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One of Dr Joseph Goebbels favorite tactics was what is called "the Big Lie". The politician says something so outrageous as to be unbelievable and continues to repeat it until a sizable minority also believes it. One example was the lie that the Jews caused the Germans to lose WWI at the point where they were actually winning.

Trumps' latest Big Lie is that somehow Barack Hussein Obama (note the use of the middle name) and Hillary FOUNDED Isis . Neither of them is a Muslim, neither of them speaks Arabic, neither of them spent enough time in Iraq to do this nefarious deed. Forget all the Isis fighters who Obama has had killed in military actions. Forget that it is well known how Isias came to power and the process has been aired on Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/

Forget that the actual founder is well known:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi

Advertising uses this Big Lie technique  to great advantage:

Plop plop fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is! (Alka Seltzer is mostly useless for upset stomach)
Nine out of ten doctors who smoke, prefer Camels.

Trump Just Told His Supporters That Assassinating Hillary Clinton Is An Option

By Jason Easley on
Tue, Aug 9th, 2016 at 3:28 pm

Donald Trump suggested that one of his supporters could shoot Hillary Clinton to stop her from picking Supreme Court justices if she is elected president.
 
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Donald Trump suggested that one of his supporters could shoot Hillary Clinton to stop her from picking Supreme Court justices if she is elected president.
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Trump said, “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although, the Second Amendment people maybe there is. I don’t know.”

Donald Trump’s defenders will immediately claim that he was “joking,” but Trump’s comments certainly didn’t sound like a joke. There was no laughter. Trump didn’t say he was kidding. What Donald Trump was doing was suggesting that someone assassinate Hillary Clinton.

Even if Trump was joking, no one, especially not a major party presidential nominee, should joke about a presidential candidate being shot. Trump could provoke an assassination attempt against Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump isn’t just a danger to the country. He is proving himself to be a personal danger to the life of the Democratic nominee.

The Secret Service should be having a conversation with Donald Trump very shortly.

 

http://www.politicus...ourt-picks.html

 

 



 

Republicans Admit Voter-ID Laws Are Aimed at Democratic Voters
It’s been clear for a while that the voter-identification laws the GOP has been pushing are aimed at suppressing Democratic constituencies. And Republicans are fessing up, says Jamelle Bouie.

When liberals decry voter-identification laws as tools for voter suppression, they aren’t arguing ex nihilo. The evidence is clear: identification requirements for voting reduce turnout among low-income and minority voters. And the particular restrictions imposed by Republican lawmakers—limiting the acceptable forms of identification, ending opportunities for student voting, reducing hours for early voting—certainly do appear aimed at Democratic voters.

Indeed, in a column for right-wing clearinghouse WorldNetDaily, longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly acknowledged as much with a defense of North Carolina’s new voting law, which has been criticized for its restrictions on access, among other things. Here’s Schlafly:

“The reduction in the number of days allowed for early voting is particularly important because early voting plays a major role in Obama’s ground game. The Democrats carried most states that allow many days of early voting, and Obama’s national field director admitted, shortly before last year’s election, that ‘early voting is giving us a solid lead in the battleground states that will decide this election.’

“The Obama technocrats have developed an efficient system of identifying prospective Obama voters and then nagging them (some might say harassing them) until they actually vote. It may take several days to accomplish this, so early voting is an essential component of the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote campaign.”

She later adds that early voting “violates the spirit of the Constitution” and facilitates “illegal votes” that “cancel out the votes of honest Americans.” I’m not sure what she means by “illegal votes,” but it sounds an awful lot like voting by Democratic constituencies: students, low-income people, and minorities.

Schlafly, it should be noted, isn’t the first Republican to confess the true reason for voter-identification laws. Among friendly audiences, they can’t seem to help it.

Last spring, for example, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai told a gathering of Republicans that their voter identification law would “allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” That summer, at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation, former Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund conceded that Democrats had a point about the GOP’s focus on voter ID, as opposed to those measures—such as absentee balloting—that are vulnerable to tampering. “I think it is a fair argument of some liberals that there are some people who emphasize the voter ID part more than the absentee ballot part because supposedly Republicans like absentee ballots more and they don’t want to restrict that,” he said.

After the election, former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer told The Palm Beach Post that the explicit goal of the state’s voter-ID law was Democratic suppression. “The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told the Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only ... ‘We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us,’” he said. Indeed, the Florida Republican Party imposed a host of policies, from longer ballots to fewer precincts in minority areas, meant to discourage voting. And it worked. According to one study, as many as 49,000 people were discouraged from voting in November 2012 as a result of long lines and other obstacles.

One could spend hours going through the abundant evidence that these laws are meant to discourage Democratic voting with burdens that harm blacks, Latinos, and other disproportionately low-income groups. In 2011 an Associated Press analysis found that South Carolina’s proposed voter-identification law would hit black precincts the hardest, keeping thousands from casting nonprovisional ballots. Likewise, if Alabama’s voter-ID law goes into effect, it will place its largest burden on black voters who lack acceptable forms of identification and don’t have immediate access to alternatives. And while most of these laws—which, it’s worth noting, have been passed in most of the states of the former Confederacy—provide for free identification, it’s not an easy reach. To get one in Mississippi, for instance, residents need a birth certificate, which costs $15 and requires the photo identification they don’t have. They’ll also need time to travel to the state office to pay or a computer to do the transaction online.

For the one in five Mississippians who live below the poverty line, there’s no guarantee of the time to go to an office, a computer to access the website, or a credit card to make the transaction. After all, more than 10 million American households don’t have bank accounts, and the large majority of them are low income. Most voters will know the steps they need to get an ID. They just aren’t easy to complete, and that’s the point.

So we should be thankful for Schlafly’s candor. The more Republicans acknowledge that these laws are designed to suppress the votes of blacks, Latinos, and others, the easier building a movement to stop them will be.

I really liked this comment.

I’ve got it! We tell The Donald he won, then lock him in a Disney World type mock-up of the White House, fill it with dummy cameras, and let him fake president for four years.
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Trump claimed that he was the planner of the GOP Convention. But when the Democrats put this sad, deficient little hatefest to shame, he is now disavowing it.

There were 18 Black delegates out of 2472.
A whopping .07%!
Blacks represent about 13% of the total population of this country.

"African-Americans love me", says Trump.

 From the GOP, the unconscionable coronation of a clown

He used to bark ‘You’re Fired!’ Now he’s halfway to the White House

Don’t cry for Cruz, who helped radicalize this Republican Party

Watch, post-convention, for party optics to polish Donald Trump’s image
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The first time I contemplated a Donald Trump presidency, after he won the first debate on browbeating tactics and crass antics, I joked: He could be our first Chusma-in-Chief!

A chusma is what we in Miami call a vulgar person with no manners, no filters, no self-control.

It’s no longer a joke. The coronation of a gruff reality star whose demeanor fluctuates from clown to bully is now part of American history.

The brash New Yorker — who launched his candidacy with so much carelessness and offensive diatribe that pundits thought he was a Hillary Clinton plant — is, officially and irrevocably, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America.
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Just saying those words feels like an offense against a country that has been for more than a century a respected world leader.

Just contemplating the would-be president’s claim to fame being the barking of “You’re Fired!” on a television show feels like a farce is playing out. This is the nation people turn to for wisdom and refuge in times of trouble, isn’t it? Hearing a triumphant Trump boast that he brings a one-man show of “law and order” to the model of due process, justice and freedom that has characterized the USA is frightening.

The tenor of his campaign served as warning that he was tapping into a sinister and powerful force. But how could one, in the age of information, anticipate that standards could fall low enough to render Trump electable by the party of Lincoln?

But this is not even Ronald Reagan’s GOP. This party belongs to people like Sen. Ted Cruz, runner up in the Republican primary. Don’t cry for Cruz, instigator of the extreme right-wing thought that brought us the Trump candidacy.

He may not endorse Trump, but Cruz and most of the GOP members of Congress laid the groundwork for this nomination and support its platform. They sowed the seeds of white supremacy and hatred of others that Trump harvested. They took their disrespect of a historic Democratic presidency way too far. And now, there’s not only a Trump candidate, but a GOP that looks exactly him.

For anyone with doubts, the Republican National Convention offered a smorgasbord of opportunities.

Legendary Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz’s racist rant portrayed immigrants as an “invasion.” He repeated the fallacy that they don’t want to speak English.

“I don’t want to become you!” he railed at a Republican National Coalition for Life lunch. “I don’t want to speak your language. I don’t want to celebrate your holidays. I sure as hell don’t want to cheer for your soccer team!”

That’s how thick the hatred runs: A sports hero doesn’t care how he smears his own legacy. His audience rewarded his bigotry with cheers and applause.

Congressman Steve King of Iowa reached deep into the well of ignorance for his contribution to the national display of prejudice.

Asked during an appearance on MSNBC if this might not be the last time whites control the platform and public face of the Republican Party, King used the moment to question the historical contributions of non-whites, which he dubbed a “subgroup.”

“Go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”

Incredulous, host Chris Hayes asked, “than white people?” King dug himself deeper: “Than Western civilization itself that’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”

He obviously hasn’t taken a world history class, read a book, or paid attention on the Spaceship Earth ride at Disney’s Epcot. Or he’d have experienced at least a visual run through the history of humankind and learned, for starters, that the Egyptians invented papyrus and that Semitic peoples adapted Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent the sounds of their language.

A newly made-over Trump — cleaned up for general-audience consumption and cast this week as tough but understanding (he didn’t fire the Melania speech plagiarist), collegial (he let Cruz speak even though mean Cruz didn’t endorse him) — glowed a little less orange.

But I’m not laughing anymore.

After November, Miamians may have to bow our heads and whisper: Hail to the Chusma-in-Chief.

Fabiola Santiago: fsantiago@miamiherald.com, @fabiolasantiago

Fabiola Santiago is the Herald's resident Cuban woman columnist.

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Trump said that he might form a superpac to defeat Ted Cruz

He then said that if Cruz does endorse him, he will not accept it.

As for him starting a superpac to DefeaTED, this is malarky. By the time  Ted comes up for reelection, he will have forgotten this entirely. He has the attention span of a gnat.

Kasich and Cruz were not the only ones to not endorse Trump: so far as I can tell, Rubio, Cristie, Walker  and Carson did, and the rest were unheard from.

Granted. Cruz is a prick, but so is Trump.

I have noticed that after political parties have chosen a candidate, then the tradition is to have a voice vote calling the choice unanimous.
No one proposed this at the last GOP convention

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

That would be Tony Schwartz, of course.

Sumbitch couldn't ever write the book he was famous for.