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Bucky

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49. I get a kick out of that Trump analogy

Sat Feb 19, 2022, 06:33 PM

Feb 2022

I mean, it's a hysterical comparison. Because, sure, if I ran into a 15 year old kid, who was actually a 15-year-old Donald Trump, I would treat him with the same balance of discipline and compassion that I do with any other emotionally-manipulated rule-breaking teenager.

But as an over-the-top metaphor, you're basically treating Trump like many people do with Hitler. And although Trump isn't a Hitler, Trump is kind of our 21st century Hitler: garish, ridiculous, and uniquely evil.

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