02-07-2018, 10:20 AM
(02-07-2018, 07:19 AM)hollodero Wrote: Ah, this smells like double standard. Whatever Trump does or says or implies is in reality only half as bad because it's Trump and we know our Donald, he just hears things and asks questions and talks loosely and probably doesn't even mean it. He gets filters, mulligans, whatever...
But the Democrats are the divisive ones. I don't know, that doesn't make much sense, especially when Republicans didn't clap at Obama's speeches either. Should Dems clap, maybe, then again it's hard to clap to the man who takes credit for everything, blame for nothing, makes everything about himself and is Donald Trump.
The double standard is the media running with every cringy thing Republicans say (this happened with George Dubya a LOT as well...it's funny how similar their presidencies were viewed by the left). It's easy to impulsively run with every cringy thing a President says...especially if you didn't vote for him. Then it works out great, as Trump provides plenty of petty talking points for people who want to be petty and look at words instead of real issues or actions. But I know what he meant here, and if you were being honest, you certainly do too.
I don't have footage of every SOTU, but I'm willing to guess that some republicans stood when Obama announced objectively good news. Democrats showed nearly 100% disgust with every bit of objectively good news. I'm also going to venture a wild guess that the black caucus didn't look disgusted over good news for black people...when it was Obama bringing the news. It was sad, and yes...it was divisive.
Trump dividing the country is just a lazy left narrative that their base is gobbling right up, despite all the evidence (and reality) that this country was reaching critical mass while Obama was in office and Trump was just some rich guy mulling running for President. BLM, the media reporting every shooting as racially motivated before the facts were all in (jumping the gun, pun intended), and Colin Kaepernick are what divided this country.
That all happened before Trump, and not to go off on a tangent, but the one thing I hated about Obama's presidency the most (I actually respected his ideas on health care - just not the execution) - was that as the first black President, he could've done so much to quell the division in this country, but he did nothing. Probably out of fear of losing voters. Sad.
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