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[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What if it's not about him not being able to come up with his own material but about him liking Hitler?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

It's definitely both. Also, Stephen Miller is still one of his most trusted advisors and you KNOW that creep loves himself some Hitler!

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You mean like a guy keeping a book with Hitler's speeches on his bed stand? That sort of guy?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've heard this before, but I have a hard time reconciling Trump's public persona with someone who privately keeps a book on his nightstand.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Oh, he'd keep books around that make him feel powerful or he thinks would make others feel that way about him.

He doesn't strike me as an avid reader.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Well, they need to do a better job at it. This is just not dancing around the point.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago

All he wants to do is yell incoherently in front of groups of people. He never stopped doing it even when he was in office.

Take the moron off the ballot and let him fade away in semi crowded gyms yelling at clouds.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, Trump and his base are straight up traitors and should all be deported.

[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Deported to where? Kenya? /s

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That floating island made of trash.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

The Marianas Trench.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I hear North Korea is lovely this time of year.

[–] faceula@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rwanda's so hot right now...

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, and the USA wouldn't have that pesky ECHR getting in the way either.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Hell, at this point i don't care if they send em to Kanye lol

[–] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No-one wants your brain-dead morons, thanks.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey they’re free! What a bargain! You can use them however you like! Flower arranging. Ditch digging. You could stack them like cord wood and make cool fort. You could tell all sorts of absolute nonsense and they’ll believe it like the most niaive little children.

[–] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If they really were that convenient, you wouldn't give them away for free. Something is fishy here.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

NO NO HONEST!!! There’s nothing, uh… wrong… with them… they’re just, uh. SURPLUS TO REQUIREMENT!!! YEAH!!!

HEY WHAT A BARGAIN HOW CAN YOU PASS THIS GREAT DEAL UP?!?!

[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

I find it funny he can’t stack his background anymore with 3 token black men, now it’s just white men

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Crystalnacht is what is next.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago

Crystal night or (Reichs)Kristallnacht. But not both

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

We rather use Night of Broken Glass or November pogroms, since crystal night sounds euphemistic.

Sorry for the thought police moment

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really hate that this isn't an Onion headline.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It basically is. Wonkette is a satire site just like The Onion. OP (likely accidentally) broke Rule 2.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Not exactly. Wonkette is more like Stephen Colbert, using factual news as the basis for mockery and derision aimed at the right. This article, for example, accurately quotes Trump on the horrifying "poisoning the blood" rhetoric, and then rips into him for it.

[–] 15liam20@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

"It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. "

  • George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf. Gave it two stars.