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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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Jan 31 2017, 09:08 AM
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Jan 31 2017, 07:36 AM
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Jan 30 2017, 10:43 PM
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
So Islam is a terrorist organization and America needs to be wary of those called to it? Thanks for clearing that up..... :popcorn:

Remember, the REAL REASON the Left and Media (same thing) are freaking over Trump's actions is they are deathly afraid THEY WILL WORK
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.
Who said that originally, Goebbels or Bormam?
The internet wasn't around when those socialists were in power.
Donald Trump is Barack Obama's President!
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Jan 30 2017, 06:52 PM
"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.

If the shock event strategy works, though, many of you will blame each other, rather than Bannon, for the fallout. And the country will have been tricked into accepting their real goal.

But because shock events destabilize a society, they can also be used positively. We do not have to respond along old fault lines. We could just as easily reorganize into a different pattern that threatens the people who sparked the event.
A successful shock event depends on speed and chaos because it requires knee-jerk reactions so that people divide along established lines. This, for example, is how Confederate leaders railroaded the initial southern states out of the Union.

If people realize they are being played, though, they can reach across old lines and reorganize to challenge the leaders who are pulling the strings. This was Lincoln's strategy when he joined together Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, anti-Nebraska voters, and nativists into the new Republican Party to stand against the Slave Power.

Five years before, such a coalition would have been unimaginable. Members of those groups agreed on very little other than that they wanted all Americans to have equal economic opportunity. Once they began to work together to promote a fair economic system, though, they found much common ground. They ended up rededicating the nation to a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Confederate leaders and Lincoln both knew about the political potential of a shock event. As we are in the midst of one, it seems worth noting that Lincoln seemed to have the better idea about how to use it."
I actually dont go along with this theory. So far the chaos and destruction has solidified and is spreading the resistance to these goons who grabbed power

They've been described as a tennis ball machine on high speed, throwing out awful edicts like cancelling millions of people's health insurance, destroying enviromental protections, gag orders on the EPA, NASA, his refusal to give up his conflicts of interest, putting Bannon in the NSC, and now firing the AG. It has been seen as an assault on the people and laws of America

He's being seen by the American people as nothing more than an adolesent bomb throwing anarchist
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Jan 31 2017, 09:11 AM
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Jan 31 2017, 09:08 AM
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Jan 30 2017, 10:43 PM
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
So Islam is a terrorist organization and America needs to be wary of those called to it? Thanks for clearing that up..... :popcorn:

Remember, the REAL REASON the Left and Media (same thing) are freaking over Trump's actions is they are deathly afraid THEY WILL WORK
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.
Who said that originally, Goebbels or Bormam?
The internet wasn't around when those socialists were in power.
No kidding, dumbass, they had similar methods to spread their swill
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This commentary - which is being shared all over the place - refers to a "shock event" as though it were some authoritative definable term in political science. I found that interesting because, having studied the field for 30 years, I had never once heard of this term. I've done a couple web searches and - other than in reference to the past week - I can't really find it anywhere.
"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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This is nothing less than a massacre! Blood in the streets, body parts everywhere, this is like Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust.....ahhhhhh!

When will it stop? Someone in DC was fired!
"No. No he won't. We'll stop it."
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