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A suggestion for Trump (or for anyone): when answering a “gotcha” question, go process instead of content — 11 Comments

  1. “In addition, at this point, why *would* anyone trust our intelligence agencies? I used to trust them, for the most part. But no longer.”

    Yes, those were the days: neo and I are contemporaries, and back when we were young and innocent, USA intelligence was the best [and brightest!?], and Uncle Sam was to be believed. Well, we sure weren’t going to believe those dirty stinkin’ commies — and there was one under most mattresses, ya know.

    We’ve all been through quite a lot of history by now, and I’m reminded of what a then-young aide said to a then-young Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination: “we’ll never laugh again.” Moynihan corrected her, offering: “we’ll laugh again, but we’ll never be young again.”

    And so it is with our intelligence services. They’ve let us down too many times. We’re older and wiser.

    Oh, to be young and innocent again. But it’s not to be.

  2. But as you know, this resulted in an enormous hue and cry, and it pleased just about no one.

    this is why the chinese dont take a compromise, and why stalin said compromise was a new form of warfare…

    however, the fourth hidden answer was none of the above

    ie. i sit here in bewilderment as the only thing not in the conversation is the normal idea of dissumulation and not really telling teh blunkt aspergers type truth!!!!!!!

    you only have to take a logical look at each point…

    they were going to bake his clam no matter what he did
    if he stayed, they had that arguments set
    if he goes, they had that argument set
    if he sided only with the US, then they would say he was a bully
    if he sided only with putin, the obvious
    if he tried to pass between themnot negating his chance at negoatiotiating later… again

    nothing would work..
    nothing is allowed to work
    there is no concept of concession at all
    this is take no prisoners and everythin ghe does is wrong, wrong wrong, no matter what it is… even if its something they want..

    they nearly got their communist state.. .
    hillary was planning on finishing it
    one crisis and the executive orders would be in effect and years of that would exist beore a supreme court could even hear the plea (which by then they would not exist)

    they are litterally foaming they wnat their communist state

    you know the one thing that scares russia and china MORE than the US and its weapopns and so on?

    an amoral US that cares not for its people, and has al that weaponry and other stuff it can use with the same moral terpitude they have and bigger guns.

    if you dont think that they are afraid of their predecessors work in the US and how that old stuff is creating a monster in their midst that is more like the 1930s than the 2030s

    trump just set back everyone that will work for years and will now feel a turn back…

    but everyone is a sucker
    your thinking there are some rules
    some quarter
    there isnt..
    all the gloves are off
    and all the masks are off

    like arguing against christianity and leaving out the 2000 years of great thinkers…

    social democracy

    Social democracy originated as a political ideology that advocated an evolutionary and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism using established political processes in contrast to the revolutionary approach to transition associated with orthodox Marxism.

    In the early post-war era in Western Europe, social democratic parties rejected the Stalinist political and economic model then current in the Soviet Union, committing themselves either to an alternative path to socialism or to a compromise between capitalism and socialism.

    All that happened is the capitalist men were kicked out of the family and the socialist women were used as marx and nechyeve said so, and thats that

  3. I’m really not following any of this stuff because I assume from the get-go that the MSM is lying about it. Blatantly. Maliciously. Repugnantly. Disgustingly. Insanely. Provocatively trying to “gin up” their base. (Hey what’s the problem with serving up a little hatred when the goal is to get Trump out of the WH?)

    And it usually turns out (unfortunately) that that’s exactly the case.

    (Wish it weren’t…..)

    So instead, I scan some twitter feeds of people that whose views I respect (e.g., Lee Smith, Mollie Hemingway, Omri Ceren, Tony Badran, Col. Richard Kemp) and learn more than enough about some of the garbage they wade through without having to wade through it myself.

    For example:
    https://twitter.com/leesmithdc

    And of course, there’s neoneocon, fearlessly and honestly blogging away, dealing with so much of that crap, and somehow staying sane.

    For which, many thanks….

  4. “And of course, there’s neoneocon, fearlessly and honestly blogging away, dealing with so much of that crap, and somehow staying sane.

    For which, many thanks….” Barry Meislin

    Here, here! I’m thankful for your steadfast devotion to assessing current affairs. And also thankful for the content that offers us a reprieve from the problems du jour.

  5. Daily reads in this order:
    Drudge for the headlines
    Neo for the insight and evaluation
    Powerline for different insights, etc.
    Ace of Spades for the giggles

  6. OK.

    I would add “Belmont Club” for its consistent insight, astuteness, creativity and craftsmanship….

    (And generally outstanding comments.)

  7. Considering the way thigs went, I’m convinced that the Mueller indictments of the 12 Russians on Friday was designed to put Trump in a no win situation. The MSM was primed to spring the trap. Unfortunately, Trump was not well prepared or was tired or? He is inarticulate and that can get you in trouble when they are mining every phrase for ammunition to be used against you.

    That so many Republicans are jumping on the MSM bandwagon is disheartening. So many of them are afraid of the MSM and afraid to stand up to them in a situation where Trump appears vulnerable. Cowards!

    I have long known that intelligence was often spotty, sometimes colored by bias, and all too vulnerable to human fallibility. I saw it in Vietnam, where intel was often massaged in various ways to improve the reputation of the various services. It was also massaged up the chain of command to present the best possible picture to the Pentagon.

    That was bad enough. What really blew me away was when the USSR collapsed. For decades we had been lead to believe that the USSR was ahead of us economically. And our intelligence services had been mute on the possibility of economic collapse. In 1992 I read an account of two Americans who rode bicycles from Moscow to Vladivostok. Their account was of a country of great poverty as compared to the U.S. I realized then that we were being fed a narrative that the higher ups believed was necessary to keep us motivated to stay ahead of the Commies.

    Our insight into what happened in the FBI during the Obama administration via the disclosures about Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, and others has opened our eyes to the fallibility of these agencies They are our intel and law enforcement agencies, but we can and should not consider them beyond criticism and, when necessary, reform.

  8. With each passing day Trump earns my respect more and more. He’s not perfect (as the Helsinki press conference shows) but considering the trap set for him and the 24/7/365 obsession with obstructing his administration, anyone else would have long ago wilted.

  9. He could have just said that the Deep State was trying to do a coup de tat from US intel.

    Or brought up Nixon and Pearl Harbor.

    Those in statemanship games begin to get more and more cautious, as they can’t be as crazy as they normally are.

    Trum won’t use the Nixon card, because he was one of the ones that thought Nixon was trying to do something corrupt. He, like most people, would have bought into the narration story. Well, he has become the status quo narration story now and he can see how it looked from Nixon’s pov, from the inside rather than outside.

    A nation of weaklings isn’t going to be saved by any President, no matter who that President is.

  10. They’ll make a conspiracy theorist of me yet.

    People think Alex Jones and Trum who watches Alex Jones know about conspiracies. They don’t know as much as people think they do.

  11. Nixon is Trump’s biggest hero. Trump is holding as treasure a letter Nixon wrote to him in the 80s in which Nixon praised him and informed him that his wife Pat who Nixon claimed to be a much better judge of people than him believed Trump would make a great president someday after watching an interview of his.

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