ;-)

[Jmild1]

So trump is officially nominated as President of Republican Party.

Donald Trump supporters celebrated their once unthinkable capture of the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday night as state delegates took turns to count up the votes from his remarkable sweep through the party’s 2016 primary election.

US election 2016: Republican party nominates Donald Trump for president

[Balthazar]

http://www.scoopnest.com/user/iyad_elbaghdadi/677476064025702400

Trumputin 

[BADecker]

http://www.scoopnest.com/user/iyad_elbaghdadi/677476064025702400

Trumputin 

Or you could say regarding the American Presidency, Put-Trump-in.     

[BADecker]

Somebody should run on a platform where:
1. Income tax becomes truly voluntary; check a box and don't have any withholding or tax at all;
2. Nothing replaces income tax, like flat tax; NOTHING;
3. Any taxation comes from import/export, or Federal corporations, or taxes for transporting product across stat lines IF IT IS A CORPORATION THAT DOES IT; no taxation for private people transporting stuff anywhere (these have been in place from the beginning of the country).

If Trump was for the people, he would have done this. He could afford to do it. And he isn't another Ross Perot.