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Nuts and Bolton
Steyn On-line ^ | March 23, 2018 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/23/2018 5:02:47 PM PDT by Twotone

John Bolton turned up on Fox about an hour before I did last night, and professed to be surprised by the sudden Tweeting of his appointment as US National Security Advisor. The Beltway insiders allege that it was rushed out to distract from Trump's cave-in on the 2,232-page Schumer-Pelosi Early-Christmas-For-Big-Bloated-Budget-Busting-Bureaucracy Bill that not a single person on this planet has actually read. Oh, and don't give me that "increased funding for our troops" straw-clutching: every sentient creature from the earthworm up knows that the extra dough's just going to go to diversity programs and gender reassignment surgery as opposed to anything that might increase the odds of actually winning the next 17-year war.

At this stage the Gullible Old Pussies of the Republican Party are pretty much openly advertising that giving them control of the House, the Senate and the White House is the equivalent of giving Yosemite Sam three sticks of dynamite to shove down his pants - with the additional nicety that this time round they're actively flipping the finger at their president's bedrock issue. I reiterate the point I first made on the radio a year ago: On January 20th 2017 Trump should have taken all those showboating showbiz no-shows at face value and held a businesslike inauguration at the southern border while laying the first brick. The brick remains unlaid - not because Vicente Fox refuses to "pay for Trump's f**kin' wall" but because Paul Ryan does.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: johnbolton; marksteyn; steyn
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1 posted on 03/23/2018 5:02:47 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Great article. Right on. and Bolton is a foreign policy disaster. Horrible “one world” bastard not worth a crap. I assure you he will attack Syria ( trump has no clue on foreign policy) who has done nothing to the USA Ever!! This will engage Russia ( 165million people with NUKES!!) and Iran (93 million) and we will respond with faggots and women in our total annihilation.


2 posted on 03/23/2018 5:11:26 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Twotone
Trump's wall remains unbuilt... - not because Vicente Fox refuses to "pay for Trump's f**kin' wall" but because Paul Ryan does.

Exactly.

3 posted on 03/23/2018 5:20:24 PM PDT by marron
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To: Twotone

“In the case of John Bolton, I first met the new National Security Advisor a decade and a half or so back, in a roomful of European prime ministers and foreign ministers. He delivered a line that stunned the joint:

International law does not trump the US Constitution.

I was standing next to the Finnish Prime Minister, Paavo Lipponen, who had a genuinely puzzled looked on his face and eventually inquired of me: “He is making a joke, no?”

LOL. I love this guy.


4 posted on 03/23/2018 5:20:59 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: raiderboy

who Are you calling faggot? What turd did crawl out from?


5 posted on 03/23/2018 5:22:51 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: Twotone

The hiring of Ambassador John Bolton is connected to the increase in defense spending. He will be an asset to the upcoming efforts to de-nuclearize Iran and North Korea. Also, our dealings with China and Russia will be important. A strong military footprint will be necessary for the military juggling act ahead.

So, if Trump would have vetoed the budget bill, he would have risked having the Democrats back down from the military increases if other issues were pressed. Have a few things changed in the months ahead: the line item veto, the filibuster, and the wall funding. Let DACA hang from the Democrats’ neck like an albatross. A war is not won in one day.


6 posted on 03/23/2018 5:23:55 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: Twotone

This Mark Steyn guy sounds like an idiot, Jim.


7 posted on 03/23/2018 5:30:23 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: raiderboy

If we attack Syria from behind, do you think Greece would help?


8 posted on 03/23/2018 5:34:46 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Twotone
...and now Bolton's back: we'll see how hairy things get. But I don't think he'll be starting any wars - if only because it will conflict with all the transgender-awareness training sessions funded by this great new spending bill.

Read the whole thing. It is vintage Steyn. To the max!

9 posted on 03/23/2018 5:37:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: raiderboy

Bolton’s great. Faced with a veto override, Trump took the lesser to two evils. The GOP can rot in hell.


10 posted on 03/23/2018 5:37:51 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: shelterguy

I’m not sure how much sarcasm is involved in this thread?

You understand that Steyn is being facetious in this article and that he totally supports Bolton irl? Right?


11 posted on 03/23/2018 5:39:14 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Twotone

If you are looking for more/endless war, Bolton’s appointment should be music to your ears. Last night was a big win for the Empire. For the Republic... not so much.


12 posted on 03/23/2018 5:40:32 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: KyCats

There is a great deal of tomfoolery going on here today.


13 posted on 03/23/2018 5:41:20 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: raiderboy
Without honest constitutional government, a military is forced to rely on faggots and such.

So, neocon chicken hawk Bolton, it is!

14 posted on 03/23/2018 5:41:31 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: raiderboy

Bolton is a serial failure

wrong on everything since 1992


15 posted on 03/23/2018 5:42:12 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: plain talk

Maybe you should join the army.


16 posted on 03/23/2018 5:43:29 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: Bogie

No right minded male would fight and die for a government by edict where no one has read the 2000 bill and the president is a pathological liar.


17 posted on 03/23/2018 5:44:19 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Bogie

So you believe international law trumps US law?

So you believe Trump is so weak that a cabinet member will lead us into war?


18 posted on 03/23/2018 5:45:47 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: sparklite2

Apparently you can’t count. The override would have totally failed. It was just a pussie whipped cave. He is totally finished.


19 posted on 03/23/2018 5:48:32 PM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: raiderboy

“no one has read the 2000 bill and the president is a pathological liar.”


Do you mean Obama and the Obamacare bill? No one read that either——and O was a liar.

.


20 posted on 03/23/2018 5:51:22 PM PDT by Mears
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