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“The Power of Illegal Immigration to Manipulate Popular Sentiment”

Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, is credited, along with fellow political consultant Sam Nunberg, in coming up with the idea to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border did not come from security analysts following years of study or through evidence that a wall would reduce illegal immigration. Amazingly, for something so central to the current U.S. president, the wall came about as a ā€œmnemonic deviceā€ thought up by a pair of political consultants to remind Donald Trump to talk about illegal immigration. […]

Inside Trump’s circle, the power of illegal immigration to manipulate popular sentiment was readily apparent, and his advisers brainstormed methods for keeping their attention-addled boss on message,

writes Joshua Green, author of Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising. []

Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 2019-01-04

Where the idea for Donald Trump's wall came from: https://t.co/cSbeAgcT4e pic.twitter.com/CcVHp8C8k6

— Forbes (@Forbes) January 6, 2019

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Plan–Do–Check–Act–Plan–Do–Check–Act–…

A good tool to put differences aside rationally is the Deming Cycle (https://t.co/P1r9mHxoTV ). With regard to the consequences of the #Brexit, applying Ā»plan–do–check–actĀ« is the least you have to do if you don't want to deliberately do harm to the citizens of your country.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019


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(I know that the Brexit discourse is largely irrational. I keep trying nevertheless.)

European Fireworks

⁦@SadiqKhan⁩ busting some moves https://t.co/1IEy5VnGXj

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) January 1, 2019

 

I also liked the Queens hat (June 2017).

She means it. https://t.co/Y8Oqs0T92p

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019

 

Would Julia Hartley-Brewer have complained about the Queen too?

How about calming down? That helps to rethink.https://t.co/kBfvHmeh6X

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 1, 2019

Heroic Failure

On 2019-03-09 I saw this tweet:

Regardless of his politics, this rant from George Galloway says so much about Brexit. Nostalgia for lost youth and sentimentalism about the past mixed with nationalistic hubris.

"I want Britain to be what it was in the Swinging 60s – when we were something!" pic.twitter.com/ssJJOhuvqh

— Property Spotter (@PropertySpot) March 9, 2019


 

I posted this on 2018-12-30: About Fintan O’Toole’s book:

If you havent read ā€˜Heroic Failure’ yet, my review may help you: https://t.co/U1mBcPwClE

— Lila Haines (@LilaEilis) December 17, 2018

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