The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.So many angles from which to approach this. First thing that comes to mind is George H.W. Bush, the current occupant's old man and son of Hitler-lover Prescott. Interesting to me as so many used to call George Sr. "wimp". Given the givens here, I could only conclude him as a man who tried to be decent for much of his life, but was surrounded by scum from top to bottom to the side. (You remember Mama, yes? The vile harridan from Smith College?). And when you're a decent sort who wants nothing more than to get along, meanwhile all those around you brow-beat you mercilessly into kicking butt, well, you wimp out in compliance for little more than a moment's peace.
And then there's the grandson. Prescott would be proud.
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Update: Taking the psycho-sexual to the Nth degree here, what was it Freud said about the milqetoast Daddy and domineering Mommy?
That must be it: The president's gay!
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If bellyaching about Roosevelt (or any other president, for that matter) and talking about how it might be done constitutes a coup attempt, well there may well have been hundreds against Roosevelt. Recall that his ideas were so radical for their time that a great many people thought we had been surreptiously overthrown. And reactions were quite visceral -- many people in this country held Roosevelt in the same contempt as the current occupant. But I would be intrigued to see if this was actually a corporate version of "Seven Days in May" or ruminating by Old Boys around the Harvard Club bar. There is a difference. I suspect it will be Geraldo journalism, but I will reserve judgment.
For what its worth, when it came to political dominance of economic policies, Roosevelt was not that far off from Hitler and Mussolini. They both used massive works projects and governmental controls to stimulate their economies. In Europe, these projects and the effect on their economies were marveled at, and Hitler enjoyed brief acclaim for raising Germany out of absolutely crushing poverty that was far worse than ours. 1933 was also before the world came to know of the horror of fascism and his inherent evil. So it strikes me as a bit funny that Bush, Heinz and the like wanted to emulate Hitler's programs when Roosevelt was already doing something similar (minus the evil designs of course).
Further irony: Liberals decry the nuclear world and blame Repos for it, yet it was Roosevelt and Truman that gave us the bomb.
Just saying!
L'Homme Commander Deux
By the way, when you gonna get on Fredo? Seem Mueller has called him out a bit. Not exactly damning testimony (wasn't actually there and seems to be hairsplitting over terms) but enough to have thrown some blood in the water. I anticipate the odds on Fredo bowing out have become less long on Ladbroke's books.
L'homme commander duex
Like, I am so sure he meant the ironical statement:
"Shouldn’t all religious beliefs be respected? Religious (or any) people, yes — unless they do something to earn one’s disrespect. Religious beliefs, not particularly, no. Where they approach philosophy, they may worth debating. But carte blanche respect for religion is the road to Hell."
From the "God is for Suckers" Q&A.
Now, how can carte blanche respect for religion be the road to Hell when you don't believe in Hell?
Just wondering.
CG2
my default position on "hell" is the same as jean paul sartre's... in fact i'll attribute it to him: "hell is other people"...
or, "the more people I meet, the more I like my dog."
CG2
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