Can’t be.
Ted Cruz is the only one with the “Evil Goatee”.
When we see Trump with one then we’ll know for sure.
The Department of Labor came out with a video with a catchy new slogan:
The Department of Labor drew fierce backlash on Sunday over a social media post urging Americans to embrace a message that critics suggested was chillingly familiar.
The department shared on X, formerly Twitter, an 11-second montage of American artwork captioned: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”
It added: “Remember who you are, American.”
The language immediately drew damning comparisons to the Nazi Germany slogan “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer,” which translates to “One People, One Realm, One Leader,” as even noted by X’s AI chatbot Grok:
It CAN’T be a reprise of an old Nazi classic.
It doesn’t rhyme.
Trump is so evil that he knows he’s in the evil universe and wants to hide it so he shaved off his goatee.
More likely he can’t grow one. Low-T.
See also: Kristi Noem’s new slogan “One of Ours, All of Yours”.
I was wondering what the hell that even meant when I first saw it. Googling the phrase, there seems to be a consensus that it originates with Nazi Germany:
“One of ours, all of yours” is from Nazi Germany. It was coined when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village. Nazis then killed every resident of of the village.
So much for dog whistles, eh? How long before they put up the slogan ‘work makes you free’ at prisons and detention centers?
US Department of Labor posted a message on Xitter this weekend that read: “One homeland, one people, one heritage.” Not sure what that has to do with the nation’s workforce, but I’m surprised it didn’t include “One leader.” Ah well, I guess they’re still getting the hang of Nazi messaging.
Beside the utterly revolting Nazi cosplay this slogan invokes, it’s a bullshit revisionist idea of America as a homogeneous culture. America has always been a melting pot; a country where people from various countries, ethnicities and backgrounds can come together and share the best traits of their cultures. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”.
The trump admin is pushing this idea that America is, or should be, the land of one pure white ‘Aryan race’. They’re not even trying to hide it in ‘dog whistle’ style wink-wink euphemisms any more.
I’m interpreting that phrase as, “You killed one of ours, so we killed all of yours.”
Or as Kristi probably means it, “If you kill one of ours, we will kill all of yours. Dogs included.”
That would require him to recognize Denmark and Greenland as equal, sovereign partners in an agreement, who are allowed to have their own opinions on things. That is anathema to the “We do what we want, fuck your feelings!” philosophy of Trump and MAGA.
Which is particularly deranged, since they were the ones who killed “one of ours”.
I never imagined that Googling Mussolini death images could lower blood pressure, but here we are.
Am I the only one who doesn’t expect the Statue of Liberty to outlast Trump47? The Taliban got rid of the Buddhas that had been around a lot longer.
At the very least, I’m surprised he hasn’t yet replaced the plaque of the Emma Lazarus poem with one of his plaques full of bullshit misinformation, like those plaques that were recently added to the ‘Hall of Presidents’.
“Lady Liberty- not my type, honestly, and she could wear something a little more flattering than that robe-- maybe show some cleavage. But I’ll tell you what, she can kick ass. The book she holds represents the names we’re taking down of our enemies, and the torch represents how we’re going to torch the asses of our enemies. Lady Liberty is taking names and torching asses, alright?”
I cited this discussion earlier in this thread, but this next part is timely, too.
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Krugman: Random thoughts: I ran across one of these people who was into the whole we-are-the-new-Roman-Empire sort of thing, and who made the horrifying discovery that the secret of the Roman Empire, the secret of the rise of the Republic wasn’t that the legions were the best troops on the planet. They might have been, but not that much better than others. It was that Rome had a genius for cultivating alliances, and expanded citizenship.O’Brien: Right. What Rome did is it welcomed other people.
Krugman: At some point they welcomed immigrants to Rome itself. Then they also converted the allies into citizens.
O’Brien: They expanded the citizenship first up and down Italy and then into Gull [Typo? Should this be Gaul? TL]. So that Rome was not Rome. It was actually a real multi-ethnic polity. But by 50 A.D., it was a huge area with citizenship that expanded all the way from the English Channel down into the Mediterranean.
Krugman: Mary Beard’s book, SPQR , it’s one of my favorite books of all time. She ends it sometime around the early third century, when basically everybody became a citizen, because they just kept on expanding it.
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Hmmm? Welcoming immigrants, making everyone a citizen? Who’d a thunk that could be a successful policy? Oh yeah, the USA used to do that, too…
It was not so cut and dried, they even had a war “The Social War” because not-Roman citizens in Italy demanded more equality.
It took centuries to give everyone citizenship and when they did there was already another “In-Group” with privileges denied your run of the mill Citizen.
That said, the Romans learned to use citizenship as a carrot to get conquered peoples to get along with the Empire/Republic.
One of their favorite tactics was to give citizenship to a town but not to the town next to it, thus creating a rivalry between them and stopping them from uniting against them. “Divide Et Impera” they said, “Divide and conquer”.
I believe the real secret to the Roman success was that they networked with the oligarchies that governed or wanted to govern the different nations around them and made sure they knew they could still govern/get to govern if they accepted Roman suzerainty.
I posted that a few months back and got groused at, so…
This is priceless:
RFK Jr, lecturing a health minister in Germany: “Reports coming out of Germany show a government sidelining patient autonomy and limiting people’s abilities to act on their own convictions when they face medical decisions. That is why I sent a letter to Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, Nina Warken. In my letter, I made it clear that Germany has the opportunity and the responsibility to correct this trajectory, to restore medical autonomy, to end politically motivated prosecutions, and to uphold the rights that anchor every democratic nation.”
German historian Rob Schafer responded: “You seem to be laboring under the delusion that Germany is a colony for your conspiracy theories. Let me be blunt: Your brand of ‘freedom’ — the freedom to die of preventable 19th-century diseases — is an export we have no interest in buying. We established the world’s first universal social healthcare system under Bismarck in 1883. You still do not have anything comparable.” …
“We are the nation of Koch and Virchow and have spent 140 years using state power to defeat disease through science AND solidarity. You, meanwhile, preside over a system where insulin is rationed like gold dust and medical bankruptcy is a national pastime. The fact that you think you have the moral standing to lecture the country that invented modern medicine on ‘medical decisions’ is not just arrogant; it is grotesque! Keep your chaos on your side of the Atlantic. Mind your own business.”
I love this man (Schafer), and wish to subscribe to his newsletter.
If you can’t beat 'em, bribe 'em.
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark