Shredding was too good for a hateful speech filled with lies

[babylonsister]

Shredding was too good for a hateful speech filled with lies
Mark Sumner
Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday February 05, 2020 · 8:50 AM EST


If any other public figure regularly stumbled onto the stage clearly drugged to the gills, it would be a major scandal. But somehow Donald Trump can appear over and over, sniffling at the end of each sentence and slurring his words as if he’s downed a fifth of Wild Turkey, and not one news network will mention not only that Trump’s speech was full of white supremacist rhetoric and an endless stream of lies, but that he was having such trouble simply reading that his words often had to be interpreted from context.

Not that it rally mattered. A Republican Congress, still nervous that it hadn’t licked his boots sufficiently, stood to applaud with even more frequency than Trump snorted. Game show stunts. Huzzah! Failing government schools. Huzzah! Medal of freedom sullied forever. Double huzzah!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rippling up the pages was far more courtesy than this toilet stain of a speech deserved.

Remember what a disaster America was under Barack Obama? You know, when the economy was growing faster, millions more people had health care, the environment was protected, and the deficit was a trillion dollars smaller? Yeah, that hellscape.

But just as the tea party movement sprang into existence on a raft of instant amnesia over George W. Bush plunging the nation into economic disaster and endless war (plus racism), Trump spent much of his speech pushing the idea that he had pulled America from the dark ages … racism pun intended. In fact, racism wasn’t an add-on to Trump’s speech; it was a theme, especially when it came to repeated claims about “criminal illegal aliens.”

In the real world, factory output is down, tariffs are costing the economy billions, and farm bankruptcies are up over 50% in just two years. But Trump is a creature who laces his speeches not only with lies, but also with fantasies about his messianic effect. If not for Trump, all factories would be gone, the stock market would have crashed, and Iowa would be having a second dust bowl. Evidence? None required.

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[Nikki28]

1. Mark Sumner

Brilliant.

[42bambi]

2. Dear Leader's objective has always been to dismantle every

accomplishment made by Obama. That is what his speech was about ... his cult is akin to the N Korean people that "must honor" Kim Jong Un. That is what I witnessed during the so called speech, the R's went wild with hero worship at his every word! It was a big FU Obama and another big FU to Democrats!

[Initech]

3. Setting it on fire probably would have been more appropriate!

And it is fun to burn things!

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.