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Nuts and Bolton
Steyn On-line ^ | March 23, 2018 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/23/2018 5:02:47 PM PDT by Twotone

John Bolton turned up on Fox about an hour before I did last night, and professed to be surprised by the sudden Tweeting of his appointment as US National Security Advisor. The Beltway insiders allege that it was rushed out to distract from Trump's cave-in on the 2,232-page Schumer-Pelosi Early-Christmas-For-Big-Bloated-Budget-Busting-Bureaucracy Bill that not a single person on this planet has actually read. Oh, and don't give me that "increased funding for our troops" straw-clutching: every sentient creature from the earthworm up knows that the extra dough's just going to go to diversity programs and gender reassignment surgery as opposed to anything that might increase the odds of actually winning the next 17-year war.

At this stage the Gullible Old Pussies of the Republican Party are pretty much openly advertising that giving them control of the House, the Senate and the White House is the equivalent of giving Yosemite Sam three sticks of dynamite to shove down his pants - with the additional nicety that this time round they're actively flipping the finger at their president's bedrock issue. I reiterate the point I first made on the radio a year ago: On January 20th 2017 Trump should have taken all those showboating showbiz no-shows at face value and held a businesslike inauguration at the southern border while laying the first brick. The brick remains unlaid - not because Vicente Fox refuses to "pay for Trump's f**kin' wall" but because Paul Ryan does.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: johnbolton; marksteyn; steyn
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To: Alberta's Child

Its my perception that Ambassador Bolton is globalist which sees America at the center. It is sort of like being Heliocentric with the other nations being like Icarus.


41 posted on 03/23/2018 6:13:57 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: raiderboy

Actually, with him on board we are less likely to have war than if Trump had chosen a pacifist.

Didn’t you ever deal with bullies when you were younger? Aggressors like a sure thing, they leave nothing to chance. They always choose to target the paciists and the weak because they know they will avoid, run and hide rather than fight; they never go after someone who is known for holding their ground and inclined to strike back.


42 posted on 03/23/2018 6:16:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: jonrick46
I don't know why you would think that.

He's just another Ivy League educated A-hole who has spent his entire career in Washington, D.C. If you read the guy's resume and track record and didn't know who he was, you'd describe him as a perfect personification of "The Swamp."

43 posted on 03/23/2018 6:17:12 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: rbmillerjr

Living under a rock, are we?


44 posted on 03/23/2018 6:18:17 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: raiderboy

Correct! Americans, prepare to have your sons and daughters shipped out to intervene in every conflict around the globe. There is no fight that Bolton doesn’t want to join.. not himself, mind you. Of course not, I mean, we can’t expect the warmongers to join up and fight these battles themselves.


45 posted on 03/23/2018 6:21:36 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: NELSON111

Yes, curiouser and curiouser . . .


46 posted on 03/23/2018 6:21:44 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: raiderboy
Relax raiderboy, he's just pretending to be stupid.

He's a deep state neocon troll.

47 posted on 03/23/2018 6:21:49 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: Alberta's Child

Correct, remember the South Carolina primary debate?


48 posted on 03/23/2018 6:25:07 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: odawg

They backed Trump and they now believe that they have been betrayed.


49 posted on 03/23/2018 6:29:31 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: raiderboy

Show us where he advocated invasions.


50 posted on 03/23/2018 6:31:26 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: raiderboy

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/03/23/ron-paul-on-bolton-to-the-white-house-pre-emptive-war-on-the-way/


51 posted on 03/23/2018 6:33:12 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: raiderboy

yeah right. Do you understand that Trump is POTUS? So you think Trump is so weak that a cabinet security advisor is going to start a war?

Give me a break.

Look ... Trump picked Bolton. Take it up with him instead of bitching at an anonymous person on a chat board.


52 posted on 03/23/2018 6:35:38 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Twotone

May be Mark Steyn should run for POTUS next time and show us how it is done. Oops, wait a minute, he was not born in US. And we are not sure Obama was either. And we know for sure Cruz was not born here, but that did not stop him from running.


53 posted on 03/23/2018 6:37:28 PM PDT by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is growing EXPONENTIALLY..)
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To: Bogie

Thats what I am talking about!!
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/03/23/ron-paul-on-bolton-to-the-white-house-pre-emptive-war-on-the-way/


54 posted on 03/23/2018 6:39:04 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: raiderboy

Please stop talking out of your butt.

Because the smell is horrible.


55 posted on 03/23/2018 6:39:28 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: piasa

I dont do research for the ignorant LOOK IT UP!!


56 posted on 03/23/2018 6:40:18 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: raiderboy

I would hold off about unilateral unprovoked attacks on foreign countries until Tehran or Pyongyang become shock and awe news.

Besides when did Trump last followed any subordinate’s advice 100%?


57 posted on 03/23/2018 6:41:30 PM PDT by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is growing EXPONENTIALLY..)
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To: Bogie

Ron Paul is a libealtarian....

to the left of Obama and Bernie on foreign policy.

In short he is a moron.


58 posted on 03/23/2018 6:41:51 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Reagan conservative: All 3 Pillars)
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To: Pining_4_TX

My gawd. Thank you. someone with a brain in a sea of stupid.


59 posted on 03/23/2018 6:46:29 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: raiderboy

Make sure to watch the video.


60 posted on 03/23/2018 6:50:19 PM PDT by Bogie
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