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Just think: a year from now we may be doomed to have this malevolent lunatic in power again:
Donald Trump went after his political enemies in a Thanksgiving message posted on Truth Social on Thursday.
The former president focused his attacks on those involved in his civil fraud trial as well as on President Joe Biden.
He wrote: “Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE; the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a ‘Psycho,’ Arthur Engoron, who Criminally Defrauded the State of New York, & ME, by purposely Valuing my Assets at a ‘tiny’ Fraction of what they are really worth in order to convict me of Fraud before even a Trial, or seeing any PROOF, & used his Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator, Chief Clerk Alison Greenfield, to sit by his side on the ‘Bench’ & tell him what to do; & Crooked Joe Biden, who has WEAPONIZED his Department of Injustice against his Political Opponent, & allowed our Country to go to HELL; & all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
That’s all one sentence. It should be multiple sentences, but no, pumpkin head needs to make it one giant flatulent run-on sentence sprinkled with semi-colons where periods should be.
And quotation marks on “tiny.” Meaning what? That the fraction isn’t actually tiny? But he wants us to believe him that it is tiny. So why the quotation marks? Why the quotation marks on “Bench”?
And the random capital letters. Why capitalize Criminally Defrauded? Why capitalize Valuing my Assets?
A gag order in the case previously prevented Trump from criticizing court officials, but last week a state intermediate appeals court, headed by Judge David Friedman, granted a temporary stay on the order, effectively suspending it due to the “constitutional and statutory rights at issue.”
Engoron had previously fined Trump $15,000 in total for violating the order twice after commenting about Greenfield, including falsely claiming she was in a relationship with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The stay seems very unfortunate under the circumstances.
He’s incapable of letting go his grievances even long enough to just say “Happy Thanksgiving.” He’s not listening to Melania and her ‘Be Best’ urgings. She posted on “X” “Happy Thanksgiving” and left it at that.
He has capitalized on the grievances that David Duke stirred up. Duke was only able to get so far before his star faded, and he even tried to ride Trump’s coattails but that wasn’t the return to power he had hoped for. The people that Trump is speaking to lap this up and it solidifies their support rather than weakens it, and his labeling his detractors as far left at every turn makes me wonder who they think is the near left. Perhaps Coel can help here. Who are the left that aren’t hateful jerks on the path to destroy American and the rest of the world?
“Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.” That seems inclusive of everyone who isn’t Donald Trump or under his spell.
Given his oft-stated admiration of and reverence for the Founders, it’s obvious that he is using an admittedly idiosyncratic emulation of 18th century syntax and orthography as an homage.
We used to ask patients if they could recite a complete sentence without taking a breath as a measure of shortness of breath. I tried that with this one and ended up needing oxygen myself.
The gratuitous capitalization and scare quotes give a kind of texture to his screed. It is a way to carry his voice onto the page. It also suggests that he is going meta: that there is more there than just the surface reading of his words, even though there isn’t really.
Without them, the screed would sound flat, and would have to stand on its substance, which is severely lacking.