tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2496386582721539767..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: IS TRUMP TRYING TO BUILD A FASCIST MOVEMENT? NO, HE'S JUST PARROTING WHAT HE'S HEARD FROM FOX AND THE GOP.Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-37125939448848141972016-08-14T14:10:52.589-04:002016-08-14T14:10:52.589-04:00As to tone and craziness I think you have it about...As to tone and craziness I think you have it about right. <br /><br />But your analysis - in this post, anyway - ignores that Trump represents the triumph of the paleocon, Buchananite faction of the GOP that's been around for decades over the Wall Street, globalist, neocon faction that most of the party "establishment" represent and that has, up to Trump's takeover, controlled the GOP agenda.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-17219369614983875532016-08-14T12:53:56.129-04:002016-08-14T12:53:56.129-04:00Trumpism is Hitlerism without the SA; and judging ...Trumpism is Hitlerism without the SA; and judging by Trump's remarks over the last couple of weeks, I am not sure that he doesn't have something like that in mind too.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46616360265521735642016-08-14T08:46:05.839-04:002016-08-14T08:46:05.839-04:00Ken, if you feel threatened by BLM, go buy a white...Ken, if you feel threatened by BLM, go buy a white hood sheets, and a pallet of Depends.Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78535460510952780072016-08-13T23:15:46.907-04:002016-08-13T23:15:46.907-04:00While it has been made perfectly clear the Democra...While it has been made perfectly clear the Democrat neither want nor need my vote this year - and I'm totally cool with that - but come two thousand and twenty the First Woman President in the History of the United States (Foke Yeah!)!!!®©™ will both need and want my vote. I'll give her this, I'll make this promise and as an Oath Keeper to a Higher Standard I keep my promises: if in the next four years she prosecutes Sarah Palin for her culpability in bullet that went through Gabrielle Gifford's head and the people who died around her, I will vote he re-election.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-60602306077121474262016-08-13T22:54:45.550-04:002016-08-13T22:54:45.550-04:00'even after Sarah Palin became a know-nothing ...'even after Sarah Palin became a know-nothing superstar'<br /><br />Surely that would have reinforced the GOP establishment's belief that the crazies could be contained. For all her hints about running and her antics like the bus tour, Palin was never a credible candidate for elective office. There were solid reasons for thinking the same would apply to Trump. Indeed to this day, it stretches credulity that such a self-evident buffoon can be attracting the support of more than 40% of Americans.Ken_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709548046018362581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-92551215672752142016-08-13T22:42:34.387-04:002016-08-13T22:42:34.387-04:00From my home in Durham, NC, it's easy to see t...From my home in Durham, NC, it's easy to see that the NC GOP regards all votes for Democrats as fraudulent by definition. It is amazing to see them running on raising teacher pay this year. For many years, the goal of the state government was to make NC number one in education in the Southeast. After the Great Recession and GOP takeover in Raleigh, teacher pay was "almost as good as Mississippi", and other states made successful teacher raids here. Now there have been some increases in teacher compensation, but many teachers feel that it is not done in a fair manner. I read that principals were not getting raises, but they might be eligible for higher pay on the basis of their teaching credentials. Someone commented that this was not the way to treat managers, but perhaps the state government thinks that public schools are only a holding action until the full implementation of charter schools. Ed Baptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578583007339044302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-85087200526367911032016-08-13T17:28:33.077-04:002016-08-13T17:28:33.077-04:00You're probably right. But since you can't...You're probably right. But since you can't see what "harm" comes from the rhetoric of the likes of BLM, La Raza and the Chamber of Commerce, let's hope Trump doesn't define "harm" in your terms and keeps the ball rolling.<br /><br /><br />KenRighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02861276158382647529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-42782196904519386732016-08-13T16:10:26.283-04:002016-08-13T16:10:26.283-04:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWuQVpBeqLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWuQVpBeqLs<br />Ebon Krieghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468504989018436039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89373130731430481332016-08-13T15:53:29.234-04:002016-08-13T15:53:29.234-04:00Hot cooked Spam and eggs...
https://www.facebook....Hot cooked Spam and eggs...<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/LucidProgressives/photos/a.794010020680785.1073741829.791912184223902/1094251257323325/?type=3Ebon Krieghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468504989018436039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34179765208187658842016-08-13T15:44:41.000-04:002016-08-13T15:44:41.000-04:00"It sure wasn't tRUMP who created ISIS (I..."It sure wasn't tRUMP who created ISIS (ISIL).<br />How do I know? They're still in "business!"<br /><br />Bingo! Someone smart & nasty could use Trump as a tool to build a movement but "He, Trump" himself couldn't organize his way out of a wet paper bag. BroDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223349775331399433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50029837241863125462016-08-13T14:38:06.916-04:002016-08-13T14:38:06.916-04:00None of the above means I disagree with Steve M. H...None of the above means I disagree with Steve M. Has anyone else read or seen Wolf Hall, the series by Hillary Mantel on Cromwell and Henry VIII? this long portrait by Maggie Haggerman et al <br /><br />http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/us/politics/donald-trump-campaign-gop.html?_r=2&referer=<br /><br />seems just like Henry VIII turning to Cromwell and asking after Woolsey right after skewering Woolsey; and like when right after Henry allows the official murder of Thomas Cromwell, he spends the remaining few years of his life largely talking about hom much he misses Cromwell.<br /><br />My ABSOLUTE FAVE part of the Haggerman piece, tho, is the scene described by that weirdo phony econ putz Stephen Moore, in Trump's yuge main office in Trump Tower, as Moore and Art Laffer ARGUE in front of Trump about some tax deduction or incentive or whatever those Ultra Idiots "argue" over, and Moore is trying to convince Haggerman or her co-writer that Trump:<br />A) was following all that, and <br />B) showed signs of, I dunno what but Moore claims, human thought, <br /><br />and THEN Haggerman shifts to a person present at the same meeting who describes Trump suddenly blurting out that he wants a child care credit because Yvanka. <br /><br />Brilliant boffo stuff! Right up there with Lewis Carroll's Mad Tea Party!<br /><br />So that's got me convinced: Trump doesn't carry the kind of Hitlerian or Nixonian baggage to sustain his (illegal) threat to turn this election into a nation of voters all of whom have to walk past armed idiot plaid-shirts hulking outside polling stations.<br /><br />Not only is it over, Trump knows it's over and he's become way too bored to commit to any strategy over anything. He's not just a squirrel, he's a juvenile squirrel. Who TF knows what TF he does now, tho my money is on keeping an eye on the money. I think from here on in the only way Trump can justify to himself sustaining any interest in this process he neither emjoys nor is any good at is if he spends a serious among of time every day pulling money out of this failing venture. He's done again and again, often right in front of creditors and bankruptcy court attorneys and even judges. <br /><br />He's now got some tens of millions of small donor money is his campaign, yet he's tell the RNC, YOU do all the GOTV, I dunno even WTF that is already and I don't care. And he's not using it to buy TV ads. And he's CLOSING not opening Trump Grate-making offices, and letting staff go, and stiffing workers and contractors like always. I think when he said publicly, 'Belivve me, I'm not going to treat my own money invested in this sonovabitch as 'priority' for repayment, that was one of about 183,452,983 blatant lies this grifter has told since last weekend.<br /><br />I think we're gonna make it out of this relatively clean. Then next, on Fox: a four year run of mONSTOR HOROR THRILLER CHILLER HILDABEAT THEATER OOOO SO SCARY!Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-19307031184707234262016-08-13T13:23:29.471-04:002016-08-13T13:23:29.471-04:00ACK! I forgot about THIS:
http://electionlawblog....ACK! I forgot about THIS:<br /><br />http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85289<br /><br />For those of you with Rick Hasen on yer Rave Fave list, just go there.<br /><br />I've seen these Consent Decree animals before. For a newby like Trump claims to be, what happens now is that the DNC sends an email and delivered a formal message to the RNC, copies to the FEC and the clerk of the federal court.<br /><br />Since Trump has the attention span of a squirrel, it'll take at least this weekend to go thru all his various Stages of Donald in processing this, but in the end it'll be the attorneys for each of the RNC and the Making American Grate Again Trump campaign who will have met and realized, Holy jumping come to Jeebus, we got to get the Boss to stop this shit or else he'll get his I Fought The Law dander up and, hooboy, there'll be 50 shades of series schadenfreude in this for HillaC and Dems throughout the land. Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-58593639402449061812016-08-13T12:43:56.274-04:002016-08-13T12:43:56.274-04:00Actually they did sell their people McCain and RMo...Actually they did sell their people McCain and RMoney, but only to the GOP, the country as a whole wisely rejected them. They have sold McConnell well enough to make him the Senate Majority Leader and Ry-ayn enough to be Speaker and pet "intellectual". But once again the voting public is smarter (barely and not always) to have kept them out of the Executive Branch so far.<br /><br />But it seems that failed to throw enough bones to the rabble (along with the red meat) to keep them in line. Oh Darn! (now THAT donnie, is sarcasm).Maxwell's Demonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00150736465942147646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-51262511683476039142016-08-13T12:39:36.017-04:002016-08-13T12:39:36.017-04:00I'm still not unconvinced he's not in the ...<i>I'm still not unconvinced he's not in the bag for Clinton</i><br /><br />Whoa! That's some kinda recursive litotes you got going there!Rand Careagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04993454654652802173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-24910742064783729042016-08-13T12:36:35.080-04:002016-08-13T12:36:35.080-04:00To mix two cliche's, tRUMP is like a surfer, a...To mix two cliche's, tRUMP is like a surfer, and riding a wave that he liked; and, he's dancing with who brung him to this party.<br /><br />One last thing:<br />It sure wasn't tRUMP who created ISIS (ISIL).<br />How do I know?<br />They're still in "business!"<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78855093804242094832016-08-13T12:33:17.363-04:002016-08-13T12:33:17.363-04:00Cassidy's Engish and that shows in his 'ou...Cassidy's Engish and that shows in his 'outsider' POV. I actually like reading outsider POV reports because they can raise things we miss - like drifting towards fascism. Except, we're not missing them, it the English, Cassidy's people, who've missed THEIR drift toward 'economic nationalism' and white supremacists in the form of their UKIP. It's the English that are so insular they didn't see how disregarding their process of selecting representatives for the European Parliament would backfire on the non-fascist conservative, liberal, iib-dem, labor and socialist MPs that occupy most of Parliament.<br /><br />Also, I find Cassidy kind of BORING mofo of a writer. I think I'd rather listen to that Malcolm Tucker fictional character's take on our process.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPFPT6IoQ5s<br /><br /><br />Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-61850199794700180352016-08-13T11:54:20.346-04:002016-08-13T11:54:20.346-04:00The key word is "parrot". Much as I lov...The key word is "parrot". Much as I love parrots, Trump (or candidate X) has an ethical obligation not to be one and his people have an ethical obligation not to listen to one. The nearly-universal shirking of these obligations is an index of the very poor health of our polity. But this is no more new than are, as you point out, the details of Trump's rhetoric.Frank Wilhoithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800594066476167549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46222521276852030232016-08-13T11:45:16.792-04:002016-08-13T11:45:16.792-04:00Fascism creeps. When we read deeper than the "...Fascism <i>creeps</i>. When we read deeper than the "when they came for the homosexuals I didn't speak up because I'm not a homosexual" canard, history rewritten by those in a position to get away with it, we find credible accounting that Fascism <i>creeps</i>. It sneaks in the backdoor not wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross but incrementally, in small steps, with each loss of a civil liberty "for the good of (white) 'society'". With each breakdown of common courtesy, with the growing acceptability of schoolyard bullying, the glorification of ignorance, the name-calling, the incitations to violence... just wake up one morning and you're there, NAZIs. Embrace it 😠<br /><br />I'm still not unconvinced he's not in the bag for Clinton, which would of course take us to characteristic number fourteen of the Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism: fraudulent, rigged, or sham elections.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.com