The Last Hurrah
Last night we may have heard the last speech Donald Trump will ever give. The speech was filmed and released by the President. He no longer has social media accounts. The film was provided to the American public by whatever news outlets cared to cover the speech. Donald Trump was never a model of good behavior, but in his final act he at least does what is needed for the good of the nation - he forcefully told his followers not to participate in any violent protests.
Maybe an apology to Mike Pence and a thank you for his loyal and virtuous service to the nation might also be in order?
Why was it so important?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that armed protests are planned for every state capitol from Jan. 16 until at least Jan. 20 as well as the U.S. Capitol. I have recently read that this is supposedly the work of the Boogaloo movement (gun-toting extremists who advocate for a second civil war). It is simply one more extremist group that has come to prominence via the nation's great divide. After all, does anyone seriously think the country would be at peace with no violence if Donald Trump had won?
Those barricades in DC were built for the expected violence from antifa & BLM had Trump won. We will also need the president-elect to also step up to the plate and do as he promised - unite us. That means speaking to his own supporters, the way Trump did with his and telling them that violence will not be tolerated and is unacceptable.
Please note: There was no reference to impeachment or any other grievance in the President's final speech.
We found a step above rock bottom.
Just heard on the radio that the National Mall will be closed on inauguration day out of safety concerns.
And hotels & motels are closed. We have more troops there than in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Four years ago the media shrugged it off when antifa brutalized DC.
Thanks to the 'president' led mob siege on the Capitol
Who are also planning more domestic terrorism at all state capitols and DC on January 17th.
it's amazing what extremes a pathetic loser will go to in order to claim his inauguration crowd was larger.
Hell, they burned DC this summer and the left didn't care. There's no pretense to fairness, justice or consistency in any of this. Vote for Congress to overturn the election in 2000, 2004 and 2016? Cool beans, you can even manage the impeachment of a President for wanting to do the same thing. But if you do the same thing as a Republican? Corporate media will demand your career is ended. Egg on continuing violence and pay for terrorists to get out jail? You get to be elected VP as a Democrat! Talk at a protest that turns violent? If you are associates with the right wing, the left's commissars will destroy your career. If you are an elected democratic politician? No one cares.
This is all just the exercise of raw power to punish ideological enemies. And when the government, multi-national corporations and the media work in lockstep together to enforce ideological conformity, speaking out becomes a risk.
It is called Fascism. How do people survive under Fascism or Communism or any authoritarian state?
Answer: They live normally by not speaking on anything political nor utter anything that would counter the will of the State. Allan Bloom called it the "Closing of the American mind", I prefer the monastery of the mind. We simply shut our mouths, do as we are told and we get by.
Why do you continue to make demonstrable FALSE statements Vic. EVERY MSM outlet covered the 2016 post inauguration protest in DC.
In the clip at 3:20
"I gotta tell you, in the movies I've seen, the hoards of peoples with pitchforks, are usually the bad guys"
That same old shtick. Yawn. . .
That's what you're proud of ? What an achievement !!! /s
Scraped the bottom of the barrel also obviously
The key to happiness is low expectations
That's what the gurus say, lol.
What 'barricades in DC' are you talking about Vic?
Oh and don't forget the wearing of black. DC prosecutors have claimed in indictments that the very act of wearing black is evidence that one has the intent to riot.
The ones the mob pushed thru
BLM protested in front of the WH, NOT the Capitol. Perhaps that's why Vic can't seem to find them...
Like all Trump speeches , this one is worthless for one obvious reason. He is a serial liar and one can never be sure if he is telling the truth or being sincere.
It is remarkable and a black mark on America that such a person ever got so far in politics.
Yes John, it is sad. He finally got it on his way out the door. He could've been (almost) as great as he thinks he is.
I'll gladly accept all of his policies & achievements.
He hasn't "got it". He made it through a day without destroying something. He should get a medal? He should resign.
WHAT did Trump 'get' Vic? Please DO be specific.
Revenge for this massive witch hunt that started the day the 'president' went down the escaltor?
I’ll accept them as well. MAGA!
4 years too late!
No. He only thinks he's great. Most narcissists do.
Not everyone has such low standards. Maybe that's why Trump didn't get reelected.
"Not everyone has such low standards. Maybe that's why Trump didn't get reelected."
At least 7 million more had MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH higher standards.
At least that's something.
The POTUS has two speech modes.
Animated, firey and off the cuff - whether he is lying or not he comes across as sincere.
or Stiff, wooden, script reading, like he'd rather be anywhere else and totally unbelievable.
That's what we got last night, an appropriate speech written by staffers or Jared
which the President barely emoted through to the end.
... an unwanted chore that needed to be attended to in an attempt to save face, like melania.
"Rumor has it" that Jared told him to "Save the brand".
Too late.
no doubt. it's also evident the POS couldn't care less about his kids in the future.
Yeah...I think the brand is a wee bit tarnished these days
Even part of his speech remains divisive, despite any calls for peace.
"Those barricades in DC were built for the expected violence from antifa & BLM had Trump won."
Really? Well look what happened WHEN HE LOST?
SMDH
oh, eek. barely enough bandwidth available to list all the domestic terrorist groups associated with mister single term, twice impeached, yet to be numbered convict, loser.
Home Depot co-founder and major GOP donor Ken Langone says he feels 'betrayed' by Trump after Capitol riots
Seems that some of his big donors have seen the light.
Ooh pobrecito Langone !
Sincere or not, it is good that he did this. The nutcases among his supporters need to hear from their demigod that they need to cease and desist.
There may be some truth in what you say. However, there are Trump supporters who believe that Trump has to speak in coded messages that only they understand. There are fears , expressed by FBI Director Wray yesterday, that Q Anon may be planning violence around the time of the inauguration. I'm not sure Q Anon people, or other Trump extremists , will be persuaded by his speech last night.
A speech cannot cure crazy. Every group has its lunatic fringe.
In evidence every day...
And even for all of us to witness locally.
I'm not worried. after a few dozen funerals, Qanon, 3pers, and oath breakers will lose interest in being revolutionaries.
You're the best!
Yet a speech sure as hell can inflame it.
The far right 'lunatic fringe' has been embraced by Trump. Just look at his election rallies. There are Q signs all over the place. Trump invited the Chairman of the Proud Boys to the WH. Trump cheered on armed 'protests' in cities all over the country. After the election, Trump did a drive by for the DC rally where swastikas and the Southern Cross were prominent.
There is NO both sides to that.
Or they could be further 'radicalized' by the 'martyrdom' of 'true believers'.
I'm sure. That's how it works in the progressive state - praise for BLM & antifa and bullets for anyone who riots for the wrong agenda.
Isn't that what Trump called for Vic? Have you already forgotten 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'?
It should but the progressives have reserved that for their opponents.
Nope, Trump cornered the market...
BTW, deflect much?
with covid closing in on 400K dead americans by inauguration day, due to trump's incompetence, we could use a lost more organ donors. time to cull the herd of sedition, and harvesting organs from those the most ignorant of the constitution is the most logical choice. the ones that are way beyond ripe can go straight to the woodchipper. /s
most definitely. lots of bullets for insurrectionists and domestic terrorists.
He was made to do it, against his will, by the deep state....
I can hear his sycophants saying just that.
'They' made him do it.' 'Trump didn't mean it.' 'On the morning of Jan. 20, we will take our country back and Keep America Great with Trump!'
Bunch of entitled, delusional mother fuckers.
We don't thank a 'president' for putting out the flames, when he started the fire in the first place and then poured gasoline on it.
Having Rudy get people riled up, Don Jr getting the crowd riled up.
They were hyping them up saying they are going to take the country back.
Hyped them up like they were at a wrestling match, then sit back and say, have fun storming the castle kids...
Don, Jr., LOL, did you hear, they're looking into misappropriation of campaign funds regarding Don, Jr..
Bunch of crooks. .
Biden has already failed. He broke his campaign promise of "unity" by:
He has also been silent during many months of the left wing's BLM and Antifa riots, looting, arson, and murders.
Oh bullshit. He was talking about the people storming the capitol.
Of course you know this, just trying to use a generalization.
Pay no attention to all the nasty things donald has said over the last five years and attack Biden for not having unity when he has not even taken the office yet...
Is this going to be the standard response for the next 4 years regarding any criticism of Biden....but Trump?
I am afraid so.
Nothing in the comment is not true. Biden is failing at even his weak attempt to unite the country.
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No, my standard response will be to show the utter hypocrisy in some.
On display now.
Biden can try to unite all he wants, we all know by some of the responses here, some will never let it happen.
Excuses are already being used.
Nope. Condemnation is what is already being used.
Condemnation before the man even steps foot in the Whitehouse.
Pure partisan 'thinking' ... the crux of divisiveness.
Yeah ok. The poor man.
You know, I don't like Pence and I think he would have enacted the same agenda as donald, butt, at least I think he would have acted Presidential.
Some on the other hand, would blindly fight others because...
If what you claim is true, then Biden's cognitive disability is worse than we've seen before. He believes that Senators Hawley and Cruz are Nazis.
Here's Goebbels' full quote. Interestingly enough, it perfectly describes the confirmed lies and crimes of the Obama/Biden Administration:
That way of thinking seems to be the only way some people think. Of course, it's actually more along the lines of non thinking than actual thought.
Oh please. We all know what he is talking about.
The big lie that the election was stolen.
Still waiting on all this proof...
Talk about reaching...
The nazis were storming the capitol.
Starting with his victory speech:
All your link proves is that a Fox News reporter's interpretation of Biden's statements is delusional.
I won't bother posting what Biden ACTUALLY said since I highly doubt that you give a fuck.
If that were the case, why did Biden specifically invoke Goebbels in his comment? How, precisely, did Goebbels affect the 2020 General Election? Most of us believe he's dead. We have many examples of Biden's declining, questionable cognitive state, so maybe he believes that Goebbels is still alive.
There's no need for you to do that, because I've already posted it at least twice. Thanks anyway!
That was hardly divisive, well except maybe to the people that stick to the belief there is no racism.
What in the world do you think most of the protests this summer were about...
I will repeat it to. donad and his accomplices were all apart of the big lie.
It is the big lie of our time.
What he said is not false.
Want to look for nazis, look at the people wearing concentration camp t-shirts...
No you haven't. You've posted conveniently edited VERSIONS of what Biden said.
Robert Keith Packer was arrested. Your point?
Know him by name huh?
So Biden's quote/reference that's been published in articles appearing in Fox News, MSN, Bloomberg, Democratic Underground, CBS, and other sources aren't true? Wow, imagine that!
The Internet provides many search engines. I wish more people would use them; I suggest DuckDuckGo, because it doesn't track us like Google does.
Eh, they all know where we have been and what we are doing anyway.
Not if you have the proper safeguards/protections. Good-bye.
I note your equivocation Jasper.
You posted a truncated 'quote'. When I read one, I ask myself WTF the edited out and invest the time to review in it's entirety, instead of forming an opinion based only on the part someone else wants me to know.
Why not? We've seen 4 years of 'But Obama!'.
Since you insist that's true, perhaps you'd honor me with some PROOF. Please proceed.
More importantly, Trump has failed in his whiny attempt at usurping the Constitution. His lawyers better be burning the midnight oil.
I use that one! Duck Duck Go is a safe user alternative.
But he didn't come right out and call them Nazis. Some people wouldn't understand the Big Lie reference...like the TrumpETTES
That he said Goebbels was enough of a Nazi reference for anyone who has graduated from a US high school in the past 75-ish years. Please read my comment 7.2.17 for Biden's exact words.
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That comment, given Biden has not yet taken office, projects that no matter what takes place you will declare 'Biden has failed'.
Anyone can point to the myriad actions and words uttered by a politician and engage in criticism. If the lack of perfection (even before the man takes office) is enough for you to deem failure then your method of analysis is obvious and is guaranteed to produce one and only one conclusion.
That is just it TiG, there is no analysis, just condemnation of the "other ".
Exactly. Just the same old partisan crap. We have seen D partisans do this with Trump (e.g. focus on irrelevant flaws like Trump cheating at Golf when there are major glaring flaws —such as near daily unabashed lying to the citizens of the USA— to be discussed) and now I expect the R partisans to do this with Biden. Anything Biden does will be wrong by definition. Pure partisan 'reasoning' is unhealthy. If a politician is wrong then there should be clear, factual justification to make the designation and the charge should be more than petty nit-picking. Not just that the politician is of the other side.
It is correct and healthy to be critical of politicians. I fully support sensible, objective, measured criticism. If a politician does something wrong then call them out on it. If they do something outrageous (e.g. Trump's national election con job) then take them to task.
But to simply look for cheap, weak excuses to make grand negative declarations accomplishes nothing of value.
Biden will make all sorts of mistakes. He will utter ridiculous sentences. He will contradict himself. He will take actions that are arguably bad for the nation. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage in legitimate criticism based on substance.
Personally, I am not going to be too critical of Biden until he has been in office for a few months. Unless, of course, he does something extraordinarily bad or stupid.
Impeach Biden 1-21-21!
On what grounds?
See here you go again shooting before you aim.
If you are in favor of impeaching a PotUS (even before his inauguration) and thus clearly have zero grounds, then how can you possibly object to the impeachments of Trump (especially the second one) where there are substantial grounds?
The hypocrisy here (among other things) is staggering.
More like shooting blanks.
As is the delusion and willful ignorance.
And not just the hypocrisy.
Biden hasn't even been sworn is as President yet. Neither was he President in the previous months. Meanwhile, the soon to be former President did nothing for unity in the previous months. If anything, he only contributed to divisiveness. The DC riot is the apex and most clear example of that.
He has been nothing but divisive for the last five or six years.
Indeed
When has tRump ever been silent?
Since my comment 7 discussed Biden and never mentioned Trump, perhaps someone else can answer your question.
But Trump!
I bet he even talks in his sleep. Or...more like ranting and raving.
We can only hope.
Those barricades in DC were built for the expected violence from antifa & BLM had Trump won.
"...had Trump won."
Those barricades were erected two months after Trump lost.
I gotta tell ya, Vic... I find it absolutely flabbergasting how easily you can, seemingly with a straight face, say things that are patently false on their face.
Let's remember what happened the night Trump did win. Hillary Clinton conceded... The next day there was a PEACEFUL march by hundreds of thousands of pink hat protesters.
We will also need the president-elect to also step up to the plate and do as he promised - unite us. That means speaking to his own supporters, the way Trump did with his and telling them that violence will not be tolerated and is unacceptable.
"...the way Trump did..."
Oh you mean when he said...
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol– and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.”
“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
“Something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened and we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
For the record, yes, I do know that Trump later told the insurrectionists that violence will not be tolerated and is unacceptable. A speech carefully crafted by his attorneys who are trying to help him avoid criminal prosecution.
It takes a lot of practice.
Nah.....it is a practice that just takes brains, and some people don't seem to have any.
FALSE:
"The White House is battening down the hatches for Election Day by erecting a ‘non-scalable’ fence around the perimeter of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Heavy duty barricades spanning roughly 8,800 feet went up on Monday afternoon, blocking off the Ellipse, a large green area south of the White House, and Lafayette Square to the north.
Concerns over Election Day turmoil aren’t limited to the White House, as cities across the country have boarded up shops, storefronts, office buildings, restaurants, hotels, and other properties in anticipation of possible violence. "
Let's remember what happened the night Trump did win. Hillary Clinton conceded...
BARELY:
Hillary Clinton had a violent meltdown on the night of her defeat:
According to various reports, Clinton was at some points inconsolably emotional, possibly drunk, and physically threatening towards her top aides, as the reality that Donald Trump had defeated her slowly sank in.
According to author Ed Klein, Clinton “couldn’t stop crying” once she realized she had lost the election.
“She was crying, inconsolably,” he said. “Her friend said — her female friend from way, way, back — said that it was even hard to understand what she was saying, she was crying so hard.”
That’s when, according to a radio host who spoke with a CNN reporter, things got ugly …
CNN reporter tells me Hillary became physically violent towards Robby Mook and John Podesta around midnight; had to be briefly restrained.
She also advised Joe Biden to not concede if he lost:
For the record, yes, I do know that Trump later told the insurrectionists that violence will not be tolerated and is unacceptable.
I'm glad, nor did he encourage violence before then.
Oh so you were talking about barricades around the WH?
How are they relevant when the WH wasn't attacked?
They relate to what I said - specifically that those barricades were erected in anticipation of a possible Trump victory.
Again, WHICH barricades Vic.
You know that 'barricades' have restricted the SAME area since JUNE right?
I don't know why anyone would think that the 'left' would get violent had the 'president' gotten re-elected when we see what happens when he freely and fairly LOST THE ELECTION BY OVER 7 MILLION VOTES and it was he who spurred his supporters/domestic terrorists on to the Capitol to 'storm it' 'It's a revolution' over this 'stolen' election.
Were they the 'barricades' that the 'president's' goons used (among other things) to beat that police officer to death?
Last night we may have heard the last speech Donald Trump will ever give
Maybe there is a God after all.
Where has she been these last five or so years?
When the time comes, Trump will be blubbering and blabbering out something as they lower him into the ground.
The President may well give a farewell address to the nation on the evening of Jan19 or the morning of the 20th before boarding the jet to take him home to Florida.