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| Last night's Executive Order has all the hallmarks of a shock event.; From Heather Richardson, professor of History at Boston College: | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 30 2017, 06:52 PM (841 Views) | |
| dr345 | Jan 30 2017, 06:52 PM Post #1 |
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"Trump tactics: From Heather Richardson, professor of History at Boston College: " Political history is my job, after all, and you are my friends-- but there is an important non-partisan point to make today. What Bannon is doing, most dramatically with last night's ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries-- is creating what is known as a "shock event." Such an event is unexpected and confusing and throws a society into chaos. People scramble to react to the event, usually along some fault line that those responsible for the event can widen by claiming that they alone know how to restore order. When opponents speak out, the authors of the shock event call them enemies. As society reels and tempers run high, those responsible for the shock event perform a sleight of hand to achieve their real goal, a goal they know to be hugely unpopular, but from which everyone has been distracted as they fight over the initial event. There is no longer concerted opposition to the real goal; opposition divides along the partisan lines established by the shock event. Last night's Executive Order has all the hallmarks of a shock event. It was not reviewed by any governmental agencies or lawyers before it was released, and counterterrorism experts insist they did not ask for it. People charged with enforcing it got no instructions about how to do so. Courts immediately have declared parts of it unconstitutional, but border police in some airports are refusing to stop enforcing it. Predictably, chaos has followed and tempers are hot. My point today is this: unless you are the person setting it up, it is in no one's interest to play the shock event game. It is designed explicitly to divide people who might otherwise come together so they cannot stand against something its authors think they won't like. I don't know what Bannon is up to-- although I have some guesses-- but because I know Bannon's ideas well, I am positive that there is not a single person whom I consider a friend on either side of the aisle-- and my friends range pretty widely-- who will benefit from whatever it is. ============================================================================================= Topic closed - topic author posted entire article. Rules violation by topic author results in topic closure - Edited by Demagogue, Jan 31 2017, 11:06 AM.
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 06:55 PM Post #2 |
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Remember, the left is not mad about the govt having too much power. It is mad because it does not have the govt.
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| dr345 | Jan 30 2017, 06:56 PM Post #3 |
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Wrong and off topic Edited by dr345, Jan 30 2017, 06:57 PM.
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 07:15 PM Post #4 |
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From the OP and sums the whole thread up nicely....
IOW Typical liberal premature speculation.... |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| dr345 | Jan 30 2017, 07:53 PM Post #5 |
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Your comments have nothing to do with the article |
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 08:20 PM Post #6 |
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I just quoted the article directly....
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| dr345 | Jan 30 2017, 08:26 PM Post #7 |
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Yeah, I know; and tried to use it as some sort of connection to your babbling. |
| un jour on se souviendra de ca comme on se souvient de ca | |
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 09:38 PM Post #8 |
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What are you babbling about...? |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dr. B | Jan 30 2017, 09:48 PM Post #9 |
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I'm really looking forward to the daily hissy fits from leftists. If they go psycho over a simple immigration order for dangerous countries, just imagine the salt when we ban abortion or audit the fed. |
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 09:55 PM Post #10 |
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How is it a shock event when Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do....I am shocked that Trump is seven days late on doing this....
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Mr. Tik | Jan 30 2017, 09:56 PM Post #11 |
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I have asked you the same question multiple times. |
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| dr345 | Jan 30 2017, 10:02 PM Post #12 |
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Maybe if you'd read the article instead of trolled off the headline you'd know and have a proper counter argument . |
| un jour on se souviendra de ca comme on se souvient de ca | |
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 10:04 PM Post #13 |
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Isn't the fact that you keep asking Einstein's definition of insanity?
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Drudge X | Jan 30 2017, 10:05 PM Post #14 |
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Spot on plus they can no longer control your speech. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Dr. B | Jan 30 2017, 10:19 PM Post #15 |
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The leftists seem to think they won the election. The massive Trump win, the inauguration... that all didn't happen, you see. We still are still living in Obamaland if you close your eyes and scream hard enough. Leftists just pretend people care about them. The media propagandists are destroying themselves. More and more people are waking up from the brainwashing. We still have the copy/paste opinions from p.com leftists--I doubt they will ever learn to develop an opinion for themselves--but they are becoming more goofy and outlandish by the hour. The curtain is being pulled and we see big corporations like Microsoft destroying American safety and American freedoms for their company profits. My prediction is more and more people will follow Trump when they see the good results that naturally follow his policies, and the Socialist left will become more extreme and more militant, until they are flat-out murdering people in the streets and conspiring behind closed doors to commit terrorism. Today it is leftists bullying kids in the classroom and beating Trump supporters in the streets; tomorrow it will be much worse. Then, it will be unquestionably necessary to jail any leftist who commits or promotes illegal behavior. That point is rapidly coming. As I've always said, the Left is worse than any terrorist. |
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| La Pasionaria | Jan 30 2017, 10:43 PM Post #16 |
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The greatest shock is it's boost to ISIS: Pro-ISIS social media accounts tout Trump's travel ban as helpful to the cause, Trump's “the best caller to Islam" http://wapo.st/2kMcdXV |
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| clone | Jan 30 2017, 10:51 PM Post #17 |
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So Islam is a terrorist organization and America needs to be wary of those called to it? Thanks for clearing that up..... Remember, the REAL REASON the Left and Media (same thing) are freaking over Trump's actions is they are deathly afraid THEY WILL WORK Edited by clone, Jan 30 2017, 10:52 PM.
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| Right-Wing | Jan 31 2017, 07:36 AM Post #18 |
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The left has lost power at all levels of government and even more devastating to them, with the age of the internet, they have completely lost control of the narrative....their days are absolutely numbered and they know it. |
| Donald Trump is Barack Obama's President! | |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Jan 31 2017, 09:06 AM Post #19 |
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You actually are looking for an intelligent responce from this bunch of trolls? |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Jan 31 2017, 09:08 AM Post #20 |
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Who said that originally, Goebbels or Bormam? |
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