Trump Brought To Heel - The Cold War Back On?
The Cold War is back on you ask? Was it ever off?
“We’re not getting along with Russia at all,we may be at an all time low”.
~Trump
All time low? A Cuban Missile Crisis type low? Along with the Hitler comparisons this is top of the pig ignorant quotes of the week chart.
On NATO
“I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism,” the president said. “I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.”
All thanks to the Hair eh?
Russia!! Trump Administration embraces hacking claims:
Asked about allegations of Russian hacking during the US election, Tillerson suggested additional sanctions on Moscow could be adopted only if Russia interfered again in the future. “That is a fairly well-established, serious issue, it’s one we know is serious enough to attract additional sanctions,” he said. “We are mindful of it in the future and Russia I think is mindful of it.”
China is back on line to make all the stuff Murika needs and loves.
Donald Trump informed the Chinese president that he had launched missile strikes on Syria as the pair ate “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you have ever seen”, the US president has claimed.
Yummy, yummy "pie" and war.
Speaking to Fox Business, Trump claimed he had hit it off with the Chinese president. He said: “I really liked him. We had a great chemistry, I think … Maybe he didn’t like me but I think he liked me … we understand each other.”
Summary: I don't have a clue about what actually happened.
Well thank heavens for all that, all that campaign bluster can be safely put to rest, we are back to the established world order. No need for neo-liberals and neoconservatives to get all upset n stuff.
It didn't take long, did it?
Hair Trump is now safely installed in the Washington Bubble. No doubt bombarded with piles of paper that would interrupt his TV time if he read them. Now the people he installed can safely get back to work for their actual employers.
- Goldman Sachs
- The MIC
- The Oligarchs
As for the Republican base, hows the canoeing upon shit creek without a paddle coming along?
Yesterday, amid reports that crumbling lead pipe Steve Bannon is quickly losing sway in a warring White House, Donald Trump told the New York Post that he “didn’t know Steve” before he joined the campaign in August (that is not true) and that “he was not involved in my campaign until very late” (Bannon ran the bulk of Trump’s general election campaign). If this sounds familiar, it’s because his administration has made similar overtures before; when someone is causing Trump problems, his favorite way to deal with it is apparently to pretend he actually doesn’t know that person very well. Bannon, who refers to his West Wing office as his “war room” and speaks in what the New York Times calls a “trademark military vernacular,” seems to be getting routed by this guy. Pew pew.
Steve Bannon and Sean Spicer don't have much time left in my opinion.
Democrats seem to rejoicing in the apparent chaos in Republican circles and once again predicting the end of the Party if only pushed hard enough, to them I say: What a load of codswallop.
This is a sign that the Washington Elite is winning the ground game, exactly what some predicted would happen to Bernie Sanders if he had won. Hillary Clinton being a paid up member would have been a perfect fit, the usual partisan whining aside as that is merely used to feed the respective bases. Business as usual can now continue.
What you are seeing is the duopoly operating in all its glory, the Empire Strikes Back.
Trump will remain, if only for the diversionary and comedic value, his administration will become standardized over the coming months. The neo-liberals and neoconservatives can breath a sigh of relief, they are back in charge.
- Back to the usual duopoly games of the wedge issues.
- Back to perpetual war.
- Back to asset stripping the planet for the Empire.
- Back to forgetting about Climate Change
Order has been restored!
Long live the duopoly!
The Oligarchs are back!!!
It's all good.
God Bless America
Comments
Be aware that a whole load of snark has been used.
Today, I heard that Trump said the US dollar is too
strong, thanks to him. And, while, according to him, this is a good thing, it makes selling American products overseas difficult. (Please, President Not Hillary, remind me how not being able to sell American made goods abroad is a good thing for us, especially since only 17 people living in the US still have money to buy things here.)
Gee, doesn't not being able to sell American made stuff abroad sound like a good reason to make things in a country where labor is cheaper than in the US? Or, at the very least, a great reason not to raise the princely US minimum wage?
I have a feeling that whatever good anyone thought might come from voting for crazy, crass Donald J.Rump ain't gonna happen. (Gee, thanks, Capt. Obvious. No one but you got that yet.)
As far as Spicer, I believe that this is the first time I've heard Hitler or the Holocaust compared favorably to anything or anyone. Not to mention that Spicer's comment was factually incorrect. And, it's Passover time. Okay, he has humbly apologized, but, how clueless can you be? Not to mention he's condescending, rude--oh, and, patently dishonest.
Friends and neighbors, whatever you may have thought about America until January 2017, it has now officially
Thanks again, Captain!
The stream of BS that flows out of Trump's mouth
is just like watching Fox Noise 24/7. what contradictions, oh those contradictions.
It makes you wonder
if Trumps asshole ever gets jealous of all the shit that comes out of his mouth
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
@Socialprogressive
Thanks for the much-needed laugh!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
What some alternative news geopolitical analysts
suggested was happening was a giant game to play Russia and China off one another like Reagan did in the 80's. Could be what we're seeing with this back and forth of relations between the U.S. and Russia and the U.S. and China.
Which is why I don't give as much credit to the deep state "turning" Trump as others. I think Trump is the deep state and that we're all being played as usual. When I look at much of what he said while campaigning, it does seem to set up what the ruling elite, the deep state was headed for anyway. This was always the next step after Obama.
6 of one half a dozen of another.
I sometimes wonder if Trump actually knows where he is.
Kinda how I look at it, too, LA Fem
If the twits in Washington were smart enough to pull off half the crap they're accused of, they'd be smart enough to cover up enough to be not so obvious they did it.
Which causes ya to wonder who is really pulling the strings.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
@LaFeminista
Yeah, slumming in the White House as long as he's forced to mostly ruin the universe from there. Other than that... wouldn't bet against your being right. Again.
Edited because apparently I'm too tired to be commenting but can't seem to keep my mouth... fingers? shut.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
ON FB too.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Cheers
BBC summarized it this way:
Trump reverses course in 24 hours from Nato to China to Fed
Aside of the list of things he turned around there is a funny video about Ohio women giving their judgements about Trump.
https://www.euronews.com/live
So in 48 hours we can expect him to stick his own
head up his own asshole. Cant wait for that.
Its already up there La Fem
we just haven't been shown that visual yet. He'll share, when the time is right, I am just sure of it!
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Getting to be worse than the Dunkin Donut baker
who meets himself coming and going.
Dad always told me, "Son, if you keep straddlin' that fence, you're goin' to get racked".
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
To be fair, Trumpy Boy was cursed with the Hand of Sterculius.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woRDx2C0zSo]
In other words, everything he touches turns to shit. And it sure didn't take a whole lot to bring him to heel given how easy he is to manipulate.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
What ever has happened to the mighty Trump??
Our boisterous billionaire of iron will, scourge of the elite, able to leap tall piles of bullshit in a single bound? Can it really be that he has morphed into a mushy-headed marshmallow??
native
i wonder what Mercer, the
i wonder what Mercer, the previously unmentioned billionaire who was credited with helping Trump gain office and who supplied Bannon (among others) will do about this repudiation of various of his Trump-sitters...
Will the Battle Of The Billionaires For Global Supremacy devolve into fisticuffs-by-proxy even before they begin to cannibalize each other, once the rest of the world is drained/defunct?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.