The depth to which supporters of this President will sink is stunning. From parsing words, would means wouldn’t or shouldn’t or couldn’t, to resurrecting long discredited stories of Uranium deals and Obama “emptying” the Treasury to give cash to Iranians and citizenship to their government officials, their pursuit of reviving the comatose brain-dead Commander-in-Chief is pathetic.
A sad, pathetic smoke screen to the reality few of us ever thought we’d see in America.
I may disagree with the policies of a President, but I never want him to fail. Particularly with international matters affecting our sovereignty. No matter how inept the man in the Oval Office may be, our system of government offers a shield to incompetence through intelligence agencies, military branches, Justice department professionals, and an experienced State department to give sound advice and guidance in a complicated and treacherous world.
Such resources are only useful when listened to by the President.
It is abundantly clear this President not only believes himself to be the smartest man in the room, but he believes he is the smartest man ever. Combine that with an attitude of infallibility, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Helsinki wasn’t an aberration; it was a culmination of the disaster that is this administration.
One commentator offered the most disingenuous defense yet by comparing Trump’s interaction with Putin to Kennedy’s dealing with Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He argued that Trump took a playbook out of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War by not humiliating Putin on the national stage. The writer endowed Trump with the wisdom to defeat, but not crush, the enemy in public. Something he claims Kennedy did with Khrushchev by not gloating over the Russians withdrawing their nuclear missiles from Cuba.
The truth is Kennedy agreed to withdraw OUR missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Russians pulling theirs out of Cuba. Kennedy did not try to demean Khrushchev because he recognized that two could play that game. If the original goal of the Russians placing missiles in Cuba was to negotiate the withdrawal from Turkey, one might argue the Russians won that challenge.
Kennedy and Khrushchev played a harsh, but intelligence based, gambit to reach a joint agreement.
Trump is no Kennedy. Putin, on the other hand, is more potent than Khrushchev ever was.
Republican Senator Bob Corker said “The president’s comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover and I was disappointed in that, “ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-summit-corker/republican-senator-corker-trump-comments-on-putin-make-us-look-like-pushover-idUSKBN1K62D2
Corker also tweeted, “ The president in 15 minutes at a press conference can do more damage on the foreign policy than months of us passing resolutions and making calls to our counterparts.”
If the Russians compromised Trump, then when the full story comes out we are facing the greatest disaster to American standing in the world ever. If the Russians did not compromise him, then we are at the lowest point of the Presidency in history because of sheer incompetence.
Nixon was a corrupt and evil man, but at least there was intelligence behind his machinations, no matter how evil, and he never risked our national security while he ignored the law.
Trump is either the biggest traitor since Benedict Arnold or the most profoundly inept man to hold the office of the President. Despite all this, some will continue to support him. Such blind allegiance withstands all logic and reason.
But it cannot withstand most Americans who, regardless of the political leanings, will not stand by and let treachery or incompetence destroy this country.
How do we return the favor of the Trump nightmare?
I thought of something supportable by rational argument if a bit vengeful.
Return the leadership of the country to the respect and admiration of the world with an eminently competent rational American.
Now that would be sweet justice.
(The reaction to this should be delicious)
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I am off to read the NYTimes article regarding when Trump knew the details of the cyber attack and the players. I have already called my Republican senator regarding his own weak acceptance of Walk Back #1 on Tuesday and asked him to vote No on the SCOTUS pick due to Kavanaugh’s stated position on Presidential accountability. And told him that I was confident that he would continue to endorse Trump’s agenda despite his “troubling”concerns which were transparent lies. I would love to see Michelle Obama win the presidency but I doubt I will see a woman president in my lifetime. especially a woman of color.
I am not sure Michele Obama wants to put herself and her family thru that again, but I think she’d be a great President. I am hopeful the Trump aberration is just the last gasp of the old guard to stop the change Obama began
Totally agree!
Thank you for putting into words thoughts that I’ve been too sick at heart to form in my brain. It’s a comfort knowing others feel as I do, that others are sick of the daily sh*t show coming from Washington. You said it all much better than I ever could – thank you again.
Thank you. Feel free to share with others to end this nightmare soon