{"id":1757,"date":"2025-03-05T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2025-03-05T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:59:13","slug":"heil-trump-leni-riefenstahl-should-have-filmed-the-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Heil Trump! — Leni Riefenstahl should have filmed the speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

March 5th<\/sup> 2025<\/i><\/p>\n

I only watched the first half hour of Trump\u2019s speech last night. I understand he raved and ranted and lied for a full 100 minutes, which puts him in line with other windy despots, such as Castro or Hitler or Mao. I\u2019ve always wondered why dictators feel a need to orate at such length. Do they enjoy holding a captive audience? Or is there a deeper insecurity at work here? Braggarts often are compensating for something.<\/p>\n

The speech was interrupted several times by chants of \u201cUSA! USA!\u201d from the Republican side. One hears it often at international sporting events, and it\u2019s usually good natured if a bit tiresome. But there was an edge, a bellicosity to the chant here that made it sound more like \u201cSieg Heil!\u201d All that was missing was the stiff-armed salute. It\u2019s a pity the camera angle couldn\u2019t pick out faces of those saluting the dictator: I wondered how many wore the same joyous truculence of the true believer, and how many sneaked nervous glances about, too aware of the penalties for inadequate enthusiasm. (I wonder if anyone in the room looked for the same thing and had the wisdom to realize that the true believers would be the greater threat to Trump than the shivering cowards. When Trump\u2019s programs implode and the public fury rises, they will turn faster and harder against Trump.)<\/p>\n

\u201cNever be the first to stop applauding\u201d \u2013 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn<\/p>\n

Trump got into the issue of waste in Social Security. Apparently he hoped a long list of patently untrue claims would give him some credence, but as usual, he over embellished, breaking down \u201crecipients\u201d by age groups\u2014110 to 115, 116-125, and so on up to 350. That last one amused me: apparently someone filed for social security benefits either in 1675 or at the age of 260, when Social Security actually came into existence. I watched Mike Johnson shaking his head sorrowfully over that, and recalled that the man is a Bible literalist, which means he really believes Methuselah really lived to be 969. Maybe he thought the SS recipient in question was actually one of Noah\u2019s children, and was just lying about his age in order to pick up girls. Was he first paid in ducats or florins?<\/p>\n

Of course, there are no checks going out to people older than about 113. The December 2024 Social Security stats<\/a> show that a bit over 89,000 people got payments, in line with the census report from 2020 which showed 88,000 in that age group. The database is in COBOL, which uses numbers like 150 to indicate that the person in question is dead.<\/p>\n

But Trump has two audiences he wants to reach: those who are in on the con as part of his drive to flat-out steal the Social Security trust fund, and utter fools. If you believe him but don\u2019t know which group you\u2019re in, you\u2019re in trouble.<\/p>\n

Trump babbled about the \u201cwoke agenda\u201d of course. Among other items that he considers woke: \u201cbiodiversity,\u201d \u201ctransgenic mice,\u201d and \u201cdiscriminants.\u201d As I said, his main audience is morons.<\/p>\n

At least one Democrat, Rep. Al Green (D, Texas) stood and shouted \u201cYou have no mandate to cut Medicaid!\u201d and \u201cHe has no mandate!\u201d Mike sent the palace guard to evict him. It\u2019s a pity the rest of the Democrats didn\u2019t join him.<\/p>\n

Still, Trump woke up this morning to a new crisis, which probably took the sheen off what he doubtlessly considered a wildly successful oration: the Supreme Court ruled that he must honor the contracts made from funds allocated by Congress to outfits such as USAID.<\/p>\n

The ruling, which in any sane time would have been a 9-0 no-brainer, was dissented by Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch. Alito wrote the dissent, saying he was \u201cstunned\u201d that judges might think it is the duty of judges to adjudicate contracts under the rule of law. That is, after all, only the reason judges exist in the first place, and obviously is just some woke liberal crap and must be struck down. I wonder if any of those four have considered what may happen if they managed to rule against their own raison d\u2019<\/i>\u00ea<\/i><\/span>tre<\/i>. Of course, their masters at the Heritage Foundation probably have golden parachutes ready for when they finish selling out the country and there is no longer any reason for silliness like \u201cConstitutional Law.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it puts Trump right up against that red line: does he abandon his efforts to dismantle the government by fiat, or does he defy the Court? Either way leads to the end of his government, either as a legitimate government or a government at all.<\/p>\n

For all of us, the red line is here. And if he crosses it and defies the courts, then either Trump must go, or America does.<\/p>\n

Your choice what to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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