Trump’s shock statements du jour have given him so much free media coverage that he has spent a SMALL fraction of what other candidates are spending (Jeb Bush has spent $30 million and is barely hanging on).
Trump realizes that ANY free publicity is good publicity. Every time somebody compares him to Hitler he considers it one more badge of honor to wear on his chest.
If nothing else, reading Hitler’s speeches relays quite nicely how ignorant and incoherent he was. But hey, he knew how to push the right buttons.
“One nation, under Jesus’s father, with liberty and justice for all Christian white people, and walls and camps for everybody else.”
Trump’s Pledge of Allegiance
If Trump wants to prevent any Muslims from entering the USA, he can start by picking on the Saudis and see how far he gets messing with the rich and powerful.
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Tutt Tutt Common Dreamers! Think bigger than all of this political apocalyptic doom!
“The Donald” has energized an electorate that, if it had any attention span longer than an insect, would realize that the real election is not decided in the ballot box, it is decided by organized money which has placed their bets elsewhere. “The Donald” will continue to fumble away whatever support he has first of all because Trump is a political moron and secondly because his big mouth (which he dearly loves to use to spout such nonsense) is successfully isolating him from any who might attempt to educate him to be otherwise.
Organized money (individual fortunes don’t count–go and ask jug-eared Ross Perot about that!) has decreed that it’s JEB!'s turn (but not quite yet). One by one the off-the- wall crowd of Republican presidential contenders will self-destruct and then the only question will be who will be JEB!'s insurance policy (otherwise known as the vice presidential nominee). Expect either John Kaisich or Scott (would “Kochie” be a more suitable nickname?) Walker to have the inside track on that one.
The same fate awaits those who want to “feel the Bern” since organized money has decreed that Hillary will be the “good loser” in 2016. Soon enough (90 to 120 days maximum) “the Bern” will begin his melting, melting, melting process (just like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz movie). Then the leading and most powerful bi-sexual, political female and her pretend husband (himself a real piece of psychologically maladjusted work, but nevertheless a good campaigner) can go out for one last fling at campaigning.
Donald Trumpery is not fit to be President. He is not fit to be city rat catcher. I might vote for The Donald to clean the city sewers—with a toothbrush. That is where this piece of garbage belongs, in the sewer.
(Apologies to Martin Niemöller for my poor translation)
First he targeted the Mexicans.
Why should I have spoken out, I’m not Mexican.
Next he targeted the Muslims.
Why should I have spoken out, I’m not Muslim.
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Next he’s coming for . . .
“Fascist Demagoguery” If the dead had an afterlife and the ability to observe life on earth (apparently the majority opinion in the U.S. is that they do) , the shade of Mussolini would be chuffed to see that his failed form of toxic authoritarianism had such a continuing currency.
Trump and his supporters may have all sorts of authoritarian notions and fantasies, but I doubt that Mussolini’s social corporatism is on the list. Using ‘fascism’ (especially with a capital ‘F’) as a catch-all for everything that threatens individual and collective rights is lazy at best and historically and politically illiterate at worst. When ‘conservative’, and ‘neo-liberal’ have the opprobrium that is intended when ‘fascist’ is employed, we may be getting somewhere.
This qualifies as hate speech under Canada’s admittedly dubious hate speech laws for which a number of people , who have said far less, have been banned entry into Canada.
I wonder if the same rules would apply to Mr Trump? I have doubts
Trump will faux pas his way out of the Rep. candidacy for prez…he suffers from a classic case of “open mouth, insert foot” disease. Wonder how many of his followers are registered to vote…or, if registered will bother to vote… Scary thing is that the other KK Kar passengers are not much better but they will hide and watch as DT implodes.
One the other hand, Trump is greatly enhancing voter turnout.
For a real choice:
Bernie Sanders/Jesse Ventura 2016!
What role is the corporate media playing in all this? And is it a set up to make Bush and Hillary the viable front runners. Bush who has money and recognition should be up in the polls,yet he is only getting 5% or lower,one would think the guy would be done with these numbers. Yet the corporate media keep his name out there. On the Sunday show “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos were long interviews with Hillary and Bush. How dose Bush merit such an interview with such a low standing in the polls.
Trump speaks to the undercurrents of what corporate media is really pushing.
Hitler: Used racism to rise to power
Trump: Uses racism to rise to power
Hitler: Proposed mass deportations
Trump: Proposes mass deportations
Hitler: Promised to make Germany great again
Trump: Promises to make America great again
Hitler: Anti-Jew racist
Trump: Anti-Muslim racist
Hitler: Blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
Trump: Blames immigrants for America’s problems
Hitler: Thought Jews should wear special IDs
Trump: Thinks Muslims should wear special IDs
Hitler: Time Magazine’s Man of the Year 1938
Trump: Republicans Man of the Year 2015
I know, I know…hitler’s a no no…I just couldn’t resist
A professional wrestler. Give me a break.
Trump isn’t the worst in the Republican field.
The book ‘The Family’ clearly shows the history of conservatives, more accurately, conservative Christians who really began the movemeent, how they admired Hitler, and made sure not to make it public. Scary but true.
On Tuesday’s Rachel Maddow program, she described something called the Overton Window. Roughly, this is the range of acceptable ideas and ideologies to a particular time and place.
The means by which this window of reasonableness can be intentionally shifted are interesting.
This snip from the Wikipedia entry:
****Overton described a spectrum from “more free” to “less free” with regard to government intervention, oriented vertically on an axis. As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location may become more or less politically acceptable. His degrees of acceptance[6] of public ideas are roughly:
Unthinkable
Radical
Acceptable
Sensible
Popular
Policy
The Overton window is an approach to identifying which ideas define the domain of acceptability within a democratic republic’s possible governmental policies. Proponents of policies outside the window seek to persuade or educate the public in order to move and/or expand the window. Proponents of current policies, or similar ones, within the window seek to convince people that policies outside it should be deemed unacceptable.
After Overton’s death, others have examined the concept of adjusting the window by the deliberate promotion of ideas outside of it, or “outer fringe” ideas, with the intention of making less fringe ideas acceptable by comparison.[7] The “door-in-the-face” technique of persuasion is similar.****
Perhaps this is the method behind Trumps madness… Even as the other candidates (including Hillary) were lambasting Trump for his “proposals”, it was clear the problem, if anything, was he said out loud what they all believe to some extent or other anyway, but know better than to utter. So he is the straw man, the lunatic, next to which they, by comparison, appear so reasonable, as long as he is standing beside them, uttering their unutterable thoughts. He is a necessary part of the process.
That’s Sieg Heil