Pic Of The Moment: How Times Have Changed
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We've all seen the photos so I won't post them here. But ....
Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
Chump doesn't have anybody like that in his administration. (Thank goodness he doesn't ... things would be much worse!)
Trump Mussolini Il Douche
Both were installed with the blessing of local - and international - elites
Both appealed to right-wing snobbery, bigotry, self-righteousness, and vindictiveness
Both were staffed by a motley crew of incompetent fascists, bigots, snobs, and grifters - while their more competent officials were often harassed into quitting
Both relied on financial deregulation, high-income tax cuts, and other elitist economic policy - while imposing harsh austerity on everyone else
Both doted on military budgets while demonizing public employees (though the Argentine regime at least invested heavily in public works)
Both promoted media, as well as business, consolidation - while steering said mergers into the hands of cronies
Both had ample cheerleading by well-financed media lapdogs and clapping seals
Both enjoyed pageantry and parades (though the Argentines didn't have a ballroom built) - and tried to capitalize on athletes' victories
Both persecuted labor unions, academia, the press, lawyers, and dissidents in general
Both were quick to disappear people and quietly set up concentration camps (though the Argentine dictatorship was far more extreme)
Both took to wars to distract from worsening domestic problems
Both left a mountain of new public debt - saddling federal coffers with onerous interest charges for decades
Both derailed economic growth and upward mobility - permanently, in Argentina's case
And both admired Apartheid South Africa, while despising Jimmy Carter
