To hear the Nazis tell it, Donald Trump just gave them the bestest birthday present ever, and it wasn’t even their birthday!
“It just couldn’t ever get any better than this, I am telling myself,” The Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin gushed. “But I know that it is just going to keep getting better.”
Over on Infostormer, “Marcus Cicero” was somehow even more enthusiastic about Trump’s apparent gift to the far-far-right. “My hands are shaking right now as I prepare this article,” he reported. “I’m just that unbelievably happy.”
So what exactly are America’s white supremacists kvelling about?
Trump is evidently pushing to exclude white supremacists and other far-right extremists from the government’s Countering Violent Extremism initiative, transforming the program into one that focuses only on Islamic extremists, or so White House insiders told Reuters earlier this week.
This might seem an odd policy move to make, particularly at this point in time, only days after a white nationalist murdered six Muslim worshippers in a Quebec City mosque — a shooting more than a little reminiscent of avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof’s cold-blooded murder of nine black parishioners in a Charleston church last year.
If the proposal makes no sense in terms of policy, it makes perfect sense as a sort of under-the-table “thank you’ gift to America’s white supremacists for their fervent support during Trump’s campaign. If that’s the message Trump is trying to send, his white supremacist fans are receiving it loud and clear.
“We helped get Trump get elected, and the fact of the matter is, without Alt-Right meme magick, it simply wouldn’t have happened,” Anglin wrote.
The people paying attention know how much good we did, and they know how much good we can do in the future, making sure young people get on board with Trumpism.
This is absolutely a signal of favor to us. …
I feel so, so great right now.
“Cicero,” meanwhile, offered thanks to God Himself for the gift of Donald Trump.
Almighty God sent us Donald J. Trump at the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour – that much is certain right now.
He decided at the very last moment that the White Race is truly worthy of salvation from the most gruesome of ends, and gave us the means to finally set ourselves free.
Brothers and Sisters, we are going to win this struggle, and it may very well happen faster than any of us ever thought possible.
My hands are shaking right now as I prepare this article – I’m just that unbelievably happy.
Like Anglin, Cicero sees this as a monumental victory for white nationalism.
This measure would be the first step to us going fully mainstream, and beginning the process of entering the government in full-force without the fear of being attacked, financially-assailed, and intimidated into silence by the nefarious Jews. …
[W]e would at last be able to grow exponentially due to the lack of government resources that currently fund infiltrators, Leftist trolls, and other members of law enforcement that devote their whole lives to holding us back.
Whatever reservations Cicero may have had about Trump in the past have now been erased.
We may have truly underestimated President Trump’s covert support of our Cause … but after this proposal, I am fully ready to offer myself in service to this glorious regime.
I, and most others in the Alt-Right, wish to help Make America Great Again, and it seems as if the Administration understands this on some level.
Comrades, we are now free.
Let us make the best of this once in a lifetime opportunity, and fight to make our land a better place for our children, grandchildren, and White descendants as yet unborn.
HAIL THE GOD EMPEROR!
HAIL VICTORY!
AND MAY PRESIDENT TRUMP RULE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!
So, yeah, if Trump meant this as a message, MESSAGE RECEIVED.
And for the white supremacists, Trump is a gift that keeps on giving.
You may recall the Trump administration’s strange Holocaust Remembrance Day message that somehow managed to not mention Jews.
Word got out yesterday that in addition to putting out the weirdly Jew-free Holocaust message, the Trump White House also blocked the State Department from releasing a Holocaust Remembrance Day message of its own which, of course, did acknowledge that the Holocaust did indeed have something to do with Jews, notably the murder of six million of them.
The Daily Stormer was enthusiastic about the original White House statement and was if anything even more thrilled by this followup revelation.
“This just gets better by the second,” the irrepressible Anglin declared.
President Trump is not only not mentioning Jews in his Holocaust statement, he is actively making sure they’re not mentioned.
I didn’t even ask for all of this. It’s incredible.
We’re only two weeks into Trump’s administration. What horrors lie ahead?
So… Sieg Heil?
This is really, really scary. We’re getting glimpses into the minds of people who promote straight-up genocide as a desirable political alternative, and they really believe they’re the good guys. We’re looking at a new rise of the Nazis, and some people still whine how violent opposition is not acceptable. We have people who would rather see ethnic groups rounded up and deported or even killed, and nobody bats an eye because Nazism is so incorporated into the mainstream.
Yeah, no, Spencer. You all always loved the idea of concentration camps. You all loved the idea of death camps. You all loved the idea of genocide. You wanted all this long before anyone punched you. Like bullies and abusers, you shift the blame on the abused. The punch didn’t change anything in your creepy, evil mind, and you know it.
By the way, notice how the people in your shitty-ass cartoon are both the same color, prisoner and guard alike? That’s because you don’t even consider non-white people human. Even on a theoretical level, you cannot imagine engaging in conversation with what you see as an inferior race. That’s why it’s just two pasty-ass white people talking, with a bit of casual misogyny thrown in to remind white women of their place. Why, though? Have in this ideal world of you all other races gone extinct? What is it you’re trying to tell us, oh propaganda minister?
Richard Spencer, you revolting man. I send you nothing but punches.
I feel petty for locking onto something like this, but I always hate-love how some people will gush about “making sure young people get on board with Trumpism” and then cry “propaganda” and “indoctrination” when anyone on the other side of the fence tries to influence young folks in any way.
It reminds me of some of my classmates from upper secondary. Since I was known to be left-leaning, one of them told me (in history class) that I was unqualified to discuss anything about the Soviet Union or Stalin, because I had been brainwashed at home. The fact that someone or something had taught him that left-leaning = communist/stalinist was of course not brainwashing, because that stuff only happens to other people.
Trump has gotten my husband rattled. He’s a naturalized US citizen. He was born in a largely Muslim country, to European parents who are 75% ethnically European. His birth certificate refers to him as a “foreign national”, and as a citizen of the same European country as his parents.
I’ve been trying to reassure him that he has nothing to worry about. He came to the US when he was 4 or 5 years old, more than 50 years ago. He got US citizenship through his parents.
I dunno, though…I live in a rural part of the US, where there’s subtle predijuce against CATHOLICS. As if, any Catholic alive today, participated in the Inquisition.
Dormousing_it:
You should educate your neighbors about Steve Bannon and his views. Google “Steve Bannon church militant”. I have no idea if that’s be enough to turn them against Trump, but it might be worth a shot.
I don’t really see a lot of room for complacency. If we don’t kick the nazis out, they’re coming for everyone.
@Ooglyboogles: So if Lord Dampnut is Vandire, who are Sts. Sebastian and Alicia?
@AustinLoomis
I don’t know, I don’t really have a particular one who would be universally accepted by liberal progressives as “good person in all categories ™.” Like I have a few people but I don’t know which one would have Trump sic the national guard on them, then said national guard get lost in a natural disaster. Which would then lead to Trump getting impeached and Sebastion Thor sub would start passing constitutional amendments to prevent anything like Trump from ever happening again.
Ugh, that Richard Spencer comic.
“Hey, you did something that I dislike. I’m going to blame everything I do on that thing. Never mind the fact that I was going to do it anyway.”
The thing that annoys me about alt-Righters, more than anything else, is how self-aware their insincerity is. Lies are not only their mother tongue, but it’s how their internal monologue works too.
If I didn’t know better, I’d guess that comic was mocking the liberals whining about the Richard Spencer punching incident, “If you hadn’t punched that neo-Nazi, they wouldn’t have built these concentration camps!”
The world is against you.
You’re going to lose.
I’m reminded of a picture I saw doing rounds on social media.
It was a NASA photograph of Earth and the text over it was a conversation between two aliens. It went something like this:
“Look, the occupants of this planet have come up with nuclear weapons.”
“Intelligent life?”
“Not likely, they have them pointed at themselves.”
That Milo 4-framer made me chuckle.
The concentration camp one, though…can you say GASLIGHTING? “We didn’t want to do this, honest, but people wouldn’t stop punching us!” — said NO Nazi ever. The original gangsters were quite up-front about wanting to annihilate anyone they saw as the opposition to their Master Plan For the Master Race™. And they certainly didn’t need to get punched before coming up with THAT one.
For this reason, I’d say that punching their ideological descendants is kind of a must.
The horrors that lie ahead probably consist of people who do not oppose Trump well enough being beaten since it’s the only actual violence that keeps occurring since the election.
I thought that comic was mocking the Nazis’ rhetoric…
Here’s the Twitter of the person that drew the cartoon Spencer tweeted. They’re definitely anti-antifa (and very anti-feminist).
@whoknows
Not you…
Yeah it’s not like there was a huge wave of hate crimes committed against demographics that Trump targeted during the election or anything.
@whoknows
Woe to the nazi
Who can’t stop getting facepunched.
/tiny violins
Ah… the death of rationality continues with @whoknows.
Ack! HERE is the Twitter of the Red Panels cartoonist. He retweets Richard Spencer. He seems lovely.
“HAIL THE GOD EMPEROR!”
And it’s times like this that I’m embarrassed to be a Warhammer 40k fan, until I remember that Trump is #notmyEmperor. (My username is relevant here.)
Another thing about that shitty concentration camp cartoon: this is Spencer gloating about putting people in concentration camps for punching him, with some nice victim-blaming thrown in. This isn’t “ironic”. This isn’t “edgy”. He’s literally tweeting a cartoon about the stuff he would do if given the opportunity. Way to make your movement seem legitimate, chump.