You think the dems are filthy in Illionois? Check ot the repbus going back many years. Funny how a lawful conviction by 12 people all of a sudden means NOTHING! When did that happen?
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You think the dems are filthy in Illionois? Check ot the repbus going back many years. Funny how a lawful conviction by 12 people all of a sudden means NOTHING! When did that happen?
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When did that happen? Maybe the seventy people that Obama pardoned?Quote:
Funny how a lawful conviction by 12 people all of a sudden means NOTHING! When did that happen?
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OMG that means the dufus has thousands of pardons to go including all his friends. The world sucks sometimes.
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Pardons okay they all d it, but don't remember this much turnover in any other administration. I guess he is draining the swamp with his lying, cheating, stealing, a$$!
So you strike out on the issue of pardons, so let's change the subject? Clever!Quote:
Pardons okay they all d it, but don't remember this much turnover in any other administration. I guess he is draining the swamp with his lying, cheating, stealing, a$$!
I don't mind being wrong if I am, not a big deal. We live and learn. I don't dwell on it either, since being stuck keeps you from striving to learn more, plus I thought pardons and staffing were related to the same person, so relevant.
Your staffing question is a legit point. It concerns me that so many people have come and gone with Trump.
so let me get this straight . The intel agencies told Bolshevick Bernie that the Russians were trying to help his campaign . But they didn't tell candidate Trump in 2016 . Hmmm They also told FrankenFeinstein that there was a Chinese spy working on her staff . Hmmm .
The Ruskies have a single mazut fueled turbine engine aircraft carrier as the only carrier in their fleet …..The Admiral Kuznetsov . It bellows black smoked making it visible from miles away . It has a ski slope deck design because they don't use catapults to propel their jets off the deck. It is in a constant state of non-repair .During one docking period a crane crashed through the deck . They fixed that ,but in December they had a fire on the boat .That was not the first time it had a fire .https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...ld-sink-124646Quote:
But as the Kuznetsov rounded Europe and headed towards the Syrian coast, the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet kept close by in case the carrier … sank.
But these same Russians have the resources to corrupt the whole American electoral system ?????????????
Wait now that I think about it there were Ruskies cruising my neighborhood with bottles of vodka extended . Is that how they were able to convince all those heartland simple rubes to vote for Trump ?
More concerning is who he replaces them with. For example his DOJ replacement Whittaker, and his latest Richard Grenell an ambassador/donor with no intel experience to run an intel agency.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
When he forces out the head of an agency and the #2 is passed over or resigns and replaced by loyalists/donors, that can be good for the agency or a functioning government.
Whatever he's doing, it is working for the economy. Black unemployment at lowest level ever. Lowest female unemployment in nearly 20 years. Lowest Latino unemployment ever. Maybe every pres should use his methods???https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/di...ymenttable.png
Are we worried about the Russian military which only looks good against even weaker opposition, but their cyber campaign is REAL as are the cyber capabilities of other nations. Of course you warn others as targets but why give the dufus a heads up when he was under investigations because of the people around him. He did get warned about Flynn, several times, and ignored the warning.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Everybody who warns, disagrees with the dufus or does their job lawfully gets fired, or haven't you noticed that?
The staffing doesn't concern me . He came in as a novice without a team of sr staff for the positions that require them. So initially he had to count on people Reince Priebus and the swamp critters suggested . It is also true that most of the people who have filled his staff have been swamp critters . He has no choice to remove them once he finds out they oppose his agenda . This is especially true with the intel agencies and State .
Good thing there are people who track these things . In Trump’s first year, the turnover rate for senior-level staff was twice as high as in Reagan’s first year and almost five times as high as George W. Bush’s first year. President Trump’s second year rate was high but was less of an anomaly overall. During former President Reagan’s second year, 40 percent of the 60 senior White House positions changed hands, while the Trump administration posted a turn rate of 32 percent in his second year. President Trump’s third year is trending closer to the recent presidents’ turnover in their third year.
https://www.statista.com/chart/15071...er-presidents/
Good post, Tom.
So who is giving him advice and recommendations now, deep state conspiracy theories aside? I cited two people he stuck in important positions but have no clue where he got them and one can ask are they quailified? Loyalty and inexperience means do as I say do, lawful or not. Something to consider just from past actions and words.
We are underestimating Russia's military capabilities: Russia would defeat China right now and SOUNDLY. Russia's investment in hypersonic missile technology is way, way ahead of ours and hypersonic missiles have really made aircraft carriers floating targets (i.e. targets that cannot be protected by any means). Russia has also invested heavily in PORTALBEL ICBM technology WITH REUSABLE TUBES, which allows them to cart their ICBMS all over the vastness off Russia and makes them hard to target and knockout...by contrast, our ICBMs are FIXED and easily targeted and OLD! In terms of new fighter aircraft, Russia's technology is tit for tat with ours and their ground force and hard target antiaircraft defense technology, with the SS-400 systems, is probably ahead of ours. If you look at attack helicopters, Russia also leads the way.
VERY DANGEROUS to underestimate your enemies.
What? What do you base that on? Conventional or nukes?Quote:
Russia would defeat China right now and SOUNDLY.
Russia and China may never get into a shooting war since mutual annihilations is GUARANTEED!
Pretty good observation.Quote:
Russia and China may never get into a shooting war since mutual annihilations is GUARANTEED!
Russia is vast a ground war would advantage noone china has learned to expand using economic leverage in this america is far behind
that would be like JFK appointing Bobby Kennedy as AG ?Whitaker has tons more experience than bobby Kennedy had except being council for Joe McCarthy's committee.Quote:
I cited two people he stuck in important positions but have no clue where he got them and one can ask are they quailified? Loyalty and inexperience means do as I say do, lawful or not. Something to consider just from past actions and words.
The key for Grenell will be to demonstrate the same independent streak to the job that he had as Amb Germany so he can avoid being captured by the permanent bureaucracy that seems to rule all of the intelligence agencies no matter who is appointed.Trump announced a list of possible nominations yesterday for DNI . So he will only serve a few months. He did make an important change already in hiring former Devin Nunes aidKashyap Patel …..who knows where all the bodies are buried in the Russian hoax
I can't figure out if the Dems are more concerned that Trump is hiring people who will finally take action against the leaders of the coup ;or upset because Grenell is homosexual ..
Tom, you're seeing the ball well today.
Conservatives always see conservative stuff clearly. Anything else is fuzzy as hell. Grenell is a place holder, and fetch boy, to snoop on what the intell is and report to his master to debunk!
The fact Grenell is a homosexual does put a feather in Trump's hat because it shows his inclusiveness within his administration.
Has nothing to do it. He fired McGuire and the #2 IDNI to make sure he could control the flow of information to the congress about Russian interference in 2020. Hiding the cyber capabilities of other countries from the American people is what destroys our ability to separate the truth from the lies. He covered for Vlad in 2016, and he will surely do it again, after getting away with it before.
time for an update :Quote:
Reported today is the US intelligence community warning Trump that Russia is again interfering in the presidential election as they did in 2016.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...ssian-n1142821Quote:
U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that their latest findings about Russian election interference are being distorted and weaponized for political gain ...
Last week, a bombshell report in The New York Times said Pierson and other briefers in the meeting had told lawmakers "that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected."
Intelligence officials say that was an overstatement, fueled, they believe, by a misinterpretation by some Democratic lawmakers on the committee.
Two intelligence officials told NBC News this week that Pierson did not tell lawmakers that intelligence showed Russia was actively working to help the president's re-election campaign.
I suggest that the op should be edited to say Democratic lawmakers (aka bug eyed Shiff ) are distorting intelligence briefings again .
Why am I not surprised.Quote:
fueled, they believe, by a misinterpretation by some Democratic lawmakers on the committee.
My spin is the dufus is promoting more Russian hoax stories and fake news and has the intel community buffaloed to say anything. Worked in 2016, and adapted by DOJ Barr after the Mueller Report. More of the same from the dufus.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Yes why should he abandon a successful ploy, but he has seen off Meuller, he has seen off impeachment and he has his enemies on the runQuote:
Originally Posted by talaniman
What is wrong with an open policy towards Russia
For now.
What do you mean, Russia isn't being aggressive but Syria may lead to consequences between Turkey and Russia and Europe will have trouble keeping those pesky refugees out. None of this is an issue for the US yet, but as Turkey is a NATO ally we will see
The dufus has taken over the repub party, and rules it tighter than most countries and he survives by being the repub dictator and uses fear as his tool to rule. Tyranny from within without firing a shot, because words are more effective. He wins for now, but come on Clete, how do you have an open policy with a dictator that uses tanks and armies to conquer countries and help ruthless dictators to consolidate their domination of populations?
That is a strange notion at best, as they are the enemy by their own actions, and how are pesky refugees created in the first place?
That's blaming the victim and not the cause.
No not blaming the victim but they shpuld look after their own first and not cause them to flee with perpetuating a fight they cannot win
Man has always fled adverse situations and conditions, you know that fight or flight thing, so what's a person with or without a family to do when faced with starvation or destruction? You tell me.
A citizen is mostly just an immigrant himself with squatters rights by what ever the law says, or we would all be in our places of origins, and you would be bending a knee for the queen. I'd be a king in West Africa if some white man had not been looking for cheap labor in a new land. This notion of sovereignty has fueled many a bloody conflict and made many refugees in our history, when it's really about who can you dominate now for profit, while bleating about what you took and how to keep it.
Conquest and plunder is the history of humans to this day. Doesn't matter how civilized you claim to be, because we all know the one with the biggest stick makes the rules. It's always been that way, and not likely to change soon.
Funny how you assume Clete would be a serf but you would be a king.Quote:
you would be bending a knee for the queen. I'd be a king in West Africa.
The great exception to that rule is the United States. Much of what we have done the past hundred years has been to secure the freedom of others and not to colonize.Quote:
Conquest and plunder is the history of humans to this day. Doesn't matter how civilized you claim to be, because we all know the one with the biggest stick makes the rules. It's always been that way, and not likely to change soon.
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Conquest and plunder is the history of humans to this day. Doesn't matter how civilized you claim to be, because we all know the one with the biggest stick makes the rules. It's always been that way, and not likely to change soon.
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.He answered by saying that, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”Quote:
The great exception to that rule is the United States. Much of what we have done the past hundred years has been to secure the freedom of others and not to colonize.
Talaniman: Filthy Turks are using drones "en mass" over Northern Syria and are putting Russia in a weird situation: The Russian SOLD the Turks the AS-400 Anti-Aircraft Missles Systems. Also, the the Turks are trying to coerce Europe into taking them in as an E.U. member by threating to UNLEASH more immigrants through Turkey from Syria! Soon, Syria will have lost so many souls that IT will have import people from somewhere else to fill the population!
Great quote, Tom.
Most of those refugees running to Greece are Syrians who fled THAT war and Turkey is tired of them. Of course they want Mo'Money from the EU or let the caravans begin. We just got a taste and yes Syria is a total mess.Quote:
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Talaniman: We (i.e. the world) would be better off letting Russia "correct" the Syrian problem...otherwise, it becomes our problem...maybe similarly to how Afghanistan became OUR problem once the Russian high tailed it back home. Problem is that the nasty Turks, with their dictator, are trying to exert their will STILL after all of the historical plundering and horrors they committed in that part of the world over the centuries: The Turks never learned any lessons because they never got SLAPPED hard! They committed the Armenian Genocide but never had any repercussions from it at all...and that is just one example.
We should be thankful everyday for becoming energy independent under the Trump administration. It makes the fate of much of the Middle East less important to us.
jlisenbe: That it does! The preservation of Israel is important, however.
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