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Kid Berwyn

(24,393 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 11:25 AM Apr 2022

J.D. Vance wrote "Trump might be America's Hitler" in 2016

J.D. knew one when a NAZI Führer when saw one. Now he has Dimdonnie Drumpfler’s oh fishy Ohio endorsement.



J.D. Vance Worried Trump Was 'America's Hitler' in Text Shared by Roommate

BY ANDREW STANTON
Newsweek, 4/18/22

Trump-backed Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance once reportedly worried the former president could be "America's Hitler" in a resurfaced text message, his former college roommate claimed Monday.

Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author, who was once a critic of former President Donald Trump, scored his endorsement in the GOP primary last week, potentially offering his campaign a boost in a crowded field to replace outgoing Republican Senator Rob Portman.

Georgia Representative Josh McLaurin, a Democrat, who said he was Vance's roommate while at Yale University, shared the text message that was from 2016 on Twitter that he claimed to be from Vance.

Source:

https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-worried-trump-was-americas-hitler-text-shared-roommate-1698739

For some reason, the story’s vanished from The Week

https://theweek.com/2022-election/1012706/jd-vance-said-trump-might-be-americas-hitler-in-2016-text-message

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J.D. Vance wrote "Trump might be America's Hitler" in 2016 (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 OP
He must have meant it as a compliment. kysrsoze Apr 2022 #1
If GQP had a platform, it would be NAZI. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #4
And Ted Cruz appears in True Blue American Apr 2022 #2
Ted Cruz and Josh Mandel, sad. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #5
Trump will murder his political opponents if given the chance. Initech Apr 2022 #3
That's why we try. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #6
That's fucking scary. Initech Apr 2022 #7
Good Thing Biden Won In 2020 Or.... global1 Apr 2022 #8
Trump-Putin Pact? Anyone know what they talked about it private? Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #10
Il Douche BlueWavePsych Apr 2022 #9
That's a selling point for today's GQP ck4829 Apr 2022 #11

Kid Berwyn

(24,393 posts)
4. If GQP had a platform, it would be NAZI.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 11:57 AM
Apr 2022

From author Loretta J. Ross:



…I’m through giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt after 50 years.

The term “Nazi” is not even strong enough to convey the opprobrium and disgust human rights activists feel for those who brazenly claim they are simply patriots with different opinions. From the White House, to the Congress, to the streets, they declared war on democracy. They are seditionists, co-conspirators, and neo-Nazis hiding in plain sight who chose to use whatever power, platforms, and microphones they had to overturn this system of government. Their apparent goal is an apartheid-like system in which an embattled minority of people rule over millions of people who oppose them. We must send an unmistakable signal that this will not be tolerated when a more competent neo-fascist seeks to gain permanent power in the Congress or White House in the future…

Source: The Nazification of the Republican Party



That makes three of us…

Initech

(108,782 posts)
3. Trump will murder his political opponents if given the chance.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 11:45 AM
Apr 2022

Which is why we must stop him at all costs in 22 and 24.

Kid Berwyn

(24,393 posts)
6. That's why we try.
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 12:00 PM
Apr 2022
"When do we get to use the guns?"

A man at a local event by Turning Points USA asked, just hours after the Boise Towne Square shooting, asked Charlie Kirk when he would get to start killing political opponents.



‘When do we get to use the guns?’ The police should be able to take that guy’s guns.

BY BRYAN CLARK
The Idaho Statesman, OCTOBER 28, 2021

Excerpt…

The main speaker was Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Points. Kirk’s hucksterism is obvious. He is a traveling salesman at heart.

Snip…

According to the nonprofit organization’s tax filings, Kirk was paid about $330,000 last year. Turning Points reported earning about $10.3 million from fundraising events, more than a quarter of its total revenue for 2020.

Snip…

The man, claiming the state had fallen into tyranny, asked Kirk: “When do we get to use the guns?” — to applause and cheers from many in the audience.

Then, to remove any doubt that this aspiring Brownshirt wasn’t being metaphorical or facetious but was, in fact, asking when to start murdering political opponents, he continued: “That’s not a joke. I’m not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where is the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”

Kirk did not respond with a simple message like: “Terrorism is wrong. You shouldn’t do it.” Instead, he cast political violence as a tactical blunder. It would play into the hand of the same hidden media-deepstate-Democrat forces trying to institute tyranny by installing Joe Biden as president, he claimed.

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https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article255354321.html

global1

(26,507 posts)
8. Good Thing Biden Won In 2020 Or....
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 12:10 PM
Apr 2022

Putin might have attacked the U.S. instead of Ukraine to get rid of the Nazi's.

Kid Berwyn

(24,393 posts)
10. Trump-Putin Pact? Anyone know what they talked about it private?
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 12:24 PM
Apr 2022
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 – review

Was Stalinism really worse than nazism? Richard J Evans takes issue with Roger Moorhouse's worryingly one-sided account of the consequences of the non-aggression pact


by Richard J. Evan’s
The Guardian, Aug. 4, 2018

Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August 1939, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia stunned the world by announcing that they had concluded a non-aggression pact, committing themselves not to aid each other's enemies or to engage in hostile acts against one another. Stalin knew the pact would not be popular. "For many years now," he said, "we have been pouring buckets of shit on each other's heads, and our propaganda boys could not do enough in that direction. And now, all of a sudden, are we to make our peoples believe that all is forgotten and forgiven? Things don't work that fast." Many western European communists, disgusted at this turn of events, left the party at this point in what was probably the largest exodus of members before the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The front garden of Nazi party headquarters in Munich was quickly filled with party badges and insignia thrown there by party members appalled at the thought of an alliance with the communist enemy they had spent their lives fighting against.

The shock would have been all the greater had people been aware of the secret clauses of the pact, with subsequent addenda, in which the two states agreed to partition Poland between them – Germany taking the larger part – while Hitler conceded that the independent Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Finland and parts of Romania would fall into the Soviet sphere of influence. Just over a week later, Hitler invaded Poland, his armies brushing aside the brave but ill-equipped Polish army, while shortly afterwards the Red Army marched into the eastern part of the country. In 1940, Stalin's troops marched into the Baltic states. His attack on Finland was initially repulsed in the "Winter War", but numbers told in the end, and an uneasy peace was reached, marked by Soviet annexations of Finnish territory in the east of the country. Further south, the Soviets seized Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from the Romanians.

These events are hardly "largely unknown", as Roger Moorhouse claims in his new book, nor are they "dismissed as a dubious anomaly" in the standard histories of the second world war. They were a crucial feature of the runup to the outbreak of the war, and they entered literature as part of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, where a sudden switch of alliances causes the hero Winston Smith to work overtime as he carries out the task assigned to him of rewriting the newspapers to make it look as if the new alliance had always been in existence.

And alliance indeed it was. For Hitler, the pact provided a guarantee that he could invade first Poland, then France and most of the rest of western Europe, without having to worry about any threat from the east. For Stalin, it allowed a breathing space in which to build up armed forces that had been severely damaged by the purges of the previous years, as his botched invasion of Finland showed. It also gave him the chance to expand the Soviet Union to include parts of the old Russian empire of pre-revolutionary times. Moorhouse is right, therefore, to insist that for Stalin the pact was not merely defensive, though he goes too far when he claims it was a golden opportunity for the Soviet leader "to set the world-historical forces" of revolution in motion. After a decade of "socialism in one country", he was not going to do that.

Continues….

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/06/devils-alliance-hitlers-pact-stalin-1938-1941-roger-moorhouse-review

Reading how today’s White Power types tan their nuts in public, authoritarian ideas really are strange.
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