Posted on 12/26/2018 5:55:39 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The oppositional ardor that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank directs at President Donald Trump is never-ending in its silliness. Milbank's latest absurdity is that Trump is a Soviet version of The Man in the High Castle. In other words he is calling the president a traitor doing the bidding of Russian (not Soviet) leader Vladimir Putin.
This article is a rare example of the Post missing the chance for disclosure: High Castle is a show made for Amazon Prime, and Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. Milbank is too much a rebel to be working in mentions of a Bezos-funded TV series as a smooch to the boss.
Milbank and the Post weren't subtle, heading his December 21 column: "It’s official. We lost the Cold War."
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These people are just ridiculous.
I wonder if he has watched the show at all, since the man in the high castle is about the defeat of the established order by showing there are alternate realities.
Why is Milbank not happy he has a Stalinist in the WH?
Trump is absolutely the worst at being Putin’s stooge. He has screwed Putin and Russia repeatedly since the 2016 election.
Why are they so convinced of the Russia nonsense? They honestly believe Trump is doing the bidding of another guy? Fat chance.
In the book, the Man in the High Castle distributes proof of reality to overthrow the Nazis and Occupying Japanese. Similar in the Amazon series. He’s a good guy.
Milbank is in Man in the High Castle as well. He’s a low functioning propagandist in the NAZI Ministry of Information.
Same role he plays in life.
Milbank might be left looking like a fool, if the President and a few others recently carried out a ruse.
It’s telling that the egotistical, arrogant libs in media fantasize their hatred for DJT, casting him as fantasy villain or themselves as fantasy hero. (Remember Arnold would go back in time and “terminate” fossil fuel use before it started.)
They cannot escape their own made-up little universe.
Jordan Peterson could have a field day.
Indeed most of the media ended up that way man the nets.
Milbank has been an asshat for quite a few years now. Pre-Trump.
I stopped reading Diana Milbank when he/she was sane.
If President Trump was the kind of person the enemedia portrays, individuals like Milbank would be having “accidents” or just disappearing.
Dana Milldew is just like the rest of the leftist mob. Actually, I always thought of Obama as the “Man in the High Castle: — a woefully corrupt Chicago politician making it to the national scene and preying on the weak-minded. And corrupt.
For 70 years, every democrat salivated about the Soviet Union. Since HRC paid a Brit to have Russians make up stories about Trump, democrats have spun 180 degrees against their historic nature.
If the Russians won the Cold War, we wouldn't have the military we have with bases all around the world, and we wouldn't have the economy we have.
If the Russians won the Cold War, they wouldn't just be in Syria. Their forces would be in dozens or scores of countries in different corners of the globe.
As it is, they aren't in Prague or Warsaw or Bucharest or Berlin. They aren't really in Havana. Soviet military forces aren't even in Kiev or Riga or Tallinn any more.
So the Russians/Soviets haven't won the Cold War.
The question for Milbank - and for the rest of us - is what does the world look like if we - the United States - won the Cold War?
Would we have troops all around the world and be involved in several wars at once?
Would we retreat into ourselves and withdraw from the rest of the world?
Or would we do something else?
I'm not trying to prejudge the answers.
But I do think Milbank hasn't himself asked the question.
Huge post. Very thought provoking, and not one that lends itself to some snap reply. You don’t see that all the time on FR any more.
Just wanted to congratulate you. Whole premise of your post is correct in my opinion, but as a sort of thought experiment there are so many other directions to go in with it.
Better than the Women in the Cheap Brothel.
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