Jeb Bush said that, if he had a time machine, he would go back in time, find baby Adolf Hitler, and kill him. Will these theoretical ethical dilemmas become normative in the political ritual of running for president?
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Heck yeah, Ted! You already know this and many others here. Today’s mo’darn politishans be knowing that our mo’darn society is being fully based on soundbites, reality TV, celebrity stuff, and anything pre-digested and presented looking ofishal and kerrect to them. Yup, them thar idiocracy has arrived! Ye-haw, let’s go out and shoot sum’thin, hey? It are the Amurikan way! Anyone a’not thank’in this way are probly not patriotic and probly sid’in with those that sell baby brains and want handouts from the guv’mint!
So you’re saying that you do support the sale of baby body parts and you do want gov’t handouts? 😉
No Jack – I don’t aspire to the same goals as you, you haven’t found a brother in arms, I’m just pointing out that Amurika is “chock’full’o’nuts”, an idiocracy as Trump pointed out last night in his latest rant. – and its pretty sad that it takes someone like Trump to point this out.
…I was teasing you
I happen to be an admirer of both the Great Khan and the Scourge of God.
Well at least you have Trump abstaining from infanticide and instead opting to utilize his famous skills of negotiation.
If you had said time machine, why kill Adolf? Just educate him him as a paid-in-full political whore, much like AIPAC does with virtually all of America’s political reps. Even as Zionland’s IDF hordes have gone full Stormtrooper overload, Hitler and Begin could have become great buddies!
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlerjew.html
http://www.jewishmag.com/158mag/hitler_jewish_soldiers/hitler_jewish_soldiers.htm
DanD
One person rarely matters in a historical perspective. Kill Hitler and some other disgruntled German would create the Third Reich.
If I had me a time machine I’d go back & pick up a few Action Comics #1s, then off to Woodstock, catch a few Roman orgies, stop & give my younger self some condoms and lottery numbers …
For the ultimate time travel stories, try Roger Zelazny. The short story “Game of Blood and Dust”, and the novel “Roadmarks”
«Jeb Bush said that, if he had a time machine, he would go back in time, find baby Adolf Hitler, and kill him.» Just as long as John Ellis waits until little Adolf has exited Frau Hitler (née Pölzl)’s birth canal, one can hardly fault either the great man’s resolve, or his moral rectitude. This remark would seem to demonstrate – as if demonstration were needed – that he is, indeed, of what is referred to in the United States as «presidential timbre»….
Best of luck on 8 November 2016 !…
Henri