They created a monster. The monster outfoxed them.
Donald Trump's feud with that right wing network has gotten so much attention. Trump said that he refuses to participate in the network's debate after the executives ridiculed him for his concerns about the moderators.
Roger Ailes sent the statement that pissed Trump off.
We learned from a secret back channel that Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes the president - a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to these meetings.
Sooner or later Donald Trump, even if he's president, is going to have to learn that he doesn't get to pick the journalists - we're surprised he's willing to show that much fear about being questioned by Megyn Kelly.
This is bigger than Megyn "The Outrage Princess" Kelly.
When Ailes fired off that shot, he pretty much let the monster loose. That network created the monster now they're stuck with it. Trump not attending this debate will hurt their ratings.
Ratings are usually high when Republicans get to see all the candidates. Without Trump, the ratings will take a major hit. And to make this clear, they added Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) back to the stage despite him trailing at 3% or less. Paul had the audacity to say "good riddance" to Trump. He said that he's a charlatan and a phony conservative.
Pot calling the kettle black here. Cue the irony.
Paul boycotted the last debate and whined about that right wing network. There was no bitching from Ailes or Megyn "The Outrage Princess" Kelly.
Ailes has tried to calm the storm. He talked to the Trump family desperately pleading for him to come to the debate. Trump isn't bulging on his word.
Trump doesn't want to talk to Ailes. He ain't got time for Ailes. He wants Rupert Murdoch to settle this.
Bill O'Reilly defied Ailes and went on to interview Trump despite the feud.
Ratings will take a hit. Trump skips the right wing network's debate.
Late word that Donald Trump is skipping the debate. Trump said he'll be fine.
If he showed up to the debate he would have appeared with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and the crybaby Rand Paul.
Paul cried his way back to the main stage. He was throwing a hissy fit when he was banished to the kiddie table. He decided to not attend the previous debate.
The kiddie table debate will now include Jim Gilmore. He will join Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Carly Fiorina for the kiddie table.
He believes that Megyn "The Outrage Princess" will try to bait him with questions that may come off as a bias.
Will it hurt him with the supporters?
Already, Cruz, Paul, Carson, Christie and Bush went after him for not showing up.
On the AM agitators, I've heard the old fart Limbaugh and that Ratface Mark Levin go after Trump for saying he can be a deal maker with Democrats. They fear that his comments may have sealed his fate. Last week Megyn hosted a bunch of conservative agitators who denounced Trump as a viable candidate. That set Trump off. He swore on his grave that if Megyn was the moderator, he would not attend.
He stood by his word.
That annoying conservative agitator Sean Hannity has been so far the biggest cheerleader for Donald Trump. I haven't heard much out of him yet. But on his right wing carnival he probably will address this issue. He is no fan of Megyn "The Outrage Princess" Kelly. After all Kelly took the spot he's occupied for 15 years.
Trump released a statement.
As someone who wrote of the best-selling business books of all time, The Art of the Deal, who has build an incredible company, including some of the most valuable and iconic assets in the world, and as someone who has a person net worth of many billions of dollars, Mr. Trump knows a bad deal when he sees one. Fox News is making tens of millions of dollars on debates, and setting ratings records (the highest in history), where as in previous years they were low-rated afterthoughts.
Unlike the very stupid, highly incompetent people running our country into the ground, Mr. Trump knows when to walk away. Roger Ailes and Fox News think they can toy with him, but Mr. Trump doesn't play games.
There have been six debates, and according to all online debate polls including Drudge, Slate, Time Magazine and many others, Mr. Trump has won all of them, in particular the last one. Whereas he has always been a job creator and not a debater, he nevertheless truly enjoys the debating process - and it has been very good for him, bot in polls and popularity.
He will not be participating in the Fox News debate and instead host an event in Iowa to raise money for the Veterans and Wounded Warriors, who have been treated so horribly by our all talk, no action politicians. Like running for office as an extremely successful person, this takes guts and it is the kind mentality our country needs in order to Make America Great Again.
Seriously, Trump has been a ratings cash cow for the agitators. That right wing network enjoyed a ratings bump because of his appearances.
Trump is clearly leading in the national polls but post-tantrum we'll see if he finally took a hit for all the outrageous and bona fide crazy.
Besides Trump and Paul. Back in 2007, then Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton along with John Edwards, and Bill Richardson decided to skip that network's Democratic debate in Nevada.
Ailes made an inappropriate comment about Obama. The Obama campaign said that they've had enough of the ignorance. They were skipping the debate. It didn't hurt him in the polls. Matter of fact, it helped him win the election.
Trump's bombastic rhetoric earned him the endorsements of Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University and Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.
Donald Trump is going after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for handing out teddy bears and soccer balls to immigrants.
The civil war within the Republican Party has gotten uglier. The fight between business mogul Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has pitted conservatives against one another.
The key states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump and Cruz are leading in the primary polls with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ohio governor John Kasich, New Jersey's Chris Christie and Jeb Bush trailing from behind.
Many conservatives see that Trump and Cruz as the only candidate viable for them. But many establishment politicos believe that if they choose them, it could spell disaster for the party.
Cruz is gaining some endorsements. Rick "OOPS" Perry, Glenn Beck, Dana Loesh, Mark Levin, Brent Bozell, Katie Pavlich and Megyn "The Outrage Princess" Kelly had came out against Donald Trump. He's gotten strong backing from conservative agitators in the junk food media.
A couple dozen conservative agitators wrote in The National Review saying that Trump is not a conservative. Beck, Loesh, Bozell, Cal Thomas and Erick Erickson voiced concern that many agitators in the junk food media failed to vet Trump.
But could it be too late? The Trump supporters are calling them "sell-outs" and "traitors" to the cause.
The Republican National Committee chief Reince Priebus fired NR out the cannon. They were supposed to be a side sponsor to the failed NBC debate, but Priebus decided to end it for both NBC and NR. CNN will host the debate.
Trump's fiery rhetoric is destroying Cruz. Trump went after Cruz for being born in Canada and his support for immigration reform. Although Cruz is adamant against immigration reform, a couple years back he went to the border with Glenn Beck and handing out teddy bears and soccer balls.
Trump is likely going to use that to make Cruz seem like he's a hypocrite and part of the establishment.
Glenn Beck and Dana Loesh live in Dallas. They operate their television programs on TheBlaze Network. They often appear on other networks as commentators and they are the fourth and eighth most listened talk radio agitators respectfully.
Beck became one of the most high profiled endorsements for the controversial Texas senator. It was a rebuke to former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin's endorsement of Trump.
The right wing business network hosts another debate with the Idiot Seven (plus Tedious Three).
Rand Paul had a temper tantrum and decided to not attend this debate cause he was demoted to the kiddie table.
The kiddie table debate was held earlier with Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie and Ben Carson stand on the floor of the North Charleston Coliseum to debate foreign policy, the economy and what they think they can do as the President of the United States.
Get ready for another two hours of yawn, name dropping, muscle flexing, and showboating.
Expect issues about Cruz's birthplace, Trump's Muslim comments, Rubio's boots, Kasich's Ohio bragging, Bush's bro's stand on terrorism, Carson's buddy Armstrong Williams and Christie's Obama hugs to come up.
Expect Obama/Clinton obsession will to be front and center in the kiddie and main debate.
I am not going to give you a play by play about this debate.
This may be the end of the road for these three.
Their whining and complaining will help President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Matter of fact, I hope they'll mention Bernie Sanders in this name dropping, showboating, temper tantrum and think I would do nonsense.
I'm going to cut to the chase.
I find it ridiculous that the Republicans would stoop to such lows to gain votes. I mean in the primaries they actually believe that people are interested in them. You can't just win only one group of people. You need a lot of people. Trump, Cruz, and the rest of them done a fine job of kicking every group out of the Republican except the angry White people.
It seems like they're living in that bubble like perennial loser Mitt Romney.
Who won this train wreck?
And once again, I am going to be blunt about these debates. If Barack Obama was able to run for reelection, I would bet you money, he would mop the floor with each Republican candidate standing on that stage.
Final year for President Barack Obama and he vows to do more.
The final State of the Union Address for President Barack Obama had wrapped up and the agenda for the year is set.
Of course, with a Republican majority, will it be possible for the agenda to be accomplished?
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) got his first opportunity to sit in the big kid's chair. As the House Speaker, Ryan is now determined to get the House of Representatives in order. After a continuous year of battles, Ryan is hoping to get the advantage.
Handful of Republican lawmakers, Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito skipped the State of the Union again.
South Carolina's Nikki Haley, the two term Republican governor delivered the response.
Let's cut to the chase.
The president laid out a simple agenda. He wants to raise the minimum wage. He wants to enact reasonable gun control measures. He wants to improve on infrastructure. He asks of Congress to approve his use of force against the Islamic State. He appointed Vice President Joe Biden to head up a committee on how to fight cancer. He asked for more tax cuts. He praised Ryan for his leadership. He knocked on Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Chris Christie and Rand Paul. He said that his biggest regrets was seeing Washington be so freaking divided.
I didn't get to capture every moment on television but I want to be clear that I enjoyed the speech.
Anyway, here's the video of the president and Haley.
No Tea Party Response or other unofficial Republican responses.
Paul boycotts the Republican debate. Many figure that this could be the end of the road for him.
The Kentucky senator will eventually bow out soon. Rand Paul is pretty upset. He's having a hissy fit. He failed to make the cut on the main stage. He and Carly Fiorina will head to the kiddie table. The right wing business network have announced who's going to participate in the first debate of the year.
Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich are going to be on stage.
Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are heading to the kiddie table.
Paul declared that he will not participate with the "little people" at the kiddie table.
"I'll be taking my campaign directly to New Hampshire and Iowa. I'm not going to be in South Carolina," Paul said during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I think it's a mistake to try to exclude me from the national debate."
This could be the end of the road for the libertarian-leaning Republican.
Paul faces a possible mutiny from the Republicans. He has declared his intentions on running for U.S. Senate as well as Republican nominee. In Kentucky, he allowed to run for president as well as senate.
Rubio declared he is retiring from the senate. In Florida, you can't appear twice on a ballot.
Trump knocked Cruz, Rubio, Paul and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for being senators who have no accomplishments. He said they're part of the ineptness that created his huge lead.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio getting slammed for wearing women's boots.
The Florida senator is in a make or break campaign. As he is retiring from the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio is hoping to become the Republican nominee in this bitter race against front runner Donald Trump.
Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are getting the most attention and it's smoothing out the remaining candidates in the race.
Rubio and New Jersey governor Chris Christie are giving up on Iowa and focusing on New Hampshire and Nevada. They need a strong victory in order to continue on.
Unfortunately Republican operatives are working behind the scenes to stop Rubio, Cruz and Trump.
They fear that these candidates would spell turmoil at the national convention.
Trump is by far the most concerning to the Republican establishment. They believe his rhetoric could cost them an election. Trump and Cruz (also Ben Carson and Marco Rubio) would turn off Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, moderates and independents.
Carly Fiorina welcomes Marco Rubio to her boots and heels.
So far, many Republicans are zeroing in on the fact that Rubio has missed 60% of his senate votes since he's declared his intentions to run. Rubio has dismissed theses accusations by saying that he doesn't want to be in the senate no more. Many are calling for him to resign.
He makes a salary of $174,000.
But what really got him is the fact he wore women's boots.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Carly Fiorina, and others mocked Rubio for wearing them.
Fiorina offer Rubio a pair of her boots and heels for him.
Rubio says "who cares!"
What's more important! The direction of the country under Barack Obama (and Hillary Clinton) or my boots?
Rubio slammed Sean Penn for doing an interview with Joaquin "El Capo" Guzman.
The junk food media zoomed in on his boots with a high heel. They never seen a presidential candidate wearing high heel boots before. Matter of fact, they were mocking him.
The actual shoes are Cuban heel boots. Men wore shoes like that.
Mike Myers, who played Austin Powers wore the shoes.
Philadelphia Police nabbed man who tried to shoot up an officer. He claimed that he's devoted to the Islamic State.
Philadelphia Police are hailing a fellow officer for his bravery. He managed to dodge the grim reaper on Friday morning. A man who claims support to the Islamic State ran up on a lawman in an undercover vehicle. He let 13 slugs fly into the cruiser.
The officer returned fire.
Edward Archer is being treated for his injuries along with the officer. Archer will be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Man ambushes the lawman.
Police Commissioner Richard Ross echoed the statement at a news conference on Friday, saying that Archer confessed to the shooting "in the name of Islam." But Mayor Jim Kenney told ABC-6 that the attack had nothing to do with "being a Muslim or the Islamic faith," and everything to do with mental illness.
Archer's mother told Philly.com that her son had been hearing voices, and Ross said investigators are not yet sure whether he was truly radicalized. Late Friday, a U.S. Muslim advocacy group told Reuters that Archer didn't appear to be a mosque-going Muslim.
"At this hour, it does not appear that he was an observant or mosque-going Muslim" in the local community, said Jacob Bender, executive director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The officer, identified as 33-year-old Jesse Hartnett, was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 p.m. at 60th and Spruce Streets when a gunman fired nearly a dozen shots through the driver’s side of the car.
Jesse Hartnett survived a point blank shooting by nutjob.
“When you look at the video, this is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen,” Commissioner Ross said. “This guy tried to execute the police officer. The police officer had no idea he was coming. It’s amazing he’s alive.”
“We’re thankful to God he’s here today because it easily could’ve been a police funeral.”
Hartnett was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he underwent surgery for a broken arm. Ross says the officer’s arm suffered significant damage and that he has a long road to recovery. As of Friday night, he was listed in stable condition and police officials say he will need several surgeries to repair his arm.
World News Today send our prayers to Jesse Hartnett.
Archer could face LIFE in the iron college if he's convicted of attempted murder. Archer is innocent until proven guilty.
The Cos mugshot heading to TMZ and The Smoking Gun.
The entertainer appeared in court today with cameras in tow. The 78-year old Bill Cosby was walking with a cane. He almost tripped trying to enter the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania court to be arraigned on sexual assault charges.
He posted a $1 million get out of jail free card. He also relinquished his passport.
Cosby faces a some serious charges. This has to be the biggest celebrity scandal of 2015. To see America's Dad take this nosedive is shocking. But I'm not too surprised.
He was a powerful voice in the entertainment industry. He created the hit series The Cosby Show. He inspired children with Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids. He entertained us with his comedy acts.
The conservative Craigslist once lauded Cosby's in your face reactions towards Black America. See what happens now when the conservative agitator splashes the New York Daily News hard hitting front cover.
The victim Andrea Constand decided to publicly come forth acknowledging she was a victim of a 2004 assault. The incident happened when the Temple basketball coach went to his home outside of Philadelphia.
She claimed that he gave her some alcohol with a "herbal additive". She would pass out.
No sense of knowing what's going on, she realized that Cosby was fingering her privates and groping her. She was in a paralyzed state. The two settled out of court with a disclosed amount. But the charges never went forth until now.
Andrea was one of the first women to publicly accuse the comedian of sexual misconduct. At the time, the Montgomery County district attorney declined to pursue charges. Constand later sued Cosby and they settled out of court for undisclosed terms in 2006.
Cosby is innocent until proven guilty. These charges are felonies. They can carry 2 to 15 years in the iron college. The severity of the offense could land a TIER III label on the entertainer.
Former New York governor George Pataki is throwing in the towel. The junk food media is reporting that the lower tier bum is bowing out the race.
Pataki who kept finding himself at the bottom tier debates told his staffers and the handful of supporters that he can't run without the $$$$$$$$.
Considered an establishment candidate, Pataki who was governor of New York for three terms decided to run for the White House. His ill fated bid for president was destined for destruction. He couldn't pull up from < 0.3 in the polls.
He is the tallest person in the race.
His departure assures that if there's another kiddie table debate, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee will likely find a place there.
Helga Pataki, the lovable school bully who punches Brainy in the face.
So now that Pataki dropped out the race, there's only how many left?
Donald Trump
Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
Ben Carson
Jeb Bush
Carly Fiorina
Chris Christie
Mike Huckabee
John Kasich
Rand Paul
Rick Santorum
Jim Gilmore
The former Walmart driver was served in the accident that seriously injured famed comedian Tracy Morgan. The accident ended up killing his friend Jimmy Mac (aka. Jimmy McNair).
The trucker Kevin Roper denied guilt in the accident. He was riding his rig on 24 hours of no sleep.
He ended up blazing through a construction area on the New Jersey Turnpike. The trucker didn't pay one bit of attention and ended smacking up the hummer limousine which Tracy and Jimmy Mac were in.
The comedians were coming from a gig in New Jersey and they were on their way to Baltimore when this jumped off.
The trucker is now facing some time in the iron college. Now the vehicular homicide charge could carry up to 20 years in the iron college. Given that Roper may have had many run-ins with law enforcement from reckless driving, he will be barred from driving for the rest of his life.
Walmart had to choke out a lot of money to the family of Jimmy Mac and Tracy Morgan.
The former trucker got served. Kevin Roper was found guilty in the death of Jimmy McNair and severe injury of Tracy Mogran.
They cannon fired Roper and many other drivers who failed to follow their standards of safety.
Roper's failure to take a rest break ultimately led to this tragedy.
Congress passed strict rules when it comes to commercial driving.
Roper must have ignored that when he believed he could finish the task in 30 hours without at least an 6 to 12 hour sleep break.
Roper is from Alabama and he's now being held in county lockup. His sentencing may come before the end of the year.
World News Today send our prayers to Tracy Morgan. We wish him well on his journey to recovery.
The ABC Democratic debate is on tonight. In the small town of Goffstown, New Hampshire, the Democrats come to a crowded auditorium to watch three candidates duke it out over the issues facing America.
Hillary Clinton: Former First Lady of the United States, former U.S. Senator from New York, former Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, author, and lawyer.
Bernie Sanders: Current U.S. Senator from Vermont, former U.S. Representative, former mayor of Burlington, activist, author, and lawyer.
Martin O'Malley: Former governor of Maryland and former mayor of Baltimore, former city councilman and lawyer.
The debate will be moderated by ABC News Tonight host David Muir and chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz. The Saint Anselm College is the sponsoring host for the debates.
The issues discussed tonight focused on terrorism, gun control, the economy, the Obama legacy, climate change, foreign policy and tuition for college students.
Many issues discussed may include: #BlackLivesMatter, Planned Parenthood, heroin, infrastructure. and Wall Street regulations.
And like with the Republican debate, I won't give you a play-by-play on what was said.
I know that the junk food media will already bias it for Hillary Clinton. The ratings will be between 6.6 million to 10 million viewers. The Republicans are trolling the candidates. The conservative agitators won't have an opportunity to go after the most controversial statements. They're on vacation and they'll return shortly after the New Year.
Republicans like Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz will nitpick every statement from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They will not worry about Martin O'Malley. He's scoring extremely low.
The field is weak. The Democrats have a feud within it's ranks. They believe that the chairwoman is pushing for Hillary Clinton to win. It may cause a brokered party convention. The Republicans have a worst situation. There's still 14 candidates and no clear front runner other than Donald Trump. Trump's persona may cause the Republican infighting. and a brokered party convention
I didn't get a chance to hear the first part of the debate. For two reasons. I was busy. I didn't really have much care for it. It's not like the Republican debate. The Democrats aren't wack-a-doodles.
But their chairwoman is. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) has placed the debate on poor viewership nights. The Friday and Saturday night debates were expected to be low rated.
Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley and the former contenders complained that the debates were biased to Hillary Clinton.
Again, I kind of wish Barack Obama would run for a third term. If it wasn't for the 22nd Amendment limiting terms for the president, Obama would slaughter every candidate running.
If I had to choose between a Republican and a Democrat running for president.
I would put my chips on Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders.
But if all things are predicted as I count my coins, I think Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Two polarizing figures who's getting heavy media coverage. Candidates who earn more than the average working man or woman. Candidates who say shit to win shit.
I am not inspired by any Democrat or Republican running for president. Nonetheless, I rather have a rational leader than a bombastic leader. So if you make the decision on who can be the right candidate, that's left up to the voters.
Republicans play the ISIS drinking game at the fifth debate.
CNN gets the pleasure to host the last Republican debate of the year. The candidates meet in Las Vegas to figure out how to solve our nation's problems. Matter of fact, I believe the rhetoric spoken by the Republicans are the reasons to why we have these problems.
The Venetian Casino Resort hosts the debate.
What the Republicans have on their minds, terrorism. The strongest muscle the Republicans have to fight terrorism is their tongues. The Republicans have no real strategy to combat terrorism. They have thoughts on sending more troops into Iraq and Syria. They really don't have a clue to why these groups exists.
Already the polarizing topic of addressing how to handle a faceless enemy became the talking point for the candidates.
I promise you that I will not give you play by play of what these clowns said.
Let's go ahead and start.
WORD VOMIT TO EXPECT
BARACK OBAMA
HILLARY CLINTON
GEORGE W BUSH
RONALD REAGAN
JIMMY CARTER
ISIS/ISIL/ISLAMIC STATE
STRENGTH
RADICAL ISLAM
I WILL SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE
WEAK
MUSLIM
TERRORIST
JIHAD
LEAD FROM BEHIND
FACEBOOK
IRAN
IRAQ
SYRIA
ISRAEL
RUSSIA
NAZI
OBAMACARE
NO FLY ZONE
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
FREEDOM
UN-AMERICAN
TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK
SOUND LIKE THE DEMOCRATS
AMERICA'S AT WAR
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
KEEP AMERICA SAFE
THE "LIBERAL" MEDIA WON'T TELL YOU
SECOND AMENDMENT
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
CLOSING THE BORDERS
FOREIGN LEADERS REPUBLICANS GUSH/SPURN
WORD VOMIT NEVER MENTIONED
GUN CRIME/MASS SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA
VETERANS RIGHTS
ECONOMY
BLACK LIVES MATTERS
INFRASTRUCTURE
PAID TIME OFF
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
HEROIN
CLIMATE CHANGE
MINIMUM WAGE
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
OIL DECLINE
POLICE REFORM
The kiddie table went ahead and went forth to start off talking about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The words of ISIS will be mentioned alot in this debate.
Linsdey Graham, George Pataki, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee.
The low poll Republicans.
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Rand Paul.
Jim Gilmore once again banned from the debates. He scored lower than Graham and Santorum.
The candidates supports the Muslim ban. They just don't accept the fact that Donald Trump said it.
I didn't want to waste my time worrying about what was said. They all believe Obama's policies domestically and international failed. They believe Hillary Clinton deliberately allowed Americans to die. They want to beat the fuck out of the Islamic State. They want to take away freedoms from Americans and immigrants in order protect the country. They want to religious tests in the country.
They want to take away the First Amendment rights of individuals who have opinions in favor of the extremists. They seriously have support for meddling in the social media of people who have an ounce of support for the Islamic State's fight against the West.
They think Obamacare is a disaster (an epic disaster, quote Donald Trump). They believe Benjamin Netanyahu, King Abdullah II, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Vladimir Putin are leaders Republicans gush over.
MAIN POLL
Who Won The CNN Republican Debate?
SECOND POLL
Who Won The CNN "Kiddie" Republican Debate?
Now I want you to know that 15 candidates running for one nomination is pretty dysfunctional. The Republicans really don't have a clear front runner. Trump and Cruz are too polarizing for the party.
Expect the Republicans to have a brokered party. I can imagine that Trump and Carson are tired of the politics and Republican concern trolling.
Rand Paul was really lucky. He was spared the kiddie table. He was so pouty throughout the debate.
And I am done. I don't want to bore you with the nonsense. Give you an opportunity to poll on who actually won this train wreck.
The friendly rivalry is going to get ugly now that the junk food media told the viewers that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is leading in one poll. Matter of fact, we've heard this before. When the candidate soars past Donald Trump, the junk food media says that this could spell trouble for Trump.
Cruz has soared to a 10 point lead against Trump according to one Iowa poll.
Trump usually ignores the noise and continues on with even more heated rhetoric.
Trump has been very "easy" on Cruz. Now that the Des Moines Register said that Trump tumbled to second place in the latest poll, Trump vowed to take Cruz down.
Trump banned the Des Moines Register after an editorial slammed the candidate's bid for president.
Trump said that this is only one poll and it's bias against him. Also Trump went after Cruz for not supporting ethanol subsidies in the state. Iowa is highly engaged in tax credits for green energy.
Trump will go after Cruz's record as an unaccomplished lawmaker who steals the spotlight. Trump will say that Washington gridlock is why Americans hate politicians. That's going to be the dig at Cruz because he lead the 2013 government shutdown.
Trump said that he has "far better judgement" than Cruz.
Tuesday's debate will have Trump in the middle while it's still a battle between Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Ben Carson for who can be the closest to attack him. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will likely be sent to the second tier debate.
Christie was endorsed by New Hampshire Union Leader. He is surging toward second place knocking down Rubio, Cruz, John Kasich and Jeb Bush.
Cruz was caught on tape knocking on Trump and Ben Carson for being just hype. He said that he will kill them with kindness. He said he will hug them out. Trump decided to take the gloves off.
Of course, Trump will go back to the dog whistle politics when he takes on Cruz. He will restart the birther controversy. Our neighbor to the north has been not often mentioned by Republicans when questioning Cruz's citizenship. Cruz is an American citizen but born in Canada. He was living in Canada for a few years of his life. His mom was on a travel visa and held duel citizenship.
Now as you remember, Trump wasn't easy on President Barack Obama. He demanded that the president showed his long form birth certificate. He pressured the president constantly on this.
In April 2011, the president went ahead and released the long form birth certificate. Obama also went after Trump at the Correspondent's Dinner. In May 2011, when The Celebrity Apprentice was holding its season finale, it was interrupted by the news that President Barack Obama the U.S. Special Operatives killed Osama bin Laden. The president spurned Trump many times. Trump banned the president from his properties.
Cruz is the son of a Cuban man and an American mother. He was born in Canada and holds duel citizenship with both countries.
That stuff will be used in this campaign not only by Trump but the birthers crowd like Orly Taitz and James David Manning.
The Republican Party is in such disarray. There's thoughts of a mutiny within the party.
The Republicans are feuding with one another over the direction of the party. There's talk of a brokered party. Donald Trump isn't the only one thinking about bolting from the party. It seems like Ben Carson is now having thoughts of becoming a spoiler if he's rejected as the Republican nominee.
Trump who is leading in national polls is a threat to the Republicans and Democrats.
Trump's fiery rhetoric hasn't really dented him in the polls.
But Ted Cruz is catching up and he's determined to take down Trump. The Texas senator was recorded saying that Trump and Carson are just hype. He believes they'll fail at becoming the nominee.
That set Carson off.
Many big name donors were disappointed with the flock of candidates.
They said that the race is unpredictable and if Trump, Cruz or Carson should become the nominee, many establishment Republicans may not support it.
Reince Priebus is very concerned that a brokered party could spell disaster for the party as a whole.
Donald Trump's rise to the top of the 14-candidate field has confounded establishment Republicans who have been waiting in vain for the New York billionaire's insurgent campaign to collapse.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to embark on an independent run for the White House if the party does not treat him fairly.
Now as usual, I am expected to hear from concern trolls about the Democrats and the mess they got on them. First things first, Hillary Clinton is the clear front runner in the race for the Democratic nomination. She's not getting too much press coverage. I mean she has appeared on talk shows and GOP Sundays to talk about issues. Republicans have a 3:1 ratio in media coverage and they still complain about it.
Bernie Sanders is leading in New Hampshire and catching up in Iowa. The independent senator and many operatives in the Democratic Party are pissed that the junk food media is giving too much time to the Republicans and Hillary Clinton.
Ask Martin O'Malley about how he's doing. He's trailing so bad, he doesn't even get media coverage.
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) and co-chair Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) are feuding with one another over the direction of the party. Gabbard, a conservative Democrat is concerned that Clinton's vulnerabilities could harm their chances at winning.
Concern trolls will say Bernie Sanders, Jim Webb and Martin O'Malley are tempted to go independent too. Why don't the junk food media talk about Jim Webb threatening to go independent?
Well here's a shocker to the concern troll. Jim Webb was polling at ZERO. Martin O'Malley is polling at ZERO.
Bernie Sanders is polling at 25%. That is a quarter of the Democratic primary voters. Sanders could spell trouble for Hillary Clinton.
Priscilla changed him. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook announced he will donate his most of his fortune to charity. He and his wife are proud parents.
The CEO of social media titan Facebook announced that he and his wife are proud parents of a baby daughter. He also announced that he's giving away 99% of his fortune to charity.
Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan announced the birth of their first child, they also announced they'd be giving away 99% of their Facebook stock—worth nearly $45 billion, CNN reports. Zuckerberg and Chan posted an extremely lengthy open letter to their daughter Max on Facebook Tuesday.
Read it below....
Dear Max,
Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.
While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
President Barack Obama holds a townhall with Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.
We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.
But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.
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Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.
Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?
Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?
Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?
Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment?
Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?
Oprah Winfrey with New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mark Zuckerberg.
Promoting equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.
Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.
Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?
Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?
Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities?
Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?
Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?
If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within your lifetime.
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This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.
We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.
We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.
We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.
We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.
We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.
We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.
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Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.
Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.
Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today.
Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.
Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.
We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.
The Zuckerbergs with their daughter Max.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.
But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.
Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.
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Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.
People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.
It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.
The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.
Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.
If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.
This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.
But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.
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Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.
Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.
Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.
Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.
Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.
If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.
By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected.
Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.
It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.
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For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all
children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.
And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Zuckerberg believes that his fortune could help people in need. And I applaud him and his wife for being generous. They feel that they can make a difference to those who are in need.
Of course, many conservatives and selfish rich folks bitch about how liberals want to take money to redistribute wealth.
They want liberal rich folks to shut the fuck up. The conservatives were bitching about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates giving away their fortunes to charity. They believe that liberals are destroying America by asking for the rich to pay a little more in taxes.
Conservatives don't see that the middle class is being wiped away. They too focus on trying to the rich even more richer and the poor even more dependent on the safety net. They will not give a leg up to those who struggled for a piece of the American pie.
