Just in case anyone was like me and worried this was a hoax, I opened up my porn privacy browser and went to the Donald Trump store. Yeah, $30.
It’s not that it wasn’t plausible… it’s just… god! reality these days.
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That would be easy enough to arrange, you can find fasces in a lot of places all over Washington D.C.
To be fair, they are all pre-Mussolini.
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Full disclosure: I am not a graphic designer, nor a member of the college of heralds. However, I was in the SCA (back in the day) and I drive past a Holiday Inn Express™ with some frequency.
This is such a fail on so many levels:
- The eagle is looking the wrong direction. The US eagle looks to its own right (viewer’s left) because…
- The eagle in US heraldry holds an olive branch in its right talon, symbolic of a preference for peace.
- The eagle’s posture is wrong. The US eagle is displayed (spread eagle)
- The escutcheon (the shield thingy) is wrong. The US coat of arms contains a simplified version of the flag with no stars in the blue field and the stripes going vertically.
But of course, as many have already pointed out, all of the above mentioned bugs are actually features for ⊥rump’s white nationalist base.
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Coincidence, I’m sure. 
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At this point, I think we can be certain it is 100% of his voice going forward. This week has seen him completely abandon dog whistles and go straight for incitement in a way that is appalling even for him.
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They like the eagle design? I have an idea!
I think they should make something like this. Having 50 stars intstead of 12 will make it more American.
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Kinda looks like the Marine Corps emblem to me.
A veteran of the peace though. A short and unique time that was for the US in the 20th century.
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I’d opt for the Austrian version instead of the German:
Sure, the bird is ugly - but the accessories!
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Turns out this design came from a cheap stock vectorart site. So not only is the designer the laziest in campaign history, but also out of all the possible designs on this site they choose the one that looked the most like a nazi symbol.
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Kind of “Romanoff meets Rorschach” version.
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Once could absolutely be a coincidence. Twice? Sure, why not, I’ll grant the benefit of the doubt, even to terrible people. Perhaps this could be granted even the third time, as some people are simply slow learners. At this point? No fucking way.
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I was about to make exactly the same point. These things are always just ambiguous enough that any one or two could be simple coincidence. But there have been dozens now. It’s clearly a pattern of winking at the desired audience.
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More generally, the whole “Third Reich” thing was because the Nazis saw themselves as the successor state to the Holy (i.e. second) Roman Empire. Nazis really, really want to be Rome.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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You sure? ISTR when I was a little kid, that we went to get them in Pennsylvania. Still, the local cops where I was tolerated them, because ‘zero tolerance’ policing wasn’t a thing yet. (And probably because we were white, even though we were on the wrong side of the tracks. The cops were open and forthright about breaking the heads of Certain People, and didn’t need an excuse like ‘illegal sparklers.’ ‘Because we felt like it, and what are you going to do about it?’ was good enough.)
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They just don’t want to wear their fascism on their sleeves.
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I use that quote all of the time, and have been for almost 60 years. Must run, Moneypenny is phoning.
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Well, I learned what a cockade was today. This one is from the war of 1812.
Trump is a bad leader. I don’t like him. If we are to take back certain iconography from the nazis, he’s not the person to do it, unless he starts disavowing the principles of the nazis clearly and often. I don’t think I’ve heard him do that once.
Trump’s also kind of a moron. He isn’t the problem, imo. The system of celebrity politics is the problem. Once he’s gone another stooge like him will come again. All the candidates suck. Time to dispense with winner-take-all American personality-based celebrity politics. Vote on seats/issues, not personalities. Let the parties appoint the representative after the election, and let the parliament pick their leader. It can happen. It’s happening right now in younger, more advanced democracies.
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IANAL, but you can’t buy them here and there are temp road signs saying “fireworks illegal” (they seem to have replaced the “no drinking and driving” messages which usually go up around holidays).
We live close enough to NH though… 
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