Bear said:Zero Hedge had a video piecing together snippets of a recent speech by Trump in response to the sexual misconduct allegations (below). I found the full speech (below) with transcript on NPR and have to say I was being swayed by what he said the first read through. Read it again and it is obvious that he doesn't nearly have the whole picture of the power structure (or gets some points wrong) with so many examples of the US blossoming into the evil empire well before Obama etc, yet he seems to be getting closer to the reality of things, such as a cabal running the show, as the pressure is being put on him. After the videos I've included the parts of the speech that I found most compelling and could see people getting behind.
Now that he's reading well-written speeches from a teleprompter, he actually sounds intelligent
As Trump said after Paul Ryan and the Republican Party bosses basically announced they're dropping support for him, 'the shackles' (of not saying certain things because they're 'unpresidential') have come off, and he's now running as an independent.
That speech in Florida last week is so different to his earlier campaign stuff that mainstream media is calling it Trump's 'Mein Kampf moment'. Although there's no evidence that Trump is anti-Semitic, the fact that he's remonstrating against the "globalists and international bankers" ruining the US (and the rest of the world) is being used as an opportunity to remind people that Hitler did so too, and also to bash Trump as a 'conspiracy theorist nutjob'.
Yes, this is the kind of rhetoric that got Hitler to power, but Hitler needed a lot more than that. For one thing, he needed the material-financial support of the anglo-American establishment and all their connections in Swiss, French and German banks. We're too close to this to see who or what is helping Trump (if anyone), but based on the large majority of media outlets against him, it seems that Trump is not getting much in the way of assistance from the PTB.
I've been reading around about conservative figures (media commentators and party activists) who would normally be 100% behind the Republican Party, but who are openly criticizing Trump, and/or saying they won't vote for him.
One of them is Glenn Beck. Nutzoids like him are a major reason someone like Trump got an audience in the first place. And now his dream candidate comes along... but instead he's working to get Clinton elected!
Then there's Fox News, where some (like Sean Hannity) are pro-Trump, some are 'reasonable' towards both candidates (like Bill O'Reilly), and others are anti-Trump. Overall, the network is living up to its motto: 'fair and balanced'.
Fox actually being fair and balanced... have we entered a new reality?! Fox was fully behind George W Bush (twice), then defended his administrations solidly. It then ripped on Obama (rightly so, as it turns out), but usually for the wrong reasons. And now it's ambivalent about Trump. Interestingly, the turning point came when Rupert Murdoch forced out long-time Fox chief Roger Ailes. New York Magazine did a report on it here, saying that "Murdoch didn’t like that Ailes was putting Fox so squarely behind the candidacy of Donald Trump." Two weeks later he was gone.
As we said in our last radio show, yes this presidential race is ugly, but it's also fascinating!