Pierce: President* Trump Is Doing North Korea's Propaganda Work for Them
His speech before the U.N. was long, dumb, and insulting.
...(Let us not believe for a moment that the president* is the only bellicose American at the UN. On Monday, Nikki Haley, the UN ambassador and reputedly one of the Sensible Ones, said that we had “exhausted” diplomatic options and that she was willing to hand the whole thing over to the Department of Defense.)...
The speech was 41 minutes long, at least half of which were completely appalling. The Totally Destroy moment was probably the noisiest of the latter group. But there were also the minutes in which he threw his predecessor under the bus. The nuclear agreement with Iran, of which the UN approved and was a critical part, is “an embarrassment to the United States,” which is not a phrase that this particular president ought to throw around with such promiscuous abandon. He took a drive-by shot at Venezuela, which has enough to worry about without his glib contempt. He complained about the percentage that the United States pays off the UN budget. He kept intoning the phrase “Radical Islamic Terrorism,” and must have been very disappointed when the delegation from the UAE didn’t disappear entirely when he spoke the magic words...
Call me a cynic, but I don’t think the Russian ratfcking that benefitted his campaign in so many ways, some of which we’re only discovering now, showed much respect for America’s “core sovereignty.” Did he mention Russia in his speech? You’re joking, right?
The speech was long, dumb, and insulting, which I guess is what it was meant to be. Now, in his mind, he’s living entirely at one of his campaign rallies. He hears cheering where there is no audience, and he doesn’t seem to realize that Richard Nixon’s “Madman Theory” only works if one side or the other is actually sane. I was just thinking: He wants this big Dear Leader Parade next Fourth of July. If he gets it, advanced weaponry of all kinds, and that he nominally controls as commander-in-chief, will roll down Pennsylvania Avenue past the headquarters of every institution of government that possibly could hold him to account, including FBI headquarters, the federal courthouse, and the Senate side of the Capitol.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12274982/trump-un-speech/
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If they get a whole lot of people killed because of their pettiness, it's all going to be on them and their traitor billionaire backers. 
