Resist the term “Resistance” for anti-Trumpism…
I strongly agree.
An excerpt:
I would call it the most appalling, morally reprehensible example of cultural appropriation imaginable. Why? Well, think what is being appropriated — the Holocaust.
Making your extreme dislike for Donald Trump and his policies equivalent to battling the Nazi murder of six million Jews and countless other people — when the original Resistance came into being and got its name — is beyond absurd and completely despicable. At that time, innocent people were being shot in cold blood, incinerated in gas chambers and often buried alive by the thousands. Donald Trump makes intemperate remarks on Twitter while supporting some conservative policies and judges. Are those things even remotely the same?
Not only is this an insane comparison, it is also wildly anti-Semitic. That some Jews participate in this abominable exploitation of their greatest tragedy gives those same Jews a lot to atone for during these coming Days of Awe. They should think about what they are doing for ten seconds.
I would add that the original Resistance during WWII was certainly about that, but it wasn’t wholly about that by any means. It was about resisting the Nazis and Hitler in general as well as in the specific case of the Holocaust.
There were many many reasons to resist Hitler, and the Holocaust was most definitely one of them. But there was also the murder and/or enslavement of other groups of people: for example, gypsies and Slavic peoples. There was the occupation of so many countries in Europe under Nazi rule, countries that wanted to be free. There was a desire to end the war of aggression waged by Germany.
The German Resistance had the additional motive of wanting to erase the stain of Hitler and the Nazis from the German people. I’ve written a number of posts about the German resistance (see for example this, this, and this), particularly the attempts to assassinate Hitler.
What motivated the most famous of the Nazi would-be Hitler assassins, Claus von Stauffenberg? There’s some disagreement about it, but here’s the take of well-known British historian Richard Evans:
…Stauffenberg was much more than an action hero driven by the kind of simple moral imperative that suits Hollywood’s desire to portray everything in terms of starkly opposed opposites of good and evil. He found moral guidance in a complex mixture of Catholic religious precepts, an aristocratic sense of honour, Ancient Greek ethics, and German Romantic poetry. Above all, perhaps, his sense of morality was formed under the influence of the poet Stefan George, whose ambition is was to revive a “secret Germany” that would sweep away the materialism of the Weimar Republic and restore German life to its true spirituality. Inspired by George, Stauffenberg came to look for a revival of an idealized medieval Reich, in which Europe would attain a new level of culture and civilization under German leadership. A search of this kind was typical of the Utopianism that inhabited the wilder shores of Weimar culture – optimistic and ambitious, but also abstract and unrealistic. It was ill-suited to serve as the basis for any kind of real political future.
Such influences set Stauffenberg apart from many of the longer-standing members of the military resistance, whose multifarious projects and plans to overthrow Hitler dated from as early as 1938, and were driven above all by a belief that the war the National Socialists were aiming for was unwinnable. To launch it, they believed, would cause incalculable harm to Germany. It was this, rather than any fundamental opposition to National Socialism as such, that motivated the leading members of the military-aristocratic resistance in the late 1930s and at the beginning of the 1940s.
Like the few other army officers who were critical of the conduct of the war in the east, therefore, Stauffenberg at first took a stance that was motivated more by military than by moral considerations. In the course of 1942, however, Stauffenberg realized that such atrocities were not just counter-productive by-products of a brutal policy of waging war, but formed the very essence of the German war effort. Hitler and the National Socialist leadership were betraying Germany, not merely preventing the realization of the true spiritual values of the “secret Germany” but actually negating them. They were perverting military values and implicating the Armed Forces in terrible crimes that went against all the most fundamental principles by which Stauffenberg and his fellow-officers lived; had he survived the war, this realization that the army itself was being turned into an instrument of criminality would no doubt have made him impatient with those who would claim that it remained untainted by the murderous spirit of National Socialism. It was this moral conviction, arrived at when Germany was still absolutely dominant in Europe, that set Stauffenberg apart from the more instrumental views of some of the other conspirators, who sought above all to rescue Germany from the total defeat that stared it in the face after Stalingrad. These beliefs, combined with his energetic personality, were also what led him to act where many other members of the military-aristocratic resistance still hesitated.
As you can see, it was complicated.
But none of this has any parallel with the self-named, self-aggrandizing, overly-dramatic “Resistance” to Trump, who is neither murderous nor an aggressive warmonger. Mere disagreement (however intense and heartfelt) with someone’s relatively ordinary and non-murderous political policies doesn’t merit the title, and it is a travesty for the current Trump opposition to use it.
Every one of them wants to be a hero; thus the nomenclature. It emerges from the same family of propaganda that claims “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” issued by a fist raised clown in a Che t-shirt.
A search of this kind was typical of the Utopianism that inhabited the wilder shores of Weimar culture – optimistic and ambitious, but also abstract and unrealistic.
neo: This was known as “Lebensreform” (Life Reform). It was the proto-hippie movement of its day, which emphasized health food, alternative medicine, nudity, sexual liberation, special communities and spirituality.
Hermann Hesse emerged in part from that milieu. His books, “Demian,” “Siddartha” and “The Glass Bead Game,” became classics for later American hippies for much the same reasons Germans of Hesse’s time embraced his books.
After Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were forced out of Harvard due to the LSD/psilocybin scandals, they formed a short-lived organization known as Castalia for Hesse’s monkish order devoted to the Glass Bead Game.
It’s also strongly driven by the current state of the hard left and lefty minions to count belief and feelz as more important than facts or reality. Believing that Trump is actually Hitler is more important than the mundane fact that is he is not and has not demonstrated the tiniest scintilla of desire to enslave and murder entire populations of his citizens and invade other countries to pursue more enslavement and murder.
I have been involved recently in situations which drive home, in sledgehammer style, just how literally crazy lefties have become, and how impossible it is to have any sort of rational conversation with them based on reality when it comes to a politically charged topic. I have no answers. I find that one cannot even ask questions about a wide range of topics.
“…it is a travesty for the current Trump opposition to use it.”
Amen to that. I feel a touch of something close to physical distaste when I see it, combined with a little embarrassed-for-their-sake cringe.
There is also the unfortunate fact that in the French Resistance there was a lot of “blue on blue” activity. Communist resistance factions and Gaulist resistance factions that became more interested in fighting and eliminating each other than in fighting the Germans. SOE and OSS later in the war decided that dropping weapons to these factions just encouraged “fratricide.” And then there were the Melice and the Nazis to contend with.
Today’s “Resistance” in the USA is just appropriation and double speak. They are a bunch of sick sons of bachelors.
The Resistance is similar to the Deep State in that it is fighting the pedo rings and what not but with many hidden compartmentalized operations. Humans like to confuse things by picking up labels and misusing them.
Roger’s post was excellent, but…as I noted there…Sartre was hardly worthy of being used as an archetypal example of the French Resistance. There are lots of better examples.
Re the German resistance to the Nazis…Stauffenberg is probably the best-known, but Hans Oster was involved in resisting Hitler very early on, and was active in recruiting others into the effort.
Also, there is a superb German movie on the ‘White Rose’ student resistance group: The White Rose, 1982. While the more-recent American movie (“Sophie Scholl–the Final Days”) is good, the earlier German film is really exceptional.
Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time a federal judge issues an order saying the president of the United States can’t scratch his own back without the judge’s say so, that’s the civil war.
If Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator.
But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the president can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has “discretion” to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the “discretion” to reverse him. That’s how the game is played. That’s how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight.
When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that.
Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.
That’s not a free country.
by the way, what your watching is the long drawn out process of gliechshaltung
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huxley,
There is still a lot of that left in Germany. You have nude beaches, homeopathy, and organic mania. Older people grew up with this stuff, and probably because it was a social class thing, they never questioned it.
om…”There is also the unfortunate fact that in the French Resistance there was a lot of “blue on blue” activity. Communist resistance factions and Gaulist resistance factions that became more interested in fighting and eliminating each other than in fighting the Germans.”
The recent French made-for-tv series about France under the Occupation, “A French Village”, is very honest about things of this sort, including the fact that the Communists were originally directed *not* to help the French war effort or the Resistance, since the war was in their view just “the London bankers versus the Berlin bankers.”
It is a really outstanding series, which I reviewed here:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/56806.html
I was going to mention what Huxley did, but he did it better. I will note only that he could have specifically included the back-to-nature movement. I did discuss it at my own site with a few posts a half-dozen years ago, that German foundation for American hippiedom. Notice that it also includes that idea of a New People, a Special People for whom the old rules no longer applied, much like the mirror image, the New Soviet Man. The 1960’s left glommed onto that idea, and it has descended to the present day among leftists as well.
I will add in two other things, then. 1) The “secret Germany” idea was itself part of the problem, though it was not as obviously so. Since the early 19th C, Germany had increasing ideas of its specialness, a superiority so that German Christianity began to be considered an idea superior to the regular version, the (small -o) orthodox type; German culture was considered not merely superior to other cultures but of a different type; and the improved Germans were not just better versions of the rest of us, but Nietzschean Ubermensch. Hitler did not invent either German superiority nor anti-Semitism – they were much in the air from 1870 onward.
2.) Another type of resistance was that of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
I’m betting we hear nothing about him from the current Resistance
I suspect that the “resistance” to Trump has as much to do with the perception by most on the left that Trump is a mortal threat to both their agenda and narrative… as it does with them thinking he’s evil personified. They fear him… deeply.
In fact, among the more astute on the Left, I would think it’s the threat he represents that actually concerns them, as Trump’s history demonstrates that he’s an economic moderate, social libertarian and a constitutional semi-conservative. Even his support for the military fits a traditional capitalist. As a ‘woke’ capitalist, Trump’s apparently well aware of the left’s intent to “sell the capitalists enough rope with which to hang themselves”.
Which places him far above Big Tech’s owners and management.
Artfldgr on September 10, 2018 at 3:20 pm at 3:20 pm said:
(this long quote is from Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish, also seen here)
AesopFan on September 10, 2018 at 5:28 pm at 5:28 pm said:
Art’s second article was by Daniel Greenfield aka Sultan Knish, always worth reading. A few more excerpts follow.
https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-civil-war-my-south-carolina-tea.html
The biggest problem with Stauffenberg’s bomb was that he was not willing to stay and make sure it eliminated Hitler, because he would almost certainly been killed as well; he left it in a briefcase that was accidentally nudged along the floor to a location that protected Hitler from the worst effects of the blast.
And the conspirators started their “roll up” before they found out Hitler was not dead.
(going from memory here, but that’s what I recall from when I did some in-depth study of the Real Resistance some years ago)
More from Roger Simon’s article:
“It’s worth remembering too, speaking of cultural appropriation, that the participants in the original Resistance during World War II risked their lives day and night, hiding out in forests while being hunted by the Nazis as they attempted to liberate concentrations camps. Large numbers, members of the Macquis and others, were themselves shot or gassed. (The works of Primo Levi have dramatic accounts.)
As far as we know, no members of the real Resistance were parading around in pink pussy hats or smashing windows on college campuses. They were fighting some of the worst evil in human history.”
As has often been said, “If Trump is really Hitler, you would all be in jail or dead.”
Maybe the “Resistance” is really on the Right, not the Left.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/former-reagan-anti-trust-lawyer-sues-apple-facebook-google-twitter-for-1b/
“Last Wednesday, Freedom Watch filed a class-action lawsuit against four social media giants, claiming that Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter acted in concert to suppress conservative speech online. Larry Klayman, founder of both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, helped President Reagan’s Justice Department break up AT&T, and two counts against the social media giants focus on anti-trust law.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-facebook-employee-who-deleted-prageru-videos-as-hate-speech-still-hasnt-been-fired/
“The idea that PragerU would be censored for “hate speech” is indeed laughable. “Any person who watches a video and thinks it’s hateful or offensive is not being honest with themselves,” Strazzeri quipped. “Some people call us the Boy Scouts of conservatives.”
Despite this, the conservative video nonprofit has experienced a great deal of persecution from big tech companies. Prager University sued Google and YouTube for discrimination against conservative content, when YouTube had blocked access to 40 videos. Since the suit, YouTube continues to restrict access to videos, and the number of videos targeted has risen to 80.
Early this year, Twitter banned PragerU from promoting tweets through advertising. “You can no longer promote your tweets,” Srazzeri recalled Twitter saying. “We reached out to them to find out why, and we never really got a response from a human.” Twitter did not even point to a specific violation, so they do not know how to address the problem.”
This trick is the same deal when the Left calls anyone who is a global warming skeptic as being a “denier.” That word is only used in one other case: Holocaust denier.
The Left is so, so dishonest.
Reagan Revolution.
Aesopfan posted:
“The biggest problem with Stauffenberg’s bomb was that he was not willing to stay and make sure it eliminated Hitler, because he would almost certainly been killed as well; he left it in a briefcase that was accidentally nudged along the floor to a location that protected Hitler from the worst effects of the blast.
And the conspirators started their “roll up” before they found out Hitler was not dead.
(going from memory here, but that’s what I recall from when I did some in-depth study of the Real Resistance some years ago)”
Stauffenberg left because he was needed to lead the revolt in Berlin as well as infiltrate Wolf’s Lair. There just weren’t enough leaders to go around. Once they had started, there was no going back. They had to try “rolling up” whether or not Hitler survived.
At least one attempt on Hitler was by an intentional suicide attacker. In a display of new uniforms Hitler attended, he dressed in one and had a bomb on him. It was captured British (because the Abwher’s fuse hissed) and needed to be set ten minutes before exploding. He set it, went to the line of men modeling the uniforms, and planned to throw his arms around Hitler while the bomb went off. Hitler galloped through the exhibit in five minutes, so the man disarmed the bomb. So even willingness to die in the process could not guarantee success.
Old Adolf survived so many assassination attempts, and by hairsbreadths, that I think it was owing to the Devil looking after his own.
Manju:
You’re joking, right?
“Revolution” is a word often used to mean a big change in policy, and that was what was meant by the word, No one—not even you—misunderstands it to mean Reagan was going to start firing guns at anyone or overthrow a government.
Nor was “revolution” or “We are revolutionaries!!” some sort of rallying cry for the right during the Reagan Era, unlike the Resistance now.
In fact, the term “Reagan Revolution” has been used mainly by historians, pundits, reporters, and analysts as a way of summing up or referring to the Reagan Era. It was reporters who seem to have coined the phrase:
Whereas the current Resistance to Trump talks about undermining his government, and even killing him. Constantly about killing him (see the latest celebrity utterance here, for example.)
The anti-Trump Resistance is appropriating a term—“Resistance”—that has a very specific historical reference to undermining Hitler and/or trying to assassinate him.
Michael Lonie:
Some other failed attempts here.
I agree with Geoffrey Britain, above, that the hysteria comes from the threatened loss of power for the leftist elites who thought their era would never end.
But there is no excuse for using the imagery of the Resistance for political disagreement when the new team are not, in any way, monsters like the Nazis.
The French Resistance was widely hyped once the war was over. After D Day, many German soldiers were bewildered when their erstwhile French friends turned on them. Fiction (Like Helen MacInnes’ “Assignment in Brittany”)was widely used to stimulate French resistance but the results were modest except for the communists.
The present anti-Trump “resistance” is mostly about broken rice bowls.
The Dutch Resistance was widely infiltrated by the Germans. Read “Between Silk and Cyanide,” about the SOE.
The left cheapens and debases language and standards, it’s how they roll. Whether it’s carelessness, maliciousness, ignorance, or plain stupidity I don’t know. Nazi, fascist, racisist no linger mean anything except “you’re a terrible horrible poo poo head for disagreeing with me”. They misappropriate resistance, what else is new, they can barely speak English, though they do want to be seen as heroic and virtuous.
Early this year, Twitter banned PragerU from promoting tweets through advertising. “You can no longer promote your tweets,” Srazzeri recalled Twitter saying. “We reached out to them to find out why, and we never really got a response from a human.” Twitter did not even point to a specific violation, so they do not know how to address the problem.”
You humans made these capitalists rich and now find that they have become oligarchies and totalitarian wannabes… predictable.
Americans created this unsupervised power called the “free press” by outsourcing it to journalists what they should have got off their couch to do themselves. Predictable consequences followed.
Whereas the current Resistance to Trump talks about undermining his government, and even killing him. Constantly about killing him (see the latest celebrity utterance here, for example.)
Leftists obey their orders: zombies.
When they are told to talk about killing Trm, that is what they do. Predictable.
Old Adolf survived so many assassination attempts, and by hairsbreadths, that I think it was owing to the Devil looking after his own.
The true Nazis, not just the cannonfodder SS, had specific relationships with entities. V Von Braun (of the V2 fame) and others said openly that they had superior tech because they had help.
People can classify them as occult rituals and relationships, where channeling abilities are used with young women to connect with higher level technologies and entities.
Americans were told that Nazis were wiped out. As with many things, the truth is different. Operation Paperclip did not wipe them out but integrated them into the United States R/D programs, which later created the Deep State. The true DS, not the stuff you see from the FBI and CIA antics that the media ALLOWS Americans to hear about.
Michael Lonie on September 10, 2018 at 7:27 pm at 7:27 pm said:
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Old Adolf survived so many assassination attempts, and by hairsbreadths, that I think it was owing to the Devil looking after his own.
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I saw that suggestion a lot of times in my reading.
It might even be true.
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neo on September 10, 2018 at 7:59 pm at 7:59 pm said:
Michael Lonie:
Some other failed attempts here.
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So many people tried and failed, but the honor due them does not depend on success.
And if Trump (or Bush or Reagan or … ) really were Hitler-esque (or even Mussolinish) there might be some honor to resisting him.
But he isn’t, and they are only posturing virtue-signalers because they know it (or at least their agitators do; the younger useful idiots know so little history they probably believe what they are told).
Notice that they never deride any Republican as being “Stalin” — although he killed far more people than Hitler managed to eliminate.
I agree with Neo, but not quite for the same reason. Going from “Opposition” to “Resistance” is saying that a state of war is in effect, with all of the implications of the word “war”.
Neo, thank you for remembering others, like the Slavs, who were victims of the Nazis. I have several relatives and the mother (an incredible woman) of a dear friend who belonged to that victim group and they suffered awfully.
One other point (correct me if I misremember) is that a number of the German resistance leaders tried to get Allied assistance and were constantly rebuffed; possibly because the Brits and Yanks just didn’t believe them, but some people speculate that FDR and others (Communists in his administration perhaps) didn’t want the war to end with any kind of power base still extant in Germany.
The boundless conceit of these people can still shock but it is hardly news. I seem to remember that, back in the heyday of the Thatcher government, a bunch of leftist intellectuals (Harold Pinter and his wife come to mind) decided to put out an anti-Maggie journal. What did they think to call it? “Samizdat.” Keep in mind that this was when the Soviet Union was still in business. And I don’t think that these were the sort of people that had any respect for Sakharov, Havel and the Charter 77 crowd. Think of it as a cultural aproppriation someone else’s political heroism.
The irony here is the true the bigots and hate filled people are the ones accusing Trump and his supporters as such.
I assure you that Mike Pence, or Kellyanne Conway, or Gen Kelly are not part of the Democratic Resistance.
I seem to recall another celebrity who called for revolution:
So this celebrity then runs for POTUS while screaming such slogans as; “Lock Her Up!” Republicans love it and hand him the nomination. So, as POTUS-Elect, he proceeds to label our government Fascist:
As POTUS, this rhetoric predictably continues. He characterizes a perfectly legal FBI raid as “a break in”, because the criminal on the other side is his long-time fix-it man. His current lawyers refers to the FBI as “stormtroopers”.
He labels the Press the “Enemy of the People”. Coincidentally, a Trump supporter uses that exact phrase while issuing death threats against the Boston Globe:
Only one party decided to elevate a celebrity who routinely deploys such rhetoric. Yet somehow, you’re more concerned about the other.
“You humans made these capitalists rich…” ymarsakar
“You humans”? Is that a veiled clue to us that you don’t consider yourself human ymarsakar? If you’re in fact an alien non-human observer/agent… then your POV is even more ‘unique’ than we realized.
I ask because this is not the first or even the third time you’ve used such an odd phrasing…
“Only one party decided to elevate a celebrity who routinely deploys such rhetoric. Yet somehow, you’re more concerned about the other.”
Quite true, though Trump’s actions place his rhetoric in a decidedly less literal framework. We’re more concerned about ‘the other’ because your now Marxist party has a history of 100+ MILLION deaths on its hands and untold human suffering. In its enabling and apologia for Islam, it supports an ideology that has far more deaths on its hands.
Which is why our party’s elevation of such a man became necessary. Your party has proven the veracity of, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
BTW; 95% of the mass media IS the enemy of the American public and factually provable. Violating attorney client privilege, the actual motivation for the FBI raid on Manafort IS “a perfectly legal” means of subverting the Constitution and eviscerating Justice itself.
That you fail to see the repercussions reveals much about you.
Manju:
‘We must fundamentally transform America …’ or some such BS, from Mr. Pen and a Phone. Because “we” all know how much he adored the constitution and the processes of American governance as shown by the IRS (Tea Party), the DOJ (Fast and Furious), the NSA (metadata), and EPA (Waters of the USA, Flint, Animus River, war on coal) but who is counting the abuses of BHO, PBHN? After all the arc of history is bent in your and his direction?
The irony here is the true the bigots and hate filled people are the ones accusing Trump and his supporters as such.
Aside from old guys like Alan Dershowitz and a few policy wonks like Harold Poliack, there isn’t much left of the Left but status games and hostility. Street-level Democrats are divided between the majority who pay little attention to public affairs and a large minority who swallow inane talking points whole.
I do disagree that the word “Resistance” is, or should only be, associated with the WWII resistance against the Nazis. That term is currently being used by those struggling against dictatorships throughout the world.
The #Resistance (to distinguish from the WW2 Resistance) know that holding the judiciary is key to implementing and sustaining their agenda.
Hence the Theater-of-resistance in the Kavanaugh hearings.
True to their MO seen in other instances, the Left (1) can’t actually mobilize the supporters it appears to have; (2) is the only party engaging in acts of political terrorism.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/04/doctors-from-tx-attending-kavanaugh-hearing-saw-protesters-being-paid-cash-for-planned-disruption/
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/09/06/police-fire-in-newly-opened-gop-office-in-laramie-wy-was-set-deliberately/
Geoffrey, We now know that “less than 0.2% of all the Michael Cohen documents are privileged”
There’s nothing wrong, in and of itself, with criticizing law enforcement. Those who stood with the CP5 against NYPD are on the right side of history. Those who stood with Tawana Brawley are, well, like Donald Trump.
Even by traditional right-wing standards, the man is unfit for office.
Manju just can’t accept the concept of elections that don’t go his way. Is Manju resistant to change or just resistant to “fundamental transformation?” Because we all know who gets to determine what standards are used to judge, just ask Manju.
Here is some food for Manju to chew on while he is resisting:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/11/read-pile-top-nazis-talking-love-leftist-marxism/
“Geoffrey, We now know that ‘less than 0.2% of all the Michael Cohen documents are privileged.’
Manju, that is such obvious bullshit that even you shouldn’t believe it. It would be impossible to run a law office with only 0.2% of your documents being privileged.
Counting my deleted e-mails, of which I have 25,000, about half of which are spam, my law books and publications, about four four-foot bookshelves full, everything in my office is privileged, except maybe communications from opposing counsel. All-in-all, at least 50% of my documents are privileged. Any other lawyer will agree with that.
Trump is unfit to be President because why? He’s crude, rude, mean, nasty, sarcastic, bombastic, and exaggerates? He thinks the country ought to have borders? He calls the Fake News Fake News? He thinks the jobs of American workers are more important than globalization and the snail darter? He thinks NATO members ought to pay a fair share of their defense? He thinks he might be able to bludgeon Mexico, Canada, the EU, and China into actually having free trade with the U.S.? He thinks he might be able to sweet talk the Norks into giving up their nuks? He thinks the use of chemical weapons by anyone is an abomination and will bomb the crap out of anyone who uses them? And if Russian soldiers make threatening moves toward our troops, he’ll kill them?
Here’s a head’s up for you, Manju — that’s not unfit!
It may very well be. But that doesn’t necessary mean this is “obvious bullshit”. More likely, it means your premise is wrong.
Tom Hagen had a law office too.