I was there as I have been many years. It was not a large crowd by the standards of the Mall during the Fourth. Trunp’s speech was actually blocked off to the general public. They were handpicking people in MAGA stuff so he didn’t have any dissenting audience members.
I suppose there are two sides to every coin. Handpicking people who support the regime for a televised speech could be seen as “avoiding violence-“ but it could also be seen as a maneuver common to dictators who claim to rule by the people. Carefully selected “happy supporters” or enforced displays of support are common to regimes such as the USSR, Communist China, North Korea, and regimes all over the Middle East, South America, etc. a common reason given for what could be seen as censorship or manipulation
Is often... security and safety. So I suppose it’s relative opinion.
I couldn't go to DC, but I was interested in watching it on television and had a hard time finding it being broadcast. It would have had a lot more viewers on television had the media not made it a point to make it difficult to watch.
The hell you mean no matter who is in office? Have you seen anywhere as much negative press when Obama was in office?
MSM lost their shit when Trump started running, with 92% of coverage on him being negative, who the hell else would they dumpster as hard.
"Taxpayer funded"? Srsly?
Edit: Yes, srsly. This is not the ABC we know in the US -- this is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is funded by Australian taxpayers.
that's true, she's an Iranian born Australian opinion columnist. This proves that people's personal opinions don't have to be true, it's just their opinion
“In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and New York and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the [unclear], it [unclear] the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do. And at Fort McHenry, under “the rockets red glare,” it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.”
Then there’s the valiant revolutionary war heroes who dowsed the airports front he Brits, and a laundry list of inaccuracies. Yes. Everyone is arguing over how many people were there instead of what the hell came out of his mouth. For those who get upset over all the bad press he gets- it’s a boon. If the media wasn’t always obsessing over things like the size of the crowds at his speech- people might pay more attention to what he said and did. And before y’all chime in about the broken TelePrompTer....
This is American history. When the point of the speech was to honor America. This is military history from a guy who kicked things off talking about how valued and sacred our troops and the “greatest story ever told” are- and he said the army was named after George Washington? TelePrompTer or not- saying the revolutionary war troops seized the airports isn’t a mistake a person who actually knew or cared about the subject would make. It’s a mistake a person reading words off a screen would. A person who gives exactly enough shits to have someone else research facts and write them to be read off for big applause.
Alone MAYBE- but with all the other flirt inaccuracies that not only would any fresh enlistedman be wrung out for- a freaking high schooler wouldn’t get away with in a homework assignment- and the TelePrompTer excuse goes right out the window. You don’t need a prompt to tell you that they didn’t have airports in the revolutionary war- and the commander in Chief not only being so clueless to military history but US history? He campaigns against “illegals” and talks about assimilation but could he pass a citizenship test without a functioning teleprompter? So the crowd is what it is and at this point who cares? Did anyone actually listen to the speech he supposedly gave with love and reverence for his country and our military? The CIC put as much effort into memorizing a speech to honor his country and services as a middle school book report based on cliff notes. Let that sink in.
I’m mean- forget politics and all that- just imagine you have an employee ok? They say that despite the fact it’s not usually done, they are going to speak at the customer conference to show appreciation. And then- at the conference, they make numerous factual mistakes about your company, about the customers, basic and simple errors, etc. Now- do you think the customers would fee appreciated? Like if you asked Jim about his daughter to show you remembered but Jim has a son? You told Jane you think it is touching how she named her company after her dad to show you know her history- but her company wasn’t named after her dad....
Do you think- that those people would not only feel like you did a piss poor job of trying to seem like you cared- but that they may in fact question wether your employee and ultimately you are competent enough or care enough about their needs and them to continue being their choice in partners? Do you think you’d be upset at that employee for not preparing, for going out and showing their ass visibly and to the very people the whole thing was meant to engender positive feelings from? Seriously- if someone who worked for you dropped the ball like that and couldn’t even be bothered to have their presentation ready for the big game- you’d just shrug it off? And what if they did it time after time? Would you say every time was a fluke?
Because the office of the president DOES work for you and DOES represent you- and this isn’t the first or likely the last time that this particular holder of the office has made public gaffes that were totally not his fault because of some factor other than the fact that if he was invested in what he’s doing and actually wanted to put effort into it he could avoid? Do you picture him studying and rehearsing over and over late into the night? Forsaking twitter and all distractions until he’s certain that THIS time- he won’t flub up?
Do you think he’s just a lovable oaf who often misspeaks? That he has some sort of speech or mental impediment which makes it so that he constantly is having to back pedal or say “you know what I meant...” “someone made a mistake and I read it...” “I was just tired...” “I never said <that thing that I was recorded saying and just recently happened>...” etc? Or do you think despite constantly messing up he doesn’t put much more effort into not messing up the next time because he doesn’t care? Everyone is busy talking about all this reality show BS about how popular or rich etc the guy is.
I listened... and honestly, that's insulting to the middle school kid using cliff notes.
I predicted right after that he'd blame the rain screwing up the teleprompters... and he fucking did it. The dumbest goddamn excuse imaginable. He did it.
It's no small crowd, and major news outlets were reporting it as such.
Is often... security and safety. So I suppose it’s relative opinion.
fixed that for ya
MSM lost their shit when Trump started running, with 92% of coverage on him being negative, who the hell else would they dumpster as hard.
Edit: Yes, srsly. This is not the ABC we know in the US -- this is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is funded by Australian taxpayers.
I predicted right after that he'd blame the rain screwing up the teleprompters... and he fucking did it. The dumbest goddamn excuse imaginable. He did it.