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    UnderYetOverBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:34pm

    From this old story on Hitler’s rise to power:

    Then you had this period after the Beer Hall Putsch where Hitler came out of prison and a lot of people had forgotten about him. After the Great Depression hit, suddenly the Nazi Party became a major contender for power. Yet you had Americans meeting Hitler and saying, “This guy is a clown. He’s like a caricature of himself.” And a lot of them went through this whole litany about how even if Hitler got into a position of power, other German politicians would somehow be able to control him. A lot of German politicians believed this themselves.

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      toothpetardUnderYetOver
      12/10/15 9:37pm
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      Kenhe LoginUnderYetOver
      12/10/15 9:40pm

      He also achieved high office without a majority and became leader because of a crisis.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:39pm

    A serious chance to win the Republican primaries. Can we really just keep putting this in context, because all of the talk is about how well he’s doing in the GOP primaries. Save for a few outliers - and I think even these pollster admit the likelihood these numbers would hold in a general - he is getting his ass (relatively) kicked in general election match-ups, which have generally been decided by mid-single digit popular vote margins, not even to mention how badly his crazy ass would lose the Electoral College.

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      FlamingTelepathGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      12/10/15 10:00pm

      He’s serving a purpose for even “liberal media”... look at Salon.com on any given day, it’s a joke... every second or third article is about Trump and what a monster he is so CLICK CLICK CLICK.

      If he’s as smart a businessman as he claims, he would have started this whole thing by making a deal with every media outlet and said, “Give me a cut of the proceeds, and I’ll bring you readers, viewers and clicks galore.”

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      GregSamsaFlamingTelepath
      12/10/15 10:06pm

      Ah, Salon. It was one of the first sites I used to visit, long before they did their first redesign that went more to graphics than to lists of articles. It was once a pretty interesting site. Now, it’s just a discombobulated mess lacking any cohesion, and might as well be an aggregate site for random blog posts.

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    Kenhe LoginBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:39pm

    We had a palpable moron run our country for eight years and he was a disaster. He turned a surplus into a deficit, invaded the wrong country and crashed the economy. I almost wish the jihadi pretzel had succeeded. We may not survive another amateur.

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      blandasioKenhe Login
      12/10/15 9:48pm

      As bad as Bush was (and I think he is going to go down alongside Andrew Johnson and Warren Harding as one of the worst), his stupidity is a candle to the shining star of Trump’s incompetence and hate.

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      Kenhe Loginblandasio
      12/10/15 9:51pm

      Heck, Bush had actually been a governor. Key thing is he ran as a conservative governed as a conservative and was a freaking disaster.

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    SqarrBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:28pm

    Congratulations, America.

    This is your id.

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      The Once and Future KingSqarr
      12/10/15 9:36pm

      He’s a mirror. We’re fucked.

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      ThrumbolioSqarr
      12/10/15 9:39pm

      We’re one proud, stubborn, pugnacious collection of assholes.

      I’ve often thought, especially since the advent of the Internet, that we haven’t lived up to our shared potential. Now I’m wondering whether we ever had it.

      But, hey, Red v. Blue 4 LIFE, amirite?

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    Watchu Talkin Bout WillisBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:48pm

    Americans, fear is the sauce that ties us all together. Without fear, we would never know who we are supposed to hate. Americans, I, Tedward Cruz, am here to tell you that it is through your own self loathing that you should draw your strength to vote for me.

    Dig deep America. Look into the forbidden mirror and see yourself for the pond scum that you all are and then admit to yourself that as pond scum, you deserve to be led by slime. Ladies and Gentleman, I am that slime.

    Together, we can coat the final remaining islands of idealism and optimism with a great spasm of darkness that shall bring forward our Lord and Digester from the fogs of Castermyre. By sacrificing ourselves on the anvil of political discourse, we can feed the hungry darkness until our Lord Cthulu is prepared to feast upon our flesh.

    This is why it is imperative that you vote for me,

    Tedward Cruz ESQ PHD DDS DD

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      FarticusWatchu Talkin Bout Willis
      12/10/15 9:55pm

      This deserves all the stars.

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      CanuckistanislausWatchu Talkin Bout Willis
      12/10/15 10:53pm

      Brilliant, truly. The DD standing, of course, for Demon of Darkness?

      Unless of course — as I grant is possible — Cruz is preparing to unzip that barely-plausible, teetering-on-the-edge-of-the-Uncanny-Valley human suit he’s wearing, and reveal himself (herself, I should say) in Her full Satanic Glory as the Whore of Babylon, complete of course with stud-pierced and aggressive double-Ds?

      I mean, you have to admit: after the rise and ... rise? of Donald Trump, it’d amount to a return to relative normality in politics.

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    VanNostrandBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:30pm

    Trump: “There’s nobody in this country, if I wanted to be, that could be more politically correct than me. Nobody. I have a high education.”

    This can't be real.

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      El GiganteVanNostrand
      12/10/15 9:40pm

      It’s all a terrible, Kafkaesque dream. You will wake up when I snap my fingers ... 11 months from now.

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      CanuckistanislausEl Gigante
      12/10/15 10:37pm

      Only trouble with that is: Kafka was, broadly, a realist: or at least thoroughly grounded his fiction in the RealWorld(TM). (Many of his experiences as, in essence, a workers’-compensation bureaucrat read like capsule summaries of non-existent Kafka stories).

      If he came around today, he’d size up Trump over a period of time (needing a little while to get up to speed on the last 80 or so years of history, to learn English, etc.), then just shake his head slowly, throw up his hands, and decline to write a single word. You can neither practice, nor parody, realism if your starting point is a metaphysical Black Hole like Trump.

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    GoatDazureBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:36pm

    I'm sorry, but Christianity and the death penalty do not jive. You can be for one or the other, but not both. It's all right there in the book, end of story.

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      Kenhe LoginGoatDazure
      12/10/15 9:43pm

      I’m sorry but if it was good enough for Jesus.....

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGoatDazure
      12/11/15 1:01am

      Well, first off, good luck with that argument, because most American Christians have disagreed since the founding of the nation.

      And then I have to laugh and laugh and laugh that you think Trump is a Christian or cares about what the religion says. lol

      Bless your heart.

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    BobbySeriousBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:36pm

    Man does this guy know how to speak the language of the angry white man. Wow.

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      Wha had happen wuz . . .BobbySerious
      12/10/15 9:42pm

      He speaks angry white man, scared grandparents AND disaffected white blue collar worker!

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      GaragemonkeeWha had happen wuz . . .
      12/10/15 9:57pm

      As a disaffected white blue collar worker, spot fucking on. The hate and casual racism my coworkers spew on the daily leaves me numb to it all, but I still manage to draw the exact opposite conclusion than all of them. Every. Day. Ugh.

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    KittyReavenBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 9:40pm

    “Nineteen percent of Americans think that terrorism is the most important problem facing the country today”

    You bloody idiots.

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      flamingolingoKittyReaven
      12/10/15 10:30pm

      Trump really is the ultimate Republican. He’s an extremely wealthy white man who has distracted working class whites from the fact that extremely wealthy white men have been fucking them over for decades by pointing at a bunch of brown people and yelling, “get them!”

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    tom.blerschBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 10:05pm

    Plenty of states now consider shooting a police officer a “special circumstance” that makes it a death penalty case. Not that big a deal.

    But those laws tend to be written by the legislatures...not mandated by executive fiat. Trump’s belief that he can override state laws with an executive order is what’s truly scary. I know people like to compare Trump to Hitler...but even Hitler understood he couldn’t just ignore the Reichstag.

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      Gary-Xtom.blersch
      12/11/15 12:17am

      It’s mostly just bemusing to me since so many Trump supporters constantly rag on Obama’s use of executive orders.

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      I Have No Account and I Must PostGary-X
      12/11/15 9:18am

      I bet you know what I’m gonna say the difference is.

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