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VANITY: My retort to "dark" speech meme by media. What is your one-liner retort?
7-22-16 | self

Posted on 07/22/2016 1:30:46 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary

The truth is a disinfectant. It is, as the Bible state, light to the TRUE darkness.


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To: Anti-Hillary

I thought it was interesting that MSM had collectively decided to call Trump’s speech “dark”.

I guess MSM were on the phone when they received the pre-release of Trump’s speech and by the time Trump finished talking MSM had agreed on how they would all call it “dark”.

This is even more reason Trump will win in a landslide. The public is tired of being played by MSM and the political elite.


41 posted on 07/22/2016 1:47:03 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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Sorry, Anti-Hillary, but can't do it in one line, but just finished a much longer response.

Dark???

"Progressive" Democrats, you want "dark"? If so, all you have to do is read a few paragraphs from the bold and brave revolutionaries who brought light from darkness, freedom from villainous oppression, plenty from a wilderness, and hope for the hundreds of millions who have come to the shores for a better life!!

They knew what leads to "darkness," and they warned posterity that such "darkness" was only a few generations away, if they strayed from the essential ideas of liberty incorporated into their Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

What wimps these uneducated-in-the-ways-of history are!! Try these statements from America's early leaders, and you'll know what "dark" warnings of the realities of tyranny are.

. "...nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams

"...there have always been those who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government. There is but one safe rule...confine (it) within the sphere of its appropriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or impose taxes except for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution....Every attempt to exercise power beyond these limits should be promptly and firmly opposed." - Andrew Jackson's Valedictory

"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views...." - Jefferson's Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge for Virginia

"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it....It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free." - James Madison

"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson-First Inaugural Statement of Principles of Good Government

"I think myself, that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson

"Economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened, I deem (one of the) essential principles of our government and, consequently (one) which ought to shape its administrations." - Thomas Jefferson-First Inaugural

"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson

"I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse." - James Madison

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale....We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves...." - Thomas Jefferson

"The interest of the national debt [in England] is now equal to such a portion of the profits of all the land and the labor of the island, as not to leave enough for the subsistence of those who labor. Hence the owners of the land abandon it and retire to other countries, and the laborer has not enough of his earnings left to him to cover his back and to fill his belly....The landholder has nothing of his own to give; he is but the fiduciary of those who have lent him money; the lender is so taxed in his meat, drink, and clothing, that he has but a bare subsistence left." - Thomas Jefferson

"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing." - Thomas Jefferson-1798


42 posted on 07/22/2016 1:47:09 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Anti-Hillary

I AM THE GHOST OF ELECTIONS FUTURE
43 posted on 07/22/2016 1:47:12 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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44 posted on 07/22/2016 1:47:21 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: mkjessup

Hey I posted that earlier to Laz

Great minds....


45 posted on 07/22/2016 1:47:57 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: proust

Nice!!


46 posted on 07/22/2016 1:49:18 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: CodeToad
Pretty sure you exceeded the 140 character limit. 😆
47 posted on 07/22/2016 1:49:36 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Dark with gravitas.


48 posted on 07/22/2016 1:50:40 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Anti-Hillary
Sometimes heroes are dark.


49 posted on 07/22/2016 1:52:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Anti-Hillary

Things seem dark for Hillary fans until they pull their heads out of her butt. For them, the sh*t always hits the fan(s).


50 posted on 07/22/2016 1:55:11 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Anti-Hillary

The treasonists will find any word they can to disparage Trump. If he gave a speech saying everything was all sunshine and rainbows they would say he is evil. He is making the treasonists climb the walsl because he is the only thing standing in the way between their ultimate goal of bringing complete destruction upon the USA and the USA continuing. I pray to God EVERY night this man wins because the alternative will be nothing less than a nightmare.

Read this message someone posted on Newsbusters last night, it really tells what is at stake here......

“A lot of people have brought up the fact that they won’t vote for Trump if he’s the eventual nominee.

Lets put something in perspective.

Justice Scalia’s seat is vacant. Ginsberg is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after 75.

These are 5 vacancies that will likely come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology.

Think about that... 7-2. If the next President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of
the Supreme Court for an entire generation. And 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than 5-4 decisions which are seemed to be lacking in mandate.

Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court
should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period.

Everyone saying that they won’t vote for one candidate or the other if they are the GOP nominee, please realize this. If Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of your life. Ever. If you are a Conservative, a vote for anyone but the GOP nominee, whomever that will be, is a vote for Hillary Clinton.”


51 posted on 07/22/2016 1:56:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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0bama and Hillary belong in a dark place.

52 posted on 07/22/2016 1:58:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Anti-Hillary

53 posted on 07/22/2016 2:02:03 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Anti-Hillary

Everything looks dark to those who refuse to see the light.


54 posted on 07/22/2016 2:02:34 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Anti-Hillary

The media call anyone who tells the truth “dark.” “Dark” is their new word for truthfulness.

Truthfulness is the new dark.


55 posted on 07/22/2016 2:04:37 PM PDT by detective
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To: Anti-Hillary

Romney was too white, and now Trump is too dark?


56 posted on 07/22/2016 2:07:25 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: Anti-Hillary
"I know dark. That wasn't dark."


57 posted on 07/22/2016 2:09:52 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Dark Speech Matters


58 posted on 07/22/2016 2:10:27 PM PDT by Reily
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To: oblomov

Dark = Bad

Are they dog whistling?

Black = Bad?

Racists! Of course we already know liberals are closet racists.


59 posted on 07/22/2016 2:11:01 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !!)
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To: Anti-Hillary

I think it is not about WHAT they called it, but that they ALL called it the SAME THING.

Coordinated, planned, conspired.


60 posted on 07/22/2016 2:24:34 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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