February 27, 2019: First, They Came for Our Hamburgers...

 

2/27/19: “Disgraced felon” Michael Cohen is set to testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee. 

It’s interesting to note that the term “disgraced felon” is coming from Press Secretary Pinocchio and other White House aides. That makes me wonder. Aren’t all felons “disgraced?” 

Or: just the felons who might have dirt on President Trump, both before he took office and after?

 

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PERHAPS you are familiar with the famous words of Pastor Martin Niemöller. Having watched the rise of the Nazis in Germany he summed up their march to power and tyranny this way: 

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist.

 

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist.

 

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew.

 

Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.

 

This week, former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka decided to offer up his own variation of this tale, in an effort to scare the right-wing base. In Gorka’s eyes, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a Nazi in waiting, because she wanted to address climate change (which, by the way, would be coming for us all.) 

“First,” he offered, “they came for the hamburgers.”

But he wasn’t a hamburger? Was that his message? 

“Then they came for our condiments?” 

Is that what he was trying to say? 

“Then they came for our sesame seed buns?”

 

Yeah. It was a stupid comparison to try to make. But this is Team Trump we’re talking about, so they’re always trying to scare the base.