Color me decidedly unimpressed by the Senior Administration Official™ with the bizarre NYT op-ed telling us what we all already know to be true but trying to claim credit for it rather than blame. We now have three books offering the yuuuge revelation that the person occupying the office of president is an ignorant idiot, a malignant narcissist, delusional, petty, bullying, completely uninterested in learning or understanding anything about public policy, obsessed with personal slights, incompetent and dangerous; and that administration officials do what they can to manipulate him and control his worst impulses.
But we already knew this because it is obvious from his public behavior. Ezra Klein agrees and throws out a few (out of 250,000) evidentiary examples.
But Mr. Anonymous Patriot wants to be a hero because, by keeping the resident from flying completely off the rails and nuking North Korea or trying to impose martial law, he's managed to achieve the worthy public goals of cutting taxes for the wealthy (and blowing out the budget deficit but we won't mention that), further bloating the military budget (and blowing out the budget deficit but we won't mention that), and ravaging environmental regulations (thereby killing people). He also has something to say about free minds, free markets and free people, whatever that means. He doesn't mention kidnapping children.
He is not a hero, he is a co-conspirator. And by the way, his job is to carry out the orders of the president. If he can't do that, and if he doesn't think the president legitimately holds office, his responsibility is to resign and go public with everything he has to say. Meanwhile, obviously, it is the responsibility of the Republicans in congress to do something about the terrifying crisis in which we find ourselves. But they won't, because a) all they care about is cutting rich people's taxes and b) they are cowards and traitors.
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He is not a hero, he is a co-conspirator. And by the way, his job is to carry out the orders of the president. If he can't do that, and if he doesn't think the president legitimately holds office, his responsibility is to resign and go public with everything he has to say.
Totally agree. I'm embarrassed for the NYT in running a piece like this without naming a source. It's the latest (and most desperate effort to date) to undermine this presidency and to make you think the world is on fire.
Trump has done some amazing things those who elected him wanted done, but thought might not be possible. Trump has also caused needless turmoil, but voters knew that would happen going in. He is a disrupter and is unconventional and that may be what it takes.
Hope and change
Anonymous once again snatches idiocy from the jaws of botched analysis.
He may "agree" with somebody, but it ain't Cervantes.
You're missing the point. If you're running a clandestine cell then publicity is the last thing you want. This is a psyop - the only question being its function.
Yeah, when there's a secret cabal colluding to subvert and sabotage our duly elected government at the highest level, let's not focus on that.
Where are all of those who were howling about "our democracy is in danger" now? All I hear now is crickets...
For my bat-shit crazy friends on the left, I would ask you to imagine a secret cabal of conservatives secretly colluding to subvert President Obama's administration and rethink your position.
This is not a partisan issue. This is surely a national security issue.
" ... imagine a secret cabal of conservatives secretly colluding to subvert President Obama's administration ..."
Um, anonymous, there was a cabal of conservatives, but they were completely in the open. It was the Republican Party, doing everything they possibly could to subvert "our duly elected government at the highest level."
Mark,
Anyone with two synapses to rub together understands the difference between political parties working within the system vying for power and the crimes committed by NYT and these secret saboteurs.
While I enjoy your input and understanding others' viewpoints, your response was just a waste of time.
You seem like a smart guy. Really...(please)do better.
Anonymous:
The First Amendment exercise of "free press" is not a "crime." Read The Constitution of the United States of America.
You are not in a position to judge who is a "smart guy." You are unarguably NOT one.
Synapses are not "rubbed together" in the brain. Chemicals race from nerve to nerve.
The Republican party is not "working within the system." Remember Merrick Garland? The current Republican party is precisely the threat that George Washington warned about--a political party that places its power above the good of the country. The other threat he warned about, in the same 1796 farewell speech, was the power of foreign countries over our executive (Shitler).
You are blind, snarky, ignorant, confused, sarcastic, and fatally flawed. Also, pathetic and grasping.
Finally, leave spaces between parentheses and text that follows.
One more thing, "Anonymous," "Gay Boy Bob," whatever handle you choose ...
You can't just learn by talking and shooting off your mouth. You have to listen and try to understand points of view different from your own.
Mark's response to you was not a "waste of time." Far from it. But you don't seem interested in anyone's perspective but your own. It is YOU who are wasting OUR time on this blog site. You're out of your depth. Perhaps you mean well, perhaps, as I suspect, you don't. But either way, your consistently petulant manner and vituperative language don't win any converts or friends.
If there's someone on this blog site who's getting a lot out of "Anonymous"'s voluble posts, please let me know. I suspect there's no one.
So the best thing you can do for all of us--yourself included--is to shut up and listen to what you read and consider it. I don't think anyone reading this blog is interested in your feckless attempts at subterfuge.
I will consider any response from you as rhetorical.
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