This Is An Actual Lede About Your President

7 thoughts on “This Is An Actual Lede About Your President”

1. Not my fucking President.

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   1. over the course of almost 4 years I have only slipped once using the the P-word along with the T-word.

      I have also eliminated the word 'right' from my vocabulary.

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      1. How many times a day do you hear yourself thinking, "What an idiot!"? I lose count.

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2. Maybe he's a fan of Jon Kyle and did not intend for those to be considered factual statements.

   I mean, Jon Kyle didn't die in war, or get captured.

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3. Several officials said that Trump is not a disciplined enough thinker to grasp the full dimensions of the white nationalist agenda, let alone embrace it.

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4. In further weirdness, another lede — from the Washington Post :

   President Trump delivered remarks Wednesday in honor of veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed operation by Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro’s revolution that was covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government.

   The event comes as Trump is making outreach to Cuban Americans a key component of his campaign in Florida, a state he almost certainly must win to prevail in the electoral college.

   Speaking in the East Room of the White House, Trump declared there will “very soon” be a “free Cuba,” adding, “It’s happening very fast.”

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5. Excellent follow up piece in the Daily Kos:

   As Masha Gessen wrote in her now-famous essay on autocracy: “Believe the autocrat. He means what he says.”

   Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization. This will happen often: humans seem to have evolved to practice denial when confronted publicly with the unacceptable. Back in the 1930s, The New York Times assured its readers that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was all posture.

   And in the “Making Lemons out of Lemonade” department:

   Black Americans—indeed, all Americans—should in one respect be thankful to him. He has held up a mirror to American society, and it has reflected back a grotesque image that many people had until now refused to see: an image not just of the racism still coursing through the country, but also of the reflex to deny that reality. Though it was hardly his intention, no president has caused more Americans to stop denying the existence of racism than Donald Trump.

   Oops, forgot to include the link to the original post: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/23/1979996/-Trump-Blacks-have-themselves-to-blame-for-inequality-and-Jews-are-only-in-it-for-themselves?detail=emaildkre

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