Sorry, But Sometimes It’s Impossible to Avoid Comparing Hitler to Trump
Unless requested to do so, I don’t make comparisons between Hitler and Trump. But, since a reader sent me the piece at left, here are a few thoughts.
A minor point: Unless you’re extremely wealthy, you will actually pay higher taxes under Trump than you did under his predecessor. Not that I expected it, but a little honesty would have been a nice touch.
Far more importantly, it will be very interesting to see how many people actually will die as a result of:
• Removal of healthcare and nutrition programs for tens of millions of Americans and their children.
• Hurricanes, droughts, floods, wildfires, loss of land masses and biodiversity, ocean acidification, and other effects of climate change.
• Gunshots.
• The lies and preventable missteps associated with COVID-19 and its variants. We can all hope for no further outbreaks, but there are no guarantees.
• Violence associated with rounding up and deporting immigrants.
• Our support of atrocities against the Palestinians.
• The financial devastation that is wreaked upon huge numbers of Americans due to tariffs and trade wars with former allies like Canada.
• Our nation’s retreat from NATO, and support of the murderous Putin regime, inviting Russian aggression further westward in Europe.
• Reduction in the robustness of air safety and other aspects of our infrastructure.
In addition, there are important though impossible-to-quantify aspects of Trump’s leadership that will ultimately result indirectly in many deaths. Though this is all speculative at this point, we are facing a likely end to American democracy and reliance on rule of law. Trump tried to violently overthrow the legitimate government of the world’s most powerful nation, and has ended all attempts to hold him criminally accountable. What happens, as a consequence, when the status of United States is globally downgraded, just like its Treasury bonds were last month?
Btw, Trump didn’t “hurt my feelings.” In fact, he did nothing whatsoever to hurt me personally. I’m a white male who’s not gay, poor, uneducated, uninsured, Muslim, Latin American, or young enough to have his life disfigured by climate change. My kids are grown, meaning that they won’t lose their lives in school shootings. The only problem I have with Trump is that his insanity and criminality is hurting millions of innocent people around the globe.
I don’t like that, and you shouldn’t either.
Maybe it was inevitable that the ultra-right-wing underclass in the United States would somehow find a way to turn our cities into war zones.
While it’s true that PBS and NPR inform the viewer/lister, it’s not just evangelical Christians that have issues with this. More than 77 million people voted for Trump in 2024, and precious few of them want to see an American electorate that is more conversant with the U.S. Constitution, international relationships, science, current events, the arts, comparative political philosophies, etc.
No, what the director of the FBI said here is not a joke. Apparently, he’s unaware that many hundreds of Trump supporters were convicted of beating the crap out of police officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and were summarily pardoned when the president returned to the White House.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller said: “Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots.”
It’s hard to know exactly what Trump means when he says this, not that any sensible person believes a word he says.
One thing is certain about the photo of the toddler here: He didn’t invent this level of anger on his own; he picked it up from someone, most likely his father.
What Jodie Foster says here about homosexuality is what I have believed since I was old enough to understand what this subject was all about.
If I had been born without a conscience, I would have fashioned a career focused on ripping off idiots, which wouldn’t have been at all difficult, and I would have developed rhetoric like what we have here. I have to admit, however, that I never could have surpassed the skill of Ted Nugent.
The data points that former Labor Secretary Robert Reich lays out here show how Elon Musk completely fleeced the United States.
