The Trump candidacy and presidency have been the equivalent of a pair of glasses with Zeiss lenses on someone who was badly nearsighted and didn't know it. Turns out that people we once enthusiastically supported are in fact at the root of America's problems. McCain, Bush, Romney, Gorsuch, Ryan, Roberts, Bolton, National Review, Cato Institute and God knows how many others that I'm leaving out. All rabid globalists at the service of supranational banking and business élites, who kneel before BLM and the buggery lobby and couldn't have too many cholos invading the country.

Provided Trump gets reelected (and I'm cautiously optimistic he will be), I shudder to think what our choices may be in 2024. Après Trump, le deluge.

"Turns out that people we once enthusiastically supported are in fact at the root of America's problems."

Boy oh boy, truer words were never spoken, and spoken so well. Something good is going to come out of this, I trust, because the masks have been taken off, the truth revealed, and we won't be fooled again!

You are begging to be conned again. Anyone who falls for Trumps nonsense will fall for anything. Anyway, you got for you wanted - or what he was selling - a small-time racist blowhard who "owned the libs" with his amazing tweets.

What I won't fall for, John, is your nonsense. I'm pretty sure you're the small-time racist blowhard, one who couldn't shine Trump's shoes. What a dork. Go spew your nonsense where someone would buy it.

I need hear nothing more from you.
You are blocked.

Please, please no, don't block me. If I knew you were a snowflake I would have treated you much nicer. Was I ... unfair ?

Well, that's it. My life is ruined. My only consolation is that Biden is 14 points ahead in the polls. It's a small one but it will have to do.

Foad faggott punk.

No, not a "Foad" ... how awful ..

After Trump, unless his equivalent is found, I never intend to vote for another Republican (or Democrat, of course) presidential candidate.

Also, the glasses were worn by Roddy Piper in They Live.

But you did support them and you supported them with just as much faith and enthusiasm as you now supported Trump. And Trump is an obvious fraud and conman; at least the old Republican crew pretended to be patriots.

Once Trump is gone some other snake-oil salesman will take his place to tell you what you want to hear. It will be just as idiotic as Trump's wall "paid-for-by-the-Mexicans" and his "better than Obamacare health plan". Hopefully he'll be just as lazy and stupid as Trump so the only real damage he'll do will be to the country's reputation and another wasted 4 years.

What's obvious is that Trump is attempting to actually deliver on his campaign promises.

As long as fools like you keep bellyaching, we'll know he's on the right track.

Trump is attempting to actually deliver on his campaign promises.

You really do live in a fantasy world. Give me an example of how he tried to get Mexico to pay for the wall. Tell us all about his "better than Obamacare" healthcare plan. The infrastructure bank. The deals.

All he will have is the tax cut for the rich and his pathetic tweets.

umm...how do yOU define RICH? thsoe making ~9700 to 150k saw the largerst cuts...and those making ~250-~500k saw a 3% INCREASE in tax rates!!! LOOK IT UP!!!

Lies, damn lies and (carefully selected) statistics. I should point out that the tax cut for the rich never expires but the tax cut for the rest of us expires after 10 years.

Anyway, why don't you try addressing the hard part ....

Give me an example of how he tried to get Mexico to pay for the wall. Tell us all about his "better than Obamacare" healthcare plan. The infrastructure bank. The deals.

And you're blocked, shitstain.

John, I will assume you're not a troll (for now). But this kind of nihilism is not for me. You have to put your faith in <someone> as a politician, and right now Trump is who I'm putting my faith in. He's tried repeatedly to implement his campaign promises, and when they were not fought-against by the establishment of both parties or shot down by some rogue judge, he implemented them. Trump is not as beholden to the globalist élite (by a long shot) and genuinely loves his country. How do I know? I met the man, long before 2015. Given what else is out there, that's plenty good enough for me.

EDIT: yes, you are a troll. Saw your other posts and I stopped at "unless you're a white nationalist, you shouldn't support Trump" or something to that effect. Troll. Blocked.

He's tried repeatedly to implement his campaign promises

No, he hasn't. Given me an example, apart from taking the money from funds meant for refreshing army barracks for 100 miles of wall.

What's wrong with "unless you're a white nationalist, you shouldn't support Trump"? Given that he hasn't even attempted to accomplish his stated goals, who else should support him.

Bolton was in over his head. He has no concept of understanding economics and negotiations. Bolton just wanted a war and when Trump didn't start one, he went on a hate rage.

Pitiful guy. Pitiful news outlets that would give him time.

Bolton was paid to provide a war.

The insanity over Trump largely is because he, unlike warmongering puppets such as Obama and W, has avoided a war for the dying imperial capitol.

What war did Obama start? Republican Bush is who you are thinking of. Back in 2003 all you Trumpists were chanting USA, USA and anyone who pointed out that Bush was a moron and incapable of prosecuting something as complicated as a war were called traitors and told we wanted to have Saddam's baby. Now you handle Iraq and Afghanistan by pretending you were against it all along. In 10 years time you'll be backing some other Republican disaster and will have disowned Trump completely. I don't fear Trump - I fear the deluded Q-loving idiots who voted for him.

well barry sure joined in the libya fiasco and syria pretty quickly--and since she NEVER got authorization from congress, she was in violation of the WAR POWERS ACT!! sounds like an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE to me!! violating an ACTUAL LAW?

fyi--congress passed a JR authorizing the use of force in BOTH afghanistan AND iraq!!!

well barry sure joined in the libya fiasco and syria pretty quickly--and since she NEVER got authorization from congress, she was in violation of the WAR POWERS ACT!!

Then why didn't Republicans impeach? Anyway Obama kept troops out of Libya and Syria. BTW, when Trump fired a bunch of missiles at Syria, did he get Congressional approval? But wait, Trump is white - so no Congressional approval required, silly me.

You're a special kind of stupid.

Another book that I can't wait to not read.

Yeah.

You can read ! ?

Well, since it is clear that I can write, yes. You however are nothing but a stain in the diapers of babies. So foad punk ass bitch.

Ronaldus Magnus broke the Soviets using economics and Trump is doing the same and that is upsetting out 'betters' in Sodom on Potomac because this is upsetting the paychecks sent from abroad. I love it. All these establishment freaks are only exposing themselves.

For 30 years we sent troops into harms way for nothing(I was one); economic leverage always works.

Love ya and your work, Julie. And to all at AG!!

The communist trash who comprise the D.C. Establishment is much more vicious than the Soviets and will be harder to break. But they will break, spectacularly.

And you are a brainless bot

I can't see what you're responding to; I blocked the troll.

snappy comeback

The mustachioed ogre who the Left once wanted tried for war crimes is finally earning the affection of the Trump-hating Beltway establishment that eluded him for years.

Of course the irony is boundless because the Left *was* correct, Bolton was nutz the whole time, which makes him their boy now. You just can't make this stuff up, and you wouldn't if you could.

I heard one anchor praise Bolton for exposing the pearl-clutching details and in the same sentence condemn him for waiting to profit off it by putting it in a book rather than feeding it to Schiff during the impeachment farce. Another useless tool in a seemingly endless box of tools. Are there any adults left in the room?

This is all true but largely misses the central takeaway.
Bolton was one of President Trump's multitudinous appointments of people radically opposed to his Campaign-Period Agenda (note, for example, how he has appointed more Goldman Sachs officials than Presidents G W Bush and Obama combined), in place of those citizens with qualifications who supported Mr Trump's 2015-16 policy-positions.
He could have hired a regiment of lawyers and law-enforcement officers - all persons from outside DC, please - to replace the top three enormously corrupted ranks in the DOJ and FBI.

Shortly after being elected, the President got rid of the few people around him - like Steve Bannon and Corey Lewandowski - who vigorously and effectively supported his election promises, and advanced "Javanka" (his feather-brained daughter and son-in-law) who are (a) textbook NY Liberals and (b) see his presidency as a way to make money.
President Trump has also carefully never appointed any of the few people who know exactly how to effect his Immigration Policies (of 2015-16, that is!); such as Kris Kobach, who has proved himself via first-rate clean-up of voter fraud in Kansas.

For a businessman who according to himself is totally brilliant, has Mr Trump never perceived that Personel IS Policy?

You have gone straight to Trump's core, alas. He sucks up to industrialists (never once has he put them in their place and left them there) and the s0d0m!te lobby...why? Because the Princess and her candy-ass husband run that show. For the same reason, he drags his feet on the border barrier, which was to have been completed by now, but is less than 25% complete -- all for the chamber of commerce. He has dragged his feet or prevaricated on DACA and the flood of H1B visa holders, transferring hundreds of thousands of tech jobs from the young Americans who badly need them, in favor of Hindus halfway around the world.

Trump is a walking contradiction. He's done enough good things that I still categorize him as the best we've had since 'Silent Cal' Coolidge. But he also knows how to enrage his base, that's for sure.

Now, to appease his base he's berating the sewer-pipe SCOTUS for actually doing what he (Trump) has signaled for years? Just watch; his SCOTUS picks are as liberal deep inside as Trump is. And now he's making a huge deal out of forcing 300 million vaccines on Americans...with the U.S. military doing the distribution? Astoundingly stupid PR, Trump.

When was the last time you heard that Mexico was going to pay for the wall? That con worked perfectly for Trump so he doesn't need it anymore.

Mexico COULD in fact have paid for the wall; had President Trump had one scrap of resolve.
He could - on Day One of his presidency - have instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to build the wall, and left the Dept of Homeland Security and the Dept of Defense to pick up the bill (they have nearly bottomless budgets).
[You may argue that in that case a District Court judge would have struck down his command.
Indeed. And on appeal to the Supreme Court, the SC would have had to uphold the President's instruction because the Constitution insists that he is to take all measures to safeguard the country - from invasion of any kind, from haboring people he deems unsuitable to be in it - on his own personal judgment and evaluation.]

Total Reimbursement of this cost could have come from taxing all remittances from people (working in the USA and) sending money to Mexico - which remittances come to $26 billion a year.

One day a book will have to appear which explains a giant mystery: exactly why President Trump did not put an end to Mass Immigration, the DACA scam, the anchor babies scam, the H1B visa outrage (Microsoft &c hiring indentured and effectually imprisoned/slave foreign labor to do jobs that bright American youngsters are yearning to do); when, to accomplish these things, he did not need the support of one single member of Congress or of the mainstream media.

He is a businessman. He knows that one enters into a contract or an agreement with others (it is just as much a contract if thousands/millions witness it, although it be not written down). If you do not deliver on your undertaking you are sandbagged by Disgrace, even if there be no financial penalties.

Why has he ever supposed he can get away with disappointing nearly all the people who voted for him in 2016, and not have to deal with the Disgrace?

Does he WANT to figure in U.S. history as The Dishonest Silly Blowhard?

One day a book will have to appear which explains a giant mystery

The mystery isn't why Trump didn't carry out his campaign pledges - the mystery is why the people who voted for him thought that he would. I completely agree he could have done everything - if he had wanted to. For the first 2 years of his presidency the Republicans held the House and Senate. For the infrastructure bank and an improved healthcare system he would definitely get enough Democratic votes to make the bills bi-partisan. He didn't even attempt to do either because that wasn't the point of running. He just wanted to win.

he did not need the support of one single member of Congress

I don't understand that - in the Constitution Congress has the purse strings. The recent thing where he's re-appropriating funds meant for refurbishing army quarters - that's only supposed to cover 100 miles or so.

He is a businessman

He's a failed businessman. All he does now is lend his name to buildings. All the rest is done by others with the credit and reputation required to actually get the construction done. Plus he's not a billionaire - probably never was. He just played one on TV.

BTW, I completely agree on the H1B scam. I work in IT and it's wall-to-wall Indians. Nothing wrong with them but there's no reason why all those jobs can't be done by Americans. Programming isn't rocket science. Except when it's at NASA or SpaceX, obviously.

Thankyou very much for replying at this length and, as it were, forensically. I find your comments illuminating and they help me to a partial explanation of the mystery.

I still feel there is some digging for a skilful wiseacre to do. This is because President Trump's performance, even from his own point of view, is very self-damaging.

I take it that one of his chief goals, perhaps the paramount goal, is to aggrandise his family and attempt to make it a part of American Royalty on the lines of the Kennedys or the Bushes.

How does it do them good if their names are objects of Scorn in the future?

When most politicians run for office, people just gloomily digest their failure to keep their promises. Mrs Clinton for instance could talk in platitudes during the 2016 election campaign, well knowing that no-one would really expect her to deliver big things for the Mere General Public. (The constituency which demands results from her is Wall St.)

But there are exceptions to this rule; when an issue is a matter of life or death for a nation.

The USA has already reached the cliff edge of very deleterious transformation. If Mass Immigration continues, then it means the end of America as a dynamic country with a rich tradition of Can-Do, Get-Up-And-Go, and vast achievements. It will become just another Third-World semi-failed state.

Most of the people who voted for Mr Trump in 2016 were well aware of this and voted for him NOT because they thought him a man of upright life and pure speech, dignified and worthy to represent the United States at home and abroad; but because they were desperate about this issue of Immigration.

I for my part would be terrified to run for office on a promise of bringing water to a land hamstrung by a ferocious drought, or food to people who are almost starving - and then fail to deliver on such promises.

Why has Trump - who is wily as well as bombastic, slyly aware of realities as well as making large untruthful boasts - been willing to suppose that the public won't mind him failing to sort the Immigration issue out?

That is the question which I (at least) need to read some extremely well-researched and insightful book about.

But thank you again, heartily, for your kindness in helping me to partial comprehension.

"No wonder Bolton was easily duped by sketchy intelligence about chemical weapons in Iraq: Spare the details and pass the Excedrin."

Correction, Julie.

Bolton and company were not "duped." He, W, and the warmongering D.C. Establishment, including Joe Biden, all knew WMD was fraudulent. The reason Pelosi didn't move to impeach W was because this would have been exposed. Anyone who believes the IC simply lied to W and the Congress has not been paying attention these last few years.

Iraq was a war crime, straight up, based on a lie.

BUT! BUT!! HE SADDAM TRIED TO KILL MY DADDY????

Legacy of John Bolton

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I'm so ashamed now that I bought the deep state lies and perpetual wars as a good thing. Thankfully DJT broke me out of my somnambulism. Never again, never again.

Five(!)-star General Eisenhower hit the nail on the head when he coined the term, "military industrial complex." This is a massive industry built on War. But, it is comfortably removed from the soldiers who must actually fight it. People like Bolton have probably never held a gun in their hands, but they are responsible for the deaths of thousands.

The Saudis and Tony Blair also thought Saddam had WMD, and there's even evidence Saddam thought he had WMD; so corrupt were the cohorts that did Hussein's dirty work. They could have embezzled the money intended for WMD.

But Bolton is incapable of admitting a mistake. He is indeed a pride-deranged, pompous, lying blowhard, who deserves full exposure and anonymity. I think our president is not harmed by people like Bolton. We're loyal and won't be dissuaded by Judases. This election is Donaldus Maximus's to lose, and his Tweets are more likely to harm him than are the enemy.

Julie your op eds over the past month have been inspiring! Rush Limbaugh has even been quoting you lately.