Sounds Familiar, Doesn't It?

Hitler's sales pitch to the German people was grounded in the idea that average German working people were victims and Hitler was their champion.

He claimed Jews, homosexuals, and socialists had "stabbed Germany in the back" by participating in negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles that imposed punitive conditions on the country, producing widespread poverty and an economic crisis.

If the German people were victims, Hitler told them, the villains were German minorities, promoting degeneracy like jazz and swing music, tolerance of homosexuality and transgender people, and the "international Jewish conspiracy."

Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they'd never again lose an election.

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Indicted!

And the country isn't burning. At least not yet.

First true criminal elected.

Republicans could have avoided the embarrassment of Trump but they could not resist someone who fights for white collar criminals, wimpy misogynists/incels, insecure townies, sex predators, conspiracy bigots, idiots who say 'Democtrat Party', antisemites with uses 'globalists'/Soros in place of 'I dont understand this issue', and your basic unabashed racist.

[It's not that this slipped past me yesterday; we were hip-deep in moving and I only saw it when I briefly went online.]

The Germans didn't know what was coming. We do. And yet…30% of this country still embraces it. What does that say about humanity? I just don't understand.

Speaking Truth to Power

    • AMERICAN VALUES OVER AUTOCRACY.
    • BENEVOLENCE OVER BIGOTRY.
    • THE CONSTITUTION OVER THE CODE.
    • DEMOCRACY OVER DEMAGOGUES.
    • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVER EXTREMISM.
    • FREEDOM OVER FASCISM.
    • GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING.
    • HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED.
    • INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION.
    • JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH.
    • KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS.
    • LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION.
    • MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO.
    • NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.
    • OPPORTUNITY OVER OBSTRUCTION.
    • PEOPLE OVER POLITICS.
    • QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES OVER Q-ANON.
    • REASON OVER RACISM.
    • SUBSTANCE OVER SLANDER.
    • TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY.
    • UNDERSTANDING OVER UGLINESS.
    • VOTING RIGHTS OVER VOTER SUPPRESSION.
    • WORKING FAMILIES OVER THE WELL-CONNECTED.
    • XENNIAL OVER XENOPHOBIA.

Did you catch the looks on the faces of McCarthy and the Q-Anon contingent as soon as he started on this list? It was priceless!

And somehow, this also seems appropriate to post in this context…

Quote of the Day

Marjorie Taylor Green said she would have brought guns to the Capitol on January 6. She is now the face of the Republican Party. Donald Trump has unearthed and given voice to the ugliest part of America." ~ Rob Reiner