Posted on 05/15/2018 8:23:58 AM PDT by Biggirl
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Bonjour y'all! Laissez le bon Trump rouler!!!
Blue lives matter. 
Run out and get some. 
A chip off the old (chocolate) block. 
In with the 
"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Where is he today?
YAY MARK STEYN!!!
“EIB Royal Wedding Coverage” - LOL!!!!!!!
That’s a good one! :)
If Rush is really doing the Royal wedding coverage I for one will be completely done with his show.
I don’t get Mark’s humor at all.
Rush may actually be covering the wedding..
No. It is a joke. I’m sure. Can you really imagine Lovable Fuzzball giving 2 bits about a royal English ginger marrying a Hollywood train wreck? :)
I luv Steyn’s humor.
Is Rush off for Golf today and be back tomorrow, or is he out for the rest of the week?
I thought he said he would be gone for two days.
Oh, yesterday I THINK he said today and tomorrow only. Don’t flame me if I’m wrong.
Hmm. I can’t get the show on the site. Keeps telling me an error has occurred.
Some of us last month discussed this topic of a lowly Trump campaign staffer knocking down a few with the High Commissioner in a bar in London.
From FR Thread Is Alexander Downer now walking back his story about meeting George Papadopolous?
naturalman1975 to Political Junkie Too:
This story - which may or may not be factual (I suspect it is partly factual but mostly nonsense) - came from the New York Times. There's very little evidence to support it.Why do people seem to be just accepting it is accurate? I thought people were starting to understand the concept of 'fake news' but this story (which frankly is rather odd - it relies on a conservative diplomat with decades of experience, including as Australia's longest serving Foreign Minister, suddenly being very strangely indiscreet - it's not impossible, but seriously, there's a lot of reason to have questions) seems to be just accepted as true.
Political Junkie Too to naturalman1975:
It's an interesting thought, that the government of Australia is more afraid of the "Deep State" in America that's fomenting a coup than the actual Administration under attack.That said, the thing that always gnawed at the back of my mind is why an Australian ambassador, after an evening of drinking with a low-level Trump campaign aide, would think that an off-hand comment that "Russians" had compromising information on Hillary Clinton was worth running up the chain of command.
I'd have thought that the world's diplomatic corps would have taken it for granted that "Russians" had dirt on everyone, and that it was not earth-shattering news, especially since the Clinton server story had been news for quite some time.
naturalman1975 to Political Junkie Too:
I honestly would be very surprised indeed if that actually happened.I can readily believe Downer spoke to Papadopolous. I could even believe they might have had a drink together as they were in a pub.
I would be really very, very surprised if Downer was as indiscreet as the stories suggest. And would be astonished if he bothered to pass this on to anybody.
I would be somewhat less surprised if a junior staffer from the Australian High Commission behaved this way, and would not be surprised if Downer decided to protect that person on the principle that the buck stops with the Boss, and so isn't willing to discuss the issue and throw somebody more junior to the wolves.
That would be a failure of leadership on Downer's part to some extent - if one of his staff did this, that raises questions about his leadership - but I can see him deciding that he's going to protect them publically as much as possible, and let any issues be addressed internally.
Most of DFAT are pretty left wing, I'm afraid. As I say I'd be surprised if Downer did this - but would not be surprised at all if somebody on his staff had.
Political Junkie Too to naturalman1975:
What you write makes sense.I didn't write it in my post, but I was thinking about why someone of the stature of an Australian diplomat would be sitting in a London pub with a low-level Trump campaign staffer.
He wouldn't, diplomats being the insufferable effete bunch that they are.
But a low-level Australian diplomatic aide wouldn't think twice about knocking down a beer or two after hours with a low-level Trump campaign staffer in London pub on a business trip for some boring this-or-that.
naturalman1975 to Political Junkie Too:
Simplistically, that's not a bad description of Downer. He's old money, establishment. His father was a knight (Sir Alick Downer), also a government Minister, and a High Commissioner to the UK himself (and Downer was partly educated in a top English boarding school because of that - to be fair, in saying that, I should also admit I attended the same 'elite' Australian boarding school as Downer, although a few years later) and so was his grandfather (Sir John Downer) who was Premier (roughly equivalent to a state governor in the US) of South Australia, as well as one of Australia's first Senators - he also helped write Australia's constitution.Alexander Downer has all the arrogance and graces that often go with that type of background - born to rule.
His saving grace is that he actually is intelligent and competent, and does use the excellent education he received, and I would say for the most part has served Australia well as a member of government and as a diplomat. But, yes, it does to me make this story about him seem even more fishy in many ways.
-PJ
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