The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”

“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

Trump on Saturday ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

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      TBF, it’s not hard to parrot Hitler. When they put emphasis on him being a former corporal, that’s because he behaved like a pretty mundane former corporal. Was a born orator, though, which is hard to attribute to Trump.

      Now Goebbels himself was more dramatic and original and just as good an orator as Hitler. Which means he’s being regularly revisited by modern politicians for his efficiency, and not because of just being mundane.

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        I say this as someone who opposes him utterly: Trump used to actually be a decent orator. It’s… kinda sad, and kinda scary, in a way. I watched an interview he did from… sometime in the 80s, I want to say. I didn’t agree with everything he said, but he seemed well composed and he made his points coherently.

        Compare that to how he is nowadays and it’s like it’s not even the same man. Not just the raging psychopathy and egomania, but how he wanders off mid sentence and such. The cognitive decline is painfully obvious. When you figure this is a guy who had access to the best possible modern medicine his entire life, it’s scary to see.

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    Of course he is taking pages out of the Nazi playbook. It simply shows what he is. If he suddenly started to quote Ghandi, I’d get suspicious…

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        The “their” you reference is the Democratic Party. It’s the party’s best chance of defeating Trump. People with better chances don’t fit well enough within the party to get their nomination.

        And the only reason the Democratic Party has a say is because the U.S. political system was designed to only allow one of two winners. The system is designed so that any third party offering will fail, and their attempt will harm the party with the “nearest” compatible beliefs.

        It’s a shitshow. Built poorly (on purpose to preserve power of the political elites), and litigated to be even worse, so corporations can bribe those elites.

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        no he won’t, not if American voters keep apathetically stumbling towards fascism like they have been the last few years. The only way this is going to work is if everybody Taylor Swift’s the fuck out of this election, no more pussy footing around

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          Trump has actually never won the popular vote. Unfortunately, majorities don’t really matter in the American election system.

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            It is possible to out-vote the inherent inequities of the electoral college system and the decades of gerrymandering, but it will take a concerted effort to get out the vote from the demographicswho have been targeted by those voter supression efforts, especially in places like Florida and Texas.

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          Uhh what?? Trump got elected once. That is it. Since then Dems have basically come out on top every election since likely because of Trump. Polling has always proven to be dog shit.

          Trump is a boogeyman Dems use to encourage people to vote their way. We aren’t heading to fascism because of him

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      He’s definitely going to win, fascism is way too popular. Biden’s not great, but Trump’s a fucking disaster

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    I’m glad you’re against fascism dude but fierce tweets and finger wagging is for the powerless citizenry not the president. Fucking do something already.

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      Presidents are elected by the people. For a president to remove their opponent by something other than fierce tweets and finger wagging would be fascism.

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      What a shit take. The DOJ is doing its thing. What exactly would you have Biden do that wouldn’t be rightly criticized as abusing his power to interfere with the next election?

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        Im tired of what passes for thought with both these responses. Especially since this waste of perfectly good letters is the same as the last.

        I mean fucks sake i hope some of the lurkers are thinking more critically than you two.

        Indeed, what should the government do about a criminal? Hmmm i wonder what they could do within the limits of the law? What has the govt done historically? Why don’t you have a look?

        You need ideas. Look up new ideas if you have to, for a later thread and another person (cuz this topic will return) and then you’ll be ready with something worth clicking that inbox for. Don’t let me down again

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          I notice you didn’t answer my question, and tried to give me a homework assignment instead. Very trollish.

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    Among the many things Biden and his highly paid DNC consultants don’t understand - trump’s naziism is not a bug, it’s a feature. Just like in 2016, they’re giving the orange man free advertising here.

    Not that he needs it. With Biden refusing to allow primary elections to selfishly try for a second term, trump is going to win by a landslide due to genocide Joe’s feckless charisma and obvious love for his “republican colleagues”.