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I thought this exchange was pretty good as well. Frum nails exactly what was going through his head:
David Frum: The meeting was never going to happen. This is a story about fantasy and envy. The president's fantasy about being a great deal maker and his envy of President Obama's peace prize. Zalmay Khalilzad, our former ambassador to afghanistan was running a process of negotiation with the Taliban to see if an agreement could be reached. About the first of September, he seems to have reached some kind of interim deal. What should have happened at that point, it goes into the government and different agencies look at it and say, do we like it, can we look at it, so we go forward do we stop. Trump got the smell of this and thought "this is done deal, Zalmay is going to get the credit, he's going to get the Nobel Peace Prize."
Matthews: How do you know his motive?
Frum: I don't know his motive but I do know the timeline. This is a moment where it goes to an agency process not up to the president of the United States. But Trump swoops in and he invites everyone to Camp David. And the Taliban, these terrorist murderers, say with mature wisdom, why don't we have the meeting at the end of the process? But Trump said, "I want to make the deal. I don't want to leave it to Khalilzad because then he'll get the credit. I want to make the deal. Only, of course, he can't make the deal.
Matthews: he wanted it to pop out there. so he could walk out with ...
Frum: Exactly, He wanted to be Jimmy Carter without the work. And so when it becomes clear that the Taliban says "we're coming after the deal, not before" and there are a lot of problems with this interim arrangement, at that point, as the fantasy of the Nobel begins to recede, he says "in that case, you can't fire me, I fire you!" and he blows up the whole thing and he does it on twitter, probably damaging a process that needed to continue.
He says the talks are "dead" and that they're killing Taliban as fast as they can. So, "damaged" may be a bit mild.
What a monumental c**k-up.
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon the requisite contempt
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Where Will the Labor Movement Go? - Lawyers, Guns & Money[^]
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon the requisite contempt
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Cheeto Benito thinks it's a good idea to deport children who are here in the US receiving critical medical care. In many cases deporting them would mean that they would die. What purpose is there to killing people who are here - legally - for medical help? This is the ugly face of a White nationalist administration.
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon the requisite contempt
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In direct violation of the emouluments clause of the constitution, Il Douche is promoting one of his golf courses as the location of next year's G-7 meeting hosted here in the US.
On his trip to Ireland, the vice president* will be staying at a Trump owned resort, diverting tax payer dollars into the president*'s pockets.
Our Attorney General and personal lawyer to the president* is throwing a $30,000 party at a DC hotel owned by Hair Furor. Nothing explicitly illegal about it, but it sure looks like a kick-back for getting appointed as the AG.
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon the requisite contempt
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