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Donald Trump Declaring He Will NEVER Let Politicians Disarm The American People!
Posted by Bob Amoroso / February 8, 2016
So important is our Second Amendment. The politicians are chipping away at it day by day, night by night, [and] it gets weaker and weaker. Were not going to let it happen. We are going to protect our Second Amendment. If Im president, you can count on it 100 percent.--Trump
Here is my caption: " Didn't I tell you people if I shot you, I will still go up in the polls? Let's test it out, any volunteers?"
Skinheads Have Vowed To ‘Protect’ Trump Supporters At GOP Convention
06/29/2016 03:27 pm ET | Updated 58 minutes ago
Ryan Grenoble
Reporter, The Huffington Post
Brace yourself, Cleveland. Winter White supremacy is coming.
At least one group of white nationalists has pledged to attend next months Republican National Convention in Cleveland, for the stated purpose of protecting Donald Trump supporters from... well, almost everyone else.
Were essentially just going to show up and make sure that the Donald Trump supporters are defended from the leftist thugs, Matt Parrott, a spokesman for the Traditionalist Worker Party, told McClatchy. Parrott said the party expects around 30 members will be in Cleveland during the convention, which runs July 18 - 21.
On Sunday, the party hosted a rally in Sacramento, California, in conjunction with a group of skinheads. In addition to voicing support for Trump, organizers said they also wanted to make a statement about the precarious situation our race is in. The event quickly turned violent, seven people were stabbed and nine hospitalized.
read more at the link...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-supremacist-gop-convention-cleveland_us_577400d0e4b042fba1cecfce?section=
Here's my question...Are the going to protect "these" Trump supporters who will be at the convention...
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Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle
By Joshua Partlow and Mariana Zuñiga
CARACAS, Venezuela In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other, a metal-roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass, with homeless people sleeping nearby in the shadows.
But inside, workers quietly unload black plastic crates filled with merchandise so valuable that mobs have looted delivery vehicles, shot up the windshields of trucks and hurled a rock into one drivers eye. Soldiers and police milling around the loading depots give this neighborhood the feel of a military garrison.
Its just cheese, said Juan Urrea, a 29-year-old driver, as workers unloaded thousands of pounds of white Venezuelan queso from his delivery truck. Ive never seen anything like this before.
The fight for food has begun in Venezuela. On any day, in cities across this increasingly desperate nation, crowds form to sack supermarkets. Protesters take to the streets to decry the skyrocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods. The wealthy improvise, some shopping online for food that arrives from Miami. Middle-class families make do with less: coffee without milk, sardines instead of beef, two daily meals instead of three. The poor are stripping mangoes off the trees and struggling to survive.
This is savagery, said Pedro Zaraza, a car oil salesman, who watched a mob mass on Friday outside a supermarket, where it was eventually dispersed by the army. The authorities are losing their grip.
Read more at the link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/
“TREXIT.” “TREXIT.” “TREXIT.” “TREXIT.” “TREXIT.” “TREXIT.”
America, Lets Discuss Trexit: Donald Trump Exiting The U.S. Its time.
Andy McDonald
Comedy Writer / Editor, The Huffington Post
On Thursday, the people of the U.K. voted to break away from the European Union. The referendum Brexit, or Britains exit, threw the worlds financial markets into a frenzy and created more questions about the future of the region.
America, its time to talk about another exit, one right at our doorstep. Im speaking, of course, about Donald Trump exiting the U.S. permanently. Yes. Im talking about ...
TREXIT.
Fellow concerned citizens, for our own well-being, lets enact Trexit, and democratically Febreeze the smell of tanner and toupee out of Americas couch cushions for good.
Now, in the beginning, we may see some side effects. For instance, the national buffoon index will take a sharp dive.
Who in the public eye will we make fun of on a daily basis? Who will be our litmus test for identifying friends who should be driven out into the middle of nowhere and left for dead?
This confusion is to be expected and, if Ive learned anything from working in this business, the market will adjust and new buffoons will spring up.
A second side affect from Trexit will be the influx of immigration to the United States, and the rise in diversity of our local cultures. *GASP*
Once they see that Donald Trump has exited the United States, humans from all over the world will flock here, no longer concerned with the extreme anti-immigration views held by him and his supporters.
So, given these diamond-hard and indisputable facts, its clear that we should embrace Trexit. Lets cleanse our collective palate of this walking, talking Orange Julius nightmare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/america-lets-please-discuss-trexit-donald-trump-exiting-the-us_us_576d7be0e4b0f16832397829
Remember back in 2011 when Trump said Obama was a con concerning his birthplace?
"My investigators in Hawaii cant believe what they are finding"DONALD TRUMP:
It says you have to be born in this country. Essential. Have to be born in this country, okay? If he wasnt born in this country, he has conned the whole world.
MEREDITH VIEIRA:
But youre saying its a con. Thats what youre saying.
DONALD TRUMP:
Im not saying anything. Im saying
MEREDITH VIEIRA:
Sure you are.
DONALD TRUMP:
I am saying I want to see the birth certificate. Its very simple. I want to see the birth certificate. How come his own family doesnt know which hospital he was born in? How come forget about birth certificates. Lets say theres no birth certificate. How come in the hospital itself, okay? This is one of the in the hospital itself, theres no records of his birth. In other words, it doesnt say how much they paid, where is the doctor, heres your room bill. You know, all the..
MEREDITH VIEIRA:
Youve been privy to all of this to know this?
DONALD TRUMP:
Well, I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what theyre talking.
MEREDITH VIEIRA:
You have people now out there searching I mean, in Hawaii?
DONALD TRUMP:
Absolutely. And they cannot believe what theyre finding. And Im serious
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/trump-my-people-in-hawaii-cant-believe-what-they-are-finding/#ixzz4Cdsky25e
* Ok, so 4 years later his people are still in Hawaii. They havent came back yet* ROFL
I found something very interesting...
Donald Trump has a National Diversity Coalition. Yep he does. Im still laughing about it. This is their website....http://ndctrump.com/
And according to the website this is their mission...lol
(National Diversity Coalition For Trump ) strongly supports the candidacy of Donald Trump for President of the United States. Mr. Trumps vision for the United States includes creating opportunities for men, women, and children of all racial, economic, and educational backgrounds. Our group represents the voices of our communities. We support Donald Trump and his solutions that address economic disparities, foster job creation, support small businesses, preserve faith & family principles and strengthen communities with conservative action. We will recruit, mobilize, and educate voters to help us elect Donald Trump in November 2016.
Such lies.
Then I saw who the members of this coalition are or were...
http://ndctrump.com/who-we-are/
And i found some info on his board members...very funny
1.Kevin Do....Maybe the same guy who was arrested by the feds for loan sharking.
2.Sonya Elizabeth...Looks like all she does is take sexy pictures and trash Dems on her Facebook
3.Vivian Childs...was a 2015 Republican special election candidate for District 20 of the Georgia State Senate
4.Frances Rice...quoted as saying that "Democrats embrace their child molesters," and "Democrats wage war on God."
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080803/ARTICLE/808030351
5. Lovilla Santiago...google her name and you be the judge
6. Pastor Steven Parsons...abused his position by using church funds to pay unauthorized expenses.http://www.examiner.com/article/pastor-has-been-stripped-of-financial-power-of-church-he-started-31-years-ago
7. Dahlys Hamilton Dela Espriella ...look at her facebook page..she's confused
So, the GOP voted against gun control and a immigration bill.
No way they can keep the Senate and the House, or even the White House. Time will tell.
Venezuelans ransack stores as hunger grips the nation.
Amid sky-high inflation, dangerous shortages, and political unrest, Nicolás Maduros regime is on the verge of collapse.BY PETER WILSON JUNE 19, 2016
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/19/venezuela-maduro-food-shortages-price-controls-political-unrest/
LA VICTORIA, Venezuela When it comes to buying food on his government-mandated day of the week, William, a 44-year-old farmer, doesnt mess around. At sunset each Tuesday, William, a father of two, joins a line of dozens of people outside the Unicasa supermarket in central La Victoria, 34 miles west of Caracas. William and a friend spend the night taking turns sleeping on the street, with one of them standing watch at all times to guard against robbers, line-cutters, and rats. When it rains, they take shelter under a palm tree, waiting for dawn. Their weekly ritual is the only way to guarantee a good spot in line the next morning, when the supermarket begins distributing basic foodstuffs like rice and cooking oil.
When morning arrives, William and his friend stand in line under the piercing sun, enduring temperatures of up to 95 degrees. At noon, they finally pass through a cordon of police and National Guardsmen to enter the supermarket and claim their prize for 18 hours of hell: the right to purchase two kilograms of cornmeal and one kilogram of pasta. I am doing this because I have children, William says. In the old days, he always voted for President Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro. How can this be happening? We have the worlds largest oil reserves, but we dont have food.
Many Venezuelans are asking those very same questions. The food shortage, precipitated by Chávezs economic policies and a precipitous drop in oil revenue, is the worst in the countrys history. It has led the government to limit purchases of basic foodstuffs and set their prices. Nonetheless, basic goods such as coffee, sugar, rice, milk, pasta, toilet paper, hand soap, and detergent remain impossible to find. According to Datanalisis, the countrys leading polling agency, over 80 percent of regulated foodstuffs have vanished from store shelves. As a result, many Venezuelans now make do with a single meal a day, or resort to rustling through garbage bins to find food. Others have begun hunting pigeons, dogs, and cats, as Ramón Muchacho, the mayor of the Chacao borough in Caracas tweeted.
Maduro, who succeeded Chávez in March 2013 and may face a recall vote this year, seems to have no answers for the unfolding crisis. And as temperatures rise, shortages deepen, and inflation explodes, his tenure is increasingly at risk thanks to the shortsighted economic controls and state expropriations of private companies championed by his mentor, whose dreams of creating a Socialist state are now in tatters.
Venezuelas impoverishment stands in stark contrast to the promises Chávez made when he first ran for president in 1998, when he often claimed that many of the countrys poor had been reduced to eating dog food as a way of demagoguing the previous pro-West, capitalist government. He promised to reduce the countrys income inequality and poverty rate by redistributing the countrys oil wealth. In 2003, after surviving a failed coup and a nationwide strike aimed at forcing him from office, Chávez decreed price and foreign exchange controls in order to stop a run on international reserves.
Under his plan, the government decided who would receive dollars, with the intention of delivering them to companies and individuals who qualified. The plan imposed foreign exchange controls and set a fixed exchange rate with the dollar. But the government didnt provide enough dollars under the exchange controls, inadvertently giving birth to the black market. Later, the government established two additional rates, keeping the initial rate for imports of basic foodstuffs and medicine, two others for certain industries, and another for all other sectors under government control. This year, the government simplified things, establishing just two rates: one for foodstuffs medicine, and one for everything else. But the black market rate is now Venezuelas de facto exchange rate, reflecting the real costs of goods and services.
Starting around 2005, Chávez also began expropriating businesses by the dozens, claiming that many werent producing or operating to his standards. By 2015, over 1,200 private companies had been nationalized, seriously denting local production of food, medicine, and oil the countrys largest export. Many oil production facilities now stand idle. This is due to a number of factors: low oil prices, a lack of investment, the diversion of oil funds to social programs and government campaigns, and the flight of foreign investors.
Chávez also used Venezuelas oil wealth to artificially depress prices on over 40 products, largely as a tool to maintain support among the countrys poor. It worked well enough when oil prices were high and the government had the cash to import goods and subsidize consumption. But when oil prices plummeted by over 50 percent last year, chronic shortages of food, medicine, and spare parts became acute, as the government slashed imports to conserve dollars to make foreign debt payments and avoid default. Now, the government doesnt have the dollars to sell to importers, who, in turn, cant buy goods abroad.
The real problem is that imports have been reduced by 40 percent this year and by two-thirds since 2012, says David Smilde, a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. There is simply not enough food to go around.
What happened next will not shock you. Venezuelas economy contracted 8 percent in 2015 and is expected to dip another 8 percent this year. And inflation is expected to top 720 percent this year. With government price controls in place, private companies cant import the raw materials they need. In May, Coca-Cola halted production at two of its bottling plants due to a sugar shortage. The countrys largest brewer, Cerveceria Polar, has been unable to produce beer for more than a month because it hasnt received money to import malted barley (they plan to resume later this month, after taking out a loan).
The government controls access to dollars, and outside banks wont lend money to Venezuelan producers because of the political instability. They wont get repaid, says Vanessa Neumann, president of the New York-based Asymmetrica consulting agency. And the prices set by the governments economic interventionism of the past several years mean that producing food is economically unfeasible. The ultimate irony of all this is that it has exploded the social inequality and poverty that brought the Chávistas into power in the first place.
Many Venezuelans confronted with long lines, chronic and acute food shortages, and the governments seeming inability to provide food long for the good old days. We didnt realize how good we had it before Chávez took power, says Sandra Londono, a 42-year-old hairdresser who charges clients food rather than money for doing their hair. She doesnt have time to stand in line, she says. We never had food shortages before Chávez and his people took power.
Maduro, Chávezs handpicked successor, blames the countrys crisis on an economic war being waged by nefarious foreign powers against his government. He claims that Venezuelas business elite supported by the United States, Spain, Colombias former President Álvaro Uribe, and others have deliberately cut back production of foodstuffs to create shortages, hoping to detonate a social crisis that would unseat him.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski and others disagree. The only guilty party for the Venezuelan economic disaster is the present government, Capriles wrote in an op-ed on June 5 in Spains El Pais. The mismanagement and inefficient use of the oil bonanza that has already concluded, and the dismantlement of the production and commercial apparatus of the country, as well as constant fighting with businessmen have resulted in an humanitarian emergency.
Soaring inflation only makes matters worse. On May 1, Maduro raised the countrys monthly minimum wage by 30 percent to 15,050 bolivars (about $1,500). That sounds like a big raise, but consider: Inflation is raging at more than 400 percent. For perspective, the average family of four needs 256,146 bolivars (about $25,700) a month to buy just the essential foodstuffs, according to the Documentation Center for Social Analysis. That works out to over 17 times the monthly minimum wage. A kilogram of meat or cheese now costs about one-third of the monthly minimum wage. These prices are killing us, says Irene Lozada, a 56-year-old mother of four who spends five hours a day looking for food. Each week prices are higher and higher. How can we survive?
Lozada says she has no choice but to buy food on the black market from bachaqueros, people who illegally obtain food and resell it at steep markups. Although the government-established price for one kilogram of cornmeal is 190 bolivars (about $19), the black market price is 1,500 (about $150). Maduro, who could face a recall referendum this year, has sought to combat the bachaqueros many of whom are his own supporters and end food shortages by creating local committees to deliver food to the countrys population. These roughly 15,000 Local Committees for Supply and Production (CLAPs), set up not by the government but by Maduros United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), obtain food from the government and sell it to households. The CLAPs were set up two months ago with the intention of helping to fight against the bachaqueros and shortages.
Under the program, participants can theoretically buy basic foodstuffs every two weeks at subsidized prices. Our local committee asked us to pay 2,000 bolivars [about $200] upfront to guarantee us the first bags, says Asia Loudres, a 47-year-old mother of three, her face drawn and haggard from worry. We are still waiting for the food. And its been more than a month. I have been feeding my children bananas and yucca for days.
Opponents claim that Maduro and the PSUV are using the committees to feed their supporters at the expense of the rest of the population, especially as food shipments have been diverted from supermarkets to the committees. Its a charge that some Chávistas dont deny. The [committees] are political organizations to combat the economic war, Erika Farias, the governor of Cojedes, said at a pro-government rally on Wednesday. The escuálidos Maduros supper-class opponents dont belong.
As the food shortage worsens, a wave of supermarket lootings and attempted hijackings of trucks carrying foodstuffs has soared. According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict, upward of 10 lootings or attempted lootings are occurring daily. There have been 254 cases of looting or attempted looting of supermarkets and stores since the start of the year.
Orlando Farias, the manager of a grocery store in the central industrial city of Maracay, knew there would be problems when a delivery truck pulled up to his store last week, followed by a group of motorcyclists. The motorcyclists supporters of the government started pushing and shoving the others who had been waiting in line for hours, many of whom were elderly women, Farias says. They tried to get ahead in the line, and we had to call the police. But when they arrived, the police made matters worse by insinuating that we were hiding food from the people who were waiting. We had to show the officers our storeroom before they would believe us. I thought for sure we were going to be looted, either by the police or by the people outside. I never thought I would see people so desperate, so hungry.
That desperation has fed the protests against Maduro in recent weeks. On June 2, over 150 people from a working-class neighborhood tried to reach the presidential palace to protest the shortage of food and the diversion of foodstuffs from the supermarket where they were waiting to the CLAPs. They were repulsed by security forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
The food crisis is going to get worse in June and July, Smilde says. For the past year and a half the government has kept a lid on this by militarizing supermarkets and quickly snuffing out altercations in line and cases of looting. But its not clear how long they can do this.
Thats bad news for Maduro, whose approval rating is hovering around 25 percent and who would surely lose in a hypothetical recall election. His weight isnt helping. The plump Maduro whom Chávez often chided for his weakness for fast food continues to assure his countrymen that things are getting better.Hes fat; his ministers are fat so they have plenty to eat even though we dont, says Londono. I cant wait to vote against Maduro. He has to go.
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