A few illusions have been shattered in the Trump era. The illusion of pundit expertise melted in the election cycle. The illusion or hope that the media would get anything right evaporated. A major illusion that has not stood the test of the Trump era is that our intelligence community is competent. Like the other…
Tag: cia
On Towards the ’20s + Five Friday Reads 1/2/20
A decade turns so the decade in review posts go up everywhere. It is easy content. Trump occupies so much space in the average journalist’s brain that despite being President just three years of the decade, he defines it for them. This may be a bigger indictment of Obama who instead of being a trans-formative…
Impeachment: Routing Around The Leviathan
What has been made clear in the initial impeachment hearings is that the real concern by the career bureaucrats is that President Trump was not following the DC consensus policy or procedures on Ukraine. The reason Trump may have gone around the normal channels was revealed when the ambassador to Ukraine said she knew of…
Syria Withdrawal + Five Friday Reads 10/18/19
Just stop reading American media as news. Put on some DPRK uniforms and realize it is all never-ending propaganda for what our owners want. The Syrian withdrawal is causing a meltdown from the finest of specimens in the American system. We should all applaud removing US soldiers from war zones that have zero benefit to…
Jeff Bezos’ Favor Bank
Editor’s Note: The following was lightly edited from a series of chats with an author who wishes to remain anonymous. People think too much about Mark Zuckerberg because he is Jewish and not very good at playing along with the PR he pays for. I don’t know, maybe it’s all an act. I talk with…
The American Sun 