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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApril Ryan just tweeted that STEPHEN MILLER is writing Trump's speech on race relations
Link to tweet
http://aurn.com/white-house-seeking-ways-to-repair-race-relations/
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Clown. Show.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,805 posts)to do campaign videos.
Celerity
(43,469 posts)Riefenstahl in conversation with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, 1937
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)a Nazi, why is this POS still there?????
JHB
(37,161 posts)...because he's a Nazi.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)happy when he gets whats coming to him. He deserves to be locked in a cage.
Celerity
(43,469 posts)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.
Ghost Rec.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,174 posts)Gestapo Miller.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Good God, this is going to be a train wreck into a nuclear reactor.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 9, 2020, 06:09 PM - Edit history (1)
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.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)kimbutgar
(21,173 posts)Its not my fault this happened in Minneapolis.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)He is going to dig his grave even deeper.
Jacoby365
(451 posts)and Trump, also, when he reads it. Will they be able to pull it off in a convincing manner?
ProfessorGAC
(65,134 posts)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.
Doodley
(9,119 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,434 posts)And worse for Dump, there will be inevitable comparisons to Obamas 2008 speech on race that will be unfavorableto Dump.
Caliman73
(11,742 posts)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)"They're kinda good people, but they gotta stop demanding stuff, else ..."
nolabear
(41,990 posts)But Ill bet money Spanky cant make it believable, nor can Miller do anything but out his Nazi leanings. Its gonna be a trip.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)onecaliberal
(32,880 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)you ignorant fuckers
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)sniffing and breathing hard. Probably go off script at some point.
No thanks . .
Caliman73
(11,742 posts)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.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Caliman73
(11,742 posts)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.
Crunchy Frog
(26,610 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)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.
intrepidity
(7,331 posts)Oye.
oregonjen
(3,338 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)dhill926
(16,351 posts)lame54
(35,311 posts)Cha
(297,473 posts)POS Racist crew will fool no one but the dead eyed cult.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)about Miller writing that speech when it was first announced and then thought it would be too stupid and too predictable for a joke...
Doodley
(9,119 posts)DFW
(54,426 posts)Sort of like Josef Göbbels writing speeches for the head Rabbi of Warsaw.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)Cha
(297,473 posts)bc they can read the polls. & how FUBARED they are.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Cha
(297,473 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,628 posts)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)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.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)... 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.
NNadir
(33,538 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,468 posts)if he ad libs and riffs on the speech it will be an asteroid strike.
Paladin
(28,269 posts)Lucky us.
highplainsdem
(49,020 posts)Paladin
(28,269 posts)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.
Crunchy Frog
(26,610 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)This speech is going to be useless and even damaging.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)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.
highplainsdem
(49,020 posts)sakabatou
(42,169 posts)highplainsdem
(49,020 posts)sakabatou
(42,169 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)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)He cant help himself.
HE ALWAYS MAKES THINGS WORSE
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)orders from headquarters, Putin is all over this.
yonder
(9,669 posts)Say a Cat 390, or so.
Bettie
(16,118 posts)on the fire.
sheshe2
(83,843 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)The second it was floated as an idea I thought "Miller."
Wonder how he'll fuse "unity" with blind and naked authoritarianism?
area51
(11,916 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)FakeNoose
(32,703 posts)I'm taking a hard pass. Maybe I'll watch reruns of I Love Lucy or something. Anything.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)from corona, too bad.
Crunchy Frog
(26,610 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)of how many keys are on a piano keyboard.
Efilroft Sul
(3,581 posts)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)
Ms. Toad
(34,085 posts)NOT.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)n/t
Javaman
(62,532 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)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.
.
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Nasruddin
(754 posts)I'm sure it will be an inciteful speech.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)Anyway, he doesn't know what he is reading.
Vinca
(50,300 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,727 posts)SunSeeker
(51,629 posts)rurallib
(62,433 posts)except FUX
jorgevlorgan
(8,313 posts)He will know soon enough we arent.
Blue Owl
(50,476 posts)n/t