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It's a blog post, and it is blistering!
Four cryptic words Donald Trump cant stop saying
A day after 49 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Donald Trump seemed to imply that President Obama might have been connected, in some way, with the attack.
"Look, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or he's got something else in mind," the presumptive Republican nominee told Fox & Friends Monday morning.
Earlier in the interview, when asked why he called for Obama's resignation, Trump said, "He doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other."
Also during that interview, Trump repeated a four-word phrase that has come to define his conspiratorial campaign almost as much as his official slogan, "Make America Great Again."
"There's something going on," Trump said. "It's inconceivable. There's something going on."
That phrase, according to political scientists who study conspiracy theories, is characteristic of politicians who seek to exploit the psychology of suspicion and cynicism to win votes.
It just gets better read it all here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/13/the-four-cryptic-words-donald-trump-cant-stop-saying/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news
underpants
(183,019 posts)He's been doing that crap since his birther days
malaise
(269,292 posts)and most of them encouraged him
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Thanks and I'll fix that.
rug
(82,333 posts)IronLionZion
(45,644 posts)the Republican party nominated a buffoon who thinks he's smart by exploiting "the psychology of suspicion and cynicism to win votes". But most Americans are smarter than that and our increasingly distributed independent media sources (like blogs) can't be manipulated like the mainstream sources.
So Trump's message isn't going to get to enough people before they also hear the brutal take down and ridicule that will reverse any of his gains. The moderate and independent middle of America is not going to fall for suspicion and conspiracy theories. If they do, it won't last very long.
Hillary is running laps around this amateur.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)what Trump actually said!!!
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Next thing you know, they'll be writing scurrilous stories about things in his past that, y'know, actually happened.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)they will stoop that low! The media just doesn't treat the poor guy "fairly". No wonder he sues so many people.
ailsagirl
(22,908 posts)Really amazing
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)" Donald quietly counts down the 24 hr clock, as he wrings his tiny hands"
ailsagirl
(22,908 posts)ailsagirl
(22,908 posts)PatSeg
(47,750 posts)overachiever!
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)These four words ........."There is something going on"...expose Trump as someone who is trying to create fear .......over and over again...more fear.....more hate..
.Like others who have used fear to promote ..hate.........fear....hate...and fear...and hate and fear.
He is extremely dangerous...and never underestimate the fear and hate combination...please remember this.........................
......Joseph Stalin thought he could control and deal with it on his terms.....Tens of millions died because he was wrong............
herding cats
(19,569 posts)Perhaps this will begin a dialog about how dangerous he actually would be in power.
houston16revival
(953 posts)paranoid and not overly bright and is constantly convinced there is something
they don't understand.