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NYDN COVER: "They do royal weddings - We do schoolkids' funerals (Original Post) kpete May 2018 OP
I have no words. Arkansas Granny May 2018 #1
The painful truth. gademocrat7 May 2018 #2
This country cares more about the 2nd amendment than the1st. Initech May 2018 #3
In 2018, more school shooting deaths than military deaths. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2018 #4
Wow, oh wow. And to think that the army wants these kids to become GIs before they're dead! erronis May 2018 #5
The Daily News has been relentless and great. mountain grammy May 2018 #6
Yep. We should be reminding each other of that every day. calimary May 2018 #7
trump and nra have Cha May 2018 #8

erronis

(15,237 posts)
5. Wow, oh wow. And to think that the army wants these kids to become GIs before they're dead!
Sun May 20, 2018, 02:34 PM
May 2018

The other voice in my brain says "reported" military deaths. I don't know how many contractors/allies acting as stooges of our War Department are being killed. Let alone the black-funded US groups. And then we should take into account all the suicides of military personnel or their long-term deaths because of the physiological/psychological effects of where they've been and what they had to do.

calimary

(81,210 posts)
7. Yep. We should be reminding each other of that every day.
Sun May 20, 2018, 03:07 PM
May 2018

Multiple times a day. Why can’t WE repeat and repeat and repeat? That so-‘n’-so in the White House does nothing but repeat-repeat-repeat and he does get the message delivered.

I wish ALL our people with any platform from which to expound would embrace that repeat-repeat-repeat messaging technique. The other guys do it almost reflexively, individually and as media-manipulation gangs and groupspeakers. We’ve gotta respond! In kind! We can’t afford to keep bringing feather dusters to knife fights.

That’s what trump is trying to do: manage perception within his base. He repeats-repeats-repeats to DRIVE IT IN, and KEEP driving it in. And he understands they’ll take the bait. And they’re great civilian delivery systems. Because they’re noisy. They don’t let themselves be ignored. They’re fully aggrieved and resentful on so many levels and on so many subjects, AND better yet, they can be counted onto show up at the polls and VOTE. He’s doing everything he can to push that small but disproportionately loud base to make a lopsided stink about it and manipulate the way all its representatives in government respond, and react.

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