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My thoughts exactly. Although, I’m not out there marching today, so who am I to say anything about the “lethargy” of others? They are marching in D.C. today. Probably elsewhere as well.


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Thousands march in Washington DC against Trump’s deployment of National Guard

Several thousand Washington DC residents on Saturday marched to demand US President Donald Trump end the deployment of National Guard troops patrolling the capital city’s streets.
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str8line said:
**** off to any moron traitor who voted for this psycho piece of ****. Rot in hell Trumptard MFers, I hope you suffer for your hate. Of course it means nothing to you until you are affected by it but it's coming.
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So long since I saw the movie, did not realize at first that Trump’s strange deportation comment was his takeoff on “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”. And Trump himself? He’s dressed as the psychopathic war crime nut job in the film, so he got that part correct…..I’m seeing so many “greatest president ever!” replies to his Truth Social post, just to confirm that so many of his followers are clueless, love cruelty, and are the worst kind of citizens imaginable in any democratic society. These are Americans, who, if this were 1938 Germany, would be thinking “hey this Hitler guy is alright in my book!”.

Without an understanding of history, far too many people fail to recognize what is happening….while….it’s actually taking place. This level of historical amnesia leads to terrible outcomes. But, in the case of the United States today, I believe we do need to spell it out: many of our fellow citizens are hateful, and gravitate toward cruelty and revenge.

They may not recognize Trump as a fascist, due to being uneducated in history. But their joy in being cruel? Matching Trump’s joy at dispensing cruelty? That IS on them. That’s not historical amnesia. No, that’s them. That’s what’s in their hearts. And they really need to face that someday.
 
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So long since I saw the movie, did not realize at first that Trump’s strange deportation comment was his takeoff on “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”. And Trump himself? He’s dressed as the psychopathic war crime nut job in the film, so he got that part correct…..I’m seeing so many “greatest president ever!” replies to his Truth Social post, just to confirm that so many of his followers are clueless, love cruelty, and are the worst kind of citizens imaginable in any democratic society. These are Americans, who, if this were 1938 Germany, would be thinking “hey this Hitler guy is alright in my book!”.

Without an understanding of history, far too many people fail to recognize what is happening….while….it’s actually taking place. This level of historical amnesia leads to terrible outcomes. But, in the case of the United States today, I believe we do need to spell it out: many of our fellow citizens are hateful, and gravitate toward cruelty and revenge.

They may not recognize Trump as a fascist, due to being uneducated in history. But their joy in being cruel? Matching Trump’s joy at dispensing cruelty? That IS on them. That’s not historical amnesia. No, that’s them. That’s what’s in their hearts. And they really need to face that someday.
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Trump voters in 1938 Germany would tour a concentration camp and proclaim "This is exactly what I voted for!"
 
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PJF said:
Who's he truly declaring war on @Red ?

Criminals, but you know that
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Don’t find excuses for him. What US president would post this:


View: https://x.com/Miriam2626/status/1964377695703486526


Well, is that designed to make Americans feel their president is a president for ALL Americans?

That is as divisive a meme as a president could ever post. Or can you find a worse example, from Trump, of a president determined to put American against American? In fact, I’m sure there are many such examples of Trump’s determination to encourage hatred of Americans by Americans.

And hatred of undocumented human beings? Do you know any history at all? Can you relate to us what happens in a nation when the nation’s elected leader creates “the other”? Do you know what “the other” is? It’s the “them” in “us vs them”. “The other”= a scapegoat. And why does a man like Trump create a scapegoat? Indeed, on the very day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower in 2015? To demonize a group. To demonize and provide the disaffected members of American society with a group of “human beings”(that’s what they actually are, but, as “the other”, they are the reasons for all our problems). Can you think of ANYONE from history that used the same MO to generate a following? I can think of several, but then I know history. So far, you have never shown any evidence that you do.

And your reaction? To apologize for the monster’s own words.

You are as un-American as any citizen in the United States. You have no clue as to what the foundational ideals and principles upon which our national experiment in self rule and democracy were, and still are. Your attitude, your willingness to ignore the truth of the matter, make you the very worst type of American citizen.

I chose not to support a man who appeals to hatred and anger. I do not, for one second, believe the United States is a dystopian hellhole. Blaming scapegoats, creating “the other” is the MOST DISPICABLE thing a national leader can do! Show me where history demonstrates otherwise. Show me! You cannot. One, you don’t know any History at all. Two, having not learned the lessons of history, you make a fool out of yourself every single time you show how uneducated in history you really are.

Somehow, you believe Trump’s moves in support of a civil war climate in our country is actually a good thing. Dividing us, urging hatred toward liberals, simply because we believe in “the rights of man”, and are more aware of the nature of the experiment in self rule started some 250 years ago, than a terrible citizen like yourself will ever understand.
 
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PJF said:
Who's he truly declaring war on @Red ?

Criminals, but you know that
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The image spoke for itself. A 5 time Vietnam draft dodger dressed as the American war criminal from the movie, and a helicopter attack on Chicago. Trump knew that, otherwise, why did he try to retract the obvious message of the image later in the day?? So much pushback, he even called it “fake news”, even as it was posted to his private account on Truth Social.

Normally, my reply yesterday would be my last word on that, but there is a timely article in The Atlantic today. Talking about a lesson you need to learn. Because you are giving him your permission to use the rhetoric of violence against your fellow Americans, in your statement. And I want to leave this with you knowing that that is exactly what you are doing. What right do you have to do that? Why do you encourage his use of the rhetoric of violence against your fellow citizens, by finding a way to excuse him?

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Donald Trump’s War of Words

Violent language is the mother tongue of this Trump administration.
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For a man openly campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump sure does love the rhetoric of violence.

On Saturday, the president posted an image of himself as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, the Wagner-blasting cavalry officer in Apocalypse Now. “I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” the meme said, paraphrasing the famous quote from the movie. In case the implication was unclear—little about Kilgore or Trump is subtle—the meme added, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The image replaced the film’s name with “Chipocalypse Now,” superimposing the city skyline on a fiery sky.

An American president threatening to unleash the U.S. military on—to make war against—an American city would have seemed unthinkable very recently. Although such behavior remains appalling, it is no longer unexpected. Violent language is the mother tongue of this Trump administration.

What Trump intends to do in Chicago is not clear. After deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles—where he also dispatched Marines—Trump began talking about sending troops to other cities, including Chicago. Amid fierce pushback from state and local officials, he seemed to cool on the idea last week. He’s now trying to disavow Saturday’s threat too. Although Trump posted it to his personal account on a social network he majority-owns, he called it “fake news” yesterday: “We’re not going to war. We’re going to clean up our cities.”

Even if the president doesn’t want to go to war—he did obtain five draft deferments to avoid military service during the Vietnam War—he is attracted to the swaggering machismo he associates with the word. It’s the apparent inspiration for rebranding the Defense Department (passive, reactive) to be the Department of War. He can’t legally rename it without Congress’s permission, and the cost of changing the branding could reportedly run into millions or billions of dollars. Either he means it or he’s willing to light money on fire for a symbolic stunt. Neither is good.

Trump’s embrace of violent rhetoric is not new. During his first campaign, he encouraged rally attendees to beat up protesters. As president, he encouraged police to treat suspects brutally. As the runner-up in the 2020 election, he encouraged supporters to “fight like hell,” and they did, sacking the U.S. Capitol. Nevertheless, Trump has turned up the volume in his second term, with help from aides such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who, as my colleague Tom Nichols wrote last week, is obsessed with terms such as lethality and warfighters…….

……….Speaking fluent violence comes with a price. During Trump’s first run for president, observers who should have known better were willing to believe that the real-estate mogul really was a peacenik. The delusion persisted in some quarters until his return to the White House this year, when he fully abandoned any claim to dovishness, aside from half-hearted attempts to end the war in Ukraine. Initially, Trump’s embrace of militarism was directed outward, in the form of semi-veiled threats of invasions to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Threats became action when the United States bombed Iran, to the chagrin of some America Firsters. More recently, the military attacked and destroyed a boat leaving Venezuela whose crew members the administration has said, without offering evidence, were drug smugglers.

Pressed to legally justify the killing, the administration has offered little explanation. “Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X, later adding, “I don’t give a **** what you call it.” That drew a rebuke from Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican. “Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?? What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” Paul posted.

Implicit in Paul’s comments is the fear that brutal rhetoric and tools of repression that a government uses overseas will eventually be turned against a domestic population. This idea is called the “imperial boomerang,” and it’s attributed both to the poet-statesman Aimé Césaire and the philosopher Hannah Arendt. You don’t have to look very hard to see this happening today. For the first two decades of this century, the United States waged a “global war on terror.” Now it has withdrawn most of its troops from these conflicts and instead has held a Soviet-style military parade and deployed uniformed, armed soldiers to intimidate a District of Columbia electorate that voted overwhelmingly against Trump. Or, to choose another example: The president is taking a film that dramatized the senseless imperial violence of the Vietnam War and using it to threaten war against Chicago.
 
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