I'm Laughing [sort of] This Evening: The Ostrich Effect

Whatever you do don't mention the Wars you know what.
The NYT criticizing Trump for no plan seriously? WTFH?
The Washington Post, well it's what Hillary probably would have done.
The Democratic Party blogs, pardon did someone say something, speak up, I cant hear you!

Yes let's not talk about you know what,ssshhhhhhh.

What are you talking about? War? Never heard of it.

Did you say Russia? No? Why not? Pardon you said Afghanistan, dont you mean Arizona? Go away, leave me alone, stalker!

Oh that thing, well he doesn't have a plan you know. Oh do stop looking back why dontcha.

No plan, but staying sounds pretty good but Trump's staying is so much worse than the staying we had before.

People dying? Well let's talk about hacking instead.

Look all we have to do is wait a few weeks until there is a fuck up and then we can then pass the buck to Trump. It'll be even more effective if it involves a hospital, a mosque or a marriage. Rest assure innocents will die and then we can blame someone else! Anyone but ourselves.

It's good that the neo-cons are back in control [after a few months absence], now we can blame the other side, whoever that might be.

Compared to continuously whining our wars are no fun at all.

Just a thought

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@LaFeminista

Sure, I'll bet that there are plans, but they can't say them out loud without causing riots.

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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.

bondibox's picture

The Democrats must secretly be loving Trump. As we know, there's no difference between the two parties. The only difference is the way in which each party brands itself. The Democrats branded themselves as the feel good party, the humanitarians. On the political front, they seem afraid to use hardball tactics because of the optics. The GOP, with its warmongering ideology, was built for pugnacious legislating.

Trump lets the Democrats drop the veneer and play the game the way they wish they could play it, because with him in office, bad optics are good optics.

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“He may not have gotten the words out but the thoughts were great.”

@bondibox
Even progressive Dems are gutless.
No one wants to step up for what is good for the country and the world.

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@gjohnsit

Well, some of them want to step up and take whatever's good from the country and the world, so there's a conflict there...

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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.

Citizen Of Earth's picture

paraphrased 'Trumps reasons for expanding the Afghan war are sound reasons but we need to see the details of his plan. blah blah blah ' .

Of course the MIC is strong with CT pols b/c nuclear subs are made in CT, military helicopters are made in CT, military jet engines are made in CT, ... I could go on.

And Blumenthal is viewed as one of the most liberal minded Dem. Ugh.

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

lotlizard's picture

The Obama team whitewashed that one super-fast.

Compare the Obama admin’s slow whitewash of Deepwater Horizon — “Corexit DemExit” . . .

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snoopydawg's picture

This is a great article about how they have neutered Trump. And it didn't take long to do it, but it could have dangerous consequences.

The Neocons are pushing the USA and the rest of the world towards a dangerous crisis

The Neocons have a total, repeat total, control of the Congress, the media, banking and finance, and the courts. From Clinton to Clinton they have deeply infiltrated the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom, and the three letter agencies. The Fed is their stronghold.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

@snoopydawg Thanks for the link, chica

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@snoopydawg
The Saker is one of the most prescient analysts around, IMO. Later in the article he also gets into America's domestic political malaise:

"For decades now Americans have been voting for ‘A’ and each time what they ended up with is ‘not-A’. Examples of that include the famous “read my lips, no new taxes”, of course, but also Obama promises to stop stupid wars and now Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp”. Americans have been lied to for decades and they know it. There is a widening chasm between the so-called “American values” taught in schools and the reality of power..."

"...And then the vast majority of Americans who basically are looking at making “minimal wage plus a little something” and who basically survive by not paying for health insurance, by typically working two jobs, by eating cheap and unhealthy “prolefeed” and by giving up on that which every American worker could enjoy in the 1950s and 1960s (have one parent at home, have paid holidays, a second vacation home, etc.). Americans are mostly hard workers and, so far, most of them are surviving, but they are mostly one paycheck away from seriously bad poverty...."

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native

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@native
I wasn't sure if he was a reputable source or not. Not so many years ago I wouldn't be questioning if an author is truthful or not, but with all the propaganda flying around, who knows?

ETA: Trump has made this much easier for this to happen to him by being such an asshole to so many people, including foreign leaders.
His stupid multiple tweets everyday is just giving them more ammunition to shoot at him.
If he hadn't given congress so many reasons to find him reprehensible, he possibly could have hung on longer.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

dervish's picture

@snoopydawg Awesome, in fact.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

n/t

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.