I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it. You can decide what that means. #
I've had several friends over the years who are German. My age or a little older. People who grew up with the shame of being German in the postwar years. Friends. People who weren't born when the atrocities happened. We were friends and when I could I tried to assure them that I know they weren't there when it happened. It didn't matter, as far as they were concerned it didn't absolve them of the shame. It had become their birthright. #
American friends, what we allowed to happen yesterday, even though we were adequately warned, says we went along with it. If we wanted to stop it now, I believe we could, and we still can. #
PS: Good German is an ironic term. Wikipedia's explainer nails it. #
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