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I’ve stopped bothering with links from RawStory. It’s all just ragebait headlines. There’s a nugget of truth and I’m encouraging everyone to vote blue up and down the ballot, but these AI generated articles aren’t really helping. There are a few sites that are the same all up and down, but this is one of the worst.
Ok but who's actually stunned by him
Those within wafting distance.
King of the Elitists
The Orange POS Nazi is copying 1920's, 30's and 40's Germany.
Can't wait for 1945!
Not sure much of the human race (or many other land species) could survive a rerun's impact on the environment.
Eugenics has its roots in the US.
I didn't realize the US was older than ancient Rome 🤭
I see your Rome and raise with Sparta. Yes this brand of stupidity has been going since well before the colonization of North America by Europeans. A more nuanced comment would have discussed how much of nazi germanys eugenics was based on american eugenics of the time as others have done in this thread.
He says this kind of crap literally every day. Didn't he say Harris voters would be in danger like, literally yesterday? It's not "stunning" anyone anymore, we're just supposed to act like people in power actually care that he's a xenophobic, narcissistic fascist. Headlines like this are supposed to comfort us into believing that those with power are actually stunned or upset by what he said. Every day? For eight+ years? Get the fuck out of here.
Won't someone please think of our leaders' pearls.
It's better to have it reported than for us all to be normalized to a potential president wholeheartedly adopting fascist language.
It'd be better if a pearl clutcher passed a law or something, but with half of them frothing at the chance to turn on their own constituents...
Reporting on it just fans the flames, generates the drama he needs to stay at the forefront of the news cycle. Can Harris generate that kind of chatter with sensible talk about realistic proposals? This dispirits Dem voters, while emboldening his base who laugh behind their hand at Trump's boorish political incorrectness. Jester's Privilege. He has never suffered any consequences for anything he's said.
Well yeah of course he’s going to bring out the eugenics, he surrounds himself with his fellow Nazis.
"You have seen people in this courtroom, you have seen them at this trial, you have met them in your life, have every reason to respect them, to love them, to appreciate them, except that maybe one of their ancestors going back and back and back to where perhaps they had ten thousand ancestors, and one of them was black or partly black, and he has to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water and all of his generation, to the end of time to be cursed that way by those who think their blood is pure.
Of course, the marvel of it is that there is not any such thing as pure blood.
How far can you go back in yours, how far can I go back in mine? I knew who my father was and who my mother was, and I know who all four of my grandparents were, but when I get back of that I am lost in obscurity and night. I know they came from New England. I hate to admit it, but they did,--pure Nordic.
MR. TOMS: New England Nordic?
MR. DARROW: New England Nordic. Isn’t it awful? I know it. I had to bear it and get along with it the best I could for all these years. For all I know they may have been related to Jonathan Edwards. From there they go back to England, but what of it? Gentlemen, I don’t know where they came from back of that or that far, and I know that back of me and back of you is an infinite ancestry stretching away back at least five hundred thousand years, and we are made up of everything on the face of the earth, of all kinds and colors and degrees of civilization, and out of that come we.
Who are we, any of us, to be boastful above our fellows?"
Clarence Darrow, Esq., in the successful closing argument in defense of Ossian Sweet