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Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won 0 220

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Did you read Wikileaks?

Well, you should have.

The “conspiracies” were true, and the mainstream media lied to you to about everything.

Wikileaks was not Russian propaganda, it was the news.

Wikileaks has a 10-year record of never releasing a single falsified document, and is not connected to Russia. Everything they released were the actual e-mails of Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff. You had the opportunity to look through a window into the Hillary Clinton campaign, but you didn’t.

By ignoring the leaks, you ignored reality.

By not listening to your fellow Americans, and accusing them of being “conspiracy theorists” and trusting the corporate media, you ignored reality. By only following other liberals on social media, and only reading liberal or corporate news, once again ignoring reality. When Hillary Clinton was caught rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders, and Democrats nominated her anyway they ignored reality.

Everyone was simply insulating themselves within their own echo chamber ignoring anything outside their bubble.

The Media Lied To Us About EVERYTHING

If you’ve been following my Twitter or Facebook account during this 2016 election you probably would have thought I was a Trump supporter. However, I am a former registered Democrat, a Bernie supporter, and consider myself a progressive libertarian. This was the first election I ended up voting 3rd party, but my second choice was Trump. I simply could not vote for Hillary Clinton because of her mishandling of classified information, and stealing the nomination from the people’s choice Bernie Sanders.

Hillary never should have been nominated in the first place. The first clue was when she was under FBI investigation, and the second clue was when she rigged the primary elections.

In an attempt to inform my friends, family, and followers I posted dozens if not hundreds of Wikileaks e-mails, and tweeted alt-right news just as much as I did liberal news. I did this because most of my followers are liberals, and I realized they were all living in an echo chamber on social media where they were not being exposed to differing opinions or news. I was mostly rejected by liberals for doing this, they didn’t understand why I was sharing things that made them uncomfortable, but now they know why. Ironically, I got far more support from Trump supporters for trying to tell Democrats the truth. I wasn’t expecting that.

I took it upon myself to understand Trump, and his supporters. What I found was millions of great Americans who had been disenfranchised, normal people like you and I, who did not recover from the Great Recession. They’re pissed off about Obama Care, endless wars, trade deals that have killed jobs, higher taxes, a rigged economy–and, they are not wrong.

Had Democrats taken the concerns of average American seriously, especially the concerns of Millennials, they would have quickly realized Hillary Clinton was not the right nominee for the Democratic party in 2016.

Bernie Sanders Would Have Beat Trump

I 100% believe Bernie Sanders could have created a political revolution to beat Trump, but instead we’re getting Trump’s revolution.

The reason Hillary Clinton did not win this election is because she never should have been nominated in the first place. There was a better choice.

Democrats let Hillary hijack the DNC, and use her corporate money to push everyone around. Meanwhile, she used Correct The Record to poison the minds of people online into isolating themselves with paid Hillary trolls. Had Democrats paid attention to the leaks they would have seen the mountain of evidence that told the world that Hillary rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and was illegally coordinating with Super PACs like CTR. She should have been disqualified. The evidence is on Wikileaks.org.

Meanwhile, the media, and social media kept everyone ignorant and isolated from differing opinions. They lied to us, manipulated us, and made us think the rest of the country agreed with us, when they didn’t. They used their position of authority to mislead us into believing in a false reality—in propaganda.

This is the problem with America today, the technology that was supposed to bring us together actually isolated us into echo chambers and drove us further apart.

Getting the news from just your friends is a logical fallacy, you need to know your enemies, and realize they’re not much different from yourself.

There Is Good News

While you weren’t paying attention, Trump is actually a former Democrat. If you study his actual values he has far more in common with traditional moderate or liberal values than he does a traditional conservative. In fact, Trump may even be more liberal than Hillary Clinton on several issues.

The media prevented any kind of discussion on values, and instead focused on rhetoric and propaganda. So most Americans who immediately defaulted to what the media and Clinton campaign told them never took the time to actually get to know Donald Trump. They just watched the jokes on SNL, and corporate media blindly without considering other sources. While I’m still unsure about Trump myself, we at least know politically he’s actually a New York Democrat in Republican clothing (this is why the Republican establishment rejected him).

You also need to consider Donald Trump just overthrew a group of political elites who have been ruling this country for decades. He just beat the political establishment singlehandedly. No matter what you think about him personally, he just accomplished something historic to become our President.

At the end of the day, this is an opportunity to learn and grow and consider another world view. This is a wakeup call to get out of safe spaces, politically correct thinking, shatter echo chambers, and challenge yourself to consider the other side of the fence. This is an opportunity to reach out and truly learn to understand each other.

We all have to come together to solve any real problems with our country in the next 4-years. This election was a lesson to consider all ideas equally, regardless of established authority.

We need to come together and move forward together.

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This article originally appeared on Medium, written by Trent Lapinski

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TONY PERKINS HAS HOME DESTROYED BY FLOOD 0 367

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Flooding in Louisiana has been called the worst US disaster since Hurricane Sandy by the Red Cross. At least 13 people have died, and thousands have been forced to flee their homes as water approached. People have been pulling together, but the entire thing is pretty grim.

There is one glimmer of good news, though. Tony Perkins is the leader of the Family Research Council and once claimed that God sends natural disasters to punish homosexuals and women who have abortions.

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In a 2015 interview he agreed with Messianic Jewish pastor Jonathan Cahn that Hurricane Joaquin, which killed 34 people last year, was “a sign of God’s wrath,” and punishment for the legalization of same-sex marriage.

He’s also compared homosexuality to pedophilia. “It is a homosexual problem,” he said. Later adding that “the homosexual community” is engaged in behavior “that will destroy our nation.”

Well, you’ll be pleased to learn that Perkin’s house has been all but destroyed by the flooding. He phoned into his own radio show to say he now faced six months of living in a camper:

“This is a flood of near-biblical proportions. We had to escape from our home Saturday by canoe. We had about 10 feet of water at the end of our driveway. Our house flooded, a few of our cars flooded.”

None of his family were injured so yes, it’s ok to laugh. I know that it lowers ourselves to his level, but I just can’t stop smiling.

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Sadly, he actually has a place to stay, which is a lot more than can be said for the vast majority of those in the affected area. You can donate to the Red Cross’ efforts in Louisiana here.

HBO’S ‘THE NIGHT OF’ AND THE ISSUES WITH OUR COURT SYSTEM 0 300

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The first episode of The Night Of asks the question: What would you do if you were accused of a horrible crime that you had no recollection of committing? By the third episode, which aired on Sunday night, we have our answer: It doesn’t matter what you do. From the moment you are arrested, you give up control over your life.

The Night Of is about a murder, but it is not a murder mystery: The act itself, which formed the centerpiece of the fantastic first episode, has receded into the background. Even the police investigation appears to be essentially over, and we’re given no new clues about that titular night. What’s left is the long aftermath, which finds our major characters utterly helpless in the face of a system that has tightened around them.

First, there are Naz’s parents, Salim and Safar Khan, played with a dignity that threatens to slide into confusion or anger by Peyman Moaadi and Poorna Jagannathan. They visit their son in Riker’s Island, but there’s nothing they can do. They are approached by John Stone (John Turturro), who offers to represent Naz for $50,000; they say nothing—who has that kind of money? A more polished lawyer from a big firm named Allison Crowe appears and says she’ll do the case for free, and of course, they accept. Naz’s father tries to get his cab back only to be told that since it was used in commission of a crime, there’s a good chance he’ll never see it again, unless he presses charges. The cop who tells Salim this is good-natured—sympathetic, even—but it doesn’t matter what sort of face power has. The point is that it’s power, and you can’t change its mind.

Stone finds himself in similar straits. He starts the episode trying to wheel and deal his way toward the beginning of a plea bargain, but his sweaty, eczematic charm gets him nowhere with the prosecutors. He then does the legwork of a good, if under-resourced, defense attorney—visiting the crime scene, buying Naz socks—but loses his client anyway. He can’t even do anything about the plight of the cat that lived in the dead girl’s apartment, except bring it to animal control, where it’s sentenced to be gassed to death in ten days.

But this is ultimately a show about Naz, and it’s through him that we really get a sense of narrowed options and impossible choices. Riz Ahmed continues to be brilliant in his portrayal of the defendant, quivering with fear and nerves as he walks through a version of Riker’s Island stripped of color. Other inmates, more experienced and violent than he, stare him down. The guards either ask him bureaucratic questions (“Homosexual?”) or exist to do the bidding of the jail’s prisoner-king, Freddy (played by Michael K. Williams, who also hosts a show on VICELAND).

It doesn’t matter what sort of face power has. The point is that it’s power, and you can’t change its mind.

Without Freddy, this episode might have been a little dull. There is little in the way of movement on the case, no twists or reversals to drive the plot forward, so the introduction of a new predator into the ecosystem does a lot of work. In the show’s understated way, we learn a lot about him in a few minutes of almost dialogue-free action: He’s a former boxer who wields outsized power in Rikers—check out the collection of phones in his cell—and has a kind of intellectual self-confidence—look at his Norman Mailer book, or listen to the way he casually drops reference to the specific African region his ancestors hailed from. He’s having an affair with one guard, apparently so she can smuggle goods for him, and keeps others in line by threatening their families on the outside. Freddy makes choices that matter; he gets what he wants.

Freddy’s the sort of character who delvers koan-ish pronouncements about how the calves raised to become veal are kept in dark crates, the sort of character who is basically a mythological creature in a show about functionaries. (Try to imagine him and Stone occupying the same scene.) Williams served this function in The Wire, too, where his Omar broke every rule about the realism the other, less legendary characters had to follow, and he’s a welcome presence in an episode that would otherwise lack much in the way of an antagonist (Bill Camp’s Detective Box, who filled that role last time, is largely MIA here).

Freddy is the one who gives Naz his only choice of the episode. The young accused murderer doesn’t get to pick where he sleeps or who his lawyer is or how the law will treat him, but he can accept Freddy’s offer of protection or not. Naz is down the rabbit hole, but he’s not himself ready to start a relationship with a full-blown gangster. Then, in the last scene of the episode, he walks from the bathroom to find a fire burning, the other inmates standing around it and staring him down, making various “I’m going to kill you” gestures. It turns out this isn’t a choice either.

The system Naz has been taken inside is transactional in nature. No one does anything out of the goodness of their hearts, possibly because they don’t have much in the way of either goodness or hearts. Crowe’s proposal to represent Naz pro bono almost certainly comes with strings attached; that she brings a young South Asian lawyer (Amara Karan) with her to meet Naz’s parents speaks to her extreme pragmatism, or her cold-eyed ruthlessness. Freddy, similarly, is not a man who does something for nothing. But your benefactors’ motives don’t matter when you don’t have any other options. For now, the characters are left in the same position as the viewers: waiting for that other shoe to drop, and knowing that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

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