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Come on ... when did you start? Junior year? My admissions goose was already all but cooked by then.

 

Yep. It took 48 hours of relentless criticism from every direction for him to finally get the message. Totally self-inflicted injury.

 

You mean that it's being blithering idiocy is not all that's wrong with it? Dayumnation ...

 

Bumping this from the closed thread; not as a "I told you so" so much as a...well, no, actually it is an "I told you so."

So, I went to a Donald Trump rally last night in ABQ.

I went in convinced that I was going to see a blowhard showman, there to celebrate his ego by being cheered, and there to show off his macho, bully nature.

I left convinced he is dangerous for the country. I left convinced he knows exactly what he is doing, and what he is doing is fanning the fires of the worst kind of support. I left convinced the comparisons to early staged Fascist regimes is completely valid. The militaristic, foreboding, Wagnerian music. The egging on of people attacking the protestors. The flat-out, undeniable lies. The attacking of his own party (the place went silent when he attacked the sitting GOP Governor's Association President). The wooing of Bernie Bros. And the factless boasting, boasting, boasting by someone found to be very charismatic by a big underbelly of society.

Dangerous.

TigerVols, May 25, 2016Report
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Banging salad bar though.

 

Why'd you find the wooing of the Bernie Bros to be troubling?

 

That's the part you find noteworthy?

He was flat-out lying about HRC's stances on numerous economic issues.

 

All I could think of seeing that was Bart Simpson writing on the blackboard to open the show.

 

I don't know about noteworthy. It was the one thing in your post that I was surprised to see.

 

I suspect that it's the only sentence that's worth unpacking.

It's like when Pence wants us all to spend less time talking about the President's statement and more time denouncing violence in the streets. I'm just not sure where else to take the latter, post-denunciation.

 

"No one has ever opposed the Nazi's as vehemently as I did today. Nobody's done it. People said, they literally called me and said it's the best anti-Nazi speech they've ever heard.I dare you to find someone who's spoken out against them, anybody who's made a bigger stand against them than I did today."

"Churchill, Mr. President?"

"I like Prime Ministers who aren't dead."

 

This is the second time it has taken him days to renounce Nazis. Like I said earlier, he thinks he's walking into some kind of trap laid by his enemies.