Trump at 900 days plus
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As long as Trump keeps nominating pro-Life justices to the Federal Courts, and especially the Supreme Court.. which might be his most lasting legacy.. Conservative Christians will overlook Trump's flaws and foibles. The alternative is the Culture of Death and Dissolution supported by an ideological litmus test for Democratic candidates. It's one the reasons Trump will be reelected.
The die was cast of Derrick's tenure the minute those communiques were released and before Trump blackball twits were posted. An ambassador acts as a fluid channel between the host nation and the one the ambassador represents. This immediatedly clouded that relationship with distust, animosity, suspicion. His role was untenable after that.
As to the posts, Kim Derrick is a very conventional bureaucrat as are most in the senior Civil Service. He is a rigid, conformist, dogmatic, orthodox member and supporter the political paradigm and establishment. He's a pompous stick in the mud. That's where he got where he is. He not only does not have any affinity of the underlying motives of the Trump Presidency, he has no understanding of it.
Hopefully Boris Johnson will appoint a more flexible and imaginative ambassador to what is a critical post for Britain in the era of Brexit.
the memos show his actual opinions about the government he is being paid to have opinions about.
hurt feelings are understandable - but his opinions about Trump and the Trump administration are what they are and the UK is going to be taking them into account whenever it has to deal with this dumpster fire
hurt feelings are understandable - but his opinions about Trump and the Trump administration are what they are and the UK is going to be taking them into account whenever it has to deal with this dumpster fire
U.K. Unable to Find Replacement Ambassador Who Does Not Think Trump Is an Idiot
Following the resignation of its Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, the government of the United Kingdom has disclosed that it has been unable to find a replacement for Darroch who does not also think that Donald J. Trump is a blithering idiot.At a press conference at 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, revealed that the search for a new ambassador who does not believe that Trump is an imbecile has thus far come up empty.
“We did not want a repeat of the unfortunate Kim Darroch incident, so we made the first question on the job application, ‘Do you think Donald Trump is a moron?’ ” May said. “So far, none of the applicants has checked the ‘no’ box.”
May acknowledged that the government might have to expand its search for applicants beyond those with diplomatic experience in order to find a replacement for Darroch who does not consider Trump a dolt.
“We will search high and low until we find someone in this country who doesn’t think Donald Trump is a nitwit,” she said. “We’re starting by interviewing people who don’t think Boris Johnson is a nitwit.”
While affirming her government’s determination to find someone in the U.K. who does not think Trump is an unmitigated bonehead, May warned that the difficulty of the task must not be underestimated. “This is turning out to be harder than Brexit,” she said.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/bor...bassador-who-does-not-think-trump-is-an-idiot
Hopefully, whoever replaces May will appoint a lying weasel that it makes Coldstream and a couple of other sub-normals on here think that the universe is unfolding as it should.
Jobs, growth, and higher wages leave Democratic contenders searching for excuses
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...e-democratic-contenders-searching-for-excuses
Dems have been out of ideas since once JFK was taken out. MAGA
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...e-democratic-contenders-searching-for-excuses
Dems have been out of ideas since once JFK was taken out. MAGA
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And Acosta is gone.
It became too big a deal in the press.
Mr Epstein is already arranging the terms of his bail. Does the guy who is making the deal with the billionaire want a spot on Trump show?
Maybe he'd like something else.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The arrogant men in Whitehall do NOT know what's best… and the leaked memos from Britain's man in Washington just prove it
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
8 July 2019
The ambassador could not have been more candid. 'We really don't believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.'
He reported 'vicious infighting and chaos' at the heart of government and predicted that the whole enterprise was likely to 'crash and burn' and 'end in disgrace'.
Sounds about right. But I'm not talking about Our Man In Washington's damning assessment of Donald Trump's White House.
I'm imagining what the U.S. ambassador in London could write accurately about Theresa May's miserable, incompetent three years in office. And what he could also speculate about the fate awaiting Boris Johnson when he, as expected, becomes our next Prime Minister.
What struck me about Kim Darroch's leaked diplomatic dispatches was just how lacking in original insight they really were. Pictured is the ambassador to the United States, centre, listening to Donald Trump and Theresa May
Darroch, pictured, who already has a knighthood, is paid a small fortune and gets to live at taxpayers' expense in one of the most luxurious embassies in Washington. In exchange, he is supposed to cultivate a close relationship with President Trump, not slag him off on the sly
What struck me about Kim Darroch's leaked diplomatic dispatches was just how lacking in original insight they really were. There's nothing in them that couldn't have been gleaned from reading the papers or watching the rolling Trump hatefests on TV channels such as CNN and MSNBC.
The 'intelligence' was about as informative as learning our ambassador to the Vatican had revealed that the Pope may be a Roman Catholic.
Yet for this lazy jumble of platitudes, this statement of the bleedin' obvious, Darroch, who already has a knighthood, is paid a small fortune, gets to live at taxpayers' expense in one of the most luxurious embassies in Washington, and is guaranteed a peerage, and a gold-plated pension beyond most people's wildest dreams.
In exchange, he is supposed to cultivate a close relationship with President Trump, not slag him off on the sly. Whatever criticisms may be levelled at The Donald, he is a good friend of Britain, first out of the blocks to offer a comprehensive free-trade deal when and if we ever break free of the shackles of the EU.
Whatever criticisms may be levelled at The Donald, he is a good friend of Britain, first out of the blocks to offer a comprehensive free-trade deal when and if we ever break free of the shackles of the EU. Pictured is President Donald Trump
Sadly, Darroch is only too typical of the anti-Brexit, anti-Trump, anti-democratic clique which infests the higher echelons of our Civil Service. They purport to represent Britain's best interests, but in reality their only purpose in life is to protect their own privileged positions and impose their partisan worldview on elected politicians and voters alike.
These mandarins ooze self-entitlement as they glide effortlessly from one sinecure to another, accountable to no one. Tony Blair's old bagman Gus O'Donnell is a semi-permanent fixture on the BBC, telling us in his wisdom where we've all gone wrong and predicting imminent doom if we insist on becoming a sovereign nation again. The Civil Service, to a man and woman, is pretty much exclusively fanatically pro-EU.
Darroch was previously our man in Brussels, where he developed a fierce devotion to the European project and held in contempt popular politicians like Nigel Farage, who begged to differ.
Darroch, pictured, was previously our man in Brussels, where he developed a fierce devotion to the European project
He's one of the new breed of politicised civil servants created by Labour under Blair. They no longer see their role as giving impartial advice. They see themselves as the masters now.
Take Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, Theresa May's puppet-master, and the real power behind the throne. He makes no secret of his disdain for ministers or the result of the Brexit referendum.
Instead of carrying out the democratic wish of the British people and smoothing our departure from EU, he has done everything in his power to obstruct the process.
Sedwill should be sacked summarily by Boris Johnson on day one, along with Darroch and half a dozen other senior mandarins, pour encourager les autres.
Worryingly, though, it was reported that Sedwill has been ingratiating himself with Boris and may now be kept on. Let's hope these reports are wide of the mark.
Two former Cabinet Secretaries have written to The Times backing Sedwill and urging Johnson not to get rid of him. It was just the latest barrage of arrogant, unwanted interference from the unelected, self-perpetuating Men In Whitehall Who Know Best.
Over the past few weeks, recently retired top civil servants have been queuing up to tip a bucketload over Boris and his Brexit plans.
The former head of the Civil Service used a lecture to attack Boris's no-deal contingency as a 'disaster' which would put Britain in a 'straitjacket'.
Another ex-permanent secretary, Philip Rycroft, who until four months ago was running the department charged with getting Britain out of the EU — he had three years to do it — now claims leaving without a deal would be a 'step into the unknown'.
Even the Funny People are getting in on the act. John Sawers, head of the intelligence service until 2014, said Britain was undergoing a 'political nervous breakdown' and slammed the decision to hold a referendum as 'unwise'.
Call me old-fashioned, but civil servants — like children — should be seen and not heard.
Littlejohn said he was imagining what the U.S. ambassador in London could write about Theresa May's miserable, incompetent three years in office. Pictured is the Prime Minister
If anyone's having a 'nervous breakdown' it's those recalcitrant members of the political class who think the people are too stupid to decide their own destiny and Brexit must be stopped by all and any means necessary. Kim Darroch, our man in Washington, hopefully not for much longer, is one of them.
He can't disguise his snobbish distaste for Trump, who refuses to play by the usual diplomatic rules.
Inevitably, the game moved on yesterday from the diplomatic damage done by Darroch's cables to a deranged mole-hunt, as the Establishment closed ranks around one of their own.
Whenever something embarrassing like this comes to light, they always set up an official 'leak' inquiry to divert attention from the real story. They're even threatening to prosecute whoever leaked it under the Official Secrets Act.
Everything Darroch wrote, though, could equally apply to Westminster — dysfunctional, vicious infighting, chaos, etc. From our outgoing Prime Minister to the pipsqueak Speaker downwards, the political class has moved heaven and earth to prevent a proper Brexit happening.
But then again, most of these people paid to represent us are nowhere near as clever as they think they are and, above all, suffer from an inter-galactic deficiency of self-awareness.
We used to be told that the British Civil Service was a veritable Rolls-Royce, the envy of the world, admired for its judgment and strict impartiality. These days it's more like a dodgy Reliant three-wheeled van.
The only thing that deserves to end in disgrace is Kim Darroch's career.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is to tour Britain's Brexit heartlands in a bright yellow American truck, like the one off Baywatch.
The distinctive Ford Ranger has been converted into a mobile campaign centre and will set off on Thursday for a 170-mile cross-country expedition from Cleethorpes to Blackpool.
Perhaps Jacob could take a Victorian bathing machine with him so he can change out of his bespoke pinstripe whistle into a pair of David Hasselhoff boxers.
Or maybe he can get his tailor to knock him up a special, double-breasted all-in-one job, topped with a straw boater. He may even be able to persuade Boris to join him.
They could then lead a triumphant procession along Blackpool beach — with bathing belles Esther McVey and Priti Flamingo resplendent in red Pamela Anderson cossies, splashing through the shallows — as Speaker Bercow tries and fails, Canute-like, to turn back the tide on our bright new Brexit future.
Footnote to Friday's column about holding an Independence Day UK to celebrate leaving the EU.
I remarked that although plenty of Americans were still loyal to the British Crown in 1776, I don't remember any of them refusing to accept the result of the Revolutionary War or demanding a rerun.
After Friday's column Littlejohn bumped into a waitress wearing a red baseball cap, with the logo: Make America Great Britain Again (pictured)
But after the election of Trump, it seems all bets are now off. Later that day I bumped into a waitress wearing a red baseball cap, with the logo: Make America Great Britain Again.
When the Harvey Weinstein #MeToo scandal broke, I predicted it would only be a matter of time before Scotland Yard's Jimmy Savile Squad packed their swimming trunks and headed for Hollywood.
After all, they had no hesitation flying to Australia as part of the Rolf Harris inquiry, or yomping across to the Falkland Islands to put Jim Davidson in the frame.
So it comes as no surprise to discover the Yard's finest have flown to the U.S. to interview Kevin Spacey over allegations of sexual assault committed in London and Gloucester.
Is there really sufficient justification for scrambling the Savile Squad's airborne division to the States, especially at a time when the Yard is bleating about spending cuts and is facing a knife crime epidemic?
Maybe it's all a mix-up. When the Commissioner told them to round up The Usual Suspects . . .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...ervants-Whitehall-NOT-know-whats-best-UK.html
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
8 July 2019
The ambassador could not have been more candid. 'We really don't believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.'
He reported 'vicious infighting and chaos' at the heart of government and predicted that the whole enterprise was likely to 'crash and burn' and 'end in disgrace'.
Sounds about right. But I'm not talking about Our Man In Washington's damning assessment of Donald Trump's White House.
I'm imagining what the U.S. ambassador in London could write accurately about Theresa May's miserable, incompetent three years in office. And what he could also speculate about the fate awaiting Boris Johnson when he, as expected, becomes our next Prime Minister.
What struck me about Kim Darroch's leaked diplomatic dispatches was just how lacking in original insight they really were. Pictured is the ambassador to the United States, centre, listening to Donald Trump and Theresa May
Darroch, pictured, who already has a knighthood, is paid a small fortune and gets to live at taxpayers' expense in one of the most luxurious embassies in Washington. In exchange, he is supposed to cultivate a close relationship with President Trump, not slag him off on the sly
What struck me about Kim Darroch's leaked diplomatic dispatches was just how lacking in original insight they really were. There's nothing in them that couldn't have been gleaned from reading the papers or watching the rolling Trump hatefests on TV channels such as CNN and MSNBC.
The 'intelligence' was about as informative as learning our ambassador to the Vatican had revealed that the Pope may be a Roman Catholic.
Yet for this lazy jumble of platitudes, this statement of the bleedin' obvious, Darroch, who already has a knighthood, is paid a small fortune, gets to live at taxpayers' expense in one of the most luxurious embassies in Washington, and is guaranteed a peerage, and a gold-plated pension beyond most people's wildest dreams.
In exchange, he is supposed to cultivate a close relationship with President Trump, not slag him off on the sly. Whatever criticisms may be levelled at The Donald, he is a good friend of Britain, first out of the blocks to offer a comprehensive free-trade deal when and if we ever break free of the shackles of the EU.
Whatever criticisms may be levelled at The Donald, he is a good friend of Britain, first out of the blocks to offer a comprehensive free-trade deal when and if we ever break free of the shackles of the EU. Pictured is President Donald Trump
Sadly, Darroch is only too typical of the anti-Brexit, anti-Trump, anti-democratic clique which infests the higher echelons of our Civil Service. They purport to represent Britain's best interests, but in reality their only purpose in life is to protect their own privileged positions and impose their partisan worldview on elected politicians and voters alike.
These mandarins ooze self-entitlement as they glide effortlessly from one sinecure to another, accountable to no one. Tony Blair's old bagman Gus O'Donnell is a semi-permanent fixture on the BBC, telling us in his wisdom where we've all gone wrong and predicting imminent doom if we insist on becoming a sovereign nation again. The Civil Service, to a man and woman, is pretty much exclusively fanatically pro-EU.
Darroch was previously our man in Brussels, where he developed a fierce devotion to the European project and held in contempt popular politicians like Nigel Farage, who begged to differ.
Darroch, pictured, was previously our man in Brussels, where he developed a fierce devotion to the European project
He's one of the new breed of politicised civil servants created by Labour under Blair. They no longer see their role as giving impartial advice. They see themselves as the masters now.
Take Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, Theresa May's puppet-master, and the real power behind the throne. He makes no secret of his disdain for ministers or the result of the Brexit referendum.
Instead of carrying out the democratic wish of the British people and smoothing our departure from EU, he has done everything in his power to obstruct the process.
Sedwill should be sacked summarily by Boris Johnson on day one, along with Darroch and half a dozen other senior mandarins, pour encourager les autres.
Worryingly, though, it was reported that Sedwill has been ingratiating himself with Boris and may now be kept on. Let's hope these reports are wide of the mark.
Two former Cabinet Secretaries have written to The Times backing Sedwill and urging Johnson not to get rid of him. It was just the latest barrage of arrogant, unwanted interference from the unelected, self-perpetuating Men In Whitehall Who Know Best.
Over the past few weeks, recently retired top civil servants have been queuing up to tip a bucketload over Boris and his Brexit plans.
The former head of the Civil Service used a lecture to attack Boris's no-deal contingency as a 'disaster' which would put Britain in a 'straitjacket'.
Another ex-permanent secretary, Philip Rycroft, who until four months ago was running the department charged with getting Britain out of the EU — he had three years to do it — now claims leaving without a deal would be a 'step into the unknown'.
Even the Funny People are getting in on the act. John Sawers, head of the intelligence service until 2014, said Britain was undergoing a 'political nervous breakdown' and slammed the decision to hold a referendum as 'unwise'.
Call me old-fashioned, but civil servants — like children — should be seen and not heard.
Littlejohn said he was imagining what the U.S. ambassador in London could write about Theresa May's miserable, incompetent three years in office. Pictured is the Prime Minister
If anyone's having a 'nervous breakdown' it's those recalcitrant members of the political class who think the people are too stupid to decide their own destiny and Brexit must be stopped by all and any means necessary. Kim Darroch, our man in Washington, hopefully not for much longer, is one of them.
He can't disguise his snobbish distaste for Trump, who refuses to play by the usual diplomatic rules.
Inevitably, the game moved on yesterday from the diplomatic damage done by Darroch's cables to a deranged mole-hunt, as the Establishment closed ranks around one of their own.
Whenever something embarrassing like this comes to light, they always set up an official 'leak' inquiry to divert attention from the real story. They're even threatening to prosecute whoever leaked it under the Official Secrets Act.
Everything Darroch wrote, though, could equally apply to Westminster — dysfunctional, vicious infighting, chaos, etc. From our outgoing Prime Minister to the pipsqueak Speaker downwards, the political class has moved heaven and earth to prevent a proper Brexit happening.
But then again, most of these people paid to represent us are nowhere near as clever as they think they are and, above all, suffer from an inter-galactic deficiency of self-awareness.
We used to be told that the British Civil Service was a veritable Rolls-Royce, the envy of the world, admired for its judgment and strict impartiality. These days it's more like a dodgy Reliant three-wheeled van.
The only thing that deserves to end in disgrace is Kim Darroch's career.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is to tour Britain's Brexit heartlands in a bright yellow American truck, like the one off Baywatch.
The distinctive Ford Ranger has been converted into a mobile campaign centre and will set off on Thursday for a 170-mile cross-country expedition from Cleethorpes to Blackpool.
Perhaps Jacob could take a Victorian bathing machine with him so he can change out of his bespoke pinstripe whistle into a pair of David Hasselhoff boxers.
Or maybe he can get his tailor to knock him up a special, double-breasted all-in-one job, topped with a straw boater. He may even be able to persuade Boris to join him.
They could then lead a triumphant procession along Blackpool beach — with bathing belles Esther McVey and Priti Flamingo resplendent in red Pamela Anderson cossies, splashing through the shallows — as Speaker Bercow tries and fails, Canute-like, to turn back the tide on our bright new Brexit future.
Footnote to Friday's column about holding an Independence Day UK to celebrate leaving the EU.
I remarked that although plenty of Americans were still loyal to the British Crown in 1776, I don't remember any of them refusing to accept the result of the Revolutionary War or demanding a rerun.
After Friday's column Littlejohn bumped into a waitress wearing a red baseball cap, with the logo: Make America Great Britain Again (pictured)
But after the election of Trump, it seems all bets are now off. Later that day I bumped into a waitress wearing a red baseball cap, with the logo: Make America Great Britain Again.
When the Harvey Weinstein #MeToo scandal broke, I predicted it would only be a matter of time before Scotland Yard's Jimmy Savile Squad packed their swimming trunks and headed for Hollywood.
After all, they had no hesitation flying to Australia as part of the Rolf Harris inquiry, or yomping across to the Falkland Islands to put Jim Davidson in the frame.
So it comes as no surprise to discover the Yard's finest have flown to the U.S. to interview Kevin Spacey over allegations of sexual assault committed in London and Gloucester.
Is there really sufficient justification for scrambling the Savile Squad's airborne division to the States, especially at a time when the Yard is bleating about spending cuts and is facing a knife crime epidemic?
Maybe it's all a mix-up. When the Commissioner told them to round up The Usual Suspects . . .
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