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Am willing to let Trump try his plan for US jobs and infrastructure projects.
If he fails we boot him out and try another direction.
But his impulsive, stupid, and dangerous actions in Syria are alarming.
What happened to "work with the Russians and Syrians to defeat ISIS, and
then get out".
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This is not related, but can anyone tell me the name of the Air BnB Thom went to last week? I missed him talking about it on MOnday, until the very end. Sounded like he loved it, and great food! Thanks, Julia - Juliachase@comcast.net
I hope the Trump voters have children who are military age. Mine are too old and so am I.
What I read, research, buy or look at on the Internet or anywhere else is my personal and private business. The whole concept of selling that information comes across as an attempt to sell more than my privicy; it's an attempt to sell my indentity.
So Trump is going to create more jobs by selling our private info from emails, etc. to businesses who can use this information to solicit business from us and use that info in ways that can only be imagined. Another one of Trump's way to fill his false campaign promises.
Funny, I can't remember hearing the Twitter Master or any Republican politicians ever promising to sell us out (literally) on the campaign trail. It's such a winning issue too! You'd think they'd be proud of it -- shouting on the stump above the roaring rallies; blogging all over the internet swamp; opinion pieces flooding the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart Rag; back-to-back interviews on Fux News and lie radio. Not a peep! Very strange.
I guess they were so wrapped up, twenty-four seven, promising the moon, fear-mongering, and hating on Obama, Hillary, and Bernie that they just didn't have the time or corporate money to tell the truth, the whole truth, to their cow-eyed crowds. What a missed opportunity! They could have peeled off so many more votes from the Dumbocrats who were stupidly trying to protect net neutrality and internet privacy.
Oh well, at least Congress had a full and fair, bipartisan debate and finally got this important piece of legislation for the people into the Pussy Grabber's little fingers to sign. Whew -- dodged that bullet!
I heard this morning that Massachusetts is considering making their own privacy rules to counter the federal bull____. perhaps more states will join in and do the right thing.
These assholes should have to pay me for the use of my personal information. This is not only a matter of privacy, it is a fucking ripoff. I know that some where in the fine print of their "sacred contract" there is some clause where I agree to release my personal information to them for using their services. But such bullshit adhesion clauses should be illegal and should be considered void both as a matter of law and public policy. However, now that Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court, we can kiss any chances of the Court protecting us from large corporations goodbye.
When corporate America says trust us, it is about as reliable as when the pretender in the White House says "trust me". Is there anything that is not for sale anymore? Do we still have higher values than mere economic profit? Greed is destroying the goodness of this country and it is leaving us without a moral compass.
I am with Bernie, it is time for a political revolution!
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It seems highly likely that 2950-10K's analysis is an accurate reading of the situation, especially since credible, high-up diplomatic and military sources have leaked that the U.S. warned Russia, who subsequently warned Syria, prior to the raid. Additionally, our Middle East military geniuses promised only to bomb certain jet bunkers and not any of the runways or other high-value targets.
Right on cue, the Russians moved all their personnel and equipment out of the way, and the Syrians moved all their functioning aircraft safely onto the runways and left only a few miscellaneous aircraft in the bunkers that were under repair and unable to fly anyway. It was a phony raid from the "go" that did no significant damage and lacked the element of surprise, for which Generalissimo Trumpnino always criticized Obama.
This whole ridiculous exercise, which wasted 85-million taxpayer dollars worth of cruise missiles, reeks of collusion with the so-called "enemy" for self-serving, hollow propaganda purposes, giving both Putin and Trump not-so-subtle political cover.
Where is the Great Orator's moral outrage for the 25 civilians, including 9 children and 7 women, whose guts he splattered all over their ruined village in his other misguided, politically motivated, failed raid in Yemen, for which we gained no military advantage or worthwhile intelligence whatsoever, and during which a 70-million-taxpayer-dollar Osprey aircraft was destroyed -- a raid which he blatantly lied about the value of to the American people, and which he then used to score political points by abusing a Navy SEAL's widow in front of Congress and the world?
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-02-09/nine-young-children-killed-the-full-details-of-botched-us-raid-in-yemen
Attacking a sovereign nation that is not a direct military threat to our national security, by any stretch of imagination, without preapproval from Congress and the U.N. is completely illegal and a war crime of the highest order.
Impeach this worthless, lying, repulsive maggot before he starts a nuclear war! Look what happened to the world the last time Congress left a Republican war criminal in office.
The Village Idiot's "Shock and awe" -- and now Brian Williams' patronizing "beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments" -- is the type of truly insane, Fourth-of-July, patriotic nonsense that disguises the harsh reality of war ...and our culpability. When will the shallow, starry-eyed American infotainment audience of numbed-out voters ever learn?
Just throwing this out there....we know we can't trust Crooked Donny, so why in hell would we trust his motives to bomb the Syrian airbase based on his humanitarian feelings??? Yeah right, Mr. appoint Bannon to his cabinet.
I'm throwing this out without anything but some vague communications with knowledgeable friends... conclusion: Trump and Putin have conspired to make it look like Trump is not Putin's puppet????...spin away from the attention on treason. Word is that Tillerson's Putin ass kissing trip will be very friendly...but won't be presented to the corpse media as such.
Trump doesn't give a flying crap about foreign policy unless he can cash in ...wake up. He's a con-artist who has ripped off desperate citizens with his fake university...that's just who he is...he hasn't changed based on recent videos of Russian/Assad carnage in Syria.
History books are filled with tyrants who point to the atrocities of their enemies to justify their own.
Not IMO. "Old school" is another way of saying ignorant or prejudiced. Pence is a misogynist. His anti-choice policies say it all. Governor ultrasound.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it was paranoia, too. No politician wants to be accused of having an affair.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/every-terrifying-thing-that...
An occasional breeze carries a whiff of copper from the rivulets of fresh blood collecting into puddles, oozing from mutilated corpses; mostly though, the air is heavy with the putrid odor of spilled bowels and an overwhelming, unforgettable stench of burnt flesh. Like wooden puppets with broken strings, the dead are splayed out in unnatural poses, dusty faces, mouths agape, empty eyes staring into the abyss. Even the mournful wailing of anguish from the living fades into the stillness and silence of senseless death as it presses down, pushing away every thought ...except one. Why?
(To 2950-10 - #20)
Thanks for the clarification - just in case anyone missed the main point of your comment - sarcasm recognized, appreciated, and reciprocated.
deepspace: I agree, to the parents of a dead child there is no difference between a sarin gas strike by Assad or a drone strike by us. Our economy is based on a massive war budget now.....it's going to end bad....no easy way out.
K. allen: The republicans were against and fought Obama's plan for an airstrike on Assad for chemical weapon use back in 2013....look it up. The blood is on the hands of Putin, Assad, Cheney, and Bush....and a political party that was against anything "Obama. "
But I really have no idea if I answered the content of your reply.....I was trying to be sarcastic with the Obama comment you quoted.