I find it believable that Shitler keeps a copy of Mein Kampf at hand just as another tool of intimidation. I agree, he probably never read it, BUT I do think he has read excerpts of that and also of the writings of Goebbels and others. Not in original German, of course...
It's important to remember that the Drumpfs were active in the American Nazi movement (aka The Bund), albeit more covertly than, say, Henry Ford. All over NY in the 1930s the movement was popular - especially in some neighborhoods in the Bronx and Queens that had been settled by German immigrants, and who then migrated east out onto Long Island. Yaphank, NY was a hotbed of Nazi activity - they had camps, schools, and held rallies.
Funny side note: Where I used to live in LI there was this one restaurant/catering place in Centerport that had a very old European look and feel to it. I had heard rumors. On my first date with my now husband, we drove past it, and we both turned, pointed, and laughed and said "Wonder what the Bund is up to tonight? Are we too late for the meeting?" Our first moment of dark comedy bonding... in 1991...
So it was no secret that whites in LI were pro-Nazi right up til the start of the war, at which point I think many Bund members got deported to Germany for sedition. Yes, the US government revoked their citizenships, and Germany welcomed them with open arms.
Here's a link to good info for those who are interested:
The Atlantic - American Nazis
@suspira44 i thought it was one of his ex-wives (Ivanka's ma?), who said that he kept a copy of Hitler's speeches on the bedside table. And that it was the only thing she ever saw him read (besides articles about himself)?
@laura-f I don't know, I looked it up on Snopes. Hitler's Speeches is a different book. He never said the quote about reading Mein Kampf - it was supposedly quoted in Time Magazine, but it wasn't found.
He did own Hitler's speeches though he denies it. He said at one point:
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.” He categorically denied it to Barbara Walters, who had read about it in Vanity Fair. Trump promptly went up to the woman who wrote the article and poured a glass of wine down her back.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-mein-kampf/
The great Orange Buffon has postponed his rally in respect for the "Holiday" it would interfere with. His African American friends and supporters ask for it. Gee you think BOTH of his AA friends ask?! The prospect of 19000 (although I doubt that number) rip roaring MAGAts mask free and cramed together in a city which has an uptake of the virus makes me gitty!
Cross posting this from the hits thread. [Sorry if this has already been discussed here today. Haven't had time to read the ample posts you guys are making but I'm so happy you're here!.]
Sometime in 2018, I posted about a medical event I saw coming for Tr*&p. In my vision, he appeared to exhibit weakness or hemiplegia on what I thought would be his left hand/arm. I can't locate my original post from 2018, but here's a link to a post from July 2019 in which I referenced it. When I initially shared my vision, @BlueBelle also posted that she'd had a similar vision of weakness or trouble in T's hand or arm (she can clarify for us exactly what she saw). I seem to remember that she actually saw the issue occurring with his right hand (?).
Well, today, our lovely BlueBelle sent me a link to this video, which appears to show him having trouble using his right arm/hand! He seems unable to fully bring a glass of water to his mouth for a drink. He has to use his left to assist his right. (We've seen the same thing once before in the winter, I think.)
Pretty interesting.
The same journalist also posted side-by-side videos that compare T speaking in 2015 to now and there appears to be a stark decline in his executive function. Or he could just be tired and having trouble reading the teleprompter. Ahem.
This may or may not be important, but sometime in the spring of this year I posted a vision I had of T wearing a wrist brace on his right hand. I wonder now if we'll see this soon and whether it will be an attempt to cover for what's actually going on with him.
ETA: This could also be potential a hit for an illness that @jeanne-mayellpredicted T would have for June 2020.
Also, I'm tagging you @lawrence because it seems like you were seeing something similar...? (My mind is a sieve.)
I just saw a video posted on Facebook by Rawstory. The video showed the great orange one leaving the podium after his speech At West Point. He was going down a ramp, not a steep on just a slight incline. He was shuffling, step with one foot them shuffle the other up to it. He looked at his shoes the whole time. It looked very suspicious. Now I do that sometimes but I have post chemo neuropathy in the front half of my feet. The story pointed out his need to use two hands to drink a glass of water and his rambling speech. These don’t appear to be the actions of a big, strong, healthy mocho man. The dud appears to have a problem of some kind.
Well, today, our lovely BlueBelle sent me a link to this video, which appears to show him having trouble using his right arm/hand! He seems unable to fully bring a glass of water to his mouth for a drink. He has to use his left to assist his right. (We've seen the same thing once before in the winter, I think.)
ETA: This could also be potential a hit for an illness that @jeanne-mayellpredicted T would have for June 2020.
Watching that video, he uses one hand to assist the other which is not normal. But then I saw an Atlantic story from January 2018showing the same problem with his hand. He holds a cup with both hands, like a child needing both to hold the cup to his lips. This is a sign that there is something neurologically wrong and it's been going on for a while.
I just spoke to my Dad, who while not known for it, is a strong intuitive (he reminds me that while I may call myself a Sicilian Witch, he is a Sicilian Warlock, LOL). He's been saying for the last 6-7 months that he felt that Smallhands McDouchebag would have some kind of major health event this July. He says he keeps seeing him NOT at the RNC.
Smallhands McDouchebag ???
I saw his speech to those poor cadets he looked horrible or the make up person did not blend well his orange an brown face. He ain’t doing too good. Why does he do these child like faces? That saw see I did it. I’m a big kid now ?
#TrumpIsNotWell is trending #1 on Twitter after videos captured from West Point showing him severely impaired. The anvil has fallen.
@vestralux @jeanne-mayell and everyone here! ?
I'm at the point where I don't even derive joy from talking about the downfall of our Windigo-in-Chief. He just needs to go, and when he does, I'll skip the celebration and continue the work of building a better world. Meanwhile, we need to stop giving his ego so much attention. We've already established that he thrives off of making himself a spectacle. 15 years ago, he was able to grow stronger and stronger in our minds by making himself a gaudy cable TV freak that millions of people, including professed liberals, would tune into anyways just for the spectacle of watching a gaudy freak. Now it's the same story: millions of people, including self-identified liberals and progressives, continue to feed the beast because they can't turn away from the visual media spectacle of a gaudy psychopath occupying the White House.
I feel like he'd shrivel into nothingness if we trashed our cable boxes, stopped watching web recordings of him, and turned our liberated attention instead to nurturing light. Partly because my TV-watching habit died out well before 2015, and partly because I'm hearing-impaired, I don't know what his voice sounds like. When he's quoted in print media, I skip over the quotes, because even his disembodied words are manipulation. I can look at photos of him for brief intervals, but only because I must if I am to understand that he is the personification of the debauchedness of both the American collective and our flashy, image-obsessed globalized consumerist culture.
I'm not trying to make people feel bad about their media habits. But if there's ever a time to examine how seemingly innocent, individual decisions are cumulative and leading humanity to a cliff-edge, it's now.
@coyote This is one of the main reasons I quit Twitter. Imagine if everyone quit twitter and no on read his Tweets. That would cut the noise to signal ratio way down and the news might cover the real news. Twitter is just providing a conduit for him for more energy transfer. He would definitely have to do more hate&adulation rallies. This is why they won't ever kick him off. Twitter and Trump have a symbiotic relationship.
I feel like he'd shrivel into nothingness if we trashed our cable boxes, stopped watching web recordings of him, and turned our liberated attention instead to nurturing light.
Yes! I've often thought that the constant media attention and even psychological energy on T fuels him and gives him undue power, and I'm reminded of an old Simpson's Halloween episode bit in which advertising figures come to life and start destroying the town. Lisa realizes that they feed on attention and to save the town, she convinces everyone "just don't look..."
This is how we rise: The White House Put up a Wall. The People Made it Beautiful.