Posted on 02/28/2016 9:38:35 AM PST by TBBT
Trending on Twitter right now is the retweet by Donald Trump. I'm using an image because I can't imagine this won't be memory-holed at some point:
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Chuck Todd asked Trump about it on Meet the Press:
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TRANSCRIPT
TODD: You know right now on Twitter, there is a trending retweet of yours. You tweeted someone from "ilduce2016″ (okay, I wet myself, are you happy?), it was a Mussolini quote, but you didn't know it was Mussolini when you retweeted it, it said, "It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep."* That's a famous Mussolini quote, you retweeted it, do you like the quote? Did you know it was Mussolini?
TRUMP: It's okay to know it's Mussolini. Yeah, look Mussolini was Mussolini. Its a very good quote, it's a very interesting quote, and I know it... I saw it... I saw what... I know who said it. But what difference does it make whether it's Mussolini or somebody else? It's certainly a very interesting quote.
TODD: Well...
TRUMP: That's probably why...
TODD: Mussolini...
TRUMP: I, between Facebook and Twitter...
TODD: ...was a fascist.
TRUMP: ...have fourteen million people who...
TODD: ...do you want to be associated...
TRUMP: ...want to be able to vote. It's a very interesting quote and people can talk about it. per Tuesday. It could be a big night for you.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Except when they hung him by his feet. He had a bad day.
Scalia on NYT vs Sullivan: When the First Amendment was ratified, he argues, “Nobody thought that libel, even libel of public figures, was permitted, was sanctioned by the First Amendment. Where did that come from? Who told Earl Warren and the Supreme Court that what had been accepted libel law for a couple hundred years was no longer accepted.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2012/12/04/antonin-scalia-hates-nyt-v-sullivan/
Is it still forbidden to proclaim: “Live Free or Die”?
Maybe “Trump fans” are waiting for you people to spend some of that energy making a case for Rubio if you support him so much.Sorry, I'm not a Rubio fan.
I think it's worth mentioning that when Trump first entered the race, although he wasn't my first choice, I had no trouble supporting him. However, after hearing him talk for the last 6+ months, Trump has convinced me that he he is totally unsuited for the job. It has nothing to do with any other candidates, nor of some "vast anti-Trump conspiracy". It's solely because of Trump himself has said and done.
I won't vote for Trump. I've voted for every Republican candidate for President since 1980, but I won't vote for that clown. And, based on all the polling, most of the electorate feels the same way.
Far left liberal website TRICKED Donald Trump into tweeting Fascist Mussolini quote!Gee, Trump sure gets fooled easily. Not exactly a desirable attribute in a potential President.
I doubt Mussolini said that first. It sounds more like a Spartan quote.
The president has absolutely no authority to change or “open up” laws.
And Trump considers anything critical of him libel whether it is true or not. Trump has a history of suing and losing.
Trump sounds like he would rather be a dictator than a president.
I heard that Hitler, Lenin, and Trump have all used the word “country”.....What does THAT tell you??? (/sarc)
Mussolini did a lot of good for Italy before he associated with Germany. Then his megalomaniac tendencies came out. I remember still all the stories my parents told us, I was born in Italy but have been in the USA for 30 years and now I am an American (legal!)
Truth like beauty is where you find it.
The reality is that Mussolini, like Hitler, was a socialist. Indeed, Mussolini was a Communist before he developed the ideology he called Fascism:Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,As such, it is not difficult (the Wall Street Journal did it decades ago) to find a quote of Mussolini which a Bernie Sanders would endorse heartily, little suspecting its source. Fascism is the “right wing” of socialism.'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber . . . both [the Nazi and the communist] know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.What is promised to us as the Road to Freedom is in fact the Highroad to Servitude. For it is not difficult to see what must be the consequences when democracy embarks upon a course of planning. The goal of the planning will be described by some such vague term as 'the general welfare'. There will be no real agreement as to the ends to be attained, and the effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go: with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all. - F A Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom (Reader's Digest Condensed Version)
Mussolini and his girlfriend, were killed and hung upside down to be gawked at by the populace.
I agree. Who cares. Leftists quote stalin all the time and just because you quote someone or repeat something that you like that happens to be a quote which is probably the reality in this case doesn’t make one pro mussolini. This gotcha politics crap deserves flushed down the toilet.
That must have been a site. But I did not know that, thanks.
It is better to live one day as Alison than one hundred years as a sheep.
Please vote Sheep or Lion!
The president has absolutely no authority to change or “open up” laws.
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I guess Presient Trump won’t be able to send legislation down to the Hill to build the Trump Wall, pass his tax plan, or repeal and replace Obamacare.
Presidents don't "send legislation down" to Congress. They can make proposals and set the agenda of what they would like to accomplish but Congress has to write the legislation, pass the bill and send it to the president to sign.
So with all the pressing issues of the day like securing our borders, fighting and defeating Islamic terrorists, repealing ObamaCare, revising our tax code, etc., Trump would waste time and political capital asking Congress to look into changing libel laws to make it easier for him to sue newspapers?
Trump is just trying to intimidate the media into not being critical of him.
A free press is essential.
Another TBP/Paki retread gets zotted
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