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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
(3,732 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Clown. Show.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,909 posts)to do campaign videos.
Celerity
(43,611 posts)Riefenstahl in conversation with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, 1937
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)a Nazi, why is this POS still there?????
JHB
(37,163 posts)...because he's a Nazi.
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)happy when he gets whats coming to him. He deserves to be locked in a cage.
Celerity
(43,611 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
(10,179 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
(7,927 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
(21,226 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
(65,268 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
(9,152 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,527 posts)And worse for Dump, there will be inevitable comparisons to Obamas 2008 speech on race that will be unfavorableto Dump.
Caliman73
(11,755 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
(28,946 posts)"They're kinda good people, but they gotta stop demanding stuff, else ..."
nolabear
(41,999 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
(60,027 posts)onecaliberal
(32,934 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
(11,755 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
(20,138 posts)Caliman73
(11,755 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
(26,691 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
(7,339 posts)Oye.
oregonjen
(3,342 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)dhill926
(16,373 posts)lame54
(35,331 posts)Cha
(297,819 posts)POS Racist crew will fool no one but the dead eyed cult.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 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
(9,152 posts)DFW
(54,448 posts)Sort of like Josef Göbbels writing speeches for the head Rabbi of Warsaw.
TheBlackAdder
(28,232 posts)Cha
(297,819 posts)bc they can read the polls. & how FUBARED they are.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Cha
(297,819 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,660 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
(90,367 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
(33,579 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,475 posts)if he ad libs and riffs on the speech it will be an asteroid strike.
Paladin
(28,279 posts)Lucky us.
highplainsdem
(49,050 posts)Paladin
(28,279 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
(26,691 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)This speech is going to be useless and even damaging.
uponit7771
(90,367 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
(49,050 posts)sakabatou
(42,186 posts)highplainsdem
(49,050 posts)sakabatou
(42,186 posts)Skittles
(153,226 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
(63,931 posts)orders from headquarters, Putin is all over this.
yonder
(9,683 posts)Say a Cat 390, or so.
Bettie
(16,133 posts)on the fire.
sheshe2
(83,967 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
(11,931 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)FakeNoose
(32,833 posts)I'm taking a hard pass. Maybe I'll watch reruns of I Love Lucy or something. Anything.
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)from corona, too bad.
Crunchy Frog
(26,691 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)of how many keys are on a piano keyboard.
Efilroft Sul
(3,584 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
(34,117 posts)NOT.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)n/t
Javaman
(62,534 posts)TygrBright
(20,774 posts)TeamPooka
(24,271 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
(20,774 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Nasruddin
(754 posts)I'm sure it will be an inciteful speech.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Anyway, he doesn't know what he is reading.
Vinca
(50,319 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)SunSeeker
(51,749 posts)rurallib
(62,465 posts)except FUX
jorgevlorgan
(8,342 posts)He will know soon enough we arent.
Blue Owl
(50,532 posts)n/t