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2016-03-09 -Land of the Free
Top Tech Giants, GOP Elites, McConnell, Paul Ryan Hold Secret Meeting on How to Stop Trump
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Posted by charger 2016-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Pirates 

#1 Methinks they are worried about the supply of cheap illegal labor without benefits or job security after St. Donald the Trump is elected.

Kinda makes your gut churn to think so many GOPsters are fast in bed with the illegal alien issue.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-03-09 00:04||   2016-03-09 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Disney and Zuckerburg couldn't care less about illegals, they want those H-1B visas to hire cheap tech labor, who will be trained by the redundant US citizens.

Unless, of course, they need a gardener or cook.
Posted by KBK 2016-03-09 00:22||   2016-03-09 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Methinks they are worried about the supply of cheap illegal labor without benefits or job security after St. Donald the Trump is elected.

Yep! The younger and more plentiful the workforce [illegal or otherwise], the more affordable the workforce. The more affordable the workforce, the greater the margins. It's nothing personal, it's just business.

When you hear pols spouting off about raising the minimum wage, what they're actually referring to is arriving everyone at the desired 'mean' wage.

Creating an environment of low paying, multiple part-time jobs, benefits both business and gov't by reducing or eliminating benefits packages and providing multiple income streams for income tax, Social Security, and Medicare from the same single future recipient. Labor costs are kept down, benefits liability is minimized, and ponzi tax scheme contributions are multiplied.

It appears to be the new normal.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-09 00:36||   2016-03-09 00:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Would it be a bannable offence for me to comment that this would have been a good time & place for an airstrike (of a few tons of cow shit)?

I'm a Cruz guy, but at this point I will have no reservations at all voting for Trump, simply as a 'Fuck You' vote.
Posted by Raj 2016-03-09 01:46||   2016-03-09 01:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Name a Party that is representing the Citizens.

There are none.

This is the Whig party and it is asking to be dis-disemboweled.

If Trump wins, so be it.
That was supposedly what we had you for, right? To protect US from an idiot President?


I Hate the GOP more right now than the democrats. Hate is a strong word. But you were not Hot or Cold but Luke-Warm.

Ergo, I need you as an ally less than the enemy you feed with apathy and greed.

If you broker this convention, I will rip you apart in my inside voice.
Posted by newc 2016-03-09 01:51||   2016-03-09 01:51|| Front Page Top

#6 This list in the comments:
House Speaker Paul Ryan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) - Energy and Commerce Committee Chair
Tom Price (R-Ga.) - Budget Committee Chairman
Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) - Financial Services Committee Chairman
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
Rep. John Delaney (D-Maryland)
Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.)
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Karl Rove
Bill Kristol
The New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger
Google co-founder Larry Page
Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Tesla Motors and SpaceX' leader Elon Musk
Billionaire Phillip Anschutz
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-09 02:06||   2016-03-09 02:06|| Front Page Top

#7 FREEREPUBLIC Artic indics that the GOP is in for a "contested" = brokered? convention.

Iff Sanders can win or do good in CA, wid several 00 delegates up for grabs, Hillary won't be safe either.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-09 02:09||   2016-03-09 02:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "This list in the comments:"

None of Whom shall be trusted again.

If they wanted to stop Trump, they should have backed Ted Cruz.
What the Cluck, Tim Scott?


Do things the Correct way or lose it all.

This is not a game, and it is not for any of these idiots to place themselves on a mission to disenfranchise Americans of their vote - even if it is not a Constitutional right.

Who do they think they are?

Are they special?

They make me want to take a rafting trip.


Posted by newc 2016-03-09 02:16||   2016-03-09 02:16|| Front Page Top

#9 These were companies who lent their top men to run the Obama IT campaign. Expect bad results.
Posted by Grunter 2016-03-09 03:27||   2016-03-09 03:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Yep!The younger and more plentiful the workforce [illegal or otherwise], the more affordable the workforce. The more affordable the workforce, the greater the margins. It's nothing personal, it's just business.

And to hell with what happens 10 years down the road?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-09 03:35||   2016-03-09 03:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Just murder him---like people exactly like you murdered Pim Fortyne.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-09 04:09||   2016-03-09 04:09|| Front Page Top

#12 The basics are democrats could never, ever win National office with American Citizens. If you cannot win with the Natives, change the electorate.

All Obama was good at was oral spewing of marxism and putting pins on a map. Brilliant electioneering but nothing else.

Nothing Else.
Nothing Else.
Nothing Else.
Posted by newc 2016-03-09 05:51||   2016-03-09 05:51|| Front Page Top

#13 The pubs are not the only ones who don't want to see a Trump presidency.

If the investigation were going any slower, they'd have to drive stakes to see it move. The closer the investigation and indictment gets to November with the Beest still in the race, the greater the likelihood of a delayed election and a temporary setting aside of the 22nd Amendment. There is currently only one job inside the beltway with a term limit.

Not much in the news about the Champ lately, election and all. No news about a Obama Library or retirement residence. Not unlike the Champ, the Hildebeest is harvesting the black vote as anticipated. If she is out of the race, where does the black endorsement and vote go? It certainly won't shift to the Bern. The entitlement class must have a candidate or representative, otherwise it would be... well you know.

And then there is the Champ regime, Valjar, Brennan, Kerry and the rest. Are we to believe they're all just preparing to decamp and slip quietly away into the night? Any new job announcements or resignations lately? Lynch appears to have been offered a Supreme Court nomination which she declines, due to 'more pressing issues.' Does she think she'll be retained under a Trump presidency, or is she sticking around as DoJ insurance for the Beest and the regime? Perhaps they're all simply resting up for their third round.

Ok, so call me paranoid, but is Clinton going to take office with all of this hanging over her doorstep? You can bet there is a coordinated 'beltway party' plan, we're just not privy to it quite yet. The only thing I'm sure of at this point is that I don't trust any of these 'beltway party' bastids.

Only slightly off topic but lastly from the rear view mirror, were presidential candidates McCain and Romney little more than political theater ?
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-09 07:10||   2016-03-09 07:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Had the elites spent a whole lot more time doing the business of the people instead of plotting skullduggery behind closed doors, they would not have to worry about Trump taking the nomination.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-03-09 08:27||   2016-03-09 08:27|| Front Page Top

#15 "This list in the comments:"

Isn't wonderful when they make the list themselves. It saves the hassle later trying to compile such things when the (usual and historical) dirty work has to be done.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-09 08:44||   2016-03-09 08:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Oh, I'd take the beat to Vegas that #11 is a possibility* in their desperation. Unfortunately for them it may well result in a explosion which is likely to consume them. Welcome to the Terror Part Deux.

* Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-09 08:49||   2016-03-09 08:49|| Front Page Top

#17 My dogs are out, current choices are my own opinion, couple of observations:

Romney/Ryan vs. Clinton/(Gore?), really? I think I would rather watch Scorpion King 4.

This hit on Trump is starting to look like the end of Rocky IV.

The Talking Heads got thumped last night (or as another at the gathering said, Trumped. To be fair, Sanded as well).

The Fox quibbers remind me of why I hated junior high lunch.

There are more, but those are my cards.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-09 11:17||   2016-03-09 11:17|| Front Page Top

#18 I look for Trump to take Florida, Ohio and NY and probably a few other states as well. Are the elites still going to be wringing their hands behind closed doors or are they going to unify the party behind Trump?
Posted by JohnQC 2016-03-09 11:23||   2016-03-09 11:23|| Front Page Top

#19 If Cruz were leading (as opposed to running a close second) this same group would be having the same meeting.
Posted by Iblis 2016-03-09 11:54||   2016-03-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#20 No charges will be filed against Hillary! until it is certain she will lose the presidency.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-09 11:54||   2016-03-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#21 These are the same GOP elites whose leadership has left this country in a shambles. The more they try to stop Trump the more determined I am to vote for him. Their only viable option at this point is Hildebeest and they're willing to let her have it. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-09 12:16||   2016-03-09 12:16|| Front Page Top

#22 Nobody to blame but themselves. The election of Rubio over Crist, Cruz over Dewhearst and Dave Brat kicking Canto to the curb should have been quite clear. They even had a chance before Trump got rolling to get Rubio out of the way and let Cruz go one-on-one where he beats Trump head to head without Rubio and Kasich there.

But now the GOPe has to kiss someone ass, either Cruz (who destroys them with small government and constitutionalism causing KStreet to get kicked to the curb), or Trump (who gets Hillary elected). Both of whom they hate.

Nobody to blame but themselves. Listenintg to Rove and McConnell is the biggest mistake the GOP made, and the part will go the way of the whigs because of it.GOP
Posted by Cleng Glealing8422 2016-03-09 14:47||   2016-03-09 14:47|| Front Page Top

#23 What makes you think Hillary will beat Trump?
Posted by bman 2016-03-09 15:28||   2016-03-09 15:28|| Front Page Top

#24 They have to sell it, it's the only thing they now have (just like he'd fold in a month or two).
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-09 15:34||   2016-03-09 15:34|| Front Page Top

#25 The 'stabs don't get it; the more they attack Trump the more popular he becomes.

The 'stabs are unpopular because they are not listening to We the people. They need to figure out why they have angered the people; and they need to do it now. If they can't/won't then they deserve the dust bins of history that they are destined for.
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-09 15:59||   2016-03-09 15:59|| Front Page Top

#26 "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-03-09 16:16||   2016-03-09 16:16|| Front Page Top

#27  They need to figure out why they have angered the people; and they need to do it now.

Oh, I think they know. They're not stupid, just crooked.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-09 16:35||   2016-03-09 16:35|| Front Page Top

#28 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Are you saying these guys are a bunch of bed bugs?

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2016-03-09 16:37||   2016-03-09 16:37|| Front Page Top

#29 #22, Trump gets Hillary elected? You go right ahead to Vegas and bet the ranch on it. I always wanted to get into the cattle business.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-09 16:39||   2016-03-09 16:39|| Front Page Top

#30 They're not stupid, just crooked.

They are stupid. They adopted a simplistic ideology because they are stupid. And they adhere to it religiously, because otherwise they'll have to admit to themselves that they are nothing but a bunch of stupid crooks---as shown by the decline of USA under their management.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-09 16:44||   2016-03-09 16:44|| Front Page Top

#31 Well, I guess. Someone here once pointed out to me that the two are not mutually exclusive.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-09 18:52||   2016-03-09 18:52|| Front Page Top

#32 Elon Musk is denying that Trump was even discussed.
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-09 19:37||   2016-03-09 19:37|| Front Page Top

#33 What makes you think Hillary will beat Trump?

Trump is the only one in the race with a higher negative rating. That for starters.
Posted by Iblis 2016-03-09 20:47||   2016-03-09 20:47|| Front Page Top

#34 Hillary beating Trump? Only just about every head to head poll has him losing to her since he entered the race. Highest negatives of any candidate. And that's BEFORE the press gets started tarring and feathering him with his own words and misdeeds.

You Trumbots are as bad as Obamabots were 8 years go - you're painting what you want to see instead of seeing the truth of the man you tout, deliberately blinding yourselves like the Obama Lightbringer people did. Talking to Trumpbots now is like talking to Obamabots then. Thats why people are being so harsh on the Trumpanzees, we've seen this cult of personality and stupidity before.
Posted by Albemarle Dark Lord of the Weak8242 2016-03-09 22:38||   2016-03-09 22:38|| Front Page Top

#35 "You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can imagine".
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2016-03-09 23:11||   2016-03-09 23:11|| Front Page Top

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