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hay rick

(9,278 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:25 AM 23 hrs ago

Another new font for Marco Rubio!

Q: Why did Marco Rubio cross the road?
A: Like most squirrels he has no idea where he left his nuts.

The other day Marco announced that all official State Department documents must use a14-point Times New Roman font. I humbly suggest that an even more appropriate font is available: Times New Swastika (see below).

Rubio decided it was important to replace the sans serif Calibri font because it was part of a "wasteful DEIA program." While the DEI bogeyman is familiar to most of us, it turns out that if you add A to the acronym you can also include "Accessibility" in the woke target list. Watch out wheelchair ramps, MAGA is coming after you!

About the font: by happy coincidence, the real name of the font is Fette Trump-Deutsch. It's a widely available free font created by Professor Georg Trump in 1936.

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Another new font for Marco Rubio! (Original Post) hay rick 23 hrs ago OP

Little Marco should stick with his area of expertise; Trump's genitals. Norrrm 22 hrs ago #1

I can't possibly imagine what a German 1936 typeface was aimed at, can you? muriel_volestrangler 22 hrs ago #2

Culture war busybodies appear to be part of the Nazi/authoritarian tradition. hay rick 21 hrs ago #4

Hitler actually hated "Gothic" fonts; he banned them in 1941. sir pball 21 hrs ago #5

I stand corrected - I was thinking of things like Streicher's "Der Stürmer" muriel_volestrangler 20 hrs ago #7

Too woke for Trump... sop 22 hrs ago #3

More importantly is what the words mean. Kid Berwyn 21 hrs ago #6

Norrrm

(3,749 posts)

1. Little Marco should stick with his area of expertise; Trump's genitals.

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:37 AM

22 hrs ago

muriel_volestrangler

(105,414 posts)

2. I can't possibly imagine what a German 1936 typeface was aimed at, can you?

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:54 AM

22 hrs ago

Here's a clue from "An A-Z of Type Designers":

Trump left the school in 1931 to become director of the Hoheren grafischen Fachschule in Berlin but in 1934 was to return as director, after both Tschichold and Renner were dismissed by the Nazis for 'subversive' typography.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/An_A_Z_of_Type_Designers/jxV4qEolEo8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22a-z%22+%22type+designers%22+%22trump%22+-ai&pg=PP180&printsec=frontcover

After the election of Hitler in Germany, all designers had to register with the Ministry of Culture, and all teaching posts were threatened for anyone who was sympathetic to communism. Soon after Tschichold had taken up a teaching post in Munich at the behest of Paul Renner, they were both denounced as "cultural Bolshevists". Ten days after the Nazis surged to power in March 1933, Tschichold and his wife were arrested. During the arrest, Soviet posters were found in his flat, casting him under suspicion of collaboration with communists. After six weeks a policeman somehow found him tickets for Switzerland, and he and his family managed to escape Nazi Germany in August 1933.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tschichold

Even before 1932, Renner made his opposition to the Nazis very clear, notably in his book “Kulturbolschewismus?” (Cultural Bolshevism?). He was unable to find a German publisher, so it was published by his Swiss friend Eugen Rentsch. While designing his typeface Futura, Renner appeared at a public forum in Munich with several other German authors to speak out against the Nazis and other right-leaning parties who criticized anything that deviated from tradition as being "cultural bolshevism."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Renner_%28type_designer%29

hay rick

(9,278 posts)

4. Culture war busybodies appear to be part of the Nazi/authoritarian tradition.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 09:58 AM

21 hrs ago

From the Wikipedia article on Fraktur, which was a traditional German typeface:

Martin Bormann issued a circular (the "normal type decree&quot to all public offices which declared Fraktur (and its corollary, the Sütterlin-based handwriting) to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use.

"Woke" and "politically correct " have a heritage.

sir pball

(5,231 posts)

5. Hitler actually hated "Gothic" fonts; he banned them in 1941.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:04 AM

21 hrs ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute#Nazi_period

muriel_volestrangler

(105,414 posts)

7. I stand corrected - I was thinking of things like Streicher's "Der Stürmer"

Reply to sir pball (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:54 AM

20 hrs ago

which did seem to love its "Gothic" fonts.

sop

(17,158 posts)

3. Too woke for Trump...

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 09:14 AM

22 hrs ago

Kid Berwyn

(22,576 posts)

6. More importantly is what the words mean.

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:04 AM

21 hrs ago

"You know, they have a word – it’s sort of became old-fashioned – it’s called a nationalist. And I say, really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, okay? I’m a nationalist. Nationalist. Nothing wrong. Use that word. Use that word." — Pee-resident Donald J Trump, traitor

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/24/trump-says-hes-nationalist-what-means-why-its-controversial/1748521002/

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