because would be no
resistance whatsoever
to Hitler’s power

I was there when the Reichstagsbrand [Burning of the Reichstag (House of Parliament) in Berlin, February 27, 1933] occurred, and I remember how difficult it was for people there to understand what was going on.

A friend of mine, Michael Polanyi, who was director of a division of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry, like many other people took a very optimistic view of the situation.

They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening. The reason that I took the opposite position was based on observations of rather small and insignificant things.

What I noticed was that the Germans always took a utilitarian point of view.

They asked, “Well, suppose I would oppose this thinking, what good would I do? I wouldn’t do very much good, I would just lose my influence.

Then why should I oppose it?”

You see, the moral point of view was completely absent, or very weak, and every consideration was simply consideration of what would be the predictable consequence of my action.

And on that basis I reached in 1931 the conclusion that Hitler would get into power, not because the forces of the Nazi revolution were so strong, but rather because I thought that there would be no resistance whatsoever.

You see, the moral point of view was completely absent, or very weak, and every consideration was simply consideration of what would be the predictable consequence of my action.

The moral point of view was completely absent.

Take the latest copy of the New York Times and read out each Trump headline and then say, the moral point of view is completely absent.

According to Wikipedia, Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936.

Together with Enrico Fermi, he applied for a nuclear reactor patent in 1944. He publicly sounded the alarm against the possible development of salted thermonuclear bombs, a new kind of nuclear weapon that might annihilate mankind.

enough a fool or
coward will file but never
going to be me

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

From the resignation letter of Hagan Scotten, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The New York Times reports that “Mr. Scotten served three combat tours in Iraq as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer and earned two Bronze Stars. He graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, and for Brett M. Kavanaugh before he, too, became an Supreme Court justice.

A Southern District spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Scotten’s resignation.”

As Huck Finn said, “Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”

to acquire Greenland
and to rename Greenland as
Red, White, and Blueland

119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. ll
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. CARTER of Georgia introduced the following bill;

To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as ‘‘Red, White, and Blueland’’.

Today is Mr. Lincoln’s birthday.

The 16th President of the United States.

The man who said in his 2nd Inaugural Address:

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Today, bills are introduced in the House of Representatives that would authorize the President of the United States to buy Greenland and rename it, Red, White and Blueland.

As Mr. Twain said, “Suppose I was crazy and suppose I ran for Congress. Wait, I repeat myself.“

Where did these people come from?

Who elected them?

As Mr. Mencken said or close to it, American’s get the government they deserve.