-From the Washington Post:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) screams as his head is lit on fire. Former president Barack Obama is smashed face-first like a battering ram into what appears to be part of a wooden pulpit. People with their faces replaced by the logos of news organizations such as CNN, NBC, Politico and HuffPost are brutally stabbed and shot.
At the center of the bloody rampage unfolding in the “Church of Fake News” is a man dressed in a dark pinstripe suit. President Trump’s head is superimposed on his body.
The graphic images are from a fake video that was shown during a pro-Trump conference last week at the president’s hotel and golf resort near Miami, according to the New York Times, which first reported on the video’s existence Sunday night. The clip has since drawn intense backlash from journalists and public figures who have decried it as “vile and horrific” and an “incitement of violence.” Many of the news organizations and people featured in the video have been publicly targeted by Trump, who is frequently criticized for his inflammatory remarks and anti-media rhetoric.
The video, adapted from the scene of a church massacre in the 2014 film “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” appeared to be shared to YouTube in 2018 on a channel that posts similar pro-Trump content and has been linked to a meme-maker associated with a website called MemeWorld. The site’s creator, a user known by his Internet handle, Carpe Donktum, scored an Oval Office meeting in July with Trump, who reportedly welcomed him as a “genius.”
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Again- From the Washington Post:...
Groups like American Priority and other Trump/ GOP affiliated groups know who their audience is, They have done their research and know what sells. And their product, is anger. and fear. Outrage and anger are now America’s drug of choice. And a sizeable portion of the population have become hard core addicts. And like all good pushers and dealers, the GOP, the conservative media-sphere and the President himself know you need to keep your users wanting their fix. The only way the high can be sustained is to up the potency and the dosage.
Trump's base has, and continues to show us who they are. I worry that the Democratic Party still doesn't believe them. It’s time we acknowledge that we are not dealing with people with a different point of view. We are dealing with drug addicts. Sadly most addicts won’t accept the idea that being an addict is bad for them until the consequences of their addiction to not just themselves, but to all those around them are too great to ignore.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) screams as his head is lit on fire. Former president Barack Obama is smashed face-first like a battering ram into what appears to be part of a wooden pulpit. People with their faces replaced by the logos of news organizations such as CNN, NBC, Politico and HuffPost are brutally stabbed and shot.
At the center of the bloody rampage unfolding in the “Church of Fake News” is a man dressed in a dark pinstripe suit. President Trump’s head is superimposed on his body.
The graphic images are from a fake video that was shown during a pro-Trump conference last week at the president’s hotel and golf resort near Miami, according to the New York Times, which first reported on the video’s existence Sunday night. The clip has since drawn intense backlash from journalists and public figures who have decried it as “vile and horrific” and an “incitement of violence.” Many of the news organizations and people featured in the video have been publicly targeted by Trump, who is frequently criticized for his inflammatory remarks and anti-media rhetoric.
The video, adapted from the scene of a church massacre in the 2014 film “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” appeared to be shared to YouTube in 2018 on a channel that posts similar pro-Trump content and has been linked to a meme-maker associated with a website called MemeWorld. The site’s creator, a user known by his Internet handle, Carpe Donktum, scored an Oval Office meeting in July with Trump, who reportedly welcomed him as a “genius.”
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I will not post the video. . If you really are curious and want to see it for yourself you can (at least for now) find it on youtube ---> here.
Maya Angelou once famously said; "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Donald Trump and his core base of supporters have shown us, repeatedly who they are.
They showed us in 2016 on the campaign trail and at their Rallies.
They showed us early on in the Trump Presidency, as they cheered and were encouraged by racially charged immigration rhetoric from both Trump and members of his Administration.
Now we have a trump campaign affiliated event, hosted at Trump property where as part of the program there was a video depicting Trump literally murdering his opponents and critics. Organizers of the event claim they had "no idea" the video was going to be shown and it was part of montage of pro-Trump internet memes.
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Alex Phillips, organizer of the American Priority Festival and Conference, told the Times the video was played at one point during the three-day event that began Thursday as part of a “meme exhibit.” The violent parody was included in a meme compilation that also featured Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign logo, according to the Times.
“It has come to our attention that an unauthorized video was shown in a side room at #AMPFest19,” a statement posted to the conference’s website said. “This video was not approved, seen, or sanctioned by the #AMPFest19 organizers.”
Alex Phillips, organizer of the American Priority Festival and Conference, told the Times the video was played at one point during the three-day event that began Thursday as part of a “meme exhibit.” The violent parody was included in a meme compilation that also featured Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign logo, according to the Times.
“It has come to our attention that an unauthorized video was shown in a side room at #AMPFest19,” a statement posted to the conference’s website said. “This video was not approved, seen, or sanctioned by the #AMPFest19 organizers.”
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I call complete and utter Bullshit (as Trump likes to say) on that. Anyone who has ever attended any sort of conference or offsite meeting knows that ALL content is ogramzised well before hand American Priority knew exactly what they were showing and knew it would be very well received by the attendees.. Now facing a resulting backlash, the claims that this was an unknown video that somehow accidentally was shown on the main screen at the event ...is laughable.
Like many Americans I have struggled to understand the world in which Donald Trump’s supporters live. It is a place where Fox News and the Alt-Right are on full volume to drown out anything that could possibly contradict their world view. If by sheer chance reality does manage to find a crack to seep through, the response is essentially to stick their fingers in their ears and yell “ LA! LA! LA! LA! FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!”
That anger and mistrust of facts is critical to this President. To maintain that firewall between his base, and ... well, reality. that smoldering coal of fear and mistrust of, and anger at, anyone and anything that contradicts the Trumpworld view, needs to be fanned into a flame, then stoked into a bonfire. That is what this horrific video and similar violent pro-Trump memes are all about. It's online revenge porn for people angry that they can't win the argument against facts.
So the purveyors of facts are the enemy who must be (in the case of this particular video) killed as they worship in their "Church of Fake News"
That anger and mistrust of facts is critical to this President. To maintain that firewall between his base, and ... well, reality. that smoldering coal of fear and mistrust of, and anger at, anyone and anything that contradicts the Trumpworld view, needs to be fanned into a flame, then stoked into a bonfire. That is what this horrific video and similar violent pro-Trump memes are all about. It's online revenge porn for people angry that they can't win the argument against facts. So the purveyors of facts are the enemy who must be (in the case of this particular video) killed as they worship in their "Church of Fake News"
Trump's base has, and continues to show us who they are. I worry that the Democratic Party still doesn't believe them. It’s time we acknowledge that we are not dealing with people with a different point of view. We are dealing with drug addicts. Sadly most addicts won’t accept the idea that being an addict is bad for them until the consequences of their addiction to not just themselves, but to all those around them are too great to ignore.
Donald Trump is a lying, cheating, stealing, mentally unstable con artist who's stoking that bonfire of his own vanity to the point that it could very well burn the American Presidency to the ground.
If this latest glimpse into Trumpworld doesn't show, once again, all to clearly who he is, and why this President must be impeached and removed from office, then frankly America deserves the damage that is being done.
If this latest glimpse into Trumpworld doesn't show, once again, all to clearly who he is, and why this President must be impeached and removed from office, then frankly America deserves the damage that is being done.
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