Post by ck4829 on Nov 12, 2016 15:03:32 GMT
Too much of the current discussion surrounding our nation’s massively grievous collective decision to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States centers on imagining ways in which a Trump presidency might not be that bad: He’ll surround himself with smart people who know what they’re doing! The Republicans in Congress will be responsible for checks on the executive branch and prevent him from behaving like the authoritarian he campaigned as! He is secretly an establishmentarian despite all the crazy, bigoted stuff he said that won him the White House!
The only thing accomplished by this sort of mass wish casting is to grant President-elect Trump the benefit of the doubt in defiance of his repeated demonstrations that he is not owed it. So let’s be clear on this point: The Trump presidency will be bad. Indeed, it will be bad in ways that you haven’t even considered yet.
Take, as an example, this segment that aired on CNN yesterday with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. Wolf Blitzer asked Cotton if he supports Trump’s statement that “torture works” when interrogating terrorism detainees and if he backed Trump’s call to reinstitute waterboarding and “much worse” methods of inflicting pain and distress.
Cotton was totally on board with waterboarding and remained noticeably silent on the “much worse” part of the question. “Waterboarding isn’t torture,” he said. “We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military,” he added, referring to Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape training, which soldiers go through so they can learn what to do if they’re captured and (you guessed it) tortured.
“Radio DJs volunteer for it,” Cotton added, “so I don’t think something people volunteer for is torture.” He was likely referring to Mancow Muller, a shock jock who volunteered to be waterboarded in order to prove it wasn’t that bad and then afterward declared with certainty that it is “absolutely torture.”
www.salon.com/2016/11/11/making-torture-great-again-trump-giddy-republicans-eager-to-bring-back-enhanced-interrogation/
Another thing to filibuster.