{"id":146922,"date":"2019-10-07T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=146922"},"modified":"2019-10-07T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:02:57","slug":"tweetizen-trump-2019-10-07-my-great-and-unmatched-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/07\/tweetizen-trump-2019-10-07-my-great-and-unmatched-wisdom.html","title":{"rendered":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2019-10-07 &#8211; &#8220;My Great and Unmatched Wisdom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And when people ask, &#8220;Why do other countries not trust or like the US,&#8221; it&#8217;s because we pull shit like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So, the syntax from the &quot;Press Secretary&quot; reads like a Trump tweet. Which is a horrible thing to do while we&#39;re selling out the Kurds to the Turks.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, great to see Donald is continuing to destroy whatever international reputation the US has left. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mACgACC7vJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/mACgACC7vJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1181100364684115968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the US telling Turkey, &#8220;Hey, you feel free to go in and attack the Kurds that we convinced to disarm because we would protect them while they helped us fight ISIS, but you guys have always (and not without some reason) considered them terrorists and know that the Kurds have aspired for an independent state for over a century, so, hey, it&#8217;s all yours, we&#8217;re out of here because nobody&#8217;s paying us to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the face of people worried about the folk we took under our wing and promised to protect, Donald was right there with a more egomaniacal statement than is normal even for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I\u2019ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1181232249821388801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my great and unmatched wisdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Humility has never been one of Donald Trump&#8217;s strong points. Though usually even he doesn&#8217;t end up writing like one of Kim Jong Un&#8217;s publicists.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a laughable way to try to disarm grave and bipartisan concerns (heck, even Lindsey and Mitch seeming peeved) about his throwing our Kurdish allies once more to the wolves.<\/p>\n<p>(I can imagine the Senate GOP actually using this as a cover to convict on Trump if they need to, even if it&#8217;s not one of the Articles of Impeachment. I can also imagine them using it as a cover to say, &#8220;How dare you suggest I am a lackey of Donald Trump? Look, I expressed sincere reservations about his Syrian policy, even though I didn&#8217;t really do anything about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the Trump Tower Istanbul has nothing to do with Trump&#8217;s caving to Erdogan&#8217;s desires to wipe out the Kurdish areas in Syria. And I&#8217;m equally certain Trump&#8217;s threat to &#8220;totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey&#8221; is as empty as &#8230; well, when he &#8230; did it before? (When was that, precisely, and how long did it take Turkey to recover in the last three years?)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory. THE USA IS GREAT!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1181232251390042118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s casual assertion that the US &#8220;captured 100% of the ISIS Caliphate&#8221; would probably irk some of those allies that assisted at great cost, like the Kurds, if they weren&#8217;t facing an attack from a Turkey that has longed to destroy their separatist aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve been reading a history of the post-WWI Paris Peace Talks, and it&#8217;s probably only one of those weird coincidences of history that it was a century ago this year that the West sold out the Kurds to the Turks, too.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as Donald takes some well-deserved mockery for the ego, pomposity, and zaniness that is involved in referring to one&#8217;s &#8220;great and unmatched wisdom&#8221; &#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I guarantee, sometime in the next 48 hours, Donald will claim he made the &quot;great and unmatched wisdom&quot; comment to enrage the Dems, and nobody will question whether a tweet (!) about genocide and economic warfare is an appropriate place for that kind of shit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E0rRPzWbiC\">https:\/\/t.co\/E0rRPzWbiC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1181302964163682304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Also waiting for the Trump fanatics to say, &#8220;Well,\u00a0 you know, he\u00a0<em>is<\/em> pretty darned wise!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the one thing Donald is probably\u00a0<em>not<\/em> worried about:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pat Robertson is &quot;appalled&quot; by Trump&#39;s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria: &quot;The President of the United States is in great danger of losing the mandate of Heaven if he permits this to happen.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YGeNYpbGrF\">pic.twitter.com\/YGeNYpbGrF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RightWingWatch\/status\/1181258801455996934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not worried because Pat and his Christianist cronies have been more than happy to support Donald up to the gills, regardless of what he&#8217;s done, in order to get all the juicy anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-religious-freedom-trumps-everything laws and regulations and Justice Dept., and they&#8217;re not about to actually turn on him now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s betrayal of the Kurds is just another step in dismantling US foreign policy and reputation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,10,349,374,1071],"tags":[1968,1077],"class_list":["post-146922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-state","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military","category-money-politics","category-trump","tag-kurdsbetrayed","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C2pPFv-WEAAhedq.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2061,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/19\/hitler_in_the_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":146922,"position":0},"title":"Hitler in the 60s","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Mar-02 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeffrey Goldberg discusses Iraq's Kurds, who in the late 80s were attacked with chemical -- and, possibly, biological -- weapons by the Baghdad government under Saddam Hussein. 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