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I don't have a TV because I think TV sucks the soul out
of the body. Google it. I'm confident that there is a peer-reviewed study out
there proving just that.
But there are things I wish I could watch: the Academy
Awards, The Tonys, and political conventions.
Last night my internet connection stayed on long enough
that I could watch the entire Ted Cruz Republican National Convention speech
live.
Oooo baby. Every now and then you get a sense that you
are watching history. The screen practically burst into flames.
Trump supporters are spinning more desperately than Melania
on an exercise bike after Donald tells her she's putting on weight.
Trump supporters are braying as obstreperously as they
can:
TED CRUZ IS A TRAITOR
TED CRUZ IS DEAD
I REGRET EVER VOTING FOR TED CRUZ.
I'm using all caps because that is how Trump supporters
communicate. I really should throw in a few misspellings and malapropisms and
racist epithets.
Don't fall for Team Trump's spin.
Ted Cruz is not a traitor, he is not dead, and I wish I
could have voted for him.
I'll tell you what Ted Cruz is. Ted Cruz is a man.
Donald Trump is dumpster trash. His supporters are
dumpster divers who have swallowed trash.
Ted Cruz stood up there and was the lone voice who
pointed out that the emperor is naked.
Cruz didn't do it when it was getting to be safe or easy
to do it. He didn't wait for the right moment to ask, "Have you no decency
sir?"
Cruz exposed Trump and his supporters at the crest of
Trump's power and popularity, at the ground zero of their fantasies.
I'll tell you what else Ted Cruz is. He is smart and he
is complex. His speech hushed the crowd and drew tears. He wove the current
events of the day – cop killings and black-white tensions – into the fabric of
how Donald Trump bullied Ted Cruz, his wife Heidi Cruz, and his father, Rafael
Cruz. Cruz spoke of transcendent love and forgiveness.
No, he didn't say "Vote Trump," but anyone with
a three-digit IQ could hear that theme in the speech, the theme of "If you
think it's good for America to forgive Trump for being a hate-mongering liar,
then, yeah, vote for him. I won't hold it against you."
I heard that. What the crowd heard was "Vote your
conscience," and at *that* the Trump supporters booed. They are nothing
more or less than the types who would give the thumbs down the gladiators,
eager to see blood spurt from human flesh.
Trump supporters, America is at the crossroads:
immigration, terrorism, decay of the values America is found on. At this
crossroads, you, Trump supporters, you foisted on us the single worst
presidential candidate in American history. You have hurt your country and that
hurt is not going away in a long time.
As I sat there, electrified, listening to Cruz's manfully
courageous and astoundingly tender speech, a speech shot through with Christian
values, an articulate speech, not the verbal diarrhea that dribbles forth from
Trump, I thought, "This could have been our presidential candidate. And he
is not. Because the voters chose a flaccid bag of lies of and hate, a clown who
dog whistles neo-Nazis. America, you have the candidate you deserve."
Thank you for this. It's so hard to see people falling for the spin Trump is putting on out. Knowing days in advance what Cruz would say he chose to orchestrate boos and hatred. Even the day after his coronation when he should have been attacking Hillary or at least acting presidential he sounded like a demented Vegas lounge act going through all the lies he has put forth about Cruz and his family, doubling down on them. He even said the National Enquirer is a reputable publication and should have gotten a Pulitzer. This is what we have to vote for to keep an outright criminal out of the White House.
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