tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post5791977036476442714..comments2024-03-13T02:17:39.644-07:00Comments on Restating the Obvious: 21st century iconoclasmHarry Eagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-31486153074633167262017-08-26T14:57:27.367-07:002017-08-26T14:57:27.367-07:00I was wrong about Gorka's staying power. He di...I was wrong about Gorka's staying power. He did not go willingly.<br /><br />Gorka makes a lousy Gaveston and an even worse Strafford. My next prediction is that the court chamberlain (Kelly) will soon enough be dismissed for having ousted the king's favorite.<br /><br />Query: was Gorka evicted for being a nazi or for not being a team player.<br /><br />Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-48689448903829242752017-08-26T10:02:41.845-07:002017-08-26T10:02:41.845-07:00And Gorka is gone:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/...And Gorka is gone:<br /><br />http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/25/breaking-sebastian-gorka-resigns-from-trump-administration/<br /><br />Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-75394977414730160992017-08-19T22:45:02.278-07:002017-08-19T22:45:02.278-07:00Here is what I do recognize: you are ineradicably...Here is what I do recognize: you are ineradicably antagonistic towards objective truth, and are a prolific liar.<br /><br />You accused me of racist statements which I never made, and still cannot figure out what a grant of cert is, or what the Republican Guard was doing during DS, among an almost endless parade.<br /><br />The shame is on you.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-38425033403178040712017-08-19T17:25:41.527-07:002017-08-19T17:25:41.527-07:00Skipper has left the building. He just hasn't ...Skipper has left the building. He just hasn't recognized the fact yetHarry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-85612041807330766272017-08-19T12:15:42.340-07:002017-08-19T12:15:42.340-07:00The NYT attempts to paint Trump as a racist, fails...<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/trump-blacks-african-americans-girlfriend-charlottesville.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0" rel="nofollow">The NYT attempts to paint Trump as a racist, fails.</a><br /><br /><i>I said earlier --it was only stating the obvious -- that Trump's governing style was nazi. I was criticized here for saying so. Now everyone sees I was right.</i><br /><br />It isn't, not even close. And you are no more right now than <a href="http://restatingtheobviousmaui.blogspot.com/2017/02/frenzy.html?showComment=1486439666186#c3443450057875315761" rel="nofollow">then.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-pershing-and-persuasion-1503091778?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb" rel="nofollow">Here is an explanation far less rabid than yours.</a>Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-64280802830505351092017-08-18T19:39:15.773-07:002017-08-18T19:39:15.773-07:00Trump is exactly in the position of despots of old...Trump is exactly in the position of despots of old, who could no trust anyone but family (and not always them). Eventually, his staff will be down to Jared and Ivanka and whatever toadies will stay just to be near the great one.<br /><br />I predict either McMaster or Kelly, or both, will go before the Gorkas. <br /><br /> Gorka is a classic toadie.<br /><br /><br />Almost the whole Digital Economy team quit today. These are people of real accomplishment and very low public profiles. I take their defections to be more significant than the exodus of the CEOs.<br /><br />Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-74773874701436781102017-08-18T18:55:06.348-07:002017-08-18T18:55:06.348-07:00I guess the Gorkas will soon follow Bannon out...I guess the Gorkas will soon follow Bannon out...Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-85393671712450675232017-08-17T09:28:52.418-07:002017-08-17T09:28:52.418-07:00Yes, Trump is too much of a flibbertigibbet to pul...Yes, Trump is too much of a flibbertigibbet to pull off a planned revolution. He is more like Mussolini, who bragged that his cruisers were the fastest in the world, which they were but only because they had been timed without their guns.<br /><br />Unlike Mussolini, Trump can do enormous damage even by inadvertance. So far he hasn't.<br /><br />But he wears his heart on his sleeve. He could not help revealing he's a nazi.<br /><br />Now the question becomes --who will fail to recognize that, and why. That that question is opened does mean that the US society is at risk of tearing itself apart.<br /><br />Did you see this about Mrs. Gorka?<br /><br />https://wonkette.com/621694/trump-nazi-sebastian-gorkas-asshole-wife-murdered-funding-for-ex-nazi-therapy-group-isnt-that-funny <br />Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-28189950632548156252017-08-17T06:04:46.171-07:002017-08-17T06:04:46.171-07:00Well, Harry, your point of view is sure more groun...Well, Harry, your point of view is sure more grounded than mine, I live far away and get things only by the news. <br /><br />That said, I think that if Trump is trying to govern like Hitler, he is failing catastrophically. I can't imagine Hitler withstanding his own generals delivering statements that, ultimately, are a rebuke and ridicule of their President.Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-40754822577006899862017-08-16T19:31:56.398-07:002017-08-16T19:31:56.398-07:00So why have all these racists flown the Confederat...So why have all these racists flown the Confederate flag all these years? Few of them have any direct connection to the CSA.<br /><br />Not like me. My great grandfather was a colonel in the South Carolina militia, and a great great uncle had the honor of firing the third shot of the war. <br /><br />An earlier ancestor was among the best-known defenders of slavery.<br /><br />If anyone is entitled to preserve heritages, it's me.<br /><br />I certainly want to preserve the history, but not to celebrate it.<br /><br />It's all about race. None of these people ever wondered why this statue and not that, because their understanding of the fitness of things was that of course the white slavemasters were correct.<br /><br />Without that background, they wouldn't even think that they could stick it to the progressives this way. Just because they were not active racists until prodded by agents of fascism does not mean they were not deeply racist all along.<br /><br />Compare the German latent antisemitism. It is notorious that the antisemitic political parties failed around 1900. Not because the voters were not antisemitic but because everybody was: being an antisemitic candidate did not distinguish oneself.<br /><br />Now, inject a burr under the saddle -- the Diktat -- and blame the Jews. Very soon the death camps open.<br /><br />Trump is doing exactly the same thing.<br /><br />I said earlier --it was only stating the obvious -- that Trump's governing style was nazi. I was criticized here for saying so. Now everyone sees I was right.Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-12255647584728138972017-08-16T10:15:07.041-07:002017-08-16T10:15:07.041-07:00I speak with very little knowledge of the topic, b...I speak with very little knowledge of the topic, but my general impression is that 90% of the people against removing the statues are not doing so out of confederate (or nazi) sympathies.<br /><br />Just like voting for Trump, they are mostly doing so to stick it to the other side's face: the progressives they hate. And they hate progressives not due to their skins, but due to their political positions.<br /><br />Progressives hate them back, and we end up with a dynamics of hatred that, notwishtanding the few nazis around it, isn't really much about race.<br />Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.com