"Now you tell me, we take this? Joe Biden and the Socialist Democrats are the most radical left-wing administration in history. Even Bernie Sanders can’t believe it. He said, I can’t believe this happened. This is worse than I ever was. I don’t know if they even know what the hell they’re signing. Somebody is drawing these documents and putting it, and it’s getting signed. It’s a disgrace what’s happening to our country. The survival of America depends upon our ability to elect Republicans at every level, starting with the midterms next year. We have to get it done. We have to get it done. We have no choice, actually. We have to get it done. Together, we’re going to defend our freedoms. You just take a look at what’s happening. We have to defend our borders. We have to do all of these things and the cancel culture, the defunding culture, the defending culture and they defend the wrong things, we’re not going to let it go any longer. Going to stand up for our values. We have to stand up for our values, and we’re going to take back our country and we’re going to take it back at a level that is very, very good for our country and it’s good for citizens because we can’t allow bad things to happen to our country. Bad, bad things are happening to us, perhaps like never before. You’ll be seeing what goes on and perhaps like never before."
From "Donald Trump Speech Transcript at North Carolina GOP Convention Dinner June 5" (Rev).
Trump sounded like his old self last night. We watched the whole thing. It was interesting to see him again. He looked fit and vigorous and focused on Republicans winning the upcoming elections in 2022. He concentrated on telling us all the things the Democrats are doing wrong — disastrously wrong in his view.
There was some talk of the 2020 election, but that was toward the end, and it didn't come across as morbidly self-obsessed or paranoid. It was more an upbeat expression of the belief that Americans can't really be split 50-50 on issues like supporting the police and protecting the border. And protecting the security of the voting process: We need to learn what happened in 2020, so it can never happen again.
I liked this bit about Zuckerberg:
He used to come to the White House. He would call, “Oh, could I have dinner with you, sir?” “Sure.” “Could I bring my wife?” “Oh, absolutely.” He actually walked into the office one day in front of numerous people, “Congratulations, sir.” “Why?” He said. “You’re number one on Facebook.” He said to me, “You’re number one on Facebook.” I said, “Thank you very much. I appreciate it.” We had a nice dinner. The day I was out he became a rather, well, I guess it’s human nature. But we can’t let our country be run by that kind of human nature can we? Zuckerberg, it’s another beauty.
Zuckerberg may notice that at least Trump is crediting him with humanness. So often, people say Z doesn't seem like a human being, but some sort of alien. Just yesterday, a NYT columnist said he seems like "another species on another planet."
I also enjoyed the riff about furniture:
Over the years, I’ve built lots of hotels and lots of things. I used to buy my furniture from North Carolina. Are you a furniture guy? Stand up. There’s only one in the room I think. Right? But I helped you a lot, right? Good. Thank you. It’s great to have you. The quality was incredible. Now it’s so much of it’s made in China, right? So much. We were stopping that. It was all stopping. Then we had to slow it down a little bit after the pandemic, but it was all stopping. It was all starting to come back here and to other places. I will tell you, I bought a lot of furniture, a lot of things. A lot of times, you’d put furniture made in China into a hotel room and it would break. Somebody sits down in a chair. If you don’t sit down lightly, the damn thing would collapse. Then I’d get sued as usual. But nobody ever made it like you made it here and you make it here. So just stay tuned, okay? Because we were all set to bring it all back. It was all coming back.
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4 comments:
Temujin writes:
I'm glad you and Meade watched it for us. I should have, but got caught up in hockey yesterday. Anyway...I'm glad Trump looked fit. I had a vision of him sitting around drinking and eating a lot of bad food and getting larger and more orange- almost to gold. Glad he's still vigorous. It's getting to the time for me to start paying attention to him again. We're at June. Election year is getting closer. The crap will be flying thick within a few months.
As for cheap furniture from China- it's a reality for almost ALL products coming out of China. I used to be in the outdoor furniture industry. High end goods, made for high end resorts, hotels, country clubs, restaurants. Not the stuff you see at Lowes or Home Depot. We used factories in Indonesia and China. The Indonesian goods were of superior quality, beautiful designs, and would last for years- in high volume commercial locations. The Chinese goods? Cheap knock-off designs, inferior quality materials, and a short life span. But...they cost less. And a lot of properties just look at the initial cost.
And that's how China became huge. In every field, every product- they make cheap knock-offs of original designs, using inferior quality materials, and underpaid labor to produce crap that the Western world buys up. We all send our money to China and they build up a huge military and send out viruses to kill millions around the world, crippling economies.
But I digress...Trump is right. We should bring back as much manufacturing here as possible and incentivize industries to do so.
Alex writes:
"I believe a lot of establishment GOP hoped that after Trump's loss he would go away quietly. They were idiots. The man looked younger after four years as president, and he seems to relish the fights. As for Trump's future, if he does run in 2024, "Make China Pay" seems like a good catchphrase in the way that "Build the Wall" was for 2016."
MikeR writes:
"@Alex "I believe a lot of establishment GOP hoped that after Trump's loss he would go away quietly."
Well, I was never establishment GOP; I supported Trump throughout his presidency and I think he got a lot of things done. But, I hoped that after his loss he would indeed go away quietly. The last three months of his presidency was an incredible disaster for Republicans. He could have done a lot of important stuff, could have torn away a lot of the deep state that was fighting him all along, and instead he kept chasing an election victory that was obviously - to anyone with sense - not going to happen. And a lot of fools chased it right after him, hoping for the Kraken that never arrived. And I know that it was blown all out of proportion, but still, Jan. 6 was a gift to Democrats that keeps on giving.
Go away. Your enemies took a while to get your measure, well done, but they played you like a fiddle at the end and you fell right into their traps. Time to try someone else."
Michael writes:
Reading the transcripts of Donald's speeches left me thinking "This is the Trump that should have been". Imagine if he had taken the " L" in November, graciously handled the transition, then right after 1/20 gone out on a stadium tour with the Trump plane, the MAGA hats and those hot button speeches. Trump could have been our first true Shadow President since Teddy Roosevelt hounded Taft.
And with the slimmest D majorities in the House and Senate, consider how different the dynamics on Capitol Hill would be right now.
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