Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich'
Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich'
A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich."
Trump has a very long history of using this kind of thing to say what the campaign is thinking about doing.
If you want to stop that kind of fascist outcome, about the only real option is to make sure Biden gets reelected and has a Democratic congress to help him.
That means three things:
- Double-check your voter registration. Turned 18? Register. Moved? Register. Changed name? Register. Live in a state where Republicans might have purged your registration? Check your registration
- Volunteer. That means in-person if you can. Phone bank if you can't.
- Kick in what money you can. To the Biden campaign and to a close house or close senate race.
That’s not a dogwhistle. That’s a dogsiren.
84The dog nazi party
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Reich on time.
43America: I did Nazi that coming
34Even if it references the unification of germany in the 19th century there's no way most of his base thinks of that Reich when seeing the word.
31Let's entertain the idea that an unknown staffer accidentally missed the word... Why was the word even there in the first place?? It really shouldn't be necessary to check your drafts or templates for accidental nazi references.
31When a campaign hires staffers like Stephen Miller, and the candidate has said neo-nazis and white supremacists are fine people, that right there is likely the reason.
16"At least one of the headlines flashing in the video appears to be text that is copied verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”
That's definitely a strange thing to go searching to put on your propaganda piece. IDK who actually made the video though.
Reminds me of a joke "now I'm not saying the president is a Nazi, all I'm saying is Nazis love the president."
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Right Wingers when Joe Biden stood behind some Red lighting: "This is the end of our republic, this man is evil."
Right Wingers when Trump is using Nazi messaging for the 100th time: "Mainstream media is always lying, Fake news fellow patriots."
25Conservative cognitive dissonance is wild.
Hates Jews. Defends Israel to the death.
You have to wonder if they even know that Israel is full of Jews...
22The 30-second video appeared on Trump’s account at a time when the presumptive Republican nominee for president, while seeking to portray President Joe Biden as soft on antisemitism, has himself repeatedly faced criticism for using language and rhetoric associated with Nazi Germany.
It was posted and shared on the former president’s Truth Social account while he was on a lunch break from his Manhattan hush money trial.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” Karoline Leavitt, the campaign press secretary, said in a statement.
It seems these two statements are in contradiction. Also. It was totally a staffer who didn't see the bits about a reich. Yeah. it was an honest mistake, and not even more nazi rhetoric from the orange turd that has been using nazi rhetoric since his first presidential campaign...
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I would have been shocked seven years ago. Now, knowing him today I am not.
13I stopped being surprised by Nazi trump around the $88 baseball and the '14 word' immigrant bill.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
NEW YORK (AP) — A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.
It was posted and shared on the former president’s Truth Social account while he was on a lunch break from his Manhattan hush money trial.
Earlier this month, Trump said at a fundraiser that Biden is running a “Gestapo administration,” referring to the secret Nazi police force.
Trump previously used rhetoric echoing Adolf Hitler when he said immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and called his opponents “vermin.”
At least one of the headlines flashing in the video appears to be text that is copied verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”
In one image, the headlines “Border Is Closed” and “15 Million Illegal Aliens Deported” appear above smaller text with the start and end dates of World War I.
The original article contains 377 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 52%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
8I look forward to the enlightened and unifying rule of Fürer Trumpf and have never, not once, questioned his mental faculties, business acumen, or bladder strength.
7Not to downplay this and I'm still concerned but it seems like they used this template but didn't bother editing it out.
https://elements.envato.com/newspaper-vintage-history-headlines-promo-6UD9B8E
3If that's what they started with, they managed to make significant edits, notably rescaling and moving the "unified third reich" text way to the left, while choosing to leave it in the final video.
5Yea its very fucking sus they decided not to remove that headline
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Is there a link to the video in question? I didn't see one in the article
1Did this include the video?
0Gee... I guess most people in the US haven't yet realized why the US is constantly "defending" itself by sowing mass-murder and misery in everybody else's countries?
Either that... or liberals are just really sore at Trump for saying the quiet part out loud.
-12“Reich” doesn’t mean “Nazi”.
The “Second Reich” referred to the German Empire. After WWI, “The Weimar Republic,[b] officially known as the German Reich,[c] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.”
-43No American (except German History majors, I suppose) hearing the word "Reich" thinks of anything except the third one.
This is like the white dude rolling into a party with swastikas on their coat and then claiming it has other cultural meaning. So what? You and we all know that the reason the reference was brought out is to make you think of Nazis.
42Actually it does. No one calls the Wiemar republic a "Reich". And you're full of shit of you're suggesting they do.
19I don't think the word Reich, without further context, is by itself suspect in German. It just a generic word for realm, and is not bound to any specific political system. Even their parliament building is still called the Reichstag. In German it's also common to refer to modern day monarchies as Königreich. Even the Belgian constitution, where German is one of the three official languages, refers to the country as das Königreich. And there are even two whole countries that have it in their German name: Österreich and Frankreich.
Where it becomes suspect is when inexplicably the German word is used in the English language in a certain context by certain politicians with certain ideas, as it is here.
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