If this doesn't ring alarm bells, then question your own Patriotism and American values.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/if-this-doesnt-ring-alarm-bells-then.html

Being from a generation that believed Americans couldn't be susceptible to the evils of National Socialism, as introduced to the world by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, because our Constitution is solid in its defense of our freedoms, especially freedom of conscience, and because after witnessing the absolute horror that this political system heaped on everyone it considered a racial, ethnic or religious "enemy", especially the Jewish population of Europe, the Vice-President's lame defense of the blatant ignorance and pathetic stupidity exhibited by a group of Young Republicans is just one more reason why he should not be serving as Vice-President.

The Vice-President has already told us that he is an unpatriotic bigot in many different statements he's made, mostly in defense of Trump, who he once saw as an unpatriotic, unqualified, stupid bigot himself. How is it possible to become VP of the United States without any intellectual understanding of Naziism? Or simply being willing to defend it or pass this off as "boys being boys." These weren't "boys." And this rises to the level of impeachment and removal. Downplaying what they wrote is indefensible, disgusting partisanship. It's unpatriotic and unAmerican and thank goodness there are a few journalists, like Chris Hayes and George Stephanopolous, who saw through the veneer and shut him down.

There are limits to the free exercise of one's conscience, and free speech. Proclaiming the non-existent virtues of Naziism, because of the clear evidence of its result from history's record, is not free speech, it is offensive and destructive and harmful, and if there aren't direct laws against it, there should be. Some of those who indulged in this premeditated ignorance are now facing unemployment and becoming a pariah in the political world as a consequence. Good. That's well deserved. The Vice President should also suffer consequences.

So anyone who casually jokes about the blatantly hateful Nazis and their bottomless evil bigotry are deliberately being disrespectful to every veteran in this country who fought against it, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. And a Vice-President who tries to make light of it and excuse them from accountability is being the most disrespectful. Is it because we are just that far away from those events in history that, to him, they are meaningless? If that's the case, then that doesn't say much about either his education or his intelligence.

Or is it because this man's background has helped him grow into a bigot? That is also a possibility, probably more likely than the first scenario. He is certainly a duplicitous, double-speaking, deceitful liar and he's an arrogant opportunist. My guess is that he is a bigot, a very self-centered one who sees the sensationalism in all of this negativity as a good thing for his own political career.

I'll be out there tomorrow, a patriotic American, uniting with millions of others who are calling out the hatful bigotry and racism that is embodied and being promoted by Trump and his supporters. I've seen a turn in their rhetoric, more in their accusations against those who will be protesting, all of whom are the true patriots, by the way, that indicates they know they are not going to win this. They are now pathetic and shrill, indicating that they are afraid of what tomorrow's protests stand for, and they are afraid that the turnout will indicate Trump's lack of popularity.

Trump lost his attempt to get Jimmy Kimmel off the air. All he did was give Kimmel an even larger audience to inform of Trump's idiocy. As if we didn't know. Now, he's poised to lose again, big, on No Kings Day.