Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova – According to The Nation, anyone who suggests others are laughing at their nation’s past policy mistakes is channeling Adolf Hitler.
Trump Echoed Hitler in His Speech Withdrawing From the Paris Climate Accord
Seriously—it’s not a direct quote from the Führer, but it’s perilously close.
By Sasha AbramskyJUNE 2, 2017
On September 30, 1942, shortly after the death camps began gassing Jews, Hitler declared, “In Germany too the Jews once laughed at my prophecies. I don’t know whether they are still laughing, or whether they have already lost the inclination to laugh, but I can assure you that everywhere they will stop laughing. With these prophecies I shall prove to be right.”
Five weeks later, he declared, “Today countless numbers of those who laughed at that time, laugh no longer. Those who are still laughing now, also will perhaps laugh no longer after a while.”
On June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that he was pulling America out of the Paris climate accord. “At what point does America get demeaned? At what point do they start laughing at us as a country? We want fair treatment for its citizens and we want fair treatment for our taxpayers. We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they won’t be. They won’t be.”
It’s not a direct quote from Hitler, but it’s perilously close.
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Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-echoed-hitler-speech-withdrawing-paris-climate-accord/
I would suggest that the ongoing efforts by some of America’s Mainstream Media to try to smear President Trump couldn’t possibly get any sillier, but I’m worried I might be accused of quoting Attila the Hun.
Next time, he should directly quote the Koran. That would leave them with quite a conundrum.
Nonsense – it is nowhere close to plagiarism – the only “common denominator word” is laugh, isn’t it?
When one is educated and speaks and writes a great deal, sooner or later they are going to say or write something that is similar to what someone else has said. I would bet you can get odds on this at Vegas.
No matter what President Trump says the press will put a negative spin on it:
Seven dead, 48 wounded more cops on the street, and the populace is told
“There’s no reason to be alarmed” Oh wow! And the media beats up President
Trump because he has the same reaction I do.
Evil tries … and fails, again.
I think there is a parallel between the election of Trump and HItler. Trump was elected because people are desperate for anything but the status quo. Hitler came to power in a similar way. Germany was downtrodden after WW1. In both cases a charismatic leader promising “change” was elected. You could say that Obama’s election was similar too. Remember “hope and change”? Unfortunately they didn’t get hope and change, they got more of the same.
“Unfortunately they didn’t get hope and change, they got more of the same.”
That’s true. Let’s hope it is different with Trump. Just think what Trump could accomplish for us if he had a cooperative Republican congress. The Republican Congress looks like the weak link in this situation. Are they incapable of coming together? Do we need to replace some of them with others more attuned to the needs and wants of the People? On that last question, there is no doubt some Repubicans need to be replaced with more sensible people.
“Seems like nice weather today!”
Oh, so now you’re just going around quoting Hitler now?
Maybe they want to ban the word ‘laughing’. Progressives hate it when we’re happy like they hate freedom.Living in constant fear for them is the way to go. Progressives need crisis to gain power. They will NEVER solve it because it would make them useless. Who needs a cancer?
But beware! They know who we are and where we live. 10:10 No Pressure.
Remember how progressives always attack the rich to gain the vote of the poor. Who were most of the wealthy people in a very poor Germany.
Of course they want to be rich and wealthy too.
Al Gore, Dicaprio, Obama, Pelosi etc etc etc
Nigel Farage, UKIP politician, tells EU “you are not laughing now”.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=nigel+farage+not+laughing+now&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU734AU734&oq=nigel+farage+not+laughing+now&aqs=chrome..69i57.11162j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
However, I suspect Nigel was well aware of the words quoted by Adolph, particularly for this audience. Geoff.
“They” fought DJT – and he won. No wonder, they are not laughing any more. DJT will have the last and best laugh in this droll story.
To compare Trump with Hitler because of that common phrase is completely ridiculous. Many people use versions of that phrase. These morons like to claim that climate change causes *everything*. One thing is completely provable: climate change drives many people mad.
A quote from Bob Monkhouse:
“They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian … They’re not laughing now.”
Bob Monkhouse was a famous UK comedian. Do you get the joke?
Chris
They’re not laughing at Kathy Griffin any more, either.
Were they ever?
Assuming their readers are idiots
There are certainly some.
Saying “they won’t be laughing” or “you’ll not be laughing” is as old as dirt.
In Plutus, by Aristophanes (380 BC), the character Chremylus says to Plutus “By Demeter, you’ll have no reason to laugh presently.”
Or, in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC), the chorus sings to Mnesilochus, “By the goddesses, you will not laugh presently over your crime and your impious speech.”
Or in Aristophanes’ The Wasps (422 BC), Bdelycleon says “Ha! Mister Noman, you will not laugh presently. Pull him out quick.”
Pull him out quick? Whoa, forget Hitler – Trump’s perilously close to Aristophanes!
You call this news? Shame on author! Perilouslyclose, my a$$. I have always expected more from the World Press!
Basically, they are claiming that any time someone says anything involving “they are laughing at us”, they are quoting Hitler.
Sheesh, these guys are beyond parody.
Dr Trumplove
MMGA!! Make Mongolia Great Again!!! – Attila the Hun
Never say “Guten Morgen” (Good morning) in public again. Hitler, too, used these words!
I guess most people don’t know that that evil man whose name I cannot say believed in 1942 that coal and oil would run out in the not too distant future and that wind and water power would necessarily have to be used. (Table talk). He was big on water power for electricity. He hadn’t heard of solar power, nuclear power, or fracking.
So, those who say we have to go to renewables are simply parroting that man.
He was also anti-smoking.
The more I see of things spoken by people like that bimbo, the more I feel that they’d do the world a favor by finding another planet to live on.
Is common sense ever going to return to us?
I have never seen anything so stupid, the expression “who is laughing now” goes back to the source of the origin of the expression “He who laugh’s last”. It has a history and has been researched and appeared on the TV series QI
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/15/laughs/
It dates to 1917 from “Perverted Proverbs”.
I have doubts Hitler would have ever used the words, it sounds more like some English translator familiar with the expression may have translated it as. I would actually like to see the actual German language Hitler used because I have serious doubts he ever said that based on the origin of the quote which is all English based.