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The Washington Post - Opinion - Trump’s fascist talk is what’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’

24 May 2024

As you’ve probably heard, Donald Trump has once again raised a führer.

 

The former president’s Truth Social account posted a video posing the question “What happens after Donald Trump wins?” and providing a possible answer: In the background was the phrase “unified Reich.”

 

This follows Trump’s echoing Adolf Hitler in campaign speeches, saying that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and calling his opponents “vermin.”

 

And that, in turn, followed Trump’s dining at Mar-a-Lago with high-profile antisemite Ye (Kanye West) and white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes, who likened incinerating Jews to baking cookies.

 

Under the three-Reichs-and-you’re-out rule, Trump should be on the bench. Yet he keeps swinging - and this week provided a sobering measure of how numb we have become to his undeniably fascist rhetoric. ...

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/haley-shivs-the-haley-republicans >> The Bulwark takes a more in-depth look at Nikki Haley's recent Trump flip-flop - and points out it's not the first time this has happened.

quickymart:

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/haley-shivs-the-haley-republicans >> The Bulwark takes a more in-depth look at Nikki Haley's recent Trump flip-flop - and points out it's not the first time this has happened.

 

At that rate, she would've been a crap POTUS. Almost as bad as the Orange Foreskin.

kingdragonfly: Libertarian are strange . It's a nebulous meeting of minds so right-wing they become extreme left-wing. 

The one common factor I seem to see a lot is that they're all people who have sufficient means to look after themselves (housing, health, schooling, etc) that they don't care about anyone else less fortunate than them.  And by "means" I don't just mean the obvious being rich, it could be someone who lives on a farm in a self-sufficient manner and homeschools their kids, the main thing is that they don't recognise that there are others who need assistance from the government.

Thinking of them as "the greedies" mostly puts their world view into perspective.

neb:

 

kingdragonfly: Libertarian are strange . It's a nebulous meeting of minds so right-wing they become extreme left-wing. 

 

The one common factor I seem to see a lot is that they're all people who have sufficient means to look after themselves (housing, health, schooling, etc) that they don't care about anyone else less fortunate than them.  And by "means" I don't just mean the obvious being rich, it could be someone who lives on a farm in a self-sufficient manner and homeschools their kids, the main thing is that they don't recognise that there are others who need assistance from the government.

 

Thinking of them as "the greedies" mostly puts their world view into perspective.

 

I think it's more "I work hard to look after myself and my family why can't they do the same". They don't necessarily want more than they need which is what greedy is in my book. They struggle to understand there may be circumstances where others may need help. That's not being greedy per se.

Maybe "selfish" is a better term.  I didn't mean it in the sense of wanting more than they have/need but more "I'm OK and that's all that counts".

CNN had a piece on Trump's appearance at the rally too: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/25/politics/libertarian-party-trump-convention-speech/index.html

For once, the orange buffoon found himself in the middle of a crowd that he couldn't win over, even with a few supporters there - aside from the brief interlude where he talked about freeing that hacker (who I must admit I hadn't actually heard of until today).

kingdragonfly: A con men should know how to read the room.

Trump left the stage after 34 minutes, marking one of his shortest campaign speeches to date.

Maybe he finally did learn to read the room, at least that one 😀

Technofreak:

 

neb:

 

kingdragonfly: Libertarian are strange . It's a nebulous meeting of minds so right-wing they become extreme left-wing. 

 

The one common factor I seem to see a lot is that they're all people who have sufficient means to look after themselves (housing, health, schooling, etc) that they don't care about anyone else less fortunate than them.  And by "means" I don't just mean the obvious being rich, it could be someone who lives on a farm in a self-sufficient manner and homeschools their kids, the main thing is that they don't recognise that there are others who need assistance from the government.

 

Thinking of them as "the greedies" mostly puts their world view into perspective.

 

 

I think it's more "I work hard to look after myself and my family why can't they do the same". They don't necessarily want more than they need which is what greedy is in my book. They struggle to understand there may be circumstances where others may need help. That's not being greedy per se.

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The NY Times - Trump’s Post-Verdict Playbook: Anger and Retribution, Regardless of the Outcome

26 May 2024

The verdict in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial remains a mystery, at least for a few more days.

 

Less of a mystery is what Mr. Trump will say and do after it is announced - whatever the outcome might be.

 

If the past is any guide, even with a full acquittal, Mr. Trump will be angry and vengeful, and will direct attacks against everyone he perceives to be responsible for the Manhattan district attorney’s prosecution. 

 

He will continue to level the attacks publicly, at rallies and on Truth Social, and privately encourage his House Republican allies to subpoena his Democratic enemies.

 

The pattern is firmly established: After Mr. Trump escaped impeachment twice ... he immediately went into revenge mode - complaining about the injustices he was forced to endure and urging his allies to investigate the investigators.