Posted on 04/08/2016 5:45:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
The dangerous propaganda of Trump and his allies continues, drawing the American public ever more closely to a taste of Trump’s notions of “democracy” and “winning.”
Some have stated that Trump is willing to do anything to get his way. This is arguably possible and that is the risk we are facing. Trump has been promising that riots will occur if he does not get the nomination. Arguably he is not warning but signaling to his supporters what he expects of them.
Trump stated in an interview with the New York Times that even if he does not reach the necessary 1,237 delegates during the primary process, he is still entitled to be the nominee for the Republican Party (Trump’s notion of fairness):“ I think we’ll win before getting to the convention, but I can tell you, if we didn’t and if we were 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short…I don’t think you can say we don’t get it automatically.”
In fact, Trump would not automatically get the nomination if he is short of delegates. This is not because he is Trump and he is being treated unfairly, persecuted and the rest. The existing rule would be applied to any candidate. A candidate that does not get 1,237 delegates does not get the nomination automatically. What part of this is so unjust and hard to grasp for Mr. Trump? Trump is constantly bragging about his supremely high I.Q. but a simple electoral process somehow seems to escape him.
This disproportionate sense of entitlement is a marker of the deficiency in Trump’s psychological make-up. Trump considers rules and laws to be mere suggestions. He seems to believe there is no law higher than his own subjective notion of what should take place. Reality seems to be no limiting force on his egocentric view of reality.
I have argued that the Electoral College should, for moral reasons and the common good, demand Donald Trump’s health records be made public for examination. An unstable man or, as I put it, someone who is “not of sound mind,” should never be given ultimate power. Many psychologists and other doctors have stated their opinions, though informally, that Trump suffers from an unsound mind.
Chaos in Cleveland?
This matter must not be taken lightly. Trump in his own words indicates what he thinks is likely to happen if he does not get what he erroneously believes he is entitled to: “—I think it would—I think you’d have riots… I think you would have problems like you’ve never had before. I think bad things would happen, I really do… I wouldn’t lead it but bad things would happen.”
Indeed Trump does not have to “lead it”—since he has an infamous ally likely already preparing the groundwork for the bad things to come—veteran political operator Roger Stone.
Stone has been Trump’s confidant and advisor for years. That Trump and Stone are inciting Trump’s supporters on the false narrative of a stolen election is just the beginning.
Stone is already busy organizing protests and issuing a call to arms for Trump’s troops. “Stop the Steal March on Cleveland,” he calls it. Stone’s March on Cleveland will consist of three days of, “… protests at hotels of state delegates of states supporting the Big Steal.” Stone has promised to release the hotel room numbers of the delegates and he is asking Trump’s raging followers to go find them.
Stone and Trump hide their hand aided by the fact that our historical memory is too short to connect the dots. One of the chosen hashtags for their “bad things to come” is “#DaysofRage.” This insidious message clearly reveals what Stone is alluding to and likely expecting from Trump’s followers.
What Were the Days of Rage?
The Days of Rage refers to an infamous chapter in American history and one worth recalling to understand what we are dealing with today. The Days of Rage consisted of three days of riots, looting, and destruction, staged in the streets of Chicago October 8-11, 1969 as protests by the Weatherman faction of the radical leftist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Days of Rage grew out of the 1968 SDS resolution titled, “Elections Don’t Mean Sh*t—Vote Where the Power Is—Our Power Is In the Streets.” The Days of Rage were fanned by typical leftist slogans such as “bring the war home.”
The open salvo to the violence was provided by the infamous bomber and erstwhile Obama associate Bill Ayers, who two days before the “Days of Rage” (Oct. 6 1969), blew up the statue commemorating the police officers killed by a bomb during the Haymarket Affair in 1886. Ayers believed this would be the beginning of the “all-out civil war.” The “Days of Rage” explicitly called for the destruction of private property and attacks against the police.
The violence of the “Days of Rage” commenced on the 8th of October 1969 as protestors charged through the city smashing windows of hotels, cars, and businesses. Dozens were injured and hundreds arrested. A massive police force struggled to contain the mob. After the destruction caused by the original “Days of Rage,” followers were urged to go underground and continue their revolution; they stockpiled weapons and explosives to continue their seditious actions.
Trump of course would not “lead” such violence. Stone of course argues that Trump wants a peaceful protest. But can we be so utterly naïve as to ignore their chosen font of inspiration? What redeeming quality would any sane person find in the Days of Rage, as the framework for a protest?
What if, in an unrelated example, protestors who were going to confront the Jewish community on some question, endeavored to assure the public that of course they were not seeking violence and yet their followers were convoked to assemble under the name #Kristallnacht.
Please. Roger Stone is calling for handcuffs on Senator Cruz because he claims Cruz is “stealing” “Trump’s election.” I submit that Stone and Trump should be investigated for potentially inciting riots. Trump is playing with fire, because in his warped narcissistic mind, “the end justifies the means.”
The ancients in their wisdom taught that a friend is “another self,” and to read Stone’s tweets is to see the clearer image of Donald Trump the late night tweeter at play. Trump constantly brags that he surrounds himself with the best people ever—indeed. Judge for yourself.
Imagine for one moment people like Stone teaming up with Trump in the White House. Trump’s approach to negotiation and personal relations is that his threats should lead to total surrender. This is insane when it comes to nations with nuclear weapons, our trade agreements or alliances to defeat terrorism.
Trump has informed us that his top advisor is himself, no surprise there, “… I’m speaking to myself, number one, because I have a good brain, and I’ve said a lot of things…” Yet, that is likely not true. Roger Stone will be practicing his political dark arts from the Oval Office right along with Trump from day one.
Douglas Schoen who worked with Roger Stone on many political campaigns, described him in words that in fact capture the essence of Donald Trump: “ He’s not so much a Republican as an actor who likes to assume poses. The show is not a by-product of his life—it is his life.”
Recklessness Not Courage
A final illusion about Trump remains to be dispelled. Many voters perceive Trump to be courageous, but what they fail to see is that what Trump possesses is not the virtue of courage, but rather the corrupt semblance of the real virtue; something the ancient writers identified as recklessness.
Back in May 1969, Attorney General John N. Mitchell issued a warning that should reverberate in our minds. In a report of May 1969, Mitchell informed-previous to the Days of Rage-of the violence already perpetrated by the SDS and other radical leftists and warned of the dangers to come from the manipulated followers of those who, “ … openly and brazenly profess a desire to destroy the establishment.”
It is one thing to be dissatisfied or even angry with the establishment but Stone and Trump are playing with fire and their actions are, in my view, extremely dangerous. Trump needs to be taken very seriously, not as a candidate for the presidency, but, as I have previously argued, as someone who is simply not well.
This campaign against Trump by the establishment and it’s media has become the biggest, most highly funded example of the politics of personal destruction in all of history.
Any of you who were offended by the campaign against Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork should be astounded and appalled by the perfidy and depravity of the Republican Party, it’s establishment, and their greedy, hypocritical, ambition-crazed marionette, Ted Cruz. They should all rot in Hell.
Excellent point, but will he listen?
And one more Cruz Superpac check clears the bank.
Good for him.
I’d rather see a lot more criticism of Hilary, Bernie I lot less of Trump, Cruz.
I don’t mind serious discussion about policy or electability problems but a lot of stuff on FR right now is just perjorative hatred, it’s discouraging.
I like both men, think both have lots to offer, and could support either one.
Hello, it's never okay to hate!
Start talking about the issues. Come to Arizona and see what it's like living through a Mexican invasion. Get off your chair and gather some facts instead of trying to excuse your emotions by blaming Trump.
No Father, he is signaling to you what havoc you will cause if you keep up this unscrupulous attack on American Sovereignty. If you are not aware of what you are doing, you are an ignorant tool of the Evil Globalist Cabal intent on enslaving humanity.
Townhall sucks...David limbaugh and company can rot in hell along with their paid contrived propaganda....this is another redstate IE: erick erickson ...Fr.marcel guizmo...hack shill ..I along with Millions of Americans am..tired/pissed/angry....the propoganda is so obvious but the people who pay to support the programs do not have the time(or desire) to sift through all the limited information because of the time constraints they have....where as writers that I have mentioned are funded to write such drivel and non-truths all the while laughing at the ones who actually allow them to be the turncoats that they are.
Than don’t read em. It’s simple as that. I don’t read what does not interest me
Sound so much like obama.
Yeah, rolling out the Catholic priest’s now.
Thanks for posting. What is interesting about this piece is the reaction of Trump supporters to it which only not just support, but verify, the assertions being made by this clergyman.
-——Time to judicially rid the cesspool in Washington of the thieves and self serving bastards and bitches who line their own pockets and then omit themselves from they pass onto us “we the people”....-——
Can’t agree more....now explain how electing Trump will accomplish that...
As POTUS he doesn’t elect congressman or run the RNC, the establishment wil be alive and well even as Trump cozy up to them....
He does alter all have to govern the country....he can’t do that without Congress...
Of course he can pull an Obama and govern by the pen and the phone...
I’ve asked this question a dozen times and never got a response...
Normal reaction to PROPAGANDA!
This so called Friar has been shunned by the Catholic church....because he is a Fag supporter...he is garbage...nice of town hall to publish him just as the huffington post does....another protector and supporter of playing with choir boys....tell me again why Catholicism is good?.....I attend a christian church and I am not as devout as the majority say they are......I enjoy people that promote a sane realistic framework for a community/society that will endure the truly self-destructive policies of a hedonistic and humanist uni-party......the only crime nowadays seems to be is being christian and independent....the church I attend is Faith Evangelical Free Church.....in Waterville , Maine ...I do not give any money...I keep the huge facility dry (old movie theatre complex....I do the roofing repairs for free “most” stock also....I ain’t no angel never claimed to be...but for Town hall to run this guys crap is the last nail in their so called “conservative” coffin...they suck...pure propaganda ....
It is not going to be Trump saying crazy things that sinks him, it is gonna be people in his Camp Like Roger Stone shooting their mouths off that do him in.
LOL. I know Cruz supporters love to say that Trump doesn’t talk pretty enough for them, but honestly, Cruz is the one with foot in mouth disease.
New York Values (yes, lets insult an entire state)
Donald is a sniveling coward (who talks like this?? DudlyDoowright?) Oh wait, he was a mountie LOL
Donald may be a rat, but I don’t want to copulate with him.
HUH???
You’re welcome and you are exactly right. It’s like they are walking around with blinders
It is if your daily bread is bought for you by international bankers. Principled Conservatives = The Washington Generals. I wont be suckered into supporting the nonsense anymore.
Was that neener, neener, neener or pshaw, pshaw, pshaw?
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