Comments on: It’s Super Tuesday

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 06:42:28 +0000

Interesting intel analysis about internet operators and various covert intel election rigging services.

Not sure who is right, but that can be solved in time via simultaneous simulation tracks.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:17:51 +0000

Who is this GOP Establishment we’ve been hearing about? What power do they have? Is Jeb Bush going to be the nominee? Lindsay Graham? Chris Christie? No, the nominee is going to be an asshat non-Republican, an outcaste senator, or a boy. Great! Those GOPe-ers really put the make on this nomination, didn’t they? So, again, who are they and why should I be worried about them?

Oh, wait! I get it! They’re the vast right-wing conspiracy!

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:35:11 +0000

libertybelle,

I just can’t see the GOPe supporting Cruz to stop Trump. Regardless of what Graham says, Cruz won’t compromise with the GOP leadership, while Trump is all about the deal.

My perception is that the GOPe will adopt Jimmy Carter’s view rather than Graham’s. It’s important to keep in mind that the GOPe is not monolithic, they are a loosely aligned elite who share common interests but who may well disagree as to how to best achieve those common interests.

“I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you,” the former Democratic president said during an appearance at Britain’s House of Lords on Wednesday afternoon. He was asked who he would pick for the GOP nomination.

“The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable,” Carter explained. “I don’t think he has any fixed [positions] he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far-right wing policies he’d pursue if he became president.”

By: libertybelle

libertybelle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:42:36 +0000

Here’s the link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-were-gonna-lose-to-hillary-clinton-with-donald-trump/

By: libertybelle

libertybelle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:38:06 +0000

Geoffrey, there’s a Lindsey Graham interview yesterday, which I’ll try to locate, where he said he hates to say it, but he would back Cruz, if comes down to it, to beat Trump. There’s a # No Trump movement brewing. Trump burned a lot of bridges during his first few months and Trump’s attacks on John McCain obviously make Graham loathe Trump more than Cruz at this point. You may see the so-called establishment pull together to support Cruz, if they think Cruz can take out The Donald.

Dana Perino said something interesting too, about how you can’t embark on a scorched earth war to burn down the party, then try to pretend you’re want to unite the party. She said there’s going to be a counterrevolution to Trump, so the usual political paradigms of everyone falling in line behind Trump to defeat Hillary might not pan out.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:27:11 +0000

“Rubio will never drop out because the establishment will only tolerate either a Trump or Rubio win. If you see the establishment hanging on even when there’s no hope, you’ll know that they’re playing both sides of the street again. Actually, 3 sides of the street since they would take Rubio, Trump, or Hillary in that order.” Matt SE

The GOPe strategy is to push Rubio in the hope that he can overcome Trump. Their fallback strategy is for Trump to fall short of the delegates needed, throwing it into a brokered convention. The GOPe’s agents will then seek to reach a private ‘understanding’ with Trump in exchange for Rubio throwing his support behind Trump. If Trump gains the delegates needed before the convention, the GOPe will still seek to reach a private accommodation with Trump, making the GOP’s support for Trump as the party’s nominee, dependent upon reaching an ‘understanding’.

“Trump’s person [character] is not the main basis of his voter appeal. The main basis of Trump’s voter appeal is (the cultivated) opposition to the status quo and the GOP.

That is the narrative contest the GOP candidates need to win in order to overcome Trump.” Eric

A very perceptive insight. Unfortunately, the other candidates have little to no basis upon which to convince voters that they are opposed to the status quo and the GOP. Certainly Rubio is in their pocket and, while Cruz most definitely is not, he has been successfully painted as secretly being in the pocket of the crony capitalist GOPe. Not enough to erode Cruz’s support but arguably enough to keep Cruz from gaining more support.

By: libertybelle

libertybelle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:04:32 +0000

blert, you are most certainly right that Putin despises Hillary. His dismissal of her with that comment that at a minimum a head of state should have a head said it all.

After the wall came down, I didn’t pay as much attention to the Russian espionage, but kept worrying about the Chinese and their close ties to the Clintons, their buying up US real estate and businesses, the endless front companies and their cyber theft and cyber warfare. Guess “eternal vigilance” really must remain our motto.

By: libertybelle

libertybelle — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 04:45:06 +0000

Yancey, I saw a commenter at National Review last night and when I clicked on his name, which is Blackjack6, with the US Army seal as his profile photo, he had 73,627 comments and 159 followers, so I started clicking on the followers. I couldn’t find any sort of political alignment with his postings and theirs and some of his followers had no comments at all – looked pretty fake to me.

He’s in the comments on George Will’s piece:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432062/donald-trump-republican-party-2016-chris-christie

I’ve been just watching this stuff since 1998 – it went through every public forum online – message boards, social media, comment venues on news and political punditry sites and several years ago I did some chatting on some politics sites – same thing – there were some names there no matter what time of the day or night you went on there and they worked in groups to keep repeating the Dem talking points.

By: geokstr

geokstr — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 04:41:12 +0000

Yancey Ward Says:
They may be full-time, but I doubt it. I am also a long-time Disqus user, and I suspect you are like me and avoid threads with more than a 50-100 comments.
15,000 comments isn’t really all that much (3 x what I have made in about 6-7 years, and the upvote totals are surely a reflection of two things- commenting early and often in threads with 1000+ comments.
I assume you’re responding to me, Yancy, not Nick.

Did you not see my mention of the ones with 70,000-100,000 comments? That’s 20X more than both you and have made in similar time frames. Did you not also catch the fact that most of them have private profiles?

Does anyone have any idea, or know any hackers who might, how to discover anything about cracking the origins of private disqus profiles? I don’t like the idea of allowing people to get away with crap like this.

By: blert

blert — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 04:35:52 +0000

Eric…

Everything about this election smells of KGB Active Measures.

AND…

Look at how Putin and Trump ‘groove.’

If my guess is right — they usually are — to a bizarre extreme — Putin can’t STAND Hillary.

He’s not so wild about Cruz, either.

Putin wants Trump… President Trump.

&&&&&&

Wait, come to think of it, they have a LOT in common.

Lucre.

Babes.

Ego-centric to the extreme.

And …

Self-proclaimed superb negotiators.

Putin has a vendetta against the nation that destroyed the Soviet tyranny.

That vendetta is Putin’s ‘center.’

He orbits its black hole.

&&&&&

What the Left — Barry Soetoro — can’t comprehend is that America is the absolute center of the human economic-galaxy.

In astronomical terms, America is a black hole.

Since we are at the center, it’s a practical impossibility for Americans to comprehend how central America is.

There are NO Western mass publications that don’t have a sub-section IN EVERY ISSUE — dedicated STRICTLY to America.

It’s not uncommon for this section to expand into a White Paper. The Economist (mag) does this at least once a year.

Absolutely no American publication for our mass market reciprocates.

You could routinely read cover to cover — mag after mag — and never read about Europe, Japan, China, India, Russia, …

Heck, the New Yorker (mag) has a hard time getting west of the Hudson.

&&&&&

Ted Cruz intends to dissolve 0-care.

That would be EASY to do.

Zap it AND expand Medicaid.

Done.

&&&&&&&

Social Security is blowing up because of ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Cubans are the latest grifters.

Do to Kennedy era laws ( Could be LBJ ) Cuban refugees from Castro’s tyranny INSTANTLY qualify for Social Security benefits — citizenship — the WHOLE works.

What had been a trickle of Cubans has turned into a hustle.

Most Americans are not aware that since Barry has ‘recognized’ the Cuban tyrants as legitimate — there has been a FLOOD of ‘LOTTO winners’ from Havana.

Unlike Rubio or Cruz — these are Cubans that will SURELY vote (D).

Open Borders = the implosion of the Western welfare state.

It’s in the MATH.