Trump campaign rally in Chicago erupts. He cancels. What is going on?
Trump:”You can’t even have a rally in a major city in this country anymore without violence or potential violence. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Whatever happened to the right to get together and speak in a very peaceful manner?”
Ted Cruz responds, saying Trump has created “an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse.” (AP)
Who’s first amendment right Trumps whose?
This isn’t just a Trump problem, this is a republican problem. They have been aiding and abetting this type of rhetoric for 30 years.
Since when was it illegal for citizen with a different point of view to attend a public political rally?
No arrests or injuries reported.
According to Trump, it’s all about anger and both sides do it. FU
So now candidates have to call in to their favorite pundit to get on to the air.
Tweety should have told him to give a public statement, but he just couldn’t pass up the chance to talk to him on the phone. Just like Morning Joe.
Now Trump equates it with the lack of secure boarders. What’s wrong with that picture?
Remember the woman who had her neck stepped on by a Rant Paul supporter? Freedom of speech shouldn’t come with a medical bill.
Trump promotes violence by offering to pay legal costs for his supporters who are arrested but unless he targets a specific individual he can’t be held responsible
He has taken the art of disingenuous to a new level
PIT – “Who needs Republicans when you’ve got New Democrats?”
Exactly.
Craig- what a fine memorial you held for Sean. Today was a tough day for me- bag pipes and memorials bring it all back – not out of the woods just yet with my own da’s death- brace yourself- it gets better but doesn’t take too much to bring it all back like yesterday.
aside from that- purple- it would be really nice, aw fuck it, was gonna say why don’t we just back off a bit and let things heal around here and let people find a common denominator, but if it needs to be said to someone at this point, no sense in bothering, it will fall on deaf ears anyways.
Will MoveOn.org claim credit?
So, MoveOn wants to shut down free speech, too.
Instead of BS-ing about paying their legal bills, everyone should understand they will be held accountable because there are laws about these things. He wants to be a leader…then act like one. If he can’t manage this…
I wonder if there is a way for him to not be the nominee and save face so he’ll go quietly?
But that would leave Godhead Ted. I don’t think the RNC wants him, either, and there is no way he’ll go quietly.
Jamie,
I agree that the GOP field is a disaster waiting to happen. It was like when John McCain put Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from being President, if he were elected, in 2008 that I wrote him off completely. I view Hillary’s economic agenda as another disaster and I am just waiting for Larry Summers to make his disastrous return. I don’t think Sanders has the leadership ability for the job but neither does Obama. Back to the lesser of two evils. Maybe Trump and watch the disaster happen, but my grandson would shoot me if I did.
Please pardon me in advance for a violation of bandwidth. A friend sent me this crooks & liars mini-article, and I found it very interesting.
Ted Cruz Is 100% Ineligible To Run For The U.S. Presidency
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Ted Cruz has never been (thoroughly) vetted when it comes to his own citizenship claims. He must produce all relevant documents, at least a few of the official papers our own President Obama was erroneously accused of lacking. We know for a fact that he was born in Calgary, so there’s one minor anomaly worth investigating. Legal Scholars like Lawrence Tribe at Harvard Law School & Mary B. McManamon of the University of Delaware’s Widener School of Law agree that Senator Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for the U.S. Presidency. Remember though, voters in the GOP will ignore certain shortcomings that could never be overlooked in a ‘Blah’ President.
They have been basing those opinions mostly on their interpretations in the U.S. Constitution’s Article Two clause of “natural-born” citizen.
Given that Ted Cruz was born in Canada and similar to the US Constitution, any child born in Canada after 1947 was granted full citizenship.. We must look to Canadian Law first.
I have been researching Canadian Immigration Law between 1947-1977 and agree with (experts) them based on the following:
· 1. Raphael & Eleanor Cruz emigrated to Canada sometime in the 1960s and in 1968 Mr. Cruz became a naturalized Canadian Citizen. It appears that Eleanor by virtue of her marriage also attained Citizenship one year later and Raphael Eduardo (Ted) Cruz was born December 22, 1970. We have never seen their Marriage License so I am unsure of their actual date of marriage as both were in process of getting divorced.
· 2. Until the 1977 changes to Canadian Immigration Law, NO dual citizenship was permitted which means Mrs. Cruz relinquished her US Citizenship and Ted was born to 2 Canadian parents.
· 3. If she wanted to be sure Ted was American she needed to file a Consular Record of Birth Abroad (CRBA). We have never seen such a document.
· 4. Upon their return to the U.S. around 1974-1975 I assume Eleanor renounced her Canadian citizenship, reclaimed her U.S. and had Ted naturalized. Again, no documents have ever been released.
It would be great if the media would cover this story, I’d even settle for half as much coverage that they gave to the absurd Obama’s Birth Certificate nonsense’ 24 hour coverage? I suppose this preeminent possible bombshell won’t be big news until Donald Trump sinks his teeth into the controversy and reveals these inexplicable truths that Cruz seems too happy to ignore and deny.
Xrep – That may be the key to getting rid of Ted. Whatever happens, this strange, strange season isn’t over.
Ted didn’t give up Canadian citizenship until a few years ago, when he decided to run for the Senate. At least, that’s the way it was reported here. If he did give up Canadian citizenship, and, if his mother failed to have him naturalized here, is he a man without a country?
Oldsea: “not out of the woods just yet with my own da’s death” — same here with my mom, guess we’ll always have one foot in the woods.
You can’t even have a rally in a major city in this country anymore without violence or potential violence. – d.t.
But, other people have big, peaceful, and very polite rallies in major cities across this country.
What is it about d.t.’s rallies that make for all this violence ?
Maybe he pays people to play the various parts – protesters, cheerleaders, and ‘security’ seniors from Legion Halls. A little psycho-drama would change d.t. from being the billionaire, ranting, racist bully, into being the besieged underdog and victim, struggling bravely to save der Vaterland und das Volk from the dark and violent strawmen of the night.
Pretty neat, huh ? Kinda like burning the Reichstag, and then blaming some mentally-challenged foreigner. In this case, a Mexican, or Hispanic Canadian, or a little boy named Margot.
See gulls ! See gulls ! See gulls !
Good night, Champ.
“Maybe he pays people to play the various parts – protesters, cheerleaders, and ‘security’ seniors from Legion Halls. A little psycho-drama would change d.t. from being the billionaire, ranting, racist bully, into being the besieged underdog and victim, struggling bravely to save der Vaterland und das Volk from the dark and violent strawmen of the night. “
xr, exactly what I’ve been thinking. you forgot to add all the free media coverage 24/7, distractions from real world issues he doesn’t have to address, taking control out of opponents hands of their own campaign plans for the day, insuring extra focus on what he says and allowing him power to grant (and therefor $$ realized from) exclusive interviews. to say nothing of automatically and dramatically showing how despicable the other side is (choose whatever “others” are the flavor of today target of bigotry).
Punch ’em out he says.
I’ll pay your defense fees he says.
Jamie, thanks for letting us know about this on your blog
Shonda Rhimes, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, and Ellen Pompeo discuss their support for Hillary Clinton in a video directed by Tony Goldwyn.
Trump Spring…it will be huge and winning when compared to the Arab spring.
Craig I have enjoyed your comment a ‘goat driving a car!’ and have changed my Avatar to honor such a great line. Humor will help you and OSH get through the grief spiral triggers.
March madness continues and the testosterone cloud is heavy in the air…it will be tough to elect a woman.
If ponies rode men and grass ate cows,
And cats were chased into holes by the mouse…
If summer were spring and the other way around,
Then all the world would be upside down.
I could post this every week. Happy Campaign 2016, Everyone.
the french trompe-l’œil that literally means “deceives the eye” should now be spelled with a “u”…. a uuuge “u”
from ny times ‘Two Donald Trumps’ Emerge, the Public One and the Private One:
“I think there are two Donald Trumps,” said the first version of Donald J. Trump, addressing reporters at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, his club where he was endorsed by his former Republican presidential rival Ben Carson on Friday.
Then, moments later, the second version emerged, to offer an opposing theory: “I don’t think there are two Donald Trumps,” said this Mr. Trump. “I think there’s one Donald Trump.”
Did they every find out more about the mentally-ill man who shot the pastor who spoke at a Ted Cruz rally and then flew to DC and threw papers and s thumb drive into the WH lawn?
Is this a matter of people who are mentally unable to control themselves and should not have guns, also not being allowed to assemble? (Because they can’t seem to do it in a peaceful way.)
Clearly, that was an organized protest in Chicago, but “sticks-and-stones,” people. Both sides should ignore each other and not physically engage. Tell all you want, but don’t hit. Grow up!
Scary Fiorina supporting Turd Cruz. Whaaa??? Is she going to be his veep if he figures out how to wrangle the nomination away from Trump and the RNC?
What American Dream?
In January 2015 billionaire Jeff Greene, flew his wife, children and two nannies on a private jet plane to Davos for the week, amassed a multibillion dollar fortune investing in real estate and betting against subprime mortgage securities. He says the U.S. faces a jobs crisis that will cause social unrest and radical politics.
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,” Greene said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We need to reinvent our whole system of life.”
If you think of the country as in decline, as most people do, and you think the cause is the predatory behavior of the big-money elites, as most people do, then you must know you have only two choices — acceptance and resistance.
Why do neo-liberal Democrats, like the Clinton campaign, not want you to have big ideas, like single-payer health care? Because having big ideas is resistance to the bipartisan consensus that runs the country, and they want to stave off that resistance.
But that’s a negative goal, and there’s more. They not only have to stave off your resistance. They have to manage your acceptance of their managed decline in the nation’s wealth and good fortune.
Again: The goal of the neo-liberal consensus is to manage the decline, and manage your acceptance of it.
In Germany after WWI, austerity imposed by outsiders created the conditions for fascism to grow. We knew this. We were even taught this in school. And we certainly know just how good that is for women and minorities.
But in America (and Britain), that austerity is being imposed by our own leaders, and most effectively by leaders of the Democratic Party (and Labour Party) — the supposed “left” party, the party that was understood to support working people.
WOW PIT, with that much straw it is a wonder the place doesn’t burn down.
I don’t recognize that HRC, why because she doesn’t exist. Neither does your version of the Big Dawg IMO.
Now I could do a reasoned rebuttal but I have a real world to save with real issues to deal with so I’ll pass.
Jack
PIT & Jack
I’m in the process of writing a long form article that in some ways refutes both of you. It is a simple idea of how do you tell half the population of the world that they simply aren’t needed to do the work of the world. Whether you are coming from the viewpoint of the robber baron wallowing in the greed earned off the cheap labor of millions or the millions demanding a right to exist via an income that will support life doesn’t matter as both ideas are fallacious at their core. Each is based on an ancient premise of work and commerce which simply no longer exists and is being papered over and disguised by political systems that don’t have a clue as to what to do about it.
Give me a few days and you can both have a ball tearing it apart to your heart’s content.
PIT. – Exactly. This low expectations crapola is not helpful to anyone but the 1%.
How dare the nothings of this country be allowed to even think that we can have single-payer, free or even affordable education, or, that we have any kind of social security. And to have it spouted from on high in Davos? I guess the 1% are tone-deaf twits.
That is why HRC keeps scrambling to pander to different groups. Her message is not harmoneous; it’s a caca-phony (spelling intentional) of whatever pooh she thinks she needs to spew in order to gain support, but none of it is hopeful or forward-thinking. It’s fix-a-little here, walk-back-the-last-statement there, and, maintaine-the-status-quo-but-don’t-let-them-know-it.
Bernie has big goals, and, his message doesn’t change from day to day. That’s why I support Bernie.
Obama is at Gilly’s this morning.
Jamie – BBC/NPR had a program discussing this a few weeks ago. The idea of a base income was put forth, and somehow, that would take money out of the underground economy. Somehow, people would gravitate toward what they wanted to do/were interested in.
It was a bit confusing as to how it would work, but they did play a clip from “Star Trek – First Contact,” and I’ve often pointed to that idea with the fact that things on Star Trek eventually become real, like interactive/voice-activated computers and the ability to cloak physical objects from detection. The idea in the movie is that The Federation no longer used money. I guess the premise is that people want to work/create, so if their needs are taken care of, they can focus on their strengths/passion instead of slogging to work for a paycheck. Buckminster Fuller, I believe, had a similar idea.
You are definitely correct about the population explosion having a huge impact on the job market. However, when CEOs are making so much more than their employees, when company policy toward employees is directed by stock prices, well, it’s all the 1% and their financial engineers who are too selfish or stupid to understand that they are starving the roots that feed their lofty place in the tree.
jack, reasoned rebuttals are a waste of time these days. reasoning takes too much effort. it requires temporarily suspending or possibly sacrificing one’s hard held concepts to consider any others. rationality is akin to deferred gratification and not for those who must have it now – whether the “it” sought is free this or that without a how-to-get-there. old tho’ts are like comfortable old shoes, hard to throw away even tho’ they are full of holes.
so, yes, please keep up the good work of saving the real world while there’s time.
blueid, the star trek that really became real and frightfully so is the one about the addictive game.
wapo now says there are 3 finalists for scotus and of course only men…. just wouldn’t be right to let half the population have at least 4 out of the 9 who ultimately judge what happens to them.
PatD – There is a difference between addiction to virtual reality and having big, Bernie goals/working toward them in the real world.
Sri was one of the first guesses at SCOTUS picks, so if he isn’t worried about the circus of being an Obama nominee, I think he will be the one to give it a go. Glad to hear Obama might actually do it.
Not to be too cynical, but the political advantage of the Indian nominee is how they can turn GOP opposition into racism
Looks like Hillary’s speedy apology for praising Reagans on AIDS did the trick, backing down gay rights leaders. What was she thinking? Has been useful, though, generating stories recalling just how awful the Reagan Administration was on that issue.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If you are going to use a Karl Rove infofac in your argument you deserve whatever blowback you get
I see Willie Horton a lot and the fine hand of Karl Rove in the arguments the no Hillary people use and I see very little proof that the facts presented aren’t anything but Republican facs — arguments presented as true but aren’t.
Hillary Clinton is a bit tone deaf but I think people never give her a pass. She tried to say something nice about Nancy Reagan and her advocacy for AIDS action — which is true following the death of her friend Rock Hudson. Ron’s public policy not so much but Clinton did not deserve the crap she caught for the statement. But now the Bernies are all up in arms…gmafb
boss, you’re probably right about setting it up for a racial charge. according to wiki sri’s “A final vote on his nomination took place on May 23, 2013, where he was confirmed 97–0” so they can’t say he’s not good enough for scotus.
re the aids boo boo, I agree with kgc that she was recalling what nancy finally did do… this was also praised in one of the major news bios of her when death was first announced. they also made a big deal out of her making ronnie change his mind on the issue. maybe Hillary saw the same reports that I did.
This is the Star Trek that is most applicable though of course we would have destroyed all the other species before this came about. We are well on our way to doing that but not to this level:
Purple,
Jeff Greene denies ever having said that Americans need to shrink their expectations.
In my opinion, the top tenth of 1% would certainly be well-advised to shrink theirs.
Jamie – The skeeters and tiny things they carry keep trying to take us down a peg. I suspect they will succeed some day.
Did you see the story about a comet screwing with Mars’ gravitational field. Not as strong as Earth’s field, but interesting to think of the possibilities here.
All creatures, great and small, unintentionally have it out for us.
KG, this story no longer about Hillary to me, just an interesting history lesson, and doesn’t make Nancy look as good as was spun. Here is an article about how she actually turned down Rock Hudson’s plea for WH help getting into a French facility. Maybe that was the right thing to do, not showing preference to a friend like that.
But she did finally come around. From this PBS doc : “Historian Adilla Black credited (with a caveat) Nancy Reagan’s friendship with Hudson and attorney Roy Cohn, who also died from complications related to the disease, for inspiring her to ‘encourage her husband to seek more funding for AIDS research.’ … ‘I think she deserves credit for opening up the AIDS money,” Black told PBS. “But I could never say that without saying they never would have waited this long if it was redheaded sixth graders.”
Pat,
I stipulate your comment of 6:06 am. The only way to get the mainspring ‘news’ media to pay attention is to offer even bigger and more lurid bread and circuses. Fortunately, d.t.’s political career will be shorter than that of Crassus. But, who shall deliver the Parthian shot ?
the chaos theory could be applied to or explain the chaos that drumpf wrought and its effect on the gop.
even if not, the theory is fascinating to contemplate on a saturday afternoon when considering the general mess we all are in.
Chaos theory contends that complex and unpredictable results occur in systems that are sensitive to small changes in their initial conditions.
“The only way to get the mainspring ‘news’ media to pay attention is to offer even bigger and more lurid bread and circuses.”
xr, indeed that is why i said what i said agreeing with you that it well may be self-produced dirty tricks. one expects such antics from a narcissistic egomaniac.
Jack, “I have a real world to save with real issues to deal with” is this real world enough?
On February 10, 2016 the Carrier Corporation, in Indianapolis, IN, and United Technologies Electronic Controls (UTEC), in Huntington, IN, announced they will move their manufacturing operations to a new plant in Mexico. Huntington will lose 700 jobs by 2018 and Indianapolis is scheduled to lose 1,400 jobs by 2019. Carrier Corp. and UTEC are both units of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., a Fortune 500 company with $65 billion in revenue.
One of the reasons American companies are moving across the border and offshore is said to be the high cost of unionized labor. The average wage for union members at the Indiana facilities is about $23 an hour [$47,840 per year], almost four times what many manufacturing jobs in Mexico pay [$5.75 an hour] – added to that are the costs associated with union workers’ benefits. U.S. Median Income is $28,757 per year. Company officials also cite the burden of government regulations as a reason for the move. Carrier executives couldn’t specify any of the federal regulations they objected.
Governor Pence instructed the Indiana Economic Development Corp., which has awarded $520,815 in state incentives to the companies, to review all contracts and see if there’s an opportunity to recoup the money. Carrier should also return a $5.1 million taxpayer-funded federal tax credit it accepted in 2014. Carrier is trying to sell its products to Americans but is unwilling to pay Indiana workers.
Now look to an example of the long term effects.
From the book ‘Boom, Bust, Exodus‘ that traces the 10 year aftermath of the Maytag factory closing in Galesburg, IL.
For decades, Maytag had been a quintessentially Midwestern company. Legendary CEO Frederick Maytag` had his company’s creed inscribed on the wall in its Newton, Iowa, headquarters “a just balance among the interests of customers, employees, shareowners and the public.”
I interviewed former CEO Len Hadley, who had steered Maytag successfully through rough patches in the 1990s. Hadley, a traditionalist and Maytag lifer, liked to say, “Our future lies with the past.” He was saddened by the company’s fall. “I thought I left them hardwired for success,” he told me in 2012. “I was astounded at how quickly the wheels came off.”
In Galesburg, people told me that Maytag had lost its moral compass. The company began to bring outsiders into management, and the focus shifted from quality products to cost-cutting, offshoring and shareholder value maximization. “How people in his position can sleep at night is beyond me,” Tony Swanson told The Register-Mail after the closing announcement in 2002, referring to then-Maytag CEO Ralph Hake. “I mean, how can they knowingly destroy thousands of American citizens’ lives and the communities they live in and still look at themselves in the mirror? If that is what wealth does to you, I don’t want any part of it.”
Maytag failed, yet Hake made off with a $10- to $20-million golden parachute, while communities like Galesburg suffered the consequences. In Galesburg, Medicaid enrollments doubled in the 2000s, and the percentage of low-income children in its schools shot up.
These are not the middle-class jobs that President Bill Clinton and Mexican President Carlos Salinas promised when they promoted NAFTA as a solution to Mexican immigration to the U.S. They said Mexico would export goods, not people, once free trade came to Mexico, but they were wrong.
purple, that was then and it was my feeling that jack was addressing now and what he can do about his now.
It is possible that the slow turn around for the Clinton image is due to staff being in awe of her.
It can be difficult to instruct people whom one sees as superior to oneself.
At any rate, I don’t think the Clinton campaign did a very good job packaging her until the last month.
One more thing : even if she completely changed her mind about Wall Street, Big Finance, Big Insurance, and Big Brokerage, she wouldn’t dare change her tune until after the election, ‘cuz it would cut off the supply of golden eggs laid by the corruptors.
Right now, d.t. holds in thrall about 40 – 45% of the ripper voters. This amounts to only about 13.5 – 15% of the entire population of voters. In the very near future, his job will be to expand his appeal.
He can try to do this by demonstrating at his rallies the danger posed to ‘real’ Americans by mobs of non-whites like rafael eduardo cruz, the Prez, and marco rubio.
Since presidential elections are won by convincing Indies (politically low knowledge voters) to vote for your candidate, will these demonstrations scare them into the trump camp ? Not if Clinton, Sanders, and cruz point out that these violent events only occur around trump. And, not if candidates (and the Prez) repeatedly point out that crime rates are at the lowest level since JFK was president.
1. We could export the officers and board members of any corp that moved its manufacture abroad.
2. For carrier corp, we could even make that retroactive.
3. We could invade and annex the Cayman Islands (to prevent a coup by isis?), seize and publish all bank records, freeze all assets, & tax the living daylights out of the escaped tax cheats. 99% of the American public would support that ‘tax hike.’
XR I found it. What BS!
Billionaire now claims he was misquoted when he said ‘America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high’ …and argues he’s always fought against inequality
patd,
February 10 was a month ago!
Hillary Clinton Is Exposing the Dark Underbelly of the Democrats’ Money Machine
Her campaign has put a spotlight on the cozy relationships between Democratic operatives and corporate America.
By Joshua Holland, The Nation, March 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is staffed with veteran Democratic advisers, fundraisers, pollsters, and consultants. Some of them worked on Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Others cut their teeth working for John Kerry in 2004, or on Bill Clinton’s campaigns in the 1990s. They’re career Democrats.
A handful of Clinton’s key personnel also work for Washington firms that have lobbied or consulted for various corporate interests. Some are principals in those firms. And in some cases, those companies worked on behalf of their corporate clients to defeat or water down progressive legislation that Clinton touts as major Democratic accomplishments.
These kinds of ties between high-level Democratic operatives and multinational corporations and trade groups that seek to influence legislation are nothing new, but until recently they didn’t receive the level of scrutiny that they’re getting today. That’s partly because the 2016 campaign is being fought at a time when Thomas Piketty’s wonky tome on inequality hit the best-seller lists, the pope is condemning unbridled capitalism as “the dung of the devil,” and an unabashed democratic socialist is giving the presumptive nominee a serious run in the Democratic primaries. With the “Warren wing” of the Democratic Party on the rise, the party’s business as usual is no longer being taken for granted as it once was.
Why Financialization Has Run Amok
By Steve Denning, Forbes, June 3, 2014 05:53 AM
My article last Friday, “Why IBM Is In Decline,” described how a cabal of senior IBM executives and the managers of some big investment firms got together and devised a five-year scheme—IBM’s Roadmap 2015—for increasing IBM’s earnings per share—and their own compensation—through measures that are not only increasing earnings per share but also steadily crippling IBM’s ability to innovate and compete in a rapidly changing marketplace. As revenues decline, while earnings per share increase through relentless cost-cutting and clever “financial engineering,” the rot within IBM continues.
The case is not an isolated one, as the excellent article by Gautam Mukunda makes clear in “The Price of Wall Street Power” in the June 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review. The IBM case is simply another instance of “excessive financialization” of the economy and the “unbalanced power” of the financial sector over management mindsets.
The insidious power of excessive financialization
“Real power,” Mukunda says, “comes not from forcing people to do what you want but from changing the way people think, so that they want to do what you want.”
Take for instance Sam Palmisano’s stint as the CEO of IBM from 2002 to 2011 and his account of it in his June HBR interview. Palmisano wasn’t “forced” to commit to doubling IBM’s earnings per share by 2015 and in the process steadily undermine IBM’s ability to innovate and compete. Instead, he welcomed it as a good idea and now, in the HBR interview, he even celebrates it as an example of excellent management. Not only that: he has launched a Center for Global Enterprise to disseminate this kind of “excellence” in management to other companies.
I knew someone who worked at that Maytag plant in Iowa. The union, at the end, was fighting to keep full insurance (not even co-pays) as part of the deal. His wife kept telling him they were going to have to give something. The jobs left about a year or two later. They marriage did not survive.
A company I worked for had a new CEO come in; he installed people from his company in high-paying positions. Then they started closing locations, down-sizing staff, and selling off parts of the company. It not longer exists, but the guys who masterminded its demise made off like bandits. I wonder how many other marriages and lives were destroyed because of greed of those at the top.
Oh, and the company I work for now closed down mfg here and moved it to Mexico.
PiT,
Thanks, that is a good summary of an increasingly nasty situation.
Also, the exec bonus system pits execs against the customers, vendors, employees, geographic neighbors, and the stockholders. All savings, profits, and liquidations (which is actually what financialization does) accrue to the top execs.
When liquidation won’t work, a corrupt ceo can falsely report profits, take $40 M!LL!ON$ in bonu$e$ on the fake profits, and become VPOTUS – as dirty dick cheney did.
Craig
All I’m saying is both Hillary and Nancy carry the burden of their husbands decisions. Clinton was trying to say something nice about Nancy. Her other choice was the Just Say No Campaign?????? her choice in china patterns…
I thought it was an odd choice but really what was she going to say….”Ronjr and Patti are wonderful human beings good job on parenting”
I was astonished at HRC’s Nancy/AIDs comment…I thought, maybe she is mixing her up with Liz Taylor. I found this article from Teen Vogue and it presents an historical picture of Nancy and how she actually rebuffed Rock Hudson while relying on the a predominantly gay fashion world to promote her first ladyness. Great reporting from Teen Vogue and it is more intelligent than most of the other media articles. Sort of like John Edwards and the National Enquirer.
I am glad she corrected. Too sloppy or a senior moment?
For the movie buffs. If you didn’t see it in the theater, Spotlight is now available to buy or rent. Do yourself a favor. It is a truly well made, well acted film with a great lesson in what excellent journalism can do.
Jamie, so true about Spotlight. Hope it shows the general public how important honest and hard-working investigative journalism is to our society. Most importantly, hope it makes bottom-line media suits spend more money on it. Sadly, I am not sure today’s Boston Globe, and many others, would invest in such a thing.
the advocate on the Nancy Kerfuffle
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/3/06/remembering-nancy-reagan-her-involvement-aids-crisis
Boy, the look on Donald’s face when that guy tried to jump on stage. I feel sorry for his SS detail.
On the one hand, he’s whipping up the frenzy. On the other hand, he is free to say what he wants. On the other hand, there are consequences to our words. On the other hand, those that become violent are responsible for their actions. On the other hand, the whole situation is getting out of hand.
handy
Ted Cruz calling Trump supporters dumb? What’s next? Kardashians blasting Victoria’s Secret ads?
OK, if Turd is trying to shame folks out of voting for Trump, that’s a lost cause. Aside from continuing to distance himself from Trump in order to ingratiate himself to the RNC (who despise him), what possible reason is there for Crud to do that?
They asked Rubio if he would still endorse Trump. He said it was getting more and more difficult, but I laughed because he looked and sounded like he had just been turned down for a date to junior prom.
Does a candidate’s security detail have the right and/or responsibility to give their charge a talking to?
Trump blames Bernie’s folks
Passing out stickers to the classier Bernie supporters at the Trump rally
Trump doubles down in Kansas City
Actually, Donald said it was “Clinton and Sanders people” who disrupted his rally in Chicago.
That sticker the woman with Bernie button is wearing is nasty, and, there are probably stickers with the same sentiment for Trump. People have a visceral reaction to both of them. The use of social media has relieved folks of their ability to self-edit/hide their feelings.
Meanwhile, back in his lair, Ted Cruz is cackling and rubbing his hands together.
Trump taunts protesters Saturday (speech begins at 56:00)
Google “Trump taunts” and you’ll get endless stories. That’s his wheelhouse. It’s been working pretty well for him…so far.
wakey wakey, it’s later than you think!
spring forth, time to change the time of your life.
From Woody Allen’s Movie “Everyone says i love you”(1996)
from ap’s “trumps new normal: campaign rallies where chaos is expected”
While Trump sometimes appears angered by the disruptions, he has also embraced them, using the interruptions as opportunities to lead his supporters in chants of “USA, USA.” He’s also joked about how the protesters force TV cameras to pan out over the crowd and show how large they are.
more and more methinks those “organized thugs” as he calls them are his and he organized them.
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