Didn’t sleep last night so I slept today, or tried to. Got some sleep. Getting old really sucks. Don’t feel like writing so once again, I turn to Ron.
Ron on.
Senator (it is to laugh) McCain must be getting very weary from carrying that grudge over Trump’s deliberate deflating of his status as “war hero” simply because he was captured by the enemy. He’s turned into the inconvenient boob in Congress who hates Trump more than he loves his country.
To me, McVain’s record is particularly unimpressive, especially his history as a Navy pilot. And I’m certainly not dazzled or inspired by his status at the Naval Academy, graduating 5th from the bottom of his class. Considering his frequent disciplinary problems, he’d NEVER have graduated had his daddy and granddaddy not been admirals. Nobody in my family had scrambled eggs on their hats and MY BA degree is Summa Cum Laude.
He may have demonstrated both courage and conviction by not agreeing to be released by the North Vietnamese once they learned who his father and grandfather were. But I’ve never quite understood how he had any control over the situation. If they’d wanted to release him for the PR benefit, they’d have done it regardless of how he felt about it. I’m not convinced he stayed on at the Hanoi Hilton out of any sense of loyalty to his comrades. I smell a PRshop.
John McCain was born privileged and never quite grew out of it. In fact, he never quite grew up at all . . . just got fatter and older. Today he’s not just a waning star in the political picture; he’s a flamed-out dwarf orbiting the capitol like a cold and potentially dangerous hunk of debris from the collision of dead speeches, periodically coming close enough to a microphone to leave a streak of sarcasm and frighten various senators.
McCain says he is dismayed at Trump’s responding to Phat Un’s threats in kind, promising to rain “fire and fury” on the little pipsqueak with his little collection of cherry bombs in his little hermit castle. But maybe DJT is onto something here, shifting to a language the dick-tater-faced twerp might understand.
Wasn’t McRINO the dude who said, “Bomb. bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”? – GOC
I mean, China has more or less profited for 8 years by having NorKor rattling a distracting sabre while it built up industries making China our main competitor in all respects. Xi certainly had nothing to fear from the Magic Negro whose foreign policy was to have no foreign policy other than apologizing for American success and supporting Islam. He was a modern Neville Chamberlain with his assurances on NorKor and Iranian nuke programs, promising peace in our time through capitulation.
Trump is not an aggressor; he’s a counterpuncher. He’s read history and knows how Hitler took advantage of the naivete of Chamberlain and Stalin and just how BAD was the Obama Iran-nuke “deal.” So he trash-talked a call on Phat Un’s running bluff and said, “Look, dipshit . . . if you really want your country transformed into a glowing ashtray, go ahead – take your best shot.”
Remember how the leftistas went apeshit over Reagan’s attempts to trigger World War III back in the 80s? All it accomplished was the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the dismantling of the Evil Empire Soviet Union. Appeasement isn’t going to protect us from madmen any more than political correctness will protect us from Muslim terrorists. Trump might be wrong, but he won’t be any wronger than his predecessor was in dealing with dictators.
As one senator said when France demanded payment for stopping attacks on American ships back in the 19th century, “Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.” Just as the young Vito Corleone does with the extortionist Fanucci, it’s better to wipe out the bad guys than pay them ransom not to rape your daughter.
Ron off.
One thing I noticed during the campaign. Besides calling Trump Hitler which is de riguer every four years for for every Republican presidential candidate, this year pretty much everything the left said about Trump, “he’s a cowboy”, “he will get us into a nuclear war”, they said about Reagan. I meant to, but never got around to, putting together a list of all the quotes about Reagan back in the 80’s and asking whom they were talking about since they were the same quotes we heard last year, except this time, some of them were coming from Republicans.
As Ron pointed out, appeasement never works. Never! It only emboldens the bullies. We are seeing this with the SJWs. If you haven’t yet, get a copy of Vox Day’s, SJWs Always Lie. But I digress.
Thanks to feckless Dimocrat foreign policy (and RINO foreign policy) we have a nuclear North Korea. We will soon have a nuclear Iran since they have no intention of stopping their nuke program either. The upside here is that the first places Little Kim will take out if he launches nukes are full of Dimocrats, like Hawaii and San Francisco.
Duck and cover!