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Moat, good quote from Arendt.

NCD — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:40:51 +0000

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Moat, good quote from Arendt.

That Newt is still all over TeeVee shows the unserious nature of our corporate media empire$. He's a disgraced serial adulterer, liar and culture bomb thrower of the right, and like the right, has no solutions (and isn't looking for any) except how to game the gullible, the bigots and the resentful losers who are steeped in 30 years of right wing hate and propaganda to keep the GOP in power, serving global anti-democratic plutocrats.

I think he provides provides

moat — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:22:02 +0000

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I think he provides provides blocking for Trump. From Slate interview back in the day:

Isaac Chotiner: Well, people are suffering.

Gingrich: People are suffering everywhere. How about everybody in Darfur? Should they all come to Miami? The suffering thing is liberal tripe. It is nonsense.

That doesn’t sound so much like the Reaganite conservatism you mentioned earlier.

What doesn’t?

Saying suffering is liberal tripe. I thought he was a champion—

Suffering is an excuse and allows people to be guilt-tripped into doing bad policy. Look at who is going to Germany right now. These are population migrations, not refugee streams, and they are going to change Europe permanently to our disadvantage.

I want to get back to what Trump is doing, and we both know he is playing on impulses—

No, no we don’t.

We don’t?

What we know is that Trump has had the nerve to raise questions in a clear language because he represents the millions of Americans who are sick and tired of being told that they have to be guilt-ridden and keep their mouth shut.

It takes a village.
Not that you are incorrect in your observation.

I think it's because it's fun

wabby — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:58:36 +0000

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I think it's because it's fun and funny to say 'newt'. Newt, newt newt. See what I mean?

Why is Newt Gingrich still a

moat — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:54:08 +0000

In reply to Next question.

Why is Newt Gingrich still a thing?

Next question.

Flavius — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:27:35 +0000

In reply to Your question reminds me of

Next question.

Your question reminds me of

moat — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:00:14 +0000

In reply to Will Trump stop?

Your question reminds me of something Hannah Arendt said:

Confident that power of organization can destroy power of substance, as the violence of a well-organized gang might rob a rich man of ill-guarded wealth, they constantly underestimate the substantial power of stable communities and overestimate the driving force of a movement. Since, moreover, they do not actually believe in the factual existence of a world conspiracy against them, but use it only as an organizational device, they fail to understand that their own conspiracy may eventually provoke the whole world into uniting against them.

Origins of Totalitarianism, part 3.

Will Trump stop?

NCD — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:26:35 +0000

In reply to As anyone who worked for him

Will Trump stop?

How do the lies and the career of a demagogue usually end?

As anyone who worked for him

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:00:18 +0000

In reply to Talk Like Crazy People Are Listening

As anyone who worked for him will confirm, I was very critical of Obama. I never got threats I get now. So, yes, I hold Trump responsible for promoting, legitimizing, normalizing, and empowering hate & division. He's the conductor of this orchestra. Until he stops, it won't stop.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) October 26, 2018

You seemed supportive of

NCD — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 05:12:37 +0000

In reply to NCD, I have many times spoken

You seemed supportive of Trump in his break with confrontation, and a more trusting, cooperative relationship with Putin.

NCD, I have many times spoken

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 04:06:56 +0000

In reply to Lulu, Trump's Intelligence

NCD, I have many times spoken my disgust with Bolton. I also have given credit to the nuclear treaty with Iran as Obama's greatest foreign policy achievement. Do you really wonder whether or not I think the new cold war and the concurrent arms race is a good thing?