Vincent J. Curtis
18 Aug 20
Let’s start things off with a cloying lie, shall we?
“I am here tonight because I love this country with all my heart, and it pains me to see so many people hurting.”
Michelle famously hated her country, until it elected her husband president. I can believe it does pain her to see so many people hurting, but there’s little personally that she’s doing about it. In the end, I can believe that now she loves America, racist hell-hole that it is. (We’ll see this sentiment expressed later.)
“…four years ago, too many people chose to believe that their votes didn’t matter. Maybe they were fed up. Maybe they thought the outcome wouldn’t be close. Maybe the barriers felt too steep. Whatever the reason, in the end, those choices sent someone to the Oval Office who lost the national popular vote by nearly 3,000,000 votes.”
This is her explanation for why Hillary lost in 2016. It’s the voters’ fault.
“We’d secured the right to healthcare for 20,000,000 people.”
A deliberate mischaracterization. Healthcare for all was already a right in America before Obamacare; all the ACA did was enforce the purchase of health care insurance on the public, i.e. those 20 million uninsured.
“Four years later, the state of this nation is
very different. More than 150,000 people have died, and our economy is in
shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for too long.”
Only the most diehard believers accept her implications that Trump killed those people and ruined the economy, that he built into a juggernaut with the lowest unemployment rates ever, wages rising, and the stock market at record highs. Trump to the Wuhan virus very seriously, banning travellers from China on January 31st, while Joe Biden and Co. were accusing him of xenophobia. BTW, roughly 2.6 million people die in America each year from all causes, just so you know.
“It has left millions of people jobless. Too many have lost their healthcare; too many are struggling to take care of basic necessities like food and rent; too many communities have been left in the lurch to grapple with whether and how to open our schools safely.”
It is true that the lockdown put millions out of work, but the economy is recovering quickly, and would be recovering even quicker if Democrat governors ended lockdowns they have mandated on their states. Millions haven’t lost their healthcare, except due to lockdown measures that ended all but essential procedures. Special unemployment benefits has kept people from being evicted from Federal housing for lack of paying rent, and no one is going hungry in America. Those communities left in the lurch are the responsibility of state governors, and Democrat governors think they can help defeat Trump by vicious measures against their own communities. Including keeping kids out of school unnecessarily.
“Internationally, we’ve turned our back, not just on agreements forged by my husband, but on alliances championed by presidents like Reagan and Eisenhower.”
I think she means NATO, and that alliance was invigorated at the instigation of Trump. He told them, basically, to fish or cut bait in providing for their own defense. Obama tried the same thing early in his presidency, but NATO partners never took him seriously and didn’t do as he asked.
“George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered, stating the simple fact that a Black life matters is still met with derision from the nation’s highest office.”
We’re back to lying again. George Floyd was a criminal who was arrested for passing counterfeit currency and had a dangerous dose of fentanyl and meth in his system at the time of his arrest, and did contribute to his demise. He wasn’t “innocent.” The number of unarmed black men killed by police in 2019 was 14, while the number of blacks murdered was 7,500, a goodly number in Michelle’s Chicago. These murders are 15:1 black on black. The list isn’t never ending, but this racist hell-hole is the country Michelle affirms she loves. The cynical fact is that Black Lives don’t Matter, only politically convenient deaths matter. The BLM movement is a self-admitted Marxist political organization that has expressly committed itself to defeating Donald Trump in November. I snort in derision too at the deliberate conflation of an empty slogan with a political movement.
“Empathy: that’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. The ability to walk in someone else’s shoes; the recognition that someone else’s experience has value, too.”
Empathy was the thing Barack Obama wanted from his judges, not adherence to the law and the constitution, and look how that worked out. What a president needs is good judgement.
“But right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. They’re looking around wondering if we’ve been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we believe.”
Empathy is the last thing that BLM and Antifa believe in. Maybe Michelle lied to her kids, but I doubt it. She certainly is lying to mine. BLM and Antifa are products of her side of the political spectrum. And they share the same goal: defeating Trump.
“They see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe. They see people calling the police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin. “
Obey, or else! She demands. Masking doesn’t keep anyone safe, it is a sign of compliance that gives a false sense of security. As for calling police for the color of their skin, that would be “Karen” a New York liberal in Central Park who was pissed that a Black man wasn’t wearing a mask. He wasn’t complying, so she called the cops in a manner that would get their attention.
“They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists. They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protestors for a photo-op.”
The first principle clause is pure psychological projection, and where the torch carrying white supremacists came from, I don’t know. But more of the racist hell-hole rhetoric describing the country she loves. The AP pointed out the irony of Michelle blaming Trump for using the cages built by her husband, and used for the same purpose. Peaceful people don’t get pepper sprayed, hit with rubber bullets, and the photo-op thing was a myth debunked by A-G Barr during his testimony before the Nadler Committee.
“A nation that’s underperforming not simply on matters of policy but on matters of character. And that’s not just disappointing; it’s downright infuriating.”
Completely meaningless rhetoric. How does a country ‘underperform?’ How does it underperform on a matter of character, or on a matter of policy? It doesn’t; it just sounds bad. To make sure you get it, she is disappointed and infuriated too.
“He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”
Trump
has done the job, and he wasn’t in over his head. He was the right man at the right time; it
was Obama who was in over his head due to lack of experience. What does it mean to say, ‘he cannot be who
we need him to be for us.’ Huh? It is
what it is.
“So if you take one thing from my words tonight, it
is this: If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can, and
they will if we don’t make a change in this election. If we have any hope of
ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on
it.”
Things can always get worse,
and my crystal ball says that is much more likely if Biden gets elected instead
of Trump. If American lives depend on
Joe Biden, boy are they in trouble! But
calling one’s life into doubt if you don’t elect Biden is fear and control
technique.
“I
know Joe. He is a profoundly decent man, guided by faith. He was a terrific
vice president. He knows what it takes to rescue an economy, beat back a
pandemic, and lead our country. And he listens. He will tell the truth and
trust science. He will make smart plans and manage a good team. And he will
govern as someone who’s lived a life that the rest of us can recognize.”
Joe is a husk of his former
self, which was none too good to begin with.
He isn’t guided by faith: he’s nominally a Catholic who supports
abortion. Joe thinks that you revive and
economy through higher taxes and more regulation. Biden would have floundered in the pandemic,
not knowing what to do. Trump mobilized
U.S. expertise to pull through, with ventilators, testing, masks, therapeutics,
and vaccines. Michelle wouldn’t know science
if she tripped over it. Would she listen
to Fauci or Atlas? She wouldn’t know
what to say. Biden spent 50 years in
Washington, as a Senator and VP. That’s
not a life I’d recognize. But Trump
seems to relate to the working man, having worked with and hired so many.
“And when the horrors of systemic racism shook
our country and our consciences, millions of Americans of every age, every
background rose up to march for each other, crying out for justice and progress.
And if we want to keep the possibility of
progress alive in our time, if we want to be able to look our children in the
eye after this election, we have got to reassert our place in American history.”
She turns
again to the George Floyd riots that were organized by the extreme left, BLM
and Antifa. Systemic racism
characterizes the country she loves. The
reference to progress is a dog-whistle to the left. The re-asserting our place in American
history is a piece of rhetorical bafflegab.
There it
is. A piece of rhetorical treacle, full
of sweet sounding lies.
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