'Where's Your Goldman Sachs Jacket, Bitch?'

NATIONAL DEBATE CHAMPION vs TRUMP SUPPORTER

I love this clip. We learn that National Collegiate debate champions never friggn' shut up. That's definitely one thing we learn. Cruz doesn't give this guy time to talk or respond, yet this Trump supporter completely destroys Ted's spirit with a series of extremely well-timed shouts highlighting Cruz's massive failure as a candidate and human being. At the end Cruz turns and leaves, a defeated man. The Trump supporter could not be broken.

And how about dudes like this knowing delegate counts and Goldman loans.

It's so awesome.

Comments

[DailyBail]

Trump Supporter Calls "Lyin' Ted" a Liar to His Face, Cruz Responds by Lying to Him

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=54734

This is a good rebuttal of some of the exagerrations Cruz was making in the clip about Trump.

[pitchfork]

Cruz: "A question that everyone here should ask...(pauses)"

Protester: "Are you Canadian?"

[Cheyenne]

The gentleman biker must be mistaken about delegate count.

Headline: "Cruz Says He's Still Within Reach Of The Nomination If He Loses Indiana, Which He Will"

http://abc7.com/news/cruz-says-hes-still-within-reach-of-the-nomination-if-he-loses-indiana-/1318669/

Every time I think the aroma from Cleveland can't get any worse, or see stories like this, I have to remind myself that we're dealing with a self-entitled criminal army whose only purpose in life is to steal from others.

[pitchfork]

Cheyenne, are you planning to be in Cleveland in July? It should be a spectacular show, no matter what. Unfortunately, I have to be in Boston during the convention, but it would be fun to be there (absent getting shot, tazed or worse).

[DailyBail]

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is resurrecting accusations against rival Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, saying that he was with President John F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald prior to his death.

"The whole thing is ridiculous," Trump said on Fox & Friends Tuesday ahead of the Indiana primary. "Right prior to his being shot, and nobody brings it up. They don't even talk about that."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cruzs-dad-was-with-lee-harvey-oswald/

[DailyBail]

Now that Trump is dominating California polls, up 34% in the poll released yesterday, I think he's going to have 1237 before Cleveland. The convention will still be entertaining and full of surprises, but with those numbers, I don't expect much challenge to Trump's candidacy. We shall see.

[pitchfork]

Well, as I understand it, there are all kinds of games to be played with the actual seating of delegates once they're in Cleveland. Basically, there's a Rules committee and a Credentials committee that decides which delegates to actually count, etc. For instance, one of those committees could decide that delegates from open primary states shouldn't count (or similar). So, 1237 might not mean 1237 in actuality. I don't understand the rules well enough to even say that this particular scenario is possible, but that's the kind of games that could be played.

I read somewhere (NH maybe?) that Trump supporters were booted out of the way so that party loyalists could serve instead. Now, if they're bound delegates, those party loyalists would still be required to vote for Trump on a first ballot at the convention, but before that happens they could wreak havoc on the Rules and Credentials committees by denying certain delegates who would otherwise be voting for Trump.

Oh, here it is -- it was NH.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-new-hampshire-delegates-blocked-222688

But regardless of what happens on the convention floor, Trump supporters are already planning to be in the streets en masse to "Stop the Steal." Add BLM activists to the mix and you've got a powder keg just waiting to blow.

[DailyBail]

Yeah, shenanigans could definitely happen, but I think the GOP mood has been changing over the past week. Cruz is tanking so hard in the polls that some GOP delegates are rethinking their support for Cruz.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434793/ted-cruz-delegates-reconsider-supporting-donald-trump

Cruz Delegates Waver as Trump Gains Momentum

[DailyBail]

As far as the rules committee, see this for an interesting angle.

http://dailybail.com/home/rnc-member-trump-only-needs-1100-delegates-to-win.html

Donald Trump can fall short of an absolute majority of delegates and still be the Republican presidential nominee, a Republican National Committee Rules Committee member predicted on Wednesday. “If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 votes, he will become the nominee, even though he may not have 1,237,” Georgia lawyer Randy Evans told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

[DailyBail]

There's no doubt the BLM movement will bring a shitshow, and I look forward to covering it. But I am becoming more optimistic that Cruz is going to fade away from relevance before July. Much of that story will be told tonight. I expect Cruz to lose by at least 15 points in Indiana, maybe 20.

[Sins of the people]

This guy turns my stomach every time I hear or watch him speak. I watched a commercial of Cruz being made and even his immediate family seem repulsed by his phony affections.

[john]

Pitchfork, the shit the GOP and Cruz is pulling in Maine has the attention of the Honorable and Good Governor of Maine. Who has no problem telling anyone to go to hell and has. Even the President himself.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/23/gov-paul-lepage-accuses-cruz-campaign-of-betraying-the-people-of-maine-and-trying-to-subvert-the-democratic-process/


I absolutely admire his candor and no bullshit stance. My kind of Commander In Chief.

[john]

Furthermore he is interested in running against Sen. Angus King for the Senate.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/13/lepage-giving-very-serious-though-to-challenge-king-for-senate-seat/


If he does, I will be one of LePage's best allies. In fact, the progressives are taunting him to run so my next mission in life is to see he wins!

http://www.themainewire.com/2012/03/developing-king-wind-project-cited-congressional-investigation/

http://www.pressherald.com/2012/03/20/king-transfers-his-stake-in-wind-company-to-his-partner_2012-03-20/

[john]

Dear Raw Story. Watch and learn.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/maine-progressives-mock-tea-party-gov-paul-lepage-by-urging-him-to-run-for-us-senate/

[pitchfork]

Damn, john. Le Page is going to the mat! I don't know much about him, but I like that.

[john]

I have a story to tell but it's not time yet. I saw a post you did about about traveling east. You are more than welcome here (as is any of the gang) or I would be happy to give any questions you have about the area.

[pitchfork]

John, are you in Maine? I can't remember a summer when we didn't end up going to York Beach for a week. And I have the best memories of camping with my wife in Baxter State Park and other places thereabouts. I love Maine.

[john]

20 minutes south of Boston

[john]

I originally come from near Baxter and still have the accent ;)

[DailyBail]

Great links on Lepage, john.

[john]

LePage employs biting humor to name his new dog: Meet Veto

http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/05/03/lepage-employs-biting-humor-name-new-dog-meet-veto/

How do you put a tough week behind you?

Get a new dog.

That’s exactly what Gov. Paul LePage did on Tuesday.

And in typical LePage fashion, he also appeared to poke some of his adversaries in the Legislature. The dog’s name is Veto.

LePage adopted the new family member from the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society.

Veto is a 2-year-old male Jack Russell Terrier, according to Zach Brown, operations manager at the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society. Brown said he was pleased the pooch found a home, which just happened to be the Blaine House.

“We’re just happy to have anyone save a life – that’s what matters most,” Brown said.

The adoption comes a little over a month after the governor and his family lost Baxter, an 11-year-old white and brown Jack Russell Terrier mix. Baxter died March 31 after his third bout with cancer. He had been with the family since 2008, when he was adopted from an animal shelter in Florida.

[john]

LePage answers question about Maine energy prices by blasting Cianbro’s Peter Vigue

http://stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/05/03/lepage-answers-question-about-maine-energy-prices-by-blasting-cianbros-peter-vigue/


LePage also used the radio appearance to push back against recent comments made by Cianbro Chairman Peter Vigue to the Bangor Daily News. Vigue, a Republican, said LePage’s frequent comments about Maine’s high energy costs misrepresent the facts because Maine’s energy rates compare favorably to other New England states. Worse, said Vigue, such comments from the state’s top elected official “affects the economy of the state and the perception that people have of our state.”

LePage shot back at Vigue in response to questions from the radio hosts about his successful veto of a new solar energy policy, which LePage contends would have moved energy prices in Maine in the wrong direction.

“This is the problem with Peter Vigue’s comments,” said LePage. “They were self-serving because he was going to be a beneficiary of the solar industry.”

LePage said higher energy prices would hasten the exodus of Maine’s paper mills.

“They’re leaving because our energy is not competitive,” said LePage.

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Offshore wind farm developers visit Brewer

http://bangordailynews.com/2009/11/17/business/offshore-wind-farm-developers-visit-brewer/

When planning to build a large-scale floating wind farm in the Gulf of Maine, it’s good to draw on experience. And there is only one company in the world that has experience with deep-water wind turbines, Cianbro Chairman and CEO Peter Vigue said Tuesday.

Company executives from Norwegian oil and energy firm Statoil, which installed the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine earlier this year about six miles off the southwest coast of Norway, spent Monday at the University of Maine and toured Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility on Tuesday.

“We should capitalize on their knowledge and [40 years of] experience in offshore energy and team up with them to take the next significant steps” to get Maine’s wind farm project under way, Vigue said.

[DailyBail]

I like the dog Veto. That's awesome.

[john]

I thought you would enjoy that. The governor himself was also adopted.