Thursday, October 10, 2019

Good Point!

11 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Wednesday:

1. In 2017, in an episode that "bears hallmarks of President Trump's approach to the Ukraine call," Trump reportedly pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg published the report that is likely to raise questions, including Trump's policies towards Turkey and his relationship with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.



2. On Wednesday, three days after President Trump agreed to move American troops out of the region, Turkey launched airstrikes in northeastern Syria, Kurdish militia leaders and eyewitnesses said. The military offensive prompted panic among civilians in the region and despair among the fighters who have been crucial U.S. allies in the war on the Islamic State militant group. The decision drew harsh rebukes from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.



“It’s absolutely staggering” that Trump made a decision that “has put us on the brink of causing genocide in Syria,” said Wendy Sherman, an undersecretary at the State Department during the Obama administration. The decision underscores the “impulsiveness” and “the transactional, quid pro quo-ness of the president,” she said.



The president's business connections with Turkey have been thrust in the spotlight: The president and his family have long had business ties in and with Turkey, the most visible example being the Trump Towers Istanbul. Businesses linked to the Turkish government are also major patrons of the Trump Organization. Read more from NBC News' Heidi Przybyla and Anna Schecter.



3. President Trump spoke at an event in the Roosevelt Room Wednesday where he criticized the Kurdish allies he's been accused of abandoning and shrugged off the prospect of ISIS terrorists going free. There's more of the wildest moments in the wide-ranging back and forth with reporters.



Of the Kurds, Trump said, "They didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy," adding they were only interested in "fighting for their land."



"President Trump has essentially sowed the seeds of ISIS 2.0 with this decision," said Kelly Magsamen on Hardball. Magsamen has served on the National Security Council in both the Obama and Bush administrations. "It is clear to me that he had no sense of what the potential consequences would be."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott A**hole

You are so used to lying you don’t even know what comes out of your mouth anymore.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

They helped us defeat ISIS and the President has sold them out because Of the Kurds, Trump said, "They didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us with Normandy," adding they were only interested in "fighting for their land."

He's an isolationist, although he probably doesn't understand history and that the isolationist philosophy would have left Great Britain to fight the Nazi's without our help, before December 7th 1941.

Anonymous said...

A hoax to far.

Anonymous said...




Meet Kyle Frese: Trump Hater, Federal Employee, Arrested for Leaking National Security Secrets


https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/meet-kyle-frese-trump-hater-federal-employee-arrested-for-leaking-national-security-secrets/


try him, convict him, execute him...

...by firing squad, on the national mall, at high noon.


Commonsense said...

The decision to abandon the Kurds has hurt Trump more politically than the impeachment nonsense the Democrats have cooked up. While American are by nature non-interventionist (we suck in the empire business), they really don't like to abandon and betray any ally.

The political timing of this decision couldn't be any worst for Trump. However, the decision itself can be understandable.

Because, the alternative is a commitment to a never-ending war in the Middle East where there are no winners. Their alternative is to go all in, including war with another NATO ally Turkey and basically scorched earth and occupy Syria or continue with a never-ending commitment with troops that are now on the seventh or eighth deployment. It used to be soldiers have done their duty after two or three deployments and it is asking a lot of them to continue to risk their lives by going into harms way over and over again.

The decision is in fact ripping the scab off the wound.

Only history will show whether the decision was courageous or stupid but right now it's not looking too good for Trump.

Anonymous said...

After reading the transcript of the Call.


Why are the 23 Dwarfs so upset?

Anonymous said...




PORTLAND, OR—It's that time of year where houses, churches, and businesses around the neighborhood begin opening up their haunted houses for those seeking a good fright.

One haunted house in Portland is promising progressives the scariest experience of all: a tour of a regular conservative guy's home. The home contains a sizable collection of guns, several Bibles, a few American flags, some pictures of Ronald Reagan, and of course, a copy of the Constitution.

"I can't look!" screamed one progressive as he opened one door and saw a hunting rifle. "Ahhhhh!!!" He ran from the house screaming, taking shelter in a nearby yoga studio.

The haunted house's owner, Bob Larson, told reporters he saw an opportunity to make a little bit of cash and ran with it. "I didn't really even change anything," he said, shrugging, as he turned Fox News up to full blast to add a spooky atmosphere and started cleaning one of his handguns. "I just sit here and watch my favorite Fox News hosts and they all walk through the house, screaming in fright."

No progressive has currently made it through more than a few rooms in the house, as they usually run screaming or dive out a window in their hurry to get away.

In the haunted house's scariest room, the attic, there's a copy of the Constitution hanging on the wall. As guests slowly approach the frightening document, a hidden speaker begins reading it out loud in the voice of George W. Bush. One progressive died on the spot of a heart attack.

Larson's haunted house did give one of his entrepreneurial progressive neighbors an idea, however, and the liberal has opened a haunted house for conservatives that's just a gay person standing there doing nothing.



https://babylonbee.com/news/haunted-house-for-progressives-just-normal-conservative-mans-home-containing-bibles-guns-and-a-copy-of-the-constitution

Anonymous said...



Only history will show whether the decision was courageous or stupid but right now it's not looking too good for Trump.


perhaps congress should wrestle back their war powers from the executive.

0linsky over-used the AUMF to do whatever the fuck he wanted and congressional democrats cheered him on every step of the way. CBC democrats wished to cede even MORE power to skeets, many stating their desires from the floor of the house.

walk away from THAT much responsibility and then reserve the right to bitch about it? sorry, it doesn't work that way.

Anonymous said...

When Joe Biden on Video told of Extorting Ukraine the DemStream Media did nothing.

Anonymous said...

Roger fully backed the LA Dodgers in the MLB.

Care to guess how they Did?