2016 elections - because it's never too early

[jimmy olsen]

Sounds like it.  And the job is at campaign HQ in Brooklyn, so I imagine one way or the other it goes away after November.  If Trump wins, then I guess I'm getting deported to Mexico.

So it is a short-term 6 month contract?  How is that even remotely attractive?  Unless the pay is really, really good.

Once you work on one campaign, even if it's not successful, you have in an in with the party and it's easy to get work on subequent campaigns. And there is always a campaign going, or being prepared for.

[jimmy olsen]

There needs to be a "Choose one" vote. People will always vote for the status quo if that is an option, and the current disaster makes it pretty clear that status quo should not be an option.

Full statehood, or independence. Take your pick.

I didn't recall it but the two step vote in 2012 actually showed Puerto Rico wanting to become a state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012

The first question muddies the water. It is hard to tell if a majority actually wanted statehood. We know 54% wanted to end territory status, but doubtful that means over 50% wanted to both end territory status AND become a state.

Barely any support for independence though. Probably even less so now.

Would they be able to declare bankruptcy if they were a state?

What other resources would they have access to deal with their fiscal problem?

[jimmy olsen]

Wonder what it would take for them to break with him completely. 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/06/trump_gonzalo_curiel_attacks_condemned_widely_by_republicans.html

Paul Ryan:

"Look, the comment about the judge, just was out of left field for my mind," Ryan said Friday on WISN in Milwaukee. "It's reasoning I don't relate to, I completely disagree with the thinking behind that."

Mitch McConnell:

"I don't agree with what he had to say," McConnell said of Trump.

"This is a man who was born in Indiana," he said of Curiel. "All of us came here from somewhere else. Almost all Americans are either near-term immigrants like my wife, who came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English, or the rest of us whose ancestors were risk-takers who came here and made this country great. That's an important part of what makes America work."

Even Newt Gingrich, the most enthusiastic Trump apologist of all:

"This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made, and I think it's inexcusable," said Gingrich. He added: "If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy."

John Kasich, who has never been a Trump fan but has been pretty quiet since dropping out of the presidential race, jumped back into the national conversation to denounce Trump's remarks:

Attacking judges based on their race &/or religion is another tactic that divides our country. More importantly, it is flat out wrong.(1of2)


Rick Wilson, a GOP operative who's also a longtime Trump skeptic, is urging down-ballot Republican candidates to break with Trump publicly:

Run as yourself. Run with some passion and iconoclastic fire. Stop trying to run a generic, please-the-base campaign where your political lanes are bounded. Run as a Florida Republican or a Colorado Republican or a Nevada Republican and separate your brand from Trump's.

[Jaron]

Wonder what it would take for them to break with him completely. 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/06/trump_gonzalo_curiel_attacks_condemned_widely_by_republicans.html

Paul Ryan:

"Look, the comment about the judge, just was out of left field for my mind," Ryan said Friday on WISN in Milwaukee. "It's reasoning I don't relate to, I completely disagree with the thinking behind that."

Mitch McConnell:

"I don't agree with what he had to say," McConnell said of Trump.

"This is a man who was born in Indiana," he said of Curiel. "All of us came here from somewhere else. Almost all Americans are either near-term immigrants like my wife, who came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English, or the rest of us whose ancestors were risk-takers who came here and made this country great. That's an important part of what makes America work."

Even Newt Gingrich, the most enthusiastic Trump apologist of all:

"This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made, and I think it's inexcusable," said Gingrich. He added: "If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy."

John Kasich, who has never been a Trump fan but has been pretty quiet since dropping out of the presidential race, jumped back into the national conversation to denounce Trump's remarks:

Attacking judges based on their race &/or religion is another tactic that divides our country. More importantly, it is flat out wrong.(1of2)


Rick Wilson, a GOP operative who's also a longtime Trump skeptic, is urging down-ballot Republican candidates to break with Trump publicly:

Run as yourself. Run with some passion and iconoclastic fire. Stop trying to run a generic, please-the-base campaign where your political lanes are bounded. Run as a Florida Republican or a Colorado Republican or a Nevada Republican and separate your brand from Trump's.

What would make YOU abandon him?

[Phillip V]

Media Declares Clinton the Democratic Nominee Tonight  (Tells Californian Sanders Voters To Go Fuck Themselves Tomorrow)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-race.html

[Jaron]

Hey Zoupa,

Go F yourself!

PS: Can I move in with you if Trump wins?

[Zoupa]

Hope Sanders concedes tomorrow night.

[Martinus]

[Martinus]

For full disclosure, Clinton later (after apparently being called out on it) twitted: "72 years after #DDay, let's not just eulogize the brave men who gave their lives. Let's honor them by defending the values they fought for."

Bernie did not make a single tweet about the DDay anniversary.

[Jaron]

I'm sure you meant to incite some kind of kind and sensitive person outrage but...


Trump tweeted his D-day tweet at 9:29 AM. Clinton tweeted about D-Day at 11:38 am.

Clinton tweeted about Ramadan at 4:35 pm on 6/5.

We really going to throw a hissy over 2 hours?

[Martinus]

That was mostly meant to be anti-Bernie. Clinton just gets negative points for making such an elaborate tweet about Ramadan. I wonder if she did the same about the start of Lent or Advent - care to check it for me?

[Savonarola]

Actual News Story:  Dogs destroy boy's beloved Trump hat

Si Trump n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer

[Savonarola]

Actual news story:  Matt Damon slams Donald Trump at MIT commencement

MATT DAMON!

 

Putin would have done it, with his own bare hands, like a real man.

[Valmy]

Well today is the day. Last big primary day.

[garbon]

Well today is the day. Last big primary day.

Well it is the last day but unless he is decisively put down, sounds like Bernie is still going to be annoying.