CHARLES P. PIERCE: Let's Parse All the Bullsh*t in Trump's Speech About Hillary

[kpete]

JUN 22, 2016




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........I was struck most heavily by the end of the speech, when He, Trump began to pine for the lost glory that once was America:

Americans are the people that tamed the West, that dug out the Panama Canal, that sent satellites across the solar system, that built the great dams, and so much more. Then we started thinking small. We stopped believing in what America could do, and became reliant on other countries, other people, and other institutions. We lost our sense of purpose, and daring.

I wonder how that possibly could have happened in this country. How did we abandon our dreams of greatness that we demanded of our self-governing Republic. We didn't dig the Panama Canal. Our government did, after it stole the land from Colombia. We, as individuals, didn't tame the West. Our government did, with railroads and homesteading and the U.S. Cavalry. We didn't ourselves build the Hoover Dam. Our government did. We didn't create our own private space exploration. Our government did.

How could the country have come to such a sorry pass? Perhaps a clue can be found in a speech given from the U.S. Capitol by a newly elected president on a cold, clear January morning in 1981.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43130

Sad.

much more:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a46079/donald-trump-speech-hillary-clinton/

[mcar]

1. Pierce is a national treasure

[MH1]

6. Yes, he is.

Something I think we ALL can agree on, no matter who we supported in the primary wars.

[BootinUp]

2. NAILED IT nt.

[Scientific]

3. All the FAIL is Republican generated

Voters need to make the Republicans eat their own stinking record of colossal FAIL - the same FAIL they whine about incessantly, and try to blame on others.

Shirkers.

[tallahasseedem]

4. Thank you for posting this!

Pierce has an amazing way of just summing up the crazy.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. It bugs the shit out of me that Trump calls our space probes "satellites"...

[JBoy]

7. Yes, if your satellite is hurtling across the solar system, ur doing it wrong. n/t

[Fast Walker 52]

8. LOL!

[leeroysphitz]

9. Hitler, Germany, 1938. n/t