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		<title>By: ER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You kill your enemy, occupy his lands, steal his property, enslave his children, destroy everything else so no one else can use it...and you rape his women.  The idea is not just to defeat your rival, immobilize or even destroy him, but to humiliate him.  By dehumanizing your enemy you justify your theft of his goods by glorying in your ability, and the need, to exterminate him.  You excuse pure greed and cruelty by cloaking it in nationalism or ideology. And you point to your enemy&#039;s inability to protect his own as evidence of his inferiority, of his weakness, of why he deserves to be immolated.

Except you don&#039;t need to be a barbarian to think that way, the Romans and the Nazis did the same thing.  Its what happens whenever a civilization values property rights over human rights; when it it prefers wealth over humanity.

Trump represents the ultimate degenerate state of Capitalism.  He produces nothing of value to the society, nothing which meets human needs and which survives in a marketplace.  He sells luxury items and services to the rich, he peddles the cachet of his brand, his name. He does not compete in a fair marketplace against others like him, what he sells nobody wants except those who fancy themselves parasites like him. Nobody really needs the goods, services and commodities he offers.  They are all status items of manufactured prestige but no intrinsic value.  

Look at the crowds in his rallies. Do any of those people wear his neckties, stay in his hotels, fly in his planes, eat his steak or drink his wine?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You kill your enemy, occupy his lands, steal his property, enslave his children, destroy everything else so no one else can use it&#8230;and you rape his women.  The idea is not just to defeat your rival, immobilize or even destroy him, but to humiliate him.  By dehumanizing your enemy you justify your theft of his goods by glorying in your ability, and the need, to exterminate him.  You excuse pure greed and cruelty by cloaking it in nationalism or ideology. And you point to your enemy&#8217;s inability to protect his own as evidence of his inferiority, of his weakness, of why he deserves to be immolated.</p>
<p>Except you don&#8217;t need to be a barbarian to think that way, the Romans and the Nazis did the same thing.  Its what happens whenever a civilization values property rights over human rights; when it it prefers wealth over humanity.</p>
<p>Trump represents the ultimate degenerate state of Capitalism.  He produces nothing of value to the society, nothing which meets human needs and which survives in a marketplace.  He sells luxury items and services to the rich, he peddles the cachet of his brand, his name. He does not compete in a fair marketplace against others like him, what he sells nobody wants except those who fancy themselves parasites like him. Nobody really needs the goods, services and commodities he offers.  They are all status items of manufactured prestige but no intrinsic value.  </p>
<p>Look at the crowds in his rallies. Do any of those people wear his neckties, stay in his hotels, fly in his planes, eat his steak or drink his wine?</p>
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		<title>By: RL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/02/donald-trump-s-douchebaggiest-interview-ever-any-girl-you-have-i-can-take-from-you.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/02/donald-trump-s-douchebaggiest-interview-ever-any-girl-you-have-i-can-take-from-you.html&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;Stern’s guest that morning was the New York Daily News’ volatile gossip columnist (and E! host) A.J. Benza, who was on to promote his recent tell-all tome, Fame, Ain’t It a Bitch. In the book, Benza claimed that his girlfriend, model Kara Young, had left him for Trump, and that the situation wasn’t exactly aboveboard. 
So Trump, under the guise of promoting his Miss Universe Pageant, called in to the Stern Show to lord the situation over Benza, repeatedly belittling the tabloid writer for “stealing” his girlfriend a few years back.

“I stole his girlfriend, but I didn’t know I was stealing your girlfriend,” said Trump, who claimed to have not known Benza was still dating Young while he was with her. “I’ve been successful with your girlfriend, I’ll tell you that,” he later added. “A.J., I won your girlfriend. You know it, she knows it, and everybody knows it.”
Trump’s declarations made Benza, a longtime Trump acquaintance and sorta-pal, irate, leading to a flurry of insults fired back-and-forth between the two egomaniacs. 

“[Kara] tells me you cut your own hair,” Benza told Trump. “You’ve got [hair] plugs, does the world know that?”
Benza later told Stern and Trump, “[Trump] used to call me when I was a columnist and say, ‘I was just in Russia, the girls have no morals, you gotta get out there.’ [Trump’s] out of his mind.”
“[Trump] sends things to [Kara] on paper from the news—clippings of all his articles he sends her, circles his name, and writes, ‘Billionaire,’” continued Benza. “He’s out of his mind.”
Trump, who’d seemingly instigated this on-air fight with Benza over his book, refuses to let the Kara Young situation go, twisting the knife in deeper and deeper.

“Trust me, A.J.—she didn’t love you,” Trump said. “I’m doing you a favor, A.J., she didn’t love you.” He later added, “A.J. doesn’t like Trump for one reason: I stole his girlfriend. I took her away like he was a dog.”


And this doozy: “While you were getting onto the plane to go to California thinkin’ that she was your girlfriend, she was some place that you wouldn’t have been very happy with.”
Benza eventually loses it, threatening to attack Trump with a baseball bat, and said some very gross things about Trump’s then-19-year-old daughter, Ivanka. 
“I can’t wait ‘til your little daughter gets a little older for me,” said Benza, to which Trump replied, “Hey, A.J., I guarantee you have zero chance. A.J., any girl you have, I can take from you—if I want. Any girl you have, I can take from you. You’re full of shit. So any girl you have, I can take. That I guarantee. And that was proven before.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/02/donald-trump-s-douchebaggiest-interview-ever-any-girl-you-have-i-can-take-from-you.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/02/donald-trump-s-douchebaggiest-interview-ever-any-girl-you-have-i-can-take-from-you.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Stern’s guest that morning was the New York Daily News’ volatile gossip columnist (and E! host) A.J. Benza, who was on to promote his recent tell-all tome, Fame, Ain’t It a Bitch. In the book, Benza claimed that his girlfriend, model Kara Young, had left him for Trump, and that the situation wasn’t exactly aboveboard.<br />
So Trump, under the guise of promoting his Miss Universe Pageant, called in to the Stern Show to lord the situation over Benza, repeatedly belittling the tabloid writer for “stealing” his girlfriend a few years back.</p>
<p>“I stole his girlfriend, but I didn’t know I was stealing your girlfriend,” said Trump, who claimed to have not known Benza was still dating Young while he was with her. “I’ve been successful with your girlfriend, I’ll tell you that,” he later added. “A.J., I won your girlfriend. You know it, she knows it, and everybody knows it.”<br />
Trump’s declarations made Benza, a longtime Trump acquaintance and sorta-pal, irate, leading to a flurry of insults fired back-and-forth between the two egomaniacs. </p>
<p>“[Kara] tells me you cut your own hair,” Benza told Trump. “You’ve got [hair] plugs, does the world know that?”<br />
Benza later told Stern and Trump, “[Trump] used to call me when I was a columnist and say, ‘I was just in Russia, the girls have no morals, you gotta get out there.’ [Trump’s] out of his mind.”<br />
“[Trump] sends things to [Kara] on paper from the news—clippings of all his articles he sends her, circles his name, and writes, ‘Billionaire,’” continued Benza. “He’s out of his mind.”<br />
Trump, who’d seemingly instigated this on-air fight with Benza over his book, refuses to let the Kara Young situation go, twisting the knife in deeper and deeper.</p>
<p>“Trust me, A.J.—she didn’t love you,” Trump said. “I’m doing you a favor, A.J., she didn’t love you.” He later added, “A.J. doesn’t like Trump for one reason: I stole his girlfriend. I took her away like he was a dog.”</p>
<p>And this doozy: “While you were getting onto the plane to go to California thinkin’ that she was your girlfriend, she was some place that you wouldn’t have been very happy with.”<br />
Benza eventually loses it, threatening to attack Trump with a baseball bat, and said some very gross things about Trump’s then-19-year-old daughter, Ivanka.<br />
“I can’t wait ‘til your little daughter gets a little older for me,” said Benza, to which Trump replied, “Hey, A.J., I guarantee you have zero chance. A.J., any girl you have, I can take from you—if I want. Any girl you have, I can take from you. You’re full of shit. So any girl you have, I can take. That I guarantee. And that was proven before.”</p></blockquote>
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