The Most Dangerous Angry Mob stems from Trumpeters & the Far-Right, not Dem Protesters…Remember Charlottesville! It was not so much “both sides!” We’ll reveal more about the GOP’s false rhetoric on their perceived angry mob & deceptive scare tactics further on below here in part 2. It’s all part of Trump & his cult are constantly proven to be incapable of telling the truth. Anyone who’s paying attention, we know for a fact our president is a chronic liar. Since his inauguration, the number of verifiable lies are approaching 6000! That’s an awful lot! It’s very hard to explain but we can certainly try: a-psychologist-explains-why-trump-lies-so-much. As these excerpts state from inside speaking-out-is-contagious, that even though it takes persistence, truth-tellers don’t quit & speaking up is contagious! Maybe some of what they’re hinting at is to spread around TheVORACS site?:
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for truth. We don’t need to go back over it all: A hearing and investigation that seemed more concerned with providing cover for a foregone conclusion than with uncovering facts. The crocodile tears for survivors, before tossing them casually under the bus. The desperate pleas from those—constituents of Sen. Susan Collins, former drinking buddies of the judge—who wanted to believe the fix wasn’t in. We’ve seen our democratic institutions bend a great deal since the ascendancy of Donald Trump, but in the Kavanaugh hearings, it felt like something snapped. It felt like, one after the other, the institutions that might uncover the truth or at least sanction a lie—Congress, the FBI, the judiciary—were being co-opted and reined in. And that’s not just something we felt in our guts.
None other than the RAND Corporation, the historically center-right think tank with roots in the defense industry, recently published a report warning of “truth decay“—the phenomenon where people, exposed to a daily flood of falsehood and spin, can no longer agree about what’s actually real. It’s hard to overstate the urgency of this. Truth decay rots the foundations of democracy, and we may not yet know how deep the damage goes. But there is something else we learned from this episode: Truth-tellers don’t quit, and speaking up is contagious. Christine Blasey Ford told her story despite the hate and mockery she knew would ensue. Friends of Brett Kavanaugh went public despite abuse and threats. Because truth decay isn’t going away anytime soon—and because in the end, we still believe the truth will prevail. Even now. It just takes persistence.
Not enough of us at this point in time
But us ex-GOP supporters fervently hope if we persevere, the party can someday return to rationality, honesty & moral integrity. Here are most of the comments from an-update-on-the-nevertrump-movement, which myself also being adamantly #NeverTrump, I wholeheartedly believe what Boot says here:
So, is it time for Trump’s center-right critics to break out their “MAGA” hats? I can’t speak for other #NeverTrumpers — we few, we unhappy few — but my opposition to the president has not diminished one iota. I was instantly and viscerally opposed to Trump from the moment he came down the escalator at Trump Tower denouncing Mexicans as rapists and murderers — and everything that’s happened in the three-plus years since has only deepened my revulsion. I lay out the reasons why in my new book, “The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.” But, publishing deadlines being what they are, I could not update the book after early August. So let’s briefly review a few of the lowlights since. Trump withdrew a security clearance from former CIA director John Brennan to punish him for his criticism, leading a bipartisan group of former intelligence leaders to denounce Trump for this attempt to “stifle free speech.” Trump’s former aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, published a scathing memoir. He responded by calling her a “crazed, crying lowlife,” once again engaging in “unpresidented” behavior. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of eight felonies and pleaded guilty to two more to avoid a second trial, pledging to fully cooperate with the special counsel in the probe of possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felonies of his own and implicated the president in two of them — a conspiracy to violate federal campaign finance laws by paying off a porn star and a Playboy playmate. After Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) died, Trump refused to pay tribute to an American hero. He even resisted lowering federal flags for a week until forced to do so by outcry from veterans’ groups. Trump complained that the Justice Department should not indict two Republicans in Congress because it would jeopardize their seats. It is hard to imagine a more blatant attempt to politicize justice — unless it’s Trump’s nonstop abuse of his own attorney general for allowing a special counsel to investigate him. Bob Woodward released a book quoting Trump’s closest aides describing him as an “idiot,” a “professional liar” and someone with the mentality of a “fifth- or sixth-grader.” That judgment was confirmed by a senior administration official who anonymously wrote a New York Times op-eddenouncing Trump for “half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions” that are “detrimental to the health of our republic.” Trump denied that 3,000 people had died in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Maria. He claimed, based on zero evidence, that the death toll was a Democratic plot against him. In a speech to the United Nations, Trump touted his supposed achievements — and had to endure the humiliating spectacle of the world’s representatives laughing at him. He has literally (and rightly) made the United States a laughingstock. The New York Times published a massive exposé accusing Trump and his family of defrauding the government of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. Trump’s professional defenders think this is no big deal — akin to fishing without a license. But Vice President Spiro Agnew had to resign office after being charged with tax evasion.
Compared to this unprecedented accumulation of egregiousness, Trump’s purported achievements fade into insignificance. His bare-knuckle renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement alienated our neighbors (only 39 percent of Canadians and 32 percent of Mexicans have a favorable view of the United States) while restricting, rather than expanding, trade. The biggest difference between NAFTA, which Trump called the “worst trade deal ever,” and the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), which he calls “a great deal”? The name. As for Kavanaugh’s confirmation: Conservatives are happy, because they are convinced that he will legislate their priorities (no abortion, no affirmative action, no Obamacare) from the bench. But the cost is much too high: After his partisan, evasive confirmation performance, Kavanaugh’s ascension delegitimizes the court. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations were no “hoax,” as Trump now claims (after previously calling her “very credible”), and his mockery of her sends a cruel message to sexual abuse victims. By claiming that anti-Kavanaugh protesters were paid agents of George Soros, Trump is embracing an anti-Semitic canard employed by tyrants such as Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin. Oh, and Trump denounces “mob rule” while inciting his own mob to chant “lock her up” about Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Trump said he is in “love” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, one of the worst human-rights violators on the planet, and had little to say when Saudi Arabia was accused of murdering and dismembering Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. The only people he thinks are “evil” are Kavanaugh critics. So forgive me if I don’t recant my #NeverTrumpism. In fact, every day, and in nearly every way, Trump confirms my initial judgment that he is unfit to be president. Too bad ever-fewer conservatives are willing to admit what is so obvious to most Americans.
Out to get Trump?
Yes & no. Yes, 92% of media coverage about Trump is negative: mrc-donald-trump-media-abc. No, it’s not the media’s fault. Trumpeters & the echo can complain about it all they want, but maybe they should consider 92% of Trump’s words & deeds are destructive, dishonest &/or ridiculous. Perhaps those Trump fans could be schooled by taking this course on “Trumpaganda:” university-of-illinois-offering-course-on-trumpaganda. And despite the rabid cult members who attend his rallies, those speeches are increasingly unhinged, repetitive & boring, to where even his state-run TV network has lost interest: trump-tv-ratings-fox-news. It’s just the nauseating repetition which is making them so boring: politics/trump-maga-rally-play.
Fox Rubbish
No part 2 section could ever be complete without showing the stupidity that regularly emanates out of the Fox News studios. These links are more of the seemingly never-ending examples where Fox viewers are being fed a toxic stew:
Numbskulls make Trump’s list!
Trump reads off his idiots list to the crowd, a veritable who’s who of the most delusional nudniks on Fox fake news, featuring Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, Dobbs, Judge Jeanine & the morning airheads. Yep, he identified the worst of the worst, as seen in the article posted here from donald-trump-fox-news-friends-hannity:
President Donald Trump took a detour during his campaign rally in Iowa on Tuesday to list all of his “great friends” at Fox News. Trump, who has received notably positive coverage from many of the personalities at the cable news network, was starting to make a point about Democrats during his latest pre-midterm rally when he veered off course to credit a number of Fox News hosts. “Now the Democrats, or as some people would say ‘the dims,’” Trump began. “‘The dims,’ who says that? Lou Dobbs, the great Lou Dobbs, he says that, right? Sean Hannity says that. ‘The dims.’ Sean Hannity. Judge Jeanine [Pirro] says that, doesn’t she? Laura [Ingraham]. Laura, how good has Laura been, right? We got a lot of good people. Do we like Tucker [Carlson]? I like Tucker. How about Steve Doocey, how about Ainsley [Earhardt], Brian [Kilmeade]? We got a lot of great friends.” Doocey, Earhardt and Kilmeade host Fox News’ morning show, Fox & Friends, which Trump frequently pays tribute to on Twitter and regularly tweets about while watching. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump tweeted a confusing comment about paid protesters against Brett Kavanaugh, seemingly referencing an interview that appeared on the show just minutes earlier.
Dobbs, who hosts a nightly show on Fox Business, has also had an immediate influence on Trump. After Dobbs highlighted an unsubstantiated claim about Google search results being biased against the president, Trump tweeted about it, prompting his chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow to say that they were investigating. Carlson, who has parroted a number of white nationalist talking points on his show and has been hailed by those who hold such views, has also been a fierce defender of Trump. In August, after Carlson highlighted a white nationalist conspiracy theory about large numbers of white farmers being murdered in South Africa, Trump told his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate. Trump’s closest relationship with a Fox News personality, however, is reported to be with Hannity. So frequent is the communication between the pair that one Trump adviser told The Washington Post earlier this year that Hannity “basically has a desk in the place.” Some White House aides reportedly even refer to Hannity as the unofficial chief of staff. Trump’s relationship with Fox News grew closer still when former network executive Bill Shine was appointed as White House communications director in July. But Trump is not getting as much attention from Fox News as he once enjoyed. As their frequency have increased ahead of the midterms, in the past week Fox News has stopped devoting key chunks of its primetime schedule to Trump’s rallies.
The Angry Mob
We do see many instances of an angry mob increasingly putting journalists at risk, as revealed inside journalists-killed-and-arrested-around-the-world, which Trump is helping to incite. The Hill has articles on how the GOP is using the narrative of an angry mob to rile up their base, seen inside trump-never-lets-facts-get-in-the-way-of-fear-mongering & also democrats-see-hypocrisy-in-gop-attacks-on-liberal-mob. There are additional titles to articles at the very bottom you could look up, where Trump & his GOP are using disingenuous fear mongering on topics like that angry mob & scaring seniors about their healthcare coverage, trying to stir up their fans to turn out for the midterms. Another article about their drummed up delusions of an angry mob are in these excerpts from why-is-the-mob-angry-because-trump-is-ripping-us-apart-with-bigotry-and-hatred:
President Trump and Republicans have adopted a closing electoral strategy that depicts the Democratic Party and “angry” leftist protests against Trumpian rule as the only real reigning threat to our country’s civic fabric and the rule of law. A new Republican National Committee video juxtaposes footage of leading mainstream Democratic figures with that of angry protesters, while decrying “the left” as an “unhinged mob.” As absurd as this conflation is on its face, it has smuggled itself into the mainstream debate, where it is getting a quasi-respectful hearing, in the form of a public argument over whether Democrats are “going low,” or tacitly egging on their voters to violence, or, by adopting the smashmouth media tactics of Michael Avenatti, succumbing to “Avenatti-ism.” But much of the resulting debate over all this is hollow, because it is not putting these basic realities front and center: Trump, more than any leading U.S. figure in recent memory, has actively tried to stoke civil conflict on as many fronts as possible. He has concertedly subverted the rule of law, not just to shield himself from accountability, but, more to the point for present purposes, with the deliberate purpose of exciting his minority base — and enraging millions on the other side of the cultural divide — in a manner that is thoroughly corrupt to its core. Witnessing this gaping hole in the debate is akin to watching a team of doctors diagnose a patient with advanced stages of brain cancer without acknowledging the existence of his tumor.
Republicans, of course, have disingenuously seized on these remarks to claim Democrats are inciting violence. That’s nonsense. The meaning of these quotes is plain: They are a declaration that desperate times call for harder-edged procedural, political and electoral measures — an insistence that Democrats must forthrightly reckon with the true aims and nature of Republican countermajoritarian tactics, Trump’s illiberal, authoritarian politics, and the overlap between the two. But nonetheless, the Times piece says that such exhortations from Democrats “risk playing into the hands” of Trump and Republicans who are painting the prospect of a Democratic takeover as a victory for the “mob.” This echoes how much of this debate has played among reporters and commentators. But characterizing the argument this way rigs it in favor of Trump and Republicans, because it does not acknowledge agency on their part. It treats the anger on the Democratic side as existing in a kind of vacuum, as if previous conduct by Trump and Republicans had no role in the current deterioration.
To review: Trump has spent the past 18 months actively stoking civil tensions with concerted and deliberate provocations on as many cultural and racial fronts as possible. Importantly, we know he did this to please his supporters — in some cases abusing presidential power to do so — because reporting has established it to be the case. After Trump blamed white-supremacist violence on “many sides” rather than uambiguously condemning it, Trump felt “vindicated,” because he thought his base would cheer him. Stephen K. Bannon then candidly suggested the resultant racial strife was a winner for Trump, after which Trump repeated his “many sides” formulation. Trump corruptly pardoned Joe Arpaio, who victimized and abused untold numbers of Latinos, after concluding it was “a way of pleasing his political base.” Trump launched attacks on prominent African American athletes for the act of protesting systemic racism in the belief that doing so “revs up his political base.” Trump went out of his way to attack Christine Blasey Ford at a rally, not in spite of, but because of, the fact that it would further polarize a country already getting ripped apart over the Brett Kavanaugh battle. After winning, Trump characterized her claims as nothing but a “hoax,” contemptuously dismissing the millions of people who deeply believed Ford deserved serious treatment as a symbol of mass victimization by sexual assault. Many Republicans have adopted this line as well — in a sense the “angry mob” strategy is itself sneeringly dismissive of the political values and aspirations of those millions.
Evangelicals
I’ve supplied a number of examples lately where evangelicals are being deceived in this Trump era, which another one is inside analysis/prosperity-gospel-donald-trump, but there are a few hopeful signs some evangelicals are rediscovering their moral compasses: anti-trump-evangelicals-nationwide-bus. Plus some have come to realize gridlock-Teddy is really a big phony: texas-beto-orourke-evangelicals-women.
Kavanaugh
Evangelicals were instrumental in giving us Justice Kavanaugh, which could prove a headache for the highest court in potentially many decades to come. Right from the get-go they’re looking into misconduct complaints: kavanaugh-complaints-judicial-misconduct-john-roberts-transfer. The one positive takeaway is how the Kavanaugh confirmation has the Dem base fired up, especially women, which should usher in the big blue wave: poll-kavanaugh-confirmation-energizes-democrats-more-than-gop. Inside these links below, the FBI Director did admit the White House limited their probe into Kavanaugh’s sexual abuse allegations. Trump & the GOP were afraid to let the truth come out:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/kavanaugh-fbi-probe-limit-888667
More articles on the GOP’s scare tactics with claims of the Dems’ angry mob & taking away your Medicare
Of course their claims are ridiculous, but I guess the GOP needs something to run on. So the Trump/echo scare tactics include the Dems are the party of crime, attacking mobs, taking Medicare away from seniors, & other half-truths or complete falsehoods. It features the ridiculous spin Trump put in a USA Today opinion piece this week. Here’s the truth about the GOP lies in these numerous article titles which you could look up, since we’re limiting the total number of our outbound links coming from our blog:
Angry Mob articles to search
salon/trumps-usa-today-op-ed-the-real-point-was-to-threaten-his-enemies-with-violence
washingtonpost/trump-law-enforcements-worst-nightmare
washingtonpost/republicans-used-to-love-the-sound-of-an-angry-mob-what-happened
washingtonpost/how-democrats-must-respond-to-trumps-not-so-subtle-digs
washingtonpost/trump-his-supporters-due-process-gives-way-lock-her-up
nytimes/trump-rally-opponents
thedailybeast/gop-candidate-threatens-to-stomp-all-over-gov-tom-wolfs-face-with-golf-spikes
usnews/mcconnell-gop-pushing-mob-behavior-branding-of-dems
usatoday/trump-republicans-democrats-socialists-mobs-election
washingtonpost/republicans-who-clucked-that-clinton-and-obama-disrespected-the-oval-office-never-heard-kanye-wests-f-bomb
msn/republicans-are-distracting-you
Healthcare/Medicare
huffingtonpost/trump-health-care-op-ed-usa-today
huffingtonpost/fact-check-trump-op-ed-usa-today
thinkprogress/all-the-presidents-lies-about-medicare-for-all
slate/trump-usa-today-op-ed-republicans-fight-single-payer-medicare-for-all
vox/donald-trump-medicare-for-all-2018-midterm-elections
vox/trump-usa-today-op-ed-medicare-health-care
washingtonpost/trumps-usa-today-piece-reveals-gops-massive-problem-on-health-care
washingtonpost/trump-and-the-republicans-offer-ridiculous-lies-about-medicare
washingtonpost/fact-checking-president-trumps-usa-today-op-ed-medicare-for-all
msn/it-is-absurd-that-trump-is-taking-credit-for-falling-obamacare-premiums
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