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Small-town North Carolina diner this morning, guy walks in wearing his sleeveless t-shirt that's really just the Confederate flag. But on the back is a pissed-off Trump face - from the shoulder to shoulder - and the text at the bottom reads, "Finally, somebody with balls."

July 4th for racists. I hate all of this.

 

In my Pitt football circle I have a group that that’s pissed off by baby Trump balloon and the one of Trump on the toilet - calling it disrespectful and disgusting- while they throw the word “libtard” around like Halloween Candy.

The only thing we’re united in is hypocrisy.

 

Pretty sure that was Pallister.

America sucks right now. It's a bad country doing bad things with a bad president who's in league with other bad men around the world. Those are the facts. I'm rooting for the fireworks against the rednecks tonight the way people watch a bullfight and root for the bull.

 

YGBFKM, man. YGBFKM.

 

Oh, QYFW.

 

Some illegal immigrant criminal stole her tits how embarrassing for the media

 

You may have angered England or France
You may leave everything to chance
You may owe lots of money to German banks
You may order around a lot of Sherman tanks
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes
Indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody

You might be stumbling around on the world stage
You might have armies at your command, children in a cage
You may be a businessman and also a thief
They may call you sir or commander-in-chief
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes you are
You're gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody

You may be a fraud, you might praise a dictator Turk
You may have found fame on some big TV network
You may talk a lot, but it is always the same
You have blabbed to the tabloids under another name
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes you are
You're gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody

 

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TINMHITTMAL

 

Forget the tanks. Trump’s violation of
the Lincoln Memorial is the real offense.

The drama of Civil War reconciliation was often hollow, a whitewash of sentiment over the divisions of a country that was fully engaged in the racism of Jim Crow and segregation. But over the past century, the monumental central axis of the nation’s capital has evolved from a particular statement about post-Civil War reconciliation to a broader one about reconciling national ideals with national realities. The Lincoln Memorial, which has the words “to bind up the nation’s wounds” inscribed on its walls, isn’t just a grand edifice ideal for photo-ops and television spectacle. It exerts gravitational pull on people who sense a contradiction in what the nation claims to be and what it is in fact. A memorial to this country’s most thoughtful president is now the locus of a basic kind of civic thinking: How can we reconcile our treatment of African Americans, people of color, ethnic and religious minorities, women, the poor and the unemployed, and LGBT people with the basic thesis that “all men are created equal”?

The gravitas of this place also exerts a pull on politicians who want to lay claim to its emotional power and aspirational symbolism. The Mall is appropriate for the quasi-political pomp of inaugurations in part because most inaugurations include some kind of call for national unity. Donald Trump is not the first politician to attempt to intertwine his personal brand with the nation’s most revered brand, Lincoln, and Lincoln’s call for “a lasting peace among ourselves.”

But no president since the Civil War has been more uninterested in the rhetoric of healing and unity than Donald Trump. It is difficult to express how deeply repugnant his effort to politicize this space is to commonly held American ideals. The display of tanks near the Lincoln Memorial is just a bitter and expensive absurdity compared with the co-option of Lincoln’s temple for the personal aggrandizement of a man who celebrates political violence, who proudly calls himself a “counterpuncher,” and who regularly tweets insults calculated for maximum divisiveness. In the long arc of Trump’s public career, there isn’t a shred of evidence that he understands who Lincoln was, what he stood for and how he accomplished it. ...

The Fourth of July, in Washington, is beloved because for a moment, the city feels whole, and one can imagine that perhaps someday the country will feel whole, too. It is a fantasy, but a fantasy we abandon at our peril.

The president isn’t interested in wholeness, nor in Lincoln, nor healing of any sort. He has an unerring sense for what is ugly in our public life, and after exercising that strange talent on the national and international stage, he will make a show of it here, in our home. And that hurts.

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