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Outrage About Trump Exposes “Librul” Hypocrisy
The current "librul" outrage about Trump's announced policies is somewhat amusing. Yes, these policies are bad, very bad. Trump is bad. But so was Obama and so is Clinton. Protesting the policies of one while not protesting when the other implemented the same policies is insincere grandstanding.
Wherever you look, those Trump policies are building directly on, or simply repeat Obama policies. The now theatrically outraged people swallowed those without a word of protest.
A Trump order yesterday introduced a temporary ban on visa holders and visa issuing to citizens of seven Middle East countries. These countries are: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Those countries have one thing in common. No terrorist who killed on U.S. soil originated from them. The (few) terrorists who attacked within the U.S. came from the Middle Eastern countries not on the list. Following Trump's order, outcries on social media and in various papers ensued. People went to airports to protest. TV was there to spread the news.
But it is nothing new that the citizens of those countries are targeted with U.S. visa restrictions. It was Obama who introduced such in 2015 and 2016. The Trump order links directly to them. It does not name any country but refers to them as "countries designated in Division O, Title II, Section 203 of the 2016 consolidated appropriations act."
U.S animosities against these countries is even older. According to the former general Clark, plans were made to wage war against six of the now named seven countries back in 2001. Yemen was later added while Lebanon was (temporarily?) taken off the list. The administrations change, the selected "enemies" stay the same.
In 2011 Obama stopped processing Iraqi visa requests for six month. That move was quite similar to Trump's current one. Where was the outcry in 2001? In 2011, 2015 and 2016? Is it only bad when Trump restricts visits for certain people from certain countries?
Sure, Trump introduces his "outrageous" measures loud and abruptly where Obama sneaked them in. But that is just different marketing, not a different product.
It is the coin that is bad, not just one side of it.
This morning CNN headlines: White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts. HOW OUTRAGEOUS! How can Trump even think of such an invasion of privacy! Fake outrage – Obama had already signed off on this. The plans to collect social media accounts of traveling visitors and citizens were officially introduced in October 2016 and the implementation started in December 2016. The Trump White House is late in discussing the issue.
Yesterday Trump also issued a memorandum to structure his National Security Council. It says that the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Staff "shall attend" when it is pertinent to the issue in question. "Librul" outrage ensues. Trump excludes the DNI and CJCOS from the NSC! Obama's first Defense Secretary calls it a "huge mistake"! But a comparison of the text Trump issued with the text Obama issued when he came into office shows them to be mostly similar. Nothing really relevant has changed. The "shall attend" clause is exactly the same.
Yesterday people were protesting at airports against Trump's temporary immigration restrictions. Lots of outrage against Trump ensued on social media over this and the other issues. The hypocrisy here stinks to high heaven. Where were the protest when Obama did similar?
Where are the protests demanding the repeal of the Patriot Act? Where are the anti-war protests? These died as soon as Obama came into office. They never came back even as Obama pursued polices that were, at best, Republican light and far from any progressive ideal. Only fake liberals, aka "libruls", could agree with these. When Dick Cheney is your witness against Trump you have lost the plot.
Many of the people coming out now against Trump would likely have jubilated had Hilliary Clinton won the election and introduced the exactly same policies. Protest against the system that is incorporated in Trump, just as it is incorporated in Clinton, does not come to their mind. Do they expect to be taken serious?
There was no outrage today from any of the U.S. "libruls" and their media outlets about last nights failed U.S. military raid in Yemen. The rural home of a tribal leader's family, friendly with some Yemeni al-Qaeda members, was raided by a special operations commando. A U.S. tiltrotor military aircraft was shot down during the raid. One soldier was killed and several were wounded. The U.S. commandos responded with their usual panic. They killed anyone in sight and bombed the shit out of any nearby structure. According to Yemeni sources between 30 and 57 Yemenis were killed including eight women and eight children (graphic pics). The U.S. military claimed, as it always does, that no civilians were hurt in the raid.
One of the killed kids was the 8 year old daughter of al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki. (The targeted family is related to al-Awlaki's wife.) The girl was a U.S. citizen. Under Obama the CIA had already assassinated her father and her 16 year old brother. With Obama's active help the Gulf countries have been bombing and destroying Ýemen for nearly two years. No U.S. demonstrations were held against this war.
Yemeni sources say that at least two men were abducted by the U.S. military. The Central Command press release only said that the raid had helped to acquire "intelligence" about possible future terror acts. That probably means that the prisoners will be tortured to unveil such "intelligence" even as they may not have any. The Obama administration had introduced new rules for the military on how to handle detainees. The UN judged that the application of some of these rules is torture. The "libruls" will of course be outraged should any of those rules, which Obama introduced, be used under a Trump administration.
The hypocritical outrage against Trump for things Obama already did is exactly what Trump wants and needs. He keeps chasing the media and the Clintonistas around the block. The impression he leaves, not only with his followers, is that of a man who works a lot. 25 outrages out of 25 headlines in just one week? "Impressive! That is way more than Obama achieved!"
Trump already filed for reelection. Who really wants to beat him will have to attack him on fundamental issues. That is a problem for the "libruls". Obama and Clinton stand for the same terrible policies Trump is pushing for. They are not as loud as Trump and paint their aims in softer colors. But the difference is only one of degree.
The U.S., like many other "western" countries, needs fundamentally different policies and politicians to become a more just and social society. The current "librul" outcries take energy away from achieving such.
Although vast majority of protesters are paid protesters by Soros NGOs they are people who bought the lie that Trump is a reincarnated evil.
And in fact it hard to argue with this lies unless one brings to the picture all 44 previous reincarnated evils and their army of minions i.e evil of the very US empire.
So what are they afraid of?
Will we have openly fascist anti-women dictatorship in the US under Trump soon and that’s why this sudden rush? No. Not a chance.
The American inverted totalitarianism of S. Wolin is much more effective as it muddles the true intentions and hides absolute unity of objectives shared by the rulers as well as their absolute class morality, solidarity and unity recently not so hidden under nameless government institutions, NGOs, opposition parties, MSM and other social institutions or corporations forming a unified core of the USA Inc., as a 227 y.o. abhorrent Anglo-American corporate regime created of the elite, for the elite, but not by the elite but rather by stolen hard work of millions exploited or murdered slaves and working poor.
A lie about petition of this calcified inhumane regime to remedy people’s grievances is one such a Kafkaesque plots of the inverted totalitarianism, or false political choice peddled unfortunately by phony opposition, a tale of “fake” peaceful transition of power where there is none or phony free speech rights for gagged populace etc., are all phantoms of unreality all the [ruling elite backed] influence peddlers are pushing on desperate population of witting or unwitting slaves, called US citizen.
The biggest advantage of the inverted totalitarianism is that it maintains an illusion of possibility of reform or change by faking a social/political environment of unpredictability of nonexistent public opinion replaced by a astroturf clandestine operation or possibility of change where there is only authoritarian sociopolitical command and control regime we live our strictly regimented lives under while believing we are having rich social and political live.
Inverted totalitarianism is very effective in confusing, manipulating people, dividing people and instigating conflicts that leave ruling elite outside the scope of any struggle or even realm of existence making them arbiters of mitigation or resolution of problem they caused themselves.
Open brutality however, is extremely costly and still has one big flaw, it identifies enemy and hence unifies people in their assessment about who they are fighting against and that is a first step to defeating it.
Only open revolt would make ruling elite to drop this mascara of political farce and only when their very lives or survival as a power center would be threatened.
But this particular two millions marching women is not a revolt, it is not a rebellion or beginning of any true revolution but an attempt to preempt it and usurp it. It is a product of inverted totalitarianism. It serves a purpose of mass intimidation of those hundreds of millions of poor hard working women in the US and all over the world oppressed the same way today and yesterday a month ago, a years ago or decades ago but who did not succumb to politically motivated partisan women activist orthodoxy of hate against a repugnant flat TV persona, a scapegoat, a diversion from previous crimes of the ruling elite.
What more outrageous is that all this hatred is peddled by a Hollywood members of the same power elite of rich and opulent celebrities that Trump is a creation of, and where he truly belongs. How credible is their outrage?
All those fiery women celebrity speakers know well where their class morality resides and where their personal loyalty resides and where their financial interests reside while falsely claiming a kind of kinship with desolated, raped, mistreated poor women, as John Lennon sang “women [who] are [treated also by the ruling elite as] N.. of the world, only because they are too having their vaginas.
It is a lie, they have more in common with abhorrent Trump than with any hard working, two jobs holding woman. Even they often become poor women worst enemies by contributing to Hollywood productions peddling attitudes of misogyny, hatred and belittlement of womanhood or turning women into violent machines, robots, or submissive brainless animals.
Those are paid militants, messengers of chaos to obfuscate reality of vicious class war, a war against working class women and men and their children who are craving among anything stability, physical and economic safety and most of all they want love and unity in their families and communities that are continuously under attack by MSM/Hollywood anti-woman propaganda and devastating economic war pushing them onto a brink of survival.
Hollywood movie or corporate music or TV starlets cannot and will not make a desperately needed revolution happen since they only know how to pretend on a fake set of unreality show that’s all they are good for and that for what they are being paid namely for a harmful also to women mass deception.
We must not be fooled. They are fake leftists, deceitful phony puppets of this ugly regime attempting to hijack true rebellion before it spills all over the country.
When real revolution comes they all, despicable secular influence peddlers of propaganda and entertainment industry, [analogous to biblical daemons], will be swept away together with Trump and his minions to the hell of condemned and forgotten where they all equally belong for being apologists of exploitation, intimidation, torture and murder of poor, working women, men and children as long as paychecks were coming.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/24/the-womens-march-was-a-dismal-failure-and-a-hopeful-sign/
The Ionesco theater of absurd continues and Trump is being decried for acts considered Obama virtues with the only purpose of that: Setting up a phony controlled opposition to hijack the true revolutions that is brewing.
Posted by: Kalen | Jan 30 2017 3:04 utc | 53
Naturally Trump had to make some *seemingly* strong moves in the direction of his ‘base’ after all the hot air and promises about illegal immigrants, the Mexican Wall, ‘islamic terrorism’…
His base is concerned with illegal immigration as related to job loss, lowered wages, ‘foreign’ presence – and the old horse ‘terrorism’ which is polarised on ‘muslims.’ Outsourcing though is more important to most.. Checking reddit, the Trumpists are pretty silent about the ‘immig’ exec. order, and a few have posted critical comments, which is extremely rare (1 in 50 ++ posts or so.)
A F-U to deluded dems sporting pussy hats to provoke them which could be seen as, well, fair game (from a Trumpeter pov.)
The US is entering an age of public, strident, cultish hysteria, which is a common outcome when politics (in its broadest sense, socio-cult-econo- etc.) has become an empty shell of posturing, ‘fake news’, with puppets dancing to the tune of various masters, coup and counter-coup behind the scenes. Trump seems to be encouraging this state of affairs.
Of course, Trump’s exec. order is poorly conceived, unclear, not well defined, far too broad, and was obviously hastily composed without consultation with relevant parties, and working out ‘proper’ application measures. Screaming about it, protesting is legit…at least it is a concrete issue in contrast to a Soros guided “Womens’ March.”
So it goes. In fact, Trump’s exec. order is – thinking it out now – more or less exactly what one might expect from a tough bizman (such as when dealing with a Union, striking workers, for ex.) A wild stab in the dark, trumpeting (sic) power, creating chaos, to then backtrack somewhat, make concessions, fixing this or that, giving some crumbs here or there, waiting for opposition to dissipate, and so on. Ergo, Trump conceives of his power as very personal and situated more in a ‘corporate’ than an ‘international politics’ frame. Expect more of the same…!
However, Trump taking up the ‘terrorism’ / ‘ppl from countries which present risks’ —or whatever it is supposed to be— card in this way shows a continuity (see b) and testifies to a lack or originality, and, down the road, courage. And it doesn’t really speak to his base, mark my words on that.
Of course all the hoopla from both sides – Trumpists and pwogressives – has absolutely nothing to do with ‘terrorism’, sigh…as should be obvious…discussions of what countries do or do not contribute to terrorism is just more ethnicist/nationalist ‘branding’, an all-time favorite for colonialist dominators.
Polarisation on a ‘fake’ issue…manipulations on both sides while behind the scenes others are active.
Posted by: Noirette | Jan 30 2017 14:45 utc | 96
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