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At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d?2oz85mi
Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he "cannot support Donald Trump."

Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).

Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.
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This is exactly the type of thing that justifies the base's revolt against the Republican establishment.
 
Nice to see that the peasants are revolting against the aristocratic plutocrats.

Now if only they would take things one step further and vote for their own best interests instead of those interests that the aristocrats tell them to.
 
Man if it were Sanders versus Trump I would be SO happy. But it just ain't happening. Would be nice though for the establishment for once to feel like their agenda was 90% assured (due to congress) instead of being 100% assured.
 
Im still voting for Sanders on Tuesday and there are a bunch of primaries left.

Im still hoping for Trump or Cruz v. Sanders.

Because Im starting to think Trump MIGHT possibly be able to beat Hillary if he makes her get flustered and look like shit, like Bernie did to her in the last debate.

At this point a primary vote for Clinton is a vote for Trump. IMO.

There are a ton of Sanders supporters who will stupidly not vote for her in the general no matter what. And I understand why.
She is so icky. lol I cant stand her and Im a liberal democrat.
 
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LPCTech said:
Im still voting for Sanders on Tuesday and there are a bunch of primaries left.

Im still hoping for Trump or Cruz v. Sanders.

Because Im starting to think Trump MIGHT possibly be able to beat Hillary if he makes her get flustered and look like shit, like Bernie did to her in the last debate.

At this point a primary vote for Clinton is a vote for Trump. IMO.

There are a ton of Sanders supporters who will stupidly not vote for her in the general no matter what. And I understand why.
She is so icky. lol I cant stand her and Im a liberal democrat.
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Hillary shares the same problems every single Repub politician has to deal with: How to successfully pander (lie) to an essential voting bloc that has needs and desires that are contrary to those of herself and her elite benefactors.

edit - That being said, I'd still hesitantly vote for her if it were her against Trump.
 
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Sonikku said:
Man if it were Sanders versus Trump I would be SO happy. But it just ain't happening. Would be nice though for the establishment for once to feel like their agenda was 90% assured (due to congress) instead of being 100% assured.
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Quiet you! I'm holding onto that dream for as long as I can. :biggrin:
 
tweaker2 said:
Nice to see that the peasants are revolting against the aristocratic plutocrats.

Now if only they would take things one step further and vote for their own best interests instead of those interests that the aristocrats tell them to.
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You mean by voting for The Anointed Queen of Wall St? LOL! The game is so rigged it isn't even funny.
 
BoberFett said:
You mean by voting for The Anointed Queen of Wall St? LOL! The game is so rigged it isn't even funny.
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This election cycle in some ways is turned upside down. The GOP leader is not a wall street goon. He is not taking in huge super pac money. He is for some form of socialized medicine. And believes the Iraq war was a disaster and should not have happened.

The Democrat leader is a wall street goon. She voted for the Iraq war, pushed for Libyan intervention, and cant wait to get into Syria. She has the biggest super pac money pool of all candidates. And rejects the progressive wing of her own party.

They both want to build economic walls around this country to artificially inflate the cost of labor and make the rich pay more.

Strange days right now.
 
Genx87 said:
This election cycle in some ways is turned upside down. The GOP leader is not a wall street goon. He is not taking in huge super pac money. He is for some form of socialized medicine. And believes the Iraq war was a disaster and should not have happened.

The Democrat leader is a wall street goon. She voted for the Iraq war, pushed for Libyan intervention, and cant wait to get into Syria. She has the biggest super pac money pool of all candidates. And rejects the progressive wing of her own party.

They both want to build economic walls around this country to artificially inflate the cost of labor and make the rich pay more.

Strange days right now.
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Clinton and GW Bush are eerily similar. They both are bought and paid for by the banking industry, both are neo-cons itching to kill people in the Middle East and both are part of families that having being pulling strings in Washington for nearly 40 years.

I wish we could have Obama for another term.
 
Genx87 said:
This election cycle in some ways is turned upside down. The GOP leader is not a wall street goon. He is not taking in huge super pac money. He is for some form of socialized medicine. And believes the Iraq war was a disaster and should not have happened.

The Democrat leader is a wall street goon. She voted for the Iraq war, pushed for Libyan intervention, and cant wait to get into Syria. She has the biggest super pac money pool of all candidates. And rejects the progressive wing of her own party.

They both want to build economic walls around this country to artificially inflate the cost of labor and make the rich pay more.

Strange days right now.
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It could very well be the parties are switching platforms again but as long as it is the KKK vs income inequality/ lbgt equal rights/ climate change on opposite sides, I'm not conflicted.
 
bshole said:
Clinton and GW Bush are eerily similar. They both are bought and paid for by the banking industry, both are neo-cons itching to kill people in the Middle East and both are part of families that having being pulling strings in Washington for nearly 40 years.

I wish we could have Obama for another term.
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I wonder how many in the republican establishment would actually agree with that now? 😀

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Meh I wouldnt take another Obama term. The guy has been a disaster in foreign policy and domestic privacy. I would however take Bill Clinton for the past 4 terms.
 
That's the way ModMyi reported it to but then when I read the article they basically never talked about Trump and instead talked about how Tim Cook got grilled about not letting the FBI have access to whatever iPhone they wanted. It sounds like they got together about many things and some likely privately complained to each other about Trump.

Of course, it makes a better headline when you spin it as a gathering specifically prompted by Trump's looming success.
 
CZroe said:
That's the way ModMyi reported it to but then when I read the article they basically never talked about Trump and instead talked about how Tim Cook got grilled about not letting the FBI have access to whatever iPhone they wanted. It sounds like they got together about many things and some likely privately complained to each other about Trump.

Of course, it makes a better headline when you spin it as a gathering specifically prompted by Trump's looming success.
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This is where the vast right-wing conspiracy holds their secret meetings every year and renew their membership cards...everybody knows this. 😀
 
Aren't the folks who now accuse Clinton of being a representative of Wall Street usually in favor of policies that benefit Wall Street?
 
LPCTech said:
You are voting for the person getting funded by the people you hate.
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Thats the joke.

You talk to the average democrat and thats what they say. Sure theyll say they like Sanders or something, but then they go right ahead and vote for Hillary. At least the anti-establishment Republicans stand by their ideals and vote for Trump.
 
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