Donald Trump scored huge victories in the Super Tuesday primaries and is now “unstoppable” in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, according to veteran GOP campaign strategist Ed Rollins:
Game over! This was a rout, America. Winning seven states and the vast majority of delegates is a landslide. Donald Trump and the millions of his supporters have changed American politics and the Republican Party for the foreseeable future.
The nomination is within his grasp and if he does what he said he would do Tuesday night: “[I will] be a unifier!” he may be a very viable candidate against Hillary Clinton in the fall.
After his victories Tuesday night in multiple states and his second place finish in others, Trump is in an unstoppable position. Whether the junior senators from Texas and Florida choose to pursue him, it doesn’t matter, the end is near.
Trump, who is an unconventional candidate, to say the least, has tapped into the anger and frustration across America and has mobilized voters to turn out in record numbers.
This is woe and misery, many of my conservative pundit friends are convinced. For the third consecutive campaign cycle — 2008, 2012 and now 2016 — Republican primary voters have failed to choose the candidate the blogosphere wanted. In 2008, bloggers wanted Fred Thompson, but voters chose the hated “maverick” John McCain. In 2012, bloggers got on the Rick Perry bandwagon, but voters chose the despised liberal Republican, Mitt Romney. Now in 2012, it seems, voters decided to give the ultimate “f–k you” to conservative pundits by giving their votes to the vulgar billionaire Donald Trump:
Donald J. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in New England on Tuesday, a show of strength in the Republican primary campaign that underscored the breadth of his appeal and helped him begin to amass a wide delegate advantage despite growing resistance to his candidacy among party leaders.
Mr. Trump’s political coalition — with his lopsided victories in Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts and Tennessee, and narrower ones in Arkansas, Vermont and Virginia — appears to have transcended the regional and ideological divisions that have shaped the Republican Party in recent years.
With strong support from low-income white voters, especially those without college degrees, he dominated in moderate, secular-leaning Massachusetts just as easily as he did in the conservative and heavily evangelical Deep South.
What can be done? Why aren’t voters paying attention to pundits? Could it be that Idiocracy is upon us? Well . . .
The man behind the 2006 cult sci-fi film “Idiocracy” is lamenting that his fictional movie appears to have become reality.
“I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary,” tweeted screenwriter Etan Cohen in an apparent jab at the 2016 presidential race.
Together with “Beavis & Butt-head” creator Mike Judge, Cohen co-wrote the time-travel comedy. The plot revolves around the misadventures of a man who wakes up in a futuristic America only to discover that everyone around him, including lawmakers and government officials, is an idiot.
“I thought the worst thing that would come true was everyone wearing Crocs,” Cohen told his Twitter followers.
“Idiocracy” star Terry Crews, famous for his role as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, also used the satirical film to take a shot at the surreal election cycle.
“All y’all need to stop tripping,” Crews tweeted in character. “Chill the F out, ‘Merica.”
When TV filled up with idiotic “reality” shows like Survivor and The Bachelor, and when “motor voter” registration ensured that nearly everyone with a driver’s license was eligible to vote, we knew there would be bad consequences. Do I sound like a snob? Man, I hate snobbery, but really, anyone who spends their evenings watching wretched crap like that on TV needs to be disenfranchised. If your idea of quality programming is Keeping Up With the Kardashians or MTV’s The Real World? Stay home on Election Day, please. If you have seen Idiocracy and if you have also read The Bell Curve, you understand the connection here. You might also wish to read, for example, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting and Adam and Eve After the Pill. Demographics is destiny, and the United States has been in demographic decline for at least 40 years.
Who can save us from utter ruin?
Well, OK, you can see my six kids. Where are your six kids?
The future belongs to those who show up, as Mark Steyn says, and if you are sufficiently intelligent, literate and civic-minded that you spend your leisure time reading political news and cultural commentary, you need to maximize your personal contribution to the future. Have more kids and home-school them. Do not surrender your kids to the government education system, which is run by corrupt bureaucrats who teach children to hate God, hate America and vote Democrat.
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— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 2, 2016
What does the Trump juggernaut mean? That is not for me to decide. If you’re smart enough to read this, you’re smart enough to decide for yourself what it means. But one way or another, it’s not a good sign. As I said when Obama was re-elected, we are Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption. Does anyone now doubt we are doomed?
The difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is this.
A Donald Trump election would be playing Russian Roulette
A Hillary Clinton victory would be playing Russian Roulette with no empty chambers
To me that’s an easy choice
Well, “conservative pundits” and “activists” went baaaa like complacent sheep while the Republican congress unconditionally surrendered to Obama.
Meanwhile, Cruz was nowhere to be found in the wake of Mississippi 2014 and decided it would be hunky-dory to sign off on TPA/TPP with Lyin’ Ryan, the Taliban Budget Terrorist. (and then did a cowardly back-pedal after he realized that he stepped in it) He’s earned his 2nd place status.
As for Trump, don’t you know that the traditional economic platform of the Republican Party going back to Ripon, WI 1854 (pro-business, pro-tariff, internal improvements, immigration restriction in times of labor surplus) is now Super-Satanic leftism? For shame! What ignorance!
The reason that Orange Tan Comb-over is winning is that everyone else on Team Elephant is either a bunch of craven opportunists, moral, political and/or intellectual cowards or all of the above combined.
My father, who died in 1993, described politics as “the art of deceit.” I used to think he was exaggerating. Now, not so much.
We are very close to picking the form of our destroyer. Enjoy, America!
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Rush Limbaugh put this in perspective seven years ago when Obama won his first tyrannical dynasty:
“Conservatism did not lose. It just wasn’t on the ticket.” For the 12th year in a row, the Republican party could not put a conservative on the ticket.
On the other hand, the Dems put Hillary up 1001 delegates to Sanders’ 316. I can’t tell you how badly I want to rub the hashtag “#Berned” in all those dirty, Communist, hippie faces but I’m off Twitter, like any intelligent sentient being.
“What does the Trump juggernaut mean? That is not for me to decide. If you’re smart enough to read this, you’re smart enough to decide for yourself what it means. But one way or another, it’s not a good sign. As I said when Obama was re-elected, we are Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption. Does anyone now doubt we are doomed?”
With or without Trump, we are doomed. And we *chose* to be doomed — not you or I personally, obviously, but that doesn’t matter in the least.
Take Trump out of the equation and what do you have?
1) Rubio — a establishment-progranmmed panderer to the “Hispanics” who is Constitutionally prohibited from being president … and almost no one cares about either point, especially the second (including you)
2) Cruz — a “conservative” who is so “conservative” that he’s going to violate the Constitution to “save” it (and who has, as of Iowa, demonstrated himself to be a not very honest man when you get down to it) … and almost no one, including you, cares that he is Constitutionally prohibited from being US president
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are both natural born citizens, Mr Rubio under the Fourteenth Amendment — he was born on American soil — and Mr Cruz under the statutory definition at the time of his birth. Both men are constitutionally able to serve as President.
I have already stated that if Donald Trump is our nominee, I will either vote third party or cast a write-in ballot.
To say that Donald Trump would be better than Hillary Clinton is like saying that Benito Mussolini wasn’t as bad as Adolf Hitler.
The whole process was designed to keep a conservative off of the ticket. The GOP “elites” just tried to be more subtle about it than employing party-hack superdelegates like the Donkey Party.
It backfired this year because the wrong Rockefeller Republican drank their milkshake.
“Rove, you magnificent b@$^@%d, I read your book!”
Rubio’s a political villain straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel, and Cruz is so disgusting that his own daughter wants to flick him away like a poisonous insect. Those two charmkins couldn’t organize a drinking bout in a brewery.
“The mob man, functioning as citizen, gets a feeling that he is really important to the world – that he is genuinely running things. Out of his maudlin herding after rogues and mountebanks there comes to him a sense of vast and mysterious power—which is what makes archbishops, police sergeants, the grand goblins of the Ku Klux and other such magnificoes happy. And out of it there comes, too, a conviction that he is somehow wise, that his views are taken seriously by his betters – which is what makes United States Senators, fortune tellers and Young Intellectuals happy. Finally, there comes out of it a glowing consciousness of a high duty triumphantly done which is what makes hangmen and husbands happy.”
Last Words
by H. L. Mencken (1926)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/mencken.htm
“and if you are sufficiently intelligent, literate and civic-minded that you spend your leisure time reading political news and cultural commentary, you need to maximize your personal contribution to the future.”
If I may, one way to contribute to the future is to read not just current news and commentary, but– and perhaps more importantly– *past* news and commentary, i.e., read what was written in the past (not just about the past). If anything will convince you that there’s still a fighting chance to the future, it’s appreciating the past. And of course, sharing it with the kids.
I know this is true because I read it in an old book. 🙂
Indeed, you’ll learn that there is very little new under the sun when it comes to human behavior, especially in the decadent last days of a republic:
http://www.ancient.eu/article/95/
Your past actions have already made it clear that you’re not even going to read this, much less think about it … but others may —
“Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are both natural born citizens, Mr Rubio under the Fourteenth Amendment — he was born on American soil …”
1) the Fourteenth Amendment does not redefine the meaning of the term “natural born citizen” as used in the Constitution
2) the purpose of the particular sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment upon which you are asserting this falsehood that you *will not* let go was to extend citizenship to black Americans then living —
2a) The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
Contrast this with the other sentences of the Amendment, which state things like, “No state shall …”
That is, while the *other* provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment are open-ended and on-going, the very first sentence is not, it is a one-time thing.
3) Rubio is the offspring of persons who were non-citizens at the time of his birth — his natural citizenship is to Cuba, not to the USA — if he is a US citizen, it is because he is a naturalized US citizen, not a natural born US citizen
4) With respect to this issue, Rubio is effectively an “anchor baby” — much as “liberals” use an intentionally false reading of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to regular “anchor babies” as a means to undermine the Constitution in pursuit of their own political desires, so too, you pseudo-conservatives use an intentionally false reading of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to Rubio in pursuit of their own political desires, and damn the Constitution if it gets in your way.
“Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are both natural born citizens …Mr Cruz under the statutory definition at the time of his birth. ”
You even state the very *proof* that Cruz is not a natural born US citizen — and you will continue to *refuse* to understand it
The Constitution gives Congress the power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization … throughout the United States” The Constitution *also* explicitly declares that Congress has only those powers explicitly granted it in the document.
ERGO: Congress does not have the legal power to change the meaning either of “citizen” (this is why it required a Constitutional Amendment to grant the franchise to women) or of “natural born citizen” — this would be akin to “amending” the Constitution by statue, which the Constitution explicitly forbids (and would implicitly forbid even if it didn’t explicitly forbit it)
Cruz’s US citizenship is — as you correctly point out — a matter of statue; to be more precise, his US citizenship is granted via Acts of Congress related to naturalization. THAT IS, Cruz is a naturalized US citizen.
Chief among which is to imagine that justice can be achieved by unjust means, or that The Law may be upheld by breaking it.
“Rubio’s a villain straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel …”
I don’t get the refernce, could you expand a bit?
“… and Cruz is so disgusting that his own daughter wants to flick him away like a poisonous insect.”
I really don’t understand that. But then, I intentionally avoid “popular” “culture” — I don’t own a TV, and I rarely turn on the TV in my hotel room (*)
(*) I’m away from home during the week for my job, so I keep a hotel room by the month.
That’s just silliness. Only the ‘birthers,’ who are silly, hold that someone defined in the Constitution as a citizen is not a natural born citizen.
If Congress, by statute, stated that someone in Mr Cruz’s position, is a citizen from birth, then he is a natural born citizen; there is no constitutional or statutory provision defining natural born citizen in any other way. Naturalization is a process under which someone who is not citizen can become a citizen.
I am not sure how you rate that provision of the Fourteenth Amendment as a “one-time thing.” I see no expiration date in that Amendment. And even if the framers of the Amendment thought that it should be a one-time thing, that isn’t what they actually wrote, nor what the Congress passed and the states ratified.
Only six children, Sir?
You need to work harder ;~)? — there’s a lot of slack left by others for which we must compensate!
Fortunately, it is easy to be happy in the work! Proggies just don’t seem able to enjoy the rearing of children!
This gives us a natural advantage which we must not squander! I take every chance I can find to “talk-up” large families, to counter the marinade of the common culture— and never joke disparagingly about it, b/c you can never know what “dark seeds” might accidentally be planted!
My Beautiful Bride and I have been blessed w/a good-sized family of 11 children… and 3 more adopted. I grew-up in a large family and can’t conceive of any other life.
The noise around the dinner table has been the sweetest sound of my life! We’ve truly been greatly blessed of the Lord, to have been allowed to help rear so many of His sons and daughters!
To anyone reading this: have as large a family as possible! As long as you are trying, you’ll find the means… maybe not vast wealth, but enough to satisfy if you love your family! Really!
Carl Hiaasen is a crime novelist and Florida journalist who writes serio-comic stories about the political corruption and over-development of the Sunshine State. Rubio’s past history (which put him out of consideration for the Veep spot in ’12) is rife with VERY dubious associations which the Hildabeast would happily exploit.
As for Cruz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUyylW2V0A
This isn’t an isolated incident, either, and is in stark contrast to how Trump’s children behave.
I’m not sure why the military marching in red high heels, open racism from social justice advocates, people pretending they’re black because it’s so deadly to be black and cross-dressing bi-sexuals given courage awards for courage wouldn’t constitute an “idiocracy.”
We’re not talking about the merely naively insane who call psychic hotlines or commit suicide because the mother ship didn’t arrive on time but the institutionalization of insanity. What am I to make of the internets worst harassers being asked by institutions for their advice on anti-harassment or a literary community which expresses horror at anthologies with too many whites which decides to no longer use an award bust of H. P. Lovecraft because of his horror of a street scene with too many non-whites?
Of course that’s not including people who consider an utter cultural shithole like Las Vegas to be an exciting world-class destination and 19 kabillion hours playing video-games to be time better spent than saving to hike the Inca Trail.
Before “Idiocracy” there was a story called “The Marching Morons.” It was about people who could make a film called “Idiocracy” and then not understand it. The difference between that era of the ’50s and today is the difference between adults and children. Today, even a boob tube morality parable like “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” from the Twilight Zone is considered an ancient lost bit of wisdom too sophisticated for modern SF writers to grasp let alone replicate.
Our third almost killed my wife, so we quit while were ahead. It would seem, however, that, next to you, RSM is a slacker.
The constitution does not define a NBC. Consequently, that’s open for Congress to decide. That the founders used the definition of born in this country to two US citizens, is immaterial. The only substantive law that defines what it is statutory. You are arguing something on which your battle has already been lost.
Lesbianism Trumps Marxism.
As for Cruz: …
Ah! He takes his young and not-well-disciplined child out as a political prop and she acts like a young and not-well-disciplined child. Who’d ever have seen that coming?
This isn’t an isolated incident, either, and is in stark contrast to how Trump’s children behave.
Well, they *are* older that Cruz’s. And (sigh) with Trump, you still get Trump (and his strumpette or Trump Tramp)
We’re doomed, no matter what, because now The People, and not merely the politicians, are corrupt.
Whether or not your analogy holds, it is a fact that Benito Mussolini wasn’t as bad as Adolf Hitler (and even Hitler wasn’t as bad as either Stalin or Mao).
One of my great uncles had 27! Of course, his first two wives died along the way.
The Framers also failed to include an enforcement mechanism. If the electoral college votes for, and the House of Representatives accepts, a 17 year old Tibetian boy who speaks no English as the next President, then said 17 year old Tibetian boy becomes the next President, period. The only enforcement mechanism would be impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate.
When comparing Hitler to Stalin and Mao one must remember that the later two had much more time/space/people to work with.
I agree that il Duce was not as bad as der Führer, though I’m not sure how you’d pick between Hitler, Stalin and Mao. The latter two were responsible for more deaths, but they had a lot more time in which to have people killed.
And I could argue that the worst person ever born, the one who has caused the greatest damage to the world, would be Mohammad,
Our second was the one who didn’t do my darling bride’s health any favors. In her family, many of the women were diabetic, and their diabetes always got worse after each child.
The afore mentioned trio are all pikers compared to Mo. Mohammad is always the correct answer to the hypothetical ”If you could go back in time and……”
I’ve never seen a daughter literally try to flick her father away in a situation like that. BTW, Trump’s son Barron turns 10 this month, so, no, it’s not just the age difference.
I see it as a “tell” to their respective characters.
And I would agree with you. But that doesn’t change the fact that Mussolini wasn’t as bad/wicked as Hitler.
Very good point.
That is true.
At the same time, *why* is it true? Is it not that it’s true because the US — under the influence of the leftists — propped up Stalin? And is it not true that had the US not propped up Stalin than Mao would not have had the outside backing to defeat the Nationalists?
So, you disagree with yourself? Why does that not surprise me?
“We’re doomed, no matter what, because now The People, and not merely the politicians, are corrupt.”
“While our Country remains untainted with the Principles and manners, which are now producing desolation in so many Parts of the World: while the continues Sincere and incapable of insidious and impious Policy: We shall have the Strongest Reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned Us by Providence. But should the People of America, once become
capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which
assumes the Language of Justice and moderation while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming Pictures of Candour frankness & sincerity while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World. Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102
Well, she could have been trying both to play and to monopolize his attention.
I noticed ages ago with my nieces and nephews that as soon as an adult a child considers to be “his” is engaging with other adults, the children start demanding their adult’s attention.
Just had numero siete. My father in law now has 67 grandchildren in addition to 18 great-grandchildren.
Old school Texas German Catholics to the core. There just aren’t enough like us, though there are a few more every day.
Mao would have triumphed in any case. If the Soviet Union had been defeated because we hadn’t supported Stalin (we would have even without the leftists in our government) we might have been willing to intervene in China but the nationalist were doomed due to their corruption in just about every sense of that word.
Here is a bit of hope: http://atimes.com/2015/05/why-cant-muslims-laugh-at-mohammed/ Note what happens when an Islamic country reaches close to universal literacy…
I might not have six kids but I do have 3 (the last one came along just this year) thanks to my not-so-great fertility. That’s still 3 more than either my liberal brother or sister. My parents had 3 kids and in the next generation they will have 3 grandkids. I hope my kids will do better than that.
I was also one of that huge percentage of Texas voters who went for Cruz. I wasn’t sure if I’d vote for him at the beginning of the primary season because I was concerned that the press had hammered him so badly that the general public wouldn’t recognize who he really is. So I have been pleased to see he is still a viable candidate. I still think the press has done him a disservice. He really is the protest candidate that many people think that Trump is. Contrary to Trump though, he’s been thumbing his nose at the establishment for years while Trump’s been playing along and inviting Clintons to his wedding.
And a Bernie Sanders victory would be playing Russian.
Ilion has pushed his nonsense meme before. See Prof. Michael Ramsey at the Originalism Blog. British statutory law in the 18h century and the 1790 statute passed by the first Congress (which included veterans of the constitutional convention) were in accord as to the boundary conditions of citizenship conferred at birth. An American born abroad of an American citizen is not a naturalized citizen, but a natural born citizen.
As for Rubio, there is no controversy at all, for reasons stated.
Ilion’s response to all this is ‘I say it’s spinach’.
You must be new here.
Gestational diabetes, yeah.
Hey, my new home town may not be Rome or Paris, but there’s quite a bit of culture out here in the desert, even if it’s not on display on the Strip. Which is not, technically, part of Las Vegas, but that’s for lawyers to quibble over.
It’s obvious that the so called Republican base is not conservative based on the the last two nominees plus how well Trump is doing. Conservatives have no sway on presidential politics and that’s a shame. We are just supposed to show up and vote. Maybe we should concentrate on state and local elections, congressional elections and infiltrate the local party establishment and try a stealth takeover from within. Our last best gasp was Reagan.
However, there may be hope. So far Trump has won open primaries where he is getting a lot of crossover disaffected Democrat votes. Not so well in closed contests. Also, when you add up the non-Trump delegates, the count is not so far behind Trumps with a lot of closed contests coming up. We may well see a brokered convention or at least one where there has to be some whealing and dealing to get the nomination..