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zazen

(2,978 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 12:10 PM Jul 2016

to me, the RNC mob chanting "BUILD THE WALL" was even scarier than Melania's plagiarism

I really didn't intend to watch any of this but it had that awful car wreck magnetism to it and I just couldn't turn away.

However, what really, really freaked me out was a mob of Americans shouting/chanting BUILD THE WALL! BUILD THE WALL! BUILD THE WALL!

That's definitely Nazi lite. Did it go unremarked by the MSM? I tried to only watch this through C-SPAN because I couldn't stand to hear their legitimizing that maniac (although I understand that even the usually not so critical thinkers were having a hard time playing along, so there's always hope there). They seem crazy enough to shout anything back.

I remember Susan Sarandon quoting from Hitler at a speech during the run-up to the Iraq War and a hostile guy in the audience member said, "Yeah! That's right" thinking she was quoting George W. Bush. When she said it was from Mein Kaumpf he shut up. Trump could read translated passages from Hitler (speeches of which I understand he keeps by his bed but has never read) and they'd just repeat back the slogans to him.



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to me, the RNC mob chanting "BUILD THE WALL" was even scarier than Melania's plagiarism (Original Post) zazen Jul 2016 OP
I agree. yallerdawg Jul 2016 #1
What prompted this chant? Who was on stage speaking about what? vegetarian x Jul 2016 #2
Giuliani maybe? or the family members whose loved ones were killed by immigrants? zazen Jul 2016 #3
Thanks. I was unlucky enough to hear LOCK HER UP. vegetarian x Jul 2016 #4
I think some jackass radicals have gone home to roost bettyellen Jul 2016 #5

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. I agree.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 12:13 PM
Jul 2016

Although none of them said anything original, the fact they are still saying the crazy crap is very scary.

zazen

(2,978 posts)
3. Giuliani maybe? or the family members whose loved ones were killed by immigrants?
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 12:54 PM
Jul 2016

I can't remember exactly but BUILD THAT WALL chants happened a few times--then there was the LOCK HER UP chant an hour or so later. Ugh.

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