Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Trump Officially Picks Rex Tillerson

  Rex Tillerson sounds more like the name of an evangelist rather than a Secretary of State.  This Exxon guy is proud of his company which he brags practices ruthless capitalism.  Decades ago he claims they used to open executive meetings with a prayer.  I guess that will get the Christian vote for that.  This Rex Tillerson guy got some special aware from the Russian government.  I think it’s madness to have a Secretary of State who either has entrenched oil interests or strong ties with Russia.  But Trump is a horse of another color from any other President.  I don’t believe Rex Tillerson has any actual government experience.  Shawn Hannity is still trying to sell this crock of you-know-what to Blacks saying that Trump will be the savior of Blacks and Trump will get poor people high paying jobs.  Trump and Hannity both live in a complete economic fantasy.  Of course if the Republicans do a thumbs down on this massive stimulus and infrastructure bill Trump is contemplating then the run up in stock prices we’ve seen all these weeks will be for naught.  In fact you should finally see that economic crash Tom Hartman has been talking about.  All of these radio ads that say to be wary of the economic markets obviously suspect Trump won’t carry through on his campaign promises.  Shawn is basically Trump’s spokesman and even his guiding light.  Trump has yet to do anything that Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannity disapprove of.  Shawn believes that you shouldn’t turn over spending to beaurocrats.  “They will only waste that money”.  Shawn is in love with this guy down in the golden triangle of Mississippi whom Sixty Minutes built up as some kind of an economic genious.  I wouldn’t base my economic strategy on the basis of some TV program I saw once.  But Trump is like the guy in “Being There”.  He likes to watch television.  He gets all his news from television.  Trump still thinks he’s better than the entire CIA.  These patriotic intelligence officers daily risk their lives to see to it that the President gets the best, most reliable intelligence possible.  Trump says “Well the CIA said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction”.  There are TWO things wrong with that statement.  Trump is really all for wars in the Mideast and most indications have Trump favoring the Iraq War while it was going on.  It’s just campaign time that Trump does this Monday morning quarterbacking.  But the other thing is that it wasn’t bad CIA data that led us into war.  It was how this data was twisted and manipulated and deliberately lied about in some cases that led us into war.  Bush knew there were no weapons of mass destruction.  Donald Trump will have one of the strangest, most unbalanced cabinet of all time.  Each appointment has been a major disaster.  But I remind you that Limbaugh and Trump and seemingly the entire Christian right- - have been in full accord with all of the decisions Trump has made up to now.  I see no reason for this to change.  I find it hard to even imagine what kind of an inauguration speech Trump is going to give. 

(Typed Monday)  This is about ten to three and as usual Shawn Hannity is making no sense at all.  Now he’s saying that Russia actually prefers Republicans in the White House because they are reliable and can be trusted.  He pointed to Carter and the canceling of the Olympics in 1980.  He spouted a bunch of completely irrevelant stuff like this supposed Russian reset we’ve heard twenty times as much about on Shawn Hannity than we ever heard from Hillary.  He calls not only the main stream media but John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham as traitors, though these are two of the most solid foreign policy conservatives we have.  Shawn’s callers don’t exercise a trace of any sort of independent thinking but tinkle all over Shawn with knee-jerk praise using the same platitudes.  Shawn keeps talking about turning education back to the states which translates as screw poor and minority schools.  He wants to build the Wall and he wants full throttle energy development in this country of fissile fuels. 

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