Beyond the fact that as an American I am entitled to read the MOU and think for myself whether I like the agreement or not, I don’t need the Trump Machine telling me what is in the agreement. I don’t need their spin. I don’t need the talking points put out by the White House about the agreement. I want to see every word of the agreement.
How condescending to think that the American people are not allowed to see this agreement or we are not smart enough to analyze the provisions ourselves. Instead Trump sends out JD to tell everyone what to think so when they do get to see the MOU, if we do ever get to see every clause, people will have a built in understanding and apply a foregone conclusion. Talk about gaslighting.
Vance is flitting around like a trained monkey to tout the elements of the MOU, but he doesn’t actually answer any questions. His legal education may have taught him how to bullshit, but in this case he is going to come away with alot of crap on his face.
And yes, this is what Obama did with the JCPOA. Ben “Hamas” Rhodes, even boasted about how he controlled the narrative because journalists were in general stupid. You would have thought at that point, the fourth estate wold have been up in arms, but they just shrugged because…oh well if their side calls them shitbags its ok…talk about being happy in an abusive relationship. Honestly, there should be a toll free number for any journalist who wants to escape this dysfunctional relationship with the left. Thoughtful citizenry will give them sanctuary.
How condescending to think that there should be no Congressional oversight of the MOU. The unmitigated gall. Oh and yes, the Trumpsters have said that they would be showing the agreement to Congress in time, well now is the time. How is this any different than the JCPOA, where Obama knew that it would not pass muster as a treaty so they came up with the legal fiction of Executive Agreement.
Then to stem the flow of disdain there was an agreement with Congressional republicans that the executive agreement would be scrapped if the supermajority of the Congress said it should. It wasn’t that it would be passed if 2/3 of the Congress approved of the JCPOA (that would be too much like a treaty). It was that it would be scrapped if 2/3 voted to scrap it. Denounced at the time as a run around, behind the back of the Advice and Consent clause of the Constitution, somehow the republicans now think Trump can do the same with his MOU and its all hunky dory?
(One day I hope the Supreme Court takes up this question of Executive Agreements. The idea of a treaty is that it takes the People of the US to bind us all to an agreement, not the vanity of 1 individual sitting in the Oval Office and his minions. President’s are not supposed to be kings.)
Our Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves.
Happy fucking 250th Birthday America.
The idea that you negotiate with a regime that just slaughtered 40,000 of its own people in 3 days in order to stay in power and claim they are reasonable people is beyond revolting. (Has the Islamist regime every kept its agreements?) According to Trump Israel is the bad one, because they refuse to be a Trumpian lapdog to Iranian demands and this pisses the OrangeMan off. (He wants the al Qaeda genocider who is now in charge of Syria to take care of Hezbollah because the Israelis are too hurty to Hezbollah. They dont target well enough. Sure, Israel sends a missile into one particular apartment in a building in a densely populated area, but the Israelis cant do precision targeting.)
(Oh and Vance is going on Megyn Kelly today to talk MOU. Yes, the same Megyn Kelly who just called Israel a cancer. Doesn’t it just fill your heart when little blond skinny cunts channel Mein Kampf? Well its apparently not a barrier for JD. In fact, he told Megyn that Tucker was an integral part of the GOP coalition. Tell me again how the GOP isn’t courting nazis and Jew-haters.)
Vance is running around like a little puppet, the same way Susan Rice did as she made her rounds for Obama defending his reaction- non-reaction- to what happened at the embassy in Benghazi. (Ever notice that Hillary, while she said the riot was because of a video, didn’t actually run around making a fool of herself, did she? Hillary is many things, stupid is not one of them.) And yes this destroyed Susan Rice’s reputation. Oh people in her sphere still think she is the smartest thing since sliced bread. Well she did fall on her sword for Barack and Michelle, after all. But in the real world, thinking people see her for the liar that she is. (especially with all her lies on Bill Maher a few weeks ago)
Meanwhile, the list of those that Trump just betrayed is amazing.
1 day at the G7 summit in France, and suddenly Trump who actually had disdain for the old worldEuropeans attitudes, sounds very much like a an old world arabist Jew-hater:
Israel (no explanation necessary) - not only was Israel not part of the negotiations, Trump kept them in the dark, refused to allow the access to information and has refused to show Israel the MOU. Bibi went on TV the other night and basically told Trump to shove his MOU up his ass.
Kurds - (they were part of the plan, but Trump put a stop to it, when the Islamo-Nazi dictator of Turkey objected. He would rather genocide the Kurds, like his forebears did the Armenians. He didn’t want them armed) Once again they were abandoned. Probably the only people left in the Middle East who actually deserve a state who have been betrayed time and time again by the world.
Druze - by staying Israel’s hand in the area and trying to give support to the Islamist government of Syria, he has endangered the Druze community in the area which we have already seen have been targeted for slaughter by the Syrian government.
Christians/people in Lebanon - empowering Hezbollah and stopping Israel from confronting this Iranian proxy will allow this terrorist group to revamp itself and re-embed itself into Lebanon. It also endangers the Lebanese officials who have been negotiating with Israel to try to remove Hezbollah and reassert its sovereignty over its country at the Rubio headed US State Department, which I am told is part of the executive branch of Trump’s government. Apparently, Trump was touting this negotiations as he was capitulating to Iran. (playing to sides against the middle) If Trump doesn’t offer these people and their families asylum here in the US, they now have Iranian targets on their backs and the their blood will be on the US. (it really looks like the right hand doesn’t actually know what the left hand is doing at this point.)
Honestly, I think this was was all one of Trump’s games. 2 negotiations diametrically opposed to one another in outcome. Lebanon was going to be either free or remain enslaved to Iran. Whichever deal came out best for him that is the one he was going with. He was hedging his bets. And if people get slaughtered because he is a venal pig of a man, well he actually doesn’t care.
The People of Iran- who he promised to help. What help? Funding the Islamic-terrorists that have destroyed one of the most beautiful, prosperous countries on earth. Leaving one of the most ancient, respected and honored peoples bound to religious theocratic genocidal doomsday tyrants is beyond unconscionable. And why would Trump do this? Because gas is too high in the US or is it because the Qataris are loosing too much money?
Apparently the reports are that Qatar, with the blessing of Trump has given Iran money, meaning the IRGC so they can continue their stranglehold of the Iranian people, support Hezbollah and the Houthis, and prop back up their drug trade through South America. Guess Trump only cares about the South American drug trade if he can blow up boats in the open oceans. The nuts and bolts are not important. But isnt that how he handles everything. The details dont matter. Well sometimes the devil is in the details. In fact, the details are everything when you deal with muqawama fanatics.
Oh and of course, the American People- by making us show weakness he has basically put every American in danger from terrorists, Russia, China and Islamists. The Axis of evil will be gearing up because they know Trump is a spineless, useless coward, who turns everything he touches to shit. Believe me when I say, Trump has just emboldened our enemies, and betrayed our real friends. Qatar is not a friend and neither is Saudi, Oman, or any gulf state except perhaps the UAE.
Meanwhile, lo and behold Qatar just announced an 1 trillion dollar investment into the US at the G7 summit. Abracadabra. By the way, do you think anyone on the left is going to have a meltdown over this trillion dollars which is wholly owned by 1 man, the ruler of Qatar? I mean if Elon isn’t allowed to be a trillionaire, investing that money in his companies which make our lives better, how come the Islamo-nazi slavers of Qatar are allowed to be trillionaires and use their money to bring their 7th century ideology to the US? Do you think the left is going to notice? Or if the trillionaire has a darker skin hue then its ok?
Then of course, the really big winner other than Iran- the islamo-slaver-Ikwan empowering Qatar, which can only get its natural gas out through the Strait of Hormuz which it just paid to get it open. What, and who, got the totality of the bribes is my question? Isn’t there some kind of Trump hotel going up in Qatar? Doesn’t Witkoff, Kushner and theTrump scions all have financial dealings with the Qataris? (now I am not saying there is a mercurial aspect to this MOU. That would be defamation or even libel of those who are negotiating for our country, I am just saying it isn’t a good look when you are financially beholden to the friend of the country you went to war against.) And now the Qatari’s get exactly what they want, an emboldened Iran, control of the Strait, pushing sunni Islamists to control Lebanon, renewing the Islamist ring of fire around Israel albeit maybe one controlled more by the sunnis rather than shia (because you think that they are any less genocidally antisemitic than the Iranian IRGC, you haven’t been paying attention), putting a wedge between Israel and the US, minimizing Saudi influence, trying to destroy the Abraham Accords.
Meanwhile, it has been leaked that Rubio, Hegseth, Ratcliffe are openly against the MOU and are nowhere to be found. Trump just threatened Lindsey Graham, maybe his bestest friend in the Senate, that if he doesn’t get behind the MOU he will be in trouble. Watch in the next few weeks, who leaves the administration and how Trump’s bombast becomes worse instead of better.
Meanwhile, the latest reports (so the hubby told me) is that Qatar and Pakistan are the ones who don’t want the MOU leaked because in reality the Iranians haven’t actually agreed to it. (I am not sure how Qatar and Pakistan got to be the deciders for the American government, but I will leave that little gem for others to discuss). And considering Iran’s bombast saying that if Israel keeps attacking Hezbollah they will not sign the MOU which they were supposed to have already signed on Sunday, and they will obliterate Israel doesn’t sound good. Probably why Trump is suddenly sounding like he is the author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How dare Israel ruin his party!
I don’t really have to see the MOU to know it is bad news. The Iranians are broadcasting propaganda about how happy they are (despite being rather annoyed that Israel won’t play along), you know this MOU fucks the US in the ass without Iran/Qatar/Pakistan buying us dinner first. Total capitulation.
Talk about pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory.
And Trump just thinks this is all dandy and that he will be given the Nobel Prize.
Simply put, the man behind the Resolute Desk is a psycho.
I am so disgusted.
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FWIW- I left this comment on an article by Niall Ferguson
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May God Bless the US Armed Forces and the IDF.
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