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Spiegel Online International
02/01/2016
America’s Agitator
Donald Trump Is the World’s Most Dangerous Man
By Markus Feldenkirchen, Veit Medick and Holger Stark
AFP
Donald Trump is the leader of a new, hate-filled authoritarian movement. Nothing would be more harmful to the idea of the West and world peace than if he were to be elected president. George W. Bush’s America would seem like a place of logic and reason in comparison.
Donald Trump recently spoke about American football. No other game more fully embodies his country’s character. The sport is about capturing territory, and players need to be tough and fearless to win. A player who is afraid of being tackled by someone from the opposing team while running has already lost the game. “I don’t even watch it as much anymore,” Trump told a crowd of his supporters in Reno, Nevada. “The whole game is all screwed up.”
A growing number of studies point to the devastating consequences of the many tackles in the game, in which players try to stop their opponents by throwing themselves at them head-first: brain trauma, depression, suicide. New rules have been created, and there are now stiffer penalties for the most glaring fouls.
On the stage in Reno, Trump said he missed “what used to be considered a great tackle, a violent head-on tackle.” He slammed his fists together and repeated himself, vulgarly pursing his lips as he said the word “violent.” “You used to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right?”
And today? “Bing! Flag!” Trump shouted. “The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home.”
“Football has become soft,” he said, repeating the sentence as if it were a key hypothesis on the state of the nation. “Football has become soft like our country has become soft!” As he held up his index finger, the crowd cheered and people held signs up in the air that read: “The silent majority stands with Trump.”
Trump Wants A Ruthless America
“Believe me, I’ll change things. And again, we’re going to be so respected. I don’t want to use the word ‘feared,’” he told the audience. But that is precisely what Trump wants: to be feared. His bid for the White House, long ridiculed, is a fight for a ruthless, brutal America. Behind his campaign slogan “Make America great again!” is the vision of a country that no longer cares about international treaties, ethnic minorities or established standards of decency.
Trump wants to attack head-first again. The 69-year-old embodies a new harshness and brutality, and both a physical and emotional crudeness. Trump has launched an uprising of the indecent, one that is now much bigger than he himself, a popular movement of white, conservative America that after eight years under Democratic President Barack Obama, yearns for a leader who will usher in the counter-revolution.
Former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod wrote recently that Trump’s success is based on the same principle as the campaign victories of his former boss. In fact, he added, he had explained this recipe for success to Obama himself when he first ran for president: When a president leaves office after eight years, voters tend to prefer a candidate who is as different as possible from the incumbent, in terms of politics, character and habits.
By that logic, Obama the integrator, who fought against discrimination against blacks and gays, would be followed by a President Trump who stirs up hatred against minorities and claims that “political correctness” is the greatest threat to the United States. While Obama sought to explain complex problems, often sounding like an intellectual in the process, studies have shown that Trump speaks at a fourth-grade reading level. Problems, according to Trump, are “totally easy” to solve. And while Obama appealed to the common “we” in his campaign slogan “Yes, we can!” Trump’s version reads “Yes, I can!” — the solution of a strong leader.
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By that logic, Obama the integrator
By that logic, Obama the integrator
By that logic, Obama the integrator
By that logic, Obama the integrator
You must be driving your Muslim or Mormon wife crazy.
She can’t stand Trump.
It’s no wonder with you screaming out his name in your sleep.
Never. I rarely talk politics with my wife, I don’t push my views on her, and don’t lose sleep over nightmares about Trump’s America.
“… Trump speaks at a fourth-grade reading level.”
So do I! I do so because the fourth-grade reading level happens to be the highest level of understanding obtained by the totally dumbed-down marks Amy and Susanne end up bringing to me.
Not that the reading level makes any difference since they never bother reading what is placed before them. All they are interested in doing is signing the dotted line, and this is all I am interested in them doing.
He speaks to the moron majority that has always ruled us.
“He speaks to the moron majority that has always ruled us.”
You are close but you are not quite there. The moron majority does not rule, the moron majority selects others - strangers - to rule, to rule over them.
But even this is close but not quite there; The moron majority selects from a list of pre-selected strangers to rule over them. A list of pre-selected strangers that is pre-selected by other strangers.
There. More better.
The term “captured” means exactly what it appears to mean and when people say that our political process has been “captured” then they mean exactly that, that it has been captured.
Then, amazingly, these very same people who have come to realize that our political system has been captured continue to behave as if it has not and spend a lot of time arguing and fussing over what is going on with politics, going on in a system that they themselves realize they have absolutely no control over, a system that has been captured.
IMO their energies could be better spent by considering a refi on their house or possibly a reverse mortgage.
Ultimately the morons make the selection though. It is their defining characteristic that allows them to be manipulated.
A list of pre-selected strangers that is pre-selected by
other strangersbankers.FTFY.
The fact that 95% of the electorate are retards was well established in 2008 and 2012.
Mr. Banker: The moron majority selects from a list of pre-selected strangers to rule over them.
It’s kind of like how the military in Egypt or the Supreme Council in Iran presents a list of vetted candidates to stand for public election. Pick this one, pick that one, he still serves the rulers.
The borrow is SLAVE to the lender.
Trump will put people before profits and help main st.
+1 He understands the little guy… can feel his pain. Amen.
Everything he does, is about helping people, not himself
How many HBB posters favor placing a NAZI in the White House?
Politics
Jan 22 2016, 11:55 am ET
Donald Trump Retweets Apparent Neo-Nazi Supporter
by Benjy Sarlin
Donald Trump on Friday retweeted what appears to be a neo-Nazi Twitter account that posted a photoshopped picture mocking rival Jeb Bush.
The tweet by user “@WhiteGenocideTM” featured an image of Bush dressed as a panhandler outside Trump Tower with a “Vote Trump” sign.
WhiteGenocideTM’s profile picture is an image of George Lincoln Rockwell, the infamous founder of the American Nazi Party, with the caption “The Man Who Wants To Be Hitler.” His listed location is “Jewmerica.”
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Raging Liberal Ivory Tower California Faux Porfesster
Rant on with the name calling and personal attacks. It’s sad you haven’t a single coherent thought to share in defense of your beloved Dear Leader.
Patience, P-Bear. Just wait for the boo boo faces, when the trumplings find out daddy lied to them.
By then it may be too late.
‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Hints At Donald Trump-Hitler Comparison
TV | By Linda Ge on December 14, 2015 @ 9:35 am
Whoopi Goldberg warned about the dangers of not voting and history repeating itself, on Monday’s episode of ABC’s “The View.”
When Raven-Symoné joked that she has “conspiracy theories” about the government, Goldberg took the conversation in an even more serious direction.
“Here’s a good conspiracy for you,” she said: “A lot of what we’re seeing floating out there right now, has happened before, and it didn’t turn out well for folks.”
When asked to elaborate by the other co-hosts, Goldberg said, “I’m talking about Nazi Germany, I’m talking about what happened in Italy, I’m talking about what’s happened in Africa … If you don’t get out and say, ‘Listen, we’re not throwing everybody out, we’re not saying ‘Don’t come here.’ That’s not America.” Unless you’re willing to do that, anything can happen.”
Goldberg was clearly referring to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. Most other Republican presidential candidates and prominent figures in the party have publicly condemned Trump’s views on the issue.
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Whoopie hates all republicans and conservatives. Glad you share her worldview.
Just because I post something doesn’t mean I agree with it.
It does when you converse with simpletons. Remember: 4th grade english, rage in place of critical thinking.
Right. I keep forgetting that Trumplings have zero critical thinking skills.
Trumpling are vulgar, in their Dear Leader’s own image.
You’ve been exposed Whoopie.
All of America has been exposed to Trump’s bullying, vulgarity, and abusive language. It seems a lot of Republican voters can’t get enough of the treatment, and keep begging for more:
“Daddy, it hurts so good!”
‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Hints At Donald Trump-Hitler Comparison
TV | By Linda Ge on December 14, 2015 @ 9:35 am
Whoopi Goldberg warned about the dangers of not voting and history repeating itself, on Monday’s episode of ABC’s “The View.”
When Raven-Symoné joked that she has “conspiracy theories” about the government, Goldberg took the conversation in an even more serious direction.
“Here’s a good conspiracy for you,” she said: “A lot of what we’re seeing floating out there right now, has happened before, and it didn’t turn out well for folks.”
When asked to elaborate by the other co-hosts, Goldberg said, “I’m talking about Nazi Germany, I’m talking about what happened in Italy, I’m talking about what’s happened in Africa … If you don’t get out and say, ‘Listen, we’re not throwing everybody out, we’re not saying ‘Don’t come here.’ That’s not America.” Unless you’re willing to do that, anything can happen.”
Goldberg was clearly referring to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. Most other Republican presidential candidates and prominent figures in the party have publicly condemned Trump’s views on the issue.
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Or would you rather elect a superb statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
You mean someone from the National Socialist German Workers Party? Do we have to get the DeLorean up to 88mph and go back in time?
I think a person who would put the Interests of the Citizens of the United States of America first would suffice.
You?
Speaking of going back in time, here’s a Tweet from the author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis who, like Trump, started his journey in the 1980s and is still going strong today:
“Bret Easton Ellis @BretEastonEllis Feb 20
Just back from a dinner in West Hollywood: shocked the majority of the table was voting for Trump but they would never admit it publicly.”
Lol, Hollywood on the down low for Trump.
PC thought police. It’s been there much longer than its been mainstream. Isn’t Bret Easton Ellis gay? WeHo ain’t that far from Mexico or San Bernardino.
“Isn’t Bret Easton Ellis gay?”
It’s complicated, but I think so, NTTAWWT. However, Ellis didn’t say that he himself was voting for Trump, just that he was shocked to find out the majority of the table he was at was voting for Trump. And we don’t know who was at the table. My guess is probably writers, set designers, etc. I’m guessing many of them have taken it in the shorts themselves due to globalization and financialization. Between Marvel movies and the Kardashians, getting a gig has become more difficult.
“It’s the economy, stupid!” (not you, Caw, just using the quote)
I can’t imagine that President Trump would have any effect on superhero movies or the Kardashians. But you get a point for using the globalization and not globalism.
“I can’t imagine that President Trump would have any effect on superhero movies or the Kardashians.”
“It’s the economy, stupid!” (Not you, Mike, just using the quote) Consolidation/Homogenization narrows the field for everyone, because it’s the same cast and crew over and over and over again.
Trump would have a tremendous effect because he wouldn’t be writing their get your freak on do whatever you like point of view into the law or policy.
If you think about it, globalization has been great for Hollywood. American movies and TV shows are popular all over the world. It’s a major export industry for the USA.
These people will stoop to any level to further their agenda.
Keep screaming ’Nazi’, see where that gets you.
I hope they keep screaming it from now to November, it just makes Trump stronger and illustrates why people should vote for him. Whoopie Goldberg’s America? Who wants that’s?
And the fact that they have to make up lies about his positions or what he says or twist things ridiculously shows that they know people support what he says. For example, thy have to twist a temporary immigration pause into ban all Muslims or planned parenthood does great things but not on abortion into just planned parenthood does great things.
Turn off the Lights! Trump goes full on Howard Beale (Network).
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270225-trump-turn-off-the-lights
I don’t scream. Screaming and shrieking is what Trumplings do in response to factual information about their Dear Leader.
“I think a person who would put the Interests of the Citizens of the United States of America first would suffice.”
And this would be …?
Saul Goodman.
Lots of MSM commenters have made the Hitler connection. It is not my original insight.
At least have some spine and stand up for your own thoughts even if you didn’t think of them originally.
My thoughts are generally original, in contrast to those that collectively emanate from the mouths of a screeching mob of Trumpbies.
“I think a person who would put the Interests of the Citizens of the United States of America first would suffice.”
In Trump’s case, “citizens” is singular, and he is the citizen.
If you think for an instant Trump cares one whit for anybody but Trump, you are in for a big letdown.
Why would he run for president at this point in his life? He has nothing to gain unless his motives are sincere.
His chances of ending up at a remote ranch with no security and a pillow over his face have increased astronomically.
Nothing to gain? The man is entirely ego driven, and what feeds the ego more than becoming the leader of the most powerful nation in history?
He’s sincere alright, sincere in seeking power and approval.
Dude’s already got more name recognition and cash than most President’s could even dream of…you’ll have to do better on your next rebut.
Oh puhleeeeze. You really worship this huckster don’t you, trumpkin?
Is the proper term for a Trump disciple trumpling, trumpkin or trumpbie (like zombie)?
That is a complex question. Trumpkins are the tiny adorable variety… Trumplings are their plump elder siblings, and Trumpbies are the fully grown organism in which all cognition has ceased.
“Is the proper term for a Trump disciple trumpling, trumpkin or trumpbie (like zombie)?”
Trumplodyte?
Trumpfet = a strumpet in The Donald’s sexy squad
And…the Alinsky starts.
“Why would he run for president at this point in his life?”
That’s like asking why someone would go around erecting buildings with their name on them. Some people live for the sake of furthering their personal glory.
Washington Times Letters to the Editor June 7, 1997 - Arlington, VA
During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis.
Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits.
First of all, “Nazi” was gutter slang for the verb “to nationalize”. The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was “The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany”. Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources,manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.
Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der Fuhrer’s election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into afashionablesocial phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press.
Being a Nazi was “politically correct”. They called themselves “The Children of the New Age of World Order” and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as”The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred”. Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was branded a “Conservative Reactionary”. Joseph Goebbels, minister ofcommunications, proclaimed a “New World Order”.
The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the “New World Order” and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn’t fall into the hands of “terrorists and madmen”. Right-wing fanatics of the “Old Order” who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for “fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people”.
Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an “Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act” through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the “jack-boots” (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals’ service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people.
When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again.
The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan resistance fighters.
Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as “right wing fanatics”.
Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the “peacekeepers”.
Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren’t Republicans, or “right wing”, or “patriots” or “militias”. They were Socialist monsters.
– Thomas Colton Ruthford
I was talking about Trump, which is a different subject than Republicans as a group. I never suggested all Republicans are NAZIs.
Your post is typically off topic.
All the stuff about Nazi’s being anti-Christian is non-sense. Look at Hitler’s own words
“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
— Adolf Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 46
“I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord’s work.”
— Adolf Hitler, ibid. p. 65
Or better yet, the inscription on the soldiers’ belts:
GOD WITH US.
Hitler, not a Christian? Really?
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
— Adolf Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 46
“I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord’s work.”
— Adolf Hitler, ibid. p. 65
Or just read the inscription on EVERY German soldiers’ belt:
Gott Mitt uns. = God is with us.
2B - Recall the contention at the 2012 DNC when the rule on God and the rule for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel brought out the atheist haters? It was a site I will never forget -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BwqzzqcDs
Thanks for the link.
There is still some sort of respect reserved for those who appear to believe in the supernatural.
Excellent. Thanks, 2Ban.
I hope you read a post Selfish Hoarder added to the board yesterday…look toward the end of the day’s thread.
It’s lengthy. Some of it covers the “Evils of Trump” from an NYTimes scribe. The second half, however is more interesting in its discussion of classical liberal/libertarianism.
Calmer heads are what is needed now if we want to return to the days of classical liberalism.
We have golden opportunity right now to move things back in that direction. Let’s not squander it.
Calmer heads are not what will get Trump elected.
Correct. And it’s why you need to calm yourself down.
Throwing gasoline on a fire is not how to get what you want, if you’re anti-Trump.
Am I the only one who when watching the Clinton’s sees them as a reincarnation of the ‘evil traveling actor family’ portrayed in the movie series “Centennial” (book by Michener). Kill to come to power.
Are you just happy to be getting attention for all this Trump hate? Finally someone reacts to your bloviating posts?
Actually you illustrate perfectly why Trump has so much support. People are sick of being called Nazis and having lies made up about their positions because they won’t tow the politically correct line.
Wall, si
PC, no.
Pause the immigration.
Cultural relativism is the greatest progressive lie ever told.
I no nothing about the cultural relativism or progressivism of which you speak. Can you explain these terms and why they belong in this conversation?
Cultural relativism believes that muslims can be integrated into Western societies. They can’t be.
Ask the 10yo Austrian boy who got fundamentally transformed by an Iraqi migrant who was having a “sexual emergency” how that worked out for him?
This is the progressive way.
I know lots of people who came to the U.S. from Muslim countries who seem very integrated.
Does that mean that Christianity and Sharia law can coexist peacefully within our national borders, or anywhere else on the planet? Probably not.
Aisha was six years old when the profit muhammed married her and they were 9 and 53, respectively, when the profit consummated his young bride.
It’s the progressive way.
Muhammed was a progressive?
Cultural relativism believes that muslims can be integrated into Western societies.
I know lots of people who came to the U.S. from Muslim countries who seem very integrated.
The professor is correct. Therefore, Cultural relativism is correct. QED
Lurkers and newbs, understand that MikeyMite is a paid employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Small world, me too! I also have wings, and can breathe underwater!
I know quite a few people who have expressed support for Trump. None of them have said that it’s because they’re sick of being called Nazis.
The Trump supporters I know *are* sick of being called racists.
It’s a term that has lost all meaning. It’s the favorite word of progressives to use when confronted with the irrefutable fact that progressive is a bankrupt ideology.
Progressives don’t actually interact with non-white people.
Diversity for thee, but not for me.
Progressives don’t actually interact with non-white people.
Sure they do. They interact with the gardener, the maid, the cook, the busboy at the restaurant, etc.
The Trump supporters I know *are* sick of being called racists.
They’ve been personally called racist? Have they told you the details? Was the racist label valid for these people?
Everybody is racist. Some of us are able to control ourselves and not act that way. Trumplings, because they are constantly in a state of fear and simmering rage, cannot. They are poorly reared children.
Oppose open borders = racist
It’s as simple as that to progressives like Porf.
In all fairness, most mainstream politicians are systematically racist, regardless of party affiliation. Dividing society into competing factions based on race, gender, ethnicity or religion is a key part of their modus operandi.
This is one of a number of reasons I dislike most politicians.
Trying to warn the American people they risk making a terrible mistake is a somber duty which brings me no joy.
There is no worse ‘terrible mistake’ than putting HRC in the Oval Office. She is the poster child of evil.
+1
+2
It’s a dismal choice, for sure!
+ 3
+ 4
Prof hates all republicans and conservatives and is in the tank for Hillary. It’s obvious from his pushing the skin color is everything point of view.
Crow boy has been secretly campaigning here for HRC long before he changed his name from AlbuquerqueDan to the more appropriate reminder of his daily diet of crow, CawCawCaw. He only pimps for Trump because he realizes his beloved Hillary will be certain to win the White House if Trump is nominated.
“Prof hates all republicans and conservatives…”
Hatred is a Trumpling’s stock in trade. They naturally imagine that everyone else sees the world through the same lens.
First i was called a tea bagger, a racist, a selfish hater and now I’m just a red neck, nose picking, banjo player! I prefer the term White Trash! There’s a certain charm to being called a a dumb white person!
Of course I love Bear but gay rights and O’care didn’t do anything to make my life better.
Annie, I get it that people who post here are generally unhappy about the past eight, or maybe thirty-two years, of Bush-Clinton. Why that anger turns them into Trumplings is a mystery to me.
Or maybe not. The expression “blind rage” comes to mind. Trump and Sanders are both skilled at channeling anger to their causes.
I spent years trying to beat the housing bubble and I still rent. then the credit crunch, then hope and change. We knew the bank bailouts and green credits were bad ideas plus the 900 billion rescue bill, nothing got built. I was hoping that obama would help the homeless and the unhealthy poor, but he mismanaged all the money, forced us to become gay and then crammed down obamacare! My take: the media and the leftists hated the republicans so much that now we took their advice and now we hate them too! We detest the party of no more than the leftists and most of us are not religious bible thumpers. I’ll take white trash any day!
Why that anger turns them into Trumplings is a mystery to me.
Because he’s the only one addressing their complaints, while the other candidates either only want to give more money to the 0.1% or to the FSA?
I don’t believe for a minute that Trump will make good on his talking points, but he is hitting home with a large group of people who are really pizzed off.
The expression “blind rage” comes to mind
Are they running amok?
Don’t forget the R’s in Congress who voted against everything lockstep. Without that, I think we would have had a public option, instead of a private sector racket making profit off the backs of the government-subsidized sick. And part of Obamacare was expanding Medicaid for the unhealthy poor (depending on the governor).
Wish I had a better answer on the housing bubble, but that was a disaster 15 years in the making.
Gay marriage didn’t force me to become gay, but, uh, I think I’m being influenced by all those self-identifying trans people in my bathroom.
No question, Trump and Sanders are the F-you candidates. I’ve heard a surprising number people who expressed interest in voting for either.
“I don’t believe for a minute that Trump will make good on his talking points, but he is hitting home with a large group of people who are really pizzed off.”
Trump is the ONLY candidate who understands where “the people” are. Those who cannot comprehend Trump’s popularity live in an insulated bubble. The “Trump is Evil” brigade on this board live in the bubble.
Like so many in The Establishment, they are completely flummoxed.
Colorado, your paragraph above sums up while I’m not with Trump, at least not yet. I simply do not know if he’ll do what he says he’ll do.
Those who cannot comprehend Trump’s popularity live in an insulated bubble.
He’s probably not as popular as you think. He got about a third of the vote in South Carolina primary. That group of voters much more conservative than the country as a whole.
PB wrote “Annie, I get it that people who post here are generally unhappy about the past eight, or maybe thirty-two years, of Bush-Clinton. Why that anger turns them into Trumplings is a mystery to me.”
Maybe they drank water in Flint, Michigan to make them want to get Bush/Clinton on steroids, which means Trump.
“Because he’s the only one addressing their complaints, while the other candidates either only want to give more money to the 0.1% or to the FSA?”
Prof Kaplan can’t figure that out? Cripes I’m feeling sad for his “students.”
“I don’t believe for a minute that Trump will make good on his talking points, but he is hitting home with a large group of people who are really pizzed off.”
DING DING DING…WE HAVE A WINNER!
‘The “Trump is Evil” brigade on this board live in the bubble.’
Take it from the poster who named himself after the evil protagonist of the Scottish play.
First i was called a tea bagger, a racist, a selfish hater and now I’m just a red neck, nose picking, banjo player!
Who is it that called you these things?
The mainstream media does everything they can to paint republicans as racist trailer trash and gun toting Rambos. I am who I’ve always been but i woke up to being blamed for Trayvon, Furguson and Baltimore. Every time obama is angry at the republicans he blames all of us for white slavery and Charlie Hebdo. I did identify with mitt romney but he got trashed for animal abuse, anti woman, and killing someone’s husband
Maybe we could have a california telephone meeting. I won’t talk, i’ll just say hi!
I doubt that you can find much in the MSM that accuses every Republican as being racist trailer trash. There’s also nothing that the president said that accused white American Republicans for Charlie Hebdo. I don’t how you came by these views, but they’re mistaken.
I thought you wanted to know why I don’t like socialism and clinton and why i’m partial to Trump. You just discounted everything I hold to be truth about me. If you are a liberal elite then obviously you never feel guilty about having money, white privilege or for the george bush war! I want to wake up one day and not feel too white, too straight, too uneducated, too single and too racist! Now let’s get back to housing crashes!
“the republicans can come along but they need to sit in the back of the bus!’ BHO
I thought you wanted to know why I don’t like socialism and clinton and why i’m partial to Trump.
No, I wanted to know who accused you of racism. It turns out that no one has. I point out that you’re spouting nonsense and you respond that I “discounted everything I hold to be truth.” Well what you hold to be truth is not true. Don’t get offended. Take this as an opportunity to learn something.
I’m not going to match wits with the elite on this blog. Ive been here since 2006 and I never spout out. I remember when Oly gal said she painted herself blue and went to a party, and i didn’t understand the blue part! Now I know. Blue is superior and red is red neck! I was banned from hating obama and now im a hick for supporting trump. All my actual friends are liberals and Ive been called plenty. But you are elite and i am white trash! Rich White Trash!
MilkyMite is a mushy moron. No point even talking to him. He believes all Trump supporters are racist. As do Central Scrotumizer, Professor Blather, CalifartH20 and the rest.
No, I don’t believe any such thing. This is part of the crackpot, right wing view of the world. Racism was eliminated from America a long, long time ago. The big problem today is false accusations of racism made against good, white Christian conservatives. Of course, there’s never any evidence provided to support this assertion.
And I guess I must be a moron because I disagree with you. That’s because you’re a genius because declared yourself one.
Ann, and on the other says that I’m part of some elite. I don’t know how that happened. She can’t say who called her a racist, unless maybe it was a friend, who presumably knows her well. At least she’s rich. That’s what’s really important.
“MilkyMite is a mushy moron.”
Dear Leader approves of the abusive language in this message.
A Nazi analogy? Washington Post real journalists provide an opinion narrative titled “The moment of truth: We must stop Trump” that endorses Rubio as the nominee.
Purchased by Sheldon Adelson.
Purchased by Sheldon Adelson.
Purchased by Sheldon Adelson.
Sound your trumpets because there’s a whole lotta trumpin’ going on.
Strumpets gonna strump.
Gotta love da’ strumpets.
You guys know that strumpet is a polite word for whore, right?
Is a NAZI any different than any political party member?
Do you deny the right of the public to install any party member that can win their confidence?
a 4th turning crisis is how a conservative friend of mine is calling it.
And when I loaned him the book years ago he didn’t believe..
Strauss and Howe were massively wrong on Millenials. They were originally predicted to be a new “GI generation.”
looks like folks are panicking to buy stocks again today. How rigged is this casino? LMAO
Hope and change.
And people will wonder when they read future history books why the American people threw it all away for the promise of free sh*t,,,
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Obama looting the Treasury to pay off insurers (staving off O/Care collapse)
NYPOST.COM | 2/21/16 | Betsy McCaughey
UnitedHealthcare and Aetna insurers are losing billions trying to sell ObamaCare plans. In 2014, the WH tried to avert disaster by promising insurers a taxpayer-funded bailout, but public outrage and quick action by Sen Marco Rubio put a stop to it.
Desperate to keep insurers on board, they are now dipping into public money. On Feb. 12, the administration announced a whopping $7.7 billion to insurers, just this year alone….money taken from reinsurance fees….paid whether you buy your own plan or get covered at work, or if employer self-insures….. the fee is buried in your premium or taken out of your paycheck.
Obamacare law states a fixed share shall be deposited into the general fund of the US Treasury and may not be used to offset insurance company losses. But they got away with that heist; now they/re at it again. This rogue administration will go to any length to keep insurers hooked into O/Care.
Last year alone, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas got $549 million reinsurance funds, while Anthem Blue Cross of California got $401 million.
ObamaCare was sold on lies. When passed by a Democrat party line vote, the administration resorted to a long string of lawless executive actions to keep an unworkable scheme going. Obama has illegally delayed the employer mandate repeatedly. He/s handing out free ObamaCare plans to illegal immigrants. Statutory deadlines are routinely ignored; funds are slyly shifted from one program to another…the law be damned.
Epic Fail.
Isn’t ObamaCare fantastic?
A doubling+ of my monthly premium and a deductible that has gone up from $1200 to $5000.
That aside, we have numerous failures of businesses involved/compelled to be involved with ObamaCare.
So not only do I feel very negative effects very personally, I also know that my premiums are going toward bailing out failing businesses that, before ObamaCare, weren’t failing.
My Model T is slow too.
It’s the economy, stupid.
I can’t tell you much about Jeb, I never got past his immigration stance. I guess I am not alone.
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The 17 saddest moments of Jeb Bush’s very sad campaign
Vox | 2/20/16 | Dara Lind
11) The moment when Jeb’s last rally before the Iowa caucuses was interrupted by people demanding to be paid for filling the seats [February 1]
14) The moment of “Please clap” [February 3]
Politico has a great post-mortem on JEB!’s campaign: “Inside Jeb Bush’s $150 Million Failure”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/jeb-bush-dropping-out-set-up-to-fail-213662#ixzz40oZkCPHT
They touch very lightly on the Mitt Romney thing. Even more interesting were some of the comments, from Floridians. I thought I was one of the few still smarting over the whole Terri Schiavo debacle. Apparently I’m not alone. Some people are still outraged over it.
I regret that we didn’t get to rehash the Terry Schivo tragedy.
Whenever congress can’t address a question because it isn’t in session, let’s remember that W. called congress back into session to pass a law that allowed schivo to be put back on life support.
Yes, let’s.
Care to be the person to remind us of that in the future, wondering?
All the same criticisms pretty much apply to Rubio except the dynasty thing. Billionaire puppet. Billionaire hillionaire.
Banana Republican.
Trump’s illegal immigration plan:
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
It appears to me to be less comprehensive than former Saints QB Heath Shuler’s SAVE Act of 2007. I remember that bill specifically provided for additional Federal Judges to process illegal immigrants.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/4088
Not a goddamned word about this all day. The Trumpragers don’t care about any good ideas. This is a twofer, more ICE agents and cut off tax credit payments to illegals.
Lumber liquidators crashing after CDC says tests underestimated cancer risks from treated flooring.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/lumber-liquidators-shares-crater-as-cdc-says-tests-underestimated-cancer-risk-2016-02-22?dist=beforebell
World trade continues to tank, yet futures are up this morning. Go figure.
http://www.businessinsider.com/baltic-dry-index-scrapping-ships-2016-2
Another doomed rally in oil?
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/02/20/another-doomed-rally-in-oil/
Works for me! I have an extra $30 in cash a week thanks to gasoline approaching $2 a gallon.
Big deal.
Because of ObamaCare, I still have $230/month less in mine.
Gas could be $00.00 per gallon, and I’d still have less in my pocket. Due to ObamaCare.
Not sure how those relate. I save about $2k/month.
Stagflation comes to Canada.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/02/20/another-doomed-rally-in-oil/
Just what we need: more zombies.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/22/11087890/mark-zuckerberg-mwc-picture-future-samsung
“Just what we need: more zombies.”
Works for me.
Kinda like the movie “Wally”.
Justin Raimondo: Were we lied into war? Connecting the neocon dots, Kristol, Feith, et al.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/02/18/were-we-lied-into-war/
Just another day in DiBlasio’s progressive utopia, as reported by real journalists:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/nyregion/subway-sex-crimes-increase-as-police-urge-women-to-come-forward.html
Is that why they want high speed rail, so they don’t have as much groping time?
“The team of seven officers was searching for men who use the subway’s crowded confines to get too close to women. Some furtively touch female passengers, while others rub up against the women they have targeted.”
Remember… A house is a depreciating asset that empties your wallet every day you own it.
What happens if the central bankers’ attempts to escalate their swindles against the 99% through NIRP causes depositors to yank their money out of the banks and store it at home in their own safes rather than “invest” it in rigged markets as was the banksters’ intent?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-22/safes-sell-out-japan-1000-franc-note-demand-soars-nirp-triggers-cash-hoarding
Gold, the ultimate hedge against central banker debasement of the currency.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-world-is-hoarding-gold-this-was-just-a-taste-of-whats-to-come_02212016
Gold, silver, platinum, and Bitcoin. Load up!
(Larry Summers wants to stop the printing of $100 bills - and higher denominations.Think they got some news of a certain Bill in LA who has been withdrawing several hundred dollar bills a week the last four years). It’s been used to fund gold and platinum purchases. Load up da truck!
Stephen Roach: NIRP will set stage for next financial crisis.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/negative-interest-rates-set-stage-for-next-crisis-stephen-roach-says-2016-02-18?mod=MW_story_recommended_default&Link=obnetwork
“Anyone who says the American economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
– President Barak Obama, 2016 SOTU Address
http://www.businessinsider.com/englander-global-economy-is-black-hole-2016-2
The system has failed: how the oligarchy has succeeded in concentrating wealth and power into its own sociopathic hands while the 99% continue to lose ground (but vote for their own demise).
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-system-has-failed.html
The oligopoly’s presstitutes tell us that Hillary will win because she’s the “true conservative” in the race. BWHAHAHAHAAHAHAA!
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hillary-clinton-could-win-by-appealing-to-our-conservative-instincts-2016-02-22?link=MW_home_latest_news
Our Keynesian central bankers and central planners are losing control.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-19/david-haggith-economy-failing-all-over-world
First Massachusetts poll shows Trump with yuuuuge lead. A beautiful thing.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-21/first-massachusetts-poll-shows-trump-huuuge-lead
Trump’s an east coaster. He’s done well in the east coast states of New Hampshire and South Carolina. He didn’t win in Iowa in Middle America.
I’m pretty sure that nobody associates South Carolina with the traditional connotation of “east coast.”
Porf holds the MSNBC view of conservatives and republicans, all racist. Don’t let him fool you into thinking it’s just Trump. That he turns purple on that single issue shows he can only support Hillary.
Try this SJW narrative:
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/22/donald_trumps_rageful_white_cult_race_fear_and_the_gop_front_runners_slick_manipulations/
Porf holds the MSNBC view of conservatives and republicans, all racist. Don’t let him fool you into thinking it’s just Trump.
He’s trying to deceive us about what his views are, but you know the truth. That’s amazing.
I know he’s lying. Not very hard to see. Except for Lester Hayes.
Did you fail fourth-grade spelling?
“First Massachusetts Poll Shows Trump With ‘Yuuge’ Lead”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-21/first-massachusetts-poll-shows-trump-huuuge-lead
I big shout out to all my good friends in the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts
Posted on Larken Rose’s Facebook site by one of his friends:
“A bunch of humans on a stage arguing who they promise to steal from, how much they will steal, how they will spend that stolen money, who they will oppress, who they will kill, what people they will kill, how they will kill them, who to hate, who they will protect, while millions of people watch and cheer their aggressor on. Yes, that’s America, it’s not stealing, murdering, or your aggressive nature oppressing people, because, you voted and someone else is doing it for you.”
Bill in LA says if you have any morality, any sense of humanity, vacate the vote.
“Bill in LA says if you have any morality, any sense of humanity, vacate the vote.”
I don’t feel either way about your statement.
SteadyKat (I believe) admonished this board once for constant b@tching he/she saw here, yet no one doing anything to solve it.
Bill, that said, what are YOU doing to fix it? Checking out isn’t the answer.
Why not run for office yourself? You’re in decent shape financially,, answer to very few….so why not. You can afford to take some punches to the chin and still come out okay.
So why not?
RE: “doing anything”. MacBeth, have you ever read, Ending Tyranny Without Violence - By Murray N. Rothbard? It seems like you have not. Perhaps, you should.
“For if tyranny really rests on mass consent, then the obvious means for its overthrow is simply by mass withdrawal of that consent. [...]
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.” …
Exactly Clark.
In addition I use persuasion. I have a lot of Facebook friends who are statists and I repost voluntaryist posts.
In fact I have been responsible for three of my former statist friends to become libertarians. Sometimes it takes years. It took me decades to realize defense spending is socialism. I learned a lot of things from Ron Paul and became anti war from reading Ron Paul’s writings.
You need to develop better persuasive skills, Bill. You are lacking in that department.
Saying that Trump will be throwing people in the gas
chamber is drawing more people to Trump, not fewer (as Palmy says - and he’s right).
“You need to develop better persuasive skills, Bill. You are lacking in that department.”
So say the people who are so entrenched in their public school indoctrination. This is always the case.
I don’t expect to turn people overnight. It took decades for me. You are wrong about my persuasive skills. Your conscience has doubt planted in it. That doubt will grow sooner or later. For me it was three decades, although I already knew what Voluntaryism stood for.
Saying that Trump will be throwing people in the gas
chamber is drawing more people to Trump
How and why?
You’re wrong, Bill.
Your persuasive skills need work. Accept it.
“Your persuasive skills need work. Accept it.”
Like I wrote, it worked for me to persuade three people over the last year.
Accept that.
I did. But you didn’t.
Bill’s only out for himself. It’s the voluntaryist way.
Woe to the poster who gets double- or triple-teamed by an angry mob of Trumplings!
No, I haven’t. Never heard of it, actually. Sounds interesting.
Thanks.
PS I’ve just started reading the book “Lying - Moral Choice in Public and Private Life” (Sissela Bok).
Trying to organize anarchy?
I remember the non-conformity movement in the 60s. There were some pretty specific dos and don’ts back then of how to be a non-conformist.
An anarcho capitalist does not organize. An anarcho capitalist removes consent and persuades others to do so. An anarcho capitalist may disobey some victimless crime laws as well.
Just my opinion Bill, silence is consent by default. Voicing protest is removing consent, not silence.
Like Clark said, with the Rothbard explanation, it’s your opinion against Rothbard’s.
Not so much.
“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.”
You still serve. You only say that you withdraw support while sending in your taxes, driving on the right side of the road & etc.
It’s not like I haven’t thought about this. I considered ways to not support the Vietnam War, but I ended up compromising.
Bill want to decide for himself whether to stop at stoplights while requiring everyone else to stop for him.
Have a nice day.
TRUMP: If I were black, ‘I would be so angry’ at Obama
Colin Campbell
Feb. 19, 2016, 1:03 PM 14,902 28
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Friday that if he were a black man, he’d be especially angry at President Barack Obama.
“People don’t know I’m a unifier. You know, Barack Obama, African-American. If I were African-American, I would be so angry at him,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The real-estate mogul said the unemployment rate among African-American youth under Obama’s tenure was so high “you wouldn’t believe it.”
“If I were African-American, I wouldn’t like him very much,” Trump reflected.
As he has done before, Trump vowed to do more for the African-American community than Obama:
I will do more for the African-American people than Barack Obama has ever done. I will do more in one year! I will do more for the African-American people in one year than Barack Obama has done in his seven years, soon to be eight years, and then by the way he’s out and thank goodness, OK?
Trump further declared that he would do well with black voters on Election Day if he becomes the GOP presidential nominee, despite the group’s strong Democratic lean in recent presidential elections
“I’m going to do well with the African-Americans,” he promised. “I’m going to do great with them because they get it. They’re smart. They know jobs are going to come and I’m bringing the jobs back.”
Obama has been the absolute worst president on race relations in modern history.
All of the self-proclaimed progressives on this blog live in 99.9% lily white neighborhoods. Their only knowledge of black people is seeing them on TeeVee. And they all vote Democrat Party for life.
Forward.
Do you think Trump would be better on race relations? Why?
Exterminate all but one race. Problem solved.
Exterminate
Something progressives are very good at, history doesn’t lie.
They just cant seem to exterminate the Self Important Shrieking Tree Monkey, however. A hardy and fecund creature, the SISTM thrives in environments that provide low skilled work, low cost of living, and poor quality of life. Certain subspecies (Bible Banging Shreiking Tree Monkey) are known to be polygamous, and produce litters numbering in the hundreds.
Despite their loud calls of “Personal Responsibility” and “Liberty for all”, all types of STM are known to consume any available government benefits with great alacrity, and shriek with great disdain a people who use their liberty in ways the STMs don’t approve of.
It is estimated that, at their current exponential rate of reproduction, STMs will cover the entire surface of the planet at a depth of 12 by the year 2600. At this time they will still deny the utility of space exploration, reasoning that the bottom STM holds up his 11 brethren, so he can certainly hold up an indeterminate number.
“Exterminate”
“Something progressives are very good at, history doesn’t lie.”
Russ
You can’t throw the curve when the batter knows it’s coming.
Bull Durham | “Man, that ball got outta here in a hurry” - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBUS3vQtDCA - 254k -
Oh phony, there you go playing baseball when everybody else is playing croquet. Do try to keep up.
That’s the second time on this thread I’ve been reminded of Dr. Who’s, Daleks. Which is the third time today. The first was seeing Zuckerberg’s photo with the audience wearing the zombie glasses. Things keep getting creepier by the day.
No, “things” don’t get creepier every day.
You’re just noticing different things that already existed.
It’s pragmatics. The need for practical, workable solutions is doing a number on all of us. Your thought processes are changing in response.
They’re not zombie glasses. You’re overreacting.
They may not be zombie glasses, but it’s still a creepy photo.
It’s even creepier watching people move their heads and hands while in VR.
Goon -
I work for a MBE firm her in Chicago - have for the last 10 years - AND me bein a white dude as you describe - it has caused me to pause at what it has taken for the company owners (who are black) to achieve the success they have. I wonder about the white mid class progressives who only look from the outside in as you note. It is to me amazing given the difficulty of not only starting a business in this country anymore but also here in Chicago ILLANNOY - the persistent yet quiet division between white and black here. To hear north shore libs speak of minorities the way they do at times just astounds.
I can speak from my perch and can say Obama has done nothing to help in this matter and here in ILLANNOY - the matter has only become worse. I don’t walk in the shoes of the owners of my company - but I certainly have been privvy to the difficulty they continue to have garnering business in a country that sadly does not honor the work ethic anymore. And as a result of progressive desire this is only going to continue to fester IMHO.
97.15% to be exact
“you wouldn’t believe it.”
Trumplings love sentences that end this way. There’s a reason it crops up so much. Daddy is telling you “this is bullshit” again and again and again, trumplings, and you just drop and roll in it with glee.
There’s gotta be a pony in there!
Party pooper.
Foreigner - Double Vision (lyrics) HQ - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcU6abl45_A - 279k -
Hillary mum on coughing fits, special eyeglasses
Physicians suspect she’s hiding health records
Published: 3 days ago
Jerome R. Corsi
Hillary Clinton meets with workers at Caesar’s Palace hotel and casino Feb. 18, 2015.
NEW YORK – Hillary Clinton’s refusal to answer questions about her recent coughing fits or to explain why she is wearing eyeglasses fitted with Fresnel prisms supports the conclusion of several qualified physicians that her presidential campaign is still keeping key health records hidden from the American public.
After her most recent coughing fit Tuesday during a speech in New York City, Clinton left Chicago on Wednesday wearing her normal contact lenses. But at a photo opportunity in Las Vegas, she was observed once again wearing the thick, black glasses fitted with Fresnel prisms, suggesting she was experiencing another bout of double vision.
Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/02/hillary-mum-on-coughing-fits-special-eyeglasses/#sGZfBJD0uFakTjbP.99
And the trumplings and trumpkins will dance and sing “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead”, and there will be much rejoicing.
lol@potsy
“Putting one’s faith in the competence of a single, individual “leader” is both unrealistic and destructive.” - TheDailyBell
Trumplings can’t help but trumple. They are, by definition, unrealistic and destructive… a blight on this very earth. They do well to tremble in fear, for their betters are even now plotting, deep in their secret lair, the extermination of all trumplings and trumpkins. Their massive adipose deposits will be used as an energy source to power the industry of the elite master race!
The Matrix, as directed by Johnny Knoxville.
You should be put in charge of Hollywood, Palmy. That’s a bit of brilliance right there.
Joe Eszterhas 4 ever.
Twitter Bans Conservative Blogger, “Kill Trump” Account Still Active 6 Months Later
Having the wrong politics gets you banned, death threats perfectly fine
Paul Joseph Watson - February 22, 2016 5 Comments
As Twitter suspended the account of yet another conservative for the crime of having the wrong politics, an account called ‘Kill Donald Trump’ that advocates assassinating the Republican frontrunner is still active six months later.
The social media giant shut down an account belonging to conservative journalist Robert Stacy McCain on Friday night, the latest example of what some claim is a purge of voices on the political right.
Although no reason was given for the ban, McCain asserts that it was a reaction to his strident criticism of third wave feminism.
However, while Twitter seems keen to silence bloggers who challenge leftist narratives, it appears to be more apathetic about leftists themselves who openly advocate the assassination of America’s potential next president – Donald Trump.
An account entitled ‘Kill Donald Trump’ that was started in August last year is still active six months later. “Someone should kill Donald Trump already. EL CHAPO do your thing,” states the bio information for the account.
The account features retweets of numerous other Twitter users who have called for the assassination of Trump, as well as direct tweets from the account owner, including one that reads, “That bastard bitch #trump #Donald should fucking die. Anyone got any people? Go to his election and shoot him with a sniper.”
“Anyone know a person that can kill Donald Trump?” reads another tweet.
Despite representing an obvious violation of Twitter’s terms of service, which state that users must not engage in “Violent threats (direct or indirect),” the account has not been suspended.
Thousands of other Twitter users who have threatened to kill Trump or expressed a wish to see him assassinated have also not had their accounts suspended.
Twitter recently announced the creation of a new ‘Trust and Safety’ council under the guise of combating online abuse, but critics assert it will police free speech and censor conservative voices.
The council does not contain a single conservative group or organization that robustly defends free speech and is instead made up of groups like Feminist Frequency, led by Anita Sarkeesian, a woman who thinks disagreeing with a feminist is a form of “harassment”.
Although Twitter is a private company and can censor whoever it likes, social media platforms are increasingly beginning to resemble public commons where online speech has real world consequences.
With thousands of people being arrested for tweets every year, broadening the definition of what constitutes “harassment” and “abuse” threatens to set an Orwellian precedent where having the wrong opinion or challenging a dominant narrative can result in official oppression.
These SJW’s can tweet all they want, but it doesn’t change the fact that they have $80,000 of student loan debt for a Masters Degree in Obama Studies and they still live with roommates past age 30.
And they pour coffee for a living.
At least they’re doing useful work.
Like anybody that matters gets any useful info from twitter. You want to change who gets censored? Buy twitter.
What? You can’t afford it you say? Well that’s your fault for being a poor, isn’t it?
You trumplings were trying to get me banned here a few months ago, and got quite pouty when it didn’t happen. You’re not against banning, you’re against banning people that agree with you.
“Like anybody that matters gets any useful info from twitter. ”
The three movers and shakers that I still occasionally chat with in LA are telephone only + dropbox for project files.
No social media, no voicemail, no email, voice only…
From millions of empty skulls, directly to the WhiteHouse, Mr. Donald Trump lives rent free.
In general, someone has to complain about your tweet before they take it down.
I am in Las Vegas, at the best hotel (by far), Trump International. I will be working with my wonderful teams and volunteers to win Nevada.
Trumple on, trumpmeister!
VIDEO: Chelsea Clinton campaigns — in a closet? - HeadlineInTime …
http://www.headlineintime.com/headline/video-chelsea-clinton-campaigns-in-a-closet- - 114k - Cached - Similar pages
4 days ago
Never give $$ to a neo-con. The are not fiscally conservative (like me)!
Jeb Bush
Nearly 1,000 donors contributed more than $25,000 to his campaign, and 20 gave $1 million or more.
LMFAO he never had a chance. The donors were clueless and deserved to lose that money. LOSERS!
Irvine, CA Housing Market Craters; Prices Crumble 18% YoY On Ballooning Mortgage Defaults
http://www.zillow.com/northwood-irvine-ca/home-values/
it is like Detroit down there in Irvine. The Chinese are selling everything for pennies on the dollar. Next up, riots!
LOL (my office is in Irvine, so I am very familiar with the economy here)
That’s the cage you’re put in by your liberal bosses.
It is so important to audit The Federal Reserve, and yet Ted Cruz missed the vote on the bill that would allow this to be done.
he doesnt give a sh@t. his wife works at goldman. she would be fired if he showed up for that vote.
Rubio racks up support from Republican lawmakers
By NICK GASS 02/22/16 07:11 AM EST Updated 02/22/16 04:04 PM EST
Bolstered by a second-place finish in South Carolina and Jeb Bush’s exit from the 2016 race, Marco Rubio picked up a host of endorsements from fellow Republican politicians over the last 48 hours, both currently serving and former.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior member of the Republican caucus, decided to endorse Rubio after previously backing Bush.
Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole also switched from Bush to Rubio on Monday, telling ABC News that unlike Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Rubio “wants to grow the party.” Dole had previously said that he would support Rubio if the former governor of Florida was no longer in contention.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Florida Rep. Gus Bilirakis also announced their backing of Rubio early Monday, the latest in a string of endorsements from his Republican congressional colleagues. “He has the unique capability of drawing new people into the party, which is critically important in a swing state like North Carolina,” Tillis said in a statement released by the campaign.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake followed suit later in the afternoon, citing his former Gang of Eight colleague’s “ideas,” “principles” and “toughness” to reform Washington. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced his support of Rubio on Monday afternoon, comparing him to Ronald Reagan.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/tim-pawlenty-endorses-marco-rubio-219602#ixzz40wRXDNXL
Obama Cracks Joke About Scalia’s Death
President grins after cracking joke at late Supreme Court justice’s expense
Infowars.com - February 22, 2016
During his National Governors Association speech Monday, President Obama joked there was a lot to get done during his final days in office, including “appointing judges.”
“Some of you may be in the final year of your term, working as hard as you can to get as much done as possible for the folks you represent, fixing roads, educating our children, helping people retrain, appointing judges, the usual stuff,” the president jested, as the crowd in attendance burst into laughter.
Last week, the president was criticized after it was announced he would not be attending the funeral of Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Obama was further lambasted when it was reported he spent less than two minutes paying his respects to Justice Scalia during the Saturday service at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
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Robots replacing people in low-wage jobs, yet blacks, Latinos, Unions, and the very stupid are voting for corporate statist Hillary Clinton. The stupid, it burns….
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-robots-are-coming-for-jobs-that-pay-20-an-hour-or-less-white-house-finds-2016-02-22
Is Sheldon Adelson cutting off his neocon, Establishment GOP whores?
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/sheldon-adelson-donor-republicans-219598
With Jeb Bush flatly rejected by the Republican rank and file, the oligarchs are shifting their support to a new puppet: Marco Rubio.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/2/21/big-donors-flock-to-rubio-after-bush-drops-out.html
Not only are American politicians for sale to the highest bidder, they are selling off America to the highest bidder.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/02/21/heres-a-story-youll-be-hearing-about-a-lot-this-year-chinese-companies-have-been-buying-up-foreign-businesses-including-american-ones-at-a-record-rate-and-its-freaking-out-la/
The oligarchs who squandered the most money on Loser Jeb.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/these-donors-lost-a-ton-of-money-on-jeb-bush-180816776.html
Professor: Young Bernie Supporters Prove Education System has Failed
University of Oklahoma professor breaks down socialism’s failures
Adan Salazar | Infowars.com - February 22, 2016 213 Comments
Bernie Sanders’ rise in popularity among the nation’s youth despite his socialist policies exemplifies the country’s failing education system, a college professor says.
In an editorial published in The Oklahoman last month, University of Oklahoma Associate Professor David Deming claims “the candidacy of Bernie Sanders is a symptom of our failure to educate [the youth], not only in history, government and economics, but also basic morality.”
“You don’t have to be a student of ancient history to know socialism doesn’t work,” Professor Deming states, highlighting the capitulation of the Soviet Union and Venezuela’s current problems as examples of how the Socialist economic system dooms nations to fail.
“The misery caused by socialism is unfolding today in Venezuela. Since Venezuela embraced socialism in 1999, poverty, crime and corruption have all increased. Grocery shelves are empty and the annual inflation rate is estimated to be as high as 200 percent.”
Deming notes the U.S. was allowed to thrive because its Founding Fathers upheld private property rights, and credits the free-market capitalist economic system for producing “the greatest prosperity in human history.”
“If we believe a transaction is in our best interest, we have an incentive to maintain good relations with those with whom we’re trading. Thus a society based on freedom and trading promotes good will and civility.”
Under socialism on the other hand, Deming claims, “there are no property rights.”
“Everything you possess is subject to confiscation and redistribution,” he writes. “Industrious and productive people are punished; parasites are rewarded.”
Deming goes on to argue the solution lies in limiting government power and the checks and balances placed on the various branches by the Constitution.
“Human nature is corruptible,” stresses Deming. “If government has the power to redistribute wealth, it will always act in the interests of the powerful segments of society.”
“What made America great is not progressive government, but the genius and industry of a people freed from arbitrary power by the chains placed upon government by our Constitution.”
“If we want to retain our freedom and prosperity,” Prof. Deming says, “then we must educate our children that the purpose of government is to secure liberty, not provide free lunches.”
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christ_bearer • an hour ago
I saw 4 of these Usefull Idiot Supporters at a Farmers market.. I asked them these 5 questions after they were forcing their “Feel the Bern” crap on me..:
1. What is the difference between a Socialist and a Democratic Socialist?
2. What is the Federal Reserve.. and who is its Chairman?
3. What is the current debt of our nation?
4. Who is Debbie Wasserman Schultz.. how do you feel about her?
5. What are the 3 Branches of Governemnt?
… NOT ONE FUKING KID COULD ANSWER ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS!!!! How the fuk can you be soo BRAIN DEAD!!?!? …NOT ONE!!!!!
1. What is the difference between a Socialist and a Democratic Socialist?
Prof. Demming doesn’t seem to know that one either. Must be a failure in his education.
RE: 1. What is the difference between a Socialist and a Democratic Socialist?
Your conversation is a bit scary. I’m almost afraid to scroll back up and see how things went between this and the Daleks “exterminate” bit.
It’s all so-very contrary to the way I was brought up. And, the opposite of, ‘Instead of Providing “Safe Spaces” This University Teaches Survival Skills’ - as found at theorganicprepper.
Perhaps you can identify with me with this descriptive, ah, accuracy applied to higher Ed these days:
“Liberal Institutions of Wussification”
And yeah, I ask myself this ALL the time: “How the fuk can you be soo BRAIN DEAD!!?!?”
I presume it’s because of the fluoride and the Geo-engineering. However; it may be more than that. Or, in addition, to. …My other question is, Is it reversible? …Tune in, next week. ?
Tune in next week to, As The World Burns.
Housing harbinger 2.0
People I know who mortgaged in 2005 a house for 375K. Foreclosed on in 2011. Now they mortgaged again 2015 and get this….SAME PRICE…375K But different house.
You’ve Ben warned…
The Donald attacks Ted Cruz for missing the “Audit the Fed” vote.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/701868541545295872
“falling housing prices”
Macbeth, is anyone exempt from morality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49sGYeBUxs&feature=youtu.be
I thought of the HBB bunch (and everyone else in the world) when I read this , er, title:
Never Trust the Government
You’re far better off with random people in a nice bar
Are you better off with the random people in a mean bar you face when Trumplings are posting?
It’s the very definition of a, “mean bar” when the politicians take center stage - in place of - the importance of the individual and the family unit.
It does not matter what side of the isle the politician is on.
They are All the same. They are All, ‘For The government” and against the individual and the family unit.
All of them.
Agreed.
I only hope that my fellow HHB’ers read that and give it some thought before they rail against ‘The Machine’ tomorrow.
I won’t hold my breath thinking the rest of the world would give the same consideration. …I can only wish.
Oops, my apologies, yeesh, “HHB’ers”?
Ya know I meant, HBB’ers.
Anyway, do ya all mind if I repeat myself to end on a seemingly historical note? The end of Empire.
I only hope that my fellow HBB’ers read that and give it some thought before they rail against ‘The Machine’ tomorrow.
I won’t hold my breath thinking the rest of the world would give the same consideration. …I can only wish.
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