. . .of course, it's lame, as acting performances (and free-style rap performances) go, but there is much truth. . . in these words -- even 20 years later.
And it is true of BOTH Democrats and Republicans -- the same ills that beset us in the latter days of the Reagan-Bush 41 era have returned -- in a more virulent, more cynical form, under Donald Trump.
UPDATED: A mere 72 hours later, we know what Trump Inc. got, in return for the above ZTE announcement: $500 million from China, for a Trump resort in Indonesia. Deplorable.
The saddest part of all of this is that the Trump apologists in DC, and in red states, are going to make up excuses -- rather than ask directly: "Who paid him what sort of a corrupt emolument, for his sudden preference for a Chinese billionaires' company (one under US trade sanctions) -- over US workers who've lost their jobs (at least under his professed view, as a result of unfair competition from these same Chinese manufacturers). . . .?"
To be clear, I do not ascribe to that bogus theory of voo-doo economics. But if 45 is going to say it is true, and claim he wants to put "America First" (again), he ought to explain how a Commerce Department bailout of ZTE is consistent with any of. . . his previous lies.
Yes -- the video is low quality screen cap, and yes, Warren Beaty was mis-cast. But he is channeling Don Cheadle's earlier monologue in most of his rap.
The words of "America First" were always lies -- glaringly obvious ones, in fact -- but still I bet the GOP will cover for Trump here, on Monday morning.
Obscenity?! Ob-scen-i-ty?! Obscenity!
नमस्ते
No comments:
Post a Comment