ModState

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Near the Gaping Maw of Madness Regardless of what we might think in terms of likelihood or whether they're kosher or not, things just keep getting weirder in our (allegedly) erstwhile Republic.But take heart! Or at least your hosts did; in one recent piece of good news, a relic of the Prohibition era's MO was undone when....

How can you witness the murderous f**kery Hi**er committed throughout the 1930s and say, “Here is a guy we can trust”? British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did just that with a dumbf**k agreement that sacrificed Czechoslovakia in a quest for peace that never stood a chance.

--On This Day in History S**t Went Down: September 30, 1938--

Some apologize for Chamberlain. Not me. F**k that guy. People knew what a s**tburger Hi**er was and rather than mobilize and prepare for a war that was inevitable, Chamberlain let Hi**er give him and the rest of Europe a sea urchin e***a. Hi**er had already built up a massive military and annexed Austria as part of building a greater German empire, then looked at the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia and laid claim because a bunch of German-speaking folk lived there. The Czech government said to Britain and France please don’t let this fascist f**kstick destroy our country. So French Prime Minister Daladier and Chamberlain flew to Germany to see if they could work s**t out. Di****ce Mussolini was there too.

Hi**er of course was an arrogant cockwipe and Chamberlain kept mewling like a starving kitten giving in to Hi**er’s ever-increasing demands. Daladier, however, ordered French troops to start mobilizing and Chamberlain was oh don’t do that you’ll antagonize him. Hi**er said taking the Sudetenland was “The last territorial demand I have to make in Europe” and Chamberlain believed that load of s**te.

What resulted was the Munich Agreement. Signed on September 30, 1938, it was some bulls**t. Daladier hated the appeasement. Chamberlain, conversely, stayed behind to pal around with Hi**er and signed another document intended to maintain peaceful relations between Britain and Germany. Chamberlain went home and said hey everyone I kept the peace. It’s “peace with honor,” because handing over a big chunk of Czechoslovakia to goddamn Hi**er was honorable. And yeah, right after signing Czechoslovakia did hand over the Sudetenland because without France and Britain backing them up they knew it was a matter of Czech yourself before you wreck yourself. In so doing, Czechoslovakia gave Germany two-thirds of its coal, steel, and electrical power creation.

The peace was bulls**t. It was a ploy to put France and Britain at ease while Hi**er continued his militarization and imperial expansions. The following March Hi**er decided f**k it I want the rest of Czechoslovakia and invaded, violating the Munich Agreement. Chamberlain was all I guess we’re not doing appeasement anymore. But it would take another six months, with Hi**er invading Poland, before Britain would declare war on Germany.

Speaking of that big f**king war, if Chamberlain had a spine, things could have been less catastrophic because France was ready to go, Czechoslovakia had a good military willing to fight for their home, and the Soviets had Czechoslovakia’s back too. Hi**er might have been stopped earlier on. But of course Chamberlain had to go be a goddamn invertebrate. Winston Churchill, who’d been warning about Hi**er for years, excoriated Chamberlain, saying, “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

Those who cannot remember the past … need a history teacher who says “f**k” a lot. Get both volumes of “On This Day in History S**t Went Down” at JamesFell.com/books.