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[Freeloading Rusty]

chaffetz did his job.how does that make him a puppet? the dea is not doing their job and got served with a subpoena

 

[jason73]

Who are you calling a puppet?

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

I'd stick it in Jenny's ass. No question about it.





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[Freeloading Rusty]

North Korea ignores Trump’s warning as it launches another ballistic missile

Donald Trump might have warned that the USA was prepared to solve the North Korea nuclear threat on its own but that’s clearly not been enough to stop the secretive state from carrying out missile tests.

Last night it launched a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast just days before the US President was set to sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the problem.

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

Eric Trump: 'Nepotism is kind of a factor of life'

"Nepotism is kind of a factor of life," he said in the February interview. "We might be here because of nepotism, but we're not still here because of nepotism. You know, if we didn't do a good job, if we weren't competent, believe me, we wouldn't be in this spot."

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

ISIS Officially Taunts Trump, Ending a Conspicuous Silence

“America, you have drowned and there is no savior; you have become prey for the soldiers of the caliphate in every part of the Earth; you are bankrupt, and the signs of your demise are evident to every eye,” the spokesman said, according to a translation by Reuters. “There is no more evidence than the fact that you are being run by an idiot who does not know what Syria or Iraq or Islam is.”

Some terrorism experts have called some of Mr. Trump’s statements and policies — particularly his ban on visas for people from a selection of predominantly Muslim countries — a potential boon to propaganda by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. The group has long asserted that Muslims are victims of discrimination and abuse in the West, and supporters and members of the Islamic State have seized on some of Mr. Trump’s statements as evidence of hostility toward Muslims.

 

[silentsinger]

Oh well. Buh byes, Steve Bannon.

 

[Report]

trump is speaking right now. just said he is going to create peace between the israelis and palestinians.

thats sweet. they've been fighting for thousands of years. thank god we have trump now. to solve it. quickly. very quickly. quicker than anyone can imagine

 

[Report]

"you are the president now. do u think that they crossed a a line using the chemical weapons?"

"the obama administration failed to handle it"

he still still doesnt realize he is president lol. he's still campaigning. im went thru a phase where i had to mute him. but now im back. this shit show is priceless. my favorite president ever even tho i disagree with pretty much every single word that comes out of his mouth

xoxoxox donald trump

 

[Report]

he just said hes a flexible person. jokes aside, i actually like that in a way. he's using it in reference to his views on Assad

im not too well versed on that stuff. but i like that he's speaking about openess to change. thats a step away from being able to say "i was wrong" or apologize. who knows. maybe he is human...

 

[Kingtony87]

Our government structure is a big ol pile of shady shit fuckery.


Also based on what little I've seen of chavetz i kinda like him.

 

[Yossarian]

"you are the president now. do u think that they crossed a a line using the chemical weapons?"

"the obama administration failed to handle it"

he still still doesnt realize he is president lol. he's still campaigning. im went thru a phase where i had to mute him. but now im back. this shit show is priceless. my favorite president ever even tho i disagree with pretty much every single word that comes out of his mouth

xoxoxox donald trump

Well, to be fair, Obama drew that famous "red" line, and later allowed al-Assad to cross it. Of course we know now the Iran deal had a lot to do with it. It did damage the credibility of the US in those regards, and later we watched as Assad's forces killed 1500 people with chemical weapons...

That was a diplomatic failure for sure. Historical context is important to remember.

 

[Report]

Well, to be fair, Obama drew that famous "red" line, and later allowed al-Assad to cross it. Of course we know now the Iran deal had a lot to do with it. It did damage the credibility of the US in those regards, and later we watched as Assad's forces killed 1500 people with chemical weapons...

That was a diplomatic failure for sure. Historical context is important to remember.

i dont know anythign about it aside from ur post. and im not arguing

my point was just to highlight another very odd way to answer an important question. separate topic

the stuff u mentioned is insane tho. syria is insane... im over here prancing around a sunny day singing christina perry and getting my hairs cut

many of us have it pretty good and its easy to take it for granted... :-/

 

[Yossarian]

i dont know anythign about it aside from ur post. and im not arguing

my point was just to highlight another very odd way to answer an important question. separate topic

the stuff u mentioned is insane tho. syria is insane... im over here prancing around a sunny day singing christina perry and getting my hairs cut

many of us have it pretty good and its easy to take it for granted... :-/

I actually think it was a good thing to not go into Syria then. We should stay the fuck out of it if you ask me.

Let's not make the same mistake over and over again. We'll end up arming the bad guys, create power vacuum to get more bad guys in power, and we damge international stability in doing so. It will drag the US down even more. We went to Iraq, and Afghanistan, are they peaceful now? No, they are in worse states now, after costing billions, and more importantly, human lives.

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

Oh well. Buh byes, Steve Bannon.

I would say about fucking time... But he should have never been on the council in the first place.

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

"you are the president now. do u think that they crossed a a line using the chemical weapons?"

"the obama administration failed to handle it"

he still still doesnt realize he is president lol. he's still campaigning. im went thru a phase where i had to mute him. but now im back. this shit show is priceless. my favorite president ever even tho i disagree with pretty much every single word that comes out of his mouth

xoxoxox donald trump

Well, to be fair, Obama drew that famous "red" line, and later allowed al-Assad to cross it. Of course we know now the Iran deal had a lot to do with it. It did damage the credibility of the US in those regards, and later we watched as Assad's forces killed 1500 people with chemical weapons...

That was a diplomatic failure for sure. Historical context is important to remember.

I was thinking about these comments by Trump earlier and then the North Korea shit came out about them firing off more missiles.

After calling out Obama for empty threats, does that mean Trump will back up his against North Korea and start a war?

 

[Report]

I was thinking about these comments by Trump earlier and then the North Korea shit came out about them firing off more missiles.

After calling out Obama for empty threats, does that mean Trump will back up his against North Korea and start a war?

I've been wondering this too...

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

I've been wondering this too...

Cuz by his own logic, if he doesnt now do something to back up his threats, he is greatly increasing the problem and threats from around the world. USA will look weak.

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

Trump defends Bill O'Reilly: 'I don't think Bill did anything wrong'

"I think they are unfounded just based on what I've read," Trump said of the accusations against Ailes. "Totally unfounded, based on what I read."

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio urge Trump to sign anti-LGBT order

Donald Trump’s former primary opponents Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are both among a group of Republican Senators who have publicly urged him to sign an anti-LGBT religious freedom order.

A draft executive order leaked from inside the White House earlier this year that would actively permit religious discrimination against LGBT people.

The leaked order would protect people who discriminate based on “the belief that marriage is or should be recognised as the union of one man and one woman [or that] male and female refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy at birth”.

REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP’S TIES TO BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE

REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY, the most dogged opponent of Blackwater founder Erik Prince in the U.S. Congress, is blasting the Trump administration for using Prince as a shadow emissary for the White House. “He is the kind of unvetted, unscrupulous person that seems to fit very nicely, especially into the kinds of operations that they want done,” Schakowsky said in an exclusive interview for the Intercepted podcast. “This is exactly the kind of person who should be excluded from having anything to do with our government, covert or out in public.”

Schakowsky was responding to reporting by The Intercept and the Washington Post that Prince is serving as an unofficial adviser and emissary for Trump and his team. The Post reported on Monday that Prince and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, arranged a meeting in the Seychelles islands “to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump.” That followed an earlier meeting in December 2016 with Sheikh al-Nahyan, Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn in New York.

Trump Team Takes Steps to Keep Chinese From Westinghouse

The Trump administration is so alarmed that Chinese investors may try to purchase Westinghouse Electric Co.’s nuclear business that U.S. officials are trying to find an American or allied buyer for the company instead, two people familiar with the matter said.

Cabinet members including Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have discussed preventing Westinghouse’s purchase by a Chinese-linked company, three U.S. officials said.

For years, Chinese entities have been interested in the nuclear reactor builder, and the company has been a repeated target of Chinese espionage. Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 29 and its parent company Toshiba Corp. is seeking a buyer for its money-losing reactor business.

Gorsuch's writings borrow from other authors

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.

The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.

No 'sea to shining sea' border wall, says Trump homeland security chief Kelly

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told the Senate on Wednesday morning that he doesn't expect construction of a wall the full length of the U.S.-Mexico border — marking the abandonment of a central campaign promise by President Donald Trump.

"It's unlikely that we will build wall or a physical barrier from sea to shining sea," Kelly testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "We're not going to build a wall where it doesn't make sense. But we'll do something across the Southwest border."

That's a direct contradiction of Trump's vow of a "big, beautiful wall" the full 2,200-mile length of the Southwest border. Trump has not personally indicated a willingness to abandon that promise, a cornerstone of his appeal to voters.

"You get it, we get it, but the president is so stubborn.... And by the way Mexico is not going to pay for it," McCaskill said. "The sooner the president gets some credibility on this the better."

Trump, Citing No Evidence, Suggests Susan Rice Committed Crime

President Trump said on Wednesday that he thought that the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were swept up in the surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved.

The president provided no evidence to back his claim. Current and former intelligence officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations have said that nothing they have seen led them to believe that Ms. Rice’s actions were unusual or unlawful.

 

[jason73]

 

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[Freeloading Rusty]

Funny part is, what Rice did isnt illegal.

What law did she break?

 

[Yossarian]

After calling out Obama for empty threats, does that mean Trump will back up his against North Korea and start a war?

He may or he may not. He will be advised, much like Obama was advised. There is no official peace treaty between N. Korea and the US, thus technically, we are still at war, kind of. At least it will be against a country that threatens us, not some other proxy/civil war we need to stick our nose in that leads to nowhere but more deaths, and decades of other conflicts we can use to increase our defense budget.

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

He may or he may not. He will be advised, much like Obama was advised. There is no official peace treaty between N. Korea and the US, thus technically, we are still at war, kind of. At least it will be against a country that threatens us, not some other proxy/civil war we need to stick our nose in that leads to nowhere but more deaths, and decades of other conflicts we can use to increase our defense budget.

I agree, NK is an actual threat and has made threats to the US.

By Trump's own logic (re: his comments about Obama being responsible for the chemical attack in Syria), if Trump doesnt back up his threats he will be putting people at risk and setting the US back a long way.