He Doesn't Understand
Trump is incapable of understanding the concept of law:
Trump doubled down while speaking to reporters on Air Force One.
"They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people," he said. "And we're not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn't work that way."
Trump is not so much malicious as he is deranged. While it may be seen as though I am picking at the nits, I think it is important that we not ascribe to malice that which can be ascribed to stupidity (or actual brain dysfunction in Trump's case).
He along with his Trump Derangement Syndrome followers are dangerous, because they are so very out of touch with reality. This is rather new, in that, previous administrations did a better (albeit not a perfect) job of hiding (or disguising) evidence of incompetence.
All of the nonsense Trump has spewed over the decades makes much more sense if we understand that he has severe cognitive disfunction rather than he is being clever as the result of some pop culture nonsense involving rage and eleven dimensional chess moves.
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This should be my SigFile
it's in part the fault of the american "justice" system...
the law has never applied to him as it applies to "the little people." an encounter with the law is just another opportunity to cut a self-serving deal.
he is "american exceptionalism" personified.
While I agree
that the USofA's "justice" system is at fault in that Trump has never been held accountable, I do not agree that that is the source of our problems. Trump gets a pass for far too much for the justice system to be the source of the problem.
Trump is a poster child for "american exceptionalism" personified because so very few people are critical thinkers. The fact is: Far too many think he is a clever, charming rogue, until they have the scales ripped from their eyes …
Until the world stops treating him as more than he is, we will have to put up with his odious behavior.
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The owners don't want people capable of critical thinking
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
Well put George
And thanks Boris.
Summed up pretty well.
Americans dreaming, asleep at the wheel.
It would be funny if it weren't so damn tragic.
Democracy used to require participation.
Now it is a passive infotainment commercial.
Shucks.
Trump is just showing the world what we're really like
He may not be as suave about things as Obama was, but Obama was just as deadly as Trump is. People are upset about Trump saying that he wants to take Syria's oil, but that is exactly what Obama did. After he flattened Libya and took the gold he went on to do the same thing in Syria. He put troops in areas that had the oil and allowed ISIS to take it through Turkey to sell to Israel.
Trump likes to act like a show off and be the biggest bully in the playpen and offer threats instead of walking tall and carrying a big stick. He is an idiot, but does anyone actually think he is setting foreign policy?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Yes and No
While the idiot in charge is not capable of a coherent policy and/or strategy he is, by his actions, generating a consistent chaos that is driving a foreign policy of sorts.
The primary effect is to promote the divide between the haves and the have-nots. Within the USofA that entails convincing those that have a tiny amount to focus on those that have nothing. Outside the USofA there is a parallel strategy at work. Trump is not the mastermind (he doesn't have the capacity) but he has the "charisma" his handlers can use to "good" effect.
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Absolutely this
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Yes, tRump himself actually believes this
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
In a way, I am part of the justice system, insofar as I practice
law, attempt to work within that system.
PriceRip, Obama was a Constitutional Law prof. He didn't seem to understand torture, due process, and on and on.
Trump did not reinvent the wheel.
All of them do as they are advised by the MIC.
Trump is not a new thing. He is a continuation of a very old thing.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I gained a lot
of insight from talking with my daughter, she is one of the best in the system.
Obama, and others we could talk about are disturbing in a very profound way. I have for several years worked outside the law to ameliorate damage, but there is only so much each of us has an opportunity to influence. As bad as the rest have been there is a particularly sinister aspect to Trump's effect on the system.
While transparency is a good thing in the public sector, it is disturbing that there is not a concomitant response from those that are supposed to protect us from the obviously mentally ill resident of the White House. The watch dogs of government have been replaced with "foxes in the …" and they are having the time of their lives.
I agree: "Trump did not reinvent the wheel.", and "Trump is not a new thing. He is a continuation of a very old thing." but this new layer of acceptance has changed the whole situation in a very fundimental way.
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Re the MIC,
the reports I've heard are that the Don was given a list of options re Iran from the Pentagon, and chose the most aggressive and risky of them, apparently upsetting a few w/n the military top brass. Six top Pentagon officials have resigned in the past few weeks, almost certainly most/all over Donald's reckless decision making.
This suggests that this was Donald's call alone, not one dictated by the M of the MIC or the I. The fact that he has been out there publicly with tweets boasting of his action and consequences to Iran of retaliation, further underscores that Donald made this call and is proud of it.
The Buck stops with the president. If we were discussing an Obama decision of a similar type (which for all his faults Obama never undertook), or if this had been Hillary recklessly acting in FP, the complaints here would go right at the president, and wouldn't first be directed at the convenient MIC intermediary fall guys.
The MIC is not an
intermediary. Personally, I think the MIC/Deep State/PTB let him off his proverbial leash for just long enough to start a war with Iran and fire up his idiotic base, works for them to get him re-elected. He's of course fully down with starting a war as he has little comprehension of the damage that will do to the entire country since he's only looking out for the arms manufacturers, oil companies, and any other entity that will make a quick buck off another protracted war. He is just stupid enough to think his bluster puts him fully in charge, but I for one, after reading all the dirty history of this country that I have, do indeed believe he is not the only one pulling the strings.
After the whole Impeachment farce I think Trump has decided he'd best play along unless he'd like to actually be Impeached. The idea that anyone is giving him quarter by discussing the obvious "influence" of the MIC is almost laughable on its face - do we not see by now who really makes the decisions? Do we really think even Mr Obummer alone decided to go after Trump via Russiagate/Ukraingate? Do we not remember JFK and what happened to him when he decided to buck the MIC? This is hardly an apology for Trump, anyone who has read enough of our own history should indeed know POTUS does not make big decisions alone.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Trump has already
been impeached. You mean to say "convicted" by the senate, and removed from office.
On the MIC pulling the strings, how does that square with the MIC allegedly concocting Russiagate 3 yrs ago in order to remove Donald from office, even some say to prevent him from taking office in the first place. Now they want to keep him in office??
They probably would prefer someone a bit more stable and predictable, someone already largely on their side. Steady Hillary would have fit the bill better than erratic Donald. And war hawks McCain and Romney better than half-a-loaf Obama.
I don't think it's irrelevant, per my cite above, that a number of Pentagon officials have resigned in recent weeks. It's more likely than not that they gave him those 5 or so options and the last one, deemed a "throw away" just to fill out the list or to serve as an example to any reasonable person sitting in the Oval of what would be truly too risky, was the one they least expected to be approved, the pick which upset a few of them, maybe even most of them.
It's likely the case that this MIC collection of powerful and well-positioned people with usually shared interests also contains its factions from issue to issue; it's not one monolithic group. And it isn't omnipotent, doesn't always have the ability to pull things off quickly, or in a way which would not leave fingerprints. Russiagate, called "Intelgate" by Stephen Cohen, is one such example. The intended target is still there 3 yrs later, and threatens to stay on another 4 more.
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Overall there is too much conspiracy chatter online.
as you point out the Military Industrial Complex is not a monolithic organization by any reasonable definition, unless the cabal (only the cognoscenti may apply) of which I am a member is also a monolithic organization.
I am particularly annoyed by those that raise the specter of The Deep State. Fighting dragons from the backs of unicorns distracts from our efforts to develop solutions to deal with the nightmare that is being created even now.
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mentally ill - didn't Germany showed us
where mentally ill leaders lead us to? Apparently we haven't learned how to stop those.
signed by 'Cowards United'.
Precisely
This has been on my mind for a long time:
Those who cannot forget the past are condemned to a living hell as they are ignored, vilified, or (paradoxically) both.
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Trump has affluenza
is a recognized disease. It's contagious. Look at Mark Zuckerberg or Kanye West. It's terminal. Unfortunately, we're the ones that die.
The Law, What Law?
Laws are for the "little people", not the Kings and Queens of this world don't cha know...
Smoke a joint and get caught, got to jail. Launch 59 Tomahawk missile into a country that didn't attack us or threaten to, and people think you look presidential.
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