And you notice something else?..in the original TEDx version, he asks the crowd if anyone has ever heard of Mises. This was edited out of the main TED channel version.
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He actually has given a few other talks at various TED events. He may well actually be the most prolific TED speaker…
This should be headline news across the entire US and even on the international wires. This needs to be turned into a referendum on the Patriot Act/MCA/NDAA. I’ve had enough of this shit. The cops are absolutely out of control. A person can’t hardly sneeze these days without a cop showing up. Yes, I’m speaking from personal experience (no beatings or arrests, thankfully). They’re punch-drunk on power because they all know that they basically have a carte-blanche thanks to 9/11. It’s just beyond belief.
But even if the guy had died, the most we would have gotten out of the DEA would be “oops, sorry.” So, I don’t expect this to make any national headlines even though it ought to. Stories like this are just the first few trickles of a tidal wave of police brutality that is coming our way. Grigg has been documenting it for some time and the accounts that he manages to dig up are just as bone-chilling as this. Expect it to get a hundred times worse over the next decade.
Well, I don’t know how national it is. The stories that I linked to I got from the Drudge Report, which is fairly national. I don’t watch the news on TV and I don’t really listen to talk radio, so I don’t know how national it really is though.
Love that video, Clayton. The difference in size and energy in the crowds between the two candidates is just amazing.
Just based on the beginning clip chosen for this video, Mitt might be one of the least engaging speakers I’ve heard in a while. It kinda sounds like a 20 slide PowerPoint presentation going on as he painfully tries to connect with everyone.
I don’t think it’s helping his case in connecting with the common people when he talks about Missouri Fox Trotters and dressage horse riding. Those are some of the most expensive horses money can buy and dressage has a strong reputation as being one of the more snooty factions of equestrian sport.
Besides killing time, don’t be surprised if Mitt was just attempting to put the image out like he is another Ronald Reagan rancher type who was well-known for his love of horses.
I find it interesting how the turn out at the rallies does not correlate with the amount of votes. Voting fraud aside, what do you think are the other factors that contribute to this phenomenon? I was thinking that it may be that Ron Paul supporters are more dedicated, while Romney supporters just vote without going to rallies.
Maybe the turnouts do correlate with the number of votes it’s just not that many people to begin with. A lot of these cities like College Station, Berkeley, Chino, Urbana, Lawrence, Ithaca etc are small cities, some of them have less than 50,000 total pop.
According to the US Census there are almost 4 million people living in LA (7,000 attended his rally) and 2.1m in Houston (3k attended) Austin has almost 800k (6k attended) San Antonio has 1.3m (3.5k attended) while Philadelphia has 1.5m (4.3k attended.)
It may not be that his supporters aren’t voting for him (though perhaps some don’t out of principle) it may be that he just doesn’t have as many supporters as he would need to be able to secure a Republican nomination much less win a general election.
According to this NY times delegate count Romney has 847 delegates while RP has 80. It takes 1144 total delegates to secure the nomination.
So yes, while Romney may not be able to pull a crowd to hear him speak, he seems to be getting more votes overall and thus more delegates.
Perhaps but I think the root cause is that Romney supporters have money and friends within the Republican party. They are the Republican establishment.
There’s a few theories. Here’s a hit piece from The Washington Times that basically doesn’t give one.
Ron Paul himself has offered the notion that a large chunk of his support comes from people who aren’t Republicans…meaning they may show up to his rally, but aren’t as likely (or comfortable with) showing up and voting in a Republican primary.
I think that’s part of it, and I think Patrick McEwen at The Capital Free Press might have another part…
…Right…because they make assumptions in Romney’s favor. The whole point of that link is to show the reality. All of those 800s vs. 80 mainstream resources place delegates in camps based on any number of metrics…mostly just based on the ciruclar logic of Romney’s the presumptive nominee because he has so many delegates because he’s the presumptive nominee.
For example, they give Romney 50 delegates from Florida…when in reality the last news was that there is a legal proceeding underway to determine if those delegates are to be proportioned or not. (This was mentioned at that link). Also pay attention to where the delegates are coming from. In those “800s” resources, they have him taking a majority or plurality of delegates in a number of states just based on the popular vote…which meant literally NOTHING in the way of delegates. Some (if not all) of those resources have Romney and Santorum each taking more than 7 delegates (if not 10). This is impossible, as Ron Paul has already secured at least half of the delegates.
Do you understand how this works? See, if one person has secured a delegate, it means one less delegate for everyone else. So if someone made up a count based on nothing other than guessing, and just assumed Romney took a certain number of delegates, but it turns out not all those delegates went to him, then that not only means more delegates for someone else (like Ron Paul), it also means less delegates from Romney. So, when you subtract delegates from someone like Romney so as to account for the actual Ron Paul delegates, that means Romney’s previously mentioned total is too high…and will necessarily be lower.
Where are all the “black leaders” now? Aren’t they supposed to be fighting for equal treatment and eliminating racism? I guess that means racism against blacks. Any other kind of racism is perfectly fine.
The difference in size and energy in the crowds between the two candidates is just amazing.
