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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Israel Chai on March 15, 2016, 11:57:56 PM
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Yay the world's not gonna get nuked.
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Look at the delegate count. I think you're operating on wishful thinking.
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Good news :dance:
Of all the candidates, only Cruz has the capacity, will and understanding to uphold the constitution, preserve our union and ensure the national security of America, Israel and the World.
That a "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." :usa+israel:
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Cruz wins from now on
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Cruz wins from now on
I wish.
But the reality of the situation is many of the remaining states that have yet to vote are in the Northeast. In a two or three way race, it's going to be extremely difficult for Ted Cruz to win New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. With other nearby states an uphill battle as well.
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Cruz must win.
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Wishful thinking. Trump has more supporters.
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Cruz wins from now on
I hope so too.
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If Trump gets injured or slain, they will blame the JINO Erev Rav George Soros, and thereby all US Jews will be tarnished.
Such will be the rage of the US gentiles at the loss of their Golden/Orange Boy, that all Jews may be forced to flee to Israel, those that survive and can escape....a forced Ingathering of the Exiles....a Geulah b'Gevurah (as opposed to a Geulah b'Rachamim)!
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Look at the delegate count. I think you're operating on wishful thinking.
Are you pretending to be stupid, or are you stupid? Everyone with half a brain cell could see that with early voting, and open primiaries last night was going to be tough on cruz.
However he still drew in missouri, only lost by a few points in illnois and north carolina, ALL open primaries.
Majority now are closed, with rubio out, i can only see cruz ending up with the most delegates.
Cruz has done best in educated areas, minoesota he beat trump easily, and again would have won by over 10 poimts there.
Cruz wins this easily.
Trump literally cant geg above 40%, and split vote has got him this far. Cruz will win utah and arizona next week, and win california which is 175 states.
I see no pathway for trump.
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Christian4jews that was very rude. You don't have to call people stupid. Especially, Rubystars. Who is very intelligent. Just give your opinion.
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:usa+israel: :fist:
Being that Kasich has no chance whatsoever short of a freak occurrence type of miraculous scenario and might be banking on a potential VP spot, he should drop out and get behind Ted Cruz and urge his supporters to do the same. Due to his obstinance though, this probaby won't happen. Keep praying the tide turns in the great Ted Cruz's favor.
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their Golden/Orange Boy,
:::D Great line
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Are you pretending to be stupid, or are you stupid? Everyone with half a brain cell could see that with early voting, and open primiaries last night was going to be tough on cruz.
However he still drew in missouri, only lost by a few points in illnois and north carolina, ALL open primaries.
Majority now are closed, with rubio out, i can only see cruz ending up with the most delegates.
Cruz has done best in educated areas, minoesota he beat trump easily, and again would have won by over 10 poimts there.
Cruz wins this easily.
Trump literally cant geg above 40%, and split vote has got him this far. Cruz will win utah and arizona next week, and win california which is 175 states.
I see no pathway for trump.
I'm not stupid but I still think that Trump and Cruz have a shot at the nomination. Cruz himself is saying that they are the only two that have a shot. Right now Trump has more momentum behind him.
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Christian4jews that was very rude. You don't have to call people stupid. Especially, Rubystars. Who is very intelligent. Just give your opinion.
Thank you Poppy :)
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Christian4jews that was very rude. You don't have to call people stupid. Especially, Rubystars. Who is very intelligent. Just give your opinion.
I didnt say rubystars is stupid, but i question the persons logic, intelligence and reasoning on this subject matter, ill assume rubystars isnt so moronic on other topics.
If ruby stars had any under standing, he/she would realise that rubio voters will mainly go to cruz. You should also realise that florida and ohio were home states for kasich and rubio, so very difficult to win.
In closed primaries, cruz under a narrowed field crushes donald trump, if ruby stars cannot logically see that, then yes i will be rude and question the posters intelligence on such a matter.
Ruby stars claimed that cruz was "disapointing", when infact he has completely over achieved, ran a phenominal campaign despite having EVERYONE against him. Cruz got to the top by great policies, speaking, and great debates. His fund raising is incredible. Its not his fault that trump has this weird cult following that ignore his bipolar flip flopping tendencies. Not his fault that the establishment did not leave the race earlier. If rubio left the race by michigan, cruz then wins illnois, north carolina and missoiri, even in OPEN PRIMARIES.
Lets see whos right, cruz has had big endorsements lately, rubio gone, the south carolina govenor and arizona senator have endorsed cruz.
If you guys think this race is over then you really do not understand basic maths and the process of this election. Cheer up and get behimd cruz, the best candidate jtf has endorsed in my life time.
But i suspect rubystars is a closet trump fan. If you read the poorly constructed posts, you can see that.
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What do you think happens to Cruz in the North East? I am 100% behind Cruz. But I don't see it being an easy road just because Rubio dropped out. Rubio should have dropped out earlier. And there is still the spoiler Kasich. That man is delusional.
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What do you think happens to Cruz in the North East? I am 100% behind Cruz. But I don't see it being an easy road just because Rubio dropped out. Rubio should have dropped out earlier. And there is still the spoiler Kasich. That man is delusional.
Yea kadich is bloomin irrirating.
However, wgat abiut maine? The most north east state, ted cruz won.
Ted cruz has won in all 4 corners of the globe(america).if you actually look, despite trump winning 20 states, his percentages is waining.
Trump does well in uneducated open primaries, and he does well withe fact that its a split field. Regardless compare the first 4 primaries, iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. Bar iowa, which cruz won, he won by 17 points in new hampshire, 18 points in nevada, and 17 points in south carolina.
Also its important to know that amounst registered republicans, Cruz, pretty much beats trump, for example, if south carolina was just a closed vote, cruz beat both trump and rubio.
So barring that in mind, look at north carolina, illnois, and missouri. All three were OPEN primaries, and with a reduced, but still a split vote, cruz only lost by 4, 8 and 0.1 points respectively. So you can see, despite trumps wins, with rubio out, he has no shot at beating cruz, certainly not in delegates.
Just because we have moved out of the bible belt imo shows ceuz has A BIGGER chance of winning.
Btw newyork is proportional, and closed.
Cali is 175 delegates, and closed, and guess whos polling best ever with rubio factored in?you guessed it, its ted cruz.
He has a very viable pathway to the nomination.
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I didnt say rubystars is stupid, but i question the persons logic, intelligence and reasoning on this subject matter, ill assume rubystars isnt so moronic on other topics.
If ruby stars had any under standing, he/she would realise that rubio voters will mainly go to cruz. You should also realise that florida and ohio were home states for kasich and rubio, so very difficult to win.
In closed primaries, cruz under a narrowed field crushes donald trump, if ruby stars cannot logically see that, then yes i will be rude and question the posters intelligence on such a matter.
Ruby stars claimed that cruz was "disapointing", when infact he has completely over achieved, ran a phenominal campaign despite having EVERYONE against him. Cruz got to the top by great policies, speaking, and great debates. His fund raising is incredible. Its not his fault that trump has this weird cult following that ignore his bipolar flip flopping tendencies. Not his fault that the establishment did not leave the race earlier. If rubio left the race by michigan, cruz then wins illnois, north carolina and missoiri, even in OPEN PRIMARIES.
Lets see whos right, cruz has had big endorsements lately, rubio gone, the south carolina govenor and arizona senator have endorsed cruz.
If you guys think this race is over then you really do not understand basic maths and the process of this election. Cheer up and get behimd cruz, the best candidate jtf has endorsed in my life time.
But i suspect rubystars is a closet trump fan. If you read the poorly constructed posts, you can see that.
Trump supporters:
Trumpkins (People/businesses/etc that support Trump because they want access to the group of supporters/think they will be rich)
Chumptards (Low info Republicans)
Sturm Trumpers (David Pukies)
Authoritarian liberals
Extreme birthers
The most damaging effect is on the Republicans being poisoned by the liberal immorality and nazi conspiracies, but it also does create a wide ranging effect in that people don't want to be seen as unpatriotic when those in their environment become cultist fanatics. The cult of the branded concept of Trump's personality also causes small egos to gravitate toward it in hateful reverence.
Delegate results
1,237 needed for nomination · 1,061 available
Trump-Cruz-Kasich 673-411-143
Looks like it can easily go either way.
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I hope and pray you are correct.
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Ted Cruz Can Win It
by Stanley Kurtz March 10, 2016 9:59 AM
Be of good cheer. Ted Cruz can win the Republican presidential nomination and the presidency.
With the DC Presidential Preference and Delegate Selection Convention scheduled for this weekend, it’s time for me to make my selection and lay my cards on the table. I choose Ted Cruz.
For many conservatives and Republicans, this is a moment of distress and pessimism. The prospect of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president raises the specter of an electoral disaster that allows Hillary Clinton to entrench permanently all of President Obama’s policies. Notwithstanding the enthusiasm of Trump’s followers, many of them new voters and new Republicans, Trump remains unacceptable to the larger part of the electorate. I doubt this problem can be overcome by November. On the contrary, I believe Trump’s negatives will grow.
Even should Trump be elected, I have no confidence that he will govern as a conservative. Trump’s supporters like to say that no other issue matters if we lose our country through the continuation of our de facto open-borders immigration policy. Unfortunately, it’s equally true to say that no other issue matters if we lose our Constitution through the consolidation of an activist liberal Supreme Court. I have no confidence that Donald Trump will appoint the sort of justices who would save the court from liberal judicial activism. For that matter, I have no confidence that Trump will pursue a genuinely conservative immigration policy.
I don’t deny that Trump could win the Republican nomination, but I believe that result is far from certain. Only one man can stop Trump now, and that is Ted Cruz. Perhaps more important, I do not believe that a Republican ticket led by Cruz is destined to lose in November, bringing the congressional ticket down with him. Cruz’s biggest handicap has been the idea that he appeals to only a narrow slice of the Republican electorate, and so can’t win in November. This is very much an “establishment” analysis, yet oddly, many grassroots voters have bought into it. They’ve turned to Trump instead of Cruz in the false belief that only Trump can win in November. Actually, Cruz has a vastly better chance of defeating Hillary Clinton than Trump.
Once Rubio drops out, Cruz will begin to pull ahead of Trump. As primary voters begin to compare Trump’s massive November negatives with Cruz’s general-election positives, Cruz’s lead will grow still stronger.
The knock on Cruz’s electability goes back to the same flawed theory that did in Marco Rubio. This theory claims that, demographically, Republicans represent an ever-shrinking portion of the electorate. In order to win, this theory goes, the GOP needs to compromise on immigration, get that issue out of the way, and get on to the business of persuading Hispanic, minority, and centrist voters to sign onto a modernized array of conservative policies.
It’s true that the country’s demographics are changing. The flaw in the establishment theory of the American electorate, however, was its refusal to recognize that going squishy on immigration and failing to take the fight to Obama on a wide range of issues would drive away the Republican base. Republican strategists denied that liberal immigration policies would lead to electoral disaster. They pointed to evidence that Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss was not the result of the Republican base staying home.
It may well be that conservative voters rallied to Romney against Obama despite their misgivings, but it was a terrible mistake to take the base’s continued support for granted. Romney’s failure to win, combined with the Gang of Eight bill, and the failure of the Republican Congress to force President Obama to veto a conservative legislative program, broke the confidence of the base. The result has been the base’s secession from the party leadership via the shift to Cruz and Trump.
The other flaw in the establishment’s theory of the electorate was the failure to consider alternative ways of expanding the party’s appeal. Foreign policy has been oddly absent from the drive for conservative reform, as has been a principled conservative stance against corporate welfare, and the need to fight the creeping federalization of our education system via Common Core. For various reasons, the relatively small but disproportionately influential party leadership—many donors included—was at odds with the conservative base on each of these issues. In contrast, Ted Cruz is in a unique position to broaden the party’s appeal by campaigning on a reformed conservative foreign policy, opposition to corporate welfare, and opposition to Common Core.
For all its importance, there has been relatively little debate in conservative media on America’s overall strategy for the Middle East. Yet the Republican base has long since abandoned democratization as a major instrument of policy in that region. I believe that Ted Cruz’s hawkishness, in combination with his reluctance to opt for cultural transformation as a strategy, is both substantively and politically right (and nothing like Rand Paul’s neo-isolationism). Not only is Cruz’s foreign policy closer to where the Republican electorate is right now, it’s closer to where the country is right now.
A general election campaign in which Cruz raked Hillary over the coals for her Libyan misadventure would smash stereotypes about Republican foreign-policy, and about Cruz himself. Cruz, in fact, is at the forefront of crafting a sensible conservative foreign policy. The best way to get Americans to support the strong stance we need against Iran’s nuclear program is to show them that Republicans have learned from experience the difference between our essential and our non-essential security interests in the Middle East.
Unfortunately, the Trump spectacle has so far diverted attention from Ted Cruz’s extraordinarily courageous stand against the ethanol mandate during the Iowa primary—even though Iowa was absolutely critical to Cruz’s electoral plan. Should Cruz become the nominee, his willingness to take a huge political risk to stand for the average taxpayer against corporate interests will become an object lesson in conservative principle—and in authentic populism. Once again, this sort of campaign could break silly stereotypes about conservatives and capture moderate voters in a year when the Democrats are buying into snake-oil socialism.
There is a huge movement against Common Core among the conservative grassroots in this country. Here again, the economic interests of the donor class have drawn the party establishment away from the base on an issue that drives voters to the polls. Despite the relative silence, don’t think that Common Core hasn’t been a factor in this campaign. Common Core has everything to do with why Jeb’s candidacy never took off. Governors like Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and John Kasich never got traction, in part, because they openly favored Common Core, or came to be regarded as hopelessly dishonest about their stand on it.
Hillary Clinton has spent decades supporting the nationalization of American education through the Common Core and its precursors. What’s more, Democrats are deeply divided on this issue, with teachers’ unions and many ordinary parents dead set against the Common Core. Hillary will equivocate, but Ted Cruz’s steadfast opposition to Common Core puts him in an ideal position to use this issue in a national campaign. What a perfect way to introduce a larger argument about Hillary’s life-long love of big government, from her early radical writings undermining parents’ rights, to her most recent tilt to the Elizabeth Warren left.
So on a wide range of issues, Cruz is well-placed to make the kind of case that GOP establishment candidates have never yet dared to make. And on each of these issues, the conservative stance is also the stance best calculated to appeal to the electoral center. Every time Cruz makes these points, he’ll be breaking through bogus stereotypes about his so-called extremism.
This is to say nothing of Hillary’s vulnerability after having been pulled to the left by Bernie Sanders. The public still doesn’t recognize the extent to which the Sanders campaign has been powered by Bill McKibben’s young army of climate activists and their crusade against fossil fuels. Cruz will now be able to put Clinton in a tremendously awkward position by forcing her to affirm or repudiate the anti-fossil fuel stance of all those Bernie voters she’ll be desperate to win back in the general election.
You may think the anti-fossil fuel crowd has no place to go but Clinton. But these are exactly the sort of folks who will look for an opportunity to punish Hillary for refusing to embrace their questionable crusade against America’s entire energy industry. These folks literally want to shut down America’s oil companies, not just coal. The Democratic Party has gone off the deep end, and a candidate with Cruz’s policy chops will be able to take advantage of this in debates with Hillary.
Cruz has run a superb campaign, even under the onslaught of Trump. He’s built the kind of ground game that neither Trump nor Rubio could, which leaves him particularly well placed for the general election. Cruz is a champion debater and policy wonk, yet totally comfortable with the rough-and-tumble of politics nonetheless.
Yes, Cruz sometimes comes off as too scripted, but his hilarious and brilliant campaign ads show off a side that surprises. Cruz has the advantage of having been underestimated and caricatured by all. The more he shows who he really is, the more the brittle stereotype breaks. It’s already working.
I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Heidi Cruz speak on behalf of Ted. She humanizes him in a completely believable way. And Heidi Cruz herself is a force to be reckoned with—wonderfully poised, and completely comfortable in the world of politics as well.
The future eludes us, but this much I think I know: Ted Cruz can win it all. The claim by liberal and conservative opponents alike that Cruz is an unappealing extremist is a bum rap. Cruz is absolutely right that Republicans haven’t really run a genuinely conservative general election campaign since Ronald Reagan. And there are a great many ways in which a full-throated conservative stance would be every bit as appealing to America’s electoral center as the strategy preferred by today’s party establishment. It’s just that no-one’s tried it.
Trump is a false prophet, not simply because he’s a fake conservative, but because he’s destined to be a loser. He’ll lose the election, lose the party, and lose the country. But Ted Cruz can win. He can beat Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, too. I choose Cruz, because Ted can win it all.
Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He can be reached at [email protected]
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432597/endorsement-ted-cruz-can-win-it-all
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If Trump gets injured or slain, they will blame the JINO Erev Rav George Soros, and thereby all US Jews will be tarnished.
Such will be the rage of the US gentiles at the loss of their Golden/Orange Boy, that all Jews may be forced to flee to Israel, those that survive and can escape....a forced Ingathering of the Exiles....a Geulah b'Gevurah (as opposed to a Geulah b'Rachamim)!
Worst or best case scenario depending on which side of the coin you want to be on. I think more likely, Trump perhaps doesn't get the delegate count he needs and the establishment pick their golden boy and then a mass revolt and violence by trump bots who are angry already at the establishment.
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I didnt say rubystars is stupid, but i question the persons logic, intelligence and reasoning on this subject matter, ill assume rubystars isnt so moronic on other topics.
If ruby stars had any under standing, he/she would realise that rubio voters will mainly go to cruz. You should also realise that florida and ohio were home states for kasich and rubio, so very difficult to win.
In closed primaries, cruz under a narrowed field crushes donald trump, if ruby stars cannot logically see that, then yes i will be rude and question the posters intelligence on such a matter.
Ruby stars claimed that cruz was "disapointing", when infact he has completely over achieved, ran a phenominal campaign despite having EVERYONE against him. Cruz got to the top by great policies, speaking, and great debates. His fund raising is incredible. Its not his fault that trump has this weird cult following that ignore his bipolar flip flopping tendencies. Not his fault that the establishment did not leave the race earlier. If rubio left the race by michigan, cruz then wins illnois, north carolina and missoiri, even in OPEN PRIMARIES.
Lets see whos right, cruz has had big endorsements lately, rubio gone, the south carolina govenor and arizona senator have endorsed cruz.
If you guys think this race is over then you really do not understand basic maths and the process of this election. Cheer up and get behimd cruz, the best candidate jtf has endorsed in my life time.
But i suspect rubystars is a closet trump fan. If you read the poorly constructed posts, you can see that.
You are the moron, I will take Rubystars' opinions over yours--you, who would probably be a skinhead if it weren't for you stumbling on JTF and finding opinions that you basically agree with on most issues. Plus, you are British, you don't know a damn thing about the process.
I did not at all get that Rubystars is pro-Trump, she is just being realistic like we all should be. If you can't get that through your thick head your opinions are as relevant as Alexander Sporn's. Get lost, to me you are useless dead weight to our forum.
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Guys...no infighting please. Just agree to disagree and stop acting so angry.
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Yea kadich is bloomin irrirating.
However, wgat abiut maine? The most north east state, ted cruz won.
Ted cruz has won in all 4 corners of the globe(america).if you actually look, despite trump winning 20 states, his percentages is waining.
Trump does well in uneducated open primaries, and he does well withe fact that its a split field. Regardless compare the first 4 primaries, iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. Bar iowa, which cruz won, he won by 17 points in new hampshire, 18 points in nevada, and 17 points in south carolina.
Also its important to know that amounst registered republicans, Cruz, pretty much beats trump, for example, if south carolina was just a closed vote, cruz beat both trump and rubio.
So barring that in mind, look at north carolina, illnois, and missouri. All three were OPEN primaries, and with a reduced, but still a split vote, cruz only lost by 4, 8 and 0.1 points respectively. So you can see, despite trumps wins, with rubio out, he has no shot at beating cruz, certainly not in delegates.
Just because we have moved out of the bible belt imo shows ceuz has A BIGGER chance of winning.
Btw newyork is proportional, and closed.
Cali is 175 delegates, and closed, and guess whos polling best ever with rubio factored in?you guessed it, its ted cruz.
He has a very viable pathway to the nomination.
Hey I hope you are right. Can you explain the difference between open and closed primaries for those of us who are not familiar wih the terminology?
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Hey I hope you are right. Can you explain the difference between open and closed primaries for those of us who are not familiar wih the terminology?
Open primaries= democrats can vote for the republican nominee= Trump does better, because they are openly sabotaging the party by voting for him
Closed primaries= only republicans can vote=Cruz wins easily
https://www.facebook.com/theblaze/videos/1085113484859324/
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Marco Rubio might have ruined the elections. Had he dropped before Florida, Cruz would have won in Illinois and Missouri. Now Cruz has a slim chance of catching up in delegate count, then clinching the nomination in the convention. Rubio knew he would lose Florida and the I think he only stayed so he could make a "heroic" concession speech following his miserable failure. His ego and ambition come first always.
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B"H The world's not going to get nuked and I can make America super rich now
http://dcwhispers.com/rubio-campaign-set-release-delegates-cruz-gop-convention/
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B"H The world's not going to get nuked and I can make America super rich now
http://dcwhispers.com/rubio-campaign-set-release-delegates-cruz-gop-convention/
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How credible is this source? If its true cruz will definitely become nominie. Trump will do well go get to 1000 delegates.
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If you know you wouldn't say this to his face, why would you bother typing it?
There's a reason why your life is in the gosh darn toilet.
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Too bad Marco, Bush, and the rest, especially Kasich didn't drop out a long time ago. Kasich is being funded by George Soros, that tells you what kind of candidate he will be....he is also working for the New World Order.
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Too bad Marco, Bush, and the rest, especially Kasich didn't drop out a long time ago. Kasich is being funded by George Soros, that tells you what kind of candidate he will be....he is also working for the New World Order.
new world order? you probably think 911 was "an inside job" right?
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Why not remove the whole post?
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new world order? you probably think 911 was "an inside job" right?
Soros, Kissinger and their overlords talk about the NWO all the time. Doesn't mean she's a 9/11 loon.
And Debbie, of course you should know that rockyjewish is some nut.
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Troll's post removed by Lisa
Goodbye, Troll.
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Why not remove the whole post?
Honestly.
What sense does it make to leave it there. It's clear trolling and clear personal attack. But remove the obscenities? As if a little foul word is so upsetting, but lobbing vicious dehumanizing insults at people is ok as long as it's done with proper english language? Anyway I agree with you in principle, as on most things I guess, but I also don't take seriously what the troll says so don't worry about me - But the response seems quite odd.
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Why not remove the whole post?
Done.
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Honestly.
What sense does it make to leave it there. It's clear trolling and clear personal attack. But remove the obscenities? As if a little foul word is so upsetting, but lobbing vicious dehumanizing insults at people is ok as long as it's done with proper english language? Anyway I agree with you in principle, as on most things I guess, but I also don't take seriously what the troll says so don't worry about me - But the response seems quite odd.
I left it there with the intent that an admin would see it and ban him. But noted. It's removed.
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Thanks Mishmaat.
I deleted almost the same post yesterday.
It would be good if you had the ability to ban.
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Kahane-Was-Right BT, I know that those are retarded posts and certainly you can handle them. Still, they are blatant personal attacks. Not debate. A banning would be appropriate.
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Troll's post deleted by Lisa
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no such thing as "nwo." it's a myth created by the 911 troofers
No no they actually talk about it on CNN. It's a silly liberal fantasy, the people who are trying to pull it off are rich, insane and stupid, the people that make conspiracies about it are insane and stupid, and the people that believe it are stupid.
Note, basically all the up next videos and comments will be insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMVrxgvR_Xw
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The Endless Ages of Purim
Posted by Daniel Greenfield 24 Comments
Tonight the celebration of the holiday of Purim begins. Purim is a Jewish holiday often neglected outside the more religious communities in America and the State of Israel because it commemorates an attempt to exterminate the Jews. And we all know that stopped being a problem long ago.
If Purim had culminated with some smart power diplomacy and a lesson on tolerance, liberal Jews might be more inclined to celebrate it. Unfortunately it ends with a genocidal madman being hung from a tree and the Jews fighting for their lives, winning and slaughtering their enemies.
And instead of feeling guilty about it, their descendants eat pastries, dress up in costumes and get drunk. At least those of their descendants who believe in survival instead of surrender.
Liberal Jews complain about the difference of values they have with Israeli Jews who insist on survival instead of surrender. They have an even bigger difference of values with the Jews of the Bible. And with Jews throughout history. Not to mention with the religion of the Jewish people.
The more liberal a Jew is, the less likely he is to celebrate the substance of his people's holidays as they conflict with his worldview and virtues. Moshe, the Maccabees and Mordechai don't seem like role models, not even if you rebrand them as community organizers and claim that they were fighting prejudice. There is something relentlessly bloody-minded about them. They care very little about a sustainable environment or LGBT rights, and instead walk through the corpses of their enemies with no regrets or apologetic winces. They stand up for their own people in a regrettable show of tribalism that perpetuates the cycle of violence instead of preaching about Tikkun Olam.
The story of the Megillah, the Scroll of Esther, is the story of how Mordechai, the descendant of the first Jewish king of Israel, snubbed the Grand Vizier of a multicultural empire by refusing to bow to him. The obstinate Benjaminite so infuriated the Vizier that he plotted to kill all the Jews.
The smart thing to do would have been to bow to Haman. To invite him to AIPAC and let him give a pre-written speech and then give him a standing ovation. Then the important official might have been willing to help out the struggling Jews of the Second Commonwealth in Israel. Instead the narrow-minded fanatic offended Haman. And the angry Agagite decides to strangle the newly reborn Second Commonwealth of Israel and all the other Jews throughout the Persian Empire.
By refusing to bow to Haman, Mordechai had turned the formerly moderate Haman into an extremist. He had radicalized him. Jewish leaders hurried to reassure Haman that this fanatic was in no way representative of their values of tolerance and appeasement. Hadn't they attended the feast where the sacred vessels of their own people were used to serve wine and spirits to the mob? Rather than anticipating the return to their land at the end of the prophesied 70 year period of exile, they had cheered the brutish tyrant and made Sushan, his capital, into their new holy city.
A few tens of thousands had gone back to Israel, which the empire had repopulated with other peoples. There they struggled to survive, building half the day and keeping watch with their spears from the time the stars came out until the sun rose. Most Jews however had remained behind in the Persian Empire. The struggling settlements of the Jews under the last of the prophets seemed like a futile proposition. The future belonged to empires, to Babylon, Persia and Rome.
There was no room anymore for the sort of pride displayed by Mordechai. This was Haman's hour. Israel was gone and would never return. Rebuilding the Temple was a fool's dream. Why go off to some place your ancestors had come from, to slave in the hot sun, to choke on dust and sleep with a spear by your side expecting an attack from the nomads that had settled in the land?
In Sushan, the wine is plentiful, the bazaars are never closed and the empire will never fall.
There is no room for ancient dreams in the new empire. No room for old fables about slavery and freedom. Perhaps in ancient times some deity had liberated them from Egypt, but here in the modern present, it was the fall of the Babylonian Empire which had raised them up out of slavery and given them a place among the subject peoples of a new empire. They bowed to Haman and to the new order. They gave up their dreams and their religion and drank headily of the wine at the festival of the king. On their couches, they dreamed they saw a new world opening before them.
But Mordechai, narrow-minded fanatic that he was, only saw an old world. And he was determined to fight for it. He wasn't willing to let the old dreams die. To bow to Haman and to imagine, as so many Jewish leaders have done, that some accommodation with evil could be made on mutually beneficial terms. Mordechai was not a man of the Empire. He was an Ish Yehudi. A Jew.
He saw through the illusion of empires and new ages. He saw what his first ancestor had seen when he looked at the sky. He saw that the only true permanence was G-d. Nations would fall, empires would perish and even the stars would burn out. Only G-d would endure.
And so he did not bow. And Haman understood what his refusal meant.
Had Mordechai refused to bow out of personal pride, Haman might have had him and his family killed. But Mordechai refused to bow to Haman because he was a Jew. Haman sensed that the old man had seen through him. The emperor was naked. The old man in rags at the gates did not worship power. He might rule, but had no appetite for it. He worshiped only G-d.
Was it personal conviction? Haman investigated and learned that Mordechai was a member of an obscure people. A people who do not worship the empire, but worship G-d.
And so they all had to die. The king was bribed. The letters were sealed and sent. The decree was death. It was all over.
But Mordechai had seen more than the nakedness of Haman, the crawling, insecure lackey, filled with hatred for the Persian ruler, flattering him and craving the ultimate power he could not have. He had seen the nakedness of the empire and the age. His eyes had seen past the horses and palaces, the ranks of scribes penning decrees, the harems, bureaucracies and armies.
Mordechai knew that all this would pass away. He had seen through the illusion that every age brings with it the end of history, a new age whose achievements break with the past and usher in a boundless future. The shadow crosses the sundial, the walls come crashing down and the new era of history ends up buried under the rubble of time.
Exile divides the Jewish people into Jews and New Age Jews. Jews wander on their meandering course through history concerning themselves with a past that modern people dismiss as myth and legend, more ancient than that story about Troy, and even more dubious.
The New Age Jews always see the coming of a new era of history, a bright and shining plateau that makes all those old moldy beliefs completely irrelevant. History ends and now a new age of human progress begins. The age of Alexandria, the age of Sushan, the age of Berlin. How, in such a new age, could they be expected to take a few bygone fairy tales retold by barbarians seriously? Such things weren't for enlightened people who were witnessing the peak of human civilization.
The old Jews know what the New Age Jews do not, that history has not ended, that the past is still with us and that it has sharp teeth. They know that Man has not changed, that his sophistication is still only a shell and that sooner or later the shell cracks. If it does not crack from within, then it is cracked from without.
Those who feel time in their bones know the patterns of history, reading ages like constellations, can never lose themselves in one age or fall into the fallacy of a new era. They know that there is nothing new under the sun. Machines may come and go, but the world is a broken place because the hearts of men have not turned from their ways. And so they remember that every age carries within it the seeds of its ruin. They witness the ruin, climb out of the ashes and move on.
Liberal pieties embrace the new age, fixate on a final transformative era of history at the hands of messiahs who promise hope and change, who will uplift us and inspire us to make the world into a better place. But history never ends. That is the lesson of the Holocaust, of Purim and of countless other horrifying intrusions of the old into the new. The shining new era that begins with grand public spectacles and displays of the power and might of an empire, ends with corpses and men and women fighting and running for their lives.
Jews like Mordechai understand this. New Age Jews do not.
The confrontation between Mordechai and Haman was a collision between two different conceptions of history. It was a contest for the Jewish soul.
Mordechai defied Haman to remind the Jews, who had abandoned religion and nation for the new age of the Persian Empire, of the ugly and bloody truths under the hollow glories of that new age.
In every age, the Jewish soul is nearly lost and then redeemed. The people seem on the verge of vanishing, but then survive. Mordechai understood that the future of the Jews did not depend on the Persian Empire. It depended on their willingness to remember who they were. And so he defied Haman and brought on a Holocaust. And at the end of it, the Jews fought for their survival.
Purim, a holiday preceded by a fast kept by the men going into battle and their loved ones, is not about forgiving your enemies, progressive taxation or coming out of the closet. It is about survival. Not mere survival, but the skin of the teeth sense of how close we came, that moment of revelation which pulls back the curtains of the material world and reminds us of the impossibility of our survival under all the ordinary rules of the world that new ages are found on. It reminds us that behind the scenes of the brick and mortar, steel and steam world, is something else entirely. A force that breaks apart the towers of history, that saves us when we should have died, that has entrusted us with a mission. It reminds us of what the world is and reminds us of Itself and of what we are.
When you stand on the edge of death, life is a revelation. It is not our deaths under the Egyptian sun, the blades and bullets of a thousand empires and kingdoms, or the ovens of Dachau that we are obsessed with. It is that moment of survival. The revelation that even amid the horrors of all that we have witnessed and the terrible things that we had to do to survive, we have risen out of the ground, watched the flesh cover our bones and stood alive again upon the earth. Every time we survive, we are reminded of the fragility of the world and of our enemies who wielding every power and trick, have failed to destroy us. Each time we rise, we transcend the world, in confronting our dead, we confront our immortality.
It is not a purely joyous experience. The day of Purim is preceded by a day of fasting. Before the celebration comes a day of battle as the struggle to survive, the long decline into the abyss, the final desperate hours, suddenly give way to the upheaval of an impossible salvation. We remember the pain, the sense of the grave closing over us, the bodies lying everywhere, the certainty that we will be next. We accept the hopelessness of our situation and then we walk out of the grave and praising G-d, sit down to the feast.
This is Jewish history. It is an alien one to the New Age Jew who clings tightly to the new era and its rules, to its pieties and its mores, who scowls at the old ones for refusing to come and join the imperial festivities where the vessels of the temple are used to serve drinks and the mob toasts that the 70 years have come and gone, and still there is no chance of the Jews returning to their Jerusalem and reclaiming the lost history. "The past is the past," says the New Age Jew. "The past is the present is the future," says the Jew.
The feast of the New Age is the celebration of the end of history, a golden time when there is an unlimited bounty for all, where the wine and the free health care will never run out, where everyone will live together under one government in perfect brotherhood for all time. Many Jews are drawn to this feast, its golden vessels, its vast bounty and its glorious ideals. But then enters the Grand Vizier and some of them begin to frown for though he wears rich garments and speaks soothing words, he is a monster. They don't always know how they know it, but it is a nagging feeling that creeps into them that there is something rotten at the heart of this new age.
Most of them still bow to him, touching their heads to the floor, some even embrace him and celebrate his vision. They assure others that he is our friend, the only man who can realize the promise of this age, a wise and noble leader whose vision of change brings new hope. But one or two stay away from the feast and refuse to bow to him. Instead they look to Jerusalem, to where the battle between good and evil was once fought, and where it will be fought again. They know him for what he is.
The Grand Vizier knows that he must destroy them, must destroy them all, because they have seen through what he is, and they have seen through the shallow trappings of the golden age of fools. They know that there is more to the world than the might of men and the cornucopias of kings. They know that he is not all-powerful and when he looks at them, a scowl wrinkles his face, because he knows it too.
So he casts a lot, random chance in a random world where chance is supreme and the whim of every ruler outweighs the weight of history. The bills are signed, the laws are passed, the decrees go out, the officers from the vast imperial bureaucracy are assigned to inform every citizen that their new age will be inaugurated with blood. A people who are not a proper part of the multicultural empire of laws must be wiped out in a properly democratic fashion. Crowd-sourced genocide.
And then the Grand Vizier ends up dangling from a rope, the tanks break through to Berlin, the chariots fall into the sea, the mustachioed dictator dies in a bedroom in Moscow his clothes soaked in his own urine-- and everything has gone completely wrong.
It's an old story and a new story. We tell it over and over again because it is always happening. It is our story and the story of the world. It is the story we have accepted from our parents and it is the story that we will pass on to our children. It is the story of the blood sacrifice of the New Age that goes wrong. The sacrifice survives, bloodied and scarred, the New Age goes down to ruin.
Purim exists because Queen Esther asked the Jews of Israel to write of her for generations. The Persian Empire she had become a part of, the sacrifice she made by leaving the physical stream of Jewish history to be repaid by becoming a vital part of its spiritual history, would fall. Not in her time, but it would. The memory would be carried on by the Jews. Purim is that memory.
Jewish holidays celebrate the interconnection of Jewish survival and productivity with G-d. The Second Commonwealth fell. Israel may fall. A thousand years from now, the world may little resemble anything we can imagine. And yet, somewhere, Jewish children will celebrate Purim as they have for thousands of years. They may even celebrate other holidays, still unimagined, other memories of salvation from horrors yet to come and remembrances of tragedies yet to be experienced. And if we look through history, as Mordechai did through Haman and the Persian Empire, we may be able to see them on the other side, the descendants of those who survived the whips of Egypt, the slave markets of Babylon, the armies of Rome, the sword and the flame, the concentration camp and the suicide bomber, celebrating a million holidays yet to come.
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Kasich is staying in......he is another liberal progressive who wants to get up close and personal with Islam....He wants to have a serious diaglogue with them.......but yet he doesn't know he will be lied to.....another clueless person holding a position in office that is the worst possible choice.
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I'm glad that he finally dropped out.
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:usa+israel: :fist:
In order to keep Trump from getting his delegates, Rubio was leaning toward
encouraging his supporters to support Kasich, now it seems he is in favor of them
backing Ted Cruz.
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Everyone, I just banned that troll Rockyjewish. And I'm going to remove his vicious posts.
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Everyone, I just banned that troll Rockyjewish. And I'm going to remove his vicious posts.
When dust gets on your shoulder, wipe it off and don't think about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjCX-Y5qsKo
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A diagnosis of why Trump has lost the Election.
Michael Harrington·Wednesday, April 6, 2016
I am a statistician, I examine polls, I examine demographics, and in the realm of probability, statistics, and combinatorials I am one with very few equals.
Trump is letting staff go in previous States instead of having them prepare for the general election, formally they are 'laid off' but when one had promised to spend money as needed...
Trump lost this for many reasons, sexism, racism, and lies being some. However let us focus on other aspects.
Trump never spent money to get additional airtime, staff, or anything critical to normal elections.
1) Money
Trump promised to spend as much as needed to win the nomination. So far he has spent less than Jeb Bush and his Super PAC spent. He promised a billion dollars. Forty million is not impressing those undecideds.
Trump could have supplemented his air time with commercials, had his proxies like Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, and Sean Hannity do huge rallies, he could have hired staffers for every election station, he could have made his own paid version of the Ted Cruz volunteer ground game. None of this happened.
2) Ground Game
If you are going to win the General Election you need a ground game and it must be organized. Trump has fans and people want to volunteer for him, but he never developed the system for using those people.
Without a ground team you cannot detect issues in the local areas, you cannot find the raw talent, you cannot even organize money bombs (Trump says he wants money in the General Election I believe) at the local level.
3) Staffers
Trump said he would hire the best. He said it often. Instead he hired third rate people. Heck his own campaign manager assaulted a woman while his numbers were in the file amongst women. He has yet to hire anyone with skills, where Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton have hired the best in each party. Bernie Sanders survives by having a decent team. Trump’s team is the worst levels, he makes Huckabee look like an organizing genius!
4) Making a movement
Say what you will but Ted Cruz has a movement. He won the Tea Party and he has made his political time into a referendum against the Establishment. Stopping illegal immigrants, fixing the Tax Code, ending Obamacare, reducing the size of the Federal Government... Ted Cruz has made the Tea Party platform his platform from the start of his political career.
Trumps movement started with immigration, but then it became about Donald Trump exclusively. People do not get answers from him, they just feel like repeating their question. The Trump movement is about Trump. Few can name substantive policy changes Trump would do other than a wall and round up the illegals.
Here is a black protestor being surprise attacked as he is being lead out by police.
5) Followers
In my roles as recruiter, outreach, endorsement gatherer, point of contact, content developer, and such one of the biggest issues for new contacts is the average Trump supporters. Hitting and kicking people, swearing, threats, unwillingness to debate or listen, and general incivility turns people off fast. One cannot succeed with a campaign of anger alone.
Video montages of Trump supporters attacking protestors have been put up. Here we can see a man clobbering one behind the ear.
The election, barring something dramatic (and lies will not make a dramatic event), is going to a Contested Convention. Even the Establishment is learning that the Ted Cruz success in the Delegate system is unstoppable, Trump learned it as well.
Now there will be efforts to create a lie, to do something to harm Ted Cruz. Trump has started firing people after all and they want their job, they want to succeed, they feel the pressure from up top. So they will get more frantic, more loud, more... For lack of a better word... Evil... in their attacks and slanders. They will also be sloppy.
We Cruz team members need only break down the lies, find the fatal flaws, and let others see our counter evidence.
It took me 30 minutes to identify the dates and correlate them as well as identify these font based errors. There is wrong size, wrong type, italics, a semi-colon at 6:57, and in other parts there was obvious problems from mergintg two or more pictures improperly. It was a really bad hack job.
An example is this Madam DC Phone List attack. It's on all of the Trump websites and is being passed around fast. However anyone can zoom in and fine a dozen major errors done by the "Photoshop" job done by an amateur. Even funnier is that there is no practical way for it to be correct, analysis of the dates shows a significant issue, Ted Cruz was not in those locations at those dates! Any Trump fan could have checked, just in case, but they did not. It took me about thirty minutes and as they keep using it (on momentum) my thirty minutes pays off for all Cruz supporters who saw me refute it so strongly.
It will get worse, they are desperate. The final realization is when we are done with Indiana. That is when the Donald Trump supporters will hear from sources inside their ranks that there is no chance to avoid a contested convention and that Trump will lose in that convention. Most will go through the five stages in a week or two but some will get more hostile.
And it is over, Ted Cruz has over performed in Colorado, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Even a hundred and eight delegate shift from my numbers won't help Trump win. Frankly I am at the position that Trump cannot win at all anymore. New York will not help him enough, and too many States are unfriendly down the road. Even a success in one States beyond what he should get will not save his hide.