31 points

I figured this balancing act would topple eventually. He can’t keep his crazy Base happy and reach out to moderates with sensible policy.

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“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?

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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!

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Still? Most likely those guys are long dead.

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25 points

It’s a reference to Archer. Which was referencing operation paperclip.

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32 points

They don’t have any actual thoughts, just predispositions that get watered by their media to grow into weeds of incomprehensible hate.

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Well he might be worried about Nazis in America, but uh that Venn diagram has very little overlap.

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Ignoring the fact that most if not all of them were full-blown card carrying Nazis

And what is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear nations? And what is it that will make it possible to spend twenty billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old American know how, that’s what, as provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun!

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.

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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.

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8 points

Me too dude…

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5 points

Welcome to the club. Donuts and coffee are on the table. Group discussion starts in 5.

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42 points

Doubt.

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24 points

Archive.

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.

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Oh this could be a new strategy. Trick Trump into sharing things his base will hate by starting the headline with something like “Trump is right” or “Trump is a genius.”

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why was he on social media at 3am?

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Rumors are that he is addicted to uppers.

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