Trump, German style
Is Coming to a Government Near You
If you didn’t know what cockles are I will tell you that they are the core of one’s being, as in “warm the cockles of the heart.”
So this will warm your cockles, bring a smile to your face, make you feel warm and fuzzy and generally make you feel there is still hope for the salvation of humanity.
Well, that may be true if you are a white supremacist, xenophobic, racist supporter of trump but it’s definitely not a happy moment for those who abhor the trumpian agenda.
Your worst nightmare keeps getting worse with the latest news that the obnoxious, ear splitting lies of trump and QAnon have traveled across the big pond and found a friend and burgeoning, mutual love society in Germany and ain’t that grand, this being the same Germany that brought you Adolf Hitler, the extermination of 6 million Jews and World War II and the same U.S. that brought you trump, the Proud Boys and of course, that lovable neuron-compromised, upset stomach-inducing, Marjorie “My Little Margie” Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and the rest. We are seeing apocalyptic predictions, extremist conspiracy theories, all taken from the trump and QAnon playbook, just what Germany needs at a time when Germans will go to the polls to elect a new chancellor, replacing incumbent Angela Merkel who decided not to run after 16 years as the government leader. Members of the 20th Bundestag , also known as the Reichstag, the seat of parliament, also will be elected along with state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. So a lot is at stake.
The experts say there is little chance that the radical, far left candidates will win many seats and that the great majority of Germans reject the extremist views and it seems that I’ve heard all of this in the 1930s, when an extremist, radical named Adolf Hitler was propelled into power and again in 2016 when an extremist, radical named trump somehow collected millions of vote from Americans who were not believed to support extremist, radical ideas.
For all of you right wing extremists both in Germany and in the U.S., I understand there has been a run on-line for brown shirts that are remarkably authentic-looking, in fact, they are the real thing, uniforms worn by the Sturmabteilung, also known as the Brownshirts or Storm Troopers, a violent paramilitary group attached to the Nazi Party in pre-World War Two Germany,eerily similar to the crazed people who stormed the U.S. Capitol. You can get an NSKK Brown shirt complete with a rank tab for NSKK-Scharfuhrer, a white circle with black bevo weave swastika and on the right sleeve, an NSKK on a brown eagle. And it’s all for just $750 from a company called Jessenrelics. com and it’s based, where else, in Harrison, Tenn. and was started by Anthony H. Jessen, who has been collecting German World War II items since the fifth grade, for 55 years.
“I can remember when you could buy a German Single Decal Luftwaffe Paratrooper helmet for $30 to $40 that was 99 percent, boy have things changed on that item,” Jessen lamented on his website. So watch out for this guy.
Far right wingers in Germany, long enamored with trump, have been sending out messages on the German language QAnon and other sites, advocating “occupying election offices” obviously a reference to the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol, which spread at the prodding and asseveration of Gen. Bone Spurs. Last year, the Germans had their own assault on their capitol when a mob of far righters carrying the imperial German flag popular with the Nazis, were forced back by police after they tried to forcibly enter Germany’s own seat of parliament, the Reichstag, over complaints about coronavirus restrictions and more.
Another message circulating in Germany and also pilfered from the trumpian playbook, warns of “coronavirus tyranny” just like the man with bad hair called COVID-19, the “China Flu” and claimed that the Chinese released the virus to attack the west, something that needs a bit more basis of proof than the man with bad hair saying it’s so.
Then there is this ominous warning, “America is waking up and ready to fight,” circulating in the German left, extolling trump and QAnon, all working toward a new social movement to wrest power from the state.
Many comments have been emerging on the messaging app, Telegram, an app where anonymity is key, where the German wackos have been predicting “Day X,” a doomsday when the German government will fall through assassinations of high ranking officials. The news website Axios.com reported that Telegram has become popular with the far right, along with apps like Rumble, MeWe and CloutHub.
Right wing groups have blamed the German government for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, for climate issues and for the hot button issue of immigration, all frightfully a mirror of the trumpian agenda, while the German right wing calls on all good Germans to make Germany for Germans and where have I heard that before, from a little guy with a funny mustache and another guy with funny orange hair and isn’t it strange the hair is a common trait in dictators and wannabe dictators.
One leading German far right group, the militant Reichsbürger or Citizens of the Reich movement, totally rejects the German state of government. Another group, Alternative for Germany (AfD), is expected to continue its standing as the first far-right party since the end of World War II to hold seats in the reichstag, the national parliament. Some AfD candidates have been alleging voter fraud, even before the election, memorialized in the U.S. with the “Stop the Steal” lunacy backed by trump and others and roundly discredited by real proof.
The growing far right has been an international matter for a while but it seems to be growing exponentially and with more violent rhetoric since the rise of trump and QAnon and I do not believe in conspiracies and I am not paranoid, even if so many crazies are after me and my kind.