The country of ADOLF HITLER knows a Wanna-be Fascist Dictator when they see one & they already saw the true NAZI TRUMP in 2017 when Germany's DER STERN magazine declared Trump as a NAZI and published his picture in a NAZI SALUTE on the cover!
As a German and an American I have pointed this out too. I consider the Republican party made over in his ideology to be The New American Nazi Party, just as the AfD is The New German Nazi Party. People do need to pay attention to this, but unfortunately even most of the teachers I used to teach with, knew very little history outside the USA. Even their US history knowledge is limited. So, where are the tools to interpret history if it is not known? That is the dangerous point we find ourselves in, and the press is absent in the equation of educating the public. So, other than Substack writers, and some press that is not mainstream, we are drifting on the wind into the arms of fascism.
When Habba was speaking recently, she used the sexualized threat language to describe what they would do to Democrats (investigate them "deep and hard"). That struck me as her trying to impress Trump and keep her spot as one of the special girls allowed to hang around the boys' club.
I was STUNNED instantly by the sexual violence inference of Habba’s words, “deep and hard,” a phrase she Doubtlessly premeditated, not by accident. She is a skilled lawyer: She makes no mistakes with her words. They made me wonder instantly how *deep* are her connections with her colleagues in her current endeavors?
I feel like the reason that there's been so little pushback from the Democratic party establishment is because by and large Biden has done much less than he promised to roll back or reign in the majority of Trump's worst immigration policies and they don't want Americans who aren't already aware of this to catch onto this lack of meaningful change. It's true that they at least were willing to go on record against separating families and putting children in cages, while Trump was in office. Given their approval and continued complicity with Israel's scorched earth campaign in Gaza and how they have been unwilling to state unequivocally that Zionism is not equivalent to Judaism they've backed themselves into a corner. They've let actual antisemites in the Republican Party hijack what should have been an opportunity to finally have some difficult conversations about free speech and the rights of Palestinians and turn it into a panic about indoctrination that doesn't exist at colleges and universities. There have been no shortages of chances for Democrats to make the kinds of statements/actions the majority of Democrat voters agree with but those statements would upset the status quo and their army of lobbyists. I'm not saying I'm going to sit out the election because I'm so ashamed of the lack of principles and courage shown by leadership in both parties. I am saying that Biden has forever tarnished his legacy and the fact that he was chosen precisely because of his "centrist" views. Of course if my options are Biden or Trump I'm going to vote for Biden, but I will despise myself for doing it and I'm not alone in that.
Your criticism of Schumer is naive and unfair. This was a political statement: He’s trying desperately to negotiate with the GOP for Ukraine aid, so he has to talk nice about their border posturing. This kind of naïveté about politics from the left drives me insane (a lot of the current discourse about Israel-Gaza is similar).
People who pretend Democrats who fold like cheap suits at the first sign of conflict, or blindly back thuggish regimes because "They're our Friends in the Region", are playing Fifth-Dimensional Chess rather than 52-Card Pickup because they lack the moral strength to stand up to dictators and other bullies....
This isn’t about moral strength. It’s about the absolute necessity of getting aid for Ukraine. The Democrats need Republican votes to get that. Ergo, they have to pretend to respect their posturing on the border. Do you have a suggestion for what else they could do?
I wrote a response to you yesterday—but my phone ate it....
I do have an alternative solution—take the battle to the Republicans. The DNC and whatever PACs are pro-Ukraine should start running ads in every vulnerable Republican district saying "President Biden and the Democratic Party wants to save The Ukraine, but those cowardly Republicans under Putin's control won't LET them!"
Every ad in this campaign should hit on how the Republicans would rather run a sham impeachment "investigation" and shut down the Government than help the Ukrainians resist Putin's, and Trump's, attempts to crush them. Hit on what a great buddy their God-Emperor Trump is with Putin, and how they use Cold War language to attack the Democrats when in fact they're the ones kowtowing to...Russia!
Make those Republicans SWEAT, and demand a clean 2024 Budget. They want to play dirty? The Dems need to show they can play even dirtier, and with more evidence, too!
It doesn't matter if Schumer and other Clinton NeoLibs make nice with the Republicans or not—they're all in Trump's thrall and won't move against him unless it's their Congressional perks and privileges on the line.
I’m inclined to believe Trump when he says he’s never read Mein Kampf. I don’t see him as a great reader of books of political theory. I reckon he develops Hitler-like thoughts all by himself.
That said he seems to limit himself to banging on about illegal migrants, and in all truth most people are opposed to illegal migrants – those who advocate for them want them to be made legal migrants or legal asylum seekers while their cases are being judged.
Trump doesn’t talk about whiteness like Hitler did about the German Volk and he talks about a crackdown on undocumented migrants (never mind the economic dislocation and labour shortages) rather than persuading legal migrants of colour to leave due to government harassment. He doesn’t talk of limiting political power to whites (ridiculous statements about whites being discriminated and oppressed notwithstanding). In fact he doesn’t even mention national of racial purity. These are genuine and significant differences, though he’s living proof that you don’t have to be a Hitler or neo-Nazi to be an irresponsible, racially divisive, demagogue.
there aren't many people who are as racist as Hitler!
It's worth remembering, though, that Hitler in the 30s very much downplayed his antisemitism; he didn't really speak directly about targeting Jews for years, as the regime built power and consensus for genocide in the face of a lot of domestic and international opposition.
Hi Noah (and all!) It’s true the Holocaust only got going when the Nazis had been in power for eight or so years, But there’s no comparison between the first years of the Nazi government and the (embarrassing and bad) two years when Trump and the Republicans controlled all of the houses of government.
There was no Republican picketing/boycotting of businesses ran by migrants - the anti-Jewish boycott (and not a little pillaging, assaulting and vandalism) started almost immediately after the Nazis took power. In the first year (1933) of Nazi rule they passed the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Public Service” which led to the wholesale sacking of Jews (and others) from schools, courts and the civil service. There was no talk of anything like that in 2016-8! In 1935 (admittedly the Nazi’s third year in power) the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship, inter-racial marriage (or sex) was made illegal and so on. In short, contrary to your suggestion, real life nastiness and black letter legal oppression of Jews got going well and truly in the 1930s.
No doubt if feels good tarring Trump and his zealots with words like “Hitler” and “Nazi” and Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood’ speech (es!) is definitely in that tradition. But if, God forbid, something genuinely in the Hitler and Nazi-class arises in America I fear our use of those words will lack power because they’ve been cheapened by earlier, over use. Besides, there’s something to be said for accuracy.
open violence against Jewish people was really unpopular early on in the Nazi regime. Hitler *delibertely downplayed* his antisemitism because there was domestic and international pushback. For instance, even Nazi party members violated boycotts against jewish businesses. It took time to build consensus for full scale violence.
I think in general people overstate how totalizing Nazi violence and consensus was in a way that makes them overly sanguine about the GOP. We have checks and balances and resources for resistance that they didn't in Nazi Germany, and that's all to the good...but it also did in fact take time for the Nazis to build up to the full scale atrocities, and it would be foolish to say, "well we can't say fascist yet" as if warnings should only come after it's too late.
With all the racial slurs that come out of his mouth, he doesn't have to go out there and talk whiteness. And this recent example is not the only one. He has disparaged Asians and Hispanics particularly.
You know, this man can't pay attention to much of anything but for a few minutes, so I do believe he's never read Mein Kampf (which I have been told is pretty unreadable anyway). I would not be surprised if he is surfing white nationalist/Nazi social media accounts which would use Hitler's verbiage consistently. This seems more on his level (which is really in the heart of hell).
I too agree ole Pumpkin Head never read Mein Kampf and that he’s getting his ideas from Nazi social media accounts. Stupidly he equates those degenerates with toughness. Any attention is good attention according to Ole Pumpkin Head.
Agree. I've never read Mein Kampf but I know Hitler said these things. I've seen the films of him spouting off his hate. Not hard to find this shit online. LOL
::“What Donald Trump said and did was despicable,” Schumer said — a promising start. But then he backpedaled, trying to find common ground.::
Chuck Schumer, who's called anybody who ever disagreed with Netanyahu's behavior as Israeli Prime Minister "antisemitic", and tried to get laws passed outlawing criticizing Israel in any form? Is making excuses for Donald Trump so "DeMs WoN't Be SeEn As 'WeAk' on ImMiGrAtIoN"(!!!).
One reason I'm so grateful I live in New Jersey now is that THAT *putz* is no longer my Senator. No, MY new Senator is a crook, Bob Menendez—I'll take the crook over Schumer's Israel Rah-Rah'ing Clinton NeoLiberalism any day....
It's hard to believe that a nation that practically invented advertising and manipulation of the public finds itself completely outmaneuvered by overt liars and corrupt agents of foreign powers. I am simply astounded by the utter helplessness by those who oppose fascism. Where are the messages? Where is the call to save our country from this nightmare? And most importantly, where is the education about the consequences, where are the positive messages of how to bring this nation forward, instead of constant reaction to the outrage economy? If this is the best we can do, I guess we deserve the result. Just not sure that the rest of the world that still resists does too...
The GOP: we MUST protect our White Women from foreign Rapists.
Also the GOP: (but if they ARE raped, they MUST be forced to give birth.)
The country of ADOLF HITLER knows a Wanna-be Fascist Dictator when they see one & they already saw the true NAZI TRUMP in 2017 when Germany's DER STERN magazine declared Trump as a NAZI and published his picture in a NAZI SALUTE on the cover!
The Germans knew a NAZI when they saw one!
As a German and an American I have pointed this out too. I consider the Republican party made over in his ideology to be The New American Nazi Party, just as the AfD is The New German Nazi Party. People do need to pay attention to this, but unfortunately even most of the teachers I used to teach with, knew very little history outside the USA. Even their US history knowledge is limited. So, where are the tools to interpret history if it is not known? That is the dangerous point we find ourselves in, and the press is absent in the equation of educating the public. So, other than Substack writers, and some press that is not mainstream, we are drifting on the wind into the arms of fascism.
When Habba was speaking recently, she used the sexualized threat language to describe what they would do to Democrats (investigate them "deep and hard"). That struck me as her trying to impress Trump and keep her spot as one of the special girls allowed to hang around the boys' club.
I was STUNNED instantly by the sexual violence inference of Habba’s words, “deep and hard,” a phrase she Doubtlessly premeditated, not by accident. She is a skilled lawyer: She makes no mistakes with her words. They made me wonder instantly how *deep* are her connections with her colleagues in her current endeavors?
Either that, or she's announcing her pegging fetish! 🤣
A great one, Aaron.
I feel like the reason that there's been so little pushback from the Democratic party establishment is because by and large Biden has done much less than he promised to roll back or reign in the majority of Trump's worst immigration policies and they don't want Americans who aren't already aware of this to catch onto this lack of meaningful change. It's true that they at least were willing to go on record against separating families and putting children in cages, while Trump was in office. Given their approval and continued complicity with Israel's scorched earth campaign in Gaza and how they have been unwilling to state unequivocally that Zionism is not equivalent to Judaism they've backed themselves into a corner. They've let actual antisemites in the Republican Party hijack what should have been an opportunity to finally have some difficult conversations about free speech and the rights of Palestinians and turn it into a panic about indoctrination that doesn't exist at colleges and universities. There have been no shortages of chances for Democrats to make the kinds of statements/actions the majority of Democrat voters agree with but those statements would upset the status quo and their army of lobbyists. I'm not saying I'm going to sit out the election because I'm so ashamed of the lack of principles and courage shown by leadership in both parties. I am saying that Biden has forever tarnished his legacy and the fact that he was chosen precisely because of his "centrist" views. Of course if my options are Biden or Trump I'm going to vote for Biden, but I will despise myself for doing it and I'm not alone in that.
Your criticism of Schumer is naive and unfair. This was a political statement: He’s trying desperately to negotiate with the GOP for Ukraine aid, so he has to talk nice about their border posturing. This kind of naïveté about politics from the left drives me insane (a lot of the current discourse about Israel-Gaza is similar).
Do you know what drives ME insane, beckya57?
People who pretend Democrats who fold like cheap suits at the first sign of conflict, or blindly back thuggish regimes because "They're our Friends in the Region", are playing Fifth-Dimensional Chess rather than 52-Card Pickup because they lack the moral strength to stand up to dictators and other bullies....
This isn’t about moral strength. It’s about the absolute necessity of getting aid for Ukraine. The Democrats need Republican votes to get that. Ergo, they have to pretend to respect their posturing on the border. Do you have a suggestion for what else they could do?
I wrote a response to you yesterday—but my phone ate it....
I do have an alternative solution—take the battle to the Republicans. The DNC and whatever PACs are pro-Ukraine should start running ads in every vulnerable Republican district saying "President Biden and the Democratic Party wants to save The Ukraine, but those cowardly Republicans under Putin's control won't LET them!"
Every ad in this campaign should hit on how the Republicans would rather run a sham impeachment "investigation" and shut down the Government than help the Ukrainians resist Putin's, and Trump's, attempts to crush them. Hit on what a great buddy their God-Emperor Trump is with Putin, and how they use Cold War language to attack the Democrats when in fact they're the ones kowtowing to...Russia!
Make those Republicans SWEAT, and demand a clean 2024 Budget. They want to play dirty? The Dems need to show they can play even dirtier, and with more evidence, too!
It doesn't matter if Schumer and other Clinton NeoLibs make nice with the Republicans or not—they're all in Trump's thrall and won't move against him unless it's their Congressional perks and privileges on the line.
I’m inclined to believe Trump when he says he’s never read Mein Kampf. I don’t see him as a great reader of books of political theory. I reckon he develops Hitler-like thoughts all by himself.
That said he seems to limit himself to banging on about illegal migrants, and in all truth most people are opposed to illegal migrants – those who advocate for them want them to be made legal migrants or legal asylum seekers while their cases are being judged.
Trump doesn’t talk about whiteness like Hitler did about the German Volk and he talks about a crackdown on undocumented migrants (never mind the economic dislocation and labour shortages) rather than persuading legal migrants of colour to leave due to government harassment. He doesn’t talk of limiting political power to whites (ridiculous statements about whites being discriminated and oppressed notwithstanding). In fact he doesn’t even mention national of racial purity. These are genuine and significant differences, though he’s living proof that you don’t have to be a Hitler or neo-Nazi to be an irresponsible, racially divisive, demagogue.
You say Trump does not mention national racial purity? But Saturday he said, “They're poisoning the blood of our country,” like a good little racist.
I wasn't saying Trump wasn't a racist, Chris. Just not with the same virulence and enthusiasm of a Hitler.
there aren't many people who are as racist as Hitler!
It's worth remembering, though, that Hitler in the 30s very much downplayed his antisemitism; he didn't really speak directly about targeting Jews for years, as the regime built power and consensus for genocide in the face of a lot of domestic and international opposition.
Hi Noah (and all!) It’s true the Holocaust only got going when the Nazis had been in power for eight or so years, But there’s no comparison between the first years of the Nazi government and the (embarrassing and bad) two years when Trump and the Republicans controlled all of the houses of government.
There was no Republican picketing/boycotting of businesses ran by migrants - the anti-Jewish boycott (and not a little pillaging, assaulting and vandalism) started almost immediately after the Nazis took power. In the first year (1933) of Nazi rule they passed the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Public Service” which led to the wholesale sacking of Jews (and others) from schools, courts and the civil service. There was no talk of anything like that in 2016-8! In 1935 (admittedly the Nazi’s third year in power) the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship, inter-racial marriage (or sex) was made illegal and so on. In short, contrary to your suggestion, real life nastiness and black letter legal oppression of Jews got going well and truly in the 1930s.
No doubt if feels good tarring Trump and his zealots with words like “Hitler” and “Nazi” and Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood’ speech (es!) is definitely in that tradition. But if, God forbid, something genuinely in the Hitler and Nazi-class arises in America I fear our use of those words will lack power because they’ve been cheapened by earlier, over use. Besides, there’s something to be said for accuracy.
open violence against Jewish people was really unpopular early on in the Nazi regime. Hitler *delibertely downplayed* his antisemitism because there was domestic and international pushback. For instance, even Nazi party members violated boycotts against jewish businesses. It took time to build consensus for full scale violence.
I think in general people overstate how totalizing Nazi violence and consensus was in a way that makes them overly sanguine about the GOP. We have checks and balances and resources for resistance that they didn't in Nazi Germany, and that's all to the good...but it also did in fact take time for the Nazis to build up to the full scale atrocities, and it would be foolish to say, "well we can't say fascist yet" as if warnings should only come after it's too late.
Claudia Koonz's The Nazi Conscience is a good book to look at in this context. I wrote about it here. https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yes-the-republicans-are-fascists
I imagine he has heard Hitler's ideas though, and about Mein Kampf since he worships all things and people fascist.
Actually Linda, I don't think he worships anyone or anything but himself. His egoism is way too profound to have room for anything else in his heart.
Michael, he has been reported as saying he admires Kim Jung Un, Putin, Orbán, Saudi Prince, Bolisair, and other right wing dictators.
With all the racial slurs that come out of his mouth, he doesn't have to go out there and talk whiteness. And this recent example is not the only one. He has disparaged Asians and Hispanics particularly.
It just occurred to me that Donald Trump didn't have to read MEIN KAMPF, if he'd had it spoon-fed to him on his Grandpa's or Dad's knee....
You know, this man can't pay attention to much of anything but for a few minutes, so I do believe he's never read Mein Kampf (which I have been told is pretty unreadable anyway). I would not be surprised if he is surfing white nationalist/Nazi social media accounts which would use Hitler's verbiage consistently. This seems more on his level (which is really in the heart of hell).
I too agree ole Pumpkin Head never read Mein Kampf and that he’s getting his ideas from Nazi social media accounts. Stupidly he equates those degenerates with toughness. Any attention is good attention according to Ole Pumpkin Head.
Agree. I've never read Mein Kampf but I know Hitler said these things. I've seen the films of him spouting off his hate. Not hard to find this shit online. LOL
Trump has had YEARS, including running for president and being president, to come up with his "blood" statements. Why now?
And why didn't he do anything about the border during the 4 years he was president, 2 of which (if memory serves) Republicans controlled Congress?
::“What Donald Trump said and did was despicable,” Schumer said — a promising start. But then he backpedaled, trying to find common ground.::
Chuck Schumer, who's called anybody who ever disagreed with Netanyahu's behavior as Israeli Prime Minister "antisemitic", and tried to get laws passed outlawing criticizing Israel in any form? Is making excuses for Donald Trump so "DeMs WoN't Be SeEn As 'WeAk' on ImMiGrAtIoN"(!!!).
One reason I'm so grateful I live in New Jersey now is that THAT *putz* is no longer my Senator. No, MY new Senator is a crook, Bob Menendez—I'll take the crook over Schumer's Israel Rah-Rah'ing Clinton NeoLiberalism any day....
It's hard to believe that a nation that practically invented advertising and manipulation of the public finds itself completely outmaneuvered by overt liars and corrupt agents of foreign powers. I am simply astounded by the utter helplessness by those who oppose fascism. Where are the messages? Where is the call to save our country from this nightmare? And most importantly, where is the education about the consequences, where are the positive messages of how to bring this nation forward, instead of constant reaction to the outrage economy? If this is the best we can do, I guess we deserve the result. Just not sure that the rest of the world that still resists does too...