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jayschool2013

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

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 31 #1
It feels like an exact repeat. Irish_Dem Jan 31 #2
Yep, I was going to say the same thing PatSeg Jan 31 #13
I agree, step by step, word for word. Exactly the same. Irish_Dem Jan 31 #14
And they're probably enjoying PatSeg Jan 31 #19
Of course they are rubbing it our faces. So they can humiliate and denigrate everyone. Irish_Dem Jan 31 #20
Essentially, they're all internet trolls...nt Wounded Bear Jan 31 #21
Yes acting out in a dark way to create chaos and misery. Irish_Dem Feb 1 #23
And, like Hitler, he's finding groveling, appeasement drenched responses where there should be strength and resolve. Magoo48 Jan 31 #16
And sometimes COL Mustard Jan 31 #8
Sometimes it hits you in the head... Shipwack Jan 31 #9
I completely believed the first passage. Glorfindel Jan 31 #3
In His "New Reality" It Is Quite Obvious That "Jubilation" Has Been Redefined The Roux Comes First Jan 31 #4
Yep, Trump enters off with more power than Hitler had when he entered the chancellery uponit7771 Jan 31 #5
Trump has two important advantages that Hitler didn't have. Frank D. Lincoln Feb 1 #24
You forgot the part dweller Jan 31 #6
Here you go! jayschool2013 Jan 31 #7
Ah shit. progressoid Jan 31 #10
Chocolate EndlessWire Jan 31 #11
I'd love to join you. SergeStorms Jan 31 #15
Maybe brocoli lightly sauteed with a good olive oil, and minced garlic electric_blue68 Jan 31 #22
Lake Champlain chocolates are my favorite especially the hazelnut bars. live love laugh Jan 31 #17
Weed jayschool2013 Jan 31 #12
it seems like TCFSF barbtries Jan 31 #18
Comme ci comme ca. dchill Feb 1 #25
Night of the Long Knives, everybody! Look It Up! Mr.Bee Feb 1 #26
Trump ain't lasting four years. He will be lucky if he lasts six months. n/t valleyrogue Feb 1 #27
Spoon fed NAZI Kid Berwyn Feb 1 #28
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