For sale: White House

By Ed Raymond

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For sale: White House in D.C. housing dung beetles and giant leeches

I suspect someone close to Donald Trump has read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,”because the Trump administration is following the guidelines developed by the Hitler administration from about 1932 through the spring of 1945. The developers of Project 2025 have simply “translated’ the work of Hitler’s and his minions to fit the American political system.

There are two people who stand out for me in two holocausts although they live in different generations. Adolf Eichmann was born in 1906 in Prussia of Germany to a religious Calvinist family. Stephen Miller of the Divided States of America was born in 1986 in California. They are close to being mirror images in philosophy.

Eichmann joined the Nazi Party and the SS (Schutzstaffel) and became head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs. Early in the war in 1939 he established ghettos in major cities where Jews were concentrated. He played a large role in the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 where the “Final Solution” was planned. He was under the command of SS leader Reinhard Heydrich and managed the mass deportation of millions of Jews to concentration and death camps. Heydrich was killed by Czech and Slovak soldiers from the villages of Lidice and Lezaky. In retribution, German soldiers destroyed the two villages. They shot and killed males over 14 and sent women and children to death camps to be gassed and killed.

One of the 200,000 Germans involved with the Holocaust, Eichmann was responsible for keeping the trains running on time to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other death camps so gas chambers were filled to capacity while the ovens destroyed the evidence. As an example, when Hungary was occupied in 1944, 437,000 Jews were transported to Auschwitz. Of these individuals, 75% were gassed to death and the rest went to slave labor camps where they eventually died of disease and starvation. The Nazis kept accurate records for the “thousand year” Reich. A witness at a later war crimes trial quoted Eichmann in his testimony: “I will leap laughing into the grave for killing five million people. It will be a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”

After Germany’s defeat, Eichmann was captured by Allied forces, but he escaped and hid on farms and small villages for five years before moving to Argentina. After finally discovering him in Argentina after a ten-year search, the Jewish Secret Service, the Mossad, captured him and returned him to Israel for trial. At his trial on May 11, 1960, he admitted his role in the Holocaust and the crimes against humanity. He testified he was “just following orders.” Guilty of all charges, he was hanged on 1 June 1962.

As Eichmann was Hitler’s killer, Miller is Trump’s killer

I have been following the career of Stephen Miller since he was a young high school student who told a boy they could no longer be friends because he was brown and Hispanic. He became an ultra-right “conservative” while a sophomore when he read the National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre’s book “Guns, Crime, and Freedom.”Miller was born the second of three children by Jewish parents in Santa Monica, California. He's 39 now and has been a White Christian nationalist and an ultra-right extremist for almost 25 years.

At 16 he started to appear on conservative talk radio. Also at 16, he wrote a letter to the editor of The Santa Monica Outlook about a response to 9/11, saying “Osama bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School.” His favorite book as a junior was Rush Limbaugh’s “The Way Things Ought To Be.”In his senior yearbook he quoted Theodore Roosevelt: “There can be no 50/50 Americanism.”

Miller attended Duke University, graduating with a degree in political science in 2007. He gained national attention when he defended the Duke lacrosse team when it was charged with raping a fellow student. He also organized an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” and aroused Blacks on campus when he charged Black poet Maya Angelou with “racial paranoia.” He attacked the student organization, Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), as a “radical national Hispanic group that believes in racial superiority.” This attack revealed that Miller thought whites were superior to all other colors. Here was a young man on the fast track to American Nazism. If he had been born in Germany in 1914, he would have become an outstanding 18-year-old leader of a Hitler Youth Platoon. He soon was working for conservative Minnesota Republican Representative Michele Bachmann and later Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions who later was attorney general for 45th President Donald Trump.

Guess who is the most influential “advisor” to Trump in Washington

I repeat myself; much of the world knows that “The Chosen One,” the one who says God saved him from a bullet so he could “save the Divided States of America,” is a jerk, prick, asshole, malignant narcissist and sociopathic psychopath as determined by the latest Manual of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association. A Nazi, Stephen Miller, is his most influential advisor in the position of White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Whenever I see or hear Miller make his Nazi positions known, he immediately morphs to Hitler’s Adolf Eichmann for my senses. Trump doesn’t pay much attention to his expensive Vice-President JD Vance, who mouths off once a week.

Democratic senators say in concert: “Stephen Miller is responsible for all the bad things happening in the United States.” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is a friend of Miller and says, “I think he was an effective Senate staffer, and now he is an exponentially more effective 39-year-old senior staffer in the White House. Another advisor to Trump says "Stephen is the president’s id.” Miller is the ghoul who helped prepare the 900-page Project 2025 that “will save America.” He is given credit for preparing the 100+ executive orders that Trump has signed on topics that have shredded federal employees, dismantled DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusive) programs in hundreds of colleges, universities and federal programs. Remember when Trump signed his first executive order withdrawing us from the World Health Organization? The withdrawal will probably kill millions of people because the loss of our $1.3 billion will end many health programs in the world.

Miller is also our immigration and deportation expert who will keep the airplanes flying to hell and “s..tholes” around the world, such as the prisons in El Salvador. Miller is the one who separated parents and children during the immigration process. Miller is friendly with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador who has constructed prisons to contain more than 1% of the population of his country. None of these new prisons meet Red Cross and world standards. He uses El Salvador gangs to win elections. This is how he campaigns for votes, his gang leaders tell people: “You’re going to tell your mother, you’re going to tell your uncle, you’re going to tell your nephew, you’re going to tell your grandmother, you’re going to tell your wife and your wife’s family to vote for Nayib. If you don’t do it, we’ll kill them.”

Sounds persuasive.

Should military parades celebrate both cowards and heroes?

So, now the president who got five deferments during the Vietnam War wants a military parade on his June 14 birthday, which just happens to fall on the birthday of the U.S. Army. This is a jerk who paid a doctor to write a letter to his draft board saying he “suffered” from bone spurs. Such a serious disability would keep him from skulking on jungle trails or climbing strategic hills. A prick who called military troops “losers” and “suckers” for joining up. An asshole #45 who decided that it was too windy to take a helicopter ride to a cemetery filled with Americans who died on Normandy Beach.

He didn’t want his “beautiful” head of hair all mussed up from a strong wind. A sociopath who said American hero John McCain was not one because he was captured and spent years in a North Vietnam prison. A psychopath who said to his Chief of Staff, General John Kelly when they visited his son Robert’s (who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010), grave in Arlington National Cemetery, “I don’t get it! What was in it for them?” A malignant narcissist who told Kelly he didn’t want to be near soldiers at Walter Reed who were amputees…

I could go on, but I want to cover a military parade I participated in while stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina...

The Second Marine Division’s commander was Lt. General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, who still is the most decorated Marine in American history. He was awarded five Navy Crosses (the same number of Trump deferments) for his actions in several wars, which is the highest Navy award. He joined the Marines as a private in 1918, went through boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, was so effective he was selected for Officer’s Candidate School at Quantico, passed it with flying colors, served five years in Nicaragua and Haiti fighting in 40 engagements during the so-called “Banana Wars.”

He served with distinction during WW II and the Korean War, perhaps the only Marine ever promoted from private to Lt. General. I first met him in Cuba when the 2nd Division was practicing beach landings and I was commander of a heavy machine gun platoon. On maneuvers in the field, he called all officers together and announced: “Your men will all go through the chow line first. If I catch any officer eating before his command is finished, I will ship him to Butte, Montana.”

It got a good laugh, but we all knew he meant it. After all, he had been a Marine private for a short time. He retired in 1955 after 37 years of service. I was proud to lead my command unit in his division retirement parade on a very warm day in North Carolina in 1955.

‘Tis said Puller never was Commandant of the Marine Corps because he always spoke truth to political power. Puller represents courage, Trump cowardice. He was about 5’ 6” with a “pouty” chest, he was a confident leader with great quotes. In Korea when surrounded by Chinese troops:

“We’re surrounded? Good, now we can kill the bastards in any direction.”

“They can’t get away this time!”

My favorite: “Son, when the Marine Corps wants you to have a wife, you will be issued one.”

By the way: There’s some confusion about 8647, claiming it was a death threat for Trump. When I was the 6th Marines regimental supply and fiscal officer we used a code AT-6 form to dispose of worn-out equipment. Read it: “eighty-six,” Get it? AT-six?

As for the MAGA cult who want to see King Donald wear the white mitre hat and cassock of the pope, I have the perfect name for him: Pope Prick I.