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Mapping The "Not Donald Trump"-ness Of GOP Candidates
Ever aware of the potential for change, GOP Presidential candidates face a tough balance currently. As The Washington Post explains, should Trump's 'burn-it-down' aggression ever cross one too many lines, around 20% of Republicans will be looking for someone else to support - someone who didn't think they were a total idiot for supporting Trump in the first place. Based on their responses and statements, WaPo has quantified the "Trumpness Factor" for each of the GOP candidates...
An important note on these rankings... expect them to change...
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Oh please.
well.. every single channel at every hour is speaking about Trump..no wonder.
Poll: #Trump Dominates GOP Presidential Field After Debate @ 23%
We need Liberty not authoritarian views in our policies.
I have come up with my own way of helping Rand's campaign. As you all are probably aware, I have been making candles with silver coin prizes (https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScentSavers?ref=hdr_shop_menuhttp://popularliberty.com/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png) 2px 50% no-repeat;">(link is external)).
In honor of Ron Paul's birthday on August 20th, I will make a donation of half of the sale price of each candle sold (Aug 8th-20th) to Rand Paul's 2016 Presidential Campaign (https://secure.randpaul.com/http://popularliberty.com/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png) 2px 50% no-repeat;">(link is external)). The donations will be made in my name (unless we hit the $2,700 individual limit of course.) in the 11:00pm est hour of August 20! A copy of the receipt will be mailed to the buyers address.
To thank Rand for standing up for the bill of rights and to ensure that the purchase is separated from a regular purchase, include in the buyer's notes which one of the bill of rights you believe to be the most important!
This is not a scam for me to make a buck, I will actually be losing money on all of this. I want to honor an American Hero in Ron and help his son fight the establishment at the same time.
I wish Rand had a chance. He is trying to be a politician instead of unapologetically standing by his views like his dad, and unfortunately he’s not a very good politician.
Too bad self-promotion seems more important than principles.
I don't get it and why's the chick look like a dumb blonde? Is she a blonde? Hillary's a blonde, too.
Any conservative who would vote for Christie should be kicked in the testicles, or the vagina if need be.
redraw the map.
hugs,
kevin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
WHY ARE SOME OF THE CANDIDATES DARKER THAN OTHERS???
THIS GRAPHIC IS RACISTS!!!!!!
another way, that you can distance calculate between personpairs, is to use the online tool
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html
hugs,
paul
I think someone smeared poo on lindsey graham's eyebrows, I'm not sure I understand the symbolism, but I like it
The principle behind successful politicians is self promotion.
BTW... if there are no performance enhancing drug rules in politics then perhaps Rand should give BALCO a call. I mean it couldn't hurt could it?
Well said. You cannot be both. That's why I like Trump, he could care less that people think about him or what he says. Rand....
Rand's problem is he doesn't have fuck you money so he's forced to pander a little.
Trump isn't spending his own money. He's investing it.
The campaign just started and you are writing him off? He stood strong for civil liberties in the first debate. Educated people in the 4th amendment and the bill of rights. Now he has been campaigning in south Carolina exposing Trump at every speech and stop. In 10-11 months time, that's when you will know whether or not to throw in the towel and accept whatever banker lover president we will get next.
'exposing Trump at every speech and stop', that won't get him elected. That's exactly what was wrong with the debate. They all did their best to dump on Trump when I wanted to hear more about their own views. They did do some bragging but not much said about what they would change in the government. Paul was on the spot with comments about civil liberties and I hope some people did learn something. Some of the others were down on Paul as well but Trump took the brunt of it and shrugged it off. That made him look good.
Oh so you mean like specific plans to change government? Hard to do in a few minutes, especially when much of that was 'earned' by interjecting.
You haven't been paying attention to Rand then. Hard to blame you since the media isn't all over him. He wants to end the IRS with a flat tax. End all foreign aid. Audit the Fed. End illegal govt spying. Balance the budget, with a real plan ready to go already.
Trump and other politicians don't want this to go to policy debates. They want to keep it superficial where they can get someone 'elected' for face value claims of 'Hope and Change'.
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of men."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I've been saying this to friends and family since at least 2007, but nobody was listening back then . . . and most of them voted for the Hope and Change. What they've now got is that Johnny Cash joke that's not really funny:
"Twenty years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now we have no Jobs, no Hope, and no Cash. (Please don't let Kevin Bacon die!)"
- Unknown
The progressive disease has made it so that almost no one cares about those issues under 30.
Agree completely. He's been kowtowing to IsraHell when IsraHell is the problem>>
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/israel-is-the-problem/
Ending Isreal's foreign aid sounds like a good start to cut the chord from Isreal to me. Rand said he would do just that!
The clueless buffoons always rise to the top....Maybe Trump or Paul would change things-but i wont hold my breath
"His name was Ron Paul"
PS-for the fight club reference only...also the elder>younger Paul
Most of the non-linears are toward the bottom, I wonder why?
Rush warns Trump: get back to the issues!
http://tinyurl.com/p9q7o5h
Free press..positive or negative.. is good press?
Yup. If the press and establishment didn't like Trump, they would ignore him like they did Ron and are doing to Rand.
Bingo.
Circles of Hell
Circles on a dartboard
Racist circle of hell.
They painted the faces a specific color!
Why do they all have red ties? /s
To support Kiran Ghandi? (My /s is better than your /s)
"I'd fight Ghandi."
-guess who
Trump called Lindsey Graham a "lightweight". That shows he's either too politically correct or too inarticulate to say that he's "light in the loafers".
No vote from me.
Graham is a lightweight in the Presidential race, even if he is a solid politician.
Maybe it is time to burn it down.
They're all gay lol?
How far apart are Trump and Bernie Sanders? I'm confused, because they are pretty much the only two that have said anything about shaking up the status quo.
I would call auditing the fed and ending the IRS extremly non-status quo! Was that Sanders or Trump?
Oh, it was Paul..Not just Ron, Rand is now carrying that torch. You just get your news propaganda from establsihment sources.
I dreamt that they each won their respective nomination, joined forces as independents and threw the two party system away for good.
Not sure I agree with the chart. How was the ranking determined?
The more the other candidates castigate Trump for his political INcorrectness, the higher Trumps ratings will go. The public has figured out that political correctness is just a way to control discussions (debates).
What debate? It was just a bunch of GOTCHA questions.
"An important note on these rankings... expect them to change..."
Read more here...
And so I did, and got: 'About.blank'
Sounds fair...
Who cares anymore?! People piss and moan that they want a government that upholds the constitution yet every time it comes to Ron or Rand Paul they are put to the wayside. This country is screwed. It is our fault, we let it happen. Vote? Naw I'll just keep prepping.
Rand is not Ron, not even close.
#41
Seems pretty close to me...http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rand_Paul.htm
Plus, Ron has said himself that Rand's views and philosphy are 99% the same. Yeah let's throw the rest away because they disagree 1% of the time. Might as well forget about liberty and go to someone is anti-liberty: Trump.
I don't like property rights or guns anyway. Go trump go! I wonder what name he call some nobody next?/s
Ron Paul never would have endorsed Mitt Romney. He doesn't take stances based on political expediency. Ever.
Unless it brought some pork for his district back when he was in congress...
Careful with absolutes, no one is "the one".
Fewer and fewer people vote every year because of exactly what you are saying Niko. The trouble with that strategy is that elections are swayed by increasingly insane people. 18% of people believe with all their hearts that Santa is real, and Obama was chosen by 20% of the people.
http://incapp.org/blog/?p=2619
Am I the only one who thinks Carly is the frontrunner of the bunch?
May be good as Secretary of State
She has a lot of HP shit on her shoes that the demoncrats will capitalize on. They'll find some poor sap who was laid off and is now living in a cardboard box in Oakland
and paying a $1,000 per month in rent for that Fridgidaire box....
for that made-in-China Fridgidaire box....
Trump don't give a fuck, has fuck you money and will tell people to fuck off. He's got my vote.
He has all 4 of my votes!
Do any of these guys look like they could hold the hot potato, assuming BO doesn't get it?
The dollar's demise will be a political event unlike any we have ever had. With obligations almost 70 times our receipts that day is coming.
People who vote for Chris Christie should kill themselves. I'm not joking. He's a morbidly obese man who thinks pot smokers are the ones who lack self control.
Personal munchie insights. See he's not all bad
- OK, OK, /sarc/ for those who otherwise not get it
I support big bold government doing shit and whatever and I support Trump, on top of that he is tEaChing the GOP a lesson.....by participating in its debates and shit.
Trump needs to branch into 3rd Party NOW! I'm hearing all kinds of crazy shit of him kissing Roger Ailes ass and making up with Fox....Say it isn't so.
Has everyone so soon lost their (short and long term) memory to what "Hope & Change" was going to deliver in 2008 and that mysterious magical event that took place in Miami in June of that year where "Hope & Change" accepted the nomination on the condition that Israel's capitol would always be Jerusalem and that the U.S. would always do what is necessary and obey the almighty "Talmud" to the last man, woman and child in North America if he was told to do so?...
And let me be on record for telling the author of this shit paper of a read that 'The Donald" will abide by his paymasters in Manhattan the ones who always got his real estate business deal(s) done for he and dear old Dad no matter what it cost the taxpayer… And now he will bend at the knee as the subservient handmaiden to Washington the home of the only bank that matters should he be given the nod for the tiara to win the beauty pageant. Something he’s intimately good at from experience himself but with much smaller stakes involved!
He and everyone in that White House sold out after November 22, 1963. He’ll obey for sure. They all have since Lyndon Johnson and he will be no different than the rest of them…
You see it doesn't matter which one receives the crown and roses. The assholes and mouths are interchangeable as they are all drinking from the same cup and on the "same team" at your expense!!!
Oh Hell! I'm going to register Republican and vote in the primary for Trump if he does say Burn it Down!
I'll do the same but only if he tells America who really owns and controls the mass media
Manipuflation for President. I would show up to the next debate with this shirt.
My platform? Eliminating most Executive Orders after review.
My first act as President? Issuing an executive order to the effect that the Federal Reserve is no longer the bank who controls the monetary policy of the United States and that banks must compete with each other for customers. FDIC gone. Legal tender laws gone. Someone has to do it eventually.
That would be enough to rock the world right there but I am curious what you folks would do. There is plenty more to do but where do you go after dismantling the Fed? I see many things that could be UNDONE. Are any of the candidates even talking about anything that matters? I do not care what party because it does not matter.
After that I would just go home and tend my garden.
If you tried to do that you would be planted in your garden.
True.
I'm not sure if this is wishful thinking or analysis, but I think Trump is an example of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". The idea that Washington politics is all big time wrestling is dawning on more people. The staged "fights" controlled outcomes and media scripts dutifully followed by "the free press" is all to evident to anyone paying attention. Trump supporters are enjoying someone coming out of the audience and busting a chair over the "participants" in the ring....and it wasn't in the script. Otherwise he is a secret operative for team Hillery. Either way there is a long way to go so I'm going to sit back and watch the show.
Trump got the most talking time in the debate. He got more than 2x what Rand Paul got. Yep, no doubt about it. He's an outsider.
So assume Trump is looking good to win ahead of the convention.
Who does he choose as VP?
I think his VP would be one of his current associates rather than an established politician. Loyal and well spoken. As Trump and Carson show, you don't have to be a politician.
Ted Cruz
The question should be, "Why would anyone want to be near a Pile Of Stinkin' Excrement Republican or Democrat?"
The photograph at the link of Rand Paul with his pal AL SHARPTON is priceless. Ron, I love you but your son, is NOT the father.
A Year After Ferguson, Another Bright Idea From GOP Elite—Go Soft on Crime!
What we need is more severe enforcement of Prohibition. We should not go soft on drugs. We need to put the Drug War on Viagra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H6jEgJsbs8
Man v His Dick (9 min of amusement)
Yes, by old age, the guys should be pondering and sharing wisdom, not looking at girly pictures and day dreaming all day. We may as well have a nation of eunuchs because I do feel abandoned by the males of our species in minding the store, so to speak. Are they so weak, is their life so empty, they'd actually medicate themselves to have sex on demand. I think if left to our own devices, (including uncircumcised penis), we'd have the kind of pure sexual pleasure which memory of is all that is needed. Sexual references are everywhere. So are alcohol advertisements. Distractions that no one argues with, I guess.
More amusement below:
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/central-banker/spring-2013/is-th...
"Defining debt monetization" (2013)
“The (FOMC) has often stated its intention to return the Fed balance sheet to normal, pre-crisis levels over time. Once that occurs, the Treasury will be left with just as much debt held by the public as before the Fed took any of these actions.”[4] When that happens, it will be clear that the Fed has not been using money creation as a permanent source for financing government spending."
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/central-banker/spring-2013/is-th...
Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.
November 21, 2002 Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/Speeches/2002/20021121/default.htm
"Conclusion
Sustained deflation can be highly destructive to a modern economy and should be strongly resisted. Fortunately, for the foreseeable future, the chances of a serious deflation in the United States appear remote indeed, in large part because of our economy's underlying strengths but also because of the determination of the Federal Reserve and other U.S. policymakers to act preemptively against deflationary pressures. Moreover, as I have discussed today, a variety of policy responses are available should deflation appear to be taking hold. Because some of these alternative policy tools are relatively less familiar, they may raise practical problems of implementation and of calibration of their likely economic effects. For this reason, as I have emphasized, prevention of deflation is preferable to cure. Nevertheless, I hope to have persuaded you that the Federal Reserve and other economic policymakers would be far from helpless in the face of deflation, even should the federal funds rate hit its zero bound.19
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-30/first-deflation-then-inflation
The purpose of the Donald is to get Hillary elected. Seems to be working.
I like Mr. Trump because he doesn't adhere to the doctrine of political correctness, just like Abraham Lincoln.
Bernie is the pied piper gathering up the stray Democrats to make Hilary president
Trump is the pied piper rounding up the stray Republicans to make Hilary president.
This is how the two-party system works.
There she is, Miss America
There she is, your ideal
The dream of a million girls who are more than pretty can come true
in Atlantic City
For she may turn out to be the Queen of femininity
There she is, Miss America
There she is, your ideal
With so many beauties she took the town by storm
With her all-American face and form
And there she is
Walking on air, she is
Fairest of the fair, she is
There she is - Miss America
In my movie, you would have to take an IQ/Competency/Constitutional knowledge test to even qualify for the primaries.
In my movie you have to work your way up. Trial by fire. When you reach the Peter point I'll keep you if you want to ride the slide back to your competency level, its cheaper than starting from scratch. Nowadays as benefits degenerate most people take the lateral exit instead of the slide. Since Obama delivered the Clinton healthcare torc for his masters, the rate at which benefits are degenerating looks like the chart of dollars in circulation... Trial by fire. be prepared.
I think I've discovered the media's muse this election cycle...
Keep Donald Trump at the top of the pile, promoting his inciting words and clownish behavior over and over for weeks and months, and showing him at the top of the polls.
So when he finally loses his spot and fades away, every Republican candidate will be smeared with the taint of Trump and will be unable to recover when they face the Clinton machine that has had little of her past and scandals published in the Oligarchy Press.
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to toss the dice)
The Daily Economist
Too bad about Fiorna.
I think a Trump-Fiorina ticket would have a chance of winning California.
California likes celebrities. It elected Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and Carly is a hometown girl and has a lot of name recognition.