Bane after takeover of Gotham:

We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you… the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by storming Blackgate, and freeing the oppressed! Step forward those who would serve. For and army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive, as they learn to serve true justice. This great city… it will endure. Gotham will survive!

Donald Trump after takeover of America:

Today’s ceremony, however has very special meaning. Because today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another. But we are transferring power from Washington D.C. and giving it back to you… the people. For too long a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have born the cost. Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs and while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. That all changes starting right here and right now because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you.

In 2017, dearest brothers, all of our memes will become real.

This is the power of a people who have learned to channel the magic of memes using the tubes of the internet: we are unstoppable.

Full speech follows.

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: Thank you.

We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.

Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come.

We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.

Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent.

Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another — but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.

For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered — but the jobs left, and the factories closed.

The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.

That all changes — starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment: it belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

Everyone is listening to you now.

You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.

But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

We are one nation — and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams; and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.

For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we’ve defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.

We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.

One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind.

The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world.
But that is the past. And now we are looking only to the future. We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power.

From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.

From this moment on, it’s going to be America First.

Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.

I will fight for you with every breath in my body — and I will never, ever let you down.

America will start winning again, winning like never before.

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.

We will get our people off of welfare and back to work — rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.
We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world — but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones — and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

There should be no fear — we are protected, and we will always be protected.

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action — constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.

The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.

Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.
We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.

A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.

So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words:

You will never be ignored again.

Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

Together, We will make America strong again.

We will make wealthy again.

We will make America proud again.

We will make America safe again.

And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.

And now, NATO bows down before the throne of the GOD EMPEROR.

This is a monumental victory.

RT:

A senior NATO general echoed the words of US President-elect Donald Trump in acknowledging that parts of the NATO military alliance are “obsolete,” saying it needs to adapt, but cited very different reasons and directions for change.

“We have some structures that are obsolete,” NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Denis Mercier told journalists in Brussels on Tuesday, noting that some parts of NATO’s apparatus duplicate each other’s functions and, thus, need to be reorganized and simplified.

The general’s comment comes just days after US President-elect Donald Trump branded NATO “obsolete” in an interview for The Times and Bild. However, Trump and Mercier appear to have opposite understandings as to which of the alliance’s operations are outdated and how it should change.

Trump says that the alliance is outdated because it is not really engaged in countering terrorism, which he sees as a top priority at present. He also noted that members are not contributing enough financially, leaving open the question of whether he would come to the aid of NATO countries that don’t pull their weight. At present, only four of the 28 nations in the military alliance, other than the US, are paying their fair share, meaning the sum the US contributes to the bloc is highly disproportionate.

General Mercier also said that the alliance needs to adjust its approach to countering terrorism, but in the opposite way that Trump suggested, saying it has been NATO’s focus on so-called expeditionary warfare, or deploying troops to fight terrorists abroad, that has hindered its efforts elsewhere.

“When I look at the threats we are facing now, we see that we may have focused too much, until the Ukraine crisis, we may have focused too much on expeditionary operations, especially in Afghanistan, and doing that, NATO has a bit failed to look at the change in the strategic background… We see that there is a need for adaptation,” Mercier stated, meaning that attention should be shifted from fighting terrorists in the Middle East towards defending Europe.

The general, who is involved in the technical side of developing NATO’s future military stance and strategy, said that NATO has now adjusted its strategy along these lines by working on security initiatives with European countries.

For instance, he noted that the July 2016 summit in Warsaw saw “a huge adaptation of the alliance,” as NATO nations decided to direct their attention and troops to their eastern and southern flanks to counter an alleged Russian threat and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, while signing new agreements to work with outside organizations like the European Union.

It was also decided there to send thousands of troops to Eastern Europe for the first time, including 4,000 American troops to be deployed to Poland, who began arriving earlier this month.

“If there was not obsolescence in many areas of the alliance, we would not have decided this adaptation, in fact,” Mercier said, as cited by Washington Post.

In July of 2016, NATO members agreed to the “biggest reinforcement since the Cold War,” posting four multinational battalions in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. In November, Washington announced that nearly 6,000 troops, along with tanks, infantry vehicles, heavy howitzers, and combat helicopters would be deployed in Eastern Europe.

Earlier this month, hundreds of US military vehicles, including tanks and armored vehicles, as well as loads of heavy military equipment, were unloaded in Germany in order to strengthen European defense capabilities, according to official statements.

Of course, their purpose is the same purpose they had before the fall of communism: to agitate for a war with Russia.

But they can’t just come right out and say that.

And Trump is like “whatcha doin NATO???????”

Possible response are very limited.

So now – retreat.

Were you sensing something different about the speeches of Donald Trump, but unable to put your finger on exactly what that difference was?

Well, as the libertarian Jeffrey A. Tucker recently explained in Newsweek, what you were sensing was fascism.

I just heard Trump speak live. The speech lasted an hour, and my jaw was on the floor most of the time. I’ve never before witnessed such a brazen display of nativistic jingoism, along with a complete disregard for economic reality. It was an awesome experience, a perfect repudiation of all good sense and intellectual sobriety.

Yes, he is against the establishment, against existing conventions. It also serves as an important reminder: As bad as the status quo is, things could be worse. Trump is dedicated to taking us there.

His speech was like an interwar séance of once-powerful dictators who inspired multitudes, drove countries into the ground and died grim deaths. I kept thinking of books like John T. Flynn’s As We Go Marching, especially Chapter Ten that so brilliantly chronicles a form of statism that swept Europe in the 1930s. It grew up in the firmament of failed economies, cultural upheaval and social instability, and it lives by stoking the fires of bourgeois resentment.

Since World War II, the ideology he represents has usually lived in dark corners, and we don’t even have a name for it anymore. The right name, the correct name, the historically accurate name, is fascism. I don’t use that word as an insult only. It is accurate.

Though hardly anyone talks about it today, we really should. It is still real. It exists. It is distinct. It is not going away. Trump has tapped into it, absorbing unto his own political ambitions every conceivable resentment (race, class, sex, religion, economic) and promising a new order of things under his mighty hand.

But Trump isn’t speaking about race, and seems not to actually even be a racist, asks ye.

Well, it doesn’t matter. Racism is implicit with being popular.

Because Trump is the only one who speaks this way, he can count on support from the darkest elements of American life. He doesn’t need to actually advocate racial homogeneity, call for whites-only signs to be hung at immigration control or push for expulsion or extermination of undesirables. Because such views are verboten, he has the field alone, and he can count on the support of those who think that way by making the right noises.

Yes. He is signaling to the racists, because of a German word.

Who is Trump really after, you ask?

Well, the consumer of course.

Just like the Nazis, he wants you to overpay for important products you need.

In the 18th century, there is a trade theory called mercantilism that posited something similar: Ship the goods out and keep the money in. It builds up industrial cartels that live at the expense of the consumer.

In the 19th century, this penchant for industrial protectionism and mercantilism became guild socialism, which mutated later into fascism and then into Nazism. You can read Mises to find out more on how this works.

He is after the free market, you see. He wants to stop things like NAFTA, GATT and TPP, which have been so beneficial to this country and its consumption.

What’s distinct about Trumpism, and the tradition of thought it represents, is that it is not leftist in its cultural and political outlook (see how he is praised for rejecting “political correctness”), and yet it is still totalitarian in the sense that it seeks total control of society and economy and demands no limits on state power.

Whereas the left has long attacked bourgeois institutions like family, church and property, fascism has made its peace with all three. It (very wisely) seeks political strategies that call on the organic matter of the social structure and inspire masses of people to rally around the nation as a personified ideal in history, under the leadership of a great and highly accomplished man.

Trump believes himself to be that man. He sounds fresh, exciting, even thrilling, like a man with a plan and a complete disregard for the existing establishment and all its weakness and corruption.

This is how strongmen take over countries. They say some true things, boldly, and conjure up visions of national greatness under their leadership. They’ve got the flags, the music, the hype, the hysteria, the resources, and they work to extract that thing in many people that seeks heroes and momentous struggles in which they can prove their greatness.

Yes. Anyone who talks about the nation as being great – watch out! You want people to run your country who sort of limp along, have no actual opinions or values. Or personal character of any kind.

If you get someone with a strong personality who believes in doing good things, you’re in for trouble.

It’s the last step before the gas chambers.

But who else is Trump like, you ask?

Well, Bane, of course.

Or, if you prefer pop culture, think of Bane, the would-be dictator of Gotham in Batman, who promises an end to democratic corruption, weakness and loss of civic pride. He sought a revolution against the prevailing elites in order to gain total power unto himself.

These people are all the same. They purport to be populists, while loathing the decisions people actually make in the marketplace (such as buying Chinese goods or hiring Mexican employees).

Yes. I remember the scene where Bane strangled a man for hiring illegal Mexicans.

It is all coming together now.

Donald Trump is an amalgamation of Adolf Hitler and Bane.

Libertarianism, once again, makes an extremely intelligent and moving argument.

Jeb Bush: Tell me about The Donald! Why does he discuss Mexican murderers and rapists? A lot of loyalty, for an anti-immigration crazy!

The Donald: Or perhaps he’s wondering why you would attack a man for simply trying to make America great again?

Jeb Bush: At least you can talk. Who are you?

The Donald: It doesn’t matter who we are, what matters is I wrote The Art of the Deal.

Jeb removes the hood

The Donald: No one cared who I was until I brought up Mexican criminality.

Jeb Bush: If I accused you of racism, would you apologize?

The Donald: It would be extremely expensive.

Jeb Bush: You’re a rich guy!

The Donald: For you.

Jeb Bush: Was destroying the Republican party part of your plan?

The Donald: Of course… White America had to find out you were trying to cuck them.

Jeb Bush: Well, congratulations! You exposed us as cucks! Now what’s the next step in your master plan?

The Donald: Saving this country… with no Mexicans!

What follows are newly unearthed minutes from an SS official’s interrogation of a group of Jews during a bus tour of Auschwitz.  These minutes were declassified only recently through the lobbying efforts of Ernst Zundel and others, as the Jews clearly understood that if they were to be released the entire Holocaust fable they had created would unravel.

SS Agent: {to three prisoners} The tour plan I just filed with the SS lists me, my men, Dr. Pavelowski here but only one of you! First one to talk gets to stay on my tour bus!
{grabs a hood}
SS Agent: Who paid you to massacre Danzig?
{No answer, the agent fires his tattoo gun away from the prisoner’s forearm}
SS Agent: He didn’t gas so good!
{pulls the hood back into the tour bus}
SS Agent: Who wants to try next?
{grabs another prisoner}
SS Agent: Tell me about Jews! Why does he wear the kippah? A lot of loyalty, for shabbos goy!
Merchant: Or perhaps he’s wondering why someone would tattoo a man, before throwing him into a gas chamber?
SS Agent: At least you can talk. Who are you?
Merchant: It doesn’t matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
{the Agent removes the hood}
Merchant: No one cared who I was until I took over the financial system.
SS Agent: If I pull on that beard, would you die?
Merchant: It would be extremely painful.
SS Agent: You’re a greasy Jew!
Merchant: For you.
SS Agent: Was Polish border aggression part of your plan?
Merchant: Of course… Stalin refused our offer in favor of yours, we had to get England and France involved.
Dr. Pavelowski: Nothing! We were just messing around!
SS Agent: Well, congratulations! You got yourself a world war! Now what’s the next step in your master plan?
Merchant: Faking this Holocaust… with millions of survivors!

Inspired by a post on full/bane/.