Posted on 05/31/2018 3:11:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
If there’s one person on Team Obama who had trouble coping with the fact that the country decided to elect a man who is the diametric opposite of his boss, it’s Ben Rhodes. Rhodes, who served as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, was the Obama’s mouthpiece for his foreign policy agenda. From Syria to the shoddy Iran nuclear deal, there was Rhodes crafting the Obama White House’s narrative to be sold to the American public.
Since the 2016 election, Rhodes has taken to his Twitter account to criticize Trump’s foreign policy, mostly because the 45thpresident is everything that Obama is not in this field. Trump doesn’t dither. He doesn’t make promises and can’t back them up, which was an appalling aspect of Obama’s foreign policy—and I think the people of Syria would agree. Rhodes does not like the fact that Trump calls what some things are in the world, like “radical Islamic terrorism,” saying it alienates Muslim allies and emboldens our enemies. He said the more Trump taunts North Korea, the less of a chance there is for a diplomatic solution; North Korea agreed to denuclearization and a renewed peace agreement, though the proposed talks in Singapore next month have hit a bump with the president signaling our withdrawal from the summit. Yet, we’re still sending a diplomatic team to the city-state. He said Iran was complying with the nuclear agreement—wrong.
Ben Rhodes reacting to Hillary Clinton's hilarious defeat in 2016 is the funniest part of the new Obama Documentary on HBO.
What makes it even better is throughout the documentary he brags how she is going to win. pic.twitter.com/MGBQNE5ATY— The Columbia Bugle ???? (@ColumbiaBugle) May 30, 2018
In HBO’s latest documentary, The Final Year, which highlights the Obama administration final months in power, Rhodes is captured grappling with the 2016 results. He’s perplexed. For a man who was the president’s mouth on foreign policy, he’s at a loss for words. He cannot articulate any of his opinions. He’s totally awe-struck that Donald J. Trump has beaten Hillary Clinton. He tells the cameras he’s outside trying to process the end of the Obama era and the beginning of what will become the Trump presidency. It’s the encapsulation of how every liberal felt that night. It was a sledgehammer to the face, the delicious reminder that demography is not destiny, that working class voters matter, that rural America mattered, and that liberals do not have a monopoly on the reign of power in this country. Trump allowed the Right to deliver a devastating uppercut to liberal America, a much-needed humbling for a segment of the nation that is still insufferably condescending towards those who don’t live in cities, have college degrees, or think that being woke is some form of achievement. We win and you lose. That’s the end of the story—and his face represents that feeling. You lost, bro. Now pack up your stuff and get out.
The Rough 'Final Year' of Ben Rhodes
The only thing close to the LEFT’s disbelief in the the 2016 Trump victory was the 1994 GOP (Gingrich & ‘Contract With America’) taking the Speakership & majority of the US House of Representatives. The Democrats had RULED the House since 1931 with only 2 GOP Congresses (80th & 83rd) equaling 60 of the 64 years in control.
The SHOCK of the Dems and the media at the thought of having to deal with Newt was probably near equal to the reaction in 2016. I remember the stories of the crying staff and Reps at having to vacate their plush offices in exchange for the dismal ones that they had been quite happy to relegate to the GOP perpetual minority. Worse was the fact that the prior Speaker, Tom Foley (D-WA) even failed to win reelection to his House Seat that year.
Anyone who thinks that the DC Swamp does not fight deep and dirty has only to be reminded of how the Democrats and the MSM created a sh*tstorm around a nothing issue to get Newt to resign in favor of the RINO Denny Hastert (R-IL).
And now almost all of the obama legacy has been destroyed but he did accomplish one thing we cannot reverse. He destroyed Europe by forcing a mass refugee problem with 65 million people from the Middle East migrating out of their homes into Europe and other nations.
Obama will be remembered as the Europe killer with the help of Merkel allowing the mass invasion and all without a shot being fired.
Obama can never be viewed as a failure because he never worked FOR America or Europe; he worked very hard to destroy both. He may have succeeded with Europe and if Trump had not been elected; I’m confident he would have succeeded in destroying America. It may have taken a generation or so to do it but the seeds of destruction would have been planted. Heck, it may happen anyway, it might simply take an extra generation to do it. All empires eventually fall. America could have very well killed itself by electing such an enemy of the Western world.
This is why illegal immigration is such a big deal and must be stopped and reversed at all costs. All illegals regardless of age must go home. They must leave our country. They simply must.
That video is so funny. “I can’t ... I can’t ... Uh ... I don’t know ... I can’t... Uh ...”
This emotional wreak of a human is your enemy. He will do everything he can to get back at any and all, individual President Trump supporters and/or people who voted for President Trump.
You are here by warned.
JoMa
The nice thing about crushing America's enemies on the left is that they are all weak women at heart. I love their tears!
On Election Day morning I turned off the TV, computer, & car radio and went dark until the next morning certain that Hillary would steal the election. I couldn’t bear to watch the media people gloat as state by state fell to the ‘Rats.
At 7:00 I turned on Fox News. It was electrifying.
“You mean....Donald Trump....WON THE ELECTION!!!?”
I quickly surfed around the MSM channels. The shock, grief, and stunned disbelief on the talking heads’ faces was such I had not seen since the Reagan victory in 1980.
Of course, I can relive it on youtube under “election night meltdown”. Cenk Uyghur & his not so young Turks going strawberry fields remains a 26 minute long Schadenfreude.
I started drinking heavily (well for me at least, I don’t really drink) as soon as I got home at about 6 p.m., I just didn’t want to have to experience it with all of my faculties intact. I was just had the NYT election meter up on my computer screen, and boy was it a thrill when that sucker moved from 80% Clinton to 99% Trump in about a half an hour!
Genoa wrote:
“Great video. About five times Ben started to blurt out what he really thought, then he remembered he was a swamp politician being recorded and clammed up. He had nothing prepared and didn’t have the fortitude to just say what he meant!”
What was he going to say, but held back ?
We’re going to jail!
A few days after the election, I was at the doctor’s office. The nurse asked me all the required questions including, “In the last few weeks have you felt upset or depressed?”
I looked at her and said “Well, actually, in the last few days. I’ve felt better than I have in eight years.”
She got a big smile on her face and agreed with me.
LOL!! Is he GAY? Really?
Never answer that “upset or depressed” question in the affirmative. With the new Red Flag laws in some states, that could get a GVRO issued in minutes, and then they come for your guns. I am not exaggerating, look up the California law; the process is unknown to the owner and there are no penalties for making a perjured statement.
A Vietnam vet admitting to PTSD faces the same fate.
Exactly. I’m too optimistic to ever get actually depressed about anything, and I certainly wouldn’t tell that to some nurse I don’t know.
Whenever I need to put a YUGE smile on my face I dial up those videos. They are extraordinary therapy!
The only look on Rhodes’ face I want to see is one of shock when he is sentenced to death for treason - re Benghazi, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Israel.
I just think he was going to bawl and did not want to do so in camera.
“We’re going to jail!”
Ding, ding, ding! You are correct. His face just screamed GUILT and FEAR, as though he were caught walking out of the bank with the bag of cash in his hand....
Lose? You mean throw a tantrum and scream and throw things? No. He didn’t lose. His friends conceded his victory so that he wouldn’t rip the heads off their dollies. And that was in college.
Damn, Samantha Powers is one ugly dude.....she looks like the results of a gene-splicing experiment gone wrong involving Linda McCartney and Delores Taylor-Laughlin.
I’m going to have to watch that Documentary with a huge tub of popcorn...
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