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brooklynite

(94,553 posts)
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 08:57 PM Oct 2016

OUCH! This'll leave a mark

Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump: "Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people, under one God, saluting one American flag."


Jeff Greenfield ?@greenfield64 20 minutes ago
Jeff Greenfield Retweeted Daniel Dale
"ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer..."

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OUCH! This'll leave a mark (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2016 OP
As funny as Greenfield's remark is, it is a reminder that nothing Trump is doing is breaking new stevenleser Oct 2016 #1
Like MLK said, "Remember, everything hitler did was legal" Sunlei Oct 2016 #18
Remember, states write laws to legalize what they do. Slavery, wars, executions, prisons, .... Coyotl Oct 2016 #29
"one people" I can get behind. forgotmylogin Oct 2016 #25
T'ain't funny, McGee. trof Oct 2016 #26
Ouch Duckhunter935 Oct 2016 #2
I loved his show on CNN underpants Oct 2016 #3
Deplorables will definitely need a translation except the real you know who types. BSdetect Oct 2016 #4
Are there secret American flags I don't know about? I think we only have one flag Donald. nt TeamPooka Oct 2016 #5
About half Trump's followers seem to like this "American" flag csziggy Oct 2016 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author BamaRefugee Oct 2016 #21
that "one God" is Cheeto Jesus Martin Eden Oct 2016 #6
Better seek treatment mjjoe Oct 2016 #7
The best place to see people revering many flags Mr.Bill Oct 2016 #8
Not those flags of course. Missn-Hitch Oct 2016 #16
Ich liebe es dae Oct 2016 #9
No surprise considering his bedtime reading material. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2016 #10
Boom! Hekate Oct 2016 #12
Greenfield dropped the mic with that one nt okaawhatever Oct 2016 #13
Which American Flag? yellowcanine Oct 2016 #14
Travail, famille, patrie Ellen Forradalom Oct 2016 #15
Oh brother.... AlbertCat Oct 2016 #17
"One God"... Ligyron Oct 2016 #19
He is. SammyWinstonJack Oct 2016 #24
all i can say is allan01 behave allan01 Oct 2016 #20
"One People, One Nation, One Leader" ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2016 #22
I'm sitting in a busy truck stop killing my self laughing TrogL Oct 2016 #23
Most of us have recited the Pledge of Allegiance randr Oct 2016 #27
Tell that to the R obstructionists! Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #28
thankfully, cheeto jesus as some call him, has no real power, and the real Jesus loves everyone Divine Discontent Oct 2016 #30
 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
1. As funny as Greenfield's remark is, it is a reminder that nothing Trump is doing is breaking new
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 08:58 PM
Oct 2016

ground. It's right out of the Fascist/Nazi playbook of the 1920s and 1930s.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
29. Remember, states write laws to legalize what they do. Slavery, wars, executions, prisons, ....
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 08:38 PM
Oct 2016

forgotmylogin

(7,528 posts)
25. "one people" I can get behind.
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 07:04 PM
Oct 2016

But we came here in the first place to worship how we please. And we can work with people under a different flag.

Metaphorically and philosophically I believe we all worship (or don't) the same "god" in different ways, but I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant.

underpants

(182,803 posts)
3. I loved his show on CNN
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 09:00 PM
Oct 2016

He dared have Wesley Clark on regularly calling out the BS on the war ....and Greenfield had to go.

Response to csziggy (Reply #11)

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
17. Oh brother....
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 12:33 PM
Oct 2016

"together as one people" White?

"Under one god" The catholic version or the protestant version? (like the people under "one god" can agree on anything)

"One American flag" With or without yellow fringe?

Ligyron

(7,632 posts)
19. "One God"...
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 02:39 PM
Oct 2016

Oh, riiiight. I'm sure Trump is just soooo terribly religious.

Unless he's referring to himself with that quote?

ProudProgressiveNow

(6,129 posts)
22. "One People, One Nation, One Leader"
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 04:29 PM
Oct 2016
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer

One of the Nazis' most-repeated political slogans was Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer – "One People, One Nation, One Leader". Bendersky says the slogan "left an indelible mark on the minds of most Germans who lived through the Nazi years.

It appeared on countless posters and in publications; it was heard constantly in radio broadcasts and speeches." The slogan emphasized the absolute control of the party over practically every sector of German society and culture – with the churches the most notable exception.

Hitler's word was absolute, but he had a narrow range of interest – mostly involving diplomacy and the military – and so his subordinates interpreted his will to fit their own interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrer#Ein_Volk.2C_ein_Reich.2C_ein_F.C3.BChrer

randr

(12,412 posts)
27. Most of us have recited the Pledge of Allegiance
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 07:20 PM
Oct 2016

many times.
Who are the ones that did not hear a word of this Amerian oath of unity?

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)
30. thankfully, cheeto jesus as some call him, has no real power, and the real Jesus loves everyone
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 08:50 PM
Oct 2016

unlike Der Drumpfler, who will never get elected!

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