(July 8, 2021 at 10:25 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Trump told John Kelly that Hitler 'did a lot of good things,' book claimsNot to mention later using forced labor and plundering occupied nations. People have the wacko idea the Nazis were efficient and smart. When in reality they were anything but.
Quote: Former President Trump reportedly said in a conversation with then-chief of staff John Kelly during his 2018 trip to Europe to commemorate the end of World War I that Adolf Hitler “did a lot of good things.”
The conversation is included in an upcoming book from The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” a copy of which was obtained by The Guardian.
The news outlet reported that while Trump denied making the remark to Kelly, several unidentified sources said Kelly “told the president that he was wrong, but Trump was undeterred.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...ook-claims
Friendly Reminder #1: if you’re still simping for Donald Trump after the disaster that was his presidency and don’t consider yourself racist, this is the guy you’re putting your hopes in.
Friendly Reminder #2: the vast majority, if not all, of the “good things” that people could conceivably connect to Adolf Hitler (assuming you’re not a Neo-Nazi) are either A) unsustainable and done at the expense of a shitton of people Hitler and the Nazi parties were Lebensunwertes Leben (like the economic growth that occurred under Hitler and only happened because the Nazis looted property from Jews &c. and refusing to pay war debts), B) just things the Nazis Jeremy Jammed their way into taking credit for (the Autobahn myth comes to mind), or C) probably trivial enough that anyone else probably could have done the same (I have heard that they helped underwrite a proposal by Michael Raucheisen to record every German lieder of note, which, if completed, would have been the earliest projects of its kind, although, by this point, you could probably find better recordings of almost all of those songs. And about half of those would have a better recording sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.)
If you want to find a German leader to revere who rebuilt the nation out of nothing and brought the economy from “bartering and whatever scraps of foreign currency from the Occupying Forces you can find” to the economic powerhouse of Europe in the span of a few years, Konrad Adenauer did exactly that, and without the crimes against humanity that have rightly destroyed Hitler’s reputation (with the possible exception of tolerating the same sort of human rights abuses that every NATO member was tolerating at the time, anyway.)
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM