The most disgraceful moment in trump's speech.
I posted this elsewhere, about my main takeaway from trump's speech besides the general "how can you believe ANYTHING he says, because of how much and how consistently he lies" -
That baldly exploitive moment regarding the grieving widow.
The widow of that Navy SEAL who died in the failed Yemen raid. She got a LOT of applause. But after awhile, I started to feel bad for her. Dammit, people, let her be. QUIT making a spectacle of the grieving widow - who sat briefly but then stood as the applause continued, her whole face red, as she started to cry. Below her eyes it was all swollen, her nose as well, she looked Heaven-ward, several times, mouthing what looked like "I love you, baby." And it just went on and on and on and on and on. And then trump made some tawdry comment about what a record-breaker that was in the applause-meter department, and the clapping started all over again, and once again went on and on and on and on. SHEESH. It really started to bother me. I felt terrible for her.
I felt as though all those trump-worshipping hypocrites assumed that if they just applauded a lot, that would somehow absolve them from any guilt or collusion with trump's piss-poor decision that he tossed out so casually while he was at dinner. And NO, folks, it won't. And you can clap all night long for her and make a spectacle of her grief to make yourselves feel all noble and altruistic and publicly compassionate and kind-looking. So are you gonna take away her health care then? How 'bout veterans benefits that she surely should have coming now that her husband's been killed in action? You gonna help her raise those kids alone? Or are you gonna nickel-and-dime her with all kinds of excuses about the burgeoning deficit from all those entitlements you don't want to have to pay for because you've just got to help those poor put-upon rich people get bigger tax cuts (or beef up the military so MORE young husbands like hers can go get killed, leaving their grieving widows to become fodder for being USED like this as a cheap applause line for political benefit)? You gonna pass any bills or maybe start a GoFundMe for her now, since she's left on her own with a family to take care of? I bet she'd trade all that phony-ass over-wrought, disgracefully maudlin, and ENTIRELY MEANINGLESS applause to be home watching the speech with her husband who was still alive.
THAT little episode just STUNK. I felt so bad for her. You could tell she didn't want the attention, especially having to stand there crying her eyes out on national television, so terribly vulnerable, looking upward to the spirit of her husband to help her find the strength, being used in front of all America to make these heartless scheming assholes feel better about themselves. What a disgrace. I found myself mumbling "leave that poor woman ALONE! She's not some reality show character to be trotted out as the object-du-jour for public pity."
SHAME on them all for exploiting her like that.
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They did such a good deed by clapping that long, I'm sure they feel like they're all patriotic and empathic now.
In reality their empathy is uniquely shallow and brittle. They have no idea, so this artifice is the best they can do.
