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Vol8188 said:
Did Ted Cruz email that to you?
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John Schindler is claiming the quote Trump retweeted isn't truly a Mussolini saying:

@20committee

FYI: "better to live one single day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep" isn't Mussolini, it's a famous Italian saying from Piave 1918
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UTCVol said:
Who mentioned BLM?

If you think Trump purposely trying to obfuscate an endorsement from David Duke in order to keep hardcore white supremacists on his side is a good thing, fine. Most of us just think it makes him a coward.
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Have the Democrats discredited BLM, or embraced them?
 
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Trump is poised to run away with a win in Massachusetts. The main question is by how much. A resounding victory that features buy-in from the state's significant contingent of blue-collar, Reagan Democrat/independent voters is already spooking Democrats about Trump's strength for the general election. It's also bad news for Kasich, whose team and supporters hoped his second-place finish in New Hampshire would come with Massachusetts coattails. Kasich is expected to get crushed in the South and hasn't had the resources to build much of an organization, so he's been counting on victories on less conservative turf to carry him through Super Tuesday. He won't find much shelter here though. He will, however, likely pick up a few delegates. The state distributes delegates to any candidate that receives more than 5 percent of the vote.


Read more: Super Tuesday 2016: State by state for Republicans - POLITICO
 
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Why Trump might be the best Republican to take on Hillary | New York Post

Interesting read.

general election is going to be the ugliest in US history — no matter whom the GOP nominates, because that’s Hillary Clinton’s plan.

Once she’s ground Bernie Sanders to dust, Clinton will reactivate her Goldman Sachs ATM card, hoover up a billion or so from Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, etc. — and prep the mother of all attack-ad blitzes.

It’s her only option: She’s too known a quantity to improve her image. She can’t pull off Barack Obama’s 2008 “hope and change” approach, only his 2012 “win by destroying your opponent” tack.

In 2012, Obama won 3.5 million fewer votes than in his first run. But he focused his efforts on getting his people out — and suppressing the pro-Romney vote with week after week of vicious lies and smears.

Romney couldn’t answer with his own ads — his campaign was broke. For weeks, all he could do was raise cash.

For the record, Marco Rubio would be in the same spot. Paul Krugman this week already sketched out the Clinton attacks on him: He wants Mitt Romney to pay ZERO taxes, and he’s a warmonger just like W. They’ll find or create personal dirt, too — as they will with any GOP nominee.

Trump won’t be left mute. He can write a $1 billion check and get right back in the fight. (Note to The Donald: Real estate assets aren’t that liquid. I hope you’re freeing up cash now.)

Of course, even Trump will be taken aback by the venom that’s about to come his way. It’ll make the primary look like a knitting circle, and Megyn Kelly seem as sweet as Melania.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I'm impressed....Was it an online test? If so, what site was it?
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Yeah online, but I don't remember where. It's been 10 years. It wasn't a certified test, but I took like 3 different ones just so I would have a decent idea and not rely too much on just 1 score. I believe I got 136, 137, and 139*, so I say 139 :)

*One of the scores was while high on marijuana, but I can't remember which. College.
 
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Not that it makes any difference to the acolytes, but Alexander Dugin, Russia's most notable Neo-Eurasianist and perhaps the world's preeminent fascist, has officially endorsed Trump for president. This is a Twitter post of him quoting Jean-Marie Le Pen (Marine Le Pen's father), who started France's Front Nationale and also apparently endorses Trump.

https://twitter.com/A_G_Dugin/status/703968262778916866

Again, I don't think Trump is a fascist, although he does have some fascistic tendencies. I think Trump represents a unique form of what I call "popular American demagoguery," which is a peculiar form of populism endemic to the American system but which lacks the formal coherence of European fascism or communism. Instead, it is a crude amalgamation of popular, yet incoherent, rage and resentment - a repudiation of the establishment but a repudiation that has no particular coherence of uniform aims, and is, therefore, ineffectual as a politics. If successful, it will force the establishment to have to readjust to accommodate it, but, due to its lack of coherence, it will be relatively short-lived.
 
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volprof said:
Not that it makes any difference to the acolytes, but Alexander Dugin, Russia's most notable Neo-Eurasianist and perhaps the world's preeminent fascist, has officially endorsed Trump for president. This is a Twitter post of him quoting Jean-Marie Le Pen (Marine Le Pen's father), who started France's Front Nationale and also apparently endorses Trump.

https://twitter.com/A_G_Dugin/status/703968262778916866

Again, I don't think Trump is a fascist, although he does have some fascistic tendencies. I think Trump represents a unique form of what I call "popular American demagoguery," which is a peculiar form of populism endemic to the American system but which lacks the formal coherence of European fascism or communism. Instead, it is a crude amalgamation of popular, yet incoherent, rage and resentment - a repudiation of the establishment but a repudiation that has no particular coherence of uniform aims, and is, therefore, ineffectual as a politics. If successful, it will force the establishment to have to readjust to accommodate it, but, due to its lack of coherence, it will be relatively short-lived.
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So the guy who was the driving force behind Vladimir Putin's invasion of Crimea has endorsed Trump.
 
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carlos86 said:
So the guy who was the driving force behind Vladimir Putin's invasion of Crimea has endorsed Trump.
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The extent to which he was a driving force is debatable, but, in a sense, yes. There's no denying the two are often simpatico when it comes to their outlook on Russian history and Russia's future, including both providing endorsements to the Trump campaign. However, Dugin makes Putin look like a "softy," when it comes to social conservatism and the willingness to resort to outright warfare to achieve aims. Dugin is old school fascist, while Putin dabbles in the much softer "neo-fascism."
 
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