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发帖数: 4091 | 1 Tiananmen Square Should be Trump’s Waterloo
Joy Overbeck | Mar 14, 2016
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At last Thursday’s Republican debate Donald Trump offered barely veiled
admiration for the “strong, powerful government” of Communist China that
“kept down the riot” of thousands of unarmed citizens demonstrating for
democracy in 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre. Though the number of
civilians murdered by the government’s troops and tanks will likely always
be unknown, it’s estimated at anywhere between hundreds and thousands.
World history knows the atrocity as the “Tiananmen Square Massacre” but
the Communists have always tried to minimize the horror by calling it a “
riot;” just what Donald Trump calls it.
This wasn’t a matter of suppressing a “riot,” but of savagely
extinguishing a subjugated people’s yearning for liberty, a yearning never
actively revived as we approach the event’s 27th anniversary in June. At
the time, the picture of a lone young man standing helplessly in front of a
column of tanks about to bear down on him was on front pages worldwide.
Freedom-lovers all over the globe mourned the massacre, many governments
condemned China, and the U.S. instituted economic and diplomatic sanctions
for a time. The doomed efforts of the Chinese to liberate themselves from
tyranny will forever be remembered as one of those iconic events that
defines man’s historic quest for freedom and human rights.
But when Trump talked about the “riot” in a Playboy Magazine interview
just a year after the outrage, his emphasis wasn’t on the government’s
savagery or the bravery of the dead, but on the “strength” of the
murdering dictatorship. “The Chinese government almost blew it,” he told
Playboy. “Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down
with strength. That shows you the power of strength…”
So although what they did was vicious and horrible, according to Trump if
they hadn’t annihilated their political opposition with lethal military
force against their own people they would somehow have blown it. They would
have shown weakness. In Trump’s mind, a successful government must assert
itself with strength and power no matter how violent.
How would this man react if, as president, he saw a threat to Trumpian
government policies from a group of citizens who oppose them? Whose side
would he be on, a “strong government” or a dissenter movement? And how is
his autocratic tendency acceptable to conservatives and Republicans who tend
to be irascibly insistent on our individual rights and freedoms above all
else; Americans for whom the best government is the least government? |
c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 2 In the recent debate, Trump was given a chance to recant or at least clarify
his Playboy comment. Instead, he basically defended his previous statement,
saying, “That doesn’t mean I was endorsing that. I said that was a strong
, powerful government. They kept down the riot, it was a horrible thing.”
And horrible things, in Trump World, are sometimes necessary. What is so
disturbing here is that Trump’s default to despotism rears its head often
enough in other ways to be a pattern. Recently, he unleashed a tirade
against the media that once again displayed his instinct for tyranny.
In this case his victim would be the First Amendment freedom of speech. At a
rally in Texas, Trump embarked on a rant in which he threatened to change U
.S. libel laws to make it easier to sue the media, declaring, “I’m going
to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible
and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. ... So that when
The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace — or when
The Washington Post -- write a hit piece, we can sue them and win money
instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected.”
Yes, they are totally protected, Mr. Trump, and have been for over two
hundred years now so you should have heard about it. One paper’s politician
profile piece is another paper’s hit piece, and it’s all protected unless
you can prove malice which is very, very difficult to do. By the way do you
know why the media is protected; have you ever read the Constitution? Here
’s the short form from Amdt. 1 also known as part of the Bill of Rights: “
Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech or of the press
…” Then too, it doesn’t say the president shall make no law.
With Trump’s lifelong theme expressed in the Frank Sinatra anthem “I Did
It My Way” and Barack Obama’s 7-year tutorial in how to get away with
imperial overreach without fear of reprisal, do you think Mr. Trump would
issue more or fewer lawless executive orders than his predecessor?
Is there any actual reason to expect someone who thinks this way, whose
first impulse as chief executive is to turn despot, would hesitate to bring
the hammer down on his political foes as Obama and Co. viciously wielded the
IRS against the liberty and tea party movement?
I recall when, early on, Trump crowed that for decades he had donated big
bucks to politicians of every persuasion, especially Democrats in
notoriously corrupt New York and New Jersey, because “when you give, they
do whatever the hell you want them to do.” Yes. And isn’t that precisely
what you Trumpians are dead set against?
Any who believe that mean, do-it-my-way Trump has been magically replaced by
benevolent, presidential Trump need only look to another revealing moment
in the campaign when the candidate advocated “taking out” the families of
terrorists. Informed by the moderator that U.S. troops would refuse that
order because it would be a war crime, Trump insisted, “They won’t refuse.
They’re not gonna refuse me. Believe me.”
His clear preference for ordering everyone around even finds voice in his
economic policies. To bring jobs and corporations back to the U.S. he won’t
lower corporate taxes as would any sensible politician. No, again his
fallback isn’t the carrot but the stick.
Trump pledged he’d slap a 45 percent tax on any company thinking about
moving their enterprise to another country to save money. The crowd went
wild. Under further questioning, Trump clarified, “It’s not a tax, it’s a
threat. But it will be a tax if they don’t behave.” Better behave for Big
Daddy, kiddos. Ted Cruz observed to the crowd, “You will be paying that
tax, the American people.” Not to mention it would curtail American
corporations’ freedom in a way that is certainly unconstitutional.
Not that Trump ever talks about freedom or individual liberty, topics dear
to so many of the patriotic Americans who, incredibly enough, support him.
No. It’s all about winning, about doing it his way. This is chilling stuff.
Ask yourself, America: don’t you want to be rid of Napoleons when the
incumbent finally vacates the White House?
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for -- T. Jefferson |
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 4 跪舔老白棺材瓤子的後清奴才都以為自己跟殺陳果仁的兇手們一樣姓趙了
呵呵 |
n****g
发帖数: 14743 | 5 中···共·国现在就怕辖区的华人提起这个事情。
不要哪壶不开提哪壶
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: Tiananmen Square Should be Trump’s Waterloo
: Joy Overbeck | Mar 14, 2016
: Joy Overbeck
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: At last Thursday’s Republican debate Donald Trump offered barely veiled
: admiration for the “strong, powerful government” of Communist China that
: “kept down the riot” of thousands of unarmed citizens demonstrating for
: democracy in 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre. Though the number of
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 6 活在串譜賜給的幻想世界中的人生贏家一旦面對現實，就會精神分裂。
发信人: fishingarden (Abigail Fisher隔壁老王), 信区: USANews
标 题: Re: Cruz的美国最高法院argue过九次
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Mar 14 10:53:30 2016, 美东)
滚！
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: 跪舔老白棺材瓤子的後清奴才都以為自己跟殺陳果仁的兇手們一樣姓趙了
: 呵呵
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b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 7 这就搞笑了 大部分我帝屁民不关心这些破事
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: Tiananmen Square Should be Trump’s Waterloo
: Joy Overbeck | Mar 14, 2016
: Joy Overbeck
: Share on Facebook
: 28
: 28 SHARES
: At last Thursday’s Republican debate Donald Trump offered barely veiled
: admiration for the “strong, powerful government” of Communist China that
: “kept down the riot” of thousands of unarmed citizens demonstrating for
: democracy in 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre. Though the number of
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 8 黨媽根本不想要平暴功勞，串譜還讚賞，簡直是黨媽的豬隊友，連累得崇拜轉譜的人生
贏家跪舔難度劇增。
呵呵
【在 n****g 的大作中提到】
: 中···共·国现在就怕辖区的华人提起这个事情。
: 不要哪壶不开提哪壶
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f**********n
发帖数: 29853 | 9 乐死我了，没想到还把我的发言转贴过来。谢谢粉丝。
我最喜欢蓝色，请转告其他粉丝，多谢。
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: 活在串譜賜給的幻想世界中的人生贏家一旦面對現實，就會精神分裂。
: 发信人: fishingarden (Abigail Fisher隔壁老王), 信区: USANews
: 标 题: Re: Cruz的美国最高法院argue过九次
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Mar 14 10:53:30 2016, 美东)
: 滚！
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d*2
发帖数: 2053 | 10 一家之言吧。
你怎么看的？
我认为扯到滑铁卢，完全是一厢情愿了，有扎稻草人的感觉。。。
wishful curse?
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: http://townhall.com/columnists/joyoverbeck/2016/03/14/tiananmen
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 11 不關心沒問題，但是串譜關心，特意發表了意見，以表示自己和黨媽一樣偉光正，難道
串譜關心的，追隨串譜的人生贏家就不關心了？尤其還是後清來的，想兩邊姓趙？
呵呵
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 这就搞笑了 大部分我帝屁民不关心这些破事
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b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 12 他关心这个跟我没毛关系 我关心他修墙反AA就足够了
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: 不關心沒問題，但是串譜關心，特意發表了意見，以表示自己和黨媽一樣偉光正，難道
: 串譜關心的，追隨串譜的人生贏家就不關心了？尤其還是後清來的，想兩邊姓趙？
: 呵呵
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m*****u
发帖数: 19562 | 13 巨胸你已经入籍了？
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 他关心这个跟我没毛关系 我关心他修墙反AA就足够了
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 14 串譜平暴禁槍，現在你不敢再腆著臉說這是謠言了吧？
人生贏家雖然和串譜一樣有自戀症，但是卻沒有串譜的智商，只有點後清奴才的雞賊跟
醜人多作怪了。
呵呵
【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 乐死我了，没想到还把我的发言转贴过来。谢谢粉丝。
: 我最喜欢蓝色，请转告其他粉丝，多谢。
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 15 平暴和美國選舉有什麼關係呢？串譜憑空自己先抱這個稻草人出場的吧？難道真是從侯
賽因觀海手裏把黨媽的任務給接過來了？串譜舔黨媽，烤串舔串譜。
如果不怕滑鐵盧，我希望串譜接著扯平暴，與黨媽攜手走向勝利，難道人生贏家對串譜
沒有信心嗎？
呵呵
【在 d*2 的大作中提到】
: 一家之言吧。
: 你怎么看的？
: 我认为扯到滑铁卢，完全是一厢情愿了，有扎稻草人的感觉。。。
: wishful curse?
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 16 你不關心沒人強迫你，但是美國選民關心，只要你不舔平暴禁槍正確，確實跟你沒毛關
係。
當然有人生贏家覺得跪舔難度太大自己有畏難情緒，結果遷怒於我，攻擊我無恥造謠。
當眾光腚拉磨。
呵呵
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 他关心这个跟我没毛关系 我关心他修墙反AA就足够了
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b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 17 还没有 关心一哈总是好的
【在 m*****u 的大作中提到】
: 巨胸你已经入籍了？
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m*****u
发帖数: 19562 | 18 我觉得这几年差不多就该分行李了。。
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 还没有 关心一哈总是好的
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b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 19 再说吧 实在不行还是能回国的嘛 天朝说好不好 说差也比90%的国家要好了
【在 m*****u 的大作中提到】
: 我觉得这几年差不多就该分行李了。。
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m*****u
发帖数: 19562 | 20 嗯，船就算沉也要沉好久的, baby boom这代人积累的财富还是惊人的.
【在 b*****e 的大作中提到】
: 再说吧 实在不行还是能回国的嘛 天朝说好不好 说差也比90%的国家要好了
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d*2
发帖数: 2053 | 21 平暴和美國選舉有什麼關係呢？
说的对呀，确实没关系，是媒体问的呀？
具我目前所知，他以前提这个，是说强有力的政府的执行力，就好比他赞扬planned
parenthood为女性健康做出贡献，但也声明要停止政府资助这个组织。
能请你把他的原文（完整的），关于”平暴“事件的找到么？我自己找也行，不过也许
你觉得我断章取义？
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: 平暴和美國選舉有什麼關係呢？串譜憑空自己先抱這個稻草人出場的吧？難道真是從侯
: 賽因觀海手裏把黨媽的任務給接過來了？串譜舔黨媽，烤串舔串譜。
: 如果不怕滑鐵盧，我希望串譜接著扯平暴，與黨媽攜手走向勝利，難道人生贏家對串譜
: 沒有信心嗎？
: 呵呵
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s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 22 疮破这厮就是一金正恩蒲婷王娜碧，早看透这货了。撸比欧早说了这厮像个烂国强人。
【在 c******i 的大作中提到】
: Tiananmen Square Should be Trump’s Waterloo
: Joy Overbeck | Mar 14, 2016
: Joy Overbeck
: Share on Facebook
: 28
: 28 SHARES
: At last Thursday’s Republican debate Donald Trump offered barely veiled
: admiration for the “strong, powerful government” of Communist China that
: “kept down the riot” of thousands of unarmed citizens demonstrating for
: democracy in 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre. Though the number of
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c******i
发帖数: 4091 | 23 是他自己先說平暴的，以彰顯自己競選的領導力，沒人拿槍逼他說平暴吧？
他認為獨裁政府暴行屠殺是強有力，認為計生委對婦女健康有貢獻，是非不論，你起碼
沒有否定這個事實，這樣才可以進一步探討是非。
那麼有些人生贏家硬要否認串譜自己說過這些話的事實，說明什麼問題呢？
既然這是偉光正的觀點，人生贏家應該奔走相告大書特書嘛，為什麼像侯賽因的出生證
明成績單串譜的紐約時報錄音和稅單一樣遮遮掩掩呢？
呵呵
【在 d*2 的大作中提到】
: 平暴和美國選舉有什麼關係呢？
: 说的对呀，确实没关系，是媒体问的呀？
: 具我目前所知，他以前提这个，是说强有力的政府的执行力，就好比他赞扬planned
: parenthood为女性健康做出贡献，但也声明要停止政府资助这个组织。
: 能请你把他的原文（完整的），关于”平暴“事件的找到么？我自己找也行，不过也许
: 你觉得我断章取义？
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