Oh the child rapist felon tRump is at it again. I guess robbing hard working Americans of billions & billions of dollars isn’t enough. I wonder if it became a war where & what table he would hide under or hide his children while other children fight. This have nothing to do with the statement but…
This tracks with MLK's non-violent protest strategy - careful to not name the 'person,' but address the actual problem that needs changing. (paraphrasing here)
Trump views EVERYTHING through the lens of what’s best for ME. He will cut loose ANYONE he thinks is undermining him. He also has no humanity in his thinking. He views Mr Garcia’s life as disposable because it could be good for him politically.
For sure. The reason we have three branches of gov. is to have checks and balances. The break down started with SCOTUS' Citizens United which allowed big money bribes in the other two. Now, all the checks on the right are compromised making them 100% at fault for everything Trump does.
We went by a relative's house this morning and I photographed the front of their neighbor's house because there were 3 huge Trump banners hanging on the front porch. I was trying to imagine what people would have said if people had done that when Obama was president.
I saw a poll that showed that "only" 27% thought the handling on immigration was ok, and 5% thought it was not enough. Put together, that's 1 in 3 American voters who are just fine with throwing away due process for non-whites, and/or want to see more of that. I find that deeply sobering/disturbing.
The people won't change but they will be rudderless. No other figure in MAGA land inspires the fervent idolatry he does. And many of the factions hate each other.
I disagree. I think it will explode the cult. And we need to be ready to ostracize and condemn everyone in it and not ever let his enablers forget their role and remove them from political power once and for all.
I hope when MAGA loses its figurehead, it breaks into a million fragments. There's no Trump replacement. Decent people, through disgust, condemnation and shunning, can push these sick treasonous monsters back under their rocks and out to the fringes of society, where their BS can be ignored.
Hitler had thousands of willing executioners. Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil” in describing Eichmann and the many people who did terrible things because it helped them get ahead or advanced their interests, explains the rise of fascism in Germany as much as centuries-old antisemitism.
Germany had at least 50 years pre-Hitler of increasingly vitriolic anti-Semitism from its mainstream media to "condition the soil" for Hitler's rise. The US has been dealing with 50 years of racial massive resistance, particularly once St Reagan promoted "states rights" in Mississippi.
You'd think, but on May 1, 1945, the day after Hitler committed suicide, Goebbels & his wife poisoned their six children, then killed themselves. Second cousins, maybe?
Magda Goebbels first son survived. He was a soldier and was not in the bunker with his siblings who were murdered down to the youngest by their parents.
And the majority of American people are angry with what is transpiring with the tariffs, DOGE, and the embracing of Russia while antagonizing our allies. America has lost its standing as a country that can be counted on the be a defender of democracy. Hopefully, this is only temporary.
100%. Without the Republican Party failing to impeach him twice and then shirking their constitutional duty as a check on the Executive Branch, the Hitler wannabe is now trying to consolidate power and turn America into a dictatorship. Fortunately, the courts continue to put roadblocks in his way.
Finally! Yes! And it took a German to articulate it! People say it’s not helpful to call MAGAts brown shirts, uneducated, deplorable, and weird.
They are the catalysts that enable. So what is the right term? Because we can’t gloss over their role in everything. Or at least I don’t. Who’s with me?
Many older Germans like me were taught at (progressive) schools about Hitler's III. Reich again and again in all detail. Our parents were kids at that time and told us of their horrible experiences, too.
Yes, many of us are watching Hitler's Nazi regime 2.0 unfold in the US now. It's frightening.
Yes, but also the support of the rich. Trump is nothing without a lot of billionaire money and the support of the corporate news media that treated him like he was a legitimate candidate--instead of the criminal nutjob he is.
Americans own this and MAGA doesn't need comparisons. Its roots are in slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, the creation and support of dictators, CIA black sites...
MAGA is our creation and the symptom and result of an ugly cancer that has been in this country since the first slaves were brought here.
This is so true. The orange bastard has a coalition of criminals around him that make it happen each day. He’s not that intelligent. He depends on the crime syndicate he has put in place to tell him what to do. They ALL need to be prosecuted and put in prison for their numerous crimes!
I love that! “It’s the soil that matters, not just the rotten harvest.”
So profound. It will be our duty to alter the soil composition, to the extent possible. We don’t need another Hitler.
Hitler mastered radio. Trump mastered social media. Different tech, same tactic: bypass truth, stoke fear, repeat lies. When media becomes a megaphone for grievance, democracy becomes a stage. And demagogues steal the spotlight.
'the hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed...' and has since after the Civil War, just expanded to include lots of non-white, non-male, non-straight people, and now the disabled... it is easier to write what they don't hate: white straight men
Absolutely true. The incapacity of others to recognize evil, deception, bullshit, lies, exaggeration & racial scapegoating is as much a component of tyranny as the tyrant himself.
This is the really alarming part of all of this! Every time he moves the goal post many many people just move with it no matter how horrendous things get!
This. All day & Everyday.
There’s a propaganda technique to make everything look only 2 options exist, yes or no, A or B.
Who’s responsible for this mess?
Trump or Us? OC- “Can’t be us”
Stops us from seeing multiple causes for a complex, multi-system process, and how people are different.
2/ This limits our thinking, our problem solving skills. And ignoring the differences between people is one more small thing that adds to the “us vs. them” dynamics, which goes to “we are good, so they are bad.” Hearing these things several times a day, for years, will influence your thinking
3/ I got most of this from advanced advertising techniques combined with studying Goebbels, the propaganda tzar that turned Germany into Nazis, before there was Social Media. I listen to German historians too.
4/ for nerds- some personality types are way more susceptible to outside influences trying to get them to act against their own best interests. Nobody is completely immune, because we are emotional & social creatures.
Exactly so. We need to acknowledge this as reality. America is filled with ignorant, hateful people. We must figure out a way to reach out to them and educate them or this will never change
Yup!
And the soil is always the same, everywhere and throughout history: it’s clear that 33% to 40% will always support bigots and hate…they just sometimes hide out for years, for whatever reasons.
Soil ain’t gonna change. It’s human soil. Yuck!
He loves Hitler! He studied him and other dictators as a child! He wanted to become one since childhood! There is a documentary on Netflix called Unhinged about it! A must watch if you haven’t seen it!
I will also add that Jew hate was not just a German thing. It actually was in most parts of the world where white Christian nationalists and Jews resided. That includes the USA and unfortunately Canada too. When these countries closed their borders then the fate of the Jews was sealed. No escape.
Good point. Today everyone focuses on antisemitism in the Arab world, but that is a late 19th/20th century concept, for centuries prior, the Ottoman Empire was the place Jews went for protection from Christian countries.
Again you are correct and as I always saw it the Christian’s always fought the Muslims and used the Jews as a warm up. When the Christians were tired of killing Muslims they started killing themselves. And here we are today and we have the same hate and Christians killing Christians in Ukraine
Thank goodness for truth tellers as you are exactly right. What is happening now in the USA is the culmination of many years of hatred and conspiracy stuff creating the MAGA movement and the eventual result. Just as in Germany corporations also jumped on the band wagon for cheap labour and business
Exactly,Trump$ alone cannot ruin American civil society. His enablers and sycophants are the larger necessary ingredient that allowsTrump$ to inflict his madness on the US and the rest of the world. We need to hold them all accountable, including the House and Senate. #Vote #ImpeachTrump
One day he ll be gone, and we ll need to make sure the ones who enabled him are criminally prosecuted for « aiding and abetting », particularly Sebastian Gorka (your karma is coming…)
Maybe, if you believe he won all 7 swing states. A liar and cheat wasn't going to lose the second time. He got better at his treachery. Elon provided the tech. And who really helped this is the entire Republican party and the social media corporations and MSM corporations for their respective roles
Trump convinced his cult that he "loved" them, that he had their interests, but mainly they share a hate mentality that overrides common sense and human decency.
Exactly!!! I am so sick of phony white liberals scapegoating trump and magats. REPUBLICANS blocked his impeachments, Republicans voted for him, Republicans voted for the Senate that acquitted and covered for him. Nothing in project 2025 is new to the racist Republican platform for a half century.
True! Trump had a lot of people & a lot of help to get where he is today. He had 88 felony charges against him. EIGHTY-EIGHT. They all disappeared. ALL OF THEM. Who does that? Who would allow a felon like that to run for president? A FELON. People have been protecting him & making this normal.
Way more than I suspected. I was very naive. I thought only about 10% of our country could endorse cruel and criminal candidates. Nope! And that is pretty scary.
Agreed, when hate in your blood does not weaken over time. The strain from the Civil war is alive and well, he tapped into it as the perceptive con artist manipulator exploits all weaknesses to his own advantage.
Regarding soil metaphors, the other essential ingredient to the rise of fascism has always been economic hardship and inequality and the resentment created by it (which is then blamed on a convenient scapegoat). Ending inequality and poverty is the best and fastest way to remove the fuel of fascism.
If you want to stop fascism you need to get serious about ending inequality, taxing the rich and ending corporate exploitation. People who are struggling are the most susceptible to the easy answers and lies of demagogues.
People like Sanders have been warning about this problem for decades but Democrats have refused to listen. They ignore it at their peril. You cannot stop the far right without fixing this fundamental issue.
I don't know if they believe he's extraordinary. Sure, they say he is, but it seems more like this is all they have left, so they're throwing all their eggs in this fascist basket. No one is gonna want an ex-Shitler loyalist. They HAVE to stay with him now
So true. And it’s important for people who are living amongst maga to help them understand how to cultivate a garden that’s healthy for the next generations. Trump and Trumpism is it dead end for democracy, a dead end for the rule of law. And will only keep the world in a constant cycle of war.
Yup! I started voting Dem in 1984 and I can tell the younguns that there has been Republican eff-ery, scandal, crimes and authoritarian bs for as long as I can remember! They pardon each other and move their agenda along!
I got into composting, vermiculture, and soil biology and you very quickly learn that there is SO much more going on beneath the surface than what's growing above it. The health of a plant above the surface is only just a news report of whether below the surface is a party or a war zone.
There most definitely weren’t any millionaires or billionaires in the trenches during WWII. They were safely tucked up out of harms way. As were most of their family. But then the peasantry didn’t have access to computers to verify facts like we have. No excuses for ignorance or gullibility now.
There are maga dummies,who worship him; there are the ambitious,evil ones (cabinet), working to achieve 2025 plans; there are the secret evil militias; there are billionaires, who don’t want to pay taxes & don’t care how it’s done; and, there are POLICE!!🤮 doing his bidding.
That's why that horrible orange POS is in the Oval Office pushing their P2025. Many years and billions of dollars have been poured into setting this fiasco up.
Hitler had the support of most of the German people because of his rhetoric. Trump doesn’t. 3/4 of the population don’t agree with him and dislike his attempt at autocracy. The resistance is alive and well and working. Every poll has him underwater. Their incompetence is the key to their demise.
What do you do once he’s gone though? There’s a dark irony that in order to preserve progressive ideals, progressives are going to have to do what Trump has been trying to do and crush the opposition.
You can’t let cruel people stand for election, and you can’t let cruel people vote for them
Exactly this! That is why it annoys me when people try to humanize and excuse Trump supporters. They know exactly who he is and they support it 100%. If your parents, grandparents, friends and coworkers are Trump supporters, they’ve always been trash! They’ve just been afraid to show it in public.
Hitler was 47 when he hit his stride. We have an 80 year old fat MacDonalds eating moron who ain’t gonna live another decade. But MAGA will live on beyond this shitty diaper wearing little piglet.
This is all the fault of congress and SCOTUS. Republicans willingly signed onto a zombie death cult and now we’re seeing the fruits of that. Them, or the SCOTUS could’ve stopped him but they didn’t.
If the zookeeper lets the lion out and it eats your face off, it’s his fault, not the lions.
Agree, but this book tracks Hitler’s run-up to being handed power by a weak ruling class, and shows he was not some grand architect. Without naming FOTUS, it describes conditions that were similar, maga-like.
I’m not suggesting it covers everything in the quoted post.
u got the real McCoy, he acted in capacity of runaway overzealous puppet for military industrial oligarchs, and wasn't there banking crossovers?
the era was so different & gilded for lack of a better term, nowadays it's just shockingly compounded stupidities trapped in their own doomed choreography
Yea maga convinced 300 +lbs morons with enuff cholesterol in their blood to make their own butter that they are racially superior to all POC’s ‼️😳🙄😳🙄😣😖😫😩
Trump’s dumber than dirt but unfortunately, just as useful to the groups empowering him-the Heritage Foundation, Christian Evangelicals, Repugs who would never win an election without that brand of ‘Christianity’. They are to blame for his position. More so than the few billionaires hoarding riches.
Ding, ding, ding!!!
Trump is the symptom.
The disease is misinformation, social media and hate content.
As soon as hate became monetized, the US was in trouble.
Old adage; if Uncle Sam was ever tried and sentenced to hang, you could always find an American to sell you the rope.
We have to break MAGAs addiction to hate. We must decentralize hate in all its forms around the hate addicted or we will die from their per suit of a greater high. (Starts with words before they escalate into actions.
And the treaty of VERSAILLES….”PRUSSIAN MILITARISM began long before A.HITLER.
I must say Herr Hitler fought bravery during ww-2.
His cabinet was wretched “aside from HERR GÖEBBELS….The pathetic compassion between Trump and HITLER is moronic.
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I know the damage done to anyone who wasn't Ayran. Trump uses Christian instead of Aryan.
My dad had nightmares until he passed at age 95. Trump needs to die. Hopefully via the cowardly way Hitler went. Trump is a weak, narcissistic old man.
In my best estimation, it's the accumulation of their frustration/rage (depending on the person) w/every single bit of progress that has been made since they coined the term "politically correct," until the present...wherein they swapped over to co-opting "woke," which was never their term to use.
After Trump, American progressives have to deal with Musk, Thiel, Vance, MTG, Loomer et al, and the way in which people hang on their every word. The rot runs so much deeper than a senile 80 year old man in orange makeup
Very important point. Trump and Vance are repulsive grifters and haters but without the compliant Republican Party and the Maggats they are totally terrified of, they would be complete nothingburgers.
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Brexiteers targeted UK voters in 2016 with nonsense such as Turkey becoming part of the EU and male Turks invading Britain.
And the 'they're eating your cats and dogs' crap won the US election for Trump.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I remain cynical about that happening in the US.
They are the catalysts that enable. So what is the right term? Because we can’t gloss over their role in everything. Or at least I don’t. Who’s with me?
Yes, many of us are watching Hitler's Nazi regime 2.0 unfold in the US now. It's frightening.
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MAGA is our creation and the symptom and result of an ugly cancer that has been in this country since the first slaves were brought here.
So profound. It will be our duty to alter the soil composition, to the extent possible. We don’t need another Hitler.
THREATS
INTIMIDATION
She needs to hold a national press conference & DETAIL EVERY SINGLE THREAT
from INSIDE Congress(?) .. the WH or trump's goons ..
from constituents .. or >>
There’s a propaganda technique to make everything look only 2 options exist, yes or no, A or B.
Who’s responsible for this mess?
Trump or Us? OC- “Can’t be us”
Stops us from seeing multiple causes for a complex, multi-system process, and how people are different.
We will resist and not let them take it away from America.
Mikhaïl Gorbachev was not.
✊️🇺🇸🦅👍🎊🎉🎊🎉
For a while now I have been trying to frame the essence of what’s wrong with this country.
This nailed is.
Entire sac and its contents need to be excised or it will never be eliminated.
And the soil is always the same, everywhere and throughout history: it’s clear that 33% to 40% will always support bigots and hate…they just sometimes hide out for years, for whatever reasons.
Soil ain’t gonna change. It’s human soil. Yuck!
He'd be locked up in a care home if they ALL weren't giving him oxygen.
Do non-MAGA blame Trump or do they rally behind him and blame the rest of the world?
We've been there, done it, got the t-shirt (1933-45).
When we say #NeverAgainIsNow, we mean it. No matter how many Nazi jokes you tell about us.
80 years after we were liberated by 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇷🇺 from Nazism, fascism rears it's ugly head again...
GOP Congress-you up to this yet?
Ready to take back your power from this mad would-be king?
Defeat nazifascism!
Trump just hasn't started killing...YET.
You can’t let cruel people stand for election, and you can’t let cruel people vote for them
If the zookeeper lets the lion out and it eats your face off, it’s his fault, not the lions.
my hope is fear deftly outstrips available means, imagination has a great way of conflating local with widespread/ranging
maga so not up 2 that bar
I’m not suggesting it covers everything in the quoted post.
the era was so different & gilded for lack of a better term, nowadays it's just shockingly compounded stupidities trapped in their own doomed choreography
killing the clock & providing zero forced errors a good way 2 distract from whatever, tho....
staying engaged in that different sort of manner, return 2 the idea be the best version of urself & only u r 1 2 know who 2 be =D
I don't see a JD Vance or a Mike Johnson garnering the sort of following that Trump has - even if they deliver the same things.
A lot of people have bought into the myth of Trump.
Trump is the symptom.
The disease is misinformation, social media and hate content.
As soon as hate became monetized, the US was in trouble.
Old adage; if Uncle Sam was ever tried and sentenced to hang, you could always find an American to sell you the rope.
I must say Herr Hitler fought bravery during ww-2.
His cabinet was wretched “aside from HERR GÖEBBELS….The pathetic compassion between Trump and HITLER is moronic.
My dad had nightmares until he passed at age 95. Trump needs to die. Hopefully via the cowardly way Hitler went. Trump is a weak, narcissistic old man.