Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread XCIII

Free Republic ^ | 20 April 2016 | Windflier

[Lonely Bull]

DO NOT VOTE ON THIS THREAD.

This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.

If you'd like to vote in the caucus, please look in the sidebar for the link, or check downthread here.

Thanks, and let 'er rip!

Windy

Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/21

[Lonely Bull]

FR Caucus discussion ping

[Lonely Bull]

Free Republic Caucus 2016 Discussion Threads ping list.

To join or leave this list, or for questions and comments, please reply to Lonely Bull (private replies and mail welcome). You will receive a routine daily ping to the discussion threads as long as these caucus threads continue (announcement: the final date will be April 28). Each discussion thread will contain links to results and older threads.

Today's voting thread: Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/21

Please reserve the voting thread for votes (and follow the rules given there); please do not post ping-related correspondence in the voting thread. Thanks for your interest!

[DoughtyOne]

Good evening. Thanks again to both of you.

Results: 2016 04/20 on the forum

[Lonely Bull]

I wrote: “You will receive a routine daily ping to the discussion threads as long as these caucus threads continue (announcement: the final date will be April 28).”

One addendum, though: I will continue this list for any discussion threads following the end of regular caucus voting.

[Duchess47]

Thank you.

[Lonely Bull]

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, most recent 15 days

Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
4/21	[link]	[link]	[available later]	93
4/20	[link]	[link]	[link]	92
4/19	[link]	[link]	[link]	91
4/18	[link]	[link]	[link]	90
4/17	[link]	[link]	[link]	89
4/16	[link]	[link]	[link]	88
4/15	[link]	[link]	[link]	87
4/14	[link]	[link]	[link]	86
4/13	[link]	[link]	[link]	85
4/12	[link]	[link]	[link]	84
4/11	[link]	[link]	[link]	83
4/10	[link]	[link]	[link]	82
4/09	[link]	[link]	[link]	81
4/08	[link]	[link]	[link]	80
4/07	[link]	[link]	[link]	79

Table 2: tables with older threads

Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
4/06 - 4/20	[link]	78-92
3/30 - 4/13	[link]	71-85
3/23 - 4/06	[link]	64-78
3/16 - 3/30	[link]	57-71
3/09 - 3/23	[link]	50-64
3/02 - 3/16	[link]	43-57
2/24 - 3/09	[link]	36-50
2/17 - 3/02	[link]	29-43
2/10 - 2/24	[link]	22-36
2/03 - 2/17	[link]	15-29
1/27 - 2/10	[link]	8-22
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

[Lonely Bull]

Thank you.

You're welcome. I in turn thank all of you who've participated well in these threads.

I should note here that my reference to later discussions comes from this line in the announcement:

Sometime in the week after the 28th, I will work up a lot of statistics on the vote.
Individual's names will used sparingly and only for positive aspects of the vote.
Most of the reporting will deal with numbers of voters and different aspects of the votes.

I assume that we may have at least one thread discussing this work.

[sargon]

Ted Cruz is taking the meaning of the word assh--e to new levels.

He's absolutely unhinged.

HumiliaTED is the latest trend Cruz is going to experience as he gets absolutely crushed over the next few weeks.

Ted Cruz can steal all the delegates he wants, for all the good it will do him. He won't even have 700 delegates going into the convention. At this point, he's become a clownish, delusional sideshow.

Talk about narcissism and ego, he makes Trump look humble in comparison.

Good riddance, Ted. Crawl back to the US Senate with your tail between your legs and see how your colleagues react to your attempt to splinter the party and destroy it, all for what? Constitutional principles? NO. Just for your incredibly huge ego.

What a selfish son of a b-tch. I've had enough of this clown, and the voters are about to show him the cold hard truth.

Vote Trump

[Windflier]

Thanks, Bull.

[Vision Thing]

Saw your note that you will be ending the FR Caucus next week.

Yeah, with Trump hitting 89% yesterday and Jim Robinson’s support for Trump as the presumptive nominee after NY, it looks like the GOP primaries are effectively coming to an end here at FR. So ending the FR Caucus makes sense.

Thanks for giving us a place to practice voting each day during the last few months!

[Windflier]

Looks like the Cruz vote recovered somewhat after yesterday’s landslide Trump victory in New York.

I think we’ve finally reached a point where Senator Cruz needs to admit reality to himself, and to his supporters. He’s played well (with the GOP-e’s help), but he’s not going to be the nominee. The thing was actually decided last Summer, but for many reasons, we had to endure the whole drawn out process.

That time has now passed, and it’s time to bring the party together.

Concede, Senator, and let’s move on to the fight against our real enemies.

[DoughtyOne]

I did want to go beyond the 26th a day or two. Other than that I’d end it sooner.

It’s over except for the bickering and it is time.

I wanted to wait until the momentum swung noticeably.

I think Ted being shut out of 1237 prior to the convention is going to have a much bigger impact than he thinks it will.

After next week, I honestly thing he’d going to be just about dead in the water.

My pleasure. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Take care.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Many thanks to both of you.

Lately, it’s almost above and beyond to post, let alone start a thread that even mentions the names “Trump” or “Cruz”.

Hang in there.

[Windflier]

Saw your note that you will be ending the FR Caucus next week.

Hmm.....I must have I missed that announcement.

I've got to agree, though. It does make sense to end it, now that the momentum in the race has so decidedly shifted.

[Windflier]

Many thanks

You're very welcome. If my business wasn't so seasonal, and obligations to family weren't so pressing, I could have hung in there a bit longer and continued to post the nightly discussion thread.

Thankfully, Lonely Bull was able to step in and carry the baton for me.

[Charles Henrickson]

I don’t know why you are continuing the caucus and discussion threads any further. It was announced today that anyone saying that they support Cruz and not Trump is to be regarded as a traitor to our country and is supporting Hillary and is in danger of being zotted. So that should put a stop to all such discussion, since it is no longer being tolerated.

[Vision Thing]

Yeah, the introductory text for tonight’s caucus had a different look to it tonight, so I decided to read it, and discovered why it looked different. D1 was trying to catch our attention. He had an important announcement to make regarding the ending of the caucus.

When I saw JimRob essentially endorse Trump in the ‘presumptive nominee’ thread, the race is basically done, so the ending of the FR Caucus made sense.

Thank you Windflier and Lonely Bull for the discussion threads these past few months!

[shibumi]

"It was announced today that anyone saying that they support Cruz and not Trump is to be regarded as a traitor to our country and is supporting Hillary and is in danger of being zotted. So that should put a stop to all such discussion, since it is no longer being tolerated."

Respectfully, I am not questioning your sincerity or veracity

I would appreciate it however if you could please furnish a supporting link for that statement.

[Vision Thing]

JimRob has been consistent with the zotting: anyone who proclaims #nevertrump gets a one-week timeout. He did this before the ‘presumptive nominee’ thread, and he continued it in the thread itself.