Big Picture: Democrats want power, Republicans want money – and when it comes to foreign policy, they are in complete UniParty alignment. This is the baseline to understand why only Donald J. Trump represents an alternative to the foreign policy worldview of the corrupt DC system. This is also why they hate him and us.
There is no genuine alternative, no distinction between the foreign policy of professional Democrats and the foreign policy of professional Republicans. The nature of each wing of the UniParty vulture flows in complete sync on the issues of U.S. global interests and the multinational beneficiaries who pay for the policies of intervention.
At the absolute core of the issue for Republicans is the money. The financial mechanisms which create a need for outcomes in various nations. The ultimate and biggest pay-to-play scheme, where the policy of the United States is sold to the highest bidder and becomes an outcome of the interests of the multinational corporations. It is maddening to watch this dynamic continue to play out and yet feel incapable of stopping it. This is part of the value in Donald Trump.
(Politico) – Speaking to Erick Erickson at an Atlanta-area conference on Saturday morning, Christie went deep on his foreign policy vision, saying the U.S. must push back against authoritarian leaders and uphold democratic rights and norms in a broad preview of what foreign policy in his administration would look like (more).
Uphold “democratic rights and norms” while we still have the memories of the COVID-19 regime in our memory banks. How exactly was democracy evident in forced vaccinations, mandated medical rules by fiat, shutdowns, lockdowns, violations of just about every right these presumed democrat leaders claim to advocate? Who exactly are the totalitarians in this equation?
It wasn’t Russia or Vladimir who forced the U.S. government to mandate medical procedures. It wasn’t China or Xi Jinping who denied people the ability to comfort their sick, infirmed and dying loved ones. It wasn’t North Korea or Chairman Kim who arrested parents on playgrounds, chased people from the beach or set about rules saying if you were seated in a restaurant you were safe, but if you stood up the rona would kill you. These were the insufferable fiats of hypocritical politicians right here in the USA.
But seeing as it is Chris Christie making this argument, let me go bigger.
Claim a desire for Middle 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/Biden 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 herself beyond imagining… that was the Clinton carrot. The agreement also contained guard rails; Clinton could graft to her heart’s 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 yearlong 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’s “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.
In the most consequential of ways, President Trump was the single most consequential foreign policy president in a generation. We forget that during Trump’s term in office, the headlines about North and South Korea were not about conflict, but rather about the possibility of unification on the Korean peninsula.
Two large elements played out when Trump was in office. First, economic security is national security. Second, “peace is the prize.” Through both elements the Trump Doctrine was born, and the effectiveness, while downplayed and ignored, was unmistakable.
♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought North and South Korea together away from the table of conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought Serbia and Kosovo together away from the table of conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy rallied the Gulf Cooperation Council to stop Qatar’s support for Islamic extremists via the Muslim Brotherhood. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Turkey and the Kurdish forces together away from war and conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy created a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed in Syria. President Trump mediated a cessation of hostilities between India & Pakistan in the Kashmir region. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Israel and the UAE together… and then Bahrain… and then Sudan in the Abraham Accords.
President Trump executed a clear foreign policy – a unique doctrine where national security is achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It was a fundamental shift in approaching both allies and adversaries summarized within the oft repeated phrase: “Economic security is national security.”
The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives was a fundamental paradigm shift. Modern U.S. history provided no easy reference for the effective outcome.
The nature of the Trump foreign policy doctrine, as it became visible, 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 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 was 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 was Pakistan who will be held accountable.
Again, the correct and effective appropriation of responsibility was upon the influence agent who could 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 is only a crutch to continue enabling poor actors. This is 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 was placed upon the EU. The U.S. would fully support the EU effort, but as seen in the withdrawal from the Iran Deal, President Trump would 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.
President Trump made the policy clear, then held the EU accountable for helping to influence change. Again, we saw 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 DPRK 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 quietly playing out in the background, the benefit of this new and strategic approach brought the possibility of peace between the two Koreas closer than ever in history.
No longer was 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 was President Trump openly sharing a willingness to engage in a new and dynamic future for North Korea, but his approach is removing the toxic influences that have held down the possibility for generations.
By leveraging China (through economics) to stop manipulating North Korea, President Trump was opening a door of possibilities for the North Korean people. This is what I meant when I said Trump was providing North Korea with an opportunity to create an authentic version of itself.
What ultimately came from the opportunity President Trump constructed was lost in the 2020 U.S. election outcome. However, the opportunity itself was stunning progress creating a reasonable pathway to prosperity for the North Korean people.
Chairman Kim Jong-un had the opportunity to be the most trans-formative leader within Asia in generations; but it was always only an ‘opportunity’ that could exist if President Trump remained in place to provide it.
Whether Kim Jong-un could embrace openness, free markets and prosperity was never seen. But we saw the opportunity that was nonexistent without Trump’s guiding hand to create it.
♦The commonality in those 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 was 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 took 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 that had grown accustomed to corrupt globalists, bankers and financial elites who had established a business model by dictating terms to national leaders they control and influence.
We had/have our own 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.
It is not accidental the EU has appointed officials and unelected bureaucrats in Brussels as the primary decision-making authority. By its very nature, the EU collective requires a central planning authority who can act independent of the underlying national voices.
As the Trump Doctrine clashed with the European global elite, the withdrawal of the U.S. financial underwriting created 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. had 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 extended toward changed trade policies – this time via NAFTA.
The restructuring of NAFTA into the USMCA disfavors multinational corporations and financial holdings who have exploited structural loopholes that were designed into the original agreement.
With President Trump confronting the NAFTA fatal flaw, and absent of the ability of corporations to influence the direction of the administration, the trade deal ultimately presented the same outcome for Mexico as it does the EU – LESS DOLLARS.
However, in Mexico, the larger systems of government were 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 cannot double-down on more oppressive controls. Therefore, the authentic voice of the Mexican people was more likely to rise.
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.
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 distinct outcomes of the Trump Doctrine. Within a highly structured U.K. parliamentary government, the leadership becomes more authoritarian and rebukes the electorate (refuse Brexit); and in Mexico a less structured government becomes more nationalist, more prideful, and embraces the underlying nature of the electorate.
It is 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 notwithstanding, both countries responded to the Trump doctrine by returning to their roots.
REMINDER April, 2018 – SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.
“President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace,” Moon told a meeting of senior secretaries, according to a presidential Blue House official who briefed media.
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday pledged at a summit to end hostilities between their countries and work toward the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula.
It is remarkable to contemplate what might have been… We need to hire President Trump to finish the job.
The Trump Doctrine works, we all saw what happens when you leverage economic power for our own national security interests.
Donald Trump represents the interests of Americans, first!
Squiling pig chris needs more krispy creme.
And a hug from Obama
Folks here in the South consider a balanced breakfast to be Krispy Kreme donuts and a bottle of Mountain Dew.
Then they wonder why they got the dia-beet-us and have no front teeth…
Moon Pie and an RC Cola
Peanuts in my bottled coke…
Not so sweet. Methinks he has some really nasty things in his closet!
C’Mon man….
So Gross.
I’m BLLIIIIIIIIIIIINNDDD
I think you forgot MORE DONUTS.
That’s what Krispy Kreme are.
You gotta find a Krispy Creme store. Not just a place that sells Krispy Creme ,a place that cooks them! Look for the neon sign that says hot. You can thank me later.
There used to be one on the way to school, Oh Yeah.
Nothing like a Krispy and coffee before class.
I don’t blame Krispy Kreme. It is up to the customers to decide what they want for breakfast, snacks, and other meals. Krispy Kreme would make a lot less money if their customers showed some disgression and restraint. DUH!
Oh yeah!!!
Why is that whale in the Ukraine ?
Get ready folks because another pre election Covid emergency is coming.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/just-time-election-biden-regime-reinstate-covid-19/
Surprise, surprise, surprise. 🤦♀️
And…we’re not going to obey.
No masks, no shutdowns period…end of story.
And NO MORE clotshots!
At some point the other sleeping idiots need to wake up. We need these morons to wake up. “Rich Men North of Richmond” is our opportunity.
Someone like Sundance not necessarily him, needs to pounce on this opportunity to awaken BUT also UNiFY the average Americans of all races. Show them all we are all suffering. And we aren’t enemies, the elite are the enemy. If we all unify and remove the consent, nothing can stop us.
We are close to the awakening. This song by Oliver shows how close we are. We MUST unify against our common problem. The thousands of feds standing against us, but more importantly putting us against each other. Until we stop bickering amongst ourselves we won’t beat them. That is the biggest hurdle. We jump that hurdle and all of this ends. THAT is the biggest hurdle. We CAN leap over it.
I can’t remember the young fellas name, but someone did a man on the street interview after the latest indictments. The question was who are you voting for in 2024. 80% of the people that were asked that question were young, black Americans. Every one of them said TRUMP. Several said they voted for him in 2020 and their families did also. I don’t remember the percentage, (but I don’t recall it being very high…….)of the black vote that needed to vote Republican rather than Democrat that would upset the apple cart for the “DIMS”. Anyone know??
Oliver Anthony is definitely a bridge saw a video of rappers that were stunned and crying when they heard his song.
This time, WE MUST REFUSE TO COMPLY. Eff them.
I was going to say.. What did that fat bastard say this time? But I see it already made the first post. LOLz Upvoting WTLT01.
It got removed. I had to post it though
Thank you Sundance. Spot on.
Yes, a Big ThankYou Sundance.
Brilliant article. I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know, but should have.
“Through both elements the Trump Doctrine was born, and the effectiveness, while downplayed and ignored, was unmistakable.”
This is what angers and frustrates me the Most! President Donald John Trump accomplished so much and yet for Four Damn Years they hounded him. The mainstream media refused to talk about these accomplishments and instead focused all of their, and the American public, attention on bulls**t made up crimes or mean tweets.
Idiot people say, “he didn’t keep his promise, he didn’t finish building the wall”. How could he with 15+ uniparty lawsuits and challenges every step of the way. I could go on, but I won’t. So very frustrating!
You can thank Peter Navarro for Trump’ economic policies and was a key figure fighting Fauci and the jab mandates . Navarro has been a Trump loyalist from the beginning and, if I remember correctly, was the only person to remain as an advisor for all 4 year of the Trump admin. Navarro is fearless and is another victim of the Dems lawfare strategy. You can find him on Substack and he has a podcast too.
Thank you! I’ll check them both out 🙂
I bought 5 copies of his book when they arrested him.
OK.
Get Christie’s fat ass on the Ukraine/Russia battle front.
Only a completely depraved monster could want even more dead Ukraine troops.
Isn’t 200,000 plus enough?
In proportion to population that would be the equivalent of 2,000,000 plus dead American troops, by far more than we have lost in ALL our wars … … so far anyway.
Zelensky Tells Ukrainians: No Parties, Grab a Gun and Head to the Front
https://rumble.com/v37zh9o-zelensky-tells-ukrainians-no-parties-grab-a-gun-and-head-to-the-front.html
When our Congressional representatives advocate bringing back the draft, I will shout that those who should get drafted first are their children who are of age–both male and female, and that after boot camp or officer training they be posted on the front lines of any conflict America engages for the duration of their obligation.
However, my fear is that our nationally elected officials intend to offer citizenship via military service to those who came into the United States illegally, those border crossers who the democrats demand we label them something besides illegals.
Bet me that won’t happen…sooner, rather than later!
Well, if they want to offer citisenship to those illegals that then go feed the meatgrinder that is Ukraine, I guess thats ONE way to deport them, lol.
After all, we gotta get them out, especially all of the military age young men.
The bulk of the fighting for this country has always been borne by White kids. I’ve been advocating non- service for Whites for the last couple years. The same “hate Whitie” crowd expects White people to go to foriegn lands to die for “democracy”. No, bullshit on that. The White war is right here in the U.S. with 15 million military age invaders on our soil that will be activated next summer.
I concur with your concern that illegals will be drafted.
They will need them to round up dissidents here in what was formerly the USA.
I don’t see illegals being drafted; I do see them being offered citizenship in return for service.
But who would want to serve with them? How could you feel safe and “supported” by your brothers-in-arms when those brothers are from S__thole nations 4000 miles away?
US military offers legal migrants path to citizenship amid recruiting
nypost.com/2023/06/11/us-military-offers-legal-migrants-path-to-citizenship-amid-recruiting-shortfall/
Its beyond me how people can believe there is a “war in Ukraine” especially after what we witnessed with the “war on covid”
It is those people, the useful idiot audience, who are the reason why the pretending continues.
nuts
If we’re honest with ourselves, we have to admit that if we are going to refer to liberals, Dems who ALWAYS vote Dem no matter how insane their policies, etc. are “Useful Idiots”,…then for far too many years, there has been a large group of REPUBLICAN voters,…call them “Useless idiots” who continued to hold their nose till they got terminal nosebleeds, voting for “the lesser of two weavils” and then complaining at the weavils they got, only to vote for them, again.
Both the useless, and now the useful idiots, “in the 11th hour” are finally waking up, thanks to the Great Alarm Clock, PDJT.
I am reminded of a panel discussion with Naomi Wolfe, liberal until Covid red-pilled her, 2 liberal AU legislators, and the hosts of ‘clubgrubbery.com.’ also converted lifetime liberals.
Someone asked Naomi, as the only American on the panel, WHY the U.S. did not go nearly as draconian as Au did, with actually setting up Covid camps, and pursueing as escaped criminals those who broke out, for example.
Naomi said that she has ALWAYS been a supporter of “gun control” but she now has changed, believing that the U.S. did not go as draconian as Au, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE 2A.
While WE have been focused mainly on ‘inside baseball’ machinations within the R party, the D party has been HEMHORAGING support.
Something to keep an eye on,..
Goood Morning Kievnam!
…..After 9.5 yrs. war against the Russians Ukraine is finished..250,000-400,000 deaths far more disabled .. at least 12 millions left Ukraine since Feb. 2014.. once most prosperous state of USSR…. saaad…
Thank you for reminding us about this Warmonger video on Kievnam! McCain and Lindsey got US into war with Russia. GOPe good for Raytheon.
Ah yes the Climate Hoax scam artist’s visit to Ukraine. Always shilling for another dollar to save the world from the most egregious existential threat…the climate changes.
”Ecocide and environmental destruction is a form of warfare… as Ukrainians by this point know all too well – and so does Russia, And that’s why they are deliberately targeting the environment and people’s livelihoods and homes and therefore also destroying lives…,” ~ Greta Thunberg
“You have to give President Biden credit for consistency. Unfortunately, he has been consistently wrong. As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” (Washington Times – Cal Thomas August 2021)
In light of all of the revelations coming out now about the level of graft and corruption practiced by the House of Biden, one must wonder if his unblemished record of foreign policy failures is pure incompetence, unbridled arrogance coupled with utter ignorance, or just flat out selling out the US interests to the highest bidder?
Personally, I go with “All of the Above”!
Armed Camps Great Again? Capitol Hoax Better
“The protesters in the (Kiev) Maidan found themselves in a war zone, enduring a brutal three-month siege in the dead of winter. They refused to back down, even in the face of death, and transformed the square where the protest began into an armed camp.”
–Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad (2017)
Chris Christie is a dangerous warmongering nutcase.
Endless wars make some people very rich.
Thermonuclear World War III will destroy everything.
“Big Picture: Democrats want power, Republicans want money – and when it comes to foreign policy, they are in complete UniParty alignment.”
Both sides want both power AND money, perhaps in that order.
G-Pol: True. The Uniparty want it all. Power. Money. Compliance. You name it, they want it. Except for the bill, They want someone else to pay for that.
When you get above a certain level, “money” is just an easy to wield form of POWER, so to them, its not money and power, its money WHICH IS power.
This is why those of us who view $ differently marvel that for THEM, it seems like they can never get enough.
Obviously, at a certain point they have enough that their progeny, to the nth generation will always be wealthy, and yet they continue to pursue still more.
Because its the POWER that the $ represents; power to exert INFLUENCE and use that influence to make more money, which means more influence, in a never ending cycle.
One of the most insidious aspects of this addiction, is $ insulates us from the negative consequences of our actions.
And THATS where it circumvents “the natural order of things”.
WHO wouldn’t like to be able to avoid any negative consequence for your actions?
Touch a hot stove, and you don’t get burned, some other kid across town or on the other side of the World does, but who cares, so long as you don’t get burned.
With enough power, $ and influence, they circumvent or negate the basic learning process, hence get really STUPID.
Cause the PAIN of making mistakes (negative consequences of our actions) is how we LEARN.
No pain, no lesson learned.
We see it, in how they keep attacking PDJT in exactly the same way, despite it being counter-productive.
They have insulated themselves from the negative consequences so thoroughly, that they have lost any contact with,…REALITY.
It’s a con job.
…svine….
Feels like an attempt to re-prop DeSaster up in New Hampshire. Could be wrong, though.
DeSenseless
Doesn’t matter, won’t work.
At this point, the operation is only running on inertia, and we are just seeing the low level operators, continueing to do what they do, because nobody is telling them to just stop and go home.
At the higher level, the pragmatists already recognise the R wing plan to “stop Trump” has failed, and they have already given the nod to go ahead with the D plan.
Whatever it is, charge donors triple.
Ukraine’s Relentless Lobbyists Take to Congress
theamericanconservative.com/congress-and-ukraines-relentless-lobbyists/
What a great a read. And very interesting to note that Ukraine was lobbying Congress to stop the Nordstream II pipeline from being completed…and son of Bi____ the thing got blown up! Also, interestingly Ted Cruz, after meeting with lobbyists decided to help them stop the Nordstream II from completion.
These people really do make me sick!!
“Freeman said lobbyists’ “goal is the opposite of that. They know that they can have the greatest success for their clients the less the public is aware of what’s going on with these issues, and the less the media is writing stories about what they’re doing.” Freeman plans on releasing a full report outlining the extent of Ukraine’s lobbying efforts later this spring.” ~ The American Conservative January 25, 2022
To any libertarians who think, “Yeah, Trump kept us out of wars…but he could have done more!” (Yes, there are libertarians who think like that), please go back and with an open mind read/re-read this by Sundance.
I knew we had a great president in Trump but everyday Sundance reminds me just how great Donald John Trump (say his name RNC!) was in those four years.
neolibertarians? fat/thin libertarians? Lets Go Brandon…81?
Remember this one?
“Libertarians for Trump” Launches Website
independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/04/libertarians-for-trump-launches-website/
I used to read Reason quite often it seemed their commenters were about 60% pro President Trump.
Reason itself doesn’t represent libertarians anymore. They’re basically a just a left wing rag and have been for a bit now. Anyone who wants to read what most libertarians today think, go to mises.org and lewrockwell.com, both of which link to this website quite often.
Reason is a bunch of cross-dressing libertarians co-opted by the Koch brothers, I think.
Koch brothers’ father was a strong Bircher who was personal friends with Robert Welch.
Fat tub of lard, hey fatty remember bridge gate?
Christie was able to pawn that off to an underling. I have to wonder what that underling’s price was.
Wasn’t wonderful Chris Wray involved in all that Bridgegate stuff? Why I do believe he was !
Looks like a cement truck!
Lol
Christie makes a ‘Whale of a presidential candidate’.
https://imagetolink.com/ib/DTkPVFjJ2N
LOL!
Thank you SD for reminding us of the opportunities lost in regard to N/S Korea. The chance we had to unite this country was destroyed by denying us PDJT’S 🇺🇸 😔 Second presidency.
AKA the donut man
Thanks for the summary of all that Trump did with foreign policy. Bookmarked!
Mr. Sundance, in Leninist thought this is not called “hypocrisy” instead it is dialectic & historical materialism combined with scientific socialism, the emphasis being on the dialectic.
Mygrwney: You make an important point.
Although we have seen stupid haste in war, there has never been a case of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
– Sun Tzu
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting, its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers. It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
– President and 5 Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower
“But seeing as it is Chris Christie making this argument, let me go bigger.”
Haha. You do crack me up, SD.
IALTO!
JoeBama should be shortened to simply JObama
Economically, and geopolitically, the Trump policies, in total the Trump Doctrine, are the exact OPPOSITE of the Globullist Doctrine.
Globulllists SEW DISCORD and DIVISION, wherever they go.
And, the exfiltration of wealth OUT of our country.
PDJT sews unity, out of common interests, and reverses the exfiltration of wealth back into our country.
And he would say “its just common sense!”, lol.
These people have no regard for those maimed and killed. None. The ground could be soaked in blood, the surviving suffering, widows and children grieving as long as their wallets are bulging.
Peace is the prize. I came up with several analogies. Peace doesn’t do a thing for military industrial complex. They need conflict. A fully integrated educational and workforce (which it pretty much already is) does nothing for the professional civil rights crowd. They need constant conflict. And fully healthy no need for meds/pills citizens does nothing for big pharma. They need sick people. Well people does them no good.
The installed part-time occupant of the WH just said that ‘America first’ policies make us weaker.
There should be no doubt in anyone who has a working brain cell that all these bastards hate us and will not stop their destruction until the intervention comes — either from us or from God.
“But seeing as it is Chris Christie making this argument, let me go bigger.”
OMG! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sundance never misses an opportunity to slip in a side-splitting one-liner…
Christie wants to get that kickback money out of the Ukraine money laundry.
Whereas a bullying, unreliable, pot stirring, war mongering, hypocritical United States sticks its nose everywhere, leaving every country it has intervened in to “spread democracy” (I have come to despise that word) worse off, President Trump took another route.
He wanted allies, and proceeded to cultivate personal relationships with leaders around the world. This is the way of an ethical businessman. He brought that philosophy into the White House.
And it worked.
Take Saudi Arabia, the first country he prioritized for his first foreign visit, a distinct honour for that country…and Saud Arabia reciprocated and honoured him. A reception reserved for a head of state.
Fast forward to Biden’s reception by Mohammed bin Salman. A side door entrance. No fuss, no obsequies, no respect. None was deserved and none was given to a degenerate beggar.
That’s just one example, but I think it is the best one to give. Because the Saudis knew President Trump respected them, something which no dimwitted official in today’s administration understands.
No war means no enrichment for the Military Industrial Complex. But it does mean a more peaceful and prosperous world.
It was “America First”, yes…not “America Only”. By virtue of that creed, other countries benefited as well.
So here we are now with a morbidly obese private citizen pimping for a murderous regime and the industries which reap the profits of death and destruction. A perfect choice as the face for an inept and amoral United States reverting to type sans President Trump.
If not in public, I bet every world leader who President Trump called ” my friend” says in private that they desperately wish he were at the helm.
World War III wouldn’t be a topic of discussion as it is at this moment.
What a tragedy.
A great analogy. Thank you Betty.
Another masterful summary from Sundance – thanks.
President Trump appreciates your humor:
“But seeing as it is Chris Christie making this argument, let me go bigger.”
BWAHAHA
Visions of Jerry Nadler with a pantsfull.
Sometime somewhere the next day the words…”Hey buddy how about a courtesy flush” were spoken in a strained, panicking, not so asking tone.
Sundance, while I agree with most of this, I think Bongino is right about something, generally: It’s not hypocrisy… It’s hierarchy.
They don’t view the will of the people, as expressed through Brexit, for instance, as having any authority or command over THEM. They see us on a much lower level, so that no matter what we say we want, no matter how we say it, they can overrule us because…hierarchy. They’re above us. When they use things like women’s rights to sell a thing and then apparently demolish women’s rights in the process, it’s because THEIR imperative takes precedence over ours, because…hierarchy. Yes okay, it seems like they’re hypocritical, but it’s only because we’re not superior enough to understand their elevated sense of what the imperatives should be… So when they break a few million eggs to make their omelet, it’s not because they’re hypocritical, exactly, but instead because they put themselves and their agenda on a different level that supersedes our interests…because they’re just superior to us.
Now, you and I may reject such claims of superiority, but in one form or another, this is the same disease with which these people have been afflicted for all recorded history… Yes, the names and places have changed, and the particular causes have been altered, but the fact is that the broken human psychology that guides their elevated estimation of their esteem and their disparaging diminution of ours is so much more than simple hypocrisy, because in the end, they still believe in a eugenics-based view of the humanity, though they’re less focused on race these days among their own level. Their presumption is that people either have the ability to get with their program, or they don’t, and if they don’t, it’s because they’re inherently flawed. You and I are just poor, unfortunate, intellectual untermensch unable to grasp the importance and perfection of their ideas, and if we see them merely as ruthless crooks, liars, murderers, and thugs, it’s because WE’RE flawed. We’re the bad ones. We’re lesser.
Other than that, I agree with you entirely.
I agree with this. Greedy Globalist Evil Bastards is what the “elite” is. They have deluded themselves into thinking they’re greater than God. They’re not. Reality is *all* humans are fallen creatures, possessing an evil nature. Only by accepting God, through His Son, do we have that evil nature cleansed. We still have to work with Him and our fellow man to remain on the Straight and Narrow path that is Salvation.
Gosh…who’d a thought Chrissy Bag ‘o Donuts was a just another GOPe war-monger?
New Jersey mobsters haven’t been cool since Tony Soprano got whacked.
Chris Christie is a war monger.
Mike Pence is a war monger.
Nimrata Haley is a war monger.
These three we KNOW, are on the record, as supporting intervention and aid to foreign conflicts, the threats to the lives of our young people be damned.
To my knowledge, NONE of the other Republican primary losers is against escalating our involvement in wars overseas. But the others — DeSantis, Vivek, Tim Scott and whatever other nonentities that are running — have been less forthcoming about their thirst for war and the sending of billions to Ukraine while Hawaii burns.
I’ve wondered what the driving force was behind Krispy. Envy? Money? Stupidity? Now I’m convinced he is like a rabid animal. He is consumed with destroying PDJT. Just pure hatred.Such a small soul, trapped in a pathetic body…
He’s another Kamikaze. No less mercenary, no less out of touch, no less bizarre.
Just a whole lot bigger.
Can’t help thinking of a fat kid in school, everyone disrespected him because he was always looking for validation and would do or say anything to get it.
Sad really.
It’s all about money. He’s got a campaign committee taking donations eventually they’ll end up in his pocket or to benefit.
More nonsense from Fat Bastard…
It’s like Our President spent 4 years demonstrating in spectacular fashion what the Trump Doctrine was capable of achieving and at the same time set the stage for the taking down of the Deep State. All of his accomplishments seemed to be put on “pause”, I suspect with the knowledge of the key foreign leaders, so he could focus the next 4 years on taking out the globalist influences that have gotten the world into the mess it is in today. This wonderful article details why there is only one person to lead America through the next phase of returning us to our founding principles. Hands down. Full stop. At the same time, there has to be a contingency plan in place should he not be able to complete the process. No idea what that could be. MAGA!
So far I don’t see a contingency plan. It’s PDJT or bust. Then we see THE WORST UGLY. 🙏 pray hard and throw sand..
Jagoffs like Christie are always willing to fight to the last drop of someone else’s blood.
Last time I used that term was in High School 50 years ago…guess it’s making a comeback?
You must be from Pgh
Correction – yinz must be from Pgh
He wants to get closer to Zelensky and the money that the US taxpayer is sending him.
Zelensky is an overnight billionaire. That’s why he wants more money from EVERYONE on the planet.
It’s never enough.
Is DeSantis about to go to Ukraine and campaign with Breech Loader Pence and Chris Chrissie?
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/629793-ron-desantis-rips-donald-trump-supporters-as-listless-vessels/
DeSantis Insulting the MAGA base. The sign of a lost man. No DeSantis, you meant very much wide-awake.
He’s gone full Kamikaze now. He’s resorted to his version of “basket of deplorables.”
His very own voters , no less. That’s the final blow.
There goes Ron again . . . projecting!
He’s currently looking for a life preserver while wildly thrashing about.
Now do you see why JoeBama is so hell bent on hollowing out the American economy? If DJT returns to office but the domestic economy is a train wreck and the petrodollar washed out to sea, he will pose far less of a threat to the globalist power brokers.
That’s why everything is speeding up. Can’t ruin the country fast enough. That is actually a good thing maybe. Donald Trump can start from scratch.
If he actually makes it back into office I suspect they’ll allow our economy to implode, as it is already on track to do, and they will gleefully blame it on President Trump, the one person who had planned to save it.
They made sure he ran out of time.
PDJT will have this ruined economy of which you speak, fixed and humming along in 6 months…
…and ahead of schedule and under budget.
So Joe can do is damage…the Donald will fix it faster than you can say ‘dementia joe’.
Drill-Baby -Drill
“These were the insufferable fiats of hypocritical politicians right here in the USA.”
Almost as hypocritical as the King of Hypocrites himself … … … his initials are TN.
The Ham Burglar takes anything left over from the buffet table in piggy bag.
To see who actually runs Mexico, look at a map of drug cartel influence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#/media/File:Mexico_cartel_map_May_2010.svg
To borrow a phrase from H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, AMLO’s “authority” is enforced for about a day’s infantry march around Mexico City and ignored everywhere else.
And that’s been the story in Mexico going back to Maximilian. Mexico is not a “failed state”, because it was never a “state” to begin with.
clear ether
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The Monopoly on War: How the Military Industrial Complex is Bankrupting America
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https://rumble.com/v37h5ef-the-monopoly-on-war-how-the-military-industrial-complex-is-bankrupting-amer.html
Not that I advocate for this but…consoider that the war monger neo-cons don’t seem to want to take on Mexico, in a war, to get those cartels. The cartels have seemingly declared war on Americans.
NO
I can’t unsee camel toe Christie in the baseball uniform a few years back. Completely and totally disgusting. Not only the picture but all of his fake RINO big club policies.
Sundance, you have outdone so many clarifications with this article. Concise succinctly done. God Bless this Treehouse and all receiving enlightenment.
Onward Christian Soldiers.
Warmongers are wicked people.
Insatiable appetite this porker has.