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Home Front: Politix
Joe Scarborough: Trump ‘Sick’ for Ignoring Human Rights in North Korea
2018-06-13
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Rather than celebrating Trump’s historic achievements, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough railed against the President Tuesday morning, claiming the Commander-in-Chief is "sick" for not publicly condemning North Korea’s human right’s record during the summit and repudiating the Communist regime’s treatment of Warmbier.

"I thought it was tortured logic at best to say that the North Koreans murder of Otto Warmbier was a time of reflection for them ‐ that’s just not true at all. I personally think it’s sick for him to suggest such a thing about the most murderous regime, one of the most murderous regimes on the face of the earth," Scarborough lamented.

"We learned after the fall of the Soviet Union, that when Reagan became president and started talking constantly about the liberation of Russians and people in eastern Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and talked about freedom there were whispers in gulags in the Soviet about tapping on the walls, about ’Reagan the liberator.’ he brought hope to those who were imprisoned there with great moral authority and he helped to end the cold war," he continued. "Here, you have Donald trump who has made it clear that ‐ well, that human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
aren’t going to be a part of any negotiations."

Trump is too simple-minded to understand human rights is the "hallmark of sound American policy," Scarborough’s guest, presidential historian Jon Meacham, added.

"Complexity is not Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s friend, obviously, and never has been and isn’t here," he said. "Suddenly that personal characteristic ‐ his need to simplify everything, to make a deal out of it in which he is a protagonist and the person across the table is a co-star to some extent, is now intersecting with the life of nations."
Posted by:Fred

#13  Besides, this way, the timer on them curbing the abuse has hopefully finally started to tick.
Posted by: gorb   2018-06-13 16:13  

#12  Joe Scarborough sounds a bit naive.

Consider his audience and it makes sense.
Posted by: gorb   2018-06-13 16:12  

#11  We can fix them in less than an hour. After nuking North Korea out of existence, there won't be anymore human rights violations. How's that sound Commie Joe?
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-06-13 14:01  

#10  Was FDR sick for ignoring human rights in the Soviet Union during the Malta conference? Was Truman sick for ignoring Japanese Human Right violations when he decided not to try and hang the Emperor of Japan? Was Nixon sick for ignoring Chinese human rights violations when he met with Mao?

Did Joe feel Obama was sick for ignoring Cuban and Iranian human rights issues?

Joe Scarborough sounds a bit naive.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-06-13 13:40  

#9  Clinton:Haiti
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-06-13 11:28  

#8  MSNBC. Who cares.
Posted by: Bobby   2018-06-13 10:49  

#7  Funny how these people never talk about China.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-06-13 09:42  

#6  Funny how Obumble and Clinton aren't called sick for ignoring human rights in Nork land.

Joe is a fucking joke hack.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-06-13 09:23  

#5  It makes Mika hot when he goes all RINO
Posted by: Frank G   2018-06-13 08:43  

#4  Joe, who know you were still a neo-con? /sarc

The term used for implication is 'regime change'. How did that work in your Bush-Obama era? How many have been sacrifices to that concept in the last 18 years?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-06-13 07:58  

#3  They ever figure out how that dead intern ended up in Joe's office?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-06-13 07:10  

#2  Ever hear the term 'bigger picture' Joe? I thought not.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-06-13 04:35  

#1  Trump is too simple-minded to understand human rights is the "hallmark of sound American policy," Scarborough’s guest, presidential historian Jon Meacham, added.

In the 70s&80s Reagan was called simple-minded for condemning communism and calling the Soviet Union an empire of evil.

Back then the consensus in the political class was that the Soviet Union was an ascendant and (on their own terms) successful power, while the West was inevitably declining.

Notwithstanding the hypocrisy of Trump's critics, it would be a grave mistake not to take into account the uniquely depraved, deformed and insane nature of North Korea's regime which also defines its conduct towards other nations.

Telling lies to oneself to justify amoral realpolitik leads to cognitive dissonance and is dangerous.

Therefore:
Islam is not peace.
Islam is not a religion of peace.
Kim Jong-Un does not love his people.
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Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2018-06-13 03:27  

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