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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:29:21 -0700
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:04:35 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

>In article <t1kpbjp3p5sf25daro2vph7in7vg211mgt@4ax.com>,
>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>You are the one who asserted that the Utah Education Department
>>>would be fine with "The Turner Diaries" or "The Protocols of
>>>the Elders of Zion."
>>
>>Have they banned either of them? Didn't think so.
>
>Are either of them in any public school library?  Or any
>public library at all?  There are a lot of things that
>nobody has bothered banning because no one has attempted
>to perpetrate it.
>
>>I have long noted that wing-nuts exist on all sides. But only the
>>Republicans have actually nominated two of them for President/VP.
>
>Which ones?  The usual suspects have accused every Republican
>president since Eisenhower of being a Nazi.  (Except Ford, for
>some reason; him, they just tried to assassinate.  Twice.)

Tried and, as with Reagan and Trump failed.=20

Republicans survive assassination attempts.

Democrats don't.

In both cases, I am limiting the period to post-WW2.

>They said Nixon was a Nazi, but for all his flaws, Nixon was
>no Nazi.
>
>They said Reagan was a Nazi, but for all his flaws, Reagan
>was no Nazi.
>
>They said Bush I and II were Nazis, but for all their flaws,
>neither one of them were Nazis.
>
>They say Trump is a Nazi, but for all his glaring, egregious
>flaws, Trump is no Nazi.
>
>So, the "Nazi" accusations say a whole lot about the accuser,
>and nothing whatsoever about the target of the accusation.

"They" may have said, but I haven't.=20

What /I/ said was that the Republicans have nominated a pair of
extreme right-wing-nuts.=20

This is because I agree with you that none of them was a Nazi. Heck,
Trump has shown that Tricky Dicky wasn't even a crook. He's made the
Bushes and Ronnie look better too.

>(Unless the target is David Duke, of course.)

Well, yes. Self-declared Nazis can be called Nazis.

>>Note: this is pre-Democratic convention, which means that the
>>Democrats haven't nominated /anybody/ yet. And, if you think Kamala is
>>written in stone, well, Joe was written in the same stone up until
>>quite recently. Seeing the Republican reaction to changing the
>>probable candidate might tempt the Democrats to change it once again
>>just to torment Trump, who can say?
>
>Heh.  That would be amusing.  Policies aside, Kamala, as San=20
>Francisco DA, turned loose the mugger who shot a friend of
>mine, so I'd write in Cthulhu before I'd vote for her.
>
>I'm happy to say that, so far, at least, I've never voted for
>Trump either.  Maybe the stars are right to write in Cthulhu.

As long as you know what you'd get if he won.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"