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Joseph Felser's avatar

Steve Schmidt did a line-by-line comparison of his oration at Kirk’s funeral with a speech by Joseph Goebbels, and they were so close as to be virtually indistinguishable. Miller is a straight-up Nazi and has been for decades. His own cousin and other extended family members have disowned him.

CatChex's avatar

Thank you for noting this, Joseph. We know some of his extended family members and the knee-jerk response to blame families (heredity! environment! etc) ... makes me despair for any understanding and discussion of various mental health conditions, disorders - we need someone to blame ... always?

All of that typed: he is a straight-up Nazi... who demonstrated sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors/tendencies early on... as a white dude from a family that had some privilege, financial and otherwise... and then went to Duke.... etc.

He's a monster at this point - with lots of $, access to power.

We need to stop IQ47 and his enablers - starting with, including high on the list - this guy

Also: is he (w his family) still living in military housing???

Joseph Felser's avatar

I believe he is still living in military housing. Yes, I also believe he’s one of the most dangerous of the enablers. But I don’t blame anyone in his family. I’m not a psychologist. My own view is that everyone is born with certain inherent patterns of character and personality; and while our environment and upbringing, including our own experiences, help to define and shape us, there is something there already that exists, a core or set of patterns with which we are born. Where this original inheritance comes from—biology? the soul?—I have no idea. But I think rather than blame we just need to deal with the consequences of what is.

CatChex's avatar

Joseph - yes - here we are: we are here -

now what? what’s next?

Joseph Felser's avatar

I expect that the results of the midterms will not be congenial to the regime, and that there will be an effort on their part to cancel or annul those results. This will bring everything to a head. They may refuse to seat victorious Democrats in Congress, try to confiscate voting machines, and other such measures. This cannot be tolerated, unless we are willing to give up the republic.

DamnFineHaggis's avatar

He has the eyes of a shark, but without the feeling. Pure sociopath.

Lillian Holsworth's avatar

Stephen 'Hitler-A History'Miller is a egotistical malefic fiend.

He has studied Hitlers Regime's henchmen & their words & agendas which in turn he has adapted to the 47-Git's Regime. He's not just a bureaucrat- Miller is a dangerous usurper who wants our Democracy destroyed.

Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

I keep wanting to know what made him the way he is. There is a book by Richard Sennett that I read, “The Uses of Disorder,” in which he makes this observation, which may come close to an answer and is what I always think of when I ask that question. I can only paraphrase it because I think my copy is in a storage unit in Massachusetts.

At the time Sennett wrote the book he was a professor of sociology at NYU, I think. Last I heard he was teaching at Oxford University in England.

Some adolescents, finding the changes adolescence makes on their bodies and in their minds too threatening to their senses of self, start to behave like adults much older than they are as a way to escape the pain of that self doubt. In essence, they skip over the discomfort and awkwardness and achieve an adult presence that belies their age.

For instance, my dad or my brother-in-law. They acted like conservative old man Republicans before they left high school. They presented themselves as men who “knew the truth” before they had had enough experience to know anything. Your description of Stephen Miller seems to fit right into that paradigm.

It’s unfortunate that he elected to become a racist bore in order to set up his individuality, but there you are. At least he spared himself the self-consciousness of adolescence.

joni's avatar

Not sure I agree with this assessment. "behaving like adults"...yes, possibly. But, I think there is something that is much deeper and darker here. Where does a person acquire this degree of hatred at such an early age ? Is it because that person looks in the mirror and sees himself as ugly ? An outlier ? Perhaps he harbors "self" hatred, and then turns it outward, blaming others to convince himself he is superior. Twisted, I know. Other than that, there is always the thought he was regurgitated from the bowels of hell! For certain, he is one, EVIL entity!

Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

I do not disagree. Not at all. I was trying an analysis of the process without making moral judgments. I actually think there is a tremendous amount of self-loathing involved as well.

His whole family is Jewish. They escaped from Germany and came first to Canada then later here, as I recall, to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust. It seems possible that instead of being proud of his family for surviving he was perversely ashamed of them for running away and not fighting.

That seems like an idea an adolescent could come up with, especially an adolescent like him who stopped developing after about the age of 14. And of course he would never have told anyone he had doubts or fears. Too demoralizing to his self-image. Anyway it’s a possibility. He most likely was amused by his reputation for being totally unlikeable, which meant he had no motivation to change. Does that make sense?

Jane's avatar

I weep for those who come across his path.

Paul Schlotthauer's avatar

He has the deadest eyes I've ever seen, and if he had fangs he'd be the perfect vampire. (I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we found out he sleeps in a coffin.). He's also a Jewish Nazi, and that continues to blow my mind. If the Christian nationalists he thinks of as allies ever achieve control of this country, he might be unpleasantly surprised to find that his pals are shipping him and his family--along with all other Jews--to a concentration camp or deporting them altogether as subhumans. He has three young children--God knows what they will become under the influence of a father like that. Perhaps the most frightening thing about him is that, unlike Trump, he's actually intelligent and therefore far more dangerous.

joni's avatar

And BINGO! We have a winner!! Spot On!

Reader/Writer's avatar

What dead eyes. What a dead soul.

Jazziebelle's avatar

The ghoulishness of this asshole is why the Nazi loves him.

Snarky's avatar

Pervert.

Lupatrian's avatar

Very important read. Do we know, what were the underlying event(s) causing what he became? So full of hatred. The thing I can never reconcile is that *his wife is brown.*

This is an interesting comparison: https://www.bossglobalradio.com/post/the-storm-playbook-goebbels-1932-miller-2025-and-why-it-matters

Betsy L's avatar

I wonder if his famiky ever tried, at the least, to talk to him about his cruelty to his friend. At best, if they put him into counseling. Obviously, if they did, it didn't take, but we'd know they tried.

SusanB Graham's avatar

He’s a ghoul. He no doubt has a shorter life-expectancy than his wife; has she ever considered that? That, someday, she’ll be conscripted into serving some disabled old man, around him 24/7, while he still has the same shrill, hateful, racist tongue on him? And, she’ll be helping out all the children that’s he’s made her birth (one or more of whom are likely to be as bad as him.(

JZ Murdock's avatar

Isn't his consistency actually that of loose stool and bad blood?