Month: July 2025

The Nazi Word

I typically do not use the Nazi word. I most definitely do not call anyone a Nazi. In my view they were very bad people, the Nazi’s and the SS. The Holocaust is something that should not be repeated. Still people being people, it can happen and has.

Hamas and Israel are at war. Hamas did terrible things to Israel. Israel retaliated. When it comes to war, Israel is winning massively. Hamas will not surrender. Hamas is in charge of and runs Gaza. Both Hamas and Israel want the total destruction of the other.

If I was Hamas I would surrender. The Nazies surrendered and Germany is not so bad now. Unfortunately we are talking about religious idealogy. Way back when the Jews would not surrender at Masada, they committed suicide instead. I hope we have all come beyond that sentiment.

Because Hamas will not surrender, the unfortunate Palestinians should be treated as prisoners of war. They need food and medical care. It is up to the Israeli people to provide that care.

The Geneva Convention outlines the care for POW’s. That care should be provided to the Palestinians in Gaza until someone surrenders. Otherwise Israel will have become just like Nazi Germany with internment ghettos.

TrumpGate

Back in the 70’s when Tricky Dick was president there was a break-in at the Democrat headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. The reason for the break-in was for nefarious research by people in the Republican Party. A quick illicit look around would become the scandal of all scandals for a generation.

The information reached the president, who suppressed evidence about the break-in. President Nixon, who some called Tricky Dick, even erased an audio tape recording about the break-in that was made in the oval office. At the time this was a HUGE scandal.

The Watergate scandal as it became to be known, caused President Nixon to resign the presidency. Some will offer finer points on the history of Watergate. But the fact is, it was the downfall the presidency.

Foe decades after, any political scandals would be tagged with the suffex -gate. According to Wikipedia there are over a dozen -gate scandals “Billygate, Briefingate, Contragate, Deavergate, Debategate, Doublebillingsgate, Frankiegate, Franklingate, Genschergate, Housegate, Iraqgate, Koreagate, Lancegate, Maggiegate, Nannygate, Raidergate, Scalpgate, Travelgate, Troopergate, and Whitewatergate” in all of them, someone fibbed.

This -gate business started in the 1970’s. In 2020 there was a movie called “ObamaGate”. It was a flop. Still it is worth mentioning that older people still use the term, until recently.

Let’s face it. Watergate was over 50 years ago. Things were so much tamer back then. Now we have Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Things are orders of magnitude worse.

For example, I never thought Trump would actually win. I really thought the deep state would win. So what happened? They didn’t have enough preprinted ballots to stuff the box, or Trump sold out, or he actually won? I have no clue. So whatever. It is what it is.

Was it a decade ago that I went to see Trump the candidate? I thought I saw a smart man. Candidate Trump wanted to define Trump Gate before it actually became a thing. Trump Gate would be a big beautiful gate for emigration. Something like Ellis Island, except there would be multiple gates.

This is something I wrote about previously.

So here we are ten years later, and there is no big beautiful TrumpGate. All we have is a mess. So I will call the mess TrumpGate. Not that anyone knows what I mean, or cares. Is there anything better than TrumpGate?