[Reuters] Clint Eastwood, the 86-year-old four-time Oscar winner, excoriated the current generation of Americans as weak and overly sensitive while backing Donald Trump even though the Republican presidential hopeful has "said a lot of dumb things."
Eastwood, a prominent celebrity supporter of the Republican Party who appeared at its 2012 U.S. presidential nominating convention, offered a harsh assessment of Americans in an interview with Esquire magazine published on Wednesday.
"He's onto something because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up," the acclaimed actor and director said of Trump. "That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells."
"We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist," Eastwood added.
Given the choice between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Trump in the Nov. 8 election, the celebrated star of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" said, "That's a tough one, isn't it? I'd have to go for Trump ... you know, 'cause she's declared that she's gonna follow in Obama's footsteps."
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Eastwood; another American treasure. "Trump says dumb things?" Hilda and Obummer also say very dumb things--it's just that the MSM ding trump incessantly but say little about Hilda and Obean. I've never, ever seen the Donks unload on anyone to the extent they are hammering Trump. They are firing everything.
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That would be the same CO that the Trunk establishment made sure they'd be #NeverTrump without asking the party base. Basically flipping the finger to the proles . Yep, that will enhance turnout.
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...did the same thing with Wolf vs. Roberts @ Senate, dang near lost them the general.
How bad? Wife asked if it was ok she didn't vote this year. I know in Kansas our vote does not really count, but I am sure there are swing state voters who feel the same.
Trump hits on the golf and weather channel show me just how rooted the crab grass is.
[Right Scoop] Mark Levin said tonight on his show that Hillary may end up winning by a landslide if something doesn’t change in the Trump campaign.
Responding to Giuliani, Levin said the American people don’t care if Trump is getting an intervention or if this is just an evolution of his campaign.
"Something better change," he said, "or this could be a landslide victory for the detestable leftist, the unindicted fraudster and felon Hillary Clinton!"
Levin noted that for a lot of people this election is very difficult, saying "in many ways it’s a choice between slitting your throat and cutting your arm off."
And yet many of us, Levin pointed out, are browbeaten and told every day to get in line and do what you’re supposed to do. But we have no control over how this campaign is being run:
"You have no control over this campaign. You have no control over what happens day to day with the candidate. You have no control over the leaks coming out of this campaign... It’s not your responsibility to run this campaign!
Levin said the responsibility of running it has been given to someone who has an obligation to run a professional campaign and advance the principles that most of us believe in and to make the case to everyone in the country, but it’s not happening.
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Sowing panic and discord in the enemy camp, they must be spreading lots of awards among the workers of the Massive Media Hillary Propaganda Campaign. The old themes of fear and loathing truly work.
Your candidate is a privileged unlikeable criminal? Remember the solution is always to shut the opponent up if you can't shout him down. Work on it.
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" Sowing panic and discord in the enemy camp, they must be spreading lots of awards among the workers of the Massive Media Hillary Propaganda Campaign. "
I can think of one democrat-for-most-of-his-life in particular who's earning the lifetime achievement award.
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Do the Pubs really want a boy scout going against the Mafia hit squad? They need a Lee Atwater with a little more ruthlessness since Trump is battling Obummer (Most-failed POTUS in history), Hillary (Most-failed Secretary of State in hiatory) and an hostile, corrupted MSM (Most in-the-tank for the Donks in history).
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Damn straight I blame the press. They've invented Trump's "gaffes" out of nothing, through selective editing and slanted wording.
Meanwhile, they ignore the blatant crimes and lust for tyrannical power of Hillary.
Damn straight I blame them...
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Angegum Sleresing7102: Anyone that voted Trump in the primaries while they still had a pile of better choices, that's who.
Who among the 17 defeated candidates actually won the primaries that I didn't hear about? So are the millions who put Trump in the position of candidate idiots too? Would you toss democracy out the window?
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Yes, that's the discovery of 2016, that so many of those on the 'right' have no use for democracy than those on the 'left'. It's dirty, messy. It can't be left up the unwashed masses.
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Trump is lying low this past week, anyone know why?
Hopefully preparing a TV ad blitz.
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So levin wants trump to act more like who? Rhomney? He killed the primary because he is not the status quo guy. He will win for the same reason. During the primary the dems attacked him, the GOP was ruthless and the press, all of it, called him a clown show. Now everyone has egg on their faces and are trying to save face by telling trump how to act. I don't care how he acts, the press, dems, and GOP will still attack.
Bottom line to all those that hate trump, better love Hillary, that is who you are supporting. The GOP would rather lose the election, lose the Supreme Court for the next 50 years, and concede the party before they will support the candidate that the people of the party overwealmingly chose.
Rome is burning folks. And the GOP is fighting over the ashes. The choice is done, pick trump or pick Hillary. There are no other option except to not vote. All the other options are dreams. If the GOP got in line behind trump and learned how to deal with him, instead of stabbing him in the back, this election would not even be close. But instead the GOP wants to snivel and bitch and act like hurt children. They need to grow the hell up and be part of the solution.
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49 Pan seems right. The RNC plan seems to be modeled upon the California Republican party. Win your sure thing districts but otherwise get comfortable as second fiddle. Let the Dems take any blame while getting rich feeding off the same trough. It's disgusting but it appears to be the game plan.
As in this operation dropped a pallet of $400 million in Euros, strapped in the bed of 5 F-150s along with 2 RINOs and Hillary. The Arc-light was successful. BDA however shows Hillary and the $400 missing before hitting the target. At this time we suspect Djinn involvement.
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If the GOP got in line behind trump and learned how to deal with him, instead of stabbing him in the back, this election would not even be close.
The GOP's only chance to prevent its own extinction is Trump. If they can't see that they are kaput. I'm done with them myself. Next time around I'll declare myself independent and most likely won't even vote anymore. It's pointless.
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Get the feeling they are just trying to get a house in the same fire district of Domus Aurea?
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This sounds like media overload. The public is not paying attention. Media revenues are falling like a rock. Trumps rallies are still huge. Why listen to losers. The weak will always be in a dither about any old thing. Pass the popcorn and watch the heads explode.
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Bunch of nonsense panicking now. Wait until September, see what happens then. That's when people actually start paying attention to the two candidates, at least those who aren't politically invested in one way or another. I'm still not convinced Hillary won't sink herself or get taken apart during a debate with Trump. Hell, she got beat in the debates by SANDERS.
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Hell, she got beat in the debates by SANDERS.
That's like losing a fistfight with Winnie the Pooh.
[LI] For years we have been documenting the efforts by anti-Israel activists to stoke racial hatred of Israel through the concept of "intersectionality" ‐ the notion that all revolutionary struggles, particularly against racism, are connected.
A good history also is in How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged.
No other country except Israel is used as pervasively as the connector for intersectionality. It’s a seedy tactic meant to exploit domestic U.S. racial tensions having nothing to do with Israel, and to turn those tensions into racial hatred of the supposedly "white" Israel. Underlying it all are anti-Semitic stereotypes of omnipresent Jewish manipulation, such as those spread by Oberlin College professor Joy Karega.
There have been successes at the campus level, such as at Oberlin, of inserting anti-Israel language into list of Demands from Black Lives Matter protesters.
Many of the leading Black Lives Matters leaders are also anti-Israel activists. They receive encouragement and support from people like Marc Lamont Hill for linking Israel to problems of black in the U.S.:
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Dream Defenders based in Florida was one of the 1st. The person who heads this up is 100% Soros funded. They've organized trips to Israel to train with the local leftists/Palestinians on the anti-police/security forces tactics they use.
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the concept of "intersectionality" ‐ the notion that all revolutionary struggles, particularly against racism, are connected.
Also known as Blair's Law - the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
[Wash Times] Ibtihaj Muhammad, an Olympic fencer who is the first Team USA member to wear a hijab, said she fears for her safety in her own country. I have a plan and an easy solution to this heart breaking dilemma.
Speaking Thursday in Rio de Janeiro -- a city grappling with rising violent crime rates ahead of the Olympic games -- Ms. Muhammad said she feels unsafe "all the time" at home in New York City.
"I had someone follow me home from practice, trying to report me to the police. And that was right on 28th and 7th in New York City," Ms. Muhammad said, Yahoo Sports reported. "I’m very vocal about these things, especially on social media. Because I want people to know that I’m not an anomaly. I’m not special in any way. I’m a woman who wears hijab. These are my experiences."
The harassment has been hard on her, but her experiences don't "come even close to things we've seen like the shooting in North Carolina or the rhetoric around the Khan family at the DNC. It's ridiculous and we as a country have to change and I feel like this is our moment," Ms. Muhammad continued, the Daily Beast reported.
"I'm hoping just my presence on Team USA changes perceptions people have about the Muslim community. A lot of people have misconceptions about who Muslims are and what a Muslim woman even looks like. Who I am challenges and shatters those stereotypes," she said. "Our conversation about the Muslim community has to change. It's a slippery slope when you use hateful rhetoric. When you openly use bigoted comments against a group of people, and encourage violence. I hope it changes. I hope it changes fast."
Asked by the Daily Beast what she thought about Donald Trump's contribution to Islamic relations in the U.S., she joked: "Who? I'm sorry, what did you say? I don't know him."
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"Who I am challenges and shatters those stereotypes..." Quite to the contrary. You reinforce that stereotype and the belief that in the American melting pot Muslims don't melt.
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Has it considered where it lives is the problem? I wouldn't feel safe in Nazi land New York either. And I dont wear a sack and belong to the death cult of pedophilia and goat shagging
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Well you walk around deliberatly hiding your features so people can't see what kind of person you are or even your face - but openly declaring yourself aligned with a death cult which celebrates when someone dressed like you blows up a bunch of innocent civilians.
Prudence suggests that you be treated at a distance (preferable beyond blast radius).
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She also has a fashion design company. There is a picture of her at the link -- she doesn't seem to be a moving black object, nor wearing anything nonstandard for her sport except for covering her hair under the mask. But according to Wikipedia she is an African-American Muslim whose double major was African studies, so she is primed to see prejudice aimed in her direction.
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If I were a trainer or staff assigned to her, I would be so flattered I would walk off the job right now, so she wouldn't be so scared.
I had someone follow me home from practice, trying to report me to the police
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There was someone walking around in a hajib and carrying a sword?
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