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Trump NAZI rhetoric disqualifies him from office. (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 OP
👇 Beachnutt Dec 2023 #1
New Tec. Old Turds. Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #6
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Dec 2023 #2
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator." Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #7
These people are sick malaise Dec 2023 #11
North Korea is Communist, am I right? FakeNoose Dec 2023 #3
Same day. It's worse live. Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #8
That right there, THAT'S when he should have been IMPEACHED FakeNoose Dec 2023 #10
Gonna have to beat the POS at polls. Silent Type Dec 2023 #4
True, beat them to a pulp. Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #13
Shouldn't you be required to believe in our form of goverment to run? spanone Dec 2023 #5
Excellent point. Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #14
Absolutely NowISeetheLight Dec 2023 #9
Eerie parallels are not coincidental. Someone is at work. Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #16
We literally fought an entire war over this shit. The whole world was involved. Initech Dec 2023 #12
The White Rose Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #17
While we agree 100% forthemiddle Dec 2023 #15
My hope was the GOP. Kid Berwyn Dec 2023 #18
K&R Emile Dec 2023 #19

Kid Berwyn

(15,005 posts)
6. New Tec. Old Turds.
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 09:21 PM
Dec 2023
The Nazification of the Republican Party

By Loretta J. Ross
Counterpunch, Jan. 20, 2021

After World War II, the Nazis who helped Hitler rise to power and murder millions of people, including at least 6 million Jews, were put on trial to send a warning to the world. Not all of them faced a judicial process, but enough were not protected by their high status, official offices, or claims of “innocence” and “patriotism.” Power through violence was the only language they spoke—not justice, not freedom—and they were held accountable. These criminals faced a tribunal at Nürnberg (Nuremberg) so momentous that the disgraced word “Nazi” is forever attached to those who participated in and enabled their horrific crimes.

After the war, Germany banned Nazi flags and neo-Nazis. In fact, the only way that Nazi paraphernalia got into Germany was through smuggling from other countries such as the United States, like from Nazi propagandist Gerhard Lauck in Nebraska, the man called the “Farm Belt Führer” who served four years in a German prison for distributing banned pro-Nazi materials throughout Europe.

I know this because I teach a course on White Supremacy at Smith College that focuses on anti-Semitism, anti-Black racism, and the many intersecting components of white supremacist ideology. After more than 30 years of organizing and teaching about fascism as a Black feminist activist and academic, I know the destructive influence of these noxious ideas, and I teach young people how to interpret and resist them.

Global contempt for the word “Nazi” is a lesson for us today in the United States after the attempted criminal coup at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Anyone identified as sympathetic, supportive, or financing these seditious acts that attempted to deny the peaceful transfer of power in our country should be treated with the same public condemnation that the Nazis received after World War II. This includes Nazified people in Congress, in the media, in universities, in regular jobs, and throughout society because fascism is not the fevered dream of one delusional man. Trump is a white supremacist; that he is also a deranged narcissist is really incidental.

Continues...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/20/the-nazification-of-the-republican-party/

The hobnailed boot fits all who support the criminal defendant.

Kid Berwyn

(15,005 posts)
7. "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 09:32 PM
Dec 2023

“God told me to strike at Al Qa’ida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph,” said George Bush. Or was that Hitler talking to Bush?

The Ghost of Adolph Hitler: Nazi Influence in America

DU 2004:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1872652


FakeNoose

(32,833 posts)
3. North Korea is Communist, am I right?
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 08:01 PM
Dec 2023

This salute happened while Chump was still pResident....

It should have been enough to disqualify him 4 years ago.

Kid Berwyn

(15,005 posts)
13. True, beat them to a pulp.
Tue Dec 19, 2023, 11:45 AM
Dec 2023

We also should follow Germany’s example, where school kids are taught the evils of Hitler and Fascism. Otherwise, the ideas behind them will keep on infecting young minds and moving politics backwards.

Kid Berwyn

(15,005 posts)
14. Excellent point.
Tue Dec 19, 2023, 11:49 AM
Dec 2023

If a candidate’s stated goal is the overthrow of the Constitution, the candidate is automatically ineligible.

Otherwise, it’s We the People doing all we can to make the Donald happy.

Initech

(100,112 posts)
12. We literally fought an entire war over this shit. The whole world was involved.
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 09:54 PM
Dec 2023

It took 10 years and cost millions of lives. Last thing we need is a repeat of history.

Kid Berwyn

(15,005 posts)
17. The White Rose
Tue Dec 19, 2023, 12:00 PM
Dec 2023

“Long live freedom!”



By John P. Walsh

On February 18, 1943, following the illegal distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets by the White Rose at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München—the leaflets instructing students and all others to actively resist the 10-year-old Nazi regime—three young German university students were arrested. In the next four days these students will be tried in a Nazi kangaroo court, convicted of treason, and condemned to death. Their crime?—public vocal resistance to the totalitarian state that suppresses freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience in addition to reprehensible war crimes, including the Holocaust, during World War II.

On February 22, 1943, in Stadelheim Prison in Munich, Germany, these three White Rose resisters are the first of their group to die for freedom and whose legacy in the 21st century is to be listed as some of the most important Germans of all time—namely, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl, her brother, 24-year-old Hans Scholl, and 23-year-old Christoph Probst, a married father with three children.

Christoph Probst: It wasn’t in vain.

Sophie Scholl: The sun is still shining.

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https://johnpwalshblog.com/tag/history-nazi-resistance-christoph-probst/

forthemiddle

(1,383 posts)
15. While we agree 100%
Tue Dec 19, 2023, 11:54 AM
Dec 2023

I am still trying to find away to make that the legal standard, and get him kicked off any ballot.

Kid Berwyn

(15,005 posts)
18. My hope was the GOP.
Tue Dec 19, 2023, 12:05 PM
Dec 2023

I thought the Party of Lincoln would rise to the occasion.



Instead it floundered under the dead weight of MAGA and sank to the bottom.

Multiple sinkings. Source: https://myfox8.com/news/multiple-boats-sink-while-trump-supporters-hold-boat-parade-in-texas-deputies-say/

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