{"id":8344,"date":"2018-06-25T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2018-06-25T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:32:39","slug":"gaslighting-the-entire-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8344","title":{"rendered":"Gaslighting the entire country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>America is in the hands of its enemies<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trump is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/trump-media-north-korea-coverage-almost-treasonous-evangelicals-thankful-jews-jerusalem-embassy-huckabee-225324\/\" target=\"_blank\">gaslight the entire country<\/a>, and the Deporable One-third at least are falling for it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Trump told former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in an interview that mainstream media&#8217;s coverage of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was &#8220;almost treasonous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>On his show on Trinity Broadcasting Network that aired Saturday, Huckabee <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">asked Trump if he trusts Kim Jong Un<span>, and the president said <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">he certainly does<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he&#8217;s had a &#8220;<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">very good relationship<\/span>&#8221; with the North Korean leader and &#8220;<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">we have a good chemistry together<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, we came to a <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">wonderful agreement<\/span>, it&#8217;s a shame the fake news covers it the way they do\u2026 It&#8217;s <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">almost treasonous<\/span>, you want to know the truth,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s tot this up, shall we?  Kim Yong Un got international credibility, an end of joint military exercises on his border, and probably a Trump hotel some day.  America got another iteration of a vague expression of a desire to &#8216;denuclearize&#8217; someday &#8212; which North Korea has been saying for almost 3-decades.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two plausible explanations here: Trump is actually as stupid as he often seems to be, or he is a puppet in the hands of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>But even a stupid but well-intended man ought to have some intuitive sense of right and wrong, of what is good for his country and what harms it, should at least <i><u>want<\/u><\/i> what is good for the country.  A stupid man would at least hear the experts who protest against &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Systematically dismantling the Atlantic alliance<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Raising tariffs that stoke inflation that eats his tax cuts<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Snatching nursing babies from their mother&#8217;s breast<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Summarily exiting NAFTA<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Summarily exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Summarily exiting the Iranian nuclear agreement<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Summarily exiting the Paris climate accords<\/ul>\n<p>Trump invariably chooses the course that is against America&#8217;s interests.  I no longer accept that is because of good faith differences.  America is in the hands of its enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is in the hands of its enemies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}