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TheBlackAdder

(28,187 posts)
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 08:14 AM Jun 2019

New Reganism -- Expanding Upon Regan's New Republican Corporate Welfare & Terrorist Bartering

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Donald Trump's administration and the GOP are taking New Republicanism & Reganism to the next logical extension.

This extension shall be known as New Reganism.


This is a culmination of extended corporate welfare and wealth redistribution, terrorist bartering, with the added element of working openly with our nation's adversaries for personal and corporate greed. While Richard Nixon betrayed this country to help his election chances, prolonging the Vietnam war which cost tens of thousands of American casualties, Reagan bartered with terrorists to free the Iranian hostages, behind Carter's back. Trump and the GOP embrace the move to fascism overtly or passively.

This next extension moves those shadowy elements into public view, as they are now palatable to GOP members.


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William Barr's Blank Check To Use Intelligence For Political Ends Will Cost America Dearly

Trump is publicly announcing that his chief political officer is going to examine classified information from America’s allies, and use that information for political show trials. That’s a concern not just for what it says about the future of American justice, but also for what it says right now about America’s national security.

Australia, the U.K., and other allies have not made a public statement regarding Barr’s expanded authority to spill anything they hand over. But the threat to techniques, sources, and analysis is very real. Whether it concerns the movement of military forces, or the pursuit of international terrorists, Trump’s order to Barr disassembles intelligence agreements that took centuries to build and saw all involved not just survive war, but avoid it.

A big part of the reluctance that other countries have shown to criticize Trump’s action is their recognition that Trump is both dedicated to attacking his opponents and unpredictable in his actions. That’s caused foreign governments to draw a huge circle around anything related to the Russia investigation, Trump’s investigation of the investigation, or the inevitable investigation of that investigation, and stand far back.
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But Trump may force May to make some kind of statement. Speaking with reporters about his upcoming trip to the U.K., Trump said, “There's word and rumor that the FBI and others were involved, CIA were involved, with the UK, having to do with the Russian hoax. And I may very well talk to her about that, yes." Even if she never has to face another vote, May is likely to feel some pressure to continue supporting British intelligence. Still, the U.K., with Brexit on the horizon, is desperate to preserve connections to the U.S., and May just may let Trump be Trump, with no comment.

Don’t expect that silence to last. Trump’s fact-free rants about “spying,” Barr’s repeating of the same term, and the upending of American intelligence that’s been underway since Trump took office are driving a wedge between the United States and its allies, both in open military alliances such as NATO and in less visible agreements such as Five Eyes.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/05/william-barrs-blank-check-use-intelligence



Our partner's Intelligence Agencies are resisting this conversion, for the time being, until those nations fall to fascism.

People ask why the GOP is sitting back, while our nation's alliances are being restructured from allies to adversaries, yet fail to see that the GOP has moved on to embrace fascism as a way of maintaining power. Their allegiances are now with other fascist leaders, who must maintain a stranglehold on their citizens and assist in crumbling democracy in partner nations to assimilate to this new structure. Like a corporate outsourcer, the GOP takes over rival data centers and makes them conform to their standards before assuming control over them and integrating them into the collective. The desired goal of New Reganism is to convert other countries into fascist extensions, with a supreme leader or counsel.

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