The Circus of Resistance bit.ly/2x6I7q2
“Cory Booker played Spartacus, but could not even get the script right as he claimed to be bravely releasing classified information that was already declassified. I cannot remember another example of a senator who wanted to break the law but could not figure out how to do it.”
“Elizabeth Warren, who still insists she is Native American, called for the president to be removed by invoking the 25th Amendment. Apparently fabricating an ethnic identity is sane, and getting out of the Iran deal & Paris Climate Accord is insanity and grounds for removal.”
“Barack Obama decided that ex-presidents should attack current presidents, and thereby reminded the country why Trump was elected. The author of the Russian “reset” and the hot-mic collusionary offer criticized Trump for being soft on Putin.”
“The president who never achieved annualized 3% GDP growth (the first president since 1933 who can claim this “distinction”) also claimed Trump’s roaring economy was due to Obama-era policies (e.g., raising taxes, Obamacare, more regulations, and “you didn’t build that).”
“Fresh from trashing his successor in a funeral speech, the ever audacious Obama called for more decorum.”
“Bruce Ohr, once number 4 at the DOJ, whose wife was working with Christopher Steele/ Fusion GPS, now more or less has made a mockery of the FBI narrative of when, why, and how it began surveilling American citizens and infiltrating the Trump campaign.”
“Ohr apparently testified that well before the election, and well before the application of FISA warrants, he was working with the FBI, the already discredited Steele, and a Russian oligarch...”
“... either to smear candidate Trump, or to facilitate the entry into the United States of a once barred and questionable Russian grandee, or both.”
“Nike hired NFL renegade Colin Kaepernick to peddle its sports products. For all its billion-dollar market research, it apparently did not know what Trump’s animal cunning had almost immediately surmised:...”
“... a majority of Americans do not appreciate the pampered multimillionaire Kaepernick sanctioning violence against the police by wearing “pig” socks, or mocking the National Anthem by taking a knee. Nike could just as well have hired Bowe Bergdahl to push its sneakers.”
“Then we come to an insurrectionary “resistance” op-ed in the New York Times, an insider scoop about a collective “undercover” effort to nullify the current presidency.”
“Contrary to popular opinion, there was nothing “newsworthy” about the recent anonymous op-ed, written by an unnamed “senior official” about the supposed pathologies of President Trump.”
“Or rather to the extent the op-ed was significant, it confirmed what heretofore had been written off as a “right-wing” conspiracy theory of a “deep state.”
“The anonymous author confessed to being part of a group that is trying to use subterranean methods to thwart an elected president, not because his record is wanting because he finds Trump unorthodox and antithetical to the establishment norms of governance and comportment.”
“To cut to the quick, the op-ed was published to coincide with the latest Bob Woodward “according-to-an-unnamed-source” exposé, Fear.”
“The intent of anonymous and the New York Times was to create a force multiplying effect of a collapsing presidency—in need of the Times’ sober and judicious handlers, NeverTrumpers, and “bipartisan” Dems to “step in” and apparently stage an intervention to save the country.”
“And of course, the Times, before 2017, would never have published a insurrectionary letter from an unnamed worried Obama aide that the president was detached and listless—playing spades during the Bin Laden raid...”
“... outsourcing to Eric Holder the electronic surveillance of Associated Press journalists, letting Lois Lerner weaponize the IRS, and allowing his FBI, CIA, and Justice Department to conspire to destroy Hillary Clinton’s 2016 opponent.”
“After the latest hysteria dies down, this chapter in the ongoing psychodrama will be revealed for what it is: a fantasy of a wannabe coup that is not going to happen. The commentariat’s silly claim that the op-ed was “extraordinary” and “newsworthy” is laughable.”
“There are hundreds of “senior officials” all throughout every presidency, no doubt more so in the outsider Trump’s, who are disgruntled. On any given day, any newspaper could root out a “senior official” to write anonymously anything it wished to fit a preconceived narrative.”
“What is extraordinary is not an op-ed from some sort of a mad David Stockman taken to the woodshed or defrocked Don Regan losing a war with Nancy Reagan, but that the NYT hunted down someone of #theResistance to create a hysteria that an unhinged Trump must be removed.”
“By the scale of past White House melodramas, this is no big deal. It is not as if an off-the radar, rogue band in the White House was caught selling arms to Iran and using the profits to fund resistance to Daniel Ortega’s Marxist regime in Nicaragua.”
“The gossip about Trump’s mental processes are no more dramatic than the rumors were about a doddering Reagan in his second term...”
“Trump is not, in Woodrow Wilson fashion, near comatose and locked up in a White House bedroom, while Melania takes over the country.”
“His aides are not covering up the fact that Trump’s blood pressure is peaking at 250 over 150, or that some mornings he cannot get out of bed—as was true of FDR as he campaigned for a fourth term in 1944.”
“We are not witnessing a sitcom in which the president has serial, and often perverse sex with a White House intern in the Oval Office bathroom.”
“Nor we are being treated to an interview by a Ben Rhodes-like official who brags how Trump deliberately fed a cadre of rookie idiot reporters “echo chamber” narratives necessary to pass a dangerous deal with Iran that sidestepped the Senate’s constitutional obligations.”
“Nor is Melania confessing that the presidential calendar of speeches and trips is calibrated to an astrologer’s chart of lucky and unlucky days.”
“No one is suggesting that Ivanka leads séances (“imaginary chats” or “brainstorming exercises”) in the East Room to call down the spirits of Calvin Coolidge and Ayn Rand for imaginary conversations and pep talks.”
“The writer’s chief complaint is that Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision.” Flesh that out. That would imply that Trump ignores advice from NYT op-ed writers and instead thrashes about and cancels the Iran deal.”
“Or he dangerously and rashly gets out of the Paris Climate Accord. Or he stupidly insists that the U.S. embassy be moved to Jerusalem in helter-skelter fashion.”
“Or he insanely demands massive deregulation, tax cuts, and new oil exploration without following any overarching principles in achieving 4% quarterly GDP growth or a record high stock market.”
“Worst of all, madman Trump screams, yells, and ends the sacred idea that after 70 years the Palestinians are still refugees.”
“The recent op-ed is yet another episode in an endless resistance cartoon, another pathetic effort of self-important grandees to undo by fiat what the voters did by voting in 2016.”
