I listened to Donald Trumps Speech...I have to tell you

[yuiyoshida]

I have never heard so much fear and loathing in my life.. He gave the Impression that America was under attack not only from abroad but from within. He promised swift justice...which to me sounded a lot like military action, the possible use of Nuclear weapons. No Nuclear weapons have been used since World War Two. I am thinking that, that is a record Donald Trump is not afraid to break. His vision for America is to use the military swiftly and he also stated he will be the Law and Order candidate. Militarized Police? Most Likely.

This man has no clue what is going on in the world.. no clue. But he is willing to make America a mirror image of what Putin has in Russia. Its bad enough we have lost some of our freedoms, but it sounds like, at least to me, the last of them, will fly out the windows. It will truly be like a George Orwell novel.. except it will be real. We HAVE TO STOP THIS.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Fear sells. The GOP produces it by the ton.

This is just more proof.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. We are not Russia, hopefully... We don't need a daddy.

[Mika]

3. Strong leadership is code for daddy dearest.

GOPers have done their level-best to inculcate authoritarian personality disorders throughout this country. Americans seem to want a strong leader to shepherd them to safety/security.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. You nailed it, like in Russia.

[flamingdem]

4. We need to connect him to Putin and Mussolini

That is his mentality

[bora13]

19. putin and melania?

not to create a conspiracy theory or anything, but what do we know about Melania's past?

[flamingdem]

30. Hitler Youth?

[Wounded Bear]

50. Like this?

[George II]

59. Scary comparison, but entirely true.

[flamingdem]

60. wow, yes!

[MineralMan]

5. To stop it, GOTV like crazy for Hillary.

That's the answer.

[REALforever]

10. Just an aside, but exposing Trump in the mold of Mussolini is a path towards GOTV

The parallels must be shown to those who are educated enough to understand what it means A) and B), to those who do NOT and are thus ignorant(FOX News types).. Thank you

[MineralMan]

15. Almost nobody still alive has any contemporary memory of Mussolini.

Drawing that comparison only reaches people who care about history. People do know who Hitler was, but not so many know much about Mussolini. In that sense, there's little point in the comparison, really. I understand it. You understand it, but most voters don't understand the comparison at all, and aren't interested in an explanation of it.

This is the 2016 campaign, and we need to focus on 2016 and the near future and the recent past. That's what people remember. That's what people understand.

[AlbertCat]

41. Almost nobody still alive has any contemporary memory of Mussolini

Mussolini..... oh yeah! Those little Italian cars! Or was it a type of biscotti?

Even a lot of people who actually know who Mussolini was don't know he (and not Hitler) sorta "invented" fascism. People kinda know what fascism is, but a lot think it's just totalitarian and don't get the connection to commerce and big business.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. "We have nothing to offer but FEAR itself" may as well be the Republican slogan.

[Her Sister]

13. Apoplectic R US

[mountain grammy]

7. I could only make it for 45 minutes..

He said nothing about anything.. just fear and loathing all the time. Unbelievable that we're here today.

[kairos12]

8. He is a typical Reich Wing Chicken Hawk bedwetter. Like Shrub and Cheney.

Rangers Lead the Way.

[griloco]

14. Hey, Trump is a "vet"

You poor uninformed people!     Trump served in Vietnam, albeit his own Vietnam, and emerged without neither scratch nor itch thus not receiving a Purple Prick Medal.

[Motley13]

57. He is a hero

he survived STDs

[emulatorloo]

29. Yet some here accept the framing that he is the "Change Candidate"

He's more of the same.

[dmosh42]

9. The Nazis are back!

[Her Sister]

12. Adolf Hitler - speech (English Subtitles).

[yuiyoshida]

18. Thanks for that...

I have always seen films of Hitler, but they were of course in German, which I don't speak so I never understood what he was saying. The subtitles make a huge difference, but as I watch this even in Black and White, its still chilling to see just how cold and calculated the Nazi's were. Had they gotten a hold of Nuclear weapons, I am sure they would have made thousands of them and devastated this planet.

Now, fast forward to his age, there are thousands of Nukes here in America, and Donald Trump is not afraid to use them.

[zappaman]

16. yeah, there's a whole website of ex-DUers who think a Trump presidency isn't a bad thing.

they hate Hillary sooooo much that they don't mind Trump winning.
apparently it would be such a disaster that the whole country would turn progressive or something.

how crazy is that???

[yuiyoshida]

20. There is nothing wrong with Progressive, Progressive is looking forward...

but its the Rightwing ideology that I am afraid of. This country becoming another Putin Paradise would be a disaster in the making.

[zappaman]

21. Progressive is not thinking Trump winning is a good thing.

As many there do.
So if you're saying they aren't really progressive, then I agree.

[yuiyoshida]

23. Progressive thinking is looking towards the future and doing something to maintain that future...

Conservative thinking is trying to make things like they were in the past. Like they said in Star Trek, that's the wrong direction, we want to go. The future is ours... and for generations to come. Conservatives won't even come up with money to fix the things that are in the present. This past 8 years, Republicans have sat on their hands refusing to do anything for that "Black man in the office". They didn't want to give him any credit for anything even if he acted on their own ideas. That is not what we need. What we need now is to look at our goals of the future, and make sure we implement them so everyone will benefit.

[apcalc]

35. Crazy.

[AlbertCat]

43. there's a whole website of ex-DUers who think a Trump presidency isn't a bad thing.

No there isn't. Not at all.

But there are people on here now who think "free speech zones" are great!

how crazy is that???

[zappaman]

46. Sure there is. n/t

[AlbertCat]

55. Sure there is.

In your imagination.

That's why you won't name the site you think you're being clever dissing.


Not liking Hillary does not mean one likes Trump. Implying so is merely a smear.

It's up to Hillary to inspire people to vote for her.

[MohRokTah]

56. Actually, yes, there is such a site.

I read them for myself.

Some who post they love Trump over there continue to post shit here, too.

And I have no problem with anybody who disrupts the proceedings inside the convention being forced to stay a minimum of two miles away from the site.

[AlbertCat]

58. being forced to stay a minimum of two miles away from the site.

Yes, I saw that some here are all for "first amendment zones"...

Unbelievable!

[Legends303]

17. I hope no one falls for this speech

I know things are tough but not amargadan if you don't vote for the orange man.

[calimary]

22. Unfortunately, many will.

His poll numbers will improve, short-term. Everybody gets a convention bounce, even if it's only a little. I'm just glad OUR side gets its week, this coming week, to wipe that all away and set the record straight. OUR convention bounce will be corrective.

[yuiyoshida]

44. You are right...

By the time Next week rolls around, the only thing they will remember about the Republican convention was Trump's wife Rick Rolling the crowd. Once Democrats grab the lime light, you will hear, hopefully how America can be a beacon in the darkness, and how democracy is the greatest ideology in the world.

[SCVDem]

24. WOLVERINES!

Who would have thought the enemy would be our own Trump ordered military.

As a Marine Corps veteran, I could not allow this takeover and would have to fight in a resistance movement.

See tRump? We vets also took an oath which ends when we die!

Vote Hillary and let's not make my hypothetical outcome happen.

[Wounded Bear]

52. I'm with you...

although your choice of football teams leaves something to be desired. Go Seahawks!

Trump could be a disaster for us vets. I depend on VA medical to keep me alive, well sort of, but all my medical is through them. I can't afford civilian care.

I want a Hillary win, a Senate flip, and Bernie back chairing the Veteran's Affairs committee.

[Politicub]

25. I woke up with a feeling of anxiety and dread

Wondering when Trump's storm troopers will come for me and my husband.

I hope the best of America stops this ugly, hateful menace from burning the world.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. It's like the movie "The Holcroft Covenant"

except the protagonist has knowledge of what he is doing here

The movie was widely panned, but I always like Michael Caine

Robert Ludlum's books were great because, to quote Wikipedia,

they and The Holcroft Covenant "reflected the theory that terrorists, rather than being merely isolated bands
of ideologically motivated extremists, are actually pawns of governments or private
organizations who are using them to facilitate the establishment of authoritarian rule."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum

[elmac]

48. Just watched that movie

Love Michael Caine gov agent & cold war movies. I believe in that theory. It is used to control the general population and for a few to amass great wealth and power. We do not live in a democracy.

[onecaliberal]

27. This country is nothing like he painted it.

His supporters are more stupid than a bag of dirt.

[HoosierCowboy]

28. Enuf Said:

[Sunlei]

31. Republican used putins quote"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them"

more people in our overflowing prisons. more lives destroyed.

[tblue37]

32. He has expressed admiration for the dictatorial practices of Putin, Kim Jong Un, and

Saddam Hussein. He is not running for president, but for emperor of the world.

[yuiyoshida]

33. Trump really is a narcissist!

Narcissism is a less extreme version of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Narcissism involves cockiness, manipulativeness, selfishness, power motives, and vanity-a love of mirrors. Related personality traits include: Psychopathy, Machiavellianism. Narcissists tend to have high self-esteem.

[humbled_opinion]

34. You can't deny that he set himself up

to capitalize on new terror attacks, more cop shootings, bad economic news, I guess we better hope none of those things transpire in the next couple of months.

[toddwv]

36. "Make America Hate Again!"

As if it ever truly stopped...

[AllyCat]

37. And it has worked for one in my family

Disappointing conversation with her today and she says we need to save our country from "all these people wanting freebies".

[yuiyoshida]

40. I guess that includes disabled Veterans

Republicans think many of them should have just died in a war, so they don't have to come back to America and rely on the US government to give them free health care, and medicines. If they had their way there would be no Veterans Hospitals, they would rather VETS just off themselves despite the fact, they served their country far more than many have.

[AllyCat]

42. Her veiled text means melanated people.

I bet it has not even crossed her mind about vets.

[yuiyoshida]

45. ah, or people like me...

ya know, with our funny eyes and all...

[NYC Liberal]

51. Oh good! She wants to end massive tax cuts for the mooching rich and make dead-beat corporations

pay their fair share! That's what she's talking about right?

[Trust Buster]

38. The guy would rip up the Iran nuclear agreement on day one and choose war.

Domestically he is totalitarian. He played the straight "Fear card" last night because he thinks so little of the average Republican's intellect.

[Sheepshank]

39. its very same platform Der Feuhrer ran on

but who's looking at history?

[alterfurz]

47. Triumph of the Swill

[still_one]

49. Might I suggest get out the vote for Hillary

[Wounded Bear]

53. Amen...nt

[ancianita]

54. I'd like to believe you but the primary vote numbers he quoted do show an enthusiasm gap.

At the start of his speech:

Who would have believed that when we started this journey on June 16th of last year we – and I say “we” because we are a team – would have received almost 14 million votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party, and that the Republican Party would get 60 percent more votes than it received four years ago. The Democrats, on the other hand, received almost 20 percent fewer votes than they got eight years ago.

GOTV for sure, because if these numbers hold, many of us will l have to learn what world his win might have come from, if we don't try to get a clue about that world in time for GOTV efforts.