Trump opposes demonization?
They are unabashedly telling us lie after lie after lie.
White House reporters continue to press Kayleigh McEnany on the meaning of Trump’s tweet this morning about Nascar driver Bubba Wallace and the decision to ban Confederate flags at races.
One reporter asked the press secretary why the president would not praise Nascar’s decision to ban Confederate flags.
McEnany replied that Trump was against demonizing American citizens. “He stands against the demonization of Americans, and he stands firmly on the side of preserving our history,” McEnany said.
What does the Confederate flag have to do with demonizing American citizens? I guess the idea is that removing it would imply criticism (or “demonization”) of the people who like it? But that’s not a good reason to keep it. Some people like swastikas; that doesn’t mean we have to put swastikas on everything. Some people like the Confederate flag; more people dislike it, as a symbol of slavery and of the determination to hang on to slavery at the cost of 620,000 lives. I think the anti-slavery faction gets to win this one. I also think it’s disturbing that Trump thinks the opposite.
McEnany also lied about that whole pandemic thing.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany shockingly claimed that foreign leaders consider America to be a leader in the fight against coronavirus.
Ha. Hahaha. Name one. ONE.
“I think the world is looking at us as a leader in Covid-19,” McEnany said during the White House briefing.
Well, in spreading it, yes.
Then she did a “scripted walk-off.”
The press secretary accused journalists of failing to ask questions about the most important issues of the day, such as New York shootings increasing in recent weeks.
Of course, the reason why journalists asked so many questions about Nascar and the Confederate flag is because that’s what the president was tweeting about this morning, as dozens of states grapple with a surge in new cases of coronavirus.
May her shoes be full of pebbles.
Jair Bolsonaro.
Don’t worry though, that’s just because he’s hoping to lap us…
I wasn’t aware that state and local crime was a federal issue for the White House to weigh in on regularly. Perhaps next time, reporters can ask her about the troubling rise in jaywalking in Boise. I’m hearing some reports of cow-tipping in Montana that are quite troubling.
And while they’re asking, Screechy, they could ask her about the people who shot off fireworks at 12:15 a.m. on July 5, in violation of the midnight cut off, in Hastings, Nebraska. That’s really important stuff there (well, actually, it was for me, since I was trying to get to sleep).
the press corp needs to boycott these nothingburgerbanquets
if potus isn’t there, they should clarify which golf course he is at, then leave – let fox news and alex jones have the room to themselves
their news reports should then make it plain that yet again, no new information was released by the whitehouse – because nothing ever is
dignifying this stupidity by waiting in line to politely ask inanely worded questions about lies and disinformation as if they are relevant is not helping anyone
some stories have two “sides”, some may have even more, but the story of drumpf never changes from its singularly sickening monolog
You’re lucky, it’s 23:50 here and they’re just getting started. It was raining earlier which surprisingly stopped the usual barrage. It typically starts ~ 21:00 and stops … I dunno, I was up and heard multiple booms well after 3:00 on Thursday I think. It’s been like that every single night for the past month, the 4th itself was not noticeably any worse. I live in a city of over 120,000 people, it’s insane.
Ugh, effin’ fireworks. I hate them. Round here they start in October. “Remember remember, it’s nearly November”, that’s how it goes, right? Then there’s a lull from about mid November until December, then it picks up again in preparation for New Year’s. I’m just glad my cowardly dog doesn’t mind them.
Mike, since our city decided not to do the city fireworks this year (not able to social distance), there were more individual bombers in the neighborhood. And a private company decided to do its own fireworks show (no social distancing implemented) to make up the difference.
And I couldn’t breathe all week because of all the nasty particulates added to the air by people celebrating something they don’t even really grasp. Just…oh, it’s July 4, time to celebrate America! What happened that day? Oh, the first shot of the Revolution? Nope. The Constitution! Nope. The Declaration of Independence. Great! What did it say? Uh…We the People…something something something…have the right to bear arms…and shoot fireworks.
And a friend of mine from London who used to get asked “Do you have the 4th of July in England?” Her answer: “Yes, but we don’t celebrate it. It’s just another day.” And they seemed shocked that England would not celebrate the day we declared our independence from…England.
It’s OK iknklast, we don’t want it back. Not now.
Hahahaha, no, you don’t.
A Republican blogger whose opinions on education I respect recently opined that George Washington was a traitor to England, even more so than Robert E Lee was a traitor to the US. The implication being that traitor-hood was insufficient reason to remove a statue. Um, I don’t think there are a lot of statues of rebel leaders in the places they rejected, such as statues of Washington in England.
Sackbut:
No, although there’s a ceremony celebrating Independence Day in Washington’s ancestral home, Washington Old Hall in the town of Washington, here in the North East of England. I only found out about it this year when people started complaining that nobody was complaining about it.
When people started complaining that nobody was complaining about it should be the title of something.
#13, it should be a Dylan song, I think. Or an Ogden Nash poem. I’m not sure which.
Oh, please. Even with BoJo, you’d have to do a better job.