Hello Everybody,

I found this on Facebook. Sounds like my kind of guy.
Now, I'm not saying he is who you think it is, even though
many Americans think he is also their kind of guy ...

--Lee

Facebook rant of the day -

Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even
when he was in Berlin he wouldn’t get out of bed until after 11 a.m.,
and wouldn’t do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers
had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to
him by Dietrich.

He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have
viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the
greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is
the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he
came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps
during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and
he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts
of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was
hardly any room for the tea."

He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to
either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to
lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but
enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the
approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.

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Hitler’s personal failings didn’t stop him having an uncanny instinct
for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out
you don’t actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.

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Sleep With Someone New

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