Not another Trump thread, zzzzz

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If so, he will run as an independent and a huge vote will follow him.

Honestly, the social media generation make me piss myself. Every second goober on my feed was sharing that Oliver video last week saying Trump must be stopped. These are the same people with rainbow profile pictures and telling us loudly how they voted last May. This is Trump playing the gallery like a fiddle over there, meanwhile Ted Cruz actually embraces pastors who say gays should be murdered and that gay marriage is the greatest threat to US democracy in its history.

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You havenā€™t answered the point. All of the above names Republican candidates had sustained focus and derision pointed at them by the liberal media. Not the case in this campaign.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=XrvdyeD7NYs

Heā€™s nailed little Rubio here

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Not looking too good for Trumpā€¦

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Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Instituteā€™s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he ā€œcannot support Donald Trump.ā€

Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).

Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.

ā€œA specter was haunting the World Forumā€“the specter of Donald Trump,ā€ Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. ā€œThere was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why heā€™s done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated.ā€

FEAR

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Some of the polling of Trump voters is throwing up crazy shit. On FiveThirtyEight the strongest predictor they found for counties that vote Trump are google searches for the word ā€˜niggerā€™.

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What about Cruz counties?

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Kasich now being tipped as the establishment favorite to replace the hapless Rubio. The Republican strategy appears to be to keep Rubio and Kasich in the race long enough to take as many delegate votes away from Trump as possible. Their only hope at this stage is to go into the convention with neither Trump nor Cruz having the required 1237 delegates, as if it goes beyond the first vote the delegates are free to back someone else (which they will as they are nominated by the party).

For all this to work, Rubio has to win Florida, Kasich Ohio and Cruz pick up some more states. Starting on March 15, all the big states are winner take all or winner take most, so the strategy is to stop Trump at all costs in the big states. Riveting stuff.

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Wonder if the GOP top brass will try to cut a deal with Cruz? They donā€™t like him either but at least they know what heā€™s about. Seems like itā€™s still up in the air at present. Trumpā€™s nomination isnā€™t a done deal just yet.

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Is it scarier that Trump might win or that a load of billionaires have decided he shouldnā€™t regardless of what the people want?

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The ā€œload of billionairesā€ always decide, its called Democracy for the few. Everything will be done to stop Trump, including changing the rules before the convention. There is a rule that says you have to have a majority in at least 8 states, expect that to be amended if Trump is the only one meeting the requirement.

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They hate Cruz as well but he could be controlled as you say. With Trump the problem is they/we have no idea what you will get. Well you do, something different every day.

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Bingo.

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If I remember correctly, the rules surrounding presidential candidates getting to participate in televised debates was changed when it looked like Ralph Nader met the requirements. Even when a member of the press gave him is press pass so he could attend, security turned him away. As you said, democracy for the fewā€¦

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well look at SF IRA MONEY

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Trump Builds The Wall

Donald #Trump and Pink Floyd's The Wall is everything you dreamed it could be.

Posted by IRBF on Sunday, March 6, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_s2QnAgBE

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fuck sake

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Is the US that stupid

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Donald Trump is a great man, he has invested heavily in Co Clare and creates lots of employment

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