Posted on 08/17/2018 8:48:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance.
He would have been challenged to a duel and shot.
"Trump's ... performance in Helsinki," Brennan had said, "exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was ... treasonous."
Why should the president not strip from a CIA director who calls him a traitor the honor and privilege of a security clearance? Or is a top-secret clearance an entitlement like Social Security?
CIA directors retain clearances because they are seen as national assets, individuals whose unique experience, knowledge and judgment may be called upon to assist a president in a national crisis.
Not so long ago, this was a bipartisan tradition.
Who trashed this tradition?
Was it not the former heads of the security agencies -- CIA, FBI, director of national intelligence -- who have been leveling the kind of savage attacks on the chief of state one might expect from antifa?
Are ex-security officials entitled to retain the high privileges of the offices they held, if they descend into cable-TV hatred and hostility?
Former CIA chief Mike Hayden, in attacking Trump for separating families of detained illegal immigrants at the border, tweeted a photo of the train tracks leading into Auschwitz.
"Other governments have separated mothers and children" was Hayden's caption. CARTOONS | Robert Ariail View Cartoon
Is that fair criticism from an ex-CIA director?
Thursday, The New York Times decried Trump's accusation that the media are "the enemy of the people."
"Insisting that truths you don't like are 'fake news' is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' is dangerous, period," said the Times.
Fair enough, but is it not dangerous for a free press to be using First Amendment rights to endlessly bash a president as a racist, fascist, sexist, neo-Nazi, liar, tyrant and traitor?
The message of journalists who use such terms may be to convey their detestation of Trump. But what is the message received in the sick minds of people like that leftist who tried to massacre Republican congressmen practicing for their annual softball game with Democrats?
And does Trump not have a point when he says the Boston Globe-organized national attack on him, joined in by the Times and 300 other newspapers, was journalistic "collusion" against him?
If Trump believes that CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post are mortal enemies who want to see him ousted or impeached, is he wrong?
We are an irreconcilable us-against-them nation today, and given the rancor across the ideological, social and cultural chasm that divides us, it is hard to see how, even post-Trump, we can ever come together again.
Speaking at a New York LGBT gala in 2016, Hillary Clinton said: "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic ... Some of those folks ... are irredeemable, but ... they are not America."
When Clinton's reflections on Middle America made it into print, she amended her remarks. Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo rushed to amend his comments yesterday when he blurted at a bill-signing ceremony:
"We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great." America was "never that great"?
Cuomo's press secretary hastened to explain, "When the president speaks about making America great again ... he ignores the pain so many endured and that we suffered from slavery, discrimination, segregation, sexism and marginalized women's contributions."
Clinton and Cuomo committed gaffes of the kind Michael Kinsley described as the blurting out of truths the speaker believes but desperately does not want a wider audience to know.
In San Francisco in 2008, Barack Obama committed such a gaffe.
Asked why blue-collar workers in industrial towns decimated by job losses were not responding to his message, Obama trashed these folks as the unhappy losers of our emerging brave new world:
"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
These clingers to their Bibles, bigotries and guns are the people the mainstream media, 10 years later, deride and dismiss as "Trump's base."
What Clinton, Cuomo and Obama spilled out reveals what is really behind the cultural and ideological wars of America today.
Most media elites accept the historic indictment -- that before the Progressives came, this country was mired in racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, and that its history had been a long catalog of crimes against indigenous peoples, Africans brought here in bondage, Mexicans whose lands we stole, migrants, and women and gays who were denied equality.
The people who cheer Trump believe the country they inherited from their fathers was a great, good and glorious country, and that the media who detest Trump also despise them.
For such as these, Trump cannot scourge the media often enough.
No...unless patriots give in and roll over; the left/Democrat/Progressive/Liberals have gone ‘full out’ to take over a once thriving republic.
No.
IMO, secession is the only peaceful solution. Barring that, there will be another civil war eventually. We have two “tribes” who have radically different ideas about how to live which are completely incompatible with one another and who do not like each other at all.
Exactly.
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Not until we get control of our children’s education and then it will take a generation or two.
So I guess the answer is No.
Not with communist
Could someone arrange for an asteroid to suddenly shift into orbit that would put it on collision course with Earth?
That would do more to get all humanity focused on just ONE problem, and make most of the other disagreements seem just kind of petty, than almost anything other than a direct intervention by a divine entity.
Maybe it is time we begin to direct our attention toward the manifest power of that deity.
Yep. After we win.
It took about 30 years for the Civil War to reside.
A great example is that in the Spanish American War, US troops (in blue) had to take trains to Florida to invade Cuba. The McKinley Administration was concerned about troops in blue again going through Dixie.
Crowds turned out cheering, with American flags.
NO They’re wayyy out there
Hey Dim, Indies, Mods, nonvoters etc........stop for a moment and imagine if the Dims get their ways
Is that REALLY the America you want your kids and grandkids, and their kids to grow up in?
Do you REALLY think OPEN BORDERS is smart policy?
How about CHAIN and “DIVERSITY” IMMIGRATION?
HIGHER TAXES?
Seriously, folks. Millennials. Xers.
It’s no secret that Baby Boomers got much more conservative as they aged. What does that tell you? Do you think they would have voted for McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis and Clinton if they have foreseen the mess of today’s divisions and asinine policies of the Dims?
WAKE UP PEOPLE . . . whatever immpressions you have of Donald Trump, you certainly should not disagree with his policies and actions.
DONT EVER put the left in charge again if you give a damn about your country and your family, including future generations.
Not with the mentally ill left … there is no way
We were never as together as people like to pretend. It’s a big country with a bunch of regional and cultural subsections, many of whom really don’t like each other. The only thing that’s really changed now is platforms, everybody has enough ways to get their view out that we no longer get to live in ignorance of the others. So we get reminded regularly how goofy “those people” are.
Secession is the peaceful way to divide a HOPELESSLY riven nation, so I agree completely with you. 100%.
No. I’d rather fight libs than meet in the middle with ‘em. I say let’s go ahead and get this over with.
Do you want to "Coexist" with anti-American leftist liberal democrats whose only goal is the destruction of America? God forbid it!
Ten years ago I would have said that's crazy talk. But now - with the media stirring up all kinds of hatred - you might be right.
By the way, you mentioned two tribes. I think there are more. For example, the La Raza folks aren't ever going to accept the BLM folks. And the BLM folks aren't ever going to accept these folks:
Can that horrible maggot infested rotted cheese from the island of Sardinia that’s illegal to export ever be made fresh again?
Nope.
No.
The left wants only to subjugate and eliminate (literally) those that don’t agree with them.
While it appears that the line was crossed in 2009, I believe that actually happened in 2000 when they openly tried to overturn a legitimate election after the fact. From that point on there has been no pretense from the left that they will ever honor any election they lose.
With God nothing is impossible. Without God little is possible.
No, this is Communist cancer that has been present for over 80 years.
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