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EarlG

(21,945 posts)
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 11:59 AM Feb 2022
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Pic Of The Moment: Pretty Sure It Shouldn't Be That Hard To Condemn Nazis (Original Post) EarlG Feb 2022 OP
May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Feb 2022 #1
Blah blah blah....... Goonch Feb 2022 #2
Isn't it totally Traildogbob Feb 2022 #3
And to think this guy is next in line to replace FailedCoupGuy KS Toronado Feb 2022 #4
;-{)🖖‍ Goonch Feb 2022 #6
LOL KS Toronado Feb 2022 #9
That should read xxqqqzme Feb 2022 #23
And this guy may supplant trump as the GOP candidate for pres. in '24? brush Feb 2022 #5
'empower citizens to rat each other out to the government' keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #7
'The denouncer is the biggest scoundrel in the whole country.' keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #10
De Santis is much too stupid, "TOO KNOW HE IS STUPID"... Stuart G Feb 2022 #21
Why would DeSantis criticize his buddies? Maraya1969 Feb 2022 #8
I'm sure DeathSantis thinks there are "very fine people on both sides." ShazzieB Feb 2022 #11
Where's Jake and Elwood when you need them? Initech Feb 2022 #12
I hate Illinois Nazis COL Mustard Feb 2022 #18
Unless, maybe deep down, you are one. calimary Feb 2022 #13
"I'm not going to have people try to smear meeeeeee!" Grins Feb 2022 #14
. dalton99a Feb 2022 #15
He's not going to condemn his base supporters... canuckledragger Feb 2022 #16
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #17
Dear Ron WVreaper Feb 2022 #19
K and R...Thanks for posting !..While he doesn't know it, Desantis just sealed his fate...forever!! Stuart G Feb 2022 #20
GOP and NAZIs go way back. Kid Berwyn Feb 2022 #22

Traildogbob

(8,716 posts)
3. Isn't it totally
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 12:19 PM
Feb 2022

Legal to run them over in your truck now, as per DeSatan? Scraping Nazis from your brush guard truck grill is patriotic.

KS Toronado

(17,199 posts)
4. And to think this guy is next in line to replace FailedCoupGuy
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 12:24 PM
Feb 2022

tells us just how stupid a large portion of our population is.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
23. That should read
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 10:00 PM
Feb 2022
DEFEATED failed coup guy,

When President Biden used that word, I thought 'Yes that is a better word than lost'. DEFEATED has weight. It has muscle.

brush

(53,764 posts)
5. And this guy may supplant trump as the GOP candidate for pres. in '24?
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 12:28 PM
Feb 2022

What party of that list makes him an attractive national candidate? I mean that anti-mask, anti-vaxx, racist, book-banning, nazi crappola might play in Florida but I doubt it'll go over well in much of the rest of the nation.

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
7. 'empower citizens to rat each other out to the government'
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 12:40 PM
Feb 2022

'empower citizens to rat each other out to the government'

DeSantis of Florida
Abbot of Texas
Youngkin of Virginia

There seems to be a trend.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=nazi+germany+citizens+spy+on+each+other

Some of the Afghan prisoners detained in Gitmo were falsely snitched on by their neighbors/enemies/associates.
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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/careless-whispers-how-the-german-public-used-and-abused-the-gestapo-1.2369837

Careless whispers: how the German public used and abused the Gestapo

The Gestapo was a very small organisation reliant on informers to denounce enemies of the regime, but jealous spouses and neighbours often used it to settle scores

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
10. 'The denouncer is the biggest scoundrel in the whole country.'
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 01:00 PM
Feb 2022

The Gestapo came to realise investigating false allegations was wasting a great deal of its time. As a letter, dated August 1st, 1943, from the Ministry of Justice in Berlin put it: ‘The denouncer is the biggest scoundrel in the whole country.’

Stuart G

(38,419 posts)
21. De Santis is much too stupid, "TOO KNOW HE IS STUPID"...
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 07:00 PM
Feb 2022
He will lose the election and will have to apologize..but he won't..and he doesn't have a clue...Says Stu..

Grins

(7,212 posts)
14. "I'm not going to have people try to smear meeeeeee!"
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 03:01 PM
Feb 2022

"I'm not going to have people try to smear meeeeeee", because just like Trump, it's all about you.

Stuart G

(38,419 posts)
20. K and R...Thanks for posting !..While he doesn't know it, Desantis just sealed his fate...forever!!
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 06:40 PM
Feb 2022

He will lose the governorship and by a whole lot.

Lot's of Jews in Florida. Everyone of them will vote against him.

Both Republicans and Democrates and Independents...much too stupid to know what to know.

Appealing to the ......."Protesting Vote" is not as smart as "Appealing to the Jewish Vote"...when there
are hundreds of thousands of Jews in Florida.

And no one is trying to smear him......He has smeared himself, ...forever.......I guess to get the...
....Trump vote...Well, ....he figured wrong. He could speak out against Nazi protests, and single out
Nazis as opposed to protests. If I can figure that out, perhaps he can...:

....Much too insensitive to be a leader of any state, town or city......Calling out Nazis who protest...is not calling out
protests...it is calling out the Nazis.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
22. GOP and NAZIs go way back.
Tue Feb 1, 2022, 07:27 PM
Feb 2022
The CIA’s Worst-Kept Secret:

Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis


Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war--the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine war on the Soviet Union and other leftist movements

May 1, 2001
Martin A. Lee
Originally in Foreign Policy In Focus

“Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind …”

That’s how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg’s SS unit performed “special duties,” a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other “undesirables” during the Second World War.

Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.

SNIP…

“The real winners of the cold war were Nazi war criminals, many of whom were able to escape justice because the East and West became so rapidly focused after the war on challenging each other,” says Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations and America’s chief Nazi hunter. Rosenbaum serves on a Clinton-appointed Interagency Working Group (IWG) committee of U.S. scholars, public officials, and former intelligence officers who helped prepare the CIA records for declassification.

Many Nazi criminals “received light punishment, no punishment at all, or received compensation because Western spy agencies considered them useful assets in the cold war,” the IWG team stated after releasing 18,000 pages of redacted CIA material. (More installments are pending.)

These are “not just dry historical documents,” insists former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a member of the panel examining the CIA files. As far as Holtzman is concerned, the CIA papers raise critical questions about American foreign policy and the origins of the cold war.

The decision to recruit Nazi operatives had a negative impact on U.S.-Soviet relations and set the stage for Washington’s tolerance of human rights abuses and other criminal acts in the name of anti-Communism. With that fateful sub-rosa embrace, the die was cast for a litany of antidemocratic CIA interventions around the world.

CONTINUES…

https://ips-dc.org/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis/
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