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Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All
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I'm foreseeing a Lee Greenwood Kennedy Center Residency.
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“… Trump’s takeover of a cultural institution should not just be a source of amusement, especially since the president has also promised to change the center’s programming. The moves put him in the company—historic and current—of tyrants, not auteurs.
Classical music is rarely front-page news, and the move took the Kennedy Center by complete surprise. The cultural center in Foggy Bottom, after all, hosts a leading symphony orchestra and a major opera company and is hardly a center of political fights.
… The jokes swiftly faded when, a few days later, Trump appointed Grenell the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director. The jokes fell completely silent when, on Feb. 12, the Kennedy Center announced its new trustees, installed to replace trustees fired by Trump. Those now installed on the board of trustees include Vice President J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha; Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles; his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino; White House Presidential Personnel Director Sergio Gor; and Allison Lutnick, the wife of Trump’s secretary of commerce nominee, Howard Lutnick.
… I’d hate to be alarmist, but the president of the United States is invoking the language of a certain German regime that, in the 1930s, banned what it labeled “Entartete Kunst,” degenerate art.
The Nazis wanted German culture organized neatly under the government’s control. Soon after taking power, this regime made its preferences known to Germany’s myriad publicly funded theaters, opera houses, and concert halls. It also created the Reichskulturkammer (Reich Chamber of Culture), under which culture in Germany would operate; Joseph Goebbels was appointed the chamber’s president.
Soon German culture—for so long the envy of the world—became more and more constrained as practitioners and artistic products, especially books, were banned, while other practitioners, from conductors to painters, engaged in self-censorship or left the country. That’s how Thomas Mann ended up in Pacific Palisades. In his novel Mephisto, Klaus Mann—Thomas’s son—masterfully portrays the careerists who thrive in autocracies, while talent withers.
And the urge to control culture didn’t die with Goebbels and his ilk. Wanting to control culture is, in fact, the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
The Cold War was characterized by Eastern Bloc regimes’ attempts to govern all culture and, in the process, ensure that undesirable expressions of it were weeded out.
Every novel Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote was at immediate risk of being banned, and the Russian author constantly faced the risk of imprisonment. In Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel was kept under constant surveillance and denied jobs worthy of his talent. The artists the regimes deemed acceptable, by contrast, were well-looked-after by the respective countries’ cultural organizations. Untold numbers of artists less known than Solzhenitsyn and Havel suffered the same fate. …”
lawtig02
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Five weeks in and here’s a report card —
MAGAs who wanted the government to be destroyed and Trump to govern as an authoritarian strongman: A+
Dems who said Trump would be even worse than all the pundits were projecting: A+
Putin: A+
China: A-
Trump himself: C (Elon has stolen much of his thunder, and his already low approval ratings are headed south fast)
Congressional Dems: C-
The media: D-
Congressional Pubs: F+
Pubs who kept telling Dems Trump wouldn’t be as bad as the Dems were anticipating: F
Pubs and independents who voted for Trump because they thought he would bring prices down and make their lives generally better: F
People who didn’t vote because they thought both parties were equally bad: Too stupid to grade
MAGAs who wanted the government to be destroyed and Trump to govern as an authoritarian strongman: A+
Dems who said Trump would be even worse than all the pundits were projecting: A+
Putin: A+
China: A-
Trump himself: C (Elon has stolen much of his thunder, and his already low approval ratings are headed south fast)
Congressional Dems: C-
The media: D-
Congressional Pubs: F+
Pubs who kept telling Dems Trump wouldn’t be as bad as the Dems were anticipating: F
Pubs and independents who voted for Trump because they thought he would bring prices down and make their lives generally better: F
People who didn’t vote because they thought both parties were equally bad: Too stupid to grade
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My only quibble is with Congressional Dems and
Congressional Dems - F
The Callayeahs who throw around aspirations like “hysterics!!!” are too dishonest and/deluded to grade, because by grading them you offer the attention-at-all costs they desperately need.
That some congressional Dems haven’t been arrested, or made spectacle of, in some non violent version of sit-in, human chain, walking past musk rent a cops, etc. leads me to give an F. The democracy and empathy valuing population needs peaceful and ostentatious protest to rally behind, see as examples to emulate, and a guide for attacking the unprecedented and blatant power and financial consolidation we’re seeing every day.
Congressional Dems - F
The Callayeahs who throw around aspirations like “hysterics!!!” are too dishonest and/deluded to grade, because by grading them you offer the attention-at-all costs they desperately need.
lawtig02
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Which would be fine, except it’s yet another lie to add to his endless list.
Donald Trump’s huge golf hypocrisy | CNN Politics
On Tuesday afternoon, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about President Donald Trump’s penchant for playing golf. Specifically, a reporter wanted to know, what was “the single biggest thing the President has accomplished for the American people during his time on the golf course?”
If he was elected President, promised Trump, he wouldn’t be playing much golf at all.
“If I win I may never see my property – I may never see these places again,” Trump said at an August 2016 campaign event. “But because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go golfing, believe me. Believe me. Believe me, folks.”
1moretimeagain
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Nailed it.
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