Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

RCP finally has Arizona flipping back to red. If Georgia goes blue, Clinton will do about as well as Obama in 08 swapping Indiana for Georgia.

 

On the surface, that guy sounds impressive.

 

Bartlett's daughter getting kidnapped would like a word with you.

Shitfire, now I see Inky beat me to the punch.

 

RCP is dumb: IN what universe is Michigan a toss-up?

RealClearPolitics - 2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House

 

He's Mormon, so that a no for some conservatives.

 

He is Mormon? If he becomes a credible third party guy, he might win Utah

 

Not the ones they are pursuing.

 

Say, let's talk about pallets of money again. And BILLIONS, not millions. This report is from 2007:

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish.

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish

 

So, maybe he prevents Trump from winning Utah. Since the only way Trump wins is in a squeaker, that could be deadly.

But, at most he likely hands Utah to Clinton.

Romney could have won Utah.

#NeverTrumps best bet was to get Romney on the ballot in just Utah, and maybe a couple of states Republicans don't need like Nevada.

Then Trump and #NeverTrump's interests would have been aligned. To elect Romney, vote Trump everywhere except Utah and Nevada. There, you vote Romney. Hold both Clinton and Trump below 270, and win in the House.

This guy only helps Clinton.

 

A total shitshow. Who would argue otherwise.

But it wasn't ransom. That's the charge here.

Meanwhile, some are brushing off Iran's claim that the payments were ransom. "Oh, who cares what Iran says."

But, the reason you don't pay ransom is so as to not encourage kidnappings. If potential kidnappers think we now pay ransom, that's a big deal.

 

Good luck with that "ransom" thing.

 

Kissinger is still alive? Who knew?