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Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Apologies for the DM link, but as it includes two Trump dick moves:

"President Trump stirred controversy by joking about his 'bad hair day' and tweeting about the World Series, just hours after a gunman slaughtered 11 people at a synagogue.

He first told a young farmers convention in Indianapolis on Saturday morning that he almost cancelled the events because the weather wreaked havoc with his hair, and not the massacre in Pittsburgh.

Later in the evening he then took to social media while watching Game 4 of the series between the Dodgers and the Red Sox, and questioned the pitching changes.

Trump tweeted from inside the White House while there was a vigil to the victims outside. "



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...air-day-nation-reels-synagogue-slaughter.html
 
I'm not sure how much I trust DM, but this does sound like something Trump would do. Gotta appeal to the far-right end of the spectrum, they make up such a great deal of his voting base.
 
Friday’s Rachel Maddow broadcast, available as a podcast, was quite informative.

The opening segment highlighted something I was barely aware of: Trump “warriors” who take pride in physically attacking those perceived to be on the left. Then post videos of it. It made me wonder how this sort of thuggery arose in pre-war Germany, how it became normalized, and perhaps led to Kristallnacht, and worse.

I had these thoughts yesterday morning on listening to the podcast. It was eerie, and depressing, to hear very shortly thereafter of the temple shooting.

As an aside, I again recommend “Berlin Diary”. It’s the real time writings of William Shirer, author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, during Hitler’s rise. Trump may not be Hitler, but I sure hope history is not beginning to rhyme.
 
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There was actually something funny posted on the Daily Mail website the other day - and not even by the paper itself, but in a comment, if you can believe that. When they published the van of the guy who sent bombs through the post, someone commented that the van was what Steve Bannon would look like if he were a Transformer.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Friday’s Rachel Maddow broadcast, available as a podcast, was quite informative.

The opening segment highlighted something I was barely aware of: Trump “warriors” who take pride in physically attacking those perceived to be on the left. Then post videos of it. It made me wonder how this sort of thuggery arose in pre-war Germany, how it became normalized, and perhaps led to Kristallnacht, and worse.

I had these thoughts yesterday morning on listening to the podcast. It was eerie, and depressing, to hear very shortly thereafter of the temple shooting.

As an aside, I again recommend “Berlin Diary”. It’s the real time writings of William Shirer, author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, during Hitler’s rise. Trump may not be Hitler, but I sure hope history is not beginning to rhyme.
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Oh yeah, historians who specialise in the Third Reich have been saying for a while now that the US is several steps along the same road.
 
I'm not sure if comparisons to Hitler's Nazi Germany are entirely helpful, given how Trump is not likely to reach anywhere close to the evils of Hitler (Holocaust, World War, invasions of huge swaths of land, and so on), but I agree it's interesting as a study, or cautionary tale, of how a country can go from democracy to dictatorship.

I may check out Berlin Diary.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
I'm not sure if comparisons to Hitler's Nazi Germany are entirely helpful, given how Trump is not likely to reach anywhere close to the evils of Hitler (Holocaust, World War, invasions of huge swaths of land, and so on), but I agree it's interesting as a study, or cautionary tale, of how a country can go from democracy to dictatorship.

I may check out Berlin Diary.
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Trump is not Hitler, but that doesn't mean that the current situation in the US doesn't have parallels with the Third Reich that are worth having attention drawn to them. This article covers some of it and why it's problematic.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1056166921899524097
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I've recently gotten campaign flyers in the mail on multiple consecutive days warning about all of the terrible things that will happen if the Democrats take control.
-Impeaching Trump.
-Restoring all of those evil regulations.
-Abolishing ICE and opening our borders.
-Implementing Socialist government-controlled single payer health care and eliminating private insurance.
-Increasing taxes.
 
Armitage72 said:
I've recently gotten campaign flyers in the mail on multiple consecutive days warning about all of the terrible things that will happen if the Democrats take control.
-Impeaching Trump.
-Restoring all of those evil regulations.
-Abolishing ICE and opening our borders.
-Implementing Socialist government-controlled single payer health care and eliminating private insurance.
-Increasing taxes.
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They forgot "Take all our guns" :jaw-dropp ?
 
Safe-Keeper said:
I'm not sure if comparisons to Hitler's Nazi Germany are entirely helpful, given how Trump is not likely to reach anywhere close to the evils of Hitler (Holocaust, World War, invasions of huge swaths of land, and so on), but I agree it's interesting as a study, or cautionary tale, of how a country can go from democracy to dictatorship.

I may check out Berlin Diary.
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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Trump is not Hitler, but that doesn't mean that the current situation in the US doesn't have parallels with the Third Reich that are worth having attention drawn to them. This article covers some of it and why it's problematic.
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I agree with Squeegee. But then again, Hitler didn't become Hitler overnight. Even so, the Hitler comparison is instructive not so much that the US will become a world wide genocidal menace, but that it could devolve into a dictatorship of a kind.

Trump has been running the universal master class that was taught by Goebbels and Hitler. The use of the lie. Goebbels actually spoke how important lying and deception is to the process. Also, the attacks on the press are an echo of the early 30s.
 
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