Here's the transcript of yesterday's speech. I'll just give you some highlights — things that jumped out at me as I read it, seeing things for the first time (that is, I didn't watch the speech):
For generations, the American conservative union has helped lead the charge to defend our values, protect our country, and preserve our glorious American heritage. You see they’re taking our heritage away....
In a matter of mere months, Joe Biden has brought our country to the brink of ruin.... Now the Biden administration has turned the border into the single greatest disaster in American history, and perhaps in world history. Nobody’s ever seen a border like this. Other countries don’t have a border like this....
Biden’s border crisis is also helping drive an unprecedented crime wave, and you see the crime wave. Even without this you see all in Democrat run cities. Please remember that. The bloodshed and violence in these cities is reaching epidemic proportions....
In New York City, crime is out of control. It’s at record levels with nobody being prosecuted except of course innocent Republicans are being prosecuted. The Democrats know their policies on crime are so unpopular, so radical, so crazy, they are now trying to pretend they never led the defund the police movement in the first place. Disinformation.... That’s what they do. It’s called disinformation...
If you support defunding the police, vote for the radical left Democrats, and you see what’s happening to the cities where they defunded the police. There’s never been anything like it. If you want more police and more cops on the streets, vote for America first Republicans or let’s put it very simply, vote for MAGA. Make America great again. MAGA. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.
The same far left Democrats who are defunding police are also leading an all out crusade to strip you, the law abiding citizens of America, of your God given Second Amendment rights. I told you again. I told you. I told you....
They are hard at work to abolish the First Amendment as well. Probably all amendments, when you get right down to it. Why not? The radical left and big tech’s attack on free speech is unlawful. It’s unconstitutional, and it is completely un-American. To protect the Constitutional rights and liberties of every citizen, this week I filed a major class action. Lot of people are joining. Yep. A big class action lawsuit against the big tech giants. We are suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google....
We are taking Mark Zookerbucks, Jack Dorsey, and the other Silicon Valley billionaires to federal court.... The big tech election interference in 2020 was an outrageous assault upon our Republic and upon the American voter.... Mark Zuckerberg alone spent $ 400 million dollars on election meddling. In virtually all of the key swing states, he funded unmanned and unprotected drop boxes that were deployed in Democrat run cities and heavily Democrat precincts to scoop up ballots which were supposedly 94, 95, 96% for Joe Biden, because he campaigned so well from his basement. How about where Biden did substantially better in the swing states than Barack Hussein Obama with the black population?...
Every time the media references the election hoax, they say the fraud is “unproven. And while there is no evidence … ” No evidence? There’s so much evidence....
Democrats are ruthless, but they are united. They don’t have these Romney types.... Like socialists and communists movements throughout history, today’s leftists do not believe in freedom, they do not believe in fairness, and they do not believe in democracy. They believe in Marxist morality. Anything is justified as long as it hurts their political opponents and advances the radical agenda of their party....
We will take back our elections, and finally, we will always include a thing called voter ID. That’s another thing. The Democrats are now saying, “Oh, we always wanted voter ID.” There was a poll. 88% of the people in the country want voter ID, so now the Democrats again, same old story. They’re saying, ” We want voter ID. We’ve always wanted voter ID.”
These people are sick. We will completely defund and bar critical race theory. 1776, not 1619, if you don’t mind. And if government run schools are going to teach children to hate their country, we will demand school choice that we already have.
If you listen to the media or watch the evening newscast, our country has really gone bad. All we talk about is race. That’s all they talk about. Race. The whole show. race, race. We don’t talk about our country being great anymore. We don’t talk about how America can lead the world. We don’t talk about stopping crime or the hundreds and hundreds of people that are being shot in Democrat run cities and what to do about it....
The Democrat controlled media talks race, race, race for political reasons. And they always have, but never like this. But it’s hurting our country, and more than anyone else, our great minority communities. It’s hurting them very badly. The Democrat obsession with race is only dragging us backward into the past, and it is bringing our country down to a point where even China and Russia are lecturing us on human rights, race, and they’re doing it in a very humiliating fashion. This never happened. Never happened with me. During my administration, our country was respected again. It is no longer respected....
Our glorious American inheritance was passed down to us by generations of American patriots who gave everything they had. Their sweat, their blood, and even their way of lives to build America into the greatest nation in the history of the world, and we are not going to let it be taken away from us by a small group of radical left Marxist maniacs. We’re not going to let it happen....
We will lead the conservative movement and the Republican Party back to victory, and it will be a greater victory than this party has ever had. We will take back the House. We will take back the Senate, and then after witnessing all that has gone wrong in our country in such a short period of time, with our borders, with our economy, with crime, we will take back that glorious White House. That sits so majestically in our nation’s capital. Beautiful white house. That’s small letters. White house. That beautiful white house. And it is the most beautiful house of all.
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9 comments:
Temujin writes:
"As only Trump can do. He's not a great speaker by any means. But he gets to his points and his points connect with millions. There's no denying that. Biden connects with dozens. Trump connects with Millions.
"Two things that caught me:
""They believe in Marxist morality. Anything is justified as long as it hurts their political opponents and advances the radical agenda of their party...."
"Yes, Marxists are all in, and their approach is always ruthless. They make no apologies. They focus on steamrolling the opposition from all sides. It worked for Lenin. It still works, until people fight back more ruthlessly than they can handle.
""...so now the Democrats again, same old story. They’re saying, ” We want voter ID. We’ve always wanted voter ID.”
"This was a huge part of Barack Obama's strategies, and as he was always- 100%- backed up by the media who would cover for him. He got away with it for eight years. Obama would regularly use the phrase "I've always said..." or "We've always said...", when the reality was that he either (a) never said that at all, or (b) always said just the opposite, but changed when they saw polls turning against them."
Wilbur writes:
"I will quibble with one thing he said: "Democrats are ruthless, but they are united. They don’t have these Romney types...."
"Of course they do. They have pols who occasionally wander off the reservation, Joe Manchin, Tulsi, etc. And the Democrats say the same thing about the Republicans, that they are in lockstep, they are united and why can't we be?"
Owen writes:
"Thanks for the highlights. He has an embarrassment of vote-rich topics on which to rant. Will his rant be re-framed as incitement?"
Michael writes:
"He's full of hot air, but he's not wrong. And he got positive things done against the uniform opposition of the Deep State and the garbage media. I'd like to see deSantis and (Tim) Scott on the ticket - but that could wait 'til 2028..."
exhelodrvr writes:
"' They’re saying, ” We want voter ID. We’ve always wanted voter ID.”'
"The leadership of the Democratic party is evil, power-mad, and ruthless. The majority of the Democratic voters are, on a personal level, safe from the inevitable results of the Democratic policies. They are also very poorly informed and/or more worried about what their peers think of them, than about doing what is best for the country."
“That beautiful white house. And it is the most beautiful house of all. “
It is. Quite true. But there is also Althouse—also quite beautiful. Some would say the most beautiful. There has never been a beautiful house quite like Althouse. 😁
Thank you, dear Meade, for making it Meadhouse... with all the buckwheat, kale, protractors, stoneware, waffles, bicycles....
Alex writes:
"Temujin wrote, "He's not a great speaker by any means. But he gets to his points and his points connect with millions." That's what makes him a great speaker: his speeches are written and delivered in a way that allows him to reach his audience. The man understands that political theater is important, and that always trying to play the lofty, dignified, erudite "statesman" is a quick way to turn off the very voters whose support he needs."
Irving writes:
"Hello,
You wrote:
"“Thank you, dear Meade, for making it Meadhouse... with all the buckwheat, kale, protractors, stoneware, waffles, bicycles....”
"And that made me curious. Why buckwheat? I first searched your archives in case the answer was there, but didn’t see one. Buckwheat caught my eye because I was considering planting some as I just learned buckwheat overpowers all weeds, so if one wants a weed-free place to plant a garden, a buckwheat crop in that location the first year will do the job. Is that why Meade planted it or do you folks harvest and process the grain?"
The answer is in this post from yesterday, showing buckwheat growing in the front yard (photo in the post, explanation in the comments).
Meade planted it for the looks and for the idea (at least) that there is something edible there.
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