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Showing Original Post only (View all)Every Trump Lie Is a Confession-- William Rivers Pitt [View all]
https://truthout.org/articles/every-trump-lie-is-a-confession/
A thousand of Trumps most avid devotees came from miles around to stuff themselves into an enclosed indoor space, where they stood packed like cattle in a high-density field, maskless almost to a person, screaming and sweating all over each other in an orgiastic celebration of the death of reason.
I picture a COVID-19 virion, its crowns bristling red, feet up and reclined on its Barcalounger after a hard day at work killing people, looking serenely over that mob of reckless idolators before leaning to a virion friend and saying, Hold my beer. We will be hearing about the medical consequences from Sunday evenings event before the calendar page turns, if the pattern holds, which it has with nearly unfailing consistency since this dismal year began.
Trumps speech was an abomination of lies, distortions, exhortations and puling complaints. In other words, it was every speech he has given at every rally since he came down the golden escalator five years ago. It was a triumph of the mundane, proof itself of the banality of evil, so boring after endless repetition that none of the networks, not even C-SPAN, bothered to broadcast it. I had to work to find the thing.
As I let the bilge tide of Trumps gibberish wash over me, however, I found myself encased in a rare moment of clarity. It is difficult to think straight when the president is ruining your country in real time at the top of his voice and right in your face. That, of course, is the entire point of the exercise. For those who have been beaten down by the Trumpian disaster porn, writes Tim Miller for The Bulwark, rallies such as this dont really make a mark any longer.
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I don't want to pass on anything that isn't true, and I should have been more careful.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Oct 2020
#29
If that's the case, I apologize for relying on second-hand reports
The Velveteen Ocelot
Oct 2020
#18