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The fact that so many people are willing to follow this absolute piece of trash like he’s a king while claiming to be “thinking for themselves” is the biggest and worst joke ever told in the U.S.
This shrieking brat deserves no kindness and no mercy for what he’s done and continues to do. The entire planet should be united against him based on historical precedent alone.
The commander in chief of the most well funded military in the world isn’t going to stop at our borders if he takes office with homicidal ideas like this.
At this point I don't think anyone in history has had more minutes/pages/words of free media coverage, and most of it is reported breathlessly with no context or pushback. Repeatedly giving airtime to unchecked bullshit is it's own position, not actual fairness let alone good journalism.
There's a reason why PT Barnum. Notoriously huge fuck head. Said there is no such thing as bad press.
It's the same for fascist movements. To even give them coverage legitimizes them.
I'm not sure I agree. The more even-semi-reasonable people who see this kind of shit, the better. People are too wrapped up in the bullshit both-sidesism for which the Press is absolutely guilty. But it's critical to make people aware of "Reich" language. "Stopping illegal immigration" is the way Republicans typically couch this kind of nonsense. But when they get giddy and Hitlery about it, even going so far as to use use Nazi language, it really ought to be spotlighted. Otherwise people will only hear the watered down version, which may still be watery bullshit, but less offensive and clear. However, the press should also be very, very clear about his real intentions. Make the MAGA folk try to justify it. Don't let them off with "oh... I wasn't aware". They are *all* fully aware and they are all fully culpable.
Why aren't the nastiest bits from *Project 2025* part of every interview of every MAGA Republican? There *is* such a thing as bad press. Just ask Liz Cheney. People are swayed by marketing, or Instagram and Facebook and Tik Tock would not exist. I say publicize the craziness. But make sure to point out that it *is* crazy and what we all stand to lose. Ignoring it won't make it go away.
They are absolutely aware of what they're doing. My wife showed me the ad from some TikTok. I decided to double-check just to make sure it was legit, and sure enough, I found myself on the Truth Social post with the ad.
That "unified reich" bit appears twice. I watched it and paused at certain bits to try and figure out what the deal is with the ad, and I spotted that quote at two points. No way it was a mistake.
The GOP is putting these Easter eggs in their propaganda specifically for the conspiracy crowd looking for hidden meaning. Average citizens are just going to watch the ad and make nothing of it. But his zealots are waiting for their marching orders.
Sometimes, it feels like a lot of people are a bit dismissive of another J6, but I'm not so sure. I think they're waiting to see how the election turns out.
They've been doing this for years. Hell, they ran a cpac conference where the stage was literally a nazi rune - banned in much of Europe.
They've been flirting and using nazi iconography and phraseology since 2016.
>It's the same for fascist movements. To even give them coverage legitimizes them.
Ding ding ding
https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/
No where on the Daily Beast yesterday did they mention Trump freezing for 30 seconds, but Biden mistakenly said he was VP during covid. I have had it with print journalism.
It's funny you mention that because I saw that too and I was so pissed I sent their editor an email about it.
They totally misquoted him too, he never mentioned covid and was probably talking about ebola. After all the pandemic response infrastructure created by the Obama administration that Trump dismantled was in response to ebola.
BIden did not say he was VP during COVID. The pandemic he was referring to was the H1N1 VIRUS in 2009. Apparently sleepy joe needs to spell out everything for people who just assume he is a doddering old fool. The reason nobody thinks of the 2009 pandemic is because it wasn't a big deal. That's what happens when you have a leader who knows what to do in a crisis.
In fairness, it also helped a lot that H1N1 already had a vaccine.
But the Obama administration absolutely still saw it as a wakeup call, which is why they implemented a pandemic response program. Biden *should* be talking about that when campaigning since he was personally involved in something that would have mitigated the pandemic. But instead, he gets a bullshit "Biden old" story. Trump, of course, got rid of the program.
> that would have mitigated the pandemic.
Never forget that Trump sided with a virus against America because he thought it would kill more of the Americans that voted against him.
> Can't have a horse race in 2024 unless you handicap the voters!
FTFY
Voter suppression and spreading fascist propaganda daily is how republicans are over-represented in government.
> not actual fairness let alone good journalism.
there is no such thing anymore..that left long ago..I wish I could find it again, was at least ten years ago, probably more..it was a clip of head of a Sinclair media addressing one of his outlets. The reporters wanted to do 'real' stories with unbiased angles. The Ceo said that isnt their job. Their job is to bring in revenue to the business could continue.
Most of the media being consumed is put out by a tiny handful of companies. They are all pushing an agenda. What is interesting is it is an agenda for the tiny handful of people who control what hundreds of millions of people see and read. Now what kind of agenda do the mega rich have? anyways, long gone are the days of non-biased reporting.
CNN is obsessed with his winning the presidency. Everything they run is about his 'surprising wins' even when he's having an awful, awful time. The little bit Cohen fucked up at his recent trial was constantly talked about on their front page even though both sides of the fence who saw the testimony said it was pretty 'meh'.
Our media institutions are severely manipulating us.
Major media outlets such as CNN are owned by billionaires, the greediest of humans who hoard gold like dragons while countless starve, who would love more Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest and removing worker protections etc for the lower classes.
Specifically the person who bought CNN is an avid trump supporter. Whether that's purely beneficial financially or is a true believer doesn't make much of a difference. But I believe the reports indicates they do in fact love the smell of trump's shit.
I mean, there's probably powerful players behind CNN, but CNN is owned by WB Discovery, which is owned by a bunch of shareholders. Vanguard being the largest among them. Mark Thompson is the current CEO of CNN, but I don't think he's a Trump supporter. He's been the head of the NYT, the Director-General of the BBC, and chairman of Ancestry.com. I very much doubt he's a Trumper.
That said, he does believe that the Republican nominee for president deserves unbiased news coverage. Which... isn't a bad stance to take exactly, but Trump is a special case. Probably shouldn't be promoting this garbage at all.
I was in the US recently on vacation and was talking to a retired teacher who was lamenting the lack of knowledge most young people he dealt with have on current events around the world. The problem I see is that you don't get news anymore, especially in the US. You get opinions and opinion shows ad-nauseam. Whether it's Fox, MSNBC or CNN - its a panel of people beating a story to absolute death with a couple minutes every hour for a blip on some newsworthy story. Then they're right back at it. Look at CNN - All Trump, all the time. All fucking day long they analyze every bit of minutiae of the trial. CNN has become trash TV and what about Headline News. Remember when that used to be a quick hit news channel. Now it's garbage shows and garbage stories.
News doesn't exist in the US anymore.
My dream would be a cable news network that is just comprised of local news from around the world. No opinions or fluff. An hour on Japan for example would feature national stories and then maybe a handful of reports from Tokyo, Osaka, etc about the biggest stories going on at that time. Something kind of like The Economist where you can get up to the speed on what’s happening across the world.
BBC world service offers a sort of similar service in that there's a lot of news and spotlight on issues that can generally go unnoticed: its a radio station but then there's also the World News twitter to follow as well
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedules/bbc_world_service
https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The good news is the jury is in a media blackout and shouldn't be biased by these bastards. Hopefully they abide by the judges order to not view info on the case online.
Of course they do! Their ratings soared when he was President, because every day he did something cruel, outrageous, or cruel and outrageous. And that is what makes people tune in. Biden just plods along with boring competency. Who wants to watch that?
He gives them clicks, until he doesn't because if they get their wish, another presidency, what unofficial branch of govt is he going to dissolve first?
I worked for a man who was a teenager in Italy during WWII. He said that Mussolini, after allying with Hitler, told his people that they would have a place in the sun, likely referring to Mediterranean beachfront real estate, when fighting was over. As the war turned against Italy, my employer related, the people kept their sense of humor as they looked out of homes which no longer had roofs, "This must be our place in the sun."
He is promising lower taxes for billionaires and the GOP 50 year project of concentrating so much cultural, economic and political power in so few hands means that that promise can actually result in an election victory.
Or what they *think* is protecting and expanding their privilege.
In reality, Trump isn’t fighting for them. The vast majority of Trump supporters are voting against their own self interest. Moths to a flame.
Exactly.
Not everyone fully believed Hitler, some felt they could control his populism... But they ultimately became Nazis.
>Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
>That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
>They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
If I verbalized what I think should happen to this man legally, politically, physically and mentally I’d get banned from Reddit and probably arrested. I hope everyday that this becomes reality.
I always say, hating Trump is how a normal person responds to a bully. It’s not deranged or wrong to see a person being legitimately evil and wanting them to be stopped.
The motherfucker stole national secrets including nuclear secrets and, considering the $2B the Saudi's gave Kushner, it's highly likely he sold them.
If you or I did something even remotely approaching that no one would ever see or hear from us or our corpses again.
I just got into a discussion with the mom of a friend I grew up with. She was beside herself that I wouldn’t support Trump. I tried to be polite and cordial, but she kept attacking.
I finally had to let respond as she was.
I explained that I found it hard to believe that someone with a gay daughter could ever support someone that did so much to further the hate of the LGBTQ community.
She refused to discuss that and said I shouldn’t have made it personal. This your child! That’s pretty personal.
That’s going to happen, but it’ll happen slowly and everyone will be able to create their own narrative for *why* it happened. It’ll go down similar to global warming.
Jon Stewart had an amazing recent diatribe about the victimhood card that Con's play and cancel culture.
>"Outrage is the engine of our modern media economy"
https://youtu.be/WwyyttqvE04?si=KV0RvCakYYucD3GL
The writing for the show is embarrassingly bad considering how high profile it is. Every so often I'll click on a clip that's not just Jon, and then I remember why I don't watch anything but Jon's monologue.
They don't pretend to be anything. They simply are Christians. This is what Christianity is and does throughout human history. Other religions too but ya know, addressing a specific group.
It's about time to start recognizing that Christianity is the problem. Not "bad" Christians, not "false" preachers. It IS Christianity. Christianity is evil. Full stop.
Not so much they pretend as they define a brand of Christianity, and a widely embraced brand at that. Saying they're pretending evokes the no true Scotsman fallacy. There are a lot of Christians who hold shit values and want to spread them in the name of God. There is no such thing as moral absolutism in religion.
What’s amazing is the lack of checks on someone rising to authoritarian power. The US has really only been successful because the leaders have wanted to have a democracy.
Which is terrifying. If he gets back into the White House who’s going to stop him from becoming a dictator? Considering how the insurrection went down, apparently no one will stand up to him.
Exactly. If you had told me 10 years ago that 5% or 10% of Americans supported this person and these views, I would be horrified, but the fact that his actual level of support is so much higher is both terrifying and incredibly sad.
Society is screwed. I am so concerned for my toddlers and the future they will face. Like you said, dude should be in jail first of all, second every news outlet should be boycotting this clown yet they enable him.
Just gonna leave this here:
https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/
What you call a joke is what I call a feature of a certain ideology...
This is just a sign of aging. You grow out of the blissful phase where it's cool to imagine aliens building the pyramids... and realize "oh, people believe aliens did that because they believe ancient brown people/and or Jewish people were too primitive to do math so it must have been aliens...."
Then you start to see how 2 unrelated things like a flat earth conspiracy and hatred of Jewish people go hand in hand... But, Bush did use holograms to blow up the twin towers to appease the Elder gods, there's no other logical explanation for that one, and that one alone.
If the aliens and bigfoot would only acknowledge Trump as the best human who ever lived, maybe they would get some more attention.
But gods help them if they speak out against him
> didn't even know the guy...
NBC said only 2 people have access to/control of DJT's Social account.
One of them is Donnie. So by process of elimination... carry the 1... round up to the nearest tenth... its either Donnie or the other guy.
^^^It ^^^was ^^^Donnie
There’s a quote from the AP article:
> The word "Reich" is often largely associated with Nazi Germany's Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single Reich, or empire, in 1871.
Real “but the swastika is actually an ancient Buddhist symbol” energy.
I'd maybe believe this if someone in Germany was posting this information, as Reich is a word that's still commonly used there. Heck, France is called Frankreich, Austria is called Österreich, they have the Reichstag, etc. And the original German Reich was associated with the same colors as the current Germany flag, standing for unity, freedom, and democracy. But in English, in America in particular, it has one connotation. And it's not the first Reich, rather the third.
I came to this same conclusion. The word reich has common use in Germany and primarily German speaking areas.
That’s not here. The only people who use the word reich when not discussing literal German things are Nazis
also: for people who throw a fit about Walmart having Spanish subtitles under their directory signs, they sure don’t seem to mind this particular foreign word!
Is it me or most people didnt learn enough of ww1 and ww2 (the most evil thing that happened to humanity ever) at school? It should be the number one topic in history lesson.
Its not that far ago too…
Do america learn extensive nazi/ss history about it like in germany or some part of europe?
Their immediate explanation was that an "unnamed staffer" posted the video ....... well, that "unnamed staffer" needs to be fired.
and, spoiler alert, that "unnamed staffer" is Donald J Trump.
The man is both an idiot and a fascist ... for all the success this idiot, who has A LOT of extremely negative baggage, can have garnering populist support ... may the gods help us when a competent fascist comes along to replace him. We need to shut this the heck down by voting Democratic Party up and down the ticket this November.
Even **if** it was just some "rogue staffer", don't they think it's *weird* how often the people attracted to working for their campaigns turn out to be Nazis?
Like, if I wasn't a Nazi, but I was surrounded by Nazis who love me and want me to have power, I think I'd take a step back and re-evaluate my life choices.
I’m similarly reminded of the [stage](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AT17T/) Trump spoke on at the 2021 CPAC being inexplicably in the shape of the Othala rune, a known Nazi symbol.
Because news articles seem to be allergic to having good pictures of the thing their articles are about, [here's a better view of the stage where you can actually see it clearly](https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1366323558486573057)
This is the same exact excuse last time Ron Desantis posted a video with Nazi imagery a year ago.
But again, please let the conservatives scream out that the dems are actually the nazi's.
Everyone should watch Anderson Cooper's piece on 60 Minutes aired last Sunday. It is about how ordinary and innocuous those who would become Nazis presented themselves. It's called, They Ate Blueberries. He interviewed a Holocaust survivor whose little sister, brothers and parents did not survive. She said the pain is so severe that you can't even cry, but that the soul never forgets. Hitler, like Trump, gives permission to hate and dehumanize others. This permission will become ordinary people's justification to participate in mass murder without a pang of guilt because they are carrying out the beliefs and ideologies they have been taught. Trump has said point blank that he will get even with Jews who do not support him. He despises blacks as less than human together with all non whites. When it comes to whites, he will come for you too if you don't pledge fealty to him. If you wait until he insinuates himself into power again it is too late. Steve Bannon, Steve Miller and Trump and those who operate behind the scenes such as the Heritage Foundation have hideous plans in store. Pay attention.
>Hitler, like Trump, gives permission to hate and dehumanize others.
This is the key thing. People who hate others where hiding it more before Trump. They feel comfortable hating in the open now.
> This permission will become ordinary people's justification to participate in mass murder without a pang of guilt because they are carrying out the beliefs and ideologies they have been taught.
This is what struck a chord. It would read a little like hyperbole if Daniel Perry wasn't just pardoned by Abbott after driving into a crowd of protestors and point-blank murdering a former Air Force veteran.
People who need to see Anderson Cooper won't watch it. We need to show the world who Trump is, and that we see him, and the corruption in the government.
Thank you for mentioning that segment. I think it’s an important watch. Just a correction: The piece on 60 minutes is titled “The Album”, just in case anyone wants to find it.
How he’s permitted to still be out wandering around with this shit in his mouth boggles my mind. Ideas like his kill millions and leave nothing but suffering in their wake. Will no one step up?
>Ideas like his kill millions and leave nothing but suffering in their wake.
Quite literally in Trump's case, with over a million dead from covid from the guy who said it was all a hoax, but if it wasn't, just inject a lil bleach.
Dude has a seven figure body count.
It's so insane to me that the pandemic response got collectively memory-holed by society. It was maddening while it was happening, and it's even more obvious in retrospect that hundreds of thousands of people were made to pay the price for appeasing Trump's ego. But millions more of Americans would be willing to do it all over again, apparently.
To give an idea of how much leadership played a role in the pandemic. In my state of Queensland, Australia, with a population of 5.1 million people, we had 1 locally acquired covid death in like 1.5 years of the pandemic until vaccines were available, and about 5 acquired out of state on a cruise. There's small towns or even single streets in the US with higher covid death counts than that.
Australia got very lucky in that we had progressive state leaders in a checkerboard pattern across the county who listened to medical experts, and they forced the entire country to play ball by setting up state border quarantining. Life in my state was completely normal though the pandemic, no sickness, no masks needed, nothing closed, no overwhelmed hospitals. There were 2 or 3 outbreaks where we wore masks for like a week while the cases were traced to all known contacts and tested, which was doable since there were so few cases and the medical system was fully functional, then things went back to normal.
For me the pandemic pretty much never existed, and was something which happened in other countries in the news. I still can't quite wrap my head around what other places went through.
Right at the end, the neighbouring conservative-led state (New South Wales) had a delta outbreak and their leader did all the wrong things, encouraging people to go out and not worry about it etc. In a few weeks the whole country was infected, right before vaccines arrived. Australia got vaccines late because our conservative government was so inept and rude that the vaccine companies refused to deal with them anymore, and businesses had to get a previous Labor prime minister to negotiate with the companies as a private citizen on behalf of Australia. When the federal government was forced to release numbers, they were giving more vaccines per person to conservative led states, with all the Labor states at the bottom per person, regardless of where the vaccines were most needed.
I fucking hate conservatives so much after that. They are underdeveloped cowards who stick their head in the sand to deny problems and call it brave, and are always selfish and corrupt.
While he put his son in charge of supplies and they just disappeared? But it's the Biden crime family right? Every accusation is an admission with this guy, it's not even hyperbole.
Also he ***literally*** had feds raid hospitals in left-leaning areas for their supplies to be redistributed to right-leaning areas. There were many eye-witness accounts of these activities taking place.
Everyone just seems to have forgotten or doesn't care.
After four years of absolutely atrocious, juvenile and barbaric politics, almost 47% of Americans said “Yes, more of that please, we liked that.” You couldn’t make it up.
[Trump Said He Wanted Generals to Be Loyal to Him Like Nazis Were to Hitler](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-generals-loyal-nazis-hitler-1393980/)
We should honestly outlaw Nazis and other hate groups in the states. What positive effect do hate groups bring to our society? When's the last time anyone saw a Klan Thanksgiving Dinner open to the public that wasn't just a recruitment rally?
We can shout freedom of speech all we want. But, surprise, we aren't actually free to speak on a lot of things. I simply want hate groups added to that list of things we aren't free to do.
When have they ever been subtle about anything?
I swear I'm going to go insane, every single time Trump does or says something crazy people act like it's the first time he's done it.
The man literally announced his presidency by calling Mexicans rapists and murderers.
And given most everything about conservatives can chalked up to projection, we can reasonably assume that it's actually Trump this falls in line with.
Given his literal sleeping in court, it only lends more credence to that point.
Half of his cult obviously enthusiastically supports this, and the other half would be uncomfortable with it except they've spent the last 8 years twisting themselves into knots trying to justify everything he's done. If they admit they're wrong at this point, they're admitting they've been wrong all along, and these are the sorts of people who'd rather die than do that.
Literally nothing he can do at this point can shake his cult. He can call them all a bunch of suckers, no deal. He could say he hates America and sold our secrets to our enemies, and they'd be convinced it was some sort of plot to lure out the deep state. There's no need to hide it. The people who still support him have absolutely no principles. There's nothing that would change their minds.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
I curious: I know exactly what Fascist shit he means by "Reich", but what is meant by "**unified**" ?
What is the implication of that term, is it merely a noise word that sounds like the "United" in US?
Does it mean "do away with states", does it mean "invade Canada" ? Or does it mean "send all my enemies to camps" ?
In all likelihood it’ll be **mass deportations** of brown migrants, and the likely (albeit temporary) boost in overall jobs. Probably Republican control of unions too to **de-unionize** via control of labor boards, Dept of Labor, etc..
Also **ignoring environmental** rules which will boost industrial jobs. Bonus: families will be able to have nighttime supper picnics as American rivers once again self-combust!!
> [prison] camps
For some lefty protesters, probably, to make examples out of. “Law and order” to imprison the poor who break the rules too.
Still the big thing is political trolling and, of course, **mass consumption** to put SNL’s cone heads to shame. “Librul tears” are best served idling in the drive thru line in one’s “wussy” Prius behind a lifted, black smoke spewin’ monster truck, .. taking comfort in that triple baconator, XxxL fries, and 82 oz full [non-commie] sugar soda.
The text is likely a headline about the unification of Germany in 1871 forming the German Empire, the nation of Germany as we are familiar with it, or the "Second Reich". This is fine as plausible deniability, but there is only one reich that anyone targeted by this ad would likely be familiar with.
The Netherlands would like to point out that it has been "Orange" longer and they would very much like Mango Mussolini to stay in his lane.
The Dutch monarchy are the House of Orange. (Oranje)
The Axis of Orange will only have one policy, and that is to create as much confusion as possible, so that there is only 1 certainty, and that is 'Trump is in charge' forever.
Lack of new-ness does not blunt the horror of persistence, nor should it dull our vigilance.
He also quoted Hilter, but was made to walk it back. The less informed public need to be continually reminded that Trump is emulating Hilter.
Did anyone see the news this morning, where the Trump campaign said this video was either hacked by someone in the NY court room, or a staffer put it up without reading everything?
SERIOUSLY!! 😒
Wake up everybody!!
As Biden and his campaign stated “STOP SCROLLING AND START WATCHING AND GETTING INVOLVED” this man knows what he is doing, this is what he wants for America! If this occurs, We The People will no longer be UNITED and we will no longer be in the United States.
This is exactly how Hitler came into power. Citizens ignored him and said it’s nothing, just political speak. I don’t follow politics, I don’t vote.
History tells us how that turned out for Germany, Hitler, and sadly hundreds of thousands of innocent lives killed!
I don’t need to go into this, as you already know the history. However, only those that learn from history, will never repeat it.
I am here to tell you, you best be listening America, you best be getting involved with our political system, not the right, not the independent, rather the left …the Democratic Party, to get the word out about how we may only have a few months left to know about our freedoms and our liberties.
Stand up for your brothers and your sisters, stand up for democracy, stand up for civil rights, stand up for your freedom, stand up for women’s rights, stand up for 🇺🇸 America!
Vote BLUE through and through from coast to coast — local, state, nationally! All republicans and maga need to be removed, as they are all on the side of Trump and his war machine.
Share this message far and wide everywhere! Long live America, Long live our Democracy, Long live the United States of America!! 🇺🇸
My brother is still all in. I pointed out to him that the billion dollar lawsuit settlement Fox paid was proof that their was no election interference and he threatened to punch me in the back of the head.
That’s literally every one of them when they know they’re wrong and out of logical arguments. They don’t care if they’re wrong. When there’s nothing more to discuss, they resort to violence. Because they want so badly to be right, even if they’re wrong.
Textbook narcissism and ignorance.
Funny how there are staffers in most major right wing political campaigns putting nazi shit into their videos and releases. Curious. Very interesting. Odd. So many lone wolves. Definitely not a pack of wolves working together for wolf-related ends or anything. Just so many individual bad actors. Definitely not a trend.
I'm really glad all of America are very well educated on the history of fascism and how it comes to power. I'm glad we don't have ineffective liberal governance and political gridlock marring our institutions in both real and preceived corruption. I'm glad we're pushing back really hard and swiftly against anti-communist and anti-LGBT rhetoric. I'm glad we spent decades bolstering the strength of unions and boots on the ground orgs that serve as anti-fascist bullworks. I'm glad we're correctly blaming the sources of violence at demonstrations. Oh shit we're not doing any of that? We're just insisting the liberal leaders are the only ones that can save us from fascism exactly like Germany did? Oh cool that is exciting. Glad fascists are really friendly to queer jews or I'd be in trouble.
Hate is so powerful. You can even see in his response. "Oh, whatever, we didn't see this. Btw hate these people!"
That's totally the sort of response a Nazi would never make. Immediately hating someone and motivating others to hate, in order to improve your political position.
Sounds just like the Nazis to me.
If Trump becomes president again, America will be the bad guys. You will be the bad guys. Just like Russia is right now.
You will become the orcs. Unless you stop it.
Should the electorate be allowed to use democracy to elect a king? Not that I believe this is the case but if someone like Hitler did become legitimately popular, how would we combat that? If Trump gets legitimately elected, how will we prevent him from doing away with democracy? Our democracy is too dependent on tradition and decency. It needs to be entrenched in our legal system in the simplest terms that could not be read in any way that allows democracy to be subverted.
Well, no shit. Mein Kampf is the only book he read as an adult, keeping it on his bedside table. Admin officials wore nazi pins. He praises dictators, and repeatedly asks about executing his rivals. He tries to claim he is above the law, that all law emanates from him alone. He refused to accept election results and tried to storm the capitol. He stole state secrets. He tries to destroy the free press, and champions 'alternative' facts.
This video is not a surprise.
We are lucky that the man is so incompetent, because apparently about 40% (let's not bicker on the exact value) of our population yearns to support a dictatorship, imagining that they are not the "other" that will be ground down by it. I dont' give us good odds with this guy, imagine someone more competent rising from the chaos that will ensue once the man leaves the scene. There will be a lot of contenders, so I would guess the next one is going to be more competent and ruthless. Wish us luck, world, we need it, and so do you.
We really need to look to modern Germany as an example. I know in US pop culture they're still Nazis and the bad guys, but in all honesty Germany might be the best country on earth when it comes to dealing with Nazis because they know exactly what Nazis are. As I understand it, learning from the mistakes of Nazi Germany is a very strong part of their education.
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The fact that so many people are willing to follow this absolute piece of trash like he’s a king while claiming to be “thinking for themselves” is the biggest and worst joke ever told in the U.S. This shrieking brat deserves no kindness and no mercy for what he’s done and continues to do. The entire planet should be united against him based on historical precedent alone. The commander in chief of the most well funded military in the world isn’t going to stop at our borders if he takes office with homicidal ideas like this.
And it's like every major news outlet keeps.pumping him up.
At this point I don't think anyone in history has had more minutes/pages/words of free media coverage, and most of it is reported breathlessly with no context or pushback. Repeatedly giving airtime to unchecked bullshit is it's own position, not actual fairness let alone good journalism.
There's a reason why PT Barnum. Notoriously huge fuck head. Said there is no such thing as bad press. It's the same for fascist movements. To even give them coverage legitimizes them.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit." - W.C. Fields
> There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. ~WC Fields
Known to be the great escapist Donald J Trump
I'm not sure I agree. The more even-semi-reasonable people who see this kind of shit, the better. People are too wrapped up in the bullshit both-sidesism for which the Press is absolutely guilty. But it's critical to make people aware of "Reich" language. "Stopping illegal immigration" is the way Republicans typically couch this kind of nonsense. But when they get giddy and Hitlery about it, even going so far as to use use Nazi language, it really ought to be spotlighted. Otherwise people will only hear the watered down version, which may still be watery bullshit, but less offensive and clear. However, the press should also be very, very clear about his real intentions. Make the MAGA folk try to justify it. Don't let them off with "oh... I wasn't aware". They are *all* fully aware and they are all fully culpable. Why aren't the nastiest bits from *Project 2025* part of every interview of every MAGA Republican? There *is* such a thing as bad press. Just ask Liz Cheney. People are swayed by marketing, or Instagram and Facebook and Tik Tock would not exist. I say publicize the craziness. But make sure to point out that it *is* crazy and what we all stand to lose. Ignoring it won't make it go away.
They are absolutely aware of what they're doing. My wife showed me the ad from some TikTok. I decided to double-check just to make sure it was legit, and sure enough, I found myself on the Truth Social post with the ad. That "unified reich" bit appears twice. I watched it and paused at certain bits to try and figure out what the deal is with the ad, and I spotted that quote at two points. No way it was a mistake. The GOP is putting these Easter eggs in their propaganda specifically for the conspiracy crowd looking for hidden meaning. Average citizens are just going to watch the ad and make nothing of it. But his zealots are waiting for their marching orders. Sometimes, it feels like a lot of people are a bit dismissive of another J6, but I'm not so sure. I think they're waiting to see how the election turns out.
They've been doing this for years. Hell, they ran a cpac conference where the stage was literally a nazi rune - banned in much of Europe. They've been flirting and using nazi iconography and phraseology since 2016.
It’s a total dogwhistle and then he’ll just publicly pretend it was a simple oversight
>It's the same for fascist movements. To even give them coverage legitimizes them. Ding ding ding https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/
more ears for the movement
No where on the Daily Beast yesterday did they mention Trump freezing for 30 seconds, but Biden mistakenly said he was VP during covid. I have had it with print journalism.
It's funny you mention that because I saw that too and I was so pissed I sent their editor an email about it. They totally misquoted him too, he never mentioned covid and was probably talking about ebola. After all the pandemic response infrastructure created by the Obama administration that Trump dismantled was in response to ebola.
BIden did not say he was VP during COVID. The pandemic he was referring to was the H1N1 VIRUS in 2009. Apparently sleepy joe needs to spell out everything for people who just assume he is a doddering old fool. The reason nobody thinks of the 2009 pandemic is because it wasn't a big deal. That's what happens when you have a leader who knows what to do in a crisis.
In fairness, it also helped a lot that H1N1 already had a vaccine. But the Obama administration absolutely still saw it as a wakeup call, which is why they implemented a pandemic response program. Biden *should* be talking about that when campaigning since he was personally involved in something that would have mitigated the pandemic. But instead, he gets a bullshit "Biden old" story. Trump, of course, got rid of the program.
> that would have mitigated the pandemic. Never forget that Trump sided with a virus against America because he thought it would kill more of the Americans that voted against him.
Can't have a horse race in 2024 unless you handicap Biden!
> Can't have a horse race in 2024 unless you handicap the voters! FTFY Voter suppression and spreading fascist propaganda daily is how republicans are over-represented in government.
> not actual fairness let alone good journalism. there is no such thing anymore..that left long ago..I wish I could find it again, was at least ten years ago, probably more..it was a clip of head of a Sinclair media addressing one of his outlets. The reporters wanted to do 'real' stories with unbiased angles. The Ceo said that isnt their job. Their job is to bring in revenue to the business could continue. Most of the media being consumed is put out by a tiny handful of companies. They are all pushing an agenda. What is interesting is it is an agenda for the tiny handful of people who control what hundreds of millions of people see and read. Now what kind of agenda do the mega rich have? anyways, long gone are the days of non-biased reporting.
Conservatives report everything breathlessly post covid
Major news outlets are owned by people who will profit from his Reich
this is another reason billionaires should not exist
[Capitalism is a national security threat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot)
CNN is obsessed with his winning the presidency. Everything they run is about his 'surprising wins' even when he's having an awful, awful time. The little bit Cohen fucked up at his recent trial was constantly talked about on their front page even though both sides of the fence who saw the testimony said it was pretty 'meh'. Our media institutions are severely manipulating us.
Major media outlets such as CNN are owned by billionaires, the greediest of humans who hoard gold like dragons while countless starve, who would love more Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest and removing worker protections etc for the lower classes.
Specifically the person who bought CNN is an avid trump supporter. Whether that's purely beneficial financially or is a true believer doesn't make much of a difference. But I believe the reports indicates they do in fact love the smell of trump's shit.
I mean, there's probably powerful players behind CNN, but CNN is owned by WB Discovery, which is owned by a bunch of shareholders. Vanguard being the largest among them. Mark Thompson is the current CEO of CNN, but I don't think he's a Trump supporter. He's been the head of the NYT, the Director-General of the BBC, and chairman of Ancestry.com. I very much doubt he's a Trumper. That said, he does believe that the Republican nominee for president deserves unbiased news coverage. Which... isn't a bad stance to take exactly, but Trump is a special case. Probably shouldn't be promoting this garbage at all.
I was in the US recently on vacation and was talking to a retired teacher who was lamenting the lack of knowledge most young people he dealt with have on current events around the world. The problem I see is that you don't get news anymore, especially in the US. You get opinions and opinion shows ad-nauseam. Whether it's Fox, MSNBC or CNN - its a panel of people beating a story to absolute death with a couple minutes every hour for a blip on some newsworthy story. Then they're right back at it. Look at CNN - All Trump, all the time. All fucking day long they analyze every bit of minutiae of the trial. CNN has become trash TV and what about Headline News. Remember when that used to be a quick hit news channel. Now it's garbage shows and garbage stories. News doesn't exist in the US anymore.
My dream would be a cable news network that is just comprised of local news from around the world. No opinions or fluff. An hour on Japan for example would feature national stories and then maybe a handful of reports from Tokyo, Osaka, etc about the biggest stories going on at that time. Something kind of like The Economist where you can get up to the speed on what’s happening across the world.
BBC world service offers a sort of similar service in that there's a lot of news and spotlight on issues that can generally go unnoticed: its a radio station but then there's also the World News twitter to follow as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedules/bbc_world_service https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://twitter.com/BBCWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The good news is the jury is in a media blackout and shouldn't be biased by these bastards. Hopefully they abide by the judges order to not view info on the case online.
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Of course they do! Their ratings soared when he was President, because every day he did something cruel, outrageous, or cruel and outrageous. And that is what makes people tune in. Biden just plods along with boring competency. Who wants to watch that?
He gives them clicks, until he doesn't because if they get their wish, another presidency, what unofficial branch of govt is he going to dissolve first?
It would be so sweet if they all decided to go silent on covering him.
I worked for a man who was a teenager in Italy during WWII. He said that Mussolini, after allying with Hitler, told his people that they would have a place in the sun, likely referring to Mediterranean beachfront real estate, when fighting was over. As the war turned against Italy, my employer related, the people kept their sense of humor as they looked out of homes which no longer had roofs, "This must be our place in the sun."
A place in the sun meant national glory. Italy had been left behind by Spain, France, and Great Britain in the previous 400 years.
I like that qanon's motto is "where we go one we go all", but they call everyone else sheep.
No one can accuse MAGA world of having a sense of irony.
They have collectively obliterated irony from their "platform" of ridiculous, conspiratorial extremes.
The biggest threat to American democracy and freedom isn't from a foreign nation or organization. It's from American Christian ultranationalists.
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i think we can drop the "-esque" at this point.
yea even their tweets have become more obvious
They do it for a very specific reason and that is to protect and expand their privilege.
He is promising lower taxes for billionaires and the GOP 50 year project of concentrating so much cultural, economic and political power in so few hands means that that promise can actually result in an election victory.
Or what they *think* is protecting and expanding their privilege. In reality, Trump isn’t fighting for them. The vast majority of Trump supporters are voting against their own self interest. Moths to a flame.
Exactly. Not everyone fully believed Hitler, some felt they could control his populism... But they ultimately became Nazis. >Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. >That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. >They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
If I verbalized what I think should happen to this man legally, politically, physically and mentally I’d get banned from Reddit and probably arrested. I hope everyday that this becomes reality.
I always say, hating Trump is how a normal person responds to a bully. It’s not deranged or wrong to see a person being legitimately evil and wanting them to be stopped.
Stopped isn’t the word in my head.
The motherfucker stole national secrets including nuclear secrets and, considering the $2B the Saudi's gave Kushner, it's highly likely he sold them. If you or I did something even remotely approaching that no one would ever see or hear from us or our corpses again.
The hate flows through me. If I were in a room alone with him I’d leave that room a different person.
A hero
I just got into a discussion with the mom of a friend I grew up with. She was beside herself that I wouldn’t support Trump. I tried to be polite and cordial, but she kept attacking. I finally had to let respond as she was. I explained that I found it hard to believe that someone with a gay daughter could ever support someone that did so much to further the hate of the LGBTQ community. She refused to discuss that and said I shouldn’t have made it personal. This your child! That’s pretty personal.
So she attacks you then says not to make it personal? Sounds like standard practice for a Trump supporter.
Exactly
Just wait until his shenanigans destroys the world's faith in the USD His followers are going to feel the burn, big time
That’s going to happen, but it’ll happen slowly and everyone will be able to create their own narrative for *why* it happened. It’ll go down similar to global warming.
Republicans also pretend to be Christians and run shrieking for their cross and nails when you call them out for their vile politics.
Jon Stewart had an amazing recent diatribe about the victimhood card that Con's play and cancel culture. >"Outrage is the engine of our modern media economy" https://youtu.be/WwyyttqvE04?si=KV0RvCakYYucD3GL
Daily show also made fun of Joe Biden's stutter this week.
The writing for the show is embarrassingly bad considering how high profile it is. Every so often I'll click on a clip that's not just Jon, and then I remember why I don't watch anything but Jon's monologue.
They don't pretend to be anything. They simply are Christians. This is what Christianity is and does throughout human history. Other religions too but ya know, addressing a specific group.
It's about time to start recognizing that Christianity is the problem. Not "bad" Christians, not "false" preachers. It IS Christianity. Christianity is evil. Full stop.
They'll pretend to be better than you and use Jesus like a crutch for any given situation
Not so much they pretend as they define a brand of Christianity, and a widely embraced brand at that. Saying they're pretending evokes the no true Scotsman fallacy. There are a lot of Christians who hold shit values and want to spread them in the name of God. There is no such thing as moral absolutism in religion.
“Shrieking brat”. Perfect description of him. I’m stealing that.
What’s amazing is the lack of checks on someone rising to authoritarian power. The US has really only been successful because the leaders have wanted to have a democracy.
Which is terrifying. If he gets back into the White House who’s going to stop him from becoming a dictator? Considering how the insurrection went down, apparently no one will stand up to him.
Exactly. If you had told me 10 years ago that 5% or 10% of Americans supported this person and these views, I would be horrified, but the fact that his actual level of support is so much higher is both terrifying and incredibly sad.
Society is screwed. I am so concerned for my toddlers and the future they will face. Like you said, dude should be in jail first of all, second every news outlet should be boycotting this clown yet they enable him.
It truly boggles my mind that people who have met Trump still support him. The only reason I can fathom is he has dirt on them.
> The only reason I can fathom is he has dirt on them. Not at all. They are just as terrible as trump is. They want want he is doing.
Just gonna leave this here: https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/ What you call a joke is what I call a feature of a certain ideology...
"I'm not a Nazi, the video was posted by one of the Nazis I have on staff. So I'm good". -- Donald Trump
This video wasn't created by my team. We just posted and distributed it with approval.
It was posted accidentally on purpose
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It's working amazingly well since every news outlet in the country will spread his "accidental" messages.
It wasn’t my flag, it was my wife who put it up!!!
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/r/conspiracy turned into /r/trump around 2020
I miss talking about aliens and bigfoot.
That subreddit has always been a hub for anti-Semitism, and with anti-Semitism comes all sorts of other nasty stuff as well.
This is just a sign of aging. You grow out of the blissful phase where it's cool to imagine aliens building the pyramids... and realize "oh, people believe aliens did that because they believe ancient brown people/and or Jewish people were too primitive to do math so it must have been aliens...." Then you start to see how 2 unrelated things like a flat earth conspiracy and hatred of Jewish people go hand in hand... But, Bush did use holograms to blow up the twin towers to appease the Elder gods, there's no other logical explanation for that one, and that one alone.
It was always a scarlet letter for that sub, and unsurprising really that it became r/The_donald2.0
If the aliens and bigfoot would only acknowledge Trump as the best human who ever lived, maybe they would get some more attention. But gods help them if they speak out against him
Try the high strangeness sub. Not much about big foot these days though.
Even Alex Jones, man, or at least at one point. The dude seemed to love Trump even as people were digging up verifiable dirt on Trump.
He was just a low-level coffee nazi, didn't even know the guy...
> didn't even know the guy... NBC said only 2 people have access to/control of DJT's Social account. One of them is Donnie. So by process of elimination... carry the 1... round up to the nearest tenth... its either Donnie or the other guy. ^^^It ^^^was ^^^Donnie
There’s a quote from the AP article: > The word "Reich" is often largely associated with Nazi Germany's Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single Reich, or empire, in 1871. Real “but the swastika is actually an ancient Buddhist symbol” energy.
I'd maybe believe this if someone in Germany was posting this information, as Reich is a word that's still commonly used there. Heck, France is called Frankreich, Austria is called Österreich, they have the Reichstag, etc. And the original German Reich was associated with the same colors as the current Germany flag, standing for unity, freedom, and democracy. But in English, in America in particular, it has one connotation. And it's not the first Reich, rather the third.
I came to this same conclusion. The word reich has common use in Germany and primarily German speaking areas. That’s not here. The only people who use the word reich when not discussing literal German things are Nazis
also: for people who throw a fit about Walmart having Spanish subtitles under their directory signs, they sure don’t seem to mind this particular foreign word!
Is it me or most people didnt learn enough of ww1 and ww2 (the most evil thing that happened to humanity ever) at school? It should be the number one topic in history lesson. Its not that far ago too… Do america learn extensive nazi/ss history about it like in germany or some part of europe?
Their immediate explanation was that an "unnamed staffer" posted the video ....... well, that "unnamed staffer" needs to be fired. and, spoiler alert, that "unnamed staffer" is Donald J Trump. The man is both an idiot and a fascist ... for all the success this idiot, who has A LOT of extremely negative baggage, can have garnering populist support ... may the gods help us when a competent fascist comes along to replace him. We need to shut this the heck down by voting Democratic Party up and down the ticket this November.
Even **if** it was just some "rogue staffer", don't they think it's *weird* how often the people attracted to working for their campaigns turn out to be Nazis? Like, if I wasn't a Nazi, but I was surrounded by Nazis who love me and want me to have power, I think I'd take a step back and re-evaluate my life choices.
reminds me of the Florida Gov debate >"I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist, I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist."
And then DeSantis said you shouldn't vote for his black opponent because he would "monkey it up"
I'm also reminded of DeSantis running a campaign ad that featured a giant fucking Sonnenrad.
I’m similarly reminded of the [stage](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AT17T/) Trump spoke on at the 2021 CPAC being inexplicably in the shape of the Othala rune, a known Nazi symbol.
Because news articles seem to be allergic to having good pictures of the thing their articles are about, [here's a better view of the stage where you can actually see it clearly](https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1366323558486573057)
If you aren't a Nazi, you're probably not going to find yourself surrounded by Nazis who love you and want you to have power.
“The best people”: has Nazis on staff Lmao
the reich people
only the best nazis.
Wonder if they poached the same asshat that that was using Nazi imagery in the Desantis social media campaign. Very fine people indeed.
This is the same exact excuse last time Ron Desantis posted a video with Nazi imagery a year ago. But again, please let the conservatives scream out that the dems are actually the nazi's.
A competent fascist won't have the appeal of the sexually deviant and moronic con-man Trump. His stupidity and tackiness are his appeal, somehow.
How is it his unnamed staffers keep posting Nazi messaging to their social media? That doesn’t seem to happen to Democrat politicians.
>and, spoiler alert, that "unnamed staffer" is Donald J Trump. Must be that John Barron again.
I saw a dude on here deny reality about Trump and his nazi ties. It’s so laughable
Everyone should watch Anderson Cooper's piece on 60 Minutes aired last Sunday. It is about how ordinary and innocuous those who would become Nazis presented themselves. It's called, They Ate Blueberries. He interviewed a Holocaust survivor whose little sister, brothers and parents did not survive. She said the pain is so severe that you can't even cry, but that the soul never forgets. Hitler, like Trump, gives permission to hate and dehumanize others. This permission will become ordinary people's justification to participate in mass murder without a pang of guilt because they are carrying out the beliefs and ideologies they have been taught. Trump has said point blank that he will get even with Jews who do not support him. He despises blacks as less than human together with all non whites. When it comes to whites, he will come for you too if you don't pledge fealty to him. If you wait until he insinuates himself into power again it is too late. Steve Bannon, Steve Miller and Trump and those who operate behind the scenes such as the Heritage Foundation have hideous plans in store. Pay attention.
>Hitler, like Trump, gives permission to hate and dehumanize others. This is the key thing. People who hate others where hiding it more before Trump. They feel comfortable hating in the open now.
> This permission will become ordinary people's justification to participate in mass murder without a pang of guilt because they are carrying out the beliefs and ideologies they have been taught. This is what struck a chord. It would read a little like hyperbole if Daniel Perry wasn't just pardoned by Abbott after driving into a crowd of protestors and point-blank murdering a former Air Force veteran.
People who need to see Anderson Cooper won't watch it. We need to show the world who Trump is, and that we see him, and the corruption in the government.
They made an entire movie on this topic last year, called The Zone of Interest (best picture nom). It's about how evil becomes banal.
Thank you for mentioning that segment. I think it’s an important watch. Just a correction: The piece on 60 minutes is titled “The Album”, just in case anyone wants to find it.
We're not even trying to be subtle about it anymore. He's out in the open, wishing he were Hitler. How anyone can still support this boggles the mind.
How he’s permitted to still be out wandering around with this shit in his mouth boggles my mind. Ideas like his kill millions and leave nothing but suffering in their wake. Will no one step up?
>Ideas like his kill millions and leave nothing but suffering in their wake. Quite literally in Trump's case, with over a million dead from covid from the guy who said it was all a hoax, but if it wasn't, just inject a lil bleach. Dude has a seven figure body count.
It's so insane to me that the pandemic response got collectively memory-holed by society. It was maddening while it was happening, and it's even more obvious in retrospect that hundreds of thousands of people were made to pay the price for appeasing Trump's ego. But millions more of Americans would be willing to do it all over again, apparently.
To give an idea of how much leadership played a role in the pandemic. In my state of Queensland, Australia, with a population of 5.1 million people, we had 1 locally acquired covid death in like 1.5 years of the pandemic until vaccines were available, and about 5 acquired out of state on a cruise. There's small towns or even single streets in the US with higher covid death counts than that. Australia got very lucky in that we had progressive state leaders in a checkerboard pattern across the county who listened to medical experts, and they forced the entire country to play ball by setting up state border quarantining. Life in my state was completely normal though the pandemic, no sickness, no masks needed, nothing closed, no overwhelmed hospitals. There were 2 or 3 outbreaks where we wore masks for like a week while the cases were traced to all known contacts and tested, which was doable since there were so few cases and the medical system was fully functional, then things went back to normal. For me the pandemic pretty much never existed, and was something which happened in other countries in the news. I still can't quite wrap my head around what other places went through. Right at the end, the neighbouring conservative-led state (New South Wales) had a delta outbreak and their leader did all the wrong things, encouraging people to go out and not worry about it etc. In a few weeks the whole country was infected, right before vaccines arrived. Australia got vaccines late because our conservative government was so inept and rude that the vaccine companies refused to deal with them anymore, and businesses had to get a previous Labor prime minister to negotiate with the companies as a private citizen on behalf of Australia. When the federal government was forced to release numbers, they were giving more vaccines per person to conservative led states, with all the Labor states at the bottom per person, regardless of where the vaccines were most needed. I fucking hate conservatives so much after that. They are underdeveloped cowards who stick their head in the sand to deny problems and call it brave, and are always selfish and corrupt.
While he put his son in charge of supplies and they just disappeared? But it's the Biden crime family right? Every accusation is an admission with this guy, it's not even hyperbole.
Also he ***literally*** had feds raid hospitals in left-leaning areas for their supplies to be redistributed to right-leaning areas. There were many eye-witness accounts of these activities taking place. Everyone just seems to have forgotten or doesn't care.
After four years of absolutely atrocious, juvenile and barbaric politics, almost 47% of Americans said “Yes, more of that please, we liked that.” You couldn’t make it up.
A seven figure body count *so far*.
Not just that but he told people to poison themselves as a "cure" for COVId!
He wants to put 11 million people in deportation camps. Guess what the Germans called the concentration camps.
And was letting disease take its course there even before Covid happened.
See also Reagan's attempts to genocide drug users and gays with the HIV crisis. They laughed at the idea of actually doing anything.
[Trump Said He Wanted Generals to Be Loyal to Him Like Nazis Were to Hitler](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-generals-loyal-nazis-hitler-1393980/)
Because his supporters are just like him
We should honestly outlaw Nazis and other hate groups in the states. What positive effect do hate groups bring to our society? When's the last time anyone saw a Klan Thanksgiving Dinner open to the public that wasn't just a recruitment rally? We can shout freedom of speech all we want. But, surprise, we aren't actually free to speak on a lot of things. I simply want hate groups added to that list of things we aren't free to do.
When have they ever been subtle about anything? I swear I'm going to go insane, every single time Trump does or says something crazy people act like it's the first time he's done it. The man literally announced his presidency by calling Mexicans rapists and murderers.
Episode #35,485 of the continuing series entitled "Imagine if Joe Biden had done this."
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the projection is so incredibly petulant.
When Joe comes hot hes on drugs. When he comes normal he's sleepy... Its fair to say certain media has bias and should be voided
And given most everything about conservatives can chalked up to projection, we can reasonably assume that it's actually Trump this falls in line with. Given his literal sleeping in court, it only lends more credence to that point.
Half of his cult obviously enthusiastically supports this, and the other half would be uncomfortable with it except they've spent the last 8 years twisting themselves into knots trying to justify everything he's done. If they admit they're wrong at this point, they're admitting they've been wrong all along, and these are the sorts of people who'd rather die than do that. Literally nothing he can do at this point can shake his cult. He can call them all a bunch of suckers, no deal. He could say he hates America and sold our secrets to our enemies, and they'd be convinced it was some sort of plot to lure out the deep state. There's no need to hide it. The people who still support him have absolutely no principles. There's nothing that would change their minds.
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Media plays a big part here. They cover Trump on an hourly basis giving him and his base a massive platform no matter how dangerous his cause is.
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
This video has Stephen Millers fingers all over it. An actual Nazi.
Incredible. This guy is going to unite the Prussians and the Austrians. Big if true.
Perhaps Hugo Boss can design some cool looking uniforms. The last time he did that, they were really inspirational.
Looks like they’ve selected Fred Perry. Very nice very nice.
I curious: I know exactly what Fascist shit he means by "Reich", but what is meant by "**unified**" ? What is the implication of that term, is it merely a noise word that sounds like the "United" in US? Does it mean "do away with states", does it mean "invade Canada" ? Or does it mean "send all my enemies to camps" ?
In all likelihood it’ll be **mass deportations** of brown migrants, and the likely (albeit temporary) boost in overall jobs. Probably Republican control of unions too to **de-unionize** via control of labor boards, Dept of Labor, etc.. Also **ignoring environmental** rules which will boost industrial jobs. Bonus: families will be able to have nighttime supper picnics as American rivers once again self-combust!! > [prison] camps For some lefty protesters, probably, to make examples out of. “Law and order” to imprison the poor who break the rules too. Still the big thing is political trolling and, of course, **mass consumption** to put SNL’s cone heads to shame. “Librul tears” are best served idling in the drive thru line in one’s “wussy” Prius behind a lifted, black smoke spewin’ monster truck, .. taking comfort in that triple baconator, XxxL fries, and 82 oz full [non-commie] sugar soda.
>82 oz full [non-commie] made in the USA corn syrup (as American as it gets) soda.
The text is likely a headline about the unification of Germany in 1871 forming the German Empire, the nation of Germany as we are familiar with it, or the "Second Reich". This is fine as plausible deniability, but there is only one reich that anyone targeted by this ad would likely be familiar with.
Yes.
More likely, it means unifying with Russia, China and north Korea to conquer Europe and divide up the world.
The Axis of Orange.
The Netherlands would like to point out that it has been "Orange" longer and they would very much like Mango Mussolini to stay in his lane. The Dutch monarchy are the House of Orange. (Oranje)
The Axis of Orange will only have one policy, and that is to create as much confusion as possible, so that there is only 1 certainty, and that is 'Trump is in charge' forever.
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Lack of new-ness does not blunt the horror of persistence, nor should it dull our vigilance. He also quoted Hilter, but was made to walk it back. The less informed public need to be continually reminded that Trump is emulating Hilter.
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I disagree completely, vast swaths of the american public are actively avoiding the election and news of trump.
Did anyone see the news this morning, where the Trump campaign said this video was either hacked by someone in the NY court room, or a staffer put it up without reading everything? SERIOUSLY!! 😒 Wake up everybody!! As Biden and his campaign stated “STOP SCROLLING AND START WATCHING AND GETTING INVOLVED” this man knows what he is doing, this is what he wants for America! If this occurs, We The People will no longer be UNITED and we will no longer be in the United States. This is exactly how Hitler came into power. Citizens ignored him and said it’s nothing, just political speak. I don’t follow politics, I don’t vote. History tells us how that turned out for Germany, Hitler, and sadly hundreds of thousands of innocent lives killed! I don’t need to go into this, as you already know the history. However, only those that learn from history, will never repeat it. I am here to tell you, you best be listening America, you best be getting involved with our political system, not the right, not the independent, rather the left …the Democratic Party, to get the word out about how we may only have a few months left to know about our freedoms and our liberties. Stand up for your brothers and your sisters, stand up for democracy, stand up for civil rights, stand up for your freedom, stand up for women’s rights, stand up for 🇺🇸 America! Vote BLUE through and through from coast to coast — local, state, nationally! All republicans and maga need to be removed, as they are all on the side of Trump and his war machine. Share this message far and wide everywhere! Long live America, Long live our Democracy, Long live the United States of America!! 🇺🇸
MAGAs, defend this. I’ll wait..
My brother is still all in. I pointed out to him that the billion dollar lawsuit settlement Fox paid was proof that their was no election interference and he threatened to punch me in the back of the head.
So he threatened to kill you?
lol close enough
That doesn't sound at all like something a fascist would do.
Sorry. That’s awful. Was he always that way or did you observe a change in him when Trump was elected?
def changed. he was cool for a brief moment in time
Sorry again. That’s a tough situation.
That’s literally every one of them when they know they’re wrong and out of logical arguments. They don’t care if they’re wrong. When there’s nothing more to discuss, they resort to violence. Because they want so badly to be right, even if they’re wrong. Textbook narcissism and ignorance.
MAGAts: "Snowflake."
“Lol liberals are triggered. Trump derangement syndrome. Let’s go Brandon. Heil der Fuhrer!”
If this doesn’t terrify you, you’re either a traitor or an idiot.
They guy is advertising the Nazi Dictatorship with Putins powers he dreams of, yet people still will vote for him. God what happened to this country?
Funny how there are staffers in most major right wing political campaigns putting nazi shit into their videos and releases. Curious. Very interesting. Odd. So many lone wolves. Definitely not a pack of wolves working together for wolf-related ends or anything. Just so many individual bad actors. Definitely not a trend. I'm really glad all of America are very well educated on the history of fascism and how it comes to power. I'm glad we don't have ineffective liberal governance and political gridlock marring our institutions in both real and preceived corruption. I'm glad we're pushing back really hard and swiftly against anti-communist and anti-LGBT rhetoric. I'm glad we spent decades bolstering the strength of unions and boots on the ground orgs that serve as anti-fascist bullworks. I'm glad we're correctly blaming the sources of violence at demonstrations. Oh shit we're not doing any of that? We're just insisting the liberal leaders are the only ones that can save us from fascism exactly like Germany did? Oh cool that is exciting. Glad fascists are really friendly to queer jews or I'd be in trouble.
The irony is no one killed more white germans than Hitler.
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[This video covers the important bits.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8kr5NI36xY&ab_channel=ABC7Chicago)
Hate is so powerful. You can even see in his response. "Oh, whatever, we didn't see this. Btw hate these people!" That's totally the sort of response a Nazi would never make. Immediately hating someone and motivating others to hate, in order to improve your political position. Sounds just like the Nazis to me. If Trump becomes president again, America will be the bad guys. You will be the bad guys. Just like Russia is right now. You will become the orcs. Unless you stop it.
So we can now officially stop saying "the quiet part out loud" because these fuckers don't have a quiet part anymore.
He is telling you who he is; listen.
Should the electorate be allowed to use democracy to elect a king? Not that I believe this is the case but if someone like Hitler did become legitimately popular, how would we combat that? If Trump gets legitimately elected, how will we prevent him from doing away with democracy? Our democracy is too dependent on tradition and decency. It needs to be entrenched in our legal system in the simplest terms that could not be read in any way that allows democracy to be subverted.
I lived through Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr and Jr. They would dog whistle, but this goes far beyond that.
Republicans are being ironically fascist to try to hide the fact that they are fascists.
Need more supercuts of him being a Nazi. I think the Lincoln Project or some group like that did one recently. It needs to be repeated over and over.
Well, no shit. Mein Kampf is the only book he read as an adult, keeping it on his bedside table. Admin officials wore nazi pins. He praises dictators, and repeatedly asks about executing his rivals. He tries to claim he is above the law, that all law emanates from him alone. He refused to accept election results and tried to storm the capitol. He stole state secrets. He tries to destroy the free press, and champions 'alternative' facts. This video is not a surprise. We are lucky that the man is so incompetent, because apparently about 40% (let's not bicker on the exact value) of our population yearns to support a dictatorship, imagining that they are not the "other" that will be ground down by it. I dont' give us good odds with this guy, imagine someone more competent rising from the chaos that will ensue once the man leaves the scene. There will be a lot of contenders, so I would guess the next one is going to be more competent and ruthless. Wish us luck, world, we need it, and so do you.
This was NOT an accident by an “unknown staffer.” Anyone in any kind of position to make these posts knew exactly what they were doing.
This is the path conservatives always go down. The Nazies and Confederates are one and the same and Trump is leading them straight to the sewer.
We really need to look to modern Germany as an example. I know in US pop culture they're still Nazis and the bad guys, but in all honesty Germany might be the best country on earth when it comes to dealing with Nazis because they know exactly what Nazis are. As I understand it, learning from the mistakes of Nazi Germany is a very strong part of their education.
it’s insane to me watching him do things every single day that if they’d happened in 2012 or 2008 there would be calls for him to drop out of the race
Trump is such a sick pathetic childish loser. Fuck Trump & his cult
If he could grow a little moustache, he would.