Steve SilbermanNote the "America First" jumper. Oh yes, oh yes, they turned boats full of Jews back from US ports to Eastern Europe to be gassed, and the same kind of cruel assholes now traffic migrant families on Christmas Eve. May history bury them in ignominy. [via @edwereddie on the birdsite] #GOP #history
Ms. Understood@stevesilberman holy smokes. Never saw that Dr. Seuss. America first movement highlighted detailed in Rachel Maddow's podcast Ultra. https://rachel-maddow-presents-ultra.simplecast.com/
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power. When extremist elected officials get caught plotting against America with the violent ultra right, this is the story of the lengths they will go to… to cover their tracks. Follow now and join Rachel Maddow for the first two episodes on October 10th.
Fish HeadPlus ça change, plus la meme chose.
Probs we’ve had this problem since we were Chimpanzee.
John_G_R_Wilson@stevesilberman AmeriKKKa first: the home of KKKers and Nazis. Period. Here’s the history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)
Jazztronaut@stevesilberman I love the book Dr. Suess goes to war. UCSD has a great site that catalogs a bunch of these comics:
https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/
https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/
Christian Graus@stevesilberman Suess was a prominent anti Fascist
EyalLThey also literally cooperated with Hitler's agents in secret, disseminating Nazi propaganda to millions using Congress's own mail infrastructure.
The same agents that sponsored two violent coup attempts, and the silver shirts org that attacked Jews in the USA.
Sharon Gibson MorganRachel Maddow chronicles these activities in her latest podcast, Ultra. https://tinyl.io/7c4n
Steven J. Ross, one of the historians featured in Maddow's podcast, is the author of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America.
Another featured historian is Bradley Hart, author of Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States.
We weren't a united front against Nazism as #history class had us believe.
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast
Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power. When extremist elected officials get caught plotting against America with the violent ultra right, this is the story of the lengths they will go to… to cover their tracks. Follow now and join Rachel Maddow for the first two episodes on October 10th.