2016 Postmortem
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Chasstev365
(7,804 posts)
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)
0rganism
(25,648 posts)time to launch the roflcopter:
TheCowsCameHome
(40,270 posts) onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)
JHB
(38,223 posts)Its entire claim to fame is fraud
kimbutgar
(27,257 posts)But has anyone on that site pointed out this is bogus?
prarie deem
(115 posts)what his real crowd was. These people are just walking, talking sacks of pus.
Princess Turandot
(4,917 posts)
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)The same people, the same cars, the same shadows. truly a miracle.
rurallib
(64,688 posts)including streets - from Cleveland to Portland.
Miraculous - gawd has surely favored Donald
LisaM
(29,636 posts)because you know, Trump fans everywhere wear the Cav's colors.
mcar
(46,064 posts)
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)
C_U_L8R
(49,394 posts)I think they learned a thing or two from their Soviet buddies. No lie is too big.
DFW
(60,210 posts)Lenin said that a lie, shouted loud enough and often enough, becomes the truth.
From Hitler to Fox "News" (not such a big jump, I realize), this theory has been tried again and again, and has been found to stand up across the span of time.
ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)They did this with Florida and it was just as bogus.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8073567
They're really stupid over at breitbart!!!!!
HuskyOffset
(926 posts)...what the definition of insanity is? Vaas does:
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,484 posts)doesn't mean the Trump fans will know or care. They--the Right Wing Industrial Complex--are masters of propaganda. It's the only way the Orange Anus could have ever made it this far in the race for the presidency.
ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)If it's an out-and-out lie, then it serves no purpose. It's giving dumdum lovers the impression their leader is doing
just great when he's not.
I don't see any advantage to deceiving the followers into thinking all is well with his campaign, but then, I'm not
familiar with breitbart, other than to know it's pretty ridiculously conservative.
Now I find out they also lie. 
George II
(67,782 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)so unbelievably dumb.
jmowreader
(53,206 posts)If the Orange Menace doesn't win the election, he plans to claim Hillary committed election fraud, treason and whatever else they can pile on her. (They will claim treason because right wingers and sovereign citizens think anyone who opposes them is a traitor.) The GOP will conduct dozens of investigations with the intent of impeaching her, preferably before January 20. I really expect a few of Trump's supporters to shoot people who they think voted for Hillary. Y'see, it's as plain as the nose on your face that Trump won't be sworn in on January 20 because Hillary stole the election...that he's a full-blown fascist who isn't good at anything will have nothing to do with it.
Fast Walker 52
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jumptheshadow
(3,315 posts)ffr
(23,402 posts)Sounds like a two-for-one to me!
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)63splitwindow
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Warren DeMontague
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grossproffit
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nolabear
(43,850 posts) Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)and of course he ends up at Breitbart.
sinkingfeeling
(57,839 posts)around the country, following Trump.
rocktivity
(45,006 posts)
lady lib
(2,933 posts)
Politicub
(12,328 posts)Yuge!
marble falls
(71,950 posts)
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)
Tarheel_Dem
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sellitman
(11,745 posts)Bravo!! 😂😂😂
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)believes the shot is real?
PatrickforO
(15,427 posts)Reminds me of a certain Republican candidate for President...
Actually it reminds me of the whole right wing noise machine including Fox 'news,' hate-talk radio and most Republican politicians and staffers.
So...who CAN we trust on the Republican side?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Put the wrong photo on purpose to get more attention and clicks.
PatrickforO
(15,427 posts)I'm going to, at least for a moment.
My parents were WWII generation; my dad was born in 1916 and my mom 1920. Dad fought in the Philippines during the war and when he came home became a commercial realtor. I wasn't born until he was 42 and my mom 38 because of an illness he caught in the tropics.
The point is that both my parents believed that there was a 'right' and a 'wrong' and that the difference between the two could be taught to their child - that would be me. It's funny, you know, because I have a graduate education and I have heard all the arguments about relativity, and there being no absolutes. The thing is, my parents would have had NO patience with that - my mother would have just grimly told me to stop flapping my jaws if I even talked like that.
I was raised to be honest to ALWAYS tell the truth. I remember one time in elementary school when we were playing kickball, I was out at second base but everyone thought that I was safe. The problem was that the second baseman knew and I knew. So I left the base and walked back 'home.' Everyone on my team was yelling at me, but later on the teacher gave the class a lecturette on how honest I was and how such honesty was good. Remember this is maybe 1963 or 1964.
That same year, though, I learned that not everybody is honest. We had to bring money in for a field trip - each of us had to give one dollar to the teacher. The day we were supposed to bring the dollar in, we had a substitute and she collected the dollars but then after lunch she must have been told to give us our dollars back. So this young lady, probably all of 22 or 23 years old, announced to the class that she was giving the money back.
Everyone lined up and I was toward the back. By the time I got to the teacher, all the dollar bills were gone - some other student had gotten in line twice ahead of me and taken my dollar too. I was the only one, though, and I will never forget the look of shame on this young teacher's face. I suppose both she and I learned an object lesson in greed and dishonesty that day.
This is why it bothers me so much that these Republicans lie all the time. Ever since the Powell memo and Reagan's killing of the Fairness Doctrine, we have nothing but corporate propaganda and lies instead of the real truth. This is why things like 'trolling' are so very odious to me. To lie when there's no reason, just for kicks, seems their modus operandi. The guy might think he had a reason but in the end lies ALWAYS come back and bite you in the butt.
Well, sorry for the wall of words - didn't mean to rant so. But things like this tend to really turn my crank.
llmart
(17,625 posts)I grew up in the same generation. My parents had very strict rules and guiding life principles that, to this day, I try to live by. I find that many times I feel so out of step with our society today because I don't see or meet that many people that live by the same rules. It bothers me to no end when I see people who rationalize their lies. I taught my two children the same way my parents taught me and both of them, now in their mid-40's have told me that it's very difficult for them to see others cheating, stealing, treating others badly, and getting away with it because it's so much more acceptable these days.
However, I may have to disagree with you on your statement that "in the end lies always come back and bite you in the butt." There are many people who suffer no consequences from their lies. These are people who may be narcissists or sociopaths, but they have no conscience, so lying doesn't bother them.
Think Dubya and Cheney, etc. They staged the "huge" rally in Iraq where thousands of people pulled down the statue of Saddam which was later proven to be a farce.
PatrickforO
(15,427 posts)misdeed, each time you cheat someone else carries its own price. Recently, my wife and I watched the movie 'Conspiracy,' which was released clear back in 2001. It stars Colin Firth, David Threlfall, Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich and Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann. The movie was written from the one set of minutes (found in 1947) of the Nazi meeting held in January 1942 in the Wannsee Villa outside Berlin on the 'final solution,' ergo the wiping out of all Jewish people in Europe.
The movie is stunning and very chilling. Why am I talking about it in this context?
Because of two things: First, during the meeting when they are describing the killings in such a casual way, one participant has to leave the room and go vomit. Later, Adolph Eichmann (Tucci) stumbles over the fact that when the SS experimented with execution trucks that pumped carbon monoxide from the exhaust into an airtight back compartment, the bodies came out pink. When the meeting has adjourned, Heydrich (Brannaugh) pokes fun at Eichmann over the pink bodies and how he fainted first time he saw them spilling out of one of the trucks. Eichmann replies that he didn't faint, but 'had a symptom.'
That, and once when I was engaged in a course of action that later proved very mistaken, I had a sort of seizure - a panic attack. My body, you see, was telling me in no uncertain terms that I was doing the wrong thing. If I would have listened to it, I would have saved myself a decade of misery.
Who can say now what W feels? I'm thinking he feels a lot of shame. As to Cheney? Well...he's a sociopath, so that's different. I read of a study, actually, that suggested that the most successful CEOs are sociopaths, or at least are able to exercise those tendencies.
As in thermodynamics, for every action they take, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Not to get too metaphysical here, but as neoliberal capitalism has spread like a cancer over the world, we have seen many popular movements arise. The grossly under-reported US Anti-War movement in the 2000s, Occupy, the Arab Spring, demonstrations against the IMF all over Europe, the right-wing protests and Brexit caused by our own misguided war policies in the mid-East, and finally Black Lives Matter. In the end, we will have social unrest that equals or exceeds that of the big union/management battles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and/or the social movements of the 1960s.
And, of course, we can refrain from speculating on any consequences in afterlife in honor of the general agnosticism/atheism among members...but you know, I wouldn't want to be Cheney and go with all that blood on my hands...
curiouso
(57 posts)Sure, you know it's a lie.
And I know it's a lie.
But those gullible enough to be swayed by what they encounter in right-wing media don't know it's a lie.
Looks like lots of peer pressure to them.
caraher
(6,362 posts)Hoft just wrote a statement that Trump was holding an event. Then he said to "look at this line!" He never said the line was associated with the event, that's just a conclusion someone jumped to
LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Ended up getting a lot more clicks this way.
rladdi
(581 posts)to his rallies knowing they will be fun, exciting and hearing about himself and his businesses.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)So glad Breitbart gathered all those images from the Cavs' victory celebration.
niyad
(132,508 posts)late last week??? early this week? so hard to keep track of all the lies.
patsimp
(915 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
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underpants
(196,539 posts)and his fake soldiers
niyad
(132,508 posts)was host to celtic woman last year, and will host celtic thunder august 27.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)brewens
(15,359 posts)Seems like a couple years ago.
jmowreader
(53,206 posts)I have it on the highest authority his phone rang and the exertion of pulling his head out of his ass made his ticker explode.
OverBurn
(1,292 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)In the ad Hillary is saying clearly, "and we aren't raising taxes on the middle class" while the CAPTION reads, "and we are raising taxes on the middle class."
They didn't even doctor the audio.
They know their followers will read along and actually hear the word "are" instead of "aren't" because that fits their belief system that Demoncrat Libruls are gonna steal yer money and give it away to the minorities.
NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)try to steal images from that poor, innocent Donald Trump.
