![]() He said that every time he sees President Trump speak - Perlman called him “Donnie” - he thinks back on the time he was ordered to shake the hand of now-disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The most head-scratching anti-Trump rap of the week, though, came from actor Ron Perlman, who posted an odd tale on Twitter. “We’re not comparing this to Hitler,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said last week - before claiming that Trump was using rhetoric “straight out of Hitler’s playbook.” Various cable news blabbers also ran afoul of “the Hitler rule” (if you compare your political opponents to Nazis, you’ve lost the argument) even though subconsciously they know how dumb this sounds. But ICE agents are not taking those kids off to be exterminated. The sights and sounds of kids being separated from their parents are awful. ![]() “It isn’t Nazi Germany.” You should have listened to yourself, senator. “This is the United States of America,” Feinstein said. You’d expect more of a public servant of her vintage and faith heritage (she’s Jewish and was born in 1933, which means she remembers the horrors of World War II). Dianne Feinstein, invoked Hitler’s death camps as a point of comparison with the Trumpian mess at the U.S.-Mexico border. Meanwhile, another veteran member of California’s congressional delegation, Sen. Donald Trump’s reaction? He congratulated the Filipino strongman for doing “an unbelievable job on the drug problem.” “Who is this stupid God?” he asked in a speech as he began ridiculing the Bible.ĭuterte’s notoriety comes from dispatching death squads to kill low-level criminals and drug users. Visiting his hometown of Davao, where he honed his murderous ways, Duterte had an answer for the Catholic bishops who’ve asked him to stop ordering the killing of so many Filipinos. That was his pal, the Philippines’ brutal president, Rodrigo Duterte. But one of those foreign leaders he admires did. We don’t even win at punctuation anymore!Īt least Trump didn’t bring God into the discussion. And it’s from a man who doesn’t read books and whose Twitter feed is filled with factual errors, misspellings, grammatical mistakes, and an odd habit of capitalizing random nouns, the way Germans do. trade deficit with another country is proof that America is “losing,” a theory most economists find superficial to the point of economic illiteracy. This from a man who thinks that a bilateral U.S. It was a moment of self-revelation that didn’t last. ![]() Prefacing her brief remarks by acknowledging she can be a strident partisan, the congresswoman said she’d learned something from the members of “Mother Emanuel” - namely, how to be more patient and forgiving. I was at a worship service where she was present six months after the horrific murder of nine African American souls at Emanuel A.M.E. Which is why even for the dimwitted among us, “No peace, no sleep” is unlikely to supplant, say, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Any sentient human being who considered it for 10 seconds would realize that mob harassment can be a two-way street. You’ve heard of “liberation theology”? This is “vigilante theology.” The logic of it, well, there is no logic to it. Apparently urging mobs to gather outside Republicans’ homes at night, she added, “We’re saying, ‘No peace, no sleep! No peace, no sleep!’” If it occurred to any listener that forced sleep deprivation is a war crime, Waters wasn’t worried: “God is on our side,” she assured the crowd. But it wasn’t the most inane thing she said. ![]() Those unhinged remarks got plenty of airtime, and earned Waters the rebuke of Democratic congressional leaders. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd,” she said. In quotes heard coast to coast, Waters offered up a perverse primer on how the opposition party should respond to losing an election to a candidate they don’t like. After White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a public restaurant in central Virginia for the crime of being on the public payroll during the Trump administration, Waters called for even more meanness against more people. Early 19th century French diplomat Joseph de Maistre wasn’t even talking about the United States when he said famously that “every country has the government it deserves.” Still, I’m starting to wonder: Can American voters - and our brethren in democracies around the globe - possibly be as idiotic as our elected officials and cultural leaders?
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