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Originally posted by OcCurt:
So have any of the remaining Republican nominees assigned blame to the actual protesters yet? All I've seen so far is all blame being laid at Trump's feet.

Every punch I saw thrown last night was by a protester.

Fuck Rubio.

Fuck Kasich.

Fuck Cruz. And I say this as a (now) former Ted supporter.

I would have still been in Cruz's corner today if he had condemned the protesters instead of Trump. He essentially took the side of a bunch of dirty fucking hippie, liberal, free-shit, Goddamn Commies. Fuck you Ted. And Fuck You Twice Again. You showed your true character last night and this morning. Trump was right about you, you lying, sniveling sack of shit.

I have no doubt that Trump knew what he was doing when he picked that venue. Seemed to work out well to his advantage. Shows the left for what they are. Shows the current GOP line-up for what they are as well.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
I have no doubt that Trump knew what he was doing when he picked that venue.

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
I have no doubt that Trump knew what he was doing when he picked that venue.

And yet you don't think he deserves any of the blame?

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Originally posted by tanner:
Trump should have used the term "job fair" instead of "rally" and there probably would've been no problems.

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Originally posted by showpro:

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Originally posted by tanner:
Trump should have used the term "job fair" instead of "rally" and there probably would've been no problems.

Now that's some funny shit.

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Originally posted by PD:

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
I have no doubt that Trump knew what he was doing when he picked that venue.

And yet you don't think he deserves any of the blame?

No

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Originally posted by sdy:
Trump in Ohio right now.

A protester acted up. Trump yelled "Get hin out"
"take him home to mom. She will lock him in his bed room"

wow. The podium started to shake and 4 guards surrounded Trump. Not sure yet what happened.

everything ok crowd going nuts USA USA

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Originally posted by roberth:

Trump shouldn't be getting any blame at all. We have a thing in this country called "personal responsibility" and "freedom of choice". That means if you choose to have a riot at an event then the riot and all the consequences of the riot are on YOU, not on the person holding the event.

I swear, this leftist "nothing is my fault" and "someone else is to blame for my problems and actions" is going to be the death of us all.

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Everybody’s talking about the angry white voters who are putting Donald Trump on a fast track to the White House. Who are they? Where do they come from? And, why are they so angry? In my view, only Washington insiders could ask such a stupid question.


For me, it all goes back to the Kardashian ninnies. That’s my term for the people who trolled the local mall buying things they didn’t need and putting the debt on credit cards. Back when I started out covering personal finance, credit card debt was the single biggest financial problem people talked about.

The ninnies aren’t gone, but these days there are fewer of them. Credit card debt has never returned to the high of 2008. Heck, there are fewer malls, and more are closing every day. Corporate America understands this trend, but inside the beltway it remains a mystery.

In truth, the biggest financial problem for American families today isn’t credit card debt, it is income. Median incomes have been shrinking since 2006. Last month, when the labor department reported February jobs numbers, average hourly wages declined.

And, it’s not like costs are falling, despite what you hear from the government. Average rents are expected to rise eight percent this year, while housing prices may well continue their seven percent plus streak higher. No wonder the homeownership rate is at a 48-year low. Few families can afford it.

The other thing few can afford is a college education. Tuition and other college costs have been percolating along at gains of 3 percent above inflation annually, even during the recession. Medical expenses continue to be the No. 1 reason that families file for personal bankruptcy. Even routine costs for people with medical coverage, such as deductibles and co-pays are on the rise.


I could go on, but you get the picture. People are squeezed. And, that financial pressure has gotten only worse in the wake of the Great Recession. The recession lasted just eighteen months, but the twilight economy we’ve been living in ever since has lasted seven long years.

So people are angry. They are angry they can’t find fulltime jobs with decent pay, and angry that their kids can’t either. This anger has sometimes been cast inward. When Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton evaluated life expectancy for middle aged white Americans, they found it was going down, not up.

Even as Latinos and African Americans are living longer, middle aged whites are dying in droves from drug overdoses, suicide, cirrhosis of the liver and diseases traditionally defined as self inflicted. A Washington Post reporter recently matched up the county by county breakdown of white deaths from these causes with Trump support on Super Tuesday.

What he found, was that Trump support was concentrated in these areas.

This week I spoke with Michael Barone, the astute author of the “Almanac of American Politics,” about the primary in Michigan. I asked him where Trump’s support was strong. He said, “Where wasn’t it?” And, then he told me a story about Michigan’s jobs history. In 1970, he said, the UAW conducted a legendary strike against GM in which it demanded 30 years on the line and out for assembly plant workers.

GM was so dominant at the time, that a strike by all its line workers meant one in 200 of all U.S. employees were idle. The national jobs rate plunged for the two months of the strike. Workers got what they were asking for – retirement after 30 years and lavish healthcare benefits. Golden years for these workers started at 48 years of age. Unimaginable, right? Today we’re trying to keep working into our 60s and even 70s to pay for retirement on our own.

Now the children of those retirees are voting. Some of them live in what Barone calls the Flint Riviera along Lake Huron. They voted in huge numbers for Trump. In Iosco County more than 50 percent of the primary vote went for Trump.

These people know precisely how far the American economy has fallen and they are struggling to make it. In a couple of generations, they witnessed the country’s loosened grip on growth and prosperity. And, they don’t like it. Neither do I. Ultimately, I wish fixing the financial problems of American families were as simple as controlling the Kardashian ninnies. In fact, the problems are much more difficult to solve. Coasting along like we have been just isn’t good enough. And, that’s what those angry white voters are telling Washington.

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
What happened to the REAL conservatives?