On the Trumpster

Resign yourself to the depressing reality: It’s going to be Trump vs. Clinton

Tuesday: Liveblogging the New York Presidential Primary  "Trump's lead (756 delegates to Ted Cruz's 559 and John Kasich's 144) is substantial, but he still has a ways to go to reach the 1,237 needed to clinch the nomination. If he falls short, Cruz may yet overtake him at a contested convention. RedState's Michael Harrington has estimated that the convention will be open, and that Cruz will dominate there. Betting markets still place Trump ahead, however."

PJ Media

Why Trump’s Abortion Statement Is Hardly the Worst Thing He’s Done  . . . "Donald J Trump has generated ample reasons — redundant ones — for rejecting him as GOP standard-bearer, not to mention POTUS. As a settled #NeverTrump voter, however, I’ll admit: when it comes to reasons I’ll never pull the lever for the reality-TV-star bloviator, his (briefly entertained) endorsement of slapping the wrist of someone who is complicit in the extermination of her unborn son or daughter would fall somewhere at the very bottom of an otherwise undisputedly fetid list." . . .
No, Republicans Don't Have to Hand the Nomination to Donald Trump  . . . "The fact of the matter is that a candidate needs 1237 delegates to win the nomination. When a candidate doesn't get 1237 delegates in the first round of voting, the delegates can go back to the drawing table, and choose another candidate if they so wish. If 1237 delegates decide to throw their support behind Ted Cruz in the second round of voting, that's not merely "legal," it's fair."

No, Mr. Trump, We Are Not 'Supposed to Be a Democracy
. . . "Now, there’s no evidence whatsoever that The Donald has ever read the Constitution or the founding principles of this country, let alone understands them, but the appeal of his argument to people like Bolling is a testament to the utter failure of the educational system to teach basic civics and history." . . .

Anti-Trump Forces Routed in New York   "Reports of Donald Trump’s demise have been overstated. After a disappointing few weeks, Trump came roaring back on Tuesday night with a huge victory in his home state of New York."

On Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders and the Israel Blame Game   "Blunders on Israel abound in the Bernie Sanders camp.". . .  
. . ."Given Sanders’ disproportionate views on Israel, his Middle East policies if elected president would likely be quite unbalanced. Similar warped views of the centrality and culpability of Israel as the source of Middle East wars permeates the United Nations."  

What is it with the left that they side with murderers over people who fight to defend their people against them?

Bernie Sanders Asked to Leave a Hippie Commune For Laziness  . . . "Sanders’ idle chatter did not endear him with some of the commune’s residents, who did the backbreaking labor of running the place. ” . . .

Rights vs. Wishes  . . . "Contrast those rights to free speech and travel with the supposed rights to medical care and decent housing. Those supposed rights do impose obligations upon others." . . . 

Occupy Wall Street supports Bernie  "Occupy has emboldened the Left, allowing the open promotion of communist themes and ideology."

The Bern Hits a Brick Wall in New York  . . . "Some Democratic strategists said the race’s antagonistic new tone was due to the peculiarities of campaigning in New York, a very liberal state where voters expect politicians to go for the jugular and capitalize on perceived weaknesses. While Sanders focused on Clinton’s close ties to Wall Street and corporate America, she zeroed in on some of Sanders’s own liberal heresies — particularly on gun control."

Sex, Lies and Bathrooms: Uncovering the Truth Behind North Carolina's Law

Cartoon Exposes The “New Normal” In America Under Obama

. . . "In an effort to cater to the transgender community, Seattle passed a law stating that you can use the bathroom of the gender with which you identify. This has lead to a first-of-its-kind case in which a man in board shorts began undressing in the woman’s locker room of Evans Pool. Several of the locker room’s female occupants approached the staff with concerned, but when asked to leave, the man cited the new gender rule, which he says gives him the “right” to use the facilities." . . .
Video at the link.

American Thinker 

"The media swiftly dubbed the law as “anti-LGBT,” corporate executives from PayPal, Apple, PepsiCo and the NBA threatened to boycott all business dealings, and the Mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned non-essential government travel to the Tar Heel State. Not to be outdone in the cultural circus of virtue signaling, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin declared a similar fiat."

 .  .  . "By supporting the law, Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina legislators shunned the spurious gender ideology espoused by the American cultural elect, and thus committed political heresy. Although several scientists, such as acclaimed Harvard University cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, have conclusively proven that gender has a biological basis, the American political left perpetuates the myth that we are born with a tabula rasa or blank slate upon which the construct of gender is socially imposed. As a result, the present politics of gender and sexuality precludes honest discussion of the mental distress associated with gender dysphoria and transgenderism. In its place, Americans are expected to accept cultural gaslighting and suspend all critical inquiry in order to celebrate every form of non-normative sexual expression as the next “civil rights’ struggle.

"Good on North Carolina for safeguarding the liberty of its citizens and standing against the intolerant cultural fascism of the corporate-political-media complex."

How Bernie lost New York

Politico via Drudge:

. . . "In New York, Sanders finally hit the wall, his winning streak halted by a daily pummeling that forced him on the defensive and stopped his momentum cold. The tabloids dealt him punishing hit after punishing hit. The Democratic establishment, most of it in Hillary Clinton’s camp, piled on harder than the Sanders campaign expected. Caught up in one distraction after another – a quarrel over debate details, a back and forth with Clinton over her qualifications, a trip to the Vatican in the run-up to the election – Sanders never gained his footing or even came close to pulling off the upset victory he once predicted with frequency." . . .

Today's world in bumper stickers

WASHINGTON POST: THE UNSERIOUS BERNIE SANDERS

Power Line Blog  "The Washington Post editorial page yesterday took after Bernie Sanders for his childish views on energy, noting that if he had his way it would set back the cause of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Worth a sampling:

CAN THE country do without nuclear power and natural gas? Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thinks so. But his position would set back the fight against global warming. . . he had already promised to phase out nuclear power nationwide by steadily retiring existing reactors. Mr. Sanders has also attacked fracking, the process of fracturing shale formations deep underground in order to extract natural gas. . .

In fact, if we are serious about global warming, we will ignore Mr. Sanders’s sloganeering.

"Actually, if we are serious about any subject, it would be best to ignore Mr. Sanders."

The original Washington Post article: Mr. Sanders’s war on clean energy

. . . Mr. Sanders’s rhetoric on nuclear power is even more concerning. Nuclear accounts for about a fifth of the country’s electricity, and it is practically emissions-free. Shutting down that much clean electricity generation would put the country into a deep emissions hole. Mr. Sanders argues that he will invest heavily in renewables. Yet every dollar spent to replace one carbon-free source with another is a dollar that could have been spent replacing dangerous and dirty coal plants. Under Mr. Sanders’s vision, either the country would fail to maximize emissions cuts, or it would waste huge amounts of money unnecessarily replacing nuclear plants. Unsurprisingly, the Clean Power Plan relies on nuclear, too, assuming that the country will get about the same amount of electricity from nuclear in 2030.

The List: Political Retaliation in the Age of Obama

" DHS Threatens retaliation against whistleblowers after releasing 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records onto the nation’s streets:" Just one of the many points discussed in this comprehensive article below. 

The Oba-glare

Nice Deb  "Obama wasn’t in office very long before his hyper-partisan administration was using brute political force to punish his political foes. It began almost immediately with the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin who ran afoul of Obama when his investigation identified misuse of AmeriCorps funds by a prominent Obama supporter. 

As the Obama administration winds to a close, it seems as though the retaliations have accelerated. In fact, we’ve seen four glaring examples of leftists using the levers of power to attack conservatives in just the past WEEK alone.

“ 'These are creepy people and they have a creepy agenda” –Dinesh D’Souza recently noted. He’s absolutely right.

"For the sake of posterity, I’ve compiled a list of  the many times Obama and/or his allies retaliated against his political foes from 2009 to the present." . . .Here comes one more:

"IRS whistleblower threatened to “watch her steps” when she points out illegal use of stolen Social Security cards by illegal aliens:" . . .

Many more in this article that is useful for political research. TD 

Bruce Springsteen endorsed Obama in 2008 and "At an Ohio rally, Springsteen discussed the importance of "truth, transparency and integrity in government, the right of every American to have a job, a living wage, to be educated in a decent school, and a life filled with the dignity of work, the promise and the sanctity of home...""
Is The Boss aware of the points discussed at length in the above article?

2012 FLASHBACK: Trump Slams Santorum ‘These Lost Delegates Show That He Is Badly Organized And Not A Good Manager’

Noisy Room

“ 'He @RickSantorum lost his 06 Senate race by 18 points. He is also disqualified for 18 Ohio delegates. Coincidence? And these lost delegates show that he is badly organized and not a good manager.” Donald Trump, March 2012

"Kyle Cheney of Politico found some tweets from Donald Trump from 2012, where he slammed then-presidential candidate Rick Santorum for not understanding delegate rules.

"Here is the list:

But wait! There's more! . . .

Iran Demands New Bribes And Obama Rushes To Deliver

Weasel Zippers

"Of course.

"Via NY Post:

Just how far will President Obama go to protect the nuclear deal with Iran — which he sees as central to his legacy? We’ll be finding out soon.

Tehran is loudly threatening to pull out of the accord unless it gets access to the US financial system. It would have to settle for the measly $150 billion in cash it’s already pocketed, plus the end of global sanctions.

Valiollah Seif, head of Iran’s central bank, charged last Friday that Washington isn’t living up to its part of the deal because “we are not able to use our frozen funds abroad.” Unless that’s resolved, he said, “the deal breaks up on its own accord.”

Don’t expect Team Obama to even think about calling Iran’s bluff.

In fact, the State Department has already written all 50 governors asking them to reconsider their states’ sanctions on Iran.

Keep reading…

 Obama warns Congress not to stand in way of Iran deal

Palestinian Incitement Breeds Terrorism

"Fatah and Hamas celebrate Jerusalem bus blast, candies distributed in Gaza"

NY Post

. . . "Monday’s bus blast comes just days ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins on Friday. Thousands of Jewish tourists from around the world are expected to visit Jerusalem during the Passover season.

"Following the terrorist attack, video footage of Hamas supporters cheering and handing out candies in the streets of Gaza has surfaced. 

"On Hamas-run TV channel the moderator could be seen giving military-style salute while reciting verses glorifying the terrorists who carried out the heinous attack in the backdrop of an image depicting rivers of blood flowing through the map of Israel.

"Writing for the Gatestone Institute, the noted Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh observed:

Shortly after the Jerusalem bus terror explosion attack on April 18, a number of Palestinian factions rushed to issue statements applauding the “heroic operation” and urging Palestinians to pursue the path of armed struggle against Israel.

The Palestinian jubilation over the terror attack, the first of its kind since the suicide bombings during the Second Intifada more than a decade ago, is yet another reminder of the growing radicalization among Palestinians. This radicalization is mostly attributed to the ongoing anti-Israel incitement and indoctrination by various Palestinian factions and leaders.

These terrorist murderers of innocent women and children grew up watching Palestinian children's TV such as this:

Palestinian Media Watch

We hear there is a small percentage of Muslims who support terrorism, but does that include the number of them who dance in the streets and pass out treats in celebration of Muslim acts of terrorism?  TD

Obama Immigration Plan Seems to Divide Supreme Court

Althouse   "Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the government’s top appellate lawyer... was sharply challenged by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and several of the court’s other members.
"Justice Anthony M. Kennedy questioned whether the president can defer deportations for millions of people without specific congressional authorization, saying “that is a legislative task, not an executive task.” “It’s as if the president is defining the policy and the Congress is executing it,” Justice Kennedy said. “That’s just upside down.”...
"[Roberts] pressed Mr. Verrilli on whether the president could simply deem all illegal immigrants to be legally present under the new policy. Mr. Verrilli, the solicitor general, said there are statutory constraints that would prevent the president from doing so....

Is Obama plotting yet again to harm embattled Israel?

Victor Sharpe    " . . .“Israel’s top political leaders and military commanders were stunned and shocked last weekend when they found out that US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to support the return of the Golan to Syria.”

If this is true, Barack Hussein Obama is plotting yet again a way to torment the Jewish state with yet another vile edict, one which clearly has nothing to do with enlightened statecraft but much more to do with evil witchcraft.

Business Insider photo

"The occupant in the Oval Office cannot salivate enough at the prospect of harming Israel’s security and survivability. No doubt he is fulfilling a malevolent pact he has made with a cabal of Islamists and extreme leftists; both of which ideologies have satanic hatred for Israel." 

. . . "Any thought of being brutally forced by Obama and Putin to abandon biblical Bashan (the Golan) with its immense strategic value to such Islamist foes as exist in Syria would be a betrayal of a loyal ally of the United States and of those first Jewish ancestors on the Golan who long ago "built sheepfolds for their cattle and cities for their little ones.' "

Peace and stability have prevailed along the Israeli-Syrian border since 1974  . . . "Strategic parity is created by the presence of the Israeli army only 60 km from Damascus, a constant deterrent to any Syrian aggression. The peace and serenity of the Israeli-Syrian border since 1974 testify to this." . . .

The left calls the Golan "occupied territory", but Israel has brought peace there. When held by Syria it was an ideal artillery post to kill Israelis and destroy their homes and they did often. 

Below is a view from an Israeli village of the heights Obama reportedly wants to give back to Syria.

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