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So who is the V.P Friday?

The only one that provides any interesting aspect to all of this silliness is Newt Gingrish.

I hope it's either Gingrich or Christy since i love to laugh. I can't wait for the 'Six Wives Club' jokes if it's Gingrich. And if it's Christy...oh boy!!! It'll be paradise for comedians!!! :pound:

However, my gut-feeling tells me that he'll go with Mike Pence. But geez, if Trump thought Jeb Bush was low energy, Mike Pence makes Jeb look like the Tasmanian Devil!!!!

So who is the V.P Friday?

The only one that provides any interesting aspect to all of this silliness is Newt Gingrich.

He makes Frank Underwood on House of Cards look like a nice man.

I heard a good one the other day when it was reported that Newt Gingrich & Fox News had parted ways (which could be a hint that he'll get the V-P nod). The person who reported this then added: "Can we conclude that Fox News has cancer?" :lol:

The Donald is too big to push in front of a train like Frank Underwood did to that hot girl (I never liked the show after the only hot girl died. The hooker was not cute enough and that irritated me).

So I think Newt just slips him something on the campaign trail and it looks like a heart attack. The Donald is older than everyone realizes.

Anyone else like the first two seasons of House of Cards? They should have ended it after the second season. It was worthless after that.

You forget that many Republicans are lining up to push The Donald in front of a train, so it wouldn't be too difficult for Newt to get help if he decides to get rid of Trump. But my guess is that should a miracle happen and Trump wins, he'd likely get impeached within two years (by his own party!!!) and Gingrich would then be appointed President.

I also loved the first two seasons of House of Cards. I've only watched one episode from the final season and can't get myself to watch the rest of it.

You wanna know who reminds me the most of Frank Underwood? Ted Cruz. Yes, Lyin' Ted Cruz. Trump got it right on that one, but it turns out he's a worse liar than even Lyin' Ted Cruz, which is astonishing!
 

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Trump and Ex-Staffer Go to War Over Alleged Affair

The Donald claims his former aide Sam Nunberg broke confidentiality to dish on an alleged tryst between two campaign chiefs, Corey Lewandowski and Hope Hicks.


by Gideon Resnick & Andrew Kirell, The Daily Beast

Days before Donald Trump is poised to accept the Republican presidential nomination, it emerged that he is suing a former campaign aide for $10 million.

The suit targets former senior consultant Sam Nunberg, a top aide who was fired last summer, of breaching a confidentiality agreement. Nunberg made that fight public in a court document filed Wednesday in New York Supreme Civil Court accusing Trump of trying to “use the sword of private arbitration proceeding against me to silence media coverage” of a “sordid and apparently illicit affair” between campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. He is asking that the suit be taken out of arbitration—a process that would be private—and into court.

One former staffer told The Daily Beast that he believes the suit against Nunberg is based on the Trump’s campaign’s concern that he could go public with more information. “Either they are afraid Nunberg knows other things (doubtful) or are just being stupid,” that former staffer emailed.

The timing for this legal battle is, at best, inconvenient for Trump, who is trying to line up the Republican party behind him after a bruising and divisive primary campaign. Now, instead of focusing solely on his vice presidential pick and presumed nomination at the Republican National Convention, Trump risks being dragged into the ugly details of an affair gone bust.

The filing cites a May 2016 New York Post story detailing a public “screaming match” between Hicks and Lewandowski, quoting several sources to describe the campaign’s “internal discord.”

According to Nunberg, the campaign alleges he fed the Post the story of the public spat—a charge he denied in Wednesday’s court papers.

In those documents, Nunberg alleged that several people, including “another Trump staffer,” saw the “lovers’ quarrel,” between Hicks and Lewandowski.

Nunberg did not return a request for comment left on his voicemail on Wednesday. When The Daily Beast sent a followup text, Nunberg responded: “I am not guilty. I am beautiful.” Nunberg then referred further questions to his lawyer, Andrew Miltenberg.

As The Daily Beast reported in May:
“The threat of legal action has not stopped Nunberg from speaking his mind about Trump since he was fired from the campaign in August [of 2015]. In December 2015, Nunberg told The Daily Beast, ‘I do not think that he will win.’ Also in 2015, Trump mailed Nunberg a cease and desist notice.”

After Nunberg began publicly discussing the campaign’s prospects, Trump told The Daily Beast last December: “[Nunberg] is a highly self-destructive individual who makes routine calls begging for his job back. This is the interview of a desperate person who is trying to hang on and stay relevant.”

This lawsuit against Nunberg reflects Trump’s infamous litigiousness. As The Daily Beast documented last year, the real-estate mogul has sued or threatened to sue news outlets, from Univision to The New York Times; businesses, from a Georgia-based business card store to casinos; places, like New York City, the town of Palm Beach, and Scotland; and individual people, from his ex-wife Ivana Trump to his own hairdresser to rapper Mac Miller.

And the non-disclosure agreement Trump had Nunberg sign, similar to those that volunteers for the campaign must sign, is incredibly broad.

According to the agreement, an exhibit in the current case, Nunberg is barred from disclosing any confidential information he received during his involvement with the campaign which includes but is not limited to “actual or prospective business ventures, contracts, alliances, affiliations, relationships.” It also precludes Nunberg from demeaning Trump or his family as well as preventing him from assisting other candidates.

Trump began a private arbitration hearing with Nunberg on May 28, according to court documents, not long after a Daily Beast story that detailed Trump’s use of nondisclosure agreements—including one that Nunberg himself first signed in January of 2015. But that dispute only became public on Wednesday after Nunberg and his attorneys filed their response.

“The Trump campaign’s improper attempt to commence arbitration proceedings against Mr. Nunberg after the [consulting contract] was terminated was without basis in law or fact and was done in malicious retaliation for Mr. Nunberg’s subsequent change of political opinion,” the ex-aide’s petition states.

Furthermore, Nunberg alleges, Trump’s attempt to use private arbitration violates the former consultant’s “First Amendment right to abandon his political backing of Mr. Trump.”

Nunberg’s consulting agreement with Trump ended on Aug. 3, 2015, his lawyer contends—the day after he was fired from the campaign.

After leaving the Trump campaign, Nunberg publicly backed former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

Miltenberg wrote in Wednesday’s request for a stay of arbitration that seeking punitive damages for endorsing another candidate and using a “series of derogatory remarks concerning Mr. Trump,” is “hypocritical for a candidate who frequently describes his opponents as ‘losers,’ ‘crooked,’ ‘child molesters,’ and ‘liars.’”

Multiple sources close to the Trump campaign alleged there is some concern that details of the rumored relationship between Hicks and Lewandowski would come out if Nunberg’s case were to be heard in court, rather than at a private arbitration hearing.

While Miltenburg alleges that there was never an agreement to arbitrate, other Trump confidentiality agreements that have been made public dictate that disputes may be handled by the American Arbitration Association, which would keep the legal matters out of court and the information private.

The Trump campaign also filed for arbitration twice in this case. The first time was on May 28 and the most recent time was July 11. The second time they filed, the campaign went under the name of a fictitious entity “Trump 2012 PCA,” which Miltenberg claimed they used when Trump was considering a run for the presidency in 2012.

During the gap between the two arbitrations, Lewandowski was fired. He did not return multiple calls from The Daily Beast about the litigation.

Citing a specific clause in New York General Business Law, Miltenberg argues that pursuing the arbitration under the name “Trump 2012 PCA” is illegal “unless acknowledged certificates are filed in the county clerk’s office where the business is conducted identifying the persons conducting such business under that name.”

Trump’s lawyers tried to explain the use of “Trump 2012 PCA” in his second arbitration by saying “Trump 2012 supports the candidacy of Donald J. Trump for the presidency of the United States.”

Miltenberg argues that “it is preposterous to permit a supporter of the Trump Campaign to sue on behalf of the Trump Campaign.”

In the response, Nunberg also contends that Lewandowski clashed with him after Nunberg helped get him hired and that the former campaign manager “sought to create a wall between Mr. Trump and all campaign staffers.”

The internal warfare within the Trump campaign had been previously reported, with specific instances of disagreements between Lewandowski and new campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

But this is the first time that strife among staffers could get played out in court.

Nunberg also alleges that when his years-old Facebook posts were exposed by Business Insider last year, Lewandowski was the one who pushed for Nunberg to be fired.

When Lewandowski himself—a highly divisive figure within the campaign—was fired almost a year later, one person close to the campaign referred to him as a “psychopath” who was only interested in being close to Trump and “holding power.”

Hicks responded to inquiries about the arbitration by saying she is staying out of the matter and that any questions would have to be directed to Trump’s lawyers. Those lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment but Trump’s counsel Alan Garten later posted a statement on the campaign website saying: “As is standard practice for all major businesses, organizations and other entities dealing with proprietary information, Mr. Trump requires employees to sign and adhere to strict confidentiality agreements. When the agreements are not adhered to he will enforce them to the full extent of the law, and Mr. Trump’s litigation track record on such matters is outstanding.”

Echoing his employer, Garten couldn’t help but trash Nunberg too.

“With regard to Mr. Nunberg, this agreement specifically calls for arbitration, and Mr. Nunberg is simply looking for free publicity using categorically false claims,” he concluded.


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Jesus Christ. Care they really going to do the porn is a national health crisis thing at the Cleveland convention?

There is a major public health crisis that is affecting some very important countries in this continent, Zika, that might well cause problems in the southern United States. I am a little disappointed that neither party mentions it. It would make the Democrats look better if they made this contrast. That is why I sort of like Al Franken as Hillary's VP. He could point out idiocies like this and get everyone's attention.

Porn, a public health crisis. Jesus.

This ancient party is so out of touch with the rest of the world!!!

The Dumb n' Dumber party will once again make an issue out of something stupid while they continue to deny that global warming is real and here as we speak!

I'm with you in regards to Zika. It's only a matter of time until it starts to become a crisis in the warmer areas of the US. They're probably waiting for something to happen and a panic to occur before they start talking about it, which is wrong.

I'm also a huge fan of Al Franken, going back to his days on radio. I read every single one of his great & fascinating books!! He's by far one of the smartest politicians in Washington and he'd be a great pick for VP!!!

Personally, i'm hoping for Elizabeth Warren, but Hillary will never pick someone who is more popular than she is and who will likely upstage her. They're also very different politically. My guess is that it's going to be Tim Kain, who is the safe choice.
 

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Never Trump plots last stand at Cleveland convention

With the preferred plans foiled last week, the GOP holdouts are down to their final hours.

By Kyle Cheney

CLEVELAND — Anti-Trump forces, preparing their final, desperate maneuver to deny Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination, are struggling to settle on a strategy — and they’re down to their final day.

In hushed meetings in hotels dotting downtown Cleveland on Saturday, deflated leaders of the effort discussed a slew of parliamentary tactics that may disrupt the GOP national convention — which begins here on Monday — but are unlikely to derail Trump himself.

For now, the favored strategy appears to be an attempt to block the convention’s 2,472 delegates from adopting a new set of party rules on Monday, rejecting the blueprint passed Thursday by the Convention Rules Committee. Anti-Trump operatives are cobbling together signatures from delegates in order to force a recorded vote on the rules package. They need the support of majorities in seven delegations to guarantee a vote. And if they succeed, their next challenge would be to furiously lobby the entire convention to reject the rules and add new language freeing them to rebel against Trump.

“I’m not going to let the Rules Committee think that they’re relevant,” said Kendal Unruh, a Colorado delegate and leader of the “Free the Delegates” movement. “I’m not going to empower them anymore. The power has been and will continue to be in the hands of the delegates.”

The effort to kill the rules got a boost Friday night when Ken Cuccinelli, the leader of a conservative faction of delegates, suggested he’d consider aiding the attempt. Cuccinelli is miffed at failed negotiations with the Republican National Committee on conservative-favored changes to the rules. Now he appears to have found common cause with the stop-Trump delegates, even if he hasn’t explicitly endorsed their goal.

Cuccinelli also met Friday with a cadre of delegates who intend to back his effort to force rule changes. They included Virginia’s Morton Blackwell and Anne Gentry, Louisiana’s Gwen Bowen, Wyoming’s Harriet Hageman, Minnesota’s Cindy Pugh, Oklahoma’s Megan Winburn and Oregon’s Solomon Yue, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

The chances of success are slim. Trump’s allies at the convention — the Republican National Committee leadership and his campaign whip team — proved during Thursday’s Rules Committee meeting that advocates for stopping Trump are fewer than anticipated. And Trump's allies will be out in force on the convention floor to keep any wavering delegates on their side. They also expect to have a friend in the convention chairman, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who will make all rulings on proceedings and decide whether to recognize anti-Trump delegates.

Trump’s opponents say they’re nervous that Ryan and RNC leaders may also resort to more heavy-handed tactics, from cutting microphones on the floor to physically intervening to prevent delegates from filing signatures. But officials with the RNC and Trump campaign both suggest they don’t expect more than a nominal effort by anti-Trump delegates that will be dispatched with easily.

But killing the rules package isn’t the only tactic for anti-Trump activists. Unruh is also working to force a conventionwide debate on her proposal to “unbind” delegates from their obligation to support Trump through a so-called minority report. Unruh attempted to pass this proposal last week, during debate in the Convention Rules Committee, but she found little support — only 12 members of the 112-member committee stood with her on the issue.

Dane Waters, a strategist with the anti-Trump group Delegates Unbound, told POLITICO that the Rules Committee defeat — ensured by the Trump campaign's aggressive organization and partnership with the RNC — has actually boosted his group's effort. Delegates, he said, are furious at being shut down on a slew of conservative proposals, not just the unbinding effort, and they're readier than ever to rebel against Trump.

"It's a new ballgame," he said.

But if Unruh can somehow persuade 28 members of the panel — more than double her original level of support — to sign a “minority report,” it would bring her proposal to the floor of the convention for debate. Unruh claimed on Friday that she had already persuaded two members of the panel who didn’t join her in Thursday’s vote to sign the minority report. Cuccinelli has also signaled he’d back a minority report strategy on some of his favored rules proposals, including a plan to encourage states to close primaries for Democrats and independents. Though the proposal has little to do with Trump’s nomination, RNC and Trump campaign leaders worry any debate on a rules change could become a forum for Trump’s opponents to wield influence.

Anti-Trump leaders convened their own conference call Friday afternoon to hone their final tactics. On Saturday morning, Waters was spotted speaking strategy in the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel. An unidentified associate turned to Waters and said, “The only way we’re going to get a rules fix is to actually stop the rules,” he said.

Trump allies are largely convinced any serious threat of rebellion is over. Though their whip team will continue to be out in force on the convention floor, supporters say they don’t expect any true threat to materialize.

Still, it’s unclear whether the constellation of anti-Trump groups represented in Cleveland are on the same page. Unruh told POLITICO she’s not really sure what her fellow anti-Trump Coloradan Regina Thomson was working on anymore, noting that she’s fully aligned herself with Waters’ efforts. A separate effort by Steve Lonegan, a New Jersey conservative who recently broke from Unruh’s group, said Friday he intended to reach out to her to make sure their strategies are aligned — not contradictory.

Some are considering a strategy to walk out of the convention during the presidential roll-call vote in an attempt to deny Trump enough support. But this could have the perverse effect of strengthening Trump because many alternate delegates who take their place might vote in favor of the New York developer.

For the most part, though, there was a prevailing sense of defeat among some of the most outspoken anti-Trump advocates here. They watched Thursday as an overwhelming and organized Trump-RNC whip effort dismantled the anti-Trump effort and left them hobbled heading into the week.

“I don’t have the sense that our people were really well-versed on the parliamentary procedure,” said Eric Minor, a Washington State delegate and supporter of unbinding. “It’s going to hurt our chances very much, I would say. We’ll see if there’s enough will to keep pushing this effort forward.”

Lonegan suggested that he may turn his focus to supporting a plan that would shut Democrats and independents out of Republican primaries.
“People tend to go along with the crowd. It’s hard to get people to buck the system,” Lonegan said. “This closed primary battle is going to be critical. We may lose in the short run but win in the long run.”
 

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Trump panic drives progressives toward Clinton

At Netroots Nation, there was little love for Hillary but plenty of concern about the need to defeat the presumptive GOP nominee.

By Benjamin Oreskes

ST. LOUIS — The Democratic convention that will nominate Hillary Clinton for president is just a week away, but you wouldn’t have known it at the annual Netroots Nation Conference this year.

The buttons sported by attendees and the placards festooned around the convention hall here supported the Black Lives Matter movement or opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Beyond a video message sent to the annual progressive gathering by Clinton, there was little other evidence of her campaign.

The scene at the four-day conference, which ended Sunday, was emblematic of the uneasy truce between Clinton and many of the pro-Bernie Sanders progressives who came for the training sessions and to sit in on panels featuring liberal luminaries like billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer and Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin. There was little enthusiasm for the presumptive Democratic nominee, only a grim recognition of the need to join together to stop Donald Trump in November.

“I’m going to hold my nose and vote for Hillary,” said Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Missouri state senator and congressional candidate who endorsed Sanders during the primary. “I’ll do the right thing. Trump shouldn’t be responsible for the American people.”

“Of course I’m supporting Hillary,” said Ryan How, a Sanders supporter and English as a second language instructor at Gannon University in Pennsylvania who came with his partner to St. Louis. “What else can I do?”

The lingering bitterness among many activists, candidates and elected officials who backed Sanders wasn’t far from the surface. But in more than a dozen interviews, nearly all of these progressives mentioned the urgency of defeating Trump. They’ll worry about Clinton later.

For most of them, the idea of sitting out the election isn't an option — a promising sign for Democrats who worried that many of Sanders’ supporters might not return to the party fold after the contentious primary.

“Trump is just so bad,” said Netroots Nation Executive Director Raven Brooks. “Everyone recognizes what a clear and present danger he is to the country, and then you look at what’s going on around us; the police are essentially executing black men right now. People just realize that there are more important things to do than fight over a couple of candidates.”

Brooks said about 2,500 people will have shown up throughout the conference, a figure slightly smaller than in years past. As he sat in the cavernous convention space surrounded by booths representing groups ranging from unions to an organization called Drinking Liberally, Brooks reflected on the differences between this moment and eight years ago, when the Democratic Party emerged from another bruising primary process.

“One thing that’s clearly happening — with Black Lives Matter leading the way but other groups too — they’re applying actual pressure to these candidates to include real things in their platforms and actually work for the causes that we’re all working for,” Brooks said.

Progressive changes to the Democratic National Committee platform helped generate some goodwill toward the Clinton campaign, with many activists here pointing to Clinton’s leftward movement on everything from trade to higher education reform. Sanders on Friday said he’d create three new organizations to continue advocating for progressive issues and candidates who he supports.

Clinton — who was booed at the conference in 2007, the only conference she has attended — offered another olive branch Saturday in her video: She committed to a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

“Bottom line is I believe I can work with Hillary Clinton, especially with the wide-awake movement that’s present,” said Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, one of the first elected officials to support Sanders and an appointee to the DNC platform committee. “If we have these young people who are like, ‘It’s not about the person, it is about the platform, it is about the issues,’ and if we can get some unity on the issues, then Clinton has to deal with the issues.”

Ellison, who now supports Clinton, also pointed to the prospect of the presumptive GOP nominee.
“Trump is a danger to the republic,” he said.

The experience of President Barack Obama’s historic election — and the ensuing disappointment about his agenda among many progressives — has in some ways worked to Clinton’s advantage. Several activists here said they know now that an attractive and charismatic candidate is not enough. They are learning to live with her because they want to be in a position to hold her feet to the fire when she takes office — in terms of her Cabinet appointments or what she will do during her first month in office. And if Trump captures the White House, they’re going to need to “stop the apocalypse,” as one progressive leader bluntly put it.

Hillary Clinton works with Dan Schwerin, director of speechwriting, on a few last-minute changes to her speech before declaring victory in the Democratic presidential primary on June 7 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The shift from enthusiastically backing Sanders to supporting his rival, however, hasn’t been easy either for progressive leaders or grass-roots activists.

“The feeling is that everyone is going to vote for her,” said Jim Dean, chairman of Democracy for America, who couldn’t go f5 feet at Netroots without running into an old pal or some friend from his brother Howard’s 2004 presidential campaign. “Some will work for her, while some will work for other candidates whose thinking they’re more comfortable with.”

Dean, whose organization gave Sanders a massive boost when it endorsed him last December, said he’ll vote for Clinton come November and he hopes the rank-and-file members of DFA do as well — because of Trump.

But, he warned, if young people who came out in droves for Sanders — like Dean’s 23-year-old son — continue to feel estranged from the top of the ticket and stay at home, Democrats from Clinton on down will be in trouble.

“If the disaffected voters don’t vote, that’s a failure of the Democratic Party and the state parties, for how they treated Sanders,” he said.
Greg Connor, a former Sanders volunteer, represents the worst-case scenario for Clinton.

Sitting outside the convention center, Connor was still wearing his "Sanders for President" shirt along with lime-green shorts and a backwards hat. Sanders may have endorsed Clinton but, in Connor’s view, he hasn’t conceded the race. The Democratic National Committee wronged the Vermont senator, the media kept him off the airwaves, and Clinton provokes a visceral sense of dread, because of her “deceit,” he said.

So will he vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee?

“No chance,” he said.


Trump panic drives progressives towards Clinton
 

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No One Will Ever Make America Great Again, from fantastic Jack Donovan

http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2016/07/no-one-will-ever-make-america-great-again/


American voters are universally disgusted by what they see as the inability of government to actually commit to and accomplish anything. That’s why they are attracted to big dreamers like Bernie and big talkers like Donald Trump. But just as Obama’s Obamacare healthcare reform became such a compromise of compromises that it can barely be described, and a president elected in part to end foreign wars ended up starting several wars, future leaders can be expected to be rendered essentially impotent by inside influences and the checks and balances that have become front and rear brakes.

After Obama, a Hillary Clinton presidency will drive home the reality that white men are no longer in charge, and the United States government doesn’t care what they want, and that it is no longer their country and never will be again. That’s the harsh truth, and Hillary’s the one who will make that truth impossible to ignore.

I want soldiers across the country to grimace and feel a little bit sick every time they salute, knowing that she’s their commander-in-chief. I want men all over America to cry during the national anthem for all the wrong reasons. I want them to become angry and defiant. I want them to get misty during fireworks next July, not because their hearts are filled with Budweiser and Apple pie, but because they are bargaining with themselves.

I think most middle and lower class white American men know on some semi-conscious level that America is never going to be great again — at least not for them — but it is going to take Hillary Clinton’s cold, Reptilian resting bitch-face on a Presidential portrait to make them accept it and start working through the rest of the stages of grief, so they can finally move on.
 

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Tech CEO to Donald Trump: 'Your campaign is un-American'

by Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Money

"Dear Donald ... Your campaign doesn't just seem wrong. It feels un-American," says a full page ad in Sunday's newspaper.

It was paid for by Josh Tetrick, the entrepreneur behind the controversial Just Mayo product, a plant-based condiment that aims to unseat traditional mayonnaise.

His ad appeared in the New York Times and the Plain Dealer, a local paper in Cleveland where the Republican National Convention will take place this week.

Tetrick, the founder and CEO of food tech startup Hampton Creek, is protesting Trump's disrespect for women and minority groups.
"His campaign doesn't reflect basic American values," Tetrick told CNNMoney on Sunday. "We can disagree on a lot but there are certain things that everyone does agree with: You should respect women. Immigrants make this country better. We should be civil to each other. The KKK is a group that is the personification of evil. There are these basic things that we don't need to argue about."

Tetrick describes himself as a moderate democrat and said the ad, which only has 129 words including Tetrick's name, has struck quite a chord with Americans. (It can be read online, too.) While he didn't identify his company in the ad, Tetrick did leave his actual phone number for people to reach out.

He said he's received hundreds of calls, more than 600 voicemails, and is getting about ten text messages every minute from strangers around the country. They range from grandmothers to factory workers and "lots and lots of Republicans" praising him for speaking up. "98% have been heartfelt," he said, but a few have been unkind.

"You've said what a lot of us are thinking. As an immigrant woman who has been in this country for 30 years, for the first time, I'm so scared and really frightened. Thank you so much for having the guts to be able to say what you did for most of us who don't have a voice," said one Florida-based woman in a voicemail to Tetrick obtained by CNNMoney.

"I just wanted to call and express my deep appreciation for your expression to Donald Trump. You capture perfectly my own concern and worry about this proto-Facist element that's developed in our struggling democracy ... On behalf of my family, thank you," said a man from Arkansas.

Tetrick, who has raised more than $120 million from big name backers like Marc Benioff and Khosla Ventures, is no stranger to taking out ads in the New York Times, listing his name and number for the world to see. He generally targets the food industry.

While there are reports that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the ad, Tetrick said that couldn't be further from the truth. He declined to discuss specifics, but said "it's not even in the stratosphere of that.

Speaking out about Trump is in line with his company's mission of effecting change in the world, he told CNNMoney.
"I just had to get this out of my head so I could sleep better," he said. "It's too important."

Tetrick said that the recent death of Elie Wiesel and a quote from his book, "Night," was the big impetus for the ad campaign: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." His personal Twitter account and Hampton Creek's account both have pinned tweets of different Elie Wiesel quotes.

"I do think there is an obligation to say something," he added. "I hope that if you're a leader of a public company, I hope you say something."

The ad comes after 145 tech leaders penned an open letter to the world about Donald Trump, including execs from Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB, Tech30), and Apple (AAPL, Tech30) as well as startups, venture capital firms, nonprofits and universities.

The Donald Trump campaign did not immediately respond to CNNMoney's request for comment.
 

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Things are already getting interesting and the convention has barely started. The STOP TRUMP protesters are chanting they want changes to the current rules and are demanding a vote. I'm starting to to wonder if it may not be dangerous for any of the Trumps to show their faces at the convention. Blood may be spilled, folks!

What a chaotic scene!!!!!!!! I've never seen this at any other convention!!!
 

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Trump motorcade involved in accident

The Trump motorcade was involved in an accident earlier today in NYC on its way to the airport.

Don't get too excited, folks. Unfortunately, Daffy Donald Trump was not injured and he'll be showing his ugly face in Cleveland later tonight.
 

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Melania Trump is supposed to be one of the speakers at tonight's convention.

I'll have my closed-caption on. I can barely make out what she says when she tries to speak english.

Her objective tonight will be to try to make him look human, which will be a tough chore. I'll give her credit for trying to do the impossible.
 

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I was watching the convention earlier when all hell broke loose. Now i'm looking at several pictures from inside the convention hall posted on twitter. Guess what?? I've yet to see a black or latino person!! All white people!!!! David Duke must be smiling right now!
 

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I was watching the convention earlier when all hell broke loose. Now i'm looking at several pictures from inside the convention hall posted on twitter. Guess what?? I've yet to see a black or latino person!! All white people!!!! David Duke must be smiling right now!

Indeed. But there is still many anti-trump who have made chaos, shouting harder then the pro-trump. Since these anti-trump are white they went under the radar and were allowed in, maybe not for long!

Cheers,
 

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There are a total of 20 black delegates at the Republican convention.
That is a very small number but greater than the number at previous conventions..... 50 ,60 years ago :rolleyes:
 

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greater than the number at previous conventions..... 50 ,60 years ago :rolleyes:

Great progress. Maybe in another 50, 60 years they might be allowed on the podium, maybe even be able to shake hands with the Republican candidate.
 

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Bryan Cranston Trashes Trump: ‘An Anomaly to the Human Race’

The star of ‘Breaking Bad’ and the new film ‘The Infiltrator’ opens up about why he’s endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, and how Trump is utterly unfit for the White House.

by Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast

Back in November, while promoting his Oscar-nominated turn in the biopic Trumbo, Bryan Cranston seemed enthused by Donald Trump’s Twitter tornado of a presence in this year’s presidential election. “I think it’s great that Donald Trump is in the mix,” he told me. “He’s a maverick. He says what he wants to say, and it forces the other candidates to be more real, more honest, and more open.”

That was then—before his NRA endorsement, his statement that women should be punished for having abortions, his praise of Saddam Hussein, his “appreciate the congrats” reaction to the Orlando mass shooting, his #AllLivesMatter stance, his endorsement of Brexit, his performance art 60 Minutes interview, etc., etc. Now that Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president, the man formerly known as Walter White has seen the light, and it ain’t pretty.

“As real as that is, and it is since he’s the presumptive nominee, it’s still not real to me that a reality show host and supreme narcissist is going to be the president of the United States. I just don’t sense the reality of that, and I hope I never do,” Cranston tells The Daily Beast. “To me, it’s not a Republican thing and look at those Republicans—even though I am a Democrat—because I think our country is stronger when we are kept in balance when there’s a legitimate conservative candidate. I think that’s a good thing. I might agree with him or her, but it’s a good thing.”
Cranston, who is promoting his new thriller The Infiltrator—which he is superb in, by the way—further expounded on why he feels Trump is a potential hazard to the Oval Office, and, to quote his opponent Hillary Clinton, “temperamentally unfit” for the role of Commander in Chief.

“Now, the X factor is Trump. He’s an anomaly to politics and an anomaly to the human race, as far as I’m concerned. He’s just a bizarre human being,” says Cranston. “I don’t think that’s a statement that anybody can even argue. ‘Is he a normal human being?’ I don’t think anybody can say, ‘Yeah, he’s pretty normal!’ No! He’s very, very far away from normal. Even if you agree with him, he’s still far away from normal, and we need a president like our current president, who I believe has shown the qualities we want in a president: restraint, introspection, diplomacy, thoughtfulness, sensitivity, intelligence, not to be hyperbolic, to be presidential, to be respectful, and to be patient. President Obama has the qualities that anyone would want, and I think a President Clinton would have those qualities as well. But we know that Donald Trump does not have that.

“To me,” he adds of Trump, “it’s just bizarre.”

Unlike the Republican debates, which Trump dominated by giving his opponents childish nicknames and defending the size of his hands (and penis), Cranston says that the Democratic debates—and the overall challenge from rival Bernie Sanders—was ultimately constructive, and helped mold Hillary Clinton into a better presidential candidate.

“If you look at the debates with Bernie Sanders and Hillary, I think it was great for Hillary to have Bernie Sanders in the race. It made her a better candidate, a stronger campaigner, a stronger debater, and gave her some clarity on issues that she might not have been hyper-focused on,” offered Cranston.

“Bernie touched her and allowed Hillary Clinton to be able to say, ‘This is obviously an extremely important issue that we are now going to pay even more attention to than we have at this point.’ Having Bernie Sanders be a part of the dialogue and a part of the platform in the Democratic Convention is a good thing, and it also illustrates the differences,” he continued. “Having differences with your candidate is not a bad thing. We don’t expect a hundred percent agreement with our spouses or our children, so why would we expect a hundred percent agreement with a candidate? We’re human beings. We have different approaches and are not carbon copies of each other.”

Sanders, who recently gave a half-hearted, very Sanders-y endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president ahead of the conventions, did help steer her to the left when it comes to Wall Street, mass incarceration, and the minimum wage. With that being said, since the race is now down to Clinton and Trump, Cranston says he’ll be throwing his support behind Team Hillary, and also yearns for a more civil, less divisive political arena.

“Fundamentally, I do agree with what Hillary Clinton presents as a platform, as a policy, as an agenda, and I do support her,” says Cranston. “But that’s not to point the finger at a Republican agenda or a conservative agenda and say, ‘They’re evil, they’re wrong, they’re villainous.’ They’re not. They love the country just as much as I do, and I think that’s a thing that we need to step away from. We need to step away from making enemies and villains out of someone who has a different ideology than yours.”

“So when I meet those who are voting for Donald Trump, I don’t try to disprove their interests,” he goes on. “I’m curious how they came to that position. But I think this is incredibly important: I don’t want to disrespect anyone’s opinion. This is how they feel. But I would be very interested and curious to see how they came to this decision.”
 

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There are a total of 20 black delegates at the Republican convention.
That is a very small number but greater than the number at previous conventions..... 50 ,60 years ago :rolleyes:

I saw one black person earlier & thought to myself: "Finally!! A black Republican!!!"

And then i realized that he was a reporter.

Okay, there's Ben Carson. Too bad he doesn't know that there's a GOP convention going on.
 

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Let's not forget that there is at least one latino in the house: Cha-Chi!!!!!!!!! Yes, Cha-Chi!!!!!!!! Donald loves Cha-Chi!!!!!!! :lol::lol::lol:
 
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