God save the Who?
Just have to ask because I don’t understand my fellow Americans. How is it possible that in an audience of presumably educated people, no one questions the gaffes, repeated redundant tautologies, unintelligible gibberish, and false statements by POTUS AND VPOTUS? I have seen POTUS and VPOTUS stand in front of cheering, applauding, and laughing fans as both have uttered falsehoods, incomplete sentences, and irrelevant statements. The latest? POTUS said, “God save the Queen.” *
God save us all! Was he referring to Camilla? Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, Spain’s Queen Letizia, the Netherlands’ Queen Maxima, Sweden’ Queen Silvia, Norway’s Queen Sonja, Tonga’s Queen Nanasipau’u, Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, Lesotho’s Queen ‘Macenate Mohato Seeiso, Jordan’s Queen Tania, Buthan’s Queen Jetsun Pema, Cambodia’s Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, or Brunei’s Queen Pengiran Ana Saleba? All of them? Was he referring to Freddie Mercury’s rock band Queen?
Where’s the Contention of Days Gone By?
Really doesn’t matter, does it? The Democratic audiences and kowtowing reporters simply sit and listen, or applaud, or laugh as they seemed to do when POTUS wished his blessings on “the Queen.” Wait, isn’t this a democratic republic sans royalty?
So, as they say, “‘splain it to me.” What happened to the highly critical audiences the last president faced, people shouting out, people throwing accusations about Russian Collusion and what not? I preferred those who questioned over those who now just accept anything either POTUS OR VPOTUS says. Give me the contentious days of the Trump presidency. Regardless of the obvious venom, they exhibited people willing to question. And whereas it is true that Trump’s partisan audiences also nodded in agreement, no one can discount that contentious environment during press conferences, a contentiousness that seems to be woefully lacking at this time.
Just give me an audience in either party that doesn’t sit like obedient pets whose owners could say softly, “I’m going to kill you” as tails wag in ignorance. The next time you see a Biden or Harris audience laugh at a non-joke, nod heads at a gaffe or nonsensical statement, or applaud a falsehood, just think of those trusting tail-wagging pets. It really doesn’t matter what they say. Both the current POTUS AND VPOTUS could read from a phone book and still get unquestioning nods of approval.
Give me someone in an audience who says, “What the H do you mean, POTUS? What queen?” Or “Why, VPOTUS, do you think saying (paraphrased), ‘Time is important because time is important because this is the time that is important’ or in a hint of an infinite regression, ‘I am a woman who has a mother who is a woman who had a mother who was a woman’ has any meaning?”
Enabling
I suppose most of us are guilty at times of “enabling,” a term associated with parents and friends of drug addicts, alcoholics, and narcissists. But it’s also a term that could just as easily be associated with American political audiences that allow politicians to speak non sequiturs, irrelevant comments, and even total nonsense.
Pardon my use of the imperative mood, here, Lord, but I’m desperate for salvation from the enabled politicians. So, in a direct address, “God, save us all.”
*Subjunctive, and probably not imperative, mood, for you grammarians. It’s “May God save the Queen,” without the “may,” I assume. Otherwise, the statement would be “God, save the Queen,” an order given to God—who isn’t to be trifled with by mortals—written in the imperative mood.
Just have to ask because I don’t understand my fellow Americans. How is it possible that in an audience of presumably educated people, no one questions the gaffes, repeated redundant tautologies, unintelligible gibberish, and false statements by POTUS AND VPOTUS? I have seen POTUS and VPOTUS stand in front of cheering, applauding, and laughing fans as both have uttered falsehoods, incomplete sentences, and irrelevant statements. The latest? POTUS said, “God save the Queen.” *
God save us all! Was he referring to Camilla? Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, Spain’s Queen Letizia, the Netherlands’ Queen Maxima, Sweden’ Queen Silvia, Norway’s Queen Sonja, Tonga’s Queen Nanasipau’u, Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, Lesotho’s Queen ‘Macenate Mohato Seeiso, Jordan’s Queen Tania, Buthan’s Queen Jetsun Pema, Cambodia’s Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, or Brunei’s Queen Pengiran Ana Saleba? All of them? Was he referring to Freddie Mercury’s rock band Queen?
Where’s the Contention of Days Gone By?
Really doesn’t matter, does it? The Democratic audiences and kowtowing reporters simply sit and listen, or applaud, or laugh as they seemed to do when POTUS wished his blessings on “the Queen.” Wait, isn’t this a democratic republic sans royalty?
So, as they say, “‘splain it to me.” What happened to the highly critical audiences the last president faced, people shouting out, people throwing accusations about Russian Collusion and what not? I preferred those who questioned over those who now just accept anything either POTUS OR VPOTUS says. Give me the contentious days of the Trump presidency. Regardless of the obvious venom, they exhibited people willing to question. And whereas it is true that Trump’s partisan audiences also nodded in agreement, no one can discount that contentious environment during press conferences, a contentiousness that seems to be woefully lacking at this time.
Just give me an audience in either party that doesn’t sit like obedient pets whose owners could say softly, “I’m going to kill you” as tails wag in ignorance. The next time you see a Biden or Harris audience laugh at a non-joke, nod heads at a gaffe or nonsensical statement, or applaud a falsehood, just think of those trusting tail-wagging pets. It really doesn’t matter what they say. Both the current POTUS AND VPOTUS could read from a phone book and still get unquestioning nods of approval.
Give me someone in an audience who says, “What the H do you mean, POTUS? What queen?” Or “Why, VPOTUS, do you think saying (paraphrased), ‘Time is important because time is important because this is the time that is important’ or in a hint of an infinite regression, ‘I am a woman who has a mother who is a woman who had a mother who was a woman’ has any meaning?”
Enabling
I suppose most of us are guilty at times of “enabling,” a term associated with parents and friends of drug addicts, alcoholics, and narcissists. But it’s also a term that could just as easily be associated with American political audiences that allow politicians to speak non sequiturs, irrelevant comments, and even total nonsense.
Pardon my use of the imperative mood, here, Lord, but I’m desperate for salvation from the enabled politicians. So, in a direct address, “God, save us all.”
*Subjunctive, and probably not imperative, mood, for you grammarians. It’s “May God save the Queen,” without the “may,” I assume. Otherwise, the statement would be “God, save the Queen,” an order given to God—who isn’t to be trifled with by mortals—written in the imperative mood.
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