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April Ryan just tweeted that STEPHEN MILLER is writing Trump's speech on race relations (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2020 OP
David Duke unavailable? mnmoderatedem Jun 2020 #1
Don't look like anyone's available. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2020 #39
That should be special. Too bad Leni Riefenstahl isn't still around The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #2
Milller is more a Goebbels type, even looks-wise Celerity Jun 2020 #54
he looks bdamomma Jun 2020 #58
Partly because he flatters Trump, partly because he's strictly "supporting cast", but mostly... JHB Jun 2020 #60
I will be so bdamomma Jun 2020 #63
a huge underpinning of Trump's power's a direct mainline tap to the long wave undercurrents of white Celerity Jun 2020 #62
This denbot Jun 2020 #86
Very well said. scarletwoman Jun 2020 #90
Leni Riefenstahl was very good at what she did, unlike comradebillyboy Jun 2020 #64
Disinterred Hitler wasn't available? qazplm135 Jun 2020 #3
Miller should just plagiarize Mein Kampf, save some time on speech writing. fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #13
He's already used a fair bit of Himmler's language along with Adolf's cliff notes. Ford_Prefect Jun 2020 #82
👏👏🏾👏🏻👏🏿 BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2020 #94
You know it will turn into a me me speech I am being treated so unfairly by the media kimbutgar Jun 2020 #4
Not enough popcorn in the world Marrah_Goodman Jun 2020 #5
That will require some serious thought contortions by Miller, Jacoby365 Jun 2020 #6
I'll Say No ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #10
You are not wrong at all. Doodley Jun 2020 #18
You won't be wrong BannonsLiver Jun 2020 #32
Simple answer... Not a chance in hell. Caliman73 Jun 2020 #15
It will be counter-productive and most likely disgusting, but it won't be surprising. sarge43 Jun 2020 #80
Sadly, he's a cunning little rat. He can oil it up. nolabear Jun 2020 #7
I knew it would be. what could possibly go wrong??? NRaleighLiberal Jun 2020 #8
What could possibly go wrong? onecaliberal Jun 2020 #9
PLEASE PROCEED CatWoman Jun 2020 #11
t-rump will be totally drugged up for this one . .. . Iliyah Jun 2020 #12
Exactly. Caliman73 Jun 2020 #20
And the media will praise him for being "presidential" NYC Liberal Jun 2020 #27
Yup. Caliman73 Jun 2020 #30
He finally became President today!!!! Crunchy Frog Jun 2020 #68
You called it StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #70
Not The Onion? intrepidity Jun 2020 #14
Right? Every time I read something, I'm thinking it has to be The Onion. oregonjen Jun 2020 #35
+1 uponit7771 Jun 2020 #38
satire is dying the death of a thousand cuts... dhill926 Jun 2020 #92
Cut and paste from actual great speeches lame54 Jun 2020 #16
The Gaslighting Continues.. BLOTUS & his Fucked Up Cha Jun 2020 #17
Oh dear Lord. nt Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2020 #19
I cannot be the only one who wanted to make that joke Hav Jun 2020 #21
Trump's poll numbers will fall to sub-forty if SM is the author. Doodley Jun 2020 #22
That figures DFW Jun 2020 #23
I wonder whose manifesto he'll plagiarize for this. TheBlackAdder Jun 2020 #24
Oh & WH isn't "seeking" anything but to LIE about Race Relations.. Cha Jun 2020 #25
If *THIS* isn't Putin's fuckery, then NOTHING is! 😠 Dennis Donovan Jun 2020 #26
Contrasting pics of Pres Obama's & BLOTUS' Interns.. Cha Jun 2020 #28
Well of course he is MustLoveBeagles Jun 2020 #29
They aren't really planning to go through with this, are they? smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #31
Oh you can't make this shit up! 😂😂🤣😂They are clueless! 🙄nt helpisontheway Jun 2020 #33
Miller wont trying to talk to Americans but Trumps & brothers in white supremacy & hate world wide. uponit7771 Jun 2020 #42
He'll probably announce that the whole thing is the fault of African Americans for existing. n/t. NNadir Jun 2020 #34
If he reads the speech it will be a train wreck Miguelito Loveless Jun 2020 #36
Sounds like black uniform/red armband time is coming up. Paladin Jun 2020 #37
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Miller owns an SS uniform. highplainsdem Jun 2020 #41
It's profoundly easy to imagine him going full Himmler, isn't it? Paladin Jun 2020 #61
Probably uses it for foreplay. Crunchy Frog Jun 2020 #73
Somebody on DU already called that! treestar Jun 2020 #40
+1, Trump and Miller want to talk their brothers in white supremacy and hate not Americans uponit7771 Jun 2020 #45
nailed it treestar Jun 2020 #52
Lots of people predicted/joked about the possibility, but this was the first confirmation. highplainsdem Jun 2020 #46
Wait, is this satire, or is this real? sakabatou Jun 2020 #43
Wish it were just satire, but no. April Ryan is a WH correspondent. highplainsdem Jun 2020 #48
Holy fuck... sakabatou Jun 2020 #49
I know Skittles Jun 2020 #93
He will pour gasoline on this hoping to start a race war SoonerPride Jun 2020 #44
He gets his bdamomma Jun 2020 #65
They've dropped the graveside shovel and called in a backhoe. yonder Jun 2020 #47
Well that ought to throw gasoline Bettie Jun 2020 #50
OMG. What could go wrong? sheshe2 Jun 2020 #51
...and, this should surprise no one. Miles Archer Jun 2020 #53
This should go well. area51 Jun 2020 #55
You stole my line....n/t bluecollar2 Jun 2020 #78
My TV stays off for this one FakeNoose Jun 2020 #56
what he got better? bdamomma Jun 2020 #57
Oh boy. Crunchy Frog Jun 2020 #59
it'll be 14 words long and include a mention tishaLA Jun 2020 #66
Miller's speech and Trump's delivery will probably go like this: Efilroft Sul Jun 2020 #67
That should go over well . . . Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #69
That should be quite a speech then. totodeinhere Jun 2020 #71
he'll probably plagiarize mien kampf. nt Javaman Jun 2020 #72
I can't even... n/t TygrBright Jun 2020 #74
It can be the best speech on race ever but the moment trump goes off script he will invalidate TeamPooka Jun 2020 #75
Text: "Scary brown people are coming for you and only I can save you." n/t TygrBright Jun 2020 #76
That's like getting Willie Sutton to write a speech on bank security. George II Jun 2020 #77
A cunning plan Nasruddin Jun 2020 #79
I doubt that Trump will even edit it? kentuck Jun 2020 #81
I wonder if Trump will deliver it with his white hood on. Vinca Jun 2020 #83
Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles.... 47of74 Jun 2020 #84
He should start using AI instead of live. LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #85
OMFG SunSeeker Jun 2020 #87
I would hope that NO media outlets would carry it live rurallib Jun 2020 #88
he thinks we are stupid jorgevlorgan Jun 2020 #89
He just ate the glue that was supposed to hold us all together Blue Owl Jun 2020 #91

Celerity

(43,469 posts)
54. Milller is more a Goebbels type, even looks-wise
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:31 PM
Jun 2020

Riefenstahl in conversation with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, 1937








JHB

(37,161 posts)
60. Partly because he flatters Trump, partly because he's strictly "supporting cast", but mostly...
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:45 PM
Jun 2020

...because he's a Nazi.

Celerity

(43,469 posts)
62. a huge underpinning of Trump's power's a direct mainline tap to the long wave undercurrents of white
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:50 PM
Jun 2020

nationalism, supremacy and manufactured racial grievance/fear of the 'other'. They bubble and boil, simmer and surge just underneath the surface superstructures and zeitgeist of the nation since its founding. Actually before, going back not just the 401 years since the first black slaves landed in Jamestown, but indeed back to very act of 'claiming' the land for the Euro-powers in the beginning. These Hadean forces often spill outward and upwards in violent volcanic-like eruptions.

Trump rides upon that lightning, those dragons.

Ford_Prefect

(7,917 posts)
82. He's already used a fair bit of Himmler's language along with Adolf's cliff notes.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 05:35 PM
Jun 2020

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This could be the moment that may sink Trump's boat. I have no doubts about how Miller will frame this and the language he'll use will be obvious and painful to anyone with a memory of past racist screeds.
It will be full of racist code and will avoid accepting responsibility for all trump has said until today which stirred up the racial divide and encouraged the white nationalists. It will lay blame on the citizens, the Governors, politicians, public figures, and the protesters who have spoken out for pushing too hard and too fast.
It will cry mercy on the poor misunderstood, racist, misogynist, working-class whites who've been led down the garden path by 40 years of hate radio, the NRA, Fox News, and Trump.
It will above all demand that we all work together to heal the rift Trump and the GOP engendered and so successfully exploited to gain office. It will not ask the GOP, or big money interests to apologize for systemic racism.

It will try unfairly and inaccurately to blame Democrats for failing to act when the GOP has stonewalled changes in policy and law.

Although Democrats do share some of this burden and the central party leadership have dragged their feet on occasion, it hardly compares to the naked aggression of the GOP and its willful inflammation of racism as a party dogma.

Most of all it will, without doubt, be painful in the ears of anyone who has suffered, who has witnessed the suffering or has strived to change this awful legacy of our shared past.

kimbutgar

(21,173 posts)
4. You know it will turn into a me me speech I am being treated so unfairly by the media
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:23 PM
Jun 2020

It’s not my fault this happened in Minneapolis.

Jacoby365

(451 posts)
6. That will require some serious thought contortions by Miller,
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:24 PM
Jun 2020

and Trump, also, when he reads it. Will they be able to pull it off in a convincing manner?

ProfessorGAC

(65,134 posts)
10. I'll Say No
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:27 PM
Jun 2020

No matter how positive the words, the delivery will be stiff & insincere. His only good public speaking approaches are anger & ridicule. That won't work, here.
I could be wrong, but I'm guessing I'm not.

BannonsLiver

(16,434 posts)
32. You won't be wrong
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:44 PM
Jun 2020

And worse for Dump, there will be inevitable comparisons to Obama’s 2008 speech on race that will be unfavorableto Dump.

Caliman73

(11,742 posts)
15. Simple answer... Not a chance in hell.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:29 PM
Jun 2020

Let's see, racist scumbag writing a speech on race relations for a racist scumbag?

I am going with stilted monotone voice over dog whistles, devolving into an attack on how "people" are stoking division.

sarge43

(28,942 posts)
80. It will be counter-productive and most likely disgusting, but it won't be surprising.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 05:32 PM
Jun 2020

"They're kinda good people, but they gotta stop demanding stuff, else ..."

nolabear

(41,990 posts)
7. Sadly, he's a cunning little rat. He can oil it up.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:25 PM
Jun 2020

But I’ll bet money Spanky can’t make it believable, nor can Miller do anything but out his Nazi leanings. It’s gonna be a trip.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
12. t-rump will be totally drugged up for this one . .. .
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:28 PM
Jun 2020

sniffing and breathing hard. Probably go off script at some point.

No thanks . .

Caliman73

(11,742 posts)
20. Exactly.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:32 PM
Jun 2020

Like I said above. Stilted monotone. Definitely a ton of sniffing. Then it devolves into pointing the finger at media, Democrats, and "others" trying to divide America by stoking racial tensions.

Caliman73

(11,742 posts)
30. Yup.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jun 2020

Just as long as he doesn't drop his pants and take a shit on the podium, the "liberal media" will talk about how he maybe is turning a corner and how "presidential" he sounded.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
70. You called it
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 05:09 PM
Jun 2020

I don't know why the press refuses to report the obvious. The man is clearly drugged up, yet they act like nothing is amiss...

I realize that, traditionally, it would have been inappropriate to refer to it. But we left traditional three years ago. They need to start asking about that.

Cha

(297,473 posts)
17. The Gaslighting Continues.. BLOTUS & his Fucked Up
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:31 PM
Jun 2020

POS Racist crew will fool no one but the dead eyed cult.

Hav

(5,969 posts)
21. I cannot be the only one who wanted to make that joke
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:32 PM
Jun 2020

about Miller writing that speech when it was first announced and then thought it would be too stupid and too predictable for a joke...

Cha

(297,473 posts)
25. Oh & WH isn't "seeking" anything but to LIE about Race Relations..
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:34 PM
Jun 2020

bc they can read the polls. & how FUBARED they are.

MustLoveBeagles

(11,628 posts)
29. Well of course he is
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:41 PM
Jun 2020


Will chainsaw guy make a special appearance during this? Inquiring minds want to know. I'd better go stock up on popcorn.
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
31. They aren't really planning to go through with this, are they?
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jun 2020

There is just no way they can NOT fuck this up. Even if the written speech isn't terrible, it will be hollow and Trump's reading of it will sound insincere and shallow. Also, he will definitely be doped up for this one.

Nobody for whom this type of speech is meant to appeal to will believe one word of it, and his base will resent the fact that he is pandering to BLM crowd. I just don't see the point.

uponit7771

(90,348 posts)
42. Miller wont trying to talk to Americans but Trumps & brothers in white supremacy & hate world wide.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:15 PM
Jun 2020

... My understanding is the white supremacist want a race war that they think they'll win cause they'll be sexed out of existence anyway.

Instead of having babies and love they spew fear and hate, most of those guys are losers no one sees at the top of the food chain anyway.

Miguelito Loveless

(4,468 posts)
36. If he reads the speech it will be a train wreck
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:06 PM
Jun 2020

if he ad libs and riffs on the speech it will be an asteroid strike.

Paladin

(28,269 posts)
61. It's profoundly easy to imagine him going full Himmler, isn't it?
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:49 PM
Jun 2020

God, I'll be so glad when this horror show is a thing of the past. History is going to be unkind to us for letting it go on as long as it did.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
52. nailed it
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:25 PM
Jun 2020

there is no way it will be in any way willing to deal with the issues except from the view of those "good people" some of them allegedly are.

Skittles

(153,174 posts)
93. I know
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:33 PM
Jun 2020

Trump does not address the death of Mr. Floyd, then hires Mr. Goebbels to write a speech on race relations.....The Onion just needs to go out of business, they cannot compete with the likes of this.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
44. He will pour gasoline on this hoping to start a race war
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:17 PM
Jun 2020

He can’t help himself.

HE ALWAYS MAKES THINGS WORSE

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
53. ...and, this should surprise no one.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:31 PM
Jun 2020

The second it was floated as an idea I thought "Miller."

Wonder how he'll fuse "unity" with blind and naked authoritarianism?

FakeNoose

(32,703 posts)
56. My TV stays off for this one
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 04:36 PM
Jun 2020

I'm taking a hard pass. Maybe I'll watch reruns of I Love Lucy or something. Anything.


Efilroft Sul

(3,581 posts)
67. Miller's speech and Trump's delivery will probably go like this:
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 05:03 PM
Jun 2020

Trump: It is important that we seek out every brown person who is protesting police…
MAGA Rally: SEEK!
Trump: …as we hail all those officers who bravely uphold the law.
MAGA Rally: HAIL!
Trump: SEEK!
MAGA Rally: HAIL!

(repeat last two lines as necessary)

TeamPooka

(24,242 posts)
75. It can be the best speech on race ever but the moment trump goes off script he will invalidate
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 05:14 PM
Jun 2020

everything he said during it.
So go ahead give a speech about race, police reform etc
The moment it's over a reporter will ask him if he takes back what he said and thinks police should be nicer to suspects when putting them in the car etc
He will go right back.
.

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