that panders to the ill-informed, frightened, and self-centered.

Yuck. A national embarrassment.

What is the matter with this country that Trump matters?

to the point where the lines between truth and lie has been blurred and some cannot distinguish which is real.
Americans are commonly short sighted also and easy to fool.
Fix news has been doing exactly what the Donald is doing right now for 18 years. Its always been dangerous. The Donald didnt invent the technique and Fix news does not own it. Its fascism , plain and simple. This is what it looks like. They are all fascists.
With their fascist dog whistles like 'anchor babies' and illegals. Attacking poor people on food stamps, thats fascism.
It is this easy to allow these creeps to get into our government.
Its 20 years of hate radio. Its no longer hidden in the closet. Its en vogue to wear your hatred on your sleeve in the conservative party. Then you can go to church and its ok. Your a good person, even if you hate poor people for the crime of being poor. Constantly in poverty. Dirty poor people. They make you uncomfortable . Fix news and the Flush boy have your back.

These people, live in a whole different reality than you and I.

has come to life and is now tearing the castle down on top of them.

They can't back down/run away now because the mob of crazies outside with pitchforks and torches will slaughter them. So they have no choice but to stay in the castle while Trumpenstein destroys it and them with it.

the Stars 'n Bars flags have all been laundered and folded in wait for their resurrection!

the "Stars 'n Bars". But I've been hearing the confederate flag called the Stars n bars too. Thanks you for setting me straight here. I guess I'm part of the stupid. Could we call me "ignorant"? I like the tone of that better.

Now - how many folks are gonna have a clue when I talk about the St Andrews cross?

NOBODY can sniff the wind these days better than Matt Taibbi can. If he's scared, it's time to be scared.

violent and racist.

Yeats called it nearly a century ago.

The beast still slouches towards Bethlehem.

Now we have this. The stupid is loose. "It Can't Happen Here" flavored with celebrity, even worse. Yikes.

From now on, he's exposed for all to see as the NAZI rat he is.

two guys with long criminal records, are blaming somebody else's words for the violence they chose to engage in.

...that words from political leaders have no effect on the behavior of their followers? Even when said followers quote said political leader?

No one is arguing that those two thugs are not to blame for what they did. But so is Trump to blame for his contributions to a heightened atmosphere of hatred against immigrants in general, and Mexicans / Latinos in particular. That homeless man could have been a US citizen -- you can't tell by looking at someone whether or not they are a citizen -- although many people do make assumptions based on race. Trump's rhetoric on this topic is completely racially-charged.

Were you equally dismissive of the anti-government rhetoric of the right, when that lunatic flew his private plane into an IRS building in Texas? Did you dismiss the effects of th white supremacist rhetoric that the young man quoted, when he killed 9 people at a historic black church recently? Do you think all of these things happen in a vacuum?

Or is this just a gratuitous "I don't like Matt Taibbi" post?

He took the trouble to type words, instead of just a ROFL

Trump is following the same type of script but with different scapegoats.

But other Repugs are also following the script, except without as many of the colorful ("I can't look away.... I can't look away) clown theatrics.

and as for funny-peculiar, he's got lots of company on the male side of the species.

Next!

His dehumanization of women was never funny.

I judge someone's character by how they treat "the little guy". Trump gets a big fat F.

Wonder if he means "much?"

His older brother who he admired greatly died of alcoholism. He claims he's never touched the stuff. Same for drugs. He doesn't even drink coffee.

this means he’s arrogant, mean and loud all on his own!

I remember sitting with a group of friends and laughing as we watched Ronald Reagan say he was running for President in 1976, as if he would ever have a chance.............

That a significant portion of the population is supporting this based on polls.

... is textbook sociopath. Only a complete narcissist devoid of empathy for others could subscribe tothe message of malice that defines the Republican Party.

This profane stanza describes the American right perfectly.

"People are tired of rules and tired of having to pay lip service to decorum. They want to stop having to watch what they say and think and just get "crazy," as Thomas Friedman would put it.

Trump's campaign is giving people permission to do just that. It's hard to say this word in conjunction with such a sexually unappealing person, but his message is a powerful aphrodisiac. Fuck everything, fuck everyone. Fuck immigrants and fuck their filthy lice-ridden kids. And fuck you if you don't like me saying so."

in the collar, natch.

to me that Trump never answers a question. He is a master at the blah, blah, blah reply.

The Billy Ray Joe Bob, between the Dew and the Herbert!

But who are Joe and Rita in this real-life version?

Will reveal his connections and dealings with the mafia? We all know about it in NY, but I don't think that folks in other places do.

Well done, Matt Taibbi!

Wirh the income descepancy in the country now what was 15 minutes of fame becomes 15 years of fame . America has corporate dictatorship now so there is no need of a figure head .Our leaders are brands .

It's way too small for me now.

The Trump storm troopers have awakened.

Is he maturing? Let's hope so.

When he was running that paper in Russia, he had no trouble disrespecting or exploiting women, acting like a total boor and lout, and finding pretty much everything to be a joke at some level.

I didn't think it could get worse. It just did.

He's always disgusted me.

being funny.

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Because there are some deep similarities between what's going on here in the United States and what went on in Germany. I particularly refer to the increasing ascendance of oligarchy, as well as the Koch-engineered welding of the right wing crazy fringe into a political movement in and of itself. I'll remind you that history tells us that when we mix theocracy (which in the case of prewar Germany took the form of ultra-nationalism) with oligarchy (think Krupp and IG Farben), we get fascism.

That, eggplant, is where we're headed if we don't take our heads out of the sand.

several companies, but with the same corporate culture that existed at I.G. Farben. Just to remind you, I.G. Farben invented the extremely dangerous synthetic concoction called organophosphates, which were first used in chemical warfare (SARIN, SOMAN, TABUN), but after the war were used in over 800 pesticide products.

It wasn't until 1998, over five decades after they had already been in the US market, that a law was passed prohibiting the sale and distribution of OP pesticides for use in homes, lawns and gardens, because of the damage it does to developing brains.

Later scientists discovered that these chemicals destroy critical brain cells in adults as well.

Once you have brain degeneration, it can become chronic and end in dementia and .... well, stupidity.

We're there now.

It can happen here. We pooh-pooh it to our peril.

a person can NEVER see something reminiscent of Nazism. It should not be that we are never permitted to refer to it. Some things actually are like it. Demonizing a group of people and making them scapegoats can and does happen.

If you can bear it, consider the convergence of these two 'phenomenons'

1) the 'rise of Trump'
2) the epidemic of Killer-Cops

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/21/1384553/-2006-FBI-Report-on-White-Infiltration-of-Law-Enforcement-You-Will-Be-Assimilated

... economically, or even physically?



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it occurred to me that Trump's perfect running mate would be Charlie Sheen.

susceptible to an appeal on bad manners (voting for the biggest lout with a loud mouth).

In an especially bad economy, thatr number goes even further up.

The danger of Trump's appeal proves anyone right who has warned that there are structural shortcomings in our economic system!

I could not believe he was talking like this right in the beginning of his speech children were there.

in the US undocumented. So it shows where these people are coming from. They consider anyone hispanic to be undocumented.