Wednesday, July 12, 2017

The obligatory DJT Jr. email release post

Actual facts are still hard to come by in this situation, but these seem to be the relevant ones as of the present:

1.) Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya says she is not nor ever has been employed by the Russian government. She also says she had no dirt on Clinton and had no intention of delivering such at the Trump Tower meeting with DJT Jr., Manafort and Kushner. She was there to talk about lifting the Russian ban on US citizens adopting Russian children, imposed in response to US sanctions against Russian-government officials shown to be abusing human rights.


3.) DJT Sr. had collaborated on the Miss Universe pageant in 2013 with Aras Agalarov, the Russian figure that Goldstone identified in his email correspondence as the guy with the goods on Clinton.

Last evening, if one watched any cable talking-head programs, one had to sit through innumerable tedious discussions about how DJT Jr.'s expression of enthusiasm for what Goldstone was telling him ["If it's what you say, I love it!"] and subsequent taking of the meeting with Veselnitskaya was not illegal, and how there is indeed no strict legal definition of collusion.

But I doubt if there's any significant disagreement in any quarters that it was dumb as hell. For starters, because it gave the New York Times the smoking gun regarding Trump camp footsie with a hostile foreign power that the paper of record had been itching for.

This is my first post on this. Don't be surprised if it's my last.

Gee, isn't this a big deal, especially if it's the tip of some iceberg?

In a sense, yes, but my position is, here we are, in mid-2017, combing over the president's sons emails and piecing together arcane details of associations and meetings rather than repealing the "A"CA, reforming the tax code and using all possible governmental instruments to remove cultural rot from our official institutions (i.e., ceasing and desisting all efforts to make transgendered people feel more "comfortable" in the State and Defense Departments and the CIA.)

And then there's Russia itself, and some very recent developments, namely the back-to-bakc tweets the president sent out after his meeting with Putin at G20. The first waxed enthusiastic about their discussion of a joint cybersecurity task force, and the second pretty much said, "never mind."

And my estimation of Tillerson is sinking fast. No, Mr. Secretary, we don't have anything like common goals with Russia regarding Syria.

And then, of course, there are Squirrel-Hair's water carriers. Sean Hannity's show last night was an hour-long exercise in what-about-ism. Yes, Hillary Clinton is skating with regard to some very bad breaches of national security, but that's not the subject at hand.

I'll end this post with the basic point with which I generally end such posts: We could have nominated an actual conservative, who would have beaten Hillary Clinton, and we'd be getting important stuff done right now.

17 comments:

  1. Blggie, just wondering about when you pray as you say and encourage others to do too, do you pray that your platform will prevail?

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  2. Well, since it's based on the essentiality of freedom, decency and dignity for human well-being, yes.

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  4. Thinking God is going to do your will is asking for disappointment, in my humble opinion. Many throughout history unto now have found immense relief in letting go and letting God handle it all, i.e., the ole "Thy will be done" routine. Can you honestly say you have the requisite knowledge, discretion and judgment, etc. qualifying you to advise God how to run things? Even if qualified, are you sure God's listening? I suppose this will be considered off topic, but you can be so cocksure about things, but actually not my call. I got more than enough on my plate just dealing with my character defects, errors, misjudgments, mistakes, inherent biases, all running through my head in just the one language I was born with. Que sera though, for me, if not for you.

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  6. It's not about God doing my will, it's about His will prevailing.

    But I can say this: I'm not in the opining business to be wrong.

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  7. Augustine said "pray as if it all depends on God; work as if it all depends on you, which pretty much covers it. Work to be efficient and effective must include rest, reflection and prayer. I dunno who first said "opinions are like noses, everybody has one." I did learn in zen to give them up in "don't know mind," but that's not Western so it might not be valid.

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  8. Maybe be natural selection we get a genuine conservative, is not speaker of the house third in line?

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  9. I could live with a Ryan presidency.

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  10. How do we get from here to Ryan? We don't need another conservative either.

    "The Reagan-Bush years exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.”

    Another Reagan would only make America worse again.

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  11. and here comes Trey Gowdy the Grand Inquisitor of Hillary Clinton and others(never getting anywhere really) coaching the Trump team in public. Well, dicks of a feather drivel together.

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  12. What the hell is "public obligation"?

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  13. Sorry, but conservatism is exactly what we need. Always. At every level of government, in every sector of society and in all aspects of culture.

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  14. What the hell is "public obligation?" Ask Bill Clinton (or his speechwriter) who penned the phrase, lol.

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  15. Sounds like collectivist claptrap to me.

    But the main way you can tell it's a lot of horse shit is by the inference that Ronald Reagan did't have any regard for work and family. It was one of his most prominent themes.

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  16. And use of the term "greed" clinches it as an infantile viewpoint.

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  17. Why did you choose to post the quote from the Clinton speechwriter if you weren't prepared to offer definitions in your own words of terms he used in it?

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