I still have no idea why the fucking White House thinks it’s a good idea to compare themselves favorably to the Grinch. It’s like they don’t realize he’s supposed to be the bad guy.
America loves a reformed sinner.
The same reason they’ve compared Trump to Darth Vader and Thanos.
Normally I would say that subtext is lost on them, but this isn’t that.
It’s just text. Plain as the nose on your face.
But I am reminded of:
…the soldier is not only a man fighting in accordance with the rules of the art of war, but also the ruthless standard bearer of a national conception and the avenger of bestialities which have been inflicted upon German and racially related nations. For this reason the soldier must learn fully to appreciate the necessity for the severe but just retribution that must be meted out to the subhuman species of Jewry.
The Severity Order issued by a German general (and endorsed by his superior) on the Eastern front in 1941, basically giving those troops the excuse - nay, impressing upon them the necessity - to be utterly cruel to anyone and everyone in occupied Russia.
Also, much like the various morale-boosting efforts aimed at ICE agents, attempting to get them to put away their moral scruples by telling them they are doing important and valuable work and the people they are acting against are dangers to everything they hold dear.
As Orwell might say, “Cruelty is kindness.”
I thought that was Nick Lowe.
I missed that @aurora_maire was asking about the “title” in the image, not the text of the Truth Social post.
I’m pretty sure if you order that these days, you’re automatically deported to Switzerland, or something.
And of course, it’s entirely on point that the Republicans are quoting the movie version, which distorted the whole story, completely missing the point of the original book/TV show.
Only in the right measure.
The Right has inverted morality; good is evil, evil is good to them. Compassion is a sin, greed is good. Consensual sex is bad, rape is good. Facts are bad, lies are good.
So characters like the Grinch (or Hitler) are heroic to them. If they have any problems with the Grinch, it’ll be that he turned nice in the end instead of just murdering all the Whos out of hand.
Let’s face it, Jesus and Christianity are woke. He could have been rich and he chose not to be. How dumb is that? He would never have made a good Republican.
Trump is gloating about the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife.
Well, yes; people have pointed out for years that as much as the Republicans like to talk up being Christian, they’d have despised the actual person and everything he did & said.
That’s written far too well for it to have come from the felon himself. Which means he has flacks writing this crap for him. He’s basically a zombie now.
Reading that, I believe you.
This is bad. I mean, read the text. They are willing to do what they imagine he would want to say, and they come up with this?
So the real assholes can act anonymously now and hide behind the orange screen and perform their worst instincts and fantasies? This is not going to end well.
Does this mean we can say “Happy holidays” again?
I can believe that with some of his other posts (there was one just the other day that I assumed was ghost written), but this?
If this was ghost written, entirely without Trump’s input, then I can only conclude that the person behind it is actively trying to sabotage Trump now. This post is so far outside the bounds of decency that anyone with even a shred of common sense, even if they’re fundamentally an evil person who thinks that decency is a weakness that only losers care about, would realize that it’s likely to blow up in their face.
So, written by Vance?
If you told me they had him speak his mind, fed it into some AI bot with a prompt to make it sound like Trump but with better grammar and fewer misspellings, and posted the resulting garbage, I could believe it. I’d only be surprised they didn’t try it earlier
Sometimes he dictates his posts. Apparently, some get cleaned up better than others.