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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2020 2:12:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/world/coronavirus-news. "Mr. Pompeo has faced a relentless — and seemingly coordinated — assault from Chinese officials and state media over the last week. He has been accused of bullying, lying and denigrating the ruling Communist Party for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic even as the United States struggles to cope. On Monday, the state television network, CCTV, declared Mr. Pompeo the “common enemy of mankind.” It then drove home the point over the next two nights. Never before had a secretary of state “lowered the prestige of the United States so dramatically,” one commentator said." I'm sure there are folks saying "If China hates him he must be doing something right". But what is interesting to me is China putting him into a historical context.
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Post by jdredd on May 16, 2020 20:51:27 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/politics/linick-investigation-pompeo.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Since starting his current job in April 2018, Mr. Pompeo has come under growing public scrutiny for what critics say is his use of the State Department’s resources for personal endeavors. Mr. Menendez has called for Mr. Pompeo to explain how he can justify frequent trips to Kansas, his adopted home state, using State Department funds and aircraft. He has brought his wife, Susan Pompeo, on many trips abroad, telling others she is a “force multiplier” for him. And CNN reported last year that Congressional officials were looking at potential misuse of diplomatic security personnel for personal errands. That did not result in the opening of a formal inquiry." Yawn. Another trivial scandal. It's not like he's making people disappear. Yet.
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Post by Turk on May 17, 2020 11:00:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/politics/linick-investigation-pompeo.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Since starting his current job in April 2018, Mr. Pompeo has come under growing public scrutiny for what critics say is his use of the State Department’s resources for personal endeavors. Mr. Menendez has called for Mr. Pompeo to explain how he can justify frequent trips to Kansas, his adopted home state, using State Department funds and aircraft. He has brought his wife, Susan Pompeo, on many trips abroad, telling others she is a “force multiplier” for him. And CNN reported last year that Congressional officials were looking at potential misuse of diplomatic security personnel for personal errands. That did not result in the opening of a formal inquiry." Yawn. Another trivial scandal. It's not like he's making people disappear. Yet. CNN reports LMAO. Did CNN care when Big Mike Obama went on a European shopping spree with her/his mom and brats?
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Post by jdredd on May 26, 2020 22:07:18 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jun 20, 2020 12:32:27 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/mike-pompeo-state-department.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage "It is both sad and dangerous, to use Pompeo’s words, that he has so damaged the State Department’s reputation, built over centuries of service and sacrifice.A lie is an outright falsehood, by the way, and I have no idea how a half-truth is fully spun. It does not matter. Pompeo knows that he serves a president whose currency is untruth. Anything he says on the subject of veracity is by definition meaningless. The secretary of state sold out long ago. I have no truck with Bolton. His long-held desire to bomb Iran (frustrated most recently by Trump), his contempt for the European Union, his loathing of the United Nations, and his dismissal of diplomacy have been the hallmarks of a ferocious hawk with a quixotic belief in himself. Bolton is a byword for macho baloney. That any liberal, fixated on terminating Trump, is prepared to give him the time of day is a comment on the delirium of our times." The worthless Secretary of State and former national security guy Bolton are two more symptoms of America's decadence in the Trump Era.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 17, 2020 11:46:46 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/politics/pompeo-human-rights-policy.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a divisive speech on Thursday calling for the United States to ground its human rights policy more prominently in religious liberty and property rights. Mr. Pompeo’s speech, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, came as he announced the release of a report created by a panel he commissioned last year to suggest how American human rights policy could better reflect the “nation’s founding principles.” “It’s important for every American, and for every American diplomat, to recognize how our founders understood unalienable rights,” Mr. Pompeo said. “Foremost among these rights are property rights and religious liberty.” At the event on Thursday, which opened with a religious invocation from Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, Mr. Pompeo also waded into the culture war against what President Trump recently called “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children.” “Today, the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack,” Mr. Pompeo said. “Instead of seeking to improve America, too many leading voices promulgate hatred of our founding principles.” Ha-ha! Anytime Cardinal Dolan shows up you know you've entered The Crypto-Fascist Zone! But I guess it comes down to who you want to believe, and if you want to believe a character like Mike Pompeo, so be it. My faith in him being able to define what it means to be an American is non-existent.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 19, 2020 16:46:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/trump-contradicts-pompeo-over-russias-role-in-hack.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a conservative radio show host that “we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians” behind the vast hack of the federal government and American industry, he was contradicted on Saturday by President Trump, who sought to muddy the intelligence findings by raising the possibility that China was responsible. Defying the conclusions of experts inside and outside the government who say the attack was a cybersecurity breach on a scale Washington has never experienced, Mr. Trump also played down the severity of the hack, saying “everything is well under control,” insisting that the news media has exaggerated the damage and suggesting, with no evidence, that the real issue was whether the election results had been compromised. “There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election,” he wrote on Twitter in his latest iteration of that unfounded conspiracy theory. He tagged Mr. Pompeo, the latest cabinet member to anger him, in his Twitter post." Even in the last days of the Trump regime, the see-saw battle of who will be our next Designated Nemesis goes on. China is pretty much in the lead, and Biden may or may not have a soft spot for Putin like Trump does. I'm still in suspense about who Biden will pick to be SOS.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 22, 2020 14:46:27 GMT -5
There's another Trump lackey I will be thrilled to see leave town: Betsy DeVos
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Post by jdredd on Dec 23, 2020 17:58:28 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/opinion/trump-barr-transition.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is having a bumpy final stretch of a different sort. In a Friday radio interview, he noted that “we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians” behind the recently exposed mass hack of U.S. government agencies and businesses. On Saturday, the president undercut him with a tweet, based on nothing, suggesting that China may have been the culprit. Mr. Pompeo has yet to comment on his boss’s alternative theory. This humiliation came just a few days after Mr. Pompeo’s holiday-party debacle. Dismissing Covid-19 safety recommendations — including those issued by his own department — the secretary invited hundreds of guests to an indoor bash at the State Department last Tuesday. Only a few dozen people showed up. Mr. Pompeo canceled his scheduled speech, which raised some eyebrows until it was announced Wednesday that he was in quarantine after being exposed to the coronavirus. Way to own the libs, Mr. Secretary."
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Post by jdredd on Feb 12, 2021 15:15:27 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/pompeo-china-biden-trump/2021/02/12/id/1009833/"What was said in President Joe Biden's phone call earlier this week with Chinese leader Xi Jinping doesn't matter as much as whether his administration plans to back up its actions in the same way the Trump administration did, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. "For 50 years, the United States allowed the Chinese Communist Party to walk all over us," Pompeo told Fox News' Harris Faulkner. "All of this was under Republican and Democrat presidents alike. What gets said only matters to the extent the administration is prepared to back it up in the same way our administration was." It's amazing how differently people see things. We can look at his background: Born in the conservative bastion of Orange County, California. Graduated from West Point and Served in the US Army. Was a business owner in the very red state of Kansas. Was only five in the crucial year of 1968. And claims that the Chinese Commies have been "walking all over us" since 1971. Where did he get that date? Nixon went to Beijing in 1972 so maybe he was referencing that, and that was Nixon trying to "win" the Cold War. I try to understand the different planet righties live on but it's not easy.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 13, 2021 16:48:05 GMT -5
As nauseating as Pompeo was, I don't even remember the name of Biden's new Secretary of State. (Not that it won't take 10 seconds to find it online) I do know he is a Deep State guy. Thank God. How anti-China is the Deep State? I guess we'll find out.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 16, 2021 14:44:08 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/article/2021/02/15/id/1010132/"U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is "outraged" by a rocket attack on Monday in the Iraqi Kurdistan region that reportedly killed a civilian contractor and injured several others, including a U.S. service member and several American contractors. "I have reached out to Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani to discuss the incident and to pledge our support for all efforts to investigate and hold accountable those responsible," Blinken said in a statement." So this is the first time I have heard our new SOS speak up. Yes, we are (yawn) outraged. Isn't it just the cost of doing business? But Antony is doing the mandatory whining.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 27, 2021 14:05:02 GMT -5
I'm getting to hear Tea Party Mike, our former SOS, speak to CPAC. He's such a political hack. Good thing a professional State Department guy is back as the SOS.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 4, 2021 15:12:31 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/gulf-states-peace-deals-palestine-uae/2021/03/04/id/1012520/"Henry Kissinger says President Joe Biden should continue to put pressure on Iran and uphold the “brilliant” progress made by the Trump administration with Israel and the Gulf states. "I think that one of the great successes of the previous administration was that they had lined up, that they had achieved two things in the Middle East," Kissinger, the former secretary of state for both Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said Wednesday during a series of foreign affairs talks sponsored by the Nixon Foundation. "One, to separate the Palestinian problem from all of the other problems so that it did not become a veto over everything else — and secondly, of lining up the Sunni states in actual or potential combination against the Shiite states, which is Iran, that was developing a capacity to threaten them. I think that this was a brilliant concept. We were just at the beginning of it." Here's our war criminal former SOS chiming in. He praises what the West has always done in the Middle East: Divide and conquer.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 17, 2021 12:33:37 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/antony-blinken-china-nuclear-lloyd-austin/2021/03/17/id/1014093/"Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday China was acting aggressively and repressively, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reaffirmed U.S. security assurances to achieve a complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Speaking to a roundtable of Japanese journalists in Tokyo, Blinken said Beijing was "raising tensions not diminishing them," citing its posturing over Taiwan and actions in the East and South China Seas where it has territorial disputes with Japan and other Asian nations. Blinken is visiting Japan and South Korea along with Austin in a bid to fortify Washington's alliances in Asia, in a first overseas trip by top level members of President Joe Biden's administration." Different Secretary of State, same anti-China bluster.
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