Posted on 12/13/2016 2:23:53 AM PST by Bratch
According to almost every media report, President-elect Donald Trump has selected Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as the nominee for Secretary of State. The announcement is anticipated to take place this morning. Here’s our previous outline anticipating T-Rex:
It has also been reported that former Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, would be utilized as Tillerson’s deputy at the State Department.
Suffice to say, anyone who has followed politics for any substantive amount of time knows the inherent issue with an operational entity, The U.S. State Department, whose entire mission has been at the epicenter of left-wing globalist advocacy.
If you go back to rethinking the larger State Dept. challenge, Trump’s nominee, any nominee, will essentially be in charge of a U.S. Department that is comprised almost exclusively of Kerry/Clinton/Obama/Bush/UniParty/GOPe big “G” Globalists.
These entities see themselves as a complete and separate structure of government. They also function as a complete and separate ideological structure of government:
When you accept the scope of the challenge, and recognize it is almost impossible to change the participants therein; and further accept these career embeds will work earnestly and diligently to undermine the structure of a Trump administration at every opportunity; perhaps only then can you identify the specific skill set of a leader who knows how to deliver results within MASSIVELY COMPLEX organizations.
Leaders who know how to operate complex global organizations, mega scale corporations, which, by their very nature, may contain hostile agents to the larger corporate mission – ie. Exxon/Mobil – are not commonplace. Hence, the jaw-dropping compensation those elite titans of industry command.
This is where a hammer (Tillerson) and a scalpel (Bolton) can be a unique partnership toward the deconstruction and restructuring. We knew it was going to take some out-of-the-box thinking to find the specific skills needed if Donald Trump was indeed intending to cut down the anti-American endeavors within the enterprise of the State Department.
Deconstruction and realignment while simultaneously managing/controlling the amount of damage internal agents can do toward larger administration objectives is a tenuous undertaking. Taking the rotting vehicle down to the frame and cutting out the cancerous rust is going to be an epic battle with ZERO Washington DC supporters as Trump endeavors through the restoration phase.
It can be anticipated the leadership within both wings of the UniParty (Democrat and Republican) will actually prefer to impede such an effort:
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things. … Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.”
Additionally, the potential economic battle -brought about by foreign nations who take exception to the pending trade realignments- can also be predicted to be waged on the destabilizing battlefield of global oil and energy (dollars as global trade currency). A looming Tillerson brings another unique attribute into the necessary America-First defense armory.
Worth Watching Tillerson (October 24th 2016) Speech:
Foggy Bottom is definately clogging the drain of the DC swamp.
Let Trump have his two men, and let’s see what they can do.
Otherwise shut the whole thing down and get another department from scratch, call it Secretary of International Affairs.
This organization unleashed millions of refugees from the middle east, aimed in demographic warfare, like a poisonous arrow at Europe, through the insidious Arab Spring, and also destroyed a whole country , a US ally, Libya, leaving it in rubble, and in the process likely has destroyed NATO and the European Union.
They brought us close to war with Russia , who defended itself against the Muslim refugee hoards unleashed by Obama/Hillary, by seizing Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.Can anyone blame the Russians for defending themselves?
The State Department is full of treasonous, unAMerican ideologues, who must be put down for good. Otherwise we will be soon at war with those who very easily could be our friends.
We have at this time one enemy: The World Wide Caliphate movement, enhanced by this Department of State.And we must defeat them both.
Give Trump the warriors he needs.
+1.......indeed!
Give Trump the warriors he needs.
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I agree. My impression is Trump wants a top negotiator for the job to get the best deals for America.
I think all the nitpicking about ideology is missing the point.
Bill Clinton became president because of his focus in 1992 — “It’s the economy, stupid.”
The Democrat/Media complex thought that was brilliant. It was so obviously right and important and insightful. Brilliant politician!
Trump seems to be selecting people who can make deals. Domestically and internationally, Trump will be able to negotiate better deals and get the US economy moving again after a very long period of stagnation. Who doesn’t think that is a goods idea?
But now the Democrat/media complex is mumbling about the importance of ideology? Put a sock in it!
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Why is Trump putting the very globalist that we elected him to rid us of, now into powerful cabinet positions? I just don’t understand.
Back in the very early 1980s, I took a class with Edward Luttwak, who is a military strategist. He despised the State Department with every fiber of his being, and suggested a rather effective means of neutralizing its influence over US foreign policy. His suggestion was that the President order the Army Corps of Engineers to dig a tunnel that terminated underneath Foggy Bottom, fill it with explosives, seal the tunnel and then light off the explosives. Trump will essentially do the same thing with Tillerson and Bolton, though a bit less dramatically. I can’t wait.
“Why is Trump putting the very globalist that we elected him to rid us of, now into powerful cabinet positions? I just don’t understand.”
Yepper - too many “purists” losing sight of the agenda and using their own feeble thoughts to try to undermine him. If he did what made everyone happy, he’d never put a single name to any position.
The Arrogance of Nation Building. In one phrase the problem of foggy bottom can be summarized.
I am my brother’s keeper is the religious belief behind Nation Building. I must do good works to achieve my brother’s salvation even if he does not work for it or believe it himself.
Here’s why I think Tillerson is a delicious pick:
How long did we have to listen to the left moan about Dick Cheney and Halliburton, especially once the Iraq War began? People who didn’t know what Halliburton was and could barely pronounce or spell it made the usual claims about War For Oil (funny sort of conquest - we drilled our own instead).
Trump is knocking those theories into a cocked hat by naming an actual oil CEO to be Secretary of State. No thanks to another Beta male like George Shultz or Warren Christopher types, blinking and mewling and boring us all to death about interminable and unidentifiable ‘processes.’
If you’re a conspiracy nutjob, you’ve just been hit between the eyes with reality.
Psychologically, the contrast with Obama could not be more profound. Trump is absolutely fearless when it comes to appointing strong, successful individuals with their own ideas. He does not feel threatened by their stature - he views it as building the best team possible.
On the other hand, Obama’s first and last priority has been subservience, strict adherence to monolithic ideology and administration by catchphrase (see also: Clinton, H.). The presidency will always receive a ludicrous amount of press coverage yet Obama still felt the need to hog the spotlight - a cardinal sin in DC worse than rape or murder. Eventually, his fellow Democrats ignored him and simply waited him out. This is why Pelosi & Schumer stayed on in their minority party leadership roles - they were starving for the oxygen of publicity.
Well said and a necessary lesson for Freepers.
And I love your tag line. My favorite author when I was a bit younger. The Voyage of the Space Beagle still has a prominent place on my bookshelves.
BFL
“Why is Trump putting the very globalist that we elected him to rid us of, now into powerful cabinet positions? I just don’t understand.”
Many senior executives in global corporations are not progressive globalists. We are free market capitalists and understand the destruction of the past 25 years of statist free trade. We’ve played by the regulatory, trade, and tax policies put in place by the internationalists. We look forward to competing in a world in which US government policy looks after American interests first.
If Tillerson is of the same mindset, he will be an outstanding Secretary of State.
Can he be any worse than: Clinton, John F’n Kerry, Colin Powell, Colin Powell, Madeleine (Half)bright, Henry Kissinger, or Lawrence Eagleburger? I think probably not.
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