Nigel Farage and other right-wing populists turn on Donald Trump after missile strikes

The Telegraph ^ | 4/7/17 | Helena Horton

[markomalley]

Many former Donald Trump supporters have turned on the President after his decision to retaliate against the Assad regime for its chemical weapons attack.

Nigel Farage, Milo Yiannopoulos Katie Hopkins, right-wing vlogger Paul Joseph Watson, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall and Ukip donor Arron Banks are among the Trump supporters who have been disappointed by their hero.

Mr Farage said: "I am very surprised by this. I think a lot of Trump voters will be waking up this morning and scratching their heads and saying 'where will it all end?'

[markomalley]

Because of the history of false flags being employed by Al Nusra / Al Qaeda / ISIS / The Deep State in the past (I posted a few articles about this yesterday), I am suspicious.

My concerns:

• If this is a precursor to a larger effort against Assad in particular, I'd be concerned that it would leave the door wide open to yet another religious Islamic state in the region (while secular leaders in the area are no angels, they don't hold a candle to the ones who base foreign policy upon the Koran, the Hadith, and the opinions of Mullahs who are trying to bring the epiphany of the Mahdi)
• The same people who are feeding @POTUS intelligence are the same ones who were leaking intelligence in an effort to bring his administration down
• This move is favored by McLame (an automatic red flag to anything)
• This move was also favored by a host of really bad actors: Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Lindsay Grahamnesty, CNN, FNC, MSNBC, etc.
• And so on

Mitigations:

• Trump has been good at off-the-wall moves that work in the end. He's been proven right in the long run far more often than he's been proven wrong.
• Despite my concerns about the IC, the fact of the matter is that Trump has access to vastly more data than I do. If he knows the right skeptical questions to ask, he can potentially eliminate BS from the table
• This could potentially be some Machiavellian one-off to demonstrate that there's a new sheriff in town -- when he speaks in future, bad actors may take him far more seriously than when they were used to blowing off his predecessor
• Bottom line, he isn't going to tell me what his strategy is one way or the other: he also won't tell anybody else

In other words, I haven't decided whether he is naive, whether he is really deep-down inside another globalist shill, or whether he's playing 3-D chess when the rest of us are playing tiddlywinks.

If this is a one-off to send a message, that's one thing. I'll support it.

If, on the other hand, this is the beginning of a pattern, I may end up changing my mind.

[Tac Double Tap]

‘where will it all end?’

Simple us or them decision.
Wake up!

[Blue Turtle]

I support President Trump. I elected a leader...Although I could use a wall, deportations, and muslim ban...

[Nextrush]

I want to avoid attacking the POTUS.

Dr. Martin Luther King thought JFK was going to help on civil rights when Kennedy sprung him from prison in 1960.

But JFK just did that to win some votes and MLK ended up having to protest with non violent civil disobedience to force Kennedy’s hand on race.

The first nudging of Kennedy came four months into the JFK presidency (May 1961) during the “Freedom Riders” protest in Alabama.

I hope Donald Trump isn’t following in those footsteps.

Pat Buchanan must be beside himself right now......

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What about this tweet?

James Woods @RealJamesWoods 11h 11 hours ago

US launches missiles into Syria in response to chemical weapons attack /// Finally a President with some balls...

[miss marmelstein]

A dear British friend of mine (right-wing) is very upset. I can’t calm him down, either!

[9YearLurker]

I agree with this narrative. And I am very worried about how this administration is changing course to please family and to get along.

All the wrong folks are applauding him and the right ones are righteously raising concern.

[Jack Hydrazine]

WW3 is where it will end. I am sure you approve.

[markomalley]

Simple us or them decision.

So if he does end up taking out Assad, how, exactly, does that help us (or for that matter, Israel)? Seems that Al Nusra, Al Qaeda, ISIS benefit.

Where am I wrong on this? Make a business case for it.

[C210N]

Trump has access to vastly more data than I do...

Clearly, so. No problem with the strike, just troubling how much Assad keeps being mentioned. I just hope that data included the false flag evidence.

[ManHunter]

It’s a fair question.

Which “them” is gonna win and who chooses?

[Pravious]

We get to be seen as a country that doesn’t sit back and do nothing while little kids and babies are gassed to death.

I think I can live with that.

[Lorianne]

It is not “turning on him”.

Many of his supporters did not support these wars in the MENA and God knows where else from the beginning and thought Trump might possibly be less of a warmonger than Hillary.

It was never the case that most people supporting Trump agreed to support him in ANYTHING WHATSOEVER he might do.

That’s a stupid premise and the media is going to use it against Trump supporters to portray them as stupid and gullible (and racist of course).

[Sasparilla]

In the finality it boils down to this, either the free world is destroyed by radical Islam or radical Islam is obliterated. Islamics allow no middle ground.

[Tac Double Tap]

I suspect Israel doesn’t agree with your opinion. Further more, how many times do you have to hear Israel and the USA are the great satins? They repeated it time and time again that we’re the ultimate target.

I’d rather die standing than on my knees begging.

[JonPreston]

As much as I’d like to believe Assad was responsible, I simply don’t.

[Lorianne]

The Muslim world has a choke chain around our necks and they use “little kids and babies” to make us do their bidding.

[markomalley]

…either the free world is destroyed by radical Islam or radical Islam is obliterated…

Completely agree.

Having said that, what does attacking Assad (a secular) have to do with destroy radical Islam (who are also fighting Assad)?

[Lorianne]

Whichever side wins they will be 100% Muslim.

[Redmen4ever]

I share the idea that we shouldn’t get sucked into the internal affairs of other countries. I too like that candidate Trump said he had no beef with Putin or Assad. Then, they went and used chemical weapons. This was a deliberate provocation on their part. If Trump blinked on this, those guys would have done something else. First down in Crimea, Ukraine to go. At some point, they’d be in the red zone. Russia has threatened Europe with nuclear bombs. Trump is absolutely right to tell the Euroweenies that they’ve got to man up. We’ll see how that goes. But, right now, Trump has the Sunni Arabs and Israelis thinking they have an ally that they can depend on. The world is a lot safer with strong leadership in the U.S., that stays out of other countries’ internal affairs but will defend our borders and those of all allies. I realize the multi-way civil wars of the Middle East make the application of this principle difficult. And let’s pass Trump’s budget and rebuild our military.