Donald Trump Is Not Your Friend

Virulent Iran hawk Brian Hook has reportedly been chosen by Donald Trump to help staff the State Department of the incoming administration, just in case you were still holding out hope that this time might be different and Trump really would end the wars and fight the deep state.

Readers might remember Hook as the swamp creature who in 2017 was seen in a leaked State Department memo lecturing Rex Tillerson on the US government’s policy of using human rights as a cynical tool to undermine enemies and reinforce alliances. This is done, Hook explained, by ignoring human rights abuses when they are perpetrated by US allies while emphasizing them at every opportunity in the nations of enemy governments in order to “impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.”

“The ‘realist’ view is that America’s allies should be supported rather than badgered, for both practical and principled reasons, and that while the United States should certainly stand as moral example, our diplomacy with other countries should focus primarily on their foreign policy behavior rather than on their domestic practices as such,” Hook wrote in the memo, saying that “In the case of US allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human rights.”

“One useful guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy is that allies should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries,” Hook wrote. “We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to US relations with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.”

Hook’s words, shared in confidentiality with the political neophyte Tillerson, were an excellent window into what western empire managers are doing when they feign outrage at alleged human rights abuses in nations they’ve targeted for destruction. The fact that his would be one of the first names chosen by Trump suggests we can expect more despicable foreign policy recklessness from the returning president.

I’m already getting people telling me to “give Trump a chance” and stop criticizing him before he’s in office when I point out developments like this. Give Trump a chance? He had four years. He was the president for four fucking years. Trump showed us who he is: a murderous warmongering empire lackey just like his predecessors.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. There’s no reason to think this time will be different. Trump criticizes foreign interventionism because that kind of rhetoric is popular, not because he actually means it. In order to get to where he’s at Trump cut deals with Zionist oligarchs, powerful lobby groups, and more or less the exact same Republican voting base and donor class that’s given rise to every other disgusting Republican president in recent years. Even if he wanted to end wars and fight the establishment (and there is no evidence that he does), he’s already tied his own hands with the deals he’s made with the powerful establishment factions he’s promised his service to.

Trump supporters are George W Bush supporters LARPing as Ron Paul supporters. They act like they’re backing some anti-war figure who’s taking a meaningful stand against the machine, when they’re really backing a guy who spent four years rolling out longstanding neocon agendas.

That’s what makes them so annoying. At least liberals are more or less honest about wanting to preserve the status quo; Trumpers want you to take seriously their belief that they participated in some huge revolutionary act by ticking a box for the Republican on election day. They correctly believe that their country is controlled by an unelected deep state (though they are very confused about who that actually is), but they incorrectly believe this unelected power structure can be defeated by voting for one of the two mainstream candidates presented to them at the ballot box. Like that would ever be an option.

I am really not looking forward to another four years of that shit, I’ll be honest. For four fucking years these morons were in my mentions telling me every action of Trump’s that I criticized was actually a brilliant 47-dimensional chess maneuver against the deep state, even when he was openly advancing some longstanding agenda of the CIA and neoconservative swamp monsters like ramping up aggressions against Iran or staging a coup in Venezuela. They warm up to me because they see me criticizing the media and talking about corrupt power structures and go “Ooh, she’s like me!”, but then they cannot understand why I keep criticizing their shitty Republican daddy figure. And then I have to spend my time explaining to them that their hero is a murderous imperialist shitstain.

And at the same time I’m going to have to be criticizing the Democrats because they’ll be attacking Trump for being insufficiently hawkish on foreign policy, because that’s the only foreign policy criticism you’re allowed to level at a US president in mainstream politics and media — which will only contribute to the problem of Trump supporters thinking I’m on their side. It’s a much less efficient and straightforward way for me to do my thing than when there’s a Democrat in charge of the war machine. It’s not my preferred way to operate.

Let me make things simple: if you are cheering for the US president, you are not fighting the power. You are a power-worshipping bootlicker, and you should feel embarrassed.

Your president is not your friend. The US president will always, always serve the warmongering power structure you correctly feel needs to be opposed. The plutocrats and empire managers who rule your country are never, ever going to let you vote them out of power.

Hope that helps.

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2 thoughts on “Donald Trump Is Not Your Friend

  • Qest

    Demorats are the basest of all basest with their their organized invasion of the country, woke, lgbt agendas, their constant attacks against the population, their permanent tyranny and hypocrisy, their evil ideologies (cultural marxism on steroids) and their never ending wars, regime changes and genocides (biden led the genocide in Palestine).

    There is a reason for the scores trump got in this election (and 2020 was rigged).

    The information about Hook comes from CNN, the zionist fake news channel, so let’s see if he appoints scumbags like Pompeo, then we will know he is not going to do something for his country and people.

    Contrary to demorats, people will not tolerate to be deceived by Trump, because they (mistakenly) see him as a savior.

    If he deceives them, then they will have no option but to take down the system themselves, especially after another costrly defeat in West Asia (Iran, Palestine, Lebanon) or Europe (Russia).

    However, Trump, contrary to all democrat midgets who were (s)elected before him (clinton, obama, biden (the worst), harris) has the stature of a great man. He might not have the ethics of a great man but he definitely has the guts and stature.

    Yes he took the zionists money to advance their agenda (genocide in West Asia, further destruction in the US, replacement of the white & Christian population), plus the technocrats agenda (Thiel, Musk, etc..) plus the globalists agenda (‘great reset’, ‘ UN agenda 2030’, WHO, plandemics, digtal id’s, etc…).

    But Trump is almost 80 years old, what exactly does he have to lose by not follwoing the orders of his donors and stakeholders?

    His life, as they will want to murder him, but how is that going to impress an old man?

    I am not naive, but if he’s really smart and he wouldn’t be here if he wasn’t (even couch promotion Harris is smart or she wouldn’t have made her way up where she was), if he’s smart, he has a great card to play.

    It is his last term, his last chance at the highest position in office, and his last moment ot make a mark in History with a big H, and he could use that to make it great and tell his “benefactors” and overlords to… fuck-off.

    And serve the country, its people and starts to anihilate the system that has transformed it into a totalitarian banana republic.

    Think about it, in his position at his age, he has two choices:

    1/ Go down as yet another ‘crisis actor’ and paid puppet like his predecessors.
    2/ Go up as the great man (even if they kill him like JFK) who took down the system and put the republic back on track.

    First thing would be to remove the monopoly of the federal reserve to print money like JFK did before they killed him.

    Which one is going to be Donald?

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  • Dino

    Truly Trump is not our friend as much as Putin or Lula are also not their populations’ friends.

    Politicians have no friends and are professional liars.

    But, and to take with a pinch of salt because it comes originally from the “New York Times”, a well known propaganda outlet:

    Trump prepares to pull out of Paris Agreement: Report
    presstv.co.uk /Detail/2024/11/09/736940/US-Trump-Paris-climate-agreement-withdrawal-plan-report

    and that:

    https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/sen-elect-sheehy-trumps-chief-of-staff-choice-bellwether-of-whats-to-come

    ” people who are not part of the status quo, are not part of the swamp and have a record of performance,”

    Wow, so no Pompeo & co?

    If it’s true, it is really not too bad and warrants of great things to come.

    If it’s true…

    He just have to re-initiate Executive Orders EO-11And EO-110 and I think i’ll be fine with this guy.

    One can always dream…

    We’ll see in January

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