Donald J. TrumpNote that Hillary can't comment on any of this recent bullshit because her husband cheated on her in the White House. Really. Yet this gets ignored and she or Bill are not included in this bullshit. Trump even respected Hillary back when. You can tell from pictures that Hillary respected Trump back when. If Cruz did have affairs how in the world did he ever think that would not be exposed. Is Bill still cheating on Hillary. Hmmm. Liberal press will never look into that one that is sure. All this is a diversion that will go away but in the meantime the liberals will keep it out there as long as they can. Nothing new there. Emphasize all this and leave the emails alone and deemphasize them. This exposes the liberal press for what it is but nothing new there either LOL.
Things that make you go Hmmm?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consultant Liz Mair’s controversial anti-Donald Trump super PAC shares a mailing address with Carly Fiorina’s presidential campaign, which just re-launched as a nonprofit.
“If you would like to donate by mail, send checks to: Make America Awesome PO Box 26141 Alexandria, VA 22313,” the PAC’s website states.
The PAC’s Facebook page also lists its address as “PO Box 26141” in “Alexandria, Virginia.”
That PO box also happens to be the mailing address for Carly for America, which was Fiorina’s presidential campaign and just re-launched as a nonprofit organization.
Carly for America was still listed at PO Box 26141 in Alexandria at the time of its last monthly FEC filing on March 20, 2016, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Which brings me to Gibb’s Rule #39:
There is no such thing as coincidence.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consultant Liz Mair’s controversial anti-Donald Trump super PAC shares a mailing address with Carly Fiorina’s presidential campaign, which just re-launched as a nonprofit.
“If you would like to donate by mail, send checks to: Make America Awesome PO Box 26141 Alexandria, VA 22313,” the PAC’s website states.
The PAC’s Facebook page also lists its address as “PO Box 26141” in “Alexandria, Virginia.”
That PO box also happens to be the mailing address for Carly for America, which was Fiorina’s presidential campaign and just re-launched as a nonprofit organization.
Carly for America was still listed at PO Box 26141 in Alexandria at the time of its last monthly FEC filing on March 20, 2016, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Which brings me to Gibb’s Rule #39:
There is no such thing as coincidence.
[h=2]It's a boy! Ivanka Trump gives birth to a baby boy - with a very Presidential name - just hours after she was photographed heading for breakfast in Manhattan with her husband Jared Kushner[/h]
Ivanka Trump gave birth to a baby boy named Theodore James Kushner in New York on Easter Sunday. 'Jared and I feel incredibly blessed to announce the arrival of Theodore James Kushner,' Ivanka, 34, wrote along with an Instagram photo announcing her son's arrival. 'Jared, Arabella, Joseph and I are so excited to welcome this sweet little boy in to our family!' continued the post. She is pictured above this morning just hours before giving birth heading for breakfast with her husband. In the Instagram post, pictured inset, she said that Theodore James was born at 5.43pm. Both Theodore and James are names held by former American Presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and James Madison, though it's not known if Ivanka and Jared purposefully named their newest son after historical figures.
I like that....lol
Trump: Favorable/Unfavorable
Polling Data
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | Favorable | Unfavorable | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 2/26 - 3/22 | -- | 30.4 | 63.2 | -32.8 |
| FOX News | 3/20 - 3/22 | 1016 RV | 31 | 65 | -34 |
| Bloomberg | 3/19 - 3/22 | 1000 A | 29 | 68 | -39 |
| Quinnipiac | 3/16 - 3/21 | 1451 RV | 33 | 61 | -28 |
| CBS News/NY Times | 3/17 - 3/20 | 1252 A | 24 | 57 | -33 |
| CNN/ORC | 3/17 - 3/20 | 1001 A | 31 | 67 | -36 |
| Monmouth | 3/17 - 3/20 | 848 RV | 30 | 60 | -30 |
| The Economist/YouGov | 3/10 - 3/12 | 2000 A | 36 | 61 | -25 |
| ABC News/Wash Post | 3/3 - 3/6 | 1000 A | 30 | 67 | -37 |
| Gallup | 2/26 - 3/3 | A | 30 | 63 | -33 |
Typical example of a type of person that heap hate on the successful. Trump from the first week he
burst on to the political scene soared to the top of the polls like a shooting star with a genius uniquely
his own. Someone who can walk through a labyrinth and not get lost, maneuver through intricate combinations of
torturous paths & passages & successfully find his way to the exit like few can is not the type of individual
your type can ever appreciate.
Very few voters are supporting Kasich or Cruz they are supporting the anti Trump movement which is significant.
This entire 2016 election has two camps those who are with Trump vs. those against him, no one else
matters, not even a little probably not even at all.
Grandpa
I’ve been reading the Trump has unfavorable numbers since day one and yet he is the presumptive Republican nominee.
Which means either the polls are wrong or they just poll Liberals. And no one mentions the Grannies numbers which are just as bad and yet she is the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Which leads me to the conclusion that the majority of voters are fucked in the head. (Witness the last 2 presidential elections).
Will it change this time? If the hard core Conservatives swallow their pride and back Trump then yes because the black/latino vote won’t turn out for Granny like they did for the failure.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
It's not the 1930s. But Donald Trump should scare us all the same
Kira Goldenberg
‘We are stronger than Germany in the 1930s, and have the power to turn the volume of those sinister echoes down’
@kiragoldenberg
Monday 28 March 2016 07.30 EDTLast modified on Monday 28 March 201613.31 EDT
People have been saying that Donald Trump’s success reminds them of the rise of Adolf Hitler. A congressman counseled voters to read up on the history of Germany in the 1930s as a warning, and Jewish leaders have even taken to op-ed pages to declare that they recognize “all too well the horrors of individuals using hate as a political platform and deploying language, implicit and explicit, that tears society apart”.
How close are we to that nightmare? The fact that enough people seem to believe in a fantasized glorious past (“make America great again”) – and that we must build walls or ban religions to regain the glory – pushes the outcome, terrifyingly, into the realm of possibility.
People aren’t wrong to point out that Trump certainly appears similar to Hitler in some ways. The rhetoric used by the Republican smacks of fascism, with healthy doses of isolationism and grandiosity. Trump’s rallies, which pen the media like livestock and brook no dissent, evoke less orderly Third Reich affairs. And his sloganeering, with its nostalgia for an idyllic past that never existed, fabricates a history that excludes the majority of actual people in actual America, with disconcerting echoes of an Aryan ideal. Even the substance of Trump’s speeches is as inscrutable as watching Hitler’s manic lectern screeching – and I actually speak English.
In further parallels, America is buffeted economically in ways that may feel, to some, like the dire straits of post-first world war Germany, although the reality is less catastrophic than wheelbarrows full of worthless bills. America is even effectively ignoring one of the greatest human rights crises of our time, refusing to admit nearly the number of Syrian refugees that our supposed stature as a global leader demands. Refusing refugees is the top of a slippery slope toward discriminating against people within our own borders. Donald Trump – and, less bombastically, Ted Cruz – has certainly advocated as much.
It’s working against what are still only similarities – becoming an even more open and tolerant society than, at our best moments, we already are – that will ensure Trump’s vision remains only a specter.
This is unlikely to be easy, as any civil rights advocate can tell you; many people do believe in a Trumpian version of America. But then, it’s not, for the most part, Trump supporters’ babies who are being shot by police, who are disproportionately incarcerated, who were force-marched on the Trail of Tears or interned while we were at war with Japan. The white working class that comprises Trump’s base may not see how their past security came on the backs of others.
But for those who look, it’s clear that many of their fellow Americans, and future Americans, suffered a recent history that is the opposite of anything you would ever want “again”. And they too are “us”. Their lives must matter, and they deserve a vision of the future that includes them fully.
There are many reasons, societal and systemic, why the American Dream seems ever-further out of reach, even for those who once took it for granted. But none of those factors will be ameliorated by Trump supporters deliberately seeking to fix the game against everyone else. Immigrants will still come here, regardless: America at its worst is still safer than the conditions creating refugee desperation globally.
So why offer our worst? Donald Trump can’t easily put his fascist, prejudiced ideas into force in America; he’d have to be elected first. Even then, with checks and balances, it would be a struggle. But a bigoted society would help turn things in his favor. Put another way: it’s not the demagogue that makes the movement, but the followers. We can choose not to do so, not to conflate fear of difference with diminishing opportunities.
I’m not arguing that America doesn’t need drastic change. Our systems are broken, and our current realities betray our founding ideals. But falling behind Trump as he pledges to lead a revolution is not the answer. Any forward-looking vision must begin by welcoming everyone to the table.
At its best, America works. We are stronger than Germany in the 1930s, and have the power to turn the volume of those sinister echoes down. But it will take effort, and vigilance.
Kira Goldenberg
‘We are stronger than Germany in the 1930s, and have the power to turn the volume of those sinister echoes down’
@kiragoldenberg
Monday 28 March 2016 07.30 EDTLast modified on Monday 28 March 201613.31 EDT
People have been saying that Donald Trump’s success reminds them of the rise of Adolf Hitler. A congressman counseled voters to read up on the history of Germany in the 1930s as a warning, and Jewish leaders have even taken to op-ed pages to declare that they recognize “all too well the horrors of individuals using hate as a political platform and deploying language, implicit and explicit, that tears society apart”.
How close are we to that nightmare? The fact that enough people seem to believe in a fantasized glorious past (“make America great again”) – and that we must build walls or ban religions to regain the glory – pushes the outcome, terrifyingly, into the realm of possibility.
People aren’t wrong to point out that Trump certainly appears similar to Hitler in some ways. The rhetoric used by the Republican smacks of fascism, with healthy doses of isolationism and grandiosity. Trump’s rallies, which pen the media like livestock and brook no dissent, evoke less orderly Third Reich affairs. And his sloganeering, with its nostalgia for an idyllic past that never existed, fabricates a history that excludes the majority of actual people in actual America, with disconcerting echoes of an Aryan ideal. Even the substance of Trump’s speeches is as inscrutable as watching Hitler’s manic lectern screeching – and I actually speak English.
In further parallels, America is buffeted economically in ways that may feel, to some, like the dire straits of post-first world war Germany, although the reality is less catastrophic than wheelbarrows full of worthless bills. America is even effectively ignoring one of the greatest human rights crises of our time, refusing to admit nearly the number of Syrian refugees that our supposed stature as a global leader demands. Refusing refugees is the top of a slippery slope toward discriminating against people within our own borders. Donald Trump – and, less bombastically, Ted Cruz – has certainly advocated as much.
It’s working against what are still only similarities – becoming an even more open and tolerant society than, at our best moments, we already are – that will ensure Trump’s vision remains only a specter.
This is unlikely to be easy, as any civil rights advocate can tell you; many people do believe in a Trumpian version of America. But then, it’s not, for the most part, Trump supporters’ babies who are being shot by police, who are disproportionately incarcerated, who were force-marched on the Trail of Tears or interned while we were at war with Japan. The white working class that comprises Trump’s base may not see how their past security came on the backs of others.
But for those who look, it’s clear that many of their fellow Americans, and future Americans, suffered a recent history that is the opposite of anything you would ever want “again”. And they too are “us”. Their lives must matter, and they deserve a vision of the future that includes them fully.
There are many reasons, societal and systemic, why the American Dream seems ever-further out of reach, even for those who once took it for granted. But none of those factors will be ameliorated by Trump supporters deliberately seeking to fix the game against everyone else. Immigrants will still come here, regardless: America at its worst is still safer than the conditions creating refugee desperation globally.
So why offer our worst? Donald Trump can’t easily put his fascist, prejudiced ideas into force in America; he’d have to be elected first. Even then, with checks and balances, it would be a struggle. But a bigoted society would help turn things in his favor. Put another way: it’s not the demagogue that makes the movement, but the followers. We can choose not to do so, not to conflate fear of difference with diminishing opportunities.
I’m not arguing that America doesn’t need drastic change. Our systems are broken, and our current realities betray our founding ideals. But falling behind Trump as he pledges to lead a revolution is not the answer. Any forward-looking vision must begin by welcoming everyone to the table.
At its best, America works. We are stronger than Germany in the 1930s, and have the power to turn the volume of those sinister echoes down. But it will take effort, and vigilance.
In the age of Trump, grim warnings from Holocaust survivors
U.S. marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Germany's ambassador to the U.S. talks about the "unspeakable horror" of the Holocaust during ceremonies to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Reuters)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is always a somber time for Auschwitz survivor Irene Weiss. But this year’s observance had an additional layer of grief: For the first time, Weiss is worried about her adopted homeland.
“I am exceptionally concerned about demagogues,” the 85-year-old Weiss told me at Wednesday’s commemoration at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “They touch me in a place that I remember. I know their influence and, unfortunately, I know how receptive audiences are to demagogues and what it leads to.”
She knows better than just about any person alive. The Czech-born Jew lost her parents and most of her siblings in Hitler’s death camps. Now, when she hears about plans to register Muslims and to ban Muslims from entering the United States, “I’m worried about the tone of this country,” she said.
To Weiss, the ugly political environment in 2016 has an ominous precedent in Weimar Germany. “It has echoes, and maybe more so to me than to native-born Americans,” she said after lighting a candle for Hitler’s victims. “I’m scared. I don’t like the trend. I don’t like how many people are applauding when they hear these demagogues. It can turn.”
This year’s Holocaust remembrance comes at a time when Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, retweets to his nearly 6 million followers a message from @WhiteGenocideTM based in “Jewmerica,” and a time when his nearest challenger, Ted Cruz, brandishes the endorsement of a minister who says Hitler was a “hunter” sent after the Jews by God. There has never been a more important time for Americans to heed the moral authority of the Holocaust survivors still among us.
“It’s really frightening,” said Al Munzer, hidden as an infant in the Netherlands with a Dutch family and their Muslim nanny. “When you see these mass rallies that Trump is able to attract, you really wonder: How are they buying into this message of hate?”
Munzer, who lost two sisters and his father to the Nazis, said he never thought such things could happen in America, but now he’s not so sure. “Thinking that Germany was somehow unique is wrong,” he said.
Wednesday’s ceremony was in a hexagonal atrium with the names of death camps on the walls. The participants recited Kaddish, the Jewish mourning prayer, and listened to the Hymn of the Partisans, the Yiddish ballad of resistance: Never say you are walking your final road.
At this time of open hostility to Muslims in America, museum staff arranged for Johanna Gerechter Neumann, who fled with her family to Albania after Kristallnacht, to talk about how Muslims protected them from Hitler. Her father, a patriotic German and World War I veteran, “certainly thought that it could never happen in Germany,” she said. “It did happen. Slowly, but it did happen.”
And now the aging survivors worry it is beginning, slowly, to happen again. “It is repeating itself, and it is again the inattention that people pay to real cues that one should understand,” said Margit Meissner, almost 94, who fled on foot through the Pyrenees from occupied France.
“It’s not Weimar,” she said, “but it could become Weimar Germany if you have Mr. Trump here and people keep believing what he says. . . . I think one has to speak up. And that’s the one lesson from the Holocaust: Do not be a bystander.”
In Wednesday’s ceremony, German Ambassador Peter Wittig gave a moving tribute to Martin Weiss, 87 this week, who survived Auschwitz as a 15-year-old but lost most of his family. Wittig read aloud Weiss’s recollections: “We could also smell flesh burning, and then we saw the chimneys, the big five chimneys with black smoke coming out.”
Now an American presidential candidate has made scapegoats of immigrants, Muslims, Latinos, African Americans, the disabled, women. And for the first time, Martin Weiss hears echoes of his youth. “The guy scares me,” he saidafter listening to the ambassador’s tribute. “I don’t want to make any comparison to Hitler, but believe it or not his delivery and the way he conducts himself is very similar to Hitler’s way of doing things. He discredits everybody who disagrees with him. He’s insulting. He discriminates against everybody.”
Weiss continued: “Sooner or later, you know what happens in a case like this? That’s how Weimar Germany went to hell, because when Hitler came in, if somebody disagreed with him — guess what — he put them in prison or he had them shot or he opened the concentration camp.”
We are still far from that in America. But if anybody has the right to make the comparison, it is a man who saw the ovens of Auschwitz.
U.S. marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Germany's ambassador to the U.S. talks about the "unspeakable horror" of the Holocaust during ceremonies to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Reuters)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is always a somber time for Auschwitz survivor Irene Weiss. But this year’s observance had an additional layer of grief: For the first time, Weiss is worried about her adopted homeland.
“I am exceptionally concerned about demagogues,” the 85-year-old Weiss told me at Wednesday’s commemoration at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “They touch me in a place that I remember. I know their influence and, unfortunately, I know how receptive audiences are to demagogues and what it leads to.”
She knows better than just about any person alive. The Czech-born Jew lost her parents and most of her siblings in Hitler’s death camps. Now, when she hears about plans to register Muslims and to ban Muslims from entering the United States, “I’m worried about the tone of this country,” she said.
To Weiss, the ugly political environment in 2016 has an ominous precedent in Weimar Germany. “It has echoes, and maybe more so to me than to native-born Americans,” she said after lighting a candle for Hitler’s victims. “I’m scared. I don’t like the trend. I don’t like how many people are applauding when they hear these demagogues. It can turn.”
This year’s Holocaust remembrance comes at a time when Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, retweets to his nearly 6 million followers a message from @WhiteGenocideTM based in “Jewmerica,” and a time when his nearest challenger, Ted Cruz, brandishes the endorsement of a minister who says Hitler was a “hunter” sent after the Jews by God. There has never been a more important time for Americans to heed the moral authority of the Holocaust survivors still among us.
“It’s really frightening,” said Al Munzer, hidden as an infant in the Netherlands with a Dutch family and their Muslim nanny. “When you see these mass rallies that Trump is able to attract, you really wonder: How are they buying into this message of hate?”
Munzer, who lost two sisters and his father to the Nazis, said he never thought such things could happen in America, but now he’s not so sure. “Thinking that Germany was somehow unique is wrong,” he said.
Wednesday’s ceremony was in a hexagonal atrium with the names of death camps on the walls. The participants recited Kaddish, the Jewish mourning prayer, and listened to the Hymn of the Partisans, the Yiddish ballad of resistance: Never say you are walking your final road.
At this time of open hostility to Muslims in America, museum staff arranged for Johanna Gerechter Neumann, who fled with her family to Albania after Kristallnacht, to talk about how Muslims protected them from Hitler. Her father, a patriotic German and World War I veteran, “certainly thought that it could never happen in Germany,” she said. “It did happen. Slowly, but it did happen.”
And now the aging survivors worry it is beginning, slowly, to happen again. “It is repeating itself, and it is again the inattention that people pay to real cues that one should understand,” said Margit Meissner, almost 94, who fled on foot through the Pyrenees from occupied France.
“It’s not Weimar,” she said, “but it could become Weimar Germany if you have Mr. Trump here and people keep believing what he says. . . . I think one has to speak up. And that’s the one lesson from the Holocaust: Do not be a bystander.”
In Wednesday’s ceremony, German Ambassador Peter Wittig gave a moving tribute to Martin Weiss, 87 this week, who survived Auschwitz as a 15-year-old but lost most of his family. Wittig read aloud Weiss’s recollections: “We could also smell flesh burning, and then we saw the chimneys, the big five chimneys with black smoke coming out.”
Now an American presidential candidate has made scapegoats of immigrants, Muslims, Latinos, African Americans, the disabled, women. And for the first time, Martin Weiss hears echoes of his youth. “The guy scares me,” he saidafter listening to the ambassador’s tribute. “I don’t want to make any comparison to Hitler, but believe it or not his delivery and the way he conducts himself is very similar to Hitler’s way of doing things. He discredits everybody who disagrees with him. He’s insulting. He discriminates against everybody.”
Weiss continued: “Sooner or later, you know what happens in a case like this? That’s how Weimar Germany went to hell, because when Hitler came in, if somebody disagreed with him — guess what — he put them in prison or he had them shot or he opened the concentration camp.”
We are still far from that in America. But if anybody has the right to make the comparison, it is a man who saw the ovens of Auschwitz.
