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Showing Original Post only (View all)Wonkette: Oh go fuck yourself, Glenn Greenwald [View all]
https://wonkette.com/621347/oh-go-fuck-yourself-glenn-greenwaldGreenwald, who likes to remind his readers every now and then (constantly) that he really really really really really doesnt like America, and who is in theory a liberal who embraces liberal values, but totally isnt, is just not sure whether Donald Trumps plans to rip healthcare away from millions, deport the fuck out of every brown-skinned person he sees, and so on, are worse than the generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly SUBVERTING TRUMPS AGENDA by sneakily getting appointed to sweet-ass cabinet and White House positions by Donald Trump, and then sort of trying to rein in some of President Fuck-Bonkerss most dangerous tendencies.
Oh and hes mad about the Deep State, because of course he is. Greenwald spends a lot of his column beating a straw man to death, claiming that all the sane people who HAAAAAATE Trump, many of them conservatives who worked tirelessly to keep him from getting elected, and who have been in COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY, MOTHERFUCKERS mode since Greenwalds pals at WikiLeaks and the Russians he is SO IN LOVE WITH (he would deny that accusation, but ya know, actions speak louder than words, and also fuck him) helped Trump get elected, think Greenwald and his weirdo friends are dumb for believing there is a Deep State. This is a false construct. We very much know there is a Deep State, and we know it makes Greenwald and Sean Hannity shit the bed, so we make fun of them about it.
But hes really really confused about which is worse: that Trump is in office and beating the shit out of American institutions and the Constitution, or that the so-called Deep State (normal people refer to them as career public servants) is trying its damnedest to protect the Republic from Trumps damage. The horrors! It reminds us of that thing Anthony Scaramucci whined during his 120-some-odd-hour tenure as White House Communications Director, about how there are some White House staffers who think it is their job to save America from this president. Its almost as if there is a wide consensus among thinking Americans that the traditions we hold dear are in danger, and that we should do something about it. (Also, to all those people, thank you!)
But Greenwald cant abide that, because how DARE the Deep State Military-CIA-Industrial Complex act all high and mighty like they for real care about protecting America from the authoritarian dipshit in the White House, when its very clear that #BothSidesDoIt anyway? How could Donald Trump possibly be more evil than the United States Of America has always been since forever?
See also: "The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald vs H.R. McMaster:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-alt-right-and-glenn-greenwald-versus-h-r-mcmaster.html
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do you share his belief that career public servants in the federal civil service
geek tragedy
Aug 2017
#22
Greenwald is a at best a contrarian. He thrives on disruption of systems, progressive or not.
haele
Aug 2017
#29
Greenwald can go pound sand as far as I've been concernef for a long time.
50 Shades Of Blue
Aug 2017
#48
I am haunted by that Scaramucci remark about some are in WH to save us from Trump
librechik
Aug 2017
#10
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Foamfollower
Aug 2017
#28