1) The Obama administration’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to come into Syria ostensibly to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction. The latter did not happen, but after an over 40-year Russian hiatus in the Middle East, Putin has recalibrated the region, and Russia will be far harder to expel than it was to invite in. John Kerry did not get rid of WMD; he ensured that he got more of it.
2) The Ben Rhodes/John Kerry/Barack Obama Iran Deal. It was a disaster precisely because a) it was unneeded, given the ongoing strangulation of the Iranian economy due to tardy but finally tough sanctions, and b) it was embedded within so many side deals and payoffs, mostly stealthy, that it became a caricature, from nocturnal hostage ransom payments that helped fuel terrorists to whole areas of the Iran nuclear project exempt from spot inspections.
3) The FBI and DOJ blanket exemptions given to Clinton skullduggery over the Obama administration. For eight years, one or both of the Clintons cashed in and felt that they could run the family foundation as a rogue entity, play wink and nod quid pro quo with the reset Russians on commercial deals like Uranium One, set up an illegal server, and, when caught, destroy communications and electronic devices, encourage subordinates to mislead investigators, compromise the attorney general, warp the DNC to massage a primary and town-hall debate process, hire opposition researchers to smear a political opponent, drawing on paid-for Russian sources, and collude with obsequious media to direct its furor elsewhere.
4) The panicked appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. There was good evidence in Mueller’s past concerning the Bulger scandal and the anthrax scare that he was mostly incapable of self-reflection and prone to zealotry; and when the Comey gambit paid off and Mueller assembled his “dream team” of partisans, it was clear that mythical “collusion” was merely a useful key to open every imaginable door of inquiry to stymie a president — on the theory that threats of imprisonment and financial ruin are great ways to flip minor subordinates to say something, anything useful, and if one digs deeply enough, every American has something to hide. Mueller reversed his mandate: Assuming first that a citizen was guilty, his mission became finding any sort of crime to prove it.
5) Assassination chic. Once the Resistance encouraged as acceptable all types of pushback to Donald Trump, it became a nonstop race to the bottom to outdo one another in macabre crudity, as everyone from Kathy Griffin, Snoop Dog, and Madonna to a Shakespearean troupe, Johnny Depp, David Crosby, and Kamala Harris has gotten in on finding both overt and “cute” ways to suggest that the president might be decapitated, stabbed, shot, blown up, burned alive, or eliminated in an elevator. Is the new normal that it is okay for celebrities and politicians now to imagine out loud the death of the president, but that it was not acceptable in the past and easily will not be again in the future — and that the omnipresence of such assassination chic will have no effect on normalizing in the mind of a zealot such an actual scenario?
Note that none of these decisions were accidental,all of them were done on purpose.
The left has declared war and all across the West conservatives are deluded in thinking that they must continue to play by a losing set of rules.
take a look at this:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/16/anti-trump-american-history-textbook-blatantly-biased-critics-say.html
I saw that KG, what I didn’t see was any indication the textbook was going to be recalled and/or replaced.
Burned would be the best option.
The left might think that all this skulduggery is worth it but Rasmussen has a brash, loud property developer/TV showman at 51% popularity; more than a much vaunted Harvard law professor/community organiser had at this stage. Maybe some people aren’t listening to their sh*t.
More from VDH- The Limits of American Patience-
https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/09/the-limits-of-american-patience/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=4eb0d3e9f2-HDR&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-4eb0d3e9f2-73437989
Knocks it out of the park!
He sure does, as usual.
The Mueller thing is what gets me. I didn’t understand it at the time and I don’t understand still. Why would somebody, anybody, appoint an FBI rat fink to investigate himself? Frankly, it was a naive move. Totally the right thing to do in the business world; open the books, do inspections, get outside consulting for problem areas, etc. But NEVER invite a criminal lawyer into your midst. Ever.
As far as Syria goes, for the millionth time; there is nothing there for us. Who gives a flying rats ass in a trapeze act at the circus about Syria. It’s been a Russian satellite since post WWII and they can have it, who cares? Ugh.
Of course, the international bankers want to make sure it falls into line with new world order.
Not that anyone here needs to be told, but…
“The problem is not that we Normals are not nice. The problem is that we were nice for far too long. ”
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/03/05/against-fake-civility-n2457141
There in lay the problem with “Tolerance” we tolerate things we shouldn’t and of course those we are supposed to be tolerant of once they get an inch they want a mile.
That’s the thing. We just want to be left mostly to ourselves to order our lives as we see fit and begrudge nobody for doing the same. So, when some rabid leftist tries to make us do something many on the right mistakenly think that they are like us and just want the ‘one thing’ that is coming out of their mouth.
They don’t want to be left alone in relative freedom to see to their own successes and failures. They don’t want to be left mostly alone and they don’t want only that one thing. They want you dead.
It’s a leap from getting your degree and raising a family to wanting to kill people for minding their own business. They’re like a rabid coyote. It still bothers me that some of my neighbors are going to force me to kill them…BUT…with each passing rabid request I get a little more numb and a little more resolved at the prospect. By the time that day comes I’ll probably just look at the dead bodies, shrug and have a coffee.
“By the time that day comes I’ll probably just look at the dead bodies, shrug and have a coffee.”
Yep.