Discussion: Former CIA Chief Blasts Trump For Threatening Retaliation Over UN Vote

3 Likes

Brennan is an honorable man, but if he thinks his comments will change the Asshole-elect’s destructive behavior, he is also sadly stupid.

5 Likes

I’ve felt for a while that Brennan really doesn’t like or respect Trump. This confirms it.

Shocking, I know.

24 Likes

He is far from stupid. I don’t think he thinks what you think he might think, at all.

4 Likes

I don’t think he’s aiming at Trumper. I think he has a larger audience in view.

26 Likes

Y’all never get it. This isn’t aimed at changing Trump. This is aimed at everybody else -

@old_curmudgeon - you beat me to it but good!

19 Likes

Between Brennan and Clapper. that’s a bigly amount of ā€œworld-viewā€ and geopolitical knowledge…

Only the best people…

Ex-intel chief Clapper, CIA director Brennan to respond to Trump

9 Likes

If he didn’t want to influence the Asshole-elect, and is just pontificating to a larger audience, he’s just wasting Twitter time.

beyond outrageous. Shows @realDonaldTrump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone—qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats.

John Brennan wins the Twitter/Internets today.
I don’t know how one could say it more forcefully and succinctly.

18 Likes

It got ink, didn’t it? If he’d made some general statement or gone on some talking-heads show, would it have got more notice than this? Probably not.

12 Likes

Brennan’s description of Trump as a ā€œnarcissistic, vengefulā€ autocrat is a colossal understatement. Time and again Trump has revealed himself to be a spoiled, childish brat who really believes that the entire world should bow down and kowtow to his every wish and action.

What is surprising in this affair is Nikki Haley’s very public threat to the entire UN General Assembly that she will be ā€œtaking down names,ā€ an echo of the old infantile threat that, ā€œI’m gonna tell on you, just you wait . . .!ā€

Our foreign policy in the hands of these idiots plus Tillerson is rapidly becoming a very dangerous shambles. The world is laughing at us . . . in horror.

13 Likes

I think she might be angling to try to get SECSTATE.

9 Likes

That is absolutely her intent. Trying to make up for ground lost by her #metoo comments.

4 Likes

How’s he supposed to reach ā€˜45’?

Brennan hasn’t said it out loud (and neither have the other ā€˜tenors’, Comey and Clapper), but he’s clearly aware that there’s an undeclared but rhetorically boisterous civil war happening now.

All three are aware that Trump and his supporters are a lost cause, but its the moderate Republicans who reluctantly voted for ā€˜45’ that are seen as the future.

15 Likes

I wonder what could possibly have caused that…

4 Likes

G-d help us if that happens!

I would not be surprised to see her exit this administration altogether but one never knows.

2 Likes

Caused my belief, or caused Brennan not to like Trump?

Caused my belief, or caused Brennan not to like Trump?

Brennan not liking Trump. Everybody likes Trump, honest and respectful gentleman, unlike that Obama guy, the one with the dark skin that everybody hated.

1 Like

Tough Nikki can start ā€œtakin’ namesā€ but after 100 what’s the point ?

6 Likes