Let's say the new $100,000 Trump watch is worth $100,000, why the hell does Trump think it is a good idea to sell it now? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

In case you haven't heard it being discussed on MSNBC (read'$100,000 for that?" MSNBC's Morning Joe panel loses it over Trump's watch offer)
 or elsewhere, Trump is now selling the Trump watch for $100,000.

This is from Wired:

If you read RawStory there are two articles about it: 

and

There are other $100,000 watches semi-rich watch aficionados can buy or already have in their collections. For example, these are from 

Five of the Top Watches That Cost Around $100,000

Of course they don't have Trump's name on the front and "fight, fight, fight" engraved on the back.

I say semi-rich because the rich rich can buy watches like these that cost millions.

Here's a dandy example. 

Nothing screams "I'm filthy rich" more than wearing a watch that costs as much as this golden super yacht. (Article)

As this is going on we have Melania making the news this way: 

Trump Sells $100K Gold Watches on Same Day Melania Insists People Can’t Afford Basic Necessities

Excerpt:

On the same morning (as Trump introduced his watch), Melania Trump appeared on Fox & Friends to promote her new memoir. Speaking with Ainsley Earhardt about Vice President Kamala Harris replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party ticket, Melania Trump said people are not able to buy “usual necessities” due to high inflation and her husband was “great for the country.”

“How I see it is, the record speaks for itself. The country is suffering. People are not able to buy the usual necessities for their families,” Melania Trump said. “We have wars going on around the world. Soldiers are dying. They were dying under this administration because of weak leadership. The border is open and dangerous.”

She added that people were “prospering” more under her husband’s administration and argued that everything is “great” when it comes to Donald Trump, but that you’ll have to accept some “strong tweets.”

“I think the American people need to decide what they really want. Maybe some strong tweets, but everything else great for this country,” she said. “SoHe' it’s all in the American people’s hands on November 5.”

It isn't that there aren't a few people who want to curry favor with Trump who will buy these watches. After all, it costs $200,000 to join Mar-a-Lago. This is about narcisstic messaging. However, Trump is supposed to be a master of messaging. 

Trump said "It has almost 200 grams of gold and more than 100 real diamonds. That's a lot of diamonds. I love gold. I love diamonds. We all do. Owning one puts you in a very exclusive club."  Who can relate to this?

Come on numbnuts, really, who is this message aimed at? How many of these watches does he need to sell to even make it worth his while? He'd need to sell 10 to make a million dollars minus the cost of the watch. The world of Trump is crazy but are there even 10 people willing to shell out 100 grand for.. well... for what exactly?

There may actually by a few MAGA cultists who, for example,  bought the golden sneakers or stock in Truth Social who learn about this and realize that they were suckers and that Trump cares about as much for them and their well-being as he cares for a kale salad.

This grift could backfire on Trump like some piece of crap junker car:

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It happened in Germany and Russia. If Trump wins It could happen here, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

It is fitting that the photo I used as a background shows people giving what could be decribed as a Heil Trump salute. It was used to illustrate an article in The Atlantic. Here's the full photo.

Here are the covers of two books that I've been thinking about:

Why did I use the two books aboout ordinary Germans in the above illustration? Chauncey DeVega lays it out in detail here:

He begins his column:

Donald Trump and his surrogates are continuing to channel and amplify Nazism and Adolf Hitler. This is not random or happenstance. It is part of a strategy. “Feral politics” made even more explosive and toxic by adding blatant white supremacy, racism, and antisemitism. Occam’s razor, as it often does, provides the most simple and compelling proof of how Trump and his campaign’s feral hate politics strategy is very intentional: He and they have increased their antisemitism, racism, and white supremacy (and misogyny and hostile sexism) greatly in the last few weeks as the polls and other metrics show him tied with if not behind Kamala Harris, a Black South Asian woman, in the presidential election.

Adolf Hitler is one of the most evil leaders in recorded human history. Hitler and his Nazi regime are responsible for the systematic, industrial-scale mass murder of six million Jewish people and millions of others (including Black Germans). World War II, the deadliest in human history, resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world (estimates range from 50 million to 70 million or more). Almost 80 years after the end of World War II, Nazism and the various forms of racial fascism, and the other antidemocratic and illiberal political belief systems and ideologies in its orbit have not been fully vanquished. They are resurgent in the form of Trumpism, American fascism, and the larger global antidemocracy movement.

This very brief history lesson about the evils of Hitler and Nazi Germany is necessary given the broken state of America’s schools and a society where amnesia and organized forgetting are the norm. For many Americans of a certain age (and older,) Hitler and the Nazis have been reduced to the stuff of internet and social media memes from the movie “Downfall,” generic characters to kill in video games, or perhaps in their most real and frightening form as outliers in American society who rampaged in Charlottesville or commit hate crimes.  

Trump, with Vance ready to step in should he no longer be able to serve, may be the leader of ordinary Americans about whom books may be written five decades from now. Hitler's Willing Executioners was published in 1996. Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis was published in 2021.

Like me, some of you won't be around 50 years from now if books like "Trump's Willing Executioners" and "Trump's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became MAGAs" are published. Even if Trump wins there's no way to know that he'll be able to achieve his Project 2025 goals which will turn us into a modern day version of Nazi Germany or post-revolution Russia. There's no way to predict whether these books could even be published in the United States. Similar books could never be published in Russia.

After World War II  half of Germany became a democracy (technically a  democratic and federal parliamentary republic) and the other half was socialist and closely allied with Russia. It was only unified as a democracy in 1990. 

On the other hand, consider that the Soviet Union was formed as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution with Lenin as its leader. Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1954. Then there were a series of dictators:

Click above to enlarge image.

Who knows what a list of American leaders will look like 100 years from now? Will we have a list of dictators or of fairly elected democratic leaders? 

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Adding together what may become of the United States under Trump and what may happen in Israel there aren't words to describe the horror, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

After I check my email I usually look at HuffPost first thing just to see their top story and this is what I saw today:

This was the lead story in both The NY Times and The Washington Post. With MSNBC's Richard Engle reporting from a bomb-safe hospital...

 ... I looked at RawStory, the next website I go to, which summarizes breaking news in American politics being reported on in other media:

The English langauge is replete with words to describe horrible things. One of the definitions of replete, by chance, is "filled or well-supplied with something: sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death."

I recall President Biden using the phrase "that's not hyperbole when I say..." In fact, as this and other articles has said, this has been one of his most used sayings:

Hyperbole is another way to say sensationalization. How do we describe something real that is so beyond the pale ordinary words don't suffice to descibe it? There are prefaces like calling something "mega-" which means "extremely" but there is no single word. There is no word to describe a unique in history event like the Holocaust. 

There are times when images rather than words convey the awfulness of a situation. Here's another example this clip from Apocalypse Now"

If someone is equally horrified both by what may happen in the United States and what may happen in Israel there are no English words to describe what a doubled horror is or what it feels like.

Sometimes we may need images like Guernica by Picasso and the most reproduced part of Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych.

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