Who Are the Real Nazis?

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Donald Trump, Jr. is a true to life comedy movie villain.  Very specifically, he’s the douchey guy with slick backed hair, who thinks he’s clever, suave and charming (usually without actually being any of those things), and he’s always pushing around the little guy with a doofy grin on his face.  You get the feeling he’s pushed around a lot of employees at ski resorts.  So when Don Jr. attempts to wax intellectual on basically anything, there is usually a little bit of humor to be found.  Don Jr. isn’t exactly a Rhodes Scholar, and frequently says ludicrously unfounded things based on other equally unfounded things he’s read on the internet.  This week, while at a movie premiere (a movie made by recent Trump pardonee, Dinesh D’Souza) Don Jr. claimed that based on history (history, he added, as only truly informed people such as himself are aware), it’s really the Democrats who are more Nazi like, not his father and his administration!  Now, any reasonable person looking into political similarities between modern day politics and the Nazi regime will be able to find the answer to that question, because as it turns out, while an often contested and argued academic field, it’s not a terribly secretive one.  And if you want to find out exactly what the Nazis stood for, you can find the Program of the German Workers Party, written by Adolf Hitler in 1920, in all it’s glorious text.  I encourage you to take a look at it sometime and see whose views are more closely mirrored by a German despot.

Ulterior Motive

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Trump’s pardoning power has been something that has seen a lot of speculation in the face of this intense investigation which is seeing many of Trump’s oldest friends and allies facing some potentially serious legal trouble.  So when Trump pardoned Dinesh D’Souza last week for his own shady campaign malfeasance, many people saw that as a message to Trump’s allies under fire that he has their back.  And it’s certainly hard to see it any other way.  Though, D’Souza really is a man after Trump’s own heart.  Seriously, the guy wrote a book called Obama’s America that spent a chapter that basically served as one long “Yo Mama” joke against Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, making multiple references to her weight and alleged that she was…well very promiscuous.  All of this in a book that was supposed to be aimed at Obama’s politics in office.  It makes me wonder if that sort of cruel, schoolyard bullying behavior didn’t also play into Trump’s decision…