The specific quote:
“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”
From the article:
Laura Barrón-López, White House correspondent for PBS, told viewers last night, “I checked with a historian, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and she said that language that he’s using … echoes language used in Nazi propaganda by Adolf Hitler when Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.”
Additional site reporting the same (in an interview):
Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from…
…and we know they come from…
Ok, logically, at least one of these is guaranteed to be a lie.
If you think of a trump speech like a LLM talking, you realize that he frequently doesn’t know where a sentence will go when he opens his mouth because he’s just stringing words and concepts together in a freeform flashy propaganda wordsalad.
LLMs nowadays have more long range structure than a Trump speech. Trump is more like an attention-free Markov chain.
Markov chains occasionally produce something clever or unexpected though. For example King James Programming (a Markov chain generator fed with KJV, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond’s writings) sometimes wrote some amusing things. Later Why’s Poignant Guide was added as an additional source, and still later started mixing in posts from a second generator fed the works of Lovecraft and Isabelle/HOL documentation.
Investigate the shell’s here documents and Python’s triple-quote construct to find out the Almighty unto perfection
they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses.
I know not why I went thither unless to pray, or gibber out insane pleas and apologies to the calm white thing that lay within; but, whatever my reason, I attacked the half-frozen sod with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a bounded natural functor (BNF)—a well-behaved type constructor for which nested (co)recursion is supported.
2:4 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory.
Using Lisp we restrict or limit not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us.
It even produced more coherent political notions than Trump:
But the right to bear arms—you don’t want to edit
All of those quotes are in the first 3 pages, out of 94.
…freeform
flashyfashy propaganda wordsaladFTFY
Let’s play everyone’s favorite game show - Trump or Hitler!
I…I don’t like this game…
Pro tip: Trump is the one speaking English
Barely
The best English. Lots of people are saying it. Believe me.
Person, Frau, Mann, Kamera, Fernseher
I like how it ends though.
Maybe he did read Mein Kampf after all?
Fucking fascist Nazi piece of shit.
He doesn’t read
Likely got it from a new alt right friend he made in the last 8 years
Probably Steven Miller read it to him by his bed, late at night, after he was half-passed out from too many hamberders.
Just now? THIS is pushing the envelope? Lmao
And he almost crossed the line this time! Don’t worry, they’ve already moved the line 10 yard back to give him some extra space to push the envelope further.
Yes, using an almost exact Hitler quote is pushing the envelope because it’s a new level for him.
It isn’t. He’s started his campaign with fascist rhetoric. He’s just saying with the emotion of a deranged fool and not the balanced charisma he had before.
Edit: Nvm. I watched the actual video. He’s still got that contemplative attitude. He was being interviewed, after all.
In his inauguration speech it was like he was channeling Hitler. Really creepy.
American carnage!
What a perfect kickoff to a never-ending clownwreck of hypocritical idiot crooks.
He had balanced charisma? When?
I’ve been around about the same amount of time he has and I’ve never seen it.
Did you know that Trump is extremely popular among Republicans? He throws these rallies and hypes up crowds of supporters. He’s also really big on social media and at one point had a super popular Twitter account.
I’m surprised you’ve been around the entire time and haven’t seen any evidence of his charisma!
Whipping idiots into a frenzy by saying outrageous stuff isn’t really charisma
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It’s not a new level for him, not even close.
It’s so not a new level for him. Very fine people, great genetics, etc.
Wait, so when he talked about the lying press (Lügenpresse) that didn’t count because why?
Because accusing the media of dishonesty is a perfectly defensible thing to do. The way Trump did it was indefensible, and reminiscent of lugenpresse, but this is a far more specific use of Nazi language and concept.
Ok, fair point. “Lying press” is a phrase harkening from the 19th C and questioning the integrity of the media in general is fine but for a president to do it as often as Trump did and for the obvious purpose of deflection and personal gain and whatever is, as you say, indefensible. Taken alone, “lying press” would be one thing but in context of everything else it’s hard to imagine he got the phrase from studying about its use prior to the 1930s.
But I agree the blood thing is more unique to Nazi language and worldview. Trump continues to make it clearer and clearer what he is about.
Hopefully anyone who cares to stop fascism isn’t waiting for him to start exterminating people en masse to be sure.
Yes, he is pushing the envelope now. And in the past. And in the future. Asking Donald Trump to not be a trash fire is like asking gravity to suddenly reverse. It ain’t happening.
I used to push the envelope. I still do, but I used to too.
“Can you imagine if the Headless Horseman had a headless horse? It would be fucking chaos!”
Another great quote and an unfortunately apt metaphor.
There’s the quote I was looking for!
The problem with pushing the envelope is that every time you do, it moves.
If he’s not careful, he’s gonna get in trouble maybe someday kinda eventually probably 🤞🤞🤞
This is the one thing South Park has nailed recently.
“Oh yeah, that was your line? Finger in the butt upsets you, but fucking immigrants to death is completely fine?”
We all know what he thinks, but his hints/dogwhistles are ever pushing the envelope.
Only a matter of time before he starts talking about a “Final Solution” to the immigrant problem…
DeSADIST has already started talking about killing them.
Imma start applying to jobs in Canada and/or overseas if he gets presidency again.
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You mean the wall funded by congress during the Trump administration… Biden defunded what he could for the wall.
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"Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.”
Donald Trump, second generation German immigrant, who has lived within sight of Lady Liberty most of his life, what an embarrassment, not only to Americans, but specifically New Yorkers, one of the most mixed melting pots of a city in the entire world. What a racist idiot, especially when you consider the fact that south and central Americans were here before white people, so if anybody is diluting America’s blood line, it’s white motherfuckers like myself and Donald Trump.
immigration for me but not for thee
That’s the whole GOP platform, with first generation immigrants like Ted Rafael Cruz, Vivek Ramaswam, Nikki Haley, and immigrants like George Santos, these people talk about immigrants like they’re subhuman meanwhile they’re actually talking about themselves, their parents, their grandparents.
My paternal family came over from Ireland and had members who fought in every American war since WWII, I don’t see any of these people doing that, yet they’re drawn to power like moths to flame, typical chicken hawk behavior.
Msnbc with the soft-pedal. Corporate news continuing to fail us at almost every turn.
Exactly as they are paid to do
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Alternate headline: “Racist racists racistly”
I think “Racists racist, racistly” works better but that’s just me. 🙂
No, there is no reason to separate a verb and an adverb with a comma.
His hands are so small
NOBODY LOOK!
NOBODY LOOK!
NOBODY LOOK!
We’re lawyers!
so very very small
He’s a short fingered vulgarian.
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Dr Strangelove?
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Gotta be, I recognize those precious bodily fluids anywhere.
They’ve been using regular whistles instead of dog whistles since about 2016. Good job, journalism. You finally figured out what we all knew.
I can’t really comprehend how evangelical Christians find this man to be at all acceptable. In fact, he’s treated as some sort of savior. Major disconnect.
I think this is a group of people who identify with being told what to believe by strong personalities who take strong positions.
Doesn’t matter what they are told, that’s not the point. It’s the freedom from being asked to think, which if you consider it for a while, is a heavy burden removed.
It also plays into the rhetoric that Christians are being persecuted, like the early church. It makes them feels more connected to their scriptures and further deepens that emotional connection to their religion. Church is a massive endorphin/serotonin trip. Feeling more connected to the early church makes them feel more like Paul is writing directly to them, which pushes more endorphins. The music style that’s become popular is pretty trance-like, which releases more endorphins and then when their high on the explosion of endorphins, the pastor comes in and weaponizes that feeling claiming that the gays or trans people or Muslims or the left or whoever they want to villanize are going to take that feeling away and persecute them just as the Romans did to the early church.
I really like the way you phrased that. Summed it up perfectly.
It’s easy when you understand that their moral framework is actually completely hollow, and their independent moral intuition is completely atrophied to the point that they are unable to conduct even basic moral synthesis.
Religion, as we know it, has always been a framework for social control and cooperation. The morality bits have always served this end, so it’s not really surprising that in our modern context they just dispense with any moral pretenses as soon as they are in obvious conflict with their power aspirations.
Yep, the thing they like about religion is handing all the messy decisions over to a central authority. Just put your trust in the right authority and you don’t have to worry about anything! Which authority is the right one? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you!
I suppose because they don’t really believe or understand what they claim to be their philosophies. Look at all the BS that Christians have happily indulged in over the centuries such as slavery, other racist oppression, child and spousal abuse and colonialism. The culture also trains people to accept whatever authority figures have to say. I think that some Christians who actually do engage their faith in an intellectual sense (to whatever extent that is really possible) have rejected him for being obviously immoral. I mean, the guy not just indulges in but personifies each of the seven deadly sins… sloth, greed, lust, vanity, pride, gluttony, and wrath.
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I am sorry, I don’t usually correct people but Hippocrates has me rolling. I think you mean hypocrites!
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Just own it. Sheesh
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it’s just gonna get more and more shrill as he swirls farther down that shitter bowl
…or if his fascist enablers end up installing him in the Oval Office again (by any means necessary).
maybe aliens, too
Xitter?
Mark my words, this mother bugger getting arrested before these trials even over.
I’ve become cynical at this point, I don’t think he sees ANY time behind bars.
He’s old and not very healthy. It’s possible that he’ll pass away before that.
Mac Donald’s and cocaine is not a very healthy diet.
When a reporter asked how his five children were doing, the former president loudly exclaimed:
“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”
