Just switched to Fox to watch the Rushmore event and it's predictably bonkers. Median attendee age looks about 62, no masks or social distancing. Also shouting USA in unison, which is not singing exactly, but probably not good aerosol-wise.
Giving the angry mobs attacking statues, "destroying our history and culture" speech. "One of their political weapons is cancel culture" lololol.
Says cancel culture is the very definition of totalitarianism, but kind of chokes on "totalitarianism" and it comes out as some other word because he can't pronounce it. Which seems ironic given how hellbent he is on implementing it.
Says federal agents arrested the "ringleader of the attack" on a statue of Andrew Jackson. Also says he's issuing something (an EO?) that would mandate a sentence of 10 years in prison for defacing a statue. Which he can't do, but whatever.
Now saying children learn to hate America in school and says he'll set history straight. Which would be more credible if there were any evidence he had learned any history in school. Or had a basic understanding of how government works.
Also he looks very shiny and less orange than brown. Maybe it's the lighting but it is ...disturbing.
Also - lighting hilariously makes all of the presidents on Mt Rushmore look vaguely horrified at what's happening.
"blah blah blah people who don't like monument don't love America blah blah social justice radicals want to silence us but we will not be silenced" Fox referring to it as a "tough law and order message", lol. YOU WILL NOT GRAFFITI A STATUE ON MY WATCH
Now playing the old hits "and we are building the wall!" The wall in your minds, presumably, because the one in the border hasn't happened.
More whining about cancel culture. Fake religious posturing while taking a racist swipe at protestors kneeling: "we only kneel to the almighty God." Miller probably wrote that one.
Says, bizarrely, that his opponents would tear up MLK's "I have a dream speech." 🤔
Surprised he got the date right.
Now says we're going to Mars very soon. Can't contain the coronavirus, but sure. Mars.
"nobody has never done it like we have done it."
Lol. Says he's EO to establish a "park of American heroes" that features ... statues. Of American heroes. I wanna which GOP consultant told him statues were gonna be the defining issue.
What am I saying, it was probably Jared. Rove's people aren't that dumb.
Everybody just aerosoling U-S-A! all over each other.
Fox playing along with a follow up about deploying Homeland Security to protect statues. From Americans.
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