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Rubio's fate was decided many years ago, when he supported amnesty for the illegal immigrants. The RINOs are slowly getting kicked out of the GOP. Apart from Rubio, only a few of them are still there (such as Lisa Murkowski, Lamar Alexander, Kit Bond, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins.etc). The RINOs are heading towards extinction!

Senators Slam NATO ‘Free-Riders’ in Closed-Door Meeting With Secretary General



Donald Trump has spent much of his campaign deriding NATO allies for “ripping off” the American taxpayer and failing to contribute to the world’s most powerful military alliance. But on Wednesday, his fellow Republicans joined the chorus during a closed-door meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Capitol Hill, according to sources inside the room.

For under an hour, senators grilled Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, about why only five members of the 28-nation club spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, the official amount NATO recommends each nation set aside. Some expressed particular dissatisfaction with Germany, the fourth largest economy in the world, which does not meet the 2 percent threshold.

“They’re being laggards. I can’t think of a better word for it,” Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Foreign Policy after exiting the meeting. “I have expressed this in Munich, I have expressed this in Davos, I have expressed this in every forum where Europeans are listening.”

For years, Corker and other U.S. officials have blasted European allies for taking for granted the disproportionate amount the U.S. contributes to the transatlantic organization. But what once was an esoteric concern confined to the halls of think tanks and embassies is now a red-hot campaign issue. Corker said Trump’s campaign rhetoric speaks to a concern he’s heard from his own Tennessee constituents, which he relayed to Stoltenberg.

“I did mention to him that there’s a populism that is taking place within our country right now, both sides of the aisle,” said Corker. “The American people know that we are a nation spending way beyond our means and when our European counterparts are not honoring their obligations as they should, at some point, there’s going to be a breaking point.”

Last year, the U.S. accounted for more than 72 percent of NATO members’ total defense expenditures, spending about $649.9 billion. The other 27 NATO members combined to spend less than 28 percent, or about $251 billion, of the total.


http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/06/senators-slam-nato-free-riders-in-closed-door-meeting-with-secretary-general/

Rubio's political career is over. He said this himself. He was atomized by TRUMP.

Cruz is not stupid enough to see he's the pawn used to stop TRUMP. Once his mission is done he will be discarded.

The Art of the Deal...

Because they can't control him. Because he is taking over the republican party for himself. He is changing the discourse on too many issues they like to use to distract people. Etc. But that doesn't mean he will change how the system works. Not to the point you were saying. Will he do anything about corruption in politics? The way corporations control the government? About people like him being able to buy politicians? Or exploit the system? About democratic and republican parties serving the interests of a few people instead of all americans?

I almost said 'crimes' rather than 'significant criminal activity' because being in the U.S. illegally is in and of itself a crime.  That would be weasely and I am serious about wanting to keep a good number of the 'illegals' who had the gumption to get off their asses and make it here.  Lots of them did it for basically the right set of reasons just as did my ancestors who certainly didn't come here for the welfare state bennies.

If there was a reasonable way to lose the native born rejects (e.g., moloch who I presume is an American of a certain cohort since he acts like it) it would be nice to be able to do it.  As it is, those who programmed his type will probably take care of the dirty deed for us if they win.  If not they'll at least use his class as a pawn in the attempt and many will fall that way or wise up.

Speaking of criminals terrorizing people, it does tend to happen within cultural ethnic groups of immigrants.  For one thing, they know the community and know who has money.  For another, law enforcement takes less action if the crimes impact 'old timers' less.  The 'Asian gangs' in Portland were brutal for a short while and a large part of their criminality was to the detriment of other SE Asians.  I was asking a 'boat person' friend of mine what was up with that and why it went away.  He said that they tended to be ethnic Chinese from around the Haiphong and Hanoi area and were utterly vicious.  They got deported quickly if they got caught so most of them shaped up or shipped out.

Funny...The Donald could put all this squawking to a ironclad definitive end with just one negotiation in July: Ted Cruz as is VP in exchange for Cruz delivering all his delegates to Trump on the second ballot. One single deal done, and Mr. Trump walks away with a second-ballot victory that's damn near unanimous.

One single deal...

Yes of course I remember that letter now. Maybe he wants to have it up his sleeve for bargaining. VP maybe. They´ll accept Trump, force Rubio on him and then try to shoot Trump. Or maybe they´ll manhandle Jeb Bush in there. Ronald Reagan was lucky to escape with his life when Old Bush was one heartbeat away from the presidency.

He said he does not want to release them in the famous Untied States letter
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/274653-rubio-misspells-united-states-in-letter-to-alaska-gop


Tucker Carlson: GOP Elites and Donors Cannot Pick Nominee - It's Up to the Voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srb5QIBQneo

What becomes of Rubio´s delegates? I think he had like 170 when he dropped out. Will that be booked to someone at the convention or earlier?

That is why TRUMP needs to win for all the people who are tired of those private companies called the GOP and the DNC. We are seeing the first sign of a real attempt. No future elections will be the same, unless Them Those People keep numbing down We The People.

 

Huffington Post reported a zinger... Koch brothers plan to nominate Paul Ryan as the Republican nominee

They know how to buy an election... Probably isn't the first time...

http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/charles-koch-paul-ryan-nomination_us_57029099e4b083f5c6082b95

I loved the clip where Trump advocates punishing a WOMAN for having an abortion

He did retract his statement the next day, claiming the doctor should go to jail, not the woman... but the video and transcript are quite clear about what he said... its obvious his campaign team advised him to recant his statement...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/30/trump_some_form_of_punishment_for_women_if_abortion_becomes_illegal.html



FYI, Trump used to be vocally pro-choice... Now that he is campaigning for the republican nomination, he changed his views to be more republican... but he doesn't understand the details, like not sending women to prison for having an abortion...

Yeah, here the way they get agreement on that is to agree on "felonies."

Unfortunately a lot of felonies are not the major crimes they used to be.

But it's widely recognized there's a problem with murderers and violent criminals going back and forth across the border.  Remember, these people terrorize the illegal mexican population more than they terrorize the US citizens, because it is in those communities they live.

Because of this I believe it's just political theatre, all the nonsense people are saying a la "Fear the Trump Plan."

For me personally, I wouldn't deport criminals unless they committed malum in se vs. malum prohibitum. Then the culprit would have committed a dangerous evil crime as opposed to a regulatory infraction. I'm not gonna take thousands of dollars to deport a shoplifter. Especially if they only did it once or twice and never did it again. It's just not happening. I would much rather try deporting all the murderers no matter what race they happen to be.

Trump reveals plan to finance Mexico border wall with threat to cut off funds


Billionaire Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has finally revealed how he plans to force Mexico to pay for his multibillion-dollar wall along the US southern border, a linchpin of his presidential campaign that has never been fully detailed before.

The key to the wall’s financing, Trump wrote in a two-page memo to the Washington Post, is threatening to halt money transfers from Mexican immigrants in the US to family back home. These remittances amount to nearly $25bn each year, roughly 2% of the Mexican gross domestic product, according to the World Bank. Cutting off these money transfers could doom the Mexican economy to recession and severely damage diplomatic relations.

“It’s an easy decision for Mexico,” Trump wrote in the memo, written on campaign stationary emblazoned with his “Make America Great Again!” motto. “Make a one-time payment of $5-$10bn to ensure that $24bn continues to flow into their country year after year.”

Trump has previously estimated the cost of building the wall at $8bn.

In the memo, entitled Compelling Mexico to Pay for the Wall, Trump said that on the first day of his presidency he would warn the Mexican government of a new regulation that would allow for the government’s seizure of financial assets by immigrants unless they provide documentation establishing “lawful presence in the United States”. According to Trump, “the majority” of the amount sent as remittances comes from undocumented migrants.

The feasibility and legality of such a maneuver is unclear. “Trump is giving an extremely broad definition of this section of the Patriot Act and what it allows, and it’d surely be litigated,” Stuart Anderson, executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, told the Washington Post. “It would be a large expansion beyond what the text reads.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/05/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall-plan-remittances

I've been thinking along the same lines, although Bitcoin's open-ledger nature would complicate things a bit. 

Back to Bitcoin, and some legitimate concerns about Trump from a 'supporter':

I've always said that Bitcoin would explode only under pressure, and I underestimated the stratigic capabilities of our adversaries when they, for all intents and purposes, 'accepted' Bitcoin so far.

Trump could be dynamite for Bitcoin just on his own 'natural' instincts (and others which are beyond the scope of this post):

  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/economic-ramifications-trumps-border-wall-proposal/story?id=38161205

The trouble is that it doesn't take a genius to see that Bitcoin (or distributed crypto-currencies generally) threaten a broad range of punitive actions requiring control of money flows.  My chief concern about Trump is that he actually does seem to be quite authoritarian, and he has not seen fit to even pay lip service to the concepts of 'freedom' or 'individual liberties.'

My support of Trump is predicated on two beliefs:

  1) The realistic alternatives to Trump are at least as bad in terms of 'individual liberties' as he is, and

  2) We are in so much trouble that there is no alternative to 'authoritarianism' just to keep people alive, and the troubles will probably come to a head in my lifetime (perhaps tomorrow.)  My hope is that it (e.g., martial law) would be limited duration and possible to escape from once the immediate need is gone, and that the vision for society that Trump has would set the stage for a re-emergence aligning in principle with the concepts outlines in our founding documents.  Again, more-so than the alternatives to Trump.