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Hitler and Trump: 2 megalomaniacs inside same bunker of defeat and disbelief

With a juddering left arm, stooped shoulders, pale blue eyes and visible signs of dementia, the Führer’s gait had lost its authoritativeness as 2.5 million Soviet Red Army troops, 6,000 tanks, more than 40,000 artillery...

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Dictators are diabolical, depraved, delusional and narcissist, have a vicious animosity towards logic and reasoning, and their false belief of invincibility triggers their downfall.

Donald J Trump’s behaviour in the Oval Office, after his Democratic rival Joseph R Biden Jr. was on the cusp of crossing the threshold of 270 electoral votes and achieved that milestone on November 7, uncorked a similar deluge of rants, delusions, a fake narrative, alternate reality and invincibility as witnessed by Hitler’s Generals and staff in his end days.

Ensconced in the White House ‘bubble bunker’, like Hitler in his Fu¨hrerbunker, Trump was planning a futile legal strategy, coupled with his usual campaign of disseminating lies and false information, to either stop the counting of mail-in ballots in key battleground states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona—where he trailed Biden or declare them illegal.

Trump’s bouts of manic outbursts over alleged voter fraud and the Democrats stealing the election and his exhausting sparring sessions with the reality of the impending defeat bore all the hallmarks of the Führer as the rampaging Soviets razed Berlin to the ground.

But except a few Republicans like representative Kevin McCarthy (California) and senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), no other GOP member fully backed Trump’s rhetoric and fusillade of lies and allegations. “President Trump won this election. So, everyone who’s listening: Do not be quiet; do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes,” McCarthy told Fox News. Graham too came out in Trump’s support. “I don’t trust Philadelphia. I’m here tonight to stand with President Trump,” he told Fox News pledging to donate $500,000 to Trump’s legal defence fund to contest results.

Like Trump, Hitler never admitted to any mistake for the dictator thought that he could never go wrong. Despite realising that his Third Reich was about to be obliterated, he fantasised that the US and Britain will join Nazi Germany to stop Joseph Stalin’s Communism from expanding in Europe.

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Trump Calls Turkey’s Syrian Offensive a ‘Bad Idea,’ but Opposes ‘Senseless Wars’

In a joint statement, Senators Lindsey Graham and Chris Van Hollen said they would introduce legislation that would punish senior Turkish government officials and ban American military transactions with Turkey.

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A person briefed about the call said the discussion between Mr. Trump and Mr. Erdogan was wide-ranging, until Mr. Erdogan, in the second half of the call, complained that the United States was not fully complying with an agreement struck with Turkey in September to jointly create such a safe zone. Mr. Erdogan said he intended to unilaterally establish one immediately.

Mr. Trump demurred, evidently believing that Mr. Erdogan would not be willing to risk the president’s ire. But Mr. Erdogan effectively “called the president’s bluff,” the person said. What followed was a scramble to move American personnel from harm’s way in northern Syria.

“Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria,” the White House said in a statement released just before 11 p.m. in Washington

• Revived ISIS which was on the brink of death. 
• Given ISIS new life. Russia and Iran supplies ISIS with weapons to kill Americans!
• Helped ISIS recruitment, “We told you, you can’t trust Americans”

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
6. Controlled Mass Media Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

McCarthy, in break with Trump, says Kim Jong-un knew about Otto Warmbier’s brutal mistreatment

A somewhat grudging admission that the president's initial remarks exonerating the North Korea dictator were wrong.

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“I think Kim had all authority to do that. I think Kim knew what happened, which was wrong. That’s why when we pass sanctions, we named it after Otto Warmbier. That’s why the president kept those sanctions in place. The sanctions the president did not lift on North Korea are named after Otto and I think the president clarified that.”

— Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader

Opinion | Saudi Arabia is torturing a U.S. citizen. When will Trump act?

The kingdom has also tortured women who sought the right to drive.

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He [Walid Fitaihi] was reportedly grabbed from his room at the Ritz, slapped, blindfolded, stripped to his underwear, bound to a chair, shocked with electricity and whipped so severely that he could not sleep on his back for days.

BEFORE HE was murdered inside a Saudi Consulate in October, our colleague Jamal Khashoggi questioned why Saudi Arabia had detained a prominent doctor, Walid Fitaihi, a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen seized in a November 2017 roundup of businessmen.

The detainees, in what was described as an anti-corruption drive, were held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh. “What happened to us?” Khashoggi, himself a Saudi, asked on Twitter. “How can a person like @Walidfitaihi get arrested, and for what reason?” He added, “With no interceding channels to pursue & no Attorney General to answer questions & verify charges, of course everyone is struck with awe and helplessness.”

Mr. Fitaihi, founder of a medical center in Jeddah, is still a captive. It is not known precisely why, and he has never been charged, although the New York Times quoted a friend saying he was being pressured to give evidence against a relative.

Mr. Fitaihi earned his medical degree from George Washington University and holds a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University. 

He has been tortured during his captivity. 

The Times said his lawyer has written to the State Department that the doctor “is in fear for his life, that he cannot take his situation any longer, and that he desires all possible help.” The Associated Press quoted the lawyer as saying Mr. Fitaihi is now in a prison hospital after suffering “an emotional breakdown.” 

“I don’t believe that he [Kim Jong-un] would have allowed that to happen; it just wasn’t to his advantage to allow that to happen. Those prisons are rough — they’re rough places — and bad things happened. But I really don’t believe that he — I don’t believe that he knew about it.”

“He tells me that he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word.”

— Donald J Trump #potus45 #TrumpComplicit