Roughly around the time Trump started his Afghanistan speech, Ron Paul tweeted out a cautiously optimistic note: “Hoping for the best in tonight’s @realDonaldTrump speech but fearful that foreign intervention is only going to get worse. #Afghanistan.” Alas it was not meant to be, and over 20 tweets later in what proved to be the angriest tweetstorm of the night, Ron Paul had come to a conclusion: Trump is now nothing more than the latest neocon, one whom even Lindsey Graham applauded.
Below is a chronological rundown of Ron Paul’s progressively angier tweets, as he was live commenting on Trump’s speech:
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- Hoping for the best in tonight’s @realDonaldTrump speech but fearful that foreign intervention is only going to get worse. #Afghanistan
- Steve Bannon brakes removed. Neocons feeling their oats.
- The military personnel are the victims of bad foreign policy.
- Sad that these wars the politicians argue for are unconstitutional yet we are told we are over there defending the Constitution.
- Mr. President it’s too bad you do not follow your instincts.
- Planned in Afghanistan? What about Saudi Arabia??
- What’s wrong with rapid exit? We just marched in we can just march out.
- So far very discouraging. Sounds like pure neocon foreign policy.
- The promoters of war win. The American people lose. #Afghanistan
- Remember: there was no al-Qaeda until our foolish invasion of Iraq based on neocon lies.
- The American people deserve to know when we are going to war and MUST give you permission through their representatives in Congress!
- Emphasis on Pakistan just means the war going to be expanded!
- Emphasis on military alliance with India may well lead to more vicious war between nuclear states Pakistan and India. Smart?
- Terrorism is one thing, but what about massive collateral damage? Killing civilians creates more terrorism. Round and round we go.
- Shorter Trump: “Afghanistan: give us your minerals!”
- Nothing new. More of the same. Obama was wrong. This is NOT the good war. Sooner we get out the better.
- More killing is not the road to peace.
- The emphasis on the “grave danger” of terrorism is greatly exaggerated. But more intervention surely creates more terrorism.
- How many Americans are really sitting around worrying about an Afghan terrorist coming over and killing them?
- So many of our problems are self-inflicted by a deeply flawed foreign policy. US troops – and the family members – suffer the consequences.
- Big issue of the night: US expanding the war into Pakistan. Could precipitate more conflict between nuclear India and Pakistan.
- If Americans are tired of 16 year war, how will they feel about another decade or two? When will they wake up?
- Our ultimately “hasty” departure from Vietnam finally ended a lot of grief. Even if it came way too late.
- Beware! @LindseyGrahamSC loves Trump’s speech! Why are arch-neocons celebrating so much? Very telling!
- There’s nothing hasty about ending America’s longest war. @POTUS bowed to military-industrial establishment; doubled down on perpetual war.
Based on Trump’s speech, Ron Paul’s concerns are well founded. Then again, as we await Breitbart’s response to Trump’s adress one thing is certain: Steve Bannon will not be happy with what “neocon” Trump said tonight, even if the WaPo and NYT are now on “mute” mode when it comes to NSA-sourced, anti-Trump scoops.
And while there is a distinct possibility that tomorrow night, when addressing his increasingly shaky core support base, Trump will change his mind, with two generals whispering in his ear constantly to determine US foreign policy even as two ex-Goldmanites now write domestic US policy, it is quite likely that the Trump who was unveiled tonight, is the Trump that will stay with the US population for the indefinite future. And if for some reason the “new and improved” Trump slips and fades away again… well there’s always the Mueller “Russia collusion” probe in the background keeping the president on his toes.
Update: Here’s Breitbart’s take, as expected.
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We are the dead.
As I read this, an announcement about a lawsuit against opiod manufacturers was made on local news.
I suppose the synthetic drug makers are being pushed out of the market by the US soldier industrial support of growing heroin in Afghanistan.
Pharmaceutical companies are meant to get people hooked on drugs, not supply them once they are.
The amount of off the books cash that is generated for Black-Ops by the cartels is part and parcel of our Deep State financing.
Or not.
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Ron Paul is back on track …. after his disappointing article yesterday.
Clap. Clap. Clap.
Ron Paul right on track… as usual. It comes from his complete dependence on the founding documents. A solid rock that would keep this country centered. Much like the Bible does for the Christian. If the fools in DC and those who place them there would adhere to it’s principles. Or even know what they are. Or even acknowledge them occasionally.
Blessings:-}
The Constitution certainly has its noteworthy highlights, but I would have to conclude that it failed in its most fundamental task; that is to circumscribe and limit the abuses of government. The preamble is a disaster — mainly because of the general welfare clause. The use of that term again in Section 8 just begs politicians to ignore the idea of enumerated powers in the same section and that is exactly what they have done. Congress is given the power to regulate (a very general term) both commerce and the currency. I mean what could go wrong with that? Add the necessary and proper clause to the mix, and I can not conceive of how anyone would think that a limited government was established. And history has vindicated this position. Lastly and frankly I do not see how the Constitution even applies to anyone who did not sign it. No other contract ever conceived purports to apply to people that are not party to the contract. I don’t see how the Constitution is any different.
If the American people, and their “representatives” are not capable of reading comprehension, that is not the document’s fault, that is the fault of the people that care nothing for the intent of the document.
Everyone now wants their free shit. That is completely opposite of the intent of the constitution. This is the fault of greed and shortsightedness, with a bonus of little real education. The founders did their part, and even spoke of such “This nation has a republic, if she can keep it”. Now it is our turn, and WE have collectively failed. Now the consequences WILL assert themselves. Slowly or quickly, but, rest assured, they will. And the sad fact is that the blame can be laid, collectively at the feet of ourselves.
That is just the thing. It was a major oversight by the founders to actually believe that the people would continue to know the historical context in which the document was written. If you are aware of the context, you know the general welfare clause was not intended to be a free for all grant of authority, but if you read the plain language of the document —with no help from historical context — that is exactly what the document says. The government may tax the people and spend the money for the general welfare of the people. That is an unlimited grant of authority. And given the precision of the English language, use of such a term — in addition to the others that I noted — was a major oversight. It would appear the founders did not do their part.
You and Anon are both exactly right. And the way the PTB got what they wanted through the general welfare clause was to first demoralize and then dumb down the people through several generations so that their only concern, both gov’t and the people they have come to rule, is how to enrich themselves through the work of others.
The founders said that this form of gov’t(Constitutional) is only good for a moral and religious people. And that it is wholly inadequate for the gov’t of any other. Well, now we have the “any other” they said it would never be able to govern. So they changed it’s intent to give gov’t more and more power, and as a direct consequence, the people less and less freedom.
The only way to right this would be for a true repentance and turning back to the God that gave us this freedom in the first place. Warts and all. Because when man is part of the equation in governing we always have those warts.
But, from what I see, that’s the last thing on the majorities’ mind in America today.
Blessings:-}
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Ron Paul – The Greatest American President we never had.