Look at old videos of Hitler, or Mussolini, or more contemporaneously, Trump or Kim Jung Un, or Vladimir Putin, but turn off the volume. Look at them as human beings on screen without the sound and the menace of impending violent acts and tell me what you see.
They're all ridiculous buffoons....
Hitler with his absurd gesticulations, that ridiculous mustache, sweat coming out of every pore as he blathers and screams about on stage and then pushes over the bangs on his head. He's ridiculous looking...
Mussolini with his chest puffed out, chin pointed up, sporting a thousand make-believe war medals on his uniform none of which mean anything. He's absurd...
Jim Jung Un, the world's greatest golfer, fat, round faced tiny hands with that ridiculous haircut that makes it look like he went through an automated carwash that replaced the side scrubs with hair clippers and mowed him down. He's a joke...
Putin, participating in fake judo or hockey tournaments where his opponents are preordained to lose so that "dear leader" can go out horseback riding and show us his shirtless flabby torso complete with man boobs. It's pathetic...
And then there's Duncy Donald: he's grotesquely obese; he combs his head with a dead muskrat; his face is pockmarked like the moon; he wears more bronzer than a Vegas stripper; and somehow this a "tough guy" to be respected and feared?! He's a joke! He's an absolute buffoon. If the writers at South Park or Family Guy invented that absurd a character out of whole cloth the producers would have sent the script back saying it was completely unbelievable. His hand gesticulations, index fingers pointing out, lips pouting, the accordion hands every time he lies, it's a joke, he's a joke. Add to that the fact that he apparently smells like shit because he wears adult diapers (allegedly), slurs and lisps his words because he (allegedly) occasionally loosens his dentures, it's a complete ridiculous, he's completely ridiculous. And yet here we are. As with Hitler or Kim or Mussolini, millions of people have been deluded into thinking that somehow he's powerful or significant or something...
This is also why one of the first targets for his ire are the late night comedians. The easiest most effective way of bringing down a stuffed shirt buffoon like Trump is comedy - pointing out the obvious absurdities. Charlie Chaplin had it right: want to bring down Hitler? Make him the obvious laughing stock he should be. The same goes with Trump. We need more SNL skits, we need more Jimmy Kimmel, we need more Steven Colberts to remind us that this ridiculous orange, soft, fat, ugly, ridiculous buffoon isn't someone we'd ever hire to run the fry machine at a McDonalds, let alone someone who should have access to the nuclear codes... Laugh at the man because it's only a matter of time before everyone realizes that the emperor has no clothes....
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