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    Default TRUMPs strange tweet, "we should study JOSEPH MC CARTHY"!! Really?

    When did the vulgarian tweet this? I missed it. Disgraced and discussed 60 years later as despicable and a fearing monger tyrant. And Trump wants us to study him? He better be careful what he wishes for. Many Americans who are too young to remember might well get the connection.

    Remember McCarthy's enabler and protector, ROY COHN was TRUMP'S MENTOR and protector and his original conspiracy whisper. Now Trump wants us to study him?


    Trump’s Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy


    People who have actually studied the disgraced Wisconsin senator describe a man who bears similarities to some of the president’s most notable attributes.

    By MICHAEL KRUSE

    August 19, 2018

    Study the late Joseph McCarthy,” President Donald Trump...

    But casting special counsel Robert Mueller as McCarthy, the red-baiting United States senator from Wisconsin who in the 1950s earned lasting disgrace for his public shaming of supposed Communists, made for the latest and maybe the most outrageous example of Trump’s frequent tactic of attempting to use a weakness of his own as a weapon against an opponent. And given Trump’s tenuous grip on history, not to mention his close, critical connection with McCarthy’s foremost henchman, this instance of his transparent table-turning amounted to an awkward, unwitting exercise in self-portraiture. The tweet was far more a mirror on Trump than an indictment of Mueller.

    McCarthy, after all, was “an essentially destructive force,” according to biographer Richard H. Rovere. He was “a chronic opportunist.” He was “a political speculator.” He was “a Republican who had started as a Democrat.” He was “a fertile innovator, a first-rate organizer and galvanizer of mobs, a skilled manipulator of public opinion, and something like a genius at that essential American strategy: publicity.” He was “a vulgarian.” He was “a man with an almost aesthetic preference for untruth.” He “faked it all and could not understand anyone who didn’t.” He “made sages of screwballs and accused wise men of being fools.” He was “the first American ever to be actively hated and feared by foreigners in large numbers.” He “favored the third person.”

    He was “a great sophisticate in human relationships, as every demagogue must be. He knew a good deal about people’s fears and anxieties, and he was a superb juggler of them. But he was himself numb to the sensation he produced in others. He could not comprehend true outrage, true indignation, true anything,” Rovere wrote.

    “If he was anything at all in the realm of ideas, principles, doctrines, he was a species of nihilist,” he

    “The haters rallied around him.”

    He was reelected in 1952, and even toward the end, at the start of 1954, “when the record was pretty well all in and the worst as well as the best was known,” Gallup polling that half of Americans had a “favorable opinion.”...

    Trump’s Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    When did the vulgarian tweet this? I missed it. Disgraced and discussed 60 years later as despicable and a fearing monger tyrant. And Trump wants us to study him? He better be careful what he wishes for. Many Americans who are too young to remember might well get the connection.

    Remember McCarthy's enabler and protector, ROY COHN was TRUMP'S MENTOR and protector and his original conspiracy whisper. Now Trump wants us to study him?


    Trump’s Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy


    People who have actually studied the disgraced Wisconsin senator describe a man who bears similarities to some of the president’s most notable attributes.

    By MICHAEL KRUSE

    August 19, 2018

    Study the late Joseph McCarthy,” President Donald Trump...

    But casting special counsel Robert Mueller as McCarthy, the red-baiting United States senator from Wisconsin who in the 1950s earned lasting disgrace for his public shaming of supposed Communists, made for the latest and maybe the most outrageous example of Trump’s frequent tactic of attempting to use a weakness of his own as a weapon against an opponent. And given Trump’s tenuous grip on history, not to mention his close, critical connection with McCarthy’s foremost henchman, this instance of his transparent table-turning amounted to an awkward, unwitting exercise in self-portraiture. The tweet was far more a mirror on Trump than an indictment of Mueller.

    McCarthy, after all, was “an essentially destructive force,” according to biographer Richard H. Rovere. He was “a chronic opportunist.” He was “a political speculator.” He was “a Republican who had started as a Democrat.” He was “a fertile innovator, a first-rate organizer and galvanizer of mobs, a skilled manipulator of public opinion, and something like a genius at that essential American strategy: publicity.” He was “a vulgarian.” He was “a man with an almost aesthetic preference for untruth.” He “faked it all and could not understand anyone who didn’t.” He “made sages of screwballs and accused wise men of being fools.” He was “the first American ever to be actively hated and feared by foreigners in large numbers.” He “favored the third person.”

    He was “a great sophisticate in human relationships, as every demagogue must be. He knew a good deal about people’s fears and anxieties, and he was a superb juggler of them. But he was himself numb to the sensation he produced in others. He could not comprehend true outrage, true indignation, true anything,” Rovere wrote.

    “If he was anything at all in the realm of ideas, principles, doctrines, he was a species of nihilist,” he

    “The haters rallied around him.”

    He was reelected in 1952, and even toward the end, at the start of 1954, “when the record was pretty well all in and the worst as well as the best was known,” Gallup polling that half of Americans had a “favorable opinion.”...

    Trump’s Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy
    In order to do an objective study of Joe McCarthy one would have to do an in depth study of the democrat party......there appears to be a "hated" Russian agent behind every BUSH.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    When did the vulgarian tweet this? I missed it. Disgraced and discussed 60 years later as despicable and a fearing monger tyrant. And Trump wants us to study him? He better be careful what he wishes for. Many Americans who are too young to remember might well get the connection.

    Remember McCarthy's enabler and protector, ROY COHN was TRUMP'S MENTOR and protector and his original conspiracy whisper. Now Trump wants us to study him?


    Trump’s Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy


    People who have actually studied the disgraced Wisconsin senator describe a man who bears similarities to some of the president’s most notable attributes.

    By MICHAEL KRUSE

    August 19, 2018

    Study the late Joseph McCarthy,” President Donald Trump...

    But casting special counsel Robert Mueller as McCarthy, the red-baiting United States senator from Wisconsin who in the 1950s earned lasting disgrace for his public shaming of supposed Communists, made for the latest and maybe the most outrageous example of Trump’s frequent tactic of attempting to use a weakness of his own as a weapon against an opponent. And given Trump’s tenuous grip on history, not to mention his close, critical connection with McCarthy’s foremost henchman, this instance of his transparent table-turning amounted to an awkward, unwitting exercise in self-portraiture. The tweet was far more a mirror on Trump than an indictment of Mueller.

    McCarthy, after all, was “an essentially destructive force,” according to biographer Richard H. Rovere. He was “a chronic opportunist.” He was “a political speculator.” He was “a Republican who had started as a Democrat.” He was “a fertile innovator, a first-rate organizer and galvanizer of mobs, a skilled manipulator of public opinion, and something like a genius at that essential American strategy: publicity.” He was “a vulgarian.” He was “a man with an almost aesthetic preference for untruth.” He “faked it all and could not understand anyone who didn’t.” He “made sages of screwballs and accused wise men of being fools.” He was “the first American ever to be actively hated and feared by foreigners in large numbers.” He “favored the third person.”

    He was “a great sophisticate in human relationships, as every demagogue must be. He knew a good deal about people’s fears and anxieties, and he was a superb juggler of them. But he was himself numb to the sensation he produced in others. He could not comprehend true outrage, true indignation, true anything,” Rovere wrote.

    “If he was anything at all in the realm of ideas, principles, doctrines, he was a species of nihilist,” he

    “The haters rallied around him.”

    He was reelected in 1952, and even toward the end, at the start of 1954, “when the record was pretty well all in and the worst as well as the best was known,” Gallup polling that half of Americans had a “favorable opinion.”...

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    Joe McCarthy would be right at home with you goof balls.
    Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Joe McCarthy would be right at home with you goof balls.
    Ironic, huh? If McCarthy were launching his tirade against today's admin, he'd be correct. The White House has indeed been infiltrated by Russians...communist or not.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Ironic, huh? If McCarthy were launching his tirade against today's admin, he'd be correct. The White House has indeed been infiltrated by Russians...communist or not.
    The Chinese have actually infiltrated the government lol.

    No biggie, huh?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Ironic, huh? If McCarthy were launching his tirade against today's admin, he'd be correct. The White House has indeed been infiltrated by Russians...communist or not.
    Which Russians are those? The one's with ties to Hillary? You people are so gullible.
    Every life matters

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    The Chinese have actually infiltrated the government lol.

    No biggie, huh?
    Yes...them too. Actual Communists. Irony abounds
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Which Russians are those? The one's with ties to Hillary? You people are so gullible.
    Change the channel
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Which Russians are those? The one's with ties to Hillary? You people are so gullible.
    Dems are still pretending Uranium One didn't happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hvilleherb View Post
    Dems are still pretending Uranium One didn't happen.
    That's just the tip of the iceberg. Just about every major player in the so-called Trump / Russia hoax, has ties to Hillary.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hvilleherb View Post
    Dems are still pretending Uranium One didn't happen.
    And you're pretending that no one knows that you are a Russian troll

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