"Visas have become an issue"
Visas became an issue when it was discovered the 9/11 Islamic Extremist Terrorists were in the U.S. on falsely obtained and expired visas.
The Visas The State Department hands out like candy, doesn't track the people and doesn't enforce the terms of the Visas.
Hillary Clinton handed out tens of thousands of Visas during her 4 year first class world wide tour collecting tens of millions of dollars in "contributions".
The State Department to this day refuses to provide Homeland Security with a list Visa holders loose in the U.S.
And you are crying about a few Visas for laborers?
"I wrote this out, and it's very close to my heart. Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down. And I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action."
Good thing he wrote that down. 😉 😛
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/politics/donald-trump-9-11-7-11-mix-buffalo/index.html
Not sure if this one should go here or in the NFL thread, but today the Donald was introduced by former Jets coach and current Bills coach Rex Ryan, and then said that Rex has won a couple of championships in New York. Bwaaaaa ha ha haaa ha haaaa ha haaa! Oh wait, he was serious?
Tom Brady and Robert Kraft may want to rethink their man-love for Donald Trump.
At a political rally in Buffalo on Monday night, Trump was introduced by one of the gnats constantly biting at the Patriots' ankles -- voluble Bills coach Rex Ryan. And then Trump congratulated Ryan for something he never did, either with the Bills or in his previous job with the Jets.
“You know, he won championships in New York,†Trump said. “The AFC, I think, twice.â€
Very, very few of Trump's campaign-trail statements pass the smell test, and this fits that pattern perfectly. Ryan's Jets, though they did twice advance to the AFC Championship Game (beating the Pats in the playoffs along the way once), never won a championship of any kind -- not a division title, not a conference title, and certainly not a Super Bowl title. And the Bills? They missed the playoffs in Ryan's first season there.
Kraft -- who's hosted Trump at Gillette Stadium many times -- has had numerous kind things to say about his fellow billionaire, and a Trump campaign hat was spotted in Brady's locker last fall. Neither has directly come out and endorsed Trump, and -- considering how he just crowned a rival they usually beat -- maybe now they won't.
No matter, though. Trump will simply claim they did.
This is a terrifying chart for Republicans
Updated by Ezra Klein on April 19, 2016, 10:46 p.m. ET
Donald Trump looks increasingly likely to be the Republican nominee. Hillary Clinton looks increasingly likely to be the Democratic nominee. And Hillary Clinton looks increasingly likely to stomp Trump in a general election:
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As you can see on the chart, Clinton and Trump were about tied back in February. But the more the American people have seen of Trump's campaign, the less they've liked him. Both Clinton and Sanders have pulled far, far ahead of Trump in general election matchups.
This is, according to political scientists, around the time when general election polling becomes predictive of the actual vote. "Were this a few months ago, I'd say, 'What's the big deal?'" Christopher Wlezien, a political science professor who's done a lot of work on election polling, told Vox back in March. "But polls today are much more meaningful than they were 90 days ago. And the polls today are much less favorable for Trump."
To put Trump's deficit in perspective, at this point in the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama led Mitt Romney by 2.7 percentage points — pretty close to Obama's eventual 3.9 percentage point margin of victory. And Romney wasn't as well-known or as polarizing as Trump is, so he probably had more room to change minds than Trump does at this point.
This isn't, by the way, a simple function of the Democratic Party having an advantage over the Republican Party. John Kasich, for instance, leads in polls against Hillary Clinton, and so too did Marco Rubio before he dropped out of the race. These polls, rather, are a function of Republican voters choosing their least electable candidate to face the Democrat.
For Trump to trail Clinton by almost 10 points is a disaster for the Republican Party. These are the sorts of numbers that could lead to Democrats taking back the Senate. They're the kinds of numbers that give Democrats an outside shot at taking back the House. They're the kinds of numbers that give Clinton — a polarizing candidate in her own right — the possibility of a landslide victory.
It's early yet, of course. And plenty can and will happen between now and November. But these are terrifying numbers for Republicans. These are not the numbers you want to see when you're nominating one of the best-known celebrities in America, and when your own party isn't even united behind him.
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/19/11465292/this-is-a-terrifying-chart-for-republicans
Anybody But Hillary
Anybody But Hillary
You'd better hope that Kasich can get the nomination at a brokered GOP convention, otherwise it will be President Clinton 2.0.
I did my part for Kasich.
I did my part for Bernie.
I did my part for Bernie.
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So you have that berning sensation?
There are ointments for that. Note that they should be applied externally.
Obama, The DNC, the democratic party Super Delegates (elites) and Wall Street (who have Hillary Clinton in their pockets) long ago decided that Bernie Sanders will not get the nomination.
Ha ha.
at Trump's speech tonight.....4/25/16 he said.....the Border Patrol just last week endorsed him.
in reality......that happened 26 days ago on 3/30/16
not a big gaffe but........
i am not saying this story is fact, but it is an interesting thought.
"Last October, Death and Taxes ran a piece wondering if Trump had dementia. They pointed to the fact that Trump’s father, Fred, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s six years prior to his death."
i am not saying this story is fact, but it is an interesting thought.
"Last October, Death and Taxes ran a piece wondering if Trump had dementia. They pointed to the fact that Trump’s father, Fred, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s six years prior to his death."
Best line in the article: "At times it can be very hard to distinguish between extreme right-wing politics and symptoms of dementia."
i am not saying this story is fact, but it is an interesting thought.
"Last October, Death and Taxes ran a piece wondering if Trump had dementia. They pointed to the fact that Trump’s father, Fred, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s six years prior to his death."
Best line in the article: "At times it can be very hard to distinguish between extreme right-wing politics and symptoms of dementia."
personally i liked this one......with apologies to my friend muleman
They explained that it would be really easy for Trump take some tests and prove that he is mentally fit. “Because if Trump can prove he’s not suffering from a degenerative neurological disorder that has left him with a damaged mind devoid of all shame or self-awareness, he might just be an a-hole.â€
[Edited on 4/25/2016 by LeglizHemp]
Poll: Trump's support among young voters historically low
(CNN)A new poll suggests that a race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could yield the lowest support for a Republican candidate among young voters in decades.
The survey, conducted by the Harvard University Institute of Politics, finds that in a hypothetical matchup, 61% of likely voters age 18-29 say they would vote for Clinton, while just 25% would vote for Trump. That's worse than most other recent Republican candidates for president.
Since 1992, exit polls have found Republican candidates average 38% support among voters under 30. Sen. John McCain notched 32% against Barack Obama in 2008, marking the low-point for GOP candidates dating back to 1972, when modern exit polling began. Ronald Reagan was the only Republican candidate to win the under-30 vote since then.
As this year's campaign for president has rolled on, younger Americans have tilted more Democratic generally, according to the IOP's surveys. Last fall, 36% said they considered themselves Democrats, that's up to 40% in the new survey. Republican affiliation has held about even at 22%, while the share who are independent has dipped from 40% to 36%.
Before asking about the current crop of candidates, the survey asked young Americans if they would prefer a Democrat or a Republican win the next election. The share saying they'd like a Democrat to win has climbed from 55% last spring to 61% now, while the percentage who favored a Republican dipped from 40% to 33%.
That change rests mostly among younger Hispanics (from 41 points toward the Democrats last spring to 55 points now) and whites (a 12-point Republican tilt last year is now a 2-point Democratic edge). White voters under 30 have only broken toward the Democrat twice since 1972: By 4 points in Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign and by 10 points in Obama's first presidential win in 2008.
The Republican Party's chances among young Americans likely aren't helped by largely negative impressions of its remaining presidential candidates. Three-quarters of young Americans say they have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump, just 17% view him favorably. A majority, 52%, have an unfavorable view of Ted Cruz, 23% see him positively. And even John Kasich, who is less well known with about 4 in 10 saying they don't know enough to have an impression, merits a negative tilt among those who do have an impression: 33% unfavorable to 24% favorable.
In keeping with national trends, Hillary Clinton is also largely seen unfavorably, 53% have a negative impression, 37% a positive one. Her Democratic rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, is the only candidate to be seen favorably by a majority of young Americans, 54% favorable to 31% unfavorable.
Sanders has fared remarkably well among voters under age 30 in Democratic primaries and caucuses to date, averaging 70% support among this group, according to exit and entrance polling conducted in 21 states for CNN by Edison Research.
The IOP survey finds young Americans broadly distrustful of government and expressing doubts that political leaders share their concerns or that politics today can meet the nation's challenges.
Overall, just 15% of those under 30 think the nation is heading in the right direction, while almost three times as many say it's going the wrong way. Another 36% aren't sure which way it's going. Majorities say they rarely trust the president, Congress, the Supreme Court or the federal government more generally. A majority say they agree that elected officials "don't seem to have the same priorities I have," and about half agree that "politics today are no longer able to meet the challenges our country is facing" and that "politics has become too partisan."
Despite that pessimism about politics, most say they do plan to vote in November and about 6 in 10 say it matters to them who the president is.
The Harvard IOP Survey was conducted March 18 through April 3 among a random national sample of 3,183 Americans age 18 to 29. The poll was conducted online among respondents selected from GfK's KnowledgePanel, whose members are recruited using traditional phone and by-mail surveys and are provided with Internet access if they do not have it.
Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/politics/donald-trump-young-voters/index.html
Poll: Trump's support among young voters historically low
(CNN)A new poll suggests that a race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could yield the lowest support for a Republican candidate among young voters in decades.
The survey, conducted by the Harvard University Institute of Politics, finds that in a hypothetical matchup, 61% of likely voters age 18-29 say they would vote for Clinton, while just 25% would vote for Trump. That's worse than most other recent Republican candidates for president.
Since 1992, exit polls have found Republican candidates average 38% support among voters under 30. Sen. John McCain notched 32% against Barack Obama in 2008, marking the low-point for GOP candidates dating back to 1972, when modern exit polling began. Ronald Reagan was the only Republican candidate to win the under-30 vote since then.
As this year's campaign for president has rolled on, younger Americans have tilted more Democratic generally, according to the IOP's surveys. Last fall, 36% said they considered themselves Democrats, that's up to 40% in the new survey. Republican affiliation has held about even at 22%, while the share who are independent has dipped from 40% to 36%.
Before asking about the current crop of candidates, the survey asked young Americans if they would prefer a Democrat or a Republican win the next election. The share saying they'd like a Democrat to win has climbed from 55% last spring to 61% now, while the percentage who favored a Republican dipped from 40% to 33%.
That change rests mostly among younger Hispanics (from 41 points toward the Democrats last spring to 55 points now) and whites (a 12-point Republican tilt last year is now a 2-point Democratic edge). White voters under 30 have only broken toward the Democrat twice since 1972: By 4 points in Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign and by 10 points in Obama's first presidential win in 2008.The Republican Party's chances among young Americans likely aren't helped by largely negative impressions of its remaining presidential candidates. Three-quarters of young Americans say they have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump, just 17% view him favorably. A majority, 52%, have an unfavorable view of Ted Cruz, 23% see him positively. And even John Kasich, who is less well known with about 4 in 10 saying they don't know enough to have an impression, merits a negative tilt among those who do have an impression: 33% unfavorable to 24% favorable.
In keeping with national trends, Hillary Clinton is also largely seen unfavorably, 53% have a negative impression, 37% a positive one. Her Democratic rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, is the only candidate to be seen favorably by a majority of young Americans, 54% favorable to 31% unfavorable.
Sanders has fared remarkably well among voters under age 30 in Democratic primaries and caucuses to date, averaging 70% support among this group, according to exit and entrance polling conducted in 21 states for CNN by Edison Research.
The IOP survey finds young Americans broadly distrustful of government and expressing doubts that political leaders share their concerns or that politics today can meet the nation's challenges.
Overall, just 15% of those under 30 think the nation is heading in the right direction, while almost three times as many say it's going the wrong way. Another 36% aren't sure which way it's going. Majorities say they rarely trust the president, Congress, the Supreme Court or the federal government more generally. A majority say they agree that elected officials "don't seem to have the same priorities I have," and about half agree that "politics today are no longer able to meet the challenges our country is facing" and that "politics has become too partisan."
Despite that pessimism about politics, most say they do plan to vote in November and about 6 in 10 say it matters to them who the president is.
The Harvard IOP Survey was conducted March 18 through April 3 among a random national sample of 3,183 Americans age 18 to 29. The poll was conducted online among respondents selected from GfK's KnowledgePanel, whose members are recruited using traditional phone and by-mail surveys and are provided with Internet access if they do not have it.
Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/politics/donald-trump-young-voters/index.html/blockquote >
_______________________________________________________________________Your sources are both far-left; Harvard's political club and CNN.
Just more liberal opinion which belongs in the trash.
Anyone see Chris Christie's wife behind Trump during his victory speech last night? Not quite sure she is on the bandwagon. He starts talking about "if Hillary was a man she wouldn't even get 5% of the vote" and Christie's wife is just like 'wtf am I doing up here'.
Your sources are both far-left; Harvard's political club
Actually, the Harvard Institute of Politics is quite bi-partisan. There is a level atop the Ivy League set where left and right no longer matter.
Anyone see Chris Christie's wife behind Trump during his victory speech last night? Not quite sure she is on the bandwagon. He starts talking about "if Hillary was a man she wouldn't even get 5% of the vote" and Christie's wife is just like 'wtf am I doing up here'.
Christie has also looked that way ever since the day he endorsed Trump. I'm not sure what back door deal may have been made but the Christie endorsement does not appear to be "from the heart".
The week Trump made his comments about illegal Mexican immigrants, I went on record here saying he would be our next President. His supporters know he is bad for the country, and their support is a way of saying "this is how it felt when you guys elected Obama twice". It's payback, nothing more, nothing less. They know he's bad for the country, but they will vote him in anyway simply to piss off liberals.
[Edited on 4/28/2016 by BoytonBrother]
You've managed to boil down all Trump supporters points of view into that?
Wow, you are good.
Moments after Trump cited a National Enquirer article in accusing Cruz's father of being connected to JFKs assassination, Cruz went off. It must be driving Ted crazy that Trump can lie and lie and lie about anything and everything he wants and the GOP primary voters keep voting for him. At least I can agree with Ted on something...
Cruz unloads with epic takedown of 'pathological liar,' 'narcissist' Donald Trump
By David Wright, Tal Kopan and Julia Manchester, CNN
(CNN) Ted Cruz on Tuesday unloaded on Donald Trump, accusing him during a news conference of being a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer."
"He is proud of being a serial philanderer ... he describes his own battles with venereal diseases as his own personal Vietnam," Cruz said, citing a decades-old Trump appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."
The Texas senator's dramatic and deeply personal attack on Trump comes as polls indicate Trump is poised to claim victory in Cruz's must-win state of Indiana and follow accusations the front-runner made about Cruz's father.
The epic takedown of his opponent on an all-important voting day was extraordinary even by the standards of the 2016 campaign -- and quickly drew a scathing response from Trump.
"This man is a pathological liar, he doesn't know the difference between truth and lies ... in a pattern that is straight out of a psychology text book, he accuses everyone of lying," Cruz said as Indiana voters headed to cast their ballots.
"Whatever lie he's telling, at that minute he believes it ... the man is utterly amoral," Cruz told reporters. "Donald is a bully ... bullies don't come from strength they come from weakness."
Trump trashes Cruz's dad
Earlier Tuesday, Trump had criticized Rafael Cruz, calling him "disgraceful" after he urged evangelical voters in Indiana to reject his son's rival.
Trump also referenced a report from the tabloid National Enquirer -- without naming the publication -- which alleged that it had identified Rafael Cruz in a photo with Lee Harvey Oswald months prior to the JFK assassination. CNN has not independently confirmed that report.
"And (Ted Cruz's) father, you know, was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's, you know, being shot. I mean the whole thing is ridiculous," Trump said in an interview on "Fox and Friends." "I mean what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly before the death? Before the shooting? It's horrible."
'A very angry man'
Trump responded with a statement Tuesday afternoon calling Cruz "unhinged" and "desperate" as his losses to Trump have mounted.
"Today's ridiculous outburst only proves what I have been saying for a long time, that Ted Cruz does not have the temperament to be president of the United States," Trump said.
Trump's senior campaign adviser Barry Bennett downplayed Cruz's emotional outburst as a response to Trump and called it evidence of Cruz's failing campaign headed into primary night.
"We're watching his campaign implode, we're watching his reputation be torn to shreds ... he's a very angry man right now," Bennett told CNN's Kate Bolduan on "At This Hour," calling it a "truly sad display."
Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., also tweeted the move was "desperate" and called it childish.
"That was an impressive meltdown... Desperate but impressive. Reminded me of my 3 year old coming off a sugar high," he wrote.
Not the first time
It's not the first time the two candidates have come to verbal blows over a spat involving Cruz's family members.
Trump and Cruz exchanged accusations about each other inappropriately going after the candidates' wives in March, when Trump retweeted an unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz next to a flattering picture of his model wife, Melania. Trump also ambiguously threatened to "spill the beans" on Heidi.
Cruz responded angrily, calling Trump a "sniveling coward" and telling him to "leave Heidi the hell alone."
The National Enquirer -- which endorsed Trump -- has also run recent stories making various allegations about the billionaire businessman and about his rival that have not been confirmed by CNN or other publications.
The Cruz campaign responded to Trump by calling him "detached from reality."
"His false, cheap, meaningless comments every day indicate his desperation to get attention and willingness to say anything to do so," said Catherine Frazier, Cruz's campaign spokeswoman in a statement. "We are campaigning on jobs freedom and security while Trump campaigns on false tabloid garbage. And the media is willfully enabling him to cheapen the value of our democratic process."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/index.html
Is that supposed to be flattering?
Trump in the early 70's
Moments after Trump cited a National Enquirer article in accusing Cruz's father of being connected to JFKs assassination, Cruz went off. It must be driving Ted crazy that Trump can lie and lie and lie about anything and everything he wants and the GOP primary voters keep voting for him. At least I can agree with Ted on something...
Cruz unloads with epic takedown of 'pathological liar,' 'narcissist' Donald Trump
By David Wright, Tal Kopan and Julia Manchester, CNN(CNN) Ted Cruz on Tuesday unloaded on Donald Trump, accusing him during a news conference of being a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer."
"He is proud of being a serial philanderer ... he describes his own battles with venereal diseases as his own personal Vietnam," Cruz said, citing a decades-old Trump appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."
The Texas senator's dramatic and deeply personal attack on Trump comes as polls indicate Trump is poised to claim victory in Cruz's must-win state of Indiana and follow accusations the front-runner made about Cruz's father.
The epic takedown of his opponent on an all-important voting day was extraordinary even by the standards of the 2016 campaign -- and quickly drew a scathing response from Trump.
"This man is a pathological liar, he doesn't know the difference between truth and lies ... in a pattern that is straight out of a psychology text book, he accuses everyone of lying," Cruz said as Indiana voters headed to cast their ballots.
"Whatever lie he's telling, at that minute he believes it ... the man is utterly amoral," Cruz told reporters. "Donald is a bully ... bullies don't come from strength they come from weakness."
Trump trashes Cruz's dad
Earlier Tuesday, Trump had criticized Rafael Cruz, calling him "disgraceful" after he urged evangelical voters in Indiana to reject his son's rival.
Trump also referenced a report from the tabloid National Enquirer -- without naming the publication -- which alleged that it had identified Rafael Cruz in a photo with Lee Harvey Oswald months prior to the JFK assassination. CNN has not independently confirmed that report.
"And (Ted Cruz's) father, you know, was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's, you know, being shot. I mean the whole thing is ridiculous," Trump said in an interview on "Fox and Friends." "I mean what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly before the death? Before the shooting? It's horrible."
'A very angry man'
Trump responded with a statement Tuesday afternoon calling Cruz "unhinged" and "desperate" as his losses to Trump have mounted.
"Today's ridiculous outburst only proves what I have been saying for a long time, that Ted Cruz does not have the temperament to be president of the United States," Trump said.
Trump's senior campaign adviser Barry Bennett downplayed Cruz's emotional outburst as a response to Trump and called it evidence of Cruz's failing campaign headed into primary night.
"We're watching his campaign implode, we're watching his reputation be torn to shreds ... he's a very angry man right now," Bennett told CNN's Kate Bolduan on "At This Hour," calling it a "truly sad display."
Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., also tweeted the move was "desperate" and called it childish.
"That was an impressive meltdown... Desperate but impressive. Reminded me of my 3 year old coming off a sugar high," he wrote.
Not the first time
It's not the first time the two candidates have come to verbal blows over a spat involving Cruz's family members.
Trump and Cruz exchanged accusations about each other inappropriately going after the candidates' wives in March, when Trump retweeted an unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz next to a flattering picture of his model wife, Melania. Trump also ambiguously threatened to "spill the beans" on Heidi.
Cruz responded angrily, calling Trump a "sniveling coward" and telling him to "leave Heidi the hell alone."
The National Enquirer -- which endorsed Trump -- has also run recent stories making various allegations about the billionaire businessman and about his rival that have not been confirmed by CNN or other publications.The Cruz campaign responded to Trump by calling him "detached from reality."
"His false, cheap, meaningless comments every day indicate his desperation to get attention and willingness to say anything to do so," said Catherine Frazier, Cruz's campaign spokeswoman in a statement. "We are campaigning on jobs freedom and security while Trump campaigns on false tabloid garbage. And the media is willfully enabling him to cheapen the value of our democratic process."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/index.html
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Yes, that would be The National Enquirer who exposed John Edwards, the failed democrat candidate for President for banging a mistress while his wife was dying of cancer.
The mainstream media knew the story but being in the tank for liberals they didn't report it.
Is that supposed to be flattering?
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Patriotic.
Something that the liberals find repulsive.
Is that supposed to be flattering?
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Patriotic.
Something that the liberals find repulsive.
Ah yes, I can appreciate a good patriotism poster...
And disrespectful during our National Anthem:
