Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Drama queens screaming “NAZI!” may propel Trump into 2nd term
Metro Spirit - Augusta's Independent Voice Since 1989 ^ | June 20, 2018 | Austin Rhodes

Posted on 06/22/2018 5:39:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I held my nose when I voted for the Donald Trump in 2016, but at the rate things are going now, I will not only happily vote for him in 2020, I will personally do everything I can to get everyone I know to do the same.

He is a buffoon when it comes to social media, his personal history is abysmal, and his political naivete is often maddening. But when it comes right down to it, there are very few current issues where I disagree with the direction or the goals of his administration.

Execution of that agenda is often a troublesome and difficult course, but the general goals of the president’s administration are consistent with what conservatives have been seeking for generations.

The fact that this bumbling caricature of a leader seems to be succeeding in much of what he does, and that his presence and policies have sparked a great revival of the American economy, has his enemies to the point of daily histrionics, the likes of which Americans have never seen in their lifetimes.

We have all read that there was genuine hatred and over-the-top partisanship among many of our country’s Founding Fathers; a few of them even took to deadly violence when their personal attacks on each other crossed the line. But today’s environment is not about the politicians taking on each other — now we have the entire fourth estate choosing up sides. Never before have we seen in America common sense put aside while carefully choreographed, one-sided attacks come in from “nonpartisan” mainstream media outlets that routinely ignore history, precedent and the rule of law.

Put the partisan “cheerleading corps” of Fox News and MSNBC aside, and you still have an amazingly homogeneous anti-Trump drumbeat coming from most major news outlets, not to even mention the near unanimous anti-Trump fervor among the Hollywood elite. That entertainment cabal is actively seeking out dissent among their own in the hopes of destroying it. Not only are you shunned if you stand against the tide, this week there were comments from icons like Judd Apatow and Seth McFarlane suggesting that entertainers who work for the same companies that employ those who disagree, should use their influence to silence the dissent.

If these same geniuses had been paying attention to their own industry for a minute instead of trying to force their collective political will down middle America’s throat, maybe they would have saved a few thousand of the young women and men victimized by liberal darlings like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Roman Polanski.

Those guys, and very likely Bill Cosby as well, are thanking their lucky stars that the world seems far more preoccupied with the “daily Trump crisis” manufactured by their media accomplices than they are asking how the “enlightened artistes” enabled and empowered decades of hypocritical sexual predatory behavior, all with a wink and a smile.

Of course, the outrage of the moment concerns the illegal immigration laws of the country, which have been largely ignored by government leaders for the past 20 years, with predictably disastrous results. No need for me to revisit the details of the controversy, but suffice to say in the coverage the media, Hollywood Leftists and Democrat officials are wearing out the “Nazi Germany” metaphors and cliches like fat kids wear out Happy Meals.

As columnist Bill D’Agostino pointed out at Newsbusters this week:

“The Holocaust was invoked 12 times across CNN and MSNBC between June 15 and the 18th, generally in the form of comparisons between DHS detention centers and Nazi concentration camps.

On Friday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened “Morning Joe” with a tasteless Holocaust reference: “Children are being marched away to showers … just like the Nazis said they were taking people to the showers, and then they never came back. You’d think they would use another trick.”

Over the weekend, CNN political commentator Dave Jacobson threw a miniature tantrum over the policy. On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom” during the 10 a.m. hour, he opined, “Donald Trump increasingly looks like Hitler in Nazi Germany.” The following day, he appeared again on “Newsroom” in the afternoon to embellish on his already hysterical take: “Increasingly, Donald Trump is turning this nation into Nazi Germany and turning these [detention centers] into concentration camps.”

Perhaps we should remind Scarborough and Jacobson that unlike Nazi Germany, no one being temporarily detained by Homeland Security is subjected to medical experimentation, starvation or extermination. Unlike the Jews and other targeted minorities and political dissidents who fell victim to the homicidal torture and policies of the Nazis, the immigrants attempting to illegally access our borders came into our custody as a result of their own actions and choices. In fact, they are still lining up by the hundreds every single day to take their chances with our system. Unlike the Nazis, who rounded up innocent victims, no one here wishes them physical harm in any way, shape or form.

But hey, demonization of conservatives by the Left is nothing new. But I caution those who have declared Trump and his supporters “evil” — you are galvanizing support for the man and his “bull-in-a-china-shop” attitude unlike anything you could imagine. The over-the-top histrionics are not recruiting new anti-Trump voters; in fact, many are considering his unconventional style as just provocative enough to bring much-needed reform to issues once thought untouchable.

Sadly, there are children involved in this immigration crisis, and according to longstanding policies and procedures (many of which were ignored by President Obama), there has been a temporary separation of some families while their intentions and status are sorted out. Under the obviously intellectually dishonest instructions of the previous administration, many of these illegals and their children were allowed to leave custody and return for an administrative hearing at a later date. According to several official estimates, the “no-show” rate for those hearings was around 90 percent.

Simply put, we have an unmanageable problem that requires a bipartisan fix, and before this “showdown,” virtually no will existed to force that solution.

I give President Trump credit for invoking the spirit of Abraham Lincoln in this matter, for it was President Lincoln who once said, “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it … strictly.”

Or of course we could just continue to do what we are doing. Perhaps the Democrats, Hollywood and the mainstream media would back off if we came up with a better, more catchy description of these immigrant children who are separated from their parents for a short period.

We could call them “very late term, temporary abortions.”

But that would probably hurt their feelings.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2020; hollywood; media; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-36 next last

1 posted on 06/22/2018 5:39:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

When libtards rail against something, you know whatever that is, is almost 100% certain to be the right thing.

Screaming nazi at it makes it a clear 100% right thing.


2 posted on 06/22/2018 5:47:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Temporary Abortions ...
.
Ouch.
..


3 posted on 06/22/2018 5:49:20 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Young millennials who cannot define that a nazi is calls Trump a Nazi LOL


4 posted on 06/22/2018 5:49:21 PM PDT by realcleanguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, there’s going to be a showdown, no question about it. The Left has mistaken restraint for weakness. It is a fatal error.


5 posted on 06/22/2018 5:49:23 PM PDT by Noumenon (When all liberals have is a hammer, every problem is a nail in YOUR coffin.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

A “buffoon” on social media? This person is nuts. Trump has the media and the left tied in knots over his use of social media.

Every tweet is a slam-dunk. We know it’s Trump, unfiltered.

He’s actually a genius at social media, and knows how to twist the knobs of the left. LOL


6 posted on 06/22/2018 5:53:51 PM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: realcleanguy

Wait, aren’t they the ones who claim the Holocaust never happened?


7 posted on 06/22/2018 5:55:39 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: bgill

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/invoke-the-nazis-and-you-ve-lost-the-argument-8209712.html


8 posted on 06/22/2018 5:57:07 PM PDT by blackdog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: realcleanguy

It’s not just millennials, it’s libs in general. They use the word as a weapon rather than a description of behavior.


9 posted on 06/22/2018 6:00:59 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: All

Border jumpers in detention.

Jewish youngsters in Auschwitz.

10 posted on 06/22/2018 6:04:58 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

On the one hand, you have an increasingly small portion of the population willing to listen to CNN’s continual shrieking.

On the other hand, the audience still with them is getting more unhinged by the day and a number of them will probably commit crimes as a result.

There are probably quite a few Democrats who still hate the GOP but who have had the uncomfortable experience of seeing their own side telling lie after lie. They won’t vote for Republicans, but they probably won’t want to vote for people who keep lying to them.


11 posted on 06/22/2018 6:05:11 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The FBI should investigate CNN for Russian/Chinese collusion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
Every Senate Democrat has now signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S. citizen children already within the United States. The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.

.....but wait, there's more Democrat wisdom.......from a Yale graduate, no less..


12 posted on 06/22/2018 6:05:31 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.


13 posted on 06/22/2018 6:08:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Horse heads work!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Liz

Carelessly written bills are generally intentionally written for “unintended consequences.” That is how a smart lawyer can carve out loopholes where there appear to be none.


14 posted on 06/22/2018 6:12:27 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The FBI should investigate CNN for Russian/Chinese collusion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I loved his 2nd and 3d from the last line:

“Or of course we could just continue to do what we are doing. Perhaps the Democrats, Hollywood and the mainstream media would back off if we came up with a better, more catchy description of these immigrant children who are separated from their parents for a short period.

We could call them “very late term, temporary abortions.”


15 posted on 06/22/2018 6:14:25 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I loved his 2nd and 3d from the last line:

“Or of course we could just continue to do what we are doing. Perhaps the Democrats, Hollywood and the mainstream media would back off if we came up with a better, more catchy description of these immigrant children who are separated from their parents for a short period.

We could call them “very late term, temporary abortions.”


16 posted on 06/22/2018 6:14:25 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
On Friday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened “Morning Joe” with a tasteless Holocaust reference: “Children are being marched away to showers … just like the Nazis said they were taking people to the showers, and then they never came back.

What an absurd comparison!
Of course the kids were not marched to the showers! Only their mothers, if they could be found.

The toddlers were herded into the fattening pens, to be eaten later...

17 posted on 06/22/2018 6:18:00 PM PDT by publius911 (CA-the perfect storm of a criminally inept Legislature)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: publius911

18 posted on 06/22/2018 6:25:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: publius911
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough made a tasteless Holocaust reference: “Children are being marched away to showers …
just like the Nazis, and then they never came back. You’d think they would use another trick.”

He knows its a damnable lie....but says it matter-of-factly, as if he actually witnessed such an atrocity.

19 posted on 06/22/2018 6:28:19 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

, “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it … strictly.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Most of the laws are not bad.
They should be enforced strictly and not repealed.
The ones requiring adjudication before removal need to be tweaked.


20 posted on 06/22/2018 6:28:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-36 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson