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| "Excuse me I can't come to your debate, that's the night I'm doing my hair." |
Dan Hayes, the general manager of the Salt Palace Convention Center, which was scheduled to host the debate, said he had "received verbal statements from Fox News" that the debate would no longer be taking place.
Two Fox News sources familiar with the decision confirmed the debate had been canceled.
The cancellation comes after Trump said on Fox News a few hours earlier that he would not attend the debate, leading John Kasich to pull out as well. Ted Cruz said he was willing to debate either Trump or Kasich, or both.
"Obviously, there needs to be more than one participant," Michael Clemente, the Fox News executive overseeing the debate, said in a statement. "So the Salt Lake City debate is canceled."
I don't know perhaps Fox should let Ted Cruz have a debate with himself.
After all two hours of Ted Cruz talking about himself and leaving a trail of slime wherever he steps on the debate stage might be enough to turn off every GOP voter in the country and effectively end his campaign in one night.
I think at this point it is pretty clear that the nomination is Donald Trump's.
After all if he he can refuse to attend a debate and get that debate cancelled I think that demonstrates his domination over this so-called opponents.
Does anybody really think they would have cancelled it if Kasich or Cruz had been the ones to skip it?
Besides that Trump is also threatening riots if he does not get the nomination:
Trump warned Wednesday morning that there would be widespread unrest if he does not "automatically" get the nomination as the candidate with the greatest number of delegates.
"I think you would have riots," Trump said during an interview with CNN, adding that he represents "many, many millions of people," including several first-time voters.
Angry conservative voters rioting in the streets. I give up, I am never going to be able to buy enough popcorn for this election cycle.
I no longer find the Trump Circus entertaining. Clowns scare me and this one is particularly disturbing.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy had a good run.
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I agree. But GW Bush was not any better just subtle.
DeleteAnd, he is a mean clown, right down to his fake tan and his short vulgarian fingers.
Yes, and we survived the Bush years and we'll survive the Trump years. I don't see him winning 2 terms, however, and I seriously doubt he'll finish one.
DeleteTrump won't beat Hillary. Plus they will lose the Senate.
DeleteLet 'em riot.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, then we can laugh and point.
DeleteBLM did it better!
I think the GOP is resigned to a Trump candidacy, but are planning a "power behind the throne" end run. No one in this country believes George W. Bush was actually in charge.
ReplyDeleteCan the GOP control a little Donny Trump in the Oval office? No problem, drugs can do anything.
Forget the sissy drugs, go straight to ricin.
DeleteRicin it is, then.
DeleteGreat! All in favor, say aye!
DeleteCheney for VP! /s
DeleteThe longer this goes on, the more like Hitler this ass clown sounds.
ReplyDeleteThis is HIS election, and damn it they WILL do it HIS way. Or, as the red queen said, "Off with their heads!".
Anyone who thinks this is still a joke had better wake up.
I've been saying this forever. May I quote you on my Facebook page? You said it better than me!
DeleteNot a joke, he's made certain it will be Trump v. Hillary. Cruz and Kasich may as well do a Rubio.
DeleteAnytime someone starts exhorting their low-information followers to violence is when everyone needs to be very watchful and careful.
DeleteExactly, Balzafiar, this is exactly what AIP baby cakes has been waiting for. and they've planning this for a VERY long time. A complacent media lets it happen because it's $$ to them.
DeleteNever seen a cluster**** like this in my life.
Let them riot - with Trump in the very midst of the rioters! Let the rioters holler "Take him down!" It could always be said afterwards that he called for the action himself!
ReplyDeleteIf the gop establishment is serious about not having Trump as their nominee, I think they will have to take a chance on rioting.
DeleteDespots are never going to get caught in the middle of the action. Kim Jong Drumpf is no exception.
DeleteKim Jong Drumpf!
DeleteBalzafiar, you've made my day. :D
Trumpkinheads. heh heh heh
ReplyDeleteLiberalOldLadiesLOL @2LOL_LOLS 7h7 hours ago
#Trumpkinheads Sniveling #DonnyBoy coward is afraid2 face #Kasich in real debate. Trump Can't keep America safe if he runs from #Ohio Guy?
Richard Dawkins mourned that (paraphrasing) if only the people in the pubs had laughed at young Hitler when he spewed his insane hate speech during the Beer Hall Putsch....so dammit let's laugh our asses off at that ridix ass every chance we get! Drumpf cant withstand ridicule or criticism! he's a bad joke
ReplyDeleteHalf the country is already laughing at him and he seems unfazed. When people show up to laugh at him or heckle him at rallies one of his supporters beats them to a pulp or he has secret service show them the door.
DeleteA massive mail campaign to flood his home with caricatures of him would drive him over the edge.
DeleteMaybe we could send him a bunch of dildos like they did the Oregon wildlife refuge bunch. At least soft porn queen wifey could have some fun while he's away.
DeleteMaher, Oliver, Colbert and Corden are doing their parts.
DeleteConspiracy theorists (myself included) have long maintained that the CIA was involved in both the Kennedy assassination and the attempt on Reagan. If Trump doesn't toe the line, he may end up on some 'crazed Jodi Foster fan's' hit list.
ReplyDeleteOne can only hope he does.
DeleteI concur.
DeleteReagan?
DeleteWell, I think the conservatives have pretty much cornered the market on dirty tricks.
Yes, Reagan. He and HW were not besties and Cheney was already pulling strings. HW was the former CIA guy. When Reagan survived the attempt, he was so concerned about the loyality of his SS agents, that he had MPs pulled off a Naval ship to stand guard at his hospital room.
DeleteHe's such a pussy
ReplyDeleteWhy he has his sidekick "Robinette" to his "Batman." Birds of a feather....
DeleteSieg heil, asshole!
DeleteThe debate was announced on 2/20. He says he didn't know about it. But he had a debate on 2/25 and 3/5 and 3/10. How did he not know about the next one, especially since it was announced back before the debate that took place three debates ago?
ReplyDeleteHe knew. He also knows that without 8 guys on stage to consume time and to attack, he is having to spend more time talking policy and like it or not the two remaining can debate, which he simply cannot do. He CAN, however, hold "rallies" and tell everybody how great he is and how great he will make America, while taking cheap shots at whomever he is picking that night.
DeleteWe have a winner, 7:54 PM!
DeleteDespite the Todd commercial calamity, bristol found time to hawk pictures of her child to daily mail. I say commercial because it plays into the news cycle and mentioned by People magazine 4 times. You know sarah sells info. If it was really a snowmobile accident she has sold the pictures. Trump=Palin but I suspect he finds her bag lady look unattractive. I think she had some foreward tilt on that wig.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/controversy-engulfs-virgin-islands-race-for-gop-convention-delegates/article/2585350
This is starting to worry me. Please assure me that this can't happen. From Huffpo...Doomsday Savior? How Paul Ryan Will Pick the Next President
ReplyDeleteMichael Bloomberg practically left a breadcrumb for this theory in plain sight when he declared that he would not be running for President this cycle. While pundits focused on why the math wouldn't work out for Bloomberg against Trump or Hillary Clinton, the former mayor of New York City buried this interesting analysis in his op-ed this week.
ReplyDeleteIn a three-way race, it's unlikely any candidate would win a majority of electoral votes, and then the power to choose the president would be taken out of the hands of the American people and thrown to Congress. The fact is, even if I were to receive the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, victory would be highly unlikely, because most members of Congress would vote for their party's nominee. Party loyalists in Congress -- not the American people or the Electoral College -- would determine the next president.
Five sheriff's deputies were disciplined Wednesday for failing to immediately arrest a man who elbowed a protester in the face at a Donald Trump rally last week in North Carolina
ReplyDeleteThree Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies were demoted and suspended for five days without pay and two more deputies were suspended for three days without pay
Read more at
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/politics/donald-trump-rally-protester-assault/index.html
Hey Donald will you be paying for that thug's lawyer and reimbursing the officers for not doing their jobs?
so, what he's saying is he's going to unleash his brownshirts.
ReplyDeleteAnd Donaldo, lets remember protesters and rioters are all ISIS people. Lock em up, mow em down.
ReplyDeleteSee you on 5th ave?
Yeah, let me shoot him. Would people still love me as he professes? I'd have my collective butt hauled off for life, but not the Donald! People WUV him. Sheesh.
DeleteI don't think watching armed angry racist mobs causing chaos and riots-and injuries and possibly deaths-popcorn time entertainment. Having grown up during the 1960's, watching Americans attacking other Americans and aftermath is hardly Jiffy Pop time.
ReplyDeleteGood post. Sorry but I think Gryphen has a sick, twisted sense of humor at times.
DeleteI'm 58 years old and remember all that. My opinion, you're taking Gryph too literally for what he writes. It's not that he is delighting in it; it's that he's abhorred beyond belief.
DeleteI think he is just addicted to popcorn,now that he has a professional popper!
DeleteThe last time conservative republicans and democrats liked gun control? When the BPP was open carrying.
Deletehttp://praisecincy.com/1265270/when-the-black-panthers-challenged-gun-control/
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/Panthers1_schaefer.htm
It was sarcasm.
DeleteI'll take that, 7:57 PM! :)
DeleteKinda OT: Saw today that the likewise blowhard M James Sheppard of c4p fame still has zero dollars on his GoFundMe page to start his conservative blog to take the rat bastids down.
ReplyDeleteNot even a penny from the pee pond?
There you have it! lmao
I don't think the pee pond like him very much either.
DeleteHow long has he been doing that now? 3 months? I know he visits here just like the rest of 'em. Waving at ya, big shot in your own mind!
DeleteThat asshole is so full of himself. He thinks he is an intellectual. He may not fit in with C4P nuts because he has been trying to take over that site.
DeleteHe better realize he is dealing with idiots who just want to rant . He is an outsider and whoever is in charge of C4P will never give it up to him.
Neither does his wife, which is why he uses c4p like an online dating site. Poor old, bald MJ.
DeleteDamn! Does every 'constitutional conservative' tea partier want a handout? I thought it was us libural, Democrats who all want Obamaphones and guberment cheese! Seems up is down in tea party land!
DeleteThe man is a loon! Check this out:
Deletehttp://on.fb.me/1pMSsBP
That's paid for Pete, 8:21 PM.
DeleteYet another one. The loon pee puddle.
He needs to take on a persona like Virgina Gentleman.
DeleteSitting here on my porch, looking at God's green earth while i drink my morning coffee. The birds are singing and my wife's cat is welcoming the day as only a creature of God can do.
Spring is finally showing it's glory! As me and Ma look out at our farm in wonder and praise God for another day since i have been dying for years now. But thank the Lord and all my dear friends at C4P for your money when you set up that go fund me site! so that i can continue to sit on my porch and describe for you all the beauty i see down on the farm.
Hey, 9:22 PM. they're fighting breast cancer now. He can say that in the morning, swear like the sailor that he was during the day, and prayers at night.
DeleteI know many cannot stand him for his hypocrisy, but I give them a break for this. Thy could lose everything to fund it. No one needs to live that, I don't care who you are.
9:51, VG would have no problem watching anyone part with personal possessions to keep the farm. He would tell us to sell it and move in with our kids. He is a bootstraps kind of Murakin....until it is him.
DeleteEt Tu, Sarah?
DeleteWould these rioters be 2nd Amendment enthusiasts, by any chance?
ReplyDeleteWhat color shirts would they wear?
DeleteOf course. If they had to go mano a mano, they would wet themselves.
DeleteWhat color shirts? Brown, with "Make Armenia grate again" logos, made in china, Sold by Trump.
DeleteHe made a statement last week that he'd engage in no more debates until after he is the nominee and I say hurray!
ReplyDeleteIsn't everyone suffering from "debate fatigue" anyway?
Like Sarah, Donald would be a total idiot in a debate with real questions. I bet that he refuses to engage in any debate with Hillary, or Bernie. "Can I call you Joe?"
Delete"Can I call you Joe?" hahahahaha
DeleteAnd she still called him O'Biden and he Cheshire Cat grinned at her in amusement.
Soooooo stupid is she, and when he walked off stage, "you owe me," to his handlers for not taking her down in one fell swoop. Chess playing. "Just keep talking, boopsie," and she did.
The pee puddle still thinks she won.
LMAO
Sarah Palin's "petty punk ass thuggery" family will riot on their snow machines.
ReplyDeleteLOL! And, we know how well that worked out for them. I mean Toad Palin; the manly man of Snowmachines, got his ass kicked on one.
DeleteI doubt it was a snow machine, but made for a good story.
Delete5:05, +1000
ReplyDeleteAgain I say, it's all because President Obama was that goooooood. What clowns!
ReplyDeleteCancels? I think that Trump is a quitter!
ReplyDeleteHe learned from the best!
DeleteI am sick. All semblance of class has gone out the window with this anger we are seeing . And to my surprise it's the older generation perpetuating it.
ReplyDeleteTimes change. Trump has done nothing positive, nothing. He feeds on anger like a vulture.
"the older generation perpetuating it."
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Careful how you generalize.
Really.I have 16 grandchildren.The only thing that makes me angry is how stupid so many people can be.
DeleteNine grandchildren here and we've worked for every darned thing we have. What an ignorant statement.
DeleteOccupy, BLM, Trump protestors, all young (not quite all, there are some old retirees with nothing better to do either) and dumb. Followers.
DeleteForget the popcorn. It's time for serious drink. What has America come to?
ReplyDeleteKasich shouldn't have pulled out.
ReplyDeleteHe and Cruz should have gone on with the debate without Drumpf.
This is just giving the baby that's throwing the tantrum exactly what they want. Very bad precedent. It's why the 'baggers have taken over the GOP.
Exactly right! I figure Kasich and Cruz are doing what they're owners(donors) told them to do.
DeleteAt least Trump has effectively neutered the baggers, to the point that he's stolen their Queen to stump for him! I think that's rather amusing and we do owe him thanks for that.
DeleteI agree, it would show the world how stupid Donald Trump truly is.
DeleteRead what Trump makes his VOLUNTEERS sign away: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/donald-trump-volunteer-contract-nda-non-disparagement-clause/
ReplyDeleteEnciting riots and dropping out of a debate, "because he can" means only one thing, with the others culled down, they need to start talking policy, what they stand for, and their plans for getting things to work. Trump is too afraid to look stupid, and knowing a woman, Megyn Kelly would publicly take him down, on Fox no less, would be too unbearable to his fragile little ego.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to get to brass tacks, GOP, shit or get off the pot. Right now the world is laughing AT you and the Orville Redenbacher company can't keep up production. At least the Democrats speak in whole words, know how to debate the issues, and don't engage in sandbox antics.
Trump is a dangerous man, first he attracts the worse of the worse, then incites them by saying he'll pay their legal bills. Now he's got the KKK on his side and he's going to pay their legal fees as well? Jackass has no scruples nor courage, just tell folks what they want to hear and screw it all. Win at any cost.
It ain't gonna happen, Donny.