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Obama lumped Trump in with "fascists, communists, and jihadists." (Original Post) Renew Deal Jul 2016 OP
I loved that he did that. Absolutely LOVED that! writes3000 Jul 2016 #1
he went there! dlwickham Jul 2016 #2
To be fair those are Trump's Super Delegates zz-la Jul 2016 #3
BOOM! AgadorSparticus Jul 2016 #4
After the presser today 2naSalit Jul 2016 #5
What's funnier is that he didn't mention tRump by name in that line, yet ecstatic Jul 2016 #6
Yeah! He Stuck the Knife in So Ruthlessly-with Class Stallion Jul 2016 #7
And that little half chuckle he does rjsquirrel Jul 2016 #10
That was the line of the speech for me. Barack_America Jul 2016 #8
Clean kill rjsquirrel Jul 2016 #9
And deservedly so! John Poet Jul 2016 #11
Yep. Gonna leave a mark on one overbaked yam. kestrel91316 Jul 2016 #12
Simply following the new regulations for Truth in Advertising n/t NikkiTaMere Jul 2016 #13
What a great line. Islandurp Jul 2016 #14
That seems right unitedwethrive Jul 2016 #15
what fascism really is... by an expert german escapee in 1942 erpliu Jul 2016 #16

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
5. After the presser today
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:20 AM
Jul 2016

everything is fair game as far as defeating this traitorous shill is concerned.

ecstatic

(32,707 posts)
6. What's funnier is that he didn't mention tRump by name in that line, yet
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:22 AM
Jul 2016

EVERYONE knew who he was using about. If the shoe fits...

Stallion

(6,474 posts)
7. Yeah! He Stuck the Knife in So Ruthlessly-with Class
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:22 AM
Jul 2016

smiling all nite long like he was signaling-"I got this"

As soon as I saw that smile and grin in the early part of the speech I knew this was going to be a CLASSIC

 

rjsquirrel

(4,762 posts)
10. And that little half chuckle he does
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:40 AM
Jul 2016

Sit back and watch how it's done by a master. Still thrills every damn time.

erpliu

(2 posts)
16. what fascism really is... by an expert german escapee in 1942
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 11:05 AM
Jul 2016

below (and in the link) is what "fascism" really is... the goons-D qualify but not only...

as defined by somebody whose art and prose were most viciously attacked and systematically destroyed by the nazis before and after 1933.

after reading the definition, ask yourselves who between billary/obama and trump has done more to "fulfill" the definition, i.e., to turn the usa even more into the so far most extraordinary machine to subjugate other peoples ever seen on earth... Then things become as easy as 1 2 3....

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Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55, page 241. Excerpt from the end of the "28 june 42" entry in the link below:

"[...] fascism is a form of government which enables peoples to be subjugated to such an extent that they can be misused to subjugate other peoples."

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yes, think of who has managed the feat of mobilizing, e.g., usa-supremacist caviar feminists, foundation-money-addicted pretext-humanitarianists, and venal identity-politics parasites with bourgie tastes to, e.g., react with silence to --and thus de facto support-- death squads for foreign lesser brown and white people (honduras&ukr!) and the total destruction of say the three middle-eastern countries with the highest human-development indices...

https://books.google.com/books?id=fglfDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=bertolt+brecht+work+journal+fascism+subjugate+a+people+to+subjugate+another&source=bl&ots=c61Zmu9vUY&sig=5wscSgElP73F7nEGSepFoIvACB8&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bertolt%20brecht%20work%20journal%20fascism%20subjugate%20a%20people%20to%20subjugate%20another&f=false



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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2008/may/26/dontbashbrecht

[...] Brecht was very clear about one thing: his resistance to fascism. Before the Nazis came to power, Hitler's brownshirts were disrupting performances of Brecht and Weill's 1930 opera Mahagonny, claiming that it brought the contamination of black and Jewish musical influences into the German opera house. Brecht dedicated the next 15 years of his writing - plays, film scripts, poetry - to the anti-fascist cause. [...]

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