Defense of west

[ducks]

President Donald Trump's dramatic "defense of the West" during a speech in Poland was the antithesis of his inaugural address – and the "most anti-Russia" delivered since Ronald Reagan, Fox News contributor and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said Thursday.

In remarks on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Krauthammer called the speech "a huge step, and extremely significant."

"This is this best speech he's given," he said. "It is very Reaganesque. It was not so much about American exceptionalism. . . . This was a defense of the West."


"That's what made it so unusual for Trump," Krauthammer continued. "This is the antithesis of his inaugural address, which was about America. . . . This is a return to traditional American universalism, leading the community of nations — meaning NATO, the West, Europe, including a lot of East Asia, other places as well.

"And by taking on the mantle of leadership, basically expanding the meaning of Americanism to go beyond our shores."

Krauthammer refuted the idea the speech was an attack on the nation's elites – and said it was more a condemnation of the left and its "march through the institutions."

Instead, he said, "This was the most anti-Russia speech since Ronald Reagan."

"He may have had a few lines on Islamic radicalism, but he was unrelenting in attacking the Russians, which in many ways undoes the vision, the meme which I think is simply false, of him as an instrument, a Manchurian candidate of the Russians," he said.

"He not only attacked them for their actions in World War II, he was savaging how they treated the Poles during the 40 years of Cold War, then he went ahead and basically said 'we are here to rescue you from your dependence on Russian gas. Because we are not going to use it as a weapon. We're not going to hold you hostage. These people are your enemies.'"

[ducks]

He is not a trump supporter eitherp

[clambake]

yes, and putin will leave the tip on donna's dresser.

[Chris]

It was a great speech imo Pols were chanting "Donald J. Trump"

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[Pavlov]

Already has knee pads on.

[Adam Lambert]

It was a great speech imo Pols were chanting "Donald J. Trump"

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lol paid shills

[Pavlov]

Yes but ALL CAPS in the YouTube title.

Must be WOW!

[Chris]

Yes but ALL CAPS in the YouTube title.

Must be WOW!

Everyone is saying it is his best speech to date. WOW is apropos here.

[Pavlov]

Everyone is saying it is his best speech to date. WOW is apropos here.WOWEEWOWOW

[DMC]

Already has knee pads on.

*ding

You're slipping. Should be "already have on kneepad"

[spurraider21]

*ding

You're slipping. Should be "already have on kneepad"
he's russian, not yoda

[Pavlov]

Apologizes. At least I am remembering to log out before the trolls.

[boutons_deux]

Miller wrote that "clash of civilizaton" shit, obviously influenced by Bannon's stinkin, decrepit, diseased asshole.

Trump’s theo-nationalistic Poland speech sounds a whole lot like Steve Bannon

Bannonism is back.

At least that’s the none-too-subtle message of President Donald Trump’s speech in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, where the business mogul outlined a dark, dualistic vision of “the West” that almost perfectly matched that of his infamous senior adviser Steve Bannon.


Trump has warmed to Bannon once again, a notion all but confirmed during the president’s latest speech in Europe.

To be sure, the speech was reportedly written primarily by Stephen Miller, and Trump delivered his remarks using own his trademark hyperbole.

But Bannon and Miller have played off each other before, and Bannon has a long history of working to extend his influence.

So perhaps it’s unsurprising that Trump’s core message —

blasting NATO,

suggesting that “the West” is under siege from several threats, and

insisting Europe must take certain steps to “defend” itself —

bears a striking resemblance to a speech Bannon gave to a Vatican conference in 2014.

“Trump delivered his remarks using his trademark hyperbole, but his core message…appears to be lifted directly from a 2014 speech Bannon delivered to a Vatican conference.”

Trump has warmed to Bannon once again, a notion all but confirmed during the president’s latest speech in Europe.

To be sure, the speech was reportedly written primarily by Stephen Miller, and Trump delivered his remarks using own his trademark hyperbole. But Bannon and Miller have played off each other before, and Bannon has a long history of working to extend his influence.

So perhaps it’s unsurprising that Trump’s core message?—?blasting NATO, suggesting that “the West” is under siege from several threats, and insisting Europe must take certain steps to “defend” itself?—?bears a striking resemblance to a speech Bannon gave to a Vatican conference in 2014.

“Trump delivered his remarks using his trademark hyperbole, but his core message…appears to be lifted directly from a 2014 speech Bannon delivered to a Vatican conference.”

Bannon, a traditionalist Catholic, delivered what is widely considered the best window into his worldview 3 years ago to a gathering organized the Institute for Human Dignity — a right-wing European group that champions Christian and Jewish politicians who want speak to their faith in the public sphere.

Speaking via Skype, he argued passionately that the “Judeo-Christian West” was in “crisis” because it is beset by at least three forces:

“unenlightened” forms of capitalism,

“jihadist Islamic fascism,” and

creeping secularism.

https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-theo-nationalistic-poland-speech-hints-steve-bannon-is-still-a-major-player-b9b70bd81219

[DMC]

Apologizes. At least I am remembering to log out before the trolls.

Yeah that one can get you especially on a phone lol

[DMC]

he's russian, not yoda
Yoda would say "Kneepads on I have"

[Thread]

I don't trust the KrautPERIOD

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s Alt-Right Poland Speech: Time to Call His White Nationalist Rhetoric What It Is

After two years of flirting with overt white nationalism, Trump jumps the alt-right shark in his Warsaw speech

Donald Trump continued to push forward his white nationalist agenda (http://www.salon.com/2017/07/06/trump-borrows-the-far-rights-rallying-cry-while-in-europe-the-west-must-have-the-courage-to-preserve-our-civilization/) in Poland on Thursday, in a speech that

“often resorted to rhetorical conceits typically used by the European and American alt-right.”
Trump argued that Western (read: white) nations are “the fastest and the greatest community” and the “world has never known anything like our community of nations.”

He crowed about how Westerners (read: white people) “write symphonies,” “pursue innovation” and “always seek to explore and discover brand-new frontiers,”

as if these were unique qualities to white-dominated nations, instead of universal truths of the human race across all cultures.

He also portrayed this

Western civilization as under assault from forces “from the South or the East” that “threaten over time to undermine these values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.”

The speech read, at times, like a cleaned-up version of “The Camp of Saints (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-camp-of-the-saints-immigration_us_58b75206e4b0284854b3dc03),” a white supremacist novel that Trump advisor Steve Bannon reportedly admires, which portrays a Western civilization on the verge of invasion by legions of evil dark-skinned people intent on destruction.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trumps-alt-right-poland-speech-time-call-his-white-nationalist-rhetoric-what-it

Of course, it's white male Christian America (and other whitey Euro-nations) that have invaded, destabilized, colonized, occupied, oppressed, raped non-white nations for centuries.

[DarrinS]

West means "white" now. Boots hearing dog whistles. :lol

[DarrinS]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/jonathan-capehart-wapo-op-ed-trumps-poland-speech-a-white-nationalist-dog-whistle/




Jonathan Capehart WaPo Op-Ed: Trump’s Poland Speech A ‘White-Nationalist Dog Whistle’

by Joe Bilello | 2:04 pm, July 7th, 2017



One of the roles of the exceptionally brilliant members of the media is to take things that are said, no matter how straight forward it may be, and decipher what the “real” meaning is – the “dog whistle” if you will.

So, when a Republican uses words like “urban” or “black hole”, people with ultra-keen senses like Chris Matthews can hear the “dog whistle” and inform us that they are really just attempting to mask their blatant racism.

On Thursday, The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Jonathan Capehart titled, “Trump’s white-nationalist dog whistles in Warsaw.”

Capehart, like many critics of President Trump and ‘Western values” viewed the speech as nothing more that an anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, white supremecist battle cry.

Capehart seems to take particular exception with the part when Trump touts Western accomplishments saying, “We write symphonies.”

“What on Earth does that have to do with anything?” Capehart wrote. “…In that one line, taken in context with everything else Trump said, what I heard was the loudest of dog whistles. A familiar boast that swells the chests of white nationalists everywhere.”

Criticism of Trump’s speech was not exclusive to The Washington Post.

Vox publish a column titled, “Trump’s speech in Poland sounded like an alt-right manifesto”, where the author lamented the idea that “Trump’s speech used the type of dire, last-chance wording often utilized by the far right on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Far-left site Salon said Trump’s speech “borrows the far-right’s rallying cry in Europe” and The LA Times said Trump “frames anti-terrorism fight as a clash of civilizations, defending Western culture against enemies” and criticized his call to combat threats of terrorism as “a thinly veiled reference to the Islamic world.”

The Atlantic just flat-out went for it with the headline, “The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech.”

We have reached a point where people like Donald Trump and others on the right just cannot win regardless of what they say or do.

If their own words don’t bring them down then the media’s arbitrary interpretation of the words will, regardless of what the actual intended message was. Anything that is said can now simply be accused of being delivered under the guise of a coded “dog whistle.” Journalists not only see it as their job to tell you what was said, but rather to tell you what it secretly meant.

[boutons_deux]

"Donald Trump and others on the right just cannot win regardless of what they say or do"

... simply, obviously because what they do or say is ALL WRONG, ALL LIES, ALL HATE, ALL THE TIME.

[Adam Lambert]

West means "white" now. Boots hearing dog whistles. :lol

pretty much anyone with any amount of objectivity heard dog whistles. the speech was a gettysburg address for white power faggots.

you must have semen clogging the ears from the daily republican bukkakes youve been taking for the last 40 years.

[SnakeBoy]

Apologizes. At least I am remembering to log out before the trolls.

Apology. I am remember to log out before the trolls.


Jeez man step up your game.

[Pavlov]

Apology. I am remember to log out before the trolls.


Jeez man step up your game.Break character is new shtick.

[boutons_deux]

West means "white" now. Boots hearing dog whistles. :lol

"West" DOES mean "white", Western Europe is white, USA was founded by white Euros.

Darrin displaying the total bubba/redneck, low-education ignorance typical of all you rightwingnutjobs

[Chris]

I knew this was you boots

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