We are living in interesting times wherein there is a strident and seemingly widespread resistance to our current Trump administration ... unfortunately even some of it from within the administration itself ... as witnessed by the continued embarrassing security leaks. The energy in this resistance over-states its actual support as much of Middle America seems to understand the time-worn dynamic of how those on the left ... much of the print media, many entertainers, some judges, SNL, paid agitators, prog politicians, cable TV talking heads, even some foreign leaders ... are over-reacting to a few greenhorn missteps by the Trump posse.
Many on the left ... Meryl Streep, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Rosie O'Donnell, Chuck Schumer, Lena Dunham, Mark Cuban, Elizabeth Warren, etc. ... are all elbowing each other out of the headlines ... fishing to be first in the public's eye with even more outrageous Trump and Company smears.
And John Hinderaker, like always, has it pretty much right in his Powerline Blog diagnosis of the double teaming that SNL and the AP perform almost every weekend since Trump was inaugurated. Their purpose has clearly expanded well beyond humor to delegitimizing our current administration ... see: Powerline Blog. This is verification of the extent and vigor of the resistance I am noting above. Somehow, I think that these naysayers will eventually tire of concocting their innuendo and fake news and Trump will prevail ... just like he did in the general election. He will "punch through" this picket line of pikers.
Miller: The end result of this, though, is that our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.
ReplyDeleteYou obviously disagree ... Hover, part of his oath of office was to protect us from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I don't think the 9th Citcuit judges take such an oath. I think what Miller was trying to say (inartfully) was it is not his powers that should not be questioned ... it his duty to protect us that is inviolate ... Just sayin'
DeleteSeems that the point is not whether I agree or disagree, but rather whether the amateurish sycophants speaking on behalf of a brash greenhorn backed by an admitted Leninist can ever provide coherent, reasoned, responsible leadership.
ReplyDeleteIs the Leninist Van Jones ... or am I thinking about the previous administration?
Delete“I’m a Leninist,” Steve Bannon told a writer for The Daily Beast, in late 2013. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”*
ReplyDeleteAt the time, Bannon was the executive chairman of Breitbart News, the far-right news site. When he became the C.E.O. of Donald Trump’s campaign, in August, he told the writer that he had no recollection of the conversation.
Perhaps hyperbole?
Deletehere's Trump in an interview with Fox News in 2014 (quotes via the New Statesman):
ReplyDelete“A lot of people live better without having a job, than with having a job. I’ve had it where you have people and you want to hire them, but they can’t take the job for a period of nine months because they’re doing better now than they would with a job.”
“You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell, and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be, when we were great.”
Perhaps hyperbole?
DeleteThere you go again! Not to be taken literally. What Bannon said in 2013 did not happen; what Trump said in 2014 was hyperbole; what Miller said yesterday was not phrased correctly; what Conway said like QVC was just joking.
ReplyDeleteBUT let us get a new Supreme Court justice who is like Scalia: A textualist who takes every single word of the Constitution precisely as written.
Trying to use opposite arguments in different contexts. Sad!
I'm begining to gather that you don't like Trump and Company...
DeleteFor all that the neocon pundits chastise the entertainment industry's comments, the actors and artists seem to express themsleves more precisely than the nattering nabobs of the Trump situation comedy. They don't seem to rehearse their scripts... or they have subpar writers.
DeleteNo fair negating my riposte before I issue it! I would have said, "They are actors after all ... and, at least, Meryl Streep did seem to be reading from scripted comments. (And I'm not a neocon... let alone a pundit!)
DeleteI see TrumpTV on the way: Only certain news sources, movies, entertainers, TV shows, and politicians. The advertising sources might be sketchy... Walmart, medical devices, ways to sue, cures for wet basements, only specific food processors and beverages, military movies, and any TV shows and movies earlier than 1959. I promise I will not participate in any of your 'correct' culture if you and yours will stop gawking at mine and judging it.
ReplyDeleteThe battle of the news sources, eh? It would seem to me that the left's news sources have been completely discredited ...
DeleteI am seeking center. I try reading both the extreme left and the extreme right to calculate center. Often the left is too far left and the right is too far right.
DeleteSo it is not a battle of news sources. Just as you likely do not follow French news or Brazilian news or Canadian news (yet you could with the wonders of the internet), just don't look at sources you have discredited.
It is like saying that the internet is saturated with the horrors of porn because you spend your entire day moving from one XXX website to another seeing it. Just stop looking for it. It is not being pushed on you. You are seeking it.
If you did not watch SNL or see AP subscribers, you would not know about it.
Don't dis me ... I only spend 3 hours a day watching porn ...
DeleteHow can you defend a so-called president who had to put Putin on hold to ask his staff what START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is all about? He is too ignorant to be POTUS.
ReplyDeleteAnd the so-called Obama thought that there were 58 states ...
DeleteThinking about this further ... if this actually happened (which I doubt), how did it become known? Which member of the resistance reported it?
DeleteObama said 57 states. He'd been hanging out with Kerry and Theresa "57 varities" Heinz.
DeleteI think he said 57 other states than the one he was in ... 57+1 = 58
DeleteReuters report: "In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.
ReplyDeleteWhen Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said."
Pretty scary. Stop defending this fraud.
And Putin asked an aide "what was Mar-a-Lago?"
DeleteActually, he said, "#Showusyourtaxes"
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