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Former CIA Chief: Republicans Are Worse than ISIS
A journalist tweeted this out.
I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.
So, this professional media operative must be aware of ISIS, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Janjaweed, Al Qaida (remember them?), the Shining Path… Pick any terror group in this twerp’s lifetimes; and American Republicans are worse. Heck, this means Republicans are worse than Vladimir Putin.
Is it bad that General Michael Hayden, the Director of the CIA under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, agrees.
I agree. And I was the CIA Director.
This guy just said a third of his countrymen were “nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible.” Still think the Deep State doesn’t hate you?
Mike Pence reaffirmed his support for the Deep State. David A. French thinks this makes him a most excellent presidential prospect. (Because that Ron DeSantis person is just plain too Trumpy.)
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Doesn’t have to be true in order to make the program run.
Obviously not nihilistic, except to those who use words in Orwellian ways.
Obviously not dangerous, unless you assess angry words as being equivalent to actual terrorist attacks.
Obviously not contemptible except in the eyes of fanatical deep-staters who think the rabble should shut up and take what they are given.
Because they are genuinely worse by the standards of the Deep State: ISIS and Al Qaeda are almost entirely foreign threats and thus post little danger. Patriotic citizens who are tired of being lied to by fake conservative Republicans whose real loyalty is to the Deep State and big donors, however, are an existential threat: If allowed to speak and organize freely they might persuade more and more Americans that they are right, thus threatening the gravy train (iron rice bowl?) And an America in which people are free to live their lives, neither bullied by bureaucrats nor impoverished by taxes and inflation nor terrorized by criminals, is an America that is not worth having.
They don’t think those people/groups were actual existential threats to the US. They think Trump – and Trump supporters – are.
Gary can surely explain.
Undoubtedly the case. The wide-open southern border is evidence of this.
It’s as though it’s a lie and they think if they keep repeating it gullible people will think it is true. I think propogandists have a term for this. A Big Lie. Of course, one has to have a compliant media to continually spread the lie.
Nonsense cannot be explained.
Where have I heard that before?
Propagandist repeating a Big Lie that there was a Big lie?
Something like that.
Not too late. Bought three of them, two in recent years. Check out the Director of Civilian Marksmanship, thecmp.org. .30-06 beats 5.56.
I like ARs, but General Patton was right about the Garand.
I liked the movie “Carbine Williams” too, starring Jimmy Stewart.
A counterexample of a joke that works better would be in Zelazny’s This Immortal, in which a biologist says “When the spiderbats return to Capistrano my slishi will be waiting”: It occurs in a cocktail-party event with much repartee and verbal fencing, as I recall.
And perhaps to your point, Trump’s new slogan is: Save America.
I think you’re giving Hayden and others too much of the benefit of the doubt. I don’t think he really believes it. I think he’s lying.
I don’t think the top officials believe anything of the sort. Maybe I’m in my own bubble, but why in the world would anyone label half the country with such extreme slander? Why not just say, “Republicans are delusional, unbalanced, irrational and are dragging our country down!”?
Why say that they are more dangerous and threatening than ISIS, unless they intended to arrest them, imprison them, torture them while in prison, or kill them, and they want the remainder to find this acceptable, or even good?
You are an honorable man, and a fine piece of work.
No, he can’t. And if he could he wouldn’t. He will knit while the ropes swing.
Then what’s the purpose? And does he understand what he unleashes with such things?
Depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
I think it’s just coming into common speculation that the PTB (the WEF, etc.) really want to impoverish, control, and kill off the majority of the world’s population. It’s unadulterated evil. See Neil Oliver’s brief interview by Mark Steyn. in which Oliver says that it’s the only reasonable explanation. And Oliver’s opinion video here (10 minutes).
Some few people are waking up, and speaking about it.
But you can get an AR today. Finding a good Garand is a problem.