Thank your for this article and you make a good point. After reading the whole statement, I think, Wow! All that extra blather from our Secretary of State/ National Security advisor ! I expected better, but I’m not really surprised. We all are left guessing at what is going on, and who is handling it. Obviously, we’re being handled.
Thanks to SCROTUS, Donald uses “national emergency” terminology for e v e r y thing. That horse has been beaten to death. If only we had a congress who gave a damn.
1) Why should the world's greatest power inbreed its self-interest when any competent leader knows that leveraging power to lift up neighbors creates the lasting power of alliance?
2) With this initial action likely costing the U.S. taxpayer somewhere in the range of 60-80 billion dollars, who is - and who is not - calculating the overall effort's anticipated dollar drain to the taxpayer wallet - as well as its addition to the planned U.S. Treasury drain surely estimated in the ninth edition of the so-called Mandate for Leadership? Ref: https://Project2025.observer
Additionally, Will Bunch just reported that one of our bombs killed 80-year-old Rosa Gonzalez in her residential apartment building. The attack's lack of precision adds another asterisk to the critical theme that we must rescue Congress's authority in November.
Always excellent, John. A very thorough analysis. I watched the interview with Rubio and also noted. He was twitching and shifting somewhat uncontrollably. I wonder if he was looking for multiple bottles of water. Kristen was also spot on with her questions and seemed “fixated” I’m trying to get him on the record. Good try. So evasive.
He was twitching and blinking like that at the presser at MaL as well. My thought then was he was worried djt was about to fall asleep during Dan Caine's "explanation". This whole dog and pony show has tipped its hoof to the world, their hubristic incompetence with firepower. imho.
This line: “If a president says ‘we’re going to run the country’ and his chief foreign policy official responds not by correcting the premise but by normalizing it, the scope of acceptable authority quietly expands—without a vote, a debate, or a declaration.” Boom.
“…Trump White House and the president’s lifelong habit of asking forgiveness rather than permission.” I remember the President once said, as related to his connections to the Christian faith, that he felt no need to ask for forgiveness, because he didn’t have anything for which he needed forgiveness. I would think in this case he doesn’t feel the need to ask either for permission or forgiveness.
Thank your for this article and you make a good point. After reading the whole statement, I think, Wow! All that extra blather from our Secretary of State/ National Security advisor ! I expected better, but I’m not really surprised. We all are left guessing at what is going on, and who is handling it. Obviously, we’re being handled.
Rubio’s entire statement is vapid and meaningless. Just a copy of trump’s word salads.
Thanks to SCROTUS, Donald uses “national emergency” terminology for e v e r y thing. That horse has been beaten to death. If only we had a congress who gave a damn.
Two new questions immediately rise in the pile:
1) Why should the world's greatest power inbreed its self-interest when any competent leader knows that leveraging power to lift up neighbors creates the lasting power of alliance?
2) With this initial action likely costing the U.S. taxpayer somewhere in the range of 60-80 billion dollars, who is - and who is not - calculating the overall effort's anticipated dollar drain to the taxpayer wallet - as well as its addition to the planned U.S. Treasury drain surely estimated in the ninth edition of the so-called Mandate for Leadership? Ref: https://Project2025.observer
I’d love to hear an accounting on this point, too.
Additionally, Will Bunch just reported that one of our bombs killed 80-year-old Rosa Gonzalez in her residential apartment building. The attack's lack of precision adds another asterisk to the critical theme that we must rescue Congress's authority in November.
Always excellent, John. A very thorough analysis. I watched the interview with Rubio and also noted. He was twitching and shifting somewhat uncontrollably. I wonder if he was looking for multiple bottles of water. Kristen was also spot on with her questions and seemed “fixated” I’m trying to get him on the record. Good try. So evasive.
He was twitching and blinking like that at the presser at MaL as well. My thought then was he was worried djt was about to fall asleep during Dan Caine's "explanation". This whole dog and pony show has tipped its hoof to the world, their hubristic incompetence with firepower. imho.
This line: “If a president says ‘we’re going to run the country’ and his chief foreign policy official responds not by correcting the premise but by normalizing it, the scope of acceptable authority quietly expands—without a vote, a debate, or a declaration.” Boom.
Your first sentence says everything
“…Trump White House and the president’s lifelong habit of asking forgiveness rather than permission.” I remember the President once said, as related to his connections to the Christian faith, that he felt no need to ask for forgiveness, because he didn’t have anything for which he needed forgiveness. I would think in this case he doesn’t feel the need to ask either for permission or forgiveness.
How can anyone who lies and thinks everything he says is right think he need forgiveness?
We are just short of one year into T’s four-year term and this movie is getting very scary.
I agree
I can’t wait to hear Mad King donald’s definition of “judicious”. Please.
Excellent analysis. Thanks
I think it is dangerous for American politicians to usurp the will of the Argentine people. How white supremacy and colonialism of them.
Too bad you weren't the one questioning him. I think you would have kept at him.
From an administration who is running USA into the ground, why should anyone else think “running” another country would be any better?
Thank you.
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