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The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”

“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

Trump on Saturday ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 11 months ago (21 children)

Again.

Parroted Hitler again.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

From Mein Kampf:

‘All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.’

Another passage:

‘All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.’

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oddly enough, it seems that most great cultures of the past flourished when they had the most visitors and the most mixing of ideas from all over.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

That’s why reading most of the stuff from Hitler is sooo backwards and upside down. The dude had no grasp on history or anything frankly. Such a flipped and frankly ignorant spoutings all the time. Almost really directly relatable to the orange one himself when you get down to brass tacks.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Thanks now I have to go take a shower

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Damn, he was spot-on about lying, as Trump has amply demonstrated. Although the first time I can remember thinking "they'd never lie about something that big" was when they were trying to sell the Iraq war. I was pretty naive back then.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (26 children)

The scariest part? This guy is polling above Biden

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Biden being their best chance of defeating Trump is scary enough.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Not the best, just the only one, because nobody else is being considered

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I think that may be a distinction without a difference.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

polls said the same about Hillary. Biden will win again

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (13 children)

no he won't, not if American voters keep apathetically stumbling towards fascism like they have been the last few years. The only way this is going to work is if everybody Taylor Swift's the fuck out of this election, no more pussy footing around

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trump has actually never won the popular vote. Unfortunately, majorities don't really matter in the American election system.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Just like every time before them, the polls accurately predicted the popular vote which is all they ever claimed to do. Read a book. And don't get complacent.

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