11-14-2020, 01:18 AM
(11-12-2020, 06:29 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 12-Nov-2020 World View: Hamstringing Biden
(11-11-2020, 09:08 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Hamstringing the incoming Administration is a horrible idea. An
> administration getting help from a foreign power in achieving its
> domestic ends out of its own design is unconscionable. An
> administration requiring its successor to seek non-government
> assistance from special interests or, worse, from foreign powers,
> is unthinkable.
"Hamstringing"? Don't you mean that it's racist, sexist and
homophobic? This is the usual crap that Democrats to use to
intimidate tea partiers and Trump supporters from asserting their
rights, in this case the investigation of the growing instances of
voting irregularities during the election.
Did I say anything about racism or homophobia except to illustrate things once true about America that are no longer so prevalent, and that I do not miss. I also mentioned bad roads, lower standards of formal education as things about the past that weren't so great.
Quote:However, what I'm telling you is that I've heard one analyst after another make it clear that
there is a groundswell of furious activism growing among the 71
million tea partiers and Trump supporters, and your cheap intimidation
tricks aren't going to work nearly as well.
Joe Biden won fair and square this time, as did Donald Trump in accordance with the rules of the electoral 'game' in 2016. Your side did little to win over people who voted against Trump the last time, except to smear Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with questionable connections to Fidel and Raul Castro (obvious banes to Cuban-Americans) and to Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro (banes to Venezuelan-Americans). "Biden y Harris son Chavecistas" sounds like a Big Lie done before it could be refuted. It seems to have been used only in Florida and to have worked only in Florida.
Quote:As a proud American, you should be applauding the investigations,
because they'll establish the validity of America's voting system, and
prove that they we aren't just Stalinists. You should be thrilled
that the investigations provide the opportunity to prove to everyone
that Biden's election was legitimate. I'm sure you'll agree that
stopping the investigations is a "horrible idea." If it's stopped
early, then the 71 million tea partiers and Trump supporters will be
absolutely convinced once and for all that it was rigged. That would
be terrible for Biden. What you call "hamstringing" is the best thing
for Biden. Once it's over, he can brag about it every day.
Such has never been done in any American election. Even in 2000, Democrats accepted the judicial finding as definitive.
Quote:But still, your post is nonsensical on several additional levels
requiring a response.
First off, we now know that, along with Hunter, Joe Biden is
completely compromised with the governments of China, Russia and
Ukraine. This is going to be problematical in all intelligence
briefings, since it may be a security breach to reveal top secret
information to Biden.
Uhhhh... it is Trump who has friends in really-high places (meaning the Kremlin) in Russia.
Quote:The second problem is that CIA intelligence briefings won't do Biden
officials any good, if they don't have the solid information background
that lets them understand what they hearing, and I've seen no
evidence that anyone in the Democratic party has a clue what's going
on in the world.
Not a problem when Obama was President and Biden was Vice-President. Obama had a cozy relationship with America's Intelligence services because he didn't abuse intelligence information. Such explains the 'ventilation' of Osama bin Laden by Seal Team 6. The CIA found where Osama bin Laden was, and Seal Team 6 did the hit with the approval of Obama.
Quote:It's not just Democrats. I learned in 2007 that the "experts" in
Washington are unbelievably stupid about the Mideast.
** Guess what? British politicians and journalists are just as ignorant as Americans
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...m#e070114b
What I learned was that I knew more about the Mideast than the
Washington "experts." Now, 13 years later, having written thousands
of articles and several books, I'm pretty sure that I know more about
what's going on in the entire world better than any of the Washington
"experts." This becomes obvious to me almost any time I see one on
tv.
No fooling. Wishful thinking is commonplace and worthless.
Quote:When Obama came into office, he knew absolutely nothing, and did one
stupid thing after another. His entire foreign policy was based on
only one rule -- do the opposite of what Bush did. Over the next
eight years, it was obvious that he learned nothing, as his former
defense secretary Robert Gates suggested in his memoir.
He knew enough to ask who were reliable sources of objective information and acted upon what he had.
Quote:I'm still completely appalled that Obama chose John Kerry as Secretary
of State. Not only is Kerry incredibly stupid, he also hates the
military and has repeatedly said so, he thinks that soldiers are
stupid (even though they're a lot smarter than he is), and his
selection was a big thumb in the eye of every American soldier and
veteran. But this is what we expect from Obama, and Democrats in
general.
OK -- John Kerry was an awful Secretary of State.
Quote:I'm reminded of an article I wrote last year about Chris Murphy:
*** 23-Oct-2019 World View: The stupidest person in Congress - Chris Murphy
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5168&p=48065#p48065
I wrote that after watching a speech by Murphy broadcast on
al-Jazeera. Murphy is the leading Democratic foreign policy "expert"
in Congress, and his ignorance and stupidity were breathtaking, at AOC
levels. Al-Jazeera simply broadcast the speech with no comment,
presumably because they wanted to show their Arab audiences how stupid
the Americans are.
Which does not disguise that Trump is cruel, reckless, bigoted, and impulsive.
Quote:So maybe there was someone in the Obama administration (after Gates)
who had some clue what was going on in the world, but I never saw it,
and the choice of the idiot Kerry indicates to me that none exists.
Kerry was Obama's mistake. Such happens.
Quote:When Trump began running, I was extremely contemptuous of Trump's
foreign policy knowledge, and I mocked him by suggesting that he knew
nothing except the locations of his golf courses. But then he did
something completely unexpected -- he hired Steve Bannon, one of the
country's leading and most knowledgeable military historian, and also
an expert on Generational Dynamics. By the time Trump took office, he
had been educated by Bannon, and he was already extremely
knowledgeable about foreign policy, and was able to hit the ground
running. But that wasn't because of some worthless transitioning
briefing from Obama, but instead was because he had already been doing
the hard work attending briefings by Bannon and others for over a
year.
...and someone who proved dumb enough to operate a scam fund-raising scheme that would draw the attention of the Postal Inspectors for mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud which lie within the purview of the Postal Inspectors. I would guess that a huge portion of white-collar offenders in Federal prisons are there for mail fraud, wire fraud, or bank fraud because practically all scams involve mail fraud, wire fraud, or bank fraud for promoting the scam or collecting the funds. Steve "Caught on a Yacht" Bannon could do significant federal time.
Quote:It was this deep knowledge that made it possible for Trump to
impressively manage the situations in North Korea, China and the
Mideast, and mediate three peace agreements in the Mideast, as well as
one in the Balkans. In the case of China, Trump was able to reverse
three decades of appeasement for all kinds of things, including
intellectual property theft. Responding to your statement, what's
"unconscionable" is that Biden's relationship with China is completely
compromised, and he may simply let China get away with everything
again.
North Korea? What did Trump get out of it except some "beautiful letters"? As for China... I see a parallel to what is going on in Hong Kong in the Commie coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948, and it does not look good. It is happening while Donald Trump is still President.
Quote:It's worth repeating that Trump hit the ground running, but not
because of a couple of days of Obama intelligence briefings. It was
because of over a year of hard work and serious study with Bannon, not
a year hiding in his basement.
COVID-19 wasn't killing people in 2016 and 2017.
Quote:During Trump's 2016 campaign, he was out campaigning and attending all
sorts of briefings, learning everything he needed to know to be an
effective president.
During Biden's 2020 campaign, he hid out in his basement all year,
learning nothing, part of a Democrat party that purposely censors
any news that the Democrats don't like. Biden is abysmally incompetent
and unprepared for the presidency. A couple of days of briefings
won't change that. Biden is simply a dolt. Missing the briefings
won't be "hamstringing" Biden. Biden is already hamstrung.
It is customary for the outgoing Administration to make available such classified information as the Intelligence services are willing to share, at the least on a need-to-know basis. The point is to not leave the incoming administration with ugly surprises from unforced errors.
Quote:We may see one consequence if the Pfizer rollout succeeds. Democrats
are desperately looking for a way to stop that, since it will make
Biden look like a pathetic idiot, who has no plan except "masks and
lockdowns." Pfizer is not likely to agree to any slowdown. I know
someone at Pfizer, and he's told me that the company has shut down
almost every other project, in order to invest all resources on the
virus vaccine. In other words, they've bet the entire company on the
vaccine, and they're not about to stop now, just as they're
approaching their big payday.
Credit will go to the pharmaceutical firm that develops the vaccine. Pfizer has a huge collection of expiring and obsolete patents, and.. well, if COVID-19, the Trump Plague, weren't killing so many people then the research would instead be on such things as cancer and Lowy-body diseases instead. Resources expended on finding a vaccine for COVID-19 will require the deferral of research on other diseases.
I look at the numbers and they are ugly. 150,000 new cases in one day? Something is going very, very wrong. We went too slack too early.
Quote:So this brings us back to these transition briefings. Biden
administration officials are, as far as I can tell, completely
ignorant about the world and foreign policy, so the briefings would be
harmless, but probably otherwise useless, since they wouldn't even
understand them. Since they'd be harmless, it probably would be a
good idea for the Trump administration to provide them.
You have little faith in Joe Biden because you think him a radical, un-American figure. I had little faith in Donald Trump because he was so depraved that that would trivialize any objectionability that I saw in him for his ideology. I regret to say that Trump fell well short of my low expectations, and the only good I can say of him is that his incompetence ensured that he could never achieve his agenda. I suppose that that is a silver lining to the very dark cloud.
Quote:If Biden REALLY wants to use this time intelligently so he won't be
hamstrung, he could start right now by hiring someone with the stature
of Steve Bannon to educate him. Or he could arrange for himself and
his staff to attend zoom briefings put on by foreign policy experts at
various think tanks and universities. The only problem with that is
that he would select only people presenting left wing nonsense, but
it's better than nothing, and nothing is what he currently knows,
after he's hidden in his basement for a year.
Steve "Caught on a Yacht" Bannon? Maybe he could ask Bernie Madoff about finances or Jeffrey Skilling about commerce!
Quote:Another option is that he could take is to hire me to give a zoom
briefing. Since I know more about what's going on in countries around
the world than the "experts" in Washington, I could provide more
intelligent and accurate information than the left-wing stuff his
advisors will give him. I could also ask "Navigator," a military
history expert in my forum, to help out with the briefing. That would
be one of the best choices that Biden would make. I'll look forward
to hearing from him.
(11-12-2020, 04:57 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > John, we have never had a sleazier administration than the Trump
> administration.
You're a complete idiot. Biden is already sleazier.
‘Plausible deniability’: Tony Bobulinski says Joe Biden knew about
Hunter Biden’s China deal pursuits
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...l-pursuits
Donald Trump is a horrible person. Need I go into details?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
