Just who the fuck is running foreign policy?

[hootinholler]

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This Carrot Top diplomacy is fucking embarrassing. It's like Obama has delegated it to Larry, Moe and Curly, or the TLAs are running it rogue.

The one thing this whole goat fuck does point to is that Snowden does have an arrow or two left in his quiver.

Punked. They was punked. BIG TIME. So much for all that brazillian dollar surveillance.

If it wasn't so serious, this would be funny.

[CakeGrrl]

1. If an Obama administration

"goat fuck", as you put it, can't even reach the scandal-crazy MSM for 24/7 ridicule, maybe it's only a major punking in the minds of Team Snowden.

[great white snark]

19. Exactly. But OP's like this show rat fucking is alive and well.

Not a peep about any of this in the real world while celebrating the 4th. No Snowden, no the world hates us, nothing that DU and GG find earth shattering. Funny that.

[hootinholler]

24. DU is often waaay ahead of the curve

So it's Rat Fuckers this week?



I wish I had an apropos graphic.

[HooptieWagon]

32. Well, at least we know what the weekend's name-calling meme is.

I imagine it will blow up in their faces like "racist" and "libertarian paul supporter did". It seems that when lacking facts or principles, doubling down on name-calling and smears is the only tactic they have left.

[hootinholler]

38. I must admit

That I almost alerted at being called a Nixonian Henchman. I do find that pretty low.

[CakeGrrl]

40. Yes like referring to the President of the United states as a "Chicago Thug"

as Kevin Drum did in the title of his article. No racist overtones there!

Or the now-standard chestnuts on DU ironically thrown at people not in lockstep with the Snowden support: "Authoritarian", "Defenders of the Police State", 'acolytes' of "Dear Leader".

That's the basis of some REEEAL intelligent discourse right there!

[HooptieWagon]

49. I imagine Jim Jones's followers were mad when he got called a religious wacko also.

[CakeGrrl]

55. Wow.

Duly noted!

[galileoreloaded]

59. when I think "chicago thug" i think of this:

but you went somewhere else entirely. somewhere racial. that's projecting your bias onto another and a signature marker of an adolescent set of social skills.

you are dismissed.

[Skittles]

42. so the pathetc state of our corporate media

is now a virtue?

[CakeGrrl]

58. No, it's a bellwether.

As people should well know by now, the MSM would be all over any issue that could even remotely spell trouble for this administration.

If they even THOUGHT they could link the Obama administration to illegal activity, Fox News would go up in a spontaneous combustion of glee.

What's the word out there?

[Skittles]

61. ?????

the corporate media won't be over ANYTHING that affects THEIR INTERESTS

[geckosfeet]

2. Wow. I have read some interesting descriptions of our political process in my

several years here. But "goat fuck" has got to be one of the most..... colorful.

I think that Snowden himself is rogue, and all the spooks, suits, ties and blouses in DC are having a hard time getting into his head. They are flailing about trying guess what he is up to, and keep missing.

[hootinholler]

12. Sorry, It's a Naval term of art

Chief Petty Officers (senior ranks of enlisted sailors) are affectionately referred to as Goats. Their quarters on board ship is called the Goat Locker. A plan that screws them over or bad planning that did not consult them is commonly referred to as a goat fuck.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Cool bit of info....thanks.

[hootinholler]

31. You're welcome, darling :D

Good to see you! BTW, I think Name Removed will be showing up downthread.

[fredamae]

33. It's OK! I just

spewed coffee all over my screen---but that's ok
Never heard that term before but think Goat Fuck is Completely accurate Esp when describing several in the GOP who are waging the "war against Women.....not to mention the rest of what we are seeing unravel before our eyes.....as in this Is seriously FUBAR

[Enrique]

3. the same people that messed with Pakistan's vaccine program

the "what could possibly go wrong" crowd.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

4. and how is this not name calling of our own Democratic administration?

I would like to know. Can I call other governments names and not be upbraided by the "liberals" on this site?

[hootinholler]

15. Um, because I'm not calling anyone names?

What names am I calling whom?

[grahamhgreen]

20. We have a Dem admin? :0

[CakeGrrl]

41. Sounds like someone needs the GOP back in power as a reminder. -nt

[sibelian]

50. Feh "name calling"

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Fuddnik]

5. Acme Diplomacy Consultants.

CEO: Wile E. Coyote.

Aka the Council of Foreign Relations, where fools such as Elliot Abrams and William Kristol rub shoulders with fools such as Madeline Albright and John Kerry to keep continuous bad foreign policy on an even keel.

[HardTimes99]

13. The Bi-Partisan U.S.S. Titanic. Time for those of us in steerage to

abandon ship.

[hootinholler]

16. I thought ADC was an Ag company

Thanks, I needed that laugh.

[leftstreet]

6. Paula Deen

This is the best thing that's happened to her in days!

[treestar]

7. Obama and John Kerry with help

Snowden is not a big deal. He's just one of many fugitives from justice.

[grahamhgreen]

23. Apparently every American is not only a fugitive, but a suspect!

[treestar]

25. No - there are no arrest warrants or charges pending

for every single American.

For Eddie, there are.

[CakeGrrl]

43. Only those who steal data from their employer and flee to foreign countries with it. -nt

[grahamhgreen]

54. If Snowden stole the data from his employer, who did the employer steal it from?

[quinnox]

8. Idiots, incorporated?

This is embarrassing to thinking people, but never fear, there are those who think this is all wonderful, and want to shout "USA USA USA!" mindlessly.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

9. uh....no. he is a nobody who will be caught.

on to other more important matters like Egypt's government transition.

[Mojorabbit]

17. I can follow a lot of stories at once

and I am loving this one. It is better than a Clancy novel.

[L0oniX]

10. Hey ...I resemble that remark...

[Fuddnik]

11. Pardon me, Mr. Secretary

[Marr]

14. I don't think it means Snowden has anything left. I think it just means they're desperate to

make an example of him, for other potential whistleblowers.

[Hydra]

48. I'm with this

If Snowden gets away, then they probably think the leaks will escalate. The desperation is pretty high though, makes me think he has something more they don't want getting out.

I suppose we'll find out soon.

[ProSense]

21. EU-U.S. trade talks begin Monday. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

22. The same fucks that run domestic policy, labor policy, health policy, financial policy,

environmental policy, immigration policy, election policy, education policy, media policy, "intelligence" policy and everything else.
The multi-national corporations, the wealthy, Big Carbon/Big Extraction, military and security interests, and well heeled cabals of neocons and neoliberals operating corporate powered "think tanks".

[PCIntern]

26. Same guy who's running speling ploicy. nt

[hootinholler]

28. YOW!

Thanks!! Fixed.

[Catherina]

27. The "Dingbat Factory" n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. The blind guys with the sledgehammers.

[Octafish]

34. CIA wanted to deliver another 'bin Laden' event.

"Hey! Looky here, Mr. President! We got your terr-o-rist plucked plum out of the sky!"

Very mission-oriented-please-the-chief-mind-set, wanting to imitate the glorious Ronnie Reagan who took charge and apprehended the terrorists behind the Achille Lauro hijacking by diverting their commercial aircraft to a US military base.

Too bad no one in command bothered to learn anything about international law, diplomacy...the Constitution of the United States.

[hootinholler]

47. Yep, they might not have been punked

If only they had shown some respect.

Personally, if I were to speculate as to who punked them, I would first think to a certain Russian beefcake.

[Octafish]

52. From the git-go.

It's as if the guy had an MBA in PR: Poot made big gains without having to spend a dime.

[AngryAmish]

35. Major conference at the Olive Garden on Nantucket to discuss the various crisis'

[Fuddnik]

45. No tiramisu for them!!!!

[HooptieWagon]

36. Been a while since I've seen such foreign policy incompetence.

Getting close to, possibly worse than, Bush.

[greytdemocrat]

37. From what I heard...

John "I'm not on my yacht till the pic shows I am" Kerry.

[AngryAmish]

39. wheee! I'm a pirate!!!!

Look at my big boat!!

[NoPasaran]

44. I don't know, but I'm certainly looking forward to the YouTube video

"Hitler Learns Snowden Was Not On The Bolivian President's Plane"

It seems a natural. Plus we can have a major meltdown over whether it plays the Obama = Hitler card. I'm going up to the attic to get my asbestos underwear as soon as I hit "Post"!

[hootinholler]

46. OMG! Please someone do it!

That would be the awesome!

[sibelian]

51. YAAAYYY!

Oh it MUST be done

[KharmaTrain]

57. Someone's Just Made Your Day...

enjoy...

[KoKo]

60. omg..........

[NoPasaran]

62. A bunker-busting laff riot!

[Hubert Flottz]

53. "Just who the fuck is running foreign policy?"

Could it be the USI?

[Rex]

56. Funny how they can waste trillions of dollars

yet when it comes to social programs, gosh we are just scraping by! Hardly have a penny to help out the working poor...OTOH, we DO have truck fulls of money for Wall Street!

I agree, if it wasn't so fucking dire, this would be funny.

Our country is a joke.