I Have
No More Patience for Trump Supporters
In Arizona, Trump came right up to the edge of
inciting you to riot and you rode along with
him.
By Charles P. Pierce
August 25, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- At least, old Ted Agnew had the
late William Safire writing his
stuff for him. "Nattering nabobs of
negativism." "Pusillanimous
pussyfooters." I mean, that's the
top-shelf brand right there. It's an
honor to have such invective thrown
in your direction. Ol' Ted broke new
ground in only two areas—taking
cheap-ass bribes in the office of
the vice president and attacking the
media.
Instead, 45 years later,
we get this mendacious litany of
sixth-grade sneering.
So the -- and I mean truly
dishonest people in the media
and the fake media, they make up
stories. They have no sources in
many cases. They say "a source
says" -- there is no such thing.
But they don't report the facts.
Just like they don't want to
report that I spoke out
forcefully against hatred,
bigotry and violence and
strongly condemned the
neo-Nazis, the White
Supremacists, and the KKK.
(APPLAUSE)
I openly called for unity,
healing and love, and they know
it because they were all there.
So what I did --
(APPLAUSE)
So what I did is I thought, I'd
take just a second, and I'm
really doing this more than
anything else, because you know
where my heart is, OK?
(APPLAUSE)
I'm really doing this to show
you how damned dishonest these
people are.
And then,
You know why? Because they are
very dishonest people. So I
said, racism is evil. Now they
only choose, you know, like a
half a sentence here or there
and then they just go on this
long rampage, or they put on
these real lightweights all
around a table that nobody ever
heard of, and they all say what
a bad guy I am. But, I mean do
you ever see anything -- and
then you wonder why CNN is doing
relatively poorly in the
ratings. Because they're putting
like seven people all negative
on Trump. And they fired Jeffrey
Lord, poor Jeffrey. Jeffrey
Lord. I guess he was getting a
little fed up, and he was
probably fighting back a little
bit too hard. They said, we've
better get out of here; we can't
have that.And those who cause
violence in its name are
criminals and thugs, including
the KKK, neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and other hate
groups that are repugnant to
everything we hold true as
Americans. Now let me ask you,
can it be any better than that,
in all fairness? And you know I
mention that, but to the best of
my knowledge when there was a
big problem, Barack Obama never
said it took place because of
radical Islamic terrorists, he
never said that, right.
And, finally, the full
Schickelgruber:
And -- and I say it, and you
know, we're all pros. We're all,
like, we have a certain sense.
We're smart people. These are
truly dishonest people. And not
all of them. Not all of them.
You have some very good
reporters. You have some very
fair journalists. But for the
most part, honestly, these are
really, really dishonest people,
and they're bad people. And I
really think they don't like our
country. I really believe that.
And I don't believe they're
going to change, and that's why
I do this. If they would change,
I would never say it. The only
people giving a platform to
these hate groups is the media
itself, and the fake news…These
are sick people. You know the
thing I don't understand? You
would think -- you would think
they'd want to make our country
great again, and I honestly
believe they don't. I honestly
believe it. If you want to
discover the source of the
division in our country, look no
further than the fake news and
the crooked media...
Before we get to the other stuff,
and there was lots of other stuff,
I'd like to address myself to those
people represented by the
parenthetical notation
(Applause) in the above
transcript, those people who waited
for hours in 105-degree heat so that
they could have the G-spot of their
irrationality properly stroked for
them. You're all suckers. You're dim
and you're ignorant and you can't
even feel yourself sliding toward
something that will surprise even
you with its fundamental ugliness,
something that everybody who can see
past the veil of their emotions can
see as plain as a church by
daylight, to borrow a phrase from
that Willie Shakespeare fella. The
problem, of course, is that you, in
your pathetic desire to be loved by
a guy who wouldn't have 15 seconds
for you on the street, are dragging
the rest of us toward that end, too.
A guy basically went mad, right
there on the stage in front of you,
and you cheered and booed right on
cue because you're sheep and because
he directed his insanity at all the
scapegoats that your favorite radio
and TV personalities have been
creating for you over the past three
decades. Especially, I guess, people
like me who practice the craft of
journalism in a country that honors
that craft in its most essential
founding documents. The President of
the United States came right up to
the edge of inciting you to riot and
you rode along with him. You're on
his team, by god.
Are you good people? I keep hearing
that you are, but let's go back to
Tuesday night's transcripts and see
what we find.
One vote away. One vote away. We
were one vote away. Think of it,
seven years the Republicans --
and again, you have some great
senators, but we were one vote
away from repealing it.
(CROWD CHANTING)
But, you know, they all said,
Mr. President, your speech was
so good last night, please,
please, Mr. President don't
mention any names. So I won't. I
won't. No I won't vote -- one
vote away, I will not mention
any names. Very presidential,
isn't' it? Very presidential.
And nobody wants me to talk
about your other senator, who's
weak on borders, weak on crime,
so I won't talk about him.
Right there, in the
passive-aggressive fashion of the
true moral coward, he made a bobo
out of a former POW who currently is
undergoing treatment for what is
likely a terminal brain cancer. And
you chanted and cheered. Do good
people chant and cheer a rhetorical
assault on a dying man of respect
and honor?
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I have no more patience, and I had
very little to start with. I don't
care why you're anxious. I don't
care for anybody's interpretation of
why you voted for this abomination
of a politician, and why you cheer
him now, because any explanation not
rooted in the nastier bits of basic
human spleen is worthless. I don't
want any politicians who seek to
appeal to the more benign
manifestations of your condition
because there's no way to separate
those from all the rest of the hate
and fear and stupidity. (And, for my
colleagues in the Vance-Arnade-Zito
school of Trump Whispering, here's a
hint: They hate you, too.) I don't
care why you sat out in a roasting
pan since 5 a.m. Tuesday morning to
whistle and cheer and stomp your
feet for a scared, dangerous little
man who tells you that your every
bloody fantasy about your enemies is
the height of patriotism. You are
now the declared adversaries of what
I do for a living, and your idol is
a danger to the country and so are
you. Own it. Deal with it. And, for
the love of god, and for the sake of
the rest of us who live in this
country, do better at being
citizens.
As to the rest, I might have been a
little groggy, but I thought I heard
him say he was going to shut down
the government unless Congress gives
him money for his stupid wall that
Mexico was supposed to finance. I
thought I heard him tell that evil
racist gossoon, Sheriff Joe Arpaio,
to count on a pardon down the line
somewhere. And, I swear to god, I
thought I heard him call the
Democrats in the Congress
communists.
Wait. What?
It's all they're good at. It's
all they're good at. That's all
they do. On healthcare, they
have 48 Democrats. We got no
votes. We got no votes. And it
would have been great
healthcare. And by the way,
would have been great healthcare
for Arizona. Would have been
great. So the Democrats have no
ideas, no policy, no vision for
the country other than total
socialism and
maybe, frankly, a step beyond
socialism from what I'm
seeing.
(BOOING)
Thought so.
(Also, note to all the Purity Police
who think people like Joy Reid are
"red-baiting" when they mention that
Russian ratfcking helped decide the
last presidential election. That bit
right at the end there? That's
actual red-baiting. Please take
notes. I don't want to have to go
over this again.)
It was a deadening, numbing 77
minutes. (If there's one modern
orator he most resembles, it's Fidel
Castro.) The abiding feelings that I
took away from this carnival of the
Id were twofold: first, that this
jefe manqué is on the verge of
sending people infinitely better
than he is to die in a war he
doesn't understand, and second, and
probably most important, this is a
president* who is scared to death.
He's frightened of the
responsibilities of his office, of
the mounting unpopularity of both
himself and his policies, and of the
hounds baying at the frontiers of
his shady past and shadier present.
He's terrified, and he should be.
He's desperately shoring up the
bubble that his ovine followers
helped him build to insulate him
from the truth and from empirical
reality.
Come to this house.
Be one of us.
This
article was first published by
Esquire
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