"Enemy of the people"
Today, Senator Jeff Flake, an inveterate Never-Trumper, compared Trump to Stalin because he used the phrase "enemy of the people" in regards to the Press.
Why did he zero in on Stalin using that Phrase? It has been around for at least a couple of thousand years. It was the title of a play By Ibsen, with who's politics, I'm sure, Flake would agree. Many people have used that phrase well before and after Stalin. I have used it a few times in different contexts. It never had anything to do with Stalin (unless I was accusing him of being one). Flake was saying that Trump was attacking freedom of the Press by using that phrase. That he was attacking our treasured ideal as it is enunciated in the Second Amendment. That the Press is our uncensored source of the truth. Has Trump actually attacked the Second Amendment? Has he actually attacked the entire Press, or the notion of a free Press? Or has he objected to how much of the Press reports on him? And isn't the objective of his opponents, an objective which much of the Press seems to have, is to make Trump appear to be an "enemy of the people"? Trump, as usual, throws it back at them--he says it is not he but they who are the enemy of the people because of what he considers their false portrayal lf him with the objective of bringing down a President who was duly elected by the people. The Stalin bit is the typical propagandistic guilt by association, by merely an association of using a phrase, that Progressives and anti-Trumpers (many of whom are Progressive or Progressive-lite) use to misdirect or brainwash the public. Trump is not attacking free speech, he is practicing it. The Second Amendment doesn't just protect the Press. And if we consider anyone "an enemy of the people" who calls out the Press when it is wrong, or deliberately false or misleading, especially for political purposes, then we would be an enemy of free speech, that is, we would be an enemy of the people. |
Feel better that you got that out? It will be ok.
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I think he used Stalin because not everybody knows Camacho.
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Are you saying we should arm the press???
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Fox News he loves, everything else is fake news.
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https://books.google.com/books/about...kp_read_button
Trumpocracy written by a republican .. very outspoken about what he and republicans are doing |
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I thought it would be easier to just use your technique of not actually commenting on your link, and just spouting a negative opinion. |
Sometimes the left says Trump is a racist, sometimes they say he's not. Must depend on which way the wind is blowing.
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"Trumper and uses the same leaky propagandist language to make his slanted left notions sound plausible. " I have been suggesting all along he has been doing what this guy states in his book ... before his book came out funny how that works and if one opens ones eyes its not that hard to see .. " He is part of the elitist, Lite-To-Heavy-Progressive RINO wing of the party " you are true Trumpanzee Typical GOP haters when you need to make your response on an on a whole page its no longer a point its a complete defense .. sorry this wasn't a youtube videos you love to post, which you tend to put a lot of weight behind .. their never slanted :btu: |
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At least I try to discuss what you post. You mostly avoid discussing videos I post and just make offhand snide remarks. I tried your method in my first reply to you in this post. But you somehow dragged me into some discussion. That's my fault . . . like what Frum says Trump does, you went after my weakness of actually trying to have a discussion. |
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I dislike him for his actions and his words and his open attacks on our Government and his attacks against the constitution you speak of fondly . He is a great threat to America hidden in a nationalist cloak "You post a lot of stuff (most of which I consider crap or which you don't even understand and misinterpret ) thanks for I am smarter than you line :btu: these are not internet conspiracies Like your birthers movement or the POTUS is a Muslim or pizza shop children sex ring ran by Hillary these are actionable statements policy directives presented by respected people.. not you tube stars So far, in the brief time in office, he appears to be restoring power back to the people with a trimming down of the regulatory bureaucracy, his choice of judges, his lowering of taxes, his EOs such as restoring some religious liberties. you see this as a positive because your anti GOP every ones a rino only Tump can save us from this path ? I see is as an attempt to go back in time to a place that never existed.. to correct a problem that doesn't exist .. all for the base who praise him |
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Here, as you often do, you have disgorged a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions that seem to stick in your craw. I guess that makes you feel better. |
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