I did not tune in for a nanosecond to the predictably boring, empty, wrong, and hyperventilating media coverage of the first anniversary of January 6th. For one, I have an actual job and a family. That darn real life gets in the way again. For another, I could have written every article and broadcast speech because we all know the talking points. Trump is bad, Trump is dangerous, Trump supporters are dangerous, and everything related to Trump is a threat to democracy. Did I miss anything?
Oh yeah, no asking about Ashli Babbitt’s videotaped murder or myriad examples of police brutality. Tsk tsk.
In service to readers of The Blue State Conservative, I did venture to CNN this morning to see what line or two from Brandon’s speech would be most powerful in their eyes. My guess going in was they would select a hackneyed line about Trump almost killing our democracy save for the heroism of the police. This, of course, sounds utterly ridiculous on so many levels. We don’t have a democracy, so there’s that. It’s a constitutional republic. Whatever you call it, it was certainly never under actual duress. Does anyone really believe our government almost fell apart? (And the more our government does its thing, is it so bad to wish it would?) And their sudden concern for the safety and wellbeing of police is about as hollow a gesture as humanly possible considering the alleged insurrection came on the heels of a year of chaos and anti-police sentiment.
I was right and wrong about the speech. As if the aforementioned gaslighting of the event weren’t bad enough, this is the line CNN proclaimed to be the most important of the entire speech:
“You can’t love your country only when you win.”
For Brandon to pretend he loves this country is an affront to truth and common sense. He absolutely hates this country and he certainly hates people like me in it. From his first day in office he labeled me a white supremacist and during the massive psy-op stemming from George Floyd’s death told me I had my “knee of injustice on the neck of black America.” And I am constantly chided like a child as he expresses his constant disdain for my decision to resist vaccination. How about: I love my country and hate to see what you’re doing to it?
More generally speaking, it is impossible to think anyone on the political left and in the Democrat Party loves this country. It seems pretty obvious they hate it. Do you dismantle everything out of love? Do you burn down and ransack out of compassion? Do you imprison political opponents or label regular parents domestic terrorists out of heartfelt unity? What has Brandon done that shows love of country? Certainly not facilitating an open border, or surrendering foreign interests in Asia and the Middle East, or stealing from us and future generations through inflationary policies, or creating and fomenting social divisions based on race, gender, and vaccination status.
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