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Yossarian

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MC Gusto said:
Well what the fuck?


Why is he warning those about to be struck with missiles when they are coming?
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To avoid WWIII. If he hits even a Russian turd, we have big problems. The risks are much bigger than the reward here.
 
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Technically doesn't need it.

Needs congressional approval for war. Randomly bombing the shit out of a target while having dinner at your country club isn't an "act of war."

Same way that Obama could circumvent the rules for his drone bombings, etc.
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It's bullshit under Obama and it's bullshit now.
 
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Steve Bannon 'calls Jared Kushner a cuck behind his back'
A rift has reportedly emerged between Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The pair are believed to have clashed over opposing ideological visions for Mr Trump's White House.

“[Steve] recently vented to us about Jared being a ‘globalist’ and a ‘cuck'," an official who did not wish to be named, told The Daily Beast website. "He actually said ‘cuck,’ as in “cuckservative.’”

“Cuckservative,” a portmanteau of “cuckold” and “conservative,” has become a popular insult on the right and is used as a sexually and racially charged version of “RINO,” an acronym for “Republican In Name Only.”
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:tearsofjoy: Cuckservative... Now that is some funny shit. We all know a few cuckservatives - those who spew conservative values in public but in reality support more left leaning values.
 
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Russia Suspends Cooperation With U.S. in Syria After Missile Strikes
Russia on Friday froze a critical agreement on military cooperation with the United States in Syria after an American military strike, warning that the operation would further corrode already dismal relations between Moscow and Washington.

Syria, Russia’s ally, condemned the American strikes as “a disgraceful act.”

In addition to suspending the pact to coordinate air operations over Syria, an accord that was meant to prevent accidental encounters between the two militaries, Russia also said it would bolster Syria’s air defense systems, and was reported to be planning to send a frigate into the Mediterranean Sea to visit the logistics base at the Syrian port of Tartus.
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On Thursday evening Hillary Clinton calls for U.S. to bomb Syrian air fields
"I think we should have been more willing to confront Assad," Clinton said in the interview, conducted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

"I really believe we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."
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Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms
When Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, sought the top-secret security clearance that would give him access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets, he was required to disclose all encounters with foreign government officials over the last seven years.

But Mr. Kushner did not mention dozens of contacts with foreign leaders or officials in recent months. They include a December meeting with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, and one with the head of a Russian state-owned bank, Vnesheconombank, arranged at Mr. Kislyak’s behest.

The omissions, which Mr. Kushner’s lawyer called an error, are particularly sensitive given the congressional and F.B.I. investigations into contacts between Russian officials and Trump associates. The Senate Intelligence Committee informed the White House weeks ago that, as part of its inquiry, it planned to question Mr. Kushner about the meetings he arranged with Mr. Kislyak, including the one with Sergey N. Gorkov, a graduate of Russia’s spy school who now heads Vnesheconombank.

Mr. Kushner’s omissions were described by people with direct knowledge of them who asked for anonymity because the questionnaire is not a public document.

While officials can lose access to intelligence, or worse, for failing to disclose foreign contacts, the forms are often amended to address lapses. Jamie Gorelick, Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, said that the questionnaire was submitted prematurely on Jan. 18, and that the next day, Mr. Kushner’s office told the F.B.I. that he would provide supplemental information.

Mr. Kushner’s aides said he was compiling that material and would share it when the F.B.I. interviewed him. For now, they said, he has an interim security clearance.

In a statement, Ms. Gorelick said that after learning of the error, Mr. Kushner told the F.B.I.: “During the presidential campaign and transition period, I served as a point-of-contact for foreign officials trying to reach the president-elect. I had numerous contacts with foreign officials in this capacity. … I would be happy to provide additional information about these contacts.” No names were disclosed in that correspondence.

Applicants for major national security positions must submit a lengthy F.B.I. questionnaire as part of a background check. They are asked to list the dates and details of all contacts with representatives of foreign governments.

This is not just bureaucratic paperwork. The form warns that “withholding, misrepresenting, or falsifying information” could result in loss of access to classified information, denial of eligibility for a sensitive job and even prosecution; knowingly falsifying or concealing material facts is a federal felony that may result in fines or up to five years imprisonment.

Clearance holders are often allowed to amend disclosure forms and avoid punishment if omissions are deemed oversights rather than deliberate falsifications, and prosecutions are rare.
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Kim Jong-un declares he’s on ‘the brink of a war’ with US as Donald Trump is urged to assassinate North Korean despot
KIM Jong-un has placed his country on the “brink of war” as a high-profile defector urged US President Donald Trump to assassinate the despot North Korean leader before he fires his nuclear weapons at America and the UK.

Yesterday Trump pledged to ramp up defences against Pyongyang as he met China’s president Xi Jinping for crunch talks in Florida.
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Trump explained U.S. position on THAAD to Xi: South Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump told South Korea on Saturday he had explained to China's President Xi Jinping America's position on the deployment of an anti-missile defense system to South Korea, according to a statement from South Korea's acting leader.

Trump informed South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn in a Saturday telephone call of his summit discussion with Xi.

China has opposed the deployment of the U.S.-supplied High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea, arguing it could threaten its security, but South Korea and the United States say it is aimed at countering North Korea's missile threat.

China has increased pressure and imposed restrictions on some South Korean companies doing business in China, which led many in the South to believe Beijing was retaliating against the deployment of the missile system.

"President Trump said he and President Xi held in-depth discussions on the seriousness of North Korea's nuclear problem and how to respond to it, and also said he had conveyed the U.S. position on the THAAD deployment," the statement said.

Trump pressed Xi to do more to curb North Korea's nuclear programme in their summit meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.
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ftr, as a trump admin hater, im cool with how they've handled this. no congressional approval fine. gave russians (and in theory, the syrians) a 90 minute heads up. fine. blew up 20 or so planes and left the runway. fine

but how come chemical weapons are uncool yet barrel bombs are fine. or any bombs. are we pretending that there arent people suffering before death while they lay under toppled buildings, with metal sticking through their stomachs or faces. i dont get why we have a higher tolerance when syria uses non-chemical bombs vs when they us chemical bombs

and i can understand why syrians and others hate us for the same reason
 
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Donald Trump personally profited from missile-maker Raytheon’s stock jump after his Syria attack
While the world is dealing with both the implications and the fall-out from President Donald Trump’s missile attack on a Syrian airfield on Thursday, the manufacturer of the Tomahawk missile used in the attack is seeing their stock surge which is good news for their investors — including the president.

As noted by the Palmer Report, Trump owns stock in Raytheon, which was reported by Business Insider in 2015.

According to Trump’s financial disclosure reports filed with the FEC in 2015, his stock portfolio includes investments in technology firms, financial institutions and defense firms, including Raytheon.
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Syria strike brings rare criticism for Trump from France's Le Pen
"I am a little surprised because Trump had said repeatedly that he didn't intend the United States to be the world's policeman any longer and that is exactly what he did yesterday," Le Pen told France 2 television.

The United States fired cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase on Friday as punishment for a suspected chemical weapons attack on Tuesday which killed at least 70 people.

"Is it too much to ask to wait for the results of an independent international investigation (into Tuesday's attack) before carrying out this kind of strike?" Le Pen asked.
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Donald Trump outpaces Barack Obama with 16th trip to golf course since inauguration
Donald Trump is fast outpacing his predecessor, playing golf for the 16th time since his inauguration.
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China took a very different message from Donald Trump's Syria attack
On Thursday, the day the two leaders sat down for their first meeting, a US think tank reported that a Chinese air force jet had been photographed on one of the islands of the South China Sea.

A satellite photographed a Chinese J-11 fighter on Woody Island in the Paracel Island group. "This isn't a first, but it's the first time in a year," said Greg Poling, director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Only one jet was visible on the Chinese-built runway. "There are likely more in the hangars nearby", he said." It was photographed on March 29. Its significance?

This is one of the islands that Xi promised, in a press conference with Barack Obama, would not be militarised. Now it has an airstrip, radars, and reinforced concrete hangars big enough for the biggest bombers in the Chinese air force. And the air force evidently is making use of it.

The Trump administration's reaction? The revelation went unremarked. It received very little media coverage. Nor was the administration pressed by reporters to comment.

Everyone was busy with the Syrian missile attack.

The two leaders did discuss the South China Sea in private. According to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Trump told Xi that the US was opposed to the militarisation of the islands. He urged China to observe norms of international conduct in the area.

But neither US nor Chinese accounts of the meetings referred to any comment by Xi. In other words, China does as it pleases as the US reads out obsolete talking points.
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Paul Manafort may have violated law by receiving tax break for his Trump Tower condo
President Trump's former campaign chairman and a key player in the FBI probe of Russian election meddling appears to be getting an illegal property tax break on his Trump Tower luxury condo, the Daily News has learned.

Paul Manafort gets $5,000 trimmed off his annual tax bill under a city condo tax abatement program that’s only available to properties that are an owner’s primary residence.

Manafort claims to the city that his exclusive Fifth Ave. aerie on the 43rd floor — 23 floors below Trump’s — is his primary residence.

But he also claims that his Palm Beach, Fla., condo is his primary residence to get a big tax break down there known as a homestead exemption.
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Breitbart editors tell staffers to stop writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, sources say
Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

The New York Times reported over the weekend that allies of Kushner, a senior White House adviser, had complained to President Donald Trump about the negative coverage he was receiving from the far-right website.
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Trump-taxes: President scraps tax plan, timetable threatened
President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.

The administration's first attempt to write legislation is in its early stages and the White House has kept much of it under wraps. But it has already sprouted the consideration of a series of unorthodox proposals including a drastic cut to the payroll tax, aimed at appealing to Democrats.

Some view the search for new options as a result of Trump's refusal to set clear parameters for his plan and his exceedingly challenging endgame: reducing tax rates enough to spur faster growth without blowing up the budget deficit.

Administration officials say it's now unlikely that a tax overhaul will meet the August deadline set by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. But the ambitious pace to figure out a plan reflects Trump's haste to move quickly past a bruising failure to broker a compromise within his own party on how to replace the health insurance law enacted under President Barack Obama.
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Is the alt-right turning on Trump?


View: https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/851153146546069504


View: https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/850823973356974080


View: https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/851593903731912704


View: https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/851589391260712964


View: https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/850158026191405056



View: https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/850171163527581697



Richard Spencer, a far-right activist and white nationalist who coined the term “alt-right,” said he condemned the attack and hinted at supporting another presidential candidate in 2020: Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a Democrat. Ms. Gabbard met with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in January and on Thursday criticized the missile strike as shortsighted and reckless.
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Donald Trump's action in Syria proves he is not in league with Putin, says his son Eric
Donald Trump’s decision to launch a cruise missile attack on Syria proved he is not in league with Russia and will not be “pushed around” by Vladimir Putin, the US President’s son has told The Daily Telegraph.

Eric Trump said his father was not intimidated by President Putin’s talk of war, and there would be “no-one harder” than President Trump if they “cross us”.

He also confirmed that President Trump’s decision to bomb a Syrian airbase to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a nerve gas attack last week was influenced by the reaction of his sister Ivanka, who said she was “heartbroken and outraged” by the atrocity.
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