By A Friend
Fri, Nov 1, 2019 8:07 a.m.A Few Good Paragraphs from Mickey Kaus
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1) On Trump's "Rosetta Tweet"
"Here's the amazing Rosetta Tweet of Trump's presidency so far:
'It would be really great if the people within the Trump Administration, all well-meaning and good (I hope!), could stop hiring Never Trumpers, who are worse than the Do Nothing Democrats. Nothing good will ever come from them!'
"He's President of the United States. Been president for almost three years. He's now realizing his administration is stocked with people who hate him? It's like he just discovered he's a real estate developer . . . He's about to hire another one: Chad Wolf, currently slated to be acting DHS secretary, seems to be opposed by border-controllers as a former cheap-tech-labor lobbyist who's done his best to thwart those pursuing Trump's immigration agenda . . .
On the moral complexity of the Ukraine situation:
"When I was back East recently, anti-Trump friends almost convinced me to upgrade my label for Trump's Ukraine behavior to 'improper' and 'indefensible'—just still not a 'high crime'. But I can't do it. As friend J.E. says, we all know basically what was going on: Trump was leaning on Ukraine to investigate Ukraine's possible involvement in the 2016 election, and also the Burisma energy company that employed the son of his possible Democratic rival. How bad was that? It's not enough to say nothing really happened—No Harm, No Foul. If the behavior's bad enough, it doesn't matter that nothing happened. And you can say the issue should be decided by the 2020 election (I say that)—but this doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to decide what you think about it.
"If Trump had said to Ukraine 'You get the aid after you deposit $20 million in this Swiss bank account,' the verdict would be clear. Likewise if he'd attempted to manufacture false evidence against Biden. But he doesn't seem to have done that. And the Biden family involvement in Ukraine stinks: what did Hunter Biden do for his $50-80,000 a month? Maybe he was just selling his name as a way to give the impression of strong U.S. support for Burisma. That's bad enough. But what if he could also call in a little help from his father, as he seems to have done in some earlier cases? Trump's allowed to pursue corruption, even abroad, even if it hurts his political rivals. And even if we suspect he wouldn't do it if it hurt his political allies (bust him for that, then).
" . . . absent evidence that, say, not only were all the possible charges against Crowdstrike and Biden obviously totally bogus but Trump knew they were . . . Even the most troubling detail—that Trump really wanted the Ukraine government to annnounce an investigation—has a possible non-evil explanation. Announcing an investigation would commit the Ukrainians to actually do it, in a way a private promise wouldn't. But it would also create a bit of bad publicity to use against Biden.
"I don't trust Trump's motives. I'm not an idiot! But you need more than suspicions, even semi-deep suspicions, to condemn, let alone censure, let alone impeach, let alone remove. Sorry.
On Trump's keeping the "Gang of 8" in Congress in the dark on his al Baghdadi raid:
"The most useful word for describing lots of things in politics is a word taken from the Left: 'reification,' which roughly (as I understand it) means ascribing a false permanence to arrangements that are actually human and transitory . . . A lot of the alleged 'norms' of the Trump era are really reifications. For example, the idea that the president must notify the Gang of 8 (Congressional leaders and intelligence committee chairs of each party) before a major military mission like the raid to kill al-Baghdadi. Hey, Obama involved Congressional leaders before the Bin Laden raid! And Nancy Pelosi has never leaked any military secrets! But that doesn't mean Trump was wrong to ignore tradition and keep them in the dark. Democrats have never hated a president as much as they hate Trump. It's a new situation. Even if there were a .1% chance that there'd be a leak — eg, someone, Democrat or Republican, thinking it's more important to embarrass Trump than kill Baghdadi — it was too much of a risk to take." ("Can't Get Out of the Kitchen #13--Austere blogger tries to keep his cool," Nov 1, 2019)
And the Kurds were transitory allies,as I wrote in October--only to fight Isis--no more,no less.Richard Engel,who may be the smarmiest reporter NBC has (and they have plenty)screamed that "Trump had stabbed the Kurds in the back--after fighting side by side with us and losing 95,000 soldiers."
ReplyDeleteAnd how many Kurdish casualties would there have been if we DIDN'T fight Isis with them,as we did?
A small list of the smarmiest reporters on NBC Nightly Fiction(interestingly,the first four are white):
1)Engel
2)Peter Alexander
3)Andrea Mitchell
4)Hallie Jackson
5)Kristen Welker
6)Gadi Schwartz
Those may be the only whites employed there.A different category--the most insipid,racist employees would be in order(all minority):
1)Lesta Holt
2)Rehema Ellis
3)Al Roker
Other minorities,who are on air reporters,that keep to a less obnoxious reporting style--they include Gabe Gutierrez,Ron Mott,Ron Allen,Miguel Almaguer.They usually report fires,weather related stories etc.The white criminal of the day seems to be handled by a pool reporter or Mott/Allen.
MSNBC has their own harem of hypocrites(all white traitors).
1)Nicole Wallace
2)Kacy Hunt
3)Stephanie Ruhle
4)Katy Tur
The rest,ranging from Joy Reid to Al Sharpton(and all the blacks in between) need no further dissertation about what their individual and collective philosophies of white hatred are.
But what's worse?Listening to racist blacks or traitorous whites?I vote the white Benedict Arnolds are more aggravating and vastly more destructive to whites in our country.They should know better.
--GRA
From the beginning I have been asking why Trump hires people who are opposed to his stated agenda--and why he doesn't fire those already on the job. Is he lazy, stupid, blackmailed, or just doesn't care? There has to be an answer--it just doesn't make sense that he says one thing and his administration does another. Maybe he lets someone else make the hiring decisions--someone who is not really on his side. One suggestion is that he lets his twit daughter and weasel son-in-law influence him with their brain-dead liberalism.
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