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Milo Is the Mini-Donald
New York Times ^ | 2/21/17 | Frank Bruni

Posted on 02/21/2017 6:42:54 PM PST by madprof98

If you halved Donald Trump’s age, changed his sexual orientation, gave him a British accent and fussed with his hair only a little, you’d end up with a creature much like Milo Yiannopoulos.

He could be Trump’s lost gay child. In fact, Yiannopoulos, 33, has a habit of referring to Trump, 70, as “Daddy.”

Trump the father and Yiannopoulos the son are both provocateurs who realize that in this day and age especially, the currency of celebrity isn’t demeaned by the outrageousness and offensiveness through which a person achieves it.

Both are con men, wrapping themselves in higher causes, though their primary agendas are the advancement of themselves.

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The real Yiannopoulos kept bubbling up through the fake-sorry Yiannapoulos, who didn’t even pretend all that hard. Presenting himself as some kind of martyr and refashioning himself as some kind of hero, he couldn’t have had more of Trump’s DNA in him if he were Trump’s clone.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: fakenews; milo; nyts; trump
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To: madprof98

My money is on the same idiots that swore allegiance to Ted being the ones who merrily try to inflict the same treatment they gave Trump onto Milo.


21 posted on 02/21/2017 7:13:07 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: madprof98

Yep. They’re signalling, “We got Milo We’ll get Trump.”


22 posted on 02/21/2017 7:13:22 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: madprof98

A lot if hate is in the piece.

They cannot stand Milo, he obviously was a “Dangerous Faggot”, if he garners this much opprobrium from the hallowed keepers of gay mores, which the NY Times thinks of itself


23 posted on 02/21/2017 7:14:40 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: papertyger

I’d say that is a safe bet.


24 posted on 02/21/2017 7:15:01 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: backwoods-engineer

I have a suspicion Milo is not going to stay as “gotten” as they’d like.

Yeah, Simon and Schuster dropped him, but preorders of his book went up 13 MILLION PERCENT last week, and I can’t see those smart enough to vote for Trump being stupid enough to let this stick to Milo.


25 posted on 02/21/2017 7:17:27 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: a fool in paradise

They have been saying that about Trump for 17 months, and he is the only politician that keeps his promises. He is the anti-conman.


26 posted on 02/21/2017 7:17:51 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Frank the self-loathing fag is on the case


27 posted on 02/21/2017 7:22:22 PM PST by Third Person
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To: madprof98

That is a lot of changes...

The only thing you have to do to the democrats to make them Hitler is paint a mustache on them...


28 posted on 02/21/2017 7:23:36 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: proust

Milo is indeed a flaming homo. But he’s also a brilliant political wedge. You don’t see any value there? Keep in mind that I have no tolerance for the homo agenda.


29 posted on 02/21/2017 7:25:39 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Titus-Maximus
They have been saying that about Trump for 17 months, and he is the only politician that keeps his promises.

Many have been skeptical that the jews who sang "Hosannah" on Sunday could scream "crucify him" on Friday: they were obviously Republicans.

30 posted on 02/21/2017 7:29:44 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: Logical me

They can’t help it. Boring. No clicks here.


31 posted on 02/21/2017 7:31:47 PM PST by TrueFact (Can't wait until the swamp is done derained!)
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To: Gene Eric
You don’t see any value there?

Where do you think "The Left" learned "virtue-signaling?"

32 posted on 02/21/2017 7:31:59 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: Gene Eric

Milo recently stated that he is willing to try “gay” conversion therapy.


33 posted on 02/21/2017 7:32:28 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: papertyger

>> “virtue-signaling?”

I should know what that means, but I don’t. Sorry, can you clarify?


34 posted on 02/21/2017 7:38:01 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: papertyger

No he’s not. Tee hee!!!!!


35 posted on 02/21/2017 7:44:41 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Slimes didn’t do it the Cucks did.


36 posted on 02/21/2017 7:45:18 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: madprof98
This is about as close as they will get to admitting that what we just witnessed was a test run.

They only have one play. This is the same play they already ran on Trump - the "Access Hollywood" tape. They rolled it out in the identical fashion as the Milo takedown. They fully expected it to destroy Trump, but for once, the outcome did not go as scripted.

Next they will chip away at Trump's inner circle; Milo's fall opens the route to Bannon.

After they do some more damage to the Trump team/family, they will run another play again exactly like this on Trump himself. It's clear, however, that Trump is clean. Other than Access Hollywood, there is no dirt. So the next run (six months from now) will be pure fiction. They don't care.

Oh, and by the way, I don't think it will work. Won't stop them. They will keep trying. We will see this same basic play every few months for the next eight years.

37 posted on 02/21/2017 7:46:33 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: little jeremiah

Or just abstain, but he’s still young.

While I abhor male homosexuality, I’m not interested in rewriting someone’s destiny.


38 posted on 02/21/2017 7:49:48 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: little jeremiah
Milo recently stated that he is willing to try “gay” conversion therapy.

He wasn't serious. That was a throwaway line, the same kind of humor as when Trump "asked" the Russians to release Hillary's emails. In both cases, the line was a humorous tweak of critics.

I find it hard to believe there are people who take such obvious jokes literally.

39 posted on 02/21/2017 7:54:47 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: Gene Eric

“Virtue-signaling” is the practice of demonstrating ones rectitude by publicly approving or disapproving on any given subject, rather than by demonstrating it through ones actions.


40 posted on 02/21/2017 7:57:35 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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