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Thom's blog
What's It Going To Take to Break Trump's Followers' Obsession With Death?
 Even the professional war criminals, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, are not willing to show up to this weeks Republican convention. Donald Trump has gutted his party, although we should probably be grateful. He has exposed a 40 year long con job, first perpetrated by Ronald Reagan, and now everybody knows that the Republican Party exists only to support billionaires and big corporations. It has become a death cult, where Trump's own supporters enthusiastically cheer his efforts to make America more brutal, crude, and deadly. The final proof came this week when we learned that 57% percentage of Trump supporters are just fine with almost 200,000 people dead from the coronavirus, while reports flood in about his Sturgis bike rally followers spreading death and disease all over the country. The question most Americans want answered is, "What's it going to take to wake up or defeat the members of Trump's death cult?" Jim Jones led a death cult, as did David Karesh, Adolf Hitler, and Tojo. History doesn't offer us clear guidelines, although it is rife with warnings. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: What's It Going to Take to Break Trump's Followers' Obsession With Death?
Quote: " As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005. Tweet: " After terrorist assholes hit the World Trade Center, 2,606 people died. The country came together: Democrats AND Republicans. Now 57% of Republicans call 176,000 dead from COVID-19 "acceptable losses?" What happened to you, America?" by Stephen King.
Quote: " We built the greatest economy in the history of the world and now I have to do it again. You know what that is? That's right, that's God testing me. He said, "You know, you did it once," and I said, "Did I do a great job, God? I'm the only one that could do it?" He said, "That you shouldn't say. Now we're going to have you do it again." I said, "Okay, I agree. You got me." - Donald J. Trump. Tweet: " "Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant." - Tacitus
"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles; they call it empire, and where they make a wasteland they call it peace."
I'm mourning Jackie's crabapples. https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1297174218552102918" by Thom Hartmann. Tweet: " Before and after photographs of newly renovated White House Rose Garden: courtesy #Getty and @marycjordan" by Michael Beschloss. |
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