a poll for fun: Who thinks the Nazi soldiers image for Trump was a simple accident ?

[steve2470]

If it was a simple accident, the person who obtained it was very careless. To wit,

http://www.istockphoto.com/photo/marching-soldiers-1899529?st=dc39714

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World War II
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Helmet
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Camouflage Clothing
Equipment
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Personally I think Trump will quit the race, but if he doesn't.... if I was a Democratic Party official, I'd be hammering
on this "Nazi accident" theme.

eta: changed my vote to "accident".

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[PoliticAverse]

1. It was just another crapily-done outsourced job... n/t

[sharp_stick]

2. I don't know if I'd use the word accident

I'm more inclined to believe it was plain incompetence. What the hell were they trying to show anyway? My guess is they wanted people to picture Trump as a military leader but even without the Nazi's I thought it looked like soldiers marching on the White House.

No matter what it was just another in the long line of pathetic attempts from Trump.

[steve2470]

4. yea incompetence is a much better word, agreed nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. He'll probably blame it on undocumented labor. nt

[lunasun]

5. Fascist taking over the white house for profit with Trump leading them. That is how I interpreted

the flag symbols .... seems to speak to his base

[951-Riverside]

6. It was planned. The whole Trump campaign is an elaborate stunt that was concocted by Hillary Clinton

...They's a-comin' fer our guns, confedurate flags and measles!




and in case you couldnt tell.

[steve2470]

7. who is the woman on the right ? nt

[Brother Buzz]

14. The blushing bride, Melania Trump....

[951-Riverside]

15. Melania Trump n/t

[steve2470]

16. ok thanks! nt

[pnwmom]

8. It wasn't a "simple accident" or done on purpose.

It was a Freudian slip.

[Iggo]

9. No one should be surprised that Trump has uneducated morons working for him.

And of course he'll quit the race.

He was never seriously going to run.

[olddots]

10. an incompetant unpaid " intern " using stock footage for visual impact

Trump thinks the world owes him a living .

[Recursion]

11. I once put an image of a Confederate unit up on a website about (worse: by) the US Army

It was a Louisiana Artillery Regiment that wore blue uniforms. I heard from Civil War buffs within about 5 seconds of putting it up (it was a fairly high traffic official Army site) and took it down immediately, but I think it's pretty easy to just notice an image you like in your stock collection and dump it into your web page without reading.

In response we started going through all of our other images from over the years, and I found about 10% of the photos were actually of Marines (and that's only the ones where we could tell). The best change request I received:

"Slide 372: that's a Marine. And his fly is down."

[zipplewrath]

12. Don't think those are "Nazis"

The image and uniforms don't look that old.

[steve2470]

13. look at the keywords....

They are Waffen SS, possibly in Russia.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/donald-trump-campaign-ad-nazi-soldiers

[oberliner]

22. No they aren't

They are actually WWII re-enactors in Kent, England.

[Iggo]

17. Left sleeve on lead soldier has eagle with swastika insignia.

Also, and I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that camouflage pattern is the same as I painted on the miniatures of an SS tank crew in my model building days way back in the wayback.

[zipplewrath]

18. Sorry, couldn't blow it up big enough

I tried enlarging it, but I could only see the eagle, not the swastika. The photo just looks too "modern" for actual WWII. Of course it could be actors or something from a movie.

[zipplewrath]

21. It's from England

The image turns out to be a staged photo from England no less. About 5years old or so.

[Starry Messenger]

19. Carelessness.

Right-wingers sure get into trouble with stock photography though.

[Orsino]

20. It's Trump. Of course the job was half-assed.

Half-assing is all he does, and his staffers perform accordingly.

[madville]

23. I think it's a marketing gimmick

I heard Trump's name several times today regarding this photo, it's free and effortless viral marketing that causes little serious image damage, if any at all.