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“Microsoft will not donate money to the Republican convention
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Created by Todd Spence (https://twitter.com/Todd_Spence) & David Unger Music "DUM" (https://twitter.com/DavidUngerMusic) http://www.break.com/
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“What we’re calling for is drastic, very scary change..."
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Political logic can be a lot like dream logic. I recently had a dream of what I understand is a very common type: It was close to the end of senior year in high school, and I had just failed to show up for an exam, and failed to write a term paper on Edmund Spenser that was due. This meant I wouldn’t graduate. In most of my dreams, my conscious mind doesn’t intrude on the creations of my subconscious: The dream feels completely real. But in this case, my conscious mind intervened, and said: “But Mike, you already have a high-school diploma. This situation you’re worried about is unreal and absurd.” But in the dream, I coldly rebuffed the intrusion of reason and accepted what I really, honestly believed to be true: It doesn’t matter. I have failed and won’t graduate. That’s the reality.
No sooner had I woken than I realized that this is very similar to what’s going on in politics right now. There’s a Trump streamroller gathering force among self-described conservatives. Some people – the equivalent of the conscious mind in my dream – are intervening and saying: “But listen, conservatives, Trump is less conservative than any nominee the Republicans have ever had, and Cruz is more conservative than any nominee the Republicans have ever had. Cruz is the conservative, not Trump.”
As of this moment, it looks like the same thing is happening as happened in my dream. Many conservatives are saying: It doesn’t matter. Conservatives have failed and won’t graduate. Trump 2016. Let’s make America great again. Or at least prevent down-ballot losses. That’s the reality.
Note that I am not making any judgment here on the relative merits of Trump and Cruz. I’m not saying, Vote for this guy and against that guy. All I’m saying is: If you sincerely believe that, for example, Trump can wave a magic wand of “tough negotiations” and bring back jobs from China and Mexico, then, you might well be mistaken, but Trump is actually your candidate. But if you believe in conservative ideas, and conservative ideas are important to you, he is not your candidate. That’s the reality.
The difference between 2016 politics and my dream is that in my dream, the conscious mind, once rebuffed, gave up and went away. In politics, there are still forces working hard to reach the pro-Trump conservatives, and it’s not out of the question that they can still end up changing the result.
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Ted Cruz now has a negative net favorability rating after his shellacking this week. Cruz was mathematically eliminated on Tuesday. ...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott said it's time for Republicans to rally around Donald Trump and stop helping Hillary.
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On Saturday hundreds of far left activists held a march-rally at the Trump Tower in New York City. The anti-Trump ...
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Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead over Ted Cruz in the potentially decisive Indiana primary in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
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Our photographer visits the most talked-about stretch of land in U.S. politics.
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Not buying into the “doom and gloom” scenarios
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It's pretty simply, really. Either you want your party and movement to die, or you don't.
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Ted Cruz ensures that another ten delegates in Virginia (out of thirteen) are ultimately loyal to *him*.
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Julia Ioffe has received disturbing calls and online abuse since profiling Donald Trump’s wife for GQ, and likens antisemitism to ‘shit I’ve only seen in Russia’
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The TedNado once again trounced the cheeto-faced idiot in Virginia in the delegate count. He out-maneuvered him. He out-smarted him. He out-organized him. More details from the Hill: Ted Cruz suppo…
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Stand with Ted and Carly: http://www.CruzCarly.com Follow Ted: http://twitter.com/tedcruz Follow Carly: http://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina Like Ted: http://fb.c...
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A 12-year old boy who has been legally blind since birth recently saw his mother's face for the first time thanks to a high tech headset.
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So, how big will the protests be outside of D.L. Hughley's shows in May and June?
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Sarah Saldana acknowledged on Thursday that "sanctuary city" polices put federal immigration officers at risk, but she declined to support measures that w
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The Nightly Show's Larry Wilmore took the podium at the White House Correspondents Dinner right after President Obama tonight and spent a lot of time reflecting
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Larry Wilmore had some fun with a lot of media people during his White House Correspondents Dinner, but Don Lemon had the most amazing reaction.
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Again, surprisingly few people who are unarmed and not attacking police end up being shot by police. I reworked the data published by the Washington Post because as usual it does not put it in a fo…
#351348
This is huge going into Indiana's primary to be held on Tuesday. Cruz has been touting how unfavorable Trump was among Republican voters for weeks now
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Trump supporters speak out about the leftist mob that threaten to beat them up for voting for Trump.
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Amid a rising tide of unreason, critical thinking is more essential than ever.
