It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

  • Meowoem
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    1 year ago

    Mostly because the left does nothing but exaggerate reasons to hate the democrats and make grand statements about how they’re only going to vote for someone with exactly their opinion on everything (current opinions with the benefit of hindsight applied to their historical opinions of course)

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      1 year ago

      Wait, are you seriously saying “I guess I’ll just hold my nose and vote for Biden” isn’t a catchy campaign slogan?

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      1 year ago

      I’d say they are probably not going to vote for anyone based on opinion, because things like human rights and healthcare access are not matters of opinion. People themselves don’t want to die from lack of healthcare access or atrocities. But you have people who say it’s ok if we make it so that OTHER people die from lack of healthcare and atrocities, as long as they don’t. Those people are the Republicans.