Even when the Pussy Grabber in chief tries to act in a restrained manner, somehow, some way, he always just fucks it up.
Today of course was no exception. Donald Trump, stand-up comedian:
Fitting as it is to see a truly disgusting human being mocked as he should be, the real news is the truly morbid turns, Trump took in his speech. The greasy hands of Stephen Miller and Steven Bannon are all over it.
Take this little tidbit for example:
“America is governed by Americans,” he said to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday in one his highest-profile speeches of the year. “We reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism.”
Trump knew the ignorant people he was speaking to, and they were not sitting in the hall of the General Assembly. They were glued to the seats in front of Fox News. Adam Silverman explains:
We already know that globalism is the code that Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon use to refer to not just the current global system of international trade, international relations, and international security agreements, but to Jews. It is intended to be understood, if I may, literally by the majority of people who aren’t anti-Semites or anti-Semitic curious and figuratively by the President’s supporters who are. But what is this Doctrine of Patriotism? The Doctrine of Patriotism was proposed by Charles Spurgeon a mid to late 19th Century Calvinist Baptist from London.
Specifically, Spurgeon wrote (emphasis Silverman’s):
Patriotism is an instinct which is found, I think, in every true Englishman. And most of the other nations of the earth can also boast of their patriots. Let it never be said that the Church of God has no feeling of patriotism for the Holy City, for the Heavenly Land and for her glorious King enthroned above. To us, Christian patriotism means love to the Church of God, for—
“There our best friends, our kindred dwell, There God our Savior reigns.”
Let us have loyalty, by all means, but, chiefly, loyalty to Christ! Let us have true patriotism, but, especially that patriotism which consists in love to “the land of the living” of which Christ is the one King and Ruler.
Globalist and globalism are the types of useless words Trump’s deranged supporters use to scorn folks like me. Same is true for the word “Patriotism”. Trump fanatics hate the idea that one can be patriotic to one’s country and still understand that we live in an interconnected, multi-polar world.
I’m also pretty sure that most people in the room understood that if most Americans had their way, this worthless monster would not be in front of them. So America may be ruled by Americans, but it was also subverted by more than a couple of Russians.
The language is indeed odd until you remember that it is the buzz-speak for a particular group of those Americans. Silverman again explains:
So here too we have the President using a phrase that is going to either just get
a “ hmm, that sounds a bit odd” or “what does he mean by that” from most listeners, including scholars of international relations and security and national security professionals and that is going to be heard and understood differently by a very specific group of the President’s base: white Evangelical Christians. Moreover, this concept dovetails with a lot of Putin’s attempts to use and leverage the Russian Orthodox Church to promote himself to white American Evangelicals, as well as a variety of American and European white supremacists, neo-NAZIs, neo-fascists, and neo-nationalists. The President’s use of the doctrine of patriotism, like his use of the term globalist, is meant to be taken figuratively by his base and fellow travelers, but literally by everyone else who doesn’t speak in this coded jargon.
He then went on to read a monotonous list of his
He bragged about his tax cuts for the filthy rich – in front of a body of people many of whom represent a whole lot of people who have been exploited to make those folks rich. And for the other industrialized nations in the room, they could ruefully shake their heads at the leader of a rich country, that has poor infrastructure and cruelly refuses to care for it’s citizens.
And then he really started lying:
We have secured record funding for our military — $700 billion this year, and $716 billion next year. Our military will soon be more powerful than it has ever been before.
In other words, the United States is stronger, safer, and a richer country than it was when I assumed office less than two years ago.
We are standing up for America and for the American people. And we are also standing up for the world.
This is great news for our citizens and for peace-loving people everywhere. We believe that when nations respect the rights of their neighbors and defend the interests of their people, they can better work together to secure the blessings of safety, prosperity, and peace.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. This is supposed to be a major foreign policy address to people who can’t vote in American elections. Besides the fact that , were I from a nation in the Southern hemisphere, it would not instill me with confidence as hunger and disease continue to stalk my country – it also has inability to persuade me to cooperate with the United States.
People don’t like being bullied.
The lying train picking up speed, Trump then recited his praise for the list of dictators that he wishes he could emulate:
- Praise for Kim Jong
Un - Praise for Saudi Arabia and it’s so-called “reforms”-which are all about consolidating power and purging one’s enemies.
- He lied about building a wall.
- He praised the GCC nations and Egypt-both of which are not exactly thriving democracies.
- And of course, he took time out to praise the man who is bankrolling his debt filled voyage into misery, a truly successful dictator, China’s President for life, Xi. He then went on to whine again and again about “fairness”.
Then he just beat up on the same old tired hobby horses for no real reason:
The International Criminal Court (ICC)
Illegal immigration and ‘uncontrolled migration’
The Iran Nuclear Deal
And of course, he just could not resist trotting out the “S” word:
“Virtually everywhere socialism or communism has been tried, it has produced suffering, corruption, and decay. Socialism’s thirst for power leads to expansion, incursion, and oppression. All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone.”
Hey Mushroom Dick, your own country has a fair amount of misery too.
One of his major whoppers was almost a throwaway line, turd wrapped in fragrant bacon.
Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has ever survived, democracy has ever endured, or peace has ever prospered. And so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all.
When we do, we will find new avenues for cooperation unfolding before us. We will find
new passion for peacemaking rising within us. We will findnew purpose, new resolve, and new spirit flourishing all aroundus, and making this a more beautiful world in which to live.
The irony of saying this, with its veiled references to destructive nationalism, in the year of the 100th anniversary of the war where “sovereignty” and “patriotism” nearly destroyed a continent and killed 20,000,000 people is indeed rich.
Putin probably enjoyed hearing it though, as it reaffirmed his plan to break up the foundations of a peaceful world.
The speech did not have the shock value it did last year, primarily because the majority of Americans and the rest of world have given up on the misguided hope that Trump will ever actually act like a President or a leader. We and they have much more important things on our minds, like trying to figure out ways to mitigate the truly great damage this worthless specimen of humanity is causing. The speech was yet another coda highlighting the decline of the United States on the world stage, as well as a harbinger of the misery that it will cause while it fails. A truly dangerous man strode to the rostrum and highlighted the failures of his once great country in front of the rest of the world. The UN may have been laughing, but they should have been sad.
And sharpening their