Posted on 05/25/2020 3:49:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump opened his April 13 coronavirus news briefing with a video compilation of media clips touted his pandemic-fighting achievements. Team Trump had selectively cut and edited quotes from journalists and governors, who had regularly cited the dangerous lack of White House support during the pandemic, so they appeared to praise his leadership.
I hadn’t seen anything like this sort of propaganda display since the 1980s Soviet Union. I was suddenly transported back 40 years to my childhood, watching on TV as the aging Soviet patriarch Leonid Brezhnev endlessly pinned medals to his own chest.
Today’s COVID-19 reality has, in similar fashion, exposed many of America’s sores of inequality as the virus ravages communities of color and deepens the economic divide between the wealthy and everyone else. The United States could likely learn a great deal from the Soviet Union’s attempted program of serious reconstruction - which exposed the Kremlin’s decades of lies and sought to address them.
Even so, the pandemic has ripped away America’s delusion of eternally winning - perfected to absurdity by Trump - and exposed staggering economic inequality and racial discrimination across the nation.
This coronavirus experience could lead to an American version of Perestroika. The United States has a better chance than the Soviet Union to pull through. The world misses Washington’s leadership, which had won over so many people around the globe during the Cold War. This leadership will become even more convincing if it comes from the renewed United States - one that values social wellbeing of the public before the profits of the few.
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“Team Trump had selectively cut and edited...”
Like looking in a mirror, no?
Yes, MSNBC is an enemy of our country.
Traitorous NBC giving an “American” podium to the daughter of a Soviet dictator.
“I hadn’t seen anything like this sort of propaganda display since the 1980s Soviet Union.”
Guess this clown wasn’t around during the 2008 Presidential election the way the lib media hoisted obama on their shoulders.
Comcast and all there are American enemies and must be destroyed. All employed by comcast and affiliates at NBC are our enemies.
She needs to go work for Pravda since she’s such an expert on propaganda.
Get it! NBC employs Nikita Kruschev’s granddaughter as a writer. These commie bastards are pushing this country toward a civil war.
Maybe closer:
From Nikita Khrushchev,
“We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.”
rwood
For those who haven’t seen it, the video starts at the 15:30 mark in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4nYy-3AW9E
I hadn’t seen anything like this sort of propaganda display since the 1980s Soviet Union. I was suddenly transported back 40 years to my childhood, watching on TV as the aging Soviet patriarch Leonid Brezhnev endlessly pinned medals to his own chest.
What an insane thing to say. Was she asleep during the Russia hoax?
What a bunch of pricks!
The Ministry of Propaganda had to outsource this piece to a real Russian.
The GOP and Democrats did abrogate the Constitution to put an ineligible enemy agent in the White House.
I'm so sick of the left constantly claiming the US has lost leadership around the world since President Trump took office. What they mean is that the US has stopped apologizing for itself the way Bildo Klintoon and Bathhouse Barry did in their combined 16 years in office while George W Bush mostly stayed silent.
This is an early example of what real international leadership sounds like from the Trump Era. It is what I find to be the key excerpt from President Trump's first speech at the United Nations delivered in September 2017. Amidst the distinctly Trumpian worldview are Reaganesque elements which explains the almost hysterical enmity and captures why the left views the President as an existential threat to them. They are also poignant words on this Memorial Day
The greatest in the United States Constitution is its first three beautiful words. They are: “We the people.”Generations of Americans have sacrificed to maintain the promise of those words, the promise of our country, and of our great history. In America, the people govern, the people rule, and the people are sovereign. I was elected not to take power, but to give power to the American people, where it belongs.
In foreign affairs, we are renewing this founding principle of sovereignty. Our government’s first duty is to its people, to our citizens — to serve their needs, to ensure their safety, to preserve their rights, and to defend their values.
As President of the United States, I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries will always, and should always, put your countries first. (Applause.)
All responsible leaders have an obligation to serve their own citizens, and the nation-state remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition.
But making a better life for our people also requires us to work together in close harmony and unity to create a more safe and peaceful future for all people.
The United States will forever be a great friend to the world, and especially to its allies. But we can no longer be taken advantage of, or enter into a one-sided deal where the United States gets nothing in return. As long as I hold this office, I will defend America’s interests above all else.
But in fulfilling our obligations to our own nations, we also realize that it’s in everyone’s interest to seek a future where all nations can be sovereign, prosperous, and secure.
America does more than speak for the values expressed in the United Nations Charter. Our citizens have paid the ultimate price to defend our freedom and the freedom of many nations represented in this great hall. America’s devotion is measured on the battlefields where our young men and women have fought and sacrificed alongside of our allies, from the beaches of Europe to the deserts of the Middle East to the jungles of Asia.
It is an eternal credit to the American character that even after we and our allies emerged victorious from the bloodiest war in history, we did not seek territorial expansion, or attempt to oppose and impose our way of life on others. Instead, we helped build institutions such as this one to defend the sovereignty, security, and prosperity for all.
Not mentioned it’s what the media does best hide the facts and spread the agenda.
Sure, the kind of anti-Perestroika that grows in the barrel of a gun.
That figures. I saw the byline, and knowing how Russians do a gender thing with their last names, I was wondering, could she be related to Khrushchev?
Did she repeatedly bang her high heel shoe on her desk while composing this screed?
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