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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 11:37:58 GMT -5
"in attempt to persuade Turkish Pres. Erdogan to ease pressure on Saudi gov't,"
Trump was willing to sacrifice an innocent man to cover for the Saudis.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 17, 2018 16:12:57 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 17, 2018 20:32:46 GMT -5
It's pretty obvious why Trump hired her. Question 1 in her job interview: How good are you at lying? Prove it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 9:12:51 GMT -5
Big Facts...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 11:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 20, 2018 5:01:59 GMT -5
Another Trumpean distraction since the failure to secure funding for the wall, Flynn, and the dissolution of the Trump Foundation occupied the news. The draftdodging Chicken Hawk-in-Chief who still hasn't visited American troops in any war zone. I guess he knows more than the generals, right?? Incoherent foreign policy. Gee, Russia seems damn happy. I wonder why?? On Wednesday, Trump set heads spinning within his own government and around the world by apparently reversing himself again. His decision was made on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the issue, following a small meeting attended only by senior White House aides and the secretaries of defense and state, most of whom, if not all, sharply disagreed. In just the past week, senior officials — including the administration’s special envoys to Syria and the counter-Islamic State coalition — had said that defeating the last organized Islamic State pockets, in southern Syria near the Iraqi border, could be months away and that thousands of militants remained underground throughout Syria, waiting to reemerge. www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-decision-to-withdraw-us-troops-from-syria-startles-aides-and-allies/2018/12/19/80dd8ab2-03b2-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?utm_term=.c97a399e50c9An attack such as the one in eastern Syria reinforces a view that is widely held among U.S. military and intelligence officials, as well as U.S. allies in region: Even as the territory claimed by the Islamic State continues to shrink, the group remains a powerful and deadly force across large swaths of Syria and Iraq. In some regions, the Islamist militants appear to be gaining ground, reconstituting themselves as a brutal insurgency bent on killing local leaders and police officers and terrorizing populations, officials and analysts say. www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-islamic-state-remains-a-deadly-insurgent-force-analysts-say-despite-trumps-claim-it-has-been-defeated/2018/12/19/f4ed3396-03d3-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.5453bb72e938Trump = Putin's Puppet MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin praised President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, describing the American presence there as illegitimate and the Islamic State as largely defeated on the ground. www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-warns-expiration-of-nuclear-arms-control-pact-would-be-bad-for-humanity/2018/12/20/f9d51136-0391-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html?utm_term=.98e575a9cce6
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 20, 2018 6:52:35 GMT -5
And with a complicit Republican Party. More is at stake here than the outcome of one or even two elections. Trump has long signaled his disdain for the concepts of limited presidential power and democratic rule. During his 2016 campaign, he praised murderous dictators. He declared that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in jail if he were president, goading crowds into frenzied chants of “Lock her up.” He hinted that he might not accept an electoral loss. As democracies around the world slide into autocracy, and nationalism and antidemocratic sentiment are on vivid display among segments of the American populace, Trump’s evident hostility to key elements of liberal democracy cannot be dismissed as mere bluster. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 10:33:58 GMT -5
Ok but aren't Putin and Erdogan military leaders?
On the same day he withdrew unilaterally from Syria, he also dropped sanctions on Oleg Deripaska.
Solid 24 hrs for Putin....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 11:57:47 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Dec 20, 2018 12:29:09 GMT -5
So. Much. Winning.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 20, 2018 13:33:12 GMT -5
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Post by njhoya78 on Dec 20, 2018 13:52:05 GMT -5
What is Trump's end game here? Does he think that Pelosi and Schumer will change their minds about border wall funding if he unilaterally shuts down the government (even if partially) after a bi-partisan bill was approved in both houses of Congress? Doesn't he see that it won't be any better for his chances once the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in January?
I know this is a rhetorical question. . .but just how stupid is he?
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 20, 2018 14:10:23 GMT -5
What is Trump's end game here? Does he think that Pelosi and Schumer will change their minds about border wall funding if he unilaterally shuts down the government (even if partially) after a bi-partisan bill was approved in both houses of Congress? Doesn't he see that it won't be any better for his chances once the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in January? I know this is a rhetorical question. . .but just how stupid is he? He is responding to the Fox Propagandists and Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't care about governing but tending to his cultists. Besides, it has knocked Stone, Flynn, Trump Foundation, off the front page. The end game doesn't matter. He will lie and claim credit for whatever the endgame is and declare victory. His cultists are so ignorant and clueless he knows they will believe him.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 16:19:54 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 20, 2018 17:24:39 GMT -5
Don the Con Tweets that Mattis is "retiring" in February. Sad. No more guardrails left for the "stable genius". You should be very afraid for the future of our Nation as the grifter continues to appease his ignorant and clueless cultists. All the generals are gone -- McMaster, Kelly, Mattis. Putin is uncorking the vodka. Next to go, Neilsen. EDIT: It's a resignation on principle/firing. Mattis's resignation letter all but calls out Trump and his insane "policies". apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/jim-mattis-resignation-letter/3366/
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Post by njhoya78 on Dec 20, 2018 17:29:22 GMT -5
Thinking that Secretary Mattis decided enough was enough yesterday, when President Trump (a) declared victory over ISIS and (b) announced complete troop withdrawals from Syria, without previously communicating with the Pentagon.
Nielsen is more of a speed bump, if that, than a guard rail.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 20, 2018 17:35:39 GMT -5
Thinking that Secretary Mattis decided enough was enough yesterday, when President Trump (a) declared victory over ISIS and (b) announced complete troop withdrawals from Syria, without previously communicating with the Pentagon. Nielsen is more of a speed bump, if that, than a guard rail. Neilsen is a disgrace, not a guardrail. With her "rabbi" gone, she can't hang on much longer. I wonder what reprobates would want to jump aboard the sinking USS Trump? Anyone who voted for this deranged con man should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 18:21:55 GMT -5
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Post by njhoya78 on Dec 20, 2018 18:50:02 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 20, 2018 19:51:02 GMT -5
Proof positive that Trump has accomplished more just in the last week than any previous administration accomplished during its first two years. Trump's impending position on Mt. Rushmore is secure.
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