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[–] [email protected] 164 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The specific quote:

“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”

From the article:

Laura Barrón-López, White House correspondent for PBS, told viewers last night, “I checked with a historian, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and she said that language that he’s using ... echoes language used in Nazi propaganda by Adolf Hitler when Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.

Additional site reporting the same (in an interview):

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-amplifies-violent-rhetoric-against-his-perceived-enemies-as-civil-fraud-trial-begins

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe he did read Mein Kampf after all?

Fucking fascist Nazi piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

He doesn't read

Likely got it from a new alt right friend he made in the last 8 years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Probably Steven Miller read it to him by his bed, late at night, after he was half-passed out from too many hamberders.

[–] [email protected] 145 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Just now? THIS is pushing the envelope? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yes, using an almost exact Hitler quote is pushing the envelope because it's a new level for him.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, so when he talked about the lying press (Lügenpresse) that didn't count because why?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because accusing the media of dishonesty is a perfectly defensible thing to do. The way Trump did it was indefensible, and reminiscent of lugenpresse, but this is a far more specific use of Nazi language and concept.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/

They legit cheered him with an actual Nazi salute and Nazi cheer.

"Hail trump! Hail victory" or "Heil Trump! Zeig heil!" Which doesn't sound familiar at all.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

It’s so not a new level for him. Very fine people, great genetics, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

We all know what he thinks, but his hints/dogwhistles are ever pushing the envelope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If he's not careful, he's gonna get in trouble maybe someday kinda eventually probably 🤞🤞🤞

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago

Alternate headline: "Racist racists racistly"

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Only a matter of time before he starts talking about a "Final Solution" to the immigrant problem...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

DeSADIST has already started talking about killing them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Imma start applying to jobs in Canada and/or overseas if he gets presidency again.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Donald Trump, second generation German immigrant, who has lived within sight of Lady Liberty most of his life, what an embarrassment, not only to Americans, but specifically New Yorkers, one of the most mixed melting pots of a city in the entire world. What a racist idiot, especially when you consider the fact that south and central Americans were here before white people, so if anybody is diluting America's blood line, it's white motherfuckers like myself and Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

immigration for me but not for thee

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First generation Scottish immigrant. His mother was from Scotland. But that's not quite the same... I'm not sure white I can't put my finger on the reason...

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

They’ve been using regular whistles instead of dog whistles since about 2016. Good job, journalism. You finally figured out what we all knew.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Msnbc with the soft-pedal. Corporate news continuing to fail us at almost every turn.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

so very very small

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I can't really comprehend how evangelical Christians find this man to be at all acceptable. In fact, he's treated as some sort of savior. Major disconnect.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Evangelical's whole platform is divine authority to rule. It ties right in with colonialism, white supremacy, and fascism. "I'm right 'cause I say my god said so". But I also believe that most Christian's today would crucify Christ all over again as a communist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

divine authority to rule

Yet, they don't seem to accept Biden even though scripture is pretty clear:

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

Romans 13:1‭-‬2

I saw lots of crosses among the rebels on Jan 6.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can't make them read their own book.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's easy when you understand that their moral framework is actually completely hollow, and their independent moral intuition is completely atrophied to the point that they are unable to conduct even basic moral synthesis.

Religion, as we know it, has always been a framework for social control and cooperation. The morality bits have always served this end, so it's not really surprising that in our modern context they just dispense with any moral pretenses as soon as they are in obvious conflict with their power aspirations.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think this is a group of people who identify with being told what to believe by strong personalities who take strong positions.

Doesn't matter what they are told, that's not the point. It's the freedom from being asked to think, which if you consider it for a while, is a heavy burden removed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I suppose because they don't really believe or understand what they claim to be their philosophies. Look at all the BS that Christians have happily indulged in over the centuries such as slavery, other racist oppression, child and spousal abuse and colonialism. The culture also trains people to accept whatever authority figures have to say. I think that some Christians who actually do engage their faith in an intellectual sense (to whatever extent that is really possible) have rejected him for being obviously immoral. I mean, the guy not just indulges in but personifies each of the seven deadly sins... sloth, greed, lust, vanity, pride, gluttony, and wrath.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When a reporter asked how his five children were doing, the former president loudly exclaimed:

“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Will the fucking "liberal media" wake up if he starts using the original German?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm convinced he could use the original German, grow a toothbrush moustache, wear a red swastika armband and the answer would still be "no".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

He would grow a Hitler stache but trim it just a bit too wide so he has plausible deniability 🤣

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Fascists gonna fasc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mark my words, this mother bugger getting arrested before these trials even over.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've become cynical at this point, I don't think he sees ANY time behind bars.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

This azzclown is becoming more of a NPC from Wolfenstein every freaking day. He won’t spill blood himself but trust and believe he’ll be furthest in the rear slopping it all up.

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