Republicans Called Trump a 'Hateful' 'Sociopath' 'Madman' Who Must Be Stopped

Until he became the media created nominee for the GOP, even Republicans were reviled by Trump's transparent agenda and sleazy con artistry and even went so far as to draw direct parallels to the totalitarian rhetoric of histories monsters:

“Trump ... is employing the kind of hateful rhetoric and exploiting the insecurities of this nation, in much the same way that allowed Hitler and Mussolini to rise to power in the lead-up to World War II.”

-  Christine "Christie" Todd Whitman Republican politician New Jersey

“A presidential candidate who boasts about what he’ll do during his ‘reign’ and refuses to condemn the K.K.K. cannot lead a conservative movement in America.”

- Benjamin E. Sasse Republican politician Nebraska

I think that Sasse might be referring to an interview with Bloomberg in which Trump was asked to show a softer side of himself in the way George W. Bush was forced to when addressing the nation after 9/11 and Obama did following Sandyhook. Instead of answering the question Trump insinuated that G.W. should be blamed for 9/11 because it happened during his "reign" because I couldn't find a direct quote where Trump calls his future term a reign. For the record presidents don't reign and our president doesn't know that.

“The G.O.P., in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism. This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American. … Never Trump.”

 — Henry M. Paulson Jr., Secretary of Treasury under George W. Bush

“I am ever more confirmed in my belief that Trump is a sociopath, without a conscience or feelings of guilt, shame or remorse.”

- Gordon John Humphrey Republican Senator for New Hampshire (former)

“It is inconceivable that anyone, much less a presidential candidate, would attack two Gold Star parents. Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr. Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero.”

-  Susan Margaret Collins senior Republican Senator for Maine

“I’m out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president. It is some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine.”

-  Jason Chaffetz Republican Rep. UT

This was supported by:

Barbara Comstock

Michael D. Crapo

Gary R. Herbert

Mike Lee

George E. Pataki

All Republicans

“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.” 

— Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina

“I don’t think this guy has any more core principles than a Kardashian marriage.”

— Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska

“We saw and looked at true hate in the eyes last year in Charleston. I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the K.K.K. That is not a part of our party.” 

— Nikki Haley, Republican governor of South Carolina

“A moral degenerate.” 

— Peter Wehner, evangelical Christian commentator served in last three Republican administrations

“Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped,”

— Bobby Jindal, former Republican governor of Louisiana

“I won’t vote for Donald Trump because of who he isn’t. He isn’t a Republican. He isn’t a conservative. He isn’t a truth teller. ... I also won’t vote for Donald Trump because of who he is. A bigot. A misogynist. A fraud. A bully.” 

— Norm Coleman, former Republican senator from Minnesota

“To support Trump is to support a bigot. It’s really that simple.” 

— Stuart Stevens, chief strategist to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign

“Donald Trump is unfit to be president. He is a dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears. Trump would take America on a dangerous journey.” 

— Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise C.E.O. and former national finance co-chairwoman for Chris Christie’s presidential campaign

“I thought he was an embarrassment to my party; I think he’s an embarrassment to my country. … I can’t vote for him.” 

— Tom Ridge, former Republican governor of Pennsylvania and secretary of homeland security under George W. Bush

“I would not vote for Trump, clearly. If there is any, any, any other choice, a living, breathing person with a pulse, I would be there.” 

— Mel Martinez, former Republican senator from Florida and former chairman of the Republican National Committee

“Hillary is preferable to Trump, just like malaria is preferable to Ebola. … If it’s Trump-Hillary with no serious third-party option in the fall, as hard as it is for me to believe I am actually writing these words, there is just no question: I’d take a Tums and cast my ballot for Hillary.” 

— Jamie Weinstein, senior writer, the Daily Caller, a conservative website

“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.” 

— Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican nominee for president

“When you’ve got a guy favorably quoting Mussolini, I don’t care what party you’re in, I’m not voting for that guy.” 

— Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund

“Donald Trump is a scam. Evangelical voters should back away.” 

— The Christian Post, a popular U.S. evangelical website

“Listen, Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, and he boasts about it. … The president of the United States talks about how great it is to commit adultery. How proud he is. Describes his battles with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam.” 

— Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas

“A man utterly unfit for the position by temperament, values and policy preferences … whose personal record of chicanery and wild rhetoric of bigotry, misogyny and misplaced belligerence are without parallel in the modern history of either major party.” 

— Eliot A. Cohen, a senior State Department official under George W. Bush

“Leaders don’t need to do research to reject Klan support. #NeverTrump” 

— Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee

“God bless this man”

— Daily Stormer, white supremacist website

For the record I would normally not link to a white supremacist site even as a citation because nobody should be giving these idiots more clicks than their own delusional members but this one is so laughably bad I thought it was a joke

Wikipedia has compiled a list of current and former Republicans who opposed Trump during the 2016 campaign, it does not include Republicans who opposed Trump during the primaries but never announced opposition to him as the nominee. I cannot attest to its complete accuracy because it is after all Wikipedia.

The majority of these quotes were pulled verbatim from a New York Times article by columnist Nicholas Kristof entitled "What Republicans Really Think About Trump"

 Never Tolerate Injustice, Always Fight Demagogues

"I know that my retirement will make no difference in its [my newspaper's] cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."

Joseph Pulitzer retirement speech, April 10, 1907, as reported in the St. Louis [Missouri] Post-Dispatch (April 11, 1907).

I came by this wonderful quote in the prologe of a biography of Hunter S Thompson (God almighty how we could use Hunter now) I thought it would be the perfect quote to kick this blog off with. Not only does this lay out a doctrine which all people of integrity, character and morality should strive to live by but it also seems so incredibly, unfortunately, timely.


 This week the integrity of the free press--the entire institution of journalism has been derided as conspiratorial, unethical and insidious, thus undermining the public's faith in our government watchdogs, and laying the groundwork for future dismissial of those pesky facts that the free press may come up with.

But what are facts? You've got your facts and I've got my alternative facts, there are some facts over there that nobodies picked up and are probably going bad.We are in the post fact era, apparently like the points in "Whose Line is it Anyway" the facts just don't matter, at least this is certainly true according to the Gingrich, who lives just north of Whoville, and says that its about how people feel, not about the statistics that those bean counting liberal theoreticians come up with (by which of course we assume he means the FBI) that we should base public policy on.
 

 
--and there we have it the core reason for this insane charade, the abandonment of critical thinking and reason for passions and feelings are what allowed a "madman" (Louisana Gov. Bobby Jindals (R) said it not me) 
who by "employing the kind of hateful rhetoric and exploiting the insecurities of this nation, in much the same way that allowed Hitler and Mussolini to rise to power" (again not me Gov. Christie (R) said it!)

 The devoted cult of Donald Trump made up of alt-right pseudo-nazis, the illiterate bible thumping south and genuinely fearful-misinformed, need very little stoking to set their conspiracy fires ablaze. Its truly a through the looking glass world in which Trump who is genuinely one of the most dishonest people in recent political history can call the media the most dishonest people ever, and whose Kremlin buddies disseminated endless KGB style misinformation, the real Fake News, can appropriate the term and start calling long standing news stations fake news. 

2017 Isn't '1984' – It's Stranger Than Orwell Imagined

The best-selling book on Amazon is '1984' – which was originally published in 1949

By The Conversation, Contributor | Jan. 27, 2017, at 10:46 a.m.

By John Broich
 

A week after President Donald Trump's inauguration, George Orwell's "1984" is the best-selling book on Amazon.com.

The hearts of a thousand English teachers must be warmed as people flock to a novel published in 1949 for ways to think about their present moment.

Orwell set his story in Oceania, one of three blocs or mega-states fighting over the globe in 1984. There has been a nuclear exchange, and the blocs seem to have agreed to perpetual conventional war, probably because constant warfare serves their shared interests in domestic control.

Oceania demands total subservience. It is a police state, with helicopters monitoring people's activities, even watching through their windows. But Orwell emphasizes it is the "ThinkPol," the Thought Police, who really monitor the "Proles," the lowest 85 percent of the population outside the party elite. The ThinkPol move invisibly among society seeking out, even encouraging, thoughtcrimes so they can make the perpetrators disappear for reprogramming
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The other main way the party elite, symbolized in the mustached figurehead Big Brother, encourage and police correct thought is through the technology of the Telescreen. These "metal plaques" transmit things like frightening video of enemy armies and of course the wisdom of Big Brother. But the Telescreen can see you, too. During mandatory morning exercise, the Telescreen not only shows a young, wiry trainer leading cardio, it can see if you are keeping up. Telescreens are everywhere: They are in every room of people's homes. At the office, people use them to do their jobs.

The story revolves around Winston Smith and Julia, who try to resist their government's overwhelming control over facts. Their act of rebellion? Trying to discover "unofficial" truth about the past, and recording unauthorized information in a diary. Winston works at the colossal Ministry of Truth, on which is emblazoned IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. His job is to erase politically inconvenient data from the public record. A party member falls out of favor? She never existed. Big Brother made a promise he could not fulfill? It never happened.

Because his job calls on him to research old newspapers and other records for the facts he has to "unfact," Winston is especially adept at "doublethink." Winston calls it being "conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies… consciously to induce unconsciousness."

Oceania: The Product of Orwell's Experience

Orwell's setting in "1984" is inspired by the way he foresaw the Cold War – a phrase he coined in 1945 – playing out. He wrote it just a few years after watching Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin carve up the world at the Tehran and Yalta conferences. The book is remarkably prescient about aspects of the Stalinist Soviet Union, East Germany and Maoist China.

Orwell was a socialist. "1984" in part describes his fear that the democratic socialism in which he believed would be hijacked by authoritarian Stalinism. The novel grew out of his sharp observations of his world and the fact that Stalinists tried to kill him.

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In 1936, a fascist-supported military coup threatened the democratically elected socialist majority in Spain. Orwell and other committed socialists from around the world, including Ernest Hemingway, volunteered to fight against the rightist rebels. Meanwhile, Hitler lent the rightists his air power while Stalin tried to take over the leftist Republican resistance. When Orwell and other volunteers defied these Stalinists, they moved to crush the opposition. Hunted, Orwell and his wife had to flee for their lives from Spain in 1937.

Back in London during World War II, Orwell saw for himself how a liberal democracy and individuals committed to freedom could find themselves on a path toward Big Brother. He worked for the BBC writing what can only be described as "propaganda" aimed at an Indian audience. What he wrote was not exactly doublethink, but it was news and commentary with a slant to serve a political purpose. Orwell sought to convince Indians that their sons and resources were serving the greater good in the war. Having written things he believed were untrue, he quit the job after two years, disgusted with himself.

Imperialism itself disgusted him. As a young man in the 1920s, Orwell had served as a colonial police officer in Burma. In a distant foreshadowing of Big Brother's world, Orwell reviled the arbitrary and brutish role he took on in a colonial system. "I hated it bitterly," he wrote. "In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the gray, cowed faces of the long-term convicts…"

Oceania was a prescient product of a particular biography and particular moment when the Cold War was beginning. Naturally, then, today's world of "alternative facts" is quite different in ways that Orwell could not have imagined.

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Africans are living longer than at any point in the last 25 years

 by Yomi Kazeem

May 24, 2016 

In a year which has seen Africa’s biggest economies falter as the rhetoric of a boom has been questioned, data from the WHO’s World Health Statistics 2016 report shows a much-needed positive: life expectancy on the continent is better than it was in 2000. While the report shows a global spike in life expectancy across the various regions, Africa has gained the most increase with life expectancy up 9.4 years between 2000 and 2015.

Africa’s improvement in life expectancy was the biggest increase recorded across all the regions. This increase, WHO says, is mainly down to the success recorded in the continent’s fight with the AIDS epidemic. After resulting in a severe decline in life expectancy on the continent in the 1990s, improved access to treatment for the virus has aided the reversal of the trend. Also attributed as a reason for the improvement in life expectancy has been the progress in malaria control and treatment. With as many as six African nations possibly getting rid of the disease by 2020 and malaria mortality rates falling by 66% across all age groups, the continent is on course to eliminate the disease faster than expected. The continent’s progress is highlighted by another fact: of the 37 countries that have recorded a 10% increase in life expectancy, 30 are in Africa, according to World Bank data.

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