'The Curious Case of Election-Denying White Supremacist Freakshow Joe Kent'
(TPM) "There must certainly be a word-stacking German term for the uncanny feeling of seeing a patently unqualified, far-right, election-denier, white nationalist freak becomes the only administration figure to resign over the increasingly disastrous Iran War with an at least vaguely anti-Semitic gripe. It is an interesting moment. Lets remember that Kent isnt just some administration official. Hes an white nationalist extremist who had no business holding any position of trust in the US government. Hes been friends to numerous anti-Semites long before todays news broke."
"Some people are inclined to be sympathetic to the ideas contained in Kents claim that 't is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.' If thats you, think a bit more seriously about just how Israel would be in a position to exert this 'pressure' and dont let your animus toward Trump make you a fellow traveler with someone as odious as Joe Kent."
"Benjamin Netanyahu is a lifelong manipulator, schemer and liar. No foreign country can pressure the US into doing something as catastrophically stupid as what weve seen over the past three weeks. Did Netanyahu want this? Of course he did. Netanyahu has wanted to convince American leaders to believe they have interests identical to his narrow, usually wrongheaded and always regional goals for thirty years. Only Donald Trump is so stupid, so desperate for the adrenaline fix of another regime change on the cheap that he went for it. It is Trump who insulated himself from all but the advice of two or three ignorant toadies so that he was able to stumble this badly into a situation in which the strategic initiative notwithstanding all the damage Irans has sustained is now in the hands of the Iranians."
"Think how bad you have to screw things up to get into that position?!?!"
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-curious-case-of-election-denying-white-supremacist-freakshow-joe-kent
riversedge
(80,625 posts)YUP--there goes Tulsi under the bus--it is getting pretty crowded under there!!
Bradley P. Moss
@bradmossesq.bsky.social
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The White Houses defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a known leaker, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired?
And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?
The White Houseâs defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a âknown leakerâ, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired?
— Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) 2026-03-17T18:51:29.308Z
And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?