Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 23

[Stacyhs]

Trump's speech last night disgusted me to my very core. That he would turn the celebration of America's birthday into a speech of hate and division like it was a campaign rally is beyond reprehensible. Just when you think he can't sink any lower, he does.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

In a campaign ad posted to Facebook, Mike Pence called Trump "my father"

Doesn't he also call his wife "mother" ?

 

[carrps]

They were expecting 7500. From the pictures I saw I can believe they had that many. It was like an amphitheater.

In the WP, they said 7500 tickets were sold, but attendance was 3700.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases. If you test 40,000,000 people, you are going to have many cases that, without the testing (like other countries), would not show up every night on the Fake Evening News.....

....In a certain way, our tremendous Testing success gives the Fake News Media all they want, CASES. In the meantime, Deaths and the all important Mortality Rate goes down. You don’t hear about that from the Fake News, and you never will. Anybody need any Ventilators???

 

[JoeMorgue]

In a campaign ad posted to Facebook, Mike Pence called Trump "my father"

Given the fact that he calls his wife "Mother" that's either bad politics or great slash fiction.

 

[Garrison]

In a campaign ad posted to Facebook, Mike Pence called Trump "my father"

Obviously his phone autocorrected Furher and Pence didn't catch it.

 

[Resume]

Trump Tweets blahblahblah . . . Anybody need any Ventilators???

Texas, Florida and Arizona soon, idiot.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Doesn't he also call his wife "mother" ?

To be fair, a lot of men call their wives mother if they have kids. My dad called my mom Mother on occasion.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Will be speaking at 7:00 P.M. Thank you for all of the nice comments on the Mount Rushmore speech last night!!!

Big 4th of July Air Show soon coming down the East Coast. Get ready to look up to the sky. Check local listings!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
According to the PC Coronavirus Police, protesting America is safe, but celebrating America is unsafe #HappyFourthOfJuly

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

BDW
@BryanDeanWright
As patriotic Americans celebrate the nation today, remember what we are up against:
A fascist Democratic Party that wants us to hate ourselves, hate each other, and — most of all — hate America.
This is our fight.

The NY Times spent three years pushing Russian disinformation targeted against a duly elected American president that set the nation utterly afire.
I’m not interested in one damn word from this rag about anything, let alone darkness and division.
Enemy of the Republic.

Mollie
@MZHemingway
Republicans ought to be extremely happy with how much that speech has left the entire media complex apoplectic with rage and resorting to 100% lying about it. An unquestionable sign of its quality and success if they are all-hands-on-deck lying about it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Andy McCarthy
@AndrewCMcCarthy
The Flagrant Distortions and Subtle Lies of the ‘1619 Project’ - timely revival of @RichLowry setting straight the American record on slavery ...


The Flagrant Distortions and Subtle Lies of the ‘1619 Project’
Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t remotely honest in her lead 1619 essay.
nationalreview.com

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

This would be the beginning of the end. He has no clue, but he wouldn’t be calling the shots!!!
Quote Tweet

Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
Finally, Biden asked more precise question about monuments. Responds by saying that it would be "better" if local governments took steps to take down confederate statues, but won't condemn people lawlessly tearing them down.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

...And if the Federal Government wasn’t getting ready to go in, and we were all set, it would still be a squatter’s (anarchist’s) mess!
Quote Tweet

Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
Durkan is right to care about the safety of her family, and right to be upset her home was vandalized. Now, if only she'd exhibited the same care for the safety and property rights of the legal residents/businessowners of CHOP. twitter.com/jwhittenbergK5…

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

The Fake News Media is being laughed at all over the world!

 

[Minoosh]

Trump's speech last night disgusted me to my very core. That he would turn the celebration of America's birthday into a speech of hate and division like it was a campaign rally is beyond reprehensible. Just when you think he can't sink any lower, he does.

I didn't see it, or read it, but did click on a CNN analysis. As it sank in I wondered if he didn't go too far with the rhetoric. So many if his lines suggested "yeah, but" responses from anyone who considers themselves even slightly moderate. "We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture." Yeah, but he's the one constantly trying to muzzle the press and insisting on no-disclosure agreements. Plus I don't think "cancel culture" is really in the mainstream of American speech. To my ear, he doth protest too much, though of course I'm more primed to hear that than his mainstream "supporters."

I put "supporters" in quotes because I think one thing above all might chip away at that, which is the very simple fact that he did just about everything he could to actively discourage the wearing of masks. And now Republicans are urging everyone to do it anyway. Which raises the question, for what? What was his gratuitous discouragement of mask-wearing meant to accomplish? It was *all* about sowing division, as far as I can tell, and now his own party had broken ranks. The cost of that dick move hasn't been calculated but the bill is coming due in some red states with lots of older people.

 

[Belz...]

Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases.

Oh, my god, he's just learned about math.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

So many if his lines suggested "yeah, but" responses from anyone who considers themselves even slightly moderate.

Why should he care what a Democrat thinks?

 

[JoeMorgue]

To be fair, a lot of men call their wives mother if they have kids. My dad called my mom Mother on occasion.

Yeah sorry that's weird as hell. And this isn't judgement from an outsider my grandparents used the terms as well and I thought that was weird too.

 

[quadraginta]

That is *really* unfair on Benedict Arnold.

Not Really,Arnold was planning on a "fake" attack that would dhave gotten US troops killed in order to cover his turning over West Point to the British. There are reasons why his name is sysnonomous with Treason in the US.

Arnold's history is quite a bit more complicated than that.

Jimbob was talking about a comparison between Trump and Arnold. Unlike Trump there are also reasons that, before he finally saw the British as better friends than the Continental Congress, his name was synonymous with "hero", "military genius", and more. It is very likely that had it not been for the dedication, prowess, and brilliance of Arnold's service to the fledgling nation we would have lost that revolution.

Trump's career in service to the country has offered little else but treason. Any comparisons to Arnold are specious.