Trump Rhetoric...

Discussion in 'Political Discussions' started by Stanislav, Mar 20, 2024.

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  1. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    In this clip, Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian specialising on Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, explains how Trump uses the exact. same. propagandistic. tropes as Hitler did.
    Fair warning: it's impossible to un-hear. Their butchered National Anthem by the choir of January 6 felons can be seen as a silly stunt. However, in reality it IS, in fact, literally, his movement's Horst-Wessel-Lied. If not Trump, then someone in his camp is very familiar with the NSDAP practices and is doing this quite consciously. Then again, wasn't Donald himself raised by a Nazi sympathizer?
     
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  2. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Dunno about that but people need to get this...when Trump tells you what he intends to do, BELIEVE HIM!
     
  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    But when he tells you what Mexico is going to do, not so much.
     
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  4. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    Yale historian Timothy Snyder is an expert on this.
     
  5. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Oh... if only an EXPERT on Trump could SAVE us from Trump.... or an EXPERT on the Middle East could save people from a WAR.
     
  6. Vicki

    Vicki Well-Known Member

    And unfortunately, Trump’s ignroant followers will look at this and just cry “fake news”
     
  7. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Yes. They will. And WAY worse than that - they will VOTE for him.
     
  8. Vicki

    Vicki Well-Known Member

    I’m hoping there’s more people out there like my mom. She registered to vote for the first time in 2020 because she had to vote Trump OUT.
     
  9. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

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  10. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    I have been stung more often than celebrated for my political predictions, but it does seem to mt that Trump isn't really expanding his Base very much. A few here and a few there, maybe, but mostly no one who voted for Biden in 2020 is going to vote for Trump this time. He has made few converts and his use of campaign donations to pay his legal expenses is turning people off. Grift is forgivable up to the point you're the griftee.
     
  11. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    And now Trump is selling Bibles to pay the lawyers to defend him in court from charges that he falsified business records to pay off a porn star to stay quiet about their affair while his third wife was at home recovering after giving birth to his son.

    Yes really: godblesstheusabible.com

    It's tough to come up with something more gratuitously idolatrous. Someone should unplug evangelicals and then plug them back in, because they are broken.
     
  12. Rachel83az

    Rachel83az Well-Known Member

    Of course it's only available in KJV. I had to check.
     
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  13. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Of course. A more modern translation would still be under copyright, a license for which would eat into their profit margin.
     
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  14. Rachel83az

    Rachel83az Well-Known Member

    The ASV (American Standard Version) is in public domain. It would fit even better with the theme of "AMURIKIN BIBBLE". But I'm pretty sure there is significant overlap between people who like Trump and who think that the only valid version of the Christian Bible is the KJV.

    Also, fun fact: the KJV is still copyrighted in the UK.
     
  15. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Well, I guess The Donald really IS a rich man after all. His Truth Social stock is worth some $4 billion with a "B". Wonder if he'll pay back all that donor money diverted to his legal defenses?
     
  16. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Yeah. Sure. Any day now.
     
  17. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    Here are some facts about Truth Social profitability.

    quote:
    Truth Social earned $3.4 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2023 and it lost around $49 million.

    https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/truth-social-stock-facebook-twitter-ipo

    The article shows even worse financial statistics. That is not a company that seems likely to really be worth billions of dollars anytime soon.
     
  18. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Or millions -- or thousands -- or even dollars. I don't see Warren Buffett buying that one...
     
  19. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    It's P/E ratio matters a lot less that other companies' would, since it's a vehicle for Trump supporters to show him support and for those who want to bribe him to act conspicuously in a way that boosts its price.
     
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  20. Suss

    Suss Active Member

    "IS ANY OF THE MONEY FROM THIS BIBLE GOING TO THE DONALD J. TRUMP CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?
    No, GodBlessTheUSABible.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign. GodBlessTheUSABible.com is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Ventures LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates.

    GodBlessTheUSABible.com uses Donald J. Trump’s name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Ventures LLC, which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms."

    That last paragraph tells it all. His favorite grift is getting paid for his name and picture on the ads. No quality assurance or work, except posing for a few photos.
     
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