The Codevilla Tapes

Tablet ^ | October 24, 2019 | David Samuels

[Still Thinking]

Thanks for pinging. Much to chew on.

[sphinx]

Excellent piece. A lot to think through.

[Dr. Sivana]

I did read the whole thing, but I don’t think the opening paragraphs were meant to be satirical. Codevilla is always worth reading, and the interviewer did a good job with honest follow-ups in the latter half of the interview.

I was a little confused as the name of the webpage was TABLET (tabletmag.com) which I had associated with the English Catholic publication. Later, I went to the home page and found it is a Jewish website.

[Yardstick]

Good interview but I think Codevilla underestimates the degree of treachery present in the Russia hoax from the very beginning. He seems to think it started small with limited aims and then kind of got out of hand. I think it was big and deep from the beginning and I think the upcoming investigations are going to show this very clearly.

[Robert DeLong]

Well it could be either way, though I do believe it started small and not very well thought out because they did not believe he had a chance in hell of winning even the nomination. Once he won that they were sure he would lose the general election, but they started in real earnest. The Papadopoulos thing was a measure on which to build upon, but he did not biter the bait as they had hoped he would. When he won the general election they started to panic and really turn up the heat.

But it could have started out much bigger as you say, but I think because they thought he was a joke living a pipe dream it started out much smaller than we may think. Hopefully we will fund out how it started, and soon. 8>)

[vpintheak]

Right on the Money here:

“What an ungenerous way to describe my noble instinct to help the less fortunate. Do the less fortunate truly have nothing to be aggrieved about, here in America?

Whatever they have to be aggrieved about, that grievance serves your instrumental purpose. Their grievance is your happiness. If they didn’t have a grievance, you’d try to manufacture it. Their having a grievance is an occasion for you to, to sharpen it, to scratch it, and to make it more relevant to them than it otherwise would be.”

[gattaca]

bmp

[mo]

a country who has created an enemy within will never be able to prevail against any enemy without .....

What we have here at home will embroil the country for 2 generations-as we all have tried to pretend the sociocommunists among us the last 2 generations are merely “playing house”

they even taunt us all with Senator McCarthy’s “Russian paranoia” -and so far appear to be prevailing

[mewzilla]

Good interview but I think Codevilla underestimates the degree of treachery present in the Russia hoax from the very beginning. He seems to think it started small with limited aims and then kind of got out of hand. I think it was big and deep from the beginning and I think the upcoming investigations are going to show this very clearly.

Big, deep, and multinational....

[Robert DeLong]

I don’t think the country created, however, due to its nature it was easily invaded with Trojan Horse like infiltration.

[Loud Mime]

Boomerang Bump