*2016 US Presidential Elections* - Candidates, Statistics, Campaign Timelines, Debates

[Bloodshot Scott]

Why are you voting for Trump?

The SCOTUS is on the line. That Trump wants to deal with illegals was another factor, and his statements regarding Muslims/Muslim immigration, and because Hillary is a flat out disrespectful elitist, entitled annoying bitch. I could never vote for that wench.

 

[Straight Shooter]

The SCOTUS is on the line. That Trump wants to deal with illegals was another factor, and his statements regarding Muslims/Muslim immigration, and because Hillary is a flat out disrespectful elitist, entitled annoying bitch. I could never vote for that wench.

Why not join me and vote for Gary Johnson?

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Why not join me and vote for Gary Johnson?

I voted for him in 2012. This election will be as close as the last one possibly and I do not want Hillary in there.

 

[Mayhem]

The last one wasn't close.

 

[Mayhem]

'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter says Trump sent him cease and desist letter

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...r-says-trump-sent-him-cease-and-desist-letter

The co-author of Donald Trump's bestselling book "The Art of the Deal" said Wednesday he has received a cease and desist letter from the Trump Organization's chief legal officer.

The letter reportedly demands, among other things, that Tony Schwartz return all the royalty payments he received from the book.

It comes after Schwartz slammed Trump in an interview with The New Yorker magazine published earlier this week where he harshly criticized the businessman.
"I got almost immediately that cease and desist letter delivered to me by FedEx and you know, it's nuts and completely indicative of who he is," Schwartz said Wednesday in an interview on MSNBC.

"There's no basis in anything legal. I suspect that Donald Trump called up his chief legal person and said: 'Go after that guy and do whatever you have to do.' "

Schwartz said the "poor" head of legal affairs for the Trump Organization had to come up with "some facacta stuff, most of which is untrue."

"So for example, this notion that I didn't write the book is so preposterous," he said.

"I am not certain that Donald Trump read every word, but I'm sure certain that I wrote every word ... the idea that he would dispute that is part of why I felt I had to come forward. The notion that if he could lie about that, Rachel, he could lie about anything."

In theinterview with The New Yorker, Schwartz said he "put lipstick on a pig" with the "Art of the Deal," adding that he feels a "deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is."

Schwartz said earlier this week that he "never in a million years" thought Trump would run for president.

"It's a terrifying thing," he said on ABC.

“I haven’t slept a night through since Donald Trump announced for president because I believe he is so insecure, so easily provoked and not particularly nearly as smart as people might imagine he is.”

He expressed concern about how Trump, the Republican nominee for president, would handle conflicts with world leaders and criticized Trump for his "short attention span."

 

[sean miguel]

Ted Cruz booed off the stage. Like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, he signed a pledge to support the republican nominee and reneged on that pledge. They are not men of honor as their word means nothing.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/20/ted-cruz-vote-your-conscience/

I love this woman:

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Ted Cruz booed off the stage. Like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, he signed a pledge to support the republican nominee and reneged on that pledge. They are not men of honor as their word means nothing.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/20/ted-cruz-vote-your-conscience/

Seemed like Cruz was teasing giving an endorsement then backed out returning to discussing basically the same thing he was earlier then closed out with the God Blesses and finished up.

 

[Mayhem]

Ted Cruz booed off the stage. Like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, he signed a pledge to support the republican nominee and reneged on that pledge. They are not men of honor as their word means nothing.

Yup, you really have a Party to be proud of. :thumbsup:

 

[Straight Shooter]

I dislike Ted Cruz with a passion but what he did was fucking awesome

 

[sean miguel]

Yup, you really have a Party to be proud of. :thumbsup:

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski."


Why am I even bothering with you?

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

Ted Cruz should have endorsed the ticket featuring a man that endorsed him a few months back. Not a side of Cruz that makes me happy that I voted for him.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Ted Cruz should have endorsed the ticket featuring a man that endorsed him a few months back. Not a side of Cruz that makes me happy that I voted for him.

It's reported that he's going run again in 2020 even if Trump is president. Cruz is a fucking gangsta

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

It's reported that he's going run again in 2020 even if Trump is president. Cruz is a fucking gangsta

If Trump is president and Cruz pulls that stunt, he won't get my vote. I think his non endorsement tonight was self serving and a bitch move. I was as big of a supporter of Cruz as you could get. Even sent him money. Pence deserved the common decency for him to get on board and stop fueling the Never Trump bullshit.

 

[Mayhem]

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski."


Why am I even bothering with you?

Because you have a man-crush on me, which would be flattering if it was someone other than you.

You guys claim to hate the "establishment" and the status quo. But you just played the establishment game to the tee. Instead of facing the inequities of your own Party and system, you do a knee-jerk pivot to the opposition. "My house is falling into a sink-hole, but their house is on fire, so I'll just point fingers at them."

And don't even do the next obvious tactic of accusing me of the same. Dems introspect their Party all the time. People like you are just too self-absorbed and hate obsessed to notice.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

"Dems introspect"...........I nearly pissed myself laughing at that.

 

[Mayhem]

OK well, let's talk about all the times that you succeed in pissing yourself. In fact, I'm sure you succeeded this time too.

 

[sean miguel]

Ted Cruz is a piece of shit. Voters in Texas need to hold him accountable. His political career should be over.

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

It's reported that he's going run again in 2020 even if Trump is president. Cruz is a fucking gangsta

You need to seek help for your problem lol

 

[xfire]

It's reported that he's going run again in 2020 even if Trump is president. Cruz is a fucking gangsta

If Trump is president and Cruz pulls that stunt, he won't get my vote. I think his non endorsement tonight was self serving and a bitch move. I was as big of a supporter of Cruz as you could get. Even sent him money. Pence deserved the common decency for him to get on board and stop fueling the Never Trump bullshit.

Ted Cruz is a piece of shit. Voters in Texas need to hold him accountable. His political career should be over.

All of the dumbest elected officials in this country come from Texas, the competition isn't even close and they truly are representative of the people that voted for them and sent them there. Every time I go fill up the gas tank, pick up something at the grocery store, or check the post office, I run into Ted Cruz, oh sure, the name and face may not be the same, but he's there, in their hearts, minds, attitudes, outlook on life, and while watching Ted be a Texan up there in DC can be amusing, that shtick gets old fast face to face.

 

[Mayhem]

NATO allies respond to Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. might not protect them from Russia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-the-u-s-might-not-protect-them-from-russia/

Donald Trump has long suggested that he takes a skeptical view of the United States' alliances. However, in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday evening, the Republican presidential nominee went further than before, appearing to suggest that the United States should not be required to automatically defend NATO allies if they face attack.

Trump specifically pointed to the Baltic states that sit near Russia's borders, who often complain of belligerence from Moscow, and said they would only be helped if they had "fulfilled their obligations to us." For some in those in the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — the American businessman's comments provoked confusion and surprise.

"Estonia is of 5 NATO allies in Europe to meet its 2% def expenditures commitment," Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves wrote on Twitter, referring to the percentage of gross domestic product that NATO members are expected to spend on defense.

The Estonian president also pointed to his country's role in the war in Afghanistan as proof of the country's commitment, retweeting a message that said Estonia had one of the highest casualty rates per capita in that conflict. “Estonia’s commitment to our NATO obligations is beyond doubt and so should be the commitments by others,” a spokesperson for the Estonian foreign ministry, added in an email.

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics also took to Twitter to address Trump's comments, writing that Latvia stood "shoulder to shoulder with all our allies, always did, always will." Rinkevics, who is currently on a work-related trip to the United States, later told Diena newspaper that Latvia's national security was also in its own hands and that the country had the second-highest increase in defense spending among NATO members over the past year.

"There is no reason to doubt NATO's commitment to the core function of the Alliance — collective defense," Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds Bergmanis wrote on Twitter, adding that the country was aiming to meet the 2 percent spending target by 2018.

A more pointed tone was taken by Ojars Eriks Kalnins, chair of the foreign affairs committee in Latvia’s Parliament, who called Trump's remarks "dangerous" in comments also reported by Diena newspaper. Kalnins noted it was unclear if Trump was talking about the spending commitments or generally being helpful to the United States.

"Too bad the NY Times didn't ask Trump if he would defend NATO member Slovenia if attacked," the U.S.-raised Latvian politician wrote on Twitter, a reference to the Eastern European state and ally in which the Republican nominee's wife, Melania Trump, was born and has family.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite downplayed the comments. "I do not think interpretations of candidate Trump’s remarks are necessary," Grybauskaite said at a press conference on Thursday. "We know that the United States will remain our most important partner." This line was followed in comments made by Linas Linkevicius, the foreign minister of Lithuania, on a local radio show. "We do not have reason to doubt that our allies will fulfill their commitments to the alliance," he said, according to the Baltic News Service.

NATO established its 2 percent defense spending requirement in 2006. Of the three Baltic states, only Estonia currently meets that requirement, although Latvia and Lithuania have said they are increasing their spending and hope to meet it within a few years. Baltic states aren't alone in this; of the 28 member states, only five spent at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense in 2015.

However, even if the Baltic states did increase their spending dramatically, their small size means that their contributions would remain low: According to data from the U.S. Defense Department, all three countries currently contribute less than 0.5 percent of the funding for the NATO Security Investment Program, one of the alliance's three resource pillars. The United States contributes 22.1 percent.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were all former members of the Soviet Union and have long existed on the periphery of Moscow's influence. After they gained independence, all three countries sought NATO membership, officially applying in 2002 and joining in 2004. Given their history and tight geography with Russia, there's little doubt they were enticed to join by Article 5, a core principle of NATO's founding treaty that says a military attack against one state should be considered a military attack against all states.

"We are equally committed to all our NATO allies, regardless of who they may be," Estonian president Ilves, who spent much of his early life in the U.S., continued. "That's what makes them allies."