A friend challenged me to watch the "State of the Union" speech last Tuesday evening. I do not, normally, ever watch television (Golden State Warriors' games, sometimes, and Netflix films being the two exceptions to this rule). In fact, I get my news from the "newspapers," the non-online kind that get thrown towards my front porch each and every morning - the kind that leave my hands dirty with ink stains, to the extent that I need to wash my hands after reading the papers, and certainly before I touch my computer keyboard.
I found that our chief executive's claim that the State of the Nation is "Strong!" to be extremely heavy on "assertion," and vanishingly light in terms of the actual factual support brought forward to support his claim. You can click right here to get a review by CBS News of some of the assertions made in that State of the Union speech. "False" and "Misleading" is what CBS says about most of the claims made by our current president.
Here is what I found most unsettling as I watched, however. After every major assertion made by our current president, and after every honorary presentation made, our current president turned his head, and raised his chin, and presented his profile in just the way that is pictured above. What was unsettling (unsettling to me, anyway) was this: our current president's pose captured perfectly the pose first perfected by Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.
As I say, I did find this to be disturbing - as I found everything else about that television presentation to be disturbing, too.
Weren't you (whoever you are, who might be reading this) disturbed, as well?
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