High-energy attack ad compares Trump to Hitler

[Adam Griffin]

I don't think this has been posted yet: if so, my apologies. The ad is titled "Heil Trump":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M6FXuFPayY

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They're apparently trying to raise $10,000 to air it...somewhere. It says "nationwide" but obviously that kind of budget doesn't go anywhere. The group appears to be some sort of crowdsourcing PAC project that lets people submit their own projects and people can choose to fund which ones they want. It probably won't be successful, but meh. Too bad all of these moneyed SuperPACs aren't willing to be so HIGH-ENERGY!

[Ronnie]

High energy indeed!  Even if it doesn't hit the airwaves, I could see it going viral fairly soon.

[IceSpear]

Great ad! Hopefully they can find some shady billionaires to bankroll it.

[Mehmentum]

I was very skeptical of the concept, but watching the ad... damn that's powerful.

[Cassius]

Yeah... the problems with these types of comparisons are that plenty of other politicians have spoken of things that Hitler also spoke about (I mean, hell, the idea of America being in a decline that needs to be reversed has been the crux of GOP rhetoric for the last 8 years), that plenty of these things are not bad in of themselves (who objects to making their country 'great', or to 'winning'?) and, of couse, that several of the comparisons, such as between barring the entry of Muslims to the United States and annihilating the Jewish race, simply do not fit together neatly.

[Wells]

Very powerful advertisement. Hope a lot of people see this before election day.

[Cory]

I was very skeptical of the concept, but watching the ad... damn that's powerful.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

I was very skeptical of the concept, but watching the ad... damn that's powerful.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

and, of couse, that several of the comparisons, such as between barring the entry of Muslims to the United States and annihilating the Jewish race, simply do not fit together neatly.

Except that Hitler's original plan was not to kill the Jews, but to deport them.

[Dr. Arch]

This ad is total massacre.

[Lyin' Steve]

This is so f**king stupid.
So any politician who says "our nation has problems, I'm going to fix them, and the country will be great again!" is Hitler?  Or is it just the ones we don't like?
The parts where Hitler says things specifically about the jews are the parts that least correlate with Trump.  "I'm going to open up our libel laws so we can sue the press when they lie" = "we will shut their dirty, lying jew mouths"?  Seriously?
People didn't vote for this because it was a good ad.  They voted for it because they are angry Trump is winning and want to insult him as badly as possible, regardless of whether the insult makes sense.  I should go make an ad saying Trump moonlights as a gay street hooker, maybe they'd give me $10,000.

[Virginiá]

This is so f**king stupid.
So any politician who says "our nation has problems, I'm going to fix them, and the country will be great again!" is Hitler?
The parts where Hitler says things specifically about the jews are the parts that least correlate with Trump.  "I'm going to open up our libel laws so we can sue the press when they lie" = "we will shut their dirty, lying jew mouths"?  Seriously?

Maybe they couldn't find a Nazi rant that didn't say Jewish press. Without the jew part, it is similar. They both want/wanted to silence the media when it doesn't favor them.

[RJEvans]

It's definitely high energy, but Jesus Christ, is this what the fall is going to look like? My TV is going to be plastered with Hitler footage?

[Ronnie]

It's definitely high energy, but Jesus Christ, is this what the fall is going to look like? My TV is going to be plastered with Hitler footage?

You better believe it.

It might even happen sooner than then, if Republicans think it's the only chance they'd have to take him down.

[ag]

It's definitely high energy, but Jesus Christ, is this what the fall is going to look like? My TV is going to be plastered with Hitler footage?

Yep.

[ProudModerate2]

Very, very high energy !!
Perfect !

[Crumpets]

I have to wonder, if there was a historical figure who somehow had a worse reputation than Hitler if suddenly people could find all sorts of comparisons with Trump.

"Trump's deportation policy is Torquemada's Alhambra Decree all over again!"
"Elect Trump and he will literally fiddle while Rome burns!"
"Genghis Khan remarried several times as well. Coincidence?"
"Trump supporters are basically the Oprichniki 2.0, amirite?"

[ProudModerate2]

A home-made sign from a recent protest against little-hands trump ....

[Adam Griffin]

This is so f**king stupid.
So any politician who says "our nation has problems, I'm going to fix them, and the country will be great again!" is Hitler?
The parts where Hitler says things specifically about the jews are the parts that least correlate with Trump.  "I'm going to open up our libel laws so we can sue the press when they lie" = "we will shut their dirty, lying jew mouths"?  Seriously?

Maybe they couldn't find a Nazi rant that didn't say Jewish press. Without the jew part, it is similar. They both want/wanted to silence the media when it doesn't favor them.

Yeah, if detractors are having to break the ad apart because the specific types of people being targeted are different and *not* because the broader claims/actions are substantially different, then that just proves the point that the video is making.

"Hitler wanted to shut the 'Jewish press' up - TRUMP wants to shut the press up irrespective of its Judaism or the lack thereof! Checkmate, lieberals"

[Ljube]

Weak ad. Also misleading. Only those who already claim that TRUMP = Hitler are going to be happy about the ad. The others are going to be disgusted. The ad will backfire.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Holy sh*t.

[ProudModerate2]

Oh wow.
I just noticed the swastika in this unique "T" Trump symbol.

[ag]

Holy sh*t.

This is the new normal.

[Türkisblau]

To be a reddit sperg for a second:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

[Lyin' Steve]

This is so f**king stupid.
So any politician who says "our nation has problems, I'm going to fix them, and the country will be great again!" is Hitler?
The parts where Hitler says things specifically about the jews are the parts that least correlate with Trump.  "I'm going to open up our libel laws so we can sue the press when they lie" = "we will shut their dirty, lying jew mouths"?  Seriously?

Maybe they couldn't find a Nazi rant that didn't say Jewish press. Without the jew part, it is similar. They both want/wanted to silence the media when it doesn't favor them.

Yeah, if detractors are having to break the ad apart because the specific types of people being targeted are different and *not* because the broader claims/actions are substantially different, then that just proves the point that the video is making.

"Hitler wanted to shut the 'Jewish press' up - TRUMP wants to shut the press up irrespective of its Judaism or the lack thereof! Checkmate, lieberals"

But Trump doesn't want to shut the press up, he just wants to be able to sue media outlets when they report that he said "I want to make America white again!"
And come on... they didn't pick the clip of Goebbels yelling about jews on accident.  I'd bet anything that in 2009 y'all were furious at all the anti-Obamacare ads that used pictures of Lenin and Castro and Mao and quotes that loosely sounded the same as what Obama was saying about Obamacare and pictures of USSR flags.  I was too.  The only difference is that I'm consistent, anytime this kind of idiocy happens I am against it.  You lot are for it when it's anti-Trump and against it when it's anti-Obama.