OK so I'm probably borrowing from the Alt-Right Playbook here, but it's been long enough that I don't remember which ones. The wink-wink, nudge-nudge references to nazi catchphrases and imagery are deliberate. They serve three key purposes:

1. They let the nazis know that they are seen and valued by the administration. This is critical, because Trump's success has depended upon keeping extremists happy rather than appealing directly to neoconservatives.

2. The neocons like the message but will usually miss the references. They will get angry when the nazi undertones are exposed, because they feel they are being called nazis for agreeing with what they see as standard conservatism.

3. It "triggers the libs," which everyone still seems to think is hilarious.

All of which is irrelevant, because there is no useful distinction between nazis and people who participate in nazism because it advances their agenda.

I think both is the default assumption with Trump appointees.

You gotta understand that the Party wants the change history. Every day they try to rewrite it to match their ever changing narrative. When Big Brother trump writes on his (Ministry of) Truth social account, he really tries to spread the propaganda and be the world ruler.

They are fascist. Fascists share common traits, so they think in similar ways as Nazis. They didn't realize in the movie clip Churchill was frustrated that people thought they should negotiate with a bully (Hitler), they assumed the bully he was talking about must be some awesome guy because bullies are awesome. They not only missed the context that it was Hitler he was talking about, they also missed the fact that Churchill was arguing against negotiating with Hitler and that they should fight him instead. And also there the fact that Hitler ultimately lost.

So understanding the context, the message was "don't negotiate with Trump, fight against instead, he will eventually lose if you fight him." I actually agree with that message.

BTW, DOE is Department of Energy. Education Department is usually abbreviated with ED.

I'm not sure they're smart enough to even make that excuse.

techno music

we're back in the 90s and any song that uses synthesized instruments is "techno"

edit: formatting

Even if we accept that, it does little to make him look better. It's claiming that he can force people to do what he wants, rather than negotiating with them to mutual benefit.

ALSO, Trump can't seem to handle Iran. What makes him think we can handle Canada?

Yeah, similarities abound. I don’t know what everyone else is talking about.

In a single year, Trump attacked Venezuela and Iran (among others), starved people in Cuba, and threatened longtime allies with invasion. His military is murdering people in the caribbean for the crime of looking suspicious. His paramilitary is rounding up people on the basis of race and putting them in concentration camps deliberately designed for cruelty (remember him gloating about alligator auschwitz?). He uses vile and dehumanizing language to describe anyone who doesn’t fit a narrow gender binary. He threatens reporters and uses his thugs to deplatform critics of his regime. He has overseen the erasure of any accomplishment achieved by people of colour from american history.

It’s like Trump is absolutely dominating an “Act Like Hitler” contest and stupid americans fall over themselves to say “you can’t compare him to Hitler” because it’s 1939, not 1945 yet.

In their shriveled little minds, yes

Yeah

Wait what is the good way? Are there redeeming characteristics I've missed? Art was quite shit.

As long as he poisons Melania and shoots himself in the head in the end.

Yeah he's ticking all of the boxes, but he's doing it in crayon. That makes people think it's not a big deal, but it really is.

Americans have gotten used to fascism and they mostly like it. This has opened the door for someone more competent to step in and do things even more horrible things than Trump has done.

The referenced video is in the article.

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