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John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup [Barf Alert]
New Yorker ^ | 10.20.17 | Masha Green

Posted on 10/20/2017 2:30:37 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl

Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.

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Wow.
1 posted on 10/20/2017 2:30:37 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Masha Gessen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014, and became a staff writer in 2017. Gessen is the author of nine books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which was short-listed for the National Book Award in 2017; and “The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin.” Gessen has written about Russia, autocracy, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, among others, for The New York Review of Books and the New York Times. On a parallel track, Gessen has been a science journalist, writing about aids, medical genetics, and mathematics; famously, Gessen was dismissed as editor of the Russian popular-science magazine Vokrug Sveta for refusing to send a reporter to observe Putin hang-gliding with the Siberian cranes. Gessen is a visiting professor at Amherst College and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Nieman Fellowship, and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary. After more than twenty years as a journalist and editor in Moscow, Gessen has been living in New York since 2013.
Reading List: Masha Gessen recommends Rachel Aviv’s “The Trauma of Facing Deportation,” about refugee children in Sweden.


2 posted on 10/20/2017 2:32:59 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Perhaps they all just just shut up and issue retractions now that the whole thing has been proven beyond a doubt to be FAKE NEWS and a complete LIE by the Cowboy FL Congressbitch.


3 posted on 10/20/2017 2:34:01 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

“Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination”

I imagine every liberal drop dead in front of me.


4 posted on 10/20/2017 2:34:59 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: higgmeister

5 posted on 10/20/2017 2:37:51 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

I suspect strongly that Masha is the same ethnicity as Frederica so I’m sure there is no rationality on exhibit here.


6 posted on 10/20/2017 2:38:22 PM PDT by 43north (Drive the scenic route and take the dog.)
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To: higgmeister

I was about to shrink this down but hit enter instead. Sorry


7 posted on 10/20/2017 2:39:01 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: 43north

Oops, I take that back - she is a concentration camp survivor.


8 posted on 10/20/2017 2:39:31 PM PDT by 43north (Drive the scenic route and take the dog.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

I volunteer for the all-night machine gun pit at RFK Stadium.


9 posted on 10/20/2017 2:41:51 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: 43north
I suspect strongly that Masha is the same ethnicity as Frederica so I’m sure there is no rationality on exhibit here.

Born in Moscow

10 posted on 10/20/2017 2:42:36 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: 43north

Doesn’t make her anymore rational.


11 posted on 10/20/2017 2:43:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Oh for crying out loud.

A father shares what must be an almost unimaginable grief over the death of his Son, and this asshole says that it is like a military coup.

Nope.

I think that does it.

He wins the Dumbass Of The Year Award.

He might even get The Lifetime Achievement Award For Dumbassery.


12 posted on 10/20/2017 2:43:22 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: beergarden

After Mathis cleans the trash out of the military and restores its discipline then we will see about a coup, not before.


13 posted on 10/20/2017 2:43:33 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: higgmeister

As ugly as Nasser to me.


14 posted on 10/20/2017 2:44:32 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

I wouldn’t mind a right wing military coup at this point. We are a dangerously divided nation.


15 posted on 10/20/2017 2:44:37 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: higgmeister

Yet another ugly lesbian heard from (yes, it’s female)


16 posted on 10/20/2017 2:46:24 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: higgmeister

Hey!

Masha!

Get some meatballs to go with those spaghetti arms!


17 posted on 10/20/2017 2:46:42 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Ironically, some of her ideological fellow-travelers wish for a military coup.


18 posted on 10/20/2017 2:47:04 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

As opposed to the Communist Coup under Obama?


19 posted on 10/20/2017 2:47:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: higgmeister

Stereotype fulfillment proved by photograph = 100%.


20 posted on 10/20/2017 2:50:22 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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