Donald Trump Latest Temper Tantrum

If Donald Trump were not the pet republican of the media, Trump’s temper tantrum would be called for what it is, a meltdown.

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Trump revs up Heidi Cruz attacks  —  over the Republican presidential rival’s wife after she slammed his statements for having “no basis in reality.”  —  Trump shared an image on Twitter around midnight Wednesday comparing his wife, Melania, a former model, to Cruz’s wife, stating, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

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Discussion: USA Today, Mediaite, CBS New York, The Atlantic, FOX6Now.com, Business Insider, CBS Miami, Mother Jones and Booman Tribune

Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:   Free Beacon Poll: Cruz Expands Lead Over Trump in Wisconsin Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:

The leads say it all.  There is no political advantage to be gained attacking a candidates family.  Yet Trump can not control himself.  Do you really want to give the Donald the nuclear football?

Question for Mr. Trump from the Bitsblog editorial board: Mr. Trump when did you first become aware that your wife posed for somewhat provocative photographs?

Like Mrs. Clinton’s willful blindness to her husband’s chronic infidelity, it is simply not appropriate for a spouse to object to disclosure of information about his or her spouse that he or she should have known all along.

Indiana to extend protection of the disabled to the unborn, from Reuters:

Indiana is likely to become the second U.S. state to prohibit abortions based on the diagnosis of the fetus with a disability such as Down syndrome.

Republican Governor Mike Pence has until the end of the day to sign or veto the bill, which was ushered through the Republican-led legislature over the last three months. The bill still becomes law on Friday if the governor does not sign it but fails to veto it.

It would take a heartless ghoul to oppose an act designed to protect the disabled.  Hello Moveon.org:

A petition circulating on Moveon.org hoping to persuade the governor to veto the bill had more than 5,600 signatures as of Thursday morning.

The measure would add “shame, stigma and barriers at a time when the most critical need is medically accurate information and compassionate care,” it said.

I doubt that Indiana’s law would make that much actual difference. Abortionist would simply lie and claim they were killing to protect the health of the mother.  Still it is nice to see the ghouls of the ilk of Moveon.org have to charge up the moral ground.

If Dim Won thinks Castro’s Cuba is somehow the avatar of democracy, I want none of it, from, Investor’s Business Daily:

In his Tuesday address to the Cuban people, Obama declared that the communist takeover that led to the Castros’ 57-year dictatorship was a “liberation movement,” same as America’s 1776 revolution. Obama’s well-known for his false equivalencies, but this one stands out for its idiocy.

“Here’s my message to the Cuban government and the Cuban people,” Obama said.”The ideals that are the starting point for every revolution, America’s revolution, Cuba’s revolution, the liberation movements around the world, these ideals find their truest expression, I believe, in democracy.”

What did Ronald Reagan have to say about democracy and Castro’s Cuba, video:

The United States went from thirteen ragtag colonies to a world power in less than a century.   In contrast a bit over half century of Castro’s reign of terror has  made Cuba into a basket case.   Castro is looking for a new sugar daddy.   There isn’t a sugar daddy big enough to support a socialist peoples’ paradise the size of the United States.

Donald Trump acts like Phineas Taylor Barnum,  and the media covers him like well, P.T. Barnum, from Caleb Howe, Red State:

RACHEL MADDOW: Why do people like Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker and Jeb Bush and so many other sort of less complicated messengers of that conservative message flame out so bad and so early?

SARAH ISGUR FLORES: Well, I think one way you look at that is just tonight. Donald Trump tweets something, all of Twitter ended over his tweet about Ted Cruz’ wife. The media has covered it endlessly. How much live town halls did any of the cables cover for any of the people you just mentioned versus that the time they gave —

MADDOW: But that’s competitive advantage that he chose to try to — he ran a —

FLORES: It’s an enormous competitive advantage.

MADDOW: Right. Right, but that just means that nobody else in the field was good at competing with him on those terms.

FLORES: Or that cable news cared more about the that than the democracy that they were reporting about where you look at — I mean, $2 billion in earned media isn’t just that he was better at capturing earned media.

MADDOW: The way that — the root word of news is the word new. The reason that the news spent a lot time covering Donald Trump more then it spent covering other candidates is that every time he opened his mouth, he made some sort of controversial comment that changed the news cycle and so, people ended up following him to do that. The media wasn’t rooting for him to become president by doing that. They were following him because he was driving a good media strategy. No other Republican even competing with him on that for a second, which is a competitive failure. Not something that you can say the media choose the candidate.

FLORES: Well then, we’ve set up an incentive system moving forward where I don’t think you’re going to like the candidates you’re going to see.

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Maddow admits that the lame streamers could care less about the issues, but are obsessed by ratings. If we are going to get a better class of politicians, we need a better class of media.

Funny, I recall Bubba used to a better liar than this, from Washington Examiner:

Former President Bill Clinton asked Democratic voters to shrug off the “awful legacy” of President Obama’s years in office in a speech Monday to support Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

“Now if you don’t believe we can all grow together again, if you don’t believe we’re ever going to grow again, if you believe it’s more important to re-litigate the past, there may be many reasons that you don’t want to support her,” Clinton told a Spokane, Wash., audience.

“But if you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics with no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her,” he added.

Reax, Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

He’ll spin this tomorrow, I assume, by insisting that the “awful legacy” he’s referring to is partisan polarization and gridlock, and surely Barack Obama bears no responsibility for that. Clinton’s point is that Hillary is a “change-maker” who can work with Democrats and Republicans; he could, and surely will, say that it’s all the GOP’s fault that they weren’t able to work with O but somehow they’re totally going to work with Hillary because she’s just that thoughtful and charming, I guess.

I seem to recall that every legislative achievement of the Clinton regime has been reversed. Further, the only time Mrs. Clinton went to carpet for a legislative objective, she could not get Hillary Care through Congress. Bubba is trying pawn off an brain damaged, obese, old grandmother as the second incarnation of Margaret Thatcher. I am not buying it. Are you?

Mrs. Clinton’s thugs, who gave us Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, shut down public highway in Arizona, video:

Hat tip video and more: William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection.

Illegal aliens shut down public highway to prevent legal citizens from exercising their right of free assembly. Keep up the demonstrations Mrs. Clinton.

Addendum:   Reax from Instapundit:

“Arizona Trump Protesters Shut Down Highway, Creating 300,000 More Trump Voters”.

Well said.

Here’s a simple and somewhat rhetorical question.

How much of Donald Trump’s running as a Republican, (given that he’s changed parties 5 times since 2004) is his recognition that there was no way on God’s green earth that he was going to be able to get by Hillary Clinton within the Democrat Party process which was already heavily stacked in her favor?

As a side question to that, how much of the way of primary activity, particularly in the open primary States, is coming from Democrats who recognize what a disaster both Hillary Clinton then Bernie Sanders will be to the party, and a the country?

It should give anyone who’s been watching this thing serious pause.

There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the nominee for Supreme Court that Obama has put forward will do more damage to our Republic then anybody they could conceivably put forward for the presidency, Hillary Clinton included.

You see, unlike Obama’s executive orders, Supreme Court rulings even when they are demonstrably wrong, take decades to overturn if they can ever be so overturned at all.

On the other hand, I will warn you that at the first opportunity that arises, Heller will be reversed. At that point, bye bye Second Amendment. That’s always been the goal of the Democrats, and it is certainly the goal of this appointment.

Mitch McConnell is being uncharacteristically useful in this effort, but given the history of the thing, you have to wonder how long it’s going to be before he caves in to King Barry the first

Tonight I am at Malden on Hudson, in New York state. In the morning I’ll drive up to Amsterdam New York outside Albany to deliver the load that I have and then I’ll drive home for the weekend. I’m looking forward to spending time with the wife and family again. It’ll be a shorter visit then some this weekend will but it’ll be worth it.

I’d like you to ponder something today with me, something that I have been considering for some time now. I am convinced that it figures very heavily on matters of philosophy, matters of politics, and for that matter every aspect of human thought. It’s also indicative of our future.

Is there a difference between the brain, and the mind? I’m quite serious about this.

When somebody goes full Goose Bozo on us, we don’t say he’s losing his brain, we say he’s losing his mind. The evidence may abundant that the organ itself may be functioning fully, but that some input or series of inputs has debased it.

The brain is analogous to the computer on your desktop. Meanwhile,  the mind is the software, the operating system that runs on that desktop.

Certainly some brains are more powerful than others, just as there are more powerful computers than some others. But the programming in each computer is what really gives it its personality.

Programming is training for the computer. Same thing for the mind.

Problem is, we tend to consider   training in only the formal sense. In other words, the day that you walk into the government school as when your training starts. Actually, it starts the moment you come onto the scene and doesn’t stop until you stop breathing.

With all this in mind, consider the link that Billy Beck posted the other day.

“You have to look at it from every child’s point of view that was raised in the hood,” said Harris. “You have to understand… how he gonna get his money to have clothes to go to school? You have to look at it from his point-of-view.”

Notice, please, that nobody seems to be asking why we have to even consider his being a thief, from his point of view. And clearly we are dealing with a distorted sense of right and wrong.

But how did the programming inside this computer get this fouled up?

And for that matter, who trained the one who programmed the kid?

At all points we are talking about a complete lack of moral values….probably, generations of it. In this case, both a kid and the mother both had brains, but they didn’t have Minds.

This is what our culture finds itself up against.

We have an entire subculture that believes as this mother does, that the kid was doing nothing wrong. Because, obviously, nobody’s ever taught her otherwise. Nobody’s ever trained her otherwise. Or to extend the metaphor, nobody’s ever program those values into her.

As I say, this has been Generations in the making, and we’ve let it happen because we were open-minded to the point of not standing for anything, including the values that this nation was founded on. Indeed, our very own government has been enforcing an amorality on us.

Now perhaps we can more clearly see why Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the following that they do.

I’ve been saying it for years now. Tolerating everything means you stand for nothing. So it comes down to, what do we stand for? What do you stand for?

And down the road I go home. I’ll see you Monday.

The Snark of the Day, Mike Huckabee:

Trump says the chaos in Chicago was a planned attack. But Hillary insists it was a spontaneous reaction to an internet video.

Hat tip and BSWK, Kate, Small Dead Animals.

The Huckster is a sharp wit, but sadly a poor politician.

I’m in York Pennsylvania this evening waiting for my truck to be unloaded. From here I’ll run back up towards Scranton for a load that’s Bound for Horseheads New York.

Bullseye on the truck are in good health, and things are going well so far.

I note with great sadness that not all is well with Keith Emerson. He of Emerson Lake and Palmer. Emerson ended his life the other day apparently because with his advancing age, he was 71, he found he couldn’t perform as well as he used to. So said his girlfriend, anyway.

As Billy Beck noted earlier today, this is terrible. About you know, sad part is it’s nothing we’ve not seen before.
I have to tell you that I had the same idea floating around the back of my head when Brad Delp died. Remember, it was just before Boston was supposed to go out on tour that happened.

The similarity of the scenario is rather striking. In a lot of ways I made the same comment about Michael Jackson’s death as well.

I don’t know, maybe they parallel to Michael Jackson that I’m drawing is unfair given we know Jackson was a vacuum cleaner for prescription drugs and what is a full goose Bozo whack job anyway. But I can’t help but think that there was at least some of what I’m going to describe to you involved with that case, as well as Emerson and Brad Delp as well.

For those of you who’ve read Jack London’s “Call of the Wild”, you will understand the phrase “dog out of the traces”.

For those of you who don’t, a brief overview. A sled dog, that is trained and spends all of its life in those leather lines hauling sleds around, knows nothing else. Wants to do nothing else.

Trouble is like every other mortal being, eventually comes the day when they have to retire. Sled dogs in that situation tend to go somewhat crazy rather frequently, not knowing what to do with themselves. The tendency is there for them to act quite irrationally.

I had a similar situation in my own family some years ago when my uncle retired as a driver after many decades. At one time he had 18 trucks in his stable, and as many people driving for him. Eventually that was whittled down to the one truck that he was driving, and eventually came the time for him to retire. The situation was pretty much the same as described above. He really didn’t know what to do with himself. Eventually the solution he came to was to buy himself a diesel pickup truck and a fifth wheel camper to drive around the country in. Not all that unlike what he was doing for a living for so many years.

I suspect and suppose that Emerson being the perfectionist that he was had no such Outlet. Delp, as well.

Sad, but certainly understandable.
The sad part of course is that we don’t know it well enough to prevent it from happening.

And, down the road I go.
I’ll see you tomorrow.

The Snark of the Day, Mike Huckabee:

Congratulations, Chicago protesters, for fighting “fascism” by threatening mob violence to shut down free speech.

Hat tip and BSWK, Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

Eric asked, what happened in Chicago?   To which I say, I don’t know for sure.  However Chicago is the hometown of the Thug in Chief, and his political mentor, Bill Ayers.

Further, to the ilk that consider a self proclaimed social justice warrior as some kind of hero, free speech is considered privilege reserved exclusively for liberals.

I agree, in part, that Donald Trump is part of the problem.   Trump is either too stupid, or too politically correct to call a thug a thug, from Daily Mail (UK):

Donald Trump decided to cancel his rally in Chicago on Friday night after it took a violent turn when his supporters clashed with protesters -just a month after he told his fans he’s pay their legal fees if they ‘knocked out’ the opposition.

After the incident that left two police officers injured, Trump did not take any responsibility for the violence that took place. One of those officers is pictured bleeding from the head at the chaotic rally.

‘I certainly don’t incite violence,’ Trump told MSNBC on FRiday.

‘If a protester is swinging a fist at a man or a group of men, and if they end up going back,’ he added, ‘I’m not looking to do him any favors.’

Trump was shut down by low level political violence.   Protesters engage in demonstrations.   Thugs perpetuate violence.    Can you smell the touch of Rahm Emanuel here:

CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Associated Press that the department never told the Trump campaign there was a security threat at the University of Illinois at Chicago venue. He said the department had sufficient manpower on the scene to handle any situation.

Guglielmi says the university’s police department also did not recommend that Trump call off the event. He says the decision was made ‘independently’ by the campaign

Evidently, Manuel’s sanctuary city policy does not extend to republicans.

War requires a wartime president. Sadly Trump is no leader. We need leader to stand up and send a clear and strong message, Law and Order. Paging Mr. Richard Milhous Nixon.

File under: Chicago riots

I didn’t write the Ramble for last night, too busy watching what was going on in Chicago.

But I thought struck me as I watched what was going on. Has anyone else noticed that there haven’t been riots at any Ted Cruz events?

Oh, sure, it’s easy enough to blame the interests of the left for the riots that we saw last night. This is after all Chicago. But that doesn’t really add up, does it?

I mean look at this from the standpoint of recent history. We have seen that every time some group or other stands up in a position to trumpet only solidifies Trump’s following. If George Soros for example paid for those riots last night as we saw him do in Ferguson MO

If that’s what’s going on, I strongly suspect that those paying for such riots don’t have a clue about the political ramifications of it, and haven’t learned from recent history, where every attempt to split Trump from his followers, backfires.

Now I can certainly see the possibility of this being an actual Grassroots Groundswell against Trump and his political positions. I can certainly see them being ignorant of recent history with regards to Trump. Thing is, that brings us back to my original question. Why no protests against Ted Cruz? After all, of the two, Ted Cruz is by far more conservative and thereby, one would think, a more important target to the left. But we’re not seeing it. And that, I think, is a clue.

No, my heart tells me there’s something more going on here. And I think we can draw a rather prominent example of this happening in history.

Is it possible that these rioters were paid for by Trumps own people? That strikes me as a definite possibility. After all, again I point to the recent history where every negative attached to Trump, gets turned into a positive in terms of solidifying his base. 

And you know, you can almost smell the reichstag burning.

Donald Trump is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. However, unlike the lame stream media, Trump understands, in an intuitive sense, the obvious. Trump knows that radical Islam has been waging war on the West for over quarter century, from Washington Free Beacon:

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said that “Islam hates us” on Wednesday, and when pressed on the broad statement by Anderson Cooper, he commissioned Cooper to go find out, telling him “you’re going to have to figure that out.”

Trump appeared on Cooper’s CNN program Wednesday night, and the subject of national security arose.

“Do you think Islam is at war with the West?” Cooper asked.

“I think Islam hates us,” Trump said. “There’s something there … there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us.”

“In Islam itself?” Cooper asked.

Is Trump literally correct that a religion capable of emoting hatred, as opposed to merely proselytizing such?  I say that is over my theological pay grade, as it is over Cooper’s.  The point is if you can not vet the hating Muslims from the non-haters, the distinction is moot.