On Veterans Day, Trump Vows to ‘Root Out’ Leftist ‘Vermin’

Draft dodging piece of shit tries telling me, a left leaning veteran of the US Marine Corps, that I am vermin...on veteran's day. Yeah, get fucked, asshole.
- I feel like he forgets we vowed to defend this nation against domestic enemies. Yeah my weapons are my voice and my vote instead of an M-16 (been out a long while), but I will still defend this country with every fiber of my being.
- Seconded by a left leaning army veteran.
  
  3rd'ed by lefty Air Force retiree
- Obligatory :
  Thank you for servicing me, Marine.
- don't forget that he also called you a sucker
  
  And a loser
- If you're not voting for him/paying him he couldn't possibly care less about how you feel or what you think.
  Great Leadership Qualities™®© in that there Trump fella I tells you hwat...
  I swear if he had a "runs on dunkin" motto it would be something like "runs on hatred."
- Thank you for your service and showing what true patriotism means (as opposed to “Patriotism™️”)

“This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies, and at the end of this year there will not be a Jew left in Germany.” — Hitler, 1939
“We will root out the Communists, Marxists … and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within … our country.” — Trump, today
- Not just that, Hitler also wanted leftist purged.. and did. Because leftists were the primary group opposing him.
  
  The Nazis started with the leftists.

“Let’s find a middle ground with republicans” - Every out of touch undecided voter.
- "Look, Trump wants 100% of the power and to send 100% of the people on the left into camps. Why don't you compromise by giving him 50% of the power and then he'll only send 50% of you to camps? ... Now he has 50% and wants 100%, you should compromise and give him 75%..."
  (And I say this as someone who thinks compromise can be a useful political tool. But only when the group you're compromising with is bargaining in good faith. The Republicans of today - and certainly MAGAs like Trump - aren't bargaining in good faith.)
  
  That’s been the only kind of compromise for decades, to the point that people behave as though this is normal.
  I miss clippy memes all of a sudden.
- Ok I can agree with the republicans that there’s an existential threat to the country from within, I just think it’s the people marching with swastikas and whose candidates slip in a sonnenrad to campaign videos.
  I want communism, sure, but I want to convince my country to embrace the seizure of the means of production, not to force it to.

Pure hitlerism
- But he's being taken out of context!1! /s
  
  The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within.
  I never thought I'd agree with the Orange Bellend but here we are. I guarantee we're referring to different people though.
  
  I'd love for these asshats to be made to define what they mean by a "Communist", etc.
  
  He should start rooting out the fascists with himself
  
  Trump is accidentally right about the threat coming from inside this country. It absolutely is. But if he wants to see the threat, he needs to look in the mirror and look at his supporters - not at the left.
  
  Uh oh, going to piss off his fascist base. I know he’s trying to associate it with just the left.
  
  If you follow the sentence structure, it actually reads like he is pledging to root out the assorted groups mentioned.... to steal / cheat on elections.... and to do anything possible to destroy America. That's pretty much in line with his past efforts, so I have to wonder if this is intentional Doublespeak.
  
  Ahhh ReD!!! IM ScAREd!

Ah yes, more dehumanizing language from the person threatening to deploy the military against the people, and to put people he's dehumanized into massive camps. What could go wrong?
Edit: just a reminder that Hitler's rose to power by promising to make Germany great again.
- Also that the Rwandan genocide was preceded by Hutus by calling the Tutsi minority "vermin" and "cockroaches"
  
  Basically every act of mass violence begins with dehumanizing the enemy. Even well meaning people will be like "oh so he says inflammatory stuff, so what." These words like 'vermin' are a specific call to action.

People - most especially the corporate media - had better start waking the fuck up and stop presenting the election of 2024 as if it's a normal one. There is much more on the line than a GD horse race here.
This asshole means to do real damage to this country if he manages to slime his way into office again.
- Corporate media like corporate everything else, is just fine with fascism as long as they can continue to extract rent from the peasants.
  
  I doubt they'll be immune to Trump's rampage if he gets back into office. He'll be out for the blood of anyone who ever reported on him in a negative way. CNN, NY Times, MSNBC, etc will likely have their offices raided due to criminal prosecutions. The crime? Criminal defamation of Lord Trump.
  But in true "First they came for" fashion, they'll keep acting as though this is all normal until they get rounded up. Then, they'll expect the rest of us to stand up for them. Sadly, by that point, we'll likely be in camps/prisons ourselves.
- Corporate media won't profit from that though. They stand to gain a lot more by letting horrible things happen then fear mongering us into more views.
  Genocide is temporary. Corporations are forever.
  But seriously, everyone should be getting louder. Don't wait for someone else to expose hateful rhetoric

- Great quote, I should actually read that sometime
  
  It's good but I think 1984 was a better read. It sucks that the book has basically become a meme online, it's actually quite good

Hey familiar rhetoric:
https://www.jta.org/archive/nazi-leader-would-rid-germany-of-jewish-vermin
And it's not like this is just Godwin's Law on a guy who just uses dark language, he's familiar with the rhetoric too:
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/donald-trump-military-generals-adolf-hitler

How is this not inciting violence and hatred?
- It's certainly making me want to commit violence. Just not against who he is intending.
  
  Yeah I really want to just give him the full Richard spencer

Coolcoolcoolcoolcool. So...looks like Hitler is back in town.
- Looks like Hitler is back on the menu, boys
- Yeah, Trump probably sides with Palestine.
  
  The weird thing is that the US far-right will often support Israel, even if they are Jewish, I think because they are seen as whiter compared to Arab people like Palestinians. And for fundamentalist Christians there is some prophecy about Israel bringing the end-times to save humanity or whatever.

At least he didn't say we are deplorable. That would have been front page news. /s

first they came for the
come on. everyone knows the next word. lets say it together.
- Cum
  
  ... I'm disappointed
  
  Then they came for the

Very Christian of him

- What Trumpers perceive as the left is even larger. To them, Mitt Romney is a leftist RINO lol
- this didn't stop him the first time
  
  He wasn't very thorough if 'it didn't stop him' the country is still 65% vermin.

Remember, arm yourselves while you can.
- I just ordered a set of bear arms yesterday before they're illegal
- who are you going to shoot
  
  Me personally? Anyone who acts in a way that suggests that they are literally trying to exterminate me.
  So probably no one.
  
  Arm≠firearm
  "Who you gonna armwrestle" is a better retort.

find me a fucking leftist in this country please. I know 6 and they’re instagram meme accounts.
- Hard left here. Exhausted.
  
  No war but the class war.
  
  my (wo?)man
- Do syndicalists count? Because I’m one of those
  
  You bet your bippy it counts, comrade!
- I feel like there are a lot of us that just aren't open about it because so many people have ignorant views about socialism, we'd rather save ourselves the headache. Or maybe worried of an employer judging it and getting fired, or police investigating, which US and other security forces have been known to do to leftists of all types.
- Libleft. I've all but given up on the federal level, and the only reason I have any hope at all for the state is because it's California. These days, I'm trying to get shit done at the local level.

Fuck the republican traitor filth. Come for me and I promise you it won’t end well. For you.

Might as well mock a physically handicapped person to cement your win while you're at it, Donny. We know how much your supporters love it when you mock physically disabled people.
- they liked it for the most part because it made leftists point and yell and play it a thousand times in black and white in political ads
  Republican voters DO NOT CARE about the things that leftists care about
- I forget. When did he do that?
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34930042

Very normal stuff from Trump here.

The dailybeast... really?
- That's your reaction to the news of a politician discussing exterminating his political opponents? Really?
  
  The dailybeast is barely a tabloid at best.
- Is there something contained in this article, 85% of which is direct quotes from Donald Trump, you think is factually incorrect or biased?
  
  "Your honor I object!"
  "On what basis?"
  "On the basis that it's devastating to my case!"
  
  I'd rather not get my news from a tabloid that has a track record of being an awful source of, well anything, regardless of the topic. Is Trumps rhetoric horrifying, yes. That doesn't suddenly make this a good source of information.
- https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-veterans-day-joe-biden-1842926
  https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1723421983172710412