No American president has ever done this.
Disgraceful.
(Again, imagine if Barack Obama had done this!)
Trump has always admired the bloody murderer, Putin.
Just like the North Korean dictator:
It won't be long before Trump copies another dictator he admires, Xi Jinping of Communist China:
RICK WILSON:
"In fascist systems, the leader is transformed from man into myth, into a superhuman figure—unbeatable, inevitable, omnipotent. Trump has his own modern iterations of Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Julius Streicher, and Hans Fritzsche working to saturate public and private spaces with his face, his brand, his ideas, his name, and his mythology.
Whether in the form of signs, banners, statues, murals, or big, synchronized military parades like the one coming up for the Dear Leader’s birthday, the imposition of image and symbolism serves as a critical instrument of control, unity, and intimidation."
Hopefully someone with a paintball gun pays a visit soon.
ReplyDeleteIt works fine for some.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not those who understand liberation and liberty are everyone's birthright.
The Felon can pound sand. Every space with his fascist mug, every reference to his black day, every false praise will be ignored and every lie and criminal action will be highlighted and amplified by the intelligent as they exercise their liberty and freedom.
The fascist racist Felon is a blight on humanity and a pox on this country.
No president has ever plastered his image on buildings the way Trump has. I just read that there will be more images of the Orange Tyrant on other buildings as well -- which the taxpayers will be paying for.
DeleteEvery regime needs at least one "Representative Man". RW Emerson.
ReplyDeleteRemember when Democrats voted to change theirs from MLK, Jr to Ibram X Kendi?
Me neither.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Representative Men was first presented as a course of lectures in Boston in the winter of 1845 to 1846 and later during his visit to England in 1847. The volume opens with a discussion of the uses of great thinkers and follows with six chapters on those who represent humanity in six aspects: Plato as philosopher, Emanuel Swedenborg as mystic, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne as skeptic, William Shakespeare as poet, Napoleon Bonaparte as man of the world, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as writer.
ReplyDeleteThe book has often been mentioned in connection with Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), but whereas Carlyle saw the hero as a divinely gifted individual above and apart from the common person, Emerson conceived of the “great man” as a lens through which people may see themselves. For Emerson, the great man is one who through superior endowments “inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty.” Such individuals may give direct material or metaphysical aid, but more frequently they serve indirectly by the inspiration of their accomplishment of things and by their introduction of ideas. In Emerson's view, the great man does stirring deeds; he (or she) reveals knowledge and wisdom; he shows depths of emotion—and others resolve to emulate him. He accomplishes intellectual feats of memory, of abstract thought, of imaginative flights, and dull minds are brightened by his light. The true genius does not tyrannize; he liberates those who know him.
America has produced many "Representative Men and Women."
DeleteTo name a few, Carl Sagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, James Baldwin, Susan Langer, Carolyn Porco, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, just to name but a few.
I don't know what your reason is for posting the text by Emerson, except to derail the subject of this post. You couldn't possibly be implying that Trump is a "Representative Man," because if that is your intent, then you're laughable and cannot be reasoned with.
Trump does not inhibit a world of lofty thoughts, ideals, and asperations for his fellow Americans. His public and private behavior represents what is known as a guttersnipe, a scoundrel, and a fool.
As a representative of tens of millions of voters, Trump is indeed a "Representative Man". You're simply too committed to your faulty guilt-pride power paradigm to acknowledge other perspectives on what all people in this great nation desire, the "common good".
DeleteYou've forgotten that more Americans voted for someone else than voted for Trump. Trump did not get 50% of the popular vote. He won the electoral vote in a very, very unusual way. So to address your comment, a minority of Americans, via the popular vote, put Trump back in office, and he's losing support weekly. More Americans disapprove of him than approve of him.
DeleteYou MAGA pretend that's not the truth, but "facts are stubborn things."
The truth is that Trump is NOT popular with the American people, and neither are his policies.
Trump is the anti-Representative Man if he's anything.
This will not end well for him. It never does for tyrants, crooks, and scoundrels who abuse their positions of power.
History is with me on this point.
Funny, he's got 50% of their support/approval today...
DeleteThe Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
Crikey! Rasmussen skews right, and that's just one poll. Here are others:
DeleteMORNING CONSULT:
Favorable: 46%
Unfavorable: 52%
CIVIQS:
Favorable: 42%
Unfavorable: 54%
CYGNAL:
Favorable: 47%
Unfavorable: 52%
QUINNIPIAC:
Favorable: 41%
Unfavorable: 53%
THE ECONOMIST:
Favorable: 41%
Unfavorable: 53%
Not sure: 6%
REUTERS/IPSOS:
Favorable: 42%
Unfavorable: 53%
FOX NEWS:
Favorable: 44%
Unfavorable: 55%
GALLUP:
Favorable: 44%
Unfavorable: 53%
No opinion: 3%
Which of those polls got the 2024 election right... oh yeah, Rassmussen...
DeleteFrom Quora:
Delete"Rasmussen is the 'standing joke' of the polling industry.
Those who study the 'best standards' and the 'best practices' in conducting polling quickly learn what is acceptable, and what is not. They also study what methods and means to avoid, to ensure that their work accurately reflects reality. They also study ethics in polling, which includes complete transparency when it comes to things such as the actual question that was asked; how the questions were asked (verbally, where inflections can make a difference, or written?), the methodology of conducting the poll (ask a question only by cell phones, and you will get mostly answers from the young; ask a question by only landlines, and you are likely only to receive senior citizen responses; ask a question via social media, and you can target people who already share your own bias, or point of view; conduct a poll by deceiving people into not even realizing they are taking a poll — (as Trump and Rasmussen did when they both pretended to be the U.S. Census). Use only mailings, and that will skew your responses. Use only in person responses, and that will skew your results (as exit pollsters will show, especially if dealing with someone whose spouse is standing right next to them).
Polling is a studied science.
Rasmussen is one laughingstock of the polling universe. (Note — Rasmussen is not the only laughingstock, but they are probably the best known 'giggle,' — when it comes to the world of conducting polls.)"
Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
Our default average reflects a combination of all polls, whether conducted among adults, registered voters or likely voters.
DeleteDisapprove: 51.2%
Approve: 45.0%
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
They sure beat all your so-called "experts" who over-sampled Democrats. And please, pollsters are pseudo-experts who's "best practices" are selected towards pleasing their clients and making them feel good. They're "rewarded" for delivering "good news" or "improving news". Lindy is the only real expert, and on that front, Rassmussen cleans their competitors clocks. In a survey of which polling firms got it right, Rassmussen came in 6th in 2024. All the firms you named didn't even make the top 20. And if you average those firms, they still don't make the top 20.
DeleteTrump is still down in the polls. And internationally regarded as a clown.
DeleteIf that's so why are accolades rolling in praising Trump from the ME?
DeleteDo you know much about Middle Eastern culture?
DeleteThe horror and tragedy of it all is the fact millions of Americans WANT a dictatorship under Trump.
ReplyDeleteI know it sounds trite by now, but this will end badly.
But they are a minority.
DeleteThe folks who voted for this deplorable man are getting what they wanted, good and hard.
ReplyDeleteMs. Shaw, Ask any high schooler to tell you who those eight "Representative Men and Women." you referenced are and they may have heard of three or four. So much for quality education.
ReplyDeleteFrom several accounts from the biden regime he was far worse off then even some on the right thought. His staff kept him away from his cabinet the last two years and they limited his access to everyone, except president jill and hunter. Your statement the folks who voted for trump are getting what they wanted, I believe the the word you are looking for is leader, deplorable maybe but at least he is doing something except sleeping on the beach.
After all the lies from the past four years and some noteworthy accomplishments occurring now other than "we hate trump", what is the DNC platform and who is their leader.
The Good Germans liked what Hitler was doing for their country, too. And the Italians praised Mussolini because he made the trains run on time.
DeleteYou sound like the people in Germany and Italy, praising a terrible, horrible human being because he did things.
PS. Those people lived to regret their blindness.