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Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Generalissimo Trump looks like he's addressing a "political rally" from a balcony, protected from those assembled by a private army.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)more like
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Warsaw Ghetto, 1943, tends to spring to mind.
Let's face it: Star Wars storm troopers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from three feet away.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)... any of numerous dictators throughout history.
Part of his latest, delivered to robust cheers from the audience, was to declare that the US couldn't have any more "nice guys" as POTUS just now, that what the US needs is for Trump to get in there and clean things up (with explicit references to foreign policy and deportation of Mexicans) and then maybe, just maybe, we could have someone in the office who would be nice.
He's not funny. He's scary as hell.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)He said he'd call them up before he comes for them! That will result in 0 deportations and then he will have to resort to methods such as the Nazis used. How anyone can be duped by these statements is beyond me except that we desperately need to improve our educational system.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)His gesticulations and the tonal inflections while he speaks.
His ideas that -- to intelligent, caring people -- are outrageously offensive.
The "bodyguards" ejecting journalist Jorge Ramos from a news conference, which was wholly reminiscent of brown-shirts' tactics in the 1930s.
And then there's the vacant look on the fans/followers' faces as they listen to their leader.
<shudder>
President Obama has endured years of comparisons to Herr Schickelgruber by right-wing nut-jobs, but the resemblances between der Führer and tRump are uncanny. And terrifying.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)...even as the guy mesmerized crowds back in his own country. Lest we forget, he had some admirers here, too, just as Putin has some fans in the US today.
It chills me to the bone how very attractive some humans -- especially Americans, since that's who we're talking about just now -- find the classic strongman-bully to be.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)since he's got nothing else to talk about.
Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)He asks for volunteers to drive the busses to Mexico, with luck, to where they will be dropped off at a Trump-brand clothing sweatshop.
captainarizona
(363 posts)I have written a screenplay about the plight of the undocumented children in arizona to help inform americans what is going on here. You can read it at my web site: thealamoisavenged.com people tell me the title is a little off setting till they read the screenplay and then it makes sense. Please read it and tell me what you think of it.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...is with us.
NonMetro
(631 posts)Currently, we already deport about 1,000 people every day, and about 2 million+ have been deported during the Obama Administration, and almost an equal number during dubya's presidency. So, I really wonder now about this 11 million figure that's been thrown around now for years. It just has to have gone down some considering the massive deportations that have taken place, but it's always reported as 11 million. Even the science on that number looks kind of fishy to me. How could anyone know what the number was to begin with of people who didn't want to be detected at all? And I understand this number counts people who have been here for 25 or 30 years! I think they're guessing - and the Trump's of this world are using it to demagogue.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)a buffoon that shot his mouth off.
NonMetro
(631 posts)He's just a rich guy from Queens with a big mouth.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power
What a better person to lead the charge than someone tied up in the corporate world?
polynomial
(750 posts)Its reasonable to fathom that as a general that stopped the Nazi culture in Europe, Eisenhower, understood immigration and migration distribution issues along with the odor of death camps.
It isnt difficult to understand intuitively that relocation of a million people means a commitment had to be agreed upon by the Mexican government at the time to meet and furnish a return of its citizens, however, for various reasons continuously ignored obligations as done today.
The flavor of this rhetoric and its quality is what we all should call
GOP Junk Politics
Its apparent Trump is the very core, the essence of a politically oriented mental exploiter. The very kernel of hate based culture that characterized the Nazi movement. In that time a clear historical warning given by Eisenhower as being the military industrial complex that is not American.
All that parallels todays modern creation by the GOP Bush war crime administration in the what many see as coined in American bribe money as a cultural mental disease Al-Quedaisis, especially typified by the latest Paris terrorism.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)He clearly did not want to answer and in fact, got angry/flustered and then changed the subject.
Connecting the dots: He said early in the campaign that when he was a big donor, he got "what I wanted" in exchange for the donations. The reporters don't get it. He used the laws + got what he wanted = he got laws that he wanted that benefited him in bankruptcies. No doubt he bought pols in xchange for those laws.
But the reporters never pound away at these questions. I will say that Chris Matthews is one who does, but he hasn't interviewed Trump yet I don't think. He should.