Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Readers are requesting my take on President Trump’s state of the union speech. Briefly, judging by the polls taken by his hostile critics—CNN and CBS—the speech was very successful with 76% of the public expressing approval. And this despite several years of demonization of Trump by the presstitutes, Democratic Party, former intelligence and FBI officials, and a number of generals.
The speech was successful, because Trump spoke common sense and appealed for unity. He emphasized restoring America’s greatness, a Reagan theme, and he made it clear that the Democrats’ policy of trying to discredit him and get him out of office was preventing the government from moving ahead with issues that need addressing. I believe everyone knows this, including the Democrats and the presstitutes.
When I say the speech was successful, I mean for Americans. Foreigners witnessing the chant—USA-USA-USA—saw the “exceptionalism” that has been Washington’s excuse for doing so much damage to others in the 21st century. It is not clear what viewers made of the congresswomen in white with their hostile demeanor. Were the white clothes meant to signify their purity in contrast to Trump’s corruption or were the white suits a sign of disapproval like the white dress of the KKK meant disapproval of the black politicians put in power by Reconstruction? What did the Democratic Party gain by displaying female members of Congress as Trump foes?
As for Trump’s economic claims, they were largely based in the official data. As I have emphasized for many years, it is the official data that are false.
Let’s move to more important questions about the speech.
A country without defended borders is not a country. If a country has no respect for its borders, why does the country need a military to repel invaders? Clearly, for the Democratic Party the United States is some kind of universalistic place where people from other lands come and go at will unimpeded. Having borders is nationalism, and nationalism has been redefined from the patriotism it once was to fascism. For Democrats, as for Macron and Merkel, patriotism is the refusal to defend the country’s borders. In other words, the Democratic Party is now without any doubt the party of The Camp of the Saints.
I don’t think that the Democrats’ view of America is shared by the American people. Many commentators attribute the Democrats’ preference for massive non-white immigration to a belief that the immigrants will make the Democrats by far and away the dominant party and bring about an era of one party rule. Possibly Democrats are this stupid, but the likely effect will be that the immigrants themselves will rule.
As for Trump himself, I think Trump was, and still is, sincere. Whereas the Democrats are now the party of victim groups, Trump focused on the plight of ordinary Americans and on normalizing US relations with Russia. Ordinary Americans, not victim groups, are the backbone of the country. America cannot be great if ordinary people have dim prospects, and a government that is provoking conflict with powerful opponents that it itself has made into opponents has no time, energy, or resources to devote to improving the prospects of its population.
Nevertheless, sincere or not, Trump is misled on many issues. For example, China has not stolen US jobs. US jobs were exported to China by US global corporations in order to enrich themselves and their shareholders via lower labor costs. It was American firms that took the jobs to China.
Trump’s worst defeat, a defeat that could result in the destruction of the US and the world, is his defeat on the Russian front. Russiagate has achieved its purpose of forcing Trump off of his agenda of improving the US/Russian relationship. The military/security complex, the Mueller “investigation,” the presstitutes, and the Democratic Party have successfully characterized all efforts to improve US/Russian relations as collusion with the enemy. Trump has been forced to impose more sanctions on Russia, to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Treaty, and to declare his intent to scrap the last remaining arms control agreement in 2021.
These agreements to control nuclear weapons and to minimize the chance of their ever being used were the work of many US and Russian governments over decades. They have all now been scrapped at the worst of all possible times. The demonization of Russia and her President is part of the attack on Trump, and the aggression in the demonization creates the impression that Western people are being prepared for an attack on Russia. The US destruction of Iraq and Libya followed the demonization of the countries and their leaders, as did the US orchestrated ISIS proxy attack on Syria. When Hillary Clinton, who came close to being elected president, declared Vladimir Putin to be “the New Hitler,” it confirmed Moscow’s view created by US unilateral withdrawal from arms control agreements that a US nuclear first strike against Russia was being planned.
As this is the very last thing a sane government would want, I have concluded that the US government is insane.
This fact should disturbe us far more than anything else. Yet, as I, Stephen Cohen and a few others have emphasized, the rapidity with which Washington is pushing us to nuclear Armageddon receives no attention.
It is equally disconcerting that Trump, himself a target of an ongoing coup to remove him from office, has given his support to a coup to remove the elected president of Venezuela and to replace him with an unelected American stooge who declared himself to be president.
That Trump is conspiring against Maduro exactly as the corrupt Obama conspired against the elected presidents of Hondras and Ukraine leads me to see poetic justice in the Democrat Party’s conspiracy against Trump.
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The “poetic justice” line really hit the mark.
Poetic justice and ongoing coup sound like bs. Neither has been accomplished, it is too early to call it justice or a coup.
“Nevertheless, sincere or not, Trump is misled on many issues. For example, China has not stolen US jobs. US jobs were exported to China by US global corporations in order to enrich themselves and their shareholders via lower labor costs. It was American firms that took the jobs to China.”
You can’t very well steal something that has been freely given to you.
“Trump has been forced to impose more sanctions on Russia, to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Treaty, and to declare his intent to scrap the last remaining arms control agreement in 2021.”
This proves that the true ruling president of the U.S. is the Military Industrial Complex, not Trump. Eisenhower warned in his farewell speech that this MIC would take over control of the Whitehouse exactly as it has done to this day. The Commander In Chief is the MIC, not Trump.
“As for Trump’s economic claims, they were largely based in the official data. As I have emphasized for many years, it is the official data that are false.”
Trump knows they are false. He criticized the Obama admin. for the falsification of the jobs numbers in the past. What did Trump do to clean house, drain any swamp at the BLS to make the numbers more honest and accurate? NOTHING! If nothing has been changed to correct the false calculation of the unemployment numbers, then said numbers has to still be false!
http://time.com/4443598/donald-trump-unemployment-statistics/
I agree with PCR that there was some good in the SOTU speech. However, caveat emptor. After all, there only words. When these words transfer into the physical realm of actions, then and only then will we know if the words were true.
Russia and the USA are friends.
The two always have been despite all the Kabuki Theater to the contrary.
The biggest props used to further this massive misdirection are atomic weapons.
Will the Communist in the House See the Light or double down on Democrat Stupid?
“Trump’s worst defeat, a defeat that could result in the destruction of the US and the world, is his defeat on the Russian front. Russiagate has achieved its purpose of forcing Trump off of his agenda of improving the US/Russian relationship. The military/security complex, the Mueller “investigation,” the presstitutes, and the Democratic Party have successfully characterized all efforts to improve US/Russian relations as collusion with the enemy. Trump has been forced to impose more sanctions on Russia, to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Treaty, and to declare his intent to scrap the last remaining arms control agreement in 2021.”
To me, the above paragraph goes to the core of the matter. Trump appointed the Attorney General who should have ended the Mueller witch hunt long ago and launched an investigation of the real traitors inside the Democratic Party and numerous “security” agencies and government departments. And do not forget that Trump surrounded himself with some of the most vile and corrupt swamp critters in the entire history of the US. Why would anyone wishing to drain the fetid swamp and normalize relations with Russia do that? If they put a gun to his head, he should have gone to the people and explained to them that the US government has been taken over by the Deep State which is preventing him carrying out his constitutional duties as President. He could have declared a State of Emergency to deal with the widespread infiltration of the US government by traitors and to defend the US from enemies both outside and inside the country. But this did not happen. It seems clear, therefore, that Trump is not who he claims to be despite the patriotic rhetoric…because words not backed by deeds equal lies.
Donny has delivered a Disney presentation
Still holding key documents on J.F.K.
Silence on nine 11
Never past thru Van Allen belt BUZZ ALDREICH ?
Zilch on false flags
Great delivery
The speech was mostly Trump shitting all over his base, in an attempt placate other people – people that literally want him broken and dead, along with most of his family. He needs to fire whoever wrote that pile of shit, and all of his ‘advisors’ as well.
It was like he has absolutely no idea what is actually going on outside the White House.
Exactly. Opioids? Internet censorship and de-platforming of conservatives? Lock her up? Selective prosecution of his very supporters? Lack of prosecution of antifa commies? Voter fraud?
Instead we got more immigrants and muh holocaust ™
An all Demonrat rule which panders to the lowest forms of our society ( both morally and economically) and uses the resources of the makers to give to the takers is the fastest way to have a true bloody revolution .
So if the borders stay open,the debt continues to rise and the basic rights granted to us by our creator are taken away I can only give you one bit of advice…..BUY MORE AMMO !
Trump – right guy elected at a bad time. Bummer