Contextual Criticism
Political and religious commentary from a liberal, secular, humanistic perspective.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Saturday, June 23, 2018
We do this in the name of our dear leader...
The following rant is a comment I posted on another website in response to a story about the U.S. Navy building "concentration" camps in remote areas of the country to house the "hordes" of immigrant "criminals" (read babies and moms) who are stealing across our borders.
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Let's think about this for a moment. During Hitler's reign, is it possible that the generals who crowded around him at his war plans table, could have done more to mitigate his ruinous tenure or were they silently and perhaps enthusiastically complicit.
We know that a few of them were involved in a failed plot to kill Hitler, but what about the rest? Why did they follow this demented, evil person into the pits of hell? Were they just following the orders (which is what we'll hear more of in the days ahead about our own generals and admirals) of their supreme leader, their commander-in-chief? Did they think they had no other choice than to support his plan to reduce the world to rubble and kill all the Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, etc.?
Today, in our country, the U.S. Navy, a military organization in which I served many years ago, is kowtowing to our own demented, evil person and following him into the pits of hell by agreeing to build concentration camps for "illegals" in remote areas of the country. Why remote areas? For the same reason the Nazis put their camps in remote areas. So the general public couldn't see the poor souls caught in the nets of government depravity/military depravity.
Why doesn't Trump put these camps in more appropriate places, like Auschwitz. So far as I know that place is still intact and serving as a kind of museum but it could be converted back in no time. And I'm certain that there are still standing other camps in Germany and Poland that Trump's stormtroopers (ICE) could use to lock up our illegals who have committed the misdemeanor of trying to cross our border.
Trump has informed us that thousands of criminals, no better than dirty dogs, are pouring over our borders to cause an epidemic of crime. That's not close to the truth, but he never is close to the truth and this may all be a ploy to get his damn wall built to appease the morons who voted for him.
The evil of Nazism came incrementally. One small step at a time. And before long, it was too late. That's what's happening here. We're not gassing people yet, but the stage is being set. If Trump can dehumanize these illegals it will be a lot easier to get rid of them. Already the state television (FAUX news) is blathering about how small children are having sex, and doing all sorts of depraved things and they're not really human. And it's going to be costly to build these camps so something will need to be done.
About about the showers? If these men, women and children seeking a better life in this country are nothing more than the lowest of animals, if they're dirty, filthy people who are a real threat to our well-being, well, send them to the showers. It's cheap and the chemicals required were created long ago. They don't even use any water.
If you had suggested 40-50 years ago, that we'd be in this situation and that millions of people who consider themselves "good Christians" would go happily to Trump's rallies to sing his praises and condemn millions of other of God's creatures to a living hell or to death I would have said you were crazy. I did not realize the line between right and wrong was so thin and so easily severed and that greed and ignorance and racism would coalesce to create a new and deadly society where the norms of decent people would be overrun by a truly evil man and his blatherings. George Will, that bastion of conservative Republicanism, has seen the light and is now telling people to vote Democratic in the next elections. I'm afraid he might be too late for true believers and the criminals have taken over our fair land.
We are going to put thousands of people into concentration camps for NO other reason than to appease the diseased brain of a president whose life has been built on one catastrophic lie after another!
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Donald Trump and His Stormtroopers
Here's Why It's Entirely Appropriate to Compare Donald Trump to the Nazis
June 21, 2018, 2:38 AM GMT
The only discernible difference between what Donald Trump is doing to undocumented immigrants on our southern border and what the Nazis did all over Europe to Jews is that the Nazis had to go from house to house to round up their victims, while all Trump’s Border Patrol has to do is wait for their victims to walk or swim across the border.
That’s it. Practically everything else is the same. The actions Trump’s Border Enforcement agents are taking when they separate immigrant children at processing centers from their parents have nothing to do with law enforcement. Neither did the Nazis when they separated Jewish children from their parents inside the gates of Buchenwald and Auschwitz and Dachau. Trump’s agents on the border are carrying out a policy promulgated by his administration. Nazi SS stormtroopers were carrying out the policy of rounding up political opponents, “undesirables,” and Jews, and incarcerating them in concentration camps. These camps were entirely extra-legal. You didn’t have to be convicted of a crime to be incarcerated in a concentration camp. Nor have the immigrants and their children being held in hastily constructed cages been convicted of crimes.
[Please read the entire article at AlterNet HERE.]
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
D. J. Trumpf - "I'm gonna catch you, you little terrorist!"
These cartoons are by Rob Rogers, a long-time cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Gazette. He was recently fired by that paper for his anti-Trump cartoons.
The heading is mine and refers to the 2nd cartoon.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Weirdness, Inc.
The video in the previous post was presented to the dicktater of North Korea by the wanna-be dicktater of the United States.
Things just keep getting weirder and weirder!
Things just keep getting weirder and weirder!
Friday, April 27, 2018
An Excellent Description of the Swamp Fox, aka ze prezident
This is a comment on a post on Crooks & Liars. The link is here. It is one of the best descriptions of D. J. Trump I've reard.
tramp is a political neophyte that does not understand the separation of powers our Constitution maintains.
tramp is a lying hypocrite for not being patriotic enough to release his tax returns and prove to the American citizenry that he is working for us and not Putin. Remember this, tramp does not trust YOU enough to release his tax returns.
Who could have guessed that a reality TV star with no government experience, 6 bankruptcies, 5 kids from 3 different marriages, 19 charges of sexual assault, and 4000 plus lawsuits, could be so bad at being president?. tramp is one who is against lots of things but doesn't seem to be for anything, offers bombastic and contradictory promises, is a terrifying Orwellian statesman, insults veterans, threatens a free press, mocks the handicapped, denigrates women, immigrants and Muslims.
We might as well of handed the flight controls of a 747 over to pilot with only model air plane experience.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Jesus v. Trump
When I saw this photo I had to work hard not to throw up.
Then, I thought the person who was waving the sign was probably a confessing Christian and that led me to search for some Biblical wisdom which would justify such a comment.
Anyone with any knowledge of the New Testament knows immediately that there is nothing in that collection of tall tales and extended letters that would provide a basis for thanking the "Lord Jesus For President TRUMP."
But I did find a verse that describes in a perfectly poignant fashion what Jesus would have done if he had been at this rally. It's in the Gospel of John, chapter 11, verse 35:
"Jesus wept."
Friday, March 30, 2018
Happy Easter!
Dontcha just love how we celebrate Easter these days? We're led by the Savior incarnate. And all the people said, "Amen!"
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