Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[neil999]

Rolling back gun owner background checks, not about gun 'rights' it's about increasing the profits of the NRA

 

[DanEFC92]

Rolling back gun owner background checks, not about gun 'rights' it's about increasing the profits of the NRA

Wayne LaPierre was sat next to him at a recent conference. NRA apparently paid a considerable fee for the privilege.

 

[McBain]

He needs some friends in the world.....

We can be the best friends. The greatest friends. We can be such good friends.

 

[TX Bill]

See, I remember the same things said Republicans after Obama trounced them. They didn't and yet here we are...

Big difference mate.

The Dems have had CONSISTENT losses at the federal and state level over the past 6 plus years. The Republicans have not. We lost the White House to Obama but quickly got Congress back.

For just a moment, I think that Obama was a GOP plant and was the greatest inside job of all time.

If the decimation of the Democratic party was the end goal, Obama was your guy.

 

[upthetoffees]

While I except he's doing crazy stuff the media have handled the whole thing horribly. Trump has been compared to Hitler and its just a ludicrous comparison to anyone with the slightest grasp on history. They are trying to portray him in the worst possible light and that's very easy to do to somebody as odious as Trump. They aren't the just reporting facts, you'd think reading some stuff that Armageddon had arrived and I'm sorry but it's a gross overreaction. The media has a duty to at least attempt to remain impartial but both the right and left have failed miserably. I really don't enjoy defending Trump but I see no possible justification for some of the scaremongering coming from the media. Yes we should be extremely cautious but let's not lose our grip on reality.

How is it so outrageous that he gets this comparison exactly? Does it not say a lot that people regardless of their political/historical knowledge are making this comparison outright and in overwhelming numbers?

This is a lengthy read but worthwhile. Obviously it's in the end an opinion piece but here are some highlights:

"Above all both of them mobilized a politics of grievance and recognized that grievance does not have to actually exist objectively—it can be talked into people. I have described Hitlerite rhetoric as a protracted, brattish whine. Grievances are imaginary as well as real. Thus “If I’m elected we’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again” is a typically resonant piece of Trump oratory, but who is actually saying that we should no longer say Merry Christmas? It is a vigorous attack against a straw man."

"His popular media profile via The Apprentice is huge and it is easy for the bien pensant class to forget this or underplay the critical role of familiarity. Like Hitler (who did not found the NSDAP but joined it and rapidly became its propaganda director) he had a long exposure to media and therefore training in it. And like Hitler he had never held political office before running for the highest one."

"And both men, curiously, also theorized extensively about persuasion and its psychology—Hitler for the whole of chapter five in Mein Kampf, and Trump in the Art of the Deal: “The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.” And then again “I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.” "

I think the least that could be said is that there are striking similarities in their core as human beings. The quotes above of course don't touch on the blatant racism, etc.

If I was to make one argument against the Trump/Hitler comparison, it would be that Trump is obviously an isolationist, and Hitler was far from.

 

[TX Bill]

Sarah Silverman says end this current fascist administration by....wait for it....a military coup.

Never mind that the vast majority of those who serve in the military vote Republican and/or lean conservative.

The best part is she thinks that an armed population would just bow down to such an event (yeah...I'm laughing here too.)

If hardcore leftists want a revolution/resistance, then pick up a gun and do it like it was done in Europe years ago.

Hitting me over the head with your protest sign or spraying me in the face with pepper spray isn't gonna quite get it done.

 

[peteblue]

Sarah Silverman says end this current fascist administration by....wait for it....a military coup.

Never mind that the vast majority of those who serve in the military vote Republican and/or lean conservative.

The best part is she thinks that an armed population would just bow down to such an event (yeah...I'm laughing here too.)

If hardcore leftists want a revolution/resistance, then pick up a gun and do it like it was done in Europe years ago.

Hitting me over the head with your protest sign or spraying me in the face with pepper spray isn't gonna quite get it done.

They also have twitter though......

 

[TX Bill]

They also have twitter though......

Haha...so do I and I'm sure I've said some stupid things too.

Seriously. Go have a look.

@GOT_TXBill

 

[BlueLlama]

Wayne LaPierre was sat next to him at a recent conference. NRA apparently paid a considerable fee for the privilege.

Meh, I prefer Charlie Daniels for the comedy value.

 

[DanEFC92]

Meh, I prefer Charlie Daniels for the comedy value.

You haven't met MURICA

 

[BlueLlama]

You haven't met MURICA

You haven't met inbred mutants who sleep with their sisters ...

 

[DanEFC92]

You haven't met inbred mutants who sleep with their sisters ...

Mountain men who live off the land = the hills have eyes.

 

[BlueLlama]

Mountain men who live off the land = the hills have eyes.

It's so good you almost think it's a send up

 

[longers]

Lol, just wow. I don't understand America and I never will lol.

 

[tsubaki]

Rolling back gun owner background checks, not about gun 'rights' it's about increasing the profits of the NRA

TBF it is hard to think of one piece of legislation around guns in the US that has had any meaningful effect whatsoever; there are too many in circulation already.