Amerika -izbori 2016

[Aco Popara Zver]

Напокон, Трампов гениј у глобалу!

"This Map Of Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Would Be Funny If It Weren't So True" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-foreign-policy-map_us_570d3358e4b0885fb50e5fef

[Aco Popara Zver]

Напокон, Трампов гениј у глобалу!

"This Map Of Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Would Be Funny If It Weren't So True" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-foreign-policy-map_us_570d3358e4b0885fb50e5fef

[Aco Popara Zver]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fact-check-clinton-vs-sanders-on-wall-street/

[Aco Popara Zver]

380 miliona $ potrošeno u kampanji

280 Republikanci

18 Tramp

ša reći, suvi genije

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/how-the-media-has-shaped-the-2016-presidential-race/

[Aco Popara Zver]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/23/a-world-war-has-begun-break-the-silence/

A World War has Begun: Break the Silence

by John Pilger


I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, "Where is that?" If I offer a clue by referring to "Bikini", they say, "You mean the swimsuit."

Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.

Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated.  Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered "unsafe" on a Geiger counter.

Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called "Bravo". The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.

On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women's Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: "You, too, can have a bikini body."  A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different "bikini bodies"; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.

Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious  superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.

I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us.  The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions" of democratic societies. He called it an "invisible government".

How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.

In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make "the world free from nuclear weapons". People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It was all fake. He was lying.

The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories.  Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over thirty years is more than $1 trillion.

A mini nuclear bomb is planned. It is known as the B61 Model 12. There has never been anything like it. General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, "Going smaller [makes using this nuclear] weapon more thinkable."

In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place along Russia's western frontier.  Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.

Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union –  has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority.

This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia – the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world's second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.

What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China.


Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of a "threat".  According to Admiral Harry Harris, the US Pacific commander, China is "building a great wall of sand in the South China Sea".

What he is referring to is China building airstrips in the Spratly Islands, which are the subject of a dispute with the Philippines – a dispute without priority until Washington pressured and bribed the government in Manila and the Pentagon launched a propaganda campaign called "freedom of navigation".

What does this really mean?  It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China.  Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California.

I made a film called The War You Don't See, in which I interviewed distinguished journalists in America and Britain: reporters such as Dan Rather of CBS, Rageh Omar of the BBC, David Rose of the Observer.

All of them said that had journalists and broadcasters done their job and questioned the propaganda that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; had the lies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair not been amplified and echoed by journalists, the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened, and  hundreds of thousands of men, women and children would be alive today.

The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or  China is no different in principle. To my knowledge, no journalist in the Western "mainstream" — a Dan Rather equivalent, say –asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.

The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear -armed bombers.

This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and  across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.

In 2015, in high secrecy, the US and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea military exercise in recent history, known as Talisman Sabre. Its aim was to rehearse an Air-Sea Battle Plan, blocking sea lanes, such as the Straits of Malacca and the Lombok Straits, that cut off China's access to oil, gas and other vital raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.

In the circus known as the American presidential campaign, Donald Trump is being presented as a lunatic, a fascist.  He is certainly odious; but he is also a media hate figure.  That alone should arouse our scepticism.

Trump's views on migration are grotesque, but no more grotesque than those of David Cameron. It is not Trump who is the Great Deporter from the United States, but the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama.

According to one prodigious liberal commentator, Trump is "unleashing the dark forces of violence" in the United States. Unleashing them?

This is the country where toddlers shoot their mothers and the police wage a murderous war against black Americans. This is the country that has attacked and sought to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and bombed from Asia to the Middle East, causing the deaths and dispossession of millions of people.

No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of America's wars (almost all of them against defenceless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.

In 1947, a series of National Security Council directives described the paramount aim of American foreign policy as "a world substantially made over in [America's] own image".  The ideology was messianic Americanism. We were all Americans. Or else. Heretics would be converted, subverted, bribed, smeared or crushed.

Donald Trump is a symptom of this, but he is also a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn't want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system whose vaunted "exceptionalism" is totalitarian with an occasional liberal face.

As presidential  election day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies – just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about "hope". And the drool goes on.

Described by the Guardian columnist Owen Jones as "funny, charming, with a coolness that eludes practically every other politician", Obama the other day sent drones to slaughter 150 people in Somalia.  He kills people usually on Tuesdays, according to the New York Times, when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone. So cool.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton threatened to "totally obliterate" Iran with nuclear weapons.  As Secretary of State under Obama, she participated in the overthrow of the democratic government of Honduras. Her contribution to the destruction of Libya in 2011 was almost gleeful. When the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, was publicly sodomised with a knife – a murder made possible by American logistics – Clinton gloated over his death: "We came, we saw, he died."

One of Clinton's closest allies is Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of State, who has attacked young women for not supporting "Hillary". This is the same Madeleine Albright  who infamously celebrated on TV the death of half a million Iraqi children as "worth it".

Among Clinton's biggest backers are the Israel lobby and the arms companies that fuel the violence in the Middle East.  She and her husband have received a fortune from Wall Street. And yet, she is about to be ordained the women's candidate, to see off the evil Trump, the official demon. Her supporters include distinguished feminists: the likes of Gloria Steinem in the US and Anne Summers in Australia.

A generation ago, a post-modern cult now known as "identity politics" stopped many intelligent, liberal-minded people examining the causes and individuals they supported — such as the fakery of Obama and Clinton;  such as bogus progressive movements like Syriza in Greece, which betrayed the people of that country and allied with their enemies.

Self absorption, a kind of "me-ism", became the new zeitgeist in privileged western societies and signaled the demise of great collective movements against war, social injustice, inequality,  racism and sexism.

Today, the long sleep may be over. The young are stirring again. Gradually. The thousands in Britain who supported Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader are part of this awakening – as are those who rallied to support Senator Bernie Sanders.

In Britain last week, Jeremy Corbyn's closest ally, his shadow treasurer John McDonnell, committed a Labour government to pay off the debts of piratical banks and, in effect, to continue so-called austerity.

In the US, Bernie Sanders has promised to support Clinton if or when she's nominated. He, too, has voted for America's use of violence against countries when he thinks it's "right". He says Obama has done "a great job".

In Australia, there is a kind of mortuary politics, in which tedious parliamentary games are played out in the media while refugees and Indigenous people are persecuted and inequality grows, along with the danger of war. The government of Malcolm Turnbull has just announced a so-called defence budget of $195 billion that is a drive to war.  There was no debate. Silence.

What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?

Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?

[Meho Krljic]

Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections

[Biki]

Bitka za New York. Ko li ce pobediti!?

[Aco Popara Zver]

T R A M P !!!

[Aco Popara Zver]

ha, ko sad ovo muti, Sandersovci ili Klintonovi

Voter-fraud allegations

About 54,000 Democratic voters "vanished from the rolls in Brooklyn," the New York Post writes. Other reports say more than 120,000 voters -- "whole city blocks," according to CNN -- have been affected.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/04/new_york_primary_live_updates.html

[Biki]

Jesi video !?

[Meho Krljic]

 Yes, Bernie Sanders Will Become President. Hillary Clinton's FBI Investigation Isn't a 'Nothingburger' 

Perhaps the greatest compliment paid to me recently was from a Boston Globe columnist who remarked that I must really be Andy Kaufman. It's a compliment, first because Kaufman was a genius, and also because his genius rested in the absurd; almost like voting for a presidential candidate being investigated by the FBI. In 2016, the most qualified candidate according to smart Democratic strategists holds negative favorability ratings in every single national poll. In 8 out of 10 national polls, Hillary Clinton's favorability ratings are negative by 15 points or more. According to recent CBS and NBS/WSJ polls, Clinton holds negative favorability ratings by 23 and 24 point margins, respectively. A progressive said to "get things done" won't be able to win the White House with such negative national ratings.
In contrast, Bernie Sanders is the only leading candidate with positive favorability ratings, and this has nothing to do with Clinton being more "vetted." Bernie doesn't need private servers and speaks to millions of people in open forums; Clinton is the antithesis of Vermont's Senator. It's not that people don't know about Bernie's controversies, it's that he simply doesn't have a penchant for controversy like his competitor. Unlike Clinton, Bernie Sanders can type an email without the FBI interviewing him or his associates.
Furthermore, I explain in my latest CNN International appearance that Sanders is the best chance to defeat Trump, especially since Clinton could face DOJ indictment. I also discuss on CNN New Day that Clinton's white privilege allows her to circumvent almost any scandal, even issues that Bernie Sanders couldn't survive politically.
In terms of stark contrasts between Clinton and Sanders, you couldn't find a greater example of two candidates who epitomize opposing value systems. While Bernie Sanders has electrified millions of voters by simply focusing on progressive ideals, Hillary Clinton can't even disclose a speech transcript, or hold a fundraising event without static noise machines.
I explain why Clinton can't disclose Wall Street speech transcripts in the following YouTube segment. In addition, I urge all my critics within the Democratic establishment to subscribe to my YouTube channel for comedy relief, because the fun it just beginning. Imagine the laughter after the FBI formally interviews Clinton and her top aides, and finally discloses the evidence found during a year-long investigation.
It's an honor to be viewed as Andy Kaufman by people who think Clinton is qualified to become president, in this bizarre world where glaring weaknesses are seen as strengths, and overt lies are viewed as simply smart politics. No doubt, when Clinton's national favorability rating soars from its current 56% to perhaps 70%, after the FBI formally discloses its findings (with or without indictments, the media firestorm will hurt favorability numbers), my thoughts might be viewed as less amusing by devout Hillary supporters.
The smartest people in the room, the same pragmatists who've completely forgotten about the horrors of Iraq and Afghanistan, are also saying Hillary Clinton is not only qualified to run this country, but also that the FBI isn't serious in their year-long investigation. The great Charles Pierce of Esquire calls it a "nothingburger," and although he's a wonderful writer, I doubt he'd be as nonchalant if he were the subject of a year-long FBI investigation. I just hope that the illustrious TBOGG from Raw Story, a person who relished in bending the truth regarding my writing (especially my supposed "love" for a certain Republican, something that isn't at all true), will write a piece correlating FBI investigations and presidential qualifications.
All these savvy and astute political pundits apparently know the meaning of pragmatism, yet they'd never vote for a Republican with Clinton's record on foreign policy, Wall Street ties, and inability to perform a speech or type an email without scandal. Of course, when you're more interested in money generated for "down-ticket Democrats" than being correct on Iraq, or opposing the TPP and Keystone XL, then allegiance to a political party overshadows principle.
When you hear pundits critiquing Bernie Sanders for not helping "down-ticket Democrats," simply watch my YouTube segment presenting the case for writing-in Bernie, if Clinton is the nominee. After two major wars, bailouts for banks that wrecked the economy, and racist campaign tactics (Clinton's 3 a. m. ad, for example), voters have far greater concerns than loyalty to a political party. Democrats owe allegiance to voters, not the other way around, and Bernie Sanders has single-handedly altered this dynamic.
Nevertheless, Clinton and her top aides are scheduled to be interviewed soon, according to The Los Angeles Times in a piece titled Clinton email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom:

Feral prosecutors investigating the possible mishandling of classified materials on Hillary Clinton's private email server have begun the process of setting up formal interviews with some of her longtime and closest aides, according to two people familiar with the probe, an indication that the inquiry is moving into its final phases... No dates have been set for questioning the advisors, but a federal prosecutor in recent weeks has called their lawyers to alert them that he would soon be doing so, the sources said. Prosecutors also are expected to seek an interview with Clinton herself, though the timing remains unclear...
The meetings also are an indication that much of the investigators' background work - recovering deleted emails, understanding how the server operated and determining whether it was breached - is nearing completion.  "The interviews are critical to understand the volume of information they have accumulated," said James McJunkin, former head of the FBI's Washington field office.

If any other politician in American history were interviewed by the FBI, before an election, would you vote for this person?
This FBI email investigation is serious, it's not a joke, and I explain in this YouTube segment why the FBI's reputation is at stake, and in this YouTube segment how Clinton views the FBI. It will likely derail Hillary Clinton's campaign, and ensure that humble pie and other less appetizing fare be served alongside the "nothingburger" establishment Democrats have consumed thus far.
Bernie Sanders currently defeats Republican challengers by a wider margin than Hillary Clinton. New York and the remaining primaries will help usher Bernie into the White House, but Clinton's FBI email investigation will force the DNC to rally behind Sanders. The establishment will concede, since Bernie Sanders is the only hope for Democrats after the FBI either recommends indictment, or highlights Clinton's "carelessness."
As a testament to the new definitions of "qualification" and "pragmatism," President Obama is quoted by CBS News addressing Clinton's "carelessness":

But, he added, "what I've also said is that — and she has acknowledged — that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing e-mails, that she has owned, and she recognizes." The use of a private email server by the former secretary of state is currently under investigation by the FBI.   Earlier this year, the State Department said it had found 22 emails on Clinton's homebrewed server that had to be upgraded to "Top Secret," the highest level of classification. Those top secret documents were withheld from being publicly released along with the rest of her emails. With 22 Top Secret emails on a private server, in the basement of a private residence, "carelessness" is perhaps the best word to describe this fiasco.
Hillary Clinton is now only 1.4 points ahead of Bernie Sanders according to Real Clear Politics national Democratic Primary polls, and I predicted this in a polling trajectory article last September. With 1,045 delegates won, I also foreshadowed in numerous articles that Bernie would be battling this far into the primary. Nobody gave Sanders a chance, and while H. A. Goodman might have been overzealous in some predictions, be sure to read those articles. They contain information on why such predictions were made, and I've been right on more things than most other observers.
Last year, Clinton stated "I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two." If you think the FBI will believe this excuse, then thing again. Ultimately, the FBI's year-long investigation into Clinton's emails will hand Bernie Sanders the Democratic nomination and White House, and I'm one of the few progressives today stating this glaring reality.

[džin tonik]

Trump potukao rivale u matičnoj državi

[ALEKSIJE D.]

Злоћко, кој ти је овај ТрУмп? Неки нови ђогат у трци за дугменцетом у коферчету и да се запљуне у историји пре него што га изеде рак?

[džin tonik]

sto se mene tice, bilo bi dovoljno da uvede malo (ili malo vise, nebo je granica) realnog nasilja nad svime sto nije veliki bijeli covjek i krscanin.

[ALEKSIJE D.]

И Хрват, наравно.
Него, молт'е се ви 'рвати богу да ТрУмп не победи. Словенка му жена, има да предате на пладњу комплет Истру са све граничним подручијима до Загреба. А и ту су предграђа спорна...

[džin tonik]

zelis reci kako je pod uticajem kakve zene? onda nista, opet corak. ah, jedan je bio hitler, bog ga blagoslovio...

[ALEKSIJE D.]

Nemoj biti isključiv. I tvoj Ante, Antišta dični, imao je ženicu, ne? I kak bi to zgodno bilo kad bi se dalo nekako zrihtati da je ona odgovorna za sve?

[džin tonik]

eto objasnjenja zasto srpskoj mitologiji nije dao nuzno potrebnu realnu podlogu.

[Aco Popara Zver]

иф ју кен мејк ит дер, јул мејк ит евривееер, итс ап ту ју, њујорк, њујооооорк!

Та та танана, та та танана! Трамп!

[Aco Popara Zver]

Хилари о ванземаљцима

"Hillary Clinton Is Making Big Promises To UFO Believers" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/04/19/hillary-clinton-ufo-files_n_9738716.html

[Aco Popara Zver]

Неееееееееееее!

Meet the "new" Donald Trump: He's reinventing his campaign — and that should terrify the Republican Party http://www.salon.com/2016/04/21/meet_the_new_donald_trump_hes_reinventing_his_campaign_and_that_should_terrify_the_republican_party/ v

[Dybuk]

Povratak nekom tom zdravom razumu? E, to je genijalan potez!

http://youtu.be/di9tnYEloW8

[Meho Krljic]

Znamo mi da nisu naprednjaci izmislili botovanje, tako da nas ovo ne iznenađuje:


BUSTED: Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million on Social Media Trolls 

    A Super PAC headed by a longtime Clinton operative is spending $1 million to hire online trolls to "correct" Bernie Sanders' supporters on social media.
Correct The Record (CTR), which is operated by Clinton attack dog and new owner of Blue Nation Review David Brock, launched a new initiative this week called "Barrier Breakers 2016" for the purpose of debating supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders — or "Bernie Bros," as they're referred to in Correct the Record's press official release — on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other social media platforms.
The "Barrier Breakers" will also publicly thank Hillary Clinton's superdelegates and fans for supporting her campaign. The paid trolls are professional communicators, coming from public relations and media backgrounds.
"The task force staff's backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize," CTR stated.
In a Reddit comments thread about CTR's new project, Reddit user and Sanders supporter /u/workythehand, gave other commenters advice on how to identify and engage with one of David Brock's paid commenters:

The best tactic to use against "professionals" is to simply downvote and move on. The more you argue with them, the more likely people will read the astroturfer's posts.
Keep your eyes out for

very young accounts, repetition of phrasing and syntax (the same "Sanders only diagnoses the problem..." talking points, for instance) in every post, and rapid fire posting – 10+ comments in the span of a few minutes is a good indicator.

Libby Watson of the Sunlight Foundation told the Daily Beast on Thursday that FEC loopholes allow the Hillary Clinton campaign and David Brock's Super PAC to coordinate with one another, despite the Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court decision prohibiting a Super PAC's independent expenditures from going directly toward a particular candidate.
"It's not totally clear what [CTR's] reasoning is, but it seems to be that material posted on the internet for free—like, blogs—doesn't count as an 'independent expenditure,'" Watson said. She continued by addressing the unprecedented nature of the project.
She concluded with a damning assessment: "Campaign finance lawyers are not that impressed with [CTR's] logic, but they can get away with it because the [Federal Election Commission] is deadlocked and does nothing."
Watson also made note of the unprecedented and bizarre nature of the program, saying, "Usually places like MMFA and CTR are defending her against the media and established figures. This seems to be going after essentially random individuals online," she said. "I don't know that they've done anything like this before."
CTR boasts on its website that it's already "corrected" at least 5,000 Sanders supporters on Twitter.
Tom Cahill is a writer for US Uncut based in the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in coverage of political, economic, and environmental news. You can contact him via email at tom.v.cahill@gmail.com. 

[Aco Popara Zver]

Ал ово је про ботовање, новинари, блогери, пр-овци... ова домаћа радиност тек у аматерским водама

Краљевски кад имаш милион долара и изтрампујеш твитер

Начи ништа више није свето!

[Father Jape]

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=25389

[Biki]

Bato ovaj tvoj preso 1000 delegata mark 

[Aco Popara Zver]

Drumpf!!!

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/29/a_liberal_case_for_donald_trump_the_lesser_of_two_evils_is_not_at_all_clear_in_2016/

[Agota]

Susan Sarandon Prefers Donald Trump's Wall to Hillary Clinton's 'Moral Judgment'

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/28/sarandon-prefers-trumps-wall-to-clintons-moral-judgment/

[Aco Popara Zver]

Donald Drumpf forever!

[lilit]

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/may-day/

napokon prave demonstracije.

[Aco Popara Zver]

Ма то је само Сијетл, град Ратибора Тривунца, док Тексас не каже хауди дуди сошлизм нема од тога ништа

[lilit]

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/photos-from-2016-seattle-may-day/

[Meho Krljic]

  Ted Cruz ends his bid for Republican presidential nomination 

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign Tuesday, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump's march to the Republican nomination.
The conservative tea party firebrand who cast himself as the only viable alternative to Trump announced his exit after a stinging defeat in Indiana's Republican primary.
"It appears that path has been foreclosed," Cruz told supporters in Indianapolis. "Together, we left it all on the field of Indiana. We gave it everything we've got, but the voters chose another path, and so with a heavy heart but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign."
Cruz had already been mathematically eliminated from clinching the delegate majority in the state-by-state primary process, but hoped to force a contested national convention in July. That possibility ends Tuesday with the Texas senator's announcement.
Had he succeeded in his quest, Cruz would have been the first U.S. president of Hispanic descent, although he often downplayed his heritage on the campaign trail, instead, touting the need for tougher immigration laws, for a border wall along the border with Mexico, protecting gun rights, repealing President Barack Obama's health care law and instituting a flat tax.
Cruz argued he was the only true conservative in the race, building on his reputation in the Senate where he clashed both with Democrats and members of his own party over his ideological stubbornness. Cruz railed against what he called the "Washington cartel," trying to appeal to an electorate that is craving political outsiders.
But he ultimately couldn't compete with Trump's appeal among white, working class voters who were drawn to the billionaire's outlandish approach to politics.
Cruz's campaign placed its hopes on a data-driven effort to turn out conservative evangelical Christians who had opted out of recent presidential elections. Increasingly, he would modify his travel schedule to go where data showed there might be pockets of untapped supporters.
With the scale tipping increasingly in Trump's favor, he announced an extraordinary pact in April with his other rival, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in which the two would divide their time and resources based on states where they were each poised to do better.
Days later, he prematurely named former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina as his running mate, hoping it would woo some of the female voters turned off by Trump's brash rhetoric.
Trump's appeal to evangelicals, though, and the New York billionaire's popularity with the broader Republican electorate, proved too much.
Cruz, 45, worked on George W. Bush's 2000 campaign and went on to serve five years as the top attorney for the state of Texas, arguing nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He parleyed that experience into an underdog run for the U.S. Senate, defeating the state's lieutenant governor in the primary before winning election in 2012.
He first burst on the national political landscape in 2013 when he led a 21-hour quasi-filibuster against President Barack Obama's health care law, reading his children Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham" as a bedtime story via CSPAN during the marathon effort.
Cruz later teamed with the most-conservative members of the House to spark a government shutdown. It ultimately didn't accomplish any major Republican goals, but raised Cruz's national profile even more.
Cruz built a coalition of like-minded Republicans in Congress, as well as former presidential rivals — Fiorina, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Lindsey Graham among them — but won only minimal support from his Senate colleagues.
Cruz's campaign slogan of "Trusted" was tarnished after he was forced to apologize to Ben Carson for falsely suggesting the night of the Iowa caucuses that the retired neurosurgeon was dropping out of the race. Cruz also abruptly fired his communications director a day before the Nevada caucuses for spreading a false story about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio disparaging the Bible.
Trump nicknamed Cruz "Lyin' Ted," and derided him as "unstable," "crazy," "a maniac" and "sick."
Trump also questioned whether Cruz's birth in Canada disqualified him to run for president, frequently threatening to sue him over the issue. He never followed through, but several suits were filed, including in Cruz's home state of Texas.
   Cruz initially avoided attacking Trump, hoping that the former reality TV star's supporters would flow to him if Trump flamed out. As Trump's momentum grew with early primary victories, Cruz fought back and said Trump can't be trusted because of his past support for Democrats, abortion rights and same-sex marriage.
But it was too late.
Cruz was joined on stage with his parents, as well as by Fiorina and his wife, Heidi.
He made no mention of the Republican front-runner, vowing instead to continue his fight for liberty and for the Constitution. 

[lilit]

vote trump!
that is america.

[Dybuk]

Haha, ovo je odlicno!!

[Aco Popara Zver]

трамполишс!

Ај лајк трамп, ју лајк трамп, еврибади лајкс трамп, трамп, трамп, трамп!

Друмпф!

[Biki]

Uopste nisam ocekivala da ce Kruz da izadje iz trke. Bas sam se iznenadila malopre gledajuci vesti. Nista mi nije jasno  . 

[lilit]

sad samo da se nadamo da će bil da poživi bar dok kampanja ne prodje i HRC je out! 

[mac]

Moguće je da su pričali nasamo s Trampom, i da im je Tramp pokazao svoju drugu stranu, i da su zaključili da mogu da sarađuju s tom drugom stranom. Moguće je i da su se predali i da će prosto glasati za Hilari (ili Bernija, ali sve su manje šanse za to). Shvatili su da im ne može proći otimačina na republikanskoj konvenciji u julu.

Kampanje koštaju, i u jednom trenutku moraš da prekineš jer ne možeš ništa da dobiješ, a konstatno gubiš novac.


Kako je HRC out? Bolje Berni, ali kako?

[lilit]

ma berni nažalost nema nikakve šanse protiv HRC te odoh korak dalje: HRC vs Trump.
americi je potrebna žena predsednik al ne ova žena.
tako da je moj favorit trump, biće zabavniji od obame a sumnjam da će se išta menjati u američkoj, posebno unutrašnjoj, politici.
seattle je još napredan za ostatak amerike, pričam s narodom, većina ne misli da je trump loš izbor.
siromaštvo nezamislivo za evropu.
homeless naroda po ulicama u ogromnom broju.
obavezan (ukljucen) tip od 20% u svim restoranima.
sendvič na kiosku 8 $  + tip.
itd itd

[Aco Popara Zver]

у Сијетлу ако гласају Трампа то би био револуционаран прелом мозга, ја не знам за веће упориште Демократа

Но, има и она теорија да Демократе и не желе овај мандат, јер ће бити доста посраних потеза а 2020. Је важнија

[lilit]

sijetl je anarhija za ameriku al i jeziv inequity grad. tu su HQs mnogih kompanija, amazon, google, tu je gates foundation, etc.
convention center gde mi je kongres izgleda kao enterprise, park iza zgrade kao da si u elysiumu, izadjes ispred zgrade i vidiš 50 homelessa, sede, leže, stoje.
dobiće demokrate seattle al ne mislim da će biti ubedljivo kao prošlog puta.

[Aco Popara Zver]

Hours later, Cruz branded Trump utterly amoral and compared likened him to a character in the "Back to the Future" movies.

SEN. TED CRUZ: A caricature of a braggadocios, arrogant buffoon who builds giant casinos with giant pictures of him everywhere he looks. We are looking, potentially, at the Biff Tannen presidency.

[Biki]

Kasich je takodje napustio trku.

[mac]

Bil O'Rajli objašnjava Stivenu Kolberu zašto republikansko biračko telo glasa za Trampa

! No longer available

[Aco Popara Zver]

[Biki]

Fibonacci 

[Aco Popara Zver]

икона, узор универзалне љепоте! Чиста душа, симетрија психичких и физичких карактеристика! Уберменш!

[lilit]

moj nereprezentativni uzorak kvazi prosvećenih belih amera: tokom dana svi redom su za hilari, al kako noć pada, sve im je milija ideja "zabraniti muslimanima ulazak u usa".
biće ovo huge trump victory.

[varvarin]

http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/354680/Uloga-Monike-Levinski-u-izboru-predsednika

Улога Монике Левински у избору председника

"Републикански кандидат тврди да му лекције о поштовању жена не може давати ривалка која је уништавала љубавнице свог мужa..."


BRAVO!!!!!