How Low Can the Trump Campaign Go?
I'm sure many of you have seen this already, but for the record, here's something released by the Trump campaign today:
After an immediate firestorm of negative reactions, Trump replaced the Jewish star with a circle, and then claimed that this was an accident, done by an intern, because of course interns in a Presidential campaign are placed in charge of generating and releasing campaign materials. Well, Trump may have taken it down, but I'm sure the message got through to its intended recipients.
And it's only the beginning of July. The Republican desperation to seize power in this country is going to inevitably bring us things that will make this piece of disgusting racist hate-propaganda look mild. So get ready; it's going to be a nasty ride.
Now, it's a little later, and I feel called upon to add something to this. It is almost inconceivable that anyone could have done this and not be perfectly aware of what it meant. But, like so many things that the corrupt, hateful leaders of the Republican party say, we will never really know what they believe and what is just one more lie on their lips. Can we conceive that they still doubt the reality of global warming? Is it even conceivable that, at this point in time, they still believe in supply side economics, or ever did? Do they really think that corporations are people, or are they just paid to prostitute themselves by saying so? And do they actually not understand that they are riding a wave of nativist, white supremacist hatred that indeed does bear a distinct similarity to that which engulfed the world in the 1940's?
Like Hermann Goering and other Nazi leaders, these people will likely never be honest about this, knowing that their only hope of salvaging a scrap of their public images is to deny unto death what they have done. So there is unlikely to ever be a smoking gun. Unfortunately, our survival as a nation likely depends on our making up our minds about things like this, and in doing that, history teaches us the danger of giving this sort of person the benefit of the doubt.
And it's only the beginning of July. The Republican desperation to seize power in this country is going to inevitably bring us things that will make this piece of disgusting racist hate-propaganda look mild. So get ready; it's going to be a nasty ride.
Now, it's a little later, and I feel called upon to add something to this. It is almost inconceivable that anyone could have done this and not be perfectly aware of what it meant. But, like so many things that the corrupt, hateful leaders of the Republican party say, we will never really know what they believe and what is just one more lie on their lips. Can we conceive that they still doubt the reality of global warming? Is it even conceivable that, at this point in time, they still believe in supply side economics, or ever did? Do they really think that corporations are people, or are they just paid to prostitute themselves by saying so? And do they actually not understand that they are riding a wave of nativist, white supremacist hatred that indeed does bear a distinct similarity to that which engulfed the world in the 1940's?
Like Hermann Goering and other Nazi leaders, these people will likely never be honest about this, knowing that their only hope of salvaging a scrap of their public images is to deny unto death what they have done. So there is unlikely to ever be a smoking gun. Unfortunately, our survival as a nation likely depends on our making up our minds about things like this, and in doing that, history teaches us the danger of giving this sort of person the benefit of the doubt.
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Seriously, however, one of my favorite bloggers, Infidel753, has been so discouraged by the idiocy that is going on that he has stopped blogging, at least, I expect, until the election is over. I've felt very discouraged too- trying to write sensible things in a country where more people trust the crook Trump with the economy than Hillary. I just throw my hands up, on an almost daily basis, and wonder what the fucking use it is to carry on.
Granted I have not seen every version ever produced but it seems a bit, shall we say, spoofy?
I await what the Disney folks may have to say.
the tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/750865499660091393/photo/1
I guess we'll just have to continue to see how low Trump can go, I thought I had the answer.