I figured this balancing act would topple eventually. He can’t keep his crazy Base happy and reach out to moderates with sensible policy.
“Yeah. Sure. ‘Operation Paperclip’ worked out Fantastic for America and Americans. We are paying for that naïveté to this very day,” the user wrote.
Umm… what?
Ignoring the fact that most if not all of them were full-blown card carrying Nazis, those guys kept the US steadily ahead of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and they got us to the Moon.
What the actual fuck could this guy be talking about?
After the war ended, we were snatching up kraut scientists like hot cakes. You don’t believe me? Walk into NASA sometime and yell “Heil Hitler”, WOOP, they all jump straight up!
Ignoring the fact that most if not all of them were full-blown card carrying Nazis
Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown,
"Ha, Nazi, Schmazi, " says Wernher von Braun.
Don’t say that he’s hypocritical,
Say rather that he’s apolitical.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
You too may be a big hero,
Once you’ve learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun.
As a foreigner with a college degree who grew up in the States: no thanks. I have nothing against Americans, but their politics alone drive people mad.
Doubt.
The only interesting things in the story were:
Trump took to Truth Social at around 3:00 A.M. on Saturday morning to share a link celebrating a proposal he had previously put forth.
The link, an opinion piece from the Washington Examiner, is titled, “Trump is right: Foreign graduates should get green cards.”
The rest of it is just cherry picked tweets or xits or whatever.