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Friday, December 18, 2015

Rubio Vows To Destroy Same-Sex Marriage

Marco Rubio Vows To Destroy Same-Sex Marriage (VIDEO)Rubio is promising to destroy same-sex marriage in all 50 states if he becomes pretender.

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MTP Panel Pretends Trump Voters Consider Themselves Liberal/Moderate

The Father Of A Fallen Muslim American War Hero Puts Trump In His Place

This is, by far, the best response to Trump’s Islamophobia. On June 8, 2004, Captain Humayun S. M. Khan was serving a tour of duty in Iraq...

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Trump says Republican leaders ‘kidding themselves’ about stopping him

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at a town hall meeting on December 12, 2015 in Aiken, South Carolina (AFP Photo/Sean Rayford)Trump says Republican leaders ‘kidding themselves’ about stopping him

This Is Why Trump Sounds and Acts Like Adolf Hitler

According to a recent profile of Hitler in the scholarly journal, Psychiatric Quarterly, all of Trump's tactics are modeled in Hitler speech book the Dumbass kept close by…
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It is not unusual for a politician, especially one running for a national office, to study carefully highly successful political leaders’ campaign speeches and rhetoric. It should surprise no American that Republican front-runner for the pretender nomination, Trump, also carefully studied a highly-successful politician, except it was not an American and not the kind of monster any decent American should emulate. Trump is not remotely a decent American, and based on his embrace of Adolf Hitler’s volume of speeches he made between 1918 and 1941, he intends on being an effective Nazi instead of a good American.
It is not like it was a secret that Trump’s hateful speeches, and more troubling, his policy proposals are very close to those instituted in Nazi Germany; even some wingnuts have cited his “fascism.” However, the idea that he has studied, at least since prior to 1990, a book of speeches Hitler used in his rise to power should put an end to complaints about comparing him to Hitler or Godwin’s law.
The not surprising revelation is that prior to becoming a World Wrestling Entertainment or reality show hack, Trump kept a volume of Hitler’s speeches close at hand. Trump’s ex-wife Ivana related in a 1990 interview with Vanity Fair that “from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.” Trump confirmed that the former Mrs. Trump’s 1990 assertion is true.
The Hitler volume, “My New Order” not only contains 23 years’ worth of Hitler’s speeches, “it is profusely indexed and filled with details about the speeches’ impact on the media and the political establishment.” According to a literary periodical, Kirkus Review, Trump’s collection of Hitler speeches containsactual quotations from Hitler’s own utterances, including corresponding data showing the effect on the world press. Section after section follows pattern-background, speech, press;” and Trump faithfully follows Hitler’s model.
The way Trump rages like a madman, responds aggressively in public and argues closely follows Hitler’s instructions in “My New Order.” Trump successfully learned about targeting the audience’s lowest common denominator, how scare-propaganda works, and how to structure an emotional speech for effect and to incite rage. Trump has succeeded up to now in emulating his apparent Nazi hero because a recent analysis in the New York Times concludes that Trump is as proficient at hateful demagoguery as any 20th Century monster; they stopped short of naming Hitler…Godwin and all.
According to a recent profile of Hitler in the scholarly journal, Psychiatric Quarterly, all of Trump’s tactics are modeled in Hitler speech book the Dumbass kept close by his bed.
The elements of a delusional system are all there. This is not simply to say that the man is mad and so has plunged the world into chaos; but it is to say that there is overwhelming evidence in 19 years of his speeches that he firmly believes many of his most absurd declarations, including some which are contradictory.”
Note that Trump uses his audience’s racial animus and rage to attack Hispanics, African Americans and Middle Eastern Americans, and “mocks women and disabled people” with impunity. He also threatens to obliterate whatever enemies “he names or decides are enemies without regard for facts or inconsistency in his statements because he plays to his supporters’ fears and prejudices.
The reason Trump is leading Republicans is due to the hate, lack of intelligence and sheer terror of any and everything among his followers. According to a profile of Trump supporters, “One half of his voters have a high school education or less which is why Trump appeals to that special breed of southern Republican; with a particularly special appeal to Texans.”
Apparently Trump “took the highest proportion of Texas support from Cruz” which speaks volumes because the Cuban-Canadian immigrant himself is a very special breed of southern evangelical fascist. It is noteworthy, too, that although it is a mystery if Cruz officially embraces Adolf Hitler’s Nazism, he does in fact utilize the same tools as Trump; just not as effectively.
As the New York Times reported, Trump’s words are carefully crafted to appeal to angry, frightened, and ignorant racists. The Times analyzed “the content and style of all of Trump’s speeches between July and November, and although they were too terrified of Godwin’s law to mention Trump’s embrace of Adolf Hitler’s style of speech, they did note several Americans he emulates.
The Times wrote;
Trump’s pattern of elevating emotional appeals over rational ones is a rhetorical style that historians, psychologists and political scientists placed in the tradition of Goldwater, George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy, Huey Long and Pat Buchanan.” The men were all notorious American hate-mongers like Adolf Hitler who used vile language, propaganda, and fear to win favor with scared Americans.
In fact, in responding to a request from the Times, “Several historians watched Trump’s speeches last week and observed familiar techniques, like vilifying groups of people and stoking the insecurities of his audiences, that they associate with racist George Wallace and fascist Joseph McCarthy;” two of America’s worst, most notorious, and extremely dangerous demagogues.
What continues to be curious and monumental omission from any media reporting is that Trump would be finished already if not for his terrified, old, white and hateful base of support; a base who will remain fully intact when the Hitler acolyte is gone. And, they will be extraordinarily angry because the man that best represents their “ugly American” ideal will no longer represent their deep-seated hatred of everything. He also will not be the führer they want as president and America will not be the Aryan Utopia that Trump and his Republican base lusts after. Although that is a good thing, no Führer and no Aryan nation, a very significant number of Americans would disagree and it is why Dumbass Trump is parroting Adolf Hitler to raging success.

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Trump: Hillary Clinton ‘Killed Hundreds Of Thousands Of People With Her Stupidity’

Trump: Hillary Clinton ‘Killed Hundreds Of Thousands Of People With Her Stupidity’ (VIDEO)
According to The Dumbass, Hillary Clinton “killed hundreds of thousands of people” in Benghazi and other places.

Portrait Of A Con: Trump’s Inflated Self Worth

Featured image credit: Ninian Reid, via Flckr CC 2.0How much is Trump really worth? During sworn testimony, Trump told the court it changes rapidly based on his feelings. No, really.

Trump Defends Having Greasy, Disgusting Hair, Inadvertently Admits He Has Greasy, Disgusting Hair

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Trump Calls Cruz 'A Maniac' Not 'Qualified To Be President'

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Veteran Newsman Ted Koppel Blasts Trump For Being A Top Recruiter For ISIL

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Trump Has An Absolutely Terrifying Plan For The Supreme Court

Thursday, December 17, 2015

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Republican Rhetoric of 2015 is Centuries out of Date – Like their Thinking

The lunatic fringe talks about "taking our country back" and "making America great again" but they propose to do this by going back in time, not forward
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It is difficult to conceive of forward and backward in the same sentence, as in, going forward using old methods. I wouldn’t choose a horse over a car, or a row boat over a propeller. Nor would I try to fly by strapping on some wings and diving off a cliff.
But that is exactly the plan Republicans are offering us. They talk about “taking our country back” and “making America great again” but they propose to do this by going back in time, not forward. Time, as we all know, moves inexorably forward. Backward isn’t possible.
We’ve seen where Republican policies take us. 2008 was a cusp. We could have lurched forward (as we eventually did) or sunk backward. As with the Great Depression, the Great Recession was a crisis from which Democratic leadership saved us. Saved us by going forward, by putting some original thought into new problems.
We lost a step in 2008, thanks to the policies of the shrub junta. In many ways, we haven’t caught up even now. But we’ve made great strides in restoring the economic prosperity of our country. We didn’t do it by invading countries that don’t need to be invaded or by fighting un-taxed wars.
We did it with a measured, pragmatic approach, not with the Bush “play a hunch” and “shoot from the hip” method.
To hear all the Republican candidates talk, it’s still 2008, and none of this recovery took place. They talk about America as though it is the last days of the Bush administration, not the final year of Obama’s. So skewed is their thinking that they can’t acknowledge the past seven years have even taken place. They have the same difficulty, as we’ve noted on numerous occasions, admitting that the Bush presidency happened.
But it did. They both did. And the results of neither can be ignored.
The country the say they want to take back never existed. We all know that. It’s bad theater and nothing more, about as cringe-worthy as the worst movie you ever saw. As for making America great again, America is great already. We’ve taken some lumps and we’ve been down, but never out.
And what exactly does “make America great again” mean? Trump, who stole that phrase from the past to signify his intent for the future (and that should tell you all you need to know), is vague. He has no clear policy positions, no straight answers. Just a lot of emotive exclamations of “I’ll do this” and “I’ll do that.”
Never how. How always trips him up. Ryan, like Boehner, says he knows how. His “how” is what got us into trouble in 2008.
In fact, what Trump means is not great, but “white.” He wants to “Make America white again.” Old Racists like Buchanan love this backward approach, with immigration bans and mass deportations. Yet in his syndicated column Friday, Buchanan announced that “The establishment seemed to have become unhinged” in response to Trump’s call for an immigration ban.
Sessions (R-AL) came to Trump’s defense on Breitbart News’ SiriusXM program Thursday, telling Bannon:
“Well, he’s treading on dangerous ground, because Americans are so deeply committed to freedom of religion, that is a major part of who we are.”
“But at the same time, we’re in an age that’s very dangerous and we’re seeing more and more persons enter and a lot of them have done terrorist acts and a lot of them believe it’s commanded by their religion…So I think it’s appropriate to begin to discuss this, and he has forced that discussion.”
So we’re to be thankful to Trump now for bringing this backward-looking idea to the table. Collective guilt. Scapegoating. Ethnic and religious profiling. Racism. By deporting people who aren’t white, whether Mexican or Muslim, it’s ethnic cleansing. An ugly word for ugly thinking.
So something good out of the past – religious freedom, something guaranteed by the constitution – should be superseded by something far older and uglier.
Yet if we surrender our values in an effort to survive, we’re not really surviving, are we? I’m not giving up who we are out of fear. That’s surrendering. Might as well stand our military down now if we’re just going to join the enemy to avoid being destroyed by the enemy.
nazi_propagandaBryan Fischer hearkened to the Nazi past on Friday when he called Islam the Ebola virus of culture in order to support Trump’s ban on Muslim immigrants:
“We’re not saying all Muslims are carriers of this toxic poison, but the problem is we don’t know who is a carrier and who is not. It’s like the Ebola virus. Remember when the Ebola virus hit? We simply banned travel from any country where there was an Ebola outbreak. We just said we cannot take the risk. Well, Islam is the Ebola virus of culture.”

The Nazi era image above reads “krankheitserreger” – pathogen. Jews, for the Nazis. Muslims, for Republicans. In fact, this thinking predates Nazism: Nineteenth century German ethnic nationalist Paul De Lagarde called the Jews a “bacillus, the carrier of decay … who pollute every national culture … and destroy all faith…” As far back as the 18th century, German ethnic nationalists were speaking of “parasitic” Semitic culture.
Fischer might well have been quoting de Lagarde. It’s the same language. This thinking is a couple of hundred years out of date. The Second World War should have put it to bed forever. But here are the Republicans, resurrecting it while claiming to be pro-life.
But pro-who’s life? And when taking our country back, back to what?
The facts on the ground are buried under a carpet of fear and hatred, xenophobia and Islamophobia and homophobia and misogyny.
How can they know which way to jump away from the little mouse with the ISIL banner when they can’t see the floor? That’s a crude analogy, but then it is no cruder than the thinking it represents.
Clearly, we need more than slogans. Fear and hate are the doors to fascism. We don’t need that either.
If we’re going to go forward, 2030 should be our objective, not 1930.
When you’ve got new problems, like asymmetric warfare or hybrid warfare, you need new ideas, not old. The Islamic State can’t defeat the United States. We can, however, defeat ourselves. The Islamic States knows this, and they know their best ally is the Republican cabal and it’s long list of old ideas.
We’re not going to find our answers in the past. The future demands new thinking, not old.

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Trump 'a disgrace' tweets billionaire Saudi prince

Trump 'a disgrace' tweets billionaire Saudi prince