Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:04:35 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

In article <t1kpbjp3p5sf25daro2vph7in7vg211mgt@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

You are the one who asserted that the Utah Education Department
would be fine with "The Turner Diaries" or "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion."

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Have they banned either of them? Didn't think so.

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Are either of them in any public school library?  Or any
public library at all?  There are a lot of things that
nobody has bothered banning because no one has attempted
to perpetrate it.
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I have long noted that wing-nuts exist on all sides. But only the
Republicans have actually nominated two of them for President/VP.

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Which ones?  The usual suspects have accused every Republican
president since Eisenhower of being a Nazi.  (Except Ford, for
some reason; him, they just tried to assassinate.  Twice.)

Tried and, as with Reagan and Trump failed.

Republicans survive assassination attempts.

Democrats don't.

In both cases, I am limiting the period to post-WW2.

They said Nixon was a Nazi, but for all his flaws, Nixon was
no Nazi.
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They said Reagan was a Nazi, but for all his flaws, Reagan
was no Nazi.
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They said Bush I and II were Nazis, but for all their flaws,
neither one of them were Nazis.
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They say Trump is a Nazi, but for all his glaring, egregious
flaws, Trump is no Nazi.
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So, the "Nazi" accusations say a whole lot about the accuser,
and nothing whatsoever about the target of the accusation.

"They" may have said, but I haven't.

What /I/ said was that the Republicans have nominated a pair of
extreme right-wing-nuts.

This is because I agree with you that none of them was a Nazi. Heck,
Trump has shown that Tricky Dicky wasn't even a crook. He's made the
Bushes and Ronnie look better too.

(Unless the target is David Duke, of course.)

Well, yes. Self-declared Nazis can be called Nazis.

Note: this is pre-Democratic convention, which means that the
Democrats haven't nominated /anybody/ yet. And, if you think Kamala is
written in stone, well, Joe was written in the same stone up until
quite recently. Seeing the Republican reaction to changing the
probable candidate might tempt the Democrats to change it once again
just to torment Trump, who can say?

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Heh.  That would be amusing.  Policies aside, Kamala, as San
Francisco DA, turned loose the mugger who shot a friend of
mine, so I'd write in Cthulhu before I'd vote for her.
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I'm happy to say that, so far, at least, I've never voted for
Trump either.  Maybe the stars are right to write in Cthulhu.

As long as you know what you'd get if he won.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"