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mriff · 01-22-2016, 02:02 PM

I stand by my OP. He is a bombastic race-baiting nativist blowhard whose narcissism borders on psychopathy.

TBOLTRAM · 01-23-2016, 06:06 PM

I read that Whoopi Goldberg said that if Trump was elected she would leave the country.

You can draw your own conclusions on this one...

mriff · 01-23-2016, 10:45 PM

Some things would be worth the sacrifice I suppose.

tsac · 01-24-2016, 01:19 PM

Maybe she will leave on the starship Enterprise but if she does leave I want her to take Joy Behar with her

TBOLTRAM · 01-24-2016, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by tsac

Maybe she will leave on the starship Enterprise but if she does leave I want her to take Joy Behar with her

That would be an improvement.

mriff · 01-24-2016, 08:55 PM

Who is Joy Behar? Is that the woman who has become famous by saying stupid stuff on that stupid daytime talk show?

TBOLTRAM · 01-25-2016, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by mriff

Who is Joy Behar? Is that the woman who has become famous by saying stupid stuff on that stupid daytime talk show?

I remember I was sick one day with the flu and stayed home during the last writers strike. It was extremely obvious that without writers the women on the View did not have one.

tsac · 01-25-2016, 01:23 PM

Behar is just one of many who tried to make it sound like she has the right answers to everything. It's so easy to predict what she will say before she opens her mouth.
I have heard Whoopi defend both sides when it was honestly something she did not agree with. I would rather have someone speak from logic and commitment than Behar who speaks out of her A-- most time.
Now we have Bloomberg entering the race because Bernie is gaining in the polls. Hillary has 6 people show up at one of her last engagements. she did not mind because she was paid $500k for the talk. she held a "women only" conference for $2700 per plate and only 50 people registered so she opened it up to men the day before. Still only has 50 attend.
Now if we could figure out how to make that much replying to Blackberry problems we would all be happy.

mriff · 02-01-2016, 11:12 PM

The Donald got beat tonight. Strong showing by Rubio. Not so much by Jeb. Cruz has no chance going forward. At least I hope not.

NJBlackBerry · 02-02-2016, 06:25 AM

Cruz scares me more than Trump does.
Rubio did much better than expected.
Winning Iowa is not a good indicator on getting the nomination.
A long way to go. On to New Hampshire.

TBOLTRAM · 02-02-2016, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by NJBlackBerry

Cruz scares me more than Trump does.
Rubio did much better than expected.
Winning Iowa is not a good indicator on getting the nomination.
A long way to go. On to New Hampshire.

I am curious as to what scares you about Cruz. I have my views but appreciate what others think and why.

Quite frankly not one of the those still standing interest me and quite a few of them scare the hell out of me.

tsac · 02-02-2016, 09:23 PM

Trump states many things people are upset with but some of it is a bit wild.
Cruz seems to be playing to the crowd
Rubio seems logical but flips on a few things
Carson is good but does not seem to have the fire to fight back

Clinton is a full blown liar and is headed to jail if the politics does not stop the indictments
Sanders is willing to give everything to people for free thinking the top 1% will pay for it.

The bigger issue is the media is doing it's best to steer the people with the crooked level of reporting, example is the reporting Carson quit when in fact he just left to get a clean suit.

As I said before we need a few plumbers or farmers to run and dump the politicians.

mriff · 02-02-2016, 10:01 PM

Cruz is only interested in governing by platitude. He's a scary individual. And he looks like grandpa Munster on The Addams Family.

mriff · 02-04-2016, 08:19 AM

If anyone thought Ted Cruz was presidential material, that notion should be dispelled by now. What an underhanded thing to do to Carson on caucus night. And then he defended the actions of his team. Hard to believe the two front runners for the Republican nomination are Cruz and Trump. What happened to the Grand Old Party? I suspect those two will fall by the wayside as the process moves forward. At least I hope so.

mriff · 02-04-2016, 08:21 AM

And how about ol' Bernie? Giving ol' Hils a run for her (considerable) money. Good for him. At least that race will be a little interesting until Hils outruns him.

TBOLTRAM · 02-05-2016, 09:17 AM

I will give Bernie respect for likely being the only honest one running. I don't like his positions but at least he is honest. Being honest is not a good thing if you are a politician. No, I would not vote for him.

mriff · 02-05-2016, 03:25 PM

Nah, I wouldn't either. Nor for Hils. Nor for Trump. If it ends up be Hils v Trump (unlikely) I just simply won't vote for President.

mriff · 02-18-2016, 12:50 PM

I truly wish he would just go away.

"If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president," Trump added.

tsac · 02-18-2016, 10:23 PM

Some of the stuff he touts is what a lot of people are thinking but some is from a guy who does not have any filters. The media changes the story to suit who knows who. Yes Bernie is honest but if you look at the real numbers
2013 40% pay no tax
2014 45% pay no tax

2014 1% pay 49% of the taxes

projected 2015 numbers per WSJ and others
53% pay no tax
top 1% pay 52%

the scary part is 46 % pay the rest. If the numbers keep going up of people who pay nothing there wont be enough people to pay for the free everything Bernie wants to give. A lot of people don't realize the issues and only see the one thing they want.

I really like the referral for those getting Social Security / Medicare as receiving something for nothing.
Ever look at the deductions for SSI and Medicare on your pay?. Free? nope, you pay in advance.

Lawmakers do pay 8 percent of their salaries into their pension system, although this only compensates for about 1/5 of the typical lifetime benefit. We cover the rest as taxpayers.

Ok the fun continues

Member of Congress began to pay into Social Security in 1983, as part of a government-wide pension overhaul.

In addition, Members of Congress DO NOT draw the “same pension” as their pay in the last year of office as suggested in a rumor circulating on the Internet; only federal judges do that under the term “retirement pay.” Still, the formula is quite generous, and, with 20-25 years, a Member of Congress could retire with up to 80 percent of his or her salary replaced. Of course, the only cap on how fast their benefits rise is the rate of increase in CPI. For this reason, Congressional pensions can and frequently do exceed a Member’s final salary, but only after a few years in retirement, when COLAS begin to kick in.

In the final analysis, Congressional pension benefits are 2-3 times more generous than what a similarly-salaried executive could expect to receive upon retiring from the private sector. That ought to be enough to concern any taxpayer or voter.

TBOLTRAM · 02-19-2016, 01:19 PM

I find the recent spat with the Pope to be humorous. Maybe there are related.