"I Told You So" Is Usually An Offensive Argument That Rarely Works

Look, I never thought Hillary was a good nominee and I didn't think she would make a good president-- and therefor didn't vote for her-- but the idea of voting for The Donald? Give me a break. I would have voted for Hillary a thousand times before voting for Trump. But 62,984,828 Americans did (46.1% of all voters). All they all... a problem? More or less, yes. What country! All those people voted for Donald Trump. What were they thinking?

One person who voted for Trump was Elizabeth Neumann, a vehemently anti-Choice, Ted Cruz supporter. [Bonus question: is supporting Ted Cruz better or worse than supporting Donald Trump? Or basically the same?] Neumann worked for the George W. Bush regime starting in 2003 and in 2016 she took a job as Deputy Chief of Staff for Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. She later served as Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy under Kirstjen Nielsen, Kevin McAleenan, and neo-Nazi and future criminal defendant Chad Wolf. So... she's been up to a lot of no good for quite some time. But she loves herself some Joe Biden!





Yesterday, she expanded on, or updated, in an OpEd for USA Today, the powerful ad (above) that she cut last summer for Republican Voters Against Trump. "Everything we saw during the first presidential debate," she wrote, "is indicative of how President Donald Trump behaves in the White House. His business model is chaos. He has no organization, no leadership, and sees every interaction as a contest or a battle, even when it doesn’t have to be. Chris Wallace now knows how so many administration staffers feel-- and how I felt when the president got in the way of me doing my job. He is dangerous for our country."

Yep and they all let him get away with it-- they all bowed and scraped to this weak, psychologically wrecked little slob because... well... tax cuts, judges, careerism or, in Neumann's case, her toxic delusions-- which she still clings to, by the way, that God opposes women's Choice.

I served as the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention, and my job was to help keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks. My time in office coincided with a dramatic rise in white nationalist violence, but my colleagues and I couldn’t get the president to help address the problem. At the debate, America saw what I saw in the administration: President Trump refuses to distance himself from white nationalists. I realized after watching the White House response to the terrorist attack in El Paso that his rhetoric was a recruitment tool for violent extremist groups. The president bears some responsibility for the deaths of Americans at the hands of these violent extremists.

As a conservative, I believe a primary purpose of the federal government is to provide for the national defense. Under the Constitution, it is a mandatory function of the federal government. After serving for three years inside the Trump administration’s national security team, I am convinced the president is failing at keeping Americans safe.

Early on in the administration, I represented the Department of Homeland Security at several meetings in which a White House staff member implied that the president had approved, and that we should begin to carry out, plans that could have led the United States into war. Thankfully, there were experienced people in the room who had enough clout to suggest that these catastrophic plans needed a second look. Many of us weren’t sure what, if anything, the president had actually approved, or that he had been properly briefed to ensure he understood the risks involved. These people helped us avoid war.

Having adults in the room matters. They protect the country from a chaotic White House structure that allows staffers to run amok. But more importantly, they ensure that the president is presented with unvarnished truth, that difficult topics like domestic terrorism are raised even when he doesn’t want to acknowledge them.

This is not necessarily an actionable comment but are you at all nervous about all these die-hard conservative elites happily voting for Biden? Let's end the evening on a funny note-- with Jimmy Kimmel and an oldie but goodie: