presidential election

It's one thing for the republican establishment to throw up all over the candidacy of Donald Trump: frankly, the GOP has not been relevant as a political power ever since Boehner started folding like a lawn chair to Obama's every demand just around the time of the first US downgrade, and as such what the Republican party - torn apart and very much irrelevant as the best of the "establishment" GOP candidates demonstrate - thinks is largely irrelevant.

Authored by Robert Epstein, originally posted at Aeon.co,

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

And so, just like that, with a sweeping victory in South Carolina, Sanders' Socialism crawls back into its cage and crony capitalism is alive and well.

As Edward Snowden so perfectly sums up...

2016: a choice between Donald Trump and Goldman Sachs.

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 28, 2016

And in case you thought this was an exaggeration...

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

In a Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump race – which, the Beltway keening aside, seems the probable outcome of the primaries – what are the odds the GOP can take the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court?

If Republicans can unite, not bad, not bad at all.

Undeniably, Democrats open with a strong hand.

Yesterday, in an odd attempt to criticize the "financial media for highlighting bearish stories but ignoring bullish ones" and to pidgeonhole "Zero Hedge and friends" as addicted to "permabear newsflow", Citi's Brent Donnelly said the following:

Give the people what they want