Trump heading for Mount Rushmore
More from the latest fascist uprising speech:
So we’re going to start enriching our country. We’re going to start bringing back our jobs, and we will be fools no longer, folks. We’ll be fools no longer. Every single President on Mt. Rushmore — now here’s what I do. I’d ask whether or not you think I will some day be on Mt. Rushmore, but, but here’s the problem. If I did it joking, totally joking, having fun, the fake news media will say, “he believes he should be on Mt. Rushmore.” So I won’t say it, okay? I won’t say it. But every president — they’ll say it anyway tomorrow. “Trump thinks he should be on Mt. Rushmore.” Isn’t that terrible? What a group. What a dishonest group of people, I’ll tell you. [Cheers from crowd] And you know the funny thing is that you would think they’d want to see our country be great again. You would really think so. But they don’t. Some day they’ll explain it to me why. Every president on Mt. Rushmore believed in protecting American industry. We have to protect our industry. And now we are going to start, we are reclaiming our heritage as a manufacturing nation again. Bob Kraft, the owner of the New England patriots, I don’t know if you like New England but they have a hell of a team. [Boos from crowd] That’s okay. But he came to the Oval Office and he brought a sheet with him that just came out. Manufacturing enthusiasm in the United States is at an all-time high. Isn’t that great? To me that’s so great. because we’re going to bring back our jobs,bring back our wealth, and we are going to bring back our dreams, and we are going to bring back, once again our sovereignty as a nation. As a nation.
As a nay-shun.
Nobody is coming anymore because they know they can’t get through our southern border. So they don’t even come. [Cheers from crowd] Never again will America surrender the security of our people, the safety of our communities or the sovereignty of our nation. We are cracking down hard on the foreign criminal gangs that have brought illegal drugs, violence, horrible bloodshed to peaceful neighborhoods all across our country. We are throwing MS-13 the hell out of here so fast. You know, we’re actually — hard to believe that we’re talking about our great country. We are actually liberating towns and cities. We are liberating — people are screaming from their windows, thank you, thank you to the border patrol and to General Kelly’s great people that come in and grab the thugs and throw them the hell out. We are liberating our towns and we are liberating our cities. Can you believe we have to do that? [Chants of “build that wall wall” from crowd] Earlier in year and immigration and customs enforcement conducted the largest single raid of transnational gangs in the history of our country. We are dismantling and destroying the bloodthirsty criminal gangs, and well, I will just tell you in, we’re not doing it in a politicly correct fashion. We’re doing it rough. Our guys are rougher than their guys. I asked one of our great generals, “how tough are our people? How tough are they?” He said, “sir, you don’t want to know about it.” Then I saw one guy come out, a customs officer who is a monster. I said, “so general, you think i could take that guy in a fight?” He said, “Mr. President, sir i don’t even want to think about it.” I said “you’re right, actually.” We have tough people. Our people are tougher than their people. Our people are tougher and stronger and meaner and smarter than the gangs.
Yep, that’s fascism. Flabby puffy lazy Donald Trump has a lust for violence as long as he gets to stay out of it.
One by one we are finding the illegal gang members, drug dealers, thieves, robbers, criminals and killers. And we are sending them the hell back home where they came from. And once they are gone, we will never let them back in. Believe me. The predators and criminal aliens who poison our communities with drugs and prey on innocent young people, these beautiful, beautiful,innocent young people will, will find no safe haven anywhere in our country. And you’ve seen the stories about some of these animals. They don’t want to use guns, because it’s too fast and it’s not painful enough. So they’ll take a young, beautiful girl, 16, 15, and others and they slice them and dice them with a knife because they want them to go through excruciating pain before they die. And these are the animals that we’ve been protecting for so long. Well, they’re not being protected any longer,folks. And that is why my administration is launching a nationwide crackdown on sanctuary cities. American cities should be sanctuaries for law-abiding Americans, for people that look up to the law, for people that respect the law, not for criminals and gang members that we want the hell out of our country.
What’s he telling the people in that audience? That immigrants are in gangs that slice up beautiful young girls with knives. He’s encouraging them to think that he’s describing all immigrants.
We are going to get criminals off our streets. And we are going to make America safe again. We also strongly believe that our borders must always be closed to terrorism and extremism. We don’t want radical Islamic terrorists in our country. We’ve seen the total devastation in Europe.
The what? The total devastation? So it’s like April 1945 – much of Europe is a smoking ruin?
Of course it isn’t. The attacks are horrible, but they’re nothing like total devastation. He’s fear-mongering, as fascists do.
My administration is working every single day to heed and honor the will of the voters. That includes working on one of the biggest tax cuts in American history. And actually if I get what I want it will be the single biggest tax cut in American history. We have the highest taxes anywhere in the world, and this will really bring them down to one of the lowest.
Huge lie. He tells it every chance he gets, but it’s a lie.
We want this country that we love so much, America, to be strong, proud and free. Which means America must also be united. Because when America is united, America is totally unstoppable. Although I’ll be totally honest with you even if it’s not united we’re unstoppable so don’t worry. We’re gonna to be unstoppable either way but it would be nice, wouldn’t it? Our small differences are nothing compared to our common history, common values and common future. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny. Now it is up to us to preserve the birth right of freedom and justice, the birth right of prosperity that our ancestors won for us with their sweat, with their sweat, with their blood, with their work, with their muscle, with their brain. They won it for us and we’re gonna make it bigger and better and stronger than it ever was before.
So that we’ll all live in a huge condo overlooking Central Park; it’ll be awesome! Fuck common values, man, just give us the money.
What about the white nationalist gangs that bring violence, horrible bloodshed to peaceful neighborhoods all across our country? What about the police that shoot unarmed women in their pajamas because they called to report a disturbance? What’s he doing about them?
And people believe it. My liberal friends? They all worry about this. Business won’t come here, or stay here, or expand because our taxes are higher than anywhere else. You tell a lie often enough, it becomes a truth that is held to so strongly that no amount of factual information will bust it away. It is concrete, solid, and can’t be gotten out of their skull with a jackhammer. Most of the younger generation I work with (as students or colleagues) believe this…my son believes it, and I know I raised him better…they’ve heard it for so long, they don’t know it’s a lie because it’s become conventional wisdom.
Ummm, I’ve been fortunate enough to visit Europe twice for work in the last couple of years. No devastation. None. Sure one of those visits was just three weeks prior to the Bataclan massacre, but the other was several months later. It was actually much nicer and more relaxed and safer feeling than the bits of the trip where I was passing through the US.
As for that nauseating drivel Trump calls a speech…
The claim that taxes are too high, they’re driving away businesses and thus destroying the economy has been the established wisdom since the eighties. It seems to me to be at the core of neoliberalism and supply-side economics.
It’s not just the US, I remember hearing that claim for my entire life and I grew up in Finland. As long as I can remember it’s been considered by many “just common sense” that to saddle businesses with any extra costs directly or indirectly, simply cannot be done because it’ll harm the businesses and therefore shrink the economy and cost jobs. I distinctly remember hearing those claims and feeling there was something wrong with them, but not having the background knowledge or even the vocabulary to dispute them. It’s only in the last half a decade or so, as I’ve begun to read more about politics and economics, that I’ve become capable of formulating my objections clearly. These things were not taught to me at school and the media barely ever gave any time for people critical of this pro-business view to the extent that I really didn’t even KNOW there were experts, activists and politicians who not only dissented, but also had good, solid arguments.
With that said, I’m not surprised that so many people around me bought this idea. One really had to go consciously digging if one wanted to find anything supporting a contrasting view. Given that the common understanding of politics and economics was of a grim, optionless landscape of businesses holding all the trump (hah) cards in society, I don’t really blame people for not wanting to delve deeper into the topic. For one, if the answer is in already (as the common wisdom claims), why bother. Secondly, it really is a very depressing view and if you can’t fight it anyway, why depress yourself even more.
Guy really does seem to have anxieties. Can’t imagine why…
Perhaps, as a consolation, the US could institute some kinda anti-Rushmore, for the suitably inept. Somewhere to commemorate the failed, the cringe-inducing, the regrettable, the disastrous. Mebbe just drop a statue in the bottom of a sewage lagoon, somewhere…
… a Mount Failmore, if you will.
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Cheering them on – they’re our kind of people. The monster ICE agent? One more of them. The ICE agents are praised for being rougher, tougher, and meaner than the gangs who are described as some sort of ravening animal – so it’s not being a ravening animal that’s the problem, it’s being on the other team.
Right down the line, everywhere there’s right and wrong, legal and illegal, even true and false, the distinctions are tossed in favor of us versus them, strength versus weakness. We’ve reached a point in discourse with the firm Trumpists in which appeal to norms like morality, truth, evidence or legality have no traction, even as things to pretend to honor. It’s just about power and identity. Nationalist sociopathy is the new normal.
I was reading up on the denazification of (mostly western) Germany after WWII as some guide to what we may have ahead of us after this is over (I need hope), but it was disappointing. For years after 1945, Germans apparently offering pollsters worrisomely Nazi-friendly responses. The best to hope for may be what it looks like we got there: (1) decisively showing the defeat of their vision – not as a matter of being wrong, but as a matter of plainly failing on its own terms, being crushed, and (2) being up a couple generations with different values in the public sphere and letting the old ones die, while (3) maintaining those norms this time against the inevitable resurgence among some toxic strains in those new generations.
” they’ll take a young, beautiful girl,”
He’s sure to specify that, because he thinks if the girl was old and ugly, who cares?
Re #7 – Yeah, and with him and this crowd, you can be sure “beautiful” is sure to imply “white” as well. They’re subhuman monsters, coming for “our” women; they’ve got what they’re getting coming to them; and it’s all Trump between “us” and the stabby rapist brown horde.