As so many of us have been dreading, PNAC's favorite bloodthirsty child killer John Bolton has been added to the Trump administration. And as many half-jokingly predicted, Democrats seized on this opportunity to accuse Bolton of being a Kremlin agent.
That's right, John Bolton, the guy who has been trying to start a war with Russia since long before the name Vladimir Putin meant anything to the average Democrat, is being accused of colluding with Russia. Count on Democrats to oppose the most virulent neocon in Washington by accusing him of not being hawkish enough.
"John Bolton once suggested Russian hack of DNC may have been a false flag operation by Obama Admin," fretted lead Democratic Russiagater Adam Schiff, mistaking brazen partisan hackery for actual skepticism about a likely intelligence community false flag.
"Don't forget the reason for H.R. McMaster's departure: He criticized Russia," added Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin. "McMaster said publicly that Russia needed to face serious consequences for what they've done in Syria & for the gas attack in the UK. John Bolton would never say anything like that."
"Trump has outdone himself by selecting Bolton," Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch tweeted with a link to a story about Bolton having appeared in a 2013 video for a Russian gun rights group. "In one appointment, he simultaneously increased the influence of the NRA in his Admin. & found another way to tie himself to Russia. Does he still claim he hires the best people? #TrumpRussia."
"Bolton is pre-indictment for many crimes against America," tweeted renowned professional intelligence LARPer Eric Garland.
Was he referring to Bolton's unforgivable war crimes?
Hahahaha! Oh child. Of course not.
"He's owned by Russia," Garland explained.
There are of course many, many, many extremely legitimate reasons to criticize John Bolton, and none of them involve being too soft on Russia. Not only is he a PNAC signatory who played a major role in manufacturing the lies that led to the Iraq invasion, but he still insists that that invasion was a great idea. He's advocated for escalations and acts of military violence against every single government that is in any way oppositional to US hegemony including Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia and China, and account after account of his personal behavior toward people he's worked with indicate that he is in all likelihood an actual, literal psychopath.
But Democratic opposition to Bolton, even when it doesn't get sucked up into idiotic Russia conspiracy theory, appears to be receiving a relatively lukewarm response from mainstream America. It certainly isn't attracting the urgent attention it should be, and certainly isn't eliciting the level of viral interest as a new "bombshell" Russiagate revelation. And why should it? Propagandists have been pacing rank-and-file Democrats into embracing Iraq-raping Bush-era neocons for more than a year now.
In addition to Democrats being forced to spend 2016 gaslighting themselves into believing that a warmongering neocon who supported the Iraq war would make a great First Female President, they have also been manipulated by the cult of blind anti-Trumpism into accepting neoconservative death worshippers like Bill Kristol, David Frum and Max Boot into their #Resistance fold.
"One of the most amazing outcomes of the Trump administration is the number of neo-conservatives that are now my friends and I am aligned with," MSNBC pundit Joy Reid openly admitted in an interview last year. "I found myself agreeing on a panel with Bill Kristol. I agree more with Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, and Max Boot than I do with some people on the far left. I am shocked at the way that Donald Trump has brought people together."
Just as Bolton has cozied up to the Trump crowd by disguising his brazen neoconservative globalism as libertarian-leaning nationalism, neocons like Frum, Boot and Kristol who helped decimate Iraq have been cozying up to mainstream Democrats by posing as woke progressives, and now they're in like Flynn. Dems had to stretch and compartmentalize their thinking to accommodate the other Bush-era neocons, and even Bush himself to a large extent, so why would a few experts saying "Uh seriously this Bolton guy is deeply terrifying" have any influence over them? They already had to gaslight themselves into believing the bloodshed caused by neoconservatism is fine.
So the American mainstream has been successfully manipulated on both sides of the artificial political divide into supporting vestigial Bush neocons, with #TheResistance proudly retweeting depraved death cultists like Bill Kristol while a majority of the #MAGA crowd support Trump's elevation of Bolton, and now there's no one left but us homeless nonpartisans to point and scream about where this all seems to be headed.
Partisan hack Trump supporters are worthless. Partisan hack Democrats are equally worthless. Only those who have awakened from the relentless barrage of mass media psyops and seen beyond the fake uniparty trap can see what's going on. It's up to us to awaken everyone else.
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John Bolton being a signatory to PNAC does not surprise me in the least. A man so singularly hawkish that even the Republicans refused to confirm him as USA’s Ambassador to the UN - hence Bush’s introduction of the “Recess Appointment”.
Bolton is there to start a war, it’s what he does. The war that Candidate Trump said he didn’t want? Candidates say lots of things, but when they arrive in Washington they soon realize the truth – Bankers don’t belong in prison and all wars are good, even those that aren’t.
A geopolitically uninformed Donald Trump bringing in Fox savvy John Bolton as his NSA is not a total surprise, despite the moustache, but the Democrat reaction to Bolton’s appointment is a reflection of exactly where we are today. Russia Russia Russia Russia? Give me a break. Bolton would start a war with himself if he could.
Elected Republicans and Democrats are now cut from the same cloth, and woven into that cloth is the desire for war. As empire sinks and they scavenge for the final remnants from the trough, the diversion of external conflict is no longer simply desirable, but silently imperative for both parties.
Things keep going like this, the DNC will soon be supporting Trump.
Just as soon as he starts their war for them.
I am a Trump supporter and I was very disappointed in the decision to bring in Bolton, I've never personally like the guy. I think it's a mistake for Trump to bring in people from the Bush era who were directly involved with selling the American people a pack of lies.
Idiocracy is exponentially rising....it is fast outpacing technology at this rate
...and here is the issue.
The divide is between freedom lovers an authoritarian lovers. (depressingly too many sheep, imo).
Neocon, neolib progressives, the left, the right - all lead to communism
(under other names, but its the same destination eventually - A centralized authority. )
Looking at the divide in this way, makes it much simpler to see....(imo)
The United States empire would rather blow up the world than ever cede their role as the singular global superpower. Bolton wouldn't have been brought in if a major military action wasn't in the works. If there was ever a time to hit the panic button, now would be it.
Caitlin, your last article was true, but this one is true on a so very much deeper level. In a Perfect world, Donald Trump would be about as low as you could go. But, in our World, you have the Democratic National Committee. The President is way, way, way too warlike for me, but, any truthful criticism of him , in order to be truthful, needs to point out that his most vocal critics make him look like Mother Theresa or Mahatma Gandhi compared to him. I did upvote and share your last article before this one. But I am enjoying so very much more upvoting and sharing this one.
Until he appointed John Bolton.
DNC has been wanting war with Russia.
Trump needs a distraction.
Bibi wants war with Iran.
Trump's gonna listen to Bibi, before he listens to the DNC.
The political elite desire war. Central bankers need a bailout.
Average Americans have jobs, pensions and 401Ks tied up in the war economy.
America's future jobs will only be: cops, prison guards, weapons makers and soldiers.
America: at war for 92% of the time, since 1776.
Our US Military has slowly spread the US Empire...taking over the world for rich, white men...through acts of war and crimes against humanity.
I was called a Russian Dupe last night by a client of mine on FB last night.
I was responding to a Cambridge Analytica article and I suggested that the CA brouhaha was how FB planned to make money at the time. And that FB and SoMe data were the likely source of the Brookylnn voter role scrubbing.
"I just can't... I can't," Two women suggested, and that was pretty much that. I stretched it out a couple comments, to make sure that the jury of our peers actually heard what I wrote, but there was little countering it.
Talk to the hand is pretty much all I got.
But, hey, they'll soon be attacking Bolton for me... from the Right, so what should I care.
We're in real trouble over here in the States. Getting a bit scary.