What? Trump’s Republican Party is based on white supremacy? Really? This has been completely clear since the “birther” movement against Obama, so if you did Nazi this coming, you weren’t just not playing attention, you were deliberately ignorant, and therefore culpable.
To be fair, I wasn't born when Nixon was elected, too young to fully understand when Reagan was, and the G.W. Bush administration gave us larger issues like unjustified wars. But now, Trump has taken the racism to a whole new level; it's OK to be openly racist now!
For the Heritage/maga crowd "Nazis are bad" is purely performative. On cars in FL I'm seeing SS lightning bolts added to their blue line flags, punisher heads and AR stickers. If you're still a Republican, you're a Nazi sympathizer, therefore a Nazi. Prove me wrong!
I think there's some value in remembering that the white Christian nationalists driving the bus -- and posting vile memes via the DHS social media accounts -- are not, in and of themselves, necessarily antisemitic. And calling them Nazis precisely because some of them are antisemitic misses the point: they are all fascists _like the Nazis_ only their chosen groups to demonize are brown and black immigrants first and transgender people second. Some of them like Israel because it plays into their Christian end-times mythology.
When Musk made his "heartfelt gesture" and people called it a Nazi salute, that was mistake. Musk hasn't openly come out against Jews, so it was too easy to dismiss the "Nazi" claim -- even while Musk amplified the Nazi-adjacent AfD in Germany. It would have been better to call it a "fascist salute." I think the same applies here. We shouldn't focus so much on German Nazism and antisemitism because that leaves them an out.
Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe, amigo. Splitting hairs like you are seems a bit too delicate, given the brutal times we’re in. They’re fucking Nazis, right down to the nationalization of production.
I remember watching Musk get away with his gesture because "he doesn't hate Jews so he can't be a Nazi." I had that debate for a couple of weeks and couldn't convince those people that Musk (and, really, Trump and much of MAGA as well) simply holds non-whites and transgender people as the Other to demonize rather than Jews.
Then I watched Trump's rally just prior to the election, where a host of white supremacist messaging was excused because it couldn't be a Nazi rally because Jews were in attendance and Israeli flags were flying. And generally, every assertion about Trump was denied because he can't be literally Hitler because he has Jewish friends and supports Israel.
I simply think that "Nazi" isn't as effective as "fascist" in describing what they're doing, because "fascist" can't be so easily ignored by people who think hating Jews is the defining feature of being a Nazi. And I think that describes many people.
When you focus your party and policy platform on the premise of white supremacy, of course you get these racist nitwits willing to go all the way Nazi and maybe just kill “those people,” you know, the VERMIN, who need to be exterminated from the house. Everyone knows the Trumps are a German Nazi friendly family, Trump himself said Hitler did a lot of good for Germany. Oh sure, killed millions and destroyed the country, plunged it into poverty, starvation and horror. A lot of good, Don. Maybe you heard that from Dad, and you decided having a military like Hitler’s was much preferable to one responsible to the Constitution. Now we know. The MAGA base is all in with Nazi friendly leaders. What a surprise!
The most shocking part of Roberts's screed? Declaring his ultimate loyalty to Christ! Hiding behind Jesus's robes to justify his position is all too predictable from his kind of phony "Christian," but no less disgusting.
Excellent piece exposing yet another conservative hypocrisy. This time, it gives the lie to all that whining from conservatives about being called Nazi. Well, as the saying goes, if it talks like a Nazi, looks like a Nazi, and acts like a Nazi…
Perhaps the conservatives forgot that “my enemies enemy is NOT my friend, only another enemy of your enemy, Yhey forgot that the fascist/neonazis hate the left, however their goals and ideology are different from yours.
"Think of that: no death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker - and in some cases, Shylocks and bad people."
"No, I've never heard it that way. To me, Shylock is somebody that, say, a money lender at high rates. I've never heard it that way. You view it differently than me. I've never heard that."
That's the President of the United States using a vicious, vile, antisemitic slur and then trying to pass it off as if he didn't know exactly what he was saying.
I've seen "The Merchant of Venice" staged twice, because I wanted to understand the gross antisemitism of Shakespeare's day. (Note: in both cases, the company staging the production hired a Jewish actor to play Shylock; I do not know if they hired a Jewish actor to play Jessica.) Shylock is the villain of the play, a greedy moneylender who attempts to claim "a pound of flesh" (certainly a "high rate"!) from a Christian merchant, Antonio, who cannot repay a loan because of a loss at sea. He is described as a "villain" and a "dog" (see, eg, Act 2, Scene 8) and bemoans the loss of his money when it is stolen by his daughter Jessica and that she intends to marry a Christian and convert (for which she is depicted as the "good" Jew). At trial, he is prevented from extracting his "pound of flesh" because of a Venetian law banning "an alien" from attempting to "seek the life of any citizen", and is ultimately dispossessed and ordered to convert to Christianity (while regularly being addressed as "Jew" instead of by name). (The second performance I saw emphasised the antisemitic elements of the play; Shylock was whetting his knife all through the trial in preparation for extracting Antonio's flesh.)
At one performance, the actors came out after to take questions from the audience about the play. Someone asked why Shylock was forced to convert, and the actor who played Antonio explained that in Elizabethan England, that would have been the happy ending: because he converted to Christianity, his soul was saved and he would go to Heaven. (During the play, Jessica has a short soliloquy in which she expresses her excitement over the prospect of converting upon marriage; see Act 2, Scene 3.)
Even as late as roughly 1970, the play was still read in some schools in Ontario (and likely elsewhere), presented entirely without any context as to its antisemitism.
Soon Miller’s detention facilities will be completed, and the rate at which people are disappearing will accelerate. And if there is one thing I know with absolute certainty, it’s that Miller has no plans to finish second to Hitler. ,
I've seen the macabre observation that on the list of mass murderers, Hitler finished at best fourth, behind Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and the Biblical God. (Possibly also Genghis Khan.)
The Gestapo-chic cosplay of Bovino is stunning. If you haven’t yet, you should check out Roy Edroso’s Substack (Roy Edroso Breaks It Down): he frequently posts teleplay scripts featuring Stephen Miller in Reich rags that would be hilarious if they weren’t so horrifically on the nose.
The fact that Erickson has long been one of the favorite low-hanging & rotten fruits of @edroso is all the more reason to refer you to his writing: if *Erickson* can actually taste the bile rising in his mouth, then there may be a chance that even the hardest-core conservatives are starting take a look at what they’ve been swallowing for the last few decades.
I’ve always pushed back on calling anyone in the GOP a Nazi (except Steven miller, he’s a Nazi). Fascists, yes, but not Nazis. I may have to rethink that.
"To give millions of viewers a friendly interview with [Nick Fuentes] a white nationalist who jokes about the Holocaust and calls for defeating 'global Jewry.'"
And this is a person Stephen Miller thinks is okay? What a bunch of loose screws the Trump regime is...-
What? Trump’s Republican Party is based on white supremacy? Really? This has been completely clear since the “birther” movement against Obama, so if you did Nazi this coming, you weren’t just not playing attention, you were deliberately ignorant, and therefore culpable.
My friend, if I had first noticed the GOP was racist 40 years after Nixon was elected, I'd be a little less condescending about it.
To be fair, I wasn't born when Nixon was elected, too young to fully understand when Reagan was, and the G.W. Bush administration gave us larger issues like unjustified wars. But now, Trump has taken the racism to a whole new level; it's OK to be openly racist now!
preach!
Don't stop watching the Heritage Foundation. It is the key to everything is happening, Trump is their useful imbecile.
For the Heritage/maga crowd "Nazis are bad" is purely performative. On cars in FL I'm seeing SS lightning bolts added to their blue line flags, punisher heads and AR stickers. If you're still a Republican, you're a Nazi sympathizer, therefore a Nazi. Prove me wrong!
Agreed. Mike was too generous to anyone still working there.
I think there's some value in remembering that the white Christian nationalists driving the bus -- and posting vile memes via the DHS social media accounts -- are not, in and of themselves, necessarily antisemitic. And calling them Nazis precisely because some of them are antisemitic misses the point: they are all fascists _like the Nazis_ only their chosen groups to demonize are brown and black immigrants first and transgender people second. Some of them like Israel because it plays into their Christian end-times mythology.
When Musk made his "heartfelt gesture" and people called it a Nazi salute, that was mistake. Musk hasn't openly come out against Jews, so it was too easy to dismiss the "Nazi" claim -- even while Musk amplified the Nazi-adjacent AfD in Germany. It would have been better to call it a "fascist salute." I think the same applies here. We shouldn't focus so much on German Nazism and antisemitism because that leaves them an out.
Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe, amigo. Splitting hairs like you are seems a bit too delicate, given the brutal times we’re in. They’re fucking Nazis, right down to the nationalization of production.
I remember watching Musk get away with his gesture because "he doesn't hate Jews so he can't be a Nazi." I had that debate for a couple of weeks and couldn't convince those people that Musk (and, really, Trump and much of MAGA as well) simply holds non-whites and transgender people as the Other to demonize rather than Jews.
Then I watched Trump's rally just prior to the election, where a host of white supremacist messaging was excused because it couldn't be a Nazi rally because Jews were in attendance and Israeli flags were flying. And generally, every assertion about Trump was denied because he can't be literally Hitler because he has Jewish friends and supports Israel.
I simply think that "Nazi" isn't as effective as "fascist" in describing what they're doing, because "fascist" can't be so easily ignored by people who think hating Jews is the defining feature of being a Nazi. And I think that describes many people.
When you focus your party and policy platform on the premise of white supremacy, of course you get these racist nitwits willing to go all the way Nazi and maybe just kill “those people,” you know, the VERMIN, who need to be exterminated from the house. Everyone knows the Trumps are a German Nazi friendly family, Trump himself said Hitler did a lot of good for Germany. Oh sure, killed millions and destroyed the country, plunged it into poverty, starvation and horror. A lot of good, Don. Maybe you heard that from Dad, and you decided having a military like Hitler’s was much preferable to one responsible to the Constitution. Now we know. The MAGA base is all in with Nazi friendly leaders. What a surprise!
The most shocking part of Roberts's screed? Declaring his ultimate loyalty to Christ! Hiding behind Jesus's robes to justify his position is all too predictable from his kind of phony "Christian," but no less disgusting.
Funny thing is, I bet that Erick Erickson will get enough shade that he will relent. It may take a few days, but don't be surprised when he flops.
I feel he should be offered the permission structure, though.
Excellent piece exposing yet another conservative hypocrisy. This time, it gives the lie to all that whining from conservatives about being called Nazi. Well, as the saying goes, if it talks like a Nazi, looks like a Nazi, and acts like a Nazi…
Perhaps the conservatives forgot that “my enemies enemy is NOT my friend, only another enemy of your enemy, Yhey forgot that the fascist/neonazis hate the left, however their goals and ideology are different from yours.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80p3v0xx53o
"Think of that: no death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker - and in some cases, Shylocks and bad people."
"No, I've never heard it that way. To me, Shylock is somebody that, say, a money lender at high rates. I've never heard it that way. You view it differently than me. I've never heard that."
That's the President of the United States using a vicious, vile, antisemitic slur and then trying to pass it off as if he didn't know exactly what he was saying.
I've seen "The Merchant of Venice" staged twice, because I wanted to understand the gross antisemitism of Shakespeare's day. (Note: in both cases, the company staging the production hired a Jewish actor to play Shylock; I do not know if they hired a Jewish actor to play Jessica.) Shylock is the villain of the play, a greedy moneylender who attempts to claim "a pound of flesh" (certainly a "high rate"!) from a Christian merchant, Antonio, who cannot repay a loan because of a loss at sea. He is described as a "villain" and a "dog" (see, eg, Act 2, Scene 8) and bemoans the loss of his money when it is stolen by his daughter Jessica and that she intends to marry a Christian and convert (for which she is depicted as the "good" Jew). At trial, he is prevented from extracting his "pound of flesh" because of a Venetian law banning "an alien" from attempting to "seek the life of any citizen", and is ultimately dispossessed and ordered to convert to Christianity (while regularly being addressed as "Jew" instead of by name). (The second performance I saw emphasised the antisemitic elements of the play; Shylock was whetting his knife all through the trial in preparation for extracting Antonio's flesh.)
At one performance, the actors came out after to take questions from the audience about the play. Someone asked why Shylock was forced to convert, and the actor who played Antonio explained that in Elizabethan England, that would have been the happy ending: because he converted to Christianity, his soul was saved and he would go to Heaven. (During the play, Jessica has a short soliloquy in which she expresses her excitement over the prospect of converting upon marriage; see Act 2, Scene 3.)
Even as late as roughly 1970, the play was still read in some schools in Ontario (and likely elsewhere), presented entirely without any context as to its antisemitism.
The bigotry, the antisemitic Nazism (Ivana Trump claimed that Donald read a book of Hitler speeches: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/03/hitler-speeches-published-with-donald-trump-as-cover-illustration ), isn't at the bottom of the party, or not just there; it comes straight from the top.
Nuremberg these pieces of shit now. Good Nazi / bad Nazi - you don't get to bitch about being called a Nazi when you are one.
Soon Miller’s detention facilities will be completed, and the rate at which people are disappearing will accelerate. And if there is one thing I know with absolute certainty, it’s that Miller has no plans to finish second to Hitler. ,
I've seen the macabre observation that on the list of mass murderers, Hitler finished at best fourth, behind Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and the Biblical God. (Possibly also Genghis Khan.)
The Gestapo-chic cosplay of Bovino is stunning. If you haven’t yet, you should check out Roy Edroso’s Substack (Roy Edroso Breaks It Down): he frequently posts teleplay scripts featuring Stephen Miller in Reich rags that would be hilarious if they weren’t so horrifically on the nose.
The fact that Erickson has long been one of the favorite low-hanging & rotten fruits of @edroso is all the more reason to refer you to his writing: if *Erickson* can actually taste the bile rising in his mouth, then there may be a chance that even the hardest-core conservatives are starting take a look at what they’ve been swallowing for the last few decades.
I’ve always pushed back on calling anyone in the GOP a Nazi (except Steven miller, he’s a Nazi). Fascists, yes, but not Nazis. I may have to rethink that.
If the jackboot fits…
"To give millions of viewers a friendly interview with [Nick Fuentes] a white nationalist who jokes about the Holocaust and calls for defeating 'global Jewry.'"
And this is a person Stephen Miller thinks is okay? What a bunch of loose screws the Trump regime is...-
Yeah, I’m surprised, too—you’d think he was a bit too fey for Miller’s taste.