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THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS NOT THAT I WANT THEM ALL TO LOSE. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT I CAN’T THINK OF ANY DEM I WANT ANYWHERE NEAR THE LEVERS OF POWER.  TO QUOTE LINDSAY GRAHAM “YOU WANT POWER SO BADLY AND I PRAY TO GOD YOU NEVER GET IT:”  State of the Dem Race Today.

HINT:MOST OF US ARE FOR LAW AND ORDER, COMPARED TO HOMELESS DEFECATING ON THE STREETS AND RANDOM PETTY CRIME EVERYWHERE: Law and Order? Yes, Please.

SANE COMPARED TO WHAT?  Pete Buttigieg, Sane Democrat?

Just say no. One Red Diaper Baby in the White House was enough for a lifetime.

IT AIN’T:  World War III.

“QUEENS WOMAN:” Queens woman who plotted to use bomb in US terror attack sentenced to 15 years. “A Queens woman who plotted to build a bomb for a terrorist attack inside the U.S. was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a New York federal judge on Thursday. Asia Siddiqui and her co-conspirator Noelle Velentzas were arrested in 2015 following a lengthy undercover FBI operation that found the two were directly connected to known or suspected terrorists inside the U.S. and overseas, and had been radicalized at least in part by the terror group ISIS.”

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Susan Hennessey is Executive Editor of the Lawfare Blog, a Brookings Senior Fellow, and a CNN National Security Legal Analyst and former Intelligence Community lawyer. She’s also, as you can see, a dishonest idiot. These are the “experts” Trump is supposed to have deferred to. Disgraceful, and a pretty good explanation of why our foreign policy has been a dumpster fire for the last three decades.

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

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Yet the more we learn — about the deliberations preceding the strike, about the chain of events leading to it, about the prior and subsequent moves by CENTCOM to harden the American position in the region — the more it seems that the President acted with deliberate aforethought, that he does in fact have a plan, and therefore likely is capable of envisioning and handling what happens next. That much is only fair, whether or not one agrees with the decision as such.

What nearly the entire DC / academia / journo natsec/forpol commentariat actually means by its critique, though, is that they weren’t included in any of this. Ben Rhodes took the time to rally them together, get their talking points aligned, illuminate a pathway to social and professional advancement: that’s their preferred template for Iran-related policymaking.

Donald Trump’s template for Iran-related policymaking is the smoking wreckage of a terror mastermind’s vehicle. The courtiers see it, and want to know what’s in it for them.

Americans see it, and they know.

What the foreign policy apparatchiks fear isn’t that Trump might fail — they pray for that. What they fear is that he is likely to succeed.

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Well, I’m doing my part on the mockery front. Feel free to join me.

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes.

GOOD: Justice, FBI pressed on Obama hacking allegations against Benghazi reporter. “A key Republican Senate chairman is demanding answers from the Justice Department and FBI on whether Obama-era officials secretly accessed the phones and computers of a reporter probing the ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal and debacle in Benghazi, Libya. In going to bat for award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, Sen. Ron Johnson is reopening a case that prompted a federal judge to hit the government for stalling.”

Flashback: Congressman: Dems Impeached Trump to ‘Shield’ Themselves from ‘Reckoning that Will Come.’