Lazy Fascism, King Trump and the Militarised Police State of Fast Food Amerika

‘No Kings’ protests against Trump take place across US ahead of military parade

Thousands of people have gathered in cities across the US to join protests against President Donald Trump, hours ahead of his military parade in Washington DC.

The demonstrations organised by a group called “No Kings” was billed as a nationwide day of defiance at his policies.

Lawmakers, union leaders, and activists gave speeches in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Houston to crowds waving American flags and signs critical of Trump.

The military parade, scheduled for Saturday evening, is timed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army and it is also Trump’s birthday.

Nothing manages to sum up the abomination that is the Amerikan Military Industrial Complex quite like King Trump’s Military Birthday Parade juxtaposed with Israel starting an Amerikan enabled war against Iran.

I have always believed trump represents an Orange Fascism and watching him use the 250th Anniversary of the Military for his own Birthday parade is the kid of ego that can justify any war crime.

The combination of celebrating an Army that has been behind more paramilitary CIA backed death squads and coups than almost any other army in modern history…

…alongside the bloated ego of an Orange King alongside watching Israel start a war that Trump enabled has managed to congeal together in a toxic brew of audacity and hypocrisy.

History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes and right now Trump may as well be called Bitler.

I believe there are many cultural red flags in terms of genuine comparisons with the rise of Hitler and Trump.

Use of Resentment as a Political weapon: Trump understands resentment as well as Hitler did and Trump manipulates it in the same way.

Failed Putsch: Both attempted take overs by violence and both were defeated.

Using Court Trial as propaganda tool: While in jail for the Beerhall putsch, Hitler realised he could use the Court process as a propaganda tool and he was on the front pages of German Newspapers with all his anti-immigrant and anti-Semetic attack lines, in the exact same way Trump has also used those Court cases.

Realising violent over throw can’t work: While in prison, Hitler realised he couldn’t over throw a Democracy by violence, but that you had to get elected. Trump learnt the same lesson

Big Lie and the Other: Both Hitler and Trump use ‘Big Lie’ mind control tactics, Hitler described it, Trump used it with his Election theft claim.

What I think is most similar between Hitler and Trump however is the laziness.

This about Hitler from the brilliant book by Tom Phillips,  “Humans: A brief History of how we fucked it all up”…

“beyond him (Hitler) being (obviously) a genocidal maniac, there’s an aspect to Hitler’s rule that kind of gets missed in our standard view of him. Even if popular culture has long enjoyed tuning him into an object of mockery, we still tend to believe the Nazi machine was ruthlessly efficient, and that the great dictator spent most of his time…well, dictating things.

So it’s worth rsembereing that Hitler was actually an incompetent, lazy, egomaniac and his government was and absolute clown show.

In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. He was a ‘pathetic dunderhead’ according to one magazine editor; another wrote that his party was a ‘society of incompetents’ and that people should not ‘overestimate the fairground party’.

Even after elections had made the Nazis the latest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people. Franz von Papen, the recently removed Chancellor of Germany, who was bitterly determined to reclaim power, thought that he could use Hitler as a pawn, and so enters into discussions with him to form a coalition government. After the deal was done in January 1933, making Hitler chancellor and von Papen vice chancellor, with a cabinet full of the latter’s conservative allies, von Papen was confident of his triumph, “We’ve hired him,’ he reassured an acquaintance who tried to warn him he’d made a mistake. ‘In two month,’ he predicted to another friend, ‘we’ll have pushed Hitler so far into a corner he’ll squeak.’

 That’s not how it worked out. In fact, within two months Hitler had seized complete control of the German state, persuading the Reichstag to pass an act that gave him power to bypass the constitution, the presidency and the Reichstag itself. What had been a democracy was, suddenly, not a democracy any more.

Why did the elites of Germany so consistently underestimate Hitler? Possibly because they weren’t actually wrong in their assessment of his competency – they just failed to realise that this wasn’t enough to stand in the way of his ambition. As it would turn out, Hitler was really bad at running a government. As his own press chief Otto Dietrich later wrote in his memoir, The Hitler I knew, ‘In the 12 year of his rule in Germany, Hitler produced the biggest confusion in government that has ever existed in a civilised state.’

Hitler hated having to read paperwork, and would regularly take important decisions without even looking at the documents his aides had prepared for him. Rather than having policy discussions with his underlings, he’d subject them to impromptu rambling speeches about whatever was on his mind – which they dreaded, as it would mean no more work could be done until he was finished.

Hid government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His ‘unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair’, as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weifem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in a attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day

…almost sounds word for word like Trump…

Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn’t get out of bed until after 11am, and wouldn’t do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich. 

He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as the ‘greatest actor in Europe’, and wrote to a friend, ‘I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history’.

He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others – he wassail to ‘rage like a tiger’ if anybody corrected him. ‘How can one tell someone the truth who immediately gets angry when the facts do not suit him?’ lamented Wiedemann. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.

…it’s almost word for world like Trump, now consider the way ICE are sweeping people off the streets like a secret police and look at the way Trump has manufactured a crisis in California so he has the excuse to militarise it.

Trump wants to provoke violent protest so he has an excuse to impose martial law.

Amerika worships its military to the point of a cult because their violence provides the cheap cost of living Americans enjoy.

Day by day those Americans who benefit from the Amerikan Empire cheer each goose step they come towards becoming a police state.

That is the obscenity we are witnessing.

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