Dumber and dumber, scarier and scarier

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Frank Macskasy
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Donald Trump gets Palin backing

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Sarah Palin.

Donald Trump.

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Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump.

If the spectre of a neo-fascist demagogue ruling the most powerful nation on Earth – bristling with an arsenal of city-smashing atomic bombs and other advanced, lethal weapons – wasn’t chilling enough, the prospect of  a political moron endorsing a billionaire clown-presidential-candidate would be like a Hollywood political satire.

Team America, The Omen III, and Wag the Dog meet Reality.

If people cannot fathom how Adolph Hitler came to power, they need only pay close attention to current events in the Land of the Free. Even without ISIS raping Iraq and Syria, a post-anti-biotic world, or man-made global warming, we are now living in scary times.

One can only hope that the American people – or at least a sufficient voting number of them – are better than the seductive malevolence that Trump represents and offers as his ‘Final Solution‘. For Americans, their one and only means to reject the rise of fascism lies not in their Constitutional  Second Amendment “right” to bear arms – but in the ballot box.

For all our sakes, let’s hope they use their vote wisely.

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References

Radio NZ:  Donald Trump gets Palin backing

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70 COMMENTS

  1. Demographics are against Trump becoming President. He won’t get hardly any black or hispanic votes and only about half of Anglo-Saxon votes. So if he was to be the Republican candidate, and Bernie Sanders by some miracle was to be the Democratic one, it would be the best chance ever of the United States having a truly progressive President.

  2. Under TPP that the Natz are itching to sign here in NZ, we will be one big unhappy family under Trump and Palin (if elected), tied at the hip by corporate lawfare.

    Oh how reassuring.

  4. ‘For Americans, their one and only means to reject the rise of fascism lies not in their Constitutional Second Amendment “right” to bear arms – but in the ballot box.’

    At no time in its history has America ever been home to freedom and democracy. It’s all been a lie, a well-established myth.

    The US has electronic voting. And electronic voting can be rigged to deliver whichever result (candidate) the sociopaths behind the scenes want in office.

    The collapse of the US as a society has been underway for decades (arguably since Kennedy was taken out by TPTB for opposing expansion of the Vietnam war and questioning the money-printing role increasingly of the Fed) ), and there is not stopping it now.

    With Key acting as chief saboteur of NZ, we can expect NZ to be taken down with the US, and for the local fascists to attack the citizens of this country in order to hang on to their ill-gotten acquisitions.

  6. Does it make us feel better, to see how mad the right in the US has become, to see that not only our ‘Esteemed Leader’ holidaying in Hawaii gets away with idiotic comments and conduct, on radio and other shows?

    It is only amongst sections of the right in the US where these two find appeal, the Tea Party branch of the Republican Party, and some others, all competing for attention and making bizarre, most extreme and racist or anti Muslim comments. There are still Americans that hold more moderate and balanced views.

    But the most worrying thing is how the MSM give all the madcap nonsense coming from Trump so much airspace, even in print media.

    We have similar phenomenon, where too many in our MSM ignore what really matters, and rather report hitting slogans, one liners and short, uncritical press releases by our government, and do not bother doing research.

    It is not getting better, it is getting worse. Overseas news sites that are a bit more quality also are faced with barrages of anti Muslim and anti migrant comments, so they have closed their comments sections to certain stories.

    Sadly much frustration and dissent amongst people is again going into directions where minorities and other detected enemies are being insulted and attacked, it reminds some of how the Nazis used the media to label Jews and disliked minorities and dissenters as the enemies and burden of society.

    We see again, humans never learn much from history, after one to two generations past wars and other disasters get forgotten, and are in danger of being repeated, as emotions get stirred up, by such hideous characters like Trump and Palin.

    Her shrill voice on radio and TV yesterday convinced me, she should be attended to by some professional psychiatrists some time soon, she needs urgent treatment that woman from Alaska.

  7. This opinion by Richard B. Spencer, editor and founder of Radix journal may be of interest on Trump

    http://www.radixjournal.com

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/326438-trump-putin-media-comment/

    …”I think that Putin and Trump in a way offer an alternative to what’s going on at the moment. They offer an alternative what you call neo-conservative or neoliberal foreign policy. I would stress that Vladimir Putin didn’t endorse Donald Trump. But I would say that Vladimir Putin probably sees Donald Trump as a positive phenomenon in a sense that the way different world leaders interact, really they interact through foreign policy. Donald Trump does not seem to be an ideological person, someone who would want to spread democracy, to overthrow dictators, spread the American truth, justice and American way to the world, particularly the Muslim world. He doesn’t seem to operate on this ideological basis. He seems to operate on the idea of “there’re other powers, we are going to have to get along with them, we are going to have to deal with them.”…

    https://www.rt.com/usa/326328-trump-russia-putin-relations/

    https://www.rt.com/politics/318004-extraordinary-person-donald-trump-invited/

    https://www.rt.com/usa/317641-trump-syria-putin-isis/

  8. This from Liberal Realist ..on The Standard

    IMO (of the forerunners) Clinton is by far the most dangerous (when compared to Sanders or Trump). Clinton is a hawk, a warmonger. Clinton advocates dnagerous confrontation with Russia. Clinton is also an unashamed Israel supporter.

    Sanders on the other hand, looks like the best option by far. One major issue I have with Sanders is, that he will not look at the issue of Israel and it’s insidious apartheid policies.

    See Sanders reaction to being heckled re: Israel during a town hall meeting, as an example.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/08/20/answering-question-on-israel-bernie-sanders-tells-townhall-hecklers-to-shut-up/

  10. Good points Frank but I have to admit to feeling a bit like Joe Bennett does about Trump. Oddly divided…

    Part of me wants to see him as the next El Presidente because it would be the most hilarious bit of miscasting since Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab. And with that Tasmanian Devil Sarah Palin as Veep! They would both be so inept it would keep the media in riotously rich comic sketches for a long time as well as bringing some hilarity back into my life.

    Sadly however, as long as these loopy cowboys are sitting on an arsenal (arse nal?) of Biblical proportions at the same time as they are feverishly imposing Manifest Destiny on the planet, my reaction is going to be more like the “Oh good God, please no!”

  11. Great headline title Frank, and Happy New Year (belatedly, sorry)! I tried to come up with a suitable analogy this morning on first hearing the news, but failed to come up with anything as incisive as that!

    However, I’m still wondering if the result of the US Presidential election will be as “dire” in its consequences as its made out to be by most pundits. Obama went into the White House with great plans for America and appears to have been frustrated by “the system” at pretty much every turn (of course he might have known all that in advance and was just having us on, with “Yes we can!”.)

    So I’m wondering, (apart from being the “Commander in Chief” with his finger on the button), if the Presidential Powers are all that they are made out to be. Yes, that finger on the button could be dangerous, but I suspect that Big Money, The bloody Corporations, Wall Street, or whatever else are REALLY the ones who have the final say . . .

    Puppet or president?

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