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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:07 PM Sep 2018

OK, so who is the "I am a part of the resistance" op-ed a message to?

Clearly somebody high up in the administration wants somebody to read that. But who? Trump himself? Kelly?

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OK, so who is the "I am a part of the resistance" op-ed a message to? (Original Post) Recursion Sep 2018 OP

Yet another context free OP on DU. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #1

The 7 OPs posting the op-ed on the front page right now are context (nt) Recursion Sep 2018 #2

But not important enough for you (or other context free OPs) to provide a link. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #8

Just look at the other posts in GD. There are several on this topic. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #3

Thanks, but that is behind a paywall and leaves blank screen. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #6

Someone here on DU told me that if you have Firefox there's a symbol (three lines) fierywoman Sep 2018 #7

Thanks I tried your suggestion. But no dice. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #11

I can offer 4 paragraphs, written by an "anonymous senior official." The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #10

Thanks. This is getting interesting. Pace is accelerating. Walls are crumbling. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #14

...---... lunatica Sep 2018 #4

Clearly not his base AndJusticeForSome Sep 2018 #5

If Mattis wrote it, it's to NATO and the 5 Eyes Recursion Sep 2018 #13

If the 5 eyes have 20/20 AndJusticeForSome Sep 2018 #16

Sounds like it. haele Sep 2018 #17

It is for the GOP Trump enabling legislators begging them to do their jobs. Freethinker65 Sep 2018 #9

It is a message to the establishment GOP GusBob Sep 2018 #12

This makes me smile Gothmog Sep 2018 #15

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)

1. Yet another context free OP on DU.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:10 PM

Sep 2018

Total OP:

0. OK, so who is the "I am a part of the resistance" op-ed a message to?

Clearly somebody high up in the administration wants somebody to read that. But who? Trump himself? Kelly?

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. The 7 OPs posting the op-ed on the front page right now are context (nt)

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:10 PM

Sep 2018

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)

8. But not important enough for you (or other context free OPs) to provide a link.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:15 PM

Sep 2018

I refreshed my screen and your OP was what I saw.

It is symptomatic of an attitude that feels "I'm clued in so I don't need to provide context". I'm not wanting to get down on you personally, just that the pattern could be improved.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,761 posts)

3. Just look at the other posts in GD. There are several on this topic.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:11 PM

Sep 2018

But this is what it's about: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)

6. Thanks, but that is behind a paywall and leaves blank screen. . . . nt

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:12 PM

Sep 2018

fierywoman

(7,686 posts)

7. Someone here on DU told me that if you have Firefox there's a symbol (three lines)

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:15 PM

Sep 2018

where the title is that allows you to jump the firewall.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)

11. Thanks I tried your suggestion. But no dice.

Reply to fierywoman (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:19 PM

Sep 2018

The only thing that seemed to apply was "New private window" but it ended up behaving the same way.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,761 posts)

10. I can offer 4 paragraphs, written by an "anonymous senior official."

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:17 PM

Sep 2018

...But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)

14. Thanks. This is getting interesting. Pace is accelerating. Walls are crumbling.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #10)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:20 PM

Sep 2018

Emperor revealed to have no clothes (as we on DU have known for over two years and some for decades).

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

4. ...---...

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:12 PM

Sep 2018

AndJusticeForSome

(537 posts)

5. Clearly not his base

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:12 PM

Sep 2018

I doubt they read (the "failing" NYT).

Do you think it's a reach-out to the other so-called Resistors? Could be.

ETA: my stomach churns at them thinking and portraying themselves as heroes of any kind. They, imho, are cowards.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

13. If Mattis wrote it, it's to NATO and the 5 Eyes

Reply to AndJusticeForSome (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:20 PM

Sep 2018

If it wasn't Mattis, I'm less sure

AndJusticeForSome

(537 posts)

16. If the 5 eyes have 20/20

Reply to Recursion (Reply #13)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:26 PM

Sep 2018

they already knew this, no?

haele

(12,661 posts)

17. Sounds like it.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #13)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:46 PM

Sep 2018

However, I'm thinking it's also a warning to the GOP legislature that they need to stop pandering to someone who is on their way out and toss the excess weight overboard, or the gravy train will be stopped before it gets to the station.

Thing to remember - collaborators don't get to be called heroes, no matter how much damage they try to mitigate "working on the inside".

Haele

Freethinker65

(10,026 posts)

9. It is for the GOP Trump enabling legislators begging them to do their jobs.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:16 PM

Sep 2018

To get enough legislators to show their loyalty to this country and not to Trump.

If they continue to refuse to do their constitutionally mandated jobs, it is up to the voters (assuming the upcoming election is fair and honest).

They are fine with tax cuts and destruction of social programs and outlawing abortion, but not so happy about alienating trading partners, strong arming our national security allies, the abusive out in the open nepotism and grifting, and kissing Putin's ass.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)

12. It is a message to the establishment GOP

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:19 PM

Sep 2018

The McCain death and funeral triggered this

Can't figure out if it's a cry for help from them or a shot across the bow of the Trump admin

Gothmog

(145,374 posts)

15. This makes me smile

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:23 PM

Sep 2018

Link to tweet

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