(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . "Speak in Truth and Earnestness” [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-28 By David Glenn Cox In the words of Winston Churchill, “That certainly was a fine example of “modern art.” I’ve seen my share of debates in my time. And that last night certainly wasn’t one of them. Pull a question from the magic hat then wander aimlessly around it for two minutes. Followed by one minute of rebuttal. Then we will change the subject completely and start all over again. The Donald Trump facial expression show. How many clown faces can Donald Trump make in two minutes? How many talking points can Mr. Biden condense into two minutes? Over studied, over prepped and under spontaneous. The host asked Donald Trump if he would outlaw the abortion pill. Brilliant! Why didn’t anyone think of that before now? Just ask him, and I’m sure he will give us an honest answer. Everyone knows you can always trust Donald Trump for a straight answer! How can you have a debate and how can you debate with a serial liar? A doomed ship before they’ve ever casted off the bow line. “Yes, it was right after I had discovered the secret of the universe. We had the bestest, bestest economy ever! Everyone said so, even Abe Lincoln.” This guy is playing solitaire with a deck of fifty-one. The 78-year-old schoolboy making faces and mugging for the camera. George Orwell never dreamed Big Brother would be a clownish oaf. Putting on a shit show for the drooling proselytes. The only thing missing from the show were shadow puppets and a focus or maybe some sort of point. I’ve been in better organized snow ball fights. The only way they could have made it any worse would have been by putting Disney in charge of it. Joe, I love you, Joe. I think you do great things, but you do them quietly. But you’re not going to reach the cultified brain dead morons with cheaper prescription drugs. Which only affects those who require prescription drugs. But it’s not like going to the moon, now, is it? What’s the vision? How many paperclips can we save from the landfill? Why not mention that in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic, the US economy outperformed the entire fucking world, bar none. That’s almost as important as prescription drug prices, isn’t it? Republicans criticized the Administration for rising gas prices. When the Administration opened the strategic oil reserve to mitigate gas prices Republicans howled, “You can’t do that! Americans don’t want cheaper gas prices! Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If you do something it’s wrong, and if you don’t do something that’s wrong too. Trump loves to spit China! Oh, China is going to do this, or China is doing that. File that under cluelessness: China is barely treading water right now. Act in haste and repent in leisure. The only way China could be worse off would be if they put Disney in charge. A 2008 style housing bubble burst and a new security law that has scared the living shit out of foreign capitalists. Basically, the new law says foreign business people can be arrested and put in prison as spies, if ever the authorities take a notion. All those massive shining Chinese factories which took twenty years to build hollowed out and emptied in three. The factories have all gone someplace else for their cheap labor and a free hand. And they ain’t coming back after the smiling benevolent mask slipped. My grandma, what big teeth you have. This is Trump’s big boogeyman. Because Donald Trump can’t talk really about Russia, now, can he? Who is the largest pariah on the world stage today? (besides Donald Trump) Think Russia! “We get a lot of our money from Russia” -Erc Trump Either Donald Trump is stupid (yes) or he is disingenuous and thinks you’re stupid. (yes) Trump knows his followers don’t know shit and what’s more they don’t care. If orange Howdy Doody says the moon is blue, brother they believe. It is an article of faith and not of fact. Let’s debate the existence of Jesus with the Southern Baptists and see what we can accomplish. Let’s sell pulled pork sandwiches at a vegan picnic. We can talk them into it! Once they hear my arguments. Mmm, good! It felt more like an infomercial than a debate. Is this what we’ve come to? 21st Century media extravaganza with flashing lights and pointless messaging? The historical parallels could not be any clearer. The bombastic mugging would-be Furher and the studious and correct Neville Chamberlain. In a world of would-be Fuhrers be a Churchill and not a Chamberlain. Take off the gloves, call him out and fight Joe! The world depends on it! “I avail myself with relief of the opportunity of speaking to the people of the United States. I do not know how long such liberties will be allowed. The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.” – Winston S. Churchill [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/28/2249372/-Speak-in-Truth-and-Earnestness?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/