(03-07-2016 04:29 PM)General Mayhem Wrote: Trump going after Rubio hard in this ad:
Sometimes I wonder why he doesn't start going after Cruz since Rubio can't win anywhere. Then I remember how I wondered the same thing with Jeb!
Video removed by user! Damn. Got an alternate link? Would love to see the thrashing.
By the way, more polling news:
New Florida polls shows Trump's lead evaporating, as he's only up 38-30 on Rubio.
But wait! There's more. Basically, their methodology is shit. Buried in the fine print of the survey is the following (bold is mine):
Quote:The Monmouth University Poll was sponsored and conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute from March 3 to 6, 2016 with a statewide random sample of Florida voters drawn from a list of registered Republican voters, who participated in a primary election in 2012 or 2014 or voted in both of the last two general elections, and indicate they will vote in the presidential primary on March 15, 2016.
Previous primary voters? People vote for both sadsack McCain and Romney? Trump is bringing in all manner of people who haven't voted in primaries before! Therefore I believe it's underreporting Trump's support and he's still 40%+ in Florida.
Ted Cruz to receive endorsements from... his colleagues in the senate.
Quote:Ted Cruz鈥檚 colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody they dislike even more. With the prospect of Donald Trump鈥檚 nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from at least four senators this week, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Until now, Cruz had failed to earn the endorsement of even a single Senate colleague, a fact Trump and other presidential rivals have been quick to use against the Texas freshman. But as many senators see Marco Rubio鈥檚 prospects dimming, some are beginning to make peace with Cruz, convinced that he鈥檚 the only candidate who can stop Trump. If Rubio can鈥檛 clinch his home state of Florida on March 15, yet more may come forward to back the devil they know.
The forthcoming endorsements are a sign that the members of the upper chamber are beginning to abandon their personal grievances in order to preserve the Republican party of old.
Look like the republican establishment will rally behind Cruz, they might hate Cruz but they hate Trump more. The biggest enemy of Trump is the Republican party.
(03-07-2016 06:31 PM)Samseau Wrote: -BREVITY EDIT--
Tariffs would do wonders right now to stop the enslavement and raise standards of living everywhere, but unfortunately big corporations will take a hit.
Samseau has it 100% right.
In short, the US economy enslaves people to work their whole lives by putting them in debt with credit cards and brainwashing them into mindless consumerism (easily acquired student loans and mortgages too).
The Chinese economy wants the same thing the US does, an easily manipulated population that has to work from youth to death with no break in between. However, they're a creditor nation, so they just do it differently, by making money worth less all the time so nobody can ever retire.
(03-07-2016 06:31 PM)Samseau Wrote: -BREVITY EDIT--
Tariffs would do wonders right now to stop the enslavement and raise standards of living everywhere, but unfortunately big corporations will take a hit.
Samseau has it 100% right.
For instance, the US economy enslaves people to work their whole lives by putting them in debt with credit cards and brainwashing them into mindless consumerism (easily acquired student loans and mortgages too).
The Chinese economy wants the same thing the US does, an easily manipulated population that has to work from youth to death with no break in between. However, they're a creditor nation, so they just do it differently, by making money worth less all the time so nobody can ever retire.
The U.S. and China are becoming remarkably similar as well. Both are instituting more and more capital controls to keep money circulating inside the country's financial institutions and only in the ways they want.
(03-07-2016 04:27 PM)YossariansRight Wrote: .....
I used to teach at the college level in the Northeast and the students couldn't correctly complete or answer shit like:
10 to the second power = 100. True or false? I'd get answers like: 20, 0, 3.14, etc.
Write a cohesive 4-6 sentence paragraph to answer the question below. Yeah, ok.
Asking Western teenagers born in the early 2000s to "write a cohesive 4-6 sentence paragraph"? Cohesive, and 6 sentences of it?? Man, you're a sadist, a monster even: you'll traumatize them for life!
Which states should we reasonably expect Trump to win tomorrow? Michigan is obviously a big one and one he should win. Idaho I'm assuming will go to Cruz, Hawaii to Rubio (?) and Mississippi to Trump.
(03-07-2016 03:27 PM)Roosh Wrote: Foreign diplomats voicing alarm to U.S. officials about Trump
Quote:Foreign diplomats are expressing alarm to U.S. government officials about what they say are inflammatory and insulting public statements by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, according to senior U.S. officials.
Officials from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia have complained in recent private conversations, mostly about the xenophobic nature of Trump's statements, said three U.S. officials, who all declined to be identified.
"As the (Trump) rhetoric has continued, and in some cases amped up, so, too, have concerns by certain leaders around the world," said one of the officials.
Ha. Bullshit they are just scared that the suck of American resources and money into their countries elites is about to be re examined.
Reagan, too, was accused of "xenophobic" rhetoric. This "worried" diplomats. It certainly worried Iran's diplomats, enough that they released US hostages right on Reagan's election. There was actually a joke about it at the time:
What's green and glows in the dark?
Tehran after Inauguration Day.
(03-07-2016 06:31 PM)Samseau Wrote: -BREVITY EDIT--
Tariffs would do wonders right now to stop the enslavement and raise standards of living everywhere, but unfortunately big corporations will take a hit.
Samseau has it 100% right.
In short, the US economy enslaves people to work their whole lives by putting them in debt with credit cards and brainwashing them into mindless consumerism (easily acquired student loans and mortgages too).
The Chinese economy wants the same thing the US does, an easily manipulated population that has to work from youth to death with no break in between. However, they're a creditor nation, so they just do it differently, by making money worth less all the time so nobody can ever retire.
I agree but don't think owning a decent-sized home to raise a family is mindless consumerism. That's just a high standard of living in America that we should try to maintain if we can.
I think the problem with mortgages is that investors are still screwing with the US housing market. Home prices are still inflated, they have not yet reverted to the stable prices they were before the subprime crisis.
I think immigration harms the housing market too but I have no data to prove that.
Article taken from business insider.com
Titled: here's where migrant workers in America send their money
The World Bank has data on remittances from the U.S. to 155 different countries, adding up to a total of about $123 billion sent home by migrants.
The countries with the biggest flows were Mexico, India, China, and the Philippines. Mexico had almost $23 billion in remittances, and migrants from each of India, China, and
the Philippines sent over $10 billion home.
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Example to send $100CAD to Mexico will cost about $12. Since over $20 billion USD is sent yearly the transfer agencies are making about $2 billion USD alone. Never mind licensing fees, franchise fees and currency exchange fees and adjustments. Some lobbyists are splashing a smidget of that cash around buying politicians via campaign donations. A multi billion dollar revenue stream is about to take a hit if certain policies are installed which certain people don't want.
No wonder the foreign diplomats are complaining .... Yet the press says its trumps tone and (insert racist term in here ) stances.
They can't be direct and honest and say that they depend on remittance payments for part of their economy. Maybe they are too ashamed to say it.
Whoever sent money via western union locally or overseas knows that there are fees to be paid on top of currency exchange fees if applicable. A few are getting rich keeping this system going strong.
(03-07-2016 06:25 PM)el mechanico Wrote: I agree or maybe we stop the boats and the Chinese junk with a 300% tariff and do the same to Mexico and Canada real fast you'll watch them open factories here real, real fast.
You'd also see people's living standards drop 66%. Why the hell would we want to glue together toys and knit cardigans ourselves when we can get someone else to do it for 1/10th the price? Americans are capable of plenty more valuable things than just factory work, such as designing the stuff that gets sent to the those factories, for instance.
The best scenario is more balanced: minimal, culturally compatible immigration to fill genuine shortages; no tariffs or regulations if possible; tit-for-tat tariffs with specific countries otherwise.
China's currency pegging should certainly be met with retaliation, but it won't be. The peg is maintained by China constantly buying US treasury bonds. The US government might make noise about it, but they aren't honestly going to stop it.
(03-07-2016 06:25 PM)el mechanico Wrote: I agree or maybe we stop the boats and the Chinese junk with a 300% tariff and do the same to Mexico and Canada real fast you'll watch them open factories here real, real fast.
You'd also see people's living standards drop 66%. Why the hell would we want to glue together toys and knit cardigans ourselves when we can get someone else to do it for 1/10th the price? Americans are capable of plenty more valuable things than just factory work, such as designing the stuff that gets sent to the those factories, for instance.
(03-07-2016 06:25 PM)el mechanico Wrote: I agree or maybe we stop the boats and the Chinese junk with a 300% tariff and do the same to Mexico and Canada real fast you'll watch them open factories here real, real fast.
You'd also see people's living standards drop 66%. Why the hell would we want to glue together toys and knit cardigans ourselves when we can get someone else to do it for 1/10th the price? Americans are capable of plenty more valuable things than just factory work, such as designing the stuff that gets sent to the those factories, for instance.
The best scenario is more balanced: minimal, culturally compatible immigration to fill genuine shortages; no tariffs or regulations if possible; tit-for-tat tariffs with specific countries otherwise.
China's currency pegging should certainly be met with retaliation, but it won't be. The peg is maintained by China constantly buying US treasury bonds. The US government might make noise about it, but they aren't honestly going to stop it.
We have millions of stupid people in America who can barely push a broom. Let them glue toys together. They will never be tech competent and need something more than leaf blowing.
(03-07-2016 11:10 PM)rpg Wrote: We have millions of stupid people in America who can barely push a broom. Let them glue toys together. They will never be tech competent and need something more than leaf blowing.
Easier to stand behind a till or serve coffee than glue toys together.
What a lot of this $23 Billion USD plus in remittances to Mexico consists of are micro remittances back to Mehico from illegal drugs proceeds. Nashua, New Hampshire is located about 20 miles from Lawrence, MA a sanctuary city of predominantly Spanish speakers from DR and Mexico and some MS13 from El Salvador plus Columbia and Brazil as well as Lowell MA also a sanctuary city in the sanctuary State of Massachusetts... equidistant from NYC and Montreal the major Drugs transhipment points in North East America and Canada. Coke and heroin coming over the border from Mexico and more Coke coming in from DR and Columbia.
Over the past decade small tier 2 and 3 New England Cities in Maine, NH and Massachusetts have seen many new Bodegas, Carnecerias and Cambio del Denaro convenience stores to send smaller less than $800 remittances by wire back to Mexico and Caribbean and Central and South America. Transfers often using Latin American native money transfer services not just USA based Western Union and MoneyGram. Transfers less than $800 do not need any ID or signatures. The Latin American services are known to be flexible in the amounts they will send. Typically a dealer will reach out into the community and have dozens of folks send funds back to the home country for a 10% +/- cut of the funds depending upon the supply of cash they need to wash. Then the families in the home country bring the receipts and cash to the local bosses and are paid a reward for being honest about the amounts transferred - of course the penalties for not being honest are deadly.
So if one person goes to 5 different bodegas a day to send $800 per transfer home that is $4k per day times 100 people and you have a reliable conduit of $400K per day small anonymous transfers being laundered and washed in local markets that are almost always more profitable than their foot traffic would justify. 10% Cut of $4K is $400 a day much better than $10 or $15 an hour under the table for menial labor.
The POTUS has full control of these illegal immigrants illegal drugs cash remittances back to Mexico, El Salvador, Columbia, Brazil etc etc etc... so why doesn't Obama limit these remittances? Because he is a Bush/Clinton/Bush One World Government disciple and employs the top exports from Latin America (Cocaine, Heroin, Crystal Meth etc...) as a form of stealth foreign aid from Norte Americanos with the drugs abuse causing bonus huge demand for all sorts of Liberal rehab and treatment programs providing feelz good counseling jobs for Liberal Arts grads in the urban Obama communities nationwide.
The Real Reason El Chapo put a $100 Million USD hit on Trump - a 50 foot wall with deep anti-tunnel foundations and electronic ground magnetic and vibration as well as infrared heat sensors will bring this massive illegal immigrants illegal cash remittances flow of funds to a complete halt.
Mr. Trump sees this for what it is a full on narco war against the USA and our foolish young people who get so easily addicted.
Just holding up these illegal $25 Billion plus annual cash remittances that are being laundered illegally and can be held in accordance with existing US law, then Mexico absolutely pays for the wall and self-deportation of all of the drugs dealers and money launderers plus rehab and addiction counseling for most of the young foolish addicted Americans.
Of course Mexican Mega Mobile tech services billionaire ($70+ Billion USD) Calos Phat "Slim" helu makes a huge profit off of these $25 Billion in remittances that they all use to buy the latest burner phones and Obama phones from Helu mobile companies.
So Globalist Vincente Fox can say they are not going to pay for no phucking wall all he wants - they want to play they goin to pay - Drugs Dealers? We don't need no stinkeeeng Drugs Dealers!
Some good news, post-debate polls from Michigan has Trump up with pretty big leads. A Fox 2 Detroit poll has Trump up 22 points and Trafalgar Group poll has Trump up 18 points. Rubio is in the single digits for each one of those polls.