A Preemptive Strike by Trump
A day or so ago, Donald Trump stated at a rally that he feared the election would be "rigged." With this statement, he is setting up his followers for a loss, and like everything else disliked by Donald Trump, he will say it wasn't fair. Some of his supporters will then likely do anything up to, and including, outright rebellion. Just a guess, but it wouldn't surprise me if many of his followers believe in werewolves and vampires, and I'll bet a fair number still believe Obama is not a native born American, but rather that he is definitely a secret Muslim, born overseas, and since they likely also equate Muslims with terrorism, that Obama is rooting for terrorists. Trump cleverly cultivated the "birther issue," * just as Hitler and Germany's right wing cultivated the "November criminals" ** and used anti-Jewish sentiment to blame Germany's Jews for EVERYTHING!
Everything about Trump and his most fanatical stormtroopers.... I mean supporters, needs to be spelled out to the American public. Political consultants should never "assume" Americans "know" anything! Political junkies who follow events closely seem to fail to realize at times that many Americans are not glued to their televisions awaiting the next bit of political information. They MUST be led by the hand to valid information, or to information to give a perspective to information already out in the public. This is NOT a typical presidential election year! The deck isn't stacked, but the cards have been reshuffled!
An acquaintance says I see too many fascists in life. Well I don't, but I do know some werewolves. Ahhhoooooooooooooooo!
* For information on the use of "the November criminals," use this link: http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2011/06/german-question-part-one-hundred-two.html
** The "birther" issue was the belief by some Americans, mainly Republicans, that Barack Obama was not legally President of the United States, because he was not an American citizen by birth. What better way to discredit the election of the nation's first African-American president, and to say, "he's NOT one of "us?" This is how deep racism still runs in this country. While there were different aspects to this overall conspiracy, the main body of "Birthers" claimed Obama had been born in Kenya. Donald Trump latched onto the issue and became something of the main spokesman for the "Birthers," as they came to be called. He and others demanded to see the President's actual birth certificate, a confirmation of which had been provided by the State of Hawaii when Obama filed to run for the presidency. Eventually, Obama signed forms permitting the release of his actual birth record by Hawaii, but that didn't stop some of the conspiracy mongers, some of whom seemed to indicate the birth record had been planted in Hawaiian records years ago. Like Donald Trump, when confronted by facts, they refused to believe anything, including the birth notices in Hawaiian newspapers. Of course, no evidence was ever provided by these "Birther" folks, who should be asked to provide the forms showing they were legally released from mental institutions. The whole thing was a gigantic waste of time about a bunch of absolute nonsense, led and used by one Donald Trump.
WORD HISTORY:
-some-This is the suffix used on many words, like "awesome," "meddlesome," "twosome" and "quarrelsome," but it is, indeed, related to "some." ^ It goes back to the Indo European root "sem," which had the notion of "one, together, united." This gave Indo European "samos/somos"), which meant "same." Sanskrit, an ancient Indo European language (still in use on a limited basis, primarily in India) had "sama(h)," which meant "identical," and also "level, even," all obviously with the basic meaning of "same." The Indo European form gave its Old Germanic offspring "samaz," with the "same" basic meaning. This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "-sum," with the meaning, "same as,^^ together as." This then became the suffix "-some," initially with the "e" pronounced as "eh/ah," before the modern pronunciation. German, a close cousin to English, has and uses "-sam" as a suffix.
^ For the extensive history of "some," use this link to my article with that Word History:
http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2011/01/german-question-part-seventy-four.html
^^ "Same as," from the notion, "with the same 'collected' traits, characteristics."
Everything about Trump and his most fanatical stormtroopers.... I mean supporters, needs to be spelled out to the American public. Political consultants should never "assume" Americans "know" anything! Political junkies who follow events closely seem to fail to realize at times that many Americans are not glued to their televisions awaiting the next bit of political information. They MUST be led by the hand to valid information, or to information to give a perspective to information already out in the public. This is NOT a typical presidential election year! The deck isn't stacked, but the cards have been reshuffled!
An acquaintance says I see too many fascists in life. Well I don't, but I do know some werewolves. Ahhhoooooooooooooooo!
* For information on the use of "the November criminals," use this link: http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2011/06/german-question-part-one-hundred-two.html
** The "birther" issue was the belief by some Americans, mainly Republicans, that Barack Obama was not legally President of the United States, because he was not an American citizen by birth. What better way to discredit the election of the nation's first African-American president, and to say, "he's NOT one of "us?" This is how deep racism still runs in this country. While there were different aspects to this overall conspiracy, the main body of "Birthers" claimed Obama had been born in Kenya. Donald Trump latched onto the issue and became something of the main spokesman for the "Birthers," as they came to be called. He and others demanded to see the President's actual birth certificate, a confirmation of which had been provided by the State of Hawaii when Obama filed to run for the presidency. Eventually, Obama signed forms permitting the release of his actual birth record by Hawaii, but that didn't stop some of the conspiracy mongers, some of whom seemed to indicate the birth record had been planted in Hawaiian records years ago. Like Donald Trump, when confronted by facts, they refused to believe anything, including the birth notices in Hawaiian newspapers. Of course, no evidence was ever provided by these "Birther" folks, who should be asked to provide the forms showing they were legally released from mental institutions. The whole thing was a gigantic waste of time about a bunch of absolute nonsense, led and used by one Donald Trump.
WORD HISTORY:
-some-This is the suffix used on many words, like "awesome," "meddlesome," "twosome" and "quarrelsome," but it is, indeed, related to "some." ^ It goes back to the Indo European root "sem," which had the notion of "one, together, united." This gave Indo European "samos/somos"), which meant "same." Sanskrit, an ancient Indo European language (still in use on a limited basis, primarily in India) had "sama(h)," which meant "identical," and also "level, even," all obviously with the basic meaning of "same." The Indo European form gave its Old Germanic offspring "samaz," with the "same" basic meaning. This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "-sum," with the meaning, "same as,^^ together as." This then became the suffix "-some," initially with the "e" pronounced as "eh/ah," before the modern pronunciation. German, a close cousin to English, has and uses "-sam" as a suffix.
^ For the extensive history of "some," use this link to my article with that Word History:
http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2011/01/german-question-part-seventy-four.html
^^ "Same as," from the notion, "with the same 'collected' traits, characteristics."
Labels: Birthers, conspiracy mongers, Donald Trump, English, etymology, German Jews, Germanic languages, Hawaii, Hitler, Muslims, right wingers
posted by Randy at 10:36 AM
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Trump has reduced the electorate to its lowest level. Appealing to those disenfranchised in their own mind even though it is their own actions, attitudes, ineptitude and ignorance that lead to their isolation.
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