I think it sounded better in the original German ...

[kpete]

And they call themselves American Patriots

by digby

There's dumb and illiterate ... and then there's too dumb to be allowed out in public without a minder:



http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/and-they-call-themselves-american.html

[caraher]

1. I wonder if it's ever occurred to these "porous border" geniuses that

The main reason we have a refugee crisis on our hands is that we DO "catch" a very large proportion of the people fleeing violence in Central America.

I suppose had they lived in France south of Paris in 1940 they'd be eager to take up arms against Parisians "invading" the countryside in the face of the Nazi advance.

[DetlefK]

2. Then try to pronounce it...

"DIE TEILNAHME STEHT JEDEM OFFEN UND ES GIBT NUR EINE REGEL: WASAUCHIMMER IHR TUT, HALTET EUCH AN DAS GESETZ."

Shout it and wave your fist.

[jberryhill]

3. "However, there is one difference."

They only count one difference?

Ummmm.... let's start simply. Are they going to France?

[Journeyman]

4. Cool. It's just like the Normandy Invasion, only this time they're playing the other side. . .

First time I've seen someone invoke Godwin's Law to derail their own defense.

I'll repeat what I've said countless times in the past: People need to learn better metaphors than simple knee-jerk reliance on Nazis and Hitler. Why, a reference to Fredricksburg would fit so much better here, or an allusion to any number of Native American defenses against the sea-pirates who so bedeviled them. But no, the immediate motion was to Nazism, and in it these morons come off even stupider than usual.

[MisterP]

7. heck, I'm from an Axis-Allied family: the worst thing in human history shouldn't

be made into a cheap shorthand for "bad"

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. This is friggin' priceless...

The principle difference is that this time, WE'RE THE NAZI'S!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. They could call it the Pazifikwall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall