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So Trump is on vacation

Posted: Aug 5, 2017

Are all Obama-haters who constantly complained about Obama's vacations and Obama's golf going to say anything about Trump's vacations and golf? And please don't say he is not costing the taxpayer any money because he is on his own property because he and his family are costing the taxpayer more than the Obamas ever did. I guess he needed this vacation because "the White House is a dump."

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All vacations a president takes costs - taxpayers money. It's a cushy job.

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Same with congress and senate members. You don't think they want the power for nothing do you? Not only that but they take bribes for votes and become multimillionaires.

You used quotes on "the White House is a dump". Just who are you quoting?

That would be - Trump to his

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golf buddies - according to some news a few days ago. He probably did though - I have seen clips of his homes in past news programs - well the only words I can use to describe it is gawdy, gilded, over-the-top. I know some people like that type of environment, just not my cup of tea. I imagine even though the White House is steeped in history and antiques that it probably isn't his style!

So this is hearsay right? Trump did not - say anything publically right?

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It's just another person who wants to get their name in the news and I seriously doubt Trump would call the White House a dump. If he thought so, he could remodel it.

Sometimes people use quotes inappropriately and some people believe whatever they read because it suits their agenda.

Sometimes they do, but - unless you were

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there I highly doubt you could know for sure what he said or what he really thinks of the White House - I was just the messenger for your question! I don't doubt he may have said something like that though because he is a flamboyant individual. I don't see him being awed by humble antiquities.

Have you seen photos - old and burned out

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of the Trump apartment in NY? Let us all hope he does not remodel the WH in that fashion.

Oh Lord, please - don't!

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What a nightmare that would be!!

Now, there would be grounds for impeachment! - Nm

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Nm

What's your place look like? - Haha

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I am sure you are green with envy and would give anything to have a penthouse like that.

Anything will be an improvement. At least they are - respectful. Unlike the last two clowns

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nm

Agree 100% - Remember when "Mooch and Crackhead"

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made the comment..."all this for a damn flag". Showed you their true colors. Never in my life have I been so glad to see that SOB and his horse of a wife kicked to the curb.

But you know the Liberal Fascists, if they are not hating, they are not happy.

Proof please - sm

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which you won't provide because you can't because it never happened. BTW who's hating? Seems to me the liberal fascist isn't a loving term and you are really obsessed,fixated and hateful of President Obama, the last President who had class and knew how to handle himself unlike the grotesque, disrespectful, _____ grabbing thing named trump.

Hahaha-again thanks for the chuckles - Not only is post factless IT IS STINKING HYSTERICA

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Keep the comedy coming!

I'll continue - sm

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to state facts, no problem, if you provide any substance to anything you ever say. But you won't. You throw out little snarky nonsensical remarks and call names. Please state what is factless about the post. Still waiting......

^^Don't bother - still laughing so hard - my stomach hurts^^

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One of your jokes was enough to last a lifetime!!!

Please post - sm

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something meaningful. I am sorry for your stomach pain. I know hearing the truth hurts LOL

Laughing so hard at this post, I can hardly type this!! - LOLOLOL. If Obama is what

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passes for class according to Liberal Fascists, tells you all you need to know.

Do you know - sm

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any other term than liberal fascist? LOL I know the answer. And yes laughing hysterically at anyone who thinks trump has class and knows how to be a president. Now that is comedic gold right there. Still waiting for substance from you. I'll be 6 feet under before that happens though HAHAHA

Now we got the "do you know" poster piling on - These Sybils just get funnier and funnier.

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When I stopped by for look tonight, never did I think I was going to be laughing so hard I could literally wet my pants. I may stay a while; the lefties just keeps better funnier and funnier with each of their post trying to climb out of this hole proclaiming their undying love and devotion and painting Obama as having CLASS!!!!?????? You can't write this stuff, it's so bizarre AND funny.

I'll gladly - sm

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read a post that explains why President Obama has no class and trump does. I'm laughing too because the right on this board never lets me down having a nothingburger when it comes to substance or facts. But I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. I'll wait.

And some people don't believe anything they - read because Trump can do no wrong

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He probably did say that and one of his "buddies" leaked that to the press. He is remodeling the home quarters. I just hope he doesn't use our tax dollars to turn it into a solid gold gaudy palace like his homes. He has a right to remodel but I bet the costs of his remodel could cost more than several previous presidents combined.

Just by you "seriously doubting Trump would call the White House a dump" tells me how little you know about this guy.

That is a Trump quote - Not my president

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It is something he said this past week. I can try and find a reference if you like.

Trump said the White House is a dump - or someone said he said it?

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And that someone who said it got his name in the news but no one else backed up his story right? And Trump denied it right? If he thought it was a dump, he could fix it right?

Apparently 9 individuals heard him - Not my president

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Of course they are all lying and Trump is telling the truth, as usual.

Only ONE person said Trump said that - and EIGHT others are not coming forward

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ONE person wanted their name in the news saying Trump said this. That ONE person claims NINE individuals heard this but only ONE person came forward with this "news" and no one else is backing his story. Hmmmm

LOL - sm

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who cares? The man is a liar whether he said that or not. trump worshipers will defend him when he contradicts himself on video which he has over and over. Kinda silly defending him over this, but then again he could shoot someone in Times Square and not lose support. Or did he not say that either?

Here is a link - old and burned out

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Of course he is now denying he said it. Believe it or not the WH is certainly not decorated in Trump fashion and he probably doesn't like it.

If Trump did not like something he - has power and money to change it.

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That is ridiculous to believe he would call the White House a "dump" and Trump haters cling to that because in their narrow minds they can't logically think that Trump has power and privilege to change the White House if he believed it was a dump.

Guess I didn't post the link - Not my president

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Sorry

Hearsay link. - Fake news.

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Imagine that. A reporter wants publicity. Bashing Trump is a good way to get it. And all the haters believe it because most haters are blinded by reality and logic.

The truth is - sm

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it doesn't take a reporter to bash trump or be disgusted by him. trump himself does that all by himself, with his own mouth, with his own twitter, with all the lies he's told. I don't need a reporter to fee about trump the way I do, all i need is trump. Get over it. LOL fake news - says the supporters who believe conspiracy theories.

The proper term for liberal fascist is leftist - authoritarian. That's what some of them are.

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Just look on many colleges today.

Media Matters is the first thing that springs to mind. - They can't handle any opposition

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so they push boycotts, but these often have a backlash.

I assume - sm

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you're speaking about the right, right?

You know what they say about someone that assumes? - If not, maybe you can stop your personal attack

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long enough to look it up. ;)

OMG - sm

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What personal attack? The right who calls everyone every name they can and a generalized post is a personal attack? It never stops.

How does democratic belief in live and let live equate to authoritarianism? - nm

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"live and let live" is - PoliSci

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"Live and let live" is libertarianism and also a tenet of classic liberalism.

Classic liberalism has been dead in America for over 100 years.

Many college kids are being taught collectivism w/o - really knowing what it means.

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It’s communism justified and embraced by people that do not understand and possibly revile American exceptionalism, meaning America was the exception to the rule, not like Europe or anywhere else.

Barack Obama, the quintessential liberal fascist. - When Saul Alinsky began building his

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community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe. It wasn't hard then to see in Alinsky's programs at home, elements of the people's revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same "in your face" tactics being employed by Hitler's Brownshirts.

What Alinsky's critics saw was the burgeoning of a national movement, the carefully manipulated construction of people's organizations, which all had two elements in common: (1) a collectivist creed, which denied the existence of personal responsibility; and (2) an amoral dogma, in which all means were justified by an imaginary utopian end.

While most modern Americans remember well Hitler's Holocaust and the Cold War waged by a solid U.S.S.R., many of these same Americans have swallowed some false history regarding the movements that spawned such widespread, horrendous results. In what may be regarded as the most triumphant propaganda victory of our time, fascism has been scrubbed of all its Marxist roots, while communism has been scrubbed of its millions of callous murders.

This post-WWII propaganda coup undeniably set the stage for the early Alinsky critics' most feared eventuality, that the massive organizations could be shrewdly adopted by a fascist demagogue, someone who could "seize leadership and control" and turn them into a "Frankenstein's monster against democracy."

But perhaps the most cunning propaganda feat in history has been undertaken for the past 8 years. As Jonah Goldberg expertly expounds in his book, Liberal Fascism, American left-wing ideologues have managed to dissociate themselves from all the horrors of fascism with a "brilliant rhetorical maneuver." They've done it by "claiming that their opponents are the fascists."

Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt's Let Them Call Me Rebel:

"...in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University...students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations - a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration's Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush's address. That's the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative - and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.' And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results."

In what may eventually prove to be a devious rhetorical feat of monstrous proportions, while the left has been indulging and fostering the "Bush Is Hitler" meme, they may have just put a genuine ideological fascist heir in the White House.

There is inherent danger in making scurrilous comparisons (as were perpetrated unceasingly against George W. Bush), but there seem to be some very worrisome signs in the rise of Barack Obama that we Americans would be foolish to ignore.

Obama, the Closer

As I put forth last year in "Obama, the Closer", Barack Obama, did not start his movement; Alinsky did.

Nor did Obama amass the organizations that propelled him. As detailed by Heidi J. Swarts, in her book, Organizing Urban America, the movement begun by Saul Alinsky in the 1930s has morphed into thousands of secular and faith-based leftist political organizations. ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has perhaps the highest public profile, is most reputed for radicalism, and is the organization with which Barack Obama was first aligned. But ACORN is the mere tip of a veritable iceberg of Alinsky-styled community organizations that sweep across the entire United States and make up the backbone of faith-based progressive movements as well.

These euphemistically called "community" organizations have next to nothing to do with improving the communities and everything to do with politics, primarily strong-arming government money to advance their political aims. Prior to Reagan's election, these groups worked independently for the most part, each seeking to effect local change towards leftist ends.

But with Reagan's victory, ACORN founding member Wade Rathke sent out a memo (published by Swarts; Organizing Urban America; p. 29) that would reverberate all the way to Barack Obama's moment. ACORN had been behaving as a sort of "Lone Ranger of the Left" for too long, wrote Rathke. Ronald Reagan had formed a coalition among the middle-class that threatened to bring greater prosperity without left-wing Statists calling the shots. Rathke put out the call to the ACORN troops to stop antagonizing those who would be allies, especially unions and church organizations, once shunned by ACORN as too placid for the real fight for power. For the next 25 years, the community organization network built, proliferated and formed a solid, nation-wide base of political strength, purely according to Alinsky's original vision, and all just waiting for the right candidate to tap into it and lead it.

When folks from all corners of America proclaimed, seemingly with one voice, Barack is the "One we've been waiting for," they were speaking out of the vast Alinsky-originated network.

Neither did Barack Obama invent the political "ideology of change," nor design its carefully crafted propaganda. While media folks talked of the tingles up their legs and the brilliant rhetoric of Barack Obama, they were heralding the speaker only, not the creator of the movement and its slogans. That would have been Saul Alinsky, the man who took fascism and cunningly made it appear to casual observers every bit as American as apple pie.

Barack Obama is merely the movement's closer, the quintessential liberal fascist with a teleprompter.Hail Obama

Alinsky's Ideology of Change: The Third Way

Goldberg fastidiously notes the comparison between Alinsky's "in your face" rules for radicals, studied and perfected by Barack Obama, and shows them to have profoundly fascist roots:

"...there's no disputing that vast swaths of his (Alinsky's) writings are indistinguishable from the fascist rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s...His worldview is distinctly fascistic. Life is defined by war, contests of power, the imposition of will. Moreover, Alinsky shares with the fascists and pragmatists of yore a bedrock hostility to dogma. All he believes in are the desired ends of the movement, which he regards as the source of life's meaning...But what comes through most is his unbridled love of power. Power is a good in its own right for Alinsky. Ours ‘is a world not of angels but of angles,' he proclaims in Rules for Radicals, ‘where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles."

Saul Alinsky was the man who transformed politics in America into all-out war mode. Alinsky's tenth rule of the ethics of means: "You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments." All's fair in love and war, and politics, to Alinsky, was war.

"A People's (community) Organization is not a philanthropic plaything or a social service's ameliorative gesture. It is a deep, hard-driving force, striking and cutting at the very roots of all the evils which beset the people. It thinks and acts in terms of social surgery and not cosmetic cover-ups.

A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war. A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play."

Saul Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals; p. 133

Alinsky includes an entire section in Rules for Radicals on "The Ideology of Change." The watchword of the Obama campaign was "change." Just as Hitler mobilized the masses with a calculatingly undefined demand for "change," so did Alinsky disciple, Barack Obama.

"Everything must be different!" or "Alles muss anders sein!," Hitler's own campaign slogan, morphed into "Unite for Change," and the Obama transition team's change.gov. Even the idea of a vast "movement" was borrowed from Hitler. As Goldberg states, Hitler used the phrase, "the Movement," more than 200 times in Mein Kampf.

The word ‘movement' itself is instructive. Movement, unlike progress, doesn't imply a fixed destination. Rather, it takes it as a given that any change is better.
(Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 176)

Perhaps the most intoxicating allure to the fascist demagogue and his movement for undefined change is its misleadingly conciliatory flavor. Barack Obama continually, throughout his campaign and even now, portrays himself as the Third Way between the cantankerous factions that have polarized America for the past 80 years, since liberal fascism took root as the Progressive Movement.

Obama claimed that Bush was too much the ideologue, that his policies were driven by the Christian right, involved "false choices" between all-out war on the one hand and diplomacy on the other, between the welfare state and cold-hearted, do-nothing conservatism, between absolute sovereignty and cowardly submission to the global community, between doing all and doing nothing. And if any of this gibberish were a true reflection of our political disagreements, Obama would be somewhat correct. But as any sentient person knows, this radical presentation of Obama's is absolutely false. That gets lost, though, in the leader's conciliatory tone.

What must not get lost, however, is the very real fact that this Third Way movement for change is as fascist as anything we have ever seen in the USA. As Alinsky described his own "Ideology of Change," the lure is in the claim that the leader has no ideology that would confine his outlook to hard choices between what is moral or immoral, that there are no boundaries set by either religion or politics, that everything can change and the only thing that matters is one's end intention to do something good.

As Hitler, before Alinsky, proclaimed, "Our program is to govern," not delve into theory and dogma. This is in itself very appealing, especially to an electorate sick of the contentiousness of the past decade. This undefined "ideology of change" for the sake of change, for some action that will break through the roadblocks of polarization, has tremendous allure.

But Goldberg bursts that bubble:

The ‘middle way' sounds moderate and un-radical. Its appeal is that it sounds unideological and freethinking. But philosophically the Third Way is not mere difference splitting; it is utopian and authoritarian. Its utopian aspect becomes manifest in its antagonism to the idea that politics is about trade-offs. The Third Wayer says that there are no false choices -‘I refuse to accept that X should come at the expense of Y.' The Third Way holds that we can have capitalism and socialism, individual liberty and absolute unity. Fascist movements are implicitly utopian because they - like communist and heretical Christian movements -- assume that with just the right arrangement of policies, all contradictions can be rectified.
(Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 130)

Of course, thinking people -- when they are indeed thinking -- know this is an utterly false promise. Life will never be made perfect because all human beings are imperfect.

Unity, the Diabolical Lure

What of this longed-for unity then? Barack Obama proclaimed he was leading a movement of people "united for change." What is the appeal of unity?

The modern liberal fascist seeks that state between mother and child which exists early on before the child seeks his own independence, before mother must set herself at odds with him. It is the perfectly secure state of childhood where all is lovely and peaceful and nurturing, but cannot continue indefinitely if the child is to be prepared to face a world of difficulty and hard choices. Nevertheless, the yearning continues. It is this primordial yearning which sets itself in the crosshairs of the fascist demagogue.

But in adult life, this type of unity is anything but desirable, anything but virtuous. As Goldberg states, however, "elevation of unity as the highest social value is a core tenet of fascism and all leftist ideologies."

The allure of this mystical unity is so great that its demand to sacrifice reason and thought on the false altar of infantile security is seemingly lost to many. But as Goldberg also reminds us, "unity is, at best, morally neutral and often a source of irrationality and groupthink."

Rampaging mobs are unified. The Mafia is unified. Marauding barbarians bent on rape and pillage are unified. Meanwhile, civilized people have disagreements, and small-d democrats have arguments. Classical liberalism is based on this fundamental insight, which is why fascism was always anti-liberal.

Liberalism rejected the idea that unity is more valuable than individuality. For fascists and other leftists, meaning and authenticity are found in collective enterprises - of class, nation, or race - and the state is there to enforce that meaning on everyone without the hindrance of debate.

(Goldberg; Liberal Fascism; p. 172)

Just as the healthy relationship between parent and developing child demands friction, so does the healthy relationship between truly liberal citizens. Unity is the siren song of tyranny, not the call to genuine progress.

Fascism: The Two Birds with One Stone Approach

I think of Obama's liberal fascism as a cancer that attempts to kill the two birds of American exceptionalism with one stone. It is a deviously appealing Third Way that in the end, if allowed to triumph completely, kills both individual liberty and Judeo/Christian religion with its single stone.

And, indeed this was the precise goal of Adolph Hitler. Unlike the outspoken hatred of private property and religion espoused by communists under Lenin and Stalin, Hitler preferred the more moderate-seeming incremental takeover of private enterprise in the interest of the "common good," and the slow-death of Judeo/Christian religion by chipping away at it and replacing the people's dependence upon God gradually with reliance on the state (Hitler).

[Note: Hitler's Holocaust was based on the Progressive Eugenics principles set forth by Social Darwinist scientists and social engineers of the 1920s, widely accepted both in Europe and in the United States. Religion was not at the core of the Holocaust; race was. However, Hitler's other chief aim was to destroy the Judeo/Christian religions, which he believed had ruined the Germanic race's world predominance.]

Of course, as the German people were duped into giving Hitler totalitarian powers to work his magic "change," he took off the kid gloves and accelerated the program.

In the end, however slow the process, however seemingly benign the growth of the state may seem, liberal fascism has the same result of all tyrannies before it: hell on earth for most and a self-indulgent feast for the Statists in power.

As Barack Obama speaks, thinking Americans ought to hear the echoes of past fascist demagogues and remember. Remember.

When Barack Obama promises "collective redemption" through his profligate spending programs and vast overtures to a new world order built on love for our fellow man, we ought to shudder not swoon.

We ought to remember that healthy global relationships are built upon respect, not all-encompassing love, and that redemption for one's soul is a commodity the state is not empowered to offer.

As Pope Benedict XVI has so presciently warned:

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.

Be not fooled, America. The movement, which appears most benign is instead the most malignant growth ever seen on our soil. It's a cancer that will kill, and however slowly it grows or however nice it may look on the surface, doesn't change a thing.

The media never reported anything bad about Obama. - Reformed Liberal

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When he went to Peru they protested his visit. They didn't want him there. What a waist of taxpayer money.

He also took Iran off the terrorist watch list. They are the #1 supporter of terrorism. This is when I really started to pay attention to things from a more what a minute here type approach, not party line. I have relatives in Israel.

The "bad" things were few and far between. - nm

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Because they were never reported. - !!!

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Hate and Trump bashing are all the Liberal Fascists - do...they post no facts, no sites,

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nothing factual or coherent to support their endless lies. After all, look at who their god of choice was....Obama the Liar in Chief and then Hillary the Liar in Waiting.

Most people are onto the the Liberal Fascists and their endless lies/spin and their rote mantras....seems to have really frazzled the LFs.

Do Democrats hope to succeed with no ideas - and only Trump bashing?

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If so they are as doomed as they were with pantsuit Hillary carrying all that shady baggage and skeletons falling out of her closet.

If I hear Russia, Russia, Russia once again I will definitely not vote for a Democrat no matter who it is. All the smoke and mirrors and no ideas and no qualified leader of the party.

"It is a mantra that is on an endless loop in the head of Liberal - Fascists" to quote another poster

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They have no cohesive message, they have no facts. They are hopelessly corrupt through-and-through, and Liberal Fascists think calling President Trump a "Cheeto" passes for political discussion.

Then they boohoo and cry because they don't care for a post by a conservative that has true political content and discourse. When that gets no one's attention, they cry Victim.

We have seen all of their pitiful antics before. After Obama's Reign of Terror, I seriously doubt if I will ever vote for another dimwitted Democrat.

LOL - sm

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I posted below regarding facts with articles and interviews to back up anything and everything asked for. That is NEVER reciprocated from the right...ever. No one is on to liberal fascists because as explained numerous times they don't exist. Obama and Hillary liars but trump is truthful????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Want a list of trump's lies. Give me an hour, I'll post them. It will take a while.

And the issue of cost of rent discrepancy - For SS at Trump Tower

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So now they are working out of vans on street. I think they should pull the detail if they won't basically all live together. This is ridiculous. The Trump madness has brought so many things to the ridiculous extreme.

Well there has to be - sm

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some sort of reason. I mean it's certainly not from being overworked. And DEFINITELY not to golf, something he criticized President Obama for. A 17 day vacation. Ahhh to be trump, the life of a privileged conman.

He's not on "vacation". Better for America to protect him - than "mooch" and her constant vacays

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Besides...he's not on vacation.

And what would you call it? - Even Fox said

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he was taking a 17-day vacation. He has taken more time with his golf weekends and now this than Obama ever did and all the while he slammed Obama and stated several times that if he were in the White House he would not have time to play golf or go on vacation as our country seemed to be in shambles. Take off the rose-colored glasses - he is taking another vacation at one of his own properties and paying himself with taxpayer money!!!

And the totals are in - for the last 3

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president's vacations by this time in their presidency: (drum roll please)

George W Bush - 67 days

Barrack Obama - 21

Donald Trump - 41

On top of that as he pays money from all of us to his properties - that is obscene. I haven't been able to afford a vacation in 5 years!!! Maybe this year I won't pay my taxes so that he can't use them for his and then I can go!!!

Well they got it wrong too - nothing new - sm

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Don't listen to any main (lame) stream media. I do listen to the people who are on the inside.

He's not on vacation.

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I haven't even left town and my son and ex-husband (his father) are at each other's throats and calling me! My 10yo daughter and I have planned a fun little get away this weekend for a family reunion plus some fun in the sun at a water park. This evening, my daughter and I are staying over at my mother's because we are riding together and leaving early. My mom took my daughter and went shopping and I have this nice quiet, empty house to do one last evening of wor ...

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on U.S. trade and campaign finance, but has been far less aggressive in disclosing his own personal finances. Now his wife and campaign confidante, Jane O'Meara Sanders, is defending the senator's decision not to file a candidate personal finance disclosure and talking about the purchase of a new vacation home. Sanders and his campaign asked the Federal Election Commission for two 45-day extensions, in mid-May and late June, on filing the personal finance disclosures candidates are ...

Jan 08, 2017
Derp ...

Oct 28, 2016
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2KstWopqYA Rush says.... "Mr. Trump you don't have anything to do with anything that has gone wrong with this country; THEY do. And THEY are throwing out everything they can to destroy you and prevent you from winning." "As I say Mr. Trump, their fingerprints are all over it; if anybody in my estimation is disqualified from having anything further to do with this nation's economy or healthcare or immigration, it's the democrat party." "T ...

Sep 07, 2016
Current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, investigated Trump University when Abbott served as Texas attorney general. After Abbott dropped the investigation, Trump donated $35,000 to his gubernatorial campaign. According to The Huffington Post, former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens, who worked closely with the Trump University investigation, called the probe “an extremely strong case” — only to have the case dropped. Abbott’s successor, Ken Paxton (who remains i ...

Aug 03, 2016
All I have seen is Hillary bashing on this site. Has anyone mentioned how brash, rude, and just plain disgraceful Trump is acting during his speeches? How he made fun of a disabled person, how he is planning on attacking China?, how he told a woman to remove her crying child from the room during one of his "speeches"? Do any of you realize he has no idea how to be diplomatic? Do you realize what will happen to the USA if he ticks off China and starts another war, especially with this superpower ...

Jul 31, 2016
I am voting for Trump. I have always wanted a president who refuses to learn anything about his prospective job because I don't like learning either. I have always wanted a president who tells me to punch someone in the face because I like punching people. I have always wanted a president who speaks in language I can understand because I hate looking up those big words in the dictionary. I have always wanted a president who tells me its okay to hate all those people ...

Jan 27, 2017
Do you have any idea where he's getting this? Just curious. ...

Jan 24, 2017
get the companies back in the US, amazon, sprint, Ford, etc. if we dont fix the problems now it will only get worse. work on outsourcing!!! ...

Mar 15, 2016
ICE: 124 illegal immigrants released from jail later charged in 138 murder cases http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/14/ice-124-illegal-immigrants-released-from-jail-later-charged-in-138-murder-cases.html ICE: 124 illegal immigrants released from jail later charged in 138 murder cases http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/14/ice-124-illegal-immigrants-released-from-jail-later-charged-in-138-murder-cases.html More proof that Obama is an epic failure and will go down ...

Mar 03, 2016
I am so sick of how this election is going. How can any of the so called Senators in this race say that he would not be a good President as well as others in the Washington elite. I mean look at President Obama, really what qualifications did he really have. I would like to have policy specifics but as I recall, Obama during his election did not have a lot of substance. Let the voters pick who they want and let the Washington establishment stay out of it. ...

Jul 23, 2015
LETS MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. VOTE FOR TRUMP ...

Aug 09, 2015
accused this time. The bleeding from the eyes, etc. Think it is a stretch to make that a woman hating comment. But they will get him out of the race one way or another. ...

Feb 16, 2016
I'd make up life-size cardboard Bushes - Ma, Pa and Bro. Ma would be holding a sign saying "Down with Donald!" Pa would be holding his nose. Bro would be thumbs-down with a scowl. I'd prop them in a hay wagon and wheel it onto the stage in the middle of Trump's speech. At that point, Donald would look around, take a long look, turn to the mic and say, "We just can't get rid of 'em, can we?....They're everywhere." ...

Apr 06, 2017
Mar-a-Lago: "It's pay-to-play, people are paying for access to the president," said Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush. Along with the ethics issue, he is putting businesses out of business and costing local communities huge amounts in tax dollars. Most of our presidents used Camp David, which is a helicopter ride away from the White House, for entertaining foreign leaders, yet it's not good enough for Trump. ...

Apr 28, 2017
Bwahahaha! He actually thought being president of the United States would be easier than being on a TV reality show and (mis)managing a family business? Are you kidding? ...

May 01, 2017
Boy if this piece doesn't hit the nail on the head, I don't know what does. The thing is he is getting away with all of this. No other president would have gotten away with what he is doing. ...

May 09, 2017
There is a lot of stuff going on and he is too busy tweeting. The sad thing is his strong supporters justify everything he does. In my area, I'm seeing a lot of people regretting they voted for this conman, so there is hope. ...

Jun 07, 2017
According to Trump, I thought the American 'job bleed' to outsourced countries, was supposed to cease the day he took over the WH?!? Yeah, right... http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article154829054.html Umm, sounds familiar, right? ...

Jul 25, 2017
to get AG Sessions to quit? His tweeting criticizing and bullying him is just getting ridiculous. Why doesn't he just fire him? Coward! ...

Aug 15, 2017
Charlottesville, you might want to look back at some of his own words. "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise," Trump said at an Iowa rally on February 1, 2016." So, will he pay the legal fees for the guy who rammed through the crowd of people killing a person and injuring many others? A poster in another post below told me I should b ...