9/13/19: We all live in Trumpistan now. In Trumpistan, reporters are the enemy. All migrants want to kill us, at least, if we’re white. All Big Business types can be trusted all the time. All Democrats are “socialists,” and in some bizarre new lexicon, all socialists are “communists.” Nazis – just look at the name of their party – are also “socialists,” not right-wing fascists. According to Tucker Carlson even a leading neo-con like John Bolton, the now canned, third National Security Advisor to President Trump, “was fundamentally a man of the left.”
That claim earns Carlson a coveted “Pants on Fire” rating from Politifact. A quick check of Bolton’s career shows he volunteered in 1964, to work for the campaign of that famous “lefty” Barry Goldwater, author of Conscience of a Conservative. Next, he interned for Vice President Spiro Agnew, a politician who liked to talk about the “criminal left,” and the “whimpering isolationism” of “ultraliberalism.” Bolton spent the 80s working in the Reagan administration. He went on to work for George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and thumped the drum for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He endorsed Mitt Romney for president. He worked for the American Enterprise Institute and finally washed up on the shores of Fox News. In Fox employ, he was paid more than $500,000 in 2017 in return for spouting pro-Trump opinions.
Carlson is lying through his pearly white teeth.
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BOLTON aside, let’s hear it for Big Business, the folks we can always trust with our pensions, prescription drugs, and perfectly safe consumer products. We know that Juul produces excellent flavored vaping devices and never tries to lure teens to use them, which might lead to damaged lungs and death.
We know MyPayrollHR and its CEO Michael Mann would never steal $35 million from employees.
Finally, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma would never hide a billion dollars in profits, shifting money through secret Swiss bank accounts, knowing their company may soon declare bankruptcy. All because a few people swallowed a few too many OxyContin pills and ended up dead. (See: 12/16/19.)
I, for one, can hardly wait for Big Oil to start drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, because I know they will never spill oil all over the place. Oil spills are the work of “lefties,” I’m fairly sure.
Mr. Carlson would like us all to understand that Donald J.
Trump and Big Oil want the world to look like this:
Grand Teton National Park.
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FOR SOME ODD REASON – probably vestiges of human decency – Sen. Mitt Romney says he will not be endorsing anyone for president in 2020.
As a good Republican, he can’t bring himself to support a
Democrat. As a man of integrity, he can’t stomach Trump.
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