I am absolutely sickened
at Trump’s speech yesterday in Arizona to these young people ... yes I know it’s the same old same old from him, but it seems like he just keeps getting bolder and bolder and doesn’t even try to hide his white supremacism and love of fascism any more.
From Politico
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/06/23/trump-rally-arizona-336565
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Speaking to the young audience, Trump tapped into campus culture wars on free speech to draw a divide between his supporters and protesters fighting against racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Trump declared the students in the audience as the cultural defenders of not only his movement but also of American values as a whole, portraying Democrats as intolerant and “totalitarian.” He applauded the student activists in the crowd “who stand up for America and refuse to kneel to the radical left,” bashing the mainstream media and accusing “vicious” Democrats of stifling dissent but — and without evidence — accusing them of letting anyone vote, “even if they’re not citizens.”
The president condemned the removal of monuments for slave owners and Confederate leaders as a destruction of American history. He called the audience “smarter” than Democrats, who he said require “absolute conformity.”
“They hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans,” the president said. “Our country didn’t grow great with them. It grew great with you and your thought process and your ideology. The left-wing mob is trying to demolish our heritage, so they can replace it with a new oppressive regime that they alone control."
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When he mentioned what he called “the plague,” the president dismissed it: “It’s going away,” he said.
“What a job we’re doing with testing. We did ventilators,” Trump said, attacking “the fake news people” for what he called misleading the public about how bad the situation is.
“We’re going to have a vaccine very soon,” he promised.
Later in the speech he made fun of the disease and its various names to rousing applause, including referring to it with his new xenophobic moniker, “kung flu.”
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I decided to watch some of it after seeing it mentioned on DU.
The stupid young Republicans were packed together in there too, almost none of whom were wearing masks.
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Young behave like their parents do. Racism is imitated. Anti-progressiveism is imitated, and these days fed by RW radio and TV.
But you know all that. 
He's ranting about the Democrats
What is he talking about?
I'll tell you what he's talking about!
That the Democrats built the greatest middle-class, the world had EVER seen from 1933 to 1981, when the (D)'s had the majority in congress every year except '45 & '46 then again in 53' & '54. That's 44 years out of 48, that the (D)'s controlled BOTH houses of Congress.
What did (D)'s do with all that power?
Again, (D)'s built the greatest middle-class, the world had EVER seen.
In 1981 when RayGun got elected, it has been down hill.
Since 1981, (R)'s have control both houses for 16 years and the (D)'s for 4 years.
The other 20 years were split.
