Zu dem vorangegangenen Artikel „The Fog of Trump“ habe ich so viele Kommentare erhalten das ich hier nur ein „post update“ veroeffentlichen moechte. Es wuerde den Rahmen der „Comments“ Rubrik sprengen. Heute mal Deutsch und Englisch. Wenn Ihr wollt benutzt den „Translate“ Knopf rechts – Google ist nicht perfekt, aber es hilft.
To the previous article I received so many comments that I would like to publish only a „post update“ here. Otherwise it would go beyond the scope of the „Comments“ section. Today in German and English. Use the translate button on the right – Google isn’t perfect, but it will help. Also, if you like, click on the smaller pics and size them up.
Historiker Stern: Donald Trump beweist die Verdummung der Amerikaner.
Wer ist Fritz Stern ?
Fritz Richard Stern (born:2. Februar 1926 in Breslau; died: 18. Mai 2016 in New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Historiker deutscher Herkunft. Stern, wurde mit seinen jüdischen Eltern 1938 aus Nazi-Deutschland vertrieben. Er hat das Bundesverdienstkreuz und zahlreiche weitere Auszeichnungen erhalten. More about this great historian in Wikipedia, worth to read !
Stern sagte 2016: Der US-Präsidentschaftsbewerber Donald Trump ist ein Beleg für die Verdummung der Amerikaner. Original Artikel war im Focus Nachrichtenmagazin.
„Trump ist das beste Beispiel von der Verdummung des Landes und von der entsetzlichen Rolle des Geldes. Ein absolut amoralischer Kerl, der mit Geld und Ignoranz protzt“, sagte Stern der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in New York. „Dass jemand wie Trump, der ein Nichts ist außer Geld und ungeheurem Ehrgeiz und Hässlichkeit, dass der sich nicht nur anbietet, sondern von vielen Menschen auch noch angenommen wird als Kandidat, ist einfach unbegreiflich.“
Amerikas „Verdummungsprofet“. America’s „Dumbing Down Prophet“.
Stern sieht die zweifache Wahl von Amtsinhaber Barack Obama als große Leistung an, da er die USA aus Kriegen herausgehalten und eine flächendeckende Krankenversicherung eingeführt habe. „Aber die jetzige Lage ist so gravierend, so zerstörerisch, so dysfunktional, dass man sich da nur tiefe Sorgen machen kann.“ Dass dieser Trump es tatsächlich bis ins Weiße Haus schafft, glaubte Stern jedoch nicht.
Aber es ist geschehen und die Verdummung hat Besitz ergriffen.
Hier eine kleine Geschichte „Prommie’s in den Mund gelegt“.
Angela Merkel: „Hi Donald, wie denkst Du darueber das mich euer Time Magazin zur „Person of the Year“ gekuert hat ?“
Angela Merkel: „Hi Donald, how do you feel about that your Time Magazine has made me the“ person of the year „?“
Donald Trump: „Totaler Quatsch, Fake News, die haben ’nen Vogel bei Time, die hatten mich gemeint und nicht Dich, Angela.“
Donald Trump: „Total nonsense, fake news, they are out of their mind, they meant me and not you, Angela.
Donald Trump: „Hier ist der Beweis ! Leider ein wenig verunglueckt das Foto.“
Donald Trump: „Here’s the proof! Unfortunately, the photo spoiled a bit.“
Angela Merkel: „Ist doch nicht so schlimm Donald – brauchst Dich doch dafuer nicht zu schaemen, das Du nur 3. Wahl warst.“
Angela Merkel: „It’s not that bad Donald – you do not have to be ashamed of yourself that you only were 3rd choice.“
Confessions of an enemy of the people.
Yahoo picture (6th of August 2018) to the following article:
Jerry Adler (Senior Editor, Yahoo News) article in Yahoo 6th of August 2018:
„““President Trump has taken to calling reporters “enemies of the people,” evoking memories of Soviet-era show trials in which officials who had fallen out of favor were forced to confess to imaginary crimes before their executions. Nothing like that has been proposed for American journalists, at least not yet, but if it happened, I imagine it happening something like this:
Comrades!
I stand before you accused of being a disgusting person, a member of the Failing Fake News Media who invent lies to make the president look bad. Thank you for catching me before I can cause more division & distrust, or even cause a War! I am very unpatriotic and totally unhinged because America is WINNING AGAIN, so it’s a good thing I’ve been caught. Thank you, President Trump for Making America Great Again by exposing people like me.
I am accused of spreading the Hoax that Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win, which was totally Fake News that I made up to justify the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt. I even got Putin to agree, because I knew that would make Trump look bad. Russia is very unhappy that Trump won, by the way, as Trump says himself. But that’s something the Fake News Media, like NBC for example, wouldn’t ever report, right?
Right?
I made up the story that Donald Jr., Jared and Manafort met with a Russian operative who was offering intel on Hillary Clinton. This was a total lie at the time, because the White House put out a statement explaining that the meeting was about Russian adoption. The president now says the meeting was actually to get information on an opponent, which he says is totally legal and done all the time in politics. So I am guilty of reporting the truth prematurely, which is just as bad as lying.
President Trump was talking about me when he said that “what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” We showed Fake News pictures of Queen Elizabeth checking her watch while waiting for Donald Trump to arrive for their meeting, totally contradicting Trump on the fact that it was she who kept him waiting.
And I admit that I never report any good news coming out of the administration, like the 4.1 percent growth rate in the second quarter. You didn’t see that in the New York Times, did you? That’s because I’d rather spread lies about the size of the U.S. trade deficit, pretending that it isn’t actually, as President Trump said at the 33-minute mark in his speech in Ohio Saturday night, an “$817 billion trade deficit among all countries over the last number of years. Think of it per year, per year. $817 billion.” I didn’t understand how it could be both “over the last number of years” and also “per year,” but in any case I prefer to attack the administration with Fake News statistics like this one from the Deep State U.S. Census Bureau, which shows the deficit has been averaging around $500 million for the last eight years, and never reached $800 billion in history.
Why do we do it? Mostly for the ratings. We only have until the end of Trump’s second term to make money off him, because after he’s gone, nobody will watch us ever again. Of course if we were as smart as we think we are, we would have figured out by now Fox News has the highest ratings because they tell the truth about Trump.
I like to pretend that I’m a member of the elite, only Trump is much richer than I am, with a bigger apartment, and he has a very good brain, and it’s driving me crazy.
The sad truth is, we’re suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. We can’t stand that he beat Hillary even with her 3 million illegal votes, which we refuse to acknowledge on the ridiculous excuse that there’s no evidence for it. We hate the idea that America is winning again. We are thin-skinned and don’t take well to criticism, or to threats, or the president whipping thousands of his followers into a fist-shaking, catcalling mob. That’s what it means to be an enemy of the people.
And this has been going on for a long time, even long before Trump. Remember the “lame-stream media”? That was us! Watergate, that whole phony deal, was something we concocted because we didn’t like Nixon, either. As far back as the 1950s, we were totally one-sided in our coverage of the civil-rights movement, because we refused to say anything good about Jim Crow. No wonder so many white supremacists still hate us.
So, comrades, yes, I am very “dangerous & sick.” I am ashamed of everything I have done to hurt President Trump and stop his agenda, and the mean things I said about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ eye shadow, or actually that someone else said, but it was at a dinner full of reporters so practically the same thing.
Yes. I admit it: I am an enemy of the people.
There’s only one thing to do with me.
Lock me up.“““
And one more little story „Private conversations of our celebrities“.
Donald Trump: „This Belgium is a wonderful city here in Europe, glad to be with you Angela.“
Angela Merkel: „OH GOD, Donald, you’re so stupid, don’t know what to say. Does anyone know where and when you went to school?“
Angela Merkel: „No reason Donald to feel that sad, people know your IQ.“
Laughter is better than annoying but ignorance is not a solution for the „TRUMP SITUATION“.
Angela Merkel: „Sag mal Emmanuel – hat Trump auch schon versucht Dir ins Ohr zu knutschen?“. „Ja stimmt Angela, hat er, wie Du siehst. Brigitte war davon auch nicht sehr begeistert“.
Angela Merkel: „Tell me Emmanuel – has Trump already tried to snog your ear?“. „Yes Angela you are right, he has, as you can see. Brigitte wasn’t very enthusiastic about it“.
We only can hope, that more Americans wake up and get rid of this CLOWN !
Donald Trump is proof that the U.S. presidency is broken and democracy is in peril. It’s time to amend the Constitution and abolish the presidency.
Abolish the POTUS!
We’ve seen it: the belligerent typo-ridden tweets; the fawning press conferences with autocrats and overlords; the self-described Nazis on parade praising an American president’s name. We have seen it with our own eyes. There is a bloated authoritarian lounging in his bathrobe in a 200-year-old mansion that used to symbolize the principal republic of the world.
This is a man who openly conspired to cheat with the help of a hostile foreign nation in a federal election. On election night, he came in second place, yet due to a scab of slavery in the Constitution (the electoral college), this usurper has the full power of the most powerful military in history, command of the treasury, the absolute power to pardon and he can unilaterally annihilate millions of people with his command to deploy nuclear weapons. He’s made refugees begging us for mercy into orphans hoping it will deter other asylum seekers — because he can. He’s now poised to put a man on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, who believes in supreme leaders (if they’re Republican that is).
Russia attacked our country; the target was Hillary Clinton and liberal democracy and they hit their mark. If you’re stunned that President Donald Trump is still in office because he’s so horrible and so unpopular and so obviously corrupt — you are not alone — the overwhelming majority agrees with you. Only about 25 percent of eligible voters voted for President Grab ‘Em By The P—-. Yet, the majority was apparently powerless to stop him.
Impeachment won’t remove Trump from office.
And I have other bad news. The remedy in our Constitution for a treasonous turncoat who got into the White House on a technicality is impeachment. But guess what? Impeachment has never gotten rid of a bad president in this country. Not ever. Bill Clinton finished his term after being impeached. The threat of impeachment got Nixon to step down, but impeachment as a whole has failed. It’s never lived up to its promise.
More: The real impeachment question isn’t if Trump broke the law. It’s if we can survive him.
Trump can’t be trusted to protect America. What will it take for Republicans to impeach?
Trump’s rude he-man act is catnip to his fans. They don’t care that he’s putty for Putin.
It failed to remove President Andrew Johnson, described by his contemporaries as „the vilest radical and most unscrupulous demagogue in the Union.“ The main charge against Johnson was that he ignored the authority and will of Congress. It was then thata group of concerned citizens saw a monarchy in the making and drew up a petition titled „Memorial Regarding the Abolition of the Presidency.“ Their idea was to copy the Swiss Republic and make the executive branch a federal council without veto power. Mid-19th century Americans’ trepidation that an emperor could follow an idealistic revolution was well founded; they’d witnessed that very thing in France with the ascension of Napoleon.
The petition makes the case that the three branches of government are not equal. “Congress is more dependent on the President than he is on Congress,” reads the petition. “The President has the elements of power; Congress has but words: he can act; Congress can but talk.” The pamphlet printed in 1868 offers that a constitutional monarchy is still a monarchy, and the exorbitant powers of the executive branch are borrowed from monarchs, which make it impossible to hold a president accountable. And if the president is above the law, they argue, he’s an autocrat and not a (small d) democrat.
Abolish presidency to save democracy
In 1973, the idea came up again a few weeks after the second inauguration of Richard Nixon, when Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a piece in The New York Times asking “Should We Abolish the Presidency?” Tuchman argued that Congress is at fault for the executive branch becoming too powerful. “Responsibility must be put where it belongs: in the voter. The failure of Congress is a failure of the people.” Eighteen months later Nixon resigned. His successor gave Nixon a blanket pardon, ratifying that he was in fact above the law. Tuchman also touted the Swiss Republic’s use of a council in lieu of a hero-like dad figure.
But I’m most inspired by Comedy Central’s „The President Show“ starring comedian Anthony Atamanuik. With his searing Trump impersonation, Atamanuik is introduced as “the 45th and final president.”
We can make that happen! My fear isn’t Trump; it’s that the next autocrat is most likely smarter and savvier than Trump. Every partisan from every niche of American politics should be alarmed. We have a branch of government that stinks so bad it’s wafted over the entire nation and its outer territories. The entire world sees it. We’re in trouble. The presidency is broken. Our little democratic experiment is in peril.
We can amend our Constitution to save the republic. Abolish the presidency! Power to the people! Power to the Congress! Make the co-equal branches of government more equal. Give us a council of boring bureaucrats who will do their job, serve the people and leave after their term ends.
Because, as our forefathers believed, democracy is worth fighting for — even if you have to fight a mad king for it.
Tina Dupuy, opinion contributer USA TODAY, Aug 10, 2018.
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Thank you very much Tina for your excellent opinion
and this great article !
Wish your country will awake and get rid of this menace !
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Mit permanenten Lügen und Halbwahrheiten hat US-Präsident Trump eine Alternativwelt für sich und seine Anhänger geschaffen…………….
Möge er mit seinen Anhänger Amerika und die Welt nicht in den Abgrund reißen.
Mögen die Amerikaner stark und weise genug sein um Trump aus dem Amt zu entfernen.
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Sehr richtig Bernd,
danke fuer Deinen Kommentar.
Ich stimme gern Tina Dupuy (comment up here) zu,
die sagt: Es kommt nicht darauf an wie wir Trump
schuldig ueberfuehren und aus dem Amt jagen, sondern
vielmehr darauf WIE WIR IHN UND SEINE MACHENSCHAFTEN
UEBERLEBEN !!
Es wird immer deutlicher wie er die gleichen Werkzeuge
benutzt die Hitler auf den Plan brachten oder andere
existierende Despoten und Diktatoren an der Macht halten
wie Putin, Maduro, Duterte, Erdogan, Assad und andere.
Siehe mein post „Enough is Enough“ vom 04.Oktober 2016.
Wenn wir Pech haben ist die Verdummung in den USA schon
so weit fortgeschritten das Trump noch mal 4 Jahre
regieren kann !! Gott sei uns gnaedig dann !!
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Hello Mike,
not being political, but I need to tell you how I love your picture interpretations you have chosen.
So true, so true. Ha ha ha !
Sascia.
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Thanks Sascia,
It was fun to do it,
just how I have seen it.
Cheers Mike.
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