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On the eve of Donald J. Trump's first State of the Union address, a source tied to the White House leaked the speech to our reporter. It appears that the current President plans to blame all ills facing the nation on his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton. Apparently, Trump believes that the former First Lady and Secretary of State is still in charge of things, making it impossible for Donald Trump to accomplish all of the tremendous initiatives he has planned. "Hillary is out there," the speech reportedly says, "plotting against this great country and its brilliant President, believe me! She's the one destroying this tremendous nation. Make no mistake, she is still in charge of everything, and everything bad that has happened since I took office is her fault."
Our close reading of the teleprompter version of the speech shows over 250 mentions of Hillary Clinton, each of which blames her for problems that have arisen since Trump's inauguration. Examples include Trump blaming Clinton for Russian interference in the election, Trump's financial difficulties, and even Trump's 2006 affair with a porn star. According to the speech, Hillary Clinton is responsible for all of it. Rumors have it that additional blame will be added to the speech following Secretary Clinton's Grammy awards reading of a passage from the tell-all book, "Fire and Fury," which Trump will claim Clinton wrote, with the help of former President Bill Clinton.
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)Well done, MM!
We have to laugh, or else we'll cry .........
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)at Trump.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)still_one
(92,217 posts)conciliatory
I cannot see trumps advisors telling him to take the approach outlined in the OP
If trump goes off as the OP suggests it will backfire big time
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)still_one
(92,217 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)still_one
(92,217 posts)possibility
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Including satirizing this presidency. Count on me to continue doing so.
still_one
(92,217 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Would prefer to know going into it, to avoid it, or block all of 'em outright while looking for actual news.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)If everyone knows something is satirical, what, then, is the point of satire?
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)For those of us not looking for satire but rather news, it's frustrating and becomes a waste of time.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)The poster's name is in the topics list. I frequently post satirical material. Perhaps your answer is there.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)There are quite a few people who think they're clever and post what they believe is satire. It's not limited to just you.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Apparently some people are enjoying it, it seems.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)This stuff wouldn't bother so much if it were actually good.
Aristus
(66,381 posts)When one can no longer distinguish between reality and satire, then satire has bitten the big one.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Read the thread. Most people recognize the satirical nature of this. It uses exaggeration, overstatement, and details that cannot possibly be true to signal the satire.
Perhaps the people who don't detect that are just not reading the post carefully. I don't know. But satire is not dead.
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)to pay attention...LOL.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Thanks!
Satire that doesn't fool anyone is too broad. Jonathan Swift got death threats over "A Modest Proposal."
malaise
(269,045 posts)I knew immediately
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)erronis
(15,294 posts)And while I figured out it was probably satire within the first couple of seconds, I wished that it wasn't. Anything more dumb-dump can do just makes me feel so much better about never voting for a repuglican in the future.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I don't write political stuff for money. I write other stuff that keeps me in beans and tortillas.
Thanks for the kind words, though!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Trump's neglecting Obama?
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)She was holding the puppet stick with the strings all along. Yeah...that's the ticket...
ananda
(28,866 posts)nt
burnbaby
(685 posts)he wouldn't give her any credit for anything. I bet he only mentions her, if at all, when he talks about his win of the EC
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Throwing a sure-thing win in order to make sure Donald Trump came out on top. Stuff that would have faded away in a heartbeat (Russia) is now consequential and very problematic for Trump because Hillary went and stacked the deck in his favor. Collusion? Yes we have collusion here folks. And just who do you think delivered Anthony Weiner's laptop into the lap of James Comey? Tell you what, it wasn't the tooth fairy!
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Everybody knows that, believe me!
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)tricks you and substitutes Obama for Clinton in the speech. To Dump they are interchangeable..
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)She's, you know, a woman.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)Results seem to say you do... sigh...
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)have to do that. Yet. All sarcasm should fool some of its readers into thinking it's a real story. Otherwise, it's too broad.
itcfish
(1,828 posts)of the "Secret Society" LOL
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts).
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)...
niyad
(113,336 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)No, no...I don't mean THAT!
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Trump probably planned to blame Congressional Democrats for all the campaign promises that went unfulfilled. No wall? Democrats. Tax cut not yooge enough.? Democrats. Obamacare not completely repealed? Abortion not outlawed?
Then they threatened to cut off his golfing and KFC, so he went for the claimed conciliatory track...
I expect at least a couple Hillary slams. Thats who he is.
Gothmog
(145,293 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Wish I could find some, somewhere...
Orsino
(37,428 posts)"...someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal."
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Snowball must have done something, after all.