this is supposed to be about FDR but i don't think the Heritage guys realized what else this headline could mean - ThreadSky

sharonk.bsky.social • 54 days ago

this is supposed to be about FDR but i don't think the Heritage guys realized what else this headline could mean

Reposted from Robert L. Tsai

Hmmmm

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patrickstaley.bsky.social•54 days ago

Freudian much?

balmachreuchie.bsky.social•54 days ago

Sure they do

ellishirst.bsky.social•54 days ago

Replace Time Knife with the Slug Balancer's victory in 1933 and takeover of the government.

warrenterra.bsky.social•54 days ago

I kinda think the guy with the weirdly Romanic Twitter handle might not be overly strenuous in distancing himself from accusations of sympathy for fascism.

sniffit.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yes they did. The ambiguity is on purpose and they see doing it publicly like this as a flex.

johnnapa.bsky.social•54 days ago

They’re sssssssooooo close to just admitting it. They can taste it.

beverlymann19.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yeah.

scaredyfish.bsky.social•54 days ago

They’ve been workshopping ‘FDR was basically a dictator, so what Trump’s doing is not so bad’ for a while now.

annaeuchner.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh, the unintended double entendres! Haha!

cainlacerta.bsky.social•54 days ago

The Heritage Foundation knows damn well when they're making a nazi reference, I refuse to believe this is just a Freudian slip

scassian.bsky.social•54 days ago

Or they did, and happily went with it anyway…

tbcart.bsky.social•54 days ago

Massive Freudian slip here.

readbetween.bsky.social•54 days ago

if it's reasonable to say a writer knows their audience, then this is probably a huge dog whistle that they know their nazi base won't read past the headline

like the actual content of the article could be "lorem ipsum" junk, and the only people that'll read that far they already don't care about

novemberwitch2025.bsky.social•54 days ago

They know what it means, and they like it.

beagleantics.bsky.social•54 days ago

Seig Heil, Chancellor Trump.

colingilroymcguire.bsky.social•54 days ago

eng1queer.bsky.social•54 days ago

I'm pretty sure they knew what they were doing, the Seig Heils at CPAC are proof positive the GOP is the party of AmeriKKKan Nazis

This is more dog whistle garbage they use to pretend they aren't fascists

Also really bizarre to claim orange shitler is like FDR, when DOGE is gutting FDR's programs

shipperxphile.bsky.social•54 days ago

They do Nazi see it because… well

alexdel.bsky.social•54 days ago

Even a broken clock. . . .

dquiettoon.bsky.social•54 days ago

My guess...they knew exactly what it meant.

olliemcclellan.bsky.social•54 days ago

Eh, it's been up for a week and they haven't added "in America" to the headline. I think they're fine with the ambiguity.

gottaluvamerica.bsky.social•54 days ago

vividcactus.bsky.social•54 days ago

I think they fully understand.

rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social•54 days ago

They are, after all, implementing their baby Project 2025, which has white supremacy all over it.

jimc5.bsky.social•54 days ago

They are not very smart.

skweekie747.bsky.social•54 days ago

Idiots.

breecroke.com•54 days ago

no, they mean it

jodielister.bsky.social•54 days ago

Is that even a dog whistle?

tracinski.bsky.social•54 days ago

They know. The ambiguity is deliberate.

boriskamenik.bsky.social•53 days ago

Idk, is it conceivable they're ignorant enough to not associate 1933 with Hitler? As a European I have no idea.

jessjunebug.bsky.social•54 days ago

It’s a dog whistle intended to ensure its spread

rhysneedham.bsky.social•54 days ago

Edouard Daladier's first term as French Prime Minister on the same day as his future interlocutor at Munich? 😀

jsweetli.bsky.social•54 days ago

tulipsmomala.bsky.social•53 days ago

Good job Mackenzie. Fuck the place up!

brutusettu.bsky.social•54 days ago

a double dog whistle, right?

transitorri.bsky.social•54 days ago

If it's Heritage Foundation then it's a blatant dogwhistle.

They know exactly what they're signaling

retius.bsky.social•54 days ago

Counterpoint: I think they do.

knomercy.com•54 days ago

Oh they absolutely do.

numbcat9.bsky.social•54 days ago

What have they done that would lead you to give them the benefit of *any* doubt, much less that particular one in this situation?

People have got to stop giving evil people the benefit of the doubt. At long last. They’re evil! They do evil things! They like playing tricks, like the devil does!

regimecpa.bsky.social•54 days ago

The glasses on that guy are not helping

robpollard45.bsky.social•54 days ago

If he holds up his right palm, you see the burnt-in inscription from a gold medallion.

megaweapon5.bsky.social•54 days ago

Lol

indianawalsh.bsky.social•54 days ago

Wait is it Donald Trump is like FDR and that's Good or Donald Trump is like FDR and that's Bad or Donald Trump is like Hitler and that's Bad or Donald Trump is like Hitler and that's Good

veryrealbatman.bsky.social•54 days ago

Honestly even if they mean FDR they forget that FDR did things for the average person that were wildly popular. Trump seems constitutionally incapable of this.

bcbarber.bsky.social•54 days ago

Cons often have flawed historiographies

alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social•54 days ago

🤦‍♀️

charliedeadhead.bsky.social•54 days ago

Only the best people, this regime https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-senator-justin-eichorn-arrest

davidinsf.bsky.social•54 days ago

And Roosevelt was, you know, popular.

wrightasrain.bsky.social•54 days ago

I think it’s actually the point.

elchinolatino.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oooh, so close to getting it

jamiesonmckay.bsky.social•53 days ago

Conservatives HATE FDR, so I am positive that the "what else" is the most plausible explanation.

brianomite.bsky.social•54 days ago

They really meant to put 1488

ravenonthill.bsky.social•54 days ago

Snicker

sharonk.bsky.social•54 days ago

that, or they're writing Straussian-style esoteric writing to hide their power levels

whetmoser.com•54 days ago

the overlap between straussian-style esotericism and edgelord bullshit is uncomfortable

aaronsojourner.org•54 days ago

It's Groypers all the way down.

jamesfromqueens.bsky.social•54 days ago

They most likely did but couldn’t publish it, so they used FDR. But like denying Project 2025, everyone knows the true story.

ellyzoe.bsky.social•54 days ago

Pretty sure they meant it.

ppiluk.bsky.social•54 days ago

A part of me wants to believe that the headline writer knew exactly what they wrote.

mossystone.bsky.social•54 days ago

I’m pretty sure they know. That’s why they used the date, not the name.

willsix6.bsky.social•54 days ago

To be fair, they are not particularly bright.

craigrcarl.bsky.social•53 days ago

Well, Trump beat HItler's time to establish a concentration camp in a different country. The lessons of history...

3dmath.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yeah, there might be a wink and a nod in there.

garethapdafydd.bsky.social•54 days ago

I'm surprised they didn't use a fourteen word headline for that.

kinnabeck.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh, I think they clearly knew it was a double-edged sword.

anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social•54 days ago

Mm i think they do

dirtside.bsky.social•54 days ago

oh, they realize

ladylavendar2.bsky.social•54 days ago

FDR didn't even occur to me

connecthedots.bsky.social•54 days ago

FDR was trying to help our people, and rescue them from the oligarchy and robber barons. DJT is trying to do the *exact* opposite.

jacksonmcbride.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh they know. Heritage like FEDSOC is an antidemoracy extremist group given legitimacy by the media for decades

anarcho.bsky.social•54 days ago

They know exactly what’s going on, they’ve just deceived themselves saying “we’re different!”

bettycozatt.bsky.social•54 days ago

The correct date of the regime change is 1776

michelec64.bsky.social•54 days ago

They do. They think they're being too clever by half.

continentaldivide.bsky.social•54 days ago

Check out that title. Angeles Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow. A lot of words to say "meritless sponsored hack."

ramonarjona.bsky.social•54 days ago

I kinda think they know.

dannycooper.bsky.social•54 days ago

intentional ambiguity

sophygurl.bsky.social•54 days ago

It's not even ambiguous. They've put the dog whistle down and are shouting into bullhorns now.

tamslick.bsky.social•54 days ago

I don’t get what’s up with the Heritage guys and their sudden fascination with America’s long and rich tradition of… *checks notes*…Caesarism?

tamslick.bsky.social•54 days ago

My brothers in Christ, literally our first president could have been king if he wanted to be one…and he was a kind of pompous, mildly narcissistic dude to begin with…and he didn’t take it.

I think if the Founders had wanted us to have a monarch, they’d have given us one.

tamslick.bsky.social•54 days ago

(Like, as Americans we are taught to revere dudes like Washington, but it pays to know that he’s the kind of guy who conspicuously wore his militia colonel’s uniform to meetings where leadership of the Continental Army was being debated, basically sitting in the corner and constantly clearing…

1/x

tamslick.bsky.social•54 days ago

…his throat and casually gesturing at his epaulettes. Pretty much none of these guys were angels but, on balance, they generally did the right thing in a world where the Divine Right of Kings still held the balance of power. They launched the ship, it’s up to us to perfect the Union.)

2/2

mojarbs.bsky.social•54 days ago

Incredible example of how parochial American right-wing "intellectuals" are

bill-of-lefts.bsky.social•54 days ago

It is a human certainty that they knew

rareearthvitamins.bsky.social•54 days ago

They know. They are mocking us.

sybilltrelawney.bsky.social•54 days ago

I did Nazi that coming.

mostlytrue.bsky.social•54 days ago

They were too giddy about finalizing their decades-long project of CTRL-Uing the last vestiges of FDR’s legacy of building a middle class.

ynot1989.bsky.social•54 days ago

They know exactly what they're saying.

jetblackbox.bsky.social•54 days ago

-OR- it's intentional

pophouse.bsky.social•54 days ago

absolutely. they are constantly trolling with 1488s and roman salutes and shit. they know exactly what they are doing.

omrimarian.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is clearly trolling. They are not stupid. They did it on purposes, because, at best they think it's funny. Or, some of them actually support it.

tyedyedchaos.bsky.social•54 days ago

They’re saying the quiet parts out loud now. This is the way democracy dies. It sounds extreme but we less than a 100 days in and he’s already sending people to labor camps. WTF?!?

katkad.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is an argument first made by Curtis Yarvin, the Musk/Thiel crank guru calling for a feudal techno monarchy and end of democracy. More understanding of Yarvin is critical. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2n0l9WweTvdcgnIrgkYRNv

chrid42.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh, I think they knew.

bambif.bsky.social•54 days ago

He knew

publicuniversal.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh they 100% know what they’re doing

dougcoulson.bsky.social•54 days ago

Or maybe they do.

flobbert.bsky.social•54 days ago

they know and they think they're being cute

swampgrafx.bsky.social•54 days ago

assuming they don't understand the timeline, but then again maybe they do and are in full agreement...

darrensilk3.bsky.social•54 days ago

The lack of self awareness is palpable.

steve98052.bsky.social•54 days ago

Funny how none of these cheerleaders for authoritarianism seem to notice that "88" killed a lot of the people who supported him, and that lots of Russian oligarchs who backed Putin have accidentally fallen out of windows that were latched from the inside.

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