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We Are Officially in Pre-Nazi Germany After Trump Advisor Advocates Shooting Hillary Clinton
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/07/we-are-officially-in-pre-nazi-germany/It is official: America is now pre-Nazi Germany. This is not hyperbole or a manifestation of Godwin's law -- there is a bonafide fascist movement in America led by a megalomaniac and advised by people who are openly advocating shooting the Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton.
An adviser to Donald Trump on veterans issues and New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro stated today that Hillary Clinton should be put in a firing line and "shot for treason". Baldasaro, who is also a Trump delegate, made the comments on the Jeff Kuhner Show. He said:
I’m a veteran that went to Desert Shield, Desert Storm. I’m also a father who sent a son to war, to Iraq, as a Marine Corps helicopter avionics technician. Hillary Clinton to me is the Jane Fonda of the Vietnam. She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi. She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting back up security. Something’s wrong there.
This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.
Put aside the fact that Clinton was exonerated from any wrongdoing in Benghazi by a Republican led investigation, and at least 13 other Benghazi type attacks occurred on George W. Bush's watch without any outrage from the Right -- this statement from an official adviser to the Trump campaign has put this election into a league of its own.
Stop and think about it for a minute. We have an advisor to a man who has been nominated to be President by a national party calling for the killing of the presumptive nominee of the other party. Folks, we are in very deep shit here. As Andrew Sullivan wrote:
For Trump is not just a wacky politician of the far right, or a riveting television spectacle, or a Twitter phenom and bizarre working-class hero. He is not just another candidate to be parsed and analyzed by TV pundits in the same breath as all the others. In terms of our liberal democracy and constitutional order, Trump is an extinction-level event. It’s long past time we started treating him as such.*
Somehow we need to a) make damn sure this monster not only does not get elected, but that he disappears from the national stage forever by losing overwhelmingly and b) we need to hold Hillary to her promises to not pass the TPP and to work to overturn Citizen's United. WE need to take back our government and make it again a "...government of the people, by the people and for the people."
*http://thedailybanter.com/2016/05/andrew-sullivan-returns-to-warn-america-of-donald-trumps-threat-to-all-human-life/
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and all the anti-Hillary emphasis. I just heard a report that of the 19 speeches last night, which were supposed to focus on jobs, 13 were anti-Hillary, and as we know very nastily in most cases.
Btw, only 6 were pro-Trump! 
They are so losing.
I saw a little of it last night & couldn't believe the chanting, "lock her up." And the comment that she should be shot for treason. 
So agree!
These people are far more informed, well-educated, overfed and pampered, by comparison. There is almost nothing about that history, that life that should not have informed anyone about how destructive and hate-filled it was.
It inoculated us for many years. People who birthed our parents friggin' hung people for playing out what the swindler is suggesting. We knew it was wrong as a nation. But now we have grown a new crowd that has, instead, chosen to be informed by that horror. So despite all we have, and our experience, all the accomplishments of this nation, our learning, - here we are.
We need to look nowhere else. That's 100% American Beef, baby.
"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited,
their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.
In consequence of these facts,
all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
As soon as you sacrifice the slogan and try to be many-sided,
the effect will piddle away,
for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered."
("Adolf Hitler: quote on propaganda"
their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.
In consequence of these facts,
all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
As soon as you sacrifice the slogan and try to be many-sided,
the effect will piddle away,
for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered."
("Adolf Hitler: quote on propaganda"
Trump has mastered the 'slogan' for the 'great masses' and his crowd can 'neither digest nor retain other material offered....'
Like Trump said, 'I could shoot someone in the middle of times square and they would still vote for me....'
Absolutely...
What many often forget, however, is that Hitler was not only a coldblooded tyrant but that he was also a brilliant persuader of men. He personally oversaw the deaths of millions of people, including the near extermination of the Jewish race while maintaining the full support of the German people.
The entire German population was certainly not as heartless and cruel as Hitler was, so it stands to reason that Hitler must have been a masterful propagandist in order to persuade the Germans that his policies were necessary and just.
The entire German population was certainly not as heartless and cruel as Hitler was, so it stands to reason that Hitler must have been a masterful propagandist in order to persuade the Germans that his policies were necessary and just.
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Adolf-Hitlers-Tremendous-Persuasive-Ability
"Well, both sides advocate for the assassination of their opposition leaders"
