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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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A thought, since Trump seems to be completely discounted. How about this one. A couple of months ago Trump and Cruz had a sitdown. Since then neither has even mentioned the other and Cruz seems to be taking a kindofa high road. We should also never forget about Cruz. This is a man who graduated Harvard at close to the top of his class, was a noted debater and, whether you like him or not, those who know him also know him to be VERY smart. The talking heads also generally agree that if/when Trump goes down Cruz will take over that real estate.
Cruz's father, a failed drunk and current goddite, has proclaimed his son has been chosen, by God, to be the leader of America. Cruz himself recently announced that the only real way to save America is to make Christianity the national religion (obviously, he loves the constitution but wants a few 'minor' changes - not unlike many who 'love' the constitution). Anyway, it will be interesting how this one plays out?
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Dale Launer"Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the voter", pronounced [tromp lœj]) is a political campaigning technique that uses simplistic ideas in the form of short, facile slogans delivered in the idiom of a cosmopolitan thug creating the illusion that complex problems have easy attainable solutions. Exceptionally appealing to low information voters and aficionados of gangster movies." How ironic that a candidate named Trump has mastered Trompe-l'œil. Donald Trump is an actual fascist dictator in the making. Dale Launer is the man who wrote the screenplay for "My Cousin Vinny"
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Dale Launer"Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the voter", pronounced [tromp lœj]) is a political campaigning technique that uses simplistic ideas in the form of short, facile slogans delivered in the idiom of a cosmopolitan thug creating the illusion that complex problems have easy attainable solutions. Exceptionally appealing to low information voters and aficionados of gangster movies." The perfect definition of crowd behavior (A Study of the Popular Mind) written by Gustav Le Bon in 1895.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words I can't even think of the words for this image. 
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from The New RepublicBy Jeet Heer
Rather than a populist, Trump is the voice of aggrieved privilege—of those who already are doing well but feel threatened by social change from below, whether in the form of Hispanic immigrants or uppity women (hence the loud applause he got at the first GOP debate when he derided “political correctness”). Far from being a defender of the little people against the elites, Trump plays to the anxiety of those who fear that their status is being challenged by people they regard as their social inferiors. That’s why the word “loser” is such a big part of his vocabulary.
Trump is not the first authoritarian bigot to be mislabeled a populist. In truth, the term almost always gets misused to describe movements that are all about persevering (and enhancing) hierarchy, not about creating a more egalitarian society. Interesting that it took The New Republic to observe this seemingly obvious fact.
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A demented take on a Norman Rockwell painting?
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It was God talking to me. 
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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