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		<title>By: mcfly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You honor me, sir!</description>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-36017</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really like that.  I hope you don&#039;t mind if I use it.  Its much more elegant than &quot;the rock inside the snowball.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really like that.  I hope you don&#8217;t mind if I use it.  Its much more elegant than &#8220;the rock inside the snowball.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: mcfly</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-36013</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 04:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cruz may well be the sword hidden behind the red cape that is Trump. As always, I&#039;ll be cheering for the bull.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cruz may well be the sword hidden behind the red cape that is Trump. As always, I&#8217;ll be cheering for the bull.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-36010</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 03:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think he&#039;s pissing in the pool.</description>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-35991</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 14:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2008 - Sara Palin

2009 - the Tea Party movement

2012 - the GOP Klown Kar Candidates 

2013 - Government Shutdown

2016 - The Great Trump Conspiracy

Rob, put your Hate Obama switch on &quot;Standby&quot; for a moment and just try to imagine how this all would look to a neutral, unbiased outside observer.

Your party is not just pathetic, its going bat-shit crazy.

Thanks, Obama.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2008 &#8211; Sara Palin</p>
<p>2009 &#8211; the Tea Party movement</p>
<p>2012 &#8211; the GOP Klown Kar Candidates </p>
<p>2013 &#8211; Government Shutdown</p>
<p>2016 &#8211; The Great Trump Conspiracy</p>
<p>Rob, put your Hate Obama switch on &#8220;Standby&#8221; for a moment and just try to imagine how this all would look to a neutral, unbiased outside observer.</p>
<p>Your party is not just pathetic, its going bat-shit crazy.</p>
<p>Thanks, Obama.</p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-35990</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 03:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And on the other side we have people like you just saying &#039;No he isn&#039;t!&#039;

Maybe you need to step back and look at how far he has dragged you down...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And on the other side we have people like you just saying &#8216;No he isn&#8217;t!&#8217;</p>
<p>Maybe you need to step back and look at how far he has dragged you down&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again, only ONE candidate is rallying the neo-nazis and KKK to his side- WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK THAT IS?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Again, only ONE candidate is rallying the neo-nazis and KKK to his side- WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK THAT IS?</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-35988</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So some of his supporters are, so effing what? 

Trump&#039;s after votes and a win. There&#039;s no point in throwing them away. 

All you guys can do is shout &quot;Racist! Bigot! Hitler! 

And you know what, a lot of people aren&#039;t paying attention to you any more. But don&#039;t worry, trump will probably shoot himself in the foot before long.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So some of his supporters are, so effing what? </p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s after votes and a win. There&#8217;s no point in throwing them away. </p>
<p>All you guys can do is shout &#8220;Racist! Bigot! Hitler! </p>
<p>And you know what, a lot of people aren&#8217;t paying attention to you any more. But don&#8217;t worry, trump will probably shoot himself in the foot before long.</p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If not, then WHAT FREAKIN PLANET ARE YOU ON?!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/02/donald_trump_jr_grants_interview_to_white_supremacist_radio_host.html
&lt;blockquote&gt;Donald Trump has already been accused of not doing enough to distance himself from white supremacist supporters. On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr., eldest son of the Donald, didn’t help change that impression when, according to Bloomberg Politics, Trump Jr. did an interview with a white supremacist radio talk show. The show, The Political Cesspool, is hosted by James Edwards, and lists under its “statement of principles:” “We wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/heil-donald-trump-racists-support-donald-trump-policy-article-1.2459327

&lt;blockquote&gt;“Heil Donald Trump — THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR,” Andrew Anglin, the 30-year-old publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer wrote on Monday, in support of the Republican front-runner’s anti-Muslim plan.

At the end of the post endorsing Trump, Anglin writes, “Make America White Again!”


In another supporting post on Tuesday, Anglin said Trump’s less-than-modest proposal was “100% reasonable.”

He claimed Trump’s policy against Muslims did not violate religious freedom in the United States.&lt;/blockquote&gt;



http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/donald-trump-retweet-white-genocide/
&lt;blockquote&gt;Washington (CNN)Donald Trump&#039;s penchant for retweets once again raised eyebrows, after he recirculated a tweet on Friday from a user with the handle &quot;WhiteGenocideTM.&quot;

The profile -- with about 2,300 followers -- used the name &quot;Donald Trumpovitz,&quot; linked to a website containing a pro-Adolf Hitler documentary, featured a background photo with red lettering saying &quot;Get the F--- Out of My Country&quot; and had a location of &quot;Jewmerica.&quot; The account also includes a photo of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

http://nymag.com/following/2016/01/donald-trump-mostly-retweets-white-supremacists.html
&lt;blockquote&gt;Marshall Kirkpatrick, of social-media analytics company Little Bird, took a look at the 21 people the Donald has blessed with his fantastic, luxurious retweets this week, and discovered that six of them follow major white-nationalist accounts, and 13 of them follow multiple accounts that have used the #whitegenocide hashtag.

Conclusion? “It turns out that Donald Trump mostly retweets white supremacists saying nice things about him.”

It’s hard to separate cause from effect here. Is Trump riling up the white nationalists by lending them his 5-million-follower megaphone whenever they praise him? Or are racists, who love Trump for his anti-immigration polemics, just more likely than others to send our future hairpiece-in-chief the kind of praise he likes to retweet?

Either way, Trump and white nationalism seem to be caught in a positive-feedback loop, each emboldening the other.

Although being associated with @whitegenocideTM would likely hurt any other candidate, it seems Trump’s national polling numbers are bulletproof. Is that in spite of, or because of, the things the white pride crowd loves about him?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/wX1XSzteV94&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/david-duke-says-trump-is-rehabilitating-hitlers-image-20160317
&lt;blockquote&gt;David Duke believes comparisons of Donald Trump to Hitler are a good thing. The former Ku Klux Klan leader, who is a Trump supporter, took to his radio show on Wednesday where he suggested that the comparisons have led to Trump &quot;rehabilitating&quot; Hitler&#039;s image.

...
&quot;But what&#039;s going on, and the truth is, by the way, they might be rehabilitating that fellow with the mustache back there in Germany,&quot; Duke said. &quot;Because I saw a commercial against Donald Trump, a really vicious commercial, comparing what Donald Trump said about preserving America and making America great again to Hitler in Germany, preserving Germany and making Germany great again and free again and not beholden to these Communists on one side politically, who were trying to destroy their land and their freedom, and the Jewish capitalists on the other, who were ripping off the nation through the banking system.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The list goes on and on... And I didn&#039;t list the MANY racist comments on Latinos and Muslims.

 NO OTHER CANDIDATE on the left or right has had a daily list of racist actions followers and statements like Trump...
How do you explain it?

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If not, then WHAT FREAKIN PLANET ARE YOU ON?!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/02/donald_trump_jr_grants_interview_to_white_supremacist_radio_host.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/02/donald_trump_jr_grants_interview_to_white_supremacist_radio_host.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Donald Trump has already been accused of not doing enough to distance himself from white supremacist supporters. On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr., eldest son of the Donald, didn’t help change that impression when, according to Bloomberg Politics, Trump Jr. did an interview with a white supremacist radio talk show. The show, The Political Cesspool, is hosted by James Edwards, and lists under its “statement of principles:” “We wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/heil-donald-trump-racists-support-donald-trump-policy-article-1.2459327" rel="nofollow">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/heil-donald-trump-racists-support-donald-trump-policy-article-1.2459327</a></p>
<blockquote><p>“Heil Donald Trump — THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR,” Andrew Anglin, the 30-year-old publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer wrote on Monday, in support of the Republican front-runner’s anti-Muslim plan.</p>
<p>At the end of the post endorsing Trump, Anglin writes, “Make America White Again!”</p>
<p>In another supporting post on Tuesday, Anglin said Trump’s less-than-modest proposal was “100% reasonable.”</p>
<p>He claimed Trump’s policy against Muslims did not violate religious freedom in the United States.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/donald-trump-retweet-white-genocide/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/donald-trump-retweet-white-genocide/</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Washington (CNN)Donald Trump&#8217;s penchant for retweets once again raised eyebrows, after he recirculated a tweet on Friday from a user with the handle &#8220;WhiteGenocideTM.&#8221;</p>
<p>The profile &#8212; with about 2,300 followers &#8212; used the name &#8220;Donald Trumpovitz,&#8221; linked to a website containing a pro-Adolf Hitler documentary, featured a background photo with red lettering saying &#8220;Get the F&#8212; Out of My Country&#8221; and had a location of &#8220;Jewmerica.&#8221; The account also includes a photo of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://nymag.com/following/2016/01/donald-trump-mostly-retweets-white-supremacists.html" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/following/2016/01/donald-trump-mostly-retweets-white-supremacists.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Marshall Kirkpatrick, of social-media analytics company Little Bird, took a look at the 21 people the Donald has blessed with his fantastic, luxurious retweets this week, and discovered that six of them follow major white-nationalist accounts, and 13 of them follow multiple accounts that have used the #whitegenocide hashtag.</p>
<p>Conclusion? “It turns out that Donald Trump mostly retweets white supremacists saying nice things about him.”</p>
<p>It’s hard to separate cause from effect here. Is Trump riling up the white nationalists by lending them his 5-million-follower megaphone whenever they praise him? Or are racists, who love Trump for his anti-immigration polemics, just more likely than others to send our future hairpiece-in-chief the kind of praise he likes to retweet?</p>
<p>Either way, Trump and white nationalism seem to be caught in a positive-feedback loop, each emboldening the other.</p>
<p>Although being associated with @whitegenocideTM would likely hurt any other candidate, it seems Trump’s national polling numbers are bulletproof. Is that in spite of, or because of, the things the white pride crowd loves about him?</p></blockquote>
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<p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/david-duke-says-trump-is-rehabilitating-hitlers-image-20160317" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/david-duke-says-trump-is-rehabilitating-hitlers-image-20160317</a></p>
<blockquote><p>David Duke believes comparisons of Donald Trump to Hitler are a good thing. The former Ku Klux Klan leader, who is a Trump supporter, took to his radio show on Wednesday where he suggested that the comparisons have led to Trump &#8220;rehabilitating&#8221; Hitler&#8217;s image.</p>
<p>&#8230;<br />
&#8220;But what&#8217;s going on, and the truth is, by the way, they might be rehabilitating that fellow with the mustache back there in Germany,&#8221; Duke said. &#8220;Because I saw a commercial against Donald Trump, a really vicious commercial, comparing what Donald Trump said about preserving America and making America great again to Hitler in Germany, preserving Germany and making Germany great again and free again and not beholden to these Communists on one side politically, who were trying to destroy their land and their freedom, and the Jewish capitalists on the other, who were ripping off the nation through the banking system.&#8221;
</p></blockquote>
<p>The list goes on and on&#8230; And I didn&#8217;t list the MANY racist comments on Latinos and Muslims.</p>
<p> NO OTHER CANDIDATE on the left or right has had a daily list of racist actions followers and statements like Trump&#8230;<br />
How do you explain it?</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/18/the-trump-pledge/#comment-35986</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is no bigotry, no racism, no Nazism. All of the issues are practical matters. You&#039;re connecting dots that don&#039;t exist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no bigotry, no racism, no Nazism. All of the issues are practical matters. You&#8217;re connecting dots that don&#8217;t exist.</p>
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