Anthony Blinken is a highly political operative, now the figurehead and public face of the U.S. State Department. However, the Dept. of State is an independent bureaucratic system inside the U.S. government that is outside the control of any functioning governmental process. Essentially, the State Department is the U.S. branch of the United Nations, and they act unilaterally exactly like that.
The unelected operators, bureaucrats within the Department of State (DoS), make U.S. foreign policy from within the executive branch. There is a pretense promoted by media that the executive branch, specifically the President of the United States, is controlling the internal mechanism of the U.S. State Department, but that’s a ruse. If it were true, the State Department would act like they had accountability to someone or something; they do not.
The modern U.S. State Dept is an independent, bureaucratic, and massive foreign policy institution that does not accept any oversight. They are able to accomplish their independent position by partnering with intelligence agencies. The Dept of State use the U.S. Intelligence Branch as a weapon against any individual or entity who would attempt oversight.
When a Secretary of State is appointed to the role as head of the agency, the arbitrary nature of the institution around them is accepted. In the modern political dynamic, the Secretary of State position is customarily given to a key political figure by the President as a payback or compensation for support. The SoS then uses their position for leisure, personal graft, a life of indulgence and a position to repay the interests of their tribe.
During any Democrat term in office; and in addition to funding the family of the President who appointed them; as long as the Secretary of State appropriately and adequately funds the members, families and friends of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then they are perceived to be doing their job correctly. The SoS keeps that institutional mechanism working, and in return the unilateral operations of the department are supported.
[Reference – Former Senator John McCain did not like Anthony Blinken because the Arizona senator feared Blinken would tilt the DoS coffers in favor of the Clinton syndicate. Cindy McCain was not about to take a position in line at Tiffany’s behind Chelsea; this became an issue between the two dynasties. Mitch McConnell replaced McCain with Mitt Romney]
Foreign countries know how the nature of the position has evolved, and they no longer respond to the U.S. secretary of state with any level of respect.
From the perspective of foreign governments, the Secretary of State is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant. Any conflict between their interests and the U.S. state department is like getting a strongly worded letter from Lindsey Graham. And therein lies the problem when a major international crisis erupts, and the Secretary of State is in the global spotlight.
To prevent a harsh public perspective against Joe Biden’s State Department appointee, the guardian of the DC swamp gates, Chris Wallace is called into action:
This is when you need adults, not emotional teens
We had an adult, but people didn’t like his tweets.
I love his tweets.
They melted the snowflakes. Deep State hated his exposing it on widely read social platforms.
If only it HAD melted the snowflakes….
Global warming. Water rising.
Right. The tweets were a way around the media censors. Without them he would have been silenced all four years instead of his last year in office.
Lol. I found his tweets very much on point and entertaining as hell.
some people have no sense of humor.
His tweets were masterful trolling. Loved them.
I think that is a distinguishing characteristic: no sense of humor . . .
their idea of “humor” would be exemplified by Hillary’s restart button for Russian FM Lavrov or for a real example of her sadistic nature, listen to her cackle over the assault on and horrific death of M. Khaddafi.
Liberals swore and firmly believed that her actual red restart button was the greatest policy paper ever written since…well…the ingredients in their Starbucks cup.
I tho’t it was funny.
OVERCHARGED
How appropriate is that?!
But I also think it is funny that Delusional Joe can’t make it up the stairs without falling and ILLary can’t make it down.
But then we have known for some time that they are both unbalanced.
Kacling Kow Kamala also cackled when asked about Afghanistan
Her standard response when faced with a question she doesn’t want to answer.
Should she become president her press conferences will be epic.
The overlap of that class and the arrogant Aristo snob class who take themselves way too seriously is high.
May those [censored] burn in [Gehenna]!
“CHRIS WALLACE: Mr. Secretary, does the president not know what’s going on?”
“BLINKEN: This is an incredibly emotional time for many of us.”
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A thoroughly and utterly non-sequitur reply
… and thoroughly evasive by intent
Which if interpreted honestly is, “No. Not at all.”
Yes!
WHERE are the reporters who would – should – say “you didn’t answer the question”
Mike Wallace would have pushed back.
In this milieu?
No, today he would be as housebroken as the rest.
Indeed he would.
What is this “reporters” you speak of?
And chrissy didn’t ask again, didn’t push back, didn’t interrupt like he does whenever he has a Trump supporter on.
He just let blanken get his talking points out.
Ugh!
Yeah Hissy Crissy is thoroughly evasive,
except when he drops drawers and bends over.
The unstated answer is, No he doesn’t and not for some time.”
Spoken like a true soy boy.
Sundance, I think the emotion that Blinken is feeling is fear, both for his job and future career. He seemed very nervous and almost shaken in answering Wallace’s questions. Of course, he did not give direct answers, and mostly deflected them, like saying that now is not the time to second-guess, etc.
yeah and “later” won’t be the time to second-guess either
Damn Trump removed all the “Safe Spaces” from the West Wing.
…as Pelosi parties in Napa Valley & Schumer in NYC
Gee, there’s no vibrancy here.
“Diversity for thee, not for me,” says Nan.
Pearl clutcher
Slim pickings with this light weight as Secretary of State. no matter the setting, the look on his face is always the same,lost and befuddled.
I say constipated.
I agree. Look at the tense pain in his eyes and the tight set of his mouth. The only crap this guy has issued in years is the verbiage that falls from his mouth.
His “top” has him plugged.
The effects of drugs.
To be any part of this administration requires it.
Along with copious amounts of booze.
Naw that’s his buttpeg.
His forehead looks younger than the rest of his face so I’m guessing he uses Botox. As a resident of Santa Barbara County, I am familiar with such appearances, but I could be wrong.
I started to watch this video but about 5 seconds in I realized I cannot stand the sound of Chris Wallace. Fake News is my comment.
Exactly
in the same boat with ya, Mikey
I haven’t watched him in a couple years, cannot stand it and change the channel if I hear him
Maybe we can set up a rotation here at CTH and spread the pain around as different folks take one for the team, watch, and report back!
good idea!
OK. Your first!
Our women are tougher!
A noble sentiment, ignobly avoided by me.
Sorry, some kinds of fortitude escape me.
That might be considered cruel and unusual?
Ditto on Wallace reaction – – but I sucked it up and watched the whole thing.
I became fascinated with what looked like a poor ability to read the teleprompter on Blinken’s part. I think the only straight answer Blinken gave was “This is an incredibly emotional time for many of us.” This response was given to the question “DOES THE PRESIDENT NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON?”
telling . . .
I once listened to him and Mike Gallagher tangle on Gallagher’s radio show on Monday mornings. I had enough of his voice from that.
I’d sooner listen to fingernails run across a blackboard.
He is quite insufferable.
Inherited from his dad.
There comes a point where we all just take Sundance’s word for it.
Hahahahaha! So true!
I came to that point long ago.
SD does walk through the burning garbage for his posse.
SD the Sgt. Rock of Pundits!
About 10 seconds into the video, my dog got up & dove out the window. I was 3 seconds behind him.
My first chuckle of the day. Thanks!
Lol lol ?
I avoid listening to Chris Wallace religiously. The man is a transparently obsequious buffoon.
transparently obsequious buffoon
NICE prose!
One would expect no less. Its the media’s job to prop up this cadaver of a presidential admin. and Chris is one of the best at this game.
We are watching the media and WH do its version of “Weekend at Bernie’s.”
There are several, what I call “Sundance-isms”. In this case it’s: “once you see the strings on the marionette, you can never un-see them” that comes to my mind.
Once you have seen the strings long enough, then upon the emergence of any crisis, you can script the entire public response to it. First, this Secretary will say this; then, this Senator will bloviate that; then statements from the White House; then this will happen, then that will happen, and here’s how the whole thing will conclude.
At first that gives you a bit of a satisfied feeling, that you’re able to predict the responses so well. Then you dim. You, just some average schmuck on the street, know exactly who is doing what, how they’re going to do it, and why they’re going to do it. The political system you thought was “of the people, by the people, for the people” is naught but total charade, so completely corrupted from within that it may well be completely unsalvageable.
And then if you’re the drinking type, you reach for the whiskey.
Remember those rinos that voted for this loser blinken. Primaried and vote them out.
Afghanistan debacle is the last straw. Rinos are good for nothing. Time to retire them all.
Way past time. This is the breaking point.
And Remember,
If we voted out all the Dems who voted for Blinken the Dem party wouldn’t have any members.
The political left is convinced that you can have diplomacy without the military to back it up. When has it ever worked.
Well, they have been thinking that for many years. Maddy Halfbright comes to mind in dealing with the NorKs. In exchange for helping them out with thousands of tons of heating oil, food and other aid, they also gave them what they needed for a nuclear program, as long as the NorKs promised to play nice.
How many nuke weapons do the NorKs have now?
Why did guys like Blinken bother with obtaining expensive education, when they just should gave gone directly into criminal activities?
They’re not smart enough for crime and are too entitled to work a real job. Politics is all that’s left.
All of these appointed pieces of human trash’s only purpose is to destroy America while wearing a suit and tie. Blinken is a phoney piece of nothingness who mumbles through interviews with the Dimwod media operatives like Chrissy Walnuts
Glad to have THIS Wallace on our side!
Seems like these dumb mean grls have been running the State Dept for decades.
@JackPosobiec tweet earlier today
Tony Blinken is a well-spoken idiot.
woke geopolitics is postmodern totalitarian anarchy of the oligarchs
Post Second World War, the leftists were true globalists (international socialists). They wanted to build an effective world government.
You’re right Mac, the mainstream Left are now anarchists. They’re convinced America is the main roadblock to the world government they crave. When the USA has been brought down and fundamentally transformed (right, Barack?) we can reach Utopia.
I can’t watch one minute of that absolute garbage any of these people spew.
I miss Rush Limbaugh, he used to give us the gist of this stuff.
But no assist from the teleprompter.
https://therightscoop.com/watch-biden-praises-fema-director-uhhh-ummm-gazorpazorp-zwell/
No problem, ABC news to the rescue!
https://therightscoop.com/abc-news-busted-covering-up-for-bidens-brain-fail-trimmed-interview-of-unflattering-portions/
And how does everyone like the new backdrop. Books lined up behind Biden. A slightly heavy-handed suggesting that he can still read?!
Trotting all the buffoons out on the Sunday talk shows after our government left American citizens to die sure sounds familiar.
Made us mad then and we see nothing has changed. It’s far worse this time.
Blinken should face a firing squad along with all the rest of the “leaders” who are responsible for this disaster.
We could hold a raffle for each…… and pay off the National Debt.
Should be quite popular as a PPV offering.
Look into this demons eyes, there is no light. Just darkness. The eyes are the window to the soul.
We have a real problem with our demented psychopath Joe Biden. It’s so grotesque how a person can knowingly masquerade around as the President only for a TV camera. He can’t go anywhere that’s not totally orchestrated, his first impulse and those that perform the charade with him is to keep him hidden, really at all times not just in crisis. Really, in crisis is when they have to drag him out and try to put a band-aid on the situation. We all wonder who’s handling Biden? What does it matter because the phantom doesn’t know how to govern either. How can you spend all your precious time and energy trying to make this enterprise work. Are they going to live this Lie of trying to put a square peg Biden in the round hole of the Presidency for 4 years? See, the Administration is the fiasco not just the debacles they are creating.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking this incompetence is some sort of well thought out plan (sometimes operative selfishness can give that appearance); surely they want to destroy America as such; but they do not want to Fail miserably at literally everything they do.
Everything is Public Relations (PR). We live as part of a Machine that has its own will and takes its own course of actions. The best we can do is try and exert some influence over it through our public relations because we have no other real control. I once heard a CEO of a major corporation describe his job as being “like a tick riding an elephant.” And that was 30+ years ago. I imagine in this day & age it’s more like being “a piece of bacteria riding an elephant” (that explains the behavior of a lot of people in the public eye). Have you ever wondered why in all these severely troubled times someone hasn’t used the occasion to rise out of the Military and seize power using emergency authority; They know they can’t, the Machine would gobble them up. Look what it did to President Trump and he was lily white, had incredible personal means, and went about everything in a conventional manner.
See we’re all fighting for the “Social Order,” (we have to change the character of the Machine), which is why you’re always hearing me harping on the Culture War. Trust me, they don’t want these debacles – Egotistically, Promotionally, Optically, or Psychologically (remember their incompetence shocks themselves too). Total failure at everything you do is not a victory in the Culture War. It is being Vanquished (but the consequences are severe for us).
And there will be total failure in regards to the Biden vaccines too. We can’t allow ourselves to be guinea-pigs for an obsolete vaccine which is being undermined by this kind of corruption and incompetence (notice corruption and incompetence go together hand in hand). The stakes are the very health of our bodies over a flu that’s now turned into a common cold.
I’m warning the “the Biden Administration” – you go pushing compulsory vaccination and you’re going to be seeing a back-lash you never expected; faster than you ever expected, just like in Afghanistan.
We all know how smug you are; you won’t be smug when it happens here.
Ok, let’s go over this again…..I’ve been telling you guys for years where the problem is….voting fraud aside…..Here’s the bottom line…..
Blinken is a Lawyer, Biden is a Lawyer, Kamala is a Lawyer, Comey is a Lawyer, McCabe is a Lawyer, Strozk is a Lawyer, Paige is a Lawyer, Rosenstein is a Lawyer, Mueller is a Lawyer, Schiff, Schumer, McConnell, Cotton, Warren, Clinesmith, Swallwell etc, etc, etc……Does anybody see the ‘Glaring’ problem staring you in the face??? Corruption within the Law Profession is the #1 issue nothing else compares everything else is noise and a distraction…..
Throw in a complicit Judiciary including FISA/SCOTUS and there you have it….. Almost half of Congress are Lawyers….Think about that….
Massive, Massive, Massive, Problem! It’s the entire Judicial System. Should lead to a Revolution but America has long lost that Spirit.
Dick the butcher said something in reference to that.
Shakespeare huh
I wondered.
“First we…
50 points for the Henry VIpart2 allusion.
25 because I couldn’t remember the play.
75 tied for second with SparrowHawk
#1 Readyandable with a dragon ball z reference that stumped me.
Bewildered but resilient,
El Guapo, Charles harper, CM-TX, Alligator Gar,
Marcuslicinciuscrassus
50 each.
“The classical allusion is the parole [pass word] of literary [folk] all over the world.”
Samuel Johnson
Very perceptive post. Its also the leftist lawyers carrying out lawfare which is legal warfare.
There are all of those Foundations around the country that are funding all of these fringe ideas that the politicians are suddenly all behind and are being pushed by this administration, congress, government agencies, the military, the Department of Education, Hollyweird, marketing firms, medical schools, universities, etc., etc., etc. The foundations have billions of dollars to push this non-scientific nonsense as normal and all of the graft-ridden institutions follow their lead like dominoes. LGBTQ-whatever is now a major movement when it concerns a fraction of the population. We now have to condemn patriotism, the American Flag American (and Western) culture as oppressive? White men are the root of all evil? Police/law and order are bad and criminals are good?
Here are the foundations that are turning the world, and America, upside down: see list at end of article:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/local-philanthropy-isnt-local-for-citizens-of-the-world/?blm_aid=26435723
These foundations and NGOs should lose their tax exemptions at the very least. These leftists have exploited and co-opted every facet of society.
A massive modern civilization is a machine that provides survival for all of us and cannot be led by a self-anointed intelligentsia and legal cartel who clearly, clearly don’t understand how anything works.
100% correct… As the Eagles said in ‘Get over IT’.. “Old Billy was right… kill all the lawyers… kill-em tonight”…
On a sadder note; we are breeding new professional liars at the rate of 35,000+ per year…
https://youtu.be/0lGvQawUoQs
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🙁
The founders even said no esquires could be allowed to be in the house or the senate.
Esquire Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/esquire
WHY?
@maggieNYT
Marc Elias, the Democratic lawyer is splitting with Perkins Coie, the giant law firm. Eleven partners and three counsel joining new Elias Law Group. Elias has repped the Dem party committees etc via Perkins. This is a significant shift in Dem legal world.
NEW: Here is a list of the partners of the Elias Law Group:
Jon Berkon
Aria Branch
Hannah Eaves
Marc Elias
Elisabeth Frost
Tyler Hagenbuch
Rachel Jacobs
Abha Khanna
Kate Sawyer Keane
Katherine LaBeau
Jackie Lopez
Uzoma Nkwonta
Ezra Reese
Ben Stafford
Graham Wilson
Agree. Lawyers, by trade, advocate for those that Pat them the most. Not to say there are not those with integrity, but stating how law is practiced in our society. There’s usually no core values inspiring their motives
I don’t watch any of the propaganda mill news media any more. Pretty much gave them up after the elections.
How does Pompeo fit into this premise?
Wasn’t he director of some agency before being the SOS. Oh yeaaaaah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo
I’ll let the wickedpedia speak for me.
These people are all puppets on a string and blinken probably has an ear wig with killary on the other end.
Sorry can’t watch. C0mmie Dem Wallace = Shear torture!
I found a way to avoid all that heart wrenching turmoil brought on by the MSM Whores Of The CCP. I simply dont watch it.
“If this ain’t a mess, it’ll do ’til the mess gets here”.. Tommy Lee Jones “Sheriff” -“No Country For Old Men”
50 points!
The Dumb and Dumber Power Hour.
Wallace is a traitor too. Needs a throat slitting…
Wrong post.
From ear to ear
Last 3 articles = The 3 Stooges!
Blinken, Austin, Sullivan.
Biden’s Winken, Blinken and Nod.
Simpletons all.
I agree.
My apologies to the original 3 Stooges who were Comic Masters
Well, the do look emotional.
I refuse to watch propagandist Chrissy Wallace. Blinken is an absolute disgrace to our nation and I hope our allies understand that our nation is in turmoil with an illegitimate administration. Sunday talk shows are a wonderful time to spend with your family enjoying your life. Television is a mindless waste of time.
You haven’t met my family.
How did you stand listening for 14 min?
Five second is my max.
Dumb and dumbest…
Every Republican politician alive should be demanding that Biden be impeached and that every one of these fools testify before congress. They impeached Trump over a phone call, for crying out loud. This man left American citizens to die.
MTG has written up Letters of Impeachment for the 2nd or 3rd time but she gets little to no support from fellow Pubs. They are mostly worthless Uniparty members.
That these clowns still do the Sunday TV shows tells me there are plenty out there watching and desperate to believe what they are told to believe.
That Tic Tok fairy who pranced around Biden’s White House pushing the Wuhan flu shot last week would be a better SoS than Blinken.
I see all the Biden Adm pajama boys were out on the Sunday circuit today.
Why?
Couldn’t they get Susan Rice to go out and blame Afghanistan mess on a YouTube video?
Donald Trump created the Space Force.
Joe Biden created the Taliban Special Forces.
“...Joe Biden created the Taliban Special Forces.…”
…And gave them U.S. equipment!!!
It probably was really on point then.
British minister opening state their belief that Biden has gone completely mad.
https://trendingpolitics.com/british-ministers-are-now-openly-stating-their-belief-that-biden-has-gone-completely-mad-knab/?utm_source=poso
As if on cue and taking his marching orders from Ms. Cheney, Adam Kinzinger weighs in and as you might predict, it’s all Trump and Pompeo’s fault.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-rips-172218303.html
G W Bush suddenly silent on Afghanistan. Another winner with a “R” after his name.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1429585362469494790/photo/1
Masks ate only for the peasants.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/update-servants-wear-masks-pelosis-chi-chi-napa-brunch-video/
Why yes, yes they are.
Display of total failure from host to guest.
Biden not too keen on the latest approval ratings. But the real kicker is the nervous “journalist” who apologizes for being the messenger. In what kind of country do journalists nervously apologize, as if to say, it’s just a poll, I’m only reporting on the info, I’m not saying I agree with it? Good grief. Fear of gulag much?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-confronted-with-poll-showing-majority-no-longer-believe-he-is-competent-at-job
Phil Donohue spawned an era of them.
Being a good Marxist.
TheConservativeTreehouse with a perfect synopsis, of a big problem with our Department of State.
“In the modern political dynamic, the Secretary of State position is customarily given to a key political figure by the President as a payback or compensation for support.” … …
“From the perspective of foreign governments, the Secretary of State is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant. Any conflict between their interests and the U.S. state department is like getting a strongly worded letter from Lindsey Graham.”
Lindsey is my Senator. Yuk.
Audit South Carolina?
Well, vote his sorry ass out!
Sundance, did foreign states respond with no seriousness to SOS under Trump, Mike Pompeo?
Holy smoke, Sundance. All your posts today could be assembled as separate chapters in a larger post entitled “21st Century American Government – How It REALLY Works.” I’ve learned more today than I have all year. I created a separate bookmark folder for them. Thanks.
Trump won.
Before the advent of modern, instantaneous communications, Ambassadors and staff had to be sharp and knowledgeable, because they essentially made US policy on the spot. They could not wait weeks for a response from the Whitehouse.
These days everything of consequence is decided in DC.
Blinken, Sullivan and others like them all have a Goering/Goebbels look about them in that they are weedy, weak looking and with dead eyes. The eyes are the windows to the soul. Theirs are expressionless. And I see no souls or humanity whatsoever. I’m not looking at normal men but at men who are relishing the positions they’ve attained and are certain they are in control. I pray to Almighty God that they will, in their obvious arrogance and hubris, meet their nemesis soon, before they are able to take this whole country down.
We are seeing and experiencing the very worst that this nation has to offer. It’s a disgrace. The nation is utterly without leadership.
Thank goodness for self reliance.
“Tweet this”.Results speak louder than any political BS. Get over the “mean tweet” thing and look at the big picture. Either you believe in freedom and democracy and fight for that or you will just follow the woke, globalist, technocratic propaganda and be led like sheep to the slaughter. I know what I will do and I will pray for those who don’t have strength of conviction or intelligence to think for themselves. I’m sure that will violate some fascist social media “community standards.”