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jayschool2013

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Fri Jan 31, 2025, 04:45 PM Jan 2025

A passage from an article in The Atlantic [View all]

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.

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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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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
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