1944: D-Day 75th Anniversary

On this day, thousands gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy and the fields of rural France to continue liberating Europe from the Nazis and their allies. I’m glad that NPR mentioned the other three code-named landing sites our European and Canadian allies stormed (Sword, Juno and Gold) besides the two America took (we all know Omaha and Utah by memory). It was a massive undertaking which succeeded despite some errors along the way; so STFU assholes who claim the “gubmint can’t do anythin’ right.” We were very lucky the Nazis were led by a psycho the generals weren’t allowed to rudely awaken during the initial invasion. Not like the enemy could do much. They were outnumbered, out supplied and the Soviets had been wearing them out from the East. People forget how WWII was a war of attrition, same for the American Civil War, there was little brilliance involved and when it did happen, it either prolonged or hastened the inevitable, depending upon which side you were on.

Today, America is represented by a disgraceful excuse for a human being. A draft-dodging, lying sack of shit who lacks any serious self-awareness on how much he has in common with the enemy my grandparents sacrificed (at home and in the fight) to utterly defeat. Now I’m not saying Trump = Hitler exactly, not a chance, Hitler didn’t hire a ghost writer for Mein Kampf  because Trump lacks the intelligence and doesn’t have as coherent an ideology. Trump has more in common with History’s more inept, bigoted and greedy kings, czars and emperors of Europe’s past. Thankfully the French remain grateful to the Americans, Brits, Canadians and others who gave their all to save them from Nazi occupation, not a moron whose daddy bought him a diploma.

It’s also disgusting to see the assholes on our own soil praising the Nazis, wishing for something as dystopian here. You see it in The Turner Diaries, Infowars and The Daily Stormer with their rhetoric of racial cleansing which will incorporate purging educated people, Atheists and anyone with a shred of empathy for someone who isn’t exactly like them. Lets not forget their whacky conspiracies, namely the current “Q-Anon.” Another internal threat is how the Nazis’ sick attitudes have infiltrated our police and armed forces. I wouldn’t be surprised my dumbass cousin Ron sides with them now. Our grandfather who fought the Imperial Japanese would be metaphorically spinning in his grave.

What America needs to take away from D-Day is how costly it is to remove a murderous regime when you let it get out of control and it can happen here. The difference next time might be the new Fascist power getting taken out by Chinese Communists or the Russian Oligarchy with its allies. I think the more Liberal-Socialist Democracies of the EU will wisely sit it out.

Should I live to see D-Day turn 100, I hope America is represented by someone worthy of representing us. Not a saber-rattling B-movie actor, not an alcoholic draft dodger, not a womanizing NeoLiberal and certainly not another narcissistic prick with a D+ GPA.

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