Are we 1940s Germany?
We have Nazis and Nazi-lite -> MAGA We have brown shirts -> ICE. We are blaming immigrants and believing white people are somehow superior. Now we just invaded a country, and say we will invade others. What’s happening here… It feels strange. Is anyone else seeing this?
Drugs like meth. Which is why he had more energy.
Can we get trump some meth?
Except Trump can’t live that long. A dozen+ doctors have posted articles and videos lining out how he clearly has frontotemporal dementia. God knows what heart and other issues he has, but even with the best of luck and care, it won’t be long until he can’t be in front of cameras.
That last is just my opinion. But to my mind he really started to sundown around 2021-2020. At this point, he’s radically worse than just 2-3 years back.
I’m afraid most of the administration are fools put up for us to rage and clown on. For example, can you imagine the real powers behind the throne agreeing that Pete Hegseth was a great choice for SecDef? He’s a handsome, drunk, fratboy with a military record and Fox News face recognition. Doesn’t matter a whit if he’s a twit. Perfect!
You’re right, Miller may be the real puppeteer. Notice how he keeps as low-key as possible? Sure, he’s says some stupid shit, but he’s in the background against the louder idiots.
But could Hermann Göring have slid into Hitler’s spot? That’s not a facile Nazi comparison. Dead cult leader -> implosion -> dead cult. They have to grasp total control before Trump can’t stand up and speak.
He can barely do so now, not joking. Watch him in a scheduled event his handlers can’t avoid, like the meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister. Trump was not present, having a “bad” day as they say in senior care.
Let him! The second the cult leader is dead or displaced, Vance takes all the blame for everything Trump supporters are seething about. The game is to speed run Project 2025, grab the levers of power permanently before Trump literally can’t stand up without drooling.
Can you imagine the backstabbing, Bulgarian clusterfuck that would go down if Trump dropped dead tonight?! These folks are in a fucking hurry.
They didn’t really raise them…
Like, boomers didn’t become boomers out of nowhere. The ones who had fathers who fought nazis, likely didn’t have a father come back from the war. And when they did it was a vet (justifiably) shell shocked with zero access to anything resembling mental healthcare.
Good and bad generations are created by the ones before them. We need to learn this lesson so we can stop having little shits running around screeching trump slogans in 6th grade.
Raising competent generations takes effort, or else no one would be the effort in.
We didn’t put the effort in as a society with Gen alpha, now they’re all little shits and if we don’t fix them we’re gonna have to live with them the rest of our lives.
You’re not wrong. But make no mistake, what is happening now mostly began and (hopefully) ends with the Boomer generation. They have failed the United States in so very many ways. They constantly blame others for their own failings. They can’t even define the word “introspection.” They would rather watch the world burn than let anyone, who they are not directly related to, prosper.
Like most people who follow blatant nonsense, younger generations in the US were indoctrinated from birth into the backwards thinking that leads to MAGA even becoming a thing. It’s no different than being indoctrinated into religion. It’s brainwashing disguised as child rearing.
Not all Boomers are this way. But in my admittedly small sample size, the vast majority that I’ve ever met, including those in my own family, are. And the craziest thing of it all – they think they’re right and righteous. And that’s what makes them dangerous.
The parents of boomers are sometimes just Nazis
No you’re America.
The Germans in 1940 didn’t have the lens of history to view the events through, they couldn’t necessarily have predicted the path they were on.
America in 2026? Everyone with working senses warned you loud and clear for years that this is exactly what happens if he ended up in the white house again instead of prison.
Most of you didn’t listen.
The fascists even published the plan in black and white before the election
It was bafflingly also largely dismissed
America is much worse now because you all know where this train ends and you’re all letting the driver get on with it
Fair observation, but conversely, this particular kind of populism very much started with the 20th century fascists, it’s uncanny how similarly it’s going now.
Especially in terms of what people would be taught and expected to know about; I think you’d struggle to find anyone in the developed world who doesn’t know at least the basics about WW2.
Saying they didn’t have the lens or history to learn from is a little dismissiv
Especially when it was publicly affirmed that they took their inspiration, in part, from the genocidal policies the US employed to destroy the indigenous people here. (And, I’d add, if you’re not aware of just how euphemistic the term ‘reservation’ is, you should read up on how the US destroyed the indigenous people.)
they couldn’t necessarily have predicted the path they were on.
Yeah. If only Hitler had written down what he was up to. Like, in a book or something.
Is anyone else seeing this?
Everyone with any kind of voice has been screaming at the top of their lungs that this was happening ever since the aftermath of 9/11. Maybe earlier.
Same as with Hitler though, did you know he was imprisoned for an attempted coup in 1920s? That’s where he wrote “Mein Kampf”. In which he clearly stated what his intentions were.
But yes, other people are seeing it, and now you are too. Idk if that’s exactly a “congratulations” moment, but I’m glad you can see the parallels.
What’s happening here…
9/11 was the catalyst that broke America, no introspection about it being blowback* , just pants on head insane. The US slid down thay slippery slope and here we are
*See Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback that came out long beofre 9/11 saying eventually there would be consequences for the US constantly interfering.
I have been told every day for the past year that I am overreacting by my family and some friends, and bit by bit watching those calls to calm down get more diminutive and less dismissive has been the only bittersweet kind of schadenfreude I’ve had all year, save for when Kirk got perforated.
I would’ve rather been wrong.
Of course you will see similarities, we’ve been calling opponents “Nazis” for a long time, it’s an American tradition.
If you mean a country that will attack many other countries in wars of conquest? We have a long history of that, depending on what you consider to qualify as conquest.
If you mean like forces aligning for world war with USA as the belligerent aggressor, taking on any and all challengers? It sure is looking like this is possible. US government seems pretty hungry for resources and lot more than usual. Our greed is growing exponentially.
Just my opinion but I am not an expert.
All of that has a master: The Office of the Papacy (the Pope).
This is Christofascism, unfortunately.
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