The Trump administration 3

They're actually chimpanzees, or perhaps bonobos, neither of which are "monkeys".  Lacking a tail, they are apes.

With that out of the way, I think they were supposed to inform you that apparently you have not yet been "woke", or that in some way you "fail to get it".

FWIW, I agree with you.  It makes no sense to say that if the U.S. military stays, that's bad, but if they leave, that's bad.

Some of my favourite trolls supporting each other to slay the commies under their beds. Its really heart rending to see.

The real question is why a newly minted NATO ally is in such bad shape that it qualifies as a failed state. It is so bad the US has to provide assistance to neighbouring governments to control the borders because terrorists keep spilling into their countries from our ally.

So what’s Canada to do? And I don’t mean the useless kiss the US ass Trudeau. 

What country could Canada start slowly shifting its economic and military alliances to? 

Seeing as we don’t want to be to closely connected to thuggish regimes it seems the one substantial country who realizes the importance of standing up to the US and Russian bullies is Germany.

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CrossTalk Bullhorns: Pre-Summit (and vid)

https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/432351-trump-nato-leaders-putin/

"In rapid succession, Donald Trump will attend a meeting of NATO leaders, then meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin. What can we expect from the Donald?"

Here's another piece on the same topic Misfit:

The Sordid History of Infant Formula and Trump's Attempt to Bully, Blackmail and Threaten Third World Countries

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/09/the-sordid-history-of-infant-for...

"The recent attempt by the US to overthrow 40 years of World Health Organization consensus that breast feeding is universally better for babies is a prime example of the desperation of US capital and how entwined corporate interest has become with the government..."

Hedges: America  The Failed State  

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/america-the-failed-state/

"...The two political parties are one party - the corporate party. They do not debate substantive issues. They each support the expansion of imperial wars, the bloated military budget, the dictates of global capitalism, the bailing out of Wall Street, punishing austerity measures, assaulting basic civil liberties through wholesale government surveillance and the abolition of due process, and an electoral process that has cemented into place a system of legalized bribery...We elect politicians based on how we are made to feel about them by the public relations industry. Politics is anti-politics..."

Hedges wrote:

The two political parties are one party—the corporate party. They do not debate substantive issues. They each support the expansion of imperial wars, the bloated military budget, the dictates of global capitalism, the bailing out of Wall Street, punishing austerity measures, assaulting basic civil liberties through wholesale government surveillance and the abolition of due process, and an electoral process that has cemented into place a system of legalized bribery. They battle over cultural tropes such as abortion, gay rights and prayer in schools. We elect politicians based on how we are made to feel about them by the public relations industry. Politics is anti-politics.

The Republican Party built its political base in these culture wars around Christian fascists, nativists and white supremacists. The Democratic Party built its base around those who supported workers’ rights, multiculturalism, diversity and gender equality. The base of each party was used and manipulated by elites. The Republican Party elites had no intention of banning abortion or turning America into a “Christian nation.” The Democratic Party elites had no intention of protecting workers from predatory corporatism. Everyone was sold out. The ascendancy of a populist right, dominated by racists and bigots, is the inevitable product of the corporate coup d’état, Saul said. He warned we should not be complacent because of President Trump’s imbecility. Trump is immensely dangerous. “The insipid,” Thomas Mann wrote in “The Magic Mountain,” “is not synonymous with the harmless.”

Okay, so Republican and Democrats are the same party, except that one caters to religious and racial bigots, and the other caters to workers, feminists, and people who support multiculturalism.

However, the ascendancy of a "populist right, dominated by racists and bigots", is then laid at the feet of an unnamed, seemingly non-partisan "corporate coup d'etat". But isn't it just possible that one particular party, ie. the one that Hedges says panders to "racists and bigots", bears the brunt of the responsibility for "the asendancy of a populist right, dominated by racists and bigots"?

I join in shaming the Democrats for not taking a stronger stance against corporate rule. But still. I don't think that renders them responsible for the fact that the GOP decided to start courting reactionaries, as early as the 1964 election.

On July 4th, American Exceptionalism and Ruling Class Fear of Trump

https://blackagendareport.com/july-4th-american-exceptionalism-and-rulin...

"...Trump is a headache to the ruling class even if he is no savior for the poor and oppressed. The US ruling class understands that the era of Trump is a dangerous moment politically economically and militarily. US imperialism is in a state of crisis. Trump must be labeled the sole source of all problems lest the entire ruling class become implicated as well..."

https://www.straight.com/life/1102161/charges-dismissed-against-stormy-daniels-following-sting-operation-female-police

On the first day of Trump's visit the Queen wore a brooch given to her by the Obamas.

On the second day on which she had tea with Trump she wore a brooch worn by the Queen Mother at King George VI's funeral.  

On the third day of Trump's visit she wore a brooch given to her by Canada in 2017.

House Democrats Vote For Record US Military Spending

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/28/mili-j28.html

"By an overwhelming bipartisan vote Thursday, the US House of Representatives approved the largest military authorization bill in history. The NDAA approves $716 billion to fund US military aggression around the world..."

The Jimmy Dore Show

https://youtu.be/64RFtb48pB0

"Democrats join GOP to pass $708.1 B defense budget 2019."

Mattis: 'Putin is Trying To 'Undermine America's Moral Authority'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50017.htm

"In reality, Russia is nothing more than a rival power structure that the US centralized empire wants to either collapse or absorb..."

..democracy now did a segment on the icc bolton thing.

John Bolton Threatens International Criminal Court Judges for Probing U.S. Torture in Afghanistan

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JAMIL DAKWAR: Unprecedented attack on the rule of law. This is unheard of, that we have a government and a country that has committed acts of torture in another country, and the country itself, the United States, failed to hold any official accountable for acts of torture by the CIA, by the U.S. military, during the armed conflict in Afghanistan. And that happened during the Bush years and then Obama administration failed to take the comprehensive, thorough investigation into those acts and said, “We will look forward, not backward.”

And now we’re seeing the Trump administration doubling down on their assault on international law and human rights and impunity and fighting impunity by saying we will now go against the same body that is a last resort for victims of torture, that is the only international institution recognized as the one that is supposed to investigate and prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. And the Trump administration is saying, “We will be treating your judges and prosecutors like drug traffickers, like war criminals,” instead of admitting that there was a failure in holding officials accountable.

So John Bolton basically is the same John Bolton he was when he was in the Bush administration. He was the same one. He made destroying the court a lifetime project and goal. The difference now, he is in the place where he can do more than what he was doing in the Bush years. So it is a very dangerous attack on the international body where 123 countries are members—many of them are close U.S. allies, particularly in Europe—that is supposed to defend the independence of this body, and yet we see John Bolton perhaps wants to score points with the political base, people who are supporting Trump in the U.S. by invoking distorted and misinformation about the fact that the court is likely to investigate crimes that actually do not exist under the statute, under the law of the ICC.

So we’re in a very—the tipping point where the administration is basically saying, “We’re going to have a frontal attack on judges and prosecutors and personnel.” By the way, there is no legal theory to support that. I don’t understand what is it that, how is it that they would be prosecuting judges for the mere fact of conducting their job and responsibility under international treaty that is recognized, again, and ratified by 123 countries.

Ruben Bolling's take on the "resistance" in the Trump administration.

The Crazy Train Underground   

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/13/the-crazy-train-underground/

"...Notice how all these anonymous sources coming out of the White House woodwork to save America from Trump only hide papers and steal documents from his desk that would tempt him to do something actually useful. The fear that he might eliminate or even reduce military bases overseas and/or overturn NAFTA has united the Resistance's so-called left and right wings to ensure that the business of Empire remains impervious to the whims of the toddler Emperor.

When Dear Dotard wants to cut funding to the EPA, or withhold funds earmarked for the Palestinian territories, those brave members of the Crazy Train Underground are nowhere to be found..."

Mr. Magoo wrote:

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Meet the Jews in the Trump Administration

Remember when AdBusters did the same thing?

To critique advertising of course.  Certainly not to name-and-shame any Jews!  Why would people keep claiming some kind of "Anti-Semitism" when it's clear that AdBusters is only critiquing advertising, as per their mandate?!

Didn't they go with yellow stars for the Juden, tho??

Well, presumably, the Times Of Israel, with a largely Jewish audience, might think that their readers would be interested in knowing about Jews in the Trump administration. It's a little bit jingoistic, but not all that different from, say, Korean media giving outsized attention to Korean athletes playing for overseas teams.

Not sure how NDPP thought it connects to the discussion in the thread, though. The Bolling cartoon was using Jews as a metaphor for people harmed by Trump's policies, not talking about literal Jewish involvement in American politics.

Trump Authorized Offensive Cyber Operations, US National Security Advisor Says

https://sptnkne.ws/j9N8

"Bolton said Trump earlier in the day signed a new US cyber strategy that went into effect immediately..."

From the Craig Murray blog comments section, posted on the wikileaks thread...

When Bret Kavanaugh is confirmed, the deep state will be in the dock. Soros and his kids may be turned over to Hungary. The money for all the protests and election-rigging and whatever else Soros was funding will be gone. Clinton, Comey, Rice, Brennan and more, including Obama, will be facing serious sedition charges .

Yeah, Brett Kavanaugh, terror of the ruling elite!

Does the term "anti-globalist" have something to do with the fact that most people claiming the label don't even seem to be living on this planet?  

World Leaders Laugh as Trump Boasts of Accomplishments During UN Speech (and vid)

https://on.rt.com/9f03

"US President Donald Trump prompted unexpected laughs from leaders when he told the UN General Assembly that the American economy is 'booming like never before'. Trump said that he had accomplished more in two years than any administration ever had, but was surprised when the boast was met with laughter..."

CrossTalk Bullhorns: Fighting Words

https://youtu.be/9wfsEZ4Hi2U

"Washington's ambassador to NATO threatens to 'take out' Russian missiles and the US Interior Secretary threatens a naval blockade of Russia. Is the Trump doctrine finally being revealed?"

The *liberal* wing of the establishment hates Trump because he rips the mask off what US really represents and makes it less palatable to sell. Trump and neocon marionette Haley expose US as a nakedly imperialist, hostile power that relies on total impunity and capitulation from the world."

https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1049843708219281408