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Hello, excon --

Trump wanted a military parade for his inauguration. He didn't get one. Now, a war with Syria or NK means he can line up his tanks and bazookas and nuclear warheads, plus set up and arrange his army guys in battle formations. And yes, another deflection from his problems at home.

Angry and scared,
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He's not in trouble ;at least not due to all the bs charges of Russian influence. The scandal has gone to where it had to go ;the emperor's government politicizing intelligence and using those agencies of government against political rivals . It's the Obots that are going down.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...iates-in-intel

Isn't that the way presidents bail themselves out? In trouble in national policy, have a war, become a war time President, it has to be good for another term

If I take him at his word, he wants Putty to take care of Syria ,and China to deal with the NORKS. He wants to spend money on his Yuuuuuggeeee porkulus deux infrastructure Keynesian pump priming . A war would be a distraction.

He's not in trouble yet ;and won't be until his opponents concentrate on the real things that can derail him .That would be his many conflicts of interests; not this phony Russia thing

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If I take him at his word, he wants Putty to take care of Syria ,and China to deal with the NORKS. He wants to spend money on his Yuuuuuggeeee porkulus deux infrastructure Keynesian pump priming . A war would be a distraction.

He's not in trouble yet ;and won't be until his opponents concentrate on the real things that can derail him .That would be his many conflicts of interests; not this phony Russia thing

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Tom, it is unlikely Putin will take care of Syria, he will allow Assad to do as he pleases and he has grown bolder with the Russian Bear at his back. Vlad cannot sustain a long war any more than Dump can. The attempt to get Turkey on the ground has failed.

There is nothing wrong with some infrastructure, a wall here, a bridge there, perhaps a road to nowhere. You can't tell me there aren't parts of the country that don't need some pump priming. Think of it as nation building, every generation needs it, you can't put everything into aircraft carriers and submarines, not enough people see where their money is going, besides you need something for all those illegal workers to do

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You can't tell me there aren't parts of the country that don't need some pump priming.

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Of course there are . America doesn't pave it's streets in gold anymore . The question is who is responsible to do it ? Why should someone in rural America living on a dirt road pay out because the NY metropolitan area wants to put another train tunnel from NJ to NYC ? Let the users pay for it .

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Of course there are . America doesn't pave it's streets in gold anymore . The question is who is responsible to do it ? Why should someone in rural America living on a dirt road pay out because the NY metropolitan area wants to put another train tunnel from NJ to NYC ? Let the users pay for it .

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Now Tom you know Thatcherism doesn't work, maybe you call it Reaganonomics, but it doesn't work. You make things expensive and the punters walk away. What I'm saying is everyone should have a paved road and a good bridge over that river and tax money should also be spent where it is collected, a revolutionary concept, I know. So Dump wants to build a wall and I see one concept is for that wall to be a solar collector which means it pays for itself. I'm sure Mexico loves the idea.

Tom you need an open mind, some good can come from it, and I know spending money in NYC will be close to Dumps heart, it is his home town, or close to it. But he has seen the carnage in Syria and like a good politician he can't resist, No american president has resisted the siren call for long

Trump just bombed the airfield in Syria believed to be the origin of the gas attack Tuesday.

Wish I had confidence that he knows what he's doing.

Don't worry boys you can bomb anything in Syria with impunity, hope you didn't hit any Russian planes, that might be different. We will see what comes of Dump talking to Vlad, maybe they can agree on some rules of engagement

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He sniffled through his recorded message--shades of his debates with Hillary.

This is decisive action that is needed to demonstrate resolve

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And yet another deflection by Trump from...guess what!

I doubt Dump is deflecting anything. This is a response to a specific event. Such responses cannot wait for a do nothing UN or Congress to debate the issue. Dump is right act and apologise later if necessary

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I'm not deflecting anything, and I doubt Dump is. This is a response to a specific event. Such responses cannot wait for a do nothing UN or Congress to debate the issue. Dump is right act and apologise later if necessary

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Said by a friend whose opinion I respect -- "[Trump] got permission from his boss [Putin] to appear to go against Russian interests."

Well thank you for the vote of confidence, look, it is all politics, the emperor manipulating from the shadows. I doubt Dump or Vlad are really in charge.

Well Vlad is furious and promises to increase Syrian air defenses, and has suspended communications between US and Russian air strikes against ISIS.

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Well Vlad is furious and promises to increase Syrian air defenses, and has suspended communications between US and Russian air strikes against ISIS.

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Well he has to, doesn't he, his people are at risk, This is going to make things difficult but why didn't Dump take out the gas stocks? Maybe the wind was blowing in the wrong direction? Any way, Dump can concentrate on Daesh and be well away from the Russians

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And yet another deflection by Trump from...guess what!

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It was decisive as corporal punishment is . It did nothing to change the strategic equation if it is a one off. If it's a one off ,it's more like Clintoon's bombing of an aspirin factory .

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Said by a friend whose opinion I respect -- "[Trump] got permission from his boss [Putin] to appear to go against Russian interests."

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nonsense ;the only concession made to Putty was to let him know to get Russian assets out of the air base .

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Well Vlad is furious and promises to increase Syrian air defenses, and has suspended communications between US and Russian air strikes against ISIS.

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We could've made a difference if we acted 6 years ago.We could've grounded Assad's air force and set up no fly zones . Now the only way that will happen is if there is cooperation between Putty and herr Donald ....... and that aint happening despite all the tin foil hat theories about the election.

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Well Vlad is furious and promises to increase Syrian air defenses, and has suspended communications between US and Russian air strikes against ISIS.

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We could've made a difference if we acted 6 years ago.We could've grounded Assad's air force and set up no fly zones . Now the only way that will happen is if there is cooperation between Putty and herr Donald ....... and that aint happening despite all the tin foil hat theories about the election.