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President Obama’s brutal assessment of the rise of Donald Trump

What is happening in this primary is just a distillation of what’s been happening inside their party for more than a decade. I mean, the reason that many of their voters are responding is because this is what’s been fed through the messages they’ve been sending for a long time — that you just make… Continue reading President Obama’s brutal assessment of the rise of Donald Trump

Breitbart spokesman quits over Trump incident

Breitbart spokesman quits over Trump incident

“My own personal observation is that there is a cycle of behavior that is escalating and it’s happening exclusively at Donald Trump events,” he said in the statement. “It is wrong, disgusting and indicative of an ugliness that is contaminating the public and political discourse in our country. Life is too short to invest your time in things you don’t believe and aren’t passionate about. That is why I made the decision to resign from representing Breitbart.“

The People Donald Trump Allegedly Ripped Off Through Trump University Look a Lot Like Trump Voters

The People Donald Trump Allegedly Ripped Off Through Trump University Look a Lot Like Trump Voters

A quick look at the people suing Trump reveals, well, people who might otherwise have been inclined to be Trump voters. They’re people like Tarla Makaeff, a former model and would-be fashion entrepreneur—and currently a yoga instructor—who filed suit against Trump in 2010. She’s now, according to Yahoo, asking to be removed as a named plaintiff in the class-action case, claiming Trump is threatening to financially ruin her.

Worth a read.

Paul Krugman is now accusing Bernie Sanders of “deep voodoo” economics.

Paul Krugman is now accusing Bernie Sanders of “deep voodoo” economics.

Krugman’s right of course. But the best comment is here:

One of the signatories of the letter, Austan Goolsbee, has also taken Sanders to task for claiming that revenue under his single-payer health plan would match the projected addition, by critics’ estimates, of some $2 trillion to $3 trillion to the deficit every year. He told the Times that Sanders’s “puppies and rainbows” agenda had “evolved into magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars.”

To actually pay for Sander’s plans, you’ll need to raise taxes on everyone making over 80k. Not just the top 0.1% as he suggested. Math may have a liberal bias, but it doesn’t have a Bernie Bro bias.