The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Mister Agenda]

How did you all do during the first Trump administration?

A few of my friends and relatives died from a mishandled plague. You?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Lek is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome which is that he is refusing to see Trump for what he really is. A few months ago, if people had predicted that Trump would cut off intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, destroy U.S.A.I.D., free all the Jan. 6 convicts, put his lackey Kash Patel in charge of the F.B.I. and turn the US into a despised enemy of Canada, they’d have been accused of unhinged political hatred.

And yet, Lek is pretending like this is all good.

Some other patients who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome is Scott Bessent, now Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary, who, before the last election, assured The Financial Times that Trump had no interest in reducing international trade and that his threats to impose sweeping, 20 percent tariffs on foreign goods were simply a “maximalist” negotiating position to be watered down during trade talks. “My general view is that at the end of the day, he’s a free trader,” said Bessent.

Or when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Howard Lutnick, now Trump’s commerce secretary, whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could become secretary of health and human services, to which he said “Of course not,” treating the question as if it were absurd.

Or when Jeff Bezos said Trump had grown over the past eight years, and I quote “What I’ve seen so far is he is calmer than he was the first time — more confident, more settled.”

Or everyone who called project 2025 fearmongering only to essentially watch him do everything in that document or is on the way to doing it.

[Fake Messiah]

Another election promise turns out to be a blatant lie that Trump told just to get votes.

Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just told Americans to stop demanding things like “access to cheap goods” because it’s “not the essence of the American dream.”

[Silver]

But it's okay. At least they're putting trans, non-binary, and non-white people in their place.

Seems very Hitleresque to me.

[Deesse23]

But it's okay. At least they're putting trans, non-binary, and non-white people in their place.

Seems very Hitleresque to me.

No
Because Hitler actually, kinda, cared for those people he considered to be his. See; Volksempfänger, Volkswagen, Kraft durch Freude.

[Thumpalumpacus]

But it's okay. At least they're putting trans, non-binary, and non-white people in their place.

Seems very Hitleresque to me.

No
Because Hitler actually, kinda, cared for those people he considered to be his. See; Volksempfänger, Volkswagen, Kraft durch Freude.

Is that caring for them, or caring for his own standing?

[Ivan Denisovich]

No
Because Hitler actually, kinda, cared for those people he considered to be his. See; Volksempfänger, Volkswagen, Kraft durch Freude.

Is that caring for them, or caring for his own standing?

Why not both? I think that Hitler did care for "aryans" but that's the core of the problem, considering what he was doing or planning to do to "non-aryans" or those not "aryan" enough (T4).

Of course him being simply bullshit artist interested only in power is also possible but in my pov less likely.

[Deesse23]

No
Because Hitler actually, kinda, cared for those people he considered to be his. See; Volksempfänger, Volkswagen, Kraft durch Freude.

Is that caring for them, or caring for his own standing?

No, he really did care for "true" germans. He wanted happy, healthy, mentally and physically strong people. Its a big part of the nazi cult. Of course happy and healthy people tend not to dissent, thats a bonus. However one needs to have a look for the bigger framework too: The individual was not the end, the Volk(skörper) is. Society does not serve the well-being of individuals, but individuals are supposed to serve the Volk (like ants). Only happy and healthy individuals can serve as soldiers in wars. Only happy and healthy individuals can bring progress to the state/Volk/race. Its was the Nazis that expanded social security/welfare state way more than the Weimar Republic, even during wartime! Trump does roll it back where he can, for everyone.

He/they cared for people, but not as a goal, but a means to an end. In this aspect, i really think they were less bad than Trump and consorts: They exclusively care for themselves, for whatever reason. Therefor, its even irrelevant where they put the line between "real americans" and everyone else. They dont care for either one.

Looking at this aspect only (and ignoring wider repercussions like global war and genocide), if i had to choose between living in Trumps USA or Hitlers Germany, id chose to be a "true German" in Germany. In Trumps USA, everyone gets screwed over.

[Fake Messiah]

Then vs now

[The Architect Of Fate]

So the Trump regime hatred  of the military and history and minorities  comes to a head 

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-ima...0d49c78074

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...10676.html

‘Gay’ Hiroshima bomber, female and Black soldiers being erased in shocking Pentagon DEI file purge