The news is getting worse and worse for Trump but...

[Kablooie]

Nothing has any effect on him and he may even get a big win tomorrow by eliminating healthcare for millions which willl make his ratings shoot upwards.
Ever since he started running everyone talks about how his behavior will kill him any day now.
Any day.
Well there have been a hell of a lot of any days and he's doing just fine.
He's kicking his people around and creating chaos but that is just normal Trump life.

People should stop talking about how this or that will bring him down. It won't.
So Mueller proves that he colluded with Putin to hack the Democrats
, lied about it, masterminded the coverup and danced on a pee soaked bed with prostitutes..
Nothing there that would have any effect on his position at all. So he openly flaunts the constitution he swore to uphold. Problem? Nope. Just fine for him to do that.

Face it, nothing but a Democratinc takeover of both houses will have any effect on him. Unless that happens he will be free to remake America in his own image and will probably succeed
In doing so.

[Laffy Kat]

1. I am beyond words at this point.

Feel like we're living in some sort of hellish "Groundhog Day".

[Matthew28]

2. This is how Hitler came to power and stayed there

People become brainwashed and simply don't care anymore about anything else besides pleasing their god.

[Kablooie]

6. People from the outside watched Aghast as Hitler was beatified.

But the German people gave into him enmasse even as they saw his brown shirts illegally beating people who opposed him. It wasn't until they were deep in the war that they began to wake up.

This according to "the rise and fall of the third Reich"

[Kentonio]

10. The beatings weren't happening everywhere

It tended to be more a big city thing during the earlier years, and was sold very much as the nazis protecting the people from the heavily demonized communists/Jews/others.

The Trump mob of course use their decades of scaremongering against black groups and communities in the same way, to provide a rationale and justification to their voters for violence. Horrible to watch the same tactics still being effective so many years later.

[mr_lebowski]

17. The one saving grace we may have ... Hitler was a far smarter man than Derr Trumpenfuhrer ...

Trump has nowhere near the intellect, nor does he have the charisma, nor in all likelihood, a willingness to be AS evil as his hero Adolph.

He'll do some evil shit, as he's shown, but I don't think he's willing to take shit to THAT level. At least, I really hope not. And I don't think this country will allow it to get ... like that ... yet. I think we're at least 20 years away from that, in that it'd take a really prolonged Depression for a sense of hopelessness to overtake the country powerful enough for something like the Nazi's to happen here.

And even then there'd have to be a palpable scapegoat, and a 'way out' like the people of Germany felt was the case in the 1930's. That country was being 'held down' ... the people were 'doing worse' than people in other parts of the world, that could be pointed to by the fascists.

But our people here have been told (and there's evidence to support) that we 'have it great', 'we're #1', etc.

By the time the US seriously falls, the whole world will also probably be falling as well. There won't be an area we could, as a country, expand to, to make our lives all better.

IOW, that same dynamic as what led to Nazi Germany, will likely never 'exist' for the USA.

But ... the power of propaganda, racism, and general stupidity ... should probably not be discounted.

[Kablooie]

18. We've only had Trump for 6 months and look at where we are.

Trump is at least unfocused.
In Hitler's first 6 months he managed to get the right from the parliament to decree laws without votes and outlawed all but the Nazi party. He was very focused and very quickly managed to grab unprecedented control.

[MFM008]

3. It still makes my day

To think of him dropping dead.
It's how I make it through the days.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. On live television, of course.

The ratings would be HUGE!

NOTE: Nothing here implies a threat to the president or those of his staff or cabinet. I wish them nothing but the best health. I just want them to go away.

[MFM008]

20. Right

no threat but I can dream.

[madokie]

4. All that I've worked for and all that I've hoped

would be in my later years have been shot down the tubes. No more do I see a future for any of us except of course the already rich assholes.

[yuiyoshida]

5. The thing is...

The Republican party won't impeach him, with the reason, that while he provides the daily entertainment and shiny things, they will totally dismantle this government until it looks like the mayor's office of Hooterville, and probably clean out the Treasury while they are at it.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. The thing is, he's not even a Republican!

He's managed to upend everything they hold dear - but they just keep coming back for more! The only ones who agree with him on anything are those who are either uninformed or deluded - and maybe a few space aliens who just landed here...

[kentuck]

11. They sold out their country for their Party.

A Party that long ago lost its ability to stand for anything decent.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Exactly!

And I can't help but wonder what actual well meaning Republicans of the past - like Eisenhower - would think of this uninformed fool! Even the Bushes can't stand him!

[WinkyDink]

14. Yes, Ike warned of the M-I C. But Korea? The planning of the Bay of Pigs?

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I'm not saying those were good policies

But Trump has no policies at all. He has absolutely no clue and the scary part is that he has no interest in finding out. We basically have no government to depend on now - for good or ill.

[WinkyDink]

13. Excuse me? "Not even a Republican?" He's the logical ZENITH of greed-head Republicanism.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. He's an exaggerated version of what the Republicans have become

President Eisenhower and Governor Rockefeller would be appalled... not to mention "the party of Lincoln" which he loves to say.

[yuiyoshida]

19. Ya know... Trump really is the

Ultimate Troll. He has trolled this country and now has no clue what to do with it.

[FSogol]

21. He is most definitely a Republican

short-sighted
tax cuts for the rich
pro-gun
corrupt
selfish
greedy
only worried about the bottom line
anti-woman
anti-worker
anti-little guy
anti-science
anti-environment

He shares all these qualities with today's GOP.
Do I need to go on?

[kentuck]

8. Hitler's Youth Rally 1935

https://archive.org/details/HitlerYouthRallySpeechTriumphOfTheWill