Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, came under fire after it was discovered that she plagiarized a large section of her speech about her husband’s candidacy from a speech given by Michelle Obama in 2008. But some ask what is worse, plagiarizing words or plagiarizing actions?

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Trump promised more than his convention has delivered. Each night has had a crisp theme: making America safe, making America work, making America first. But the speeches have not always followed the theme. Most of Tuesday’s speeches, for example, lacked real content about jobs or the economy, whether in critiquing Clinton’s policies or outlining what Trump would do.

Trump promised showbiz, glitz, glamour to spice up what can be a parade of politicians, many of them not well known to the country, delivering boilerplate rhetoric. But “pizzazz” isn’t the first word to describe the events so far. The convention has delivered little on that front that has broken through, with celebrities who are aging stars and not even as well known as some of the politicians.

The best showbiz moment came Monday night when Trump rose up silhouetted on the stage in a smoky cloud, a Las Vegas entry in the heart of the Rust Belt. On Wednesday, he flew into Cleveland and then switched to his helicopter, with the familiar Trump logo, for the short trip to a field by the lake. It was a photo-op moment, but hardly something that fulfills his promise of something really different.

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Gus believes that the commentariat is missing the point...

Provocative documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has declared Donald Trump will become the Unites States' next president for five reasons, not the least of which is because rabid Americans will be the ones coming out to vote.

"This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full-time sociopath is going to be our next president," he has written on his blog.

"... It is happening. And if you believe Hillary Clinton is going to beat Trump with facts and smarts and logic, then you obviously missed the past year of 56 primaries and caucuses where 16 Republican candidates tried that and every kitchen sink they could throw at Trump and nothing could stop his juggernaut.

"... Who is going to have the most motivated, most inspired voters show up to vote? You know the answer to this question. 

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"Who's the candidate with the most rabid supporters? Whose crazed fans are going to be up at 5 AM on Election Day, kicking ass all day long, all the way until the last polling place has closed, making sure every Tom, Dick and Harry (and Bob and Joe and Billy Bob and Billy Joe and Billy Bob Joe) has cast his ballot? That's right.

"That's the high level of danger we're in. And don't fool yourself – no amount of compelling Hillary TV ads, or out-facting him in the debates or Libertarians siphoning votes away from Trump is going to stop his mojo."

Moore became world famous for his 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine on the issue of gun control but his latest project, Where to Invade Next, has put him at odds with the Democrats' candidate Hillary Clinton, for supporting the original decision to invade Iraq.

Moore is an outspoken political commentator who has made no attempt to disguise that he is a Bernie Sanders' advocate (Mrs Clinton's main Democrat rival), even telling Fairfax Media in April that Mr Sanders was the only one who could stop Mr Trump's stampede towards the White House.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/michael-moore-announces-donald-trump-will-be-president-20160724-gqckup.html

In his recent comments on the pervasive impact of social media, Bob Iger brought up the most well-known dictator of all time, noting that Adolf Hitler would have appreciated it as an effective propaganda platform.

Disney CEO Bob Iger has denounced social networks while speaking at a dinner at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, where he was presented with its 2019 Humanitarian Award. 

"Hitler would have loved social media", Bob Iger said at Wednesday's event, as quoted by Variety. 

"It's the most powerful marketing tool an extremist could ever hope for because by design social media reflects a narrow world view filtering out anything that challenges our beliefs while constantly validating our convictions and amplifying our deepest fears", he explicitly stated.

Iger’s scornful remarks follow outrage from lawmakers around the world, who blasted Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for being megaphones for radicals, with representatives from tech giants having been called to testify in front US Congress about how white supremacist sentiment spreads on their platforms.

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https://sputniknews.com/science/201904141074126524-disney-ceo-twitter-hitler-social-media/

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Me believe that Hitler would have shut the damn thing down because it would have mostly run against him. Hence the efforts by the lawmakers to trim the internet freedom.

Meanwhile we are told that the US lawmakers are too dumb to understand Trump's tax returns which are still secret.

https://sputniknews.com/business/201904141074126969-wh-says-lawmakers-not-smart/

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