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groundloop

(12,386 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:29 PM Nov 16

"Makes us look like Nazis": Trump allies asked to stop talking about mass deportation "camps"

Source: Salon

Donald Trump’s allies have been told to stop saying the quiet part out loud.

Rolling Stone reports that MAGA associates have been asked to stop using the word “camps” to describe potential facilities that would be used to house people rounded up in a massive deportation operation.

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” one Trump ally told the outlet. “Apparently, some people think it makes us look like Nazis.”

Advisers have cautioned surrogates and allies to keep the charged term out of their remarks, Rolling Stone claims, to avoid “the concentration camps framing” that dogged Trump's campaign. Coupled with Trump's heated rhetoric comparing undocumented immigrants to “animals” and saying they are “poisoning the blood of our country,” detractors didn't need to reach too far to find parallels to Nazi Germany.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/11/16/makes-us-look-like-nazis-allies-asked-to-stop-talking-about-mass-deportation-camps/

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"Makes us look like Nazis": Trump allies asked to stop talking about mass deportation "camps" (Original Post) groundloop Nov 16 OP
How about "concentration resorts"? n/t Harker Nov 16 #1
This made me laugh out loud! JoseBalow Nov 16 #10
They might try it! n/t Harker Nov 16 #17
has such a better feel to it?? Evolve Dammit Nov 16 #24
Exactly. Harker Nov 16 #36
Right wingers are very well practiced at messaging (ex. slaves learned valuable skills). groundloop Nov 16 #40
Yes, but it only rings true with the brainwashed. Harker Nov 16 #49
Bill jcboon Nov 17 #75
German Nazis actually did that. Theresienstadt, the resort ghetto wnylib Nov 17 #63
We see a cynical atrocity. Harker Nov 17 #69
For today's MAGAs, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy are wnylib Nov 17 #79
I'm left wondering if they're going to start wearing blue uniforms with red ties... Harker Nov 17 #80
Maybe some ugly combination like you see at their rallies wnylib Nov 17 #83
Ugh. The mugshot. n/t Harker Nov 17 #84
REX-84, y'know? no_hypocrisy Nov 16 #2
I had never heard of that. A side gun running operation to Iran-Contra underpants Nov 16 #30
Reagan administration, of course n/t TexasBushwhacker Nov 16 #55
"Apparently" ... TBF Nov 16 #3
Haaaaaaa!!! Traildogbob Nov 16 #4
The truth hurts. greatauntoftriplets Nov 16 #5
Make Nazis look like Nazis. Yeah I can see where Nazis would want to avoid that. /nt bucolic_frolic Nov 16 #6
"Apparently, some people think it makes us look like Nazis." Ocelot II Nov 16 #7
It would kill the economy...... Lovie777 Nov 16 #8
Yes, it would. And we don't have enough people to fill the jobs today as it is. Idiots. They are so fixated on SWBTATTReg Nov 16 #12
that might change when repukes crash the economy Skittles Nov 16 #35
Yes, all the Trump supporters can enjoy their $10.99 heads of lettuce hadEnuf Nov 16 #38
it kills me Skittles Nov 16 #41
Yes, sadly. We have seen this same ol' story before. SWBTATTReg Nov 16 #50
They don't care if they kill the economy, as long as their enemies get punished FakeNoose Nov 16 #48
Bill jcboon Nov 17 #77
Possibly that's a feature, not a bug. Nt lostnfound Nov 17 #56
Hey, if the shoe fits. As if they AREN'T Nazis LOL! JoseBalow Nov 16 #9
It's too late Solly Mack Nov 16 #11
Oh are they giddy to fill them up with not just immigrants.... DSandra Nov 16 #13
It is what it is. dchill Nov 16 #14
Don't say the quiet part out loud bronxiteforever Nov 16 #15
This is literally in the dictionary for saying the quiet part out loud Prairie Gates Nov 16 #18
If the brown shirt fits --- Marthe48 Nov 16 #16
...Because everything else they're doing DOESN'T make them look like Nazis. LOL Karasu Nov 16 #19
Or what... EarthFirst Nov 16 #20
If it quacks like a duck......nt deminks Nov 16 #21
you beat me to it. raccoon Nov 17 #66
...look like Nazis..Yup, if it looks like a duck, has web feet like a duck quacks like a duck, republianmushroom Nov 16 #22
Yup. Looks like, talks like, acts like.... surfered Nov 16 #23
But ya are, Blanche. Iggo Nov 16 #25
We can be Nazis, they just can't look like it. Turbineguy Nov 16 #26
If the Jack boot fits . . . Dem2theMax Nov 16 #27
Sorry Repugs, all the lipstick in the world can't make that pig look good. n/t sarge43 Nov 16 #28
If it looks like a duck. Blue Full Moon Nov 16 #29
Nazis I_UndergroundPanther Nov 16 #31
Sorry, boys, but that horse done bolted and you can't get 'em back. paleotn Nov 16 #32
what if those are gonna turn to concentration camps AlexSFCA Nov 16 #33
Perhaps there never was any intention to deport them. wnylib Nov 17 #64
Exactly. really cheap labor. travelingthrulife Nov 17 #81
Germany used the same tactic in gaining public support wnylib Nov 17 #82
HELLO! YOU *ARE* NAZIS Skittles Nov 16 #34
If the jackboot fits ... DavidDvorkin Nov 16 #37
🤔..... If the shoe fits... electric_blue68 Nov 16 #39
Does that mean removing swastika and SS tattoos? usonian Nov 16 #42
Trump and MAGA did Nazi that coming. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 16 #43
That barn door was already left open relayerbob Nov 16 #44
But they're so shy about this issue: NameAlreadyTaken Nov 16 #45
Shoe fits...f..king wear it! PortTack Nov 16 #46
Softly, softly, and hope no one notices! Aussie105 Nov 16 #47
NOW they're worried about looking like Nazis? CousinIT Nov 16 #51
Nobody has to "make" you look like Nazis, you... LudwigPastorius Nov 16 #52
TFG's Restricted movement resorts. duncang Nov 16 #53
Did somebody have djt sitdown and read George Orwell's 1984 magicarpet Nov 16 #54
Look at the bright side! They'll finally get interested in expanding the size and quality of our rail systems. NBachers Nov 17 #57
Just in case y'all forgot, the original plan of the Nazis was ET Awful Nov 17 #58
They do know Trump has Neo-nazi fans, right? sakabatou Nov 17 #59
Oh, that cats been out of the bag for a long.....lonnnnngggggg time. cstanleytech Nov 17 #60
No shit, Sherlock Hekate Nov 17 #61
My god -- they're so close to the truth it's blinding them 0rganism Nov 17 #62
Hey, if the brownshirt fits markbark Nov 17 #65
a rose by any other name... JT45242 Nov 17 #67
If the look fits, wear it. nt City Lights Nov 17 #68
How about your enrolled in kairos12 Nov 17 #70
Give me a break! Martin68 Nov 17 #71
If it walks like a Nazi duck........ louis-t Nov 17 #72
Donald Trump's allies what the hell do you call it ? republianmushroom Nov 17 #73
Bill jcboon Nov 17 #74
Yeah like let's not talk Faux pas Nov 17 #76
What are they going to call them? An Airbnb? mzmolly Nov 17 #78

groundloop

(12,386 posts)
40. Right wingers are very well practiced at messaging (ex. slaves learned valuable skills).
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 08:12 PM
Nov 16

wnylib

(24,794 posts)
79. For today's MAGAs, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy are
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 03:14 PM
Nov 17

blueprints for a perfect society.

Harker

(15,208 posts)
80. I'm left wondering if they're going to start wearing blue uniforms with red ties...
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 03:40 PM
Nov 17

and way too much gold braid.

wnylib

(24,794 posts)
83. Maybe some ugly combination like you see at their rallies
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 07:45 PM
Nov 17

like a shirt with a swastika in front and Confederate flag on the back.

Or a US flag with the felon's face on it.

underpants

(187,387 posts)
30. I had never heard of that. A side gun running operation to Iran-Contra
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 07:37 PM
Nov 16

That’s thick with rabbit holes. Thanks.

Ocelot II

(121,502 posts)
7. "Apparently, some people think it makes us look like Nazis."
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:40 PM
Nov 16

Um, yeah; actually it does. Are you saying you did Nazi that coming?

SWBTATTReg

(24,337 posts)
12. Yes, it would. And we don't have enough people to fill the jobs today as it is. Idiots. They are so fixated on
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:48 PM
Nov 16

the 'immigration' issue, that they ignore everything else. Alabama could tell them what happens to their crops rotting in the fields etc. after they passed a restrictive immigration policy there. And I don't think they still resolved it yet. Sure, go ahead and have your crops rotting in the fields, have your farmers suffering when their crops are rotting in the fields. And I thought republicans loved their farmers...you sure couldn't tell it from the way they talk up a storm.

Idiots. Just plain idiots.

Skittles

(160,331 posts)
41. it kills me
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 08:12 PM
Nov 16

you have to wonder just what happened to make people so easily manipulated

jcboon

(322 posts)
77. Bill
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 02:08 PM
Nov 17

Exactly! Apparently the 45&47 supporters don't need Einstein's statement about insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

JoseBalow

(5,655 posts)
9. Hey, if the shoe fits. As if they AREN'T Nazis LOL!
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:44 PM
Nov 16

Gimme a break.

Remember the fabricated rhetoric around the alleged Obama FEMA camps? This time it's real talk with real plans, out in the open for all of us to see.

Trying to control the message won't hide the reality of it.

DSandra

(1,287 posts)
13. Oh are they giddy to fill them up with not just immigrants....
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:48 PM
Nov 16

But who he calls “the enemy within”…

This is the end result of a stupid electorate: a loss of freedoms.

republianmushroom

(18,179 posts)
22. ...look like Nazis..Yup, if it looks like a duck, has web feet like a duck quacks like a duck,
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 06:22 PM
Nov 16

eats like a duck, swims like a duck, IMO it is the a duck. Deportation camps does make republican more than just looking like Nazis. IMO

paleotn

(19,532 posts)
32. Sorry, boys, but that horse done bolted and you can't get 'em back.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 07:50 PM
Nov 16

Oh...and you look like nazis because your ARE fucking nazis.

AlexSFCA

(6,275 posts)
33. what if those are gonna turn to concentration camps
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 07:54 PM
Nov 16

(final solution) to save money on deportation, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised by anything with this administration.

wnylib

(24,794 posts)
64. Perhaps there never was any intention to deport them.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 04:37 AM
Nov 17

Perhaps the camps are the end goal.

wnylib

(24,794 posts)
82. Germany used the same tactic in gaining public support
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 05:24 PM
Nov 17

for concentration camps. They described the camps as temporary detainment centers for the deportation of non citizens and criminals.

The non citizens turned out to be Jews AFTER their citizenship was revoked. The criminals turned out to be anyone who disagreed with the Nazi police state.

The camps and ghettos were intentionally squalid, lacking food and sanitation, so that people would die off from disease and starvation while being used as slave labor. When the survivors were deported, it was to death camps.

Aussie105

(6,477 posts)
47. Softly, softly, and hope no one notices!
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 09:13 PM
Nov 16

But if you build a camp or 10, surround them with guards and barbed wire, then populate each with undocumented aliens, you really have created a nice group of

CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

If it talks like a Nazi and acts like a Nazi, don't you dare call him a NAZI to his face!

But I'm sure the faithful will stop believing their lying eyes and trust the R leadership.
So they will be fine with it.

LudwigPastorius

(11,084 posts)
52. Nobody has to "make" you look like Nazis, you...
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 11:16 PM
Nov 16

goose-stepping socksuckers.

Own your pathetic, hate-filled ideology.

magicarpet

(16,980 posts)
54. Did somebody have djt sitdown and read George Orwell's 1984
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 11:33 PM
Nov 16

The Ministry of Truth,

The Ministry of Perception Management,

?si=z6yo-j_jq7_rWhsJ

NBachers

(18,197 posts)
57. Look at the bright side! They'll finally get interested in expanding the size and quality of our rail systems.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 01:29 AM
Nov 17

Not to mention all the children who can be siphoned off and shipped out to their new . . . "sponsors."

ET Awful

(24,775 posts)
58. Just in case y'all forgot, the original plan of the Nazis was
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 01:57 AM
Nov 17

The Madagascar Plan. That being to deport all the Jews in Europe to Madagascar. Their other plans came after they realized that type of mass deportation wasn't feasible.

People need to read on history. . . Too bad they don't teach it in school anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

0rganism

(24,762 posts)
62. My god -- they're so close to the truth it's blinding them
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 03:43 AM
Nov 17

It's like... how can you even explain this to a Trump cultist?

JT45242

(2,995 posts)
67. a rose by any other name...
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:20 AM
Nov 17

They already said the quiet parts out loud and somehow won the house, senate, and presidency.

Why bother to sugar coat it now. The plurality of Americans are ok with Nazis and liars running the country.

After you win, you can say whatever you want. Especially if you plan to make it "so you won't need to vote ever again."

They went all Nazi in Madison square garden and won the election.

Faux pas

(15,426 posts)
76. Yeah like let's not talk
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 02:07 PM
Nov 17

about mass deportations! We're going to do it, just shush about it

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