“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”
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“Americans don't know enough about Nazi Germany to know what Hitler did before the Holocaust.
If they knew what Hitler did before the Holocaust, they'd realize that Trump is following Hitler's playbook step by step.”
― Atheist Guide: Atheism in a Nutshell
If they knew what Hitler did before the Holocaust, they'd realize that Trump is following Hitler's playbook step by step.”
― Atheist Guide: Atheism in a Nutshell
“We all know President Trump and his administration, and their allies, are counting on the notion that fear can be contagious. They are counting on the notion that if they make some people afraid, it will have a chilling effect on others. But what they're overlooking - what they have overlooked - is that fear is not the only thing that's contagious. Courage is contagious.”
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“Fascism is eliminationism.
"Make America great again" means "Eliminate all Democrats.”
― Atheist Guide: Atheism in a Nutshell
"Make America great again" means "Eliminate all Democrats.”
― Atheist Guide: Atheism in a Nutshell
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist Stalinist but people for whom the distinction between
fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false, no longer exists.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false, no longer exists.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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