Discussion: Mo Brooks Compared Dems To Nazis In Floor Speech, Quoted ‘Mein Kampf’

Can’t even do Godwin’s Law right, f’crying out loud.

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Mo has No Ragrets!

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Nice pun.

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Particular ones the far right fever swamps of the internet like to use often when decrying “leftist nazi fascism”. I think we know where Brooks spends his internet free time…

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Um, who is Mo Brooks?
(Sadly, I don’t know the names of every member of congress. Lazy, that’s what I am.)

Dypshyte

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He’s an idiot, racist, ignorant asshole whom some people in Alabama elected to Congress. That’s all you need to know.

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“That’s all you need to know.”
Oh, good, because I think I lost a few dozen brain cells just reading about him. (As for his being from Alabama, my husband has a truly awful cousin there. She was so helpful during Obama’s first Presidential run, informing us with a huge number of emails bombarding us with “proof” that he wasn’t a citizen of the United States.)

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Whee, let’s ignore the ever-growing links between the GOP/Right and actual, living Nazis to go out on a limb to compare Democrats with Shickelgruber. “BUT BUT BUT SOCIALISM!”

Republicans attacking decent Americans. Americans concerned about our nation’s safety and defense. Americans trying to get past the lies of Donald Trump, Manafort, Cohen, Graham, Bannon, Flynn, Kershner…

Trying to learn the truth so we know whether or not our homeland is safe!

Shame on Republicans. If you love Russia so much, move there.

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I love how right wing idiots think that the “Socialist” in “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” means what they think it means. The Nazis were not socialists in any form. Hitler despised socialists and communists, and the apparatus that he led persecuted them relentlessly. The Nazis added this word to their party name simply to deceive the German population into thinking that the party was pro-worker’s rights.

Mo Brooks, et al., are rightfully uncomfortable with how closely their ideology matches that of the Nazis, and so they spit out this completely false conflation of Nazis with Socialists, in an attempt to rewrite history and thereby smear the left.

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And the projection continues.

Dems should hit back, and hit back hard – saying that Mo Brooks is lying, and aiding and abetting Russia, and is not loyal to American democracy.

Dems should also get agressive with Mitch McConnell, saying over and over that McConnell aided and abetted the Russians when he refused to allow Obama to take strong measures against the Russians in the middle of the election cycle.

Make the Republicans the issue, and stop playing defense.

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Well, it wouldn’t constitute “cooperation” between Trump and the “Russian government,” at least. The Justice Department isn’t interested in judging what two powerful, rich white men do in the privacy of their own Kremlin.

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It might behoove the congressman but the Nazis were big fans of the southern lost cause to the point where it influenced their ideology. Even reflected in their movie choices they would even have screenings of Gone with the wind.

Back in the 80’s and 90’s I would tune into CSPAN late night and see congressional backbenchers like Newt Gingrich giving special orders speeches that referred to Democrats as disloyal and the other disparaging terms from the Frank Luntz word guide. Other backbenchers like B-1 Bob Dornan engaged in demagoguery referring to Democrats as Bolsheviks and the even crazier William Dannemeyer calling for the quarantine of AIDS patients. Yet none of them would go full bore Nazi.

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Imagine the Fascist temerity of those of us who would like to know that our President is not a foreign agent, or why he really fired the head of the FBI so soon after blowing him a very public kiss at a January, 2017 White House reception for Law Enforcement.

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Beer is the only place Kavanaugh and I agree.

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Yup, both of them…

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