What do Republicans believe?

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Legion Troll

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Let’s consider some of the theories Teflon Don Trump has floated — and people such as Paul Ryan are, with their endorsements, now countenancing:

  • Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered.
  • Rafael Cruz, Ted’s father, was involved in the JFK assassination.
  • President Obama’s wedding ring is inscribed “There is no god but Allah.”
  • Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams From My Father.”
  • Obama was born “Barry Soetero.”
  • The Hawaii official who verified Obama’s birth certificate was murdered.
  • Clinton administration official Vincent Foster’s suicide was really a murder.
  • A demonstrator who rushed the stage at one of Trump’s rallies has ties to the Islamic State.
  • The Islamic State pays the cellphone bills of Syrian refugees.
  • Trump is being persecuted by the Internal Revenue Service because he’s a “strong Christian.”
  • The government has falsified statistics on unemployment, Ebola, refugees, health insurance and immigration.
  • Global warming is a hoax created by the Chinese.
  • Vaccines cause autism.


These were among 58 conspiracy theories tallied up last month, all documented with links to Trump’s allegations.

Better make that 59: Just hours after Paul Ryan’s endorsement, Trump disseminated an accusation on Twitter that Hillary Clinton “killed four Americans in Benghazi.”

The list goes on: A U.S. general dipped bullets in pig’s blood to shoot Muslims; Muslims in New Jersey celebrated on 9/11; Obama is a Muslim. All that’s missing from Trump’s oeuvre is a theory about Area 51 and fluoridation.



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speaking for the nationalist conservative wing of the republican party this is a good summary of what we believe.

1. The US is not the worlds policeman nor is it the worlds nanny.Every war or famine that starts on earth is not our problem. In fact it should be considered criminal to insist that it is while we are not even able to supply one of our cities with potable water. If Russia or China want to take down ISIS for us then let them, why should be the one to pay the cost in lives or money. Let me be clear though we have allies who love and support us, the philippines, japan, and south korea to name a few. If any of our allies who support us ever get into trouble we should definitely help with all the aid we can. If a country that hates us like Syria or Iraq get into trouble they should look to their friends for help.

2. No more corporate welfareJust like everyone else corporations should be forced to compete for our business. If tax cuts are given it should be given to the poor and middle class so that they can decide as consumers which companies will survive. We need a website to list down companies that use illegal labor or H1b visas to drive American citizens out of work. Then the people can decide whether to purchase from them or not. I call this “trickle up” economics. After all if you give the tax break to someone poor or middle class then they will spend it inside the economy helping to grow business in that economy. Whereas giving the tax break to the rich just leads them to invest in other countries.

3. Like there are benefits to being an American Citizen there should be benefits to being an American Company. There should also be even more special treatment for American companies who employ mostly American citizens. Preferential treatment in government contracts, lower tax rates, earlier and exclusive access to some markets. This is not welfare as they will have to pay for this via taxes. It is no secret that while we may lower the tax rate we will close loopholes so the effective rate will be higher. We need to provide an incentive to those companies to stay with us instead of inverting. Corporations who choose to stay headquartered in the US and contribute to this economy should be rewarded and corporations who choose to move to another country should look to that one for their rewards.

4. Social issues while important should be secondary to economic ones and should be left to the states. The culture in New York city would be vastly different to that of Charleston or Tampa so that while gay marriage and abortion would be acceptable in one it may not be acceptable in the other. I would even include the death penalty in this item. We should let states figure that out. In this issue it should be ok to have differences, the republican party in new York may have a different view of the republican party in Iowa. Jesus always told his followers the proper things to do but he never forced them to follow. We should be free to tell each other why we are wrong and how to follow the moral path but we should never force obedience.

5. Each Trade deal must be viewed by its own merits. We have gotten to the point where anything that says free trade is good and anything that says protectionism is bad. Each deal is unique. If protectionist policies would benefit us in that treaty then lets go for it. If free trade would then lets do that. The government must realize that one of its responsibilities is to protect the people from external threats and in this day and age onerous trade agreements are part of those threats

6. Each diplomatic situation must be viewed by its own merits. Like trade we have gotten in the mindset that exporting democracy is good. If it would serve our interests in a particular country then fine if letting them live in the dictatorship they choose to would serve then that is fine as well. After all we are not the worlds police or its nanny. Other countries have their own moral compasses that they choose to follow. If they wish to live under a dictatorship and it would not be to our best interest to change that we should let them.

7. Laws must be followed by all. Currently we have two protected classes, illegal aliens and establishment (corporate or political) leaders. We must make sure that anyone who is caught breaking the law must be punished to its full extent. We must also make sure that we foster an environment that does not encourage law breaking

8. Growing our economy by demand not supply. We must make sure that our policies put money into the hands of the people who would most likely spend the money inside the country as opposed to those who would bring it outside. This creates new businesses and jobs as companies have to increase their supply to meet the new demand. Best of all since the power is in the hands of the people it allows us to reward companies which have practices we approve of and refuse to purchase from those we dont. We need a culture of consumer activisim to correct the behavior of companies that we cannot legislate.

9. If war must be fought then let war be fought. People say it is criminal to use certain tactics during war. I say it is criminal to send troops into a country then tell them they cannot fight back and must line up to be shot. If this causes negative backlash in some parts of the world then good. Maybe the world will finally realize that war is a bad thing and must only be entered upon when all other options are exhausted. War must not be sanitized, people must realize that war and violence should be the last option to be entertained instead of the first as it is now. As Wellington said “there is nothing so terrible as a war won except a war lost”. For the world to get back to the path of peace it must realize this.
 
By electing Donald as their nominee they countenance insanity.
The talk show people whom the GOP members look to for guidance, advice and their fictitious version of news, have led the lemmings to dive off the ledge of reason and reality.
 
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Will Medicare premiums go up nearly 2 1 / 2 times over the next two years in order to pay for the health-care legislation signed by President Obama? Well, no, they won’t. But you might think an increase is coming if you read a chain e-mail that has spread across the country. “Send this to all seniors that you know,” it says. “So they will know who’s throwing them under the bus.”

Will Americans be subjected to international gun-control laws under a new U.N. treaty signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton? Is the president honoring Jane Fonda as one of the “women of the century”? Was suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan an adviser to the Obama administration?

Like the Medicare story, these claims are demonstrably false, too. Nevertheless, they are popular on the thriving underground e-mail circuit, a carnival of nonsense whose star attractions have included the canard that Obama is a secret Muslim and variations on the “birther” claims about his origins.

Grass-roots whisper campaigns such as these predate the invention of the “send” button, of course. No one needed a Facebook page or an e-mail account to spread the word about Thomas Jefferson’s secret love child or Grover Cleveland’s out-of-wedlock offspring.

But it has become a truism that in their modern, Internet-driven form, these persistent narratives spread far faster and run deeper than ever.

Nonpartisan debunkers such as FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact.com, Emery and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker have been chasing down these tales and dousing them like three-alarm fires for years. (There’s even a chain e-mail that paints Snopes as a liberal cover-up for the White House.)

Changes in the news media landscape have also helped lies to thrive. A generation or more ago, powerful gatekeepers — large newspapers, broadcast networks, a news magazine or two — dominated the dissemination of national news. No more.

“There was a mainstream media that acted as a filter,” says Bill Adair, the editor of PolitiFact. Now, the filter is overwhelmed. “The Internet is a megaphone that spreads conspiracies quickly before there’s anyone to correct the facts,” he says. “There’s no one between your crazy uncle and his address book.”

Perhaps the best theory comes from Ari Fleischer, who served as Bush’s first press secretary. Fleischer points out that conservatives traditionally mistrust mainstream news. E-mail is another way for them to put out their own messages, countering the perceived biases of traditional media sources, he says. “If you believe the liberal media is covering up,” Fleischer explains, then you might be more susceptible to believe and pass on an outrageous e-mail.



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Legion Troll said:
Will Medicare premiums go up nearly 2 1 / 2 times over the next two years in order to pay for the health-care legislation signed by President Obama? Well, no, they won’t. But you might think an increase is coming if you read a chain e-mail that has spread across the country. “Send this to all seniors that you know,” it says. “So they will know who’s throwing them under the bus.”

Will Americans be subjected to international gun-control laws under a new U.N. treaty signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton? Is the president honoring Jane Fonda as one of the “women of the century”? Was suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan an adviser to the Obama administration?

Like the Medicare story, these claims are demonstrably false, too. Nevertheless, they are popular on the thriving underground e-mail circuit, a carnival of nonsense whose star attractions have included the canard that Obama is a secret Muslim and variations on the “birther” claims about his origins.

Grass-roots whisper campaigns such as these predate the invention of the “send” button, of course. No one needed a Facebook page or an e-mail account to spread the word about Thomas Jefferson’s secret love child or Grover Cleveland’s out-of-wedlock offspring.

But it has become a truism that in their modern, Internet-driven form, these persistent narratives spread far faster and run deeper than ever.

Nonpartisan debunkers such as FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact.com, Emery and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker have been chasing down these tales and dousing them like three-alarm fires for years. (There’s even a chain e-mail that paints Snopes as a liberal cover-up for the White House.)

Changes in the news media landscape have also helped lies to thrive. A generation or more ago, powerful gatekeepers — large newspapers, broadcast networks, a news magazine or two — dominated the dissemination of national news. No more.

“There was a mainstream media that acted as a filter,” says Bill Adair, the editor of PolitiFact. Now, the filter is overwhelmed. “The Internet is a megaphone that spreads conspiracies quickly before there’s anyone to correct the facts,” he says. “There’s no one between your crazy uncle and his address book.”

Perhaps the best theory comes from Ari Fleischer, who served as Bush’s first press secretary. Fleischer points out that conservatives traditionally mistrust mainstream news. E-mail is another way for them to put out their own messages, countering the perceived biases of traditional media sources, he says. “If you believe the liberal media is covering up,” Fleischer explains, then you might be more susceptible to believe and pass on an outrageous e-mail.



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Mouth breathers who get their world view from chain-mail E-mails make up a good deal of Trump supporters.
 
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