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Embellished image of Donald Trump during his days as a World Wrestling Entertainment participant.
Embellished image of Donald Trump during his days as a World Wrestling Entertainment participant.
The current, convoluted spectacle in the hallowed halls of Empire is worthy of the most demented WWE scripts - as everything about Donald Trump has to be understood as a pile-up of professional wrestling plots. Here we have former national security advisor John Bolton playing The Undertaker with Trump trying to cast himself as The Rock.
Still, when we see the full 4K picture of the supposed leadership of the United States government, plus the Beltway extensions, mired in a swampland crammed with double-dealing vipers, it looks more like a catfight.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro - a rabid China demonizer - actually came up with the best description of what John Bolton is up to with his supposedly tell-all $2 million book deal: this is the DC swamp's "revenge porn."
Bolton's 592-page memoir, to be published next Tuesday, was conveniently leaked in advance by Simon & Schuster to the New York Times and the Washington Post, and an extract has been published by the Wall Street Journal.
Bolton wrote, "A president may not misuse the national government's legitimate powers by defining his own personal interest as synonymous with the national interest, or by inventing pretexts to mask the pursuit of personal interest under the guise of national interest."
A New York Times hack wrote, "Mr. Bolton sought to use his 17 months in the White House to accomplish policy goals that were important to him [italics mine], like withdrawing the United States from a host of international agreements he considers flawed, like the Iran nuclear accord, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and others."
So a certified warmonger - his track record fully documented - is entitled to get away with accomplishing "policy goals important to him" even as he accuses the President of equalizing his "own personal interest" with the "national interest."
What really matters here, for the self-described paper of record seems to be the unique chance to quote at will an insider source that simply cannot be checked for accuracy. The fact that Bolton is no more reliable as a source than any DC swamp peddler? That is conveniently shoved under the carpet.
The Washington Post, for its part, gloated that this is "the most substantive, critical dissection of the president from an administration insider so far," as it portrays Trump as an "erratic" and "stunningly uninformed" commander in chief.
The Post also takes Bolton at his word, as he describes Trump relying on "personal instinct" and playing for "reality TV showmanship." At least Bolton seems to have a vague clue about the WWE's preeminence - much as he got a clue about the obvious: The one thing that really matters above all for Trump is re-election.
Comment: Also by Dr Rancourt: His analysis of this past winter's all-cause mortality rates, and his conclusion, is in line with ours: And so, to summarize the 'Covid-19 pandemic' once more...
For two/three months the WHO, the media, and whichever 'secret cabal' controls both, shoved in everyone's faces the fact that old people die when they reach the end of their lives. In the process of 'making everyone realize the horror' of this fact, irresponsible (and frankly pathological) elites willfully enjoined the general population to accelerate the deaths of tens of thousands of elderly and immune-compromised people, who died alone when separated from loved ones and abandoned by their regular healthcare practitioners.
Govt policy decisions - specifically, ONE 'central' govt policy decision, one followed by most Western govts, along with a few others - generated a 'bottleneck of deaths' by temporarily lifting the normal healthcare options available to society's most vulnerable. These vulnerable people then died in droves, earlier than they would otherwise have done, and their deaths provided the media with images of 'overflowing morgues', crematoria, etc. from around the world.
Ironically then, the declared purpose of the lockdown - to 'save the elderly' by 'flattening the curve' - produced precisely the opposite outcome: the elderly were killed off, thereby artificially and precipitately spiking the otherwise flatter regular winter season curve.