Denigrating this luxury avenue
This would be funny if it weren’t so sickening – lately Trump has been complaining that Prince Jared is too much of a lefty and he Trump isn’t going to take his lefty advice any more.
President Trump has told people in recent days that he regrets following some of son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s political advice — including supporting criminal justice reform — and will stick closer to his own instincts, three people with direct knowledge of the president’s thinking tell Axios.
Behind the scenes: One person who spoke with the president interpreted his thinking this way: “No more of Jared’s woke shit.” Another said Trump has indicated that following Kushner’s advice has harmed him politically.
Aw yeah, woke Jared.
The sources said the president has resolved to stick to his instincts and jettison any policies that go against them, including ambitious police reform.
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Trump has made clear he wants to support law enforcement unequivocally, and he won’t do anything that could be seen as undercutting police.
Trump loves force. It’s tough, it’s simple, it’s easy to understand, it’s violent, it’s exciting, it’s fun to watch. He loves it. He’s a simple man.
Axios goes on to say the disagreement with Prince J may be just a passing mood, though.
Trump’s mood this morning:
Some recent polls show Trump losing support among his core supporters (which has never happened before).
Why?
Best guess is his core elected him to do one thing and one thing only: keep whites on top. If he can’t shut down BLM and the protests, they’ll abandon him.
Denigrate? “Criticize unfairly; disparage”. I don’t think the sign is denigrating anything, it’s just saying Black Lives Matter. Just more evidence Trump doesn’t know what words mean. He heard the word denigrate used somewhere, it was negative, it was a bad thing, it is three syllables, stick it in a tweet.
I suspect he meant depreciate.
It probably wasn’t written by Trump at all, but by Scavino. Too many words longer than “bad” – antagonize, expensive, vividly, neutralized, disrespects, affixed – nah, that’s not Trump typing.
What could he possibly mean by suggesting that maybe the police – sorry, GREAT Police – won’t allow the mural? I’m sure that the decoration of a building only becomes police business if it is done without the building owner’s permission or if the decoration is of such a nature that it is itself illegal. Surely Trump can’t be sending a veiled message to New York’s finest that they should consider preventing the mural’s creation by any means…could he?
It’s not even a mural, it’s the words – BLACK LIVES MATTER – painted on the street surface. Trump has no say over it at all.
I found this interesting.
https://spectator.us/jared-kushner-conundrum-scapegoat-saboteur/
My guess is “denigrating” is associated in his mind with, er, the N-word. So of course whatever BLM does must be “denigrating”. (Related: a Black college professor got in trouble some years ago for using the word “niggardly”, because people don’t understand words.)
Sackbut, I have to be careful using the word “schist” in Earth Science, because I teach in a school where someone got in trouble for leaving all the obscenity in a Tennessee William’s play (the word Hell was used once; the play was Glass Menagerie, hardly obscene).
D’you know, I had that exact though walking home about an hour ago. “Oh, denigrating – he probably homed in on the ‘nigra’ part – of course he did.” Felt stupid for not having thought of it at once.
#8 iknklast
Yes well I’m sure by now you have developed quite the reputation for having a karstic wit. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Well, if the asphalt is black… what color will the letters be?
Several street inscriptions that have already been done use yellow letters.
I’ll take an opportunity to share the lovely work and fitting location choice for an inscription here in Montgomery.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/black-lives-matter-painted-where-alabama-slave-market-once-stood.html
If they could de-ingrate the Avenue while they’re at it…