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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSieg Heil, MF45. Even the cult couldn't applaud when he spewed this towards the end of his hatefest:
Seriously, that thing is trying to turn us into Germany circa 1933 all over again. We're lucky he's so goddamned lazy and incompetent.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)So can we call him a Nazi yet?
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I am having Frühstuck right now and we are talking about it...
It will most certainly will be talked about on news today and amongst Germans...
(Sadly - I am sure someone will make the comment even from the AfD that Herr Drumpf couldnt hold a candle to the Fuhrer....)
Scary...absolutely scary....
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)protect our democracy. From themselves.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Pretty soon!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)It's the aspiration of every low-life, scum-sucking, insignificant, degenerate afterbirth of a bastard rat.
Cha
(297,655 posts)he might have thought he didn't deserve it.. but he only has himself to thank.. and maybe Ghouli.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)We have a taste now
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)PJMcK
(22,048 posts)So far, at least.
Trump is an idiot.
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Weisst du nicht
dass du tot bist
Aber fur dein
umfeld ist es hart
Genau ist es,
wenn du blod bist
Apologies. Can't do the German characters on this keyboard.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)We can't say we weren't warned. Was it his ex or Melania that said he kept a book of Hitler on his bedside table. Looks like it was his training manual.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)about in her book.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Saw my mistake when I came back. My bad.
gab13by13
(21,403 posts)it's hard to believe what comes out of his mouth. Steven Miller must be his go to guy.
pecosbob
(7,543 posts)I don't believe he has ever read a real book in his life.
Timmygoat
(779 posts)That his family (grandfather) was kicked out of Germany for cowardice and running away from serving in the military.
Apparently the next venture for them was keeping brothels in Canada during the gold rush.
Quite a family history!
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Was not allowed back in Germany after he had migrated to Canada, made money running a house of ill repute.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Whatever his faults, nothing in his history suggests they include cowardice, not even unwillingness to become mandatory cannon fodder. In those days before antibiotics and for a variety of other reasons, just emigrating itself was dangerous, and he was kid alone in a very hard world. He had work but left for the gold camps. They and the journeys to them were far more dangerous and death rates were frequently very high; disease and privation took most who died.
Years later, after making his fortune, he returned to Germany and married but wasn't allowed to stay because by leaving he was presumed to have evaded his mandatory military service.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)I bet this is news to Angela Merkel. He needs to be put into a straight jacket, and confined to a rubber room. Germans have watched in horror at him "making America great again" and have seen more than enough. I grew up in WW11 Britain, and Hitler was despised, just the way tRump is by many people in this country. I LOATHE his orange ass. Impeachment is too good for this s-o-b.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Where were you and your family? Were you too young to remember?
I've been listening to podcasts of brief radio news items about WWII. My father served in the Pacific and had emotional trauma from it for many years.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Everyone in our neighborhood had their own backyard air raid shelter. I was 4 when the war began, nine when it ended. I remember the air raid sirens, the hum of planes, the bombs whistling down. We all had personal gas masks we had to carry everywhere. Just a few years ago I was in London. We visited a re-enactment of an air raid. There was a shelter just like ours and when you went in, the sirens sounded and all the sounds from the war started. I had to leave, crying after all these years. I often wonder if I had PTSD, since my entire life I have dreaded conflict. I can not bear to have people mad at each other, or yelling. War is not the answer to anything, except maybe to people who have never been in one. Liverpool was heavily bombed, because of the ships coming into port with supplies. The trains taking supplies from the docks were bombed.
panader0
(25,816 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Married an English girl. 3 brothers were there together. All in Europe. Met again in Germany as the war wound down.
Mine, wounded on Omaha Beach. My Dad was an Engineer, built bridges for the Army through Europe.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Severe trauma that never goes away.
That is why it was so sickening to me to read a Sermon from the Southern Baptist Convention comparing Trump to Churchill. Any one who knows History knows Churchill went out to comfort people while the bombs were dropping.
I filled a few ears before I left that Church forever. Such ignorance of History.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)had three sons. In areas of Liverpool where people did not have a back yard, there were group shelters. When the sirens sounded, people gathered up their children and blankets and headed for the shelter. Three times they came out of the shelter, to find their home gone. The authorities helped gather used furniture and clothing for them, and they started over. My aunt died at 46, from cancer. I think stress brought that on, I could be wrong. People would take musical instruments into the shelter, to have sing-alongs to help drown out the noise, so the children would not be upset. Londoners used tube stations as shelter, and had sing alongs down there, too. People did the best they could to cope.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Many of our Vets died young of cancer. We were told by Doctors, probably caused by the chemicals of WW2.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)That immersive display is quite something!
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)From everything I was told and have read, Great Britain's entering WWII was not really a choice, but a proactive move to protect eventual invasion of your homeland. I'm so sorry you and your family had to live with this fear and trauma. I can certainly understand how a re-enactment would trigger tears.
Decades later, my father resisted anything Japanese, especially when the cars emerged in US markets. His trauma was born of being shot at or captured. As a first class seaman, he believed he probably would have either been beaten or starved or worked to death as a POW in the South Pacific.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)American serviceman. When he was stationed in Germany, we lived in base housing. Two of the other wives in our building were German. I became friends with them both, and liked them very much. One British wife lived in civilian housing, with their 4 kids. One day she got into a conversation with her landlord. He asked her which part of the US she was from. She told him she was British. He walked away, never spoke to her again and even refused to take the rent from her, her husband had to pay it. Then he stopped letting them have hot water, except on Saturday night, to bathe the kids! They were so relieved to get into base housing. Ingrid and Marita were very different. Ingrid's husband, Bill said we got along better than Ingrid and her sister. Marita taught her kids German, so her parents could take them on occasion.
We never talked about the war, ever.
Angela Merkel must be saying
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)No democratic country would want him.
rampartc
(5,435 posts)was fred trump known as a "great leader" in germany or otherwise?
i'd sure like to see trump's birth certificate.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Germany, for refusing to serve in the military? He went to Canada and opened a brothel instead. The tRump fortune began from whoring out women, so Donny has not strayed too far from his roots. He has always thought all women have a price. Guess it is hard for him to believe that not all women do, most of us marry for love. Love has always been in short supply in Donny's world. Money is the only thing that matters. Sad.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)I want to use this and having a hard time believing it (which, I know, is surprising but the crazy is on 11 now) - that is some seriously mess up shit.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)because we hated him.
eShirl
(18,503 posts)or like Hitler
Hotler
(11,445 posts)Along with Pence, Barr, Pompeo, Miller.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)and the rest of party of tRump. Now he is focusing on another country Germany.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)deceased.
lark
(23,155 posts)His whole schtick is based on studying Hitler for 10 years, only thing in his entire life he actually chose to study. He's emulating him, and just let the cat out of the bag. He thinks he's Hitler, only better - that's how sick this ass is.
Demonaut
(8,926 posts)catbyte
(34,450 posts)blaze
(6,373 posts)Starts at about 1:59:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7151&v=Wjf5EM5MhzQ&feature=emb_logo