President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

garrow · Jul 4, 2019

Scorn on the Fourth of July

Neutral Corner · Jul 4, 2019

Webster said: ↑

The 4th of July celebration didn’t need changing — it was a non-partisan celebration. Big boy just needs to make it all about him.
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I've said it before. All the "Parade in Washington" stuff started after Trump attended the Bastille Day parade with Macron. Trump wants to be on a reviewing stand as hundreds, thousands! of troops salute him as they pass. This is absolutely the same sort of ego feeding that he gets at his campaign rallies, amped up with everything that he can use his presidential powers to add to the spectacle.

"All about me" indeed.

Baron Scicluna · Jul 4, 2019

typefitter said: ↑

Oh, QYFW.
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You really need to get out and get some Sunshine.

Neutral Corner · Jul 4, 2019

Slacker said: ↑

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...SBFNfuUqvcoLC_F6585h1Q&utm_term=.ec84832a9d9e
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True enough. I can't make myself like it.

Neutral Corner · Jul 4, 2019

Baron Scicluna said: ↑

You really need to get out and get some Sunshine.
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We really need an SJ dictionary for all the freaking acronyms.

Jake from State Farm · Jul 4, 2019

goalmouth · Jul 4, 2019

A generic post to get on page (1)1776.
FATUS sucks!

heyabbott · Jul 4, 2019

typefitter · Jul 4, 2019

Neutral Corner said: ↑

We really need an SJ dictionary for all the freaking acronyms.
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It took me forever to figure them out, since most of them, I have to say, were used so ironically. Nobody whined more.

typefitter · Jul 4, 2019

DanielSimpsonDay said: ↑

TINMHITTMAL
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Sorry buddy, but this is the last time I can like one of your posts. Your likes-to-posts ratio (LPr) is off the fucking charts. I'm embarrassed by it. No hard feelings, I hope.

Neutral Corner · Jul 4, 2019

July 4th fireworks donor lobbied President Trump on tariffs and won a reprieve

swingline · Jul 4, 2019

I still don't know what that one means, DSD.

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