tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post797473643209749021..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: "Democrat obstruction" rings hollow when GOP controls all of governmentagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-63325134425367628562017-07-14T22:48:32.466-04:002017-07-14T22:48:32.466-04:00"Not even the military-minded voters are scre..."Not even the military-minded voters are screaming for regime change in Syria, Iran, or Russia."<br />Now that you say this... So true! They're content with a bunch of "I told you so's", like with Romney vs Obama on Russia, but they're not renting garments. Depressed? Yes.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-82246315939856467832017-07-14T17:43:40.130-04:002017-07-14T17:43:40.130-04:00Tucker on Laura Ingraham's show, making the sa...Tucker on Laura Ingraham's show, making the same points as before but more candidly:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raQ7pg2Lr9A<br /><br />If that level of skepticism regarding Pentagon orthodoxy is taking root among conservative talk radio audiences, the warmongers had better pack it up already.<br /><br />Not even the military-minded voters are screaming for regime change in Syria, Iran, or Russia. And it's quickly going to get out there that the Shia do not wage jihad, which in reality comes from Sunni extremist states like our #1 ally Saudi Arabia.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45753968036746229532017-07-14T13:11:44.810-04:002017-07-14T13:11:44.810-04:00That same liberal Democrat judge in Hawaii re-bloc...That same liberal Democrat judge in Hawaii re-blocked the Muslim ban again, by re-writing the White House's definition of who counts as having a "bona fide" relationship to an American.<br /><br />Another example of Republicans refusing to implement Trump's policies. They should have stripped the district courts of jurisdiction over national-level matters like immigration -- we're now six MONTHS into the Muslim ban's non-life, and there has been zero action or even discussion from the GOP, who proves itself once again to be against Americans controlling their own borders and population.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-16564507308365226282017-07-13T21:17:27.063-04:002017-07-13T21:17:27.063-04:00"Here's a good interview between Michael ..."Here's a good interview between Michael Tracey and Max Blumenthal, in which they cover the shift of the criticism of empire to the right-leaning people, including Tucker."<br /><br />Ha ha! I'm currently watching it, got to about the 20 minute mark, and said to myself, "Gotta share this with Ag!"<br />I think Blumenthal is dead-on, beginning around the 19 minute mark or so when he discusses it is the gentrifier-type in DC, and upper middle-class elsewhere who see Trump as an existential threat *and because they have nothing to offer all the working people they whip up fear*. Importantly, he says the Yeltsin-oligarch-mafia did just this in the 90s and is currently being done in Venezuela and Syria. He says this class fears "civil unrest" so it causes civil unrest.<br /><br />Before I get back to finishing it, the campaign to ostracize any Bernie-Jill Stein folk who try to make common cause is continuing: they're maligning Caitlin Johnstone. Nevermind that these people team up with the Frums, McMullins, and people who promise us more war to advance the neoliberal agenda. That's just being smart!<br /><br />Trump looks so far to have legitimate success in bringing Syria to a close *and they can't stand it*.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-17054299142653977582017-07-13T15:26:48.285-04:002017-07-13T15:26:48.285-04:00Yeah, exactly. I can't help but recall the Nad...Yeah, exactly. I can't help but recall the Nader-Buchanan chats in the early 2000s due to their common opposition to imperialism and elements of globalization.<br /><br />It has been pointed out that one of the reasons why the right has been so much more successful than the left over the past 40 years is that the right looks for allies to attract whereas the left looks for heretics to destroy. Due to the constant need to confirm to a battery of tests for ideological purity (mostly based on the intersectionality of special interests), one does not get a mass movement but a group of seven or eight people in a room glaring at each other suspiciously for any sign of deviant thinking.Barrettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-13693891058847222782017-07-13T15:07:14.735-04:002017-07-13T15:07:14.735-04:00Here's a good interview between Michael Tracey...Here's a good interview between Michael Tracey and Max Blumenthal, in which they cover the shift of the criticism of empire to the right-leaning people, including Tucker. Tracey says Yeah I went on Tucker and wasn't forced to say anything or refrain from saying anything, and isn't it too bad we could never be invited onto MSNBC?<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BQoY2l2AeI<br /><br />Even in their qualifications about "I don't agree with him on ____," they didn't stoop to the slander that their counterparts would have a decade ago. "Well, he's a racist sexist homophobe, but at least he's against failed imperialism, which I guess is nice."<br /><br />Their tone was more like being pleasantly surprised by all the different types of people who are against trying to prop up our failing foreign ambitions. It's like a Breakfast Club for anti-imperialists.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-14863322656319246902017-07-13T15:07:00.571-04:002017-07-13T15:07:00.571-04:00I saw it live last night, that guy had no response...I saw it live last night, that guy had no response but deranged sputtering.<br /><br />Even more hilarious when juxtaposed against his attempt to convey a nonchalant attitude through clothing choices, with his tie knot yanked all the way to one side, and his Twitter avatar having its hat falling off the side of his head (somewhere he once read about a "rakish angle").<br /><br />Rather than devil-may-care, he looked disheveled -- sartorially and psychologically. What an utter putz.<br /><br />The best retort Tucker had was when that guy said You too supported the Iraq War, and Tucker said Yeah, well you try and learn from your mistakes, and not support going into Libya, Yemen, Syria, and wherever else they're planning to invade next year.<br /><br />It took the argument out of the frame of "who is the most ideologically pure?" or "who has the greatest track record?" and made it into "who has learned and adapted the most from their earlier mistakes?"<br /><br />Most Americans supported the Iraq War in one way or another. But as long as they're changing their views toward these things, that's what matters. We'd like those with the best track records to be in charge, but if everyone has a bad record on Iraq, let's at least get those who have changed their attitude in the wake of its failure.<br /><br />Humility, redemption -- themes that could not possibly resonate with the stereotypical neo-cons.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-66610738700607507472017-07-13T11:59:59.314-04:002017-07-13T11:59:59.314-04:00BTW, good post, Ag. Nodded in strong agreement ab...BTW, good post, Ag. Nodded in strong agreement about the neocon right finding it's fighting spirit when it really wants something. They did this with social issues as well, though to a lesser extent.<br /><br />A watershed moment occurred on Tucker Carlson; I believe this marks the first time that the realist foreign policy priors debuted in a vociferous way when Carlson took on Max Boot. Watch the whole thing, please:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/885353490079514624<br /><br />Max Blumenthal's other comments alluding to this being unusual, a first:<br /><br />What does it say about the state of modern liberalism that the long overdue dressing down of Iraq war neocons takes place only on Tucker?<br /><br />.@TuckerCarlson told Boot what should be said to every chickenhawk neocon: Get another job & disappear. Sadly, the Democrats said, Join us!Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-49621811198325612802017-07-13T11:36:52.225-04:002017-07-13T11:36:52.225-04:00Between this and solid Dem states nakedly "fa...Between this and solid Dem states nakedly "failing" on Single Payer, populists and centrists need to get wise and make common cause. The neolibs/neocons sure have and are stronger than us for it. The situation, the realignment, is like a huge, hulking, creaky barge were trying to turn around.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-15117053517816380472017-07-13T10:31:42.047-04:002017-07-13T10:31:42.047-04:00If the Dems are smart (ha ha), they will take the ...If the Dems are smart (ha ha), they will take the opportunity provided by the whole Russian affair to appeal to the heartland with constant nationalistic rhetoric about "fah-run agents infiltratin' the guv'ment" that has traditionally been the GOP's territory. Instead, their attitude appears to have been, "Double down on the tumblr to stick it to the 4chan. " In other words, the same Neo-Victorian attitudes towards foreign policy and social values that delivered them an epic fail last November.<br /><br />https://zeroanthropology.net/2016/07/27/the-new-victorianism/<br /><br />Barrettnoreply@blogger.com