See, this is the kind of Fake News you get if you don’t watch the Fox Truth Network.
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“so much remains unbuilt”
Like… Literally all of it?
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Well, I think they’d claim credit for those 86 miles, and if you ask any Trumper they would assure you that in no uncertain terms that wall is being built as we speak. No evidence needed.
Speak of the devil…
I don’t enjoy publicizing this person, but the ‘Anonymous’ op-ed writer/ book author had an ‘ask me anything’ on Reddit. One quote:
15 hours ago
Suppose Trump wins the 2020 election. What should we as American people be on the look out for ? What did you leave out of your book ?
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Anonymous_A_Warning
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103 points·14 hours ago
For starters, my original argument has been thoroughly debunked. In the New York Times op-ed, I suggested that the “Steady State” of top officials in the Administration could ameliorate Donald Trump’s lapses in judgment. I was dead wrong. No one can thwart his attraction to wrongdoing. Americans cannot and should not rely on a group of unelected bureaucrats to maintain stability. Their confidence in the Executive Branch should be measured primarily by their faith in the President himself, not be the people around him, even if those people are able to dissuade him sometimes from making poor decisions.
That said, anyone should be able to see the chaos has worsened as the guardrails have come off. The President has little handle on the day-to-day operations of the federal government and is trying to run our Administration with a skeleton crew. He is hurtling between different controversies and ignoring important matters of state, abusing his power with some regularity, undercutting vital democratic institutions daily, and debasing the national dialogue tweet-by-tweet. We can expect this and much, much more if he is reelected. The last guardrails are coming off, and if reelected he will feel emboldened to follow those dangerous impulses to unknowable and alarming ends.
There is a great deal that was left out of the book, out of necessity. But there is more to come, in due course.
To which I say: no shit.
Nope - this person needs to go public, not make money off book sales and also still collect a government paycheck.
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Looking forward to the dozens of new book exposes over the next 5 years by idiots who do nothing but continue to look out for themselves.
Devil’s advocate: Isn’t this essentially the same argument (minus book sales) that the GOP uses for the whistleblower?
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Aren’t the proceeds from the book sales all going to charity?
The whistle blower needs anonymity so Trumpian whackjobs don’t send mailbombs, etc.
“Anonymous Author” needs anonymity to continue collecting a paycheck. And stay clean for a future career on Fox.
So, no, not really.
In that AMA, 'Anonymous did say that he/ she would not be anonymous forever. Still a coward, but if he/ she does go public eventually, they have something over the servile fucks in the Senate who loathe DJT and know how much damage he’s doing to the country, and still lick his boot. It doesn’t get more chickenshit than that.
Devil’s advocate again: But Hillary’s liberals are the ones that killed Epstein! The GOP doesn’t assassinate people!
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The author would also be subjected to mailbombs and stuff too, right?
That could well be - I have studiously avoided learning details about the book.
Depends on how often the President* of the United States calls them a treasonous traitor spy and suggests death would be the perfect, beautiful punishment.
Has that happened very often with other former staffers and I’ve just missed it?
The whistleblower went through official channels. The whistleblower reported on a specific thing that they believed may constitute a violation of law (or similar level of malfeasance). From what I have seen about Anonymous, they wrote a tell-all gossipy trashing.
Not that I am against a tell-all gossipy trashing of Trump - just against how this person is going about it.
I don’t really have a problem with what the author is doing, I just don’t think it’s particularly noble to write a tell-all. I might think it was bolder to put your name on it than to do it anonymously, but being bolder wouldn’t make it nobler. What would make it nobler is actually doing something to remove Trump from power. Perhaps the author is working on that now that they admit their brilliant scheme of “limit the damage by licking his boots” has failed.
Yeah, the only plausible noble justification for anonymity was the argument that they were better off working from the inside to limit the damage. But if they admit that’s wrong, then it’s all about self-preservation.
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(Minus the book sales) is a pretty big difference. As is the fact that the whistleblower is following statutorily defined procedures, and finally that the whistleblower may be anonymous to us, but they would be known to the inspector general.
To the surprise of absolutely fucking no one.
