ed note–and, here we go again, ladies and Gentile-men–
The author of this piece, Jennifer Rubin–
Is a died-in-the-wool Zionist gangstress who played a central role not only in the events of 9/11, but as well in selling to the American people the disastrous ‘clash of civilizations’ that followed. He is an Israeli spy and a high-level operative for Judea, Inc who takes his orders directly from Netanyahu, along with others such as Kristol, the portly Kagan brothers, David Frum, Eliot Cohen, Max Boot et al.
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED also played very conspicuous roles in attempting first to prevent DJT from getting the Republican nomination and winning the subsequent 2016 election, and then having failed in that endeavor, in concentrating their efforts in trying to see him removed as POTUS.
Furthermore, what needs to be understood about this is that it is an ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OPERATION being conducted under the direct leadership and authority of none other than ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, who, we are told by all sorts of experts, is ‘Trump’s buddy’.
Those breathing a sigh of relief now that Trump has been acquitted in the Senate Impeachment trial should not be doing so at all. What it means is that the drive to remove him from office before he can begin turning the screws on Netanyahu vis the ‘Ultimate Peace Deal’ has now entered a new phase where ‘assassination’ in the political sense via the mechanism of impeachment may very well become literal as it was with Israel’s murder of the 35th POTUS, JFK.
‘But, but, but…Netanyahu LOVES Trump’s ‘Peace deal’. He was clapping and smiling when Trump unveiled it…’
Yes, yes, we know all about it. That’s the way the political game is played and anyone without the intellectual sophistication necessary in recognizing this fact needs to go back to doing whatever it was they were doing before they got their hands on a cheap computer and began operating as ‘geo-political analysts’.
Jennifer Rubin
President Trump’s political safety net has always been the economy and the stock market. He brags about the latter, one can imagine, partly to impress his rich pals and to remind Republicans they’ve never had it so good.
And for many people, it works. At a Pete Buttigieg rally last Sunday, a volunteer from Pennsylvania told me her parents were pro-Trump. “So long as their 401(k) is good,” she said, they’ll ignore the rest.
The rich (who are the stock owners benefiting from the market) have seen their portfolios balloon and their tax bills plummet. (Forbes reports: “The richest 1 percent received 9.3 percent of the total tax cuts, the top 5 percent got 26.5 percent, the top quintile received 52.2 percent and the bottom quintile got 3.3 percent.”) For a president obsessed with winning and outshining his predecessor, the stock market is a handy scoreboard. Until it isn’t.
The Dow Jones closed on Thursday down more than 1,100 points (4.4 percent). This was after (perhaps, in part, because of?) Trump’s frightfully incoherent press conference Wednesday. The New York Times reports:
The speed of the market slump has been stunning, with the S&P 500 falling more than 10 percent from its Feb. 19 high, a drop that Wall Street labels a correction to suggest the decline is more significant than a few days of downbeat trading.
The last time stocks in the United States fell that much was late 2018, when investors worried that the trade war and rising interest rates might tip the U.S. economy into a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average also fell into a correction on Thursday, as did shares in London.
Trump’s forte has never been actually solving problem or providing quality; he excels at spin, exaggeration and shameless lying. Naturally, then, his response to a burgeoning health crisis and an economic earthquake is to muzzle those who might undercut his happy talk.
The Times reported: “The White House moved on Thursday to tighten control of coronavirus messaging by government health officials and scientists, directing them to coordinate all statements and public appearance with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, according to several officials familiar with the new approach.” The White House insists “the goal is not to control the content of what subject-matter experts and other officials are saying, but to make sure their efforts are being coordinated, after days of confusion with various administration officials showing up on television.” Nevertheless, you do get alarmed when “Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, one of the country’s leading experts on viruses and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance.”
Trump has become so adept at bullying science-based government agencies and departments (e.g., the Environmental Protection Agency strips its website of climate change information, Trump’s Sharpie mark-up creates havoc at the National Weather Service) that the media and public do not know whom to believe. We used to be able to rely on the world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the most accurate information. With Pence in charge of the effort, do we have that same sense of confidence?
On the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) practically pleaded with Trump: “The president must stop trying to minimize the nature of the coronavirus threat. His attempts at spinning the facts are just not credible, and they are harmful to the federal response.” He continued, “In order to prevent overreaction by the public, it is essential that the federal officials, especially the president and vice president, level with the American people. Telling the American people the truth — and then coming up with solutions to solve it — is the way to calm people down. … So let’s let the science and the facts guide us. The American people do not need or want uninformed opinions or spin from its leaders. They want the truth.”
When the administration demonstrates an effective approach to the health crisis and can be regarded as trustworthy, the markets should calm down. The bad news is that may be beyond the capacity of this president.