Liberal Mush from the Mad Dog

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

Liberal Mush from the Mad Dog [Mattis]

It was not Trump who divided America in this racial crisis. The nation was united in revulsion at the criminal cruelty that led to George Floyd’s death… What divided America were the methods and means protesters began using in the first hours of the Minneapolis riot — the attacks on cops with bottles, bricks and Molotov cocktails.

In his statement to The Atlantic magazine, former Defense Secretary General James Mattis says of the events of the last 10 days that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968:

“We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.”

Is “a small number of lawbreakers” an apt description of wilding mobs who have showered cops with bottles, bricks and rocks in 40 cities, looted stores in the hundreds, torched police cars, and injured dozens of Secret Service personnel defending the White House?

Is “a small number of lawbreakers” the way a patriot would describe anti-American anarchists who desecrated the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial on the Mall and the Korean War Memorial and tried to burn down the Church of the Presidents in Lafayette Square?

Was the sacking of Georgetown, Rodeo Drive in LA, 5th Avenue in New York and 40 city centers, the work of a few “lawbreakers”?

Is that a good description of the people who gravely wounded that cop in Las Vegas and shot four cops and murdered that retired black police chief in St. Louis?

The protesters, says Mattis, are “rightly demanding … Equal Justice Under Law.” This is a “wholesome and unifying demand — one that all of us should be able to get behind.”

But what does the general think of the methods and means the “protesters” have used — the massive civil disobedience, the blocking of streets, the vilification of police, the contempt for curfews. What does the general think of protesters who provide moral cover for insurrection?

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“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people,” says Mattis. Trump “doesn’t even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”

But it was not Trump who divided America in this racial crisis.

The nation was united in revulsion at the criminal cruelty that led to George Floyd’s death. The nation was united in backing an enraged people’s right to protest that atrocity.

What divided America were the methods and means protesters began using in the first hours of the Minneapolis riot — the attacks on cops with bottles, bricks and Molotov cocktails.

In Mattis’ statement, one finds not a word of sympathy or support for the police bearing the brunt of mob brutality for defending the communities they serve, while defending the constitutional right of the protesters to curse them as racist and rogue cops.

“Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them,” not to the military, says the general.

Correct. But what happens when mobs run wild to where a governor of New York is denouncing the NYPD for failing to protect the city from anarchy and is threatening to replace the mayor for failing to put down the insurrection.

In July 1967, the 82nd Airborne was sent into Detroit to put down the riot. In 1968, there were federal troops in D.C. to stop the rioting in the wake of Dr. King’s assassination. In the violent protests of the Nixon era, U.S. airborne troops were brought into the basement of the Executive Office Building.

The general quotes James Madison: “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single solider exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign invaders than an America disunited.”

And how, General, did that work out for Madison when the “foreign invaders” arrived in Maryland in August 1814, marched up Bladensburg Road, and burned the Capitol and White House and Alexandria, while “Little Jimmy” fled out the Brookville Road?

If memory serves, it was Gen. Andrew Jackson and the troops he pulled together for the Battle of New Orleans who defeated the British and saved the Union.

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“Society cannot exist,” wrote Edmund Burke, “unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

That is where we are now. Society and civilization are on the line.

If mob tactics are now how we change laws and alter public policy, the democratic republic is dead and we have gone full Third World.

Some of us do not believe America is a racist society or that the nation’s police, numbering a million men and women, are shot through with anti-black racism.

Some of us believe the police are the last line of defense we have against that “small number of lawbreakers” Mattis tells us are no problem.

Did the general actually produce this pile of mush that reads like something out of Ramsey Clark in the 1960s?

My guess: Mattis, an obedient servant of President Trump for two years, has been persuaded that the wind is blowing the other way and his “place in history” demands that he get himself on the correct side.

The general has just defected to the resistance.

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52 Comments
Whiskey
Whiskey
June 5, 2020 7:51 am

The “Mad Dog” is in fact a neutered lap dog.

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  Whiskey
June 6, 2020 3:21 am

ALL General Officers are POLITICIANS, PERIOD, plain and simple. Both in uniform and post service. Once commissioned, which is challenging enough, they have to be promoted six times to make General, or Flag, Officer rank, of which there are four separate levels, one thru four stars. They perhaps started as selflessly serving patriots, while beginning their military career. But the higher you move up in Zero (officer) rank, the military culture “requires” you to become a “politician” to continue being promoted, first of the corporate, office bureaucrat type, and identifiable as an external political Dem-Rep type. Each branch of the service has this conundrum, both as a microcosm, and a reflection, of our society at large. The “go along to get along and ahead” mantra is alive and well and causing huge problems and issues for the effectiveness of our military. The true purpose of the DOD is to break things and kill people. All the focus on anything else, like accommodating homosexuals, women’s “rights”, and SJW causes the last 25 years? Wasting resources on hoopla damages and doesn’t help the fighting effectiveness of DOD forces. The military used to be called the War Department. After WWII, when fighting stopped, the bureaucrats got in power and changed it to DOD. Perhaps it would be better to call it DUD. Just some of my observations in 30+ years in uniform.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Saxons Wrath
June 6, 2020 3:47 am

obummer purged most of the good ones.

Ken31
Ken31
  Saxons Wrath
June 6, 2020 3:53 am

I get tired of explaining all of that to people without military experience. 12+ years myself.

Whiskey Sierra 0331
Whiskey Sierra 0331
June 5, 2020 7:55 am

Turns out the “Mad Dog” is in fact a neutered lap dog.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Whiskey Sierra 0331
June 5, 2020 10:21 am

Is there any evidence that Mattis is a heterosexual?

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Iska Waran
June 5, 2020 11:31 am

OOOh. Maybe Obama has pictures of him with Dancing Boys in Afghanistan? I can’t think of any other reason anyone would be committed to us staying in that shit hole. I have always considered him a corporate sellout. I believe he was the asshole who tried to ban Magpul magazines ($12-$15) in favor of HK mags ($75) because he bought some halfassed HK rifle which provided no benefit of any kind and unlike all the other HK rifle the US uses, it used a different “Euromag” design. HK could have simply changed the design to use regular GI mags and Magpuls but Jimmy liked paying $75 for $15 magazines. Fuque him.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 10:14 pm

HK puts out some stupidly overpriced hardware geared for contracts while pissing on the civilian market. It reminds me a lot of Colt, even as SIG closes down their operations in Germany. Meanwhile SIG USA stays in business, fields NGSW gear and a new line of pistols.
I tend to prefer older mags with metal followers simply because the polymers I bought years ago caused failures to lock the bolt open on the last round of my AR. For the same reason I went with all metal in pistols, too.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 5, 2020 7:59 am

Appeasement. Only leads to further demands and finally extreme violence.

Donkey
Donkey
June 5, 2020 8:24 am

Somehow “America First” is a divisive statement.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Donkey
June 6, 2020 3:49 am

Mostly for the ones who hate America; the rest of us are fine with that statement.

Glock 1911
Glock 1911
June 5, 2020 8:37 am

Ol’ Mad Dog musta found out someone took pictures…they got him by the short hairs now.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 5, 2020 8:55 am

Need to check your history books Pat, the battle of New Orleans was fought after the war had ended.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
  Anonymous
June 5, 2020 10:13 am

True, but had the Brits won the battle they would never have let go of New Orleans. They were determined to stop America from getting any bigger than it was.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Anonymous
June 6, 2020 12:29 am

the treaty had been negotiated & accepted but hadn’t yet been ratified if memory serves me correctly–
sage is correct,they would have never given up new orleans,which was the most important us city & is still one of the 3-4 most important–

Hardnox
Hardnox
June 5, 2020 9:10 am

Mattis is completely wrong about Trump dividing this nation. The Left owns this completely. The Left has used every slimy tactic to drive a wedge into every issue regardless of how nonsensical it is. Before Obama this nation was on a path towards racial harmony, albeit slowly. Obama never would have been elected had this nation been intrinsically racist. Now it appears we are but it’s not Trump’s doing.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Hardnox
June 5, 2020 10:46 am

And yet who gave him the footnote in history to have this much influence?

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 9:16 am

The blather spewing from the mouth of the so-called “Mad Dog”, retired Marine Corps general James Mattis, should reveal to the American public just how putrid our most esteemed institutions have become under the leadership of worthless men (and, worse, far worse, bull dyke women). Secretary of Defense Esper, Secretary of the Army McCarthy and some clown who runs the National Guard have also made fools of themselves, proven themselves disloyal, and betrayed their oaths with their bizarre statements criticizing Trump’s threat to use the U.S. armed forces to restore order in the country. If Trump had a hair on his ass all of them would have been frog-marched out of their offices by close of business.
Let’s look at Mattis first. He is just the sort of person Obama would have chosen for high rank, and that is hardly a compliment. I was a contemporary of Mattis in the USMC and can speak with some authority on how a guy like him would have been viewed by most of my fellow Marine officers.
Mattis was known for his “intellectualism” (I cringed when I read that he brags about a 7,000 book library – I have as many but do not feel compelled to talk about it), for his alleged devout Catholic faith (says he prayed with another general, something I would like to see), for viewing himself as a “warrior monk”, and for the fact that he never married. The fact that the three wars he served in reflected little credit on any but the actual fighting soldier or Marine is irrelevant – plenty of good generals have had such bad luck.
First, while the Marine Corps has something of a tradition of oddball officers who devoted themselves to things intellectual, it is certainly not the default image of a Marine officer. Nothing wrong with being religious, but wearing it on your sleeve would be seen as weird, at best. As for never marrying, well……..There is a saying in Latin America, “Forty and single, queer for sure”. I am not saying old Mad Dog has a bung hole like a horse collar but that is the way to bet. His Wikipedia page says he proposed to a woman once and she turned him down because she did not want to stunt his career. Sure. I know women pretty well and their “gaydar” is pretty damn good. I can imagine the real reason she turned him down.
Mattis and the other bureaucrats named above hastened to put distance between themselves and Trump when the president suggested that at some point he might use the army to keep organized criminal mobs from burning down the country. True to form, Trump didn’t actually do anything. He just blustered about it. That was enough to set off the pearl-clutchers, pantywaists, and cowards in the Department of Defense, to say nothing of the mainstream media and the Democrats.
How dare Trump threaten to use the military to actually protect actual Americans and their property, when there are so many Somalis, Nigerians, Iraqis, Syrians and what not to protect! Why, it is unconstitutional as hell! You can’t use the army against “American citizens”!
So much for Mattis the alleged intellectual and “warrior monk”. I won’t even mention such tailless lizards as Secretary of Defense Esper, a grown-up version of Greg Marmelade of Animal House fame. And a defense industry lobbyist to boot! I try to support and feel sympathetic to Trump but then I see what kind of turncoat human garbage he appoints to high office and I can feel nothing but contempt. Trump has tens of millions of decent, patriotic Americans to choose and he dips his hand in an unflushed toilet and come up with an Esper!
Let me ‘splain a few things to the Philosopher General Mattis and the morons from DOD.
The oath they took upon entering office included protecting the country from all enemies foreign and domestic. Full stop. The president and the president alone has the power to decide what constitutes a domestic enemy and what to do about them, just as he has full control of foreign policy and is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
When the Constitution was adopted, the framers were thinking about the Tories of the American Revolution when they spoke of domestic enemies, though the Indians were also on their minds (and the slaves were surely on the minds of the Southern delegates).
These men had just gone through a bloody war for independence that was a civil war at the same time. They knew exactly what the term domestic enemy was – any person or group within the country that was attacking the established government and represented a threat to the life, liberty and property of law-abiding citizens. Nine Tory militia leaders hanging from an oak tree after the Battle of Kings Mountain showed how they felt such people should be dealt with.
They also feared a professional military, which is why they took pains to ensure that the population at large would be armed, so some erratic colonel or general could never seize power without facing an uprising of the citizens. Oliver Cromwell’s career was part of their intellectual baggage. They knew we needed an army and navy but they did not want it turned on the citizens except as a last resort; they knew that the day might come when that step might have to be taken, however.
The U.S. military has been used countless times to preserve order in the country. Trump’s threat was entirely unexceptional. From the Whisky Rebellion to the Mormon War to the Boston police strike to the use of the military to integrate schools to the 1968 riots, the U.S. military was used to enforce the law WHEN LOCAL OFFICIALS COULD NOT OR WOULD NOT DO IT. That is the key to this whole issue.
At the time of the Civil War, a U.S. Army general (a Southerner himself) reminded his fellow Southerners in the army ranks that governments raise and maintain armies for defense against enemies both foreign and domestic. He urged them to stand by the oath they had taken upon entering the service, though he sympathized with their feelings of anger at what they saw as a new administration determined to oppress their own states. Most of the Southern officers ignored him, resigned their comjmissions, and went South. We all know how that turned out.
Our country is now under attack by a fairly sophisticated enemy compoosed of Antifa, extreme elements in the Democrat Party, and the criminal class, using as an excuse a tragic incident of police brutality.
From my knowledge of foreign-backed subversion in this country I believe Cuba, Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and the Soros organization (linked to all of the above) are involved in this. They have spent years building up a network of violent radicals, infiltrating our universities, Congress, and local and state governments, and financing treasonous elements in the media and elsewhere.
The real objective of the violence is preventing the re-election of Trump. It has nothing to do with poor George Floyd, as most people now understand.
A disloyal and incompetent FBI and CIA have failed miserably to detect and counter radical domestic groups and their foreign backers. I know this for a fact. I raised the alarm on several occasions and was dismissed with a sneer.
Now the chickens have come home to roost, as Malcom X once said in a different context.
Trump should have moved forcefully against this wave of violence, with or without the consent of Democrat governors or mayors, and he should have forcefuly deposed them for failing to uphold their oaths, letting the chips fall wherever the hell they would.
It was once said that God protects drunks, fools and the USA. He may also protect Trump. I predict that Trump will be re-elected by a large margin, largely due to the posture adopted by the Democrats during this disaster. People see them for what they really are, at last. Let us pray that I am right.
For those of you who say voting counts for nothing, see you in January 2021 if the Democrats win. You might want to buy your airline ticket to the Fiji Islands now.

Gen X Nomad
Gen X Nomad
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 9:47 am

Thank you for sharing your thoughts & observations, sir.

TC
TC
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 10:05 am

The only difference in Trump vs whatever token asshole the Democrats choose will be the style of fucking we get. At least Creeper Joe will slide it in while looking us in the eye. We’ll all know and agree we’re getting fucked. Trump on the other hand, prefers to sneak up and screw his supporters from behind while they aren’t paying attention, and half of them still haven’t even figured it out.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  TC
June 5, 2020 11:15 am

And Joe would nibble on our neck. The Dems always were the more sensual of the two rapist parties.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Fleabaggs
June 5, 2020 11:19 am

Oh I have no doubt the Democrats in charge will quickly go a violent direction. But I am betting that Tennessee and several other states will have to pull the plug right soon. I am willing to flirt with that outcome if it means not having Trump hold this corrupt system together so that my kids don’t even have the opportunity for a better life.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 10:38 am

I disagree that Trump should have moved forcefully- if that means sending troops in uninvited. Better to let the Dems own this. Now the media is left to sputter about how some old general said “orange man bad” and how Trump is Hitler because he got photographed holding a bible.

For the record, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (Sassehole) could have 23 children and he’d still be a bigger fag than Mattis even if Mattis had a four-way with a bunch of Chippendale dancers.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Iska Waran
June 5, 2020 1:17 pm

It’s all about negotiating or the art of the deal.
1) Trump threatens the incompetent virtue signalers with sending in federal troops.
2) Not wanting to be disgraced, the losers get busy and allow their police to police, some with Nat Guard backstopping.
3) If it really went to hell, Trump was on record as having made the offer.
4) All criticism of Trump and his Bible at St. Johns is political as it was Trump PERSONALLY taking back the streets all the while with the dyke bitch DC Mayor screaming and hollering like the moron she is.
5) After all this, is there any sane person who believes voting Democrat this year is not an act of insanity or hatred of country?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 10:21 pm

You see how the ProgTards reacted?
Trump threatened intervention, the urban Dems refused. The less intelligent Progs showed their hand and upped the ante by threatening to defund the police while looting continued. Anyone with a brain observing this ignorant “action-reaction” relationship still living in cities run by Democratic idiots should leave ASAP.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 11:01 am

SS, I agree wholeheartedly with you up until the comment about voting. Posterity has been let down by the attitude that voting for the lesser of two evils is the way to go because, according to the Boomers, that’s how our system is designed. No, it actually wasn’t designed with career politicians, special interests, and rampant Teapot in mind.

I would rather be dead than support the horribly unintuitive POTUS or the even worse challengers. I am willing to risk that hour of my life working in the orchard with my kids.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Articles of Confederation
June 5, 2020 11:32 am

AOC.
Right. Voting for the lesser evil is how we got here. I remember it well.
Vote for Rayguns because he’s not Carter. Then it became just hold your nose and vote for Daddy B.. Then it was Doles turn. Finally it became “Hold your nose and vote for McCain and Mittens even if you puke while doing it because they aren’t as bad as “Them”. And then there was the most effective of all starting with 96 election to present. “You’re throwing away your vote” if you vote for 3rd parties. It never occurred to anyone that they were throwing away their vote by voting for Rocefeller Republicans.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Articles of Confederation
June 5, 2020 1:21 pm

Jesus isn’t on the ballot.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 1:30 pm

So by that reasoning, Trump is the next best thing to Jesus.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Fleabaggs
June 5, 2020 1:45 pm

You know what I mean. It means no one running is perfect. If you feel somebody else would be better I’m all ears. Sitting on the sidelines and hoping for the Republic of Tennessee is not a solution.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 2:16 pm

Yes, HR, yes it is. We are here because I along with you played the game. That game is rigged.

I have faith in God, not Man. Voting at this point is AT BEST a vote to keep the patient on life support. No thanks. I want the patient to die so we can compost him and plant a new Tree of Liberty.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Fleabaggs
June 5, 2020 2:09 pm

Flea, most people haven’t come around to the idea that they, like us, have been part of the problem with our downfall. We just caught on earlier and hopefully atoned for it. God do I hope so. I want my children to believe their father was a man of conviction and not one to blame everyone else for their stupidity and laziness.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 2:07 pm

You don’t need Jesus. You need a leader, someone who can make judgment calls without his SIL.

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  Articles of Confederation
June 6, 2020 3:33 am

Death is being arranged for you, and us, even as we bang on our keyboards at each other.
Our enemies are working to make it as excruciatingly painful, physically and spiritually, as possible.
I would prefer one surrounded by family and friends of old age.
You had better be prepared for the enemies version, methinks, the way our situation is going.
Plan for the worst, hope for the best, and YMMV

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 1:07 pm

I am betting this wimp Esper decides to “spend more time with his family” sometime between now and about 6pm Eastern Time today.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 2:16 pm

The wimp Esper that who hired?

Uncola
Uncola
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 1:07 pm

SS writes:

The real objective of the violence is preventing the re-election of Trump.

And whether by accident or design, the chaos could also very possibly hand Trump the election on a silver platter instead.

Either way, it’s gonna’ be real interesting.

Thanks for posting that thought-provoking comment, SS

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Uncola
June 5, 2020 2:12 pm

Biden doesn’t stand a chance. It’s either Big Mike 2020 or Trump wins because he is able to walk upright.

subwo
subwo
  Southern Sage
June 5, 2020 6:55 pm

Well written S.S. I heard what the Gen said I wondered if he earned his blood stripe as the geedunk officer at Mt. Fuji. I wikied him and found he lead a rifle company as a Lt. and as a Capt. served as NAPS Brigade Officer. Also this:

During the initial planning for the War in Afghanistan, Mattis led Task Force 58 in operations in the southern part of the country beginning in November 2001,[41] becoming the first Marine Corps officer to command a Naval Task Force in combat.[30] According to Mattis, his objective upon arriving in Afghanistan was “make sure that the enemy didn’t feel like they had any safe haven, to destroy their sense of security in southern Afghanistan, to isolate Kandahar from its lines of communication, and to move against Kandahar.”[42] In December 2001 an airstrike carried out by a B-52 bomber inadvertently targeted a position held by US special operations troops and Afghan militiamen in Urozgan Province. Numerous men were wounded in the incident, but Mattis repeatedly refused to dispatch helicopters from the nearby Camp Rhino to recover them, citing operational safety concerns. Instead an Air Force helicopter flew from Uzbekistan to ferry the men to the Marine Corps base where helicopters sat readily available but unauthorized to fly. Captain Jason Amerine blamed the delay caused by Mattis’s refusal to order a rescue operation for the deaths of several men. Amerine wrote, “Every element in Afghanistan tried to help us except the closest friendly unit, commanded by Mattis,” though he also wrote that “none of that was assessed properly because the [5th Special Forces Group] chose not to call for a formal investigation”.[43][44] This episode was used against Mattis when he was nominated for defense secretary in 2016.

If my father were alive I’m sure he would say he hadn’t the caliber of officers he served under on Iwo.

Duck N. Cover
Duck N. Cover
June 5, 2020 9:29 am

It is human nature to attempt to discredit or otherwise dismiss someone whose opinion does not comport with one’s preconceived notions.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
June 5, 2020 10:41 am

Again, why is nobody questioning Trump’s judgment in the hiring process? I will say this. I made one bad hiring decision and spent months through the HR process to let them go. I vowed I’d never be in that situation again. Why hasn’t Trump learned?

There is a huge difference between management and leadership. Tucker unknowingly alluded to it the other night.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Articles of Confederation
June 5, 2020 1:30 pm

You really think trying to lead a massive organization with an active insurrection going on against you and all the rest hasn’t made it terribly difficult to do anything? You guys rail against the Swamp and then act like it should have had no effect. You don’t get to take both sides.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 2:04 pm

I have said since Day One what he needed to do. Day One. I am not Monday Morning QBing here. He decided to do the exact opposite in many instances. I can’t help it if he has not been granted the ability to separate the chicken salad from the chicken shit…maybe I can because of my upbringing. I don’t know.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 8:30 pm

H&R
He grew up in NY and cut his teeth as a slumlord with daddy. He did not fall off a watermelon truck on Pennsylvania Ave. His pals were the very bankers who own the Fed and Treasury and now the entire country. Meaning he had the shrewdist sneakiest advisors available. His son and daughter are married into those banking families. They hung with the Clintons et al.
Believe what you want. I’m done.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Fleabaggs
June 5, 2020 10:34 pm

Shrewd advisers like Omarosa Manigault?
Trump has a serious failing. He doesn’t have many friends, is a lousy judge of character, and tends to misplace his loyalty to a lot of fools outside of his family circle.
The ONLY person in his circle of advisors who isn’t really involved in the power games is his wife, and I suspect she’s one of the only moral anchors keeping his ass moored between the Jew influencers and power grubbers.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Anonymous
June 5, 2020 11:41 pm

Anono.
His wife a moral anchor? Alrighty then.

nkit
nkit
  Fleabaggs
June 5, 2020 10:53 pm

Reality is a bitch…

TC
TC
June 5, 2020 11:19 am

You ever notice that powerful people sure seem to have a lot of accidents that bang up their face?

cz
cz
  TC
June 5, 2020 11:34 am

noticed many people just over the last few years. lots of black eyes. rituals, no doubt. good comment.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  TC
June 5, 2020 1:31 pm

Mosh pit at a Rave?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Harrington Richardson
June 5, 2020 10:49 pm

Probably a drunken S&M punch taken as a bottom while playing around with mAnn Coulter.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  TC
June 5, 2020 10:47 pm

A lot of generals are egotistical, self-absorbed pricks and miserable humans.
I’ve seen it personally while sitting at a conference with one who belittled, embarrassed and insulted NATO allies in Sarajevo, and another who commanded 1st Cavalry in Tuzla, later removed for adultery.
Saw it on the civil side, too. I knew a guy who’s dad was a retired general officer and how the old man’s behavior alienated his own family.