Ronnie Reagan’s “Morning in America” was always a fake-marketing ploy to make republicans seem like “aw shucks” Average Joe America.
It was the first Big Lie.
Nixon was a crook. Reagan was a crook and a liar. Dubya is a war criminal. And don’t get me started on The Former Guy, who history will record as our most profoundly corrupt official in modern history.
But why is “Morning in America” ruse important context for today?
Lies upon lies so NRA will keep bribing
Today, feckless imposters like Marco Rubio use Ronnie’s avuncular imagery to paper over their own failures. And no, I’m not linking or embedding Marco’s propaganda. (You can Google it if ya wanna kill some time and brain cells.)
In reality, they’re all owned by NRA. Wayne LaPierre long ago cleaved their balls and tucked them in his man-purse.
Bravo! Amen Brother! The only thing easier to buy in America than a gun is a Republican! pic.twitter.com/6GJKUR7HUF
— Jayne🟧Spoutible, Post, Mastodon, & CounterSocial (@smilingoutloud2) May 25, 2022
Projection of strength is a lie. Claiming “fiscal responsibility” is a LIE. “Pro-life” is a lie. Claiming to be “party of National Security” is… well you know.
Special Report: GOP feverishly fabricating Apartheid in America [UPDATED]
Knowing white men will soon become minority in America republicans are trying to falsely bolster their power by imposing Apartheid in America which, yes, includes acts of violence as a natural offshoot.
Yesterday 19 students and 2 teachers were gunned down in Uvalde, Texas, by a crazed lunatic with a weapon of war.
Tonight's official GOP talking point:
"Horrified and heartbroken". pic.twitter.com/aW8pYRsqyz
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) May 25, 2022
Disgraced party of “Thoughts & Prayers” knows their favorite platitude is canceled so today their fallback post-mass-shooting reaction is “Heartbroken & Horrified“.
F*ck off with that shit.
Soaring rhetoric needs to matter this time.
Since I’m your official Liberal Helper I compiled some clips of actual Joe America who are supremely hocked off and sick of GOP—Guns over People—destroying families. Folks I highlight below named-and-shamed, which is what our nation’s media should be doing, too.
Beto O’Rourke
.@BetoORourke just showed up and shook things up. @statesman pic.twitter.com/Z1FtBwUEdJ
— Luz Moreno-Lozano 🦇 (@LuzMorenoLozano) May 25, 2022
“Someone needs to stand up for the children of this state, or they will continue to be killed just like they were in Uvalde”—Beto O’Rourke
Sen. Chris Murphy (D.-CT)
Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting: “What are we doing? What are we doing?…This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day." https://t.co/Zh3OvUaIwm pic.twitter.com/TjJVoaFbRN
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 24, 2022
“Why are you here… if not to solve a problem as existential as this?”—Chris Murphy
Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
Fuck you @tedcruz you care about a fetus but you will let our children get slaughtered. Just get your ass to Cancun. You are useless. https://t.co/0tArGHosep
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) May 24, 2022
“Just get your ass to Cancun”—Ruben Gallego to Fat Dracula, after Ted tried to get scoldy again
Steve Kerr, Head Coach of Golden State Warriors
Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas. pic.twitter.com/lsJ8RzPcmC
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) May 24, 2022
“I’m tired of the moments of silence. ENOUGH. There are 50 senators who refused to vote on HR8 and there’s a reason they won’t: to hold onto power”—Steve Kerr
Matthew McConaughey
Uvalde, Texas, USA. pic.twitter.com/0iULRGtREm
— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) May 25, 2022
“Actions must be taken so that no parent has to experience what the parents in Uvalde and others before have endured”—Matthew McConaughey
Cliff Schecter, author
A New Commentary Short I released just prior to the #UvaldeMassacre, when reporter Ashley Parker blamed Biden, not McConnell or Republicans, for our lack of gun safety laws since Newtown & Parkland. Hmm…who seems to be blocking them today? https://t.co/KXONmI3pFZ #Uvalde
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) May 25, 2022
“Ashley Parker of Washington Post went after Biden and blamed him for the fact we don’t have gun-control laws”
It’s Mourning in America. We’ve had 27 school shootings in 2022 and it’s only May. Soaring rhetoric needs to make a difference this time… for kids who might be shot dead in a future rampage. 🔴
Will Pollock is a perpetually cranky New York City escapee based in Midtown Atlanta. He’s a freelance multimedia journalist, media analyst and author of two books (award-winning Pizza for Good & Leaving Triscuit), with more on the way.
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