Donald Trump 2018

[TexArcher 37774]

16 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

This has been expected since day one. Only a matter of time before he blunders into a major conflict. 

I think it's coming and I don't think it'll be a blunder.  If he wants a second term, his surest route to re-election is for us to be involved in a war that we at least appear to be winning.  I think he can't wait to start some shit.

[Ghost of LL 15531]

1 hour ago, Goredho said:

 

A man walks through an East Jerusalem market, and he spies a man he recognizes to be Satan near a stall selling sweets.  He encounters him, telling him that he needs to kill Satan for everything he has done to generate conflict in the world.

Satan expresses shock.  "What have I ever done to sow discord on Earth?"  With that, he sticks his finger into a piece of kanafeh.  He takes his finger out and smears the sugary residue on the wall.

A fly lands on the sugar.

A lizard jumps up to eat the fly.

The shopkeeper's cat leaps up to catch the lizard.

A nearby Israeli soldier's dog grabs the cat and shakes it to death.

The shopkeeper kicks the dog.

The Israeli soldier shoots the shoopkeeper.

By nightfall, riots have spread across East Jerusalem, and an intifada is declared.

"What have I ever done to sow discord?" asked Satan.

Edited December 20, 2018 by Ghost of LL

[Lurch 5930]

Wait, so Trump is the kanafeh?

[WhatTheBuck 28781]

4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

A man walks through an East Jerusalem market, and he spies a man he recognizes to be Satan near a stall selling sweets.  He encounters him, telling him that he needs to kill Satan for everything he has done to generate conflict in the world.

Satan expresses shock.  "What have I ever done to sow discord on Earth."  With that, he sticks his finger into a piece of kanafeh.  He takes his finger out and smears the sugary residue on the wall.

A fly lands on the sugar.

A lizard jumps up to eat the fly.

The shopkeeper's cat leaps up to catch the lizard.

A nearby Israeli soldier's dog grabs the cat and shakes it to death.

The shopkeeper kicks the dog.

The Israeli soldier shoots the shoopkeeper.

By nightfall, riots have spread across East Jerusalem, and an intifada is declared.

"What have I ever done to sow discord?" asked Satan.

Fuckin' Israeli soldiers, man. 

[retread 2951]

12 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

Are they able to 25th amendment him yet? These SAO that leak shit to Tapper need to resign and spill in public and build a case to remove him on these grounds. I am not sure how that process works but it might be a good idea to start it soon. fuck.

It's always been a pretty thin narrative to think that all of those people are serving the country better by just staying in their jobs. Trump is so incompetent and foolish that they're the only thing preventing chaos and anarchy. If it's that bad, mass resignations might be what's needed.

[Lurch 5930]

[Tuco 5076]

My bet is he thinks he can divert military funds from Syria to build the wall.

 

[WhatTheBuck 28781]

10 minutes ago, Tuco said:

My bet is he thinks he can divert military funds from Syria to build the wall.

 

He did mention "the military" when he was talking about getting the wall built one way or another. I wondered what he meant. I think you nailed it. 

[ADHD 28]

36 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Fuckin' Israeli soldiers, man. 

Right!

Seriously, that story REALLY escalated when the Israeli soldier committed fucking murder!!

I mean OMG, that's the kind of shit which sets Mel Gibson off. Then he makes a Jesus snuff film, then the Apocalypse and then Daddy's Home 2. 

Edited December 20, 2018 by ADHD

[The People’s Elbow 707]

7 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

He did mention "the military" when he was talking about getting the wall built one way or another. I wondered what he meant. I think you nailed it. 

Which means we get a General-Dynamics-built wall that takes 20 years and costs $1 trillion. 

[Tuco 5076]

He did mention "the military" when he was talking about getting the wall built one way or another. I wondered what he meant. I think you nailed it. 

Yeah, he doesn’t give a shit about Syria. He doesn’t understand it; spending money to oppose a dictator and protect Muslims? But he isn’t going to run off and make grand proclamations about it without reasons. It’s the old guard Republicans like Lindsey who probably convinced him to stick in Syria, and they failed to deliver him the wall.

[Blotto 23501]

1 hour ago, Lurch said:

Wait, so Trump is the kanafeh?

Trumps butthole,  more specifically.

[Chooky 13307]

The caravan is full of criminals and they must be stopped.  Also, we're releasing some child molesters early so good luck with that, too.  ThxBai

[ADHD 28]

Trump.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

38 minutes ago, Tuco said:

Yeah, he doesn’t give a shit about Syria. He doesn’t understand it; spending money to oppose a dictator and protect Muslims? But he isn’t going to run off and make grand proclamations about it without reasons. It’s the old guard Republicans like Lindsey who probably convinced him to stick in Syria, and they failed to deliver him the wall.

[Francisco 2.0 32391]

Just a matter of time now for Mattis:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mattis-once-one-of-my-generals-loses-his-influence-with-trump/2018/12/19/cb3b61f2-03a2-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?utm_term=.5eb4e55fb787

 

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President Trump’s decision to abruptly withdraw troops from Syria is a clear rebuke to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the last remaining member of a retinue of military men Trump once fondly called “my generals.”

Mattis had argued that the counterterrorism mission in Syria is not over and that the small U.S. presence in Syria should remain, said current and former U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal policy discussions.

 

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Mattis is also frustrated that Trump vetoed his choice to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking miliary officer. Trump announced this month that he has chosen Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Army’s chief of staff, to replace the current chairman, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., who is due to step down next fall. Mattis had recommended the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. David L. Goldfein, people familiar with the discussions said.

Trump also sidestepped Mattis’s concern about deploying U.S. forces to the U.S.-Mexico border this fall with only a vague mandate for border security. Mattis has told Pentagon leaders that he is following orders and they must do the same, U.S. officials said.

 

[Tuco 5076]

Perhaps I should rephrase: “without some impetus”

[atomheartbevo 89663]

Ann really turned on him.

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-12-19.html

[Nivek 16929]

Right. We're completely rebuilding the military. The largest and most powerful military in the world. Goddamn, his endless bullshit is tiresome. 

I saw them wearing blue coats and using Muskets on the picture box.

[Nivek 16929]

Right!
Seriously, that story REALLY escalated when the Israeli soldier committed fucking murder!!
I mean OMG, that's the kind of shit which sets Mel Gibson off. Then he makes a Jesus snuff film, then the Apocalypse and then Daddy's Home 2. 

Without the sugar, that lizard would have never touched that fly. I don’t know why she swallowed the fly.

[ChiTownDoc 21154]

Republicans may figure out impeaching Trump is their best move.  Otherwise every negotiation will go like this... Nancy/Chuck - "Donnyboy, let's go discuss this in private"  

In private Nancy hints at the democratic house going after his taxes - Donny2scoops folds every motherfucking time.  Seriously, what's to prevent this from happening?  The Russians aren't the only ones that can play this game with the dumbest prez of all time.  If it comes to saving his ass vs caving to Democratic politicians, does anyone think Trump would stand up for anything?  Fuck no, it's always about saving his ass.  This will bring the Lulz.  

Edited December 20, 2018 by ChiTownDoc

[Brandywine 1316]

3 hours ago, retread said:

He's going to get us into a major war, isn't he?

He’s a Republican, so - duh!

[Brisketexan 105136]

I’m enjoying watching fellating sycophants like Cornyn whining about Trump moving to pull out troops from Syria “without informing congress” etc etc. FUCK. YOU. You created, enabled, empowered, and excused the fucking monster. And now...you bitch about the monster doing what monsters do?

Oh, Cornyn, you’re DELIGHTFUL.

 

[hayden_horn 11362]

4 hours ago, retread said:

He's going to get us into a major war, isn't he?

 

4 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

This has been expected since day one. Only a matter of time before he blunders into a major conflict. 

 

3 hours ago, TexArcher said:

I think it's coming and I don't think it'll be a blunder.  If he wants a second term, his surest route to re-election is for us to be involved in a war that we at least appear to be winning.  I think he can't wait to start some shit.

One of the greatest truths ever spoken was spoken by Walter fucking Sobchak.

Donnie: are these the nazis, walter?

walter: no, donnie. These men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of. 

donnie: are these men going to hurt us?

walter: no, donnie, these men are cowards.

Donald is a coward. He might act like he will start some shit, but he will not. He's a nihilist. 

Must be exhausting. 

[High Plains Drifter 11049]

Just now, hayden_horn said:

 

 

One of the greatest truths ever spoken was spoken by Walter fucking Sobchak.

Donnie: are these the nazis, walter?

walter: no, donnie. These men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of. 

donnie: are these men going to hurt us?

walter: no, donnie, these men are cowards.

Donald is a coward. He might act like he will start some shit, but he will not. He's a nihilist. 

Must be exhausting. 

Didn't Donnie die at the end of that scene?

[hayden_horn 11362]

9 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Didn't Donnie die at the end of that scene?

Yes. But it had nothing to do with anything except his fright of the paper tiger the nihilists expressed. They got their ass kicked. He died of an anxiety heart attack. We as a country should not do that. 

[Mdhorn 5949]

2 hours ago, Tuco said:

Yeah, he doesn’t give a shit about Syria. He doesn’t understand it; spending money to oppose a dictator and protect Muslims? But he isn’t going to run off and make grand proclamations about it without reasons. It’s the old guard Republicans like Lindsey who probably convinced him to stick in Syria, and they failed to deliver him the wall.

Well, he doesn't want a hotel in Syria so he doesn't need to care.

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

3 hours ago, The People’s Elbow said:

Which means we get a General-Dynamics-built wall that takes 20 years and costs $1 trillion. 

Maybe it'll be a really cool stealth wall that nobody can see.

[Pancho 44797]

 

[bolverk 29672]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

I’m enjoying watching fellating sycophants like Cornyn whining about Trump moving to pull out troops from Syria “without informing congress” etc etc. FUCK. YOU. You created, enabled, empowered, and excused the fucking monster. And now...you bitch about the monster doing what monsters do?

Oh, Cornyn, you’re DELIGHTFUL.

 

My hard-ass bitch, ex-wife, state law librarian told me Cornyn was a bitch 20 years ago. She sucks for many reasons, but her ability to condense a person to their core substance is without parallel.

[In10se 175]

6 hours ago, retread said:

He's going to get us into a major war, isn't he?

Are you under the impression we haven't been in a major war for 17 consecutive years?

[Napoleon 8679]

4 hours ago, Pancho Negro said:

It's interesting to see that his "I know more about _______ than anybody." didn't start with his dementia, he's been puffing up his chest, trying to overcompensate for at least close to 2 decades now, if not longer.

If someone tells you "Believe me.", don't believe them. If they tell you "I know more about _______ than anybody.", you should suspect that their knowledge of that specific subject is minimal at best. If they say "Trust me.", you shouldn't trust them worth shit.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump.

[Napoleon 8679]

3 hours ago, In10se said:

Are you under the impression we haven't been in a major war for 17 consecutive years?

"Major", no.

Have we been engaged in military action here, there and everywhere since WWII? Yes.

You don't have military bases all around the world, unless you are looking to constantly be engaged in military conflicts, but no, we have not been in a "major war" for 17 consecutive years.

[ADHD 28]

6 hours ago, Nivek said:

Without the sugar, that lizard would have never touched that fly. I don’t know why she swallowed the fly.

It's a metaphor about Spanish fly. Sugar and spice and everything nice. He who controls the spice controls the world. "I will ... Kill you!", Said Sting in Dune.

Get it now. It all fits. The fly is in the Vaseline. So be careful applying carmex. Car plus Mex = caravan.

[ADHD 28]

Remember when Trump said we need to rake the forrests. ISIS is defeated and rake California!

Remove this man from office immediately.

[Grandioso 2592]

6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I’m enjoying watching fellating sycophants like Cornyn whining about Trump moving to pull out troops from Syria “without informing congress” etc etc. FUCK. YOU. You created, enabled, empowered, and excused the fucking monster. And now...you bitch about the monster doing what monsters do?

Oh, Cornyn, you’re DELIGHTFUL.

 

And think about all of the disgusting things Trump has done and said to which Republicans responded with indifference/cowardice/complacency. 

They shrug their shoulders for child internment camps, constant lying, overt racism. But pulling out of an unending civil war? Well that's just too much. That's their final straw before they speak out against Trump? Fuck 'em.

[Bookman 4639]

2 hours ago, Napoleon said:

"Major", no.

Have we been engaged in military action here, there and everywhere since WWII? Yes.

You don't have military bases all around the world, unless you are looking to constantly be engaged in military conflicts, but no, we have not been in a "major war" for 17 consecutive years.

Maybe if we get into another war Congress will vote for another tax cut.

[HenryJames 66052]

 

[Francisco 2.0 32391]

Here's the man that needs publicly beat.  The man that taught Trump how to use Twitter:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/oh-no-the-day-trump-learned-to-tweet-1070789

 

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The content of the tweet @RealDonaldTrump posted on the night of Feb. 5, 2013, was bland: a simple thank you to the actress Sherri Shepherd for flattering comments she’d made about Trump on television.

But its implications were historic.

When Trump’s young social media manager saw the tweet, he was perplexed. He typically typed and sent Trump’s tweets for the boss, but in this case he hadn’t. He did recall that Trump had been spending a lot of time in his office lately playing around with a new Android smartphone.

The next morning, the handful of staffers with access to the boss’s account told the social media manager, Justin McConney, that they had not sent it either.

 

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That’s when it dawned on him: Donald Trump had tweeted on his own for the first time. 

"The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in ‘Jurassic Park’ when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors,” recalled McConney, who was the Trump Organization’s director of social media from 2011 to 2017. “I was like, ‘Oh no.”"

 

Spoiler

At the time, no one — not even McConney himself — could grasp what was to come. Now, in rare on-the-record interviews with POLITICO, McConney who left the Trump Organization last year, has laid out the story of Trump’s journey from an old-school luddite to a social media maven.

While the president's Twitter use has been covered extensively, this is the first time the inside story of how Trump conquered social media has been told in full. McConney’s account sheds new light on how Trump built his approach to the medium that won him the presidency with firsthand insight that predates that of any of Trump’s current White House or campaign aides.

He also has a warning for the president and his social team: Up your game if you want to stay competitive in 2020.

“He needs to return to engaging directly with his fans again," advised McConney, now a social media consultant, who said Trump should look beyond Twitter and pay more attention to other platforms. The president’s Instagram account has become particularly bland and impersonal, he warned, and he wondered why Trump had not been using the platform’s popular ‘Stories’ function, which other politicians — including Trump’s potential 2020 Democratic rival, Beto O’Rourke — have used to great effect.

“He should be livestreaming from the Oval Office," McConney said.

That was not a possibility anyone envisioned in January 2011, when a couple of Trump Organization executives asked McConney, then a 24-year-old film school graduate and the son of the company’s controller, if he could pull together a video to be shown at a weekend meeting of Trump’s golf course managers at Mar-a-Lago.

McConney jumped at the chance. But as he began editing, he was surprised to learn the Trumps did not have a YouTube channel. Instead, he had to trudge to a closet in Trump Tower full of DVDs and old VHS tapes featuring the family and their properties. The video McConney stitched together featured rock music over a montage of clips focused on Trump the man, rather than on the company’s scenic properties.

It was not what the executives had been expecting. But Trump himself liked this approach. A lot.

The following Monday, McConney’s phone rang. It was a Trump Organization executive: The boss wanted the Golf Channel to air his video on the upcoming season of “Donald J. Trump's Fabulous World of Golf.” He also wanted to see McConney in his office immediately. 

McConney, who initially protested that he was not wearing a suit, headed over to Trump Tower in jeans.

McConney had met his father’s boss in passing a handful of times over the course of his childhood, but to be called to a private meeting with him was a thrill. In Trump’s office on the 26th floor, the mogul was staring at his laptop, watching an unaired intro for the upcoming season of “The Apprentice.” Trump asked McConney what he thought of the clip.

McConney quickly pivoted the conversation from television to the potential of social media. Trump seemed vaguely interested. His company had dabbled in the area but Trump had little understanding of it.

"I’ve heard of that,” McConney recalled Trump saying. “Isn’t that what [then-President Barack] Obama used?"

The @RealDonaldTrump Twitter account had existed since 2009, but had been broadcasting bland, promotional fare, like, “Wishing everyone a very Happy Holiday Season.” At first, the tweets had been authored mainly by marketing specialist Peter Costanzo, who set up the account to help Trump promote his 2009 book, “Think like a Champion,” and oversaw it for its first several months of existence. Then Trump Organization staff took over. In all of 2010, it had tweeted only 142 times. 

McConney suggested that Trump should get on YouTube and retool his Twitter presence.

"He seemed to be familiar with the names but not what you could do with them," McConney recalled of the platforms. By the time he walked out of Trump’s office, he had a job.

Working out of the Trump Organization’s lunch room — the company did not know where else to put him — McConney began extolling the Internet’s virtues to Trump and his family. And he argued that Trump should transfer his free-wheeling approach to the world’s most unregulated public arena.

“I wanted the Donald Trump who is on Howard Stern, commenting on anything and everything,” he said.

At the outset, this was accomplished with videos of Trump speaking straight to camera from his desk at Trump Tower, which were then 
posted to YouTube and linked to in tweets.

Trump, a creature of television and the tabloids, remained skeptical of social media exposure for its own sake. But his thinking began to change when McConney showed him how social media could translate into the kind of traditional media coverage the mogul had spent decades cultivating. 

A turning point came in the spring of 2011, when Sarah Palin, then considering her own run for president, joined Trump for a pizza lunch in Manhattan. Media coverage of the outing fixated on Trump’s fork-and-knife pizza-eating technique. McConney convinced Trump to record a video blog explaining his decision.

To the mogul’s delight, his explanation — “This way you can take the top of the pizza off so you’re not just eating the crust. I like to not eat the crust so we can keep the weight down” —generated a bonus round of coverage from the likes of Time and Gawker.

“That's when he was sold on the concept of social media," McConney recalled.

Trump, used to haggling with reporters and TV producers, loved the instant gratification — and the control over his own image.

He also loved the way it allowed him to throw verbal punches. He demanded that the young rapper Mac Miller, who had recently released a hit song titled, “Donald Trump,” send him royalties (a point he would harp on for the next two years.) He picked fights with Rosie O’Donnell and Lawrence O’Donnell.

And, as he flirted with a 2012 presidential run, he got more political. In mid-2011 he tweeted about Anthony Weiner’s obscene photo scandal and began offering thoughts on the budget like, “The Debt Limit cannot be raised until Obama spending is contained.” Such digs at Obama became increasingly common.

By the end of the year, Trump had sent 744 tweets in 12 months — five times his 2010 total. He was only just getting started.

He began acting like the director of his own mini-media empire, huddling with McConney first thing each morning to talk about ideas and plan output for the day. “They were kind of like editorial meetings," McConney said.

Even as the mogul embraced digital media, he did so in the most analog way possible. He had McConney print out his Twitter mentions, and he would use Sharpie pens to scribble responses, which McConney would then type up and tweet out. After appearing at events, Trump, who remained distrustful of anything he saw only on a screen, had McConney print out 8x10 glossy photos of him for his sign-off before they were posted online. 

“He was very old school back then,” McConney said. “He was not someone who really used computers or went on the internet very much.”

While Trump did not know much about new technology, he “knew PR and he knew news cycles very well.” If some major news broke throughout the day, Trump would call McConney in to plot out a way to comment on it quickly, even if it meant interrupting his meetings. “It was like new meets old,” McConney said of the collaboration.

The embrace did not happen all at once. Even after he recognized the potential use social media to earn traditional media, he balked at using his appearances on traditional media to build his online followed.

Trump resisted McConney’s suggestion that he do so, grumbling that touting his Twitter handle in television appearances would look dumb. By early 2012, he had an assistant call television networks to make sure they plugged the handle on the screen whenever he appeared. By that spring, @RealDonaldTrump was being displayed on-screen during “The Apprentice.” 

Trump was now tweeting at a pace of ten times a day. He began phoning in tweets to McConney at all hours, dictating the precise placement of dashes and exclamation points. At first, the calls would come from Melania, who saved McConney’s number before her husband did, and would hand her husband the phone after saying hello.

The calls sometimes came after midnight, other times at dawn. Trump once called at 2 a.m. on a weeknight and demanded to know what McConnney was doing up at that hour. McConney said he could ask Trump the same thing. Trump ignored that response and told McConney he’d see him in his office first thing in the morning.

One call came on the Sunday before Memorial Day when McConney was at a Wegman’s in New Jersey.

“George Will just hit me on TV. I have to hit back,” Trump roared after the conservative commentator had appeared on ABC’s “This Week.” “Write this down and tweet it out immediately,” he instructed.

Trump would call McConney on a Saturday to order up a tweet —then linger on the line for 20 minutes as others popped into his head, with Melania offering thoughts in the background. "Dude,’ I’m thinking in my head, ‘It's the weekend,’" he recalled.

After Obama name-checked Trump in his first debate with Mitt Romney that fall, McConney suggested Trump should live-tweet the second presidential debate, which he did, by phoning in his occasional musing to McConney. “Because Obama was so pathetic in the first debate, tonight's audience will be humongous--people want to see if he is for real,” he opined.

As the pace of Trump’s tweeting continued to accelerate, he enlisted other tech-savvy staffers, like his assistant Meredith McCiver, to publish his tweets whenever McConney was not on hand. Even so, McConney could barely keep up.

Then in November, on a flight to a Trump resort in Miami, Trump asked McConney whether he preferred iPhones or Androids. When McConney indicated the former, Trump responded, “But the screens are much bigger on the Android.” Trump soon had one of his own, and the following February, he began tweeting for himself.

The shackles were now totally off. In 2013, he tweeted more than 8000 times. From time to time, McConney would advise against individual tweets Trump proposed sending. Often, he would walk away from a conversation believing Trump had been dissuaded, only to see the tweet appear online 10 minutes later.

That month, Trump live-tweeted the Oscars from his phone, offering thoughts like, “Django Unchained is the most racist movie I have ever seen, it sucked!

Trump and McConney continued to experiment with other social media, including Instagram. But Trump was hooked on tweeting.

When he entered the Republican primary field in 2015, the strategy the pair honed together became an invaluable political weapon. Drawing from the lessons of the past four years, Trump used outrageous tweets to earn traditional media coverage — as his better-qualified opponent struggled, mostly in vain, to grab their fair share of attention.

In the campaign’s early days, McConney continued to lend a hand. He cut 15-second Instagram attack ads, many of them needling Jeb Bush, earning plauditsfor the novel format. But McConney was still a film school grad at heart and had little interest in politics. He also found himself marginalized by Trump’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who favored Dan Scavino, now White House director of social media, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

McConney, now 32 and working as a freelance consultant, stayed on at the Trump Organization until late 2017. Now that that he has stopped working there, he said, he felt free to answer queries from a reporter and share the full story of his collaboration with Trump, as well as to air his critiques of the president’s social presence.

McConney says that some of Trump’s social media edge has faded since he assumed the presidency. He argues that Trump’s social media accounts rely too heavily on footage of rally crowds and of the president boarding planes. He says Trump’s feeds should include more exclusive content that generates positive media coverage. 

He also advises that Trump — whose Twitter feed is now dominated by angry rants about the “fake news” media and special counsel Robert Mueller’s “WITCH HUNT!” — should lighten up.

Trump, he said, "should go back to having more of a sense of humor about himself.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ADHD 28]

Fuck social media. Silicon Valley is guilty of treason. 

[ADHD 28]

Btw, Rand Paul is happy because Israel just got gut punched. Israel conspired with Trump and look where it got you. 

Dershowitz is being accused of childrape and Cohen is a weak rat.

Never ally with Nationalists.

[RayDog 682]

7 hours ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

Maybe it'll be a really cool stealth wall that nobody can see.

Surly should form a company to build the emperor an invisible wall for a reasonable sum.

[Mo Horn 8837]

5 minutes ago, RayDog said:

Surly should form a company to build the emperor an invisible wall for a reasonable sum.

Tree Fiddy should do it

[GSU&UT 1798]

Has this been shared here yet?

 

[WhatTheBuck 28781]

Is it coincidence that Trump made his unilateral decision to pull out of Syria the day before Putin's big annual press conference, this year with record attendance by international media, and Putin declared his support of Trump's decision calling it the right thing to do?

What a fucking farce. And yet, not the least bit surprising because Donald Fucking Trump is President of the United States. Elect an unqualified, incompetent, cartoon fraud to the highest office in the land and this is exactly what you should expect. 

[WhatTheBuck 28781]

If we've defeated ISIS, how is it that Russia, Syria, and Iran can take over the fight against them?

[RayDog 682]

5 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

Has this been shared here yet?

 

I saw a daikykos article where someone was encouraging people to borrow the remote at bars and restaurants and do this.

[4th&Five 41546]

 

[Aqua Buddha 14596]

6 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

If we've defeated ISIS, how is it that Russia, Syria, and Iran can take over the fight against them?

Defeating ISIS is hard to pinpoint.  It's a guerrilla operation that can disappear and reappear at a moment's notice.  Also, it's 40,000 people (at most) with AK's and Toyota pickups.  It's scope was vastly overstated by the Fox News crowd under Obama.  Those other players in the region need to deal with this.  We should have never been there and props to Trump for pulling us out, albeit sloppily.  The only people upset about this are the ones who wanted us to never leave Iraq.  Lindsey Graham is being "hysterical." 

[GhostOfTomJoad 9324]

We're headed out to the in-laws this morning. FIL insists the TV be on Fox News 24/7. He can barely operate the remote control to turn the TV on & off. My wife is almost on board with me doing this.