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"When Trump came for Mexicans I did not speak out.. " (Original Post) Cha Dec 2015 OP
K&R!!!!!! napkinz Dec 2015 #1
Mahalo napkinz~ Cha Dec 2015 #2
you're welcome Cha napkinz Dec 2015 #3
.. Cha Dec 2015 #6
yep, I was going to post that one too napkinz Dec 2015 #9
hitler is used disingenuously too much to compare to people.. but NOT in this Case. Cha Dec 2015 #11
Donald Trump Has Gone Full Nazi - And If The GOP Doesn't Repudiate It They Own It napkinz Dec 2015 #18
The gop is "worriedd II douche is going to mess up their majority in the Senate and congress".. Cha Dec 2015 #24
if next year we actually take back both the House and Senate, and win the presidency napkinz Dec 2015 #32
Bush II used it w0nderer Dec 2015 #29
"then he came for Black Lives Matter" napkinz Dec 2015 #4
Exactly, napkinz. thank you for reminding us of that horrible happening. Cha Dec 2015 #7
These are great malaise Dec 2015 #14
the Daily News covers for the past week have been spot on! napkinz Dec 2015 #22
"then he came for the disabled" napkinz Dec 2015 #5
Oh shite, that's right. Who the **** is next? Cha Dec 2015 #8
... napkinz Dec 2015 #10
Exactly.. how unbearably sad but true. Good piece at the link of the graphic I posted.. Cha Dec 2015 #12
Republican once said you can no longer say n***** but "forced busing and states rights" ... napkinz Dec 2015 #19
Yes, and one of our Black Members here was accused of having "lee atwater tactics" because he Cha Dec 2015 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2015 #13
Yes. If trump came to power it would be all over. Cha Dec 2015 #15
name removed ... let me a guess, someone defending Trump napkinz Dec 2015 #21
This is a very effective cover Gothmog Dec 2015 #16
kick napkinz Dec 2015 #17
K&R. That's really scary, Cha. lunamagica Dec 2015 #20
I know exactly what you mean, lunamagica.. that's the way I've described some of these Cha Dec 2015 #27
... napkinz Dec 2015 #23
Thanks for going back to the original Pastor Niemoller quote. It's good to be reminded... Hekate Dec 2015 #28
this ... napkinz Dec 2015 #31
KnR Hekate Dec 2015 #26
Yes, but who is listening? yallerdawg Dec 2015 #30
Thanks for yallerdawg.. the gop started this environment of exclusion .. now trump is perfecting it. Cha Dec 2015 #34
Suddenly the Daily News is awesome. I've started buying it every day. I never have Squinch Dec 2015 #33
I know, right? Cha Dec 2015 #36
This country is really messed up right now. herding cats Dec 2015 #35
Damn, herding.. wonder if he was a trump fan? that's so sad. thank you for getting involved. Cha Dec 2015 #37
I dunno, Cha. herding cats Dec 2015 #38

Cha

(297,574 posts)
11. hitler is used disingenuously too much to compare to people.. but NOT in this Case.
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:33 AM
Dec 2015

trump fits the analogy too freakishly well

Cha

(297,574 posts)
24. The gop is "worriedd II douche is going to mess up their majority in the Senate and congress"..
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:16 PM
Dec 2015

so even though they started this environment.. they're so busy repudiating.

thank you, napkinz

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
32. if next year we actually take back both the House and Senate, and win the presidency
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:56 PM
Dec 2015

I will say, thank heaven for Donald Trump! Donald, you unknowingly did us a great service!

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
29. Bush II used it
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:31 PM
Dec 2015

why change a winning idea, America has shown (repeatedly) they'll vote like controlled (as the majority of the voters..not people here)

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

Cha

(297,574 posts)
12. Exactly.. how unbearably sad but true. Good piece at the link of the graphic I posted..
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:40 AM
Dec 2015
Well, Il Douche went full Nazi yesterday. At a rally, he proposed banning all Muslims from entering the US. The crowd, of course, went wild.

Various GOP grandees clutched their pearls and averred that this was unconstitutional, un-American, and bad politics. Even Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney snapped back at Il Douche. (Of course, he was probably mostly concerned with his rich Saudi friends not being able to visit him at his secure, undisclosed location.)

Forgive me if I take their protestations with an ounce of salt.

The GOP, for 50 years, has covertly stoked racism among the white working class, the people who feel disenfranchised since the social justice movements of the 1960s and who form the bedrock of the Republican voting base. As a wise Republican once said, you can no longer say “nigger”, but you can say “welfare queen”, or “forced busing”. The code is understood.

What Il Douche has done is say “Screw the code words” and come out full bore on the racist angle. If you thought it would stop with his anti-Latino diatribes, you were sorely mistaken. (They came for the Latinos, and I did nothing, for I was not from Mexico
.)

More @ http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/08/the-first-time-as-tragedy-the-second-time-as-farce/

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
19. Republican once said you can no longer say n***** but "forced busing and states rights" ...
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:12 AM
Dec 2015

that was Lee Atwater

Cha

(297,574 posts)
25. Yes, and one of our Black Members here was accused of having "lee atwater tactics" because he
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:20 PM
Dec 2015

was a #BLM supporter. That's how I remember lee freaking Atwater as of late.

Response to Cha (Original post)

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
20. K&R. That's really scary, Cha.
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:17 AM
Dec 2015

If Tump was a character in a novel or movie, I would criticize saying it was too over the top unrealistic.

Cha

(297,574 posts)
27. I know exactly what you mean, lunamagica.. that's the way I've described some of these
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:27 PM
Dec 2015

draconian villains in the past.. now there's trump.

Hekate

(90,779 posts)
28. Thanks for going back to the original Pastor Niemoller quote. It's good to be reminded...
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:29 PM
Dec 2015

It's good to be reminded that he was a Christian -- a Lutheran pastor -- who spoke out strongly against the Nazis. He long survived WW II, but spent 7 years in Nazi concentration camps.

With so much anti-Christian sentiment here at DU, sometimes it is good to be reminded that all Christians -- even as all Muslims -- are not cut from the same cloth. There are good people everywhere, there are courageous people everywhere.

May we count ourselves among them when the final tally is made.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
30. Yes, but who is listening?
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:35 PM
Dec 2015
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Likely GOP Primary Voters Back Trump's Muslim Ban

More than a third say it makes them more likely to vote for him, according to an online PulsePoll conducted by Purple Strategies on Tuesday.



http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-09/bloomberg-politics-poll-trump-muslim-ban-proposal

Cha

(297,574 posts)
34. Thanks for yallerdawg.. the gop started this environment of exclusion .. now trump is perfecting it.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 02:02 AM
Dec 2015

Squinch

(50,993 posts)
33. Suddenly the Daily News is awesome. I've started buying it every day. I never have
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:00 PM
Dec 2015

time to read it, but I just want to support them.

herding cats

(19,567 posts)
35. This country is really messed up right now.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 02:28 AM
Dec 2015

Someone like Trump shouldn't be in the top tier.

I witnessed a man threatening to hit an elderly, disabled person parked in front of the grocery today waiting to pick up his wife who is also disabled and uses a walker. I gave my name to the store manager if the police needed another witness.

He was hitting his window and saying he'd kick his ass, and telling him he was what was wrong with this country. For parking in front of the store waiting for his disabled wife who had the grocery bags strung on her walker as she navigated her way to their mini-van.

Things are getting really weird, in a bad way, out there.

herding cats

(19,567 posts)
38. I dunno, Cha.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 02:52 AM
Dec 2015

But the level of hate and anger isn't being helped by Trump, that's for sure.

I only even brought it up here because of the fact he was yelling how he was what was "wrong with this country" and all. It's linked somehow I suspect.

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