Pic Of The Moment: How Times Have Changed

[EarlG]

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Long TSA wait times persist despite ICE deployment as a potential deal to end the shutdown takes shape

[FakeNoose]

1. Yeah, Mussolini didn't end well either

We've all seen the photos so I won't post them here. But ....

[Moostache]

12. I hope Trump ends up EXACTLY like Il Duce... (n/t)

[underpants]

2. It bears repeating

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221121647

[erronis]

6. Interesting. Wilhelm was kaiser while Frederick Trumpf was in Germany

The idjt's grandfather must have learned a few things from this terrible leader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

[FakeNoose]

13. Yes but his ace-in-the-hole was Otto von Bismarck

Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck

Chump doesn't have anybody like that in his administration. (Thank goodness he doesn't ... things would be much worse!)

[wnylib]

15. Kaiser Bill is one reason why I am American and not German.

Kaiser Bill's father, Kaiser Friedrich (aka Fritz to his subjects), promoted social and political reforms to Germany's government to make it more like Britain's Parliamentary system. He was married to Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria. My great-grandfather was an officer in the German cavalry. He supported Kaiser Fritz's reforms.

But Fritz died after 3 months on the throne. Kaiser Bill persecuted his father's reform supporters and accused them of treason. (Sound like someone we know?) My great-grandfather's friends warned him that he was on Kaiser Bill's list to be arrested on treason charges. They helped him escape Germany with his very pregnant wife and 3 children ages 5, 3, and 1.

My grandfather was born in Buffalo 2 weeks after his parents reached the US.

Trump is driving Americans abroad in the same way that Kaiser Bill did. Then Hitler did the same. The US benefited from Albert Einstein and many other talented and accomplished people leaving Europe to escape persecution.


ETA: In one of life's ironies, my uncle (named Bill), served in the US Army in Europe in WWII to defeat the nation that his grandfather (my great-grandfather) fled from.

[leftstreet]

3. Did ICE disperse that crowd with tear gas yet?

DURec

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time

That's a myth. Similar to trump's government, Mussolini had a kakistocracy which is a government run by the least qualified, most unprincipled, or worst citizens, essentially "rule by the worst".

Nothing worked well under Mussolini, same as America under Trump.

[erronis]

7. But they are both master liars!

[Bengus81]

8. Yep..and the pic should be changed to 1920 when Mussolini consolidated power

and then became Dictator in 1922.

[EarlG]

11. Yes, I know

But the phrase "Mussolini made the trains run on time," while a false statement, has become a popular cliche used to express the idea that some people will tolerate living under a dictatorship, and ignore terrible things that the dictator is doing, provided that they believe the dictator is doing specific things to improve their lives.

Whereas our current dictator is doing terrible things while also notably failing to do specific things to improve people's lives, hence the juxtaposition of the cliche with the state of our current reality.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Norrrm]

9. Trump Mussolini Il Douche

Trump Mussolini Il Douche

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. K&R

[Exp]

14. Hilarious and on POINT! nt