As certain as the Sun rising in the East and as inevitable as death and taxes is the likelihood of ABC’s The View commentator Ana Navarro coming on CNN air and endumbening our political discourse with a galaxy-brain take on any of the issues of the day. Last night’s “Thunderdome” appearance was no exception, as Navarro delivered a mind-melting theory on why THREE narcovessels were hit in the Eastern Pacific last night.
Watch Scott Jennings turn away in exhaustion as Navarro proceeds to claim the boat strikes were…intended to distract from fallout over President Trump’s reaction to the horrendous murders of film director Rob Reiner and his wife.
TDS BRAIN WORMS: Ana Navarro claims that today’s boat strikes are designed as a distraction from…Trump’s remarks on Rob Reiner. pic.twitter.com/ipPCX2JvrC
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ANA NAVARRO: ‘Cause (Trump’s) been trying to convince the American people that fentanyl comes from Venezuela-
BAKARI SELLERS: It does not.
NAVARRO_ -which it does not. It comes mostly from Mexico, with the ingredients coming from China.
SELLERS: China. Or the black market.
NAVARRO: At least these boat strikes are on the right- in the right ocean because every other boat strike has been in the Atlantic, off the coast of Venezuela. And that is not a route that drug dealers use to bring drugs into the United States. The Pacific coast- and we don’t know if it was off the coast of Mexico, off the coast of Central America- Venezuela does not have a coast on the Pacific Ocean. So at least now he’s striking the right- the right ocean. I think part of this is to distract, to distract from the fact that I think that Rob Reiner… no, you might laugh, but I think he’s getting criticism from Republicans. And I always think that- that part of what Trump does is to distract. He does all sorts of things. He’s a master distractor.
SCOTT JENNINGS: He’s been striking boats for months. Did he know Rob Reiner was going to get murdered in September?
NAVARRO: Because he’s trying- no, because he’s trying- the reason he’s been shooting boats for months is because he’s trying to convince the American people to justify- he’s trying to get-
JENNINGS: You said it was a distraction.
NAVARRO: Yeah, to justify regime change in Venezuela. I, for one, am in favor of regime change in Venezuela. I wish it wasn’t- I wish the U.S. wasn’t going alone. I wish we had an international coalition putting pressure on Maduro, who is a bad guy, destabilizing all of the Western Hemisphere, and he is anti-American. He’s a horrible human being oppressing the people of Venezuela. But yes, the strikes off the coast of Venezuela, nothing to do with drug importation into the United States. The-
JENNINGS: I disagree. Those drugs do go all over the hemisphere- they also go to Europe.
NAVARRO: They go to Europe!
JENNINGS: They go all over the world.
NAVARRO: They go to Europe. They’re not coming to the United States.
Navarro, whose role in media seems to be to play the Latino minstrel variant of the box wine-laden and terminally online AWFL, actually suggested that THESE boat strikes were intended to distract from whatever fallout- although they’ve been ongoing for months.
This is precisely the point Jennings made while attempting to deliver a rational response to such nonsensical lunacy. Navarro would reluctantly express her support for the mission to dislodge the Cartel of the Suns from power in Venezuela. Even then, her Trump derangement surfaces. “I like what’s happening, but NOT LIKE THIS.” She really means “not by Trump.”
Navarro’s theory of distraction is, of course, peak TDS brain worms. Unfortunately, peak TDS brain worms is what passes, with few notable exceptions, for news analysis and debate at CNN.
