tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319172106392132510.post6586060261707688280..comments2023-09-24T08:05:04.868-04:00Comments on The Pilgrim Underground: The Unrepentant Adulteress cum Vatican AmbassadorProtoprotestanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217567607160768261noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2319172106392132510.post-8196756868937340722017-05-23T22:12:17.346-04:002017-05-23T22:12:17.346-04:00A lot of Trump's decisions looked like calcula...A lot of Trump's decisions looked like calculated insults. It's almost comical how he selected some of his cabinet picks (e.g. Ben Carson as head of HUD). And of course, there's the recent trip to the House of Saud with his uncovered wife, the open admission of pleasing the Pentagon with an open arms sale. Then there's the fact he went to the Wailing Wall. It's like he's channeling the tough-guy Cowboy that GW Bush tried to use, but unlike Bush, he knows it's a mask, and is milking it. Trump is squandering the stockpile of geo-political capital the US has, by openly bullying, swinging the obscene power the US has openly. Other administrations attempt subtly to play a calculated game, Trump doesn't seem to care (hence the use of the MOAB).<br /><br />I hope that this might be the critical mistake that begins dismantling the American empire, but I hope it goes as bloodlessly as possible. I'm probably being too optimistic<br /><br />cal<br /><br />PS. Do you remember when Ron Paul humiliated Gingrich in the Republic debates in 2012 by calling him a chicken-hawk? It was great. He was publicly exposed as a fraud, but of course, the American people by and large don't care. Cal of Chelcicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04274276191242967318noreply@blogger.com