Trump Declares His Inauguration 'NATIONAL DAY of PATRIOTIC DEVOTION' rife with Xtian buzzwords

[Maru Kitteh]

Trump Declares His Inauguration 'National Day of Patriotic Devotion' in Proclamation Littered with Religious Buzzwords


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Trump Declares His Inauguration 'National Day of Patriotic Devotion' in Proclamation Littered with Religious Buzzwords
More troubling signs from the new administration.
By Ken Klippenstein / AlterNet
January 23, 2017

One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to personally issue Proclamation 9570, which designates the day of his inauguration, January 20, 2017 as National Day of Patriotic Devotion.

AlterNet discovered the quietly passed proclamation on the website for the Office of the Federal Register, a government office within the National Archives and Records Administration.

The proclamation begins, “A new national pride stirs the American soul and inspires the American heart. We are one people, united by a common destiny and a shared purpose.”

Trump announced the Day of Patriotic Devotion in order to, as the document says, “strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country.”

The proclamation abounds with religious language, stating that, “we must maintain faith in our sacred values and heritage” and that there can be “no peace where people do not pray for it.” It denotes the date as “the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen.”

more at link http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-bizarrely-declares-his-inauguration-national-day-patriotic-devotion

I would also add that the proclamation is rife with white nationalist buzzwords as well. I wonder if Bannon wrote it.

[LisaM]

1. The proclamation is ridiculous.

Though a tad of research shows that apparently it's normal to proclaim it a day of something. I find that kind of weird no matter who does it (and this one reeks of fascism to me).

[loyalsister]

4. "Patriotic devotion" really creeps me out!

They are all a little over the top, but this one implies that a lack of devotion (worship?) is unpatriotic.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Yeah, "Patriotic DEVOTION" to our newly inaugurated dear leader? Not creepy

in the least right? Nothing at all like North Korea. Nope. Nothing to see here.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Same day as MLK Day in 2020

and every other time the 20th is the 3rd Monday of January.

What a coincidence.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Messianic masturbation

Trumpie wants to be worshiped as a golden god.
The rest of us know he's just an idiot clown.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Yeah, I don't think that's Jesus. Try Black Phillip.

"Dost thou see a book before thee?... Remove thy shift. "

"I cannot write my name."

" I will guide thy hand."

[Angry Dragon]

6. Trump only prays to SATAN

[democrank]

7. Will our uniforms come in the mail or

will we have to drive to state depots to get them?

[Maru Kitteh]

11. I think he's still waiting to see if they'll be cheaper to make in China or Vietnam

[malaise]

8. Sounds more like

Pence

[jmg257]

10. Compare to Pres Obama's call for reconciliations

- coming together for the purpose of remaking the nation under an awesome God...

As I take the sacred oath of the highest office in the land, I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon my shoulders, renewed by the courage and decency of the American people, and fortified by my faith in an awesome God ... On this Inauguration Day, we are reminded that we are heirs to over two centuries of American democracy, and that this legacy is not simply a birthright — it is a glorious burden. Now it falls to us to come together as a people to carry it forward once more.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2009, a National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation, and call upon all of our citizens to serve one another and the common purpose of remaking this Nation for our new century.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. The Guardian links it directly to the DPRK (North Korea) origins.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/trump-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion-echoes-north-korea

In an address to a military parade in Pyongyang on 10 October 2015 – the party’s 70th anniversary – Kim thanked the “heroic men and women” of the army and security services who, “in hearty response to the party’s appeal, have worked with patriotic devotion and created one heroic miracle after another” in their quest to build a “thriving socialist nation”.


The phrase also crops up in North Korean propaganda.

On 19 December last year, the fifth anniversary of the death of Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, the Rodong Sinmun, the ruling party’s official newspaper, said of the late leader: “The noble image and patriotic devotion of the peerless patriot, who reliably defended socialism centred on the popular masses and turned [North Korea] into an invincible politico-ideological power and a world military power.”

In an article just after Kim’s death, the official KCNA news agency cited meteorologists as saying “the spring of prosperity under socialism will surely come … thanks to the patriotic devotion of Kim Jong-il, who blocked the howling wind of history till the last moments of his life”.

And last January, the Rodong Sinmun cited a speech in which Kim Jong-un had congratulated a socialist youth league formed in the name of his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, on its 70th anniversary.

Kim, according to the paper, said the league had enjoyed “a history of brilliant victories of the great leaders’ original idea of prioritising the youth and their wise leadership and a history of ardent loyalty and patriotic devotion, with which the young people of Korea have supported the party and the leader, the country and the people”.

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[Maru Kitteh]

13. glad to see I wasn't the only who felt as much. nt