So which one of you are going to gargle John Bolton's diarhea first? by 6IXSTRINGJACK

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So which one of you are going to gargle John Bolton's diarhea first?

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 11:52 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Just wonderin...

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:13 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Here are two and half pages from CHAPTER 1

You can download the whole book for free at https://libgen.unblockit.pw/search.php?req=John+Bolton

The Long March to a West Wing Corner Office

One attraction of being National Security Advisor is the sheer multiplicity and volume of challenges that confront you. If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and the sheer amount of work, and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description—try something else. It is exhilarating, but it is nearly impossible to explain to outsiders how the pieces fit together, which they often don’t in any coherent way.

I cannot offer a comprehensive theory of the Trump Administration’s transformation because none is possible. Washington’s conventional wisdom on Trump’s trajectory, however, is wrong. This received truth, attractive to the intellectually lazy, is that Trump was always bizarre, but in his first fifteen months, uncertain in his new place, and held in check by an “axis of adults,” he hesitated to act. As time passed, however, Trump became more certain of himself, the axis of adults departed, things fell apart, and Trump was surrounded only by “yes men.”

Pieces of this hypothesis are true, but the overall picture is simplistic. The axis of adults in many respects caused enduring problems not because they successfully managed Trump, as the High-Minded (an apt description I picked up from the French for those who see themselves as our moral betters) have it, but because they did precisely the opposite. They didn’t do nearly enough to establish order, and what they did do was so transparently self-serving and so publicly dismissive of many of Trump’s very clear goals (whether worthy or unworthy) that they fed Trump’s already-suspicious mind-set, making it harder for those who came later to have legitimate policy exchanges with the President. I had long felt that the role of the National Security Advisor was to ensure that a President understood what options were open to him for any given decision he needed to make, and then to ensure that this decision was carried out by the pertinent bureaucracies. The National Security Council process was certain to be different for different Presidents, but these were the critical objectives the process should achieve.

Because, however, the axis of adults had served Trump so poorly, he second-guessed people’s motives, saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government. The axis of adults is not entirely responsible for this mind-set. Trump is Trump. I came to understand that he believed he could run the Executive Branch and establish national-security policies on instinct, relying on personal relationships with foreign leaders, and with made-for-television showmanship always top of mind. Now, instinct, personal relations, and showmanship are elements of any President’s repertoire. But they are not all of it, by a long stretch. Analysis, planning, intellectual discipline and rigor, evaluation of results, course corrections, and the like are the blocking and tackling of presidential decision-making, the unglamorous side of the job. Appearance takes you only so far.

In institutional terms, therefore, it is undeniable that Trump's transition and opening year-plus were botched irretrievably. Processes that should have immediately become second nature, especially for the many Trump advisors with no prior service even in junior Executive Branch positions, never happened. Trump and most of his team never read the government’s “operators’ manual,” perhaps not realizing doing so wouldn’t automatically make them members of the “deep state.” I entered the existing chaos, seeing problems that could have been resolved in the Administration’s first hundred days, if not before. Constant personnel turnover obviously didn’t help, nor did the White House’s Hobbesian bellum omnium contra omnes (“war of all against all”). It may be a bit much to say that Hobbes’s description of human existence as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” accurately described life in the White House, but by the end of their tenures, many key advisors would have leaned toward it. As I explained in my book Surrender Is Not an Option, my approach to accomplishing things in government has always been to absorb as much as possible about the bureaucracies where I served (State, Justice, the United States Agency for International Development) so I could more readily accomplish my objectives.

My goal was not to get a membership card but to get a driver’s license. That thinking was not common at the Trump White House. In early visits to the West Wing, the differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning. What happened on one day on a particular issue often had little resemblance to what happened the next day, or the day after. Few seemed to realize it, care about it, or have any interest in fixing it. And it wasn’t going to get much better, which depressing but inescapable conclusion I reached only after I had joined the Administration.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 3:35 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

We have a loser!

You surprised me there, idiot. I thought for sure it would be Ted.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:55 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You surprised me there, idiot. I thought for sure it would be Ted.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Similarly, on one of Trump’s signature campaign issues — stemming illegal immigration — the White House stumbled through one mistake after another in the early days, trying to craft Executive Orders and policy directives. Judicial challenges were inevitable, and likely to be hotly litigated in a judiciary filled with eight years of Obama appointees. But the White House entirely owned the initial immigration debacles, betraying a lack of transition preparation and internal coordination. A “dissent channel” cable at State, intended to be internal, found its way onto the Internet, signed by over a thousand employees, criticizing the immigration initiative. The press feasted on it, although the cable’s arguments were weak, disjointed, and poorly presented. But somehow the cable, and similar arguments by media commentators and Hill opponents, went unanswered. Who was in charge? What was the plan?

Bolton didn't say it, but nobody was in charge and there was no plan because Trump didn't know what to say, or when to be quiet, to create a plan. It's always Trump and his big mouth in charge of every detail, except Trump wasn't doing the detailed work and he wasn't making it clear who he was delegating work to.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 5:48 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You surprised me there, idiot. I thought for sure it would be Ted.

I'm surprised, too. I thought we were all just gonna ignore the attention whore that is 6ix.... What happened Second, didja really get THAT bored??

You're just feeding the troll, yanno.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:27 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You surprised me there, idiot. I thought for sure it would be Ted.

I'm surprised, too. I thought we were all just gonna ignore the attention whore that is 6ix.... What happened Second, didja really get THAT bored??

You're just feeding the troll, yanno.

Even responding to Trump's incompetence (and his damn fool claims he is knowledgeable) is feeding the Troll. The whole nation's response should be without words -- punch a Trump lover in the throat. And keep punching. Being reasonable will get you nowhere with them. That calls for two stories. I was working in fast food and a co-worker drops a burger on the floor where the customers can't see, picks it up to serve it. I said to him what happened and he said it didn't happen. I should have punched him rather than argue. Same thing happened in Vietnam, but it was bigger and more deadly than a hamburger that got dropped. Again, there was the denial about what had just happened. It is a lesson I foolishly keep forgetting: Trump lovers are born or breed or educated to be nuts and talking to them doesn't make them sane. It makes them even more dishonorable.

Getting back to Bolton on Trump: Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, blasted President Trump's coronavirus response as "incoherent" as he tore into the unpredictable nature of the president's decision-making.

"The difference between [Joe] Biden and Trump is that Biden has a view, and Trump has no view," Bolton said, when asked who would be better on foreign policy. "On any given day, any decision is possible. And I find that frightening. I find the response to the coronavirus demonstrates exactly the kind of fear that I have."

Bolton continued, saying that "the response was herky-jerky, incoherent, sporadic, and not what as effective as it could have been." He then warned that this "only gives a preview of what could happen in an even more severe crisis." Trump will certainly drop more hamburgers if he is not fired from fast food.

The interview, airing Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET on Fox News' "Special Report," comes as Bolton's tell-all memoir "The Room Where It Happened" is released to the public.

https://pressfrom.info/news/politics/-465368-bolton-in-fnc-interview-c
alls-trump-s-coronavirus-response-incoherent.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 9:06 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You surprised me there, idiot. I thought for sure it would be Ted.

I'm surprised, too. I thought we were all just gonna ignore the attention whore that is 6ix.... What happened Second, didja really get THAT bored??

You're just feeding the troll, yanno.

Second can't resist replying to me.

Just like you.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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