The Hemingway Report

Friday, March 25, 2016

Donald Trump Won’t Rule Out Using Nukes Against ISIS

For those of us who are old enough to remember looks like they’re going to try to brand Trump the same way they did Goldwater!

Give it a second to play.

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This commercial helped Johnson win the election.

Remember the Great Society and the War On Poverty? How did that turn out? Since Johnson launched his "unconditional war on poverty" we have spent over $20 trillion dollars and the impoverished are no better off today than they were then!

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Donald Trump thinks that tactical nuclear weapons may be worth using in the war against the Islamic State.

In an interview with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann of Bloomberg, the Republican presidential frontrunner refused to rule out using tactical nuclear weapons in the war against ISIS.

"I’m never going to rule anything out--I wouldn’t want to say. Even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t want to tell you that because at a minimum, I want them to think maybe we would use them," he said.

Trump also said he’s open to tactics like waterboarding and monitoring American mosques in the fight. He also talked about respect, which he sees as one of the biggest problems facing the US right now.

A request for comment from the Trump campaign was not immediately returned.

"They have to respect us," Trump said in the interview. "They do not respect us at all and frankly they don’t respect a lot of things that are happening--not only our country, but they don’t respect other things."

As he often does, Trump specifically said that people don’t have respect for President Obama.

"The first thing you have to do is get them to respect the West and respect us. And if they’re not going to respect us it’s never going to work. This has been going on for a long time," he said. "I don’t think you can do anything and I don’t think you’re going to be successful unless they respect you. They have no respect for our president and they have no respect for our country right now."

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Someone wrote ‘Trump 2016′ on Emory’s campus in chalk. Some students said they no longer feel safe

To borrow a line from Lt. Col. Ralph Peters

What Pussys

If they're shitting their pants over this try putting themselves in Chris Stevens shoes desperately calling (their hero Killary) from the consulate in Benghazi!

Before and After

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College Students Left Feeling ‘Afraid’ and ‘in Pain’ After Seeing Presidential Campaign Messages Chalked on Campus

When students at Emory University headed to classes Monday morning, they were greeted with a sight that a number of them couldn’t stomach: Numerous chalk messages around the Atlanta campus supporting Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

So about 40 students gathered later that day at the school’s administration building to protest the messages and demand help from university officials over feeling “afraid” and “in pain” due to the political messages.

(They're in so much pain we may see a few suicides if Killary goes to the slammer)

A number of the chalking images were posted by the Tab:

The college’s paper, the Wheel, reported that sophomore Jonathan Peraza led the proceedings: “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!”

Peraza opened a door to the administration building, the Wheel reported, and students moved forward and shouted, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Soon students entered the building, the paper said, and filled a stairwell where one student expressed frustration with the chalkings: “I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe [here]. But this man is being supported by students on our campus and our administration shows that they, by their silence, support it as well. … I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school.”

After the group got into the administration building’s board room, Peraza asked his fellow students what they were “feeling,” the Wheel reported.

One replied tearfully, “How can you not [disavow Trump] when Trump’s platform and his values undermine Emory’s values that I believe are diversity and inclusivity when they are obviously not [something that Trump supports].”

“Banning Muslims?” another asked, the Wheel said. “How is that something Emory supports?”

Students called James W. Wagner, the school’s president, into the board room to hear their grievances — and the paper reported that he listened to them for about an hour.

The Wheel reported that one student asked Wagner if Emory would send out a university-wide email to “decry the support for this fascist, racist candidate.”

“No, we will not,” Wagner replied, the paper said.

A student came back, saying, “The university doesn’t have to say they don’t support Trump, but just to acknowledge that there are students on this campus who feel this way about what’s happening … to acknowledge all of us here.”

By the end of the hourlong back-and-forth, the Wheel said Wagner changed course and appeared to indicate that he’d get to work on a letter — and he told the protesters that security camera video would be reviewed to identify who was responsible for the chalkings. If they’re students, he said they would be subject to the school’s conduct violation process; if they’re non-students, trespassing charges will be pressed, the paper added.

School policy indicates that permission must be obtained before chalking is carried out.

Junior Harpreet Singh told the Wheel that one chalking example — “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016″ — disturbed him: “That was a bit alarming. What exactly is the inevitable? Why does it have to be accepted?”

Freshman Amanda Obando told the paper in a Wednesday article that her reaction to the chalkings was “fear.”

“I told myself that it was a prank and that the responsible individual was probably laughing in their room,” she added. “I told myself that Emory would do something about it.”

By Tuesday, a letter was sent to the Emory community, the Wheel reported, in which Wagner said the chalkings represented “values regarding diversity and respect that clash with Emory’s own.”

In the Wheel’s follow-up piece Wednesday, Wagner wondered if the chalkings simply represented “a message about a political preference, a candidate preference or was it a harsher message? And I will tell you, those who met with me were genuine in their concerns that it was the latter.”

Cruz, Kasich ahead of Clinton in 2016 hypothetical matchups

I like Kasich but he hasn't a snowballs chance in hell of pulling this off. Cruz may have a shot though.

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Republicans are eager to win back the White House in 2016. A new Fox News national poll finds both John Kasich and Ted Cruz ahead of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in hypothetical matchups, while Donald Trump trails her.

Kasich does best against Clinton. He has a double-digit advantage and also comes in above the 50 percent mark: 51 percent to Clinton’s 40 percent.

Cruz is preferred over Clinton by three percentage points (47-44 percent).

Clinton tops GOP front-runner Donald Trump by 11 points (49-38 percent).

CLICK HERE TO READ THE POLL RESULTS

The Ohio governor’s advantage comes mostly from independents; they support him over Clinton by 36 points. Plus, Kasich steals the largest number of Democrats (17 percent).

Kasich and Cruz also outperform Trump against Bernie Sanders. The Democrat leads Trump by 14 points -- and tops Cruz by a narrower four-point margin. Kasich has a one-point edge over Sanders (44-43 percent).

Slightly more voters would be satisfied if the presidential race is ultimately a Clinton-Cruz matchup (72 percent satisfied with their candidate choices) than if it ends up being Clinton and Trump (67 percent satisfied).

If it is Clinton-Trump in November, more than four in 10 Cruz supporters say they would seriously consider voting for a third party candidate (34 percent) or just stay home (10 percent). (There are too few Kasich supporters to facilitate a comparable breakout.)

Overall, only 16 percent of voters would feel “enthusiastic” if Clinton were to become the next president. Even so, that’s enough for a “win” on this measure. Fourteen percent would feel “enthusiastic” about a Sanders win, and 13 percent each about a Cruz or Trump win.

Almost half of all voters would feel “scared” if Trump (49 percent) were to win the White House, while 33 percent say the same about Clinton. Trump has the largest number of Republicans saying they would feel scared if he wins (25 percent), while Kasich has the smallest (7 percent).

More Republicans would feel “enthusiastic” or “pleased” with a Cruz win (57 percent), than with a Kasich (48 percent) or Trump (51 percent) victory.

By comparison, 72 percent of Democrats would feel “enthusiastic” or “pleased” if Clinton won. And Sanders is close behind at 61 percent.

Kasich is the only candidate who receives more positive reactions (enthusiastic/pleased) to him winning than negative ones (displeased/scared). In addition, more voters -- some 37 percent -- would feel “neutral” about him becoming president than say the same of any other candidate.

When it comes to picking justices for the U.S. Supreme Court, majorities of Americans feel confident with Kasich (62 percent), Cruz (55 percent), and Sanders (54 percent). Half feel confident about Clinton (50 percent) making those decisions, and fewer than 4 in 10 say the same about Trump (38 percent).

Honest & Trustworthy

The two current front-runners are also battling for the worst honesty ratings: 64 percent of voters say Clinton is not honest and trustworthy, while 65 percent feel that way about Trump.

Some 34 percent say Clinton is honest (a new low) and 64 percent say she’s not (a new high) -- for a net negative honesty rating of 30 points. Trump’s net rating is about the same (-32 points).

Cruz (+2 points), Kasich (+38 points), and Sanders (+39 points) each get positive honesty scores.

Sanders (+71 points) dwarfs Clinton (+39 points) on net honesty among self-identified Democrats.

Among self-identified Republicans, each of the GOP candidates has a net positive honesty score, yet there is significant range in the scores: Kasich (+58 points), Cruz (+40 points), and Trump (+14 points).

Pollpourri

When the two leading major party candidates are distrusted by a majority of voters, it’s no wonder 82 percent of voters say they are nervous about American politics, while 11 percent are feeling confident.

Nearly three times as many are confident about the economy today (30 percent).

To be sure, people still have economic jitters: 61 percent are nervous about the economy, up a bit from 55 percent a year ago (March 2015). Nervousness hit a high of 70 percent in 2010.

Republicans are about twice as likely as Democrats to feel nervous about the economy, however roughly 8 in 10 Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike are worried about American politics.

Some 49 percent of Democrats are confident about the economy, down from 61 percent last year.

Most Republicans continue to feel uneasy: 81 percent now compared to 75 percent in 2015.

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,016 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from March 20-22, 2016. The full sample has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.