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[Nyarlathotep]

@Get_off_my_lawn

In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace, by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.

Gladiator games, or the NFL; depends on which millennium we are in.

[SodaAnt]

Rollerball. Classic depiction of corporations run wild.

[Sheldon]

And one of my favourite films…

[CyberLN]

The POTUS really understands the meaning behind Memorial Day…

[SodaAnt]

@CyberLN

The POTUS

More like imPOTUS. 20 20 20

[mordant]

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States!

[Calilasseia]

Did anyone see his excuse for an address at West Point?

Imagine spending four years working hard to graduate from there, and your passing out day is ruined by the Orange Scrotum.

[SodaAnt]

Yeah, it must be nice for those graduates to realize they’re now going to be spreading democracy around the world at the point of a gun (when they’re not stamping out drag shows, that is).

[Bluedoc]

@SodaAnt

it must be nice for those graduates to realize they’re now going to be spreading democracy around the world at the point of a gun

And for a Commander in Chief who is fast making enemies, or eventual enemies, by viewing those who disagree him and American exceptionalism as not just wrong but wicked and automatically in opposition.

If not such a moron, Orange might have learned from the foreign policy approach of Woodrow Wilson, which was exactly the same.

[CyberLN]

@SodaAnt

Yeah, it must be nice for those graduates to realize they’re now going to be spreading democracy around the world at the point of a gun

And for the graduating men and women to have gotten the advice not marry a trophy wife.

[Kellii]

@CyberLN

And for the graduating men and women to have gotten the advice not marry a trophy wife.

This speech rates right up there with his regaling boy scouts about his rich friend having orgies on his yacht.
Considering he has by what every definition is a trophy wife doesn’t seem to occur to him. Does he really think she’d have had anything to do with him if not for his money?

[CyberLN]

@Kellii

Considering he has by what every definition is a trophy wife doesn’t seem to occur to him.

Do you ‘spose he even realized he was advising the graduating women about marrying a trophy wife as well? Or perhaps he thought all the graduating women were gay? Or perhaps he thought only men went to that school?

[Matthew]

If there was ever an anti christ the Christian church was waiting for trump is it. He’ll bring everything our country has built to a stop and his followers will be the reason scientific progress will slow. As an independent neither party has shown me true progress and I’m worried we will never have an independent president ever again. Trump is just a showman performer selling snake oil to hill billies while Biden can’t remember how old was the last girl he sniffled. What the actual fuck happened to us.

[Get_off_my_lawn]

@Matthew

What the actual fuck happened to us.

Some key words from my (an outsider’s) perspective, in random order: Abolishment of the fairness doctrine; turning news into entertainment; political gerontocracy; a failing K-12 education system; making higher education increasingly unavailable for the masses; politically appointed judges (esp. supreme court); corporations as people; rampant corruption resulting in oligarchy; decades of propaganda touting the US system as the best, the greatest, and failproof; geopolitical arrogance.

Edit: …and as per the suggestion of @SodaAnt: the Citizens United verdict, equating corporate expenditures in federal elections with free speech, First Amendment style.

[UKAtheist]

@SodaAnt

I strongly doubt that Trump is religious at all–in fact, he may even be an atheist–but he uses religion as a means to an end.

I’d argue that’s probably true of most leaders (including leaders of religious organisations) throughout history.

UK Atheist

[Bluedoc]

@CyberLN

Or perhaps he thought only men went to that school?

Since women look to be second class citizens in Orange’s America, was it really worth acknowledging their existence in such a speech even if he knows they attend the school?

[SodaAnt]

Don’t forget Citizens United. Pumping big money into politics was guaranteed to result in what we have now.

[SodaAnt]

I think we’re witnessing the evolution of a new religion in real-time. Christianity in this country is morphing from a religion centered on Jesus’ teachings into one based on a mortal godhead, in this case Donald Trump. It started well before Trump’s first term, back in the days of the so-called “moral majority” and the more recent explosion of “prosperity gospel” churches. Some of these conservative groups consider Jesus to be too woke for them.

[Get_off_my_lawn]

@SodaAnt

Don’t forget Citizens United.

Updated the posting.

[UKAtheist]

@SodaAnt

I think we’re witnessing the evolution of a new religion in real-time. Christianity in this country is morphing from a religion centered on Jesus’ teachings into one based on a mortal godhead, in this case Donald Trump. It started well before Trump’s first term, back in the days of the so-called “moral majority” and the more recent explosion of “prosperity gospel” churches. Some of these conservative groups consider Jesus to be too woke for them.

I’d like to say, thank fuck I’m not American but the way things are going here in addition to our tendency to follow many things Americans do first, I’m not sure I should be thanking anyone!

UK Atheist