When I read the fantastic JoJo from Jerz Substack “I’m fat and going to Hell” I was just going to post something about it as an addendum to today’s Substack.
Then I thought I wanted to make sure all my subscribers read it so I am posting it in an afternoon Substack.
The other day I wrote about Thom Hartmann referencing Hitler five times and fascism seven times in his Substack. I wrote “I’m not the only one harping on Hitler, Hartmann is too.”
That was my third Substack in a row about Hitler. I wondered if enough is enough. Now, with four, is this too many, I ask myself.
Here’s what JoJo from Jerz wrote today.
She begins writing about the Nazi cosplayers caught writing about how they admire Hitler:
It’s late when I’m writing this. I’m up because my mind won’t shut off. My body wants sleep, but my brain’s doing backflips in steel-toed boots. Everyone’s talking about those Republican “youth leaders” who got caught “joking” about gas chambers and Hitler, and yeah, they’re vile. They’re not kids. They’re not naïve. They’re antisemitic, bigoted, misogynistic fascist cosplayers. They deserve scorn, condemnation, and unemployment. At best, their next job should be scrubbing truck-stop urinals with a toothbrush while humming God Bless America through a respirator that smells like diesel and shame.
Then she gets to Trump and Hitler:
He wants erections everywhere. A man infamously small in the pants trying to immortalize himself with towering erections of marble and fake gold.
He’s desperate to convince history that he was big at something.
And when people say we shouldn’t compare him to Hitler because there was only one Hitler, sure, that’s true.But a whole lotta shit still lines up uncomfortably well. The cult. The paranoia. The myth-making. The need for monuments. The difference is aesthetic. Hitler wanted architecture. Trump wants gaudy erections.
The crucial part for me is the last paragraph. I am as cognizant as she is about the “there was only one Hitler” argument. There was only one Holocaust too. Had it not happened I would have a lot more relatives than I do. Had World War II not happened the human population might be much greater than it is and one of them might have discovered the cure for cancer and many of our loved one, including my wife, might not have died an early death.
To answer to my own question about how many Substacks about Trump and Hitler are enough I have decided that there is no limit. As long as he acts like Hitler I will write about this.
Read JoJo’s entire Substack for some of the best descriptions of Trump you’ll find anywhere. For example:
He looks like a man who gave up halfway through being embalmed — pink, rubbery, overdone, a human shrimp left under the heat lamp of history. His skin has that glossy, radioactive sheen, the shade you’d get if you basted guilt in iodine and regret. The top of his right hand is still bruised and black, like it spent the weekend auditioning for the afterlife. His cankles have achieved the structural density of pudding. Every step he takes looks like a war crime against geometry. He moves through space like a haunted beanbag chair, listing sideways, one ankle begging for retirement while the other files a grievance with gravity.
The photo is of me with the flag and one of the two custom made signs we will be taking to the o Kings protest.
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In her inimitable style JoJo from Jerz shows why she has the well deserved thousands of followers as she write about my city in “No Kings, No Pants, No Problem” here.
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