Dick Van Dyke on Donald Trump

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[Phoenix61]

1. I've always liked him.

From Rob Petrie to Bert and everything in-between.

[Skittles]

2. do you have a link to that quote

Mr. Van Dyke NAILS him

[book_worm]

5. this has an extended look at the quote

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dick-van-dyke-trump-dictator/

[VOX]

29. The longer excerpt from the Tavis Smiley interview is even BETTER:

Thanks for posting the link.

From the snopes link provided above by book_worm:

The thing about Trump is he’s a dime a dozen. Without his father he would have been a used car salesman. But most disappointing, there are millions of people who share his paranoia and his anger and his hatred. That’s what bothers me. It really sounds like the dumbing-down of America to me.

Some of the people I talk to, I get the impression that there’s kind of a fuzzy line for them between the Constitution and the Bible. The quotes are intermixed, it’s very strange. They interviewed some people who didn’t know what the three branches of government are.

As I said, this is not another one of those lesser of two evils, we’ve already been through that. I think we have to stop a man who wants to be the dictator. I think we’ll be in a war within a month if he’s in office. It bothers me that people can’t read him.

I think the Republicans just think they’ll be able to control him, with the House and the Senate, and they’ll be able to steer. It is such a bare exposure of the greed and the lust for power. You can see it in Republican Senators and the people who are supporting him, for no other reason than it’s power.

[Honeycombe8]

6. Here's this...

Taken from the Snopes article:

Link to tweet

[spanone]

3. K&R...

[samnsara]

4. I love him.. I need my nightly fix of The Dick Van Dyke Show..

...before bed. Hes like a glass of warm chocolate milk ( cuz warm milk just aint right).

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Spot on and a wonderful actor and human being. Loved his latest on Mary Poppins!

Wonderful sequel.

[MBS]

8. Right on the money. n/t

[ClusterFreak]

9. Extremely well stated.

[StarfishSaver]

10. I love that two 1960s tv icons - Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke - were and are liberal Democrats!

Start at 1:15

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Somebody's gonna get a nickname.

Well, he asked for it, now VanDyke can suffer the full wrathful venom of a 7th grader gone berserk.
I feel for him.

[smb]

25. Maybe Napoleon Boneyspurs Can Call Him "Asterisks"...

...based on what dumb profanity filters routinely did to his name.

[paleotn]

12. Indeed. Ain't it obvious.

That's the thing that gets me too. It's freaking obvious what IQ45 is all about.

[TryLogic]

24. The religious community believes God is in charge, so God made Trump president...

God and Putin, I presume. So Trump's past and present behavior does not matter to them. It may actually be troubling, but they trust that God has a plan. "God acts in mysterious ways." Ha... but not funny.

And for many of them, religious control of government is much more important than democracy. This is a serious problem.

I think the solution is a whole lot of thoughtful and well informed voters... VOTING.

[lambchopp59]

30. "Hitler's fight and Luther's teaching are the best defense for the German people."

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A public appeal released by German Christian leaders claimed that “the eternal God created for our nation a law that is peculiar to its own kind. It took shape in the Leader Adolf Hitler, and in the National Socialist state created by him. This law speaks to us from the history of our people. . . . It is loyalty to this law which demands of us the battle for honor and freedom . . . One Nation! One God! One Reich! One Church!"
Sort of puts some sickening perspective on MAGAt's inabiility to introspect and learn lessons from the most shameful periods of history.

[Harker]

13. He's timeless. n/t

[certainot]

14. it's the fucking talk radio and americans aren't going to recognize it until the left stops

ignoring it

[Initech]

16. But how do you police it?

I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.

[certainot]

17. not policing it. make the ad industry have to ask clients if they really support trump, GW denial,

racism etc.

artificial intelligence now makes it easy, fast and cheaper by an order of magnitude to digitize talk radio, search for, list advertisers, and associate them with content. if the ad industry sees it happening it'll have to start adjusting

boycotts of all RW radio stations and protests at the 88 universities that broadcast sports on 260 limbaugh stations, along with digitizing it to monitor and study it will ensure the ad industry will destroy the rw radio monopoly by finally applying market demand to it instead of propping it up by bundling reluctant clients onto it and pretending limbaugh and sons are just political entertainers being controversial to catch ears. they want those loud radio stations.

[Midnight Writer]

21. Sounds good, but the right wing radio stations in my rural area don't seem to rely on advertising.

They run 24 hour hate talk, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, plus others not as well known. But when the host goes to break, they run music, public interest notices, or even dead air. There is rarely an ad selling services or products.


I believe there is a hidden source of funding for these stations.

[certainot]

22. " hidden funding" - that would be a great story because the RW blowhards always push

the lie that they're what america wants to hear. it would be good ammo for straightening this out - i imagine there are investors involved in some of the ownership who even if republican would prefer a a different approach.

small stations can probably survive with a few ads but not the louder ones

[Initech]

15. Spot on!

[smirkymonkey]

18. K&R

[lindysalsagal]

19. Fight or flight reptile brain: Some brains are stuck in it, 24/7

https://excellenceassured.com/2963/fear-and-your-reptilian-brain

Where does fear fit into this? Well, fear is a fight or flight response isn’t it? It comes directly from the unconscious reptilian brain. Our reptilian brain is programmed to help us to survive in a prehistoric world, and so we are programmed to fear anything that might be associated with a threat to our survival. That’s great but the problem is that this is deeply unconscious within us and the unconscious mind works with symbols and patterns.

The unconscious mind tries to make sense of our world by associating current and perceived future events with past events using symbols. So where it thinks that it recognises a threat to survival, the response is fear and therefore fight or flight. Think now about Christopher Columbus, setting off out into the unknown, his reptilian mind must have been screaming “stop!!!” but he was able to overcome this.

[Achilleaze]

20. Well said, Mr. Van Dyke

[bdamomma]

23. Well Dick Van Dyke

gets it. The dumbing down of Americans has been steadily increasing for a number of years.

[Scurrilous]

26. K&R

[The Wielding Truth]

27. Brainwashing is what I think has happened in the US. From Limbaugh's hyperbole and anti democracy

bluster to the lies on FOX NEWS, this constant media attack has been giving the American public a false reality that has taken them to a state where they can accept of a man who is totally unworthy of his position. There must be a scrubbing of media so that the values of truth over fact-less slanted opinion is brought to the forefront. Honest discussions must be the diet of our democracy.

[Soxfan58]

28. He didn't tap dance around that

Have loved DVD since he first tripped over the Ottoman