Inside Trump’s echo chamber of conspiracies, grievances and vitriol

[Libertine]

Inside Donald Trump’s echo chamber of conspiracies, grievances and vitriol

He is preaching to the converted. He is lashing out at anyone who is not completely loyal. He is detaching himself from and delegitimizing the institutions of American political life. And he is proclaiming conspiracies everywhere — the polls are rigged, the debate moderators are biased, and the election itself will be stolen.

In the presidential campaign’s home stretch, Donald Trump is fully inhabiting his own echo chamber. The Republican nominee has turned inward, increasingly isolated from the country’s mainstream and leaders of his own party, and determined to rouse his most fervent supporters with dire warnings that their populist movement could fall prey to dark and collusive forces.

This is a campaign right out of Breitbart, the incendiary conservative website run until recently by Stephen Bannon, now the Trump campaign’s chief executive — and it is an act of retaliation.

A turbulent few weeks punctuated by allegations of sexual harassment have left Trump trailing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in nearly every swing state.

The execution has been volatile. Since announcing last week that “the shackles have been taken off me,” Trump, bolstered by allies on talk radio and social media, has been creating an alternate reality — one full of innuendo about Clinton, tirades about the unfair news media and prophecies of Trump’s imminent triumph.

Many Republicans see the Trump campaign’s latest incarnation as a mirror into the psyche of their party’s restive base: pulsating with grievance and vitriol, unmoored from conservative orthodoxy, and deeply suspicious of the fast-changing culture and the consequences of globalization.

“I think Trump is right: The shackles have been released, but they were the shackles of reality,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran GOP strategist. “Trump has now shifted to a mode of complete egomaniacal self-indulgence. If he’s going to go off with these merry alt-right pranksters and only talk to people who vote Republican no matter what, he’s going to lose the election substantially.”

A new conspiracy is born. Trump insinuated during a rally Saturday in Portsmouth, N.H., that Clinton may be taking drugs.

Trump has ominously predicted a “stolen election.” In Pennsylvania, he has instructed his rural white supporters to go to Philadelphia, a city with a large black population, to stand watch for voter fraud.

Trump said: “The election is rigged. It’s rigged to like you have never seen before. They’re rigging the system."

Trump is laying the foundation to contest the results, should he lose, and delegitimize a Clinton presidency in the minds of his followers.

Trump’s worldview extends beyond what is published on Breitbart, which specializes in turbocharged coverage of illegal immigration and unproved theories about Obama and Clinton. Bannon has been traveling with Trump daily and shares with him the latest Breitbart material. He tells Trump that he is the American incarnation of populist movements rising in capitals around the world.

There's Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime adviser and provocateur who has published conspiratorial writings about the Clintons. From Stone one can trace Trump’s political bloodline to Alex Jones, who runs the website Infowars.com, which has trafficked in conspiracy stories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks being a tyrannical government conspiracy.

Trump sat for an interview with Jones in late 2015 in which Jones spoke about the United States becoming a “third-world nation” and “globalists that want to have a world government.” Trump nodded along.

Jones more recently has called Obama and Clinton “demon possessed,” smelling of sulfur and attracting flies. At the second debate, Trump picked up on that characterization, labeling Clinton “the devil.” And it was Stone, in a recent interview with Infowars, who introduced the unfounded theory advanced on the stump by Trump that Clinton was “jacked up on something” in the second debate.

Trump has crafted a closing message rooted in dark conspiracies.

It would be laughable that a Republican nominee for president would have allowed his campaign to be overtaken by Breitbart and Infowars, except that it is a very dangerous and cynical thing to do to try to convince voters of these lies.


Washington Post
10-16-16

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...cc0_story.html

[asiansam]

Who was it that complained of a vast Right-Wing conspiracy when a certain Democrat was battling scandals some time back?

Oh wait, never mind...

[ponocha]

Originally Posted by Libertine

Inside Donald Trump’s echo chamber of conspiracies, grievances and vitriol

He is preaching to the converted. He is lashing out at anyone who is not completely loyal. He is detaching himself from and delegitimizing the institutions of American political life. And he is proclaiming conspiracies everywhere — the polls are rigged, the debate moderators are biased, and the election itself will be stolen.

In the presidential campaign’s home stretch, Donald Trump is fully inhabiting his own echo chamber. The Republican nominee has turned inward, increasingly isolated from the country’s mainstream and leaders of his own party, and determined to rouse his most fervent supporters with dire warnings that their populist movement could fall prey to dark and collusive forces.

This is a campaign right out of Breitbart, the incendiary conservative website run until recently by Stephen Bannon, now the Trump campaign’s chief executive — and it is an act of retaliation.

A turbulent few weeks punctuated by allegations of sexual harassment have left Trump trailing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in nearly every swing state.

The execution has been volatile. Since announcing last week that “the shackles have been taken off me,” Trump, bolstered by allies on talk radio and social media, has been creating an alternate reality — one full of innuendo about Clinton, tirades about the unfair news media and prophecies of Trump’s imminent triumph.

Many Republicans see the Trump campaign’s latest incarnation as a mirror into the psyche of their party’s restive base: pulsating with grievance and vitriol, unmoored from conservative orthodoxy, and deeply suspicious of the fast-changing culture and the consequences of globalization.

“I think Trump is right: The shackles have been released, but they were the shackles of reality,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran GOP strategist. “Trump has now shifted to a mode of complete egomaniacal self-indulgence. If he’s going to go off with these merry alt-right pranksters and only talk to people who vote Republican no matter what, he’s going to lose the election substantially.”

A new conspiracy is born. Trump insinuated during a rally Saturday in Portsmouth, N.H., that Clinton may be taking drugs.

Trump has ominously predicted a “stolen election.” In Pennsylvania, he has instructed his rural white supporters to go to Philadelphia, a city with a large black population, to stand watch for voter fraud.

Trump said: “The election is rigged. It’s rigged to like you have never seen before. They’re rigging the system."

Trump is laying the foundation to contest the results, should he lose, and delegitimize a Clinton presidency in the minds of his followers.

Trump’s worldview extends beyond what is published on Breitbart, which specializes in turbocharged coverage of illegal immigration and unproved theories about Obama and Clinton. Bannon has been traveling with Trump daily and shares with him the latest Breitbart material. He tells Trump that he is the American incarnation of populist movements rising in capitals around the world.

There's Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime adviser and provocateur who has published conspiratorial writings about the Clintons. From Stone one can trace Trump’s political bloodline to Alex Jones, who runs the website Infowars.com, which has trafficked in conspiracy stories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks being a tyrannical government conspiracy.

Trump sat for an interview with Jones in late 2015 in which Jones spoke about the United States becoming a “third-world nation” and “globalists that want to have a world government.” Trump nodded along.

Jones more recently has called Obama and Clinton “demon possessed,” smelling of sulfur and attracting flies. At the second debate, Trump picked up on that characterization, labeling Clinton “the devil.” And it was Stone, in a recent interview with Infowars, who introduced the unfounded theory advanced on the stump by Trump that Clinton was “jacked up on something” in the second debate.

Trump has crafted a closing message rooted in dark conspiracies.

It would be laughable that a Republican nominee for president would have allowed his campaign to be overtaken by Breitbart and Infowars, except that it is a very dangerous and cynical thing to do to try to convince voters of these lies.


Washington Post
10-16-16

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...cc0_story.html

Dude...what are you going to do, if Trump wins

Just go get some beaver now and forget the politics..... whoever wins is only going to be a one term president

[Libertine]

Originally Posted by ponocha

Just go get some beaver now

first this ------->>>>>

[marsean]

Originally Posted by Libertine

first this ------->>>>>

That pic, wow, you know she loves an all day sucka. I can't concentrate now with P***y on my mind.