• Wren@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    So… back to Tritler Bingo….

    Did anyone have:

    Trump not only takes a page from Hitler’s playbook, but openly recites it for all to hear?

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      He spent a lot of time preparing for that.

      Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

      “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

      Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

      “I don’t remember,” I said.

      “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

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        Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

        That’s not quite true. Hitler wasn’t an effective speaker when he started, knew it, and got a lot of coaching. From the beginning, when he was an Army snitch spying on the fascists, he was being groomed.

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          Honestly, the two are complete opposites when it comes to style of speech: Hitler imparts certainty in the listener, and Trump causes utter confusion. The only similarity is that both are completely evil.

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              His speeches sound like a grandpa getting more and more senile. I’m convinced a lot of his supporters have never listened to one in its entirety.