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jayschool2013

(2,590 posts)
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 04:45 PM Jan 2025

A passage from an article in The Atlantic

Trump opened the meeting by boasting that millions of Americans had welcomed his presidency with “jubilation,” then outlined his plans for expunging key government officials and filling their positions with loyalists. At this point he turned to his main agenda item: the empowering law that, he argued, would give him the time (four years, according to the stipulations laid out in the draft of the law) and the authority necessary to make good on his campaign promises to revive the economy, reduce unemployment, increase military spending, withdraw from international treaty obligations, purge the country of foreigners he claimed were “poisoning” the blood of the nation, and exact revenge on political opponents. “Heads will roll in the sand,” Trump had vowed at one rally.

Oh, wait, sorry.

Here's the real passage:

Hitler opened the meeting by boasting that millions of Germans had welcomed his chancellorship with “jubilation,” then outlined his plans for expunging key government officials and filling their positions with loyalists. At this point he turned to his main agenda item: the empowering law that, he argued, would give him the time (four years, according to the stipulations laid out in the draft of the law) and the authority necessary to make good on his campaign promises to revive the economy, reduce unemployment, increase military spending, withdraw from international treaty obligations, purge the country of foreigners he claimed were “poisoning” the blood of the nation, and exact revenge on political opponents. “Heads will roll in the sand,” Hitler had vowed at one rally.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

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A passage from an article in The Atlantic (Original Post) jayschool2013 Jan 2025 OP
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2025 #1
It feels like an exact repeat. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #2
Yep, I was going to say the same thing PatSeg Jan 2025 #13
I agree, step by step, word for word. Exactly the same. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #14
And they're probably enjoying PatSeg Jan 2025 #19
Of course they are rubbing it our faces. So they can humiliate and denigrate everyone. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #20
Essentially, they're all internet trolls...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2025 #21
Yes acting out in a dark way to create chaos and misery. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #23
And, like Hitler, he's finding groveling, appeasement drenched responses where there should be strength and resolve. Magoo48 Jan 2025 #16
And sometimes COL Mustard Jan 2025 #8
Sometimes it hits you in the head... Shipwack Jan 2025 #9
I completely believed the first passage. Glorfindel Jan 2025 #3
In His "New Reality" It Is Quite Obvious That "Jubilation" Has Been Redefined The Roux Comes First Jan 2025 #4
Yep, Trump enters off with more power than Hitler had when he entered the chancellery uponit7771 Jan 2025 #5
Trump has two important advantages that Hitler didn't have. Frank D. Lincoln Feb 2025 #24
You forgot the part dweller Jan 2025 #6
Here you go! jayschool2013 Jan 2025 #7
Ah shit. progressoid Jan 2025 #10
Chocolate EndlessWire Jan 2025 #11
I'd love to join you. SergeStorms Jan 2025 #15
Maybe brocoli lightly sauteed with a good olive oil, and minced garlic electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #22
Lake Champlain chocolates are my favorite especially the hazelnut bars. live love laugh Jan 2025 #17
Weed jayschool2013 Jan 2025 #12
it seems like TCFSF barbtries Jan 2025 #18
Comme ci comme ca. dchill Feb 2025 #25
Night of the Long Knives, everybody! Look It Up! Mr.Bee Feb 2025 #26
Trump ain't lasting four years. He will be lucky if he lasts six months. n/t valleyrogue Feb 2025 #27
Spoon fed NAZI Kid Berwyn Feb 2025 #28

PatSeg

(50,638 posts)
13. Yep, I was going to say the same thing
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 06:43 PM
Jan 2025

He's working out of the same playbook. It is no coincidence.

Irish_Dem

(72,560 posts)
14. I agree, step by step, word for word. Exactly the same.
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 06:47 PM
Jan 2025

Musk even making the nazi salutes.

PatSeg

(50,638 posts)
19. And they're probably enjoying
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 07:45 PM
Jan 2025

how in-your-face it all is. They're not being subtle and I think it is intentional. They'll punish anyone who tries to stop them and their families.

Irish_Dem

(72,560 posts)
20. Of course they are rubbing it our faces. So they can humiliate and denigrate everyone.
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 07:47 PM
Jan 2025

They can brag how powerful they are, how smart, how much control they have over everyone.

Magoo48

(6,527 posts)
16. And, like Hitler, he's finding groveling, appeasement drenched responses where there should be strength and resolve.
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 07:06 PM
Jan 2025

Thank You Canada. Please send your movement down here.

Shipwack

(2,781 posts)
9. Sometimes it hits you in the head...
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 05:44 PM
Jan 2025

... with a baseball bat and yells, "Weren't you listening the first time?".

The Roux Comes First

(1,749 posts)
4. In His "New Reality" It Is Quite Obvious That "Jubilation" Has Been Redefined
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 04:51 PM
Jan 2025

Somewhat analogous to how crowd sizes and other human metrics no longer are tied for him and his to information readily perceived with the human senses.

Most of us have likely encountered more like stoicism and embarrassment, not to say fear, as the predominant human emotions since the adornment.

Frank D. Lincoln

(894 posts)
24. Trump has two important advantages that Hitler didn't have.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 01:37 PM
Feb 2025

1.) The support of the richest person on the planet (both his wealth and technical finesse).

2.) Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.

That's why Trump is moving so much faster.

But the real comparison is between Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler.

jayschool2013

(2,590 posts)
7. Here you go!
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 04:59 PM
Jan 2025

And thanks!

When Hitler wondered whether the army could be used to crush any public unrest, Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg dismissed the idea out of hand, observing “that a soldier was trained to see an external enemy as his only potential opponent.” As a career officer, Blomberg could not imagine German soldiers being ordered to shoot German citizens on German streets in defense of Hitler’s (or any other German) government.

Hitler had campaigned on the promise of draining the “parliamentarian swamp”—den parlamentarischen Sumpf—only to find himself now foundering in a quagmire of partisan politics and banging up against constitutional guardrails. He responded as he invariably did when confronted with dissenting opinions or inconvenient truths: He ignored them and doubled down.

EndlessWire

(7,979 posts)
11. Chocolate
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 05:52 PM
Jan 2025

For me, the answer is Fudge, lots of Fudge. My supplier must wonder what the hell I am doing with it, as I keep ordering more and more. Pretty soon they'll back a truck up to my door. No questions asked.

SergeStorms

(19,670 posts)
15. I'd love to join you.
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 06:54 PM
Jan 2025

I don't drink alcohol or smoke weed anymore. Unfortunately, I'm diabetic as well.

I guess I'll bury my shock and sorrows in an extra serving of broccoli. It falls quite a bit short of the other "escapism" choices, though. ☹️

electric_blue68

(22,468 posts)
22. Maybe brocoli lightly sauteed with a good olive oil, and minced garlic
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 10:14 PM
Jan 2025

How about ?a %90 Dark chocolate very little sugar. Thinking maaaaybe w some kind of nuts that the fiber would mitigate the small amount of sugar.

As a dark chocoholic 😄 I always want to support a chocolate lover.
If you're a milk chocolate lover, maaaybe over time you can learn to like, even love really dark chocolate.

Just some thoughts

Kid Berwyn

(21,386 posts)
28. Spoon fed NAZI
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:50 PM
Feb 2025


“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We need law and order. Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order."

— Adolph Hilter, Hamburg, Germany, 1932.
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