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Friend of the (white) working man, palace-dweller, narcissist supreme—is Donald Trump the real Charles Foster Kane?
The theme of Night Two of the Republican Convention was “Make America Work Again,” but the jobs that the delegates plainly wished to create were jailers’ –the guys who would “Lock her up.”
The “her,” if you’ve been orbiting Jupiter and have missed the reduction of the Republican Party to a communal hate-fest, was Hillary Clinton. “Lock her up” was the delegates’ shouted refrain in response to New Jersey Governor’s Chris Christie’s “indictment” of Clinton for crimes against America (crimes so horrible, in fact, that they actually didn’t happen).
This is, so far, the “Lock Her Up” convention. Republicans have spent more time vilifying, defaming, and demonizing Clinton (literally demonizing—Ben Carson twice linked her to Lucifer) than they have extolling Donald Trump. Any articulation of a Republican program, meanwhile, has been almost entirely absent.
http://prospect.org/article/citizen-trump
Day After Melania’s Plagiarism, Donald Borrows Bill Clinton’s ’92 Campaign Slogan
After the roll call officially confirmed that Donald Trump is his party’s presidential nominee, he decided to make a remote appearance at the convention, during which he said: “This is going to be a leadership, by the way, that puts the American people first.”
One small problem: “Putting People First” was Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign slogan. No, really. He and his veep Al Gore even wrote a book about it and everything!
http://bluenationreview.com/donald-borrows-bill-clintons-92-campaign-slogan/
Speakers Spent A Lot More Time Bashing Hillary Clinton Than Praising Donald Trump
The Banana Republic Speakers Spent A Lot More Time Bashing Hillary Clinton Than Praising Donald Trump
Several of the night’s big-name speakers barely acknowledged Trump, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who said Trump would sign Republican-backed bills and fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but little else about the business mogul.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) mentioned Trump only twice during his 10-minute speech, while House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) mentioned the newly minted nominee once.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-national-convention-2016_us_578ec54fe4b07c722ebce58a
Hillary's name was mentioned 80 times.... why are the Banana Republic GOPhers so ashamed of Trump?
The Banana Republic GOPhers.... how do you deal with your opposition in a Banana Republic?
You don't beat them at the ballot box, You put them in prison.....
Last Night was Make America Work Again night at the Banana Republic Convention....
Does anyone recall ANY discussion by the Banana Republic GOPhers of how to make America Work again?
The word 'work' was used by the Banana Republic GOPhers 1 time, 2 times...?
Hillary's name was uttered 80 times by the Banana Republic GOPhers.....
Banana republic or banana state is a political science term for politically unstable countries in Latin America whose economies are largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g.bananas. It typically has stratified social classes, including a large, impoverished working class and a ruling plutocracy of business, political, and military elites.[1] This politico-economic oligarchy controls the primary-sector productions to exploit the country's economy.[2]
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I guess the Banana Republic GOPhers will sell Americans a boat load of bananas....
Marching to Defeat Donald Trump
We are husband and wife, and this week we are in Cleveland, protesting the Republican National Convention, and the Republican Party’s pick for President.
We each came to this country from Mexico almost 20 years ago in search of a better life. We met in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and together have four beautiful children. In that time, things have gotten harder for undocumented people like us. President Obama has deported more immigrants than any other president. Just last month, the Supreme Court blocked a program that would have kept families like ours together and brought hard-working immigrants into the economy legally.
And now there’s Trump.
Since Trump declared his candidacy, our family has felt the open racial hostility his campaign encourages. Extremist white supremacist groups are flocking to Trump, whom they credit for bringing their fringe ideas into the mainstream. Racist organizations are also traveling to Cleveland, some even carrying guns. But we will not be intimidated.
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Melania’s speech mess: Why you shouldn’t rule out that it was an inside job
Melania's plagiarism scandal may be a non-issue for Trump die-hards, but it is indicative of the company he keeps
Let’s for a moment concede that Melania Trump’s RNC speech wasn’t a soft coup d’état by disgruntled Trump staffers who chose to deliberately and obviously embarrass the nominee’s wife in order to derail the convention. Let’s also agree that Trump’s writers were pressed against a hard deadline and, lacking rhetorical spark, chose to secretly borrow key paragraphs from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.
Frankly, I don’t think it went down that way at all, and at the risk of appearing conspiratorial, I tend to believe this was an inside job. Even if the report from NBC News exonerating speechwriter Matt Scully is accurate, it’s difficult not to conclude that the plagiarized portions must have come from another source within the campaign rather than from Melania herself. It had to have been friendly-fire payback against Trump by staffers who felt slighted in some way, so they ripped off the passages in question from a really, really obvious source and punctuated it all with a reference to Rick Astley and the now universally well-known “Rickroll” prank — just to insure that social media and the political press caught the plagiarism. (Melania’s speech included the sentence, “He will never give up, and most importantly, he will never let you down,” which closely resembles the chorus from the Rick Astley song/meme.)
http://www.salon.com/2016/07/20/melanias_speech_mess_why_you_shouldnt_rule_out_that_it_was_an_inside_job/
Here are all the terrible excuses the Trump campaign has for Melania’s plagiarized RNC speech
Faced with evidence that whole paragraphs of Melania Trump’s RNC keynote address Monday night were plagiarizedfrom a speech made by Michelle Obama eight years ago, Team Trump essentially had two options: Fess up—likeBarack Obama did during his first presidential campaign—or deny, deny, deny. Guess which one they went with?
http://fusion.net/story/327020/manafort-common-words-melania-plagiarized-speech/
On the Today show this morning, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dismissed the accusation of stealing as well, saying “93% of the speech is different”—to the dismay of high school English teachers who now face a school year full of explaining to students why 7% still counts as plagiarism.
Trump’s Most Inconsequential Lie Is Also The Most Telling
Still, many of his false statements fly under the radar.
Last night on the O’Reilly Factor, Trump suggested he played a role in choosing the location for the 2016 Republican National Convention. “I wanted it to be here. And, we had lots of choices,” he said. “I wanted it to be in Ohio. I recommended Ohio.”
In reality, the Republican National Committee’s site selection committee chose Cleveland for the convention back in 2014, without any input from Trump. At that time, the businessman was busy ruminating over whether or not he should own the Buffalo Bills.
Trump had absolutely no reason to lie about his role in the selection of Cleveland as the site of the Republican convention. There was no reason for him to be involved and the fact that he was not involved is completely inconsequential.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/19/3799709/trump-cleveland-rnc-facts/
All The Different Excuses The Trump Campaign Made For Melania Trump’s Plagiarized Speech
As the first evening of the Republican National Convention wrapped up, it emerged that a portion of Melania’s Trump’s speech had been plagiarized from a speech delivered by First Lady Michelle Obama during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Since then, Trump campaign officials and surrogates have been busy trying to explain the impropriety away.
Here’s a rundown of all the different explanations we’ve been subjected to on Tuesday.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/19/3799742/different-excuses-trump-campaign-made-melania-trumps-plagiarized-speech/
Federal Judge Strikes A Critical Blow Against Wisconsin’s Voter Suppression Law
Source: Think Progress
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Wisconsin handed down a decision that will drastically weaken that state’s voter ID law, an increasingly common method of voter suppression that is often favored by conservatives because it effectively shifts the electorate rightward. Although the decision leaves the law in place, it permits voters who are unable to obtain an ID to sign an affidavit at the polls testifying to that inability and to receive a ballot.
Notably, Judge Lynn Adelman’s decision provides that “any voter who completes and submits an affidavit shall receive a regular ballot, even if that voter does not show acceptable photo identification” and that “no person may challenge the sufficiency of the reason given by the voter for failing to obtain ID.” Thus, the state will not be able to prevent voters from casting a ballot by claiming that an individual voter is able to obtain an ID through reasonable efforts.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/19/3799982/federal-judge-strikes-critical-blow-wisconsins-voter-suppression-law/
25 things you don't know about Donald Trump....
25 things you don't know about Donald Trump....
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