Today We Saw a Live Performance from an Aspiring American Dictator- Charlie Pierce

[octoberlib]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—All over Capitol Hill, anywhere there was a TV monitor of any kind tucked into marble alcoves or behind brass representations of long-dead American heroes, people gathered in small knots to watch the press conference being conducted by the man who, two weeks hence, will be able to issue killing orders from this very city. There was a quiver running through all the groups, as though we'd all been granted a guided tour of the Fuhrerbunker just as the Red Army was arriving three blocks down the platz.

What was beaming in from New York was nothing less than a genuine aspiring American dictator having what amounted to a very public tantrum. By the way, you knew it was a bag job when you saw that El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago had brought in his own personal claque of hecklers and cheerleaders. (It should be noted for the record that the "fake news" chant is merely lugenpresse for the digital age.) And the first thing he did on Wednesday morning was intimate that it's the American intelligence community that is a bunch of fascists.

This is going to be the strategy to deal with the scoop-a-palooza that broke on Tuesday night: Isolate BuzzFeed, then turn the rest of the media against it. (CNN, which is the "television station" to which Trump referred, already is joining that effort, which is unfortunate and sad.) Let's be clear: This document was apparently the subject of high-level conversations in political and media circles for at least the last half of the general election campaign. The television on Wednesday morning was full of people who swore they'd seen it and tried to "run down" the information in it, but failed.

Everybody was talking about it. A virtual brigade of people seem to have read it. And people are going to rail against BuzzFeed for sharing it with the public? Who the hell are these people when they're at home?

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52221/donald-trump-press-conference/

[uppityperson]

1. K&R

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2. Thank you for this, octoberlib!

[octoberlib]

3. Charlie Pierce always tells it like it is.

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4. KICK!

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5. Excellent

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[DonCoquixote]

6. the sad fact is, they do not care

The real sad fact is, they hate black people and women so much that they would rather be ruled by a foreign power than any American who is not a straight, white male. Who would've thought that the "useful idiots" that Lenin used to speak of would turn out to be on the right wing? Of course, contrary to those on the Russia today left, today's Russia is not even the idealistic USSR, but one where people like Alexander Dugan outright speak of bringing back the Middle Ages, where science is banned, and liberals are killed.