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I was looking at a Rightie blog where Trump support is strong, and this flap started by Mr. Kahn is the first thing I have seen that is piercing the veil of denial that The Donald is a bad person. It has set up an interesting tension between their bigotry toward Muslims and their extreme loyalty for fallen heroes.
Apparently, there is already a rumor circulating that Mr. Kahn has a Muslim Brotherhood connection (whatever that means) and that he "has ties to the Clintons".
Still, there were numerous negative comments about il Douche L'Orange - it's a crack that will probably widen.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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I agree. In a post I made on the other thread I mentioned a similar trend. It should be obvious that he has no intention of being president.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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![[Linked Image from s31.postimg.org]](https://s31.postimg.org/41v3x7gm3/aug_1_cover_2.jpg) NY Post Just in case any of you may have forgotten: The New York Post is owned by none other than Rupert Murdoch. 
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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Mel has nothing to hide... 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
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So, I wonder where the "family values" stooges are on this "revealing" issue? 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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Please note, this is by Max Boot, the quintessential NeoCon. How the “Stupid Party” created Donald Trump. It’s hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.”
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes. But by the 1950s, it had become an established shibboleth that the “eggheads” were for Adlai Stevenson and the “boobs” for Dwight D. Eisenhower — a view endorsed by Richard Hofstadter’s 1963 book “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” which contrasted Stevenson, “a politician of uncommon mind and style, whose appeal to intellectuals overshadowed anything in recent history,” with Eisenhower — “conventional in mind, relatively inarticulate.” The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.
Rather than run away from the anti-intellectual label, Republicans embraced it for their own political purposes.
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Here’s the thing, though: The Republican embrace of anti-intellectualism was, to a large extent, a put-on. At least until now. ...
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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you may be correct
he wants to be known as Tycoon Trump the Transcendent
an appellation commensurate with his ego
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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they are e-"valu"-ating human form through pictorial "revelations"
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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Please note, this is by Max Boot, the quintessential NeoCon. How the “Stupid Party” created Donald Trump. It’s hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.”
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes. But by the 1950s, it had become an established shibboleth that the “eggheads” were for Adlai Stevenson and the “boobs” for Dwight D. Eisenhower — a view endorsed by Richard Hofstadter’s 1963 book “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” which contrasted Stevenson, “a politician of uncommon mind and style, whose appeal to intellectuals overshadowed anything in recent history,” with Eisenhower — “conventional in mind, relatively inarticulate.” The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.
Rather than run away from the anti-intellectual label, Republicans embraced it for their own political purposes.
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Here’s the thing, though: The Republican embrace of anti-intellectualism was, to a large extent, a put-on. At least until now. ...  put this one up on this thread previous page. We're at it again NW 
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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LOL - yes, my friend, it appears we are. Clearly I need to scroll back further before I post!
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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