President Trump went one step further than I predicted in my last blog post, although I’m not feeling any satisfaction for calling Trump’s course of action correctly. All I feel is increasing concern for America’s future.
Instead of just a victory lap interview, Trump opted for going big, where he went to Toledo, OH last night for a rousing victory lap rally. He hurled out insults, taunts, plenty of dishonest statements all to a wildly cheering crowd. He worked hard to ramp up rage against Democrats, while wrapping himself in the American flag.
What he did not do is treat this serious foreign policy crisis seriously. For Trump it was all about him and how great he handled it, acting as if this one skirmish with Iran means he won. He also did not buckle down and start personally preparing for the many challenges to come in dealing with Iran and other foreign policy crises that will assuredly follow this change in US policy toward deterrence.
This Trump victory lap rally was an appalling spectacle of poor judgment, venality, lack of seriousness and the same old Trump Reality Show presidency. The main thing, I believe, galvanizing much of Trump’s support is the Democrats’ alarming Trump derangement spin antics. Yesterday news broke that the Ukrainian airliner crash, just hours after the Iranian missile strikes against US forces in Iraq, was caused by an Iranian missile attack. Dems began ramping up a spin effort shifting blame for this very likely major Iranian error by Iran, to blaming Trump. Here are the Dem spin messaging efforts, which I retweeted with comments:
The two words these Dem spin attacks corrupted were “crossfire” and “collateral damage” absolving Iran from responsibility for their missile taking down a commercial airliner, killing all 176 people on board. That plane took off from the airport in Tehran, where Iran has total control over that airspace, failed to halt commercial flights and then likely mistakenly shot down a commercial airliner. There was no “crossfire,” since only Iran was launching missile strikes that night and the “collateral damage,” was caused by Iran firing that missile at a commercial airliner that they allowed to take off from the airport in Tehran.
Interestingly, some liberal journalists and Dem mouthpieces realized this spin attack against Trump was making them look like Iranian propagandists, so they tried to quell this Dem spin attack from amplifying even more. Chuck Todd changed course quickly, as did Michael McFaul, former Obama ambassador to Russia, who has a very active Twitter spin presence, plus I noticed many other Dem spin mouthpieces on Twitter work to try to stop their own Dem spin attack.
It was a disturbing American spin cycle to watch last night, with the Dem spin attack trying to shift blame for Iran’s missile strike to Trump (America) and Trump taking to the stage in Toledo, OH to do an appalling, saber-rattling, dishonest,victory lap rally. Trump reverted back to form – lying, recklessly disregarding facts and blurring details, but the overarching theme was to incite his followers to hating Democrats and hurling out streams of ad hominem attacks. Trump leaves all the heavy-lifting duties of his presidency to other people, while he wallows in his trash reality show antics.
Both parties continue to hurl America to a state of being seething, mindless mobs or raging partisans led by shallow, corrupt charlatans. Even worse, most of the media in America behave even more dishonestly and corruptly than the partisan politicians and operatives, who orchestrates this endless scorched earth spin war.
America continues to careen down this road to self-destruction, with no leaders stepping forward to press on the brakes. Just full SPIN ahead, 24/7.
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What was ‘the spin scene’ like after the Iranian admission?
I didn’t see a single apology from these idiots who spun up the “crossfire” spin. There were Trump spinners and assorted conservatives and Republicans, who kept mocking the “crossfire” spin crowd, but the mainstream media and these #Resist operatives (often one and same there) seem to have no shame and they’re like Trump in that respect – they just double down or change the subject, but they don’t change their spin behavior.
The spin cycles shift often, several times a day now, assuring that in a couple days the garbage heap of spin will have buried this spin fail, unless it gets pulled out and recycled. These spin morons are conscientious spin “recyclers” – Trump the Authoritarian, Trump the Sexual-Abuser/Rapist, Trump the Madman, Trump the Russian Asset and on it goes.
https://havechanged.blogspot.com/2020/01/hey-thats-me.html
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