Originally published at: Trump Chalks Up Joe Kent Resignation to a Brain Smarts Issue - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced on Tuesday that he was resigning from his post due to his lack of belief in the Trump administration’s justification for going to war with Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,…
I guess this means that Kent is the human embodiment of the stopped clock in the old saw.
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“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement that he posted on Twitter today.
When you’ve lost the Nazis…
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Kent twice ran unsuccessfully in Washington state just across the river from us in Portland. He’s a nutter.
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Amen. You can’t fix STOOOPID, but when something like the “Iran Excursion” is SOOO STOOOPID you lose support of your OWN Nazi stooges, that is not just embarrassing - it’s EFFING PATHETIC !!
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I laughed at the head line. I knew exactly what CF’s excuse was to be. I bet he believes that his uncle who taught at MIT gave him all the brain smarts he needs. That’s why he asked countries to help him in Iran but then said I don’t need you.
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If only Trump’s executive branch wasn’t stuffed to the gills with weak, stupid appointees he could take us to the promised land. Who keeps nominating these disloyal boyars, anyway?
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Yeah, but he’s got the look that only DonOLD can dream about.
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Damn, that is a good question.
If only the Czar knew someone was appointing fools as his underlings.
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Well this Nazi stooge Kent is obviously smarter than Trump’s bunch of tin dictators. It will be interesting to what he does now that he’s out of the Trump circle.
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as well as unrelated restrictions for transgender athletes and gender-affirming treatment for minors.
Oh yes. What would voting security be, if not to provide an opportune excuse for the Republican Party to remind little kids that Donald Trump is a brute and you’d better keep your thousands of mouths shut?
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“There must certainly be a word-stacking German term for the uncanny feeling of watching as a patently unqualified, far-right, election-denier white nationalist freak becomes the only administration figure to resign over the increasingly disastrous Iran War with an at least vaguely anti-Semitic gripe.”
“Vaguely”?!
The closest thing to criticism he had of Trump was for being “deceived.” By “those people.” (He actually used that phrase.)
Does he blame the Commander-in-Chief who started this war? Does he blame the GOP majority, in both the House and Senate, who have the Constitutional power to stop this war, but voted instead to continue it? Nopety nopes.
Because, apparently, neither the President nor Congress have any agency whatsoever. They’re mere children, exploited and abused by foreigners; despite their pure hearts and innate goodness, they’re just powerless to stop the baddies.
So who does he blame? Why, “Israel and its powerful American lobby.” And ..(wait for it)… “members of the American media.” (Oh noes – Bernie Bernstein and the Joo Media Cabal!!!)
It’s echoes of “International Jewry” and the Dolchstoßlegende all over again. Kent’s resignation isn’t an indictment of Trump; it’s an exoneration (literally) filled with praise: The Leader cannot fail, he can only be failed!
(If an idiot Republican President and an idiot Republican Congress do idiot things, then – no matter what external excuse you conjure up for their idiot behavior – your problem is with an idiot Republican President and an idiot Republican Congress, and not anybody else.)
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Exactly. Mr. Kent lacks the polished finesse of his beleaguered hero. Iranians put out fatwas on pointy headed writers, oppress their women and fire rockets at Jews. Looking at all that, if I were Kent I’d just say that there are fine people on both sides and leave it there.
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Very OT but I’m a grumpy old man getting grumpier. Somehow I got kicked off of TPM on my phone, and when I try to log in all I get is a blank page. On the lap top I get a sign in one time only. I don’t want to use the lap top for this and am unhappy about paying for something that isn’t working. Most likely I’ll be backing out of this community, reluctantly because y’all are a stimulating bunch. But I can’t afford to pay for something that doesn’t work. Best to Everyone; stay focused on what this country needs in the long term!
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We’ll be here. You’ll be missed.
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Has he lost Kid Rock too?
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I’m sure if they won right away he wouldn’t be bailing for the attempt
This is some weird shit
[Pete Hegseth’s pastor threatens leading Texas Dem](MSN?
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Pottegier’s church is also part of the broader Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches movement, founded by Doug Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist. Hegseth invited Wilson to give a 15-minute sermon at the Pentagon’s auditorium, which was broadcast live on the Defense Department’s internal TV network.
During the podcast, Haymes and Pottegier prayed “imprecatory psalms” against Talarico, Right Wing Watch reported. Imprecatory psalms are prayers that invoke God’s judgment or punishment.
“I pray that God kills him,” Haymes said. “Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ.”
“We want to crucify him with Jesus,” Pottegier chimed in. “I want him to be Talarico of Tarsus,” a reference to Paul the Apostle, who was named Saul of Tarsus before he started following Jesus Christ.
“We want death and new life,” Haymes replied.
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…but mostly death.