For all of his boastings and untruths, one thing Trump is right about is how incredibly popular he is among the Republican base.
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By a similiar logic, all of Trump's boastings about his wealth aren't seen as offensive by his financially strained followers, even those who might be evangelical Christians taught to distrust greed.
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Yet professional fighting events are so beyond the reality of the 'everyman' who, despite the boastings of numerous frat boys or internet-trolling couch champions, would become a quivering mass if faced any of the UFC fighters.
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Excerpt from First Isaiah 21:1-2, translated in a "thought-for-thought" pattern: :A Warning from the desert: :A dreadful vision has come to me, :Roaring out of the desert :From the terrible land, :Sweeping on like the whirlwinds in the south. :The plunderer continues his plundering, :The destroyer continues his destruction. :Up then, men of Elam, Besiege them, men of Media! :Put an end to their boastings.
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It is the work of bloodthirsty fools.... Night after night those > Europeans who risk their liberty to listen can hear the emetic threatenings > and boastings of bloody-minded and reactionary civilians. They contrast the > alacrity and satisfaction which attend each contemptible operation with the > subterfuge and sloth which we have displayed in such tasks of constructive > policy as the admission to sanctuary of the Jewish refugees. In a letter to Horizon, Comfort claimed that a Nazi victory over the United Kingdom would lead to a literary renaissance, for which he was fiercely criticized by George Orwell in the Partisan Review. Comfort was an active member of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a conscientious objector in World War II. In 1951 Comfort was a signatory of the Authors' World Peace Appeal, but later resigned from its committee, claiming the AWPA had become dominated by Soviet sympathisers.
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According to a self-penned resume in 1934, and his later mercy-plea to Hitler in 1940, he gave a number of lectures railing against the "Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl".Friedrich Würzbach: Bayerische Rundfunk Historisches Archiv (BRHA): Friedrich Würzbach: RV. 16. 30-April-1934; BRHA, 21-May-1940 He claimed to have given lectures on the subject of Husserl in Berlin ‘25, Freiburg ‘26, Basel ‘26, Paris ‘26, Riga ‘28.BRHA 30-04-1934; BRHA, 21-05-1940; Nietzsche Archive Weimar GSA 72/316 Whether in fact these lectures dealt with Husserl in an anti-Semitic manner, as his resume suggests, or whether this was simply the boastings of a pragmatic job-seeker has not yet been established. One thing is certain however, during the 1920s Würzbach drifted toward certain readings of Nietzsche, and philosophy in general, which leaned toward the ultra- nationalist Nazi Weltanschauung which would emerge triumphant in Germany of the ‘30s.
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"The quick fixes, the lies, the running away from people's worries, the threats, the boastings - that has brought us to this point: for that, dear Walter, you bear more culpability than anyone, and that is what you will not admit, that without all that June 17 would never have happened". Records of politburo meetings were not published, and Elli Schmidt's remarkable outburst only became public in June 1990, thanks to the disclosure of eyewitness testimony provided in records kept by another politburo member, Friedrich Ebert Jr., who as the son of Germany's first (socialist) president always enjoyed a certain enduring untouchability within East Germany's ruling establishment. Even if details of that politburo meeting were at that time not widely known outside the politburo, it was no secret that Elli Schmidt was a supporter of the position taken Wilhelm Zaisser and Rudolf Herrnstadt, two senior Central Committee members known to be uneasy about the extent of the links between the SED and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. "We are not creating the Bolshevik Party", Herrnstadt had insisted (apparently to little effect) as far back as 1948, "but a very specific German party of the new type under certain historical conditions".
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