INAUGURATION DAY

[wesw]

eta- I like the natural green lawn too. clover is fine with me, and it is one of my favorite smells

[Jarlaxle]

America became great again the moment the nigger and his nigger wife got on board that helicopter and left town.

I'm sorry to be so ugly blunt, but THAT is exactly how Trump feels, and very many of his followers, too.

I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

Pure projection.

[Econoline]

From that well-known bastion of liberalism, The Wall Street Journal:

• WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump delivered what historians and speechwriters said was one of the most ominous inaugural addresses ever, reinforcing familiar campaign themes of American decline while positioning himself as the protector of the country’s “forgotten men and women.”
  
  In a speech that his predecessors had famously used to inspire Americans to place country before self and urged them to fear only fear itself, Mr. Trump on Friday described the nation as a landscape of “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones” and inner cities infested with crime, gangs and drugs.
  
  “The American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” Mr. Trump said, using a noun never before uttered in such a speech.
  
  About 58% of the address featured nationalist themes, the highest since Ronald Reagan in 1981, according to a Journal analysis of the language. Mr. Trump aimed to show unity by using plural pronouns—our, we or us—in nearly 10% of his speech, a higher rate than his most recent three predecessors did in their inaugural addresses.“We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny,” he said. “The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.”
  
  The speech carved out new space in presidential history because of its vivid and confrontational language, said Robert Dallek, an American historian specializing in U.S. presidents. New presidents usually provide more of a sense of shared purpose and national reconciliation, he said.
  
  “This had no hint of that,” Mr. Dallek said. “Listening to him, you’d think the country was in the midst of some terrible depression and besieged on all sides. Barack Obama isn’t leaving the country in a golden moment, but it was quite overstated.”
  
  Mr. Trump’s team said the speech was modeled on the inaugural address of Andrew Jackson, who took office in 1829 after a similar populist movement lifted the anti-establishment candidate. Where Jackson was the first president who wasn’t from Virginia or Massachusetts, Mr. Trump—who defeated both the Bush and Clinton political dynasties—is the first American elected without previous government or military experience.
  
  Much of the speech was written by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, two of Mr. Trump’s top advisers, a White House official said.
  
  “I don’t think we’ve had a speech like that since Andrew Jackson came to the White House,” said Mr. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor. “It’s got a deep, deep root of patriotism.”
  
  The speech was intended to touch the same themes of his campaign, Mr. Bannon said. “It was an unvarnished declaration of the basic principles of his populist and nationalist movement,” he said. “It was given in a very powerful way.”
  
  The speech, which was the shortest for an incoming president since Jimmy Carter’s in 1977, rattled some of the politicians on hand at the west front of the U.S. Capitol during a steady drizzle. “I’ve heard some very inspiring speeches that speak to the best of the whole country over the years—and someday I may again,” said Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy.
  
  But it was also a natural extension of Mr. Trump’s anti-establishment campaign, easily dovetailing with the bleak themes that he has hammered away at for nearly two years.
  
  When Mr. Trump descended the golden escalator of his own New York City skyscraper to announce his candidacy 19 months ago, he sounded alarms about Mexican rapists and Chinese domination. In his speech last year at the Republican National Convention to accept his party’s nomination, he spoke about “death, destruction and weakness” in America, and the country suffering “international humiliation.”
  
  On Friday, he promised to “protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs.”
  
  Lanhee Chen, who oversaw speechwriting for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said the speech was a “direct appeal” to his supporters.
  
  “None of this should be surprising, but at some level you expect an inaugural address to feature lofty, inspiring and soaring rhetoric,” he said. “This was, instead, a statement of the harsh realities that helped propel Trump to the presidency.”
  
  Anneke Green, a member of former President George W. Bush’s speechwriting team, said the speech was a direct reflection of Mr. Trump’s campaign style, which she described as “direct, unapologetic and brash.”
  
  “The brevity of the speech—half the length of most modern inaugurals—is in keeping with his theme of getting down to business, that governing for him is about the work and not the person or the politics,” she said. “Stark contrast to Obama’s wordy discourses in both inaugurals.”
  
  Mr. Trump used the words “America first” and “radical Islamic terrorism” for the first time in an inauguration. “America first” is the theme of his economic nationalism, which includes stiff penalties for firms that move jobs to other countries, but it is also a phrase popularized by Charles Lindbergh in the 1940s as he aimed to keep America out the war against Hitler’s Germany.
  
  “It came right out of the campaign: It was an angry speech,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of presidential history at Princeton University.
  
  It was only the second inaugural speech to mention immigrants (William Howard Taft’s was the other in 1909), drugs (after George H.W. Bush’s in 1989), or “win” or “winning” (after Dwight Eisenhower’s in 1953).
  
  On the other hand, there were similarities to previous inaugural addresses. Standing in front of Barack Obama and George W. Bush, as well as several Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress, Mr. Trump declared that “a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government, while the people have borne the cost.”
  
  “Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed,” Mr. Trump said. “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of the country.”
  
  Similarly, much of Mr. Obama’s inaugural address in 2009 was a rejection of his predecessor’s era and the “collective failure to make hard choices” while Mr. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney sat a few feet away.
  
  Like his predecessors, Mr. Trump used common words like “great” (which he said six times), “God” (five times) and “power” (four times).
  
  Peter Wehner, who worked in the previous three GOP White Houses, described Mr. Trump’s speech on Friday as “jarring,” when compared with other inaugural addresses.
  
  “It was a very Trumpian speech, aggressive more than ironic, an address that will thrill his supporters and worry his critics,” said Mr. Wehner, who also directed speechwriting under the second President Bush. “He promised us not just a better America, but a nearly perfect America. He will now be held to those promises, those expectations, those commitments.”
  
  Marc Thiessen, who was a White House director of speechwriting for Mr. Bush, said there were no sweeping historical allusions in Mr. Trump’s speech, such as Mr. Bush’s reference in 2001 to the angel that “rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”
  
  But he applauded Mr. Trump’s reference to children in Detroit’s urban sprawl and in the Nebraska plains. They “look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator,” Mr. Trump said.
  
  “There are two different groups—one that voted for him, and one that didn’t,” Mr. Thiessen said. “This speech promised to fight for both of them.”
  
  If the speech departed from recent history, it was perfect fit for Mr. Trump, Mr. Thiessen said, describing it as a balance between lofty promises and grim reality.

[Bicycle Bill]

...what they don t realize is that everyone with a gsrden and every guy with a lawn tractor has a little farmer in them somewhere...

baron trump was really liking them..., he was looking kind of tired but perked right up when the tractors came by....

Well, just about everybody in America has (or had) a bicycle at one time in their life, so I guess that means that there's a little cyclist in everyone somewhere just waiting to come out.
See how stupid that 'logic' of yours is?

And as for Barron Trump (with two 'R's, by the way; der Drumpfführer hasn't brought back the German aristocracy yet) liking tractors, well, he's what?  Ten years old?
He probably still likes fire trucks too.

-"BB"-

[Scooter]

I have to admit that the best insult ever belongs to scooter......

I only had to change one word to "spewed" and it was perfect, as far as insults can be perfect.

it s funny, but it sure di\d piss me off...

Ironically I said it when you were engaging in the same clumsy game of pretending that a poster used the words you keep trying to put in his/her mouth, rather than those which were actually spoken. I said something to the effect of, "wes. I'm not sure whom you believe you are fooling when you try to put words in the mouths of othe posters. That may work with the inbred morons of whatever hog hollow you come from, who were dropped on their heads when expelled from their mothers' syphilitic uteruses, but it won't help you here."

It was not at all surprising that wes's reaction was to claim that I was attacking his mother

[wesw]

there it is!

change "expelled" to "spewed" and it s insult gold!



eta- and mebbe change "hollow" to "holler"......

[Bicycle Bill]

there it is!

change "expelled" to "spewed" and it s insult gold!



eta- and mebbe change "hollow" to "holler"......

in your case, it should be "wallow" ... as in "hog wallow".

-"BB"-

[wesw]

that would be better as waller not wallow, you gotta hillbilly 'er up a little.....

[BoSoxGal]

America became great again the moment the nigger and his nigger wife got on board that helicopter and left town.

I'm sorry to be so ugly blunt, but THAT is exactly how Trump feels, and very many of his followers, too.

I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

Pure projection.

Your head is buried in the sand if you've missed the vile racism expressed against President Obama and the first family for the past 8 years.

I'm sure there is shame being associated with those people; sorry for you and the wife but you've made your bed.

[Econoline]

• “America First,” a phrase with a loaded anti-Semitic and isolationist history

• At the center of his foreign policy vision, Donald Trump has put “America First,” a phrase with an anti-Semitic and isolationist history going back to the years before the U.S. entry into World War II.
  
  Trump started using the slogan in the later months of his campaign, and despite requests from the Anti-Defamation League that he drop it, he stuck with it.
  
  Friday, he embraced the words as a unifying theme for his inaugural address.
  
  “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land,” Trump said on the Capitol steps. “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First. America First.”
  
  Those same words galvanized a mass populist movement against U.S. entry into the war in Europe, even as the German army rolled through France and Belgium in the spring of 1940.
  
  A broad-based coalition of politicians and business leaders on the right and left came together as the America First Committee to oppose President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s support for France and Great Britain. The movement grew to more than 800,000 members.
  
  While the America First Committee attracted a wide array of support, the movement was marred by anti-Semitic and pro-fascist rhetoric. Its highest profile spokesman, Charles Lindbergh, blamed American Jews for pushing the country into war.
  
  "The British and the Jewish races," he said at a rally in September 1941, "for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war."
  
  The “greatest danger” Jews posed to the U.S. “lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government,” Lindbergh said.
  
  It is unclear if Trump is bothered by the ugly history of the phrase. What is clear is that he is determined to make the words his own. He has used them to sell his promises to impose trade barriers, keep manufacturing jobs inside the U.S. and restrict illegal and legal immigration.
  
  “Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families,” Trump said in Friday’s inaugural speech.
  
  “We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs,” he said.
  
  “It is such a toxic phrase with such a putrid history,” said Susan Dunn, professor of humanities at Williams College and an expert in American political history, in an interview.
  
  Lindbergh and other prominent members of the America First organization believed democracy was in decline and that fascism represented a new future, Dunn said.
  
  Those words “carry an enormous weight,” said Lynne Olson, author of “Those Angry Days,” a book about the clash between Lindbergh and Roosevelt over entering the war.
  
  “That time was strikingly familiar to now,” Olson said. “There was an enormous amount of economic and social turmoil in the country, anti-Semitism rose dramatically as well as general nativism and populism.”
  
  Shortly after Trump took the oath of office, White House aides posted a 500-word description of Trump’s approach to the world titled “America First Foreign Policy.”
  
  “The world must know that we do not go abroad in search of enemies, that we are always happy when old enemies become friends, and when old friends become allies,” the statement read. It added that defeating radical Islamic terror groups will be the “highest priority,” and that Trump’s administration would add ships to the Navy and build the Air Force back up to Cold War levels.
  
  Trump also plans to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiate the terms of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.
  
  Trump appears to have first tried out the phrase “America First” during an interview with the New York Times in March, when he was asked if he was taking an isolationist, “America First” approach to foreign policy.
  
  “Not isolationist, I’m not isolationist, but I am ‘America First.’ So I like the expression. I’m ‘America First,’” Trump said at the time. “We have been disrespected, mocked and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher,” he added.

[wesw]

oh my econo!!!!

trump s gonna exterminate the jews!!!!!

thankyou for the info!!!!

[Beer Sponge]

I don't read wesw's posts, I just assume every one of them is as stupid as he is, and when I see one quoted, I have verification of his stupidity.

[rubato]

"...

Your head is buried in the sand if you've missed the vile racism expressed against President Obama ... " .

Sand? or something else.


yrs,
rubato