January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. He accomplished this by dividing the population, intimidating the public with political terrorism (using the Sturmabteilung, the “Brownshirts”), blaming every problem and misery (even a worldwide depression) on the administration in power (Weimar), and scapegoating Jews for the ills of Germany society.
Hitler made lots of promises to the German people to gain the trust of a small majority of the voting public. He held subsequent elections, but violent intimidation and fraud played prominent roles in each one. His Ministry of Propaganda took over all media and pushed only the narratives the Party wanted the public to believe. He exploited a tragedy, the Reichstag fire (which the Nazis may have started), to institute an “Enabling Act” which superseded all civil liberties and laws and undercut the power of the Reichstag to pass and enact laws.
Having used the Enabling Act to make the Reichstag irrelevant, Hitler ruled by decree. Through decree, he imprisoned those who posed a “threat” to national security. He stripped his favorite scapegoats, the Jews, of their rights. Under Hitler, the State took over and controlled where citizens worked, their wages, and their jobs. The State-controlled who citizens could associate with. The State-controlled who could marry whom. The State-controlled what lives were worth allowing continuing. The State-controlled the information the citizens could have access to.
State spending went wild. The nation was pouring money into its military because Hitler had a specific agenda of conquest. He led through an ideology of power, force, threat, and hate. Very quickly, Germany was facing a financial crisis. Hitler placated the public with free education, health care, and vacations.
In a little over 6 years, Germany instigated a world war which led to utter, catastrophic, and complete ruin for them, much of Europe, and left 80,000,000 dead.
Does history repeat itself or does it merely rhyme? Either way, the next election will be telling. If Democrats get the opportunity to pass the laws they want to destroy honest elections, eliminate the Congressional protection of the filibuster and turn the Supreme Court into a Democrat rubber stamp, even without another world war, the United States of America will absolutely face utter ruin and catastrophe. Look no further than the current situation at our border to see what this totalitarian regime is capable of when it puts its totalitarian talents to the task.
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On the surface of it, the Brownshirts seemed to be allied with Hitler, but once Hitler took power he looked upon them as an obstacle to his absolute power.
On the night of June 30, 1934, Rohm and many more leaders of the Brownshirts were shot by members of Heinrich Himmler’s SS (Schutzstaffeln.)
It was called “the night of the long knives.”
Hitler’s loyal generals, whose chief spokesman was the minister of defense, Werner von Blomberg, were impressed by the efficiency with which Röhm and his Brownshirt clique had been eliminated.
Yes, history repeats.
And useful idiots turn into threats to their once puppet masters.
That’s when the long knives come out.
And that’s what the street troops like Antifa and BLM are missing. That once that total power is achieved those rabble rouser in Atifa and BLM will be eliminated as a threat just as the Brownshirts were. The first victims of revolutions are the revolutionaries.
very true, noted it several times before. just a matter of time when the usefulness has run out. since there is no law in this country under the pedophile, one must consider splinter group formations. most of the two domestic terrorist groups have already formed ideologic pockets within these two terrorist groups. understanding the mentality of these feculent brained, illiterates and the sodomistic, irrational behavior poses unrecognized fragmented group behavior. the key is once the leadership is abolished and the tier levels of leadership are removed the followers become lost. Shire’s book lays it out along with the work of Hannah Arendt’s seminal work The Origin of Totalitarianism
Likewise, it remains to be seen if the terrorist arm of the Democrat party, ANTIFA, can be reined in and controlled. It doesn’t quite look like it. The Brownshirts wanted non-stop, endless revolution. Sound like anyone today?
There is something nefarious behind all this, something we’ve not seen yet.
Our electoral system is officially dead, and the era of American Dictatorships has begun.
What comes next, no one knows.
Oh we know what comes next. To think we do not is to deny the reality of our situation.
Counter revolution is in the works. Stand by.
ROFLMAO!!! As Bugs was known to say, “What a maroon!” Sorry. Ain’t happening.
I worried about such possibilities for four long years, until our democratic election process prevailed and the December 6 putsch failed.
Trump was an egotistical president who was proclaimed to be beyond the reach the law; he then used his influence and powers of office to seduce and intimidate members of his own party, effectively placing himself beyond the reach of Congress. He was the central figure of an authoritarian personality cult—the greatest internal danger that any free, democratic nation governed by the rule of law can face.
Joe Biden is none of that.
Except Trump never exhibited any of the characteristics of a totalitarian regime. In contrast, every paragraph above precisely parallels how the idiot Biden administration operates. As usual, as the left was accusing Trump of dictatorial tendencies it is they themselves that seek totalitarian police state powers. Just as every time before, their goals will result in catastrophe.
“Obama was an egotistical president who was proclaimed to be beyond the reach the law; he then used his influence and powers of office to seduce and intimidate members of his own party, effectively placing himself beyond the reach of Congress. He was the central figure of an authoritarian personality cult—the greatest internal danger that any free, democratic nation governed by the rule of law can face.”
There, Comrade Greggie, fixed your error.
Biden doesn’t have the intellect to be as corrupt as Obama. That is why he has brought in all the Obama retreads (Susan Rice, Samantha Power, etc)
Isn’t it amazing how leftist can do that? Obama was lawless, corrupt, anti-American and anti-Constitution. His goal was to “fundamentally transform” America. Hitler showed us what a socialist’s fundamental transformation looks like.
“I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says of Joe Biden. I think he knows Joe better than you.
And crooked Hillary gives idiot Biden an “A” for his disastrous first three months, so you KNOW he’s failing on a massive scale. She just sees all that wasteful spending and sees the opportunity for refilling Clinton Foundation coffers.
Authoritarians do what Democrats are doing
Trump is the opposite of that.
I really hope you get paid well for your lies.
But, Nathan, Greggie SWEARS he ISN’T a paid troll!
He works for the CCP. He can’t stop himself from defending Marxism, when you bring it up.
This is all about Neo-Marxism.
Will you ever back up the media-fed claims you make that Trump was doing…well…any of the things you keep lying about?
The CNN-induced meme was all for political purposes, for the Democrats to trick some into voting for them.
The Democrat Party is the actual realization of all the totalitarian accusations lobbed at Trump.
Complete projection, or diabolical scheme.
I’m betting that sanity will prevail.
May 3, 2021 – Liz Cheney refuses to back down on Trump criticism
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 Republican on the House, tweeted Monday that anyone promoting “THE BIG LIE” that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump is “turning their back on the rule of law” and “poisoning our democratic system.”
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https://www.axios.com/liz-cheney-trump-republican-leadership-26363e1a-8e66-40ef-87b6-22477b2ed682.html
What else is she going to do? Admit she was wrong? Her support has plummeted because the majority support Trump, an actual leader.
Hitler was “an actual leader”, too. That didn’t make him a person that anyone in their right mind should have followed.
A Big Lie is a stable foundation for nothing.
So, because Hitler was an actual leader, does that explain why you consistently prefer NON-leaders? Hitler was a leader, but idiot Biden is the antithesis of a leader, yet idiot Biden is emulating Hitler’s style and ideology.
One of our Democratic Party leaders is currently President of the United States. A second is Speaker of the House, while a third is Senate Majority Leader. Maybe you should pay closer attention to the news?
One of our Democratic Party leaders is currently President of the United States. A second is Speaker of the House, while a third is Senate Majority Leader.
California, NY and a DC do nothing corruption at its finest.
president* and socialist dictator of the House. None are leaders, all are petty despots.
*actually an idiot pretending to be President between naps.
May 4, 2021 – Cheney sees cratering support in House GOP as McCarthy says she isn’t ‘carrying out the message’
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/04/politics/cheney-kevin-mccarthy-gop-leadership-fight/index.html
“The message” being Donald Trump’s BIG LIE, which one must publicly proclaim and promote, or be shamed and shunned and cast out from the Republican Party into the Outer Darkness.
What do you not understand authoritarian political cult leaders?
ANYONE that voted for either of those un-Constitutional, anti-due process, anti-justice, anti-law, anti-FACTS impeachments needs to be dragged out of Congress. They don’t belong. They don’t follow the Constitution and they don’t respect the law.
You can whine about “no evidence” for as long as you can whine, but until the accusation is proven false and you continue to oppose examining the evidence and proving your “election” was fair and lawful, you are reinforcing the suspicions and doubts about that fraudulent hoax of a simulated election.
I understand much about authoritarian political cult leaders. You’ve been following them since 2008 and I’ve been criticizing them. Only a true cult would praise that embarrassment of a performance from idiot Biden before Congress and only a true cult would worship bits of cloth or paper you strap across your face.
Comrade Greggie, the “big lie” is the lies of the Democrat Party, the party of racism, slavery, Jim Crow rules, etc. No one who admits to the history of the Democrat Party could ever, in all good conscience, belong to that party. You are also a party of liars who will blame your opposition for the very things you are guilty of.
So, if you want to talk about the offspring of Vice Presidents, I’m sure you are willing to talk about Hunter Biden, right?
Hunter Biden has no bearing whatsoever on the continuing efforts of Trump ring-kissers to purge all independent thought and all of those disloyal to their Cult Leader from the Republican Party.
“Hunter Biden has no bearing whatsoever on the continuing efforts of Trump ring-kissers to purge all independent thought and all of those disloyal to their Cult Leader from the Republican Party.”
Trump wears a ring? Really? What does it look like? Can you provide links to photos of his followers kissing that right?
Oh, wait, that’s just more lying bullshit from you, a dedicated Communist. But what I’m really interested in is your explanation of how Trump supporters are trying to “purge” all independent thought (something that has never, EVER entered your head). I’ll be waiting on your explanation of the “purge” attempt.
Hunter Biden has more to do with today’s discussions than Liz Cheney does. At least she’s not on the Chinese payroll as it would appear Hunter still is.
“Hunter Biden has more to do with today’s discussions than Liz Cheney does.”
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Hunter Biden has NOTHING to do with the Trump cult that’s destroying the GOP.
Democrat election fraud is destroying this nation by putting idiots like Biden in office.
“Hunter Biden has NOTHING to do with the Trump cult that’s destroying the GOP.”
You are so damn predictable. You NEVER directly address any issue. You just obfuscate and generally, provide nothing but some b/s answer.
Hunter Biden is putting our nation in harm’s way. But you don’t care. Are you also a hooker loving crackhead?
Hunter, his illegal activities, crimes and absence of any consequences is totally relevant. It is a standard feature of the Democrat party and culture; they are free to violate rules and laws with impunity while demanding all others have their civil rights violated for merely disbelieving the leftist ideology.
It is the left that is indoctrinated and consumed with propaganda to the point that they believe lies without question and cannot construct an independent thought.
Comrade Greggie has to talk about anything but his own disgraceful, lying, inept party and it’s mentally deficient White House resident.
If Democrats are so inept, why is Joe Biden the nation’s President, Nancy Pelosi the House Majority Leader, and Chuck Shumer the Senate Majority Leader? And why is Trump’s approval rating lower now than it was at any time during his one-term presidency?
I suppose the elections were all rigged, the polls are all rigged, and every news source that isn’t totally in the tank for Trump is lying.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
Simple. Fraud. Nothing but fraud and corrupt control of most of the media.
“If Democrats are so inept, why is Joe Biden the nation’s President, Nancy Pelosi the House Majority Leader, and Chuck Shumer the Senate Majority Leader?”
Voter/election fraud, clear and simple. And you know it. That is why you object to election audits.
“And why is Trump’s approval rating lower now than it was at any time during his one-term presidency?”
Which has what to do with Hunter Biden still being on the Chinese payroll and Beijing Biden being mentally deficient?
“and every news source that isn’t totally in the tank for Trump is lying.”
How many times has CNN been caught being dishonest yet you still link to them? The media is simply the campaign arm of the DNC.
Funny how now you are a Cheney fan when you blamed her father for everything including lint. Always true to your hypocrite standards.
Massive voter fraud is A LIE. Trump was REJECTED by a margin of 7 million votes.
Why so desperate to stop and defame the Audits? What are they hiding?
That’s their problem; they aren’t hiding ANYTHING. It’s all been exposed.
“Massive voter fraud is A LIE.”
And Box 13 was a lie; JFK didn’t steal Illinois.
Election/voter fraud was fine tuned by Democrats.
And they want to turn fraud into law.
Atlanta, fake “water main break”, pretend to stop counting votes, send all observers home, pull boxes of votes out from under tables, resume counting, massive spike for idiot Biden. You cannot explain it other than admit to fraud, yet you think you can claim there was no fraud. Fraud is the only thing Democrats do well. It is their default.
Idiot Biden barely got 60 million votes. Now the census is showing more voted than there were voters.
Hehe. You idiots don’t understand how using the phrase “The Big Lie” is going to be applied to Democrats.
You’re believing, and pushing, The Big Lie. You are the embodiment of what you claim to combat.
You’re the racist.
You’re the fascist.
You’re the enemy to the Constitution.
“I suppose the elections were all rigged, the polls are all rigged, and every news source that isn’t totally in the tank for Trump is lying.”
Yup (no news outlet is in the tank for Trump. Most major ones are in the tank for Democrats, and that’s not open to debate).
Now you understand.
Trump wasn’t okay-ed by the intelligence establishment, nor was he bought by the usual suspects.
That was the threat.
Biden is the Dictator. Trump is the opposite of that.
Democrat projection has worked well, but it won’t forever.
Polls, Approval Ratings: all pieces of corrupt mis-information. It’s simply to make fools like you think you’re in coherence. It’s based on fear, weakness, and simple immaturity.
The Polls for the 2020 election were MORE WRONG than they’ve ever been, but idiots like you will rationalize them because you still think Biden “won”.
Idiot Biden is a puppet manipulated by numerous dictators.
They’re locking down your minds while pitching a simplified alternate reality that serves them.
May 6, 2021 – GOP Gov. DeSantis signs Florida election law while shutting out all media but Fox News
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/06/desantis-signs-florida-election-law-while-shutting-out-all-media-but-fox-news.html
Not a single Florida county election supervisor supported the bill that DeSantis just signed. NOT A SINGLE ONE OUT OF SIXTY-SEVEN.
Not a single shred of evidence election security suppresses voting. It only suppresses fraud, which Democrats now wholly depend upon.
“Not a single Florida county election supervisor supported the bill that DeSantis just signed. NOT A SINGLE ONE OUT OF SIXTY-SEVEN.”
So you can provide us with a link where someone questioned ALL 67 county election supervisors and got statements from them? Or are you just going by the misleading headline from your pravda press?
What isn’t alternate reality:
Democrats lied about Russian collusion to try and depose a lawfully (not through fraud) elected President.
Democrats employed the CIA to try and destroy Trump.
The CIA used a “whistleblower” to accuse Trump of doing what idiot Biden actually public bragged he did to Ukraine.
Democrats have instigated riots, looting and terroristic violence in Democrat-run cities to intimidate voters and politicians.
Democrats denounced vaccines and now are trying to MANDATE people get vaccinated for COVID19.
Democrats held up funding for citizens suffering due to the economic shutdown caused by China’s virus so they could politically benefit from passing it under idiot Biden. It also gave them the opportunity to grossly expand the funding for waste and corruption.
Democrats lied about an “armed insurrection” at the Capital and accused Trump of doing what they did, incite violence to intimidate.
Democrats used fraud to install an idiot puppet in the White House.
Democrats have destroyed southern border security, unleashing a flood of illegal immigrants upon the US population, many infected with COVID19.
This list could go on and on, showing the incompetence and utter corruption of Democrats.
Florida’s sixty-seven county election supervisors who didn’t support the bill know more about that than you do.
You know this… how? Oh, that’s right; youbjust parrot the party line in support of election fraud.
They manage Florida elections at the county level and know what goes on because they are there.
DeSantis is a Trump tool. He’s part of the GOP’s state-level efforts to control the election process, which is the only way they can hang onto power as the nation’s demographic makeup shifts against them. Trump’s bullshit with the 2020 census was part of the same scheme. Trump, of course, doesn’t actually give a rat’s rear end about the GOP’s traditional values or principles. He only wants full control of the party as a means to exercise personal power. He would like to be what Putin is.
” He’s part of the GOP’s state-level efforts to control the election process, which is the only way they can hang onto power as the nation’s demographic makeup shifts against them.”
You really are a POS, Comrade Greggie. You have no qualms about lying if you think it will advance your Communist, left wing agenda.
The nation’s demographic is NOT shifting against Florida. It is shifting against the states like New York and California which will lose, not gain, representation.
You’re an idiot, liar and disgraceful POS, Comrade Greggie.
Your political party has been disgraced by the fat man from Florida. (Formerly from New York, but he wore out his welcome.) When is he going to pay Rudy? Dumping on Rudy is going to be a HUGE mistake.
Ha. Trump was MORE than welcome as he developed properties and created thousands of jobs. HE chose to leave the shithole where exorbitant and onerous taxes swirl down the liberal sewer of waste, corruption and theft.
Putting idiot Biden and whore Kamala in office with fraud was the huge mistake.
How about those wonderful jobs numbers from your preferred idiot, Biden? Nice job, huh?
Explain the parts of the voting integrity law that restricts lawful voting. We’re all interested.
Fraud brought this current plague of liberal totalitarianism upon us. Fraud is what Democrats have to rely on now as the vast majority of Americans reject their socialist agenda.
Trump did not have the deep state (bureacracy) on his side. In fact they worked against him. He followed the Constitution closer than his two predecessors. He certainly didn’t have the media on his side. Trump was a warning that the Democrats and establishment Republicans have failed to heed. If you are young enough you can look forward to something much worse than Trump and that will fit your theory.The Jan 6th Putsch as you call it was a mostly peaceful demonstration with a riot attached. When a Putsch or Insurrection comes you will recognize it not by watching video. You will realize it when the lights go out and don’t come back on. We live in a very fragile society. Our technology has made us vulnerable.
If a real leader, like Trump, ever gets in office again, they need people who will rat out deep state operatives, just as they leak information intended to damage anyone that opposes the deep state. Those who are more loyal to the deep state than they are to the nation and its people need to be purged. That may sound harsh and it should all be done lawfully, but they undercut the government working for the people instead of “fundamental transformation” of the greatest nation in world history into just another failed socialist state.
Trump already attempted to purge the federal government of those who wouldn’t put personal loyalty ahead of their organization missions and oaths of office, dumping years of specialized experience in the process. He replaced many knowledgeable, capable, and dedicated administrators with corporate tools and opportunistic ring kissers. He moved the known components of the corporate swamp directly into federal administrative positions. That’s how you get someone like Dr. Scott Atlas as a presidential pandemic advisor, a guy intent on wrecking the Post Office as the nation’s Postmaster General, or a son-in-law with conflicts of interest and zero diplomatic or geopolitical experience who wasn’t even qualified to be issued a security clearance conducting domestic and foreign policy.
The President has the right and duty to put his administration in place. Note how idiot Biden replaced capable people with ideologues that the far left pullers of his puppet strings told him to put in place. All are incompetent and anti-American, with the disaster at the border being the most immediate and catastrophic result, along with the destruction of tens of thousands of good-paying jobs. Trump was a leader, idiot Biden is a stumbling puppet.
Fauci was the pandemic advisor and he was erratic and confusing, just as now. Of course, now his ideological orders are more clear so he knows what lies to tell.
Damn! I only WISH I had some of what you’re toking, Greggie. GOT. TO. BE. PRIMO!!!! And to think! You troll here on your own dime. You advised me recently you are NOT a paid troll. Cannot imagine what someone of your political bent gets out of the stuff here at Flopping Aces. I suppose you get off on trolling non-leftists. Is that it, Greg? Hmmm?
I fear the republic is dead – we are in the midst of a communist Bolshevik Revolution 21st Century American Style:
1) Fraudulent Elections
2) Unelected Figurehead Not Truly in Charge
3) Going After Political Enemies with the State Apparatus – Giuliani, Stone, Flynn, Trump… more and more to come for sure
4) Ignoring / Covering for the Crimes of the Elite Ruling Class- Hillary, Biden & Son, Obama
5) Spying on Political Enemies (See 4)
7) International Political Grift (See 4)
8) Brownshirt Enforcers – Anitfa, BLM
9) Outrageous Spending – Unrealistic Promises
10) Changing the Rules (often outside of established processes) – Elections, Supreme Court, DC Statehood, Immigration, etc. etc. – to secure the ruling elite their permanent status
Got it in one, Mobaby. Got in one.
Michael Anton called the 2016 election “The Flight 93 election.” I have been calling the 2020 election “The Berlin 1933 election.”
Adi may have been mad; but had it not been for Patton, he may have mad good on his promise, “Huete Duetchland; Morgan die Welt!”!. They were pacing us on THE BOMB. Had they won the Battle of the Bulge; in Spring ’45 England for sure, and maybe Scotland would “glow in the dark”.
The world owes Patton big debt; which it has pretended it knows nothing about (Schultz like)!
I thank Patton for saving the Lippizan horse breed from certain extinction.
One of my customers whose relatives escaped Communism in Poland to come here said they are all moving back because they see the same thing happening here. Mobaby did a good job citing examples to support their fears. It’s vintage Communism from the woke “cultural revolution” to the weaponization of government to the censorship to the street thuggery. This is definitely not the same country I served.