Posted on 08/19/2018 5:05:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said President Donald Trump’s supporters were “couch potato anarchists.”
Peters said, “I left Fox because as a former military officer who took an oath to the Constitution, I could not be part of a channel that to me was assaulting the Constitution, the constitutional order, the rule of law. But that said, Fox isn’t immoral, it’s amoral. It was opportunistic. Trump was a gift to Fox and fFox in turn is a gift to Trump. As you observed earlier, it’s a closed loop and so people that only listen to Fox have an utterly skewed view of reality.”
He continued, “By the way, earlier some of your guests were describing Trump world in terms of Republicans, the Republican party is gone or at least dormant. What we see now the people supporting Trump are radicals. These couch potato anarchists. They are people who don’t have a program to make America great again, and by the way America is great right now, rather, they’re destructive. They want to tear things down. They want vengeance. And Trump is brilliant at that. He’s done what autocrats and charlatans and false messiahs throughout history have done. He’s told core supporters, you’re not to blame for the mistakes you made. You’re not to blame for your failures. It’s them, it’s the minorities, it’s the immigrants, it’s fake news, it’s the deep state.”
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What a putz.
“...assaulting the Constitution, the constitutional order, the rule of law.”
Does Peters give any details on exactly HOW Trump (and Fox?) are supposedly doing these dastardly things? Because I’m not seeing it anywhere.
He also accused Tucker Carlson of being a Russian agent. Tucker Carlson!
it’s a closed loop and so people that only listen to Fox have an utterly skewed view of reality.”
What about the people who only watch CNN..
As Rudy would say Truth is not the Truth...it is what you believe to be true..unless you see it..
Sadly I respected that drama queen at one time.
He also voted for the hag.
Hahaha...I’ve been called a lot of things, but “Couch Potato Anarchist” is a new one.
That my friends, is what we call “Leftist Projection”.
He’s a crappy author, as well. I picked up one of his books at the library several years ago and I couldn’t get through more than about forty pages.
Peters hates Trump because Trump’s main goal is to keep us out of wars, while Peters wants more.
What happens is that people like Peters who have made their living around Washington have learned that it is voters, not them, who determine the direction of this country. And they just can't stand that.
This guy had his lunch money stolen a lot.
I thought we were “nazis”??!!
There is more deference shown to the “libertarian” side than most previous ‘conservative’ coalitions. As a constitution revering cannabis consumer, he almost gets it right, close enough that purging hemorrhoid on the body politic that is Jeff Sessions and replacing him with anyone who doesn’t get off licking jackboots and actually understands the concep[t of ‘state’s rights’ Either Bush or Reagan was worse.
Oh shut up, Ralph, you pink frilly panties wearing hysterical woman.
Too many of these guys doing it at the same time. Trying to set up a military coup.
Peasants are we. Take no notice of us, Ralphie. We’re harmless.
Pretty weak showing, imo.
A product of the “up or out” policy??
surprised fox news would dip to such a low ranking officer as their expert commentator?.
Seems like a better fit for CNN?
Ralphie never met a war he didn’t like nor was ever against throwing our young people into a meat grinder.
Now he’s just a cheap political hack.
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