“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This SPECIAL Hanukkah / Advent Sunday open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
Say what you want, comment on what other people said, comment on people’s comments. Keep it civil. Treehouse rules, but expect lots of QAnon.
No illegalities, please. Especially not today!
Tonight (Sunday, December 2) will be the first night of Hanukkah, and today is the first day of Advent – two somewhat analogous long winter holidays in Judaism and Christianity.
Rising Serpent posted a great “you decide” tape from (LOL) CIA Washington Post that includes a bit of “dispassionate” talk by Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker about Candidate and/or President Trump.
Clearly this was the worst dirt they could find to paint Whitaker as “NeverTrump”. Clearly this was meant as a political wedge. But NO, it neither passes the sniff test, NOR does it work.
In fact, in typical Trump Boomerang Effect, it backfires.
I have talked about “Trump” like this many times. Sometimes right before I send him MONEY.
When you see me talking about “Trump” and not “President Trump” or “VSGPOTUS”, I may actually be doing exactly what Whitaker is doing here. I call it “armchair Machiavelli”. When I do this I am dispassionate – clinical – maybe even cynical. Why? Because THAT is how you get the subjectivity out. You know – analyze – don’t sympathize.
Nice to see this Whitaker guy as Acting Attorney General. He’s got the right stuff. Maybe we should be thinking about him as the nominee for AG.
What do you think of this tape? I think this is not just a nothingburger – I think it’s GREAT. Whitaker actually gets – to some extent – the “Trump schtick”. This is just like me. Some of the things that “Trump” does make sense in a humorously effective way, and others are just inscrutable, but seem to work. Whitaker had the EXACT SAME surprised reaction that I did to Trump INCESSANTLY taking oddball opportunities to say he was not under investigation.
It was weird, even cringeworthy, and yet, it seems to have worked like crazy.
You know you have a MASTER tactician on your hands, when you leave the armchair Machiavellis scratching their heads.
This SPECIAL D5 Minus 4 Saturday open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
Say what you want, comment on what other people said, comment on people’s comments. Keep it civil. Treehouse rules, but expect lots of QAnon.
No illegalities, please. And hopefully Deep State has enough problems as it is, to LEAVE US ALONE!
Thank you! 😉
W
PS – I was walking with the dog at dusk last night, and had a restlessness of spirit that counted two wolves and a moon. I could not find the third wolf.
One Wolf who tells stories to many Another Wolf who tells truths to few A bright full Moon over a distant land One Wolf missing, now has been found
Every dog has its day, yet all fall short. Rest in Peace. Go with God.
