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Trump falsely claims lines 'go back 6 blocks' for CPAC speech

  

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Via:  randy  •  7 years ago  •  29 comments

Trump falsely claims lines 'go back 6 blocks' for CPAC speech




NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — President Trump falsely claimed during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that lines to get in stretched back “six blocks.”

It was a statement at odds with the quiet scene outside the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, where CPAC is taking place.

There were no lines getting into the Gaylord within the hour before Trump began speaking Friday morning. 

"There are lines that go back six blocks. I tell you that because you won’t read about it," Trump said during his address.

The entire National Harbor development along the Potomac River stretches about six blocks. Streets surrounding the area were quiet save for a few people, mostly CPAC volunteers, stopping at a nearby Starbucks and security officers patrolling the front of the Gaylord.

Trump spent a significant part of his speech bashing a news media that he thinks isn't giving him enough positive coverage. 

He doubled down on calling the media "the enemy of the people," to cheers from the crowd.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320988-trump-falsely-claims-lines-go-back-6-blocks-for-cpac-speech





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Randy
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link   seeder  Randy    7 years ago

This is one of the things that really scares me about Trump. It's not just that he lies an does so very, very often. It's that he constantly tells such easily disprovable lies. All reporters had to do was to go outside (and many did) and look during his speech and see that far from there being long lines, the streets were almost deserted. About the only people outside were a small group of anti-Trump protesters across the street. So why does he tell lies that are so easy to prove are lies? Can he not help himself? Is it a mental illness compulsion of some kind? Does he actually believe the lies? Does he even know he is telling lies? Does he know he is telling a lie and thinks people will believe him anyway because he has some sort of magic power over them? What is his problem?

 
 
 
Sister Mary Agnes Ample Bottom
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link   Sister Mary Agnes Ample Bottom    7 years ago

I could watch this every day.

 
 
 
Randy
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It was one of my favorite ones too and it does go a long way toward explaining Trump's compulsive lying. I'm going with him being pathological. He lies because he can't hep himself and that he actually believe his own lies, even when it is pointed out to him that what he is saying is demonstrably false. He lies because it's a mental illness.

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika   replied to  Randy   7 years ago

Trump probably meant, Lego blocks.

lego-pieces.jpeg

 
 
 
Randy
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link   seeder  Randy  replied to  Kavika   7 years ago

laughing dude Anyone who has had a kid with them knows what it feels like to step on one of those damned things in the middle of the night!

 
 
 
pat wilson
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link   pat wilson  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

Bingo ! All of the above !

 
 
 
Randy
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link   seeder  Randy  replied to  pat wilson   7 years ago

I assume you mean all of the above as in he is a liar for all of the above reasons? Well he is in many ways, but the primary reason is that he has an ego the size of the Northern Hemisphere or larger. Steve Bannon knows this and feeds into it to create propaganda. So does Steve Miler, much like Himmler did. The more distrust they can create in the true media and the truth that they publish and broadcast, then the more many people come to rely on only the words of the "Dear Leader". You see it really is a step toward authoritarianism. The thing is that this might have worked 60 or 70 years ago, but it will not work now. There are just too many news sources for them to be able to credibly discredit them all. The American people will simply not buy into their game. Far too many people will not be swayed by their obvious lies (like the one about there being a 6 block long line trying to get in to see Trump speak or that God stopped the rain during his inauguration speech). Far too many people are their own reporters with their own cameras to let these lies pass.

Steve Bannon and Steve Miller want Trump (in his stupidity) to tell obvious lies to try to desperately divert attention from what is the real news going on right now. That the Trump campaign and the Russian intelligence were joined at the hip during the election. Fortunately the true media is on to this game and is continuing to work their sources and continuing to investigate and a story this big, a conspiracy this large, will fall apart and the truth will come out. No matter how hard the Trump people lean on the DOJ or the FBI. It'll come out for one simple reason. Trump pissed all over our career intelligence agents by comparing them to Nazis and he attacked the FBI again today. They have been in their agencies from appointed head to appointed head and from administration to administration. They will take him down.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   A. Macarthur    7 years ago

The real fear and danger is in conjunction with those who accept and repeat the Trump lies while calling the truth, "FAKE NEWS".

 

 
 
 
Randy
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link   seeder  Randy  replied to  A. Macarthur   7 years ago

That's true, because you can be certain that everyone who was in the hall when he told that lie believe him. Then they go home and see the real news that there were no lines and then they believe him that what they are seeing is "fake" news. Of course the the hardcore blinded Trump supporters will tell you that there were lines 6 blocks long outside the hall and that the media, all of them in a conspiracy, just took the pictures or videos at a different time because they hate Trump and want to make up more "fake" news about him.

What you end up with is a group of people who only believe what Trump says and never believe what the truth really is, which is of course the goal. The beginning of Authoritarianism.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   A. Macarthur    7 years ago

Mein Trumph

Mein Kampf  contains the blueprint of later Nazi propaganda efforts. Assessing his audience, Hitler writes in chapter VI:

"Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed.  

The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses.

The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. 

The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood." [5]

As to the methods to be employed, he explains:

"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.  

The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas.

These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.  

Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula."

Nazi Ministry of Propaganda

The ministry was organized into seven departments. [4]

  1. Division I: Administration and legal
  2. Division II: Mass rallies; public health; youth; race
  3. Division III:  Broadcasting
  4. Division IV: National and foreign press
  5. Division V:  Films  and  film censorship
  6. Division VI: Art, music, and theatre
  7. Division VII: Protection against counter-propaganda, both foreign and domestic
 
 
 
Cerenkov
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link   Cerenkov  replied to  A. Macarthur   7 years ago

Yes, he's clearly worse than Hitler... SMH...

 
 
 
Randy
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link   seeder  Randy  replied to  Cerenkov   7 years ago

Hitler didn't start out as HITLER. He didn't begin his political life as a monstrous dictator.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   A. Macarthur  replied to  Cerenkov   7 years ago

 

Yes, he's clearly worse than Hitler... SMH...

Mr. "DISMISSIVE" arrives, not specifically to refute the comparison of tactics, rather, to put words in my mouth and expect me to defend what he said I said … but not what I said.

Trump's propaganda and attacks on the institutions of a civilized society, his overtly bigoted demagoguery, his appeal to the types described in Hitler's propaganda structure, these are virtually the same.

Trump's Bannon and Miller, his appeal to the hate groups … they are moving the Trump era in a menacingly similar direction as the Third Reich era.

And those who apologize for it, deny it or run with it are salivating to Trump's dog whistle. They are an integral part of an ugly, dangerous agenda.

 
 
 
Randy
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link   seeder  Randy    7 years ago

Or maybe there is no secret political ulterior motive and he is just plain stupid? Or mentally nuts? Or just a garden variety asshole?

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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link   Hal A. Lujah    7 years ago

I've been to National Harbor several times, and have stayed at the Gaylord.  The area has a problem with their sewer system, and nearly everywhere you go there it smells like nauseating sewer gas.  It's perfect for CPAC.

 
 
 
Randy
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link   seeder  Randy  replied to  Hal A. Lujah   7 years ago

Must smell just like home for them...that warm, homey septic tank aroma....too many dogs in the house....the outhouse on a warm summer night...granny after her nightly string beans, hog belly and collard greens dinner...hmmmmmm

 
 
 
Randy
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All joking aside, we must not let the Trump administration distract us from the prize. From the main story that they marched in lockstep with Russian intelligence agents during the election last year to help fix the election in Donald Trump's favor.

So if that is proven and it is looking more and more like that it's going to happen, we will be in a Constitutional crisis we have never faced before. Since the ticket was Trump and Pence joined as one if the Trump election is determined to be illegitimate because of the collusion of a foreign power, then because of that conclusion he is an illegitimate President and both members of the ticket must be dismissed. So where does that leave us? I have read the Constitution and I can't see anywhere where the founding fathers saw the possibility of this happening. A special election perhaps? It will almost certainly have to be something that is not in the Constitution, because the Constitution does not address this at all.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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link   Hal A. Lujah  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

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