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heresAthingdotcom's JournalFull Frontal: The RNC is underway, and it's a regular "who's who" of "where the hell is everybody.."
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Born Again in the U.S.A.
young man in clip....'at least Donald Trump doesn't have hookers.... he at least has the decency to wed them...'
Man are we fu*ked.....
Trump said, 'I could shoot someone in the middle of times square and they would still vote for me.'
Like Trump said, 'I could shoot someone in the middle of times square and they would still vote for me....'
Absolutely...
What many often forget, however, is that Hitler was not only a coldblooded tyrant but that he was also a brilliant persuader of men. He personally oversaw the deaths of millions of people, including the near extermination of the Jewish race while maintaining the full support of the German people.
The entire German population was certainly not as heartless and cruel as Hitler was, so it stands to reason that Hitler must have been a masterful propagandist in order to persuade the Germans that his policies were necessary and just.
At this point in his career, Hitler began to unleash his propaganda upon all of Germany. He had previously used his persuasiveness to further himself in the Nazi Party and to gain supporters, but it was not until he was dictator that that his persuasive style was fully manifested. Adolf Hitler’s persuasive method was built upon the foundation of treating the German people as a group, rather than as individuals.
He explained this technique in the following statement:
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. (“Adolf Hitler: quote on propaganda”)
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Adolf-Hitlers-Tremendous-Persuasive-Ability
Trump plagiarizes Hitler.... not surprised that 40% of his supporters will stick with him....Hitler's supporters stuck with him....
In the words of Heinrich Himmler My honor is my loyalty.
Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)...all but calls Trump and his supporters Nazis:
Afterward, Former Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH) spoke to MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff and proceeded to all but call Trump and his supporters Nazis:
I sought to be recognized to raise a point of parliamentary inquiry and was immediately drowned out by people I would refer to as brownshirts in my surroundings. … You just saw the second most important item of business rushed through in a split second with no opportunity for debate, no opportunity for questions, no opportunity for points of order and no roll call vote although nine states under the rules requested a roll call vote, demanded a roll call vote, and should have been accorded that. So this was pretty shocking and shameful, I’ve seen a lot of, but this is not a meeting of the Republican National Committee. This is a meeting of brownshirts.
When Soboroff asked what Former Republican Senator Humphrey meant by "brownshirts," he made clear that he was referring to the Nazi SA paramilitary group:
I mean people who act like fascists. They might not be fascists, but they act like fascists they have the lack of manners of fascists, and in this respect they are only too reflective of Donald Trump himself.
Trumpapalooza Should Be One Hot Mess of a Convention
Source: The American Prospect
The other problem with the Republican complaint is that the party really is divided. We still don't know how many Republican voters will defect come November, but at the elite level—and the convention is when a bunch of elites get together, even if most of them claim to be anything but—there's enough dissatisfaction to feed four days of coverage. As John Ward wrote on Saturday, "A few thousand members of the Republican Party will gather over the next few days for an event ostensibly devoted to celebrating a man whom large numbers of them don't like and didn't support for most of the primary process."
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Which is why so many Republican officeholders are refusing to show up at the convention. None of the party's rising minority stars—like Nikki Haley, Brian Sandoval, Tim Scott, and Susana Martinez—will be speaking at the convention. They'll have plenty of company from other Republican officeholders and candidates who found urgent appointments elsewhere this week. The Republican governor of the state where it's being held isn't even going to show.
http://prospect.org/article/trumpapalooza-should-be-one-hot-mess-convention
DL Hughley on FOX News
Mrs. Trump will speak this evening....
Who is Mrs. Trump?
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs,[1][2] April 26, 1970; Germanized to Melania Knauss) is a Slovene-American jewelry and watch designer and former model.[3] She is married to American billionaire real estate developer and 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.[4] Born in Yugoslavia (now Slovenia), she became a permanent resident of the United States in 2001 and a citizen in 2006.[5]
wikipedia
The GQ Photo Shoot
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections
Melania got her green card in 2001 and became a citizen five years later. Trump’s family members could afford their rectitude. Hiring a lawyer, as anyone who has settled in a foreign country can attest, is often the larger part of being legal.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/who-is-melania-trump
Mrs. Trump the Republican First Lady...
The haphazard way Trump picked his VP is a sure sign this convention will be a total circus
Source: Salon
The Rules committee meetings were contentious, with accusations of the votes being “rigged” from the #NeverTrump forces. There were even reports of Trump associates strong-arming delegates who attempted to organize against their man, according to the Washington Post:
Kim Taylor Fralick, a delegate from Lousiana, said she received at least three emails from Carl Paladino, a New York delegate and close associate of Trump. He was responding to an email sent by Fralick encouraging convention delegates to join Unruh’s group.
“It’s like pissing up a drain pipe. You get wet. A revolt will never materialize,” Paladino wrote to Fralick.
He was downright threatening to a delegate from Utah.
“You should be hung for treason Stefani. There will not be a Republican Party if you attempt to replace Trump. I’ll be in your face in Cleveland.”
Lest you think Paladino is just some fringe right-wing functionary from an upstate dairy farm, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2010.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/07/18/let_the_madness_begin_all_signs_point_to_four_days_of_complete_insanity/
Tennis balls bounced from Cleveland 'event zone' -- but not guns
Any air rifle, air pistol, paintball gun, blasting caps, switchblade or automatic knife, knife having a blade two and one-half (2-1/2) inches in length or longer, cestus, billy, blackjack, sword, saber, hatchet, axe, slingshot, BB gun, pellet gun, wrist shot, blackjack, metal knuckles, nun chucks, mace, iron buckle, axe handle, shovel, or other instrumentality used to cause property or personal damage
NO Slingshots, sledgehammers, rockets and ... tennis balls?
...but an AK-15 is OK to bring with you.....
click here to read more on banned items
The haphazard way Trump picked his VP is a sure sign this convention will be a total circus
Source: Salon
The Rules committee meetings were contentious, with accusations of the votes being “rigged” from the #NeverTrump forces. There were even reports of Trump associates strong-arming delegates who attempted to organize against their man, according to the Washington Post:
Kim Taylor Fralick, a delegate from Lousiana, said she received at least three emails from Carl Paladino, a New York delegate and close associate of Trump. He was responding to an email sent by Fralick encouraging convention delegates to join Unruh’s group.
“It’s like pissing up a drain pipe. You get wet. A revolt will never materialize,” Paladino wrote to Fralick.
He was downright threatening to a delegate from Utah.
“You should be hung for treason Stefani. There will not be a Republican Party if you attempt to replace Trump. I’ll be in your face in Cleveland.”
Lest you think Paladino is just some fringe right-wing functionary from an upstate dairy farm, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2010.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/07/18/let_the_madness_begin_all_signs_point_to_four_days_of_complete_insanity/
Tennis balls bounced from Cleveland 'event zone' -- but not guns
Any air rifle, air pistol, paintball gun, blasting caps, switchblade or automatic knife, knife having a blade two and one-half (2-1/2) inches in length or longer, cestus, billy, blackjack, sword, saber, hatchet, axe, slingshot, BB gun, pellet gun, wrist shot, blackjack, metal knuckles, nun chucks, mace, iron buckle, axe handle, shovel, or other instrumentality used to cause property or personal damage
NO Slingshots, sledgehammers, rockets and ... tennis balls?
...but an AK-15 is OK to bring with you.....
click here to read more on banned items
The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence On 60 Minutes
Source: CBS 60 Minutes
Lesley Stahl: But we did go to war, if you remember. We went to Iraq.
Donald Trump: Yeah, you went to Iraq, but that was handled so badly. And that was a war-- by the way, that was a war that we shouldn't have entered because Iraq did not knock down--excuse me
Lesley Stahl: Your running mate--
Donald Trump: Iraq did not--
Lesley Stahl: --voted for it.
Donald Trump: I don't care.
Lesley Stahl: What do you mean you don't care that he voted for?
Donald Trump: It's a long time ago. And he voted that way and they were also misled. A lot of information was given to people.
Lesley Stahl: But you've harped on this.
Donald Trump: But I was against the war in Iraq from the beginning.
Lesley Stahl: Yeah, but you've used that vote of Hillary's that was the same as Governor Pence as the example of her bad judgment.
Donald Trump: Many people have, and frankly, I'm one of the few that was right on Iraq.
Lesley Stahl: Yeah, but what about he--
Donald Trump: He's entitled to make a mistake every once in a while.
Lesley Stahl: But she's not? OK, come on--
Donald Trump: But she's not--
Lesley Stahl: She's not?
Donald Trump: No. She's not.
Lesley Stahl: Got it.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-trump-pence-republican-ticket/
The NRA Myth of Arming the Good Guys
The NRA Myth of Arming the Good Guys
Speaking Friday on CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, perennial gun rights advocate John Lott said,
“My solution for these mass shootings is to look at the fact that every single time, these attacks occur where guns are banned. Every single time.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/oregon-shooting-gun-laws-213222#ixzz4EgOh29Az
After the slaughter of 14 Americans in San Bernardino, Calif., when two people armed with high-powered rifles and handguns ambushed unsuspecting Americans in a conference room,United States senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz held a press conference to issue a familiar refrain we hear after every major gun tragedy:
If only there had been a “good guy” with a gun there. Or, as Sen. Cruz put it:
“You stop bad guys by using our guns.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/12/11/terrorism-good-guy-gun-concealed-carry-column/77108230/
The National Rifle Association and its allies would have us believe that the solution to this epidemic, itself but a sliver of America's overall gun violence, is to put firearms in the hands of as many citizens as possible. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," declared the NRA's Wayne LaPierre in a press conference a week after Newtown, the same day bells tolled at the National Cathedral and the devastated town mourned its 28 dead. (That day a gunman in Pennsylvania also murdered three people and wounded a state trooper shortly before LaPierre gave his remarks.) LaPierre explained that it was a travesty for a school principal to face evil unarmed, and he called for gun-wielding security officers to be deployed in every school in America.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/nra-mass-shootings-myth
The NRA Myth of Gun-Free Zones
Ever since the massacres in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, it's been repeated like some surreal requiem: The reason mass gun violence keeps happening is because the United States is full of places that ban guns.
Second Amendment activists have long floated this theme, and now lawmakersacross the nation are using it too. During a recent floor debate in the Colorado Legislature, Republican state Rep. Carole Murray put it this way:
"Most of the mass killings that we talk about have been effected in gun-free zones. So when you have a gun-free zone, it's like saying, 'Come and get me.'"
The argument claims to explain both the motive behind mass shootings and how they play out. The killers deliberately choose sites where firearms are forbidden, gun-rights advocates say, and because there are no weapons, no "good guy with a gun" will be on hand to stop the crime.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/gun-free-zones-mass-shootings
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