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In reply to the discussion: Who would have believed that millions could gobble up so much bullshit? [View all]Cyrano
(15,075 posts)11. Yep. He started with "Let's hate the Mexicans"
Then he moved on to all other brown people, then Muslims, and you don't need a crystal ball to know that Jews are next. And then Mormons because he hates Mitt Romney.
If Hitler had succeeded in wiping out all the "Thems," the next "Thems" would have been people too short, or too tall, or those with brown eyes, or those who were too underweight or overweight, or, ... well, you get the idea. Creatures like Hitler, Mussolini, Trump, etc., don't give a shit about any part of humanity. As long as they are the last ones left standing.
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Who would have believed that millions could gobble up so much bullshit? [View all]
Cyrano
Jul 2020
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1500 coordinated unchallenged radio stations, invisible to dems and city-dwelling media and
certainot
Jul 2020
#27
It's an old playbook, and it can't be denied that he knows it, cover to cover
A HERETIC I AM
Jul 2020
#10
+1, what anti terrorism agents do with ISIS recruits is to mock their logic with short quips ...
uponit7771
Jul 2020
#13
Well put, and I think that's been the real question at least since Bush v Gore.
0nirevets
Jul 2020
#31
A complex question worth of two Nobel prize. One shot is the symbiosis with faux news.
TrumpCleaner
Jul 2020
#37
YouTube comment: "Democrats are getting everything they want and it's still not enough"
Awsi Dooger
Jul 2020
#42