The Closer, T+26 -- February 15, 2017

Damn good news out of South Carolina: Boeing workers reject union. Follows on heels of:

• Volkswagen, Chattanooga, TN, 2014; narrowly voted down a union
• RJ Reynolds Tobacco, North Carolina, narrowly rejected a union; third defeat in 6 1/2-year effort, 2011

Damn good op-ed. A very, very good op-ed on the Oroville Dam (California) in the Los Angeles Times. Written by a fifth-generation rural Californian and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The op-ed speaks for itself; no additional comments necessary.

Damn good press conference. Press conference earlier today with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump between two long-time friends. One may have seen the president's new style regarding press conferences with foreign statesmen:

• he will get them out of the way quickly; they are a waste of his time; political theater
• his remarks will be brief
• he will ignore the mainstream press
• he will perfunctorily answer one or two questions and then end it

Daily White House press briefings: I would be surprised if Sean Spicer doesn't learn from his boss. If not, I will be sorely disappointed; if Spicer doesn't learn from his boss, he may be the next to be fired. I don't think the President wants his press spokesman to get more coverage than the president; Trump doesn't want his reality show ratings to be second to those of the "Spicer soap opera."

Flynn. Much, much more to this than meets the eyes. This whole episode should alarm guys like Zbigniew Brzezinski, Colin Powell, and Henry Kissinger.