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Also, the irony of Trump mentioning Nixon...
The Extreme Right has been doing this for decades. It's just now, due largely to the new prominence of sheep who cannot have an opinion without parroting their Facebook or Twitter feed, that this self-hypnosis has become de riguer -- anyone NOT doing it is suspect....someone asserts his claim by saying something so patently nonsensical that the listener's brain shuts down completely.
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
I want to emphasize this -- it's not original with me, much less something I pulled from my metaphoric ass.According to the Right-Thinking People, only the Right Thinking are allowed to be angry, because they are the only people who are truly aggrieved.
Now, if you think at all like me, your brain is saying "aaaannnnnd...??"He said poor whites feel discriminated against because they're white and poor.
http://news.wfsu.org/post/visiting-author-discusses-his-book-white-poor-votersGest said it’s useless to have discussions about what groups are oppressed more. He says talking to people who we fear or disagree with can promote understanding.
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/02/23/white-working-class-politicsGest argued that there are three key components to how white working class citizens feel marginalized, "rightfully or wrongfully."
- A sense of outnumbering -- In the U.S., white people make up about 68 percent of the population, so objectively they are not outnumbered. "But there is a sense of outnumbering that comes from the relative change in demography," Gest said. When more people of color move to communities where white people were previously the majority, the white residents do not retain any sense of predominant status, they only see the relative loss of predominance, said Gest.
- A feeling of being made external -- Many of these white working class people feel they no longer have a voice in public policy, business interests and government. In Congress only 2 percent of representatives come from working class backgrounds, and only a fraction of those politicians are white, Gest said. "The idea that they have a seat at the table as white working class people is a day dream of times lost from their perspective," Gest said. "They feel like they do not have a hand in the government that controls them, that manages their country."
- A perceived discrimination -- Those Gest interviewed said that they felt they were often discriminated against on the basis of being white and on the basis of being poor. They feel "relegated and dismissed as rednecks, hicks, hillbillies, white trash" and believe "they lose jobs or access to housing or access to social services because of this discrimination," he said.
Clearly, someone CAN, & they can get elected to high office, & they can surround themselves with equally stupid people, & use propaganda to create enough stupid people to accept outright lies.1: He's either very clever... or very stupid.
2: No one could be that stupid.
Of course, within hours she made clear that any misinterpretation of this is due to Creeping Liberalism, & it's all Fake News:There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, etc. So we know that that is just a fact of modern life.
1/2: On wiretap claims, I have said many times that we are pleased the House/Senate Intel Committees are investigating & will comment after
2/2: response to Bergen Record was about surveillance articles in news & techniques generally, not about campaign. Headline just wrong.
I'll entertain any explanation of how (1) those "denials" actually DENY ANYTHING, & (2) how they apply to the fact she SAID that your kitchen appliances are watching you.#FakeNewsAlert & why so many people don't trust what they read Headlines don't match story. Never made nexus. https://t.co/4iSZe0HIKr
(This demonstrates he'd be a GREAT addition to Trump's gag-writing staff. )Donald Trump has never even been in the same room as a microwave.
with his hands, every wave is a microwave
My wife brought up a blasphemous and highly politically incorrect topic and I thought I'd share it it on this thread since it seemed like the right kind of thread for it.
She jokingly mentioned that Christianity had many themes similar to BDSM. Bondage to the church and submission to the rules. Dominant and submissive vows to each other resemble marriage vows of wife to obey her husband and vows of husband to care for his wife. The old testament describes many acts of sadism and Christ is the ultimate masochist - he frickin' died for us!
Not meaning to offend anyone. Please take this as the joke I intend it to be. I'm sure other religions have similar themes as well and as an extension, I think many societies have similar themes.
So are we just overwhelmed with disgust and shock, or what?
Fuckin' Spicer talking about at least Hitler didn't use gas. Man... This Administration. What will it take to get rid of these people??? How bad are we going to have to watch it get?
To his credit, he's still kinda pissed off. You can keep up with him @RadioFreeTom.I am 55 and lived through LBJ, Nixon's resignation, Carter, two Clinton terms and two Obama terms. I can survive four years of Hillary. /1
What I do not think the country or the conservative movement can survive is someone who makes George Wallace look like Churchill. /2
So, you can keep going on about SCOTUS and Emailgate and Bill, and it's all true. I detest Hillary too. But all of that can be fought. /3
Clinton falls on the most awful side of normal. Trump is an ignorant, disturbed rich man playing with the Constitution. /4
And if Trump gets his way, he'll prove that being rich enough, crazy enough, and offensive enough can snuff out a democratic contest. /5
Many of you think that's hilarious. Some of you think he's speaking for you. And some of you know what he is and you support it anyway. /6
But I won't. I will give Clinton those SCOTUS picks, suck it up on the emails, and forget the 1990s. Because I have to. Because of Trump. /7
Also, a President's first job, the one only he can do, is to be Commander-in-Chief. Trump is too mentally unstable to be allowed there. /8
Everything else -- *everything*, including your gun fears, your SCOTUS fears, everything -- is secondary to this one issue. /9
You all think it's hilarious a gay British kid is running around calling a POTUS nominee "Daddy." Now think about that for a moment. /10
If elected, "Daddy" will not build a wall or kick out brown people. But he will control arms that can destroy the planet in 30 minutes. /11
He's proven repeatedly he's an ignorant, racist demagogue. But to feel better about your own crappy lives, you'll hand him 4000 nukes. /12
And while you all whine about SCOTUS, you're supporting a man whose chief adviser was a Ukrainian dictator's PR guy. You idiots. /13
So I say it now, and I'll say it in November: #NeverTrump.
There is not one thing he, or you, can do to change my mind. /14
And in the meantime, I'll try like hell either to change yours, or to shame you for your irresponsibility. /15
Trump is an existential menace to our system of government. So if #NeverTrump means accepting Hillary's win, so be it. /16x
If you're on Twitter (or whatever), by all means put his feet to the fire: a year ago, he wrote that [t]he Trump campaign is a test of character, and many Americans are failing it which certainly appears self-damning.See, it's this kind of attitude that prevented me from voting for her mother and made me support Trump.
And a year ago he published If I Lose Friends Over Trump, So Be It, with points sure to delight any Rightist who get in your way. For example,So, we now know what Donald Trump thinks about foreign policy.
Actually, we don’t. Once again, a Trump speech about policy turned out to be just another word salad of rehashed campaign slogans. And once again, all we learned is that Trump has no idea what he’s talking about, especially when it comes to foreign policy. ...
This wasn’t really a speech about foreign policy. It was a campaign event, meant to reassure Trump’s emotionally-driven, low-information voters that he gave a foreign policy speech.
And so he did. Some Republicans, facing Trump’s mounting primary victories, have even embarrassed themselves by praising it already. And of course, it was more than enough for Trump’s loyalists, as anything Trump does or says, no matter how stupid or incoherent, always is.
(The comments on this one stand at 1,431.)Yes, fellow conservatives: Trump is worse than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Their policies are liberal, even leftist, often motivated by cheap politics, ego, and political grandstanding. But they are policies, understandable as such and opposable by political means.
Trump’s various rants, by contrast, do not amount to policies. They are ignorant tone poems, bad haikus, streams of words whose content has no real meaning. They’re not positions available either to the GOP or Democrats, because they do not contain a vision of the future over which those parties can fight.
In fact, Trump’s policies are not policies. They’re just feverish revenge fantasies. Trump, a scam artist whose entire career has been based on victimizing the working class, should be the target of that anger. Instead, he is encouraging Americans to turn their hostility away from him and against their fellow citizens, inviting us into a war of all against all over which he will preside as an amused dictator.
Here's a review from Federalist.com, where it all started.I am partly to blame here: I have allowed this election, and the degree to which Trump's disgusting antics have succeeded with millions of people, to wear me down. I have tried to maintain engagement with the public as part of my personal vocation as a teacher and a scholar, but I admit that my faith in the virtue of American voters has been shaken.
[N]ot only is the Internet making many of us dumber, it’s making us meaner: alone behind their keyboards, people argue rather than discuss, and insult rather than listen.