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It wasn’t to be, but had it been, Hillary Clinton would have become not only the first woman president, but the first president to enter the Oval Office as a lame duck. For Republicans in (and out) of a Congress they totally controlled, it would have been scorched-earth tactics all the way. Not a law, not a 最高法院大法官, not an achievement would they have allowed her. The 调查, which never really ended, would have revved up instantly. Impeachment was already 在桌子上 before Election Day. And yet, in one area she would have been on the job and had a free hand from day one: foreign policy, especially in America’s wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East and Africa.
For that, a president no longer really needs a Congress for which “war powers” are a thing of 过去, a Congress that, in twenty-first-century America, couldn’t defund a war if the planet’s future depended on it. Wars, 暗杀活动, military “pivots,” and Special Ops raids across significant parts of the planet are now really just the commander-in-chief’s business. From Washington to Detroit, Kansas City to Portland, Hillary Clinton would have been dead in the water, but from Syria to Afghanistan, Yemen to Libya, Iraq to Somalia, the Clinton White House would have been on the job.
Of course, in Donald Trump’s America, in those first 100 days, there will be no lame ducks. Anything will, after a fashion, be possible. Any corporate or 1% dream will be imaginable. 税? Don’t fret for a sec if you’re already raking it in. 环境保护? What in the world were they for anyway? 气候变化? A footnote at best in a Washington to be ruled by Big Energy and its lobbyists. The first woman president has already been obliterated. Domestically speaking, once Trump & Co. have done their damnedest, the first black president will, in essence, never have existed.
And when it comes to foreign policy, The Donald and his crew will have the same freedom Clinton would have had to do anything they want and use the U.S. military any way they please. The difference, as TomDispatch 定期 Nick Turse points out today, is that, while we had a pretty clear sense of what Clinton would do abroad (and the damage it would have caused), we really have no idea what The Donald’s still nonexistent national security team will do (only, of course, that if you had to put your money down, it’s bound to be grim and chaotic). So take a little trip with Turse into a very dark place and think about where this country, its wars and policies, may be heading.
- 它确实发生在这里
国家重生？
Nick Turse • 15 年 2016 月 2,100 日 • XNUMX 字
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I just can’t read this shit anymore. Here are a couple of stories meant as an antidote.
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201611151047472984-trump-china-asean-new-silk-road-aiib/
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201611151047475305-trump-limit-washington-role-syria/
And this from zerohedge.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-15/ray-dalio-what-donald-trumps-presidency-will-look
Yeah right, like when we gave the republican traitors a majority in 2012 and they immediately forgot all their promises to rescind obamacare, etc. and caved in to every democratic position that came down the aisle.
That was a big reason Trump got elected over the never-Trumpers and the other traitors like Paul Ryan. None of us were going to listen to their lies again, not the RINO traitors and not the lying LSM bottom-sucking scumbag presstitutes. They betrayed us big time, and we weren’t giving them another opportunity to do it again.
It wouldn’t have been scorched earth tactis at all, it would have been roll over and play dead, amnesty and open borders for everyone and fuck the US working people!
I like reading alternative opinions and analysis from those few remaining old-style Lefties who make sense, but this guy ain’t one of them, so I’m giving up reading him as well. Engelhardt makes Gustavo Arellano look like a sage on the level of John Kenneth Galbraith.
Unz has the right idea bringing in contrarian opinions, but I think Ron is up against the insurmountable obstacle that high quality writers from the other side of the spectrum don’t want to step outside their safe spaces and allow themselves to even be reprinted in conservative or alt-right media.
Actually it started in 2010, and it is a scary narrative of dysfunction: First, we restored Republican control of the House, so they then whined that they couldn’t do much without the Senate. Then we restored Republican control of the Senate, so they whined that they couldn’t do anything without the White House. Now that we have restored Republican control of the White House and maintained Republican control of the whole Congress, Mitch McConnell is already whining that he doesn’t have the votes to block a filibuster (News flash, Mitch … You can change the Senate Rules. Do you think Chuck Schumer or Harry Reid wouldn’t go down that road if need be?).
Republicans haven’t known how to govern as a majority party since perhaps the Civil War, and they have even lost control of the narrative that they are the party that freed the slaves. Where’s our safety pin?
Elected Republicans in Washington lie to get elected. They are tools of the Oligarchy. They are in it for the money. Just like the Democrats. There have been a few exceptions. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich come to mind. And Donald Trump.