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Originally posted by second:Quote:Bolton, as an author, is a smart observer. Trump, as an author, is stupid and oblivious.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In other words, it was not the book you were looking for.
But it certainly seems to show what I already knew about Bolton and what you should have.
WTF did you think was going to be in that book, dummy?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
All those synonyms describe Trump, but not Bolton:
unaware
unconscious
heedless
unmindful
insensible
unheeding
ignorant
blind
deaf
unsuspecting
unobservant
Bolton is worth reading for his smart observations. Trump is not worth reading because of his stupid observations and all around lying in every paragraph he writes, especially about business. But both Trump and Bolton are Republicans. It is simply that one them is out-of-his-mind crazy and it is not Bolton.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I have no interest in reading either of their fucking books man. Who the hell brought that up.
The topic of discussion here is how John Bolton is one of the biggest pieces of shit who ever lived and he didn't write the book you were hoping that he would write.
You REALLY wanted to give him a pass for his past atrocities. I know it was VERY painful for vox to write that article about his book.
I'm honestly floored that they did. Obviously it's laced with all the agenda driven bullshit we've come to expect from Vox, and they in no way come to the takeaway that they should have or suggest their readers do the same...
But wow... Maybe we've finally found somebody so fucking awful that even Vox can't get behind them even if they have something bad to say about Trump.
I never thought I'd see the day.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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At this point the best thing that could happen to the democrats and the country is if Biden has to step out for medical reasons.
Other than that, you can tell who the media is behind by what you're not hearing. Those things went quiet, very quickly.
Hunter Biden?
Ukraine quid pro quo?
Tara Reade?
China?
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It would be the best thing for Democrats for sure.
Not the country.
America needs Trump right now. The Democrats cannot be rewarded for their continual and increasingly bad behavior. Nor can the entirely corrupt Legacy Media who's allegiance is not to Our Country.
Biden is a 100% chance of a loss for Democrats in November.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Should Biden win, he'd be a disaster for democracy. We might as well just forget about self-rule and sign our souls over to the global corporation.
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Quote:Fiddlesticks, 1kiki. Another four years of Attorney General Barr will change the country far more than Biden.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Should Biden win, he'd be a disaster for democracy. We might as well just forget about self-rule and sign our souls over to the global corporation.
What’s the most important thing people should know about William Barr? He has one of the most extreme views of how powerful an American president should be.
He does not believe that we should have three co-equal branches of government. He believes the president should be more powerful than Congress and the courts. In his mind, that’s the only thing that can keep the country safe when it is threatened by war, natural disaster, or economic collapse. He believes that is what the founders intended.
I wonder why Barr’s radicalism wasn’t reflected in the commentary when he was first nominated by Trump. The conventional wisdom at the time was that he was a banal establishment type. Why was this missed?
In hindsight, it looks like the extremism of Barr’s views didn’t emerge during his first tenure as attorney general because the president he served then, George H. W. Bush, was a traditionalist. Bush had witnessed Nixon’s abuses and resignation. Bush accepted that the three branches were co-equal.
Working as attorney general for Donald Trump, obviously, is completely different. Trump is contemptuous of post-Watergate norms and of congressional and judicial oversight. Trump has enabled Barr to pursue his decades-long goal of increasing the power of the presidency. And Barr has enabled Trump to stonewall congressional investigations to an extent not seen since Nixon. It’s an ideologue meets grifter.
But the idea of “checks and balances” is literally the basis of our constitutional system. Why does he find it so inadequate?
Barr believes that if you look at American history, it’s been the presidency that has been able to intervene when we’ve faced war or economic calamity or natural disaster. And Congress has dithered and the courts simply don’t have the mechanisms to respond. He really believes this in his bones.
In fact, I just spoke to someone who knows him well, who works closely with him, and he told me that Barr is fully committed, that he stands by every action he’s taken in this administration, from clearing Lafayette Park with tear gas to trying to fire the US attorney in Manhattan this weekend. And this person said that Barr is doing these actions because he himself believes in empowering the presidency. It is not because he’s being pressured or bullied by Trump.
He’s fully committed. And if you pay attention to what he’s been saying for decades, nothing he’s doing now is all that surprising. He’s been calling for tough law-and-order policies for a long time. His reaction to the demonstrations in Washington was nothing new.
When the Rodney King riots erupted in the 1990s, Barr was attorney general for George H.W. Bush. He sent thousands of federal agents out to Los Angeles to put down the riots and saw it as a missed opportunity to crack down on gangs in Los Angeles. He agreed to bring charges against the officers who beat Rodney King, but he complained it was a missed opportunity and federal civil rights charges should have been brought against the gangs as well.
So the idea of dominating the streets, the idea of overwhelming force to bring order, is something he’s advocated for decades. It’s not something that he’s mouthing for Trump. The thing about Barr is that he’s sort of a quiet revolutionary. He understands how power works and he’s willing to methodically transform the system from within. I mean, it’s funny watching interviews with him. He’s very measured in how he speaks, but what he is saying is very far right across the board. And his actions are extraordinary, at times unprecedented, for an attorney general, from dispatching National Guard troops from multiple states all over DC, to setting up a command bunker where he oversaw all of that, to removing prosecuto
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I always find articles funny that rely on anonymous sources who mind-read other people.
If Barr TRULY believes something, there should be a trail of statements from the mind of Barr himself that indicate it.
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Quote:If you want to know what is really wrong with America, read the article "John Bolton’s Original Sin"
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I have no interest in reading either of their fucking books man. Who the hell brought that up.
The topic of discussion here is how John Bolton is one of the biggest pieces of shit who ever lived and he didn't write the book you were hoping that he would write.
You REALLY wanted to give him a pass for his past atrocities. I know it was VERY painful for vox to write that article about his book.
I'm honestly floored that they did. Obviously it's laced with all the agenda driven bullshit we've come to expect from Vox, and they in no way come to the takeaway that they should have or suggest their readers do the same...
But wow... Maybe we've finally found somebody so fucking awful that even Vox can't get behind them even if they have something bad to say about Trump.
I never thought I'd see the day.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It’s not about what’s in his book; it’s about how he’s always framed his decision to do nothing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/john-bolton-original-sin.h
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What's wrong is that either energetically or lazily doing nothing is habitual with most Americans. Oh, they do a lot of little somethings, like write books and talk endlessly in Bolton's case, but it amounts to almost nothing because they are, inside, scared little rabbits, not big and brave like they pretend to be on the outside.
The Bolton book won’t make any difference. The people closest to Trump understand and discern precisely the chaos that Bolton describes. To stop the worst mistakes one must be ‘in the room where it happens,’ to quote Bolton, quoting the musical Hamilton. But to stay in the room, one must engage in the flattery and the loud public defenses Trump requires. In other words, people enter Trump’s orbit knowing his limitations and deficiencies. They say nothing while in service to him, they flatter and pander to him, then they all leave and suggest they were powerless to stop him. They want credit (and royalties) for having had the best of intentions, while perpetuating the myth that nobody bears any responsibility for enabling Trumpism because it’s unstoppable.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:1kiki, that is the nuttiest comment you have made this week. Barr can't stop telling people what he truly believes. He puts it on a government website:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I always find articles funny that rely on anonymous sources who mind-read other people.
If Barr TRULY believes something, there should be a trail of statements from the mind of Barr himself that indicate it.
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers the 19th Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture at the Federalist Society's 2019 National Lawyers Convention
Washington, DC
~ Friday, November 15, 2019
www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-19
th-annual-barbara-k-olson-memorial-lecture
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks to the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN
~ Friday, October 11, 2019
www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-re
marks-law-school-and-de-nicola-center-ethics
But all too obviously, 1kiki doesn't understand what Barr is plainly saying in thousands of words. When some unnamed person (with Barr's help in private) distills those vast number of words down to dozens of words, 1kiki will make believe it is "mind-reading". No, 1kiki, it is called underlining the main themes of Barr's thinking.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Should Biden win, he'd be a disaster for democracy. We might as well just forget about self-rule and sign our souls over to the global corporation.
At the end of the day, I suppose we need to realize that there is a lot more common ground between us than most folk still hanging around in here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Not really. As I keep posting, and neither extremely partisan side seems to understand, just because I'm against someone doesn't mean I'm for the other side.
I dislike them both, because BOTH of them will take the planet in the wrong direction when it comes to global warming and nuclear threat. And those are my 2 bottom-line priorities.
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