The various RWNJs like Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson have now reached peak Trump, so that dog-wagging might be that unfortunate compromise soon, as the need for a distraction will increase if the ironclads are coming to Hampton Roads.
And favoring installing RW dictatorships and mass murder is in the Trumpian wheelhouse. There will be the jonesing from last year where Trump wanted to invade Venezuela, because the Monroe doctrine is also a neocolonial revanchism.
The Helicopters reference is a trope among the far-right online, who often joke about "helicopter death squads" for their critics.
This is an homage to Pinochet, who was responsible for the murder of his political adversaries, sometimes throwing them out of aircraft.
If there was an ambiguity left about what he meant...
It begs the question, which @ParkerMolloy asked two months ago over at @mmfa:
"Why is this man on my TV?"
America First
President Donald Trump implied potential use of the doctrine in August 2017 when he mentioned the possibility of military intervention in Venezuela,[45] after his CIA Director Mike Pompeo declared that the nation's deterioration was the result of interference from Iranian- and Russian-backed groups.[46] In February 2018, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson praised the Monroe Doctrine as "clearly … a success", warning of "imperial" Chinese trade ambitions and touting the United States as the region's preferred trade partner.[47] Pompeo replaced Tillerson as Secretary of State in May 2018.
Criticism
Historians have observed that while the Doctrine contained a commitment to resist colonialism from Europe, it had some aggressive implications for American policy, since there were no limitations on the US's own actions mentioned within it. Scholar Jay Sexton notes that the tactics used to implement the doctrine were "modeled after those employed by British imperialists" and their competition with the Spanish and French.[48] Eminent historian William Appleman Williams described it as a form of "imperial anti-colonialism."[49] Noam Chomsky argues that in practice the Monroe Doctrine has been used as a declaration of hegemony and a right of unilateral intervention over the Americas.[50]
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With the failure to foment a refugee shooting on Sunday, expect some new dog-wagging distraction to be discussed at the G-20, because #TrumpRussia’s in HamptonRoads.
Why did Paul Manafort lie? Because it increasingly looks like the origin of the plan to attack the United States through stolen emails, false media accounts, and social media pressure didn’t originate with Moscow, it came from Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
Manafort did for Trump what he did for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine. And with the same assist from Moscow. That’s worth lying about.
And based on how Robert Mueller waited until Trump turned in his written responses before calling Manafort on the carpet, it’s going to be interesting to see how many of his lies Trump repeated.
What’s that word? Boom.
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