Maybe it wasn't the false teeth - Part 2

[Trump's national security strategy] speech was fat with banalities that he struggled to pronounce, vague policy prescriptions that he struggled to enunciate, and sheer unmitigated bafflegab that he struggled to deliver. Plus sniffing and gasping and a two-handed death-grip on a small glass of water. The president* himself sounds worse than his rhetoric does, and that boggles the mind.

  Charles P Pierce

Seems I posted too soon about the one-handed grasp of his water glass.  Drugs also cause sniffling and gasping.  Just sayin'.

Whether it’s outfitting naval bases for the eventual rise of the ocean, or explaining patiently that climate-related crises in public health, water supplies, and agriculture are going to be at the root of most of our future wars, the Pentagon has been way out ahead of civilian institutions because its concerns are literally life and death. But the present commander-in-chief believes the climate crisis is a Chinese hoax, and his EPA is gumshoeing through the emails of its career staff to make sure none of them are secret agents of said Chinese hoax.

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The rest of [Trump's speech] was pretty much what we’ve come to expect. America had lost its way until the genius of its people, acting through the magic of the Electoral College, installed the One Man Who, Alone, Could Fix It.

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Now, less than one year later, I am proud to report that the entire world has heard the news and already has seen the signs that America is coming back, and that America is coming back strong.

When this speech veered into becoming a commercial for Ford pickup trucks, I do not know. What I do know is that this president* got himself disinvited from Great Britain, for pity’s sake, which knows America is coming back, it just doesn’t want it coming back to London right now.

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As an assessment of where we are now as a nation, [his speech] fell several dozen hectares short of reality.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.