In the Garden of Beasts

Ross Dolan

Ross Dolan

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I’m belatedly reading the best seller, In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. It is a story about the American ambassador to Germany (and his family) during the time of Hitler's rise to power.

Everyone who has not read it…should read it right now.

The similarity between German during the 1930’s and America today are remarkable…and the similarities between the way Trump acts with how Adolf Hitler acted…is even more remarkable.

We may be in even more trouble than I’ve been thinking, because the typical Hitler supporter didn’t appear to be as ignorant, naïve, or devoted as Trump’s puppets are to him. If Hitler was able to prosper with his following…Trump, with the sheepish morons boosting him, should be dictator by 2020.

Damn!

I guess I'd better clean up my act.

Hummm...so what can I say nice about that guy?
 
"I, for one, welcome our glorious orange leader?" lol

I will have to check that book out. Thanks, Frank.

ETA: Just ordered it from Amazon.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
"I, for one, welcome our glorious orange leader?" lol

I will have to check that book out. Thanks, Frank.

ETA: Just ordered it from Amazon.
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I think you will enjoy it. Larson tells true stories in a way that makes it seem like a novel. His story about Titanic, Dead Wake, was a page turner.

But be prepared to be scared...because the similarities are AMAZING.
 
Frank Apisa said:
I’m belatedly reading the best seller, In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. It is a story about the American ambassador to Germany (and his family) during the time of Hitler's rise to power.

Everyone who has not read it…should read it right now.

The similarity between German during the 1930’s and America today are remarkable…and the similarities between the way Trump acts with how Adolf Hitler acted…is even more remarkable.

We may be in even more trouble than I’ve been thinking, because the typical Hitler supporter didn’t appear to be as ignorant, naïve, or devoted as Trump’s puppets are to him. If Hitler was able to prosper with his following…Trump, with the sheepish morons boosting him, should be dictator by 2020.

Damn!

I guess I'd better clean up my act.

Hummm...so what can I say nice about that guy?
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Frank
You know I dislike Trump but to compare Germany of the 30's and Hitler's rise to power to the US of today is ludicrous. The collapse of the US stock market in 1929 created a world wide depression. Germany suffered not only from the effects of it's WWI surrender terms, run away inflation, the collapse of it's industrial base causing 1 out of every 3 Germans to be unemployed, and not the least was "weaknesses of Weimar democracy and the strengths of the Nazi party."
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zwmdfrd/revision/1

None of which occurs today in the US. So Trump may be an EGO maniac like Hitler but he is chained by US law.
 
our system is strong enough


our people are strong enough


but sadly his brain dead followers will kill Americans once trump goes down


I wish it were not true but it is


crazed old white men who have mountains of guns are going to KILL PEOPLE
 
Grumpy said:
Frank
You know I dislike Trump but to compare Germany of the 30's and Hitler's rise to power to the US of today is ludicrous. The collapse of the US stock market in 1929 created a world wide depression. Germany suffered not only from the effects of it's WWI surrender terms, run away inflation, the collapse of it's industrial base causing 1 out of every 3 Germans to be unemployed, and not the least was "weaknesses of Weimar democracy and the strengths of the Nazi party."
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zwmdfrd/revision/1

None of which occurs today in the US. So Trump may be an EGO maniac like Hitler but he is chained by US law.
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wow

that was sane


since when have you hated trump


You are usually backing the stupid
 
Grumpy said:
Frank
You know I dislike Trump but to compare Germany of the 30's and Hitler's rise to power to the US of today is ludicrous. The collapse of the US stock market in 1929 created a world wide depression. Germany suffered not only from the effects of it's WWI surrender terms, run away inflation, the collapse of it's industrial base causing 1 out of every 3 Germans to be unemployed, and not the least was "weaknesses of Weimar democracy and the strengths of the Nazi party."
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zwmdfrd/revision/1

None of which occurs today in the US. So Trump may be an EGO maniac like Hitler but he is chained by US law.
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Okay...Trump is chained by US law...and now we have jets and the Internet and man-made satellites circling our planet...so things ARE different.

But the similarities in political style and substance are AMAZING.

Don't for one second think the United States is immune from becoming a dictatorship.

NO COUNTRY IS.
 
Frank Apisa said:
Okay...Trump is chained by US law...and now we have jets and the Internet and man-made satellites circling our planet...so things ARE different.

But the similarities in political style and substance are AMAZING.

Don't for one second think the United States is immune from becoming a dictatorship.

NO COUNTRY IS.
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has grumpy ever dissed trump?

Ive never seen it
 
Frank Apisa said:
Okay...Trump is chained by US law...and now we have jets and the Internet and man-made satellites circling our planet...so things ARE different.

But the similarities in political style and substance are AMAZING.

Don't for one second think the United States is immune from becoming a dictatorship.

NO COUNTRY IS.
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Considering how Americans love their freedoms it would be next to impossible for a dictatorship here. Could it happen of course it could and a giant asteroid could hit earth and wipe out all life. But the odds are astronomical.
 
Grumpy said:
Considering how Americans love their freedoms it would be next to impossible for a dictatorship here. Could it happen of course it could and a giant asteroid could hit earth and wipe out all life. But the odds are astronomical.
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but republicans for decades now have cheated in elections to destroy our freedoms

why would you heave in with them?
 
It blows my mind that people refuse to face the facts that the republican party hates democracy


the republicans are always TRASHING the word its self


Their economic ideas always fail to produce what they claim

yet people want to do them OVER and OVER and OVER


cons are soooo obedient to their masters


how can you hate trump and then defend the ideas
 
Frank Apisa said:
I’m belatedly reading the best seller, In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. It is a story about the American ambassador to Germany (and his family) during the time of Hitler's rise to power.

Everyone who has not read it…should read it right now.

The similarity between German during the 1930’s and America today are remarkable…and the similarities between the way Trump acts with how Adolf Hitler acted…is even more remarkable.

We may be in even more trouble than I’ve been thinking, because the typical Hitler supporter didn’t appear to be as ignorant, naïve, or devoted as Trump’s puppets are to him. If Hitler was able to prosper with his following…Trump, with the sheepish morons boosting him, should be dictator by 2020.

Damn!

I guess I'd better clean up my act.

Hummm...so what can I say nice about that guy?
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Mussolini too

Mussolini campaigned about how much he was for the people and then sold the wealthy all the government assets and put the people who bought them into all the power positions in the government


he was all about propaganda


you now the meme "at least Mussolini made the trains run on time"


it was because he reduced how often they ran
 
Frank Apisa said:
I’m belatedly reading the best seller, In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. It is a story about the American ambassador to Germany (and his family) during the time of Hitler's rise to power.

Everyone who has not read it…should read it right now.

The similarity between German during the 1930’s and America today are remarkable…and the similarities between the way Trump acts with how Adolf Hitler acted…is even more remarkable.

We may be in even more trouble than I’ve been thinking, because the typical Hitler supporter didn’t appear to be as ignorant, naïve, or devoted as Trump’s puppets are to him. If Hitler was able to prosper with his following…Trump, with the sheepish morons boosting him, should be dictator by 2020.

Damn!

I guess I'd better clean up my act.

Hummm...so what can I say nice about that guy?
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Just got my book today. Let's discuss it when I've plowed through it, eh?
 
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