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Trump is NOT Mussolini

Mussolini could read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L–tIaau9o4

Don’t get mad, get ready.
No hysterics. Know history:

Mussolini:

1. 1:30 bully as a child
2. 1:45 sent off to boarding school
3. 3:00 “looked on women not as companions…but as people who could contribute to his sense of…power and manhood”
4. 3:05 dodged military draft, “an offense for which he would later have people shot when he became dictator” (Mussolini did eventually serve in WWI)
5. 5:00 learned “…you can make people believe almost anything…
6. “I would write articles about nonexistent things, and people would believe them. But more than that, people will forget them later, so you can actually contradict yourself.”
7. 5:15 Media “gave Mussolini not only the power to make up stories, but the means to spread the biggest story…Mussolini.”
8. 5:25  Was the “first person to understand how to use the media in the broadest sense of the word to control a population.”
9. 5:55 crude personality
10. 8:00 Switched from the leftist party in favor of the right, then turned on the left.
11. 8:15 Created Fascist Party, organized black shirts, used torture techniques on opponents.
12. 8:30 hailed as the Duce, or Boss.
13. Called on Italy to overthrow its messy, democratic system and install a dictator.
14. 8:50 His boast: he was the “one man alive who could bring back the glory days of the Roman Empire.”
15. 9:25 vowed to overthrow the “miserable political class that governs us.”
16. 10:50 “was a deeply insecure human being.”
17. 11:40 threatened parliament one month after coming to power. Parliament relinquished many of its powers.
18. 11:50 wanted complete control, “so when he began building his cabinet, he chose men he knew he could trust.”
19. If given choice to appoint good man or a scoundrel, chose the scoundrel: “I can blackmail the scoundrel.”
20. 12:20 “When his fascist ministers lined their own pockets, Mussolini looked the other way.”
21. 12:30 50 members of parliament were attacked, 3 killed.
22. 13:00 Most outspoken opponent was murdered.
23. 13:40 abolished parties except Fascists
24. 15:00 pretended to be Christian to win favor of the church
25. 15:20 implemented vast, nation-wide infrastructure projects
26. 16:10 “…Make America Great!”
27. 16:30 Censorship: became “editor-in-chief” of the country
28. Marked morning papers with things that were ’wrong’ and scolded the media heads.
29. 17:10 foreign journalists were suppressed
30. 17:50 Lived in Rome, separate from family
31. 18:05 Daughter’s wedding at St. Peter’s cemented the Mussolinis aura as the new “royal family”
32. Made his son-in-law Foreign Minister. (Mussolini later had him executed.)
33. 18:30 truly believed he was going to recreate the ancient Roman Empire.
34. 19:30 His rise to power inspired an up-and-coming German politician.
35. 21:50 Invaded Ethiopia to bring back “glory of Rome.” Reduced pop of Ethiopia to subjugation, mass slaughters. Move was condemned by League of Nations. War damaged Italian economy.
36. 24:50 Though not noticeably anti-Semitic prior, followed HItler’s lead and stripped Italian Jews of their civil liberties.
37. 26:15 Allied with Germany
38. 28:30 WWII: looked “like a schoolboy who has not done his homework.”
39. 32:30 Coward
40. 33:20 Allied invasion: Mussolini claimed he had a “secret weapon” which would surprise everyone. None materialized.
41. 39:50 Became “A shell of his former robust and arrogant self.”
42. 41:50 Mussolini had drawn the Italian people into a war they didn’t want, sending tens of thousands of soldiers off to their death.  Now the ravaged country was left to ponder all his hollow promises.”
43. 43:50 “History will repeat itself…”
44. 44:00 “There were some good things about Mussolini, but the bad far outweighed the good.”

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Glory of Trump: The Annunciation

CHAPTER I: The Annunciation

On the 16th day of the 6th month in the Year of Our Trump 69,

He descended from the escalator on high, and seeing the multitudes, opened his mouth, and taught them, saying:

“Wow. Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. So nice, thank you very much. It is great to be at Trump Tower. It is great to be in a wonderful city, New York. There has been no crowd such as this, verily I tell thee.

And to the multitudes He spake:

“Some of the candidates, they went in. They did not know the air-conditioner did not work. They sweated such as dogs. They did not know the room was too big, because they did not have anybody there. How are they going to beat ISIS.

“Our Kingdom is in serious trouble. We do not have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we do not have them.

“I ask you thence, When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let us say, China, in a trade deal. They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.

“I ask you thence, When did we beat Japan at anything? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo. It does not exist, folks. They beat us all the time.

“When do we beat Mexico at the border? They are laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. Verily I tell thee, they are not our friend. For Our Kingdom has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.

“You have heard it said ‘The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you… For you were aliens in the land of Egypt.’ [Lev 19:34]

“But I say unto thee, When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

“You have heard it said ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’

“But I say unto thee, It has got to stop and it has got to stop fast.

“Last quarter, our gross domestic product, it was below zero. Whosoever has heard of this. It is never below zero.

“We have a disaster called the big lie—Obamacare, Obamacare. You have to get hit by a tractor, literally a tractor, to use it because the deductibles are so high it is virtually useless. It is a disaster.

“And remember the five billion dollar website, five billion we spent on a website, and to this day it does not work. A five billion dollar website.

“I have so many websites. I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a website. It costs me three dollars.

“Verily I tell thee, You need somebody because politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing is going to get done. They will not bring us, believe me, to the promised land. They will not.

“I hear their speeches. And they do not talk jobs. They do not talk China. When was the last time you heard ‘China is killing us?’

“And I watch the speeches. I watch the speeches and they say ‘The sun will rise. The moon will set. All sorts of wonderful things will happen.’

“And the people are saying ‘What is going on?’

“Verily I tell thee, it is going to get worse because remember, Obamacare kicks in in 2016. Bigly. It is going to be amazingly destructive.

“Doctors are quitting.

“I have a friend who is a doctor and he said to me the other day, ‘Donald, I never saw anything like it. I have more accountants than I have nurses. It is a disaster. My patients are besides themselves. They had a plan that was good. They had a plan. They have no plan now.’

“Verily I say unto thee, Our country needs, Our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now.

“We need a leader that wrote The Art of the Deal.

“We need somebody that can take the brand of the United States and make it great again. It is not great.

“You have heard it said that a truly successful person, a really, really successful person, cannot run for public office.

“But I say unto thee, I am officially running for President of the United States and We are going to make our country great again.”

CHAPTER II: The Annunciation, cont’d.

“I will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created, verily I tell you.”

And He asked them that had gathered within the sounds of His voice:

“How stupid are our leaders? Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people. But we have people that are stupid. We have people that are not smart, and we have people that are controlled by special interests.

“I do not need anybody’s money. I am using my own money.

“You have heard it said ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle that a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.’

“But I say unto thee, I do not care. I’m really rich.

“And by the way, I am not even saying that to brag. That is the kind of mindset, that is the kind of thinking you need for this country.

“You have heard it said that ‘Mr. Trump, you are not a nice person. How can you get people to vote for you?’

“But I say unto thee, I am a nice person. I give a lot of money away to charities and other things.

“You have heard it said, ‘He will never run. He will not want to give up his lifestyle.

“But I say unto thee, They are right about that. But I am doing it.

“You have heard it said, ‘When you run, you must announce and certify to all sorts of governmental authorities your net worth.’

“But I say unto thee, That’s okay. I am proud of my net worth.”

“A large accounting firm and my accountants have been working for months because I am big and complex. Everything shall be filed eventually with the government.

“Verily I tell thee, I have done an amazing job.”

“I started off in a small office with my Father in the land of Brooklyn and Queens. And my Father said—and I love my Father. He was a great negotiator. I learned so much just sitting at His feet playing with blocks, listening to Him negotiate with subcontractors.

“But He said: ‘DONALD, DO NOT GO FORTH INTO THE KINGDOM OF MANHATTAN. FOR THAT IS THE BIG LEAGUES. WE DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. DON’T DO IT.’

“But I said, ‘Father, I have gotta go into the Kingdom of Manhattan. I have gotta build those buildings. I have gotta do it.’

“And after four or five years in the land of Brooklyn, I ventured into the Kingdom of Manhattan, and did a lot of great deals. I did them early and young, and now I am building all over the world.

“I have assets, big accounting firm, one of the most highly respected, $9,240,000,000. And I have liabilities of about $500 —that’s long-term debt, very low interest rates.

“In fact, one of the big banks came to me, said, ‘Donald, you do not have enough borrowing, can we loan you $4 billion.’

“I said, ‘I do not need it. I do not want it.’

“But in two seconds, they give me whatever I wanted. So the total is $8,737,540,000.

“Now I am not doing that to brag, because you know what? I do not have to brag. Verily I tell thee, I don’t have to.

“I am doing that to say that is the kind of thinking our country needs. We have the opposite thinking. We have losers. We have losers. We have people that do not have it.

“We have people that are morally corrupt.

“We have people that are selling this country down the drain.

“According to the economists, who I am not big believers in, but nevertheless, this is what they saith, we shall become as the Grecians. That is when we become a kingdom that is beyond Salvation.

“So just to sum up, I would do various things very quickly.

“I would repeal and replace the Big Lie: Obamacare.

“I would build a Great Wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I shall build them very inexpensively.

“I shall build a Great, Great Wall on our southern border. And I shall have Mexico pay for that wall.

“Mark my words.

“Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody.

“I shall find, within our military, I shall find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur, I shall find the right guy. I shall find the guy that’s going to take that military and make it really work. Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around.

“I shall stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And we shall not use a man like Secretary Kerry that has absolutely no concept of negotiation, who is making a horrible and laughable deal, and then goes into a bicycle race at 72 years old, and falls and breaks his leg.

“Verily I say unto thee, I shall never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you.

“Sadly, the American dream is dead.

“Amen.”

And it came to pass, when Trump had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine.

For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

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