Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[pbrower2a]

(02-09-2022, 04:57 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(02-08-2022, 04:24 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: So consider how Germans might have often predicted, based on events of 1940 and early 1941, how things would go. Germany would reshape the world from North Cape to Crete. The Jews would be recognized forever as the evil-doers that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion depicts them and would be rendered harmless.  Warmongers like Sir Winston Churchill and Charles DeGaulle would die dangling from piano wires to extend their agonies. Germans would shout "Sieg heil!" and "Heil Hitler!" and sing the Horst-Wessel-Lied with pride. The Nazi flag would fly in glory in much of the world and would scare a Jew like FDR even in America. (FDR was not Jewish, but the Nazis typically accused him of being a Jew) before Americans, especially those of German stock, would delight in liberation from the machinations of Jewish world conspiracy. The Soviet monstrosity of Stalin and his Jewish henchmen? Also to be obliterated. Germans would get to live as settlers in the vast plains of Russia (with some Dutch, Scandinavians, and even English invited) as the original inhabitants would be removed. 

A few years later... we know the real story. I need not go into the details of damage and judgment. Nazism is dead in Germany; the Nazi Party, Nazi flags, Nazi slogans, Nazi symbols, and Nazi songs are all illegal and remain so nearly 77 years after the end of the war.   On the very day that Hitler offed himself in the fetid bunker, this happened in Munich:





The SS and Gestapo would no longer terrorize these people.  

I don't see America going as you predict. I have a longer view of history, and you are not the first person to have attitudes like yours. 4T's almost invariably show your kind terribly wrong, and that your kind is the last to get the message.

You are related to the Democratic Party or Acirema, as goes the Democrats so goes you. Do you have any other choice but to go along with Them at this point? I agree with you, I don't see America going back to slavery or Jim Crow or sticking with Biden/Harris and all the (nonsense) that they currently represent for much longer either.

We are in the same country and we have equal claims to citizenship, so far as I can tell. My side is generally OK, but I wish that your side were less scary. Unlike you I can recognize other people with equal claims to being American, many of those people very different from me in origin. Many of those people may have similar tastes in culture and even cuisine (OK, a fusion of German-American and English-American cuisine is awful) while having shared ethical values and attitudes on economics. 

My intellect likely overpowers yours (I know what my IQ is, but I am not saying) and you may think that I bully you for that. Just remember: it's typically the smart people who do the most valuable innovations of science and culture and have the means of solving what are often intractable problems. If necessary I can play dumb. That's acting, Stupid people might try to act brilliant, but they make fools of themselves in the process. High intelligence creates its own cultural quirks, such as the patience for reading very long books (if they are good, like The Brothers Karamazov) or listening to extended works of music (again, if really good -- like J S Bach's Art of Fugue). These obviously have little appeal to morons.  In music, just consider what the Top 40 hits are in any given time: they are typically less than five minutes in length. Classical music fans like me often gravitate to musical works that take over 30 minutes to play and tolerate such quirks as an opera being written in a language that they do not understand. As one of my favorite jokes about opera, Tchaikovsky wrote an excellent Italian opera (Yevgeny Onegin) except for having one odd quirk: the libretto is in Russian.
 
I suppose that one's level of intellect will shape one's cultural choices,  

I like to believe that I have a long and broad view of history, and much that has gone on in America has been tried and found troublesome. If it went sour in Spain in the 1930's then it is likely a bad idea here.