Donald Trump’s Convention Speech Rings Terrifying Historical Alarm Bells

I disagree.
Trump is for the American people more than Hilary Clinton.
Trump will protect us-from the corrupt leaders in Washington, the deals that hurt everyday Americans, health epidemics ( Ebola, Zika, ) , refugee crisis, and the list goes on and on. We can’t afford another Democrat in office.
Plus she stayed married to a cheating man which equals a miserable woman, not the type of person I want running our country. Misery loves company.
Look @ what she has done to other countries!!

There seems to be a growing meme that we have to vote for hillary to keep trump out by all means necessary. Those who refuse to vote for either are not villains or spoilers or enablers. There is one group only to blame if Trump somehow get’s this and that is the DNC. They, and Clinton are the ones who will have to shoulder the blame for Trump’s “election.”

so your response to his message of fear is…a message of fear. again, two points that seem simple but no one seems to grasp:

1. the president is a figurehead. a corporate middle manager that provides the facade of democracy. they only “accomplish” what their owners in the private sector let them “accomplish”.

2. sticks and stones may break my bones but words are meaningless bullshit cooked up by a speech writer based on polling data. since when has any convention speech matched the actual agenda of ther person giving it? what percentage of obama’s speeches have ended up being lies or obfuscations? hard to say since no one remembers them in the first place. trump, like bush, just moves his “freedom”, terror”, “enemies”, and “safe” fridge magnets around to form sentences and stresses the scarier words for effects.

also: trump, like hillary but to a slightly less egregious degree, goes where the politcal winds are blowing. look at his israel “policy” and how he folded like superman on laundry day the second adelson threw blood money in his face.

Below a Trump defender writes:

What is definitely in decline might be disconcerting to readers here: elitism. The rise of the common man is in full evidence within both parties. Populism is in. Centralized statists are fading along with their haughty leadership styles and programatic approach to every conceivable social or economic ill. Trump represents a movement, not a party.

Yes indeed, the “common man” is on the rise, the “man” who rejects what all those point-headed academics, scientists and professionals have to say.

Trump is not merely anti-elitist; he’s anti-intellectual, as are many, many of his supporters. Anti-elitist is not coterminous with anti-intellectual. The latter is a hallmark of fascist tendencies.

As one historian puts it:

The anti-intellectualism of Trump has also been a long time in the making. It was the Republican establishment that has for decades refused to even consider the science of climate change and has through local education boards strove to prevent the teaching of evolution…. Of course American historians have pointed to this larger strand of anti-intellectualism in American politics, but what is different about this moment is that Trump has successfully wedded this anti-Enlightenment mood with the anti-political rage of the Republican base.

That’s it. I don’t agree with all this historian writes, but on that he’s accurate.

Bernie Sanders is anti-elitist, not anti-intellectual. Sanders is also the farthest thing from a fascist. Trump, not so much.

Speeches.

The US and much of the West has become a shallow culture that praises or condemns speeches! If the New Deal hadn’t happened, Roosevelt’s mere *speeches* about improving would look pretty damn hollow. JFK’s “we choose to do these things because they are hard” wouldn’t look so good now if no one tried to get to the moon, and Obama should seriously feel like a phony big mouth for all his “this is the day the sea levels stop rising” and waxing philosophical about peace before taking office, tripling the troops in Afghanistan (sure he doesn’t approve of ground wars, sure, sure), bombing the hell out of Libya, droning Somalia and Yemen, continuing his dirty wars in Africa, bombing Iraq and Syria and backing a fascist coup in Ukraine.

A speech is only as good as it means anything, and all establishment politicians in truth say one thing only:

“I will serve the establishment as a tool of the corporatist, militarist and imperialist elite. I will pretend to be a cultural icon for my Party even as I cynically execute all the corrupted-state things the other Party also does. I will stand always on the side of “authorities” and Israel, though I will pretend a little to care about abuse of the disenfranchised. I will ensure that the illusion-of-choice theater is perpetuated, but I will not substantially challenge institutionalized racism, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Banks, Big Agribusiness, Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, the for-profit prison complex that imprisons 25% of the world’s prisoners (even though the US has only 5% of the world’s population), nor any international members of ‘the elite.’ I will agree to be called a ‘socialist terrorist lover’ by reactionaries if I’m a Democrat, or to be called an ‘totalitarian fascist bigot’ by liberals if I’m a Republican, but of course I will simply be one hand of the puppet show – one of two masks for the corrupt and authoritarian, surveillance-and-militarized-police state that is ALREADY IN PLACE.”

Speeches! Blow raspberries at *all* establishment politicians. Stop giving them the dignity of your sincere attention and measured assessment, for their phoniness and manipulation is beneath contempt.

I think this piece is a bit over-heated, and so actually sabotages itself, with this kind of thing:

Tyranny, says Socrates in The Republic, is actually “an outgrowth of democracy.” And would-be tyrants always in every instance claim to be shielding regular people from terrible danger: “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.”

I mean, that has been the standard stump speech of every U.S. presidential candidate since World War II and probably all the way back to 1776. It’s also the basis of alpha-male tribal leadership going back to human prehistory.

Let’s take liberal icon John F. Kennedy, who famously campaigned against the Eisenhower Administration on a “missile gap” with the Soviet Union. This should sound familiar, from Oct 18. 1960:

. . . We have been slipping and we are moving into a period of danger. The Gaither Committee report prepared in 1957, has been best summed up as portraying this Nation and I quote, “moving in frightening course to the status of a second-class power.”

The Rockefeller brothers reported in 1958, and I quote, “The United States is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race.”

Gen. Maxwell Taylor in 1959: “We are now threatened with a missile gap that leaves us in a position of potentially grave danger.” And the American Legion, itself, only last year, urged that our conventional forces be maintained at a higher level, and it has not been done. [Applause.]

I mean, it’s like something Donald Trump might have said too, right? But was JFK a “terrifying historical figure?” Or just another politician flogging the normal American military-industrial complex line?

Sometimes, overstating an argument with exaggerated statements does more to discredit that argument than it does to promote it.

I love a political writer who quotes Socrates on tyranny when an apt example presently exists as the Obama administration and the central control of Big Government. At first I though Mr Schwarz had written a piece of political satire, but left field is a very big place.

Unlike most progressive intellectuals, including academics and political elites in the Western world, Mr Trump has common sense on his side and his finger on the pulse of millions of ordinary citizens who vote. Perhaps the writers here are somehow immune from the woes of modern living for so many, but they must surely feel the decline of statism and political correctness, a bad combination that has had adverse impact on so many. Yes, people are fearful and frustrated and have ample reason to feel that way. Illegals DO have very high rates of violent crime. Unvetted Muslims are indeed a risk. Trade giveaways have lined the pockets of the donor class and diminished the middle class. Lobbyists and Wall Street have corrupted politics in general and Hillary specifically. The sophisticated and self-righteous who would control every human event have no understanding of what is happening right in front of their faces. Populism is in, elitism is out. Trump is not a candidate or a Republican. He is a movement and you better use those upper decile brains to figure it out. The ordinary man is mad as hell and definitely on the rise.

I thought Trump’s speech was very like early Fidel Castro in length, tone and content, but differing enemies.

You need to update your stats. The latest FBI numbers for 2015 show that violent crime is up significantly! I would speculate it has a great deal to do with undermining the police since the latest round of race-mongering. Murder and rape were up 6.2% and 9.6%, which is a huge reversal in a downward trend in recent decades. Here is what the FBI says:

“All of the offenses in the violent crime category—murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape (revised definition), rape (legacy definition), aggravated assault, and robbery—showed increases when data from the first six months of 2015 were compared with data from the first six months of 2014. The number of rapes (legacy definition) increased 9.6 percent, the number of murders increased 6.2 percent, aggravated assaults increased 2.3 percent, the number of rapes (revised definition) rose 1.1 percent, and robbery offenses were up 0.3 percent.”

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-preliminary-semiannual-crime-statistics-for-2015

Donald Trump is not a liar. He’s a bullshit artist, of the same sort that all strongmen have been.

…the increasingly frequent tendency of Trump’s critics to label him a liar is wrongheaded. Trump is something worse than a liar. He is a bullshit artist. In his 2005 book On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt, emeritus philosophy professor at Princeton University, makes an important distinction between lying and bullshitting—one that is extremely useful for understanding the pernicious impact that Trump has on public life. Frankfurt’s key observation is that the liar, even as he or she might spread untruth, inhabits a universe where the distinction between truth and falsehood still matters. The bullshitter, by contrast, does not care what is true or not. By his or her bluffing, dissimulation, and general dishonesty, the bullshit artist works to erase the very possibility of knowing the truth. For this reason, bullshit is more dangerous than lies, since it erodes even the possibility of truth existing and being found.

Trump sees virtue in simply making it up to stoke the prejudices he panders to:

Falsehoods fly out of Donald Trump’s mouth with such unstoppable frequency that it’s tempting to describe him as a liar. Among the recent Trumpian untruths is his claim to have seen a video showing “thousands and thousands” of Muslim Americans cheering 9/11 in Jersey City, New Jersey, an event there is no record of, video or otherwise. Trump has also retweeted and vigorously defended the claim that 81 percent of whites who are murdered are killed by blacks (the actual number for last year is 15 percent). And he has asserted, contrary to fact, that the federal government is sending refugees to states with “Republicans, not to the Democrats.”

I’m not a huge fan of Jeet Heer’s, but that article is spot on. Heer is almost certainly a Clinton supporter (but as a Canadian he can’t vote for her), and I dislike many of his analyses. But not that one.

Trump got it perfectly right regarding all the Islamic refugees. See what happened in Nice and what is happening today in Munich.

I am against bombing Muslims in Iraq and Syria. They should sort out their problems. At the same time they should stay in their own countries and not create nuisance by coming here.

Trump is a psychopath: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/donald-trump-keith-olbermann-sanity-test

It is critical to not be hoodwinked into hero worship and your warnings here are well taken, however, the comparison presented here is misaligned. Past tyrants’ characters were vastly different to Donald Trump’s in that they were mostly from dysfunctional backgrounds and came from envious origins lusting for personal powers. So far nothing remotely similar has been revealed about Trump, to the contrary, his family and traditional work ethic of America is his focus and his belovedness by his five children show the exact opposite of a dictator.

Power does corrupt and no one is above it, only constant vigilance of the nature of your journalism will prevent any US leader from falling into some degree of it. Eyes open here & listening, thanks for your angle illuminating this danger.

Republicans and Donald Trump hardly have an exclusive monopoly on the politics of fear. Republicans might want you to fear terrorists and immigrants, but Democrats want you to fear firearms and global warming. It’s all the same message: “Give up your liberties, let government have more power & control and everything will be OK.”
Given that Bush and Obama have essentially voided the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments, I’m not sure what further damage Trump can do.
One could argue that Clinton would be even worse on the authoritarian spectrum. From Barack Obama on down, the Democrats have warmly embraced all the “War on Terror” measures from the Bush administration. Ever read Glenn Greenwald? Obama is drone-killing people in 7 different Muslim countries and has assassinated at least two American citizens without charge or trial(Bush only threw Americans in prison without charge or trial). Clinton and the Democrats have a burning desire to destroy the 2nd Amendment. They also want big government to take over the entire healthcare system of the country, and are looking to undermine the 1st amendment, either through their bogus, “Overturn Citizens United” message or via laws banning “hate speech”.

Rs and Ds are just selling different brands of fear and different flavors of authoritarianism.

Johnson 2016!

Some not especially literate or calm-thinking Trump defenders in comments here appear to suffer from the delusion that Jon Schwarz (!!!) is a Hillary Clitnon supporter. This writers at this site preponderantly detest everything Clintonism and it’s neoliberal cousin stand for.

The candidate most reflective of the worldview and political positions of the writers here is Bernie Sanders. Because he didn’t quite make it — but a 74-year-old democratic socialist did win 22 primaries against the vile Clinton — many of his supporters are voting for Jill Stein, including me.

But we do know a fascist strongman-type when we see and hear him — and that man is Donald Trump. Corporate control of governments has led to economic immiseration, and that situation is to fascism what a warm, moist environment is to mold.

The environment is very warm and moist indeed. The mold of Trumpism is growing rapidly.

I make it a habit to not listen to convention stump speeches. They all go about saying what their base wants to hear and if elected go and do what-ever-the-hell they’re going to do anyway. Usually starting or continuing a war or increasing defense spending and leaving a whole lot of normal Americans with less of the things that make living worth while. I’m just wondering how long the decline will last before the eventual collapse happens. It could be avoided, we have the means, but it won’t be because no one wants to do whats needed to rein in defense, stop causing trouble abroad, and concentrate on real domestic solutions. Oh well, it has definitely been more entertaining and there was a slim chance for someone that understands, maybe, what’s needed to actually help but fade like they all do anyway . So we’re left with a sigh and look ahead to next week’s same ol’ nonsense again and continue the long, or short, slide down the memory holes of failed empires.

Calling Trump fans Nazis has thrust him to the top, so he you are implying that are Nazis for rebelling against being called Nazis. that foolishness level indicates a cult mentality.

The speech just confirmed what many have said: Trump would be a disaster for U.S. domestic social relations, but Hillary Clinton would be a disaster for the entire world – and neither has an economic policy agenda that is based on realistic proposals. I wasn’t “terrified,” though.

Trump’s comments on Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy debacle were fairly accurate. If you look at Hillary’s decisions in Haiti, Honduras, Libya, Syria, eastern Europe, Afghanistan and east Asia, it’s a return to the Cold War policies of the Reagan years and a continuation of GW Bush neocon agendas. All told, Trump’s comments on the results of that policy were about 50% correct:

After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins, [and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers] – irrelevant. [Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control] – a deliberate Obama-Saudi strategy to crush the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement. Iraq is in chaos. [Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons.] – nonsense, Iran has no plutonium production. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West. After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.

Trump did seem to try to walk back some of his criticism of NATO, praising it for “fighting terrorism” even though all of NATO’s recent budget outlays have been in eastern Europe, a program of restarting the Cold War to promote continued bloated military-industrial spending and prevent the dissolution of NATO, a Cold War dinosaur with little relevance in the modern world. Along with the Peter Thiel’s BS pro-defense contracting speech, this is something of a signal that the military-industrial budget is safe; this of course means Trump’s domestic policy agenda is just as unbelievable as Clinton’s.

The most positive aspect of his speech was his attack on NAFTA:

America has lost nearly-one third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by bill and Hillary Clinton. Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country.

However, he then attacked immigrants who cross the border looking for jobs (a consequence of NAFTA, which allowed U.S. agribusiness to dump their products on Mexico at sub-market prices, driving Mexican farmers into poverty). Regardless, I don’t see this as any different from Obama-Clinton policies, which also promote deportation of immigrants, just more covertly, with the same agenda of keeping the immigrant population as a source of cheap powerless labor for U.S. agribusiness, construction, and other corporate interests.

Thus, I don’t see Trump as any more “terrifying” than Clinton. That line just doesn’t work, and makes the writer look like a partisan pro-Clinton campaigner.

I’m still going to vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party, since she has a rational economic platform that would work, including major cuts to the foreign military budget and promotion of a Green New Deal; she’s already got a decent popular pecentage and that could grow; and I honestly don’t see much difference between Trump and Clinton, in fact Clinton appears more likely to lead us into disastrous foreign wars than Trump does.

I didn’t watch the Trump speech last nite and didn’t do so for one reason only. I knew there would be nothing in it to hear. It’s a convention speech which usually has nothing substantive in it. I’ve been watching them for 30 years and they pretty much all do the same thing. They make either A) Empty promises or B) glaring hyperbole and C) little details, if any.

Anyone who thought something useful that would come out of a Republican speech is simply naive, IMO.

In contrast, next week we will see Hillary Clinton give her big speech. And I assure you, it will contain the following: A) Empty promises, B) Wishful Thinking and C) Deceptive promises

That the Democratic propaganda machine. Telling voters what the voter would really like to see happen, only fully intending on NOT making it happen while claiming they tried, but some Republicans prevented them from doing it.

Case in point: Guantanamo. Obama claimed to try and shut it down but a Republican Congress wouldn’t let him. But we fully know this was a simple bait-n-switch tactic to move indefinite detention to US soil and Congress rejected it.

Democrats will tell liberal audiences next week exactly what they want to hear, JUST THE SAME AS what Trump told idiot Republicans what they wanted to hear last night. (From what I can tell by the media coverage today)

Democrats will tell you they want a racially free society, yet they won’t do anything about police violence against Black Americans. They will tell you that they will fight Terrorism but won’t tell you that it means Endless War and the bombing of more Muslim countries. They will tell you that you will have more Good Paying Jobs when in fact, more jobs will be exported overseas.

So, if you’re expecting something different from Hillary Clinton next week, you won’t find it. You will believe you have found it, but this is just a rationale you tell yourself because you are hopeful and WANT to believe, just like Fox Muldar’s poster on his wall in the X-Files.

And if you don’t believe what I’m saying is truthful and you believe all the crap Hillary Clinton will spew next week, then you are a Partisan, plain and simple.

Off topic but to the moderators…if you are going to censor a comment, then the least you could do is respond to the offender…you DO have the email address.
Calling someone a child when they comment like a child repeating parental biases doesn’t seem offensive to me.

I think Trump gave a great speech. His speech was not about fear but about putting an end to the fear and war mongering by Obama, the Clintons and the Bushes.

The most important part of his speech was – that he would stop the US from fighting wars which were unnecessary.

This article is the biggest piece of garbage I have ever read.
I have always been a free thinker. Neither Democrat or Republican, although always a Patriot.
I watched the GOP convention unfold and listened to the corrupt media trying desperately to find something to spin. That seems to be their job, not reporting facts, but spinning the New World Order agenda. As Jon Schwarz has demonstrated with a most bazaar take on Mr. Trumps speech last night.
I found that Mr. Trump wants America to remain a country with laws that protect all citizens.
We have been begging for enforced boarders for years. But as the Euro Zone, NWO needs open boarders and the free flow of people.
The U.K. took thirty years to wake up and say no thank you, we want to remain autonomous.
The majority of American citizens want to remain autonomous as well.
Trump is an American Patriot, who loves this country. Trump is also a business man, who has created thousands of jobs. Nothing keeps him down, he is a doer.
In Trumps world, failure has consequences. In contrast, Washington rewards failure with better funding. Generational program failure is now a kind of perverse incentive for Beltway politicians.
It’s time to quit throwing good money (our tax money) after failed programs.
The government is corrupt, the media is corrupt.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again with the same results. It’s time to use good old fashioned common sense and save our country before we are further in debt.
I listened to every word of Mr. Trumps speech last night, he did not scare me one bit, he made me feel empowered, his speech gave me hope for my children and grandchildren.
I would like Mr. Schwarz to explain to us how someone who has been running a money laundering foundation. Broke federal laws by keeping a computer server in her home as Secretary of State, and instructed her lawyers to delete 30,000 emails and wipe the hard drives clean, as well as many other dishonest deeds in her criminal career, be running for President? How can that be?
Mr. Schwarz, I was raised to believe journalists write the truth, only the truth. They don’t spin or have an agenda, they write the truth. What a pile of crap your profession has become.

And the propaganda continues. The socialists in the news are running scared. We’re sorry, trying to cast Trump as a dictator from the 1940s won’t work since the democrats are the power hungry socialists. We know both parties want more centralization, the difference is the stalinistas of the left want to round up every body who believes in self determination into the gulags.

“Trump had just one message for Americans: Be afraid.”

Jon Schwarz had just one message for Intercept readers: Be afraid of Trump.

Pot meet kettle.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself people. Whether Trump or HRC win, we will survive and continue to live our lives the best we can. Don’t let fear get you… even when your liberal buddies try it.

It is hilariously accurate that the republican “convention”

ended by using the Rolling Stone’s

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as the final statement.

Not only because the song expresses the fraudulence of Trump

and the republicans, but because, in the line,

“She was practiced at the art of deception, I could tell

by her blood-stained hands”

the song also sums up the democrats.

Bee stings, eh? This exemplifies the worst kind of demagogy – of which you accuse Trump.

Do you really believe this: “U.S. is probably safer today than it’s ever been.” ? Just me and my common sense talking here…

I’m incredibly disappointed to see the Intercept, an alternative media platform that I had so much respect and hope for from its inception, devolve into a political commentary site on the US election, showing all of the same scaremongering tactics of the very mainstream media that Glenn Greenwald was so effective at criticizing. Now we’re portraying Trump and his speech as ringing terrifying historical alarm bells, are we? I know, I know. He’s Hitler, he’s Stalin, he’s Pol Pot, he’s Mussolini! Did I miss anyone? Now, let’s look at some facts: he said that the best way to promote western values was by strengthening western civilization rather than by constant military action against nations with different values. He once said that the US should be a balanced negotiator in the I/P conflict, but his need for campaign finance from Jewish money has nafe him change that tune. He has attacked the hedge funds, big pharma (wants to loosen regulations on safe generic medication from overseas), and has regularly called out big business on its abuse of fair wages for US workers through the use of both legal and illegal immigration. He wants TPP in the toilet. The corporate media continues to vilify him, a litmus test of his popularity among the corporatocracy. If those vultures are so scared of him, he must be doing something right!

I think the author need to be more objective and stop making silly conclusions. I am pretty sure about Hillary email scandal this author didn’t say anything bad about. But just because someone has the courage and gut to kick these politicians living at people taxes, he is always analysed partially by most people who depends on lobbys. Obama/Hillary has invented ISIS and nobody talks about that to such extent as if she is a saint! Be objective and may be you will have more readers

100% agree with your article. I am from outside USA but we all will be affected by this guy if he ever make it to the presidency. I am surprised of what I am seeing evolving with Trump and I hope he get caught on his lies and his attempt to repeat history as a tyrannic dictator. His election will be catastrophic for the leadership of USA in the world and we all will pay a heavy price if it happens.

Trump has a four year term limit like everyone else. The second amendment is still in place and we still have a Supreme Court and a Congress. So there are many barriers to a Trump Tyranny. In addition, the corporate media hates Trump with a passion. So they can be counted on to actually do their job, one more check on Trump Tyranny .

Trump represents change. Our elites have grown rich off a corrupt system and so they fear and hate the change that Trump represents. A strong president with the American people behind him can probably still make a difference in the course of our nation.

We will have to wait and see.

“The U.S. is probably safer today than it’s ever been.”

As far as the homicide rate goes (4.46 per 100,000 in 2015, as I recall), this is definitely accurate, and it is the lowest rate since 1957 (4.1 per 100,000). I tell people about these statistics all the time, yet they are in disbelief, because of the sensationalism of the 24-hour news media. (Homicide rates have peaked in 1974, 1980, and 1991.)

Also, let’s keep in mind the following:
“There is nothing to fear, but fear itself”
– FDR

When we ruminate about the negativity in the world, which bombards us all the time whenever we watch the news (positive reinforcement), we are led to believe that we are in more danger than in actuality, and the paranoia that results is largely why we have an uptick in cop killings. When you rob people of their inner peace, you rob them of much of their actual freedom – this is why I stick almost exclusively to following third party, independent journalism, which place the facts themselves at the forefront, and in the proper presentation and context.

The moral of the story is primarily this: the real problem, oftentimes, is not the problem itself, but ones’ perception of it, and how they approach it. In a nutshell, this explains why many people generally have the world-view that they do. (This reminds me of The Allegory of the Cave, in many respects – the part where the casting of a large shadow [perception] is caused by a much smaller object [actuality] placed in front of a light source)

Jon Schwarz’s commentary is succinct and right on. Why can’t people like him being running for president, governor, premier, prime minister…? Instead of people’s champions, we get wolves in raggedy sheep’s clothing that don’t even do a great job of hiding the snarling monster.

Wow, between you and Mackey, everything Trump says or does is racist. Is there anything he does do that isn’t racist?

I’m not even a Trump fan, but I’ve never seen this much bias in my entire life! You guys are ridiculous! When does it stop? When is enough, enough? If the man wore a white shirt and black pants, you would call him racist because his white shirt was above his black pants.

What makes it worse is we have a guy on the right that makes ridiculous comments, and complete criminal on the left. We are screwed either way. The digger I deep on Hillary the dirtier I realize she is. The emails? Tip of the iceberg. I mean for god sake there are something like 50 plus people that have mysteriously died around them under unusual circumstances. *rolling eyes* And I don’t even know how many criminal cases, lawsuits, money laundering, taking money from foreign countries to sway US policy, etc. – It never ends, but yet the Clinton’s somehow escape it every time, just like the email issue. Oh, and let’s not forget the Epstein issue. You might be able to write off one or even two of these stories, but there are hundreds, you can’t write that many off. Patterns don’t lie.

So… we are screwed either way. Trump on the right and Hillary Clinton on the left with Bill Clinton who hangs out on an island with a pedophile. What’s that saying, you are who you hang out with?

Drumpf is scary, but leave it to the Democrat establishment to nominate the only candidate who could very easily lose to him. You could run a turnip against that orange Mop’n’Glo-stained lunatic and more people would vote for the turnip. But Hillary Clinton, who’s actually done most of the things Trump threatens to do to one degree or another, is still polling neck-and-neck with him, and she’s set to alienate the Democrats’ base even further by picking a fellow right-wing extremist as her running mate. Small wonder why a majority of the electorate now identifies as Independent.

As Godwin is my witness, I’ve never seen a screecher like this as a leading political figure — at least not in the U.S. (Yes I realize Rudy Giuliani went into Mussolini mode on Wednesday night, but he’s not the star of the show any more than Alex Jones is). And Donald was terrifyingly effective for the first 30 minutes or so, which should have been his speech.

(As for his mentions of LGBTQ community, I believe it’s like his flouting of 60 years of old-style GOP trade policy: he’s telling his party, all elements of it, that he’s in command now and he’ll say whatever he wants and damn their sensitivities).

He did start to go on and on, however, and started repeating himself. He can be powerful as a speaker, in reasonable doses, but after a while it wears. This is what we’ll be hearing for the next three months at least, and it may make America grate.

Just more reason to vote for someone other than the republican or the democrat -an independent.
Gary Johnson libertarian for president.

wanna be ruled (and robbed and raped) by the TPP?

VOTE FOR SHILILLARY

This is a bunch of crap. The problem is the world ignoring the very problems we are facing. This is more “wake up” than be afraid. The longer we ignore these threats the sooner chaos will reign supreme in the US and Globally.