"Die for Nothing" Says Defeated President

 

Pormer Fresident Tonald Drump offered his latest mind-cracking exhortation to followers, lay down your life for something that is not taught in your state.  He did so in Florence, South Carolina.  Drump did not mention any of Florence's historical challenges to segregation or how the community navigated away from a starkly divided community.  Drump wants his followers to commit more violence and all for nothing.

Update 3-17-22:  The Red Team is adding law enforcement resources focused on another canard, election fraud.  Texas Reds are seeking if Wall Street investment practices discriminate against big oil while Virginia Reds eliminated the staff of the state's Civil Rights division.  Money equals free speech and discrimination against corporate stock/bonds is not allowed.

Update 5-29-22:  Nineteen elementary school students and two teachers were massacred in Uvalde, Texas.  Within a week Drump spoke at the National Rifle Association convention.  Firearms are not allowed at Drump political rallies on on Trump properties. 

Unfit for Duty

Does our former President think the Russians know the difference between an F-22 and China's J-20 military aircraft?  Apparently not. 

Slapping Chinese flags on U.S. F-22's and "bombing the shit out" of Russia sounds like a war crime.  I can see why a number of his former generals think he is unfit for a return to the Presidency.

Update 3-15-22:   Former AG William Barr said working with Trump was like "wrestling an alligator." Barr added that Trump wanted to be "surrounded by yes men."  In his book Barr describes his former boss as a "hyperactive generator of ideas" that were "bad" and "legally problematic."

Update 3-27-22: Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton said:

Former president Donald Trump would not be “capable” of holding Ukraine peace talks in Moscow to stop the invasion, according to his own former national security adviser.

“This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That’s just not what he does,” Bolton added.

Update 5-6-22:  Former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper said of Trump: 

"He is an unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service.”

Update 5-16-22:  Trump told rallygoers he would write a book about the election in which he lost.  His title?  The Crime of the Century.  That would be serial perjury from a disgraced former President.

Crown Prince Goes Full Clown

The Hill reported:

A U.S. intelligence report released last year concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had personally approved the killing and dismemberment of the U.S.-based journalist, who was critical of the Riyadh government, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Before winning the 2020 election, President Biden vowed to make Saudi Arabia "pay the price" for the Khashoggi killing and turn the country into a "pariah."

 The Crown Prince of Thuggery said:

"If that's the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list. If you're going to go for another operation like that, for another person, it's got to be professional and it's got to be one of the top 1,000."

Reminds me of the rapist whose defense is "the woman was too ugly to attack."  This level of arrogance is beyond belief and patently laughable.

Update 3-7-22:  President Biden is said to be considering a trip to Saudi Arabia to encourage the kingdom to produce more oil.

Update 3-9-22:  The Prince of Thuggery wouldn't take President Biden's phone call but did take calls from Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Update 4-7-22:  Turkey turned over justice for Jamaal Khashoggi's murder and dismemberment to the very kingdom that ordered and executed the crime.  Thugs win.

Update 5-16-22:  Former golf great Greg Norman said in a response to the Crown Prince ordered killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a media day for his Saudi-backed LIV Golf’s inaugural event in London next month:

"Look, we’ve all made mistakes and you just want to learn from those mistakes and how you can correct them going forward."

Part of rectifying a mistake is accepting responsibility and taking accountability for one's action.  The Prince of Thuggery has done nothing in that regard.  If Greg Norman has an inside information about the murder he should inform authorities. 

Update 8-1-22:  The Saudi Crown Prince's image rehab tour took a stop in France, a country used to laying down for strongmen.  

Update 10-24-22:  The Crown Prince mocked President Biden according to the WSJ.

Update 10-26-22:  Crown Prince prefers Insane Red Team.

Biden aides believed they'd reached an agreement with the Saudis to increase oil production until December.  Instead of handing Biden a much-needed political win, the crown prince abandoned the deal.

Update 10-27-22:  Saudi Crown Prince seeks to humiliate President Biden.  That's a very poor ally.  The Prince intends to increase ties with nondemocratic China and Putin's Russia.

Update 11-2-22:   Saudi surveillance, intimidation and pursuit of Saudis on U.S. soil have intensified as the kingdom steps up repression under its de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Update 11-18-22:  The Blue Lucys plan to shield the Saudi Crown Prince from a U.S. civil suit filed by the widow of WaPo journalist Jamaal Khashoggi. 

Update 11-19-22:  A former top State Department advisor called the move to protect the Saudi Crown Prince a bad strategy and is "carrying MBS's water."

Update 12-6-22:   The U.S. court case against the Crown Prince was dismissed under the guise of sovereign immunity, something the Prince did not have at the time of the execution.  The judge said his hands were tied by the Biden administration's recommendation to the court.  Thugs win.

Update 5-5-23:  Biden will dispatch top aide Jake Sullivan to Saudi Arabia for meetings this Saturday.

Update 5-6-23:   The Saudi government plans to execute three tribesmen who protested against the new mega-city Neom.  The three resisted forced evictions.