WTF........
Feb. 5th, 2020 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaSo I’ve mentioned I cannot turn on Fox News without experiencing rage & an urge to put my foot through the tv screen within moments. Likewise, extended doses of Trump & his rhetoric triggers the same anger. Actually listening to the State of the Union as it happened, would have left me needing a new Roku today. This morning I’m taking in some of what he said, in bites small enough that neither my rage nor nausea are overpowering.
Needless to say, a speech that speaks to our better angels, that unites and inspires us a nation to move forward for the benefit of all, was not what we got last night. Trump may be a Republican, but he’s no Roosevelt, no Eisenhower, no Lincoln. He’s P.T. Barnum, offering spectacle and not substance.
Speaking of spectacle, Trump planted a military wife and her two young children in the gallery & on cue her husband, secretly back from deployment marched out to join them. Let’s script in a tender reunion scene of a hero & his loved ones, directly delivered by central casting. It’s sad to note those kids did not appear to recognize their own father.
AND speaking of nausea, Rush Limbaugh was seated in the box with the First Lady. He walked away last night with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. What the hell has that man done to warrant that honor? In the man’s defense, he did genuinely appear surprised, not that he wouldn’t happily be a shill for the President. Why do that at the SOTU? 4 words: pander to your base. Apparently, instilling fear of minority folk, be it of black & brown, of immigrants & refugees, of LGBT or of women seeking reforms and equality, now warrants that honor, unadulterated by being grouped with other such honorees, but instead on center stage, for the most eyes possible.
When he first arrived on the podium, Trump snubbed Pelosi’s proffered handshake, before launching what in essence wasn’t the SOTU, but a reëlection stump speech. Amen, Pelosi had the presence of mind to do what millions of Democrats & Independents wish they could have done. As Trump finished speaking, & as the Republicans present cheered, standing right behind the President, she ripped up her copy of his speech.
Needless to say, a speech that speaks to our better angels, that unites and inspires us a nation to move forward for the benefit of all, was not what we got last night. Trump may be a Republican, but he’s no Roosevelt, no Eisenhower, no Lincoln. He’s P.T. Barnum, offering spectacle and not substance.
Speaking of spectacle, Trump planted a military wife and her two young children in the gallery & on cue her husband, secretly back from deployment marched out to join them. Let’s script in a tender reunion scene of a hero & his loved ones, directly delivered by central casting. It’s sad to note those kids did not appear to recognize their own father.
AND speaking of nausea, Rush Limbaugh was seated in the box with the First Lady. He walked away last night with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. What the hell has that man done to warrant that honor? In the man’s defense, he did genuinely appear surprised, not that he wouldn’t happily be a shill for the President. Why do that at the SOTU? 4 words: pander to your base. Apparently, instilling fear of minority folk, be it of black & brown, of immigrants & refugees, of LGBT or of women seeking reforms and equality, now warrants that honor, unadulterated by being grouped with other such honorees, but instead on center stage, for the most eyes possible.
When he first arrived on the podium, Trump snubbed Pelosi’s proffered handshake, before launching what in essence wasn’t the SOTU, but a reëlection stump speech. Amen, Pelosi had the presence of mind to do what millions of Democrats & Independents wish they could have done. As Trump finished speaking, & as the Republicans present cheered, standing right behind the President, she ripped up her copy of his speech.
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Date: 2020-02-07 04:41 pm (UTC)