History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

September 19, 2025 - 23:37 UTC

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Could you translate the German for us Americans?
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It's over for America. Without free speech how can you rebel? Too little too late and not an ally to be seen.
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The world needs more witticisms.
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Mark Twain?
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To all our artist freinds out there. Make art while its still legal. Make it even more when it isnt!

#TrumpShitShow
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It is certainly working on MAGA and Republicans. Or were they already pigs?
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I wish it wasn't happening again, studying history is supposed to be a warning. Monsters like Trump and his supporters think it's an instruction manual. I wish this cycle of evil would stop!
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History is repeating itself.
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I wonder if the rest of the world will just look away like we did then.
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I'm stealing this image, thanks.
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The Man in the High Castle still creeps me out - long after watching the final episode. Mostly, because it speaks to how easily things could have turned out differently, and how many people would eagerly embrace that alternate reality.
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Fascists are humorless
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My father always warned me to watch out for people with no discernible sense of humour, like Nazis. He was right about that!
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After Jake Tapperโ€™s dumb captain obvious useless book not a fan but on this 100% agree: โ€œif we donโ€™t have the ability to criticize, mock, or investigate our leaders then we are no longer the United States of America.โ€.

โ€ฆ we have to figure out whatโ€™s nextโ€ฆ for our children this can NOT be it!
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If you want to read the full story from Feb 1939, here you go.
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DonDon thinks Mein Kampf is light reading

Who am I kidding? DonDon hasn't read anything since he discovered he could pay to be read to
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You are only allowed to laugh at their designated scapegoats.
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"...Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today."
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And the mouse is complicit. #BoycottDisney
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This was from an anti Nazi movie Disney made
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Rhymes with โ€œmascistโ€.
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Werner Finck only became a "political" comedian due to the Nazis. He said so himself. He would have loved to tell non-political jokes. But he couldn't in a country governed by the likes of Hitler.
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Entirely too closely. I'm so glad that my father, who fled Hitler's Germany with his family as a boy, didn't live to see what's happening now.
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Trump is emulating one of his heroes.
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Exactly
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๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธhttps://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lz7xfdyyrc2n
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Haaaaaaa... we're fucked. Like all the way fucked. Do we leave now or wait for the sudden investment in railroad infrastructure?
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bsky.app/profile/theeliasrework.bsky.social/post/3lza5erqxek2e
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www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html
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This must be the chorus.
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We absolutely have to bring back the term โ€œwitticismโ€. Let them paint themselves as the ant-wit party that they are.
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Itโ€™s no haiku, but it still hurts ๐Ÿ˜
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It Monty Python Joke Warfare
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Who knew how spineless all the businesses, corporations, and CEOs are. They are truly worthless and buckle with a few words. What would happen if all said NO.
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They had Goebbels. We have Miller who has to be a relative.
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Gestapo + Rethuglicans + TACO = Fascism
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Magda Goebbels made a great strudel
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Glad to see this, Goebbels is Trumps go to Nazi, we know Trumps fetish over Hitler is real too.

We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.

Joseph Goebbels
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from Austria (where a lot of us still remember this rhyme): thank you - for what you did as an actor, and for what you DO now as a human being. ๐Ÿ––
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Oooh. Witticisms? You don't see too many of those around these days, do you.
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From Sydney ...keep up the fight !
www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/the-democrat-taking-the-fight-to-trump-admits-yes-he-s-winning-20250919-p5mwfd.html
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History has been too often and too well with the present.
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The word "rhyming" was supposed to be in my last reply. Blush.
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Goddamn Joe Biden to the bowels of hell. I voted Harris, but don't fault anyone who sat the last election out. Biden/Harris tried to force a shit sandwich down the throats of liberals with the Gaza genocide. It's 100% their fault Trump is president.
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I think we've reached the chorus again.
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There it is. "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" -Arlo Guthrey.
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We need to make posters of this & plaster them all over Republicans offices & homes!
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WAIT. Itโ€™s real?
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MAGA never heard of Goebbels
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Ever notice how Autocratic dystopian countries never have any late comedy talk shows? Or comedy?
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It does. And here's another rhyme.
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Yup, saw this, too.
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shudder.
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We know the Admin isnโ€™t innovative, so it copies historical playbooks.
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Destroy the rule of law. Eliminate the free press. Suborn the Police and the army. Hitler demonstrated that would-be dictators should do all three as soon as they can. Reaping benefits from a population that has no one else to turn to for justice, information or protection but the new corrupt state
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OK, put down the weed, and grow up.

All the anarchist shit sounds cool when you're young, and dumb, and high.
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Forget rhyming โ€” we're flat-out plagiarizing now.
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A little more background on this: forward.com/opinion/770776/joseph-goebbels-jimmy-kimmel-nazi-humor-trump/ href="/search?t=posts&q=:~:text=%E2%80%9CPropaganda%20minister%20Joseph%20Goebbels%20ended%20the%20professional%20careers,lack%20of%20any%20positive%20attitude%20about%20National%20Socialism.%E2%80%99%E2%80%9D">#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPropaganda%20minister%20Joseph%20Goebbels%20ended%20the%20professional%20careers,lack%20of%20any%20positive%20attitude%20about%20National%20Socialism.%E2%80%99%E2%80%9D
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open.substack.com/pub/magnusson32/p/the-erosion-is-obvious-and-the-ground?r=17wbfd&utm_medium=ios
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Bring it on!
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History isn't linear..it's spiral...and things repeat to have those who experienced something once....to bring it back to address what must be finished.
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Reincarnation
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there are many stories like that from Nazi Germany. Acquiescing to Trump and his goons, means we will be hearing more of similar events and our children and grandchildren will read them in their history books (and hopefully learn that to bend the knee to fascism results in the demise of democracy!)
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Ends careers?

He eradicated them.
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Donald trump has genetics from paternal well-kept secret family. He never discloses family history in Germany.
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It's blatant. I don't know what anyone can do about it?
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And also ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Trump and his bad of miscreants have never had an original thought.
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Fascist playbook on steroids!
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Exactly ๐Ÿ’ฏ
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People could be killed for being caught listening to the BBC on the wireless in Nazi occupied countries.
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Thank. you.
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Everything comes around again. We see it coming, we know it's already well on it's way -- the question is, can we -- will we -- stop it this time?
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๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
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Same-o shame-o fascist shit heads. VOTE Being nice tonight. Proud of me yet?
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It will once again George!!
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Putin did the same.
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No. Just no. It isn't goebels. Just no way. For starters we are preparing for the conclusion of the cold War, aka world war III and the Soviets helped defeat the nazis. And America wasn't affected by such genocide, neither was Britain, although the threat greater for us. Sort your normalising out
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Now that's the kind of with we love and need
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Americans WILL have to physically remove MAGA Nazis from power; is NO other way. DOJ, CIA, FBI, MILITARY, GOD, COURTS, POLICE, CONGRESS WON'T DO IT! Impeachment & Amendment 25 will NEVER happen! Voting MAY NOT do it! Dictators leave power unwillingly, often not breathing (Sic semper tyrannis).
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And the NYT, more often than not, finds itself on the wrong side of history.
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LOL except our guys are far from ended.
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๐ŸŽถ โ€œHistory never repeatsโ€, MAGA tells itself, before it goes and tweetsโ€ฆ
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โ€œThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reichโ€œ is the blueprint for the blueprint.
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Oh Mr takei you have done it now! Trouble is, you and I are the only ones who knows who goebbels is
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Stephen Miller is the American Goebbels. He's one of the US NAZI REICH who must not only RESIGN...he must go to prison FOR LIFE โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅโœŠ
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The leadership should be executed after more Nuremberg trials. Leaving him alive is an insult to everyone who has died and will die from his mechanations
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He's running the show, no doubt.

The guys who beat his ass in High School didn't do enough.
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A sure sign that history repeats itself, but so does stupidity.

#stupidityrepeatsitself
#weisserose
#ResistTheSITHofJanuary
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1939 didn't have wireless?
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Wow. How true
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The thing the MAGA morons fail to comprehend is that once the "left" voices have been silenced, the powers will come after them for not being sufficiently loyal or right-wing enough.

Punishing those who aren't sincere or obvious enough in their praise of dear leader.
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SA on the night of the long knives heil hitlering their firing squads
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Imagine if history were properly taught in US schools, more people would recognise that what is happening now is exactly what happened in nazi germany, and could have been prevented if US schooling wasn't so dire...
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Iโ€™m an old dinosaur so I miss the days when Americans fought Nazis tooth and nail rather than putting them into the White House.
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Not only a nazi but a felon and pedophile.
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Project Manhattan just after the war
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Is Pee Wee German the reincarnation of Joey the Cripple?
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I think maybe the reincarnation of Riff Raff.
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We're here, people. It's a dictatorship. Brought to you by maga and non-voters.
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Yet even Hitlers inner circle had a sense of humorโ€ฆ
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"We aint nazis!"
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My dad, a WWII Army Sherman tank commander, and his antifa weapon of choice, his tank. He, his crew and his tank survived the war. If still alive, he would HATE trump.
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Canceled Disney and ABC
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....and when they asked WHY I canceled. I checked the "other" box. I typed that I canceled them due to ABC canceling Jimmy Kimmel. Fuck Bob Igner and Trump is an asshole....

That felt good!
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Did the same thing to Hulu today.
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Trumps polls are worse than @jimmykimmel.com ratings...
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Looks close to the kind of headlines coming out of this almost equally over-reaching govermant in DC.
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Iโ€™m just waiting for olโ€™ Yam Tits to rename the FCC to the Department of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda at this point.
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Yep
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Five Alan Actors is a proper name.
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Aryan is Alan.

My middle name is Alan
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I get it. #StrikeForce5
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Yes they are following the fascist playbook. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever-since-charlie-kirks-shooting-i.html?m=1
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Yes. And...
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All farts stink, itโ€™s just a matter of how much.
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#ContinuousCriminalEnterprise
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We need more Witticisms!
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โ€œHistory repeats itself if we donโ€™t learn from itโ€
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Some times fiction does too.

"From splendor, he fell through arrogance to contempt for all things save himself, a spirit wasteful and pitiless. Understanding he turned to subtlety in perverting to his own will all that he would use, until he became a liar without shame."

--JRR Tolkien
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The thing is, it never stops the jokes - they just go underground.

Hitler & Goering stood on top of the Berlin Funkturm looking out over Berlin.
Hitler says I love the Berliners: so brave under all the allied bombings.
I want to do something for them, something to make them happy....
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What do you think Goering, what can I do.
Goering replies: "You could ... Jump."
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Rhymes like bad doggerel.
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And Charles Kirk is Horst Wessel.
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In fairness to the Tangerine, one of the 5 did need to get cancelled. I'll let them fight out who, at the White House UFC I Coming Soon to the administration approved network.
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Trump is following the Nazi playbook again.
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Same old story. Some ignorant rich white man wants to conquer the world. So played out and the people are not going to fall for it anymore. Change the rhyme and make the rich pigs the slaves.
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President Thin Skin needs to take note.
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The US started heading that way when they opened the concentration camps.. disgusting
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Where are all the "Don't Tread on Me" assholes? You know the ones that need their guns to defend themselves against government overreach or taking their rights away?
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I guess they're not the 'alpha males' they made themselves out to be, huh?
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They only carry them for photo ops and trips to Walmart.
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I loved that recollection of the 30's Director of 'Metropolis', Fritz Lange, when he found himself in Goebbel's office, after being invited to direct Nazi propaganda movies (much like Netanyahoo chasing Shapiro currently).
He said he kept an eye on the town clock out of the window...
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...sure he could still make the 5.35pm train out of the country if he ran.
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A thunderous echo these days.
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Yep No difference between evil & Goebel Nazi scum
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"Regardless of how the jack-booted attack on Jimmy Kimmel is resolved, this isnโ€™t a skirmish. Itโ€™s a siege. The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him. Artists are censored first because they fear us most."
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And by careers, they meant lives. This is what's next for us.
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"It's not fascism when we do it"?๐Ÿ™„
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Ministry virtue and culture being formed as we speak...
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You take CARE of you and yours. Your name is well known (deservedly so) and he notices -
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Figures.
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Replace Goebbells with Miller and Aryan with American and weโ€™re all up to date.
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The fascist playbook isn't that thick.
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So when is the general strike? Bc I'm ready.
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Bring back Colbert and Kimmel!
FREE SPEECH!
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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โ€œBut donโ€™t call us Naziโ€™sโ€
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Whitewash
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And the U.K. is going the same way. Shame on their government for entertaining Trump and the amount of hatred of immigrants. @ukparliament.parliament.uk
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Sounds like Hitler was way too excited to incarnate as chump, worshipping blonde hair and blue eyes none of them had but chump does? Odd.
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I swear, it can make a person believe in reincarnation.
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gross!!
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Now Felon 45 has designated โ€˜antifaโ€™ a terrorist organization. If you arenโ€™t pro fascist then I guess youโ€™re a terrorist ๐Ÿ‘
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The similarities with the ghosts of 1930s Germany are obvious.
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Wait, they had a"share" button in 1939?
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Do U know why people do what they do with any kind of power? I dont think they care about history or legacy because they will be dead n won't know it. It's morbid but I don't believe it's everybody. I think it's people who are doing wrong n don't care. I may be wrong but "proof is in the pudding."๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜
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Goebbels? The guy who poisoned his 6 children before he & his wife committed suicide? Goebbels, the guy with the club foot who spent the rest of his life trying to compensate for his perceived inadequacies?
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Trump following the Nazi playbook. Should be no surprise to anyone.
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IF you donโ€™t want to be compared to Nazis STOP acting like them!
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bsky.app/profile/jenn-yyy.bsky.social/post/3lz7m4fmpyk2h
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Yeah. History trying to repeat itself!
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He's carefully studied Goebels.
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html
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You really have to be a special kind of dumb ass loser to listen to this piece of shit.
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They're even too lazy to come up with their own plan to destroy a country. They're just copying Hitler and Goebbles, ya know the plan that resulted in ten million innocents murdered and the near annihilation of Germany. So that's fun...
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Trump concept: "Land of the free as long as you agree with me..." ๐Ÿคก
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The NYT really stuck it out with that font.
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Cabaret.
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Yes โ€ฆ a bit too close for comfort.
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My biggest question is are we living in a Sequel or a Remake?
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That's why I call some idiots MAGAryans.
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Just reread The Testaments (sequel to Handmaid's Tale) and read this line this morning....
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Just change a few names and this could be happening today!!!
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I'd be grateful I got fired before I told them to "take this job and shove it"!
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If youโ€™re afraid of him declaring an emergency and deploying troops everywhere then youโ€™re going to be his bitches forever. Get rid of him now. Whatever it takes.
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You are absolutely right!!
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They're going after the ladies of The View next!
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I think Carl Rove also read Goebbels' propaganda manual.
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History spittin bars rn
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IMO, Stephen Miller is the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbles. I used to think Karoline Leavitt was the reincarnation of Magda Goebbels, but I think Laura Loomer has that spot.
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He's not a reincarnation.

He got involved in right-wing groups in college.
That's where the nazis have always been recruited from.

He's well studied in history of that regime.
He's copying it.

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html
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What? You think Loomer can make a great strudel? Somehow I doubt it.
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Gee. That sounds familiar.
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๐Ÿคจ
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Creepy.
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Trump is taking from Goebbels' playbook.

Hey, Donnie, it didn't work then, and it won't work now!
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It worked until the Nazis lost the war...
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No surprise

#Japan are well known for their cowardice
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Bondi is Trump's AG

Blondi was Hitler's German Shepard

Checks out. History does indeed rhyme.
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Frightening similarities
www.myjewishlearning.com/article/1933-1939-early-stages-of-persecution/
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Right in the ol' playbook, eh?
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When I read Goebbels I picture Stephen Miller
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To each and every person who voted for Trump; you're responsible for this.
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Miller
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Sounds sort of familiar ๐Ÿค”
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Next thing comes the โ€œdegenerate artโ€œ and canvases will be thrown on the bonfire.

The book burning has started already.
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We have one of those!
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