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America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump (thehill.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/politics

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[–] kambusha 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad — worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! [shouting] You've got to say: 'I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!' So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

[–] JamesStallion 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think we need to understand that this speech is exactly how republicans see themselves. Notice the focus on violent crime, something which is not actually rising, and inflation. These are the kinds of issues that Republicans have used to gather support. As far as they are concerned, Trump is the TV personality who has gone rogue and started yelling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

more appropriate to look at the Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson types that are actively on pseudo-news channels, screaming into the aether and telling viewers to get mad.

it doesn't matter what they're mad about, as long as they stay mad, and think that somebody needs to be hurt to make it all go back to normal. that's just how MAGA fascism works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is this from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

'the mad speech' from network (1976)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love this quote