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2016/04/25 13:01:33
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Ted Cruz lookalike cashes in on internet fame by agreeing to do porn with her boyfriend for $10,000... but says she is hurt by online comments comparing her to Republican candidate
Searcy Hayes, 21, appeared on The Maury Povich Show on Monday
Her striking resemblance to Cruz, 45, caused an internet sensation
She and boyfriend Freddie Green Jr. agreed to film six-minute porn clip
Hayes says she has been hurt by some of the online comments about her
She revealed she would like to meet Cruz one day and would love a trip to the White House should he be elected in November
The mother-of-one is willing to take a DNA test to see if they are related
err.....
... no.
Not ever.
She revealed she would like to meet Cruz one day and would love a trip to the White House should he be elected in November
yeah, good luck with that one.
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2016/04/25 13:13:43
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Billionaires don't support him? The establishment won't cooperate with him? His own party is colluding to undermine him?
It would be hard to write a more American narrative. Pity Trump is in the middle of it, otherwise you could really start to see the appeal.
2016/04/25 16:22:52
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
plastictrees wrote: Billionaires don't support him? The establishment won't cooperate with him? His own party is colluding to undermine him?
It would be hard to write a more American narrative. Pity Trump is in the middle of it, otherwise you could really start to see the appeal.
The longer Trump remains the front runner the more control the Republican Party will assert over his campaign. Trump already has a longtime Party establishment figure as his new campaign manager who's telling the RNC what they want to hear. If Trump is the nominee he'll move his positions closer to the what the Party wants, the Party won't change for Trump.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Donald J. Trump’s newly installed campaign chief sought to assure members of the Republican National Committee on Thursday night that Mr. Trump recognized the need to reshape his persona and that his campaign would begin working with the political establishment that he has scorned to great effect.
Addressing about 100 committee members at the spring meeting here, many of them deeply skeptical about Mr. Trump’s candidacy, the campaign chief, Paul Manafort, bluntly suggested the candidate’s incendiary style amounted to an act.
“That’s what’s important for you to understand: That he gets it, and that the part he’s been playing is evolving,” Mr. Manafort said, suggesting that Mr. Trump was about to begin a more professional phase of his campaign.
“The negatives are going to come down, the image is going to change, but Clinton is still going to be crooked Hillary,” he added.
Mr. Manafort’s comments, which included a PowerPoint presentation, came during a happy-hour reception at the beachside hotel resort here. They were made behind closed doors, which were guarded by security. But a person in attendance taped the speech and shared the recording with The New York Times.
Mr. Manafort, a longtime Republican strategist and lobbyist who in recent weeks has taken over control of much of the organization from Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, offered an olive branch to the party officials at the start of his remarks.
“Is Donald Trump running against the Republican National Committee?” asked Mr. Manafort, referring to the candidate’s unrelenting assault on what he calls the “crooked” nominating process. “The answer is he is not.”
But Mr. Manafort went further than simply placating committee members: He also openly said that Mr. Trump wanted to coordinate with the very forces he has spent much of his campaign attacking.
“He gave us the mandate to bring together a team of professionals that could finish the job for him, but could also then begin to link in with the establishment institutions that are part of our party, what you represent, what the state parties represent,” he said, also alluding to think tanks and members of Congress. “We’ve started all those conversations,” said Manafort, adding of Mr. Trump, “He cares about the united team.”
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2016/04/25 19:45:31
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
I'm more curious as to what the video would be called. We've had, what, Nailing Palin?
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2016/04/25 19:49:13
Subject: Re:The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Tannhauser42 wrote: I'm more curious as to what the video would be called. We've had, what, Nailing Palin?
Cruz'n for Love (In All the Wrong Places)
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2016/04/25 19:58:41
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
In Indiana I have been seeing (comparatively) lots of Cruz signs and bumper stickers. Cruz was on the cover of the State newspaper the other day as well. There was an article about Trump but no pictures.
On the other side I have seen lots of Bernie signs/bumper stickers but not many for Hillary, if any.
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2016/04/25 23:06:47
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
CptJake wrote: Isn't announcing a VP pick before the convention while there is no clear nominee a bit unusual?
This was my thoughts, too.
I mean, what happens if he does pick Fiorina and she's like "Yeah!" but then Cruz doesn't get the nomination? Won't that make both of them look remarkably stupid?
Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, mind you...
The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
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2016/04/25 23:15:47
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
LordofHats wrote: Yeah, if running for office were really as simple as just filling out a form, you might have a point but I assume we're all intelligent enough to know that it's not that simple.
You're right. Much simpler to complain about it than do anything meaningful.
Something something voters getting the government they deserve.
2016/04/26 01:39:51
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
You're right. Much simpler to complain about it than do anything meaningful.
What? You expect D-USA to drop everything and run for office? I can't point out that running for office is really time consuming, and expensive, and it's not like just anyone can do it unless I drop everything else in life and go get out the vote? It's a strange line of reasoning you're operating on. Maybe instead of complaining about complainers you should go do something about all the complaints.
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Ustrello wrote: I think D-usa was part of some government body at some point down there. Correct me if I am wrong
Not good enough. He's not improving the selection of candidates, and that makes him part of the problem! All of you better go out and run for office, cause I don't want to hear any complaining about how the candidates suck cause you're not running!
I was state chair of one of the third parties for a few years and we spend a lot of time and effort working with the other third parties to change the laws in Oklahoma to improve ballot access for third parties and make more elected offices non-partisan, with some success. I am also active at the state level for my professional organization while serving on the governmental activities committee lobbying at the state legislature. For the last 8 years the Hatch Act bars me from running for partisan offices.
I'm comfortable with my level of involvement in state politics, and I don't feel an ounce of guilt or shame for pointing out that elections are actually elections when more people run for offices, and I don't feel bad about complaining when races are decided at the end of the filing deadline.
2016/04/26 02:56:03
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
You know, there’s no guarantee of it, but it seems a pretty good rule of thumb, that any Democrat who manages to piss of the idiots at Salon and HuffPo is probably a pretty candidate.
Tannhauser42 wrote: Cruz and Kasich are dividing the remaining states between them in an attempt to block Trump.
These guys started talking about this about after Super Tuesday, in that distant time when we all kept expecting Rubio to stop sucking any minute now. That deal fell apart, though, and after Rubio dropped out it pretty much disappeared completely. Now it’s back, and is almost a formal agreement.
At a guess, I’d say the reason it fell over was over who got the nomination once Trump was defeated. Kasich was always planning to hang in until the convention then score a miracle flood of delegates. Cruz would have thought the nomination should go to him, because the reality is this contest is Trump first, Cruz second, and nobody in third place - conventions are crazy places but not so crazy that they’d give the nomination to a guy who’s won nothing but his home state, and about 14% of the vote.
So I’m guessing Kasich has finally conceded that reality, and it’ll be a Cruz/Kasich ticket if they get over Trump.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2016/04/26 03:25:09
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
Megyn Kelly has landed a big interview with Donald Trump after the warring pair agreed to end their feud.
Trump will sit for an in-depth interview on Kelly’s special, which airs on Fox on May 17, a source confirmed to Page Six.
The move comes after the pair met for a summit at Trump Tower to make their peace.
The Fox News anchor secretly spent an hour with the Republican presidential candidate on April 13 at the Trump Tower, where they discussed him appearing with her on a TV special.
“Kelly requested a meeting with Mr. Trump, which took place at Trump Tower this morning . . . Kelly has acknowledged in recent interviews that Trump is a fascinating person to cover and has electrified the Republican base,” a Fox rep said in a statement at the time.
Later on the “The Kelly File,” the host said, “Mr. Trump and I discussed the possibility of an interview, and I hope we will have news to announce on that soon.”
Kelly said the meeting was “at my request, and Mr. Trump was gracious enough to agree to it. We met for about an hour, just the two of us, and I had a chance to clear the air.”
“In case you were wondering,” she added. “Yes, the doormen appeared a bit stunned when I walked in. And they, too, were incredibly gracious. Stay tuned.”
The feud erupted last year after Kelly grilled Trump during the first GOP presidential debate about his tasteless comments regarding women.
“You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs’ and ‘disgusting animals,'” Kelly said. “Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
The tough questioning caught Trump off guard. “Honestly, Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry . . . I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably not be, based on the way you have treated me,” he shot back.
The sniping continued into this year, when Trump backed out of a Fox-sponsored debate in Iowa that Kelly was moderating days before the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Trump finished second to Ted Cruz in the Iowa contests.
Now Kelly will get to grill Trump one-on-one, and sources say that despite their apparent truce, nothing will be off limits.
2016/04/26 13:22:26
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
So, here is a little tit for tat in the world of stupid celebrities.
Hollywood Reporter wrote:However, if Donald Trump wins the election, she plans to move to Canada. "I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will," Dunham told Cohen. "I know a lovely place in Vancouver and I can get my work done from there."
So, I guess this goes into the "pro Trump" column then?
Politico wrote:Not only would Donald Trump not mind if certain celebrities flee the United States upon his election, the Republican front-runner said Tuesday that their opposition to his candidacy only increases his will to win.
During a telephone interview with "Fox & Friends," Trump was asked about a tweet from Lena Dunham on Monday in which she vowed to leave the U.S. for Vancouver if he is elected president.
Trump's response: "Well, she's a B-actor. You know, she has no — you know, no mojo."
"I heard Whoopi Goldberg too. That would be a great thing for our country," Trump said, as the show flashed a graphic of celebrities who it said would leave the U.S. for Canada, including Dunham, Jon Stewart, and Rosie O'Donnell, with whom the Manhattan real-estate mogul has feuded for years.
When co-host Steve Doocy pointed out that O'Donnell's name on the list, Trump remarked, "Now I have to get elected."
"Now I have to get elected because I'll be doing a great service to our country," he said. "Now it's much more important. In fact, I'll immediately get off this call and start campaigning right now."
Heck, I'm almost ready to vote for Trump now just to see these people leave.
2016/04/26 15:49:59
Subject: The Political Junkie™ Thread - USA Edition
yeah, good luck with that one.
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