The battle for the soul of the Trump administration is already going full swing – and he isn’t even President yet.
The battle lines are being drawn over the office of Secretary of State, and anti-internationalist and non-interventionists in the Trump coalition are angry that former UN Ambassador John Bolton is even being considered. Bolton was an early supporter of the Project for a New American Century, the neoconservative outfit that brought us the Iraq war, and he’s been endorsed by National Review – a neocon mouthpiece that actively campaigned against Trump. His hostility to Russia, which he believes must be subjected to “pain,” flies in the face of Trump’s stated intention to “get along” with Russia.
Here’s how you can stop the Bolton nomination from getting off the ground. The Trump transition team is asking for input from the public. If you have a Twitter account, you can tweet your opposition to Bolton by directing your tweet at @transition2017.
Keep your message short, sweet, and to the point: “No to Bolton” will do, but get creative if you like.
Sorry, I don’t tweet. Any other way to get the message thru?
I don’t tweet or twiddle–I do twaddle, unfortunately. Yes, that would be a disaster if Bolton gets a position in the administration. I hope Trump comes to his senses and castrates the neo-cons. Actually they are more harmful to a Trump administration than the crazy precious snowflakes that are being paid by George Soros to protest.
What is your evidence that anyone is paid to protest. cite documented facts, not moronic web sites.
And by “moronic web sites,” he means web sites that he disagrees with.
One of the biggest
They have a facebook page too.
Send POST CARD to: President-Elect Trump, Trump Tower, 725 Fifth Avenue, NYC. NY 10022
There’s always a postcard via snail mail. A big mailbag of them would be hard to ignore.
snail mail is really the only way to show you care.
If you guys are sincere about making America great again the least you could do is choose someone who has clout, couth and does not have negative, dark, ugly clouds floating around him. Why cannot you people choose public servants with good reputations with appropriate skills instead of psycho bottom feeders from previous administrations? What happened to draining the swamp?
Because the public servants with good reputations and appropriate skills all disowned Trump during the election. He’s left with the bottom of the barrel. Also, Trump’s not bright enough to understand when someone holds diametrically opposite views to himself.
Staggering that Trump seems to be resurrecting the Iraq war enablers. The campaign should be against Richard Grenell being UN Ambassador. Bolton probably not a factor.
Bolton? That mustachio revels in death and destruction.
You never know where that mustache has been? It could be radio-active, contain anthrax particles, cultivated through a genetically modified process funded by Monsanto — whatever.
More worried about Bannon.
Although not the best choice, don’t despair if Bolton is selected. 1) Trump is always in charge, no matter who he works with. I disapproved when he selected neocon Pence, but Pence ended up having no influence on Trump’s foreign policy. 2) Trump doesn’t like yes men. He likes to work with people he’s comfortable with, but who disagree with him. I have to trust Trump’s judgment about what makes him effective. Only he knows. 3) Despite what multi-polarists pretend, China is not benign, but an enemy of freedom and a long-term threat. China, unlike Russia, has not relinquished the sovereign territories it invaded and conquered in the twentieth century, namely Tibet and Xinjiang. Trump may be thinking a hawkish Secretary of State will intimidate China and prevent its further expansion. Meanwhile, Trump is well in control of US-Russian relations, already on the road to cooperation. Bolton would likely have little effect; and 4) Trump has to choose powerful people. Given that neocons have prevailed for the last 16 years, there are few powerful anti-neocons left. A neocon choice may simply reflect that, and should not cast doubt on Trump’s intentions, which he is bound to carry out.
I agree with you to a point–but if he has to deal with a whole swarm of neo-cons, even he will get overwhelmed. It is not about Bolton as an individual. It’s the Borg-activity of the neo-cons. Daddy Bush is trying to get his way no matter what. Forget about the ultra-left. They’re temporarily castrated. Neo-cons chief problem.
LOL. Stephen Bannon is Trump’s (far) right-hand man. Take a look at Breitbart. You just elected a turbo-neocon – how very “anti-establishment”. Bwahahahahahha.
Thanks I will go to Breitbart
Daddy Bush IS a neocon.
Bolton is not only a neocon; he is a adolescent narcissist.
Actually NO these fools actually have significant power, and the President is NOT always in power, Secretary of State has huge resources at the secretaries OWN control! Bolton is a serious worry but there are also those in the Administrational section that were seen as Clintons likely successor as Head of the state department and at least one of those is a serious problem as well Victoria Nuland the woman who was responsible for the Ukraine Coups both of them! Five billion dollars to fund Neo Nazi groups who have also used Muslim insurgents to fight so called rebels in two Oblasts that do not want to be part of their coup uprising!
SoS picks a slew of underlings who can sabotage WH policies. If Bolton is SoS, he will appoint underlings who will. Same with SoD. We recently saw Carter’s people sabotage the Syria cease fire with a planned attack on Deir ez-Zor.
Actually very true.
Competition for the Secretary of State’s post is apparently between him and Giuliani – both strong Israel supporters and neither likely to tolerate Obama and Clinton’s Iran deal for long, so that’s toilet roll.
Anyway, I thought you lot were “anti-establishment” radicals who opposed the neoliberal establishment? All of a sudden you’re supporting the Iran deal brokered by the ultra-establishment neoliberals Obama and Clinton? LOL. This is Obama’s karma. :)
The Iran deal was not brokered by Obama and Clinton. It was forced on them by UK, France, Germany, Russia and China, who all wanted to trade with Iran and were tired of the games being played, with neocons constantly saying Iran was pursuing a bomb while the IAEA and the US’s own NIEs kept saying it wasn’t. Note that Total recently signed a deal with Iran. So far, US Corps are left out and you can bet they don’t like that and are agitating for an end to unilateral US sanctions.
If Trump appoints Bolton to ANYTHING, he will have betrayed me. This is the influence of Bannon, a dyed in the wool neocon. Boooooooo!
He owes Il Rudi for making the cases disappear, like real estate fraud and the much related Tenant Protection laws. In New York where they have a Maximum Sentence “broken windows” policy for prosecution of people convicted of stuff like Loitering. Also begging, stealing bread and sleeping under bridges. The Rich own The Courts and the Police, that’s well known but now they’re being more in-your-face open about it.
Suggest Ron Paul instead. Anyone who puts forth the idea that we should treat other countries the way we wish to be treated is #1 on my list.
No place to comment…only to sign up for their emails to you. Sad.
John Bolton was brought into the picture as UN Ambassador while congress was on vacation. The people who worked with/for that character would not give him a recommendation. Those who knew Bolton all gave him a thumbs down. I remember his first visit to the UN as he intimidated genuine members. It was hard to believe that there could possibly be such an ***hole. Only Condolesa (sp?} Rice could talk President Bush into giving Bolton a free pass.
I also tweeted recommending Bruce Fein for DoJ.
Join in supporting Rand Paul and other libertarian-minded Republicans and Democrats in general in opposing Bolton. Wrong man, wrong message,wrong before
Since Mr Trump won with actually fewer popular votes, and the difference was a half percent, that means neither Trump nor Hillary got an even half of the votes. That simply means that a majority of the people Voted Against Him, just as surely as a majority Voted Against Hillary. The FACT that a lot of his votes were votes AGAINST Hillary rather than FOR him, and vice versa, and that White People are supposedly the majority in the US means he didn’t even get the majority of the White vote. The FACT that he’s associated with the Skinheads, you want to argue about it, why not argue with the Dumb-ass Klan, Minutemen, Tea Party, Skinheads and other “Whites Only” TERRORIST groups about it, because they sure as Hell are claiming that. And THEY believe that Mr Trump owes them for it.
And most of the things Mr Trump promised specifically Them, like an ethnic cleansing of America, establishing a Church State (against the expressed will of the people for 2 centuries) and therefore a State Church would have to be established…. Which church would be anointed? Just about every Christian who I asked about that said “My Church, of course”.
The Mexican Border Wall, and Mexico would be forced to pay for it? That’s stupid of such a high order it deserves another syllable “Stee-u-pid”
The last time the US invaded Mexico militarily was when Pershing was ordered to find and arrest and murder Doroteo Arango, aka Pancho Villa. He went, suffered casualties, and didn’t accomplish his goal. The US ARMY LOST TO THE MEXICAN PEOPLE. Hey, maybe that’s why the bigots hate Mexican and even Spanish American people so much.
If he wants to build his racist wall, he’s going to raise taxes to do it and guess the hell what? He nor any other president has the authority to raise taxes unilaterally. It would have to go to Congress first.
The same with his proposed War Against Americans Who He And His Loudest Group Of Supporters, (The Skinheads at Stormfront) Don’t Think Are REAL Americans. Some of the comments on this website, just in the past week, have been that quote “The Founding Fathers clearly had the Original Intent that the U.S. must be based on Western European Christian Culture”
Let’s roll with that, yeah? The so called “founders” were arisocrats kicked out of Western Europe by Other Christian Western Europe Aristocrats. Washington and Jefferson were slave owners because they were too god-damn lazy to clear the land, plant crops, nurture crops and harvest crops.
They’re credited separately with building Mount Vernon and Monticello. But THEY didn’t. They had the SLAVES do it. And they both have a reputation of having sex with the slaves. In other words, RAPE. There’s some really explicit lists of which Presidents were slave-owners. Including Johnson and Grant.
And Polk, and Jackson, and more. You have to look it up.
So why should I obey the not very clearly worded commands of a bunch of lazy, thieving, slave-holding self-righteous, pompous, aristocratic sex offenders who died 200 years ago?
The positions that we must worship the “original intent” are not just as stupid as the beliefs of the White Supremacists, they’re exact copies.
Trump is trying to hire Bolton BECAUSE THEY’RE INTELLECTUALLY AND POLITICALLY SIMILAR. And so are the other supremacists.
NO TO BOLTON !