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Posted on 07/21/2024 4:45:12 AM PDT by Indy Pendance
MILWAUKEE, WI — At the end of former President and U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump's 90-minute acceptance speech, the sounds of opera opened with "Nessun Dorma" ("Let No One Sleep"), a majestic musical piece performed by tenor Christopher Maccio.
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However, the aria also has a more sinister connotation beyond its original intention in the opera. It is featured in the 2002 film "The Sum of All Fears," based on Tom Clancy's 1991 novel. This political thriller, a sequel to "Clear and Present Danger" (1989), involves CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan, who attempts to prevent a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union circa 1985. Ryan faces entrenched bureaucrats from both sides and a missing nuclear warhead, which each side uses to further their agendas. At the end of the movie, Ryan is triumphant in preventing a nuclear holocaust, and "Nessun Dorma" plays. The camera shifts to various antagonists who meet their deaths by car bombs, throat slashing, and other means.
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Trump often claims to be a victim of the deep state or the swamp, and he promises to drain the swamp if elected. Although the violent scenes accompanied by "Nessun Dorma" in "The Sum of All Fears" are intense, they may serve as a hyperbolic metaphor for Trump's campaign rhetoric. Performing it after his triumphant speech at the RNC convention might be one of the most ingenious trolls of all time.
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Tried?
We have no legal system. There is no law.There is effectively no order. The system of law and order has been destroyed
I sincerely do NOT believe Trump wants them murdered. I think he wants them tried and convicted in the public’s eye, so people will see what and who we are fighting against. Much more effective than having them quietly “removed”.
RFK is a far left statist who happens to have a handful of non-crazy leftist ideas,
Only because he’s not on the Pfizer payroll.
But.... what if that is the only thing that works ?
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Yes, I would rather win the war than lose the war if it comes to that. And you could make a utilitarian argument that a few assassinations are better than widespread war. But that is an argument that is deeply corrupting and may have already facilitated the attempt on Trump’s life.
So don’t try to sell sly and deniable references to retributory murder at the convention - the unifying convention. And I’m not saying that’s what they have intended to do.
“He might finally release the JFK truth now and expose the deep state.”
The CIA could be peeing their pants right now, and recalling from Emerson, “If you shoot at a king you must kill him.” PDJT “knows stuff” and has the proof (if the FBI didn’t steal it at Mar-A-Lago).
Might be time to invest in a new username.
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;
Their foot shall slip in due time;
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’ Deut 33:35
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have[a] regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Rom 12:17-19
Justice and retribution with extreme prejudice is precisely what we need to happen when Trump becomes the president.
I would add: "/s".
Yes, 'Jesus can't get here soon enough.' In the meantime:
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should." - Ephesians 6:10-20
Have a blessed Sunday, find your rest and refreshment in the Lord as I'm preaching to myself. - Shalom!
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This is what’s happening to the country. All due to the lefties. Guess what? We’re as mad as hell and we’re not going to take this anymore.
From the movie Network, 1976
https://neilchughes.com/2014/07/15/im-mad-as-hell-speech-from-network-1976/
“I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
Deut 32:35
No, Roehm, the Strassers, etc. were leftists. Hitler was a pragmatist who sold out to the industrialists in a deal brokered by Goering. Hitler told the industrialists and financiers in the meeting that, “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy”
Hitler's minister of finance was a holdover from the von Papen and von Schleichter administrations and continued under the Doenitz government after Hitler's death. He didn't join the Nazis until 1937.
A lady has cleared up a lot of this.
In the English version the translation to the end of the song is “we will win, we will win, we will win”
Maybe that is why it was used in the “Sum of All Fears”.
So-called “popular culture” isn’t popular with everyone. Mr. Trump may have never seen that movie, and if he did, he may not have liked it or remembered it. Guessing there are people out there who think he wears red neck ties because he wants a “blood bath” if he’s reelected...
Post #8 has the lyrics.
Some historical context:
I do not recall seeing a picture of President Trump with all the other living ex-presidents. All were there, and he was not welcome. That is what he is up against. He knows it. And his feelings are not hurt.
Sums it up.
Mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore.
And what follows that song and at the opera’s end is peace and love.>>>> Yes and victory Vincero... great opera. Il suo nome è...Amor! Your name is love. how are the rolling seas jack.
Trump always says “we will win, win, win” several times. I guess people are free to think what they will about the use of the song.
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