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originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Two different ones now? Yesterday they reopened the case. Then it was no the case was never closed. Now it's two different ones.
What ever supports your point of view I guess.
he is going to raise up both middle fingers and say he doesn't give a # about stopping gay marriage or "partial-birth" abortions. I don't think he's forgetting the names of the people forcing him to pander hard right. He can be the schism that ruptures the right, finally.
The right has been pushing Jesus instead of fiscal responsibility for way too long.
originally posted by: desert
a reply to: Ksihkehe
he is going to raise up both middle fingers and say he doesn't give a # about stopping gay marriage or "partial-birth" abortions. I don't think he's forgetting the names of the people forcing him to pander hard right. He can be the schism that ruptures the right, finally.
K, I hate to be the bearer of sad news, but this is what I see happening....
Trump has proven to be the first lawn chair to fold. He loves having his ego stroked, and that is precisely what his current campaign people do; they grabbed him by his ego after moving on him like a bitch. Besides, as much as he can give a middle finger, he alone can't do anything about those things. The party has chosen to continue as is, Ryan and McConnell have already folded like lawn chairs. The party will continue to push those things, because that is what their party members want. The GOP 2016 platform continues to be against abortion and gay marriage.
The right has been pushing Jesus instead of fiscal responsibility for way too long.
This is war. The only thing to stop the cult of the right wing extremists is a political push from everyone to the left of them. And anyone to the left of them includes those conservatives RINOed out of the party decades ago.
America did not stop the Nazis or the Japanese military by joining with them. Voting for Trump will not stop the zealotry of what is now the "right".
Trump and his campaign have also spread propaganda created as part of the Kremlin's effort, relying on bogus information generated through traditional Russian disinformation techniques. In one instance, a manipulated document was put out onto the internet anonymously by propagandists working with Russia; within hours, Trump was reciting that false information at a campaign rally. The Trump campaign has also spread claims from Sputnik, another news outlet identified by American intelligence as part of the Russian disinformation campaign. For example, almost immediately after the posting of an article by Sputnik attacking this Newsweek reporter, the Trump campaign emailed a link to the piece to American reporters, urging them to pursue the same story.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, did not respond to emails from Newsweek on Monday and Thursday asking how it became aware of the Sputnik story so quickly, why it almost immediately promoted information from the Russian propaganda site to U.S. reporters, and what led the Republican nominee to disregard the intelligence he has been provided in briefings about Moscow’s propaganda and hacking campaign.
American intelligence officials know Russia used cyberattacks and misinformation to interfere with recent elections in Western Europe, including the German elections last month that resulted in victories for right-wing populists, and the United Kingdom’s vote in June on Brexit, a referendum that called for Britain to leave the European Union.
Western intelligence and law enforcement say tens of thousands of people have been working with Russia on its hacking and disinformation campaign for many years. They include propagandists and cyberoperatives stationed in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, located in the southwestern part of Siberia. Operations have also been conducted in the United States, primarily out of New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami. Those involved include a large number of Russian émigrés, as well as Americans and other foreign nationals. Intelligence operations in Europe and the U.S. have determined that the money these émigrés receive for their work is disguised as payments from a Russian pension system. One U.S. official says there is evidence many of these Americans and foreign nationals do not know they are part of Russia’s propaganda operation.
Soros has his tendrils everywhere via his grants and orgs, yes. Soros is but one of a number of oligarchs who use their money to influence politics to a disturbing extent. The Koch Bros of course come to mind. What I find most interesting is how the CT set is sleeping on Mercer.
originally posted by: AboveBoard
a reply to: theantediluvian
From The Esquire...a handy infographic about the "Clinton Cash" crapola hit-piece...that FBI agents are now using as "evidence" or some such nonsense... Link: The Circle of Life of a Clinton Conspiracy
Fred Koch went to MIT, as did his sons. Fred founded the John Birch Society, and Charles & David are funding most of the rightwing. Then there’s Robert Mercer, who’s funding Trump, Breitbart, & other crazy crap. Maybe not “elite” by way of computer science PhD at U of IL, but he’s one of the wealthiest people in the US, & much of his political operation is run by his Stanford-grad daughter.
Trump, of course, was raised wealthy, Ivy-educated, as are Ivana & either Uday or Qusay (other went to G’town), & Kushner was raised wealthy (though his dad was literally a crook, & went to fed prison) & graduated from Harvard & NYU Law.
These people are “elites,” but they’re also bigots or worse, and giant idiots. So, when Douthat drones on that nobody with power in the GOP listen to him (which is what he’s complaining about), he’s trying to make it about the rubes vs the elites, but it’s rubes & demented elites against the rest of America.
Another example: Bannon, who appeals to the worst mouth breathing bigots in America, is a Georgetown/Harvard Biz grad & worked at Goldman.
One of the ironies of all of this is that people like McConnell have tried to destroy Democrats by wiping out controls on money in politics, but what it’s done is given the most zealous ideologues the opportunity to spend more than wealthy individuals & industry sectors do on an entire party & propaganda infrastructure. Conservatives thought it was the way to let corporations outspend unions but instead it’s led to ultra wealthy whackadoodles outspending corporations for control of the GOP.