This was the right call:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was made to leave the room during Trump’s meeting with European leaders in Washington because she is not a an elected leader. There is no singular European people or unified European national interest on behalf of which von der Leyen could ever speak.
She has no meaningful budget, she commands no army and she has no political legitimacy. Her entire career since then has been a product of back room deals, internal party pecking orders and Angela Merkel’s patronage.
She owes her present position largely to Emmanuel Macron’s political triangulations.
What is being released right now is not transparency.
It is controlled disclosure.
Fragments.
Selective timing.
Curated narratives.
Carefully engineered confusion.
Enough to distract.
Former DNI General Michael Flynn
“Our problem as Americans is we actually hate history. What we love is nostalgia.’
-- Regie Gibson
“Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations: We only find them morally reprehensible because of Christianity. Before the spread of Christianity, ‘civilized’ Greek and Roman elites openly flaunted underage s*x slaves. This was normal. Emperor Hadrian built an entire city in honor of his favorite boy… If you undercut the moral foundations of Christianity from the West, culture reverts back to pagan norms.”
–Paul Anleitner