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I am SOOOOOOOOOOO on a toot today! One of the news articles I read this morning was about the White House press corps participating in Take Your Child to Work Day and how Trump ridiculed them and made some very inappropriate comments to those kids about their parents.
“You know, your parents are being very nice right now, I can’t believe it,” Trump said. “You know why? Because they don’t want to embarrass themselves in front of you.”
And to one kid, the president said they had “a nice father about 80 percent of the time.”
But the thing that bothered me beyond imagining — scared me might be a better way to put it — was this:
Trump then asked the kids if they wanted to go inside the Oval Office, to which they responded with an overwhelming “yes!” And when asked whether their parents should be allowed to join them inside, the kids chanted “out!” in unison.
“Out! I agree,” Trump said. “C’mon let’s go, we’ll go to the oval office.”
He actually asks them to make a decision that will separate them from their parents. (See the story here…)
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I’ve been reading WWII history for years and I can say without a doubt this is exactly the same road Germany went down with the Hitler Youth. Below is part of a curriculum of studies from the site Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit international educational and professional development organization. Their mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.
This is from the overview of Lesson 11, Life for German Youth in the 1930’s: Education, Propaganda, Conformity, and Obedience FROM THE UNIT: Decision Making in Times of Injustice Unit.
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In Lesson 11, students explored the impact of Nazi propaganda on the attitudes and actions of the German public. One of the critical audiences for this propaganda was German youth. Time and time again, Hitler spoke of the importance of indoctrinating German youth to Nazi ideals. In a 1935 speech to Nazi party officials, Hitler declared, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future,” and four years later he announced, “I am beginning with the young….With them I can make a new world.” What kind of youth did the Nazis believe would best support their plans for Germany? On that point, Hitler was very specific. In the following speech, he described the ideal German youth:
“A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth—that is what I am after. Youth must be all those things. It must be indifferent to pain. There must be no weakness or tenderness in it. I want to see once more in its eyes the gleam of pride and independence of the beast of prey….I intend to have an athletic youth—that is the first and the chief thing….I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin to my young men.”
As soon as the Nazis came to power, they set in motion the process of permeating the life of German youth with Nazi propaganda. One of the critical spaces where the Nazis hoped to indoctrinate German youth was in the schools.
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I don’t know about you, but it sure seems like we have a hard time believing and learning from history. I found myself saying to his nibs at breakfast, so what does this look like when you set it next to Ben Carson’s decision to up the rent for low-income families and take away their child credits for daycare while making them find a job that pays $5.54 an hour? It will hit single mothers the hardest. And when they can’t pay for daycare and must leave their kids alone at home, how long before DCFS starts intervening and taking those children away from their parents? And what will they do with them? They’re already separating children from parents who try to cross our borders. I totally believe the headline on another article, that this administration has declared war on the least fortunate people in our country.
How the bloody hell did we get here? And why are those people we elected in Washington not doing a damn thing to prevent this corrosion of our values and our countries? I would like an answer to that from every one of those elected officials on BOTH SIDES of the aisle!
I’m certainly no historian, and this is just MY opinion, but I really think this is one of those “Let the citizens beware” moments… Am I nuts?
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One of the scariest posts I’ve read recently. His actions and how he gets away with it is dumbfounded. I am currently reading, the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and I too see history looking like it is repeating.
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You mean the way that the Government, all Politicians, the media all the local authorities, the Police etc etc etc in the UK are sitting back and letting radical Muslims take over my Country., because they are all too blasted scared of being called RACISTS. The way that we are being told we will have Sharia Law that the UK belongs to the Muslims. The way that the muslims have taken over Hyde Park in London with their Prayer mats, the way the the Police do nothing. You talk about Germany, come to the UK where there is no more Freedom of Speech, where people are being watched on the internet, the phone calls monitored. Where the Terrorists are Home Grown and for some to say ISIS are finished they are wrong. Wait until the extreme muslims start taking over your Country. The UK where all those in power turn a blind eye to the muslim men who kidnap/rape/sexually assualt/sell young White girls for sex, not just in one or two
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I do see a lot of similarities in the way we feel, Anna. A lot of us here are as frightened of what Trump’s unspoken agenda really is as you guys are over there toward the lack of interest in what you’re experiencing. I don’t know how you guys are going to eventually deal with your problems, but the people in this country better get their keister of the couch and go vote in the election. It’s obvious the GOP is being led around by the nose and are too afraid to put a stop to the craziness. But then I think the Democrats are doing the same. It’s not about representing their constituents any more. This is the richest sitting body we’ve ever had in this country. Makes me feel like they have drawn a line in the sand between everyone else and them. Literally makes my stomach hurt.
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Thank you, Maryann. I’m glad I’m not just imagining things. Have you read Erik Larson’s “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin?” William E. Dodd who became the first American Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany (because NO politicians wanted the job!) was a history professor from Chicago. He saw it all happening first hand and the US chose to ignore his thoughts on the situation. Finally, after his daughter was recruited to be a Russian spy, Dodd packed his family up and got out of Dodge. It was a very interesting book.
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No, you’re not nuts. We are living in very dangerous times. Some people refuse to acknowledge it, some prefer to be misinformed. History does repeat itself.
Elections have consequences.
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Let’s pray that this one does, eh? I thought it was interesting that we got notices in the mail saying our election would be conducted by mail. (Is that more secure?) But you had to send the notice back and request which ballet you wanted (which, of course, is going to tell them up front how you’re going to vote — no chance for corruption there). There were three choices — Republican, Democrat, or a ballet that didn’t have any of the senate and house races on it all, just the local stuff from where you live. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a registered Independent. Don’t want someone else doing my thinking for me. Yet I am denied a ballot unless I claim to be R or D? Something stinks in Utah — which is bright crimson red… We have to look into this because I’d bet my Aunt Fanny’s best britches it’s illegal…
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He’s one scary guy. I certainly wouldn’t let my kids near him!
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Ye, in the abusive uncle sort of way… 😦
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I have no words I can say publicly about what I think of DT
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I know what you mean. I have to sit down nearly daily when it comes to him and read all my underlining in the book of James in the Bible about my tongue and how it gets me in trouble!
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You should send him a copy!
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LMBO!!! I’d have to send someone to read it to him since reading doesn’t seem to be one of the things he does well! 😉
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Because the majority on the Hill think and support the same way the Orange One does. Until we, the people, do something about those same idiots they can get away with this kind of stuff.
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Well let’s hope “we the people” get our keisters to the polls and vote in November!!! Lordy! I feel like we need to have a prayer vigil! Anyone got some candles?
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If you are nuts then so am I. In one of the clips I saw before I switched the channel he used foul language in front of the kids. I would never have allowed my children to be anywhere near him.
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I’d be scared to death of him if I were a kid. I really wonder what they cut out in that little video on the site. Was he coaching the kids to scream “out?”
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