Every time a group of establishment hacks jointly attack Trump as reckless or dangerous, you know he is on the right path. These 50 statist, nazi neocons are the reason we are bogged down in endless wars around the globe. They insist we police the world with our military, intimidating any and all who don’t follow our orders. These 50 scumbags work for the military industrial complex and have been ordered to stop Trump at all costs. Know your enemy.
50 Top GOP National Security Officials Sign Letter Opposing Trump
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Monday, 08 Aug 2016 06:51 PM
Fifty of the country’s top Republican national security officials have signed a letter saying they do not support their party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
The New York Times first reported the letter, which was signed by people who worked under Republican administrations from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. Those signing the letter include former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden and former Homeland Security Security secretaries Michael Chertoff and Tom Ridge.
Trump, the letter writers argue, “would be the most reckless president in American history.”
“None of us will vote for Donald Trump,” they say, though they acknowledge that many Americans have concerns with the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, as well.
According to the letter, Trump has “demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding of America’s vital national interests” and “its complex diplomatic challenges. Unlike previous presidents,” they say, “Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself.”
Trump “is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood,” the letter says. “He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior.”
Late Monday afternoon, Trump issued a response to the letter. His statement said that “the names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess.”
He called them part of the failed elite who need to be told “their gravy train is over.”
“These insiders – along with Hillary Clinton – are the owners of the disastrous decisions to invade Iraq, allow Americans to die in Benghazi, and they are the ones who allowed the rise of [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria],” Trump continued.
“Yet despite these failures, they think they are entitled to use their favor-trading to land taxpayer-funded government contracts and speaking fees,” Trump added.
“It’s time we put our foot down and declare that their gravy train is over: No longer will Crooked Hillary Clinton and the other disasters in Washington get rich at our expense.”
The Times notes that some prominent Republican national security officials did not sign the letter, including former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
Trump has met with Kissinger and Baker in recent weeks, though neither have endorsed him.
Trump surrogate Dr. Ben Carson, who was a Trump challenger for the GOP nomination, told CNN on Monday that Trump and “a lot of the American people” recognize the letter’s signatories are the very people who have been running things and “have kind of run us into the ditch.”
“If things aren’t moving in the right direction, you analyze it and move into a different direction,” Carson said, adding that establishment members of both parties have been responsible for decades of bad policy that have gotten America into its current condition.
“People must get that through their thick skulls,” he said. “We must understand that our strength is in our unity and resist the urge to capitulate to those agents of the vision who derive their power and their power base from the dividing people into groups.”
Maybe the best thing Trump has done so far is expose these globalist assholes like a bunch of cockroaches when the light goes on.
50 top neocons worry that Trump won’t give them enough war.
I laugh when i hear NPR will use this for an endorsement of Clinton.
Who do they think they are trying to brain wash?
Existing Democrats?
Or
Republicans?
The thing is these leftist actually think there is something called a Republican voter. They nust dont get it.
These 250-Plus Violins Are About To Be Owned By The U.S. Government
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/07/488561838/these-250-plus-violins-are-about-to-be-owned-by-the-u-s-government
Maybe, they want to be able to Fiddle while Rome burns?
The LA Times piece nailed it. The more they are exposed the more irrelevant they become. The people as a whole do not understand exactly what has happened to our country, but they are figuring out that it is bad and they no longer want much to do with the folks that caused it. Trump has managed to tap into this feeling. This election is about the FSA and rose colored glasses utopians on one side versus blue collar and middle class workers tired of being screwed over on the other side.
I personally do not like Trump and do not think he would be a good president in any way, but I do believe his election will shake things up and I am all for disrupting the status quo. Perhaps, by election day, I will come around and actually vote for the him. We’ll see.
Vote for the pig over the murderous psychopath.
Trump has two major obstacles to overcome to win this elections.
1 The Democrats
2 The Republicans
If he is victorious over both of them he will be President, but those are difficult odds to be facing.
Then he has to figure out how to stay alive after he is elected, and that may be the most difficult challenge.
One of my brothers is a retired school teacher/school administrator; his wife is a retired teacher; a first cousin is a retired teacher. They are all registered Democrats, of course. My brother will definitely vote for Trump and his wife may do the same. The 1st cousin is too stupid to do anything different politically than to always pull the Dem. Lever.
I have some worries about Trump. He recently endorsed ShitStain McCain (more war) and Rino Ryan. I understand the political necessity for doing so, but it is a bitter pill to swallow (for mr).
There was no political necessity to endorse either of those assholes. Trump seems to have done so for reasons he’ll probably never reveal. The 2016 election is Trump’s to lose and he’s doing everything in his power to lose it.
Fifty more reasons to vote for Trump.
Could The Deep State Be Sabotaging Hillary?
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Maybe Hillary is the Deep State’s shoo-in for president. But I suspect doubts in the Deep State have advanced to active sabotage for the reasons noted below.
Few would dispute that Hillary Clinton is the Establishment’s candidate. It’s widely accepted that the Establishment hews to a neoconservative (neo-con) foreign policy that is fully supported by America’s Deep State, i.e. the centers of state power that don’t change as a result of elections.
As a result, it’s widely accepted that the Deep State fully supports Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency and will move heaven and earth to get her elected. While this is a logical premise, I suspect it’s overly simplistic. I suspect major power centers in the Deep State are actively sabotaging Hillary because they’ve concluded she is a poisoned chalice who would severely damage the interests of the Deep State and the U.S.A.
Poisoned chalice: something that seems very good when it is first received, but in fact does great harm to the person/ institution/ nation that receives it.
I realize this may strike many as ludicrous, but bear with me as we work through the notion that the Deep State would prefer Trump to Hillary.
The consensus view seems to be that the Establishment and the Deep State see Trump as a loose cannon who might upset the neo-con apple cart by refusing to toe the Establishment’s Imperial line.
This view overlooks the possibility that significant segments of the Deep State view the neo-con strategy as an irredeemable failure and would welcome a president who would overthrow the remnants of the failed strategy within the Establishment and Deep State.
To these elements of the Deep State, Hillary is a threat precisely because she embraces the failed strategy and those who cling to it. From this point of view, Hillary as president would be an unmitigated disaster for the elements of the Deep State that have concluded the U.S. must move beyond the neo-con strategic failures to secure the nation’s core interests.
There are other reasons why elements of the Deep State view Hillary as a poisoned chalice.
1. Hillary is an empty vessel. Nobody seriously claims she has any core beliefs that she would make personal sacrifices to support. While at first glance this may seem to be a plus, the Deep State is not devoid of values. Rather, the typical member of the Deep State has strong values and distrusts/ loathes people like Hillary who value nothing other than personal aggrandizement.
Hillary’s sole supreme commitment is the further aggrandizement of wealth and power to her family. This makes her intrinsically untrustworthy to the Deep State, which has bigger fish to fry than the Clinton Project of aggrandizing wealth and personal power.
2. Hillary has exhibited the typical flaw of liberal Democrats: fearful of being accused as being soft on Russia, Syria, Iran, terrorism, etc. or losing whatever war is currently being prosecuted, liberal Democrats over-compensate by pursuing overly aggressive and poorly planned policies.
The forward-thinking elements of the Deep State are not averse to aggressive pursuit of what they perceive as American interests, but they are averse to quagmires and policies that preclude successful maintenance of the Imperial Project.
3. The Deep State requires relatively little of elected officials, even the President. A rubber stamp of existing policies is the primary requirement (see the Obama presidency for an example).
But the Deep State prefers a leader that can successfully sell the Deep State’s agenda to the American public. (President Obama has done a very credible job of supporting the Imperial Project agenda. I think it’s clear the Deep State supported President Obama’s re-election.) A politician who’s primary characteristic is untrustworthiness is poorly equipped to sell anything, especially something as complex and increasingly unpopular as the Imperial Project.
4. Hillary suffers from the delusion that she understands power politics and the Imperial Project. The most dangerous President to the Deep State is one who believes he/she is qualified to set the Imperial agenda and change the course of the Deep State as their personal entitlement.
For these reasons, elements of the Deep State might sabotage Hillary’s campaign as the greater threat to American interests. Trump is as unpopular as Hillary, but his sense of self-aggrandizement and narcissism is of a different order than Hillary’s. Elements of the Deep State may view Trump as more malleable (or more charitably, as more open to much-needed changes in U.S. policies) and a better salesperson than Hillary.
Although it’s difficult to identify specific evidence for this, the Deep State is not as monolithic as the alternative media assumes. An increasingly powerful sector of the Deep State views the neo-con agenda as a disaster for American interests, and is far more focused on the Long Game of energy, food security, economic and military innovation and a productive response to climate change.
Trump is less wedded to the neo-con agenda than Hillary, less concerned with looking weak and more willing to cut new deals to clear the path for U.S. soft power (diplomacy, cultural influence, energy, food security, economic innovation and successful responses to climate change) rather than the neo-con obsession with hard power and the old-style Great Game of geopolitics.
So how could the forward-looking elements of the Deep State sabotage Hillary? I can think of several ways:
1. Engineer a protracted stock market decline that hits American voters in their pocketbooks before the election by gutting the “wealth effect.” A plunging stock market would make a mockery of the claim that the economy is “recovering.”
2. Continue to leak dirty laundry on Hillary, her health, the Clinton foundation scams, etc.
3. Put the word out to the corporatocracy, top-level media, etc., that the Deep State would prefer a Trump presidency, despite the widely held assumption that Clinton is the shoo-in Establishment candidate, and that those who cling to Hillary will pay a price later on as the neo-cons are cashiered or sent to Siberia for their failures.
Maybe Hillary is the Deep State’s shoo-in for president. But I suspect doubts in the Deep State have advanced to active sabotage for the reasons noted above.
This would be a good stand-alone post. It COULD be a correct assessment? However, the author seems to be operating under the premise that the Deep State desires to serve American interests. I tend to believe the Deep State serves at the whim of its Globalist masters.
They all hate him. They fear him. They will likely kill him if becomes to successful. I will vote for him. Right or wrong he seems to care about law and America. I already know that old blonde woman only cares for herself.
I worked in the heart of the national security apparatus for almost 30 years, after military service. The list of “50 national security experts” is a Who’s Who of traitors, careerists and incompetents. The fact that these fools and scoundrels oppose Trump is reason enough to vote for him. These are the cockroaches who scurry from the light. That they have put their names to this vile letter is proof of the fear they have of Trump. If he wins, it is game over for all of them. The most sinister element in this bagful of Creatures from the Black Lagoon are the known Israeli agents, such as Michael Chertoff, Dov Zakheim and Zoellick. These Mossad agents (the first two in particular, along with others in the list) may well have been involved in 9/11 in some way. The gentiles on the list are your usual collection of Washington climbers of the greasy pole. Not one of them should ever hold public office again. This election is it, folks. If these vermin are not fumigated it is all over. Don’t tell me you can’t vote for Trump because of this or that. You have two choices and only two. If we do not stop Hillary war with Russia, China or both is inevitable, and we will be defeated unless it goes nuclear, in which case it won’t matter. Put aside your selfish nonsense and think of your children and your country. The sword is hanging over our heads by a thread.
I have no chirrens and my country left me long ago. The survivors, if there are any, would do well to remember that.
Southern Sage,
marvelous…wonderful (v. tactful) statements. You are tops!
Meh. Trump is right with the Trotskyite Ne0 Con chicken hawks, bigger military, more conflicts.. till it comes to Russia. And that is a huge sticking point with the Lie-O-Con Sophists.