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trump praises the "good bloodlines" of noted anti-semite Henry Ford (Original Post) magicguido May 2020 OP
... Major Nikon May 2020 #1
If Trump lived in Germany in the 1930's he would have joined the Nazi party. madaboutharry May 2020 #2
"When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time." bucolic_frolic May 2020 #4
Henry Ford lived in America and burrowowl May 2020 #8
Trump's a walking Bund rally bucolic_frolic May 2020 #3
Henry Ford would have probably hated Toyota... yuiyoshida May 2020 #5
LOL, listen, you go to small town America bucolic_frolic May 2020 #6
I kinda know what you mean , I spent yuiyoshida May 2020 #7
Were still living the night mere of the Fords ampm May 2020 #9

madaboutharry

(40,203 posts)
2. If Trump lived in Germany in the 1930's he would have joined the Nazi party.
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:24 AM
May 2020

He would have aspired to serve in Hitler's inner circle.

Words to live by:

Maya Angelou: "When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time."

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
4. "When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time."
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:29 AM
May 2020

Oh, the tales I could tell.

But I'll settle for writing that quote down so I remember it.

And ... international capitalists financed and supplied Hitler to make money. Nazi Germany was viewed as a good investment. This was not known after the war very much. Governments wanted to hush things up for obvious reasons. In the 1960s it leaked into a few books. Then more in the 1980s. Now it's readily available. Didn't we supply Hitler with leaded fuel? Trucks? Tires for awhile?

As US and Soviet armies converged on Berlin, both countries wanted German technology, scientists, engineering. We enlsited former Nazi organization members as spy networks for the Cold War. They were the remaining levers of surveillance in the country. NASA's space program? Lots of German rocket scientists there.

I find books about the period fascinating. "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare". Nigel Hamilton's trilogy of FDR at war. Jean Edward Smith and Robert Dallek, same subject.

burrowowl

(17,636 posts)
8. Henry Ford lived in America and
Fri May 22, 2020, 12:16 PM
May 2020

Liked Hitler, was forced to turn factories to making tank.
Just some:
Limburger, Prescott Bush, Cary Cooper, etc.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
5. Henry Ford would have probably hated Toyota...
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:41 AM
May 2020

Honda, Yamaha. Nissan -Datsen, especially when it became a global competition.

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
6. LOL, listen, you go to small town America
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:45 AM
May 2020

auto repair shops. In the 90s they would laugh at my Honda. Laugh. I don't know how they fixed Ford/GM/Chrysler, but they laughed at and did a lousy job fixing Honda.

It's still on the road. I'm the weekend mechanic now. Bet those Bubbas are pushing up dandelions.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
7. I kinda know what you mean , I spent
Fri May 22, 2020, 11:00 AM
May 2020


a year up in Preston Idaho, population 5,501 it really was a "one horse town". If you were not
Mormon they became suspicious of new comers to their neighborhood, ater which it got too creepy for me and I moved down to Salt Lake where people were a bit more accepting.

ampm

(301 posts)
9. Were still living the night mere of the Fords
Fri May 22, 2020, 12:48 PM
May 2020

Blue bloods there was a history of this. His antiemetic attitude was really in plain sight with how he ran his business model. He had to have perfection and his workers had to show how there life fit that. He was a cruel task master. He was following hitler play book to a tee. Trump father was all about it as well. So it stand to reason that trumpy had to follow his fathers task master rules

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