What the ever-loving fuck? Donald Trump has proclaimed that 20 January 2017, his inauguration day, is a National Day of Patriotic Devotion.
A new national pride stirs the American soul and inspires the American heart. We are one people, united by a common destiny and a shared purpose.
Freedom is the birthright of all Americans, and to preserve that freedom we must maintain faith in our sacred values and heritage.
Our Constitution is written on parchment, but it lives in the hearts of the American people. There is no freedom where the people do not believe in it; no law where the people do not follow it; and no peace where the people do not pray for it. There are no greater people than the American citizenry, and as long as we believe in ourselves, and our country, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2017, as National Day of Patriotic Devotion, in order to strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country — and to renew the duties of Government to the people.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.
That is totally clownshoes. It’s an utterly bonkers declaration. He’s saying that one day, 3 days ago, is retroactively a day we were supposed to be patriotically devoted? He decided this for us all on his inauguration day, but didn’t bother to tell us?
We are ruled by a goofy, pompous narcissist with delusions of grandeur. It’s an embarrassment.
Oh, well. It’s a harmlessly ridiculous act that does nothing but make Trump look ridiculous. It’s not as if he signed anything that would kill people…oh, fuck.
Say, hi, Mike Pence, you evil old asshole. Now you’re exporting ignorance around the world.
The ban, which was first implemented by Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has been enforced by all Republican administrations since then, has been called the “global gag rule” because it prevents medical professionals and aid workers whose work is supported by U.S. grants from even talking about termination as an option for women with unwanted pregnancies. The rule forces international aid agencies to make a tough choice: Either reject American funds and continue to give women accurate information about their reproductive health options, or accept American funds and deny women information about abortions they may desperately need.
This is nuts. That Women’s March was not enough: instead of peacefully demonstrating, they should have stormed the White House doors to tar and feather these patriarch wanna-bes.
*vomit*
*puke*
*retch*
is there any doubt of his Narcissist Personality Disorder.
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I get I can tell my kids that the day I graduated from MIT is the day of celebration they missed by not being yet born. tsk tsk.
fuck
What faith? Your deity is imaginary, existing only in your mind as a delusion. Thanks for showing us your foolery….
Did he just turn the Women’s March into an annual thing? That would be an amazing thing. Here’s hoping!
I declare it the Two Minutes of Hate.
The news about the new “National Day of Patriotic Devotion” in your country is quite frightening, because it seems something concocted between an inquisitor and a nazi.
And the news about the ban to organizations that give information about abortion… these people have an heart? Or only have some black hole in their chest, filled with money, hatred and everlasting ambition for more power, no matter what?
Im so sorry for you all.
Enduring a president like Trump, will be a nightmare.
I cannot give much support, but i can say this: be strong and start to build a real alternative to the current administration in your country, by putting aside small differences and focusing in the fight against the fascists you have in power.
Give it a year and they’ll be discussing in cabinet whether or not to bring back the Bellamy salute. I mean, it’s just the sort of thing a leader needs to help bind the nation together on a day of patriotic devotion. That and shinier uniforms.
A bit confused ,is every 20th of Jan for the next 3 years going to be N P O P D ?.
Fernando, a heart? No? That second thing? Pretty much spot on.
A bunch of smug, rich white men stand around smiling as Clownface McFucktick signs a bill cutting off access to healthcare for millions of women, mostly non-white, and they see nothing the matter with this photo or the message it sends.
This is the epitome of true evil.
The Mexico CIty rule says that the US cannot send aid to countries where the government funds abortion. Yet we send billions to Israel, and abortion is a government paid health service — about half of all abortions are done in private clinics, half done by the government:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Israel
How are they going to reconcile this?
re 10:
They’ll just call it an alternative fact.
I expect in a few months or maybe tomorrow June 14 will be declared the national holiday Trumpday.
In fairness, both of these are Business As Usual, not unprecedentedly horrible elements of this administration.
The last several presidencies have declared their inauguration to be a National Day of Something-or-Other. It’s creepily worshipful, but not new; Obama issued an equally doofy proclamation for a National Day of renewal and Reconciliation.
The global gag rule, as mentioned in your quote, is something which Republican administrations establish and Democratic administrations rescind. The Democats have decency and morality on their side, yes, but this isn’t a particularly Trumpish bit of chicanery, just the usual awful Republican shit.
Dear Mr. Trump,
A donation in your name has been made to Wonen on Waves.
Not “wonen” but “women”.
Stupid auto-correct.
The ban on organisations which receive federal funding from providing information / assistance on abortion — the “Mexico City policy” — is also known as the “global gag rule”. It was first established by RonAddled Raygun in 1984, and has since then been rescinded by each dummie administration and reinstated by each thug dictatorship.
Yeah I vaguely remember that under Bush (I was prolife RCC originally, back then), and vainly tried to make sense of it. Horrible policy, with doctors being basically required to violate their hippocratic oath if they use US funding.
Bleh.
=8)-DX
“There are no greater people than the American citizenry”…
I’m fairly sure that having elected Donald Trump would disqualify you from that particular accolade, if such a brazen and distasteful lack of humility were not enough to have done so already. One might think that a country so awash with Christian sentiment would have at least some place for the appreciation of humility. Particularly a country with so much to be humble about.
Also, “two thousand seventeen”? It’s “two thousand AND seventeen” you ignorant prick. It is a sure sign of the apocalypse when even government officials start using appalling text-speak abbreviations in formal, long-hand legal documents.
@Duth Olec #12
You mean Trumpmonth the trumpteenth will be TrumpTrump of United Trumpistan? Good Trump to you, fellow trump!
jaybe@10, none of the foreign aid the US sends to Israel goes directly to reproductive services. So the gag rule doesn’t apply.
The office was filled with white men in black suits
With their power ties (probably China’s)
Their agenda is evil; they’re known by their fruits
And they’ve just declared war on vaginas
The white men in suits, looking grim and devout
Declared “NO!” –never yesses or maybes
Forget women—that’s not what this order’s about—
This order protects pre-born babies!
(In truth, it cuts funding for medical care,
In a manner that’s out-and-out ruthless;
The white men should know this—although, to be fair,
With “alternative facts”, the world’s truthless.)
The men in black suits posed for pictures and smiled
(They always can find time to schmooze)
They’ll pretend that they care for the life of a child…
So long as the men in suits choose.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/2017/01/23/white-men-in-black-suits-or-womens-issues/
hmph. edited, slightly, since posting comment. hmph.
I am unaware of any consensus option on this point of trivia for present-day English.
One exceptionally stupid “rule” I was taught was and was the (verbal?) equivalent of a decimal point; e.g., if the above was referring to USD, then “two thousand seventeen” means 2017$ whilst “two thousand and seventeen” means 2000.17$. Needless to say, that is an absurd idea, and is certainly not always followed, rendering it useless. However, it is an example of another interpretation.
This is really not that big a deal:
http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/23/trump-patriotic-devotion-day/
It was signed and announced on January 20, it just took a couple of days to appear on the federal register.
There is precedent for presidents declaring their inauguration day to be a day of observance. Obama declared his first inauguration day to be a National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
Sorry, I missed Jake’s post @13.
A move worthy of a Central Asian dictator. What’s next, golden statues that turn to face the sun?
re cartomancer wrote @18:
sorry, your correction would make the sentence refer to two years: 2000 and 17, not 2017.
I know it is common to think of “and” as the word for the arithmetic summation operator, while its grammatical function is for listing two objects, even when the objects are numerical values. /pedant
I see that if it was a Tweet, grammatical errors from Twitter-in-Chief are ubiquitous. Yet this being a formal document, I’m sure it was heavily crafted to be absolutely flawless. No mtter how flawed conceptually. SAD :-(
I was taught in 1960s Western Canada that one does NOT use “and” when saying a number.
Slithey Tove, #27
No, the way one writes the number 2017 in proper English words is “two thousand and seventeen”. Just as it is said out loud. “Two thousand seventeen” is two numbers next to each other with no grammatical link at all to connect them – it is not a valid phrase. To list them we would use a comma. For two years together we would say “the year two thousand and the year seventeen”.
I don’t know the precise extent of the butchery Americans routinely subject our fine English language to in their barbarous ignorance, but I’m not standing for it. You’ll be using guns instead of full stops soon, refusing government funds to any aid programmes that use an apostrophe or electing the question mark into power to take over from one of the vowels. From there it’s only a matter of time until you’re basically just speaking French, and then there’s no hope for you at all.
it’s twenty seventeen
@29 Cartomancer
Prescripivist much?
日本語で、二千十七年。
Ah, patriots!
People who love their country . . . . .
. . . and hate 95% of the people in it!
@13: I get that Trump isn’t the first president to issue a proclamation about Inauguration Day, but a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion” seems a bit on the fascistic side.
And of course, the ridiculousness of the claim that people cannot have freedom, law, or peace without the US Constitution cannot be understated — not that I expect the American right ever to acknowledge that anything good can happen (or better, God forbid!) in other countries.
“… and one of theym named Sheffelde, a mercer, cam in-to an hows and axed for mete; and specyally he axyd after eggys; And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not speke no Frenshe ….”
@13 bothsiderism is a nasty little habit used to excuse the excesses of extremists like Trump and Pence.
Firstly Obama did not name the day of his FIRST inauguration anything, only the day of his second, next Obama avoided the vile religious posturing and self aggrandisement, and last he did not wait 3 days before performing his action.
@ 36 CHARLES
Your first claim is false, your second dubious*, and the third irrelevant (for neither did Trump). See screechymonkey’s link.
* Obama’s 2009 declaration stated he was “fortified by my faith in an awesome God”.
(“it” meaning the US constitution)
Does Trump actually mean to imply that there is no freedom, no law, and no peace outside the USA?
Trump’s has echoes of North Korea:
The proclamation of patriotic joy is relatively nothing –let Donny the Cheeto proclaim his glory to all every day, as long as that takes 15 minutes out of the time he might be further ruining our country. The religious zealotry enforced in the second executive order will actually kill people. That those people are women is not seen as a bug to them, but as a feature. To them, women who have unwanted or unsafe pregnancies are only getting what’s coming to them. Why do they feel this way ? Others may offer other reasons, I just put it down to their being miserable shithead misogynists.
“Also, “two thousand seventeen”? It’s “two thousand AND seventeen” you ignorant prick…”
“I see that if it was a Tweet, grammatical errors from Twitter-in-Chief are ubiquitous. Yet this being a formal document, I’m sure it was heavily crafted to be absolutely flawless.”
Though surely this quote below should read “There IS no greater people than the American citizenry…” Is people in this context not a collective or plural noun, or some such?
– “There are no greater people than the American citizenry – ”
I hope no one tries to shoot Trump. His bodyguard will have to shout “Donald duck!”
nmcc, both are precise, and indeed refer to collectives because of the plural form (“citizenry”).
“There are no greater people than the American citizenry – ” means there is at most one greater people, and “There is no greater people than the American citizenry – ” means there are no greater people.
NYC Atheist, #29
I thought we were doing National Day of Patriotic Devotion here?!
“This is the epitome of true evil.”
Word.
If you feel nauseated about the Brownshirt Day, 20 January, you can spend the day celebrating that Sweden -as mentioned in a previous thread- reached a population of ten million on this day.
Or, you can celebrate some Norway- or Canada-related event that took place the 20 January, statistically there has to be one.
I avoid celebrating the Swedish national day by celebrating the invasion of Normandy, and my brother’s birthday, both of which take pthe same day, June 6th.
Is there no progressive activist with a birthday the 20th? Then, when the Trumpoid celebrate Brownshirt Day, you can celebrate some one who opposed segregation, or slavery, or oppression of the LGBT Community.
“Does Trump actually mean to imply that there is no freedom, no law, and no peace outside the USA?”
Have you never seen those foreign documentaries titled “Mad Max” ?
Washington DC = Trump City.
Catskills = Trump Mountains.
Hudson River = Trump River.
And there will be giant portraits of The Leader everywhere.
January 20 in history.
In 1920 the ACLU was formed. I’d say that’s cause for celebration.
(Also DeForest Kelly was born on that same day.)
Hey, you used gaggle to refer to them too. :)
January 20th should be dedicated to this god!
“Circular temple to god of wind uncovered in Mexico City” https://phys.org/news/2016-11-circular-temple-god-uncovered-mexico.html
I think there is a typo in that. January 20 was a National Day of Patriotic Division.
Events on January 20th (working link) https://www.brainyhistory.com/days/january_20.html
1st radio broadcast of “Lone Ranger” (WXYZ-Detroit) ???
-Now I see why the extreme right like January 20th: “1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the “final solution”, the extermination of Europe’s Jews”
And here is something else to do on the NDPD: Graffiti vigilantes http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2017/01/23/graffiti-grammar-police/#more-40069
And I think it ought to be the National Sacred Day of American Patriotism (NSDAP)
The inevitable Downfall parody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9rQEe6CH0
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#52 / birger:
Hey, Cartomancer, you don’t by any chance speak Spanish, do you? (;
I celebrated the day by joining a Dutch political party…
There are other national days, but Jan 20th is the Best and Biggest of them all!
“no peace where the people do not pray for it.”
Well, since you’ve come into power I suppose that may well be true now…
davidc1 @ #7
This is a proclamation for Jan. 20, 2017 only. Permanent holidays require actual legislation; if he wanted to do it again, he’d have to issue another proclamation or talk Congress into passing a law.
Freedom is the birthright of all Americans
Which clearly explains why we have a lot of Black United Empire Loyalists and the descendants of Black refugees from the War of 1812 living in Canada. And, of course, other refugees from the Underground Railway.
# 38 call me mark
Does Trump actually mean to imply that there is no freedom, no law, and no peace outside the USA?
Quite likely. I have seen many USA people think this way.
Yes, Obama’s National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation does sound pretty hokey, but Patriotic Devotion is something else entirely. Imagine a marriage where half of the partnership wants out. Do you ask for reconciliation or devotion? One acknowledges division and (misguidedly in this case) tries to seek compromise. The other ignores division and demands obedience.
If the USA has always been shitty and always kind of gross–and it has–that doesn’t absolve the dumpster fire going on now that we’re being told is celebratory fireworks. We can’t normalize this.
The more I think on this, the more the phrase “patriotic devotion” sounds fascist. Worship of the homeland. Worship of the leader.
Coupled with the othering language of his American Carnage speech (Our dreams are their dreams (if we are all Americans, what does this mean? Or is he implying that the “our” are the people who voted for him and the “their” are the ones who didn’t? (which still makes no sense))), the Orange Dumpster Fire manages to to sound even more fascist than during the campaign.
” the “global gag rule” because it prevents medical professionals and aid workers whose work is supported by U.S. grants from even talking about termination as an option for women with unwanted pregnancies.”
Well as long as its not nation-building we’ll continue to make other countries obey our (un)official religious laws.
Yes, that seems right: reconciliation is egalitarian and requires communication; devotion is authoritarian and demands either silence or agreement .
I note that what Obama actually got over the course of his administration was raging opposition rather than reconciliation.
May Trump similarly receive defiance rather than devotion.
“…because it prevents medical professionals and aid workers whose work is supported by U.S. grants from even talking about termination as an option for women with unwanted pregnancies.”
While I know there will be Americans fighting this, at the same time someone clever needs to make a video about abortion as an option without talking about it like this teacher did with condoms.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/meet-the-brilliant-mississippi-teacher-who-used-a-sock-to-te?utm_term=.wgpLjVKwD#.xqO3LPez8