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MSNBC: Trump's bold vision: Make America Hide Under the Bed Again
MSNBC ^ | July 22, 2016 | Steve Benen

Posted on 07/22/2016 6:01:35 AM PDT by Zakeet

Fear is a powerful instinct. Fear is so potent, and the innate drive to protect one’s self from harm is so overpowering, that it can override almost every other instinct, including those related to intellect and judgment.

Which is why Donald Trump desperately wants to frighten you.

The obvious problem with the Republican presidential nominee’s convention speech last night is that it was less a speech and more a series of strung together scary falsehoods.

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Trump wants you to be afraid of criminals. And immigrants. And Democrats. And refugees. And government regulations. And quite possibly the monster that could be hiding under your bed.

In fact, as far as the Republican presidential candidate is concerned, the United States is already a dystopian hellscape, where the sun no longer shines, where few can experience joy, and where all hope is lost.

But don’t worry, Donald J. Trump can make America great again.

Just don’t ask him how.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; acceptancespeech; gopconvention; trump
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To: Zakeet
DRUDGE Headlines:

"SHE WALKS WITH KAINE?"


21 posted on 07/22/2016 6:11:48 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: Zakeet

“Fear is a powerful instinct”

Says the party who offers a disclaimer before showing anti-Hillary campaign buttons out of fear that it may offend someone’s safe space.


22 posted on 07/22/2016 6:12:45 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Zakeet

NBC pushed blacks to attack police officers
by lying day after day.
Never once correcting their lies.


23 posted on 07/22/2016 6:12:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Zakeet

What of the past 8 years makes these certifiable morons think that we are just cruising along and that that tremendous trump speech wasn’t warranted. These lefty loons are certifiable tools, my god.


24 posted on 07/22/2016 6:12:49 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: TakebackGOP

I guess if is good to know one’s enemy, but they all went to the same dirty well for the same dirty water and they want everyone to drink it.


25 posted on 07/22/2016 6:13:17 AM PDT by madison10 (#NeverHillary)
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To: Zakeet

We’ve been frogs in Obama’s pot for the last 7+ years as he’s lied his @ss off blowing smoke up ours. The water in the pot has gotten pretty darn hot - some folks are noticing and many are either not aware or practicing willful blindness ..... it’s about time someone was honest with the American people and told them the true state of the Nation. That is not fear mongering. Those of us who live in the reality of Obama’s nightmare recognize the truth of what Trump is saying .... those who are mentally ill with Liberalism or just plain evil like Hillary & her minions, are very, very upset after Trump’s speech & dare I say ‘afraid’ that finally, someone had the balls to call to our attention & explode the Obama boil festering on America’s butt for the last 7+ years. The stench of putrid corruption has engulfed Obama, Hillary, the Democrats/Libs/Progs and the media enablers. I don’t think much of Frank Luntz’s focus groups, but last night, not a single “undecided” was going to vote for Hillary after the RNC Convention - not a single one.


26 posted on 07/22/2016 6:13:53 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: Zakeet

I could with more truth claim that the left’s policy is to invite the murderer in and offer up your children to them, and pay them to murder you and your family.


27 posted on 07/22/2016 6:14:19 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Zakeet

Obama is seeding “welcoming” Muslim communities all over the United States, and we are just “hiding under the bed?”

Who to believe: MSNBC or your own lyin’ eyes?


28 posted on 07/22/2016 6:14:31 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Zakeet
Trump said it it time to Get out from under the bed and start fighting the corruption of DC the terrorists who want us dead, the ILLEGAL immigration and the biased out of control media.
29 posted on 07/22/2016 6:14:53 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Zakeet

Obamanation= Ignorance is bliss.

Perhaps when Trump gets in, they’ll all leave in droves.

We can only hope.

Trump will have to add another cabinet position to handle all the liberal insanity.

“The Dept. of Liberal Hyperbole”


30 posted on 07/22/2016 6:14:56 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Zakeet; WildHighlander57; Conservative Gato; Psalm 144; onyx; Jane Long; PA Engineer; ...
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31 posted on 07/22/2016 6:15:13 AM PDT by mkjessup (Hillary Rotten Criminal is a f--king murdering sociopath. You want that in the Oval Office?)
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To: Zakeet

Liberals and leftist in the MSM always use the word fear when they should be using the word anger.


32 posted on 07/22/2016 6:15:50 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Zakeet

These MSNBC people are completely idiotic dimwits. Its remarkable the BS they sell.


33 posted on 07/22/2016 6:15:53 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: areukiddingme1

Right, going out to meet the terrorists and criminals and arrest or kill them is “hiding under the bed”. Leftists are so stupid, do they believe their policy of appeasement was some bold and brave strategy?


34 posted on 07/22/2016 6:16:18 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Zakeet

MSNBC and their pathetic scare tactics.

These spineless libtards can never win a fare debate. All they offer is fear and loathing. A pitiful bunch of hateful rats.


35 posted on 07/22/2016 6:16:40 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Zakeet

So, according to the elites, everything is going well, the unicorns are flying out of everyone’s ****’*, the murdered cops were a fantasy, everyone is employed, terrorism doesn’t exist, no one has died a violent death in any demoncrat hellhole-ever! The world is at peace, yaddayaddayadda.......


36 posted on 07/22/2016 6:16:42 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Zakeet

When are we going to get serious about Drug Testing these people with their High Capacity Transmission Devices.


37 posted on 07/22/2016 6:16:58 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: VA is for Freepers
They are getting a taste of their own medicine

The Boss (DJT) is in the house!

38 posted on 07/22/2016 6:17:30 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Sound the Trumpence in Zion! The BOSS is in the House!)
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To: TakebackGOP

articles I’ve seen so far this morning:

make America hate again
why republicans should vote for Hillary Clinton
make America hide under the bed again
law and order is a racist dog whistle
trump - candidate of the apocalypse
donald trump’s dark speech

the left are very very scared this morning, they are about to nominate a drunken old hag, pathological liar, who will do or say anything to stay in power.


39 posted on 07/22/2016 6:17:40 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: TakebackGOP

Most of the negative posters are Branch Cruzadian members.


40 posted on 07/22/2016 6:17:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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