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Date: March 03, 2025 at 20:08:14
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 1940s senator with Nazi ties demanded allies 'say thank you' |
URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/maddow-compares-trump-to-1940s-senator-with-nazi-ties-who-demanded-allies-say-thank-you/ar-AA1AbBIU?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7e5b669c1cda467cf618a1d959473462&ei=20 |
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An excerpt from the article - quite relevant to today's
world:
"a history lesson, noting that shortly after President
Franklin D. Roosevelt urged lawmakers to push back
against a surging Nazi Germany with $7 billion, Sen.
Ernest Lundeen gave a "national speech on the radio in
which he demanded that England should say thank you to
us."
"They should be way more grateful. They should show us
some respect. Frankly all our allies should for all
we've done for them," Maddow said, paraphrasing
Lundeen's speech. "And it was time frankly for them to
start paying us back."
Lundeen later created a committee dedicated to having
European allies pay back war debts, she noted, which
argued the U.S. shouldn't help allies at all because
"they owed us money from the first World War."
"I mean, who cares that they're being invaded and
attacked by the huge Nazi war machine which has already
invaded and taken over the whole rest of Western
Europe? Not our problem. We should be collecting right
now on what they owe us for helping them already the
first time around. In no way should we be giving them
any more help," she said, mocking Lundeen.
Lundeen formed a second committee focused on how Europe
should pay their debts — including giving America their
islands.
"Our allies are in the middle of being invaded and
bombed and occupied by the Nazis. But this seems like a
good moment to see if we can get some stuff off of
them," said Maddow, again mocking Lundeen.
Two weeks after giving a speech on the radio advocating
for possibly seizing European allies, Lundeen died in a
mysterious plane crash with a piece of paper in his
jacket in which he had a speech drafted that urged
lawmakers not to support allies fighting Hitler, and
asking "what's so bad about Germany anyway?"
"Turns out that speech was written for him by the Nazi
government. By a Nazi agent. By the Hitler government's
top paid propaganda agent in the United States. Turns
out that Sen. Ernest Lundeen was being paid by the
Nazis. He had been on Hitler's payroll the whole time.
Hitler's government was paying him to argue in
Washington, to use his position as a U.S. senator, to
make this case to the American people, that we
shouldn't be helping our allies fight back against the
Nazis in Europe. We should instead focus on getting
them to apologize to us for not being able to pay back
everything we did for them in the first World War. We
should be getting them to show their gratitude to us
now by figuring by figuring out what they can do, what
they can give up of their own resources to prioritize
paying us while they're fighting off the Nazis or
whatever."
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Date: March 04, 2025 at 03:07:11
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 1940s senator with Nazi ties demanded allies 'say thank you' |
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The deja vu is literally dizzying...
The deeply ingrained inherent racism is nauseating...
That humans exist who can devalue their fellow beings to
these extremes should be enough to shock *anyone* awake...
...one would think...
And I'm sure that's happening every moment...wee sparks of
recognition birthing in the dark everywhere...
Please, God...
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Date: March 04, 2025 at 01:03:54
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 1940s senator with Nazi ties demanded allies 'say thank you' |
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Wow. Deja Vu all over again.
You'd think people would remember where all this goes.
Thanks.
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