By all means be outraged at the pardoning of Joe Arpaio.
But only if you were, and are, just as outraged at the policies of the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump Administrations, and which were and are advocated by Hillary Clinton, in relation to Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria and Yemen.
Just as silence on Libya gives the lie to anyone's claim to believe that "Black Lives Matter", so silence on either or both of Honduras and Venezuela gives the lie to anyone's claim to be concerned for the lives of Latinos.
You have 10 times the anti-racist credentials of Laura "Show Racism The Red Card" Pidcock. She says she can't be friends with Tories, but she hasn't moved the expulsion of a Tory MP who was recorded saying "ni**er" at a public meeting. Exactly the wrong way round, that attitude.
ReplyDeleteGood old David Lindsay, still campaigning to be made Leader of a party that won't let him be a member, and maybe even going to succeed in the next 10 years.
ReplyDeleteAs Trump's foreign policy collapses around his ears, the people currently cheering him on over Afghanistan, Venezuela or both will deny they ever supported him on either.
ReplyDeleteAnd they run the media, so they'll get away with it.
DeleteBut he is proving quite useful from that point of view. Whatever he does is considered wrong by definition, because he does it. That includes the things that Clinton would also have done in, say, Afghanistan or Venezuela.
Yes, nobody wants to be seen to support anything Trump does, especially after this pardon which really is the end of any relationship between him and the party he has attached himself to, never mind anybody else. So we never hear about "Corbyn and Venezuela" any more, even the Alt-Right columnists and bloggers no longer want a CIA coup against Jeremy Corbyn if it is modelled on something done by Donald Trump. They are back to being unable to find Venezuela on a map, like they always used to be. Trump poisons absolutely everything, even their beloved hatred of Corbyn. If it's Trump's stick, they don't want to beat anyone with it, not even Corbyn.
DeleteQuite. Long may Trump attack everything associated with Corbyn. Nothing could give Corbyn greater credibility. Or, as in the case of Venezuela, just give our own Alt-Right media cause to stop talking about it, since even they draw the line at any association with Donald Trump.
DeleteIt's either foreign policy in which Trump has been taken hostage by the out of control generals, or it's domestic policy in which Trump is left alone to do things like this. Disaster all round.
ReplyDeleteVery well put.
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