Inter se pugnantia (in’-ter-say-pug-nan’-ti-a): Using direct address to reprove someone before an audience, pointing out the contradictions in that person’s character, often between what a person does and says.
You tell me and everybody else you’re going to make America great again, but you’re actually making it worse again. You’re the greatest con artist in American history—better than Jim Jones and Bernie Madoff combined. You’re taking everything away from America that made it great: freedom of speech, civil rights, women’s rights, environmental caretaking, international food aid, and the so-called social safety net, which actually could’ve used more help, but food stamps, SNAP, and Medicaid helped.
Citing corruption and waste for cuts and the elimination of programs and entire agencies, is a mask for an ideology that respects only money. If saving money and increasing profits kills people—babies and the elderly alike, so be it. Money accumulates. Money is the answer. Money is God.
But money spent to save lives and improve lives—to feed minds and stomachs—is a wiser investment than whatever cutting down the safety net accomplishes, killing many people who have no other place to fall as they plummet toward the cold hard ground of poverty. If people chcan live people can eventually flourish. America will be a better place. America will be great again when the hell you’re inflicting on it goes away.
As the next three years unfold, what will the Great America look like? Will there be riots and flames as people realize you ripped them off—that what you promised and what you delivered were vastly different—that what you said and what you did were two different things?
You’re making America into a shit hole.
You are a scumbag.
Definitions courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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