Posted on 03/01/2017 12:59:18 AM PST by Lazamataz
Believe in America: Trump reboots his presidency with condemnation of hatred, a rousing vision of what country can be by 250th anniversary of independence and a heartbreaking appearance by the widow of SEAL hero whose father snubbed him
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Thanks for posting.
It was a speech for the ages. Incredible. Anyone that has a problem with that needs to find someplace else to live
I didn’t get to watch it in full, yet, but this piece was so thorough I feel as though I did.
Did I nap one day and miss that they lost the vote???!?
No, one of the latest liberal ideas is that by Trump winning, women have somehow become disenfranchised. (Ignoring the inconvenient fact that vast numbers of women voted *for* Trump, of course.) Therefore they need to ‘fight for the vote again.’
This was one presidency that did not require rebooting!
With only one month in office this headline is beyond insulting!
Reboot your ass!
“Democratic women wore white in reference to fight for suffrage and made thumbs down gestures to speech”
Those aren’t women, they are the RAT Party Whores!
I 100 percent disagree.
There has been NO “reboot”
That seems to be the media narrative now.
To tell you the truth, Laz, that actually worries me.
Media. Why nice? Why now?
Pelosi looks so much better in white straight jackets....
I wonder if they know the origin of the "thumbs down" gesture?
It was a gesture used by bloodthirsty mobs in the arenas of ancient Rome to call for a public killing.
DemocRats really do want to kill President Trump.
Nuttier than squirrel squat! ...
Laz, his speech was awesome!.......a tour de force!
Truly one for the ages!
Juvenal refers to the Roman custom of spectators’ voting on the fate of wounded gladiators with their thumbs. You may think a gladiator would appreciate the crowd’s “thumbs up” (verso pollice), but exactly the opposite is true. Where we give thumbs up as a sign of approval, it meant death to its Roman recipient; much to the crowd’s delight.
These men once were horn-blowers and attendants At every municipal arena, known as trumpeters in every village.
Now they present their own spectacles, and, to win applause, Kill whomever the mob gives the “thumbs up”.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis; a.k.a. Juvenal (c. 55-140 A.D.), "Third Satire"
Thumbs down, signified “swords down,” which meant the loser was worth more to them alive than dead, and he was spared apparently so he could make up for his disgrace the next time he appeared in the arena. Keep this in mind the next time you give someone the “thumbs up” sign.
Our reverse interpretation of this custom apparently was the result of the work of the French artist Léon Gérôme who apparently understood the Latin verso ("turned") to mean "turned down", and therefore in his painting Pollice Verso (1873), he presents the death sentence with the thumbs-down gesture.
The painting became so popular that Gérôme’s mistake became the accepted interpretation and it is unlikely that it will ever be changed back to the meaning that it had with the Romans.
Scholars before Gérôme gave support to the view that “thumbs down” among the Romans, meant the hapless gladiator was to be spared, not slain.
http://wordinfo.info/unit/3735/ip:1/il:K
Interesting. I guess my Latin teachers lied to me!
Trump went all in on identity politics yesterday, signing this rather bizarre executive order requiring special offices providing special support to historically black colleges in every part of his administration:
This special order for women in STEM:
And of course opening the door for amnesty re: illegal immigration.
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