Katie Hopkins permanently banned from Twitter for hateful behavior
Katie Hopkins has been permanently removed from the use of Twitter. Her Twitter profile – which she used to tweet under the @kthopkins grip – now indicates that she was suspended – and this time, it’s definitely, confirmed a spokesperson for the website.
The candid personality microblogging account was deleted after a petition was launched by a social media user to start it on the site.
More than 75,000 people signed their names to the Change.Org petition to have the former apprentice star’s account suspended.
The petition biography said, “Incredibly, Katie Hopkins has been given a platform to insult, abuse and provoke outrage for far too long. Attacking the victims of sexual exploitation of children is probably the most repulsive act that any human being can do.
“Doesn’t it have limits? The scary thing is that it could happen to her own children right under her nose – being as obsessed as she is, how could she see the signs?
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“I think it is time for Twitter to take action and remove it from its platform, just as Facebook did with Britain First.
“I believe in freedom of expression. Hate speech isn’t, I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way ”
A Twitter spokesperson told The Huffington Post, “Twitter security is a top priority for us – abuse and hateful behavior have no place in our service and we will continue to take action when our rules fail. are not respected.
“In this case, the account has been permanently suspended for violating our hateful driving policy. ”
The former columnist has gained a lot of reaction and hatred over the years for the messages she posts on the social media platform.
More recently, she caused a sensation by mocking the demonstrations of Black Lives Matter.
Hopkins tweeted on Wednesday, “Today is #whiteoutwednesday. I will soon post a photo of my ass. Thank you. ”
It was after she targeted footballer Marcus Rashford by posting a number of jibes about his free school lunch campaign.
It comes after a petition was launched online to get it started on the microblogging site (Image: Getty Images)
The efforts of striker Man Utd convinced the government to reverse its position of not providing meals to disadvantaged children during the school holidays.
Rashford himself comes from a family of five and explained how his experiences of his mother struggling to put food on the table were the motivation behind his efforts to help the less fortunate.
But Katie was outraged by the decision, tweeting Rashford over the question suggesting that he should pay to feed the kids himself.
Hopkins contacted Rashford on Twitter, writing, “Do you think women should think about how they’re going to feed a child before deciding to have it?”
“I don’t want to pay to feed other people’s children. You are welcome. ”
This is not the first time Katie has been suspended from Twitter.
In January, his Twitter account of one million subscribers was temporarily suspended.
(Image: PA)
The suspension is due to the fact that the far-right mouth – whose Tweets have sometimes been re-tweeted by US President Donald Trump – violated the site’s microblogging policy, according to DevonLive.
Activists – including Rachel Riley of Countdown – lobbied the site after Hopkins continued to spread hatred on the platform that saw her incite racial hatred in messages directed against rapper Stormzy.
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So ... how about 2020 y'all? What a year. We started off with Australia on fire, then WW III was scheduled and then cancelled, then the Kung Flu hit and brought lockdowns, now we have race riots, more Kung Flu, pancake syrup and rice have been cancelled, and China and India are trying to get WW III back on the schedule of events.
I'm not even going to be surprised when the aliens land; although, they're probably just watching right now saying, "WTF, let's skip this place and hit up the next planet." So, since it's been such a weird and stressful year, and it's been a hot minute since our last open thread, let's forget all of that for a while, look at some Summer recipes, watch a few cute doggo and kitty videos, listen to some music and just hang out.
Let's pick up right where we left off with a new Sam the Cooking Guy video. I'm addicted to this guy's channel. After that we'll look at a tasty summer cocktail ... something different than what everyone else is posting about ... mojitos and margaritas and whatnot. Once the food is done I've got a few posts from the subreddit r/aww for you.
It’s time to shut down the shutdown, everywhere and for all the things. It’s done. Over. If people can be trusted to march with 100,000 of their best friends and scream chants, they can be trusted to wear a mask and go to church, visit their elderly relatives, hold funerals, be with sick loved ones in the hospital, go shopping for clothes, play at playgrounds, and go anywhere.
As irritated readers of The American Spectator will gladly tell you, I wroteworriedly (or, as commenters said, fear-mongered) about the Wuhan Flu months ago and considered it a grave threat. Even I didn’t expect over 100,000 deaths. For reasons that are still not understood, the virus seems particularly bad for certain people beyond the obviously targeted elderly and infirm. Is it genetics? Possibly. Is it a more virulent strain? Possibly. Are there hidden co-factors still not understood? Who knows? While most people ages 50 years and younger do well, some do not. And of those, some fare particularly poorly. Those 50 years and older are in a tougher spot. If they’re healthy, they likely have nothing to worry about.
Enough. The American people know the risks now. Let them decide for themselves how much exposure to a deadly virus they feel comfortable with.
The disease is not the flu even if it has flu-level morbidity (that’s not established yet). And unlike the flu, it can leave permanent damage. The virus destroys the lungs of some of the sufferers, and there is no vaccine or cure. Treatments are elusive. There will be more deaths especially after the spikes from people getting sick after protesting.
Even as I believe the initial two-week shutdown saved lives in some places and certainly bent the curve and spared health resources, the shutdowns in the worst places like New York City were absurd. To this day, the subway was never stopped, and that was a vector for spreading the disease. Flights continued in and out of New York, despite seeding the virus everywhere. Gov. Cuomo forced the most fragile into nursing homes, killing thousands needlessly. It took until May 18 to even clean the subway. This was horrible, horrible public policy in the most densely populated American city. Worst of all, people shut at home had a higher infection rate than essential workers! All this and the economy of New York was wrecked. People were penned like animals in cages and have acted like them when they’ve broken out. And in the midst of this slow-rolling travesty, the media praised Gov. Cuomo, whose only successes during the pandemic were deceptive media hits and pithy news conferences.
The media coverage was and continues to be entirely politically motivated. Outcomes be damned, media and health-care experts are keen to see people die in red states to prove themselves right. Based on the coverage of Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and Arizona this week, one could be forgiven for thinking that these states are dens of death and that hospitals are overrun. Neither sentiment is true. While they are certainly bumps in infections, they must be put into perspective. For example:
Is it surprising that Texas numbers are so low? Even if the state’s death rate doubled, or, put the sensationalistic media’s way, had a 100 percent increase in deaths next month (it won’t), it would still only have 14 deaths per 100,000 people, while New York (and that’s the whole state) would still have over 150 deaths per 100,000. In New York City, the number of deaths per 100,000 is 207. Among those 75 and older, the death rate is 1,550 per 100,000. So the media helps the distortion and attempts to bully governors who have done the right thing into changing course to serve their own ends.
The solution to the vituperation? Ignore it and move forward. Stop the shutdown. The country should be 100 percent opened up, COVID-19 be damned.
The risks of a closed-down country far outweigh the benefits. The pent-up frustration … well, America is roiled not only because of the George Floyd killing but also because there is literally nothing else to do but walk in the streets. No sports. No new entertainment. No jobs. No marathons. No nothing.
It is more than that, though. The governments around the country are using the shutdown to persecute those whom they dislike. The worst and most obvious example is Bill de Blasio marching through New York streets while telling government workers to weld shut the gates to a park frequented by Jewish children. Is de Blasio anti-Semitic, or does he just hate constituents who dislike him? Either way, his practice is discriminatory and should be stopped. Evidently, police came and reopened the park because de Blasio was countervailing an edict from Gov. Cuomo.
Below are lists of activities allowed in various states. The rules and regulations are entirely arbitrary. The actions allowed and disallowed are often contradictory.
Texas: Texas’ site is exceedingly easy to navigate, in stark contrast to some other states, where the information is nigh to impossible to find and understand. If a state is going to micromanage their citizens’ lives, they should at least be clear about it.
One might think that the rules and regulations are commensurate with some scientific standard. No. They’re capricious. There is no scientific standard, really. There can’t be because so little is known about COVID-19. The rules seem designed to punish law-abiding citizens.
But the point isn’t the rules by now. The point is control. It’s not about health or safety or respecting neighbors. It’s about obedience. Americans were exceedingly obedient. Shockingly so. They stopped everything because they cared. They were afraid. They wanted to slow the spread and bend the curve. They did all that, and the government and media and scientific community betrayed that trust in myriad ways.
Dr. Fauci recently admitted that the original circumlocution about mask-wearing was a purposeful lie to make sure health-care workers had enough masks. Instead of trusting the American people, the leading virus expert deceived the American people. Now, people refuse to wear masks because they don’t believe the new recommendation of wearing one matters or even works. The media is appalled by such reckless disregard when they spread the falsehood, many knowing it was garbage.
The media aired hours of “mostly peaceful” protests and riots and failed to rebuke the n’er-do-wells and do-gooders for their lack of mask discipline. President Trump announces a rally in Oklahoma (and if he’s smart, he’ll hand out thousands of Trump masks), and the talking heads can’t stop kvetching about the gross irresponsibility.
One of the most dismaying outcomes of the government response to COVID-19 has been the revelation that scientists cannot be trusted to operate in good faith. On Twitter, I created a list of public health “experts” and was appalled by their fabrications and distortions. For example, the horrendously contrived “research” on the use of hydroxychloroquine resulted in a study widely trumpeted by the media but it was obvious bunk. I’ve dug into the research on this drug and can tell you that most of the studies are too preliminary, too small, not controlled, and generally useless. Once President Trump mentioned potential benefits based on a small French study and anecdotal evidence, the leftist academics were off to the races to prove he was an idiot. Monday, the FDA removed the permission to treat COVID-19 with the anti-malarial drug, but it can be used off-label. Trials for using it to treat COVID-19 are ongoing. Well-constructed studies need to be finished to know for sure.
The most obvious, and odious, disregard for public health has been the aforementioned marches and riots, where few public health officials decried the threat to their fellow citizens and many, many of the churchiest of church lady scientific demagogues overtly encouraged the supposedly antisocial behavior. Often, they professed horror at others going to church or school or, absurdly, a playground to socialize on the same day they lauded marchers.
Enough. The American people know the risks now. Let them decide for themselves how much exposure to a deadly virus they feel comfortable with. Let all businesses open. Let all people wear masks — or not.
But, you might say, that’s risky and selfish! Really? It’s far too late to make that argument. The only argument now is what risks individuals feel comfortable making. Americans who want to run their gyms or hair salons or churches should be in open revolt if their states haven’t already opened up. Let people live and make a living.
Let people mask up when they feel at risk. Continue the hygiene that probably should have been in place all along. It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic for restaurants and salons to take personal hygiene seriously.
This coercive, controlling, economy-strangling, life-thwarting madness needs to end. Should the American public ever submit to a shutdown again? Not a forced one. Let business owners and individuals assess risks and decide for themselves.
Government experts cannot, and should not, be trusted.
An interesting new discovery amid revelations into the background motives of President Obama to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against his political opposition.
Today former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Walid Phares identified himself as the fifth target in the August 2, 2017, Rosenstein scope memo. [The redacted section above] With this admission/discovery a more interesting background makes sense.
(Via John Solomon) […] Phares is speaking out for the first time, suggesting that one of the motives of those who made the allegations and sustained the investigation was to hamper the early Trump presidency’s foreign policy goals, including the 45th president’s long-promised plan to cancel the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.
“In my view, the push against the Trump campaign, and then the transition, and then the administration was on behalf of those who wanted to defend the Iran deal, to protect the interests of the Iran deal,” Phares told Just the News. (link)
As the story is told, the DOJ team led by Robert Mueller targeted Phares under the same FARA auspices they used against George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn and Carter Page. The accusation that Phares was an unregistered foreign lobbyist.
Both George Papadopoulos and Whalid Phares were involved in connecting Egyptian leader Fattah Abdel al-Sisi with President Trump in New York for their first meeting.
(2016 meeting between candidate Donald Trump and President al-Sisi)
President al-Sisi was a key political nemisis of President Obama because of al-Sisi’s position against the Muslim Brotherhood, specifically against Mohammed Morsi, the brotherhood installed dictator of Egypt during the Islamist Spring.
President Obama supported the extremist regime of Morsi, and when the Egyptian people rose up behind General al-Sisi to remove Morsi, President Obama was furious. Both President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry were consistently at odds with al-Sisi while they were in office. However, there’s a lot of nuance because the Obama administration were very concerned about allowing the visibility of their support for the Brotherhood to surface.
CTH was very deep in the weeds during this entire timeframe in Egypt, long before candidate Donald Trump ever stepped into the picture. This new admission by Walid Phares, a highly visible critic of the Brotherhood, now makes a ton of background activity make sense.
“The Obama administration obviously was not happy,” Phares said. “Not just because Donald Trump won the election, but they knew that he was about to change things. The most important point that they were concerned about, and that was not a secret, was the fact that Donald Trump said during the campaign that he will be withdrawing, he will be canceling, he used different terminology, the Iran deal. And the Iran deal was a major strategic achievement of the Obama administration. Definitely, they were not happy with that.”
“And Donald Trump, also during his campaign, was talking about changing, shifting alliances in the region,” he added. “He didn’t want the partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood … So it was a massive change in foreign policy.”
Way back in 2009, shortly after taking office, President Obama chose Cairo, Egypt, as the first destination to deliver a very specific foreign policy speech. Within the speech Obama outlined a new approach, the U.S. would no longer take interventionist action to maintain stability against radical Islam. As an outcome of that speech the “Arab Spring” began.
When President Obama ignited the “Islamist Spring” with his speech in Egypt, what he really articulated was a shift in U.S. foreign policy to support The Muslim Brotherhood. As an outcome of the shift in policy President Obama helped kill the regional zookeepers (Hosni Mubarek, Egypt; Ben Ali, Tunisia and eventually Khadaffi in Libya) and Obama unleashed the big cats… radical Islamists.
Political Islam, writ large, is represented by The Brotherhood. Turkish President Recep Erdogan sees himself as the modern leader of political Islam using the Brotherhood to recreate the Ottoman Empire.
Ben Ali (Tunis), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) and Khadaffi (Libya), were the first zookeepers removed. Obama’s U.S. foreign policy supported Muslim Brotherhood replacements like Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. However, Obama failed in the effort to remove Bashir Assad in Syria; as a result all extremist factions of the Brotherhood gathered to form ISIS.
Factions like al-Qaeda, al-Nusra and ISIS all fall under the umbrella of The Muslim Brotherhood. The exiled Brotherhood leaders initially fled Egypt to Qatar until they were further driven-out by the Gulf Cooperation Council and ultimately given safe-harbor in Turkey, by Recep Erdogan.
As a gatekeeper between radical Islamist elements and Europe, President Erdogan holds the ultimate leverage and blackmail over his NATO allies.
Erdogan essentially holds the position of power because if Europe does not acquiesce to his demands he can open the gates and flood the EU with extremists.
Erdogan loved to play this power game against the EU and ultimately against the U.S.
President Obama embraced President Erdogan because ideologically the Obama administration and Erdogan both supported political Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood.
Erdogan’s regional arch nemesis has always been Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. As a general al Sisi had to deal with the outcomes of Muslim Brotherhood extremism, and ultimately remove Mohamed Morsi from office. President Sisi formed the Arab coalition that is now aligned with President Donald Trump against the radical elements of political Islam known as The Muslim Brotherhood.
The Trump-era U.S/Arab coalition includes Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Yemen. Additionally the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are aligned against the radical elements within political Islam (The Brotherhood), and the U.S. is supporting the GCC coalition with self-defense military purchases.
This is where the Northern Syria border with Turkey comes into the picture. Most of the neocon U.S. politicians wanted the U.S. military to continue the role of zookeepers to keep political Islam in check. In essence the Lindsey Graham and John Bolton position was for the U.S. military to remain in Syria to keep the big cat cages closed.
Senator Graham’s policy viewpoint means no exit from the middle-east, ever. This view is against the policy view of President Donald Trump.
Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan wanted to be the biggest cat in the zoo. His goal was/is the recreation of the Ottoman Empire and his alignment with The Muslim Brotherhood is purposeful to achieve this goal.
Ultimately the largest stakeholder in this dynamic is Europe, because they stand the greatest risk if Erdogan is successful and then turns his assembly toward Europe. Remember, Erdogan as President of Turkey is now the gatekeeper; and Erdogan is also a member of NATO.
Unfortunately Europe refused to defend itself; and the NATO alliance was/is too weak to kick Erdogan out. The EU weakness is visible in their position not take their own ISIS fighters back for trial and punishment; and instead, just like Lindsey Graham, the EU position demanded the U.S. to remain as perpetual zookeepers.
Making matters worse the EU refused to pay for the U.S. to remain as zookeepers, and the EU simultaneously fights the U.S. on trade agreements so they can continue their one-way financial benefits. This hypocritical and one-sided position is part of the reason why President Trump has long held a view the NATO alliance does not benefit the U.S.
In 2019 Turkish President Erdogan was going to enter Syria regardless of what the EU, NATO or the U.S. said about it. Erdogan has the support of political Islam and ultimately that was what was important to his objectives.
With Europe refusing to stand-up to defend their own interests, President Trump trusted his instincts and took the bold approach to remove U.S. forces from the untenable position of guarding the peace between Syrian factions and Turkish elements.
Instead, President Trump openly supported the Arab coalition and the GCC that has been assembling a military coalition to protect itself from the Muslim Brotherhood. That is why President Trump was willing to support Saudi Arabia with more weapons and U.S. training while withdrawing troops from Syria where the U.S. was having to stand alone to protect the interests of Europeans who will not protect themselves.
In one regional area the U.S. supports and defends Israel, Egypt and Jordan. In the Southern region the U.S. supports the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain and Qatar).
President Trump then uses economic weapons against Turkey to keep them in check and Trump warned Erdogan about prolonged entry into Syria and what he would do economically against them. Erdogan made some noise in public about the threat, but he also realized President Trump was serious. Erdogan realized he could quickly be a target like China; …and Trump doesn’t bluff; …and he’s done it before.
Meanwhile, President Trump continues to use economic weapons against the EU, pulls troops from Germany, and essentially leverages U.S. economic power against the EU for creating this NATO mess and refusing to defend themselves.
When considering a military option, President Trump reserves deployment of military weapons for allies that are: (A) willing to protect themselves, and (B) willing to pay for the support of the U.S. military protection.
[Payment can come directly (cash purchases), indirectly (benefits within trade agreements), or strategically (take action upon demand) the latter is how President Trump gets Saudi Arabia and OPEC to control their oil production valves.]
As a result of this strategic approach; and after President Trump removed U.S. forces from the border and gave Erdogan a taste of what he asked for (war); and after an initial week of severe battles where military casualties were too great to continue; the Turkish government and Kurdish opposition forces in Syria signed a peace agreement.
The border region has been stable ever since, and note U.S. forces are not involved.
We are out of one Syrian quagmire, the area is stable, President Trump’s approach worked; and, perhaps more importantly, Lindsey Graham was taught a lesson.
Quite remarkably Lindsey Graham admitted he was wrong and Trump was right…
However, conversely John Bolton, who relies on a career of blood-brokering, would not admit he was wrong and instead writes a ridiculous dossier.
I have a confession to make, and it’s likely to get me fired. Or would get me fired if I didn’t work where I did.
About two weeks ago, I wore a pair of socks containing the face of Thomas Jefferson. I know. Horrible. Far worse than the Klan hood worn by Virginia’s current governor. I’m loathsome. As racist as any southern Democrat police chief in 1960.
As long as I’m confessing, I also have a t-shirt from Jefferson’s second home, Poplar Forest. It’s old and ratty now, used only for projects around the house. I figured that would still be safe to wear, because who could object to a Jefferson shirt getting covered in dirt and sweat and paint and mortar? Treated like a rag?
Foolish me. T-shirts not given a seal of approval by Mob Rules Matter are a no-go, too. No matter where you may wear them. Just ask Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy.
Gundy Apologizes for T-Shirt
Mike Gundy was forced to apologize Tuesday. He expressed remorse for the “pain and discomfort” he has caused. What did he do? Was he parading around the practice field in a t-shirt made from the Confederate flag? Was he wearing a mask around campus that read “I Support Officer Chauvin”? Did he post on Facebook, “Black Lives Matter as Long As They Block, Tackle and Run”?
No. He was photographed wearing a t-shirt from One American News Network (Commonly abbreviated as OAN). A shirt he was wearing on a fishing trip.
OSU star running back Chuba Hubbard was offended and threatened to effectively boycott the team. Other players rallied behind Hubbard. And this being 2020, Gundy was made to grovel. (Not that Gundy’s apology was enough for critics.)
The university president V. Burns Hargis, from atop a high horse, declared. “We will not tolerate insensitive behavior by anyone at Oklahoma State.” Wait until a conservative speaks at the school, we’ll see how just how much “insensitive behavior” from protesters Hargis tolerates.
Far Right Nazi News
So what is OAN and what’s the problem? OAN is a conservative news network and its opinion side is supportive of Trump. Which means, in the media’s eyes, the whole operation is Nazi. After all, anything to right of the anarchists and Marxists dictating life in Seattle is considered “far right.” And anything even remotely pro-Trump must be destroyed.
The White House Correspondents Association, which considers any tweet by Trump pointing out a media lie as an “attack on the free press,” even fights to keep OAN out of the White House briefings. This despite the fact the news operation of OAN is described by Don Kaplan of the liberal New York Daily News as “by far one of the most fair news outlets around, serving up a daily diet of ad-free, non-ideological, non-stop news — without smirking, snarky anchors or much fanfare.”
What a racket. The mainstream media gets to define and slander their fledgling competition, attempt to stamp out any embers of independent thought, and lets the cancel culture carry the ball from there.
OAN also reports on the reality behind the Black Lives Matter organization. (They know the difference between the preciousness of black life — black lives do matter — and the radical organization that claims the slogan. An anti-American, Marxist-led, anti-Semitic corporation that has as one of its goals the destruction of the nuclear family. A destruction, not incidentally, that has had a horrific impact on the black community. )
Read OAN’s straight up coverage of stories connected to Black Lives Matter. But because of sleigh-of-hand — reporting on the organizationmeets hating black people — OAN is branded racist.
And now, tossing on an OAN t-shirt while fishing makes you a racist, or at best “insensitive.”
Unfortunately, it won’t be enough to wear pre-approved t-shirts. You might also have to keep your hands in your pockets. Just ask Emmanuel Cafferty.
Your Knuckles are Racist
Emmanuel Cafferty was fired from his job at San Diego Gas and Electric. Why? For cracking his knuckles. About two weeks ago, Cafferty was out in a company truck when a stranger began following him. The stranger shot a photograph of Cafferty with his arm hung out the window. The image, as you can see, caught Cafferty’s hand making what up until recently was a harmless “OK” sign.
Suddenly the image is on Twitter, and Cafferty is accused of making a “white power” hand gesture. Next thing you know, Cafferty is canned.
Two points: First: As the Anti-Defamation League notes, the OK sign has long meant … OK. People still use it to mean OK. It shouldn’t be assumed to be a white supremacy symbol unless there’s other evidence to support the accusation.
Second: Cafferty insists he didn’t know the gesture is now used by some white supremacists. He was just cracking his knuckles.
“When my supervisor said that I was being accused of doing a white supremacist gesture, that was baffling,” Cafferty told San Diego’s NBC 7. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to get over this, but to lose your dream job for playing with your fingers, that’s a hard pill to swallow.”
We should also mention a third point: Emmanuel Cafferty is a person of color. He’s Mexican-American and says he comes from a diverse family of all races. Not someone to make a white power gesture.
And a fourth point: the tweeter deleted his account and admits he may have gotten it wrong, NBC7 reports.
Can’t Keep Hands in Pockets
I pray Cafferty will get his job back, or in the rebound economy an even better one. I pray average Americans can go to work or play without worrying whether their casual wear will get them canned. I pray the lunacy will end. (The Stream‘s Tom Gilson has posted the first of a series on how we can strategize against the lunacy. Please check it out.) We can’t stand still as sanity and liberty and free speech are pulled down on top of us.
We can’t keep our hands in our pockets. We can’t let our voices be silenced, as radicals take food off our table and the shirts off our backs.
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” — Thomas Jefferson
White House Trade Policy Advisor Peter Navarro outlines what many CTHreaders are aware of. John Bolton begged for the job and enlisted Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to get advanced recommendations. That’s how he got in. However, as National Security Advisor John Bolton never understood the President Trump doctrine, using economics to achieve national security objectives. Underline it, highlight it, that’s the primary issue.
In this interview Navarro goes full wolverine on Bolton, and deservedly so. What Navarro outlines is the truthful reality. You can tell because it aligns at every level with what we watched every day while John Bolton was in the administration. God bless Navarro for truthfully calling the baby ugly. WATCH:
John Bolton felt unimportant in the world of geopolitics because President Trump relied on the economic team of Secretary Mnuchin, Secretary Ross, USTR Lighthizer and Trade Advisor Peter Navarro to achieve national security objectives.
Bolton was the knuckledragger at the end of the table, useful as leverage, where Trump could point to him and say lets make a deal to keep the warmongers like this guy out of the picture. Bolton’s biggest problem was with that Trump doctrine.
President Trump’s foreign policy doctrine is executed through the prism of using economics to achieve national security objectives.
This approach was so fundamentally foreign to Bolton that he couldn’t wrap his mind around how trade and economics could be used instead of dropping bombs.
Note Bolton’s own quote “I had the most futile role of all“.
He was futile because his DC neocon view to achieve national security through military is so far away from the successful strategic deployment of economics that he cannot fathom it.
Bolton had no way to open his mouth at the table because the economic team was speaking a foreign language.
The use of economics requires an entirely different set of skills. The strategic map is not looked at from the position of geographies; the map is viewed from the perspectives of wealth, currency exchanges, trade dynamics, tariffs, rules of commerce and other complex economic contracts that require a completely different frame of reference.
Planning successful outcomes on an economic front requires taking steps, gaming out the opponents financial goals, and taking actions that seem completely disconnected at the time they are happening – but come together much later on.
An example is U.S. energy development: a strong U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship to coordinate lower oil prices, liquefied natural gas to Poland and simultaneous sanctions against Venezuela. Collectively this type of strategic economic process hurts the affluence of Russia, Iran and China and inhibits their geopolitical influence.
Hurt their strategic affluence, diminish their strategic influence… That’s geopolitical warfare using economics. This type of economic leverage is foreign to the mind of John Bolton who prefers a military approach.
Notice how the strategic economic team are exactly the same as the day the administration began? The only member who changed in the first term was adding NEC Director Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohen after the China tariffs started.
The the economic team are achieving the desired results by following a plan Donald Trump thought about, formulated and expressed for decades. The group has remained consistent because they follow this economic strategy. Secretary Mnuchin, Secretary Ross, USTR Lightizer, Trade Advisor Navarro and NEC Chairman Kudlow are executing a well-defined plan, policy and strategy.
Bolton could never fathom how to be part of that economic strategy.
White House advisor Peter Navarro goes after John "book deal" Bolton, says Bolton had "no interest" in following the foreign policy of the Trump administration, only his own agenda. pic.twitter.com/INa1eEP53z
