who says?
After all ‘The final solution’ came later during Adolf’s reign.
Plus when you have a man who believes that the majority of a race are rapists and murderers, after awhile, the ‘comedic’ parts have to be separated and tossed for what is the true ‘meat’ of this current political conversation.
For Christ’s sake…for the ‘smartest man’, you know a ‘Wharton’ degree and OLDER THAN ME he didn’t ‘know’ it would ring of Hitler? BS. He plays the media like a fiddle and they just roll on…Morning Joe today was singing the same tune…‘Oh I didn’t think it should be a PROBLEM’…but I’m sure later if Trump wins and the whole dictator crap comes down they will have all ‘seen it coming’. Disgusting.
Give it time Ralph. After the convention we will get this:
Make no mistake: Derpy-D knows EXACTLY what he’s doing and knows EXACTLY what it looks like. Not only is he smart enough to know it, he is smart enough to surround himself with other people who are smart enough to know it. They are doing these things deliberately because they know full well that the credulous, money-whoring, ad revenue beholden MSM will provide him with all the plausible deniability he could ever possibly need and then some.
Since when in this country is it normal to take an oath to a PERSON? To our country, to the flag that symbolizes it, maybe to a private organization taking an oath is acceptable. But to a person running to be our president? I think that’s something new here.
Oh – I see you were writing the same thing at the same time!
I’d love a link to that. It would make a good ad to use against him.
At some point, leaders like Trump, and let’s face it he is a leader of sorts, begin to believe their own twaddle. partly this is because of the syngergistic amplification of the message between the leader and his followers and partly because the leader gets himself (it’s usually a him) painted into a rhetorical corner where maintaining consistency is paramount. Eventually, even if he didn’t believe all the nonsense at first, he comes to believe it. I don’t think you can have a true Furherprinzip at work until this happens. When or if it happens? Who knows? I don’t have enough insight into the collective character of, let’s face it, white Americans.
It’s exactly what Hitler demanded of the German army, Personal featly.
I didn’t know there would be a problem about those armbands…
I think the general approach would be mindless '80s hard rock strained through some Vegas-style lounge singer approach—faux energy, faux macho, faux glitz, music for brain-dead macho pigs, you might say. Wrong on every level and dizzyingly incoherent.
Good point. The “Blood Oath” that German officers took made many of them uneasy about supporting opposition to Hitler and the Nazi Party even when they saw that the Nazis’ policies conflicted directly with the officers’ values.
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The current GOP front runner seemingly has an issue running away from imagery that suggests a rabid nationalism vibe. When pressed on these matters, he feigns ignorance and assumes that the ‘five day rule’ (if handled correctly, a hot button issue will inevitably fade away within a five day period.) will save him. Due to this overuse of the rule, the current GOP front runner is smart enough to make racial ‘context’ very cool again, because he knows that he won’t be likely called on it.
Oh please, Trump embraces any minorities who back him up. Hitler would have them gassed. Quite different.
Trump is a shock jock who says crazy shit for attention, Hitler was dead serious. Trump is not going to build a wall, order torture, etc. He says this shit for attention. He is not “crafty” like Hitler. He is an ass clown.
The thing to watch for next would be required uniforms at rallies. T-Shirts at first to get things rolling.
I believe him.
That’s why you should be even more afraid.
Now The Donald is a Nazi pig! Great! Just what America needs…
I completely despair of ever making you see this, but you cannot point to any discrepancy between Trump and Hitler you can find and reason that because you found one there cannot be any connection between the imagery Hitler used in his rallies and what Trump has started doing in his. I differ from Carmen Miranda in many important ways but if I put on a fruit hat and go around singing “Chica Chica Boom Chic” it’s reasonable to speculate I may be consciously imitating her.
I think it’s the public oath taken in a mass rally with raised hands part that is unusual, and that when added to the rhetoric of the candidate make it come across as profoundly Hitleresque.
It’s not unusual for candidates to ask supporters to pledge to vote for the candidate. But that’s usually in the form of asking them to sign a postcard with the pledge, which is then mailed back to them a few days before the election to remind them of their promise. It’s also not unusual for candidates, or those introducing them, to ask the crowd at a rally to come out and vote for the candidate and to ask how many are going to do that, which of course is greeted by cheers (unless you’re Jeb Bush, in which case you need to ask them to “please clap”).
So the individual aspects – asking people to commit to the candidate, having them show commitment to do so at public rallies – these are no unusual on their own. But it’s the combination of having such an obvious authoritarian as Trump doing so, and the way he’s doing it with having people hold up their hands at rallies and taking an official-sounding “pledge” that add up to give it a distinct Hitleresque feel.
And Hank Azaria you’re not, I gota tellya.