Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard ‘Ric’ Grenell, discusses the ideological flaws within the JoeBama foreign policy as it is being rolled out and our adversaries are laughing. The interview begins with a discussion of the embarrassing U.S-China summit in Alaska, where Chinese officials dressed-down U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
As Grenell notes the policies of many ideologically aligned leftist nations (ie. Germany, South Korea) are in conflict with their ‘western’ values as expressed. This has been evident for decades.
The example of Germany contracting with Russia for natural gas (Nordstream II pipeline), while not fulfilling their NATO funding commitments, is just one aspect. South Korea presents a similar ideological hypocrisy regarding China/DPRK. Angela Merkel and Moon Jae-In are not coincidentally aligned with Obama’s leftist world-view.
https://youtu.be/IkZVV6IPEWs
ANALYSIS – The Obama foreign policy doctrine was fraught with ideological hypocrisy as a feature not a flaw. Claim a desire for mid-east peace, set the middle-east on fire with the Arab Spring (Obama Cairo speech). Claim a desire for middle-class workers, yet facilitate corporate offshoring. Claim a desire for Israeli security yet attack Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi for creating Israeli security. Accept a Nobel Peace Prize, set Libya on fire and kill thousands. Accept a Nobel Peace Prize, then attack Syria. Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy.
Champion women’s’ causes on stage, yet embrace Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood who devalue women. Claim to support democratic elections, then undermine the majority election outcome of the British vote in Brexit. Everything, every – single – thing, about the Obama foreign policy was an exercise in hypocrisy. There were ZERO foreign policy successes, NONE. What we are seeing now is the same thing with Biden, because it is an extension of Obama’s third term. Hence, JoeBama.
Obama entered into a political agreement with Hillary Clinton to appoint her as Secretary of State. That appointment was purposefully made so that Clinton could graft for the Clinton Foundation and enrich themselves beyond imagining… that was the Clinton carrot. The agreement also contained guard rails, Clinton could graft to her hearts desire but she must maintain an ideological alignment with Obama’s team mission of diminishing the U.S. on the global scale.
Barack Obama undermined the U.S with his two year long apology tour, while Secretary Clinton enriched herself (and family), kept her mouth shut, followed orders and maintained the ideological undermining. Eventually the hypocrisy blew up in their faces and we saw outcomes like the rise of ISIS and the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi. Outcomes of an ideological doctrine sprinkled with financial graft.
[SIDEBAR – Obama stood in Cairo, Egypt, and told the Islamic extremists the U.S. had a new policy and would not interfere if they turned violent; the Arab Spring started – Islamic extremists took over. The same type of messaging was done domestically in Ferguson, Missouri, and Black Lives Matter “burn this place down” started.
• Eventually in Ferguson the head of local law enforcement, District Attorney Robert McCulloch, refused to bring a prosecution for a fraudulent narrative. Black Lives Matter was angry. • Eventually in Egypt the head of the military, General al-Sisi, drove his tanks into Tahir square and took over, restoring peace. The White House was angry. There is a commonality amid the anger games initiated by Barack Obama and his ideological tribe. – END SIDEBAR]
Fast forward to President Trump and you can see how he was able to cut through the ideology by focusing on the economics underneath governmental policy.
North Korea was stabilized by confronting China. Afghanistan was stabilized by confronting Pakistan. The mid-east, writ large, was stabilized by confronting the Muslim Brotherhood. Syria was stabilized by confronting Turkey.
Everything in the Trump Doctrine was focused on the economic root-causes of destabilization. NATO was stabilized by focusing on accountability for financing.
By stabilizing the economic incentives, the underlying extremism and/or threat was removed by peer pressure from the support network of the bad behavior. Trump avoided conflict by focusing on the right adversary, the true root of the problem.
The JoeBama Doctrine focuses on ideology. Are you my ideological ally…. Do you make my feelings better… This is the doctrine that only supports the emotional surface issues of the moment. Nothing in the JoeBama doctrine ever reflected a foreign policy success because it never focuses on the root issue. That is a problem.
The reason that is such a problem is because national adversaries know they only need to give the illusion of friendly appearances in order to avoid any negative pressure from the U.S. As a result, China can lie. As a result, Iran can lie. As a result, Pakistan can lie.
The JoeBama Doctrine never confronts the root issue. It is a weak outlook that bad actors who control nations know they can manipulate. Ultimately this makes allies more vulnerable; and that my friends is exactly why Russia was able to exploit the issues in Eastern Ukraine when Obama was President.
In western, or what we would call ‘more democratized systems of government‘, the consequence of removing multinational corporate and financial influence peddlers presents two options for the governing authority occupying political office:
♦One option is to refuse to allow the authentic voice of a nationalist citizenry to rise. Essentially to commit to a retention of the status quo; an elitist view; a globalist perspective. This requires shifting to a more openly authoritarian system of government within both the economic and social spheres. Those who control the reigns of power refuse to acquiesce to a changed landscape.
♦The second option is to allow the authentic and organic rise of nationalism. To accept the voices of the middle-class majority; to structure the economic and social landscape in a manner that allows the underlying identity to surface naturally.
“Peace is the prize” ~ President Donald Trump
The nature of the Trump foreign policy doctrine was to hold manipulative influence agents accountable for regional impact(s); and simultaneously work to stop any corrupted influence from oppressing free expression of national values held by the subservient, dis-empowered, people within the nation being influenced.
There were clear examples of this doctrine at work. When President Trump first visited the Middle-East he confronted the international audience with a message about dealing with extremist influence agents. President Trump simply said: “drive them out.” Toward that end, as Qatar was identified as a financier of extremist ideology, President Trump placed the goal of confrontation upon the Gulf Cooperation Council, not the U.S.
The U.S. role was clearly outlined as supporting the confrontation. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates needed to confront the toxic regional influence; the U.S. would support their objective. That’s EXACTLY what happened.
Another example: To confront the extremism creating the turmoil in Afghanistan, President Trump placed the burden of bringing the Taliban to the table of governance upon primary influence agent Pakistan. Here again, with U.S. support, Pakistan is the leading influence agent over the Taliban in Afghanistan; the Trump administration correctly established the responsibility and gave clear expectations for U.S. support.
If Pakistan doesn’t change their influence objective toward a more constructive alignment with a nationally representative Afghanistan government, it is Pakistan who will be held accountable. Again, the correct and effective appropriation of responsibility upon the influence agent who can initiate the solution, Pakistan.
The process of accurate regional assignment of influence comes with disconcerting sunlight. Often these influences are not discussed openly. However, for President Trump the lack of honesty was only a crutch to continue enabling poor actors. This was a consistent theme throughout all of President Trump’s foreign policy engagements.
The European Union is a collective co-dependent enabler to the corrupt influences of Iran. Therefore the assignment of responsibility to change the status is placed upon the EU. The U.S. will fully support the EU effort, but as seen in the withdrawal from the Iran Deal, the U.S. will not enable growth of toxic behavior. The U.S. stands with the people of Iran, but the U.S. will not support the enabling of Iranian oppression, terrorism and/or dangerous military expansion that will ultimately destabilize the region. Trump holds the EU accountable for influencing change. Again, we see the Trump Doctrine at work.
Perhaps the most obvious application of the Trump Doctrine was found in how the U.S. administration approached the challenging behavior of North Korea. Rather than continuing a decades-long policy of ignoring the influence of China, President Trump directly assigned primary responsibility for a reset to Beijing.
China held, and holds, all influence upon North Korea and has long-treated the DPRK as a proxy province to do the bidding of Beijing’s communist old guard. By directly confronting the influence agent, and admitting openly for the world to see (albeit with jaw-dropping tactical sanction diplomacy) President Trump positioned the U.S. to support a peace objective on the entire Korean peninsula and simultaneously forced China to openly display their closely-guarded influence.
While the Red Dragon -vs- Panda influence dynamic was/is still ongoing, the benefit of this new and strategic approach under President Trump brought the possibility of peace closer than ever in recent history.
No longer is it outlandish to think of North Korea joining with the rest of the world in achieving a better quality of life for its people.
Not only is President Trump openly sharing a willingness to engage in a new and dynamic future for North Korea, but his approach was removing the toxic influences that held down the possibility for generations. By leveraging China (through economics) to stop manipulating North Korea, President Trump opened up a door of possibilities for the North Korean people. This is what I mean when I say Trump was providing North Korea with an opportunity to create an authentic version of itself.
What ultimately comes from the opportunity President Trump constructed is still entirely unknown. However, the opportunity itself was stunning in how it created a reasonable pathway to prosperity for the North Korean people. Chairman Kim Jong-un has the opportunity to be the most trans-formative leader within Asia in generations; but it is still only an ‘opportunity’.
♦The commonality in these foreign policy engagements was the strategic placement of responsibility upon the primary influence agent; and a clear understanding upon those nation(s) of influence, that all forward efforts must ultimately provide positive results for people impacted who lack the ability to create positive influence themselves.
One of the reasons President Trump was able to take this approach is specifically because he was beholden to no outside influence himself. It is only from the position of complete independence that accurate assignments based on the underlying truth can be made; and that takes us to the ultimate confrontations – the trillion dollar confrontations.
A U.S. foreign policy that provides the opportunity for fully-realized national authenticity was a paradigm shift amid a world accustomed to corrupt globalists, bankers and financial elites who established a business model by dictating terms to national leaders they control and influence. We have our own domestic frame of reference with K-Street lobbyists in Washington DC. Much of President Trump’s global trade reset was based on confronting these multinational influence agents.
When you take the influence of corporate/financial brokers out of foreign policy, all of a sudden those global influence peddlers are worthless. Absent of their ability to provide any benefit, nations no longer purchase these brokered services.
As soon as influence brokers are dispatched, national politicians become accountable to the voices of their citizens. When representing the voices of citizens becomes the primary political driver of national policy, the authentic image of the nation is allowed to surface. That outcome is antithetical to the globalist corporations who want control over global politicians.
As the Trump Doctrine clashed with the European global elite, the withdrawal of the U.S. financial underwriting creates a natural problem. Subsidies are needed to retain multiculturalism. If a national citizenry has to pay for the indulgent decisions of the influence class, a crisis becomes only a matter of time.
Wealth distribution requires a host.
Since the end of World War II the U.S. has been a bottomless treasury for EU subsidy. The payments have been direct and indirect. The indirect have been via U.S. military bases providing security, the NATO alliance, and also by U.S. trade policy permitting one-way tariff systems. Both forms of indirect payment were being reversed as part of the modern Trump Doctrine.
Similarly, in Mexico the Trump Doctrine also extends toward changed trade policies; this time via NAFTA. The restructuring of NAFTA into the USMCA disfavored multinational corporations and financial holdings who exploited structural loopholes that were designed into the original agreement.
When President Trump confronted the NAFTA fatal flaw, and absent of the ability of corporations to influence the direction of the Trump administration, the trade deal ultimately presented the same outcome for Mexico as it did the EU – LESS DOLLARS unless they adjust the internal economics.
However, in Mexico, the larger systems of government are not as strongly structured to withstand the withdrawal of billions of U.S. dollars. The government of Mexico is not in the same position as the EU and could not double-down on more oppressive controls. Therefore the authentic voice of the Mexican rose up.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), is a nationalist but he is not a free-market capitalist. AMLO is more akin to soft-socialist approach with a view that when the central governing authority is constrained, and operates in the best interests of its citizens, equity can be achieved. However, the fabric of socialism runs naturally through the DNA strain of Mexico, and indeed much of South America. This is one of the reasons why previous Mexican governments were so corrupt. Multinational corporations always find it easier to exploit socialist minded government officials.
When bribery and graft are the natural way of business engagement, the multinationals will exploit every opportunity to maximize profit. Withdraw the benefit (loophole exploitation) to the financial systems, and the bribery and graft dries up quickly. A bottom-up nationalist like AMLO, is the ultimate beneficiary.
The authentic-sense of the Mexican people, rises in the persona of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – who actually does personify the underlying nature of the classic Mexican class-struggle.
Thus we saw two similar yet distinctly opposite outcomes of the Trump Doctrine. Within a highly structured U.K. parliamentary government the entrenched leadership became more authoritarian and tried to rebuke the Brexit vote of the electorate. In Mexico a less structured government became more nationalist, more prideful, and embraced the underlying nature of the electorate.
It was not accidental the historic nature of the U.K. is a monarchy (top down), and the historic nature of Mexico is populist (bottom up). Revolution not withstanding, under the Trump Doctrine both countries began returning to their authentic roots.
The difference now is stark. The JoeBama policy, direct or blind-eye, is open to be purchased by the highest bidder, Multinationals, Wall Street or Globalist bankers.
“No longer is it outlandish to think of North Korea joining with the rest of the world in achieving a better quality of life for its people.”
The Biden Junta will give America a North Korean quality of life.
That wont happen. There are too many patriots. Too many guns.
They will not survive an onslaught should they go too far.
Too far is when you cannot feed your family’s and they try to take the guns. Bank on it.
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
– Elbridge Gerry, Jame Madison’s Vice President
That sounds good in theory. However, being the number 1 target for the bad guys in the world requires such a standing army. Whether we live to regret that is another matter.
I served for several decades. It isnt the Military of my years anymore. That much is patently obvious.
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
– James Madison (“The Father of the United States Constitution”)
most veterans agree.
at least those I respect who have been steeled by the grave nature of combat.
these are indeed perilous times.
my hope is the current military posture and readiness resists the political temptations that seek to neuter minds and discipline
We are living in extraordinary times. Yes, our military is supposed to be down range protecting us from international bad guys. But who protects us from internal bad guys, the alphabet federal agencies and courts that have turned political and against the American Constitution? That, my friend, will be the militia, the citizen soldiers.
Reclaiming our stolen liberties and righting the ship America requires a national federation of citizens militias of the states. We don’t have that. I’d be first to join if there was, but there simply isn’t. Without our own army (leadership, TOE, comms, a PLAN, etc) all talk about an uprising that will restore our nation is wishful thinking.
I was the biggest wishful thinker of all, not that long ago.
It is not 1813 and the issue of a standing army has long been decided in favor of one, thank heavens. Militia forces would not have been able to defeat the Confederacy in 1865, the Imperialist Germans in 1918, the Nazis in 1945, or the Imperial Empire of Japan in 1945.
Besides, Gerry gave us nothing good since it was he who invented Gerrymandering while Governor of Mass. in 1812. Thanks to his brilliance (NOT) most of Maryland’s current congressional districts look stranger than Rorschach ink blots.
Maybe the confederacy should have been left alone to collapse under it’s own house of cards, maybe wwI should have been left alone to bleed the Euros dry. Maybe without a standing military FDR would not have goaded Japan into attacking.
Whatever, the good folk will be leaving the military, and all that will be left will be the NAZI-like order followers.
I bet Mattis and his ilk will be happy.
Mattis who once was “He who must not be criticized” on this very blog.
Mattis is now making money with China through the Cohen Group. He’s a total loser and a clown.
The Great Awakening is not happening all at once.
Sorry Stu but your first paragraph was ridiculous
Perhaps, but I’ll guarantee you that, under our current political paradigm, war could not and would not have been declared in 1861, 1917 nor 1941. Our current breed of politician is genetically incapable of such decisiveness. Instead, we slap sanctions, pontificate about human rights and eventually send troops into harms way saddled with ridiculous rules of engagement (ROE).
I’m sure those pesky Chinese and Russian troops are quivering in fear over the prospect of engaging America’s new, modernized military. Yessiree, when the Chinese are emboldened enough to take out one of our capital ships, an act which I think is imminent, Joebama will be curled in a fetal position in the WH and we’ll get to see how great our new, modernized military really is.
The military follows orders. Chuck Yeager (a hero and I believe a moral man) and his fellow fighter pilots were ordered to kill women and children. Yeager reported that no objected.
Their intention is to take complete power and implement the Songbun for Americans system which is modeled after North Korea’s Sonbun*.
*North Koran Songbun determines whether a person is eligible to join North Korea’s ruling party, the Workers’ Party of Korea, how far up they will be allowed to rise and how much food they will get to eat..
The lowest Songbun for Americans group will be comprised of an as yet to be fully determined number of distinct classes, each with lower songbun than the next. Trump supporters, conservative blog writers, conservative talk show hosts, Sundance and his article readers, and people who believe in the Founding Father’s philosophy of individual rights and privacy, in the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and especially in it’s guarantee of the right of free speech and assembly, and fair and honest elections, will have the lowest Songbun , and consequentially will occupy a role roughly analogous to somewhere between India’s untouchables and farm animals.
“The interview begins with a discussion of the embarrassing U.S-China summit in Alaska, where Chinese officials dressed-down U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken.”
And yet, the stories that I have seen in the MSM portray the meeting as a huge success for Blinken, as he “stands up” to China and “reasserts” US dominance, filling the “void of trust” left by the “Last Administration”!
The entire world watched the United States get their a&& handed to them last week by the CCP AND Putin and they are either laughing at us or are distraught that all the work of the last four years to set their countries free from the NWO has been destroyed! But the vast majority of the lo-info US population actually believes that SloJoe is doing a “bang-up” job and they are better off now that “OrangeManBad” is gone!
And the more we try to explain it to them, the more convinced they are that WE are the problem! And rising gas prices, higher taxes, higher unemployment, lost jobs, lockdowns as far as the eye can see? Well, that’s because of the Republicans, don’tcha know?! LORD help me, I really want to smack some sense into people but there truly are none so blind as those who will not see!!
MSM Says the opposite what are most things. MSM is no different than any Communist media. It is best just ignore it. Otherwise, one will experience constant frustration and anger.
There are plenty sources out there now to be able to get the straight-skinny.
Oh, I pay no attention to anything they say because I know the game they are playing…but everyday, I (and many other Treepers) interact with people who happily accept every lie that the MSM spits out and that, IMHO, is where the battle must be fought! As long as there is a monopoly on the information that is “allowed” to be broadcast the lies will continue to be told and many will believe them because the truth is not be available for them to see! I have no idea as to validity of the Jason Miller story from earlier today but creating a platform that the Left cannot censor is a key element in turning around the country!
The issue isn’t so much what a Libtard listens and agrees. It is the fact the Libtard does not have the capability for; Rationale, Judgement and Common Sense. Libtards are by and large mentally dysfunctional and convoluted. ….
They can be very mean rascals and when they are it is best to ignore or whack along side the head with a 2×4…..much as you would any rabid animal.
That’s the balance that many of us are desperately trying to find…we have friends and family members who are simply ignorant and so we must try to persuade them and bring them along, for many of us were once young and uninformed. Then we have others that need the 2 X 4 treatment…
Hi Viking:
I have had some success with presenting things I would call the “Big Lies”. And these come from Liberal documentarians.
Example: (film at bottom)
The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes
https://swprs.org/the-magnitsky-act-movie/
And as most are NYT and WaPo readers, they have never seen or heard of that film. Yet, it underpins the entire relationship between Russia and the United States.
So, I tell them I won’t even have a conversation with them unless they start with the facts, not just what the NYT and WaPo wants them to hear. And I leave it with: “if you are reading an article that does not at least make reference to that film, as the foundational story, you are reading propaganda”.
And for the Libtards who make it through the film, they at minimum realize that I know a lot more about what I am talking about than they do. And I leave it with: “if a foundational story like that was completely concocted by the US Government, what else are they lying to you about?”
The above film has changed a number of people I have sent it to. Not that they become full on MAGA people, but they realize that I am a lot more informed than they are (and that I am not a conspiracy theorist or brainwashed, and that the label better fits them then me) .
And then after that, I might go on to Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, etc.
The point is, is that informationally speaking they have built their foundations on very shaky ground. And if you get a Libtard engaged, that will become very apparent, very quickly.
Thank you a great recommendation! I will be watching this movie this week and already have several people that I hope to encourage to do the same!!
I keep encouraging people to read anything by Thomas Sowell, especially “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” and “Conflict of Visions” as well as Sharyl Atkisson’s newest book, “Slanted”.
Just an interesting aside, I saw an interview of Devin Nunes a few months ago, and this issue/film came up, and he did not know anything about it. I thought it was kind of understandable, as I have even seen Dan Bongino get something wrong that was covered by Sundance here. We all can’t be experts on everything. But I will still shocked as he is on HPSCI and Russia should be his field of expertise.
However, after some thinking about it, I suspect that in Nunes case, because he is on the HPSCI, he thinks he knows everything about Russia because he is getting “briefs” directly from the US Intelligence Community and therefore has no need (or desire or the energy) to look at other sources. The impression I got after that interview (and thinking about it) was that the US Intelligence Community was “spoon feeding” US House members, just as the NYT and WaPo “spoon feed” their readers.
Which, if true, is even more troubling…
The majority of all RAT voters get their “information” from other RAT voters on their social media … totally fact free.
I once asked a true-believer, a co-worker, where he primarily got his ‘news’.
I sheet you not, it was once a week from the Bill Maher show.
Un-freaking believable!!
Ambassadors winking and nod ,Not available for comment.
Is that sheep I hear baaaing in the background?
With the incompetent bit players from stain’s administration, now occupying positions of authority in the vegetable’s administration, the decline of this great nation is a given. The one thing both of these pathetic administrations excel at, is showing the world what weakness and lack of leadership looks like. Every patriot was embarrassed when stain disgraced the office of the president. And should again be embarrassed of the current occupier.
It amazes me that people can look at the U.S. Military being weakened and celebrate it, and then be shocked when other countries take advantage of us.
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
– James Madison (“The Father of the United States Constitution”)
Mr. Grenell is impressive. One of President Trump’s best picks.
Yep and the RINOs stalled his appointment for the German ambassadorship did they not.
Sheesh!
Will he be the next Governor of California? wouldn’t that be an interesting development?
If CA voters elect Ric they had better elect a majority conservative Republican legislature as well, or else he will be even more ham-strung than was President Trump was after the RINOs punted in the 2018 mid-terms.
yes, indeed. a true patriot in every sense of the meaning.
I’ll admit, I held reservations. he has proven to be a true respectable consistent voice of superior reasoning.
thank you Ric! and God Bless America
Seems to me when one begins talking about Biden, Obama, Clinton and their pals (and I do mean pals…those who support these sobs) one must start with one truth: They all introduced “lying” as standard, acceptable behavior toward the American citizenry, which would be us!
Liars…and who doesn’t like to be lied to? We all love to be lied to, right? Now that most of our elected politicians have accepted lying to his or her constitutents, what is the problem? Oh, I know, how does one go about figuring out if what his or her politician is saying is either the truth or a lie?
No matter, just assume everything you are told is a lie. If you happen to be in the same area, room, or in front of this lying person just shout out “You are lying!” If you get rebuffed, there is a simple solution to that challenge.
“Ok pal, you say you are not lying, now prove it! Give me factual proof!”
The difference is that the lies and propaganda were legalized in late 2012.
say, can you find a good link that expands on this.
it’s one of those low radar objects that few seem to have noticed.
please continue!?
Interestingly, in following the legal trends before the Justice Scalia voted in favor* of not requiring the government to clearly let the public know when it was behind media messaging , where as Justice Souter was vehemently against letting the government conceal its participation in messaging. Did the conservatives screw up on this one?
*Read pages 543-544 of the paper describing the background behind the 2013 reversal of the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=nulr
TY GB! This ^^^^
when you read this, it really becomes clear how powerful President Trumps’ new social media solution will be!!
I found this also, same author, same subject matter:
“In December 2018, the Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee published a report detailing how the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the central federal state media agency, illegally targeted social media ads at Americans at least 860 times from 2016 to 2018. The U.S. Agency for Global Media and other U.S. state media agencies have enormous resources, and if left unchecked, could unduly influence public opinion, threaten the free and independent press, and subvert democratic accountability. To address this growing concern, this Article proposes a new, comprehensive legal test for defining and identifying state media that incorporates existing approaches for analyzing government publications employed by the federal government and independent media platforms.”
https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/ucilr/vol11/iss2/7/
or this for a direct PDF,
https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1476&context=ucilr
Hi GB,
I’m not sure I would characterize Justice Scalia has haven “screw(ed) up”.
here is why…
the case in which scalia ruled in favor of the governments position was this case:
Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Ass’n
more detail:
“Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that given the particular facts of the case, the government was not obligated to clearly attribute its involvement because the constitutionality of the advertisements did not rest upon “whether or not the reasonable viewer would identify the speech as the government’s.”217 Although the Court stopped short of permitting the government to broadcast its message without attribution in all situations, it indicated that, at least in certain circumstances, the government need not identify itself when communicating with the public. ”
more more detail:
it was a beef case, a case involving a party that did not participate in a federal agency association and did not pay into the association. As a consequence, the advertising and the specific labels that would create a marketing benefit was not allowed to be present on their beef products. Yes, a classic case of being denied marketing and ad representation unless they paid into such a program!
But the BEEF association was made lawful by congress. The purpose was to assist with marketing US and imported beef. Nebraska ranchers obviously did not feel motivate to associate. (I do not know the backstory).
By the advertising exclusion of the nebraska cattle ranchers, they sought legal action to sue the government for concealing that the advertising WAS in fact a federal entity origin. It’s clear they could not sue for being excluded. Obviously they were not participating in the association and were not members. I agree this is unfair, as I question the authority of the federal government to erect such organization, funded by US taxpayers AND THEN ALSO expect industry to pay up too, but that was not the argument Nebraska ranchers made either! Nebraska ranchers made the argument that the federal government must show it’s involvement in such marketing and labels on products sold to consumers. The basis of this argument is sound: consumers should always know from what organizations are making advertising and marketing claims and labels, up to and including the federal government. And that was the case before SCOTUS….A sort of treatment to the caveat emptor principle but also one of free speech.
more more more detail:
“That citizens have no First Amendment right not to fund government speech is no less true when, as here, the funding is achieved through targeted assessments devoted to a program to which some assessed citizens object, rather than through general taxes. The Court need not address respondents’ argument that the advertisements, most of which are credited to “America’s Beef Producers,” give the impression that respondents endorse their message. Neither the Beef Act nor the Order requires attribution of the ads to “America’s Beef Producers” or to anyone else, so neither can be facially invalid on this theory, and the record contains no evidence from which to conclude that the ads’ message would be associated with respondents.”
The reasons I disagree with the sentiment that scalia may have created a larger problem with this ruling is simply because this is a very narrow case. It is a test of first amendment protections….and ironically, in at least this case, the federal government is not obligated under the constitution to protect or even limit ITS OWN own first amendment rights. And that is the interesting paradox about our constitution. Freedom of speech is that the federal government may not interfere with yours, but there isn’t much preventing the federal government from excercising its own restrictions of it own freedom of speech! At least not under existing constitutional law. So SCOTUS as a majority is working from the legal constitutional framework in providing its ruling. it’s a very narrow case.
Can the federal government conceal its role in funding an advertising if the federal agency is lawfully enacted and funded by congress? In other words, can the fed limit its own speech? Scalia rules, as with the majority, that yes it can.
But he states so in only this particular narrow case. The dissent, Souter, examines the larger issue and I tend to agree with his view in a broader sense. But understand that what Souter would suggest as a solution…what he insinuates as the problem would require a solution that is not contained in the constitution at present. In order for a majority to rule against the government in this case, would have required a lawful prohibition specific to free speech law, that does not current exist. It exists to the extent that the fed may not limit such. But it does not exist such that the fed may not limit it’s own. Up to and including concealing when it may choose to endorse a beef marketing ad and label!
One thing scalia was very good at, was to take care his ruling did not cross the line into re-describing the lines of constitutional law. If the law held the fed could not limit its own speech, I am certain he would have not ruled as he did. Scalia understood and was consistent about this doctrine that limits the scotus: it shall not make law. it may only interpret it when lower courts have come to different conclusions, or when the case is specific and unique enough that no solid prior ruling is adaptable. I like that.
yes, it means the high courts are “slow” to make wrong things right….but most of that has to do with the reality that congress, our elected officials generally have completely different agendas as Law makers and law breakers.
It all makes sense when you realize that Obozo/Jug Ears was implementing the Alinsky Doctrine, the entire time he was in office. It reads like it looks. He made it happen. With help.
And he considered the first Trump victory just a bump in the road.
what they will say about 3 rd victory…2024….bump in the road…
Find the people behind Jug Ears. I think it’s the CIA.
How many talking heads and politicals said they couldn’t see a coherent Trump Doctrine? Hold the right people and organizations accountable. Works every time. Also embrace the concept of the nation state–something ordained by God. That works too. A local talk show host has remarked that the liberal MO is to ruin anything that works. Spiritually, who might be behind that?
That’s it: they are minions of Satan and enemies of God.
It is now obvious that no only has the JoeBama administration been bought, but the very people who are supposed to be representing “We the People” have also been bought.
I write this as I listen to Ric, an American Patriot.
The CCP and Putin have expressed disrespect to our country. This hasn’t happened in last 4 years.
They are a better critic, of this administration, than our own media.
I’m tired of the lies, bribed by the richest slavers.
Putin even came out and said (paraphrasing) Trump probably won.
Sure, one can say they’re disrespecting the US but my feeling is that they’re disrespecting the fake Biden administration and the freaks that his handlers have staffed it with. I got a kick out of the way they humiliated these jokers. Putin, challenging Dementia Joe, to a live debate, knowing full well his condition and what the world would see.
Putin’s remarks made me laugh, too.
Can’t be all bad, right?
PTrump could’ve made great strides with Putin’s Russia. Sad, the damage done by Swamp.
Sundance! How do you get to know so much? Great article!
Talent hits a target others can’t hit; Genius hits a target others can’t even see.
brilliant… I’m borrowing the quote.
I.luv.Ric.Grenell!!!
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.
Samuel Adams
Civil society precedes the state, both morally and historically. Society creates order and grants the state legitimacy.
If a ruler seeks absolute power, if he acts both as judge and participant in disputes, he puts himself in a state of war with his subjects and we have the right and the duty to kill such rulers and their servants.
John Locke
“President Trump was able to cut through the ideology by focusing on the economics underneath policy.”
Actually, in addition he was successful because he ignored the Cultural/Economic US Marxist State Department.
I might add that Harry Truman had his ambassador to the UN vote in favor of the 1947 UN Vote on the creation of Israel over the insane objections of FDR’s Leftover Communist infiltrated State Department. Lucky for Israel that Harry’s business partner at his haberdashery in Missouri was a Jew, Eddie Jacobson. Eddie persuaded Harry that after the Holocaust, now not hidden by the New York Times, that the Jews of the world needed a place of their own.
The State Department has gotten nothing right in decades.
Some of your best analytical writing ever Sundance. We could use you as Captain of the big ship if you’re available in 2024.
here here hear hear
and
now!
I nominate Victor Hansen for VP.
VDH !!
VDH !!
VDH !!
Sending a diplomat with purple hair to talks with the Chinese is a perfect picture of this administration’s foreign policy.
Excellent analysis Sundance! Thank you very much.
I agree. SD ALWAYS makes sense.. very thought out .. logical…shows how dots connect..etc…?????
“ The difference now is stark. The JoeBama policy, direct or blind-eye, is open to be purchased by the highest bidder, Multinationals, Wall Street or Globalist bankers.”
This became apparent when Hunter’s laptop contents were released.
JoeBama stole the election anyway.
History will determine whether that was a strategic turning point.
If Joe hadn’t been made President he’d be going to prison at which point he’d turn States Evidence taking the Cabal down in an attempt to save his own hide. So….here we are.
Dear Sundance, that’s a great analogy of the truth. More clarity is sorely needed. No matter what a person’s skin color is, it’s culture that matters the most. Authentic culture is key.
this IS A REMARKABLE ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF TRUMP POLICY.
every single American should be reading this and acknowledging the corrupt failed intentions that will cost countless lives under the obama doctrine…
spread the word…send links to everyone you know..
in these perilous moments WE THE PEOPLE have a responsibility to get the word out and educate our fellow citizens.
we cannot allow our national security to be abused following the fraudulent policies.
I am really hoping that ric grennel steps up in the expected trump social media presence and becomes a continued warrior .
God Bless America
Great idea regitiger, but if the Useful Idiots don’t read it in the NYT ot The Hill or the like, or watch it on CNN or MSNBC or listen to it on NPR they completely dismiss the information as nothing more than “extreme right wing conspiracy theories and lies.”
TRUTH.
Progressivism is a Mental Disorder and it will lead to a terminal condition for them if they don’t snap out of it.
The ave. person reads at the 7th grade level. Not the 8th that newspapers once assumed.
Most don’t even have the patience to read more than the first three paragraphs.
people that read at the 7th and 8th grade level are not important..they do not influence and change worlds.
they are furniture….
as I am often to note: people ARE NOT EQUAL…
and frankly I am tired of pretending people ARE EQUAL.
they are NOT.
each of us brings to the table a very specific set of energy and skill.
GOD MAKES US EQUAL
but this does not mean we are equal in our gifts and aspirations and dreams and desires.
This brings me back to a great movie..a sci-fi that tackles the core issues of a futuristic society about transhumanism. valids and invalids. God children and engineered humans.
GATTACA.
my own opinion about the movie is the writer was describing the reality that actually exists now.
strip away the scfi aspect…remove the transhuman engineered gimic…and what does the world really look like?
some people only read at the 7th grade level. Maybe 8th.
as G. Carlin satirically noticed…average..also means half the people are morons (paraphrasing).
equal is an illusion…the reality is real and it is brutal.
real power doesn’t exist with 7th grade readers. They are mouth breathers. Is it there fault? Doesn’t matter to make the larger point: the reality is that a vast number of people will never achieve anything significant in their own lives. They will go through the motion, get entertained, and few will notice. No books, or scores will record their efforts. God cares about them..and I do to.
But I will NEVER ALLOW the lowest common denominator to influence the path toward greatness that this nation can achieve. We will do so, and they will gain the benefit of it, and often in spite of their lack of participation. I am cool with that. For after all, I too am the benefactor of great men and women who are many miles ahead of my own capacity. And I’m cool with that too. I can be inspired by it. I am inspired by it.
Once I was a 7th grade reader too. It wasn’t magic that allowed me to move past that…It was ambition…and alot of patience and training and discipline and rewards for becoming a better more interesting and involved person.
I think about these things alot lately. I’m well past my physical prime. I’m left knowing that about the only thing I have left is the few ideas that bounce around my head. One day, those too will erode. I’m not looking forward to it. But I will make it my best effort to not have regrets. That would be the worst kind of retirement….knowing I could have done more, but chose not to.
President Trump really shook me out of a slumber I had been in for almost 8 years. Obama really took alot out of me. I looked at this country and unwisely drifted away….just checked out. Disgusted, I did the one thing, I will never do again. Quit. I will never quit again. No matter how this country turns, the one thing I have learned again is that no matter what is happening, there must be a reason to fight…to compete…and to remain in the game…always.
god bless america
The entire ‘free’ world has no idea how much they needed Trump. Few understood that, few even had a clue, most don’t see/hear the giant sucking sound of the vacuum into chaos now that Trump is gone.
Brilliant national security lesson Sundance. You have a wonderful way of cutting through the fog and explaining very complex issues with great clarity. Thank You.
I believe Obama wanted Isreal to be wiped off the earth and wanted communism to come to USA. I do believe it was his objective to create chaos and disruption globally. Favoring those who, as you say, agreed with his personal ideology without regard to Americas best interest in being a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. President Trump’s strategy of focusing on economics and America’s best interest was genius. That he owed no one anything allowed him to succeed. Obviously it is the major reason the progs had to take him down.
Once again we have chaos on the southern border and our global enemies feel confident in dissing America over conditions that Obama intentionally created. President Trump was righting the ship of State but got cheated out of four more years of sane, responsible national security policies (Peace is the prize). The sad part is that we are now moving towards a global conflict of epic proportions where the bad actors see America is weak and vulnerable and our military is stood down and indoctrinated against America’s principles and history instead of fighting for them. There is a reset coming and we may be fighting for our own freedom sonner than later. If America is not willing to lead globally for liberty and freedom, China and other bad actors will fill the void and global freedom will be at grave risk.
Ol’ Jug Ears primary mission was to usher in the Anti- Christ.Which is why he set the world on fire. He failed. President Trump put a halt to that but only temporarily. Now Obamaumau has a complete idiot in the Oval Office along with a host of useless idiots to assist him. This time the AC is coming.
Lots of people DO NOT understand PDJT because he has such a HIGH IQ, that they THINK he is nuTz.
WHEN it IS the other way around …
Common Sense is NOT so COMMON anymore. !!! It’s been long gone.
The Deliberate Dumbing DOWN of America – Charlene Iserbyt
https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/deliberate-dumbing-down/
Obituary to Common Sense
https://www.getipm.com/personal/common-sense.htm
NOT the original, that I liked better, but could NOT find it …
Democrat leaders are not democrats.
Any form of statist, leftist government believes in a two-class system. The rulers and the ruled, who live in different worlds. Hypocrisy can’t be applied in comparing different moral and ethical dimensions.
In my opinion to say that it is/was “The Obama foreign policy” or domestic policy is giving to much credit to someone that did not ruled our nation. He was president in name only. His policies weren’t his. He was obeying someone else above him. Whether he agrees with the ideology the he’s trying so hard to sell to the world, it’s hard to know since his taken lots of money for the betrayal of our country. Everything that he’s done had had a price. All this had been in place before him. Our government sold our county to it’s enemies for a price. Everything that’s happening today in this fake administration proves that whoever is behind this wants our culture and our nation gone. And the people doing the work for those peoples are traitors.
On another note thank you Sundance for all you do to keep us inform.
The question is, how long will the JoKaBiden administration last and when will it become the KaBama administration. Seems to me they have to prop-up Joe until at least mid-January 2023. Otherwise Kammie won’t get her full ten year run.
I agree with ric, but in one comment I think he has the wrong analysis about the democrat’s influence and relationship with the media
go to this:
https://youtu.be/IkZVV6IPEWs?t=341
no, it is well understood why and how the left radical dems have decided to prop the narrative that their policies are humane.
it isn’t humane..that narrative just sells to an emotional hot button for low information voters. I mean why change it up? It worked before. Orange Man bad for treating the river swimming, fence jumping, cross tie walkers badly! It worked….Lots of Americans despise President Trump for being the racist child hater.
but make no mistake….this IS NOT ABOUT forming a narrative that is rooted in any kind of moral highground.
they need to displace the oxygen in this story to conceal their policies are simply untenable, hostile to border children and their families, and is a total failed policy.
the narrative is accepted by the media because they have to ignore the realities of the failures of the current senile resident occuppier in office is directly responsible for this dumpster fire. They did not inherit this problem from President Trump. This administration dismantled every single good remedy he put into place and thus produced the very thing they accused him of creating.
the problem with the left is that they achieved precisely what they claim is the worst outcome…and they did so, because they are complete fools and failures at national security.
the entire notion any of these people care one bit about border children is ridiculously absurd.
the people do not have a clue about how to protect American citizens.
there is no great conspiracy here.
they are just utter failures…galactically stupid in every area of governance and leadership.
the decision to not set court dates and just release these people with zero controls and restrictions has only one explanation: they actually believe this will allow the problems later on, not to be associated by the failures of this policy decision.
they just don’t want the political blowback down the road, when these same people get scooped up for drug crimes, rape, vagrancy, joblessness, suicide. They offer this people the worst kind of “moral hazard”…
it would be better that they just left them to rot in the desert…truly….because they have just done that. These people, human beings deserved the exercise of decency and fairness. And none was given.
Biden did this. His handlers did this.
We will not forget..as the following months will show up…as these people “migrate” uncontrolled in an economy that is flat and listless, they will be travelers in a new world, unlearned and unfamiliar, resented and rejected by Americans who will see them as parasites..as objects of a bad dice role from a fraudulent president.
And that’s terrible.
America should always be the place you enter with a hope …that the process of gaining status MEANS SOMETHING.
these people are more likely to hop right back over the fence once they learn there is nothing here but cruel realities.
This administration has no motivation to send them any care of help…this 1.9 trillion dollars made that clear. this administration is all about feeding their big donors and sponsors and squaring the IOU’s that got them power.
The river swimmers will learn as most all of them do, that the Democrats do not care one shinola about them.
And why would they? This isn’t how you treat someone you care about! This is how you treat an enemy…someone you despise.
the left radicals are social terrorists. psychopaths. deginerate scumbags, who don’t care about the consequences of their actions.
Biden doesn’t even remember what flavour pudding pop he had before his third nap today?
why should anyone else care?
that’s the state of our so called leadership….an ambulatory drooling navel gazer who can’t walk and chew gum.
why would anyone else in his administration feel obligated to care?
where is the accountability when the priority in DC is taking bets on the day of next week when the “big guy” finally fails over for the last time?
These people do not have a plan….They aren’t even interested in having a plan.
Their “plan” is to get in, make out big for their pocket book, and get out.
it’s just that simple for these morons, scofflaws and deginerates.
there isn’t one single person in any cabinet level position nor in congress that has expressed a single novel working functioning plan to right this ship in any area.
this is not fatigue…it’s a morale issue. people just stopped caring.
these people are in damage control..
they will remain in this state of failure because they do not know how to win.
these are not great americans.
they are rascals and big mouths. Actionless dog faced pony soldiers tanked on malarkey.
Stage 3 advances
the gap narrows.
more people will join in the majority with real grievances towards this corrupt state.
stay frosty.
it will not get better….it will get worse.
God Bless America
The Secretary of State Clerk ‘Blinked’
Because Biden and Xi were linked;
Corruption and graft
Shoved ethics abaft;
The rest of the world was hoodwinked!
Which is the important thing here:
I’m going with #1.
I have often wondered what we would find behind the scenes at Antifa/BLM when it comes to foreign money and foreign interference. We know it is YUGE.
What Ric ansd the rest of the world don’t get right, because Mamet Principle, is that we have been living through this nightmare since The Kenyan steped into office. NONSTOP.
4 years? Puh-lease. Let’s get honest here Ric.
Think at least 12 years of extreme violence, cancel culture, wake/woke/unwoke b.s. Burning cities. Oh, you can’t do anything to them, they are just protesting. This is mostly peaceful, as they burn our cities and businesses and homes and cars to the ground and remove our history. Live on the sidewalks of our businesses and in our cemeteries and do drugs everywhere and defacate in the streets. Decide to flaunt our laws and dictate their own. Letting massive amounts of criminals out on our streets and across our borders.
I KNOW there is massive foreign interference within these groups to destabilize the USA. It works well for ALL of the evil people. Just look at what they just said in Alaska. They welcome it as a bludgeoning tool, and the truth of the matter is, they are right.
The USA bludgeons their own citizens. Violates their rights every day of the week and a hundred times on Sunday, including the President of the United States of America, Donald John TRUMP. Spied on him. Stole the elections. We are a laughing stock.
They bought us lock, stock and barrel. We are the next Taiwan.
Joe Biden is an installed CCP agent. Agents have no policies of their own. Biden “policy”, on anything, is by definition CCP policy.
Add Tech oligarchs to those purchasing JoeBama
Brazilian reader here: The article is pretty awesome and very enlighting on Trump’ foreign policy. The only miss here is about AMLO. He is part of the Forum of Sao Paulo. A narcoterrorist communist institution the has the final objective of making all America a socialist shithole. AMLO only sounds nationalist to achieve it’s goals without drawing too much attention.