November 22, 2019: A "Jew Coup" and a Fool Talks about Hong Kong

 

11/22/19: How are Trump and his allies handling impeachment pressure? The president’s not doing well; but Televangelist Rick Wiles is even more upset than the Orange Chosen One. Having studied all the evidence and weighed the constitutional issues with care, Wiles announces that the whole impeachment inquiry is a…“Jew Coup,” thereby mixing ignorance with anti-Semitism. It’s a common problem with right-wing nuts of several kinds. (See, also: 12/5/19.)

 

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THE PRESIDENT refuses to say whether he’ll sign legislation passed by Congress in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. 

Any ordinary president would have signed the bill without hesitation. But for Trump, all moral questions are solved by totaling losses and gains. If he can get a good trade deal with China (and by that we mean a deal he can brag about) he won’t care if the people of Hong Kong lose all their freedoms. 

Knowing the bill has bi-partisan support (it passed unanimously in the Senate and on a vote of 417-1 in the House), he tries to have his cake and hog it too. In a rambling interview on Fox & Friends, he tells the hosts, “I stand with Hong Kong. I stand with freedom. I stand with all of the things we want to do. But we’re also in the process of making the largest trade deal in history.” 

Trump still has a soft spot for China’s President Xi. He’s “an incredible guy,” our freedom-loving president says, and “a friend of mine.”

Xi Jinping, now president for life.

 

In a bizarre segue, Trump tells the Fox dopes that if it weren’t for him, his friend, President Xi, might have launched a bloody crackdown (shades of Tiananmen Square). The Chinese military might have marched into the city and killed “thousands” of people. “If it weren’t for me, Hong Kong would have been obliterated in 14 minutes,” he said. Yeah, boy, that Xi! He’s an “incredible guy,” “and a friend of mine,” even if Trump did have to stop him from slaughtering everyone in Hong Kong! 

(Does this kind of discussion make any sense to Trump fans? Am I not speaking the right language?)