So will Drumpf add the ADL to those who are Low-Engery Losers? Tune in for the next 48 hours and find out, as all the oxygen continues to be sucked out of the room by this useless asshole.
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A bit of a stretch, isnât it? This kind of thing just reduces the leftâs credibility. We donât need to make crap up to defeat this Bozo.
Plenty of raised handsâŚLike when I was in the Military. So the idea that âall raised hands are equalâ doesnât do it for me. Hell, NFL wide receivers who are OPEN raise their hands. Trump KNOWS he is offensive and he knows who he is offending.
I lived in Germany for 7 years as a kid. When the American kids fought the German kids (who were usually far more athletic and rugged than we were), there were names for that. I KNEW Wehrmacht ex-Military. One of them was my trumpet teacher.
Sociopaths like Trump like to go to the edge. It gets more publicity. It gets more $$$$$. It gets more idiots. A veteran hustler, he knows the ropes.
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To be fair. I understand what you are saying. Most of us try to be true to our word, too. Commit=swear=oath=pledge
I donât know if you are saying that people take commitments less seriously than other forms of promises . . .
I think many many Democrats underestimate the power of a smart hustler. I am sure the other side says the same thing about our guys/gals. Trump is in a small hustle-league of his own.
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Sieg Heil Mein Fuhrer Trump.
Trump knows the imagery and knew what he was doing. Its not quite up to shooting somebody on 5th avenue but he did have that collection of Hitler speeches on his night table according to Ivana.
Trumpâs strengths are in the cunning/conniving/hustling area. He has a gift/knack/talent (whatever you want to call it) for this. He has had more practice at this than most people on this Planet have been alive.
He is also an evil man.
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I agree.
When I saw the video, I went: âIs Trump fuckin with these people?â Thereâs just NO WAY this stuff is accidental. I am still waiting for the Borat-style Trump movie to come out after this is all over.
If you look at it from that perspective (the comic pseudo-documentary), Trumpâs entire campaign has been fuckin hilarious.
David Duke endorsements, telling supporters to ârough upâ protesters, and now Nazi salutes? Itâs like bad parody. But maybe if itâs spliced together with deadpan reaction shots, it can be a laugh riot.
Do you think maybe thereâs going to be a Charlie Chaplin âThe Great Dictatorâ style speech at the end of all this?
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Next he will publish his new memoir, âMein Drumpf.â
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I made a commitment to my now ex-wife. I swear that I will never get back with her. Like that maybe?
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Maybe he picked it up from the GOP requiring loyalty oaths to not run as an independent earlier this year.
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I wonder why all those people were so willing to follow along.
http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pledgeUnderGodbeingattacked.jpg
Everyone should read Rick Perlsteinâs analysis of how fascism actually works historically: getting the âlittle peopleâ to believe that some one will be their economic savior against the âeconomic elites.â Even if that savior is himself part and parcel of those economic elites. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_03/the_connection_between_nativis059843.php
Every fascist achieves and cements his power by
pledging to rescue ordinary people from the depredations of economic
elites. Thatâs how fascism works. >
[âŚ] Under fascism, economic protection for the goose accompanies dispossession of the gander. White people prosper in part because minorities sufferâwhether, under Hitler, by taking away property from Jews, or as Herr Trump expects, by taking back âourâ jobs from âthem,â whether the them is immigrants or our supposedly duplicitous trading partners.
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I feel quite sure it was intentional. Itâs part of his âI could get away with murder.â routine.
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Drumpf: I have had great admiration for leadership skill of Hitler. My ancestors did come from Germany and I think I have some of his genes, probably a distant relative.
I looked at Joshâs piece to-day about the 25% of the country which is now committed to doing things that they cannot do in a representative government. I suggest people read it. You can tell you are reading it by the people shown at the top. Look and them and then say,
âMission accomplished, MSMâ.
NoâŚFOX is not responsible for this. FOX is a propaganda organ. The Constitution does not prohibit the broadcast of propaganda. But the Constitution DOES mention the PressâŚAnd if the Press is concerned only with tittilation and profit, you get this. People work too hard these days to get the happenings and perspective (local, state, national and the world) THEMSELVES. They need JOURNALISM.
They need Walter Cronkite, not Chuck Todd.
I do not believe that Bernie can win the General like Hillary. I may be wrongâŚBut, if Bernie could have wonâŚIF Bernie could have had a Congress to work with and a SCOTUS to work withâŚMAYBE we could have started to get our Fourth Estate back.
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The way he moves his mouth often reminds me of things Mussolini did.
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Yes. I work for a judge. She still says âWill you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?â The âso help you Godâ part makes me cringe every time, but w/e.
I agree that this is a bit of a stretch, but you have to agree that the idea of âpledging yourselfâ to a candidate and to support him no matter what, is unbelievably authoritarian. Not a chance in hell I would do this for HRC or Bernie.
In a vacuum, this is nothing. But coupled with the David Duke stuff, and this story about a book of Hitlerâs speeches (http://www.weeklystandard.com/vanity-fair-trump-kept-a-volume-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bedside/article/2001343), the fact that he fits every category of the fascist checklist, his economic and militaristic nationalism, his racist rhetoric, his comments about curbing freedom of speech and the press, the reports by local law enforcement that he directed them to remove black people from his rallies,âŚIDK.
When heâs President of the United States is he going to ask people to hold up their hands and pledge to him?
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Just watch the movie âIt Canât Happen Hereâ to see an eerie parallel to Trump today.
Wikipedia: "In 1936 Senator Berzelius âBuzzâ Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician, wins the election as President of the United States on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 a year. Portraying himself as a champion of traditional American values, Windrip easily defeats his opponents, Senator Walt Trowbridge and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Though having previously foreshadowed some authoritarian measures in order to reorganize the United States government, Windrip rapidly outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the Minute Men, who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of Windrip and his âcorporatistâ regime. One of his first acts as president is to eliminate the influence of the United States Congress, . . "
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