Why The Pause?

This is from a blog post that I published September 19, 2017. Here's what I wrote:

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Listen to this idiot/monster. He talks trash of course. The powerful tend to do that. Afterall, What are we going to do about it? But what’s interesting about it is the silence that followed his quip about socialism in Venezuela. Eventually a few assholes applauded. All of us, including those in the audience where Trump was bloviating, know that the US would like to attack Venezuela (along with any number of other countries). Therefore, Were those audience members who didn’t applaud Trump’s quip about socialism in Venezuela concerned for how they would look to others, since everyone knows that a vigorous applause for Trump’s quip was a vigorous applause for unjustified, naked aggression by the world’s biggest superpower toward yet another far less powerful country? Who knows? I don’t.
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It is to be used in a post I'm working on to be call "Conservative And Deranged."