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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#106426: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:23:39 PM

Considering the highly conservative direction the police are heading with the NYPD basically refusing to do anything unless they're given carte Blanche again.

Thinking about this together with Trump's disgusting fascist policies, it'd take very little for a President Trump to attain the Waffen-SS, because with how insular and militarized the police are, all they lack is the Himmler copy in control.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#106427: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:26:35 PM

I think it is too early to assume that Trump would launch the Fourth Reich. If we get past the nomination and he's still at it, though, then Hillary would be justified (hilariously) in plastering posters of him everywhere in an SS uniform with a picture of a concentration camp in the background.

Heck, I'd make those up myself and paste them over any Trump signs I found.

"Vote Trump! Sieg Heil!"

edited 10th Dec '15 1:28:19 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#106428: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:27:02 PM

It was largely local police forces and the SS that did most of the dirty work. The Wehrmacht were largely uninvolved.

[up]Relevant image is relevant.

edited 10th Dec '15 1:29:11 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#106429: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:36:18 PM

Black swastika on a red background paired with "Trump for Führer 2016!"

edited 10th Dec '15 1:36:48 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#106431: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:37:40 PM

Considering that the KKK (and presumably, the American Nazi Party and their ilk) are using the Trump campaign to recruit...that's not out of the question. Trump might not be actively helping those groups, but he sure is hell is bringing potential recruits out of the shadows.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Lost in Space
#106432: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:37:40 PM

[up][up]Yeah, he's really not their kind of person. I think he may have been in a church once or twice in his life.

edited 10th Dec '15 1:37:52 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#106433: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:49:23 PM

And yet, only a couple months ago, Trump scored high among evangelicals. Funny how things change.

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#106434: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:01:05 PM

Yup. I'm convinced that Evangelicals are more about politics than their actual religion. Wasn't Mormonism considered a Satanic cult by them until suddenly Mitt Romney was the Republican nominee?

They'd vote for an uber-conservative atheist before they'd vote for Rachel Held Evans if she ran for office. (RHE is a liberal Evangelical and the author of Monkeytown, about how she started to challenge her former conservative, rigid views) And they'd invent justifications for why it would be suddenly okay to accept an atheist.

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#106435: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:04:55 PM

fucking crazy... it may be best to just burn the entire system down and start again

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#106436: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:08:20 PM

Trump doesn't scare people. He scares their business. The evangelical church could not survive too long trying to defend the sorta stuff Trump does. This is not The Iron Heel

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#106437: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:18:23 PM

So basically right now we have an electoral battle between a guy bent on becoming New Hitler, but without the theocratic-religious trappings of the likes of Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee.

And then we have the guys who went to a rally hosted by a Kill The Gays Pastor who advocated casting out "spirits of Queen Elsa down to hell" and calling "Let it Go" Satan's Song.

Evil vs. Evil if there was ever an example. If these were the only options, that'd be really scary.

edited 10th Dec '15 2:18:53 PM by NickTheSwing

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#106438: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:24:30 PM

It must be awful to be a republican right now, because they've managed to convince themselves that the dems simply aren't an option.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#106440: Dec 10th 2015 at 3:33:39 PM

Brokered conventions just don't happen, not unless they game the rules to make it happen. Momentum leads to a culling, and there are enough winner-take-all states that you're bound to have a clear cut winner.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#106441: Dec 10th 2015 at 3:35:03 PM

Looking at the cartoon, isn't that Der Furher himself as the farmer being accosted for his papers by the not-SA?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#106442: Dec 10th 2015 at 4:20:49 PM

At this rate, if Trump doesn't plummet fast, he'll win enough primaries to at least become a kingmaker at the convention. The RNC should prepare for that. Ideally by getting the all but the most viable out of Ryan/Rubio/Christie/Bush/Gramah to drop out and try to inject some moderate sanity back into the process. And even then, with a majority of the GOP base supporting Trump/Cruz/Carson... the RNC might be down to damage control, by conceding the White House and containing the damage to the Senate/House/Governors' Mansions.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#106443: Dec 10th 2015 at 4:24:58 PM

What defines treason anyway?
Treason is basically "attempting to destroy the government". It's also ridiculously hard to convict someone of it in the US, because the Founding Fathers got really tired of England rounding people up and executing them for treason on rather thin evidence.

I wish I could save posts for further reference.
You can. Click on the timestamp on the top right corner of the post — it's a permanent link to that specific post.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Know-age Since: May, 2010
#106444: Dec 10th 2015 at 4:25:54 PM

Trump is completely wrecking the GOP and it's glorious.

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#106445: Dec 10th 2015 at 4:26:27 PM

in response to the petition to block Trump from entering the UK, This Week brought up two very good points in support and against, for it, why should Trump be treated any differently to other hate preachers? politicians from other countries have been banned for entering for saying similar things, is the only difference the office he is running for? does that make him exempt from the law? against, he has been given a very, VERY, easy ride in the States, even by the supposedly "left wing" news sources have been going easy on him in the interviews, and he has yet to experience British interview steel, he would get crucified on Question Time, and it would be quite funny to watch him sweat as he's called out for being a fucking fascist...

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Know-age Since: May, 2010
#106446: Dec 10th 2015 at 4:27:30 PM

lol if you think trump would even bother to deny being fascist anymore

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#106447: Dec 10th 2015 at 4:29:08 PM

the audience on Question Time can be ruthless, they tore down our local fascist in Nick Griffin

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#106448: Dec 10th 2015 at 5:26:53 PM

He'd probably do the same thing he's been doing; ie, calling them out for supposedly unfair treatment, sexist remarks towards any female host, and then gloat about how secure he is in the voter base he's managed to attract. And then gloat some more about how good he is at business.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#106449: Dec 10th 2015 at 5:42:35 PM

DeLong: Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Trumpism Is a Natural Consequence of the GOP Refusing to Moderate on Taxes or Immigration

...BuzzFeed’s editor in chief sent a memo to his staff temporarily suspending the conventions of View From Nowhere journalism to say it’s perfectly okay to call Trump a “mendacious racist” because “there’s nothing partisan about accurately describing Donald Trump.”… But as Brian Beutler put it in July, Trump is frightening Republicans in part because he’s ‘showing… what it takes’ to run and win as the party of disaffected white people in an increasingly nonwhite country…. They’ve committed to… a strategy built around the notion that the 2012 election featured a pile of ‘missing’ white voters who could be activated to push the GOP to victory without it needing to do anything to broaden its demographic appeal.

When this idea was initially being debated inside right-of-center circles, the smartest conservative thinkers specifically warned that attempting the ‘missing white voter’ strategy without meaningful gestures of economic moderation would lead to something ugly. There has been no meaningful move to the center on economics, and–as predicted–the results are ugly…

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#106450: Dec 10th 2015 at 5:45:23 PM

[up][up]two words: Jeremy Paxman, politicians fear interviews with him

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