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In The Mailbox: 07.14.20

Posted on | July 14, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Coordinated Attack On Catholics?
EBL: Bastille Day
Twitchy: Video Shows College Student Leaving Racist Messages On His Own Car; He’s No Longer Speaking To Police
Louder With Crowder: MO Gun Owner Who Defended His Home Being Indicted By Marxist Attorney
Vox Popoli: The Einstein Fraud, also, Another Gut Punch For McRapey

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Regional Property Con
American Conservative: The Great Migration North – Fleeing For Life
American Greatness: Eighteen States Sue Trump Administration To Allow Foreign Students To Remain In America
American Thinker: NeverTrumpers Out Of The Closet As Liberal Democrats In Drag, also, How Affirmative Action Screwed Up Michelle Obama
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Airline Seats News
Babalu Blog: NYT Writer Treated Like A Cuban Exile, Resigns
Baldilocks: About That Other Virus
BattleSwarm: How To Skew A Poll, Texas 2020 Edition, also, PSA – Texas Election Runoff Today
Cafe Hayek: The Quality Of Her Argument Is Low
CDR Salamander: Our Long National Uniform Faux Pas Is Over (Kind Of)
Da Tech Guy: Mary Will Likely Pray For Them, also, Report From Louisiana – National Anxiety Over Return To Schools
Don Surber: Cindy Adams Calls Out Trump’s Niece
First Street Journal: Thank The Lord That I Escaped The Keystone State!
The Geller Report: Gov. Cuomo’s Latest Inhumanity To Disabled Group-Home Residents Amid COVID-19, also, Iran-Backed Houthis Round Up Yemeni Jews As Part Of Ethnic Cleansing Efforts
Hogewash: Mmmm, Black Beans…, also, Meanwhile In The New York Media
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Out of Step With Public & Reality On Defund The Police Movement, also, Indiegogo Shadowbans Comic MAGAnificient Seven
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile Back In Wuhan
The Lid: Why Do Teachers’ Unions Hate Our Kids?
Legal Insurrection: Five Pediatricians Say Benefits Of Kids being In School Outweigh Risk of COVID-19, also, CA Gov Newsom Orders Major Rollback Of Reopening
Michelle Malkin:
The PanAm Post: Columbus Yesterday, Serra Today, Spain Tomorrow, also, Maduro Tries To Move Venezuelan Foreign Assets To Russia
Power Line: Weiss Out At NYT, also, An Outrageous Prosecution In Atlanta Turns Scandalous
Shot In The Dark: Rounds Two…And Three?
STUMP: Data Quickie – 2020 Census Affected By COVID, And Pre-COVID Population Numbers
The Political Hat: #OrcLivesMatter
This Ain’t Hell: Stop Abusing The Birds, also, 56 Bronze Stars?
Victory Girls: Bari Weiss Scorches NYT In Resignation Letter
Volokh Conspiracy: Government Rescinds July 6 Directive On Student Visa Rules
Weasel Zippers: Hospitals Confirm Recordkeeping Mistakes In FL COVID-19 Report, Greatly/Falsely Increasing Positive Case Count, also, #BLM Invades Dallas Restaurant, Patrons Fight Back, & Black Man Calls Out Invaders
Megan McArdle: How To Explain Systemic Racism To Non-Liberals Like Me
Mark Steyn: The Priorities Of McConnell, also, Footballs Of Clay

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Nick Cannon Goes Full Hotep
UPDATE: CBS ‘Terminating Relationship’

Posted on | July 14, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Never go full hotep:

“America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon delivered a racist and anti-Semitic rant in a June 30 episode of his podcast, “Cannon’s Class.”
Cannon hosted rapper Professor Griff, whose record of anti-Semitic comments is well documented, for an interview in which they promoted anti-Semitic conspiracies about Jewish families secretly controlling the world and claimed that black people can’t be anti-Semitic because they’re the real Semitic people. . . .

OK, let me pause here to explain, for anyone who hasn’t followed this, that the idea that black people are the “real Jews” is a claim associated with the Black Hebrew Israelite cult, which was implicated in at least two anti-Semitic terrorist attacks last year. (“Report: ‘Black Hebrew Israelite’ Cult Connection to Jersey City Attack,” Dec. 11, 2019, and “Feds Say Hanukkah Attacker’s Journals Referenced Black Hebrew Israelite Cult,” Dec. 30, 2019.) A few excerpts from the Wikipedia page:

The Hebrew Israelite movement originated at the end of the 19th century, when Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy both claimed to have received visions that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Bible . . .
Wentworth Arthur Matthew founded the Commandment Keepers Congregation in Harlem in 1919. Matthew was influenced . . . by Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey used the Biblical Jews in exile as a metaphor for black people in North America. . . .
Zimbabwan novelist Masimba Musodza has stated that the doctrine which is taught by Black Hebrew Israelites “force[s] their own ideas onto the text to promote their own agenda, which serves no purpose at all except to engender antisemitism in Black communities in western countries.”

Let us acknowledge that, at the time that these sects were founded — Frank Cherry’s Church of the Living God in 1886, William Saunders’ Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896, Wentworth Matthew’s Commandment Keepers in 1919 — black Americans were in a desperate situation. The abolition of slavery had not brought black people to the Promised Land. In fact, most former slaves and their offspring found “freedom” in post-Civil War America to mean a life of toil and poverty. Illiteracy was widespread, and very few black people had even as much as a high-school diploma. In such an environment, it was possible to find a credulous audience for the nonsensical and counter-factual claim that black people were the true descendants of ancient Israelites, and that actual Jews were therefore imposters, who had “stolen” their identity. What is more difficult to explain — mind-boggling, really — is how anyone in the 21st century could be so ignorant as to believe this. But such nonsense has continued gaining traction:

Supposedly, hotep is an ancient Egyptian word meaning “peace,” but the word has become slang for promoters of a crude system of Afrocentric beliefs, with overtones of black nationalism tending toward paranoid conspiracy theories:

In Afrocentrism and black nationalism of the late 20th century, influenced by the “Black Egyptian hypothesis”, “Hotep” was adopted as a formula or greeting. Since the 1990s, “a Hotep” has come to be used to refer to a proponent of radical or fanatical black nationalism.

Despite my SPLC-designated hate-list status, I have enormous sympathy for black Americans and their problems which, in many ways, are similar to the problems of rural white “redneck” Southerners. Anyone promoting hate as the solution to such socio-economic problems is not a true friend of the oppressed. Conspiracy theories won’t fix poverty or family breakdown, but I digress. Meanwhile, back on Nick Cannon’s podcast:

“When you have a person who has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin that they know they will be annihilated, therefore they know that however they got the power, they have a lack of compassion, melanin comes with compassion,” Cannon said.
“Melanin comes with soul, that we call it soul, we soul brothers and sisters, that’s the melanin that connects us so the people that don’t have it, are, and I’m going to say this carefully, are a little less and where the term actually comes from, and I’m going to bring it back around to Minister Farrakhan, where they may not have the compassion,” he added.
“When they were sent to the Mountains of Caucasus, they didn’t have the power of the sun. The sun started to deteriorate them. So, they’re acting out of fear, they’re acting out of low self-esteem, they’re acting out of deficiency, so therefore the only way they can act is evil,” Cannon continued.
Scholars have long debunked the pseudo-scientific claim that skin melanin levels are linked to intellectual abilities.
“They have to rob, steal, rape, kill and fight in order to survive. So these people who didn’t have what we have, and when I say ‘we,’ I speak of the melinated people, they had to be savages, they had to be barbaric because they’re in these Nordic mountains, they’re in these rough torrential environments, so they’re acting as animals, so they’reDe the ones closer to animals, they’re the ones that are actually the true savages,” Cannon said in the video.
“So I say all that to say the context when we speak of ‘Jewish people,’ white people, Europeans, the Illuminati — they were doing that as survival tactics to stay on this planet,” Cannon added.

Oh, dear God, where to start? This is an attempt to combat negative stereotypes of black people by asserting the opposite of white supremacy.

It would be sufficient, as a rebuttal, to reply: “Citation, please?”

That is to say, there is no valid science to support Cannon’s bizarre assertions, which are in fact a pseudo-scientific interpretation of the lunatic ravings of Elijah Poole a/k/a “Elijah Muhammad,” who was a disciple of Wallace Dodd Ford, a/k/a “Walli Fard Muhammad,” the founding prophet of the Nation of Islam. So far as the FBI was able to determine, Ford was actually a white man, who had served time in San Quentin prison, although it has also been claimed that he was a Turkish Muslim who acted as an agent of Nazi Germany. Whatever the truth about Ford/Fard, his disciple Poole had only a third-grade education, and his weird teachings — the ancient scientist Yakub manufacturing white “devils” — were such a tale as only a fool could believe.

It is from this nonsense that Cannon’s claim about “melinated people” is derived, a belief analogous (in obverse) to Nazi mythology about the German people as descendants of ancient Aryans. A truly wise man would say, as regards the origin of differences between races, “We don’t know.” Because I’m a Bible-believer who has always been skeptical about Darwinian theory, I don’t buy into the “millions of years” of prehistory that anthropologists use to explain these differences. Beyond that, however, I have no theory of my own, and don’t really consider any such theory necessary or useful. My own British ancestors first appear in history as warlike barbarian tribes opposing Roman conquest, and just about everything prior to that is anthropological speculation.

Of course, facts and logic are tools of the blue-eyed devils, so I don’t suppose that any of Farrakhan’s followers would care, but I do hope that people will keep an eye out for this trend of black-supremacist conspiracy theories. The #BlackLivesMatter movement has obviously given such kooks an excuse to come out and spew their nonsense in public, and I expect we’ll see more violent terrorism as a result.

UPDATE: Canceled!

So, CBS is against anti-Semitism. Who knew?




 

Category: Racism

In The Mailbox: 07.13.20

Posted on | July 14, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Random Thoughts
Ammo.com: Constitutional Republic vs. Pure Democracy – How The Election Process Has Changed
Bacon Time: What The Hell Is Wrong With You
357 Magnum: You Say “Mistaken”, I Say “Lying SOB”
Doug Ross: Why Do Teachers’ Unions Hate Our Kids?
EBL: Why Did Steve Bing Kill Himself?
Twitchy: Masked Antifa In Portland Open A Black Man’s Car Door – It Was A REALLY Bad Idea
Louder With Crowder: LA Teachers Union Will Only Reopen Schools If We…Eliminate Charter Schools & Defund The Police
Vox Popoli: The Decision Was Correct, also, A Harder Line

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Tribal Edition, also, Podcast #148 – The Search For Truth Episode
American Conservative: Brooks Brothers, RIP, also, The #BLM Platform Destroys Black Lives That Matter
American Greatness: It’s All About November 3, also, Trump Needs To Scale The Real Wall Of 2020
American Power: California Braces For Hard Times
American Thinker: Justice For Roger Stone, also, Lies, Damned Lies, And The Lincoln Project
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Hispanic Lives Matter, Right?
Baldilocks: Representing
BattleSwarm: Social Justice Warriors – The Cartoon, also, BidenWatch For July 13
Cafe Hayek: Spending Is Pointless Without Production, also, Unmasking Irrationality
Camp of the Saints: Busing To Achieve Racial Desegregation…Never Happened?
CDR Salamander: What A Navy Is For, On Midrats, also, The Burning Of The Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
Da Tech Guy: Da Magnificent Seven Minus One, also, In Lady A Music Battle, Big Crushes Little When White Privilege Meets Wokeness
Don Surber: Trump Won’t Give Money To Minnesota Looters, also, Kaepernick Is A Front Man For Slavery
First Street Journal: A Spoiled Brat
Fred On Everything: Buffer Flow – The Ghastly Future Of Work
The Geller Report: Chicago Weekend Bloodbath – 60 Shot, At Least 10 Fatally, also, Left-Wing “Jews” Attack Jews Who Point Out #BLM’s Anti-Semitism
Hogewash: Mail-In Ballots Rejected In California, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Celebritocracy Might Catch Conservatives By Surprise, also, Why X-Men Shames Glitzy Successors
JustOneMinute: Bracing For The New Week
The Lid: St. Louis Cops Confiscate Weapons From Couple Who Defended Home From Mob, also, Occasional Cortex Gives Asinine Reason For Spike In NYC Violent Crime, Cites Fake Statistics
Legal Insurrection: Goya CEO Rejects Cancellation, also, Trump Directs Treasury To Review Tax-Exempt Status Of Colleges & Universities
The PanAm Post: 96% Of Venezuelans Poor Under Socialism, also, Maduro’s “New Order”
Power Line: Trump Administration Turns Down Request To Pay For Minneapolis Riots, also, Thomas Sowell On The Madness
Shark Tank: FL GOP Backs Apparent #NeverTrump Potestad
Shot In The Dark: Dear DFL – You Own This Town
STUMP: Truth Is My Highest Value
The Political Hat: Cancel Culture Is About Imposing Privilege & Power
This Ain’t Hell: Another Two Accounted For, also, Bonhomme Richard Fire
Victory Girls: Boycott Goya Fails Spectacularly
Volokh Conspiracy: CDC’s Latest Estimated COVID-19 Fatality Rate – 0.65%
Weasel Zippers: Top Pediatricians Tell NBC The Back Reopening Schools, also, #Buycott Goya Underway, Products Flying Off Shelves
Mark Steyn: 1776, also, Oklahoma!

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Kelly Preston, RIP

Posted on | July 14, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the delay in posting; my old reliable Toshiba laptop died on Sunday, and it took a while to find a worthy replacement. Today we mourn the passing of Kelly Preston, actress and wife of fellow actor John Travolta, while being treated for breast cancer. She had a sizable resume, appearing in over sixty TV shows and films, ranging from Space Camp and Jerry Maguire to Battlefield Earth.

Good night, sweet princess.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1042, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Shootings & Killings Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s folio this week includes La Boheme, Il Trovatore, Cosi Fan Tutte, Francesca di Rimini, Oona Chaplin, “Monkey Man”, Oksana Volkova, Madama Butterfly, Vintage Monsters & Babes, and Tristan und Isolde.

A View From The Beach presents Lili Reinhart Regrets Cheeky Post, Fish Pic Friday – Three Cheers for Allison Ren, Chesapeake Bay Salmon?, The Wednesday Wetness, Some Tuesday Tanlines, Your Monday Morning Motivator and Palm Sunday – July 4 Holiday Edition

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Elizabeth Montgomery, and Red Pilled Jew brings us Pretty Faces.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has All the Wrong Answers on NYC Crime

Posted on | July 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Gosh, it’s just so mysterious:

Following the George Floyd protests which devolved into deadly riots that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments, violent crime sparked in New York City last month. The Big Apple experienced a 130 percent increase in the number of shootings across the city between June 1 and June 30. Murders, burglaries, and auto thefts also shot up. Yet last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested this violent crime was a reaction to the economic downturn due to coronavirus, rather than an outgrowth of the riots or the calls to defund and abolish police departments.
“Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now? The fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession?” AOC asked in a virtual town hall meeting on Thursday.
“Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money so … they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
AOC did not address the destructive riots or the fact that protesters are demonizing police and calling for their abolition, demands that demoralize law enforcement and contribute to their withdrawal from the streets. Instead, the congresswoman complained that the NYPD operates with a $6 billion budget. Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a $1 billion cut to the police force, but that has not taken effect yet.

The facts . . . Well, why waste facts on a Democrat? Nobody who knows anything about AOC believes she’s actually against crime.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

 




 

Category: Crime, Democrats, New York

FMJRA 2.0: Break Open The Sky

Posted on | July 13, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Break Open The Sky

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Summer Musashi
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
EBL
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

Black-on-Black Crime Explodes in the Wake of #BlackLivesMatter Protests
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL
A View From The Beach

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: O Thus Be It Ever When Free Men Shall Stand
EBL
A View From The Beach

Fireworks: Trust the Experts!
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.07.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 07.07.20 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

‘To Enlighten My People’
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.08.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 07.09.20
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.10.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending July 10:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach, 357 Magnum, & Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Portland #BlackLivesMatter Rioters Manufacture ‘White Supremacist’ Hoax

Posted on | July 12, 2020 | 4 Comments

 

The #BlackLivesMatter/#Antifa mob in Portland, Oregon, has been “protesting” — which is to say, rioting — for the past six weeks. The “mostly peaceful” protesters in Portland are a horde of dangerous criminals, and no one is safe on the streets of Portland so long as this vile crew is allowed to continue congregating there. Did I mention that Portland is a Democrat-controlled city in a Democrat-controlled state?

The governor (Kate Brown) and both U.S. Senators in Oregon are Democrats. Hillary Clinton carried Oregon by an 11-point margin in 2016, and in Multnomah County, she got 73% of the vote. Portland is so far left it makes San Francisco seem conservative by comparison.

What is it that the Portland mob is rioting against? Is there a racism problem in this hive of leftist scum? Is police brutality a problem in Portland? Or is it the case, as I suspect, that these dope-addled anarchists were just looking for an excuse to riot, and seized upon the George Floyd case to justify a frenzy of vandalism and public disturbance?

Thursday night, the Portland mob thought they’d found themselves a heroic martyr for “social justice,” when a guy named Dominique Dunn was shot at a strip club called Reveal Lounge on the city’s south side.

 

You may ask, “How does getting shot at a strip club make you a social justice hero?” Well, Antifa claimed, Dunn was “murdered for being Black,” and various social-media accounts put out the claim that Dunn was shot by a white supremacist who shouted racial slurs.

And then cops posted the suspect’s mug shot.

 

Does this guy look like a white supremacist to you? Jordan Clark, 25, doesn’t seem a likely candidate for the Aryan Brotherhood, if you get my drift, and Andy Ngo has the real story: Clark shot Dunn after a drug deal went bad, according to sources. No “white supremacy” was involved.

Meanwhile, the anarchist mob continues rioting in Portland, and last night the rioters pissed off some federal agents that President Trump sent to protect the federal courthouse there.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The punk who took a tear-gas canister in the face, Donavan La Bella, underwent surgery and is back home in his mom’s basement, claiming to be a victim.

Hey, maybe you should have something better to do on Saturday night than hang around a bunch of anarchist incels? Just sayin’ . . .

Also, don’t ever try to rip off Jordan Clark in a dope deal.




 

Category: Crime, Racism, Washington State

‘News’ From Foggy Bottom

Posted on | July 11, 2020 | 2 Comments

Back during the Cold War, anti-Communists believed — with ample reason — that the State Department was thoroughly infiltrated by Communist sympathizers, and more recently it has become obvious that Foggy Bottom is a hive of anti-Trump “resistance.” The U.S. foreign policy establishment quite generally is anti-American in its orientation, harboring Arab specialists who are objectively pro-Jihadi, European specialists who consider Brussels the sole legitimate arbiter of proper policy, and Asian specialists who consider it their duty to advance the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. Needless to say, the Latin American bureaus are staffed by enthusiastic advocates of unlimited immigration, and all the Africa specialists are Mau-Maus.

The idea that the United States has its own legitimate interests, which our diplomatic professionals ought to strive to advance, is anathema to the type of people hired by the State Department, who are educated at “elite” universities where patriotism is forbidden as racist. Consider the three-year-long “Russian collusion” hoax as an example of what the State Department, as operated by secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry during the Obama administration, considered appropriate U.S. policy. During Obama’s second term, Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, with key Black Sea ports and oil resources. What should be done to counter this aggression? Our European “allies” are militarily impotent, so that if NATO proposed to defend Ukraine, practically all the military equipment and manpower involved would be American. And this raises a fundamental question about U.S. policy in Europe: What use are “allies” who lack the ability — even if they had the courage, which they don’t — to wage war? Why are we obligated to defend this bunch of cowardly foreigners who can’t (or won’t) do anything to defend themselves?

Donald Trump and his advisers might not put their critique of U.S. policy in such terms, but such was the sum and essence of the “America First” position vis-a-vis the Ukraine conflict. While neoconservatives like the late John McCain engaged in a lot of saber-rattling toward Russia, a dissident school of conservatives asked, “Why is this our problem? Why can’t our European ‘allies’ step up, if they care so much?”

Keep in mind that the hawks were demanding U.S. military intervention in Ukraine at the same time — the exact same time — as Germany and other European countries were surrendering to an invasion of African and Middle Eastern “refugees.” How was it that Russia’s invasion of Crimea was a casus belli, whereas it was deemed “racist” to oppose the Third World invasion of the European heartland?

This line of thinking could be extended and elaborated, but my point is that there were objective reasons why Trump might pursue a policy that was more “pro-Russian” than what Hillary (or, for that matter, most establishment Republicans) would support. So a lot of Trump-haters — not all of them Democrats — were ready to believe that Trump and his campaign were secretly “colluding” with the Kremlin. Like all popular conspiracy theories, the “Russian collusion” hoax had some underlying factual basis (i.e., a genuine difference of opinion on foreign policy), and the “Deep State” resistance to Trump was neither entirely irrational nor entirely partisan. Defenders of the status quo in foreign policy had real reason to fear that Trump would upset the apple cart, altering our relationship with Europe to pursue a rapprochement with Moscow.

The “professionals” at Foggy Bottom have their own agendas, which explains a leak to the New York Times last year that turned out to be wrong, asserting that a lobbyist for military contractor Raytheon had influenced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to override a congressional embargo on arms sales to Saudi Arabia:

The story was, of course, an attack on President Trump, headlined “Trump Vowed to ‘Drain the Swamp,’ but Lobbyists Are Helping Run His Campaign.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The point, you see, is not whether we should or should not sell arms to the Saudis. Rather, the point is that this leak from State Department bureaucrats was intended to undermine the Trump administration’s ability to pursue its own policy. We might ask whether a hypothetical Clinton administration, or a future Biden administration, would sell arms to the Saudis, but that would be missing the point. None of the bureaucrats at the State Department would leak information about lobbyists influencing a Democratic administration, and an establishment Republican administration might also expect cooperation from Foggy Bottom, so long as its policies were in accordance with the status quo favored by State Department professionals. Trump’s administration is constantly being sabotaged by leakers — the Ukraine “whistleblower” Alexander Vindman being an obvious example — precisely because Trump is willing to question the status quo, not just vis-a-vis Russia, but on a global basis. A close-minded certainty about certain matters unites the establishment, and Trump’s willingness to “think outside the box” of that policy consensus is what makes him a target of so much hostility.




 

Category: Foreigners
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