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So Donald Trump is staying down the street from where I live. And today was an unusually warm day and some lady, lord help me, some lady in the store I work at told me it was unusually warm today because the devil was here.
I kinda love how intellectually barren it is to blame the media, like: “How dare they quote the words that literally came out of my mouth. How was I supposed to know they’d do some kind of report on what I, an influential political figure running for the top office in the country, says?”
It’s like he doesn’t know what the media is.
Rachel Maddow is my hero.
“Intellectually barren” perfectly describes the Republican Party.
Police in Richmond, California have arrested 55-year-old William Celli, who was allegedly constructing explosive devices he intended to use against the Muslims in his community. Authorities obtained a search warrant for the man’s home after an anonymous caller tipped them off about Celli’s activities.
After evacuating the entire neighborhood, police detonated what appeared to be a homemade bomb, telling reporters they were not sure if it was an inert or active device. ThinkProgress confirmed that Celli, who is married and owns his own plumbing company, has been held in the Contra Costa County Jail since Sunday afternoon.
I’ve been seeing a lot of conflict going around about the comparisons that are being made between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. Some people think the similarities are worth addressing, some people feel that comparing anyone to Hitler, even someone as unsavory as Trump, is in poor taste.
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with my grandfather. My grandpa is 87 years old (he’ll be 88 in November), and a Holocaust survivor. He lived through Nazi soldiers taking him and his family away, he lived through concentration camps, he lived through all the horrors that come to mind when you think of the Holocaust and far, far more. He is the last person to take casual comparisons to Hitler lightly.
My grandpa and I talked about Donald Trump over lunch that day, and he said something that genuinely scares me: he said that he does see the similarities between Trump and Hitler. He remembers Hitler’s rise to power firsthand, and he told me that its beginnings bear a striking resemblance to what’s going on with Trump right now.
People didn’t take him seriously enough. Yes, he had a lot of visibility, and there was certainly both public support for and considerable opposition against him, but no one really recognized just how dangerous he was. A lot of people took one look at his crazy ideas and blatant racism and assumed that there was no way he could actually get elected.
And then he did.
And no one could ever have predicted the horrors that would follow.
Am I saying that Donald Trump is equivalent to Hitler? No. Trump is a disgusting human being, but he has not committed mass genocide. But he needs to be taken seriously. Do not let it happen again. We cannot let someone like Trump into office.
Please, if you are able to vote, do so. Tell your friends and family to vote. Donald Trump potentially being in a position of power is a serious concern. Take this seriously. We all need to vote.
Trump
was asked to weigh in on his supporters’ actions on Fox & Friends
Sunday morning. “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” he said. “It was
disgusting what he was doing.”
The Republican frontrunner compared
what happened at his rally to a Black Lives Matter protest at a Bernie
Sanders event, which prompted the Democratic candidate to release a
detailed racial justice plan. “This is not the way Bernie Sanders
handled his problem, I will tell you, but I have a lot of fans and they
were not happy about it. And this was a very obnoxious guy, a
troublemaker, looking to make trouble,” Trump said.
Trump continues to rise in polls, because I guess this is the sort of thing Republican primary voters like, and this is the guy they want to be the President of the United States of (some of) America. What the actual fuck is happening right now?
