Meg Whitman compares Trump to Hitler

[sun rise]

And these are people who like Ryan

Ryan grilled at Romney summit, where a CEO compares Trump to Hitler

Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor and founder of the education news site the74.org, moderated the session with Ryan and grilled him about his decision. She told him that her young son, who knows and admires Ryan, came into the bedroom the morning after he had announced his support for Trump dismayed by the news.


How would you explain this to a child? Brown asked Ryan. The speaker appeared uncomfortable.
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According to two people present, Whitman said Trump is the latest in a long line of historic demagogues, explicitly comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eat-about-trump-endorsement-at-romney-summit/

 

[George-ananda]

I think this is way over the top and just following a lot of popular momentum. Can someone that agrees with this give us one sample item of similarity between Trump and Hitler for us to debate and I believe I can point out the exaggeration.

 

[YmirGF]

And these are people who like Ryan

Ryan grilled at Romney summit, where a CEO compares Trump to Hitler

Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor and founder of the education news site the74.org, moderated the session with Ryan and grilled him about his decision. She told him that her young son, who knows and admires Ryan, came into the bedroom the morning after he had announced his support for Trump dismayed by the news.


How would you explain this to a child? Brown asked Ryan. The speaker appeared uncomfortable.
...
According to two people present, Whitman said Trump is the latest in a long line of historic demagogues, explicitly comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eat-about-trump-endorsement-at-romney-summit/

Demagogue, for sure. Similar to Hitler and Mussolini... not so much. OK, I get that Meggie doesn't like Trump. Got it. Next?

 

[Maponos]

As far as I'm aware, Trump isn't advocating the mass slaughter of people nor is he advocating any kind of socialist plan.

 

[fantome profane]

As far as I'm aware, Trump isn't advocating the mass slaughter of people nor is he advocating any kind of socialist plan.

And neither did Hitler till after he came to power. Before he came to power Hitler merely told people that all their problems were caused by minorities in their midst and talked about deportation. Hitler ran on a platform of "Germany first."

 

[YmirGF]

And neither did Hitler till after he came to power. Before he came to power Hitler merely told people that all their problems were caused by minorities in their midst and talked about deportation. Hitler ran on a platform of "Germany first."

and had never managed so much as a pop stand before running for office... so ....

 

[fantome profane]

and had never managed so much as a pop stand before running for office... so ....

Granted, and also Hitler had thin greasy black has and a stupid mustache. Trump on the other hand has thin pasty orange skin and a stupid haircut. I guess the parallel is not perfect after all.

 

[YmirGF]

Granted, and also Hitler had thin greasy black has and a stupid mustache. Trump on the other hand has thin pasty orange skin and a stupid haircut. I guess the parallel is not perfect after all.

I know. With all that money you think he'd make himself look GREAT AGAIN. LOL. But, the comparrisons to Hilter are... absurd. I get that people don't like Trump, heck I'm not crazy about him either, but these comparrisons sound more like desperation than anything real.

 

[columbus]

and had never managed so much as a pop stand before running for office... so ....

Curiously, on another thread about Trump's bankruptcies and cheated folks of modest means, the story is quite different.
He is not responsible for all that because he doesn't really run the businesses. He just makes plans, puts his name on them and stuff. But he doesn't have responsibility for the outcome when the plans tank because he hired lawyers to protect him against all that.
So if it is not his fault that people paid their life saving for a degree from Trump University that was worthless and misrepresented, or a small company went under when Trump stiffed them out of $83,000 in a bankruptcy, then why is he getting credit for making tons of money?
Tom

 

[LuisDantas]

Hyper-nationalism has never been safe, nor exempt from demagoguery or not disgusting. I see no reason to disagree with Ryan on the comparison.

Quite on the contrary, I am worried because so few people notice the similarity and fewer act accordingly.

 

[Mindmaster]

Comment from someone who has sold their soul to the Democratic Elite, MSM, and the globalists. And, the point is?

This is like using politifact for truth. They post like 4 disparaging remarks about Democrats and about 72 about Republicans.

We need a leader, I'm tired of the people who just tow the line and make things worse.

 

[YmirGF]

Curiously, on another thread about Trump's bankruptcies and cheated folks of modest means, the story is quite different.
He is not responsible for all that because he doesn't really run the businesses. He just makes plans, puts his name on them and stuff. But he doesn't have responsibility for the outcome when the plans tank because he hired lawyers to protect him against all that.
So if it is not his fault that people paid their life saving for a degree from Trump University that was worthless and misrepresented, or a small company went under when Trump stiffed them out of $83,000 in a bankruptcy, then why is he getting credit for making tons of money?
Tom

For a better answer you would have to ask a Trump supporter, but my guess is that it is because he has had far more successes than he has had failures. Just a guess.

 

[Mindmaster]

For a better answer you would have to ask a Trump supporter, but my guess is that it is because he has had far more successes than he has had failures. Just a guess.

Trump owns 500 businesses, how he could personally be involved in all of them? Yea, I can't tell you either.

Secondly, out of those 500 something like 20 have failed. That's 4%-5%, normal business people who do well have a 20% success rate vs Trump's 95%. You be the judge of whether he's successful by the numbers. Even people doing that 20% success rate would be doing well, and be rich by all standards.

The people making the comments about how he's personally tied to it need to take a small business class, and then come back here. Alternatively, you could just listen to some of the people here who own businesses.

 

[Twilight Hue]

And these are people who like Ryan

Ryan grilled at Romney summit, where a CEO compares Trump to Hitler

Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor and founder of the education news site the74.org, moderated the session with Ryan and grilled him about his decision. She told him that her young son, who knows and admires Ryan, came into the bedroom the morning after he had announced his support for Trump dismayed by the news.


How would you explain this to a child? Brown asked Ryan. The speaker appeared uncomfortable.
...
According to two people present, Whitman said Trump is the latest in a long line of historic demagogues, explicitly comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eat-about-trump-endorsement-at-romney-summit/

Benito looked better in a helmet. Hitler dresssed snazzy. Trump has the world's best comb-over.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Where's Trump's brownshirts beating the snot out of democrats?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Yeah, that's going too far. Trump does have neo-fascist or general far-right authoritarian tendencies and is a definite bigot, though.

 

[psychoslice]

Where's Trump's brownshirts beating the snot out of democrats?

If he knew he could get away with it he would.

 

[YmirGF]

Trump owns 500 businesses, how he could personally be involved in all of them? Yea, I can't tell you either.

Secondly, out of those 500 something like 20 have failed. That's 4%-5%, normal business people who do well have a 20% success rate vs Trump's 95%. You be the judge of whether he's successful by the numbers. Even people doing that 20% success rate would be doing well, and be rich by all standards.

The people making the comments about how he's personally tied to it need to take a small business class, and then come back here. Alternatively, you could just listen to some of the people here who own businesses.

I know. I've been an avid follower of a Canadian fellow named Michael Campbell for many years.
Michael Campbell's Money Talks
Check it out, you might find him quite interesting.

 

[Revoltingest]

I remember Dubya being called Hitler.....& by my Eastern European Jewish sister-in-law too.
(You'd think she'd be more aware of this diminishing the horrors her family endured in WW2, eh?)
And yet he didn't murder millions or commit suicide in his bunker.
Although, I do fault him for the Iraq war....you know, the one Hillary voted to start.

Poor Hitler.
Nowadays, he's just a standard Democratic Party campaign slogan.
(But some of them actually believe Pubs are old Adolf reincarnate.)

 

[First Baseman]

Anyone who expects me to believe to take any of this seriously is the one with the problem.