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This. The guy is concerned with the reaction from his followers, not what he’s going to actually do. Big difference.Ignore what Trump says.
Pay attention to what he actually does and does not do.
This. The guy is concerned with the reaction from his followers, not what he’s going to actually do. Big difference.Ignore what Trump says.
Pay attention to what he actually does and does not do.
You’re free to make that assumption, but it’s not the assumption my post was based on.This post is worth reading. But if anyone wants to save time I can give a shorter answer on why Trump is not Hitler.
He was already president for 4 years.
I beat you to it. I already provided evidence of your post for you. And to be clear, I didn't care if you provide evidence or not.
Would three news stories from today suffice? Your turn, pal.
I didn't want evidence from someone else. I was just trying to hold someone to the standard that they were demanding of others.Trump proposes 'getting rid of FEMA' while visiting North Carolina
President Donald Trump says he is considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency.apnews.com
I didn't mean to insinuate that it was.You’re free to make that assumption, but it’s not the assumption my post was based on.
I don’t believe for a second anyone’s going to read that long-winded post of mine, but that’s not the summary of it.
First, let me say that Trump is a POS. I think he's a terrible human being and terrible for the country. Hitler was obviously a POS as well. Nothing I'm about to type should be taken as a defense of Donald Trump or his policies.
Now, some levity...
I 100% understand your point and I agree that on the surface there are some parallels. However, this whole 2nd coming of the Nazis thing that's being thrown around is misguided.
I know you won't do this on my recommendation and don't expect anyone to, but I do recommend that anyone interested in European history and politics in general read the book, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. It's a fabulous book that in my opinion has to be the most researched historical account of all time. It's universally accepted and viewed as the most comprehensive study of the beginning, middle, and end of the Nazi party and all it's players. Unfortunately it's also the "Moby Dick" of history books in that it's very long, and requires a good deal of note-taking and study to get through. There are literally hundreds of people mentioned to various degrees and it is very, very tedious to read. Not something you're going to casually knock out in a week and get anything out of.
With that out of the way, I've read it carefully because the topic interests me, and I am confident in saying that Trump has in no way the power to do what Hitler did. First, because he's not the same type of person, and second the United States of now and the Germany of then were two very, very different places under very different circumstances and situations.
1930s Germany was comparatively very small country run with almost monarchistic rule. There was a German version of a parliament, but it was a total puppet at the time of von Hindenburg and his small group of insiders. Germany was in complete shambles after WW1 and Hitler had started at ground zero, murdering and blackmailing people one-by-one until he was made chancellor by a dying (and blackmailed) von Hindenburg. You can admittedly draw some comparisons to 2025 USA, but those comparisons don't go deeper than the surface.
There are a whole lot of differences between these two situations. Some of them in no particular order...
1) 1930s Germany was in shambles as mentioned, with a tiny, mostly powerless military confined to an even tinier geographical area. No navy, no air force, no power inside its borders, let alone outside. Once Hitler took the chancellery and started literally murdering his political opponents, he was able to insert his own military and then begin building it from the ground up into what it became in 1941. The US military of present is the exact opposite of the one Hitler assumed control over. Made up of millions of servicepeople spread over literally millions of square miles, comprised of all different political persuasions. Yes, the US military populous leans towards conservative, but the notion that Donald Trump is going to wave his hand and have millions of service members immediately turn their weapons on the US at his whim is absolutely absurd. He does not have that control. He has what I'd call some level of control over hardcore conservatives, but that does not equal a total and complete takeover of control of the country.
2) As I mentioned earlier, Germany was a small country with a small population who were reeling from the poorly thought out Treaty of Versailles. They were pinned in a corner with no economy, hyperflation, and no access to resources that any country would need to survive. The people were looking to any leader they could to lead them out of it, and almost the whole population was on board with Hitler's message which did not include his plans to take over the world (at that time). As bad as things are in the US, we are not anywhere near that point. Almost exactly half of our 330,000,000 citizens hate Trump with fervor. We are a huge country with a huge and very diverse population of people will all range of ideologies. The exact opposite of 30s Germany.
3) Hitler was driven by VERY different motivations than Donald Trump. Hitler had a deep seeded belief that Jews were responsible for everything wrong in the world, and he viewed their extermination as a divine objective to be carried out as payback for the downfall of Germany, and he'd stop at nothing to get it. Hitler unfortunately was a very smart, calculating, and charismatic person bent on his goal, and wasn't driven by money or personal gain other than being in power. Through his speeches he was effectively able to control the entire population of Germany and get them all on board with his ideas.
Donald Trump is not that. He's quite obviously a buffoon who's first interest is money and being popular, he doesn't give a shit about ideology even though he may say so. He likes the hillbilly contingent cheering for him, the hats, the flags, and of course the money. He knows that the more extreme his speeches get, the louder the hillbillies will cheer. The more money he and his family will make. He doesn't have the smarts or the power over the population that Hitler did, even if you think he does.
There's a very clear distinction that you'd be wise to understand, and that is that Hitler was vastly more dangerous for vastly different reasons. Hitler was a psychopath with a clear, defined rage built up that he would stop at nothing to lay waste in the form of genocide. Unfortunately for the world, that happened at a time in Germany's history where all the stars were aligned for him to be able to take total control over a country on a micro and macro level. That is not the situation in the United States no matter how much you try to convince yourself of it.
Donald Trump is not a psychopath, he's a narcissistic sociopath. Both are bad, but one is much, much worse and is an existential danger. Donald Trump has the ability to make things uncomfortable in the US, but we are lucky that he's a rank amateur when compared to the likes of Hitler. He's in it for the rallies and the hats and the money, and he does what it takes to rile the hillbillies up which happens to be the topics of immigration, gun control, the economy, what have you. If making immigration easier and increasing taxes were the things that would get the hillbillies waving their Trump flags and buying red hats, he'd do that. He's in it for the highest bidder. He doesn't care about ideology because he's for sale.
Hitler was not for sale, and he made it known through his actions. Whether you think so or not, Trump does not have the power to instantly make his military turn its weapons on the population and start bombing our own citizens. He doesn't have the power to round up all liberals and send them to gas chambers. He doesn't have the power to take over Canada.
So before you start slinging around the, "Welp, it's Hitler 2.0 now..." stuff, take note that it makes you sound exactly like the current crop of conservatives who think that if Harris got elected the country would immediately turn into Soviet communist Russia with no individual rights complete with gulags and banning of religion.
Don't be that guy.
Thanks for the thoughtful write up. You make a lot of excellent points. I have that book (it was given to me by my dad), but only read some of it years ago, and stopped. Perhaps I need to pick it back up!First, let me say that Trump is a POS. I think he's a terrible human being and terrible for the country. Hitler was obviously a POS as well. Nothing I'm about to type should be taken as a defense of Donald Trump or his policies.
Now, some levity...
I 100% understand your point and I agree that on the surface there are some parallels. However, this whole 2nd coming of the Nazis thing that's being thrown around is misguided.
I know you won't do this on my recommendation and don't expect anyone to, but I do recommend that anyone interested in European history and politics in general read the book, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. It's a fabulous book that in my opinion has to be the most researched historical account of all time. It's universally accepted and viewed as the most comprehensive study of the beginning, middle, and end of the Nazi party and all it's players. Unfortunately it's also the "Moby Dick" of history books in that it's very long, and requires a good deal of note-taking and study to get through. There are literally hundreds of people mentioned to various degrees and it is very, very tedious to read. Not something you're going to casually knock out in a week and get anything out of.
With that out of the way, I've read it carefully because the topic interests me, and I am confident in saying that Trump has in no way the power to do what Hitler did. First, because he's not the same type of person, and second the United States of now and the Germany of then were two very, very different places under very different circumstances and situations.
1930s Germany was comparatively very small country run with almost monarchistic rule. There was a German version of a parliament, but it was a total puppet at the time of von Hindenburg and his small group of insiders. Germany was in complete shambles after WW1 and Hitler had started at ground zero, murdering and blackmailing people one-by-one until he was made chancellor by a dying (and blackmailed) von Hindenburg. You can admittedly draw some comparisons to 2025 USA, but those comparisons don't go deeper than the surface.
There are a whole lot of differences between these two situations. Some of them in no particular order...
1) 1930s Germany was in shambles as mentioned, with a tiny, mostly powerless military confined to an even tinier geographical area. No navy, no air force, no power inside its borders, let alone outside. Once Hitler took the chancellery and started literally murdering his political opponents, he was able to insert his own military and then begin building it from the ground up into what it became in 1941. The US military of present is the exact opposite of the one Hitler assumed control over. Made up of millions of servicepeople spread over literally millions of square miles, comprised of all different political persuasions. Yes, the US military populous leans towards conservative, but the notion that Donald Trump is going to wave his hand and have millions of service members immediately turn their weapons on the US at his whim is absolutely absurd. He does not have that control. He has what I'd call some level of control over hardcore conservatives, but that does not equal a total and complete takeover of control of the country.
2) As I mentioned earlier, Germany was a small country with a small population who were reeling from the poorly thought out Treaty of Versailles. They were pinned in a corner with no economy, hyperflation, and no access to resources that any country would need to survive. The people were looking to any leader they could to lead them out of it, and almost the whole population was on board with Hitler's message which did not include his plans to take over the world (at that time). As bad as things are in the US, we are not anywhere near that point. Almost exactly half of our 330,000,000 citizens hate Trump with fervor. We are a huge country with a huge and very diverse population of people will all range of ideologies. The exact opposite of 30s Germany.
3) Hitler was driven by VERY different motivations than Donald Trump. Hitler had a deep seeded belief that Jews were responsible for everything wrong in the world, and he viewed their extermination as a divine objective to be carried out as payback for the downfall of Germany, and he'd stop at nothing to get it. Hitler unfortunately was a very smart, calculating, and charismatic person bent on his goal, and wasn't driven by money or personal gain other than being in power. Through his speeches he was effectively able to control the entire population of Germany and get them all on board with his ideas.
Donald Trump is not that. He's quite obviously a buffoon who's first interest is money and being popular, he doesn't give a shit about ideology even though he may say so. He likes the hillbilly contingent cheering for him, the hats, the flags, and of course the money. He knows that the more extreme his speeches get, the louder the hillbillies will cheer. The more money he and his family will make. He doesn't have the smarts or the power over the population that Hitler did, even if you think he does.
There's a very clear distinction that you'd be wise to understand, and that is that Hitler was vastly more dangerous for vastly different reasons. Hitler was a psychopath with a clear, defined rage built up that he would stop at nothing to lay waste in the form of genocide. Unfortunately for the world, that happened at a time in Germany's history where all the stars were aligned for him to be able to take total control over a country on a micro and macro level. That is not the situation in the United States no matter how much you try to convince yourself of it.
Donald Trump is not a psychopath, he's a narcissistic sociopath. Both are bad, but one is much, much worse and is an existential danger. Donald Trump has the ability to make things uncomfortable in the US, but we are lucky that he's a rank amateur when compared to the likes of Hitler. He's in it for the rallies and the hats and the money, and he does what it takes to rile the hillbillies up which happens to be the topics of immigration, gun control, the economy, what have you. If making immigration easier and increasing taxes were the things that would get the hillbillies waving their Trump flags and buying red hats, he'd do that. He's in it for the highest bidder. He doesn't care about ideology because he's for sale.
Hitler was not for sale, and he made it known through his actions. Whether you think so or not, Trump does not have the power to instantly make his military turn its weapons on the population and start bombing our own citizens. He doesn't have the power to round up all liberals and send them to gas chambers. He doesn't have the power to take over Canada.
So before you start slinging around the, "Welp, it's Hitler 2.0 now..." stuff, take note that it makes you sound exactly like the current crop of conservatives who think that if Harris got elected the country would immediately turn into Soviet communist Russia with no individual rights complete with gulags and banning of religion.
Don't be that guy.
Yes.. I'll add that he seems to have a history of making outlandish comments to check on the reaction by his followers, and then he amplifies it if he gets a response. If it's super popular, he may act on it. So, it is not benign, either.This. The guy is concerned with the reaction from his followers, not what he’s going to actually do. Big difference.
I think the president doing things his voters want him to do is the best way to lead the country.Yes.. I'll add that he seems to have a history of making outlandish comments to check on the reaction by his followers, and then he amplifies it if he gets a response. If it's super popular, he may act on it. So, it is not benign, either.
I think the guy is a buffoon, but there is a certain genius in how he tests things with his followers. If they like it, he goes in that direction. It's also pretty terrifying because it's an insane way to lead a country.
The president doing the right thing for the country is the best way to lead the country, wouldn't you agree? Shouldn't he be looking out for all of his constituents, instead of just the folks who voted for him?I think the president doing things his voters want him to do is the best way to lead the country.
Hey, I'm happy to look up your conspiracy myself. Tell me where I can find scientific evidence about this conspiracy that you keep talking about related to vaccinations. I'll save you the work, since it seems very challenging for you to back up your conspiracy theory. Tell me where I can search for this evidence. Any scientific journals?I didn't want evidence from someone else. I was just trying to hold someone to the standard that they were demanding of others.
The problem with the term "disinformation" is who controls the information? If Kennedy gets confirmed and uncovers a shit ton of corruption with Big Pharma, then that will be the new truth. Will you be able to accept that truth even tho it comes from someone you don't trust? If not, will it annoy you to be called a conspiracy theorist?Hey, I'm happy to look up your conspiracy myself. Tell me where I can find scientific evidence about this conspiracy that you keep talking about related to vaccinations. I'll save you the work, since it seems very challenging for you to back up your conspiracy theory. Tell me where I can search for this evidence. Any scientific journals?
People who spread disinformation are dangerous. You're one of them. I'll gladly eat humble pie if you can educate all of us on this conspiracy?
I suppose you also support Iowa's new proposed mandate that educators are not to discuss climate change or evolution in classrooms in Iowa? You may not see the danger in your penchant for spreading misinformation, but when a bunch of you do it, things like this happen. Iowa is getting dumber. I hope you're not on that train, too.
State proposal would remove 'climate change' and 'evolution' from Iowa science standards
Some Iowans are raising concern about new proposed state science standards. In the proposal, any mention of "climate change" was changed to the phrase "climate trends". Although the standards would still include the concept of biological change over time, the word "evolution" was erased.www.kcci.com
I'm absolutely fine with people having different policy positions, and I'm absolutely fine with people having opinions. I'm not okay with people amplifying disinformation.
AgreeMost excellent analysis, Fry
That is the problem right there about misinformation. The Secret Service investigated a threat at the school not ICE. 2 agents left without entering the school. Soooo, ICE storming an elementary school is just more misinformation.The president doing the right thing for the country is the best way to lead the country, wouldn't you agree? Shouldn't he be looking out for all of his constituents, instead of just the folks who voted for him?
If his followers want ICE to storm an elementary school, should that happen? It did happen today.
If his followers want FEMA money to go to red states and not blue ones after disasters, should that happen?
If his followers want climate change and evolution to be stricken from science education, should that happen? (note that this is currently occurring in the state of Iowa, not at the federal level).
A real leader's job is to lead the country, all of it.
That is the problem right there about misinformation. The Secret Service investigated a threat at the school not ICE. 2 agents left without entering the school. Soooo, ICE storming an elementary school is just more misinformation.
I'm confused? Why is this a bad thing? Not trying to sound like a jerk at all. I've just gotta be missing something.CHICAGO - After Chicago Public Schools (CPS) initially claimed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited a Southwest Side elementary school Friday morning, it was later confirmed that this was not the case.
Instead, U.S. Secret Service agents were investigating a threat linked to the TikTok ban.
Yeah, it was just the Secret Service that attempted to enter an Elementary School to investigate an
unknown threat concerning Tic Tok
They were blocked by school officials that is why they left without entering the Elementary School
This is your America
Cherish it
I will gladly be that guy. The norms are shifting and it's not good for democracy, it is quite easy to see. SC judges that are extreme Maga today refusing to recuse themselves from cases they are deeply involved with. Clear infraction of sec 3 of 14th amendment and here we have an unqualified person in the WH today. Founders would be turning over in their graves. Violent destroyers of Capitol property and beating the hell out of Capitol police free and clear to do it again. These are not normal times and whether you are able to see it or not democracy here in America is at risk. I'm not saying Trump will set up death camps what I'm suggesting is he and his rabid misinformed followers who got clean away with attempting to change an election could easily send this country into the shitter along with our democracy. Lawlessness is a great way to start the avalanche to a shithole country and the doofus we know as DJT could do a hell of alot more damage than he has already done because as a country each time he does some crazy and stupid stunt we accept it all, no worries right? So did Germany, so did Rome. We're not special here and I'll gladly be that guy. Germany could have used more of these guys.First, let me say that Trump is a POS. I think he's a terrible human being and terrible for the country. Hitler was obviously a POS as well. Nothing I'm about to type should be taken as a defense of Donald Trump or his policies.
Now, some levity...
I 100% understand your point and I agree that on the surface there are some parallels. However, this whole 2nd coming of the Nazis thing that's being thrown around is misguided.
I know you won't do this on my recommendation and don't expect anyone to, but I do recommend that anyone interested in European history and politics in general read the book, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. It's a fabulous book that in my opinion has to be the most researched historical account of all time. It's universally accepted and viewed as the most comprehensive study of the beginning, middle, and end of the Nazi party and all it's players. Unfortunately it's also the "Moby Dick" of history books in that it's very long, and requires a good deal of note-taking and study to get through. There are literally hundreds of people mentioned to various degrees and it is very, very tedious to read. Not something you're going to casually knock out in a week and get anything out of.
With that out of the way, I've read it carefully because the topic interests me, and I am confident in saying that Trump has in no way the power to do what Hitler did. First, because he's not the same type of person, and second the United States of now and the Germany of then were two very, very different places under very different circumstances and situations.
1930s Germany was comparatively very small country run with almost monarchistic rule. There was a German version of a parliament, but it was a total puppet at the time of von Hindenburg and his small group of insiders. Germany was in complete shambles after WW1 and Hitler had started at ground zero, murdering and blackmailing people one-by-one until he was made chancellor by a dying (and blackmailed) von Hindenburg. You can admittedly draw some comparisons to 2025 USA, but those comparisons don't go deeper than the surface.
There are a whole lot of differences between these two situations. Some of them in no particular order...
1) 1930s Germany was in shambles as mentioned, with a tiny, mostly powerless military confined to an even tinier geographical area. No navy, no air force, no power inside its borders, let alone outside. Once Hitler took the chancellery and started literally murdering his political opponents, he was able to insert his own military and then begin building it from the ground up into what it became in 1941. The US military of present is the exact opposite of the one Hitler assumed control over. Made up of millions of servicepeople spread over literally millions of square miles, comprised of all different political persuasions. Yes, the US military populous leans towards conservative, but the notion that Donald Trump is going to wave his hand and have millions of service members immediately turn their weapons on the US at his whim is absolutely absurd. He does not have that control. He has what I'd call some level of control over hardcore conservatives, but that does not equal a total and complete takeover of control of the country.
2) As I mentioned earlier, Germany was a small country with a small population who were reeling from the poorly thought out Treaty of Versailles. They were pinned in a corner with no economy, hyperflation, and no access to resources that any country would need to survive. The people were looking to any leader they could to lead them out of it, and almost the whole population was on board with Hitler's message which did not include his plans to take over the world (at that time). As bad as things are in the US, we are not anywhere near that point. Almost exactly half of our 330,000,000 citizens hate Trump with fervor. We are a huge country with a huge and very diverse population of people will all range of ideologies. The exact opposite of 30s Germany.
3) Hitler was driven by VERY different motivations than Donald Trump. Hitler had a deep seeded belief that Jews were responsible for everything wrong in the world, and he viewed their extermination as a divine objective to be carried out as payback for the downfall of Germany, and he'd stop at nothing to get it. Hitler unfortunately was a very smart, calculating, and charismatic person bent on his goal, and wasn't driven by money or personal gain other than being in power. Through his speeches he was effectively able to control the entire population of Germany and get them all on board with his ideas.
Donald Trump is not that. He's quite obviously a buffoon who's first interest is money and being popular, he doesn't give a shit about ideology even though he may say so. He likes the hillbilly contingent cheering for him, the hats, the flags, and of course the money. He knows that the more extreme his speeches get, the louder the hillbillies will cheer. The more money he and his family will make. He doesn't have the smarts or the power over the population that Hitler did, even if you think he does.
There's a very clear distinction that you'd be wise to understand, and that is that Hitler was vastly more dangerous for vastly different reasons. Hitler was a psychopath with a clear, defined rage built up that he would stop at nothing to lay waste in the form of genocide. Unfortunately for the world, that happened at a time in Germany's history where all the stars were aligned for him to be able to take total control over a country on a micro and macro level. That is not the situation in the United States no matter how much you try to convince yourself of it.
Donald Trump is not a psychopath, he's a narcissistic sociopath. Both are bad, but one is much, much worse and is an existential danger. Donald Trump has the ability to make things uncomfortable in the US, but we are lucky that he's a rank amateur when compared to the likes of Hitler. He's in it for the rallies and the hats and the money, and he does what it takes to rile the hillbillies up which happens to be the topics of immigration, gun control, the economy, what have you. If making immigration easier and increasing taxes were the things that would get the hillbillies waving their Trump flags and buying red hats, he'd do that. He's in it for the highest bidder. He doesn't care about ideology because he's for sale.
Hitler was not for sale, and he made it known through his actions. Whether you think so or not, Trump does not have the power to instantly make his military turn its weapons on the population and start bombing our own citizens. He doesn't have the power to round up all liberals and send them to gas chambers. He doesn't have the power to take over Canada.
So before you start slinging around the, "Welp, it's Hitler 2.0 now..." stuff, take note that it makes you sound exactly like the current crop of conservatives who think that if Harris got elected the country would immediately turn into Soviet communist Russia with no individual rights complete with gulags and banning of religion.
Don't be that guy.