The Intelligence agencies must have been wincing when Trump defended the prince against the reporter's question. Likewise, normally the State Department would be scrambling about the F35's being fully loaded. But this is Trump, and the various departments have been top-offed with sycophants. not chosen for their qualifications about the department's mission, but their loyalty to Trump.
We seem to be in new territory with Trump basing our national policy on his whims. If that offends anybody, there are many credible people who would say that policy is actually based on Trump's financial interests. I'll give him the benefit of that doubt, and just chalk it up to his overly inflated faith in himself.
Readers may have noticed that as I speak out against the administration and its silent enablers, comments here get more hostile... They should see the ones I don't print! They didn't say I sounded like a "lemming for the left" when I was criticizing Democratic mayors for the last two decades. I didn't criticize them because they were Democrats, and I'm not criticizing anybody now because they're a Republican.
I'm not here to be polite or popular
The question was of course about A supposed reporter who it seems was a triple agent. He was in fact working for the Saudi's, Turkey and the U.S. . He was videoed by Turkey entering the Saudi embassy in Turkey, to get permission to marry. He could have gone to the embassy in the U.S. He never exited and it seems shortly after a team of Saudi's show up and only leave with some suitcase.
ReplyDeleteIt seems this reporter was a subject of enhanced interrogation and then died and the Saudi's solved the dilemma by possibly dismembering him and that is all anyone knows.
Everyone assumes The Saudi leader approved all this, maybe, maybe not.
I realize that there’s nothing to write about in Allentown anymore, but I thought some of your readers might be interested to know that the Covered Bridge in the Parkway has been torn down to the point that only the supporting beams remain.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure what to call what’s going on, but it ain’t preservation.
I’ve been waiting for an article on the work to appear here, but have become worried that one might not appear until the bridge is finished with leftover building supplies from JB Reilly’s NIZ buildings. Perhaps there are also “improvements” planned for the bridge, like built-in sleeping areas for the homeless.
In any event, the bridge is now in a state hasn’t been seen since it was first built over 180 years ago, far beyond any of our lifetimes.
I apologize for having gone off topic, but much like the democrats claim about illegals in this country, I just came here to do the work that (supposedly) local bloggers refuse to do anymore.
I now return your readers to the daily anti-Trump rant on “Molovinsky (Formerly) on Allentown.”
From the original post: “I didn't criticize them because they were Democrats, and I'm not criticizing anybody now because they're a Republican.”
ReplyDeleteThis is where you’re wrong, again.
We really don’t care that you’re criticizing Trump because of the party he belongs to.
We care that you’re criticizing Trump policies, most of which are right.
I’d be happy to debate the merits of policies I care about all day long on this blog, if you could just stick to discussing the policy.
But you’ve adopted the tactics of the democrat Left, which needs to demonize its opponents because it has largely lost the policy arguments and can’t win that debate on its own merits or debate rationally.
Exactly what have Trump’s “policies” done for our country? Please be specific.
Delete7:43: I could start with 1) securing the border; 2) slowing, if not halting inflation on things like gas and eggs: and 3) attracting record investment in the US, which will pay big dividends in the future. But I suspect that no amount of examples will satisfy you.
DeleteDoes he have more to do to undue the damage that Biden did in the previous four years? Yes, but he’s only been in office for 10 months, and I’m not a child expecting impossible results.
anons@7:43&9:07: My apology for accepting comment 7:43. Yes, Trump did secure the border day one. The tariffs have been a disaster, much like DOGE. He disrupted American production and planning. What he has shown is the necessity of restricting Executive power. Further comments on his accomplishments will have to be placed on a MAGA site, this isn't one of them.
DeleteRay@5:36: I chose to avoid any details about the deceased reporter. Of course Trump should have just frowned, instead of his inappropriate reply
ReplyDeleteanon@5:36: Perhaps you should start an Allentown park blog in my absence.
anon@5:56: I wish that there was more difference between Trump polices and Trump. Hope he doesn't execute Mark Kelly! BTW, you won't be debating all day long on this blog.
MM - Since you brought up Mark Kelly, his call to disobey orders of the president were disappointing at best, treasonous at worst.
DeleteIf Kelly has specific orders that he believes are unlawful, let him spell them out. Then, let him take the administration to court and prove them to be unlawful.
Instead, he is doing nothing more than trying to sow general discontent and doubt among the ranks in the military. That doubt can get our people killed. There is nothing Trump is doing that is so clear-cut legally that would warrant a service member to disobey an order.
I actually had hope when Kelly was elected that he would be better than the partisan hack he obviously is. I should have known better. Kelly is just another democrat bowing to his leftist base and throwing a temper tantrum because the American people didn’t elect his candidate.
anon@9:18: Even Trump's press secretary walked back that inappropriate statement by Trump. So far an Admiral resigned, rather than blow up civilian boats. Last time I checked, Kelly may know more about military responsibility than Trump.
DeleteKelly may have served in the military, and may currently be a Senator, but that does not place him above the Commander in Chief in the chain of command. Kelly is actually not ANYWHERE in the chain of command, and his opinions carry ZERO authority over the troops. That was true under Biden, it’s true under Trump, and it will be true under future presidents.
DeleteI would also note that only the president knows the enormous responsibility of having control over the use of our nuclear arsenal.
To think that any person, no matter what party or position, knows more than the person who carries that responsibility is laughable.
As to the Admiral who you constantly refer to, every old general (and admiral) has their time to retire and walk into the sunset. If that admiral has a problem with blowing up “civilian” boats carrying drugs to our shores, it was his time to go. Other admirals and generals apparently don’t have a problem with it. In any event, that admiral doesn’t get to make the final determination on whether such action is legal, and no court has even declared that the US can’t do it.
What we have is another exaggerated outrage of the Left to undermine the president. I don’t remember the same outrage when Obama was drone striking US citizens, or when Biden killed a UN worker and his family while attempting to claim he struck back against those responsible for killing US Service members in Afghanistan.
Shame on me. I googled this blog today after I removed it from my bookmarks the other day. My bad. I promise not to do it again.
ReplyDeleteSigned, A Hateful MAGA Stooge
That reporter is my new hero....I loved that she welcomed that pompous ass prince to America with real journalism, not the Saudi Arabian kind. Trump looked came across as an ignorant buffoon when he questioned her identity [It's Mary Bruce!]. I loved how Trump defended the prince, as if he knew what really happened inside the palace. Just another day in the white house where those World leaders who are ultra rich, handsome and powerful [Trump's kind of guys!] kiss the ring and get rewarded by Trump.
ReplyDeletefrom Forbes: "When asked by an ABC News reporter if he felt it was appropriate for his family to do business with Saudi Arabia while he is president, Trump initially responded, “Fake news. ABC Fake News.”
ReplyDeleteThe president then said he has “nothing to do” with his family business, saying it has “done very little” with Saudi Arabia.
Trump’s comment comes less than a day after the Trump Organization announced it is partnering with Saudi-based developer Dar Al Arkan to license its name to a luxury hotel in the Maldives. Following the end of Trump’s first term, the president’s family has secured at least nine deals with Saudi investors, according to a Forbes report, engaging in multimillion-dollar ventures involving Trump’s golf properties and licensing business. Last year, the president and his extended family generated an estimated $50 million from deals linked to Saudi Arabia. Jeddah, a coastal city in Saudi Arabia, will be home to Trump Tower Jeddah and Trump Plaza Jeddah, the latter of which includes offices, apartments and a green space. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, secured capital commitments of $2 billion from the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund from 2021 to 2024, according to the Forbes report, which noted a 1.25% management fee is attached to the funds, “suggesting the Saudis will pay Kushner’s firm at least $125 million over five years.” Yep. Nothing to see here folks. Just ignore the body parts sticking out of the suitcases. ,,,and by the way, anybody want to buy some high end fighter jets? (Just promise you won't send them to China to examine, OK?)
Sadly the Republican Party allowed the Trump family to enrich themselves in the first term and have gone whole hog in the second. Trump has built up his business for his next generation, he outwitted the party leadership and made the presidency into the Sopranos. Ask Dick Cheney.
ReplyDeleteAt 8:44
DeleteWhat is good for KBR IS good for the United States.
No one, but absolutely no one, enhances the value of expert consultation like Hunter Biden. The man is literally the gold standard.
Delete@8.44
DeleteWhen it comes to investing Nancy Palosi is my Spirit Animal,
an unsurpassed financial genius.
8:44 AM
DeleteSo you are not old enough to remember how the dearly departed Dick Chaney delivered Iraq to Kellogg Brown, and Root?
Now that was graft on a colossal scale.
mj adams
ReplyDeleteI am not now, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be, a member of the Republican Party. On the other hand words cannot express my contempt and loathing for the contemporary, corrupt, corporate, bankrupt, establishment Democrats.
The reporter who spit out that question is the perfect representative of the contemporary mainstream media. Contempt and political prejudice is a prerequisite for the position.
DeleteShe deserves to be saluted.
National politics are remarkably bipartisan.
ReplyDeleteThe insider establishment elites of both rotten parties are deeply invested in destroying the Orange Man from Queens by any means necessary. The full spectrum of the MSM is on board, 24/7.
Trump the populist is indeed an existential threat to the International Monetary Neoliberal Global Order.
Imagine the temerity, wanting to make America Great Again.
How dare he!
The United States needs its own Macron or
Justin Trudeau.
Join me in praying for a President Gavin Newsom.
Anyone expecting the Democratic Party to rescue this country is out of their cotton picking mind.
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure: I’m not a Republican. Never was one.
Just a friendly reminder. Donald Trump will NOT be our next American President. He's not a candidate!
ReplyDeleteSo, why are so many campaigning against him? Makes no sense to me.
NOT TRUMP is all they have.
DeleteWell NOT TRUMP plus Identity Politics and DEI.