happyhoix
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 25, 2018 6:52:09 GMT -5
I think his followers are totally deluded or perhaps trump is the antichrist and he has deluded them into hearing what they want to hear. It is frightening to hear someone that you think might be normal even with odd thoughts could be so immersed into this lying mans words that they to believe them when others actually saw and heard him live on telly. (He doesn't really believe that Trump didn't say those things, any more than he believes Trump may be the cleanest, least corrupt president we ever had.
He's trying a propaganda technique that claims if you repeat something over and over and over, with a lot of authority and emphasis, that eventually your audience will also believe it, even when it is along the lines of 'the sky is not blue' false. Trump does the same thing and even has a name for it - 'creative hyperbole' (from his book The Art of the Deal).
As we say down here - bless his heart.
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mollyanna58
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Post by mollyanna58 on Jun 25, 2018 9:27:11 GMT -5
Once the party gets rid of everyone who has recently been deemed RINO, there will be a small, extreme contingent remaining. If a more "moderate" version of Republicans emerge, the super-right won't have the power they think they have. The Democratic Party is pure progressive now and in the middle of a total crackup. Those in the mass delusion on the left think NAZI brownshirt thug tactics are effective. They have NO IDEA what's coming. If you want to know what a small extreme contingent looks like- stay over there with the Democrats. They are FINISHED as a national party. DONE. They don't exist. They're going to get bludgeoned at the ballot box in November, and there's NO ONE on the bench ready to challenge Trump in 2020. Nobody... You're part of a fringe regional party. The Trump movement is just getting started. Growing every day... This is NOT the behavior of a healthy, vibrant, growing political party. It's the sign of a party in death throes... A private business decided to ask someone to leave. How is that related to the Democratic Party? Sarah Sanders using her government Twitter account to try to shame them seems to be an ethics violation. Not that anyone in the Trump Administration cares.
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happyhoix
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 25, 2018 9:41:39 GMT -5
The Democratic Party is pure progressive now and in the middle of a total crackup. Those in the mass delusion on the left think NAZI brownshirt thug tactics are effective. They have NO IDEA what's coming. If you want to know what a small extreme contingent looks like- stay over there with the Democrats. They are FINISHED as a national party. DONE. They don't exist. They're going to get bludgeoned at the ballot box in November, and there's NO ONE on the bench ready to challenge Trump in 2020. Nobody... You're part of a fringe regional party. The Trump movement is just getting started. Growing every day... This is NOT the behavior of a healthy, vibrant, growing political party. It's the sign of a party in death throes... A private business decided to ask someone to leave. How is that related to the Democratic Party? Sarah Sanders using her government Twitter account to try to shame them seems to be an ethics violation. Not that anyone in the Trump Administration cares. Not only do they not care, Trump decided this was an important enough event he needed to weigh in, himself.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-dirty-restaurant-that-refused-to-serve-sanders-needs-a-paint-job/ar-AAz87lV
I don't think this business should have asked Sanders to leave (bad for business) but the bigger question is why a restaurant owner felt it was too upsetting to her staff to have Sanders there, and why Stephen Miller was heckled at a Washington DC restaurant last week, and why DHS Secretary Nielsen got confronted by an angry mob at (of all things) a Mexican restaurant.
Past presidents always tried to demonstrate they were everyone's president, working for the good of all Americans, even the ones that didn't vote for them. Trump is the first president I can recall who very clearly draws a line in the sand between 'his' voters and all the rest of us losers. When you purposefully denigrate the other side, people get so angry at being vilified and ignored they start becoming civility disobedient. The downside of this strategy, for Trump, is that for every American citizen angry enough to kick Sanders out of her restaurant, or heckle Miller or Nielsen, there are tens of thousands of angry Americans who become motivated to vote against him.
Usually, incumbent presidents who don't screw up too much are shoo-ins for re-election. Usually. We'll see what happens if Trump continues to play to his base and alienate the rest between now and 2020.
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