Gentle Readers in the Right: the “gentlemen of the press” hate you. They will do anything to smear you, the politicians, you support, and the ideals you uphold. But woe to anyone who dares to say anything to wound their enormous egos!
Apparently, yesterday at President Trump’s campaign rally in Lancaster PA, he made a quip that did exactly that:
Trump’s podium was strangely protected on just three of four sides with thick, bulletproof glass and large gaps between the glass. One side left him totally unprotected.
“I’m just looking here, and I’m watching, and, this has nothing to do with corruption, but has to do with a little bit with intelligence. I have a piece of glass over here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there, and I have this piece of glass here [In front of his face at the front of the podium] but all we have over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news,” he shrugged, “and I don’t mind that so much.”
Here, from that same article, are the press’s reactions to his jest:
“Breaking: Trump Says He Wouldn’t Mind Someone Shooting Through ‘Fake News’ At Rally,” a Forbes headline reads.
“Trump talks shooting at press, ramps up election fraud claims at Pa. rally,” NBC reported.
“Trump misleads about voter fraud, jokes about press being shot at Lancaster Airport rally,” reported LNP, the left leaning local Lancaster newspaper that fired numerous reporters last month.
The Atlantic gave readers, “Donald Trump’s Latest Violent Fantasy: The former president muses about reporters getting shot.”
OUCH! The horror! Trump hurt their delicate feelings! They think a lot of themselves. Not so much of him, though. Which recalls to mind this interesting episode from Trump’s first term in the Oval Office:
Ah, the glory of the Fourth Estate! We must all bow to them… even the ones that call us “deplorables,” our chosen president a “liar” and a “fascist,” and whose favored candidates routinely characterize us as “Nazis.”
Pardon my Belgian, but fuck that shit. And the “gentlemen of the press” who excrete it.
Trump 2024.
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They hate me, I despise them. I cannot hate them, takes too much energy. I understand they are liars as is their master.
If they think that’s bad, wait until they hear what I think should be done with those traitors.
Gentlemen of the Press has the ring of Ladies of the Night.
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(chuckle) Doesn’t it, though!
“Pardon my Belgian”. Hmmmmm, I do have bloodlines that go back to that corner of the world before it was known as Belgium. When it was known as Frisia.
I say give the French a break and it’s time for Belgium to step up. Although “Pardon my French” rolls off the tongue easier.
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(chuckle)The common form was once “Pardon my French,” but after reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, I switched to Belgian in honor and remembrance.