Pierce: It's Important to Remember We're Currently Ruled by the Dumbest People Available

[babylonsister]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a21271839/trump-doctrine-america-bitch/

It's Important to Remember We're Currently Ruled by the Dumbest People Available
"We're America, bitch."
By Charles P. Pierce
Jun 11, 2018


I admit quite readily that this, from The Atlantic, is little more than a shiny object. But it is an extraordinarily shiny object.

The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard, though, came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and I said, by way of introduction, that I thought it might perhaps be too early to discern a definitive Trump Doctrine. “No,” the official said. “There’s definitely a Trump Doctrine.”

“What is it?” I asked. Here is the answer I received: “The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.”

Here, with a rebuttal, is John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States.

She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....

But, hey, she’s America, bitch.

Jesus, these really are the fcking mole people.

[stuffmatters]

1. And by the most corrupt

[NightWatcher]

2. I need to embrace the Idiocracy and start my own con.

Maybe I'll start a religion and get my piece of the stupidity pie that's going around.

[mucifer]

3. I disagree. The Russian government is not "the dumbest people available"

That's the problem

[Doreen]

4. They are all evil.

However the problem is that not all of them are dumb. The smart ones are the ones who are really running the show. Pence scares me because unlike trump he is smart. He has been smart enough to not say much at all during this entire time. I fear he is planning something and it will make what trump is doing look soft. At the same time however I think trump is trying to become a dictator.

[bdamomma]

5. trying to become a dictator????

he is number 7 out of 10 on the dictator scale.


FYI

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-becoming-dictator-hes-already-showing-7-10-notable-signs?src=newsletter1093111

Snip of article

President Donald Trump may fail to qualify as a dictator, but it’s not for lack of trying.

In late 2016, Harvard University's Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations Stephen M. Walt wrote a 10-point list for analyzing whether a president is a dictator.

[Doreen]

6. OK, he is WORKING at becoming a dictator.

I have always thought this was a goal of his since his campaigning started. He however is not smart enough to do it on his own and would end up just being a puppet for the smart ones. Yeah, I realize he is already a puppet but he will be more so if he is able to fain that he has dictatorship.