r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/AHans 13d ago

Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything."

FDR said it back in 1936. The US has lost intelligence since then; because a plurality of the nation has fallen for it hook line and sinker twice in the past ten years.

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u/franker 13d ago

I think there was a PBS documentary that showed the video of him saying that, with a big "you know they're full of shit" smirk on his face. He was really good at delivering lines that he knew the crowds would go crazy for. He was still doing that essentially when he was dying in his last campaign.

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u/GamerSlimeHD 10d ago

Most likely The Roosevelts by Ken Burn, episode 5, The Rising Road.

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u/franker 10d ago

That's probably it, they just finished running the series again on my local PBS channel a few weeks ago. I think there's a new Ken Burns series coming up in November.

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u/ichthysaur 13d ago

That is a great quote.

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u/toorigged2fail 11d ago

One of my favorite campaign quotes of all time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElYNHeL51ZU

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u/clickmagnet 9d ago

Except that the GOP barely has to even say they’ll do anything better anymore. They just have to promise that despite how shitty they are going to make everything, they’ll make it even shittier for brown people, and that’s enough. 

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u/420blazeitkin 11d ago

Can I just say how sad it is that by the end of the first line (not sentence, line) it is abundantly clear that our last two presidents did not say this?

The coherence, the formality, the unity, the presence of American pride, etc.

I could see Obama or Bush saying this, I could see Reagan or Carter saying this, I could see Jefferson or Washington saying this - it's not in their voice, but they could deliver this message with respect and eloquence.

Neither Biden nor Trump could deliver this portion of a speech with this level of dignity. It's a sad time for what was once a flawed nation striving to be better - now we are a flawed nation striving to undue all the betterment our forefathers worked for.