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Fortunately for them, America isn’t a meritocracy.
Professor of German History comparing antisemitism in Germany and the US, late 19th, early 20th century. And yes, it’s painfully relevant to the 21st. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. richardefrankel.com
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Fortunately for them, America isn’t a meritocracy.
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“Suspected” being the operative word here.
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Yep
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All Democrats should be saying this… loudly and repeatedly.
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How are children gonna be able to truly appreciate the ability to breathe if they don’t experience a good drowning every once in a while?
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Putin hails friendship with China as Kim Jong Un joins show of force while Trump weeps silently into his pillow
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
How is he not taking it all the way with Trump Department of War™️??
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Apartheid billionaire Nazi hired by Nazi President of the United States still doing the Nazi thing.
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Trash doesn’t stand a chance against the mighty United States military!!!
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Can a narcissist totally lacking in empathy recognize the total lack of empathy in another narcissist?
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Because it’s totally and completely and absolutely normal for the President of the United States to wear a shirt with his name and job embroidered on the front.
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They just released the new “Trump Smiling On Death’s Door” cardboard cutout. Not bad.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
They gave him that hat in case he wanders off—people will know which country to return him to.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)
This is so ridiculous!!! $8 trillion in tariff revenue, hundreds of thousands of new jobs??? Seriously?? I mean, it’s at least 2 trillion new jobs… at least!!!
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The Onion: Next Week’s News, Today
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@theonion.com: Next Week’s News, Today
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I would like to vouch for the exemplary character of this man, the Grand Imperial Cyclops of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Mobile Klavern.
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And the mothers named them all Rudy.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Mr. Giuliani also delivered babies by two separate women (both twins!!) at the same time and then rescued a small lamb caught in a hunter’s trap on the side of the road.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
He also delivered babies by two separate women at the same time and rescued a small lamb caught in a hunter’s trap on the side of the road.
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BREAKING: Failed Businessman Notorious For Not Paying People Who Work For Him Reportedly Working Hard To Not Pay People Who Are Working For Him
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
They laughed about grabbing… well, you know.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Never trust people who are called experts by Stephen Miller.
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GORKA: Forgive me if I prefer to remain in the Bubble.
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Nearly 87% of Germans said yucky bread was one of the main reasons they voted for the Nazis in 1932. Not a lot of people know that.
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Hey US Department of Labor! The Soviet Union called. They want their propaganda back!
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Those are the tiniest hands I’ve ever seen.
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I don’t think Trump understands.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)
I didn’t know you could have snowflakes in Florida
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We now go live to Jake Tapper for comment.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
“Pushing the boundaries” is a strange way of saying “destroying.”
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)
Center for Disease Cultivation and Dissemination
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Donnie must be soooo jealous.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
She wants to spend more time castrating farm animals.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Environmental Protection Agency plans to dramatically reduce its protection of the environment
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump Picked this Man to Help Run the FBI Because He Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats
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When your government is actively working to kill you.
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The federal government is scaling back its role in preventing violent extremism, choosing instead to promote it through right-wing racist paramilitaries and other Nazi-like groups.
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When you absolutely positively have to squeeze a little antisemitism into everything you say.
Street Art Utopia (@streetartutopia.com) reposted
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
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Nazi leader orders government to use Nazi chat bot
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If you believe in American exceptionalism you don’t understand history.
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Con Artist Who Knows Absolutely Nothing About Science, Medicine, and Public Health Made a Claim. Let’s Take Him Seriously
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BREAKING: Nazi Car Company Sucks
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He wants to be asked? So if we asked Donnie to leave… and not come back would he do it?
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That’s why I had to vote for the Nazi.
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$220 million. Do you have any idea how many yachts or private jets for billionaires that money could have paid for??? What a waste….
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
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Army parade ‘disappointed’ Trump… at least the parts he was actually awake for.
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And have Navy pilots strafe a few Army columns… you know… for the fun of it.
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Unless you’re wealthy or a corporation.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
He said he thinks. I don’t believe it.
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“Computers are people, my friend.” —Mitt Romney
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Hello Speaker Johnson. I’m sure you agree with Donald Trump that Joe Biden could’ve done anything he wanted to do because he was President of the United States. Right?
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I blame Joe Biden.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d say it’s more like Mafia business. “Nice business you got there. Sure would be a shame if something was to happen to it. Know what I mean?” In order to keep doing business you give the Family a cut. Otherwise, well….
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Relevant experience is woke.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social)
Just re-arming with Subway’s latest, “The Un-Indictable.”
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He prays to Lucifer.
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I’m sure the president will get right on the task of combatting this vicious and disgusting example of antisemitism.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
When you hire graduates from Trump University School of Law™️
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Trash stands no chance against the brave warriors of the United States National Guard!!!
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
American President calls American city “a hellhole.”
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Guy who works for a 34-count convicted felon says he’s gonna drive out crime.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
They can check to see if he has any history of mortgage fraud….
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Psychotic. And extremely antisemitic.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Hello, is this the White House? It is? Great! Yes, umm, I just spotted an example of some really disgusting and dangerous antisemitism that I’m sure the president will want to combat as soon as possible. Thank you!!
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Just waiting for Republicans to call for a ban on open-carry of sandwiches in DC.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I consider Donald Trump to be a despicable gutter racist.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I think they should use nuclear weapons. They can get rid of hurricanes, they can get rid of trash.
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🤦♂️
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“It’s a very strong preventative,” says man who has never seen the relevant data says and who couldn’t even come close to understanding it if he did.
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Make Amerika Segregated Again
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In case you were wondering what a really stupid Kennedy sounds like.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
A Cabinet of the Worst.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms so they can shoot little kids playing in a public park, shall not be infringed.
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I’m sure Trump University™️ already beat you to that.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
In case you were wondering what a very stupid President of the United States sounds like.
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Seven Years War War of 1812 War of the Roses Spanish-American War Boer War Hundred Years War Ended them all. Amazing!
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Slob who got away with trying to violently overthrow the government and destroy democracy thinks some other slob got away with murder.
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They don’t actually have to let him get away with it. That they do is a choice. They are accomplices in the destruction of American democracy and the establishment of a fascist dictatorship.
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That makes total (non)sense.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
OK, grandpa. Finish your doodling and then come upstairs to bed.
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Any journalist who continues to sit through these propaganda sessions has no sense of self-respect or professional ethics.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
You know what this means for South Korea, don’t you? The most terrifying weapon in the history of terrifying weapons… TARIFFS!!!!!!!! 😱
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Trump Fence™️
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But does she feel truthy? That’s the question.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
According to Ivy League graduate J D Vance, unconditional surrender means negotiation… 🤔
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Perhaps the biggest historical example is “Nazism was a reaction to Bolshevism.”
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess we’ll find out just how enthusiastic Republicans still are about “stand your ground” laws.
Richard E Frankel (@refrankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I only use peer-reviewed doctors.
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I guess they need to cut more funding for science and healthcare.
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It’s nice that he wears shirts with his name on them. I imagine he forgets who he is quite often.
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I’m seriously hoping this is a rhetorical question.
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When you think you’re above the law. And really stupid.
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Reality just doesn’t favor Republicans.
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REPORTER: Can you take a question about Ukraine and make your response totally about you… and throw in some of your typical bullshit, too? TRUMP: I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I settled 7 wars, and actually if you think about pre-wars, add 3 more so it would be 10.
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Trump: I said, “Hey, Intel. That’s a nice business you got there. Sure would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
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BREAKING: Boss Tony Soprano says Davey Scatino agreed to give the DiMeo Crime Family a stake in his sporting goods company.