I don’t know that it is coincidence, but I also don’t think that it was nefarious or trolling.
President WTF has been using twitter a little bit, and has elevated that into the spotlight as a place in which to easily disseminate or receive news and information.
So, while it may be because trump is a twitter fan that prompted NPR to add twitter to the ways it communicates its fourth of july message, it was not really so much a dig at him, as much as a way to get more viewership.
I doubt that even the latte sipping arugula eating producers of NPR’s morning edition were cynical enough to think that trump supporters would see the declaration of independance, and think it to be an unAmerican screed.
Though, if they really were trolling, they’d have done it on the 2nd, the actual signing day of the DOI.
Make the right piss on the Declaration of Independence. And call them on it at every instance. You don’t think the converse would have been in motion had Fox “News” posted the Declaration of Independence during the Obama administration and *anybody *on the left criticized them for it in the slightest? Call them freedom hating traitors for all I care. Whats good for the goose and all that shit.
Oh God, I had completely forgotten what “Pizzagate” was! Had to click on the link to refresh my memory. The level of ‘crazy" there is fuckin’ unbelievable! Yeah, I’m sure Scalise is getting far too close to the unnerving horrifying “truth”, and must be taken down. Holy Cow! How udderly ridiculous…
They must be the same idiots who freaked out at the soft drink commercial with people singing America the Beautiful in various languages. The idiots freaking out thought that song is the national anthem.
Let me be the first to condemn these words and say, instead, that this screed is NOT representative of my faith, or Christianity as a whole, except for a small sect of violence-loving fundamentalists who use small excerpts of our shared holy book out of context in order to justify their hatred and bigotry.
That would appeal to my sense of symmetry, since the Matanuska-Susitna area — Sarah P’s stompin’ ground — was settled to a great extent by transplants from Minnesota and Wisconsin during the Great Depression. The idea was to create a farming colony, and it was generally successful; it also explains why Sarah sounds like she came from Minneapolis.