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Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:05 PM Jul 2015

About Trumps latest remarks:

Is it me or is something wrong when republicans and the complicit media (looking at you New York Post) is more upset about his comments regarding John McCain that they are about his racist comments regarding immigrants in our nation?

I am have a series disconnect here.

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About Trumps latest remarks: (Original Post) Raine1967 Jul 2015 OP
I think the outrage is equal underpants Jul 2015 #1
By now, most know John Wayne was a certifiable draft dodger. So, to maintain a confection Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #2

underpants

(182,803 posts)
1. I think the outrage is equal
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:09 PM
Jul 2015

But immigrants are both faceless and much maligned. It was too much but it was against a group who are not directly identifiable. McCain is different. trump went directly at a familiar target.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
2. By now, most know John Wayne was a certifiable draft dodger. So, to maintain a confection
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:30 PM
Jul 2015

of EZ bawling patriotism which others can relate to, you discredit the real deal. New myths must be sold, and the one Trump is selling is that of the Super Punk: One which not only questions everything, but attacks it and calls his critics "politically correct! politically correct! Nah-na-na-naah-nah". In todays society, a pre-packaged individual autonomy, dissin', shit-in-your-pants hypocrisy, and a hep-cat nihilism is the stew millions consume. And if it has the quaff of mass trolling, and the skidmark whiff of angry transience, all the better.

You know MSM and the tubes will service the Celebrity of the Hour: Trump.

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