From the comments in another thread:
For all the celebration of their culture, the Chinese apparently used a variety of foreign architects to spiff up for the Olympics, including Albert Speer, Jr. Haven’t noticed much press play for this.
Quite simply, there is no time allocated for the Chinese to be called Nazis right now. The Iranians were the Nazis for the previous six months, now the Russians are scheduled to be the Nazis until the elections in November. We will take a break from international Nazis during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and reserve the term for relatives, in-laws, people who re-gift, and secular humanists and the ACLU and anyone else Bill O’Reilly decides is an enemy of Christmas.
Maybe we can work the Chinese into the schedule sometimes in January. I will get with the Weekly Standard and find out.
shirt
What happened to teh “yellow menace”? Did the term die during the womens gymnastics?
4tehlulz
The Chinese will be Nazis when Wal-Mart allows it; until then, they are our bestest friends!
carsick
China will be the new Nazis right around the time they stop loaning us money and start asking for us to make payments.
wasabi gasp
In due time we’re gonna bring the pain and crush the Chinese with the full might of our collapsing economy. USA! USA!
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
They were our bestest friends, up until they upstaged every Olympics we’ve ever undertaken. Now they’re back to the Evil Empire Mk. II.
Sloegin
Wonder what it’ll take for the Iranians to regain their most-favored Nazi status. With old school necon attention diverted to the new shiny thing, it’ll take some fairly radical bullshit being generated by new schoolers to re-focus their attention.
wasabi gasp
poll dippin’
Dreggas
this thread needs this
Notorious P.A.T.
But in “Red Dawn” China was our friends!
cleek
oh now… Godwin’s Own Party can always find time to call someone a Nazi.
leo
Wasn’t Obama ‘teh Nazis’ for a while there — you know that big rally in Berlin with the Wilhelmine — sorry, Hitlerian — overtones?
Dennis - SGMM
I for one am unafraid of any new Nazi-type menace. Should one arise, this proud nation will respond in the way that reflects its might: we will inundate them with bad mortgages and overpriced cups of coffee.
southpaw
Scheduling issues aside, it’s probably for the best if the Speer family keeps its distance from grand nationalistic spectacles from now on.
Bobzim
Naw, now. November starts the War On Christmas/Christianity Nazi season.
Dennis - SGMM
OT: More good news. Pasadena-based Wescom Federal Credit Union is closing 20% of its branch offices due to continuing losses caused by borrowers’ inability to repay their loans. Wescom does not do mortgages. Personally, I think that repealing the ban on offshore drilling will fix this right up.
w vincentz
Watch this, my friends. The nazifascists are outside the borders of the USA. Yuppers, my friends, there not here in the good ol’ USA. We good ‘Merkins bring democracy and liberty, even freedom, my friends, to all the rest of the nations on this planet. We, my friends, are the land of “the free and the home of the brave”.
So, my friends, though some might try to tell you that the real fascists live in a magical place called DC, just don’t believe them. The USA is not a police state. We do not spy on citzens. It’s the “terrorists” over there that are taking or threatening to take your freedoms, my friends.
That’s who you should fear. So, vote for me, my friends.
I’m John McCain and I approved this message.
maxbaer (not the original)
I haven’t even figured out the “We’re all Georgians” thing yet. I’m in fucking New York.
calling all toasters
A handy guide–
Nazis: Michael Moore, Iran, Russia, China, Media Matters, Saddam, Osama, Obama, liberals, socialists, Keith Olbermann, anyone critical of Republicans.
Not-Nazis: right-wingers, eliminationists, racists, and totalitarians.
rawshark
Yup.
w vincentz
And regarding those thar Oly-im-pic games over that in China, here are some pics from the scrapbook section labeled “memories”..or maybe “not”.
http://www.rense.com/general82/bejj.htm
Apologies to John C for not linking properly.
zoe kentucky
Earlier this week I turned on Glenn Beck’s radio program to see what the latest lie is about Obama.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear him rant angrily for about 5 minutes about all of the ways that OBAMA IS JUST LIKE HITLER. Obama is popular– just like Hitler. Germans like Obama– just like Hitler. Obama is charasmatic–just like Hitler. Obama makes people happy and excited when he talks– just like Hitler. Obama is a socialist– just like Hitler. It was so completely absurd that I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s quite possibly the most outrageous claim to date. I only hope they all start parroting it.
You know the rightwingnuts are scared out of their minds when they’re claiming that the Dem nominee is JUST LIKE HITLER. I only wish Beck would talk about this on his tv program so that he can fully expose himself to be the completely ridiculous clown that he truly he is.
w vincentz
@maxbaer,
I’ll ‘splain it to ya, cause I live in NY too.
See, Georgia has a place named Albany. So does NY. Heck, it’s the fuckin’ state capitol.
So, by saying we are all “georgians”, it’s code to the folks that live in Albany, and if you live anywhere near that place, watch out for the Russkies to come down the Thruway and take over. Them thar Russofascists will be comin’ to getcha, dontcha know?
KevinD
John, your snark is so righteous!
AkaDad
We’re all Nazis now.
Brother Orbiting Laser
Don’t forget the femiNazis like Elizabeth Edwards.
wasabi gasp
It means: “Mmmm, peaches!”
nightjar
Well, probably not, since wingnuts are going with Obama as the anti-christ.
Although if you think about it, why couldn’t he be both. I mean Hitler was Hitler and some claimed he was the Anti-Christ.
But then again, Obama isn’t Jewish , or is he?
cleek
they may take Albany, but they’ll never get Climax and Coxsackie. and the boys from Schaghticoke and Annaquassacook will fight to the last!
Dennis - SGMM
I’d pay a thousand bucks to hear Bush attempt to pronounce either one of those.
nightjar
left this off previous comment.
Brother Orbiting Laser
I was searching for more “memories” and found this quote from Scott McClellan:
I’ve always wondered why W didn’t just outright deny doing cocaine, as he seems to have no trouble lying in general. This is the first account I’ve read that makes some sense to me.
KevinD
He’s too busy comparing Bush to Batman
Brachiator
This issues behind this merits its own topic. Wescom was founded by a group of Pacific Telephone workers. As late as 2002, it was flush with deposits: “Its core checking, savings and money-market deposits have increased 27.2 percent in the first six months of 2003,” according to a cached news story on the web.
Wescom’s decline represents an issue that both the Democrats and Republicans dance around and which the Democrats should own: workers’ wages, net savings and capital assets are all in decline, even as the Republicans continue to make empty promises that their policies will bring prosperity to anyone other than their closest coporate cronies :
The McCain/Bush chest-thumping over evil Russia and the China-Nazi spectacle nonsense popping up in the media is little more than “bread and circus” distractions to lull conservatives into gentle complacency.
MR Bill
You missed the most dangerous Nazi, a viper in our very bosom,
the “female grade-school teacher with an education degree from Brown” that Mr. Pantsload warns us about…
Punchy
Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these..
jprice vincenz
Hey!!!! Hello! How about more posts? Just one this morning? Some of us have given up on television news (with the exception of Olberman as wallpaper some evenings) and newspapers entirely. I want my Maypo! I’m not advocating having dozens of people post, like at GOS, but maybe having a half-dozen more people here would keep things a little more lively, content-wise. And let’s be honest, John has been doing what? eighty percent of the posting over the last few weeks.
Brachiator
Easily bested by Javelin competitor, Leryn Franco.
An of course, there are the Brazilian synchronized swimming twins Bia and Branca Feres.
Take that, Chinese Nazis!
elf
John,
This is OT but lately there are times when I am unable to get your site to come up. It happens at home and at work. Same thing with by DH at his work. It will just time out.
Delia
Here are the facts. The alarms have been sounded. Godwin is dead, and John is wrong. The world can easily accommodate more Nazis. Billions and billions of Nazis, from here to eternity. Every diplomatic unpleasantness that doesn’t go the way we want it to is Munich 1938, and the Chinese are Nazis for making the prettier girl lip-synch the song the other girl with the better voice sang.
Also, George Bush is a lush and the American press is filled with Nazis for not saying so.
Jon H
John,
China was the Nazis back during the torch relay and the Tibet protests. Don’t you remember?
They can wait for their turn to come around again. Although, it does appear to be cycling faster and faster lately. Pretty soon everyone will be the Nazis for 15 minutes.
Dennis - SGMM
Real wages have been declining for years but there’s nothing so bad that a Republican can’t make it worse. McCain’s plan to tax health insurance is a perfect example. McCain’s “plan” would tax employer provided health insurance and then offer a tax deduction of $5000 per family or $2500 for an individual to pay for health insurance. That McCain’s bright idea would substantially raise the taxable income of everyone lucky enough to have employer provided health care breezes right on by the old dodderer. Ditto, that it’s a regressive tax on the middle class. Nor does it occur to the wizened Senator, who has had his health care provided by the government since the day he was born, that a family cannot purchase health care for $5000 per annum – an individual might get it for that but he or she would also have have to eat a substantial deductible.
But McCain is a War Hero™ and he won’t raise your taxes so this one will be subject to the usual lack of scrutiny by the MSM. Have some barbecue.
Marshall
Note that Hitler’s favorite architect was Albert Speer, Sr. His son is also an architect, and is involved in the Beijing games. As far as I can tell, Speer, Junior, is not politically controversial.
So the above quote is factual, not snark.
dslak
Warhol was right, in a way he never expected.
Dennis - SGMM
Other than invading Poland every other year he’s kept his nose clean.
Liberaltarian
Well, I dunno if I care about the Chinese.
But, you were all over right when you said to watch Dr. Horrible. OMG. What a great show. Whedon rides again.
Brother Orbiting Laser
Hmmm. Well, it’s been fun, but upon reflection I feel some clarification may be indicated. My point, assuming I had one, was:
Classical Chinese architecture is magnificent.
Though A. Speer, Jr. is presumably not a Nazi, a nation attempting to live down a totalitarian rep might have made a better PR choice.
Many people, including the press and not excluding me, are easily distracted by shiny things.
Xiexie.
The Moar You Know
Thank you. I’ll check back in with y’all on Monday.
Litlebritdifrnt
What I want to know is what these Chinese folks are going to be like when the bills become due? I mean are they going to be like a nice credit card company “we are just calling you to let you know you’re payment is past due” or are they going to be like the Capital One collectors “you are the scum of the earth for not paying your credit card bill, we don’t care if you have your house repossessed and have to live in your fucking car so long as you pay US mother fucker” That sort of thing. It should be interesting.
Louise
Is anyone else watching the Faith SmackDown? Am I suffering alone? I thought Barack kicked ass, but clearly this crowd is already on McCain’s side. Though they warmed up to Obama, they’re applauding McCain right out of the gate for much shallower answers.
I thought that maybe in a forum in which the candidates got asked identical questions I would be able to listen to McCain calmly and rationally, but…no. I’m muting him. It’s just too agonizing to listen to him in an arena where he won’t be challenged.
Joshua Norton
Want to see something even funnier than that (in the completely non-funny way, that is)? How’s about a little Kelsey Grammer as Gen. Patton in this An American Carol trailer? I think this was filmed in a garage with the door closed and the car still running. They are clearly bat shit crazy and suffering from a severe lack of oxygen to the brain.
This is one of those video clips best enjoyed in the company of a cocktail.
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
Anyone just see history being made? A Tunisian just won the men’s 1500m freestyle.
JL
Louise, I changed the channel. It was to painful listending to My Friends, Reagan, God, Abortion and POW stories. He might have pleased the crowd with soundbites but I’m beyond sound bites and he is not my fu**ing friend. Did anyone else notice how excited Lindsay Graham got? I swear hisHis pants were growing.
JL
Louise, I changed the channel. It was to painful listending to My Friends, Reagan, God, Abortion and POW stories. He might have pleased the crowd with soundbites but I’m beyond sound bites and he is not my fu**ing friend. Did anyone else notice how excited Lindsay Graham got? I swear His pants were growing.
Phoenician in a time of Romans
An of course, there are the Brazilian synchronized swimming twins Bia and Branca Feres.
Thank you. I’ll check back in with y’all on Monday.
Yup – if anyone wants me, I’ll be in my bunk.
Brachiator
Since this is an election year, the question (assuming that they want to win) is how will the Democrats make things better.
I see your point, but the larger issue is that if the middle class collapses, you cannot have ANY kind of health care reform.
Ron Richardson
I LOLed at this post, literally.
nikto
Republicans are like toxic, infectious bacteria
n the body of America.
LanceThruster
4tehlulz Says:
Chinese Wal-Marts (as opposed to those in the US) are unionized so I expect that qualifies them for the “Nazi” label, or at least the “godless commie meanace” one.