{"id":724,"date":"2018-03-13T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=724"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:44:39","slug":"in-the-tempest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/in-the-tempest\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Tempest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Tempest<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I had a great idea a for today\u2019s essay. The President of the United States made a porn film with Stormy Daniels back in 2006. It\u2019s the only logical conclusion. And while the logical process of this was well thought out, it doesn\u2019t matter. Today\u2019s events have overtaken that story.<\/p>\n<p>Rex Tillerson was fired as Secretary of State. In fact, he was literally kicked to the curb, receiving word from the President through media. Tillerson, a true example of success in American business (rather than flash in American business \u2013 Trump) did the President\u2019s bidding in dismantling the State Department: none of those \u201cold\u201d experts around to impede decisions with facts or history.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson was likely fired for two reasons: he stood by the United Kingdom when Russia attempted to execute a former spy with nerve gas in Salisbury, and he has made it clear that Iran was following the letter of the Accord. And of course, he was fired in the typical Trump fashion, with no courtesy or courage: informed through a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>As the Mueller Investigation draws nearer to its conclusion, and the \u201csinking ship\u201d of the White House grows in focus; Trump is making sure that those surrounding him have the primary value of personal loyalty. Mike Pompeo (former Director of CIA and former US Congressman) fits that bill better than an independent Tillerson.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that loyalty to Trump is coming to equal denial of Russian involvement in anything. This is playing to the script of \u201clong ago\u201d aide Steve Bannon. Bannon last week spoke to the French National Front party, the party of French nationalism (that can be read racism) and anti-European Union (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/10\/world\/europe\/steve-bannon-france-national-front.html\">NYT &#8211; Let Them Call You Racist<\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet them call you racists. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists,\u201d he said. \u201cWear it as a badge of honor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Fascist tone was clear. That this matches the fascist tone of Putin\u2019s Russia is clear as well. Bannon believes that there needs to be a \u201cNorthern European\u201d (white) alliance of nationalists, to wage war (real or trade) against the true enemy: Islam. (see one of my first essays: <a href=\"http:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2017\/02\/25\/the-bully-and-bannon\/\">The Bully and Bannon<\/a> .)<\/p>\n<p>We (the United States) have insulted our allies by withdrawing from the Paris Accord, demanding re-negotiation of NAFTA and CAFTA, and demanding tariffs on trade with allies like Canada, the European Union, and South Korea. We have failed to institute Congressionally passed sanctions against Russia for attacks on the US electoral process, as well as leaving the United Kingdom \u201changing\u201d when Russia tried to assassinate someone on their soil. It is plain whose \u201cside\u201d we are on.<\/p>\n<p>The question is: why?<\/p>\n<p>Why have we chosen Russia as the nation to treat with kid gloves? Why are we supporting a nation that clearly does not share our values in freedom and democracy? \u00a0In fact, why are we acting like them, with the President going out of his way to undercut the credibility of the press (&#8220;don&#8217;t boo Dictator Kim of North Korea, but Chuck Todd of NBC is a son of a bitch.) \u00a0Why is the European Union now our adversary?<\/p>\n<p>Is this because the Administration has taken the Bannon philosophy to heart? While Bannon himself is gone, his ideology is still a powerful force in the White House. Or is it some more nefarious reason; a reason that only Robert Mueller may be able to ferret out?<\/p>\n<p>We are in a tempest \u2013 one that is perilous to our nation. Today\u2019s election in Pennsylvania may shed some light on the way out of the storm, but the next shoe to drop by Mueller may do even more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been 27 days since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and while the Florida legislature, as dominated by the NRA as they are, was able to reach some changes to protect schools, as far as the US government is concerned &#8211; it&#8217;s all talk. \u00a0Now woefully unqualified Secretary of Education DeVos is in charge of the &#8220;commission&#8221; to find solutions &#8211; there&#8217;s no reason to hold your breath. \u00a0WE need to demand action, not talk.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Tempest Last night, I had a great idea a for today\u2019s essay. The President of the United States made a porn film with Stormy Daniels back in 2006. It\u2019s the only logical conclusion. And while the logical process of this was well thought out, it doesn\u2019t matter. Today\u2019s events have overtaken that story. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/in-the-tempest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the Tempest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In the Tempest : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/in-the-tempest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In the Tempest : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the Tempest Last night, I had a great idea a for today\u2019s essay. 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