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From Cabaret:
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ON EDIT: Words to the first stanza (notice especially the delight in aggression, "take 'em down" and "Deal from strength or get crushed":
Cowardice
Are you serious?
Apologies for freedom, I cant handle this.
When freedom rings, answer the call!
On your feet, stand up tall!
Freedom's on our shoulders, USA!
Enemies of freedom face the music, c'mon boys, take them down
President Donald Trump knows how to make America great
Deal from strength or get crushed every time
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Am I the only one who sees a resemblance? (Original Post)
tblue37
Jan 2016
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tblue37
(64,979 posts)1. As if it weren't bad enough that the Trumpenfuhrer praises Putin's "strenght" and Kim Jong Un's
ability to get his country under control, now he is praising the Chinese for the way they dealt with those young people who dared to stage a peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square:
Donald Trump: The Chinese Sure Knew How to Display Toughness at Tiananmen Square
<SNIP>
So after eight years of Ronald Reagan, within weeks of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Trump is convinced that America is perceived as weak. I guess in Trumpland, America is always weak. Too bad we're not more like the Chinese at Tiananmen Square. Sure, they almost blew it, but in the end they did what they had to do. I guess they would have known what to do with those Occupy hippies and all the Mexicans flooding into the country too.
....What were your impressions of the Soviet Union?
I was very unimpressed....Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That's my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.
You mean firm hand as in China?
When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak ... as being spit on by the rest of the world
So after eight years of Ronald Reagan, within weeks of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Trump is convinced that America is perceived as weak. I guess in Trumpland, America is always weak. Too bad we're not more like the Chinese at Tiananmen Square. Sure, they almost blew it, but in the end they did what they had to do. I guess they would have known what to do with those Occupy hippies and all the Mexicans flooding into the country too.
I don't think Trump will become president, but the way he is received by such yooooge cheering crowds does scare me, because that large pool of authoritarian followers are just ripe to be mobilized by a more polished and effective candidate who will convince the political power players, banksters, billionaires, and corporatists that they can deal with him and keep him under control. Such deep-pocket and deeply entrenched powers in Germany believed they could control Hitler, so of course they wholeheartedly backed him.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. TrumpJugend
tblue37
(64,979 posts)3. Ah--missed that one. nt