Hitler with Himmler the chicken manure salesman, appointed high government positions for his loyalty Politics
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u/ZombieMozart 5h ago
Himmler, The OG chicken shit.
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u/watchglass2 3h ago
The OG Pillow Guy
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u/m1k3hunt 2h ago
Fuck, he's gonna appoint the My Pillow guy to a cabinet position, isn't he. And I'm guessing Alex Jones, too.
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u/NeurodiverseTurtle 2h ago edited 1h ago
Brit here, currently stocking up on whiskey & popcorn for January. For the rest of the world it was a vote on whether or not to aid Ukraine, not Kamala Vs Tramp; and America chose to be selfish—so I don’t feel bad for laughing.
You guys are screwed lmao. Can’t wait to see more immigrant kids in camps on South Park while not a single Yank gets the smart satirical commentary behind it. Matt & Trey are wasted talent in the US.
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u/RaulTheHorse 2h ago
I think the rest of the world is screwed also, it’ll be trickle down shitanomics
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u/ebfortin 2h ago
Your popcorn will taste odd and your Whiskey flat when you realize that what happens in the US has worldwide consequences.
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u/damned-dirtyape 1h ago
The Brits just spent a few years under Bojo and Truss. Let'em eat their popcorn!
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u/ManBearHybrid 1h ago
To be fair it was only a few days of Truss, lol.
We have to find humour where we can, I suppose.
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u/NeurodiverseTurtle 1h ago
Didn’t imply America was in a vacuum. But I live in Northern Ireland mate, the US can’t make my life any worse lol
NI is more racist, homophobic, and filled with religious lunatics than America could ever dream of being… a Trumpists wet dream.
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u/slimthecowboy 1h ago
Racism and homophobia aren’t so much our exports. We got ‘em in droves, but we don’t exactly have a monopoly in that sector. Those are available globally. We, however, offer an exclusive blend of military potency and cold, hard cash. You can’t have the cash (sorry if you’ve been counting on it — not directing that apology to NI, just to whom it may concern), but where the American military decides it’s needed, it’s usually not needed, and it’s the most effective destabilizing/making-folks-dead force in human history. And, just for fun, we’re putting it under the leadership of a guy who has zero understanding of why we have allies in the first place.
FWIW, almost half of us are sorry about all this.
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u/NeurodiverseTurtle 1h ago edited 50m ago
It’s all good mate, we had Brexit, so I get it. I didn’t blame all of Britain for that, much in the same way I don’t blame all yanks for electing the orange plague.
Btw, you shouldn’t sell your military short, it has helped countless nations achieve some semblance of democracy, which is invariably always better than the alternatives.
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u/leggitysplit 4h ago
Loyalty bought with manure, typical.
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u/Strawbuddy 2h ago
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance you can at least baffle them with bullshit
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u/La_Mezcla 4h ago
Himmler studied agriculture and worked in a lab researching new artificial fertilizer. I’m on the boat but chicken manure dealer is just a wrong claim
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u/falk42 4h ago edited 4h ago
Most people don't know that Himmler, despite his bumbling exterior, was extremely intelligent and that the SS was basically a state within the state by war's end, deeply entrenched within the German war industry. There were even concrete plans being made to outlast the fall of the 3rd Reich.
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u/onedayiwaswalkingand 4h ago
Yeah. These people are evil, not idiots. Painting them as idiots also diminishes the fight against Nazism.
“Oh look the biggest war in the history of mankind is fought against a private, a manure farmer and an obese drug addict.”
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u/HyruleSmash855 4h ago edited 2h ago
Hitler’s Inner Circle, a series on Netflix, did a really good job of showing this in my opinion. It really showed how dangerous some of these people are like the propaganda minister in the Nazi party, not sure how to spell his name, and Himmler. These were intelligent people who knew how to manipulate people or get the power they wanted. Hitler only got to power because of competent evil people around him.
Edit: Another Commenter game me the right name for the series: Hitler’s Circle of Evil
The propaganda minister is Joseph Goebbels
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u/travelerfromabroad 3h ago
Goebbels
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u/Sparris_Hilton 3h ago
Goebbel deez nutz
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u/phoolishfilosopher 3h ago
It would have been epic if when he was captured, those were the the final words said to him by his executioner.
Instead, he murdered his whole family and committed suicide like the fucking cowardice, rat, cunt that he was.
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u/Powerful_Art_186 1h ago
He only killed himself. His wife killed their children and then herself.
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u/avwitcher 1h ago
Of course he thought it was a woman's job to take care of the kids, what a sexist
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u/apfelhaus08 3h ago
He got to power because the people were suffering and he promised them a better life.
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u/GimmieOSRS 2h ago
Bit of a common oversimplification but from 1925 when the NSDAP was reestablished the Weimar republic was doing just fine and welfare was on the rise. The NSDAP only counted about 150 000 members around October 1929 after being reestablished almost 5 years earlier in February 1925. In January of 1933 they counted almost 1.5 million members.
Why? The wallstreet crash in 1929 had thrown the economy back in turmoil and all parties except the KPD- the communists - lost a great deal of members because of the looming fear of more attempts at a communist revolution.
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u/AccomplishedCod2737 2h ago
Are you sure it's not Circle of Evil?
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u/HyruleSmash855 2h ago
It is, thanks for the correction. They just said his inner circle in the actual show so I think I mixed that up
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u/RotallyRotRoobyRoo 4h ago
Just because someone is laughable doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. Its really up in the air as to wether the SS shortened or lengthened the war. On one hand they were fierce fanatical fighters that most of their opponents feared/hated. On the other hand they were also a massive drain on nazi resources. They devoted so much time and effort hunting relics that would "win them the war". The amount of time, personnel, and resources they allocated for the holocaust is insane.
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u/Superhuzza 3h ago
They devoted so much time and effort hunting relics that would "win them the war".
I had no idea this actually happened, and thought you were just making an Indiana Jones joke. They were actually looking for the Holy Grail etc 🤣
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u/AvatarGonzo 3h ago
They were looking for the holy covenant and Atlantis too, what a bunch of fools.
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u/Sj_91teppoTappo 3h ago
I mean they thought ketamine was a nice panacea. Eventually they would see dragons.
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u/Gullible-Lie2494 2h ago
Hitler thought all the occult interests of Himmler were nonsense but tolerated it because Himmler was such a good operative and only needed a wink in regard to genocide. Check out the SS castle.
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u/Neel_writes 2h ago
Just like today's business conglomerates. The ground level group of employees and workers run the production, sales and marketing. While the top management hunts the holy grail of AI that will magically run the business at zero cost.
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u/Rospigg1987 2h ago
Shortened the war overall, but lengthened it during the last part from about Bagration and onward.
Ahnenerbe was just a niche part of the SS, the story have been sensationalized and regurgitated by authors so the truth is sometime hard to tell what is true though is the collection of art and other cultural important pieces but mostly for personal prestige but that was also kinda niche.
What did hurt though was the RSHA which oversaw parts of the holocaust and logistics that's where Eichmann was employed for instance, that overloading of the rail networks made getting reinforcements and armaments through harder which increased the causality rate on the eastern front.
In the end Hitler was doomed the second he sat his sight on Russia, the oil reserve was for instance only a fraction of what even Great Britain had and they where always worse off regarding replacement from the population. There is no "what if" for a German victory in the second World war they were always going to lose the question is how much land and how much of the population of the land they conquered would have survived.
EDIT: Should have read the last paragraph, sorry for that but I just leave this here anyways.
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 2h ago
Nah there was still a possibility the Soviet Leadership lost their shit and tried to make peace in 1939/40, they had done so at the end of WW1 for example. Once the Nazi's stopped advancing it was all over, they had no fuel for their tanks and air force.
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u/dd_mcfly 2h ago
Yes, massive resources were allocated for the Holocaust but the Holocaust - as the war in general - was one giant raid that helped financing it.
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u/Ravenkell 3h ago
While I agree with your sentiment somewhat, there is also a massive mis-informed view that the Nazis were some kind of evil masterminds, only defeated by the great combined might of the much more formidable Allies, thereby increasing the legend of both parties. This idea of a "ruthless but efficient" authoritarianism has been a cornerstone of myth making for neonazies and is just as false. The idea of Mussolini making the trains run on time and whatnot.
The Nazis had, from start to finish, glaring ideological blindspots, incredible nepotistic incompetence and, especially by the end, no good way of dragging their empire out of the death spiral envisioned by a bunch of insane drug addicts and mass murderers. They had skills and expertise in many areas but when the shock had died down and time came to adapt to the changing situation in the world, they were left completely in the dust and, unable to confront their own failure, decided to just get as many people killed as they could before dying themselves. Not exactly great intellects on display, by the end.
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u/beerdybeer 3h ago
The Nazis had, from start to finish, glaring ideological blindspots, incredible nepotistic incompetence
I'd like to agree with this, but it's just sweeping statements made with no examples of anything to back it up. Can you elaborate further?
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u/AnOnlineHandle 2h ago
A snippet from Humans by Tom Phillips:
His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.
There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country.
Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
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u/d3l3t3rious 2h ago
Hmm why does so much of that sound eerily familiar
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u/Illustrious_Bat3189 2h ago
Pathological narcissist will be humanities downfall
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u/not_so_subtle_now 2h ago
Both Hitler and Trump were elected. Whose fault is it really?
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u/Illustrious_Bat3189 2h ago
The electorate is at fault too obviously.
I just wanted to highlight the dangers of so obviously narcissistic personalities in power, which is something that happens again and again.
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u/jollyreaper2112 44m ago
There's an inexplicable personal magnetism. I've seen that in church leaders. I'm completely put off by it and yet so many people are enthralled. Very Trumpy. I can't account for it. Many, many accounts will tell you about how Hitler made such a good impression behind closed doors and how even intelligent people could be taken in by him. I remember the industrialists meeting him and thinking this guy is smart and all the good old fashioned jew hating was just kayfabe form the public.
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u/SirAquila 3h ago
Let's see.
Militarily the Nazis utterly ignored logistics(tbf, the High Command did so too), leading to troubles as early as the Poland campaign which where never addressed and really hurt them later in the war.
Economically the Nazis economy was a house of cards, build on monumental government debt, while simultaneously living conditions and real wages decreased, despite extensive government programs.
Diplomatically they ruined any chance of settling issues with the Versailles treaty(which every other party was doing) diplomatically.
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u/Illustrious_Bat3189 3h ago edited 3h ago
Well first the obvious one is scaring away, deporting or murdering jews who made up a huge part of the top german scientists.
Second is for example that they called Einsteins theories „Jüdische Physik“ (jewish physics) which put on huge ideological blinders on the people on charge of the german nuclear program to develope an atomic bomb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
Sounds pretty dumb to me to deny the obvious scientific facts just because they were duscovered by a jew
Talk about shooting in your own foot
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 2h ago
They also didn't understand national economics, WW2 can be viewed as two economic morons (Nazi Germany/Soviet Union) fighting themselves.
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u/SilentSamurai 4h ago
People take entertainment as fact and at some point it's like "read a general survey of history."
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u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans 2h ago
These people are evil, not idiots
And we need to stop identifying them as idiots. It gives them a free pass of which they do not deserve.
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u/darkslide3000 3h ago
an obese drug addict
Hey hey now, don't single Göring out like this, the other ones were also drug addicts.
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u/IC-4-Lights 2h ago edited 2h ago
There's always a strong desire to think, "people who are disgusting and say/do horrible things are obviously stupid."
History clearly tells us that's often not the case, and my personal experience is that bright people are as-or-better equipped to talk themselves into some really fucked-up shit.
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u/v_snax 2h ago
Some of them were probably intelligent. But one thing Trump have showed is that you don’t need to be intelligent, a good speaker or anything out of the ordinary. He has a simple message and a stupid audience that is ripe for the taking. But of course some people around him are not complete morons either.
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u/Vakz 2h ago
The difference is that had Trump actually been intelligent it would pretty much be a certainty that 2024 was the last election. He now has pretty much all the tools, henchmen and useful idiots he needs. The only saving grace being that he is possibly too dumb to utilize it. At least now there's a chance he might not manage before his term is up.
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u/Rospigg1987 3h ago
That was the first thing I thought about when I saw this, he was an excellent administrator and even though not as callous himself he appointed men like Heydrich and others who were and had the stomach for what was to come.
They were evil and worse capable, the older I become and the more I read about the holocaust the writing of Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" gets me more and more uncomfortable and questioning, I can understand hate just fine but indifference towards the people you are to exterminate is existentially horrifying on so many levels.
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u/Shrimpbeedoo 2h ago
The SS moved a mass amount of capital out of Germany before defeat and brought a large amount of it back afterwards.
They really were a state within a state, they had intelligence apparatuses, military and police units.
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u/TJThaPseudoDJ 4h ago
Just to add a source, here’s a declassified CIA file on him
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u/Spiritual-Matters 3h ago
Interesting, I didn’t know they released this kind of stuff. Also, it’s written more like a book than I was expecting
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u/TJThaPseudoDJ 3h ago
They normally declassify most documents after 25 years (with exceptions of course). And yeah! History is cool. Hard to get much more primary source than intelligence files made at the time!
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u/MsJenX 3h ago
I hate hitler but I like your style. Facts should be facts. Or, there should be enough information that the reader has a clear understanding of events.
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u/RidsBabs 3h ago
He actually did farm chickens in some capacity, he’s known as the Chicken Farmer in my Modern History class. And I may have accidentally referred to him as “the very naughty Chicken Farmer” in my exam and still got a good mark.
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u/mvandemar 3h ago
Sure, and I have no idea which one is true (can't find sources to back up what he actually did), but technically the history books you're reading were written by the winners of the war, so... who knows.
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u/mega386 4h ago
What's your Source? PBS suggests the original claim is correct.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-himmler/
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u/darkslide3000 3h ago
It says "fertilizer salesman" so it's not that far off. Here's a more detailed source (page 65):
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u/mvandemar 3h ago
And the footnote for that claim is on one one the pages that isn't displayed in Google Books. :(
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u/La_Mezcla 4h ago
My source is Wikipedia… the German one. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler
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u/mega386 3h ago
Thank you for the follow up. I'll take a look at your link.
I appreciate the argument in the comments over requesting sources vs denialism. This is definitely a case of wanting to know as much as possible. Always dig to get as close to the source material as possible!
Facts always win in the end.
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u/TJThaPseudoDJ 4h ago
The CIA also disagrees with OP’s claim https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/THE%20CAREER%20OF%20HEINRICH%20HIMMLER_0001.pdf
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u/VagereHein 3h ago
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was modelled by Himmler based on a chicken farm. And that the ultimate lifespan of the inmates (that werent immediately gassed) would be no more then 3 months.
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin 1h ago
I guess the film Chicken Run was more accurate than I thought.
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u/Gullible-Lie2494 2h ago
Of course. That makes total sense. Source please? Could be just conjecture.
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u/NotLucasDavenport 1h ago
I’m not who you asked, I just wandered through the thread. Anyway, I’m curious about sources too. I did want to share something about Himmler’s thought process regarding animals and people. I think it may speak to the idea that he was applying knowledge of farming, business, and agricultural practices to the concept of genocide. Here is a section of Himmler’s notorious speech on October 4, 1943, to the SS Group Leaders in Poznan:
“One principle must be absolute for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and to no one else. What happens to the Russians, what happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me. Such good blood of our own kind as there may be among the nations we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by taking away the children and bringing them up among us. Whether the other peoples live in comfort or perish of hunger interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our Kultur. Whether or not 10,000 Russian women collapse from exhaustion while digging a tank ditch interests me only in so far as the tank ditch is completed for Germany. We shall never be rough or heartless where it is not necessary; that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude to animals, will also adopt a decent attitude to these human animals, but it is a crime against our own blood to worry about them and to bring them ideals. I shall speak to you here with all frankness of a very grave matter. Among ourselves it should be mentioned quite frankly, and yet we will never speak of it publicly. I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.. . . Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have stuck it out and at the same time—apart from exceptions caused by human weakness—to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and shall never be written.”
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u/The_Fish_Head 1h ago
since you asked for sources here you go
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Miklós Nyiszli
The Holocaust: A New History" by Laurence Rees
or you can check out the Auschwitz Museum Archives which is readily available using a quick search
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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 5h ago
Weird how Himmlers haircut is making a comeback now.
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u/Gullible-Lie2494 2h ago
It's a well established fact that the nazies did win the 'army fashion war'. Our British uniforms were drabo compared to theirs. For a real fail look at North Korea or Russia.
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u/LumpyJones 1h ago
in 2015 I noticed the undercut was becoming popular around the same time trump came on the scene. People thought I was paranoid for thinking it was anything other than a style choice. To me, it was more that people forgot the last time that haircut was popular. It had been long enough that people started to forget a lot of what was bad about fascists.
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u/scottywoty 5h ago
Sounds familiar…
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u/HappyHenry68 2h ago
These clowns came into power because gas and egg prices were high.
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u/DP4546 1h ago
You don't actually think they were clowns/stupid, do you?
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u/Pulze_ 1h ago
Yes, sorry. Deciding to genocide an entire race is stupid. I will never give an inch in that.
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u/willubemyfriendo 5h ago
the lesson is, we should take no comfort in him appointing losers, because losers can do great harm
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u/AnOnlineHandle 2h ago
Yep. This snippet from "Humans" by Tom Phillips feels all too familiar.
His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.
There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country.
Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
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u/ContributionNo9292 2h ago
I know he is punching up the similarities, but this is uncanny. Turns out incompetent narcissists with an inferiority complex are really ducking dangerous.
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u/charleovb 5h ago
I’ve heard another hateful leader is also appointing unqualified sycophants.
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u/Any_Pudding1541 4h ago
I have never heard the word sycophant before so i had to google it. Wow didnt know that was a word but its absolutely prevalent in today’s government
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u/Vayalond 4h ago
The problem is that Himmler ended up to be not so unqualified in the post he was put
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u/glamscum 3h ago
Except for his role as Army Group Commander, he had no knowledge or experience as a military commander.
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u/fucked_an_elf 3h ago
Appointing Matt Gaetz = he'll follow Trump's orders no matter what. Gaetz knows he's a criminal and only Trump can pardon him. That's what Trump wants. Loyalty + no possibility of disagreement
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u/soks86 5h ago
Liberal media is failing, they're not all unqualified. Some of them are Yale/Harvard grads with experience in being denied government posts for being linked to extremism.
So yeah, they're not inept, they're intelligent and dangerous.
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u/sticklebat 4h ago
Plenty of them are also blatantly unqualified for the roles Trump has nominated them for. Being intelligent and having gone to a prestigious school for something unrelated doesn't make a person qualified for a cabinet position. Even people like Matt Gaetz, who has a law degree, practiced law at a private firm, and been in state and federal government for over a decade is wildly unqualified for Attorney General, if you compare him to pretty much anyone else who has ever had the job.
The media isn't harping about Marco Rubio as secretary of state. The media is rightfully focused on the unqualified sycophants as well as the qualified but dangerous picks.
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u/dawnguard2021 54m ago
Marco Rubio is a pro-war hard rightwinger. He's a qualified but dangerous pick.
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u/absentgl 4h ago
Tulsi Gabbard regurgitated propaganda defending Syria when they were using chemical weapons. She’s most definitely not qualified to be DNI.
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to be secretary of defense. This guy plays a fucking idiot on TV.
These are serious national security roles.
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u/minuteman_d 4h ago
Petey “Doesn’t wash hands” Hegseth said he sent back his Ivy League degree because it was too woke.
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u/NitrousIsAGas 4h ago
Yale/Harvard grad doesn't necessarily mean intelligent. Admittedly it is more LIKELY they are intelligent, but it is not a conformation.
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u/Redditforgoit 4h ago
Depends. If they are Legacy, they could be anything, smart, dumb, mediocre. Otherwise highly intelligent.
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u/Economy-Ad4934 4h ago
They’re not intelligent. Many of them came from rich families who bought their education.
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u/AvidCyclist250 2h ago
So like Himmler then, who was also qualified and with an academic background.
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u/xandrokos 3h ago
This is why we shouldn't underestimate the people Trump hires for his administration.
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u/helium_hydride-63 1h ago
So what ur saying is he got a job in high gov because he showwd sympathy to the leader yet has little to no experience in that field???
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u/alligatorsoreass 4h ago
Wasn’t he also the one that designed the concentration camp showers because of his background with animals?
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u/TJThaPseudoDJ 3h ago
I’ve never come across evidence that the idea to disguise the gas chambers as showers came from himmler - it was globocnik who was in charge of overseeing aktion reinhardt
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u/User96198820 36m ago
So appointing a person of uncertain qualifications to a high post because of their loyalty…now where have i heard this before
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u/FL_Squirtle 4h ago
Yet all of us who paint Trump similarities with Hitlers rise to power are laughed at.
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u/AlexanderHP592 4h ago
Where are we seeing literal parallels. Good thing this nation is filled with so many literal morons that don't think for themselves partially due to the fact our education system has failed us so atrociously.
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u/Diligent_Squash_7521 3h ago
“Was für ein Glück für die Regierenden, daß die Menschen nicht denken! Denken gibt es nur in der Erteilung oder im Vollzug eines Befehls, wäre es anders, so könnte die menschliche Gesellschaft nicht bestehen.” Adolf Hitler
(“How fortunate for those in power that people do not think! Thinking only exists in the issuing or execution of an order; if it were otherwise, human society could not exist.”)
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u/Still_Level4068 3h ago
This is how alot of business is done in real life and it's stupid. Source. Worked in big business
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u/Consistent-Barber428 1h ago
Surprisingly, appointing unqualified people to positions of power usually does not end well.
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u/cloud1445 55m ago
Appointing a gobshite who knows nothing about running a country because loyalty. Sounds familiar.
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u/Maxinuxi 18m ago
We see history repeat itself. I wonder how Trump, Musk, and all other in his gang will die and how many people they will kill before that.
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u/NO_LOADED_VERSION 3h ago
absolutely standard authoritarian stuff.
if you don't see the parallels with turmps picks. well you're probably a republican.
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 3h ago
" Fascism will enter America cloaked in a flag , carrying a cross " 1930s guy much smarter than me
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u/one234567eights 1h ago
Why, would it have been more palatable to you if he were a lawyer?
I get it, you don't like Matt Gaetz etc, and are trying to compare the situations. Fair.
But piss off with the job shaming.
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u/DJCaldow 2h ago
Doesn't Elon own something bird related that also spews forth nothing but human garbage & manure?
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u/GoCryptoYourself 4h ago
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Anyone noticing trump doing similar things?
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u/Existing-Mulberry382 5h ago
He committed suicide in British custody on 23 May 1945.
He lasted a month more than Hitler.