tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5902398732809558005..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: After Chicago: The DrumpfsReich Rolls Through the HeartlandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45472477366530211032016-03-15T00:03:37.150-07:002016-03-15T00:03:37.150-07:00Oh by the way, about the woman doing the Hitler Sa...Oh by the way, about the woman doing the Hitler Salute in the E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune photo, she is in fact German-born, aggressively unrepentant, comfortably suburban (from the look of her property) and very much a Drumpfoid. The protestor who said he had tried to protect her, Michael Joseph Garza... actually did protect her. Lot of thanks he got for that.<br /><br />Drumpfoids put it about that she was somebody else entirely, a "plant", another woman, Sanders supporter, whom they named -- and who in turn quickly stepped up to dismiss the "plant" suggestion as merely another Drumpfoid disinformation gambit (similar to that regarding the the Dayton stage-rusher, whom the Drumpftrust had "identified" as "Isis", but who turned out to be like, just, you know, an understandably pissed off guy)... which had flopped. <br /><br />The cigarette she's holding is simply too perfect for fiction or playacting.<br /><br />(You can see this photo in colour on the previous post, by the way.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27544484540976854802016-03-14T23:44:04.233-07:002016-03-14T23:44:04.233-07:00Many thanks to all... though there's odd feeli...Many thanks to all... though there's odd feeling that I ought to be apologizing... for I'm not sure quite what, but most likely, Murica.<br /><br />Stuart, same same from south of the border.<br /><br />Michael, you've survived a lot in your time, but having Drumpf as a (virtual) neighbour, and living to tell of it, must surely rank as a feat of sorts.<br /><br />Hilton, I know what you mean. Poor Little Marco, we hardly knew ye.<br /><br />Mongo, my wife's parents like those of your friend happened to be civilized Austrians of the wrong sort at the wrong time, the time of the guy with the funny haircut, and of course the fallout of that, the aftermath, and the vision of darkness, staining the generations, is not something one can ever successfully avoid considering for very long.<br /><br />Personally, I'm trying as hard as I can not to recognize where this is going right now, and doing a terrible job of it.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63963351997758418232016-03-13T12:21:37.804-07:002016-03-13T12:21:37.804-07:00It's been said elsewhere: after the Limbaughs,...It's been said elsewhere: after the Limbaughs, the Savages, the Coulters, Fox 'News' have dumped hate, intolerance, and distrust of a central government on the culture <i>for a generation</i>, is what we're seeing that surprising? <br /><br />A friend -- a Red-Diaper baby whose parents were Austrian Jews and communists and who really had to run for it after the Anschluss -- used to gently brush aside my playing Cassandra on this topic over the past decade. Now he's telling me that his father, who is 96 and still very aware, is horrified by what he's seeing on television -- " 'It's 1932', is what he's saying."Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49844103733284881272016-03-13T11:45:02.802-07:002016-03-13T11:45:02.802-07:00Thanks for this collection of horrors. (Next to th...Thanks for this collection of horrors. (Next to the woman with the Hitler salute, with his back to the camera, is a man with a yarmulka - absurdity upon absurdity.) We seem to be spinning downward into a fascist confrontation, so much so that Rubio and Kasich sound like reasonable anti-fascists, when their policies are almost as screwed up as Trump's. We got a wild ride ahead.Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04497545378045907642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20134350097783367232016-03-13T08:12:42.566-07:002016-03-13T08:12:42.566-07:00depressing but nonetheless another brilliant post ...depressing but nonetheless another brilliant post TomLallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61068883889786456282016-03-13T06:52:16.252-07:002016-03-13T06:52:16.252-07:00From up here north of the border, it's heartbr...From up here north of the border, it's heartbreaking and terrifying. Thanks for these photo essays, and for the poem this time around. Holy shit.Stuart Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com