Nazi Ear: Caught!
you can elude a bullet, but you can't elude an expert
I’ll tell you later who just made this argument, but try to guess before you scroll down. This one will be easier for longtime Tell Me How This Ends readers, but it’ll be a fun game for everyone. Ready? Okay, go:
A bunch of bullets flew toward Donald Trump’s head because Trump was using his authoritarian playbook. Like a fascist, he was manipulating people by bleeding from a gunshot wound. He survived an assassination attempt, and then he told people he survived an assassination attempt, and you know who else survived an assassination attempt and then said so? That’s right, ADOLF HITLER, think about it! Getting shot is being a Nazi! Now do you understand how dangerous and malevolent Donald Trump is?!?!?!?
Actual direct quote: “The history of strongmen is also the history of their opponents’ efforts to use force to remove them from power.” See, Trump getting shot is a mark against him — it proves that he’s a monster, because authoritarian strongmen get shot. When the bullet struck his body, it marked him as a violent aggressor. His bloody wound proved that he’s the bad guy.
Okay, who said it?
I joke, of course, because only one person could nail the level of brain-damaged shit-elegant shame sickness that this argument achieves. Ladies and gentlemen, America’s Dumbest Professor™:
She’s the John Henry of being an idiot. She’ll die with her hammer in her hand, and she’ll be laughin’. Here, taste a sample:
How clever of Trump to get the bullets to not just hit him but to also hit people who were attending his rally. He was making the bullets feed his narrative! Corey Comperatore was rhetorically killed, you see, to align with the authoritarian scheme. Wake up and understand the Trumpian playbook, sheeple! He shrewdly got himself narratively Hitler-shot, for the fascist messaging!
I keep waiting for this dimwitted asshole to find her moral and intellectual bottom, and she just keeps going lower.
Sadly, it's become clear that stopping Trump is a clear moral imperative for these people, therefore every single thing they do or word they write will be slanted toward that end. It's disgusting to see them slobber all over Kamala Harris, but it's worse knowing that if she doesn't work out and gets replaced at the convention, the press will pretend fawn over the next candidate as well.
You keep writing about her, so I had to go to her website and get more background.
She is an historian by training and specializes in Italian fascism and Italian colonialism.
She's fascinated by "strongmen", so much so that she wrote a book called....Strongmen.
She's a professional opinion libtard at a variety of media outlets and is defending "democratic ideals" at the University of Hawaii. She has all the right fellowships and credentials.
Her supposed expertise in dictators makes her characterization of Trump even more perplexing, particularly in the context of Mussolini. Mussolini was a Communist who became a fascist, an agitator and ideologue with a violent streak and a bad temper, of modest origins. His father was a blacksmith and a Socialist. Mussolini was a dedicated Communist , but was ejected from the Socialist Party in Italy in 1914 for supporting Italian participation in WW1. His initial rationale was to promote the overthrow of the Habsburgs, Ottomans, and other monarchs in the name of class struggle, but then it became about nationalism. Italy didn't become a unified nation state until 1861, with expulsion of the French from Rome in 1870. WW1 further expanded Italian territory and Mussolini had the usual megalomaniacal dictator ambitions to extend Italy's empire along the lines of ancient Rome.
Trump on the other hand is a hardcore capitalist, entrepreneur, real estate developer and mass media star who has never been an ideologue. He's opposed to war, expansionism, and international adventurism. He's friendly to the people whereas Mussolini was all about his secret police. Trump is a family man. Mussolini was more about Mussolini. Interestingly Mussolini's descendants have done well for themselves in Italian society and politics. About the only things Trump has in common with Mussolini is that they are both alphas and their taste is flamboyant in furnishings and interior design, although Mussolini was more of a brutalist/modernist with Neo-Roman overtones and Trump is more into baroque/rococo. Her fascination with strongmen probably derives from some deep seated psychosexual issues, but daddy doesn't care.
So, this lady knows what she's doing. These aren't the efforts of a moron. She's obviously a hard Left commissar. She's a shameless regime adjacent liar who hides behind her credentials and adapts her scholarly endeavors to smear Trump and MAGA while her party commits most of the crimes and shares most of the behavorial traits of the subjects of her research. How often have we seen this pattern already?
Trump/Vance '24
Felon + Hillbilly = 'Murica