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This was recently posted on the website of an individual who goes by the name "Gary Forbes" and was a huge social media booster of Donald Trump. It turns out that "Gary Forbes" is actually a guy from New York named Gary Pasquariello and he had some interesting professions that went nowhere before being a Trump booster--a self-help book co-author, a motivational speaker, and most comically, a new aged pianist in the vein of John Tesh. He's pretty much a sham and a kook but it didn't stop him from at one point having thousands of followers on Twitter (before his account was suspended for reasons unknown, although it may have been related to his threats of violence against RNC delegates in the run up to the convention) and being retweeted by the likes of Ann Coulter and Donald Trump himself.
Anyways, he's in the business of creating slide graphics (one of them claimed, in a fashion that would have made Kim Jong Il proud, that Donald Trump had an IQ of 156 and was in the top 99.99th percentile of all human beings) that spread the word about everything Donald Trump. And it looks like he hasn't stopped even after being suspended on Twitter, although thankfully to a much smaller audience.
So this is one of the most recent post-election slides from "Gary Forbes":
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Now, don't get me wrong. This is, or at least should be, considered radical, fringe thinking. But we've just seen the election of a president who encourages this radical, fringe thinking. And with that element in power, what seems radical and fringe now isn't guaranteed to remain on the fringes down the road if given the right circumstances to manifest itself.
By the way, the individual whose pictured with "Gary Forbes"'s manifesto is Wilbur Ross, who's been tapped as Trump's Secretary of Commerce. Take that for whatever it's worth.
(And yes, Donald Trump really has re-tweeted "Gary Forbes"--https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/625123443118358528?lang=fi )
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Bwahahahaha!
And I'm the fucking Queen of England.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)poking fun at you. He's obviously an idiot.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)But so smooth on the piano!
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)What's it called when all of the government's power is consolidated in one person?
Dictatsomething or another?
JHan
(10,173 posts)..who think John Galt types should run everything.... a consortium of Galts.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Couldn't resist. Sorry.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)If only the inmates ran the asylum. They now run the country.
kentuck
(111,078 posts)Just the thought that they consider themselves smarter than our Founding Fathers ?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)I just love how they throw in that "liberal" adjective on billionaires. RW word games are really getting tiresome.
Even Soros is not that liberal, FFS. Rich folks are not naturally "liberal" because they tend to be very protective of their fortunes, which lends one to conservatism.
This really looks and smells like typical RW misdirection, proclaim "freedom" while driving everybody else into poverty. A neccessitous man is not free.