Trump: I’m winning because Americans are 'tired of being the patsies'

"We're tired of being the patsies for everyone," Trump said.

Go Trump!
 

August 29, 2015 - 12:27 PM EDT
Trump: I'm winning because Americans are 'tired of being the patsies'

Mark Hensch, The Hill
 
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he is leading the GOP race because he represents Americans who have had it with their nation coming up short.
 
"People in this country are smart," he told listeners at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies' 2015 conference in Nashville on Saturday.
 
"We're tired of being the patsies for everyone," Trump said. 
 

"There is a big, big, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds silent majority out there. [The 2016 race] is going to be an election based on competence."
 
Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.
 
"I love the Tea Party," Trump said. "You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It's disgusting."
 
"At least I have a microphone and can fight back," the outspoken billionaire added.
 
Trump indicated he envisions a much wider base for his campaign than traditional Republican voters next election cycle.
 
"You don't know how big you are," he told listeners. "The Tea Party has tremendous power. It's Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody."
 
The New York business mogul also vowed he would not succumb to the prestige and power of Washington's political establishment if he wins in 2016.
 
"They go to Washington and they get weak," Trump said of Democrats and Republicans alike. "They get there and they see these beautiful, vaulted ceilings and they say, 'Honey, I've made it.' That won't happen to me, I promise."
 
Trump also said he intends on saving taxpayer dollars by focusing his energy on the nation's capital if elected next year.
 
"I think I'd maybe never leave," Trump quipped of the Oval Office. "I'd do the fundraisers in the White House. Whoever the [interview] host is would like it better – 'Hey, we're live from the White House.'"
 
"Do you know how much it costs to fuel those things?" he joked of jets like Air Force One.
 
"We have so many things to do to straighten out our country," Trump added. "We can't waste time."
 
Trump's address at the NFRA's 2015 conference Saturday .

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Bad News For Hillary, Poll Shows Joe Biden Would Fare Better In National Election

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/27/2015 11:00 -0400

Speculation is mounting regarding a possible 2016 White House run by Vice President Joe Biden.

As discussed on Monday, a meeting between Biden and party heavyweight Elizabeth Warren in Washington represented "a pivot from potential to likely candidate," one Biden supporter told WSJ.

It's possible that Biden has been emboldened by Hillary Clinton's latest trials and travails which have seen an investigation into the former First Lady's home e-mail server turn quite serious, giving Democratic rival Bernie Sanders a boost in the polls. A series of rather unfortunate attempts on Clinton's part (see here and here) to make light of the issue on the campaign trail were met with sharp criticism in some circles.

Whatever the case, the latest poll from Quinnipiac University (released Thursday) shows that in the national elections, Biden would actually fare better than Clinton against both Trump and Jeb Bush.

More, from Politico:

Vice President Joe Biden has the best favorability rating among top 2016 contenders in either party, and he would run a little better than Hillary Clinton in the general election, according to a new Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday that also shows Donald Trump increasing his lead in the GOP race.

 

Biden, who has not made his intentions known about a third bid for the White House, earned a net favorability of 77 points among Democrats. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio led Republicans with a net rating of 69. (Among all registered voters, regardless of party affiliation, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson led the field with a net positive rating of 20.)

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Matched against Trump in a hypothetical general election matchup, the veep came out on top, 48 percent to 40 percent. Against Bush, he prevailed, 45 percent to 39 percent; and against Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, he got 44 percent to the senator's 41 percent.

 

 

Meanwhile, Clinton narrowly prevailed over Trump by 4 points, at 45 percent to 41 percent; she received 42 percent to Bush's 40 percent; and 44 percent to Rubio's 43 percent.

And from CNN:

Vice President Joe Biden fares better against top GOP candidates in hypothetical general election match-ups than Hillary Clinton, according to a new national survey.

 

The Quinnipiac University poll, released Thursday, also shows Donald Trump smashing the GOP presidential competition garnering 28% support from registered Republican voters in the 17-member field. The real estate mogul's closest competitor is retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who tallies 12%.

 

Just 7% said they would vote for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a record low since November 2013.

Perhaps Trump was right after all when the brazen billionaire said he believes that ultimately, America's choice will be between himself and Joe Biden.

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Donald Trump calls out Mark Zuckerberg on immigration

Donald Trump calls out Mark Zuckerberg on immigration

Donald Trump has a new target for his criticism of the nation's immigration policies - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg is one of the leading tech executives who has called for a more open immigration policy. Specifically, he wants to make more H-1B visas available to tech employers so they can hire foreign skilled workers.

Trump said he wants to require employers to pay H-1B workers much more money, which he said would discourage companies from hiring them and boost job prospects for Americans. He also wants to have tech jobs offered to unemployed Americans before they can be filled by workers with H-1B visas.

"This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program.

Mark Zuckerberg's personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities," Trump wrote in his immigration plan. Rubio is also seeking the Republican nomination for president.

Zuckerberg started a public interest group called Fwd.us to push for immigration and lobbying reform along with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Neither Facebook (FB, Tech30) nor Fwd.us had an immediate comment on Trump's criticism of Zuckerberg.
Trump says that there are plenty of graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM, to fill tech jobs. That means that employers don't need H-1B visas to fill jobs, and are using them instead to keep wages low.

Employers are supposed to pay a typical wage to anyone hired under a H-1B visa. But in reality, employees on these visas are typically paid 20 to 45% less than U.S. workers who they are are often replacing, said Ron Hira, a Howard University public policy professor who has studied the visa's pay scale.

"I don't think you should eliminate the H1-B program. The problem is it's being abused and it's a source of very cheap labor," said Hira.

1.4 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost; 1.4 Million Waiter/Bartender Jobs Gained

Crack up job 0bama!

Since 2007: 1.4 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost; 1.4 Million Waiter/Bartender Jobs Gained

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2015 10:05 -0400

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Who says America has a jobs problem? As the chart below shows, the "New Economy" may pay abysmally, but at least it promises a little to everyone (or to paraphrase a famous phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"). Nowhere is that more obvious than in the chart showing the monthly change in waiter and bartender jobs.

Here is the bottom line: in the past 65 months, or nearly five and a half years starting with March 2010, or when the jobs "recovery" really kicked in, jobs for waiters and bartenders (aka food service and drinking places) have declined just once.

This is a statistically abnormal hit rate of nearly 99%, and one which we assume has everything to do with the BLS' charge of not so much reporting reality as finding loopholes in the goalseeked model to report that the US keeps adding over 200,000 jobs every month or bust.

Putting this number in context, the US has allegedly added 376K bartenders in the past year, and 3 million since March 2010.

And here is another, even more disturbing way of showing the "New Economy" - since December 2014, the US has lost 1.4 million manufacturing workers. These have been replaced almost one to one, with new waiters and bartenders. Win, win for everyone, especially the welfare state and of course, China.

Trump to Megyn Kelly: I Don't Have Time For Political Correctness and Neither Does This Country

I think Trump is going to win!

Trump to Megyn Kelly: I Don't Have Time For Political Correctness and Neither Does This Country

Megyn Kelly calls out Donald Trump for sexist remarks from his Twitter history. "You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.'"

"Only Rosie O'Donnell," laughs Trump, before turning serious. "I've been challenged by so many people and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble."

MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS CHANNEL: Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter. However that is not without its downsides, in particular when it comes to women. You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. Your twitter account--

DONALD TRUMP: Only Rosie O'Donnell.

KELLY: For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O'Donnell.

TRUMP: I'm sure it was.

KELLY: Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. You once told a contesttent that it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees.

Does that sound like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?

And how do you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?

TRUMP: The big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China, we lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody. Frankly what I say and oftentimes it's fun, it's kidding, we have a good time. What I say is what I say. And honestly, Megyn if you don't like it, I'm sorry. I've been very nice to you although I could probably not be based on the way you have treated me, but I wouldn't do that. But you know what? We, we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around. That I can tell you right now.
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An even clearer way of showing this dramatic convergence: young vs old workers. But don't blame your father or grandfather for taking a job that you would like: they are simply unable to retire due to nearly a decade of idiotic Fed policies.

Prime Aged Workers Tumble In July, Workers 55 And Over Surge To New All Time High

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2015 09:26 -0400

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By now what we first, heretically, said back in 2010: that the US is becoming a part-time economy, is common knowledge only the politically correct way of phrasing it, one which supposedly gives it a bullish spin, is "the sharing economy", as if that makes it better for millions of millennials that they will never again have any career security whatsoever.

But one other, even more damaging trend has yet to be noticed: the fact that elderly workers, still unable to retire due to ZIRP's crushing of their trillions in savings which have a "high yield" of under 1% at best, remain in the workforce, and the result is that there is no opportunity for young workers to enter the labor pipeline on the other end.

July confirmed as much, when in a month in which the Establishment survey reported that 215K jobs were added, the Household survey was far less sanguine, estimating only 101K job gains in June after a drop of 56K in May. But the punchline emerged when looking at the age composition of the job winners... and losers.

As we expected, more than all job gains, or 211,000 of the total, came in the 55 and over job category. Workers 16-24 lost a total of 8,000 jobs. And the worst hit were, who else, those in their prime, as the number of workers aged 25-54 dropped by another 131K.

 

Putting this in perspective, while the elderly workers in the US have risen by a whopping 7.4 million since the start of the Depression in December 2007, workers aged 25-54 are down 4 million!

And an even clearer way of showing this dramatic convergence: young vs old workers. But don't blame your father or grandfather for taking a job that you would like: they are simply unable to retire due to nearly a decade of idiotic Fed policies.

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have your cheesecake and eat it too

"Happy birthday, @POTUS! Hopefully when @FLOTUS isn't looking you can have some cake. #44turns54″ — Former President Bill Clinton.

ha ha ha! I suppose by 'cake' he means cheesecake

President Obama Explains How His "Clean Power Plan" Does Not Make Him "Nation's Greatest Destroyer" - Live Feed

Ironically on the day when another coal company collapses into bankruptcy, President Obama begins the pitch for his "Clean Power Plan" which Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray described as "bizarre", blames for the collapse in the coal industry, and has now filed five federal lawsuits against the president who Murray believes is "the nation's greatest destroyer."

 

Live Feed.. (due to speak at 1415ET)

2-to-1 lead over closest contender...

2-to-1 lead over closest contender...
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/250076-trump-lead-widens-in-new-national-poll

2-to-1 lead over closest contender...


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Trump builds his political machine | TheHill

I liked this comment in particular. ..

WeCanWinThisFight  

It's called the 'Pendulum Swing' -- from the Lying Marxist to the truth-telling Trump.

Having choked down the nothing but acrid LIES for SEVEN long years(!) - we will clamor for truth above all other considerations.

P.S. * Note to 2016 candidates: If you LIE to us, you don't stand a chance of winning the nomination. We are sick and tired of all of the deception - and unlike Lib voters, we_are_not_stupid .. we are more iintelligent and more informed than ever

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