Hillary goes full Alex Jones

Aaron Jones August 25, 2016 No Comments

I can’t believe my ears. Why would Hillary Clinton punch down so hard if she is leading in the polls? Her speech today delved into crisis actors at Sandy Hook, the Alt-Right, inside jobs (9/11 AND Oklahoma Federal Building), “Feminism is Cancer (no really!)” and, of course, the KKK and other racial insinuations.

Does she not realize that we are living in the Age of Harambe? (This is the dawning of the Age of Harambe, Age of Harambe, Do, Dooo…)

One big question is, who in the world is she speaking to? Clearly, they have no idea.


Here are some choice selections of how off the reservation (to coin a racist term) she went:

This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name “white-genocide-TM.” Trump took this fringe bigot with a few dozen followers and spread his message to 11 million people.

His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image – a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills – that first appeared on a white supremacist website… (Followed by an ad for the movie “Frozen.”)

Just recently, Trump claimed President Obama founded ISIS. And then he repeated that nonsense over and over.

His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health. All I can say is, Donald, dream on.

This is what happens when you treat the National Enquirer like Gospel.

It’s what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there. (Seriously, why would she elevate Alex Jones to this level and give him a month’s worth of material?)

Trump didn’t challenge those lies. He went on Jones’ show and said: “Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.”

This man wants to be President of the United States.

Don’t worry, some will say, as President, Trump will be surrounded by smart advisors who will rein in his worst impulses.

So when a tweet gets under his skin and he wants to retaliate with a cruise missile, maybe cooler heads will be there to convince him not to.

Maybe.

But look at who he’s put in charge of his campaign.

Trump likes to say he only hires the “best people.” But he’s had to fire so many campaign managers it’s like an episode of the Apprentice.

The latest shake-up was designed to – quote – “Let Trump be Trump.” To do that, he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website called Breitbart.com, as campaign CEO.

To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they’ve published:

“Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy.”

“Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?” (O, Milo lol!)

“Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield”

“Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage…”

…Just imagine – Donald Trump reading that and thinking: “this is what I need more of in my campaign.”

Bannon has nasty things to say about pretty much everyone.

(Remember, we are not talking about Trump, but headlines not even necessarily written by Bannon.)

This spring, he railed against Paul Ryan for, quote “rubbing his social-justice Catholicism in my nose every second.”

No wonder he’s gone to work for Trump – the only Presidential candidate ever to get into a public feud with the Pope. (lol?)

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups (I assume SPLC tracks themselves?), Breitbart embraces “ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right.

Racist ideas.

Race-baiting ideas.

Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’” (Probably an historic moment for the Alt-Right to be mentioned by such a prominent person.)

Alt-Right is short for “Alternative Right.”

The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.”

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the “Alt-Right.” A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.

This is part of a broader story ― the rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism around the world.

(Ok, I’m tired of making all of this RED, but it’s perfect for the crazy that is coming…)

Just yesterday, one of Britain’s most prominent right-wing leaders, Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum on leaving the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi.

Farage has called for a ban on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are quote “worth less” than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race (I’m guessing this means the opposite of what it sounds like!) ― that’s who Trump wants by his side.

The godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Good grief!)

In fact, Farage has appeared regularly on Russian propaganda programs. (Dude, even I’ve been on Russia Today!)
Now he’s standing on the same stage as the Republican nominee.

Trump himself heaps praise on Putin and embrace pro-Russian policies.
He talks casually of abandoning our NATO allies, recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and of giving the Kremlin a free hand in Eastern Europe more generally.

American presidents from Truman to Reagan have rejected the kind of approach Trump is taking on Russia. And we should too.

[Yeah, totally like that time Reagan wanted to topple Libya and Syria and establish a no-fly-zone over Syria (practically their neighbor) where Russia was flying it’s jets to bomb our terrorists, er moderate rebels and ISIS.]

All of this adds up to something we’ve never seen before.

Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant.

“We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,” one white supremacist said.

Duke laughed. There’s still more work to do, he said.

(Lol picturing Hillary sitting around listening to The David Duke Show! To be fair she did call KKK Senator Byrd her mentor.)

No one should have any illusions about what’s really going on here. The names may have changed… Racists now call themselves “racialists.” White supremacists now call themselves “white nationalists.” The paranoid fringe now calls itself “alt-right.” But the hate burns just as bright.

And now Trump is trying to rebrand himself as well. Don’t be fooled.

There’s an old Mexican proverb that says “Tell me with whom you walk, and I will tell you who you are.”

We know who Trump is. A few words on a teleprompter won’t change that.

He says he wants to “make America great again,” but his real message remains “Make America hate again.”

It goes on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-speech-text_us_57bf4575e4b02673444f2307

 

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