Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini

[Calypso Jones]

Why would any politician use the word “vermin” when referring to the opposition?

What does one do when confronted with vermin? One exterminates them.

Trump is exceedingly dangerous folks.

Words can be very dangerous.

apparently you have been missing how the president talks about Trump supporters.

 

[Orangecat]

Takes one to know one?

Are you a professional comedian?

 

[Calypso Jones]

"We will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, lie, steal, and cheat on elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally to destroy America, and the American Dream" --Donald Trump in a campaign speech

you guys take exception to the term vermin.....he didn't even CALL YOU VERMIN...He said that commies, marxists, fascists and radical left thugs LIVE LIKE VERMIN. Now if you take exception to the vermin remark about commies/marxists/fascists then...you must support those groups. Is that so?

 

[Arlette]

LOL nice try. You are ignoring the pedophilia and sexual deviancy in your own party.

Not talking about the party. The individual. The sociopath Donald Trump. It's pretty obvious that there is something seriously wrong with Trump. He's a sociopath

 

[Calypso Jones]

Are you a professional comedian?

democrats do not do humor.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Not talking about the party. The individual. The sociopath Donald Trump. It's pretty obvious that there is something seriously wrong with Trump. He's a sociopath

the fact that you only see it in him and not those that ARE displaying those characteristics says something about your perception. and really, you're still just repeating what you're told with NO EVIDENCE.

 

[Arlette]

the fact that you only see it in him and not those that ARE displaying those characteristics says something about your perception. and really, you're still just repeating what you're told with NO EVIDENCE.

What other sociopath is poised to become the next president?

 

[Nostra]

Not talking about the party. The individual. The sociopath Donald Trump. It's pretty obvious that there is something seriously wrong with Trump. He's a sociopath

Your Dimwinger vermin opinion means nothing.

 

[postman]

Maybe quit acting like Hitler then.

Ivana Trump acknowledged Donald kept a book of Hitler's speeches in his night table.

Trump styles his MAGA rally's the same way, with lots of flags, in big arenas.

 

[Calypso Jones]

What other sociopath is poised to become the next president?

why don't you start using your own brain.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Ivana Trump acknowledged Donald kept a book of Hitler's speeches in his night table.

Trump styles his MAGA rally's the same way, with lots of flags, in big arenas.

God forbid anyone fly an AMERICAN FLAG. right? WHere's your 'palestinian/hamas' flag?

 

[Arlette]

Your Dimwinger vermin opinion means nothing.

Trump was a sociopath in 2020 and he's still the same sociopath in 24. That's why he will lose again

 

[Calypso Jones]

 

[Calypso Jones]

LIFE? PEACE? EQUALITY?? LOLOLOL She says the democrat party claimes to be on the side of life, peace and equality. You can claim anything like for instance that you, Joe, have israel's back and when you keep giving money to iran and gaza, you DO NOT Have israel's back. THey don't want a cease fire because they prefer peace...they want a cease fire to help hamas kill more jews.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The word is in the dictionary. Are you a fact denier?

So is defenestration, should we use that against people we disagree with, MAGA vermin?

Are you a professional comedian?

No, how about you, MAGA vermin?

 

[Dragonlady]

The subject is trump calling swamp rats in washington “vermin”

Libs on this forum including partisans such as Mac1958 are incensed toward trump but silent about hillary who attacked half the voters in America

Which is how libs usually roll

So racists, biggots, and white supremacists are not "deplorable"??? What is it you're trying to claim here Mac????

Libs are always in the vanguard demanding change
Which is what causes division

The history of human progress is liberals pushing through change over the objections of conservatives.

When the automobile was first invented, people like you yelled "Get a horse!" as cars passed. The conservatives worried about all of the blacksmiths, stablehands, and whip makers being put out of business if everyone started driving cars. The car will never be practical without a national network of gas stations in every town in America. Who's going to build those fuel depots????

Today, the Wall Street Journal asked the federal government to do something about climate change, which is now costing the US economy $150 billion per year, and rising. 15 years ago they were calling it a "leftist tax grab" and denying it was a problem.

It would have been a lot cheaper to do something about this 20 years ago. In Ontario, the Liberal government threw bags of money at wind energy companies to build windmills along the Great Lakes shorelines. The Liberals lost the election due to their fiscal mismanagement of Hydro One giving Ontario the highest electrical rates in North America.
The original progam was crazy expensive but an enormous boon to local farmers who received $60,000 per year for their land. However we have closed all but one of our nuclear power plants which have aged out of service. We closed all of our coal fired power plants in the 1990's.

The initial wind power programs and leases have expired and have been renewed at market prices. Ontario now has some of the cheapest electrical power in North America. Toronto is 7th of out the Top 10 big cities for electrical prices today. And basically - all of it is green energy, although I am loathe to call nuclear power "green".

In 2000 Dimocrats claimed the election was stolen.
In 2004 Dimocrats claimed the election was stolen.
In 2016 Dimocrats claimed the election was stolen.

In 2000, Al Gore conceded the election, and oversaw the certification of Bush's election in the Senate, and assisted in the peaceful transfer of power.

In 2004, W was issuing daily "terror alerts" of various colours, to frighten people into voting Republican because the Democrats couldn't be trusted to keep America safe. But nobody went on the air claiming the election was stolen.

In 2016, the Russians were all over the election with propaganda that Hillary had Parkinsons, a stroke, or was a blood drinking lizard head of a child sexual abuse cult. Republicans ate it up with a fork and spoon. Democrats stayed home. Trump lost the popular vote, but pulled an inside straight in the Electoral College which dutifully installed him as President.

Hillary conceded the election, and Joe Biden certified it and participated in the peaceful transfer of power.

There is no equivalency to Trump's attempt to overturn the election, and seize power by force.

 

[Dragonlady]

The word is in the dictionary. Are you a fact denier?

Trump calls his opponents "vermin" and his voters all over this board are now called leftist posters "vermin". But you're not in a cult. Not you.

 

[postman]

As compared to 142 cops attacked by MAGA's

Link?

Key facts to know about the Jan. 6 insurrection

How many people took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot? How many were arrested? How long did Trump speak before the insurrection? The answers readers need to know.

www.latimes.com

More than 140 law enforcement officers were physically harmed during the insurrection, according to a special congressional committee investigating the attack. In a July hearing, a District of Columbia police officer recounted a chaotic and violent day where he was tased in the head several times by rioters and beaten unconscious.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

"We will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, lie, steal, and cheat on elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally to destroy America, and the American Dream" --Donald Trump in a campaign speech

Holy Mein Kampf, Batman, Trump's been sniffing crazy glue!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/

“The language is the language that dictators use to instill fear,” said Timothy Naftali, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “When you dehumanize an opponent, you strip them of their constitutional rights to participate securely in a democracy because you’re saying they’re not human. That’s what dictators do.”​

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University, said in an email to The Washington Post that “calling people 'vermin’ was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini to dehumanize people and encourage their followers to engage in violence.”​

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“Trump is also using projection: note that he mentions all kinds of authoritarians ‘communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left’ to set himself up as the deliverer of freedom,” Ben-Ghiat said. “Mussolini promised freedom to his people too and then declared dictatorship.”​

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I seem to recall Republicans having a conniption when Hillary called them ''deplorables', but how silent they are when Trump acts like a second rate wannabe dictator.​

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But Republicans love this type of rhetoric. It's not about making America Great, it's about owning the libs. Not a very good basis to run a country, and forget about unity, not with this guy.​

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He's making plans, if he regains office.....​

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Trump planning sweeping raids, detention camps, and mass deportations if re-elected in 2025, NYT reports​

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Trump is going to lose middle America, now he's getting scary.​

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Hamas' supporting Democrats ARE vermin. And that's only one measure.

Baby killing Democrats are vermin.

And you're DEPLORABLE too

 

[Calypso Jones]

So is defenestration, should we use that against people we disagree with, MAGA vermin?

No, how about you, MAGA vermin?

told ya they don't do humor.