Posted on 07/20/2024 12:02:00 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To be fair, some people who watched the speech thought that the first 10 minutes or so, in which Trump recounted being injured, were good, even thoughtful. I thought they were terrible; although Trump and his people have emphasized Trump’s defiance in the moment after he was hurt, his blow-by-blow account of the incident came across to me as creepy and solipsistic rather than brave.
Contrast that with Ronald Reagan, the previous president injured in an attempt on his life. Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post reminded us today that Reagan appeared before Congress a month after he was nearly killed. (His injuries were severe and life-threatening.) Reagan was on the Hill to talk about the economy, but he started by thanking the country for its prayers and good wishes, noting a cute letter he got from a child while he was in the hospital, and paying tribute to the people injured alongside him. This digression took all of four paragraphs, a matter of a few minutes. “Now, let’s talk about getting spending and inflation under control and cutting your tax rates,” he then said.
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Trump, however, droned on about how much the human ear can bleed, while the screens behind him showed huge pictures of blood on his face. He then went over to the equipment owned by Corey Comperatore, the volunteer firefighter killed in the attack, and kissed the helmet. Some in the crowd may have loved it, but I prefer a bit more stoicism in national leaders; I’ve always thought that Trump’s penchant for hugging and kissing flags was weird, and planting a kiss on the headgear of a dead man was even weirder.
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The title along is great!!!
Always accuse the other guy of want you yourself are doing to confuse people
Methinks it’s the Atlantic Daily that is unwell (or just plain butthurt!)...
BUT, the Sniffer is ok????
The first 3 words:
To be fair
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is a real, rootin tootin stupid a@@hole. The purpose of this part of the speech was... empathy. Not dwelling on “me” empathy for what he went through, carefully worded. Which this joker interprets as rambling. Absolute a@@hole, and wrong because of inherent bias built into their “opinion”.
The Atlantic is filled with crap and garbage and old crabs.
It’s also the name of an ocean.
Well, I thought the speech was bad.
I will, however, crawl over broken glass to vote for him.
Make of it what you will.
Long TDS.
Reagan’s and Trump’s experiences were quite different. Reagan was never accused of faking the whole thing. That is why Trump spent time talking about the reality of his experience and his wound.
“ I’ve always thought that Trump’s penchant for hugging and kissing flags was weird, and planting a kiss on the headgear of a dead man was even weirder.”
…what’s weird about the POTUS loving his country?! I’m sure the family of the man that was shot and killed, merely for being a spectator, didn’t find it “weird” to show his love for the grieving family either! You POS
Compatore took a bullet intended for Trump. Fortunately no one will be motivated to take a bullet for this Nichols horses rear end.
It says I have to subscribe. Never happen.
But what I can read here is enough to see it’s just the result of hatred.
The Atlantic not worth of bird cage liner!!
LOL if this is the best counter they have Nov is really going to be a bloodbath for them.
Tom Nichols is unwell.
He has no idea about how traumatic getting shot at can be. People come back from war suffering from PTSD, even if they didn’t get hurt. Trump got hurt, even if slightly, but was hurt even more by the thought that somebody would try to take his life.
It’s very easy to talk about a traumatic event if you didn’t experience it, and were not hurt by it.
The propaganda mills will have him with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel even past the election.
They have nothing to work with for their side a ghost town tour.
LOL…that’s the greatest. Wouldn’t you love to ask the person, “so how do you feel about Joes penchant for sniffing and feeling up little girls”.
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