Why is it that I found the news conference at Helsinki a ''nothing burger''? President Trump had every reason to not trust the intel community was telling him the truth about anything.
Their past history over the last several months, and the last years of the Ogbjma administration, intel's willingness to falsify intel reports that would change the dynamics of world situations to more reflect an ideology of Barrrack's, has shown them to have an agenda that is not in the best interest of the country.
In fact the intel community has shown to many of us down here in the trenches the intel community just does not have the best interest of the country at heart, but is mostly self serving and dangerously anti-democratic. What we see is a ''third world'' socialist ideology.
When this author proclaims Trump news conference was ''unhinged'' because he didn't castigate Putin in public just explains some of the problems we have for the lack of common sense and logic when dealing with tyrants and rogue nations, especially those with thousands of nuclear weapons.
Are all of the new media and talking heads, think tank wonks, or just plain wanbe critics in lock step the progressive socialist liberal democrats that find it to their advantage to mindlessly accept ignorance of reality as a workable solution. Just follow the liberal pundits over the edge and all will be well. It's so easy. Just go along to get along.
Sorry, but the heart land doesn't buy this carp anymore like has for generations. Everything has changed. And if the change is too difficult, then to hell with you and your ideology of treacherous pacifism!
Remember the old saying, and I firmly believe it is what Trump had in mind at this new conference, ''Speak softly but carry a big stick''!
Their past history over the last several months, and the last years of the Ogbjma administration, intel's willingness to falsify intel reports that would change the dynamics of world situations to more reflect an ideology of Barrrack's, has shown them to have an agenda that is not in the best interest of the country.
In fact the intel community has shown to many of us down here in the trenches the intel community just does not have the best interest of the country at heart, but is mostly self serving and dangerously anti-democratic. What we see is a ''third world'' socialist ideology.
When this author proclaims Trump news conference was ''unhinged'' because he didn't castigate Putin in public just explains some of the problems we have for the lack of common sense and logic when dealing with tyrants and rogue nations, especially those with thousands of nuclear weapons.
Are all of the new media and talking heads, think tank wonks, or just plain wanbe critics in lock step the progressive socialist liberal democrats that find it to their advantage to mindlessly accept ignorance of reality as a workable solution. Just follow the liberal pundits over the edge and all will be well. It's so easy. Just go along to get along.
Sorry, but the heart land doesn't buy this carp anymore like has for generations. Everything has changed. And if the change is too difficult, then to hell with you and your ideology of treacherous pacifism!
Remember the old saying, and I firmly believe it is what Trump had in mind at this new conference, ''Speak softly but carry a big stick''!
The Left’s Unhinged Opposition to Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands
Last week, The Washington Post published an op-ed headlined “It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust.”
As with similar examples of this genre, it’s a sickening display of moral relativism that belittles the suffering and murder of millions in the service of some shortsighted and crass partisan fearmongering.
Elsewhere, Politico published an opinion piece headlined “Putin’s Attack on the U.S. Is Our Pearl Harbor,” which demeaned the sacrifice of American service members by likening a military attack on American soil that brought us into the bloodiest war mankind has ever experienced to phishing.
On MSNBC, where illiterate histrionic analogies litter coverage every day, a contributor compared President Donald Trump’s meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pearl Harbor and Kristallnacht, just to be safe.
Social media are teeming with similar hyperbole—”treason,” “traitor,” etc.—and not just from anonymous trolls. It’s difficult to accept that people with working brains actually believe this rhetoric, and they certainly don’t act like it.
But if well-heeled pundits keep telling everyone the Fourth Reich is imminent before retiring to their town houses in D.C. every night, some people may actually start believing them. And if phishing and hacking are truly comparable to Pearl Harbor or Kristallnacht or the Holocaust, there’s really no reason those accepting these analogies shouldn’t also support military reprisals abroad and a coup at home.
Defenders of this hyperbole often claim that they’re not making an exact equivalence to the lives lost but rather speaking to the intent of all those attackers. All such attacks, they say, are intended to destabilize “our democracy.”
Well, yes. But one aspect of similarity doesn’t make the events comparable. It would be like saying Iran’s spying on the United States—spying that resulted in our military technology’s being sold to China—was comparable to 9/11 because both sets of attackers intended to harm our democracy. If this were so, it would be treasonous to make peace with these nations and completely rational to wage war. Surely, we can find less feverish analogies.
Russia attempted to meddle in our domestic affairs, and there should be retribution and condemnation for those efforts. But our electoral system was not undermined. It withstood, as it has for many decades, Russian attempts to mess with institutions.
The reaction to those hacking efforts, on the other hand, does no favors to democracy, and it certainly does no favors to Democrats who are suddenly horrified by the Putin threat. You may remember how liberals lectured Americans after 9/11 about appropriate ways to deal with terrorists. For the most part, it amounted to saying, “Don’t kill them! That’s exactly what they want!”
Well, it’s certain that this is what Putin wants. Few things destabilize democracy more than imbuing a foreign strongman from a second-rate power with the imaginary capability of deciding our elections.
Nor is Trump’s ham-fisted, misguided, and transparent Putin-coddling tantamount to sedition. For a number of reasons—including an inability or refusal to make any distinction between Russian “meddling” and attacks on the legitimacy of his election, a trait shared by many of Trump’s detractors—the president is a fan of Putin’s. Even though his administration has been tougher on Russia in many respects than the previous ones, there’s no way around the fact that the president admires strongmen.
That doesn’t make his foreign policy position an act of treason, any more than it was treason for Barack Obama to coddle the Iranians—even though the former president sided with Iran (and Hezbollah) over American law enforcement. Democrats’ hysterics make it impossible for many people to even concede that they have a point to make.
Since Trump met with Putin in Helsinki, many Republicans, including the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have come out in support of the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian meddling, weakening the argument that the GOP always walks in lockstep behind the president. There could even have been some consensus in Washington over how to move forward.
Instead, we had elected Democrats spinning melodramatic political fairy tales about the Russkies controlling the GOP, about the need to start a coup, and about the presence of kompromat. Earlier last week, an army of blue checkmarks was retweeting and oohing and aahing over an erroneous report about how a Russian spy had infiltrated the Oval Office, simply because the woman in question had red hair and looked vaguely similar to an accused spy.
The Trump news conference with Putin was unhinged. But so is Democrats’ reaction to it.
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