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The week America was undoubtedly at its worst
The week America was undoubtedly at its worst
And it all started with Donald Trump's Miracle of Butler
By DAVID MASCIOTRA
Contributing Writer
PUBLISHED JULY 21, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) The late Gore Vidal explained that one of his ambitions as a historian and novelist was to determine when the great cretinism began in the United States when people got really dumb. While there is plenty of room to debate the origin, it is beyond dispute that were living in peak cretinism.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has exposed America at its worst not only dumb, but hysterical, cowardly, and sickly sentimental. It has placed in the spotlight a dysfunctional political culture incapable of performing the heavy lifting necessary to maintain a vigorous democracy at precisely the moment when democracy is under assault.
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Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., asserted that Biden sent the orders to have Trump killed. While it is not a conspiracy theory, other members of Congress, including Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and, most significantly, Senator JD Vance, who is now Trumps running mate, blamed Biden and the Democrats for the assassination attempt. They claim that the incendiary language of accurately calling Donald Trump a threat to democracy pushed the would-be assassin to act.
They also revealed an inability or refusal to deal with metaphor by arguing that Bidens innocuous statement to donors Its time to put Trump in the bullseye was partially responsible. Lester Holt, NBC news anchor, brought up the bullseye comment to Biden when interviewing him on Monday night, suggesting that it contributed to the volatility of our age. Holt became the team captain in the medias game of feigned ignorance and real timidity. Ignoring that, even according to the FBI, the overwhelming majority of political violence comes from the right, media hosts, like Holt and CNNs Jake Tapper, who has called for everyone to lower the temperature," have turned dangerous rhetoric into a both sides issue. ..............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/21/the-week-america-was-undoubtedly-at-its-worst/
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The week America was undoubtedly at its worst (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 21
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Easterncedar
(3,067 posts)1. I sure hope that was really the worst
alterfurz
(2,546 posts)2. "What haunts me is that I am just not smart enough...
...for so many people to be this much stupider than I am." -- @KateHarding
CrispyQ
(37,744 posts)3. Maga & the media: "Hold my beer."
I've never been so depressed about our politics & I've been political since Watergate.