During his unhinged Mount Rushmore speech, Trump broke the last taboo of American Hate:
Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they’re doing this, but some know what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive, but no, the American people are strong and proud and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history, and culture to be taken from them. Here tonight before the eyes of our forefathers, Americans declare again, as we did 244 years ago, that we will not be tyrannized, we will not be demeaned, and we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen.
Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they’re doing this, but some know what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive, but no, the American people are strong and proud and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history, and culture to be taken from them. Here tonight before the eyes of our forefathers, Americans declare again, as we did 244 years ago, that we will not be tyrannized, we will not be demeaned, and we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen.
George W. Bush, a ruthless killer of colored others, defined 200+ years of American Exceptionalism in six impossible to misunderstand words:
We are good, they are evil.
America could kill colored people to advance her manifest destiny for this very simple reason: Americans were good, the others were evil, thus it was OK to exterminate them.
But now Trump, desperate to be re-elected, desperate not to branded for history as a loser, seeing his path to victory choked with virus molecules and angry young white girls in short-shorts, and lacking the intellectual capacity to understand the significance and remedy to either, looks for a scapegoat upon which to unload all his misery.
Remarkably, and unlike the *great* American heroes of the past whose mantle he seeks to claim, Trump's scapegoat isn't the other. The evil ones are now American!
Trump has violated the last taboo of American hate. Prior to this, no matter how divided the nation, all Americans were considered good. Lincoln never called the confederates evil, he said they were Americans in rebellion, and pardoned them all after the Civil War. Of course, in actual deed, many Americans have been treated as if they were evil, but they at least had the theoretical dignity of being considered American good.
Under Trump, there is now a class of evil Americans, fit to be categorized with the colored others beyond America's borders.
I have seen very little recognition of Trump's astonishing denunciation of American citizens as evil. White girls in short-shorts evil? This is insanity! Trump is so disconnected from reality, so unable to grasp the meaning of the street protests, he can only offer the most simple-minded reaction: they are bad, they are evil. They are an enemy we must fight.
Trump has declared war on white girls in short-shorts. . .
And at least 40% of Americans are ready to enlist. . .
America does have a wicked, violent history of oppression and exploitation, and perhaps to further accelerate her merited demise, she will be punished with four more years of this Grand Buffoon as President. This is what America deserves, and this is what Trump fails to understand: that his presidency is not a blessing on the nation, and a validation of his life, but a curse upon the nation and a condemnation of his life.
The most absurd statement of Trump's rubbish speech was American protesters have no idea why they are protesting. This is merely a projection of Trump's own befuddlement. The white girls in short-shorts know why they are protesting. They are ashamed of America, and offer their marches and sloganeering and kneeling as a secular form of repentance.
I believe many of the protesters truly would like to shape a better America, that more perfect union, an America that treats all her citizens in reality with the heretofore only targeted respect and dignity her constitution promises. Unfortunately, there is little evidence so far these protesters have any willingness to extend this basic human right to people of color in the rest of the world, so America would only be marginally better, but at least a first step will have been taken.
As for the rest of Trump's Mount Rushmore comments, the most offensive was this overblown paean to an imaginary America:
We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on earth. We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.
We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on earth. We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.
LOL!
The only thing exceptional about America is her hubris. . .
And Trump once again reveals himself to be a Christian charlatan when he blathers about that great oxymoron of religion: Judeo-Christian principles.
All in all, an ugly, crude collection of idiocies that should leave any sane American listener with the utmost feeling of hopelessness.
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